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O'NEILL. NEBR.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher_
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
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Youthful Offenders and the Law
Two O’Neill youths, ages 17 and 18, are serving a sentence
of 20 days in jail on charges of "willful and reckless driving to
which in court they admitted their guilt. ,
It is a serious proposition when any person has to be taken
into custody, given a trial and sentenced to jail—whatsoever the
charge. It is infinitely more serious when these proceedings have
to be taken against juveniles.
Sometimes adults are caused to wonder if youths themselves
appreciate the seriousness. A jail record is bad and the two boys
concerned will frequently be reminded of the incident when, in
the normal course of life, they are obliged to fill-out various
questionnaires and applications. Most of these invariably as .
• Have you ever been in jail?
The youthful mind works to a certain extent by compart
sons. It compares the 20-day sentences for these two boys in
question with the unmolested. Scot-free antics of others. Why
should these two be jailed when so-and-so gels by with this
and that. etc., etc?
The Frontier has overheard a teen-age street discussion of
this, pointing out that not so long ago a group of youths took a
vehicle—possibly even misappropriated a vehicle—and in the
course of an evening one of the party was killed! No one went to
jail for that! they say.
Meanwhile, the accident rate continues to mount, more and
more lives become endangered on the oity streets and highways
and finally the officials, newspapers and ordinary citizens have
become alarmed over the situation.
When the two lads were towed into jail last week the state
highway patrolman who made the arrests, the county attorney
who prosecuted, the judge who passed sentence, and The Fron
tier, which headlined the incident, established a precedent in
this community. They also placed themselves in a position in
which from now on out they must be consistent.
The Frontier is a respecter of constituted authority, but here
we wish to point out that morally the law enforcement officers,
the prosecutor, the court and the newspaper cannot wink at other
offenders now that precedent has been set and a hard example
has been made.
The Frontier witnesses flagrant traffic violations every day.
Not all of them involve automobiles. Tractors have come into the
picture and not long ago one of our staffers saw a tractor take a
turn at a dangerous angle. Not all of the violations involve youths.
The point is that two youths are rounding out their 20-days’
sentence. They’re doing their school work while behind bars.
They are being used as an example against “willful and reckless
. drying." Their latest game of “tag” with speeding automobiles
pr<Wed costly and they won’t be playing "tag” again because their
drivers’ licenses have been suspended.
But the object lesson doesn't end when they are released
and they rejoin their schoolmates.
The burden of consistency rests squarely upon the peace of
ficers, upon the prosecutors, and upon the courts. The burden also
rests upon The Frontier and other newspapers who “played up” ,
last week’s incident to serve as a deterrent to other youthful and
adult vehicle operators who, while at the wheel, have been flirting
with danger to themselves and to others.
USE OUR M r D A p Across
CHRISTMAS 1H t V II rt IV I J From
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PLAN Green Stamps O'Neill
SjTAR ATTRACTIONS IN ONE
LL J
The Harry Evans Show Company, consisting of 12 tal
ented stage and radio stars, made their first appearance at
the Legion auditorium Friday, September 30. and was en
thusiastically received by the capacity crowd that attended.
The evening performance featured a three-act stage play
titled “All The Comforts of Home," proceeded by an eight
•ct vaudeville presentation and followed by a real western
barn dance. The Rhythm Wranglers, an eight-piece dance
band, furnished the music for the dance and justly deserve
the enviable reputation of versatility by playing any and all
types of dance music requested, both modern and old time
music.
This organisation is making weekly appearances at the
Legion auditorium every Sunday night with a complete change
of program, for an indefinite time, and if the audience re
sponse to their premiere performance is any criterion they
will be with us for "quite a spell."
Outstanding in the vaudeville presentation was the un
precedented dexterity of Joe Stanley on his accordian and
Freddie Stone and his violin. Other vaudeville features in
cluded the Nelson Sister, tap dancers; Bob Aga, guitarist and
cowboy singer; "Slim" Kaas. creek fiddler; The Sagebrush
Trio; Bonnie Lee, song stylist; Eddie Jessen and his saxo
phone and those veterans of stage and radio, Claudia and
Harry Evans.
Remember New Date: Every Sun. Night
I Prairieland Talk —
Some Foolish Things Are Being Handed
Out On Scientific Silver-Tinted Platter
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—Science has lift
ed the curtain and revealed
to the gaze of man some fasc
inating wonders. Some foolish
I things are handed out on the
scientific silver - tinted plat
Romaine
Saunders
ter. Inven
tion has done
wonders t o
trans form
the opera
tions of the
human hand.
