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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 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'NeUl, 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. Death Dazzle Kills Night Drivers One-fifth of the fatalities listed in the annual toll of 0,150,000 street and highway accidents is attributed to causes which come under the general heading of vision obstruction, according to a report of the National Safety Council, The conclusion of this organization is that the death dazzle on highways is increasing and represents a fearsome night peril to motorists, causing accidents which have proved fatal to thou sands of motorists and pedestrians. While other factors, such as fatigue, impatience and lack of judgment, entered into the accidents, these causes are accentuet ed by the dazzle that comes from many headlights. On rural routes, in particular, this sepms to be the case because the death ratio is highest after nightfall. The one practice that could curb the highway glare, that of lowering the headlight beam in pasting, has fallen into wide spread disuse, although many states have laws making such procedure mandatory. The volume of traffic, in many localities, is so heavy that traffic policemen find it almost impossible to enforce the rules because of insufficient manpower. We call attention to the figures given by the National Safety Council because they emphasize the peril of bright lights when two cars meet on the higway. Nebraska, however, is one that re quires motorists to lower .their head-lights when meeting another vehicle and, we must state, our experience in recent night driv ing reveals that, in most cases, the drivers of automobiles are complying with this regulation. It has been very rare, in our experience, to meet a driver who did not obey this rule. ★ ★ ★ Rainmakers to Check Hurricanes The American people have heard much about, the theory of rainmaking but, even so, they will probably be surprised at the statement made by Dr. Erwin Langmuir, Nobel prize-winner and research scientist, that shooting a single pellet of dry ice into a cloud with a pistol will moke it rain. More interesting is the belief of Doctor Langmuir that the study of tropical hurricanes might make it possible to use silver iodide generators at sea level in regions where large clouds first begin to grow into incipient hurricanes and thus, by inducing rain, prevents the hurricanes from reaching land. This would be quite the thing to protect regions that suffer lrom the hurricanes of the West Indies. Writing in Science, the magazine of the American Associ ation for the Advancement of Science, Doctor Langmuir reveals some amazing results. In tests conducted by the Army signal corps and the Navy near Albuquerque, N. M., he discloses that “it was found that 0.35 inch of rain was produced over an area of 4,000 square miles in a single day.” This corresponds, he points out, to 100,000,000 tons of rain,'or about 100,000,000,000 gallons of water. The experimental work of rainmaking is proceeding and the day might not be too far distant when men will be able to secure the moisture necessary for the sustenance of crops. This will be welcomed by farmers who have seen their in vestment of money and labor in growing fields vanish as the hot suns parch the growing plants—Holt county’s 1950 summer ex cepted. ★ ★ ★ Within a few days thousands of our children will be trekking back to school; still others will be going to the /lassroom for the first time; and others will be seeking higher education in other localities. ★ ★ ★ Then there’s the caustic gent who thought O'Neill’s new street-lighting system should be brighter. ★ ★ ★ Election over, we won’t be reading and hearing so much about qualifications, etc., etc. Home and Abroad 1 LEGALITIES: ACTUALITIES: \w ^ Prairieland Talk — Little Short of a Miracle When An Assessor Gets Second Nomination By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—I took the hand yesterday of a young man call ed into service in the air branch of our coun try’s military might. He with his wife and 2 young children have been torn from theit home in Califo r n i a. The wife with a haunted look, the 2 small children D . not old e Romaine nough to sense . aundors the tragedy Df it all, go to the young wife’s pa rental home and the husband and father has gone to a place with the winged monsters of the air roaring out of the blue to spread the spawn of hell on fair lands and maybe crash to earth in roaring flame. Here was a clean, upstand ing young man, a young wom an of breeding and quality and 2 lovely children—repre sentative of the best in Am erican life, drawn into the re lentless maelstrom of another war. Peace? There is no peace, there can be no peace with mankind warp ed in the image of hatred, envy, the lust for power and imbued with the determination to ram down the throats of everybody their paricular brand of govern ment, religion and social form ula. • • • I saw the other day a fear some thing. It was reputed to be the cleaver that severed the j MODERN RESIDENCE PROPERTY At Auction 4 FRIDAY EVENING, AUG. 25th 7:00 P. M. Sale to be held on the Premises This property is located! 1l/2 Blocks North of Bazelman’s Filling Station. i Legal Description: Lot 42 and SV2 of 43, Block A, Golden Subdivision of Fa by’s Second Addition to O’Neill. A new home, 24x32, beautifully finish I ed. Gas Furnace, City Water and Sewer. Must be seen to be appreciated. Open evenings for inspection. Terms — 20rr down at time of sale, bal ance to be paid upon delivery of Warranty Deed. Possession can be given Sept. 1st. BEN OETTER, OWNER KEITH A. ABART, Auctioneer ( PAW! A LULU OF) Ian electric V i 7 STORaa WAS ( ^BUSTED LOOSEJyb Mf there goes ym J l THE POWER fig > was J TOO BAD t ! f YOUR NEIGHBORS/ St WILL COOK \\ NO /WORE L V. TOOAV* A 7--s» ( I HATE TO SOUND | SMUG ABOUT THIS - I BUTLP6AS never ( \^LETS YOU OOWNj / Ralph N. Leidy. head of the last victim of a can ibal feast in Fiji. A native of the islands was in town, a strapping big fellow dressed in a short | skirt and a coat that probably came from Yankeeland. He was here in connection with a church | group of which he is leader a mong his people. After men tioning a few of the striking things in America, such as tall buildings and wide streets and highways the next thing that ! took his amazed attention was the American ice cream. The last killing for a feast on human j flesh among the Fijians was just i 100 years ago, the victim being j a European missionary. b--- ' " The Amerasia and the other crimson-dyed cases have been closed with a beautiful spread of political whitewash—or have they? Tydings and his 2 Dem ocratic colleagues on the com mittee, McMahon and Green, turned in a 347-page report that presumably clears everybody of disloyalty charges. One ol the 2 Republican members of the Tydings subcommittee thought the “investigatons” such a joke he did not bother to say any thing, while the other, Senator Lodge, denounced the investiga tion as ‘“superficial, inconclus ive and lacking in impaatiality.” "A San Francisco editor thinks the McCarthy charges and the communist magazine case are for future reference. Just now Korean soil is beng drenched with the blood of young Americans. That is of immediate concern. “But the day surely will come,” says the California editor, “when this ugly story, with all its sordid details, will be told to the A merican people. The Tydings whitewash can only delay that day of reckoning.” * * * Sixty-seven percent of the in mates of the state penal insti (Continued on page 3) Let Us Help You S'. rY* ' J * -T-R-E-T-C-H YOUR GRAHAM CRACKERS iic SUNDAE TOPPING JOHNSON'S, Made with * Butterscotch, Pineapple and Honey.2-lb. bo* Strawberry.2 7!/2-oz. cans GINGERSNAPS QAc SUPERB CATSUP JOHNSON'S, Crisp fresh M Thick and rich, so good cookies.2-lb. cello bag on meats.14-oz. bottle ‘Hope it's Clapp's Baby Foods I hope, I hope, I hopel'# CLAPP'S Strained Baby Foods—3 cans -MAGIC LEMON PIE - BtttZOiuk*- