Supervisors Narrative Report
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This fall the building was painted and arrangements have been
made to paint the machinery.
Athough the dam building program is not a major practice
in this county, there is considerable demand for technical as
sistance Cooperation with contractors working in this area with
heavy equipment, on the whole, has been very good.
In one instance, additional technical assistance was obtained
from the regional office in planning a large dam where a large
tube was installed. This was on the Ira Moss farm near Dorsey.
Mr Edgington, from the regional engineering office, came out
and assisted in planning the structure. A 24-inch tube with 30
inch riser was designed and a 6-inch irrigation outlet to enable
Mr Brady, the tenant, to irrigate the garden. The natural auxil
iary spillway was not suitable to carry all of the excess water,
but the tube will handle the water in most cases and the natural
spillway will be used only occasionally. Mr. Saxton, of Spalding,
an engineer in the Soil Conservation Service, was on hand to
assist with the construction work. Harry Smith & Son did the
construction work in this case. Mr. Moss and Mr. Brady are well
pleased with the finished product.
For the period of February 2 to February 22 there were 117
bulldozers working on snow removal in Holt county alone. Many
of these were contractors from eastern Nebraska, South Dakota,
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, etc. Some of them made contacts and re
turned to do conservation work later in the year, ^lso many
farmers and ranchers purchased heavy equipment during the
storm and it is now available for some special jobs where it might
be difficult to interest a contractor This was true in at least one
instance where heavy equipment was used in a quite different
job ..
Harvey Tompkins, or inman, nirea a neignoor, mr rauiu
& Sons, who had purchased a new TD18 with ’dozer during the
winter storms, to bank slope a large blowout.
This blowout had a vertical bank over 20 feet high and sev
eral hundred feet long, including the sand deposition area involv
ed about 4 acres. For a cost of less than $150 (actual cash outlay)
this bank was sloped, manured and mulched with hay and seeded
to such things as rye, corn, sudan, all native grass seed available,
alfalfa sweet clover, partridge pea and prairie birds-foot tree
foil.
Demonstrations and Field Trials—
The legume and test plots on the farms of John Dick, of O’
Neill, and E. J. Revell, of Star, created a great deal of interest
Lespediza grew rather vigorously, vetch made a good showing
and partridge pea was so thick on the Revell plot that it was def
initely crowding out sandburs and sun flowers. Lewis Sobot
ka, of Inman, discovered a strange looking plant in his meadow
(newly seeded) and took a sample to the Holt Soil Conservation
District offices in O’Neill. It was partridge pea that had volun
teered after the area was flooded in the spring. He let the crop
stand and harvested over 700 pounds of seed. This appeared to
be an earlier maturing variety and some of the seed will be used
by Mr. Russel in his work with the University of Nebraska and
the Soil Conservation Service in further research. When Mr.
Gooding and Mr. Russel visited the county to look over the le
gume plots they inspected Mr. Sobotka’s volunteer field and were
also shown a “new legume" which turned out to be prairie birds
foot tree foil. It was quite common throughout the county but
had produced a very heavy stand on two abandoned fields near
Emmet. Dr. Gooding stated that in all his years of working with
it experimentally he had never been able to obtain more than
two pounds of seed at any one time. A good amount of seed was !
harvested for further trial.
Two tree planting demonstrations were held during the sea
son. Fertilizer was applied to the grass plots of native varieties (
on the John Schrunk farm. Tours and talks were held with the
following groups: Vocational agriculture group. Veterans’ train
ing groups in O'Neill and Atkinson, and Christian Rural Life In
stitute held at the Methodist church in O'Neill.
Terracing— „
Terracing seems to be slowly gaining in favor. Mr. KeveLl,
vice-chairman, has purchased a whirlwind terracer and others
contemplating building terraces will either use the moldboard ;
or disc plow method of construction.
AM,Cooperators and the public in general look on the U S. Soil I
Conservation Service with favor. Of course, some individuals |
still feel thev might be tying up some of their liberties or are !
afraid someone is going to dictate to them in the matter of farm
and ranch management. However, by and large, most cooperators
feel that grain as well as forage crops grown on and under soil
conservation practices are much more valuable than that grown
on poor depleted soils. Many believe that the Soil Conservation
Service offers the most valuable program in the United States
today. We have started many years too late as we have lost much
of our best soil by wind and water erosion Perhaps the most
important development is the slow but sure growth of the idea
in the mind of the ordinary farmer or rancher that the U. S. Soil
Conservation Service is offering him, not trying to force on him,
a sincere effort toward his betterment.
Recommendations—
Aside from increasing the amount of equipment available,
it is our hope to offer better service with this equipment. We
! believe also that application of practices should not be neglect
! cd in an attempt to complete more conservation plans for new
| cooperators. Also that the application of practices shall follow a
logical sequence as outlined by the technical staff. For example,
more livestock may be added to a unit after the seeding has been
established and more grass is available for utilization by larger
numbers of animals. Also that terraces should follow after the
waterways are fully developed and established.