I n vention
has also mul
tiplied com
plexities
without ad
ding to the
general wel
fare.
Science asks
Who are you? I told a man
once when I considered it im
pertinent that it was none of
his business. Another scientist
pronounces with solemn fin- (
ality that to be "lucky in love
is a myth." Another has gone
into the subject of the one- j
arm drivers and says he is un- \
steay. Another tells the moth
ers that bottle fed babies are
facing a future with “faulty
sex relations to life.” And, an
other has the hardihood to try
to make us think he can see
back a stretch of three billion
years into the past. Still an
other has the cause of war
summed up in the "narrow
ways of human behavior de
velopment in childhood.”
ASM
Gambling has fallen upon
evil days. Outlawed in Ne
braska, now it is announced that
a setup known as Gamblers
Anonymous has been formed
in a West coast city to out
law what these gents call a
racket in California. ‘“I don’t
mind telling the world,” says
the spokesman for this organ
ization, “that I dropped a for
tune on horses and most of
the others are in the same
boat.” These gents say they
are the same as Alcoholic An
onymous only the race track
has been their downfall.
• • •
A sign in a food store
window reads: "Beef liver
59c lb." A Hereford aristo
crat heading a herd sold at
a ranch sale the other day
in Chenry county for $6,650.
A slice of his liver would
come high. Who wants to
eat liver—dhe sewer system
that keeps the animal flush
ed?
• • •
After a bus trip through 28
states this is the estimate of
an English girl of us: “The
warmth and kindness of Am
ericans have nothing to do
with dollars and cents. It
springs from the heart.” At
one point in her travels she
asked the way to the bus of
a couple who said hop in and
we’ll take you there. Why, she
asked of the man whose face
was tanned to leather by the
blazing prairieland sun, are
you driving so far out of your
way to take me there. He an
swered, “It’s nice to be nice
to people—that’s why.”
Beginning November 14 a
week will be devoted to agri
cultural extension service at
the ag college. I do not know
what is comprehended in this
thing they call “extension” or
how many of the old boys out
on the land will shed their
overalls for a week and tog
up in their best to come to
this gathering, but there seems
to be a sizable group of the
white collar fraternity, the sal
aried farmers, scheduled to ex
pound the latest in scientific
clodhopping.
♦ * *
Uucle Sam is said to be
$1,800,000,000 short in his
accounts. He is about the
only guy who can continue
to do business at the old
stand under such conditions.
• • •
If the UN outlaws the bomb
what will they do with the
outlaws?
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October drew to a CL0SI
with 35 group gatherings sched
uled for the week with
breakfast, luncheon or dinner
at one of the swank hotels of
the city being the chief at
traction. The dinner table is a
great social inspiration.
• • •
A group of men convicted
of plotting the overthrow of
constitutional government were
sentenced to serve five years
each in prison. A poor cuss
who stole about the value of
a package of crackers is up
for 50 years in a Southern
prison. If criminally inclined,
do it on a grand scale.
• • *
Your face gives you away.
The surging mobs of humani- j
ty moving in the ebb and
flow tide rave one question ■
mark stamped upon the fea- .
tures: What’s going to happen
next?
• * • .
Everybody approves' a wor
thy charitable undertaking, yes
it’s a fine thing and should
have support. But to reach in
to the pocket and do some
thing to that end—ah, there’s
the rub!
* * *
The evolutionist’s ancesters
may have hung from their
tails, That’s alright if some of
them didn’t hang by their
necks.
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Mr. and Mrs. John McCar
thy and family, of Scottsbluff,
left Sunday after spending
several days visiting relatives
and friends.
MISCELLANY
Returning from David City
! in the wee hours on the morn
ing of October 15, Rev. C. J.
Werner and a band of St.
Mary's academy footballers
stopped to aid a, stranded mo
torist. He was having trouble
with his auto’s electrical system,
had no lights. Father Werner,
youthful assistant at St. Pat
rick’s Catholic church here,
loaned the man a flashlight.
Last week’s mail brought the
flashlight back to O’Neill with
a note of thanks from a Roy
Lovell, Norfolk ... Joe McCar
i ville, jr., likes organ music. In
to his new home recently went
a foot - powered relic. A vis
itor recently at the McCarville
home reports: “Joe asked if
I’d like to hear some music. I
said ‘yes’—preferably a little
Chopin or Rachmaninoff. Joe
came up with Prelude in C
Sharp Minor. .. .The Dominick
(“Dom") McDermott have a tra- !
dition in their childrens’ Christ
ian names. The names follow a'
pattern of rhyme. Mr. and Mrs.
