Editorial & Busin*** Offices: 10 South Fourth Street
O'NEILL. NEBR.
*“ CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher
Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
ms second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March
8, 1879. This newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press
Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau
of Circulations.
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i O’Neill s National Publicity
Extensiveness of O’Neill’s publicity as a result of events dur
ing and following the Hurricane Blizzard of March 7 only now
gome 2 weeks latur—is becoming known. It is safe to say that the
nation’s press—particularly the daily press—was sufficiently im
pressed to give Mrs. Wallace O’Connell, her “blizzard baby,”
Timothy Joseph, and O’Neill street scenes “a big play.”
Clippings have been filtering back from every state in the
Union.
Clyde laylor, puDiisner oi me uawscn cuumy neraiu, «n
Lexington, was a guest in Puerto Rico on March 7, 8 and 9 on a U.
S. navy-sponsored tour of the Caribbean. While basking on a
btach under the palms he picked up a newspaper and saw O’
Neill’s main street buried under mountains of snow. He had to
examine the story to be sure he wasn’t looking at a year-old news
paper. Mr. Taylor promptly advised The Frontier of its success in
conveying the snow story to Puerto Ricans! Until Wednesday,
this report held distance honors.
News has a fascinating way of getting around. The Hurricane
Blizzard was news enough. But when Mrs. Wallace O’Connell, an
expectant mother, became marooned in the violent storm for 10
hours and, after her rescue, gave birth to a bouncing baby boy
the nation became interested. This news, the highly perishable
commodity that it is, had to be gotten out right away. News is no
respecter of broken communications lines. It must be dispatched
rapidly and as accurately as possible. This The Frontier attempted
to do by the media of special radio broadcasts, pictures and print
ed word. Photographs had to be flown.
The question arises: Can all this hum-drum produce an ad
verse effect?
The Frontier doubts that any bad can come from that sort of
publicity even though it is of a negative sort. Most sections of
the country at some time or another come to grips with Mother
Nature and when this happens national attention is bound to be
focused, for a short time, on that particular region. The Hurricane
Blizzard was as dramatic as any storm that ever ripped the Ever
glades of Florida or any Mississippi flood. Subsequent cattle
losses and other personal property losses are tnaking it nearly as
costly. Loss of human life was held to a minimum—thanks to
forewarnings and neighborliness.
It all added up to thousands of inches of space in the nation’s
press and The Frontier defends its treatment of the news while it
was news, in spite of what a stray critic might say in the Omaha
World-Herald’s Public Pulse column.
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It’s the Idiots!
(Guest Editorial from Dakota County Star, South Sioux City)
The Democrats aren't ruining the country. Neither are the
Republicans.
It's the idiots. *
At least, according to men of letters, idiot is derived from an
old Greek word meaning one who takes no interest in public
fiffairs.
And idiots are plentiful.in America.
Our system of government, which we hail so proudly in our
conversation, is based on a minimum of such idiots. But we have
too many.
Actually, we cannot get any better government than we ask
for. This is as true on the municipal level as in Lincoln or Wash
ington.
If we fail to acknowledge our responsibility toward good
government by keeping abreast of its activities, we can continue
to expect such things as deficit spending and visionary programs.
The American press is accorded a place in our system as an
informant. It generally strives to get all the governmental infor
mation before all of us.
But if we reject it for the funnies, leopard hunts or sensa
tional trials, we are idiots.
And we will get in government, at all levels, just what idiots
deserve.
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| Prairieland Talk —
March 7 Has Honored Place on Calendar;
Not Worst Storm-Just Another Exhibition
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
i
LINCOLN — The Lincoln
Junior Chamber of Commerce
has a committee at work dedi
cated to the
proposition of
telling to the
world the ad
vantages o f
the American
way of life, j
Among other
things, atten- 1
tion is called
to such facts j
as that with
but 6 per cent
of the area of
Romaine the world we
g,unj„, produce 7/16’s
Saunder. of the world’s
production, have 48 per cent of '
the world’s electricity, 85 per
cent of the automobiles and 92
per cent of the bath tubs.
We believe in plunging into
the bath tub in the morning
and then getting there in a
hurry on the rubber tires.
The juniors might mention,
too, that only under the Ameri- (
can form of government is it
possible for 940,000 of its work- I
ing citizens to acquire stock in
a public utility like the Ameri- i
can Telephone & Telegraph com
pany, or that within the juris
diction where Old Glory floats ,
can a boy who starts his busi- |
ness experience carrying a pa
per route as a man become pres
ident of a great corporation.
* * *
The editor of a Dallas paper
offers to build a portable taber
nacle of aluminum to seat 25,
000 and place it at the disposal
of Billy Graham, a Billy Sunday
type of preacher, who has been
stirring the great cities to re
ligious ferver, if he will spend
a year among the cotton pick
ers, cowpunchers and oil field
workers of Texas. The Rev. Dr
Graham receives hundreds of
letters, telegrams and telephone
calls from all over the country
soliciting his services for evan
gelistic campaigns. He says: ‘‘I
know we are beginning the
greatest revival America has
ever seen. Everyone, everywhere
seems interested.”
