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Editorial & Business Offices: 10 South Fourth Street
O'NEILL, NEBR. _
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
Entered ^he postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska,
as 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.
Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday
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on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance.
Free Enterprise Makes Progress
Huge sums of money are required to conduct experiments
researches and to prove new' products. Only when enterprise
and those with necessary capital are unhampered by restrictions
will this take place.
This is a basic truth in all forms of business endeavor—large
or small.
Nebraska has witnessed considerable oil development and
exploitation during the past year and circumstances in this pro
gram point up the principle admirably well.
The oil industry has seen fit io spend large amounts of
money drilling wells in search of oil in western Nebraska. Sev
eral good wells were brought in near Sidney and prospects are
good for commercial oil.
Last year the American Petroleum Institute announced the
industry had drilled about 7,250 “wildcat” wells—the greatest
number in any one year since the discovery of oil in 1859.
“Wildcat” wells are test wells which the oil men drill in the
course of exploring new or unproved territories. Through them
new pools are discovered and new fields are brought into pro
duction. Our proved oil reserves have now reached the enormous
figure of nearly 27,000,000,000 barrels—and the “wildcats are
largely responsible for that.
A “wildcat,” however, is not a safe, sure and conservative
piece of business. It involves great financial risk since about 4 out
of 5 of them turn out to be dry holes.
Not too many years ago “wildcatting" was carried out within
the shadows of O’Neill. These amounted to dry holes. It is gen
erally accepted fact that vast oil supplies are to be found buried
under a goodly portion of the western half of these United States
and Canada. But the oil is not always accessible profitably—and,
of course, that is the hitch.
Drilling a "wildcat" well is probably more hazardous than
undertaking to shepherd a herd of cattle through a hard winter
or raise a bluegrass or corn crop in the face of weather obstacles.
Ym, every endeavor is accompanied by risk and must be
rewarded adequately to justify the pursuit.
The science of geology has made great progress, but it isn’t
foolproof by a longshot. The only way to prove that there is oil
in any given place is to go down and look.
Last year “wildcats" cost the industry more than $350,000,
000 in drillinu expense. Since only 1 out of 5 was a producer, the
average cost of finding a worthwhile well was about $250,000.
And that doesn’t include the huge sums paid to landowners for
leases, the cost of geological and geophysical exploration, and
other heavy and necessary costs. In 1949 the total costs of explor
ing for oil and gas within this country was over $1,000,000,000.
In a free enterprise economy, men will take these risks for
the possible rewards for success—thus bringing progress and a
better life for millions of people.
What is true of oil is true of all the rest of our basic enter
prise.
★ ★ ★
Monday’s snowstorm made conservation-piece, but it was an
infant ompared to the Hurriane Blizzard of March 7.
★ ★ ★
The assessor is looking for you.
ENUMERATORS BEGIN
LYNCH — Neal McKee, of j
Atkinson, and Harry Peppel,
local crew leader, held a 3-day
school of instruction for census
enumerators at Butte the past
week. The Boyd county enum
erators are: Mrs. Blanche Knip
ping. Mrs. Clara Kenaston, Al
len R. Hargens, Mel A. Luek
ens, Bob Grainger, Charles Put
nam and Emil Micanek.
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Prairieland Talk —
An Unknown Patriot’s Unusual Prayer
Expresses Inner Emotions of a Lot of Us
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—An unknown pa
triot has expressed the inner
emotions of a lot of us when he
put into words this unusual
prayer:
“Teach me that 60 minutes
make an hour, 16 ounces one
pound'and 100 cents one dollar.
Help me so to
live that I can
lie down at
night with a
clear consci
ence, without
a gun under
my pillow and
unhaunted by
the faces of |
those to whom
I may have |
brought pain. j
“Grant that j
I may earn
Romaine my meal tick
thers as I would have them do
-nto me. Deafen me to the
jingle of tainted money, and to
l he rustle of unholy skirts. Blind
me to the faults of the other
fellow but reveal to me my own.
“Guide me so that each night
when I look across the table at
my wife, who has been a bless
ing to me, I will have nothing
to conceal. Keep me young
enough to laugh with little
children and sympathetic
enough to be considerate of old
age.
“And when comes the day of
darkened shades and the smell
of flowers, the tread of foot
steps and crunching wheels in
the road—make the ceremony
short and the epitaph short:
Here lies a man’ ”
North Carolina Methodists
have declared their intention
to fellowship no individual,
moonshiner or otherwise, con
nected with the liquor trade.
• • •
Texas has a We Don’t W’ant
Nothing club. Here is their code
of political and social ideas:
"We don’t want no subsidies. We
don’t want no pensions. We
don't want no government loans.
We don’t want no government
houses to live in. We don’t want
no bureaucrats telling us how
to make a living. We don’t want
no socialized medicine nor no
socialized nothing. We don’t
want to have to pay poll tax,
I but as long as we do we don’t
want nobody paying it for us.”