Technical Service—
The U. S. Soil Conservation Service technicians are making
a sincere effort to develop plans adapted to the indivdual’s farm
or ranch and still use every acre according Ho its capabilities and
treat it in accordance with its need.
At the present time 12 cooperators have completed their or
iginal plan of conservation operations; however, in most cases
they realize that some further development is possible and will
strive toward that goal. Others are nearing the goal, but few
farmers or ranchers ever reach the place where they say, “My
place is perfect, I have taken care of everything and now I can
stop.”
Some changes in the technical staff have taken place since
last year. Orville Indra was transferred to Stapleton as work
unit conservationist in the first few weeks of the year, and
Archie Mac-Master, mid-year college graduate, was added to the
staff in February.
Mr. Young came to O’Neill in the spring of i948. He was
transferred here from Madison. Mr. Young has worked in a
number of districts in the state and knows and believes soil con
servation through and through. He has been with the Service
since 1936.
Mr. Crook, soil scientist, came to O’Neill in May, 1946. He
was transferred here from Ord, has worked in several other lo
cations and has been in the Service since 1942. At the present
time he does soil mapping for Holt, Boyd, Rock. Brown, Keya
Paha, and Cherry counties. The work load for mapping is far
greater than can be accomplished.
C. R. Hill was transferred here from Humbolt in June, 1948.
He succeeded Mr. Bredemeier as work unit conservationist in
August of that year. He has been with the service since 1945.
In 1948, Mr. Bredereier was transferred to Valentine to open
up headquarters for the Cherry distict. Tn July of 1949, he was
promoted to District Conservationist for work group Area V.
This area had been set up for some time but group headquarters
had not previously been staffed. Previously, Holt District had
been under supervision of the Albion work group office.
The technical staff has developed regular office days of Mon
day morning and Thursday afternoon. They combine jobs in any
particular part of the county wherever possible, make use of
demonstrations, group meetings, to aid in explaining or applying
conservation methods and the neighborhood approach.
Report of Conservation Plans
NUMBER ACRES
Y’r 1949 To Date Y’r 1949 To Date
Applications Received 76 391 38339 276917
Plans Prepared and Signed 53 288 29402 171031
Active Conservation Plans 279 1 66413
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Financial Report
•Total Assets of District $5509.17
Bills Payable 230.88
Net Worth 5278.29
Volume of Business
1. Total Receipts for 1949 $3364.88
*•2. Total Expenditures for 1949 4685.31
•Total assets include cash on hand, building, seeder, treader,
grass stripper, machine trailer, subsurface tiller, fresno and
6570 pounds of grass seed including such grasses as grama, big
bluetem mixture, sand lovegrass, switch grass, crested wheat
and smaller amounts of other grasses.
••Expenditures show larger than receipts because of the fact
that seed inventory is greater now than a year ago.
Here from Denver—
Miss Mae Keys, of Denver,
Colo., arrived Monday, Febru
ary 13, to spend a week in O'
Neill.
Frontier for printing
School House
Furniture and Other Buildings of District 251 Will Be Sold at
PUBLIC AUCTION
lO1/, miles North and 5 miles East of Paqe: 1 mile West and
4 miles North of Middle Branch: or 2 miles
East of Old Rector Ranch, on
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 28
2:00 O'CLOCK P. M.
1 SCHOOL HOUSE. HIP ROOF. FRAME BUILDING. 24x36.
WITH 8x26 LEANTO. GOOD CONDITION.
1 FRAME BARN 14x38, WITH SOME PARTITIONS.
! 28 Single Decks, good condition; 1 Teacher's Desk and 2
Chairs; 2 Heavy Cast Iron Coal Stoves, good condition; 3
I Teeter-Totters made of Plank; 2 Sets of Encyclopedias; Some
Library and Story Books; Text Books for All Grades; 1 Good
3 Hanging Globe; 2 Bookcases; 2 Sets of Big Maps; 1 Well
Pump and approximately 50 feet of Pipe; 4 Scaffold Trestles,
i 9 feet long, well built; Several good 2x12 Panks, 14 feet long;
\ 4 Telephone Poles with Braces and Pipe for Swings; 2 Small
Outbuildings; many other articles too numerous to mention.
BUV WANSER, Auctioneer
Att» and st,Vlei /
FOR YEARS Allis-C halmers has been a leader in the
manufacture of domestic farm and ranch machinery
®pd heavy industrial machines. A - C covers the entire
field. Today, in Holt county, there are dozers, crawlers,
land - levellers, loaders and patrols in soil conservation
work. Today, more-and-more farmers and ranchers are
turning to Allis-Chalmers for tractors and all types of
machinery. Come in, let us demonstrate.
BOOK YOUR TRACTOR REPAIR JOB NOW ...
BE READY WHEN SPRING ARRIVES!
Marcellus Implement Co.
