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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1950)
Editorial & Business Offices: 10 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday Entered the 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. Terms of Subscription: In NebrasKa, $2.50 per year; else where in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Why Mail Curtailment? Postmaster-General Donaldson’s economy drive in the United States postoffice department has finally reached O’Neill. The re sult is not good. Effective Monday, July 3, the service windows at the O’Neill office close at 5 p.m. daily, except Saturday, instead of 6 p.m. The final dispatch of mail each day will be at 6 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. On Sundays, of course, the windows are never opened and the final dispatch will be at 6. The lobby closes daily at 6 p.m. We have no idea how much mail flows from O’Neill to Atkin son, 20 miles to the west, but to illustrate the deterioration of mail service by virtue of the new regulations, we’ll use the hypo thetical case of a letter being sent to Atkinson from O’Neill. Suppose you find it impossible to ready your letter and mail it until 7 o’clock tonight (Thursday), July 6. That letter will re- t pose in the workroom of the O’Neill postoffice for approximately 23 hours before it even goes to the rail station. Then, on Friday night it will leave O’Neill about midnight on an eastbound—yes, eastbound train—and go to Norfolk, arriving there about 3:30 in the morning. By now it is Saturday, July 8. The westbound train that morning, meeting the eastbound train at Norfolk, will carry that letter back through O’Neill and drop it at Atkinson about 7:30 o’clock. By 8:30 o’clock on Saturday, July 8, your correspon dent will have had your letter posted in O’Neill some 38 hours earlier—provided, of course, he has nothing else to do but linger at the postoffice. Thirty-eight hours to travel 20 miles—from a county seat to the second largest city in the county; 3f; hours when a score of years ago service was infinitely better. As far as we are concerned the pcs toff ice department es sentially is an efficient unit, and in the scheme of government agencies and departments it enjoys a v,ery good reputation. It is handicapped because its employees come under civil service and the civil service, rather than the postoffice depart ment, fixes the salaries and the number of hours the employees shall work. It is further handicapped because it draws its funds from congress, which isn’t always consistent in its economy or in its spending. Our point is that Donaldson’s edict amounts to a drastic cur tailment as far as we are concerned, and we believe it is unjust, unfair and our city is entitled to better service. The O’Neill postoffice makes 2 dispatches each'day to prin cipal mail terminals. These dispatches are at 4:45 o’clock in the afternoon for first-class mail (this is unchanged under the new plan) and the other is at 6 o'clock in the evening (instead of 10 p.m.) Both dispatches are more-or-less the same, except that the 4:45 o’clock dispatch leaves O’Neill 8 hours earlier. The 6 o’clock dispatch (which reposes at the rail station until midnight) caries what is regarded as “residue” from the day’s posting. If O'Neill enjoyed a good dispatch other than the 4:45 and 6 o'clock mailings, which are so close together they amount to almost the same thing, the situation would be a little dif ferent. But it doesn’t seem like sensible economy to us to crowd all the work hours of the postoffice employees into fixed daylight hours and deny O’Neill, which is truly a growing communications center, the type of service which it requires and is entitled to. • ^ Fire Destroys 2 Houses in 10 Days CHAMBERS — Early Friday morning, June 30, a farm home belonging to Mr- and Mrs. Chris McGinn, of Chambers, burned * to the ground. Fire was of un determined origin. The place is located 2% miles west of Chambers. Until last week the McGinn house was occupied by Pete Brown, who moved into Cham bers a few days before the fire. Consequently, when the house burned to the ground it was empty and without occupants. Chambers townspeople were routed out of bed about 4 o’clock in the morning to combat the flames. A fortnight ago another farm home in the same locality was destroyed by fire. It was the Dale Bell house, 2 miles west and m miles north of Cham bers. The 2 fires were little more than a mile apart. Goes To Omaha— Mrs. R. H. Shrlner went to Omaha Sunday to spend the week. She was driven there by Leo Tomjack. let our experts do the developing and printing We’ll give you the best pos l sible glossy prints of each j and every shot. Remember to order enough extra prints to go around, too. Prompt service on all orders. O’Neill Photo Co._ O’Neill Phone 1 He Didn't Know it Was Loaded! **rairieland Talk — Politicians Who Play on Tragedies of Age Should Be Voted Out of Circulation By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—And here comes< another for governor with hook baited for votes with the old amiliar pension gag! The Terrible Terry Carpenter, of Scottsbluff, promises all Ne braskans 65 or over $65 a month out state funds if they will es tablish him in the execu tive mansion i n Lincoln. An oldtimer informed m e the other day that it was announ c e d over the radio Romanic that congress Saunders had set up a pension plan that gave all citi zens 65 or over $100 a month. This old gent seems to have been the only one to hear the good news, but it opened the way to a momentary thrill for him. Probably at 85 you do not have many such moments, so don’t miss the chance of putting a spark into an otherwise drab life if only for a minute. “Fine, Jim,” I said to him. “Now you spot a likely widow to go your way and you will have $200 a month. And maybe ihis thing will be retroactive and at your age you will get a lump sum of $24,000!” Just what is the proper treat ment to give politicians who play on the tragedies of age to gain votes? It is about time to be voting them out of circula tion. * * * Prejudice—“Previous and un favorable bias; prejudgment without due examination; detri ment; injury; to prepossess a gainst; bias the mind of; create a prejudice against; hurt, im pair or damage in any way.” Have you got it? Most everybody has a fair sized dose. More than likely the gent who boasts that he is "broad - minded" is quite completely in the grip of pre judice. There was a mass meeting to discuss community matters. One citizen acosted another and asked him what the meet ing was for. “I don’t know, but whatever it is I’m agin’ it.” Our prejudices deprive us of much that would enlighten, broaden, sweeten and enrich life. • • • Three or 4 gents propose that our state constitution should be revamped. Things are going a long under our present constitu tion without hitch or hinder ance. Nebraskans in the mass know little and care less about constitutional provisions. There are always a few patriots who think they can better things and so the whirligig of tearing up and making over and maul ing around and trying out keeps us stirred up. Surely by this 83d year of statehood prairie land dwellers should know what thev want. • • * Americans yearly swallow 300 tons of sleeping pills. . . . Rural free deliverly carriers de liver mail to 3D million citizens. . . . An order of groceries which cost $5 in the 1930s now foots up to $9.83, according to the U. ! S. labor bureau. Don’t know how near correct the figures are but maybe like some other I things federal bureaus promul gate we have to shake well be ' fore taking. . . . Fifty-eight per ' ished in a plane that plunged into Lake Michigan, 48 met a | similar fate in Australia, and | day-by-day on me Nebraska highways tragedy haunts with ! horror desolated homes. Quoted as authority on health they tell us sore throat, ty phoid and other human afflic tions come from the use of milk as the cow with the crumpled horn makes it. But the hundreds of husky kids and fine speci mens of baby beef seen out on the land give testimony that the cow with Ihe crumpled horn knows her stuff. * * * Little Iceland is not afraid of big Russia. Caught poach ing in their waters, Iceland ers held up a Russian ship (Continued on page 3.) There must be a touch of magic in Acme Cowboy Boots. Somehow they seem to know just where to go and what to do to have the most fun. They’re more than boots—they’re a state of mind—and the sooner you find it out the longer you’ll stay young! Come on down and we’ll show you what we mean. •■mm. ad adulltied in I-1 <uuUU iPosfl jr Children’s Men’s Sizes: 8J/? to 3 Sizes: 6/2 to 1 2 $6.95 to $7.50 $13.95 to $14.95 sborne’C mw The Family Shoe Store mmsf O’NEILL WILLIAM W. 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