The spirit of the American pio
neer still lives.
* * *
O’Neill has a chief executive
by the name of Davis. He is J.
E. (“Jack") Davis, winner of
the April 4 election. It has been
i more than 50 years since the
town was presided over by Ma
' yor Charley Davis, who was
getting about all the votes prob
ably because he had a standin
i with the kids. He fed them can
| dy, gave them the run of the
town, and settled juvenile quar
rels by taking the combatants
to a peanut stand and set ’em
up.
• • •
I don’t know whether it was
a gent or lady who dug up the
figures. No we learn that the
104-billion 500-million dollars
expendable cash is in the hands
of the women. We fellows in
America have confidence in the
buying ability of the ladies.
According to “bills allowed’
by the O’Neill city council, those
on the pay roll are doing pretty
well. There was a time when our
only reward for looking after
the town’s business was the du
bious honor if any connected
therewith. But men like O. F.
Biglin, R. H. Dickson, Dr. Giili
gan, Ed Gallagher, Neil Bren
nan and others were ready to
give their time for the promo
tion of community interests.
Members of the Lincoln city !
council have been sued, individ
ually and collectively, for $50,000
by an outraged citizen who
claims his business has been
ruined by a city rezoning pro
gram. Some Yankees are getting
tired of being shoved around by
public officials.
» * *
Ed Early has given us a clas
sic of dog tributes in his per
sonal contribution to "Fluff."
Ed's literary talent has been
hidden too long under a Holt
county haystack and his
friends hope to see more of its
colorful display in published
letters from the Sage of Eagle
Creek.
* * *
Yes, we are quite modernistic.
The nickel-plated fauce1. inspires'
no poetic outburst but there wras
rhythm and rhyme in the old
oaken bucket. Nobody sings of
the beauty of the steam pipes
but the open hearth with burn
ing ’ogs was good for an inspir
ed classic any day.
• • •
PMA offices are being ciowd
ed with farmers who protest the
corn acreage allotment set up
by the Department of Agricul
ture in Washington. The way for
farmers to bring an end to gov
ernment directed farming is to
refuse subsidy checks.
• • •
Those in high places con
fronted with a crimson record of
disloyalty protest they have a
conscience. Citizens are grati
fied to learn that there is such
a thing left in high official cir
cles.
• • •
Mrs. Vern Sageser, of Amelia,
is the central figure of a group
picture of Nebraska matrons
who recently met in Lincoln in
a session of the State Council
of Home Extension clubs, of
, which Mrs. Sageser is president.
• * *
It would be interesting to
know what those "secret files"
the president has under his
thumb have concealed in the
inner depth.
* * *
The new thing in ladies hose
is to feature a front line seam
in a style change from rear to
front.
Yesterday thrifty house
holders were out planting
gardens. Today a snow fall
lingers through the hours and
covers it all with a wet blan
ket of snow too soggy to pile
into drifts before an early Ap
ril wind.
* * #
A young fellow appeared at
the relief headquarters in a
Michigan town. When asked if
he had a family he replied: “Not
yet, but I am being married next
week. I can furnish the grocer
ies, and all I want you people
to do is to pay the rent.”
• • •
There are 2,500,000 American
Boy Scouts. Recently they ob
served the 40th anniversary of
the organization. Probably this
setup is doing as much as any
agency to help direct youth
along life’s highway to avoid
the pitfalls.
* * *
Two of those gaudy maga
zines with little but color to
recommend them under the con
trol of a formidable board of
bosses draw $65,000 from the
revenue of the Licensed Bever
age Industries for a 2-page ad
to run once.
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Letters from State
Officials Read
CHAMBERS — The Valley
Center extension club met on
Friday afternoon, March 31, at
the home of Mrs. William Wood.
Thirteen members and 5 visitors #
were present. -
The president, Mrs. Guais
Wintermote, conducted the bus
iness session. Letters from the
state president, Mrs. Vern Sag
eser, and from the state legis
lative chairman, Mrs. Houston,
were read.
The club voted to give 10
cents per member to the UNIC
EF. (United Nations internation
al children’s emergency fund).
The president also presented
the lesson an “'Selection and
Care of Carpets and Rugs,”
showing samples of several dif
ferent kinds and weaves.
The leaders chosen to receive 'r%
this lesson were unable to do
so because of road conditions
The hostess served a lunch
eon of sandwiches, potato salad
and coffee following the meet
ing.
Frontier for printing.
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Next, that Dynaflovv saves you
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But then, as the miles pile up—and
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You save on tires—because power
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You save on transmission mainte
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* Standard on ROADUASTER. optional at extra
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"^ou may well discover another
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We are getting a steadily mounting
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flow cars.
The SPECIAL has shown some rec
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SUPER is delivering mileage that
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In short, there’s a lot more to
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Refinements over the past two
years result in savings that are siz
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Knowing that, don’t you want us to
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