McDermott told The Frontier1
that the names came spontane
ously without thinking of the
precedent that was being set. i
With the arrival of Baby Boy
McDermott on Wednesday, Oc
tober 19, the family has been
trying to find a name that will
fit the other eight childrens’
names. So far they haven’t chris
tened the latest addition. The
names of the children listed
chronologically are: Kathleen,
Eugene, Madeline, Marleen, Na
dine, Loreen, Dean and Sharleen.
Eugene married the former
Thelma Underwood, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Underwood.1
Madeline is now Mrs. Leland'
Lieb . . Ed (“Mopes”) Hagensick,
only charter member of the j
O’Neill volunteer fire depart
ment still on the job, was on
hand—as usual—when the de
partment was summoned at
2:45 a.m. October 26. The de
partment made a run to the
Calvert residence.
Mrs. Mike Mullen and son,
James, of Emmet, were Mon
day evening guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John J.
Mullen.
DWIGHT L HUBBY
BURIAL AT BUTTE
Widow, Son, Daughter
Among Survivors;
Born in Holt
BUTTE — Burial services
were held Thursday, October
27, at the cemetery here for
Dwight E. Hubby, 33, a form
er resident of O’Neill.
The services were conduct
ed by Rev- L. M. Hovda fol
lowing the rites at the Com
munity church here.
Pallbearers were: Richard
Bowden, of Burbank, Calif.,
LaVere Weesner, of North
Platte; Dale Smalley, of Butte;
Richard Johnson, and Robert
Dickey, both of Spencer.
Out-of-town relatives, who
came for the services, wer£:
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hicks, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Hicks, Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Osborne, Mrs.
Nettie Clevish, Mr. and Mrs.
William Hubby, Mr. and Mrs
Virgil Hubby, Mrs. Carrie
Borg and Marvel, Mrs. Addie
Rouse, all of O’Neill; Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Bowden, of Bur
bank, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs.
Dude Hoyer, of Seattle, Wash.
Friends from O’Neill attend
ing the rites were: Mr. and
Mrs. Orville McKim and Mr. 4
and Mrs. Harold Williamson
Dwight Edward Hubby, son
of Edward and Julia Hubby,
was bom March 22, 1916, on
the family farm near the
Blackbird community. In 1928
he moved with the family to
Spearfish, S. D. He moved
from Spearfish to Butte in
1934.
On August 28, 1943 he mar
ried Marie Faatz, of Butte,
and to them three children
were born.
The Hubby's came to O'
Neill about three years be
fore moving to Hastings.
The late Mr. Hubby was em
ployed as a transport driver
for Elmer Hewitt, of Wisner,
until ill health forced his
retirement in August. 1948.
Survivors include: widow; a
son—Larry Dean; a daughter .
—LaVonne Marie; parents _
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hubby,
of Hastings; brother — Wood
row, of Hastings; sisters—Mrs. fc
LaVere (Mary) Weesner, of
North Platte, and Mrs. Rich
ard (Dorothy) Luth, of Butte;
grandparents—Mr. and Mrs. S
E. Hicks, of O’Neill.
A daughter, Mary Ann, died
in infancy.
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newest thing” in automobile
engines, look at the Buick engine
pictured here, and you’ll see the
words “valve-in-head.”
But if happens that this isn’t new
with Buick. As a matter of fact,
the valve-in-head engine was in
vented back in 1902—IJ. S. Patent
No. 771095 —and immediately,
Buick adopted the principle, which
became the first in a long string of
“Buick firsts.”
Not everyone went for the idea
then. In spite of the fact that this
engine “breathes” more freely —
gets fuel in and exhaust gases out
more easily — others hung onto
their pet ideas.
Then came the airplane, with its
need for maximum power from
every drop of fuel—and every
maker of internal combustion air
plane engines adopted the valve
in-head principle.
And more recently-with the hope
that higher-octane fuels will be
come available —a lot of automo
tive engine designers are taking a
new look at the valve-in-head idea.
But just for the record, we’d like
to point out that Buick got there
first.
And ever since, Buick has gone
steadily ahead, building up a name
as “valve-in-headquarters.” Buick
engineers reshaped pistons to put
Fireball wallop in these engines.
They stepped up compression
•
ratios as fast as better fuels came
along.
So perhaps you’ll want to re
member, when you hear the term
“valve-in-head,” that this is the type
of power that made Buick famous.
If others want to climb on the
bandwagon, we say “more power
to them”—and no pun is intended.
But Buick has been doing more
with valve-in-head right from the
start.
And —we might add —it stands to
reason that Buick is not through
making this type of engine better
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