* * *
The 7th of March will have
an honored place on the cal
endar that brought Nebras
kans another big blow. No,
not the worst ever—just an
other exhibition of raging ele
ments that have been experi
enced at times on the great
plains anywhere from Sep
tember to May.
• * •
In the capital city, the center
of erudition, culture and politi
cal intrigue, tongues of spell
binders wag daily expounding
wisdom or nonsense. One of the
city’s educational institutions
put on an oratorical contest and
along came a young colored gent
with a tongue of fire from Wash
ington, D. C., won the laurels,
captivated the crowd with a
flow of eloquence that marked
him for a seat among the best.
* * *
Among the walkie - talkies
around the statehouse is the
authenticated rumor that the
governor has up his sleeve a
plan for a law authorizing and
requiring a blend of alcohol in
gasoline sold in the state for use
in motor vehicles. It is assum
ed the regulations as to alco
holic blend at the steering wheel
will continue in force.
* • «
During 1949, 584 men and 288
women lost their lives in Ne
braska by accidental means.
The biggest killer wras motor
vehicles. Falls took a total of
121 men and 149 women. Ma
chinery, explosions and fire ac
counted for some, drowning?
and accidents with guns had a
part in the total loss of life by
preventable crackups.
• * #
More tractors, bigger farms
and nightly visits to the movies
inspired Rev. Ellwin W Mueler
when addressing the Lutheran
National Council at Minneapo
lis, Minn., to say: “Rural peo
ple are being caught in the web
of a social pattern in which it
is more desirable to beget a re
frigerator than a child."
* * *
Thirty-two national adminis
trations covering a period ol
156 years spent 179-billion-dol
lars. During 5 years of the pres
ent national setup in Washing
ton, D C.. more than 191-bil
lion-dollars have been extractec
from the United States treasury
or more directly from taxable
I citizens.
• • •
It’s admirable to fight for ;
| principle—but be sure it’s i
1 principle, not a prejudice, ob
; serves a Mason City, la., editor
Elegance not luxury, culture
and refinement not gay fash
ions, mental and moral and
spiritual treasure store not
riches, character not merly res
pectable; to hear the song of
buds and the laughter of child
ren, to see in the gold of sun
set, in tihe quiet charm of a
starlit night, in the blooming
rose and the fragrance of the
apple blossoms, the sweep of
the far-flung landscape or in
the throbbing haunts of men
our opportunities for growth in
to the full measure of men and
women, the enrichment of this
life and making sure of the life
to come.
Read understanding^, think
calmly, talk pleasantly, work
and play with moderation, live
simply, save something and help
the less fortunate. And so the
shadows will be tinted with the
bright glowr of life’s sunbeams.
* * ♦
A section of the state from
Boone to Pawnee counties,
from Dodge to Jefferson and
from Hamilton to Cass, com
prising 21 counties, is the milk
pail that furnishes the capital
city daily with 125,000 pounds
of milk, according to city health
officers. The milk is processed,
homogenized, sterilized, cooked
and baked and cooled until no
Nebraska cow would own it as
her product. That a cow doesn’t
know how to turn grass and
grain into milk is a modern
scientific notion that robs hu
mans of the real value of milJt.
Take a look at a calf that has
run with the cow all summer if
you care to see what the natural
product does for body develop
ment.
* # *
The flight across the conti
nent, from coast-to-coast, has
been reduced to 4 hours, 52 min
utes, 48 seconds—about the
stretch that it took a pioneer to
drive from O’Neill to Chambers.
A striking blond up in old
New England fired the fatal
shot that killed her father.
Daughter took this tragic means
of ending the suffering of her
cancer-afflicted parent She has
oeen acquitted by a jury. Mercy
killings are receiving more and
more attention. Whether such
killings involve a moral princi
ple depends on individual con
viction. A case 1 am familiar
with in the Lincoln community
it is really a pity he doesn’t die.
Should this be hastened by
medical science or a pistol shot,
or let the ravages of time do the
w®rk.
* * *
O’Neill has had visits from
street preachrs, political spell
binders, medicine show perfor
mers, grafters and fakers of one
kind or other. A summer eve
ning in the long ago a gent
with figures in his head enter
tained street loafers with his
skill in juggling numbers. Ask
ed by one of the spectators to
multiply 456,782,345 by 142,857,
143 while you batted an eye and
he came up with the answer —
65 quadrillion, 620 billion, 779
million, 540 thousand. 335. No
body contradicted the gent.
• • *
Mr. Truman asks for a mil
lion dollars with which to
provide a tomb for an un
known soldier. Probably that
soldier, if he could know about
it, would prefer that the mil
lion be used in ministry to
the needy living.