M. H. MARCELLUS —West O’Neill — PHONE 5
Men I ie Comforter
ni Bethany Meeting
A MEL1A — Husbands of
members of the Bethany Wom
en's Missionary society were on
hand at the Wednesday, Febru
ary 8, meeting at the Clyde
Burge home and tied a comfor
ter.
All items made, including
the comforter, were sent to the
Brainard Indian school
It was an all-day meeting at
the Burge home. A dinner was
served at noon by the hostess,
followed by ice cream and cake.
Lesson was on “Stewardship.’’
Scripture reading was taken
from Luke XVII: 11-17, in charge
of Mrs. Glen White The hymn,
“Count Your Blessings,” was
sung, followed by a prayer led
by George Atkinson. Several
talks were given on stewardship
as follows.
“Stewardship Personality,” by
Rev. Ira H. Dixon; “What Is
Stewardship?” by Harry White;
"Children and Our Steward
ship.”
After the lesson each lady
was given a package which was
her work for the afternoon, and
the men went to work on their
comforter. Meeting closed with
a “scrap” supper.’
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
WD-Alice E Eidenmilier et
al to Clinton L Wolfe & wf 1
10-50 $3500-West 10 ft lot 5-All
lot 6-East 22*6 ft lot 7-Blk N
Fahys Park Add-O’Neill
WD-Mervyn E Asher to Har
old R Strong & wf 2-11-50 $300
-All lots 15 & J6 Blk 1-Fahys
AddeO’Neill-lying south of C
B & Q R Ry
WD-Leonard Hill *o Mary &
Herbert Jensen 2-11-50 $3000
Lots 22 & 23 Blk A - Golden
Subdivision-O’N
WD-George G K vett to Lloyd
K B.'ittell & wf 2-11-50 $l-So
86 ft Out 11 Inman
WD-Lloyd K Brittell to Gus
Spath & wf 2-11-50 $l-So 86 ft
Outlot 11-Inman
WD-Albert E Gibson to R H
Shriner 2-2-50 $1500-All Blk 5
Fahys Add-O’Neill
WD-Katie Sievers to Frank
Emsick 4-18-47 $200 Lots 1 &
2 Blk 21-Ewmg
WD-Robert L Kiltz, et al to
Herman E Cook & wf 11-29-49
$10,665-N1,iNEV4 3-26-12 SEVi
134-27-J2-exeept part SEV4SEV4
Retired Teacher, 83, *
Honored on Birthday
LYNCH — Several birthday
parties were held Friday, Feb
ruary 10. in honor of Mrs. Mary
Gallop, 83, celebrating her
birthday anniversary. She re
ceived 2 cakes, many cards,
handkerchiefs, flowers, and
some cash. Some of the cards
were from men and women, i
who had been her pupils over
50 years ago and whom she had
not seen for many years.
Mrs. Gallop has been a Lynch
resident more than 40 years.
OFFICERS CHOSEN
LYNCH — At a baseball
meeting here Tuesday, Febru
ary 14, Ted Crooks was elected
president; Rodney Tomlinson,
vice-president; Ronald Carson,
manager; Mel Lucken, secre
tary-treasurer (temporary).
} W. F. FINLEY. M. D. j
| OFFICE PHONE: 28 { *
• First National Bank Bldg. {
O'NEILL
| *■-—
TELEPHONE EMPLOYEES GET
Good Starting Wages
_Frequent Raises
AVERAGE 1949 WEEKLY EARNINGS INCLUDING
OVERTIME IN TOWNS LIKE O'NEILL
Operators Receiving
Highest Pay Earned an
AVERAGE OF
$43.38
Average For All Operators
$39.31
Plant Craftsmen Receiving High
est Pay Earned an Average of
$75.90
Average For All Plant Craftsmen
$68.19
Basic weekly wages for a five-day, 40-hour week rise
from $30.00 for starting operators to $37.50 for highest
paid; for plant craftsmen from $32.50 for beginners to
$66.50 for highest paid. Basic wages are materially in
creased by overtime and extra Ipay for Sunday, holiday,
evening and night work.
Telephone employees get definite raises at fixed inter
vals from the time they start until they reach the highest
rate for their particular job.
They get up to three weeks paid vacation, depending
on length of employment, 6 paid holidays and when they
retire—liberal pensions.
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Our policy is to pay wages that compare ravoraoiy
with those paid others in the same locality for work re
quiring similar skill, training and experience. )
Wages and salaries amount to about two-thirds of the
cost of furnishing telephone service. In the past ten years,
wage increases granted by this Company have upped our
payroll by 28 million dollars while rate increases granted
have added only 1 4 million dollars so far to what we take
in. /
As wages go up, sooner or later the increase must be
reflected in the prices we charge for service.
NORTHWESTEN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
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Wm. Krotter Co. of O’Neill
O’Neill, Nebr.
Phone 531___
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REPAIRING
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Fencing. Steel Posts, Wire. Cable.
Nails, Bolts.
Small Electrical Appliances
Cooking Utensils. Cream City
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