* • *
The queen mother of the
British soverign, now 82, has
been working on a rug since
1941. This rug is soon to be
brought to our shores and sold
to raise some Yankee dollars to
help out the financial stringency
at the British exchequer.
* # *
The addition of a television
tower 199 feet high to the Em
pire State building will make
that structure 1,449 feet tower
ing above the busy streets of
New York.
# • *
Of the 3,069 counties into
which the 48 states are divided
857 are now dry territory.
* • *
To be hard up is no disgrace.
To be too lazy to remedy the
financial stringency is.
Real Estate Transfers
QCD-Merle Richards to Fred
Wagman 2-23-50 $1-Part Block
29-Matthews Add-Atkinson, ly
ing south of C & N W R R
WD-George F Wadsworth to
to Richard C Wadsworth 12-13
44 $l-SVi - S ViNEy<-NEViNEVa
15-NEy<-N ViNW Vi 22 - 31 - 15
subj to mtg to Fed Land Bk
WD-Nellie S Wayniek to Ar
thur E Ol'berding 2-24-50
$15,640-N Vi 7-SWy«-S%SEy4
S^NViSEyi 6-SM>NEV4- 5-32-15
WD-<N Louis Neiison to State
of Nebr 1-19-50 $5-Part NVi
NWy4 28-26-13-2 acres
WD-Geo Atkinson to St of
Nebr 1-19-50 $80-Part NViNWy4
28-26-13- 2 acres
WD-Lloyd B Fusselman to
Donald Cunningham & wf 3-14
50 $2500- Lots 16-17-18-13 & 20
Blk 14- Page
WI>James Curran to Ardell
V Curran 3-15-50 $1- Vi Int in
EVi 21-31-12-Subj to mtg
WD-Raiph E Stowell to Rob
ert H Fox & wf 2-27-50 $5200
NWy4 33-30-13
WD - Joseph A Mlinar to
George H Beck & wf 3-14-50 $1
Lot 3 Blk 26-Bitneys Add-Atk
WD-Elmer Thomas Hewett
et al to Russell P Hipke & wf
f
1-6-50 $10,000- E% 35-33-15 SV2
SWt4 6-32-14
WD-Mary Husemann to Wil
liam Wasson & wf 3-1-50 $4800
NE*4 30-SEl4 19-31-14
WD-Neil F Sammons et al to
George Fullerton & wf-no-date
$88O0-SW Va 18-26-13
Goes to Chicago— 4
Julius D. Cronin departed
Sunday for Chicago, 111., where
he was to spend several days od
business.
DANCE
DANCELAND
O'NEILL
WNAX Bohemian
Band ’
Sunday, March 26
Adm. & Dance: $1
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Central Finance
ICorp.
C E. Jones. Manager
O'Neill Nebraska
Even the COLORS
sing of Spring !
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Too bad a newspaper has to be
printed in black and white.
For here we can show you only half the
picture you can make this spring, this
summer and for a long time to come.
True, you can see the lines of thic tidy
1950 Supfr Convertible.
You can, perhaps, imagine the top-of
the-world feeling you'd know with the
wind combing your hair, a great valve
in-head straight-eight filling your ears
with its song, these spinning wheels
cradling each mile of your going in
soft, coil-spring comfort.
hat we can’t show you here are the
bright, gay colors we have made ready
just for you and just for this year.
We can’t show you how they dress you
up, clothe you in the very spirit of the
season, add their own special plus to
that unmatchable I-drive-a-Buick
feeling.
Best we can say is they won’t cost you
one cent extra.
They are part and parcel of this gor
geous Buick package, like the Fireball
ing power of our new F-263 engine —
the level going of all-coil springing
— the steady roadability of Buick’s solid
structure—"the handy controls for top,
windows and front seat, the satiny
smoothness of Dynaflow Drive.*
*Standard on all Roadmaster models, optional equipment
at extra cost on Specials and Supers.
Tvn, in HENRY J. TAYLOR, ABC N.twcrl. • very Monday
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Why not come see the whole package
for yourself? Your Buick dealer can get
right down to cases—prices, trade-in,
terms and all.
See him —and this year you’ll want to
meet spring in the gay Buick manner.
Only Buick has Dynoflow—
and with it goes:
HIGHER-COMPRESSION Fireball voire in-head
power in three engines. (New F-263 engine in SURER
models.) • NEW-PATTERN STYLING, with
bumper-guard grilles, taper-through fenders,
"double bubble" iaillights • WIDE-ANGLE
VISIBILITY, close-up road view both forward and
back • TRAFFIC-HANDY SIZE, less over all
length for easier parking and garaging, short turn
ingradius * EXTRA-WIDE SEATS cradled between
the axles • SOFT BUICK RIDE, from all-coil
springing, Safety-Ride rims, low-pressure tires, ride
steadying torque-tube • WIDE ARRAY OF
MODELS *•“ c
A. MARCELLUS
PHONE 370 O’NEILL
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_Whom better automobiles are built BU1CK will build them ___________________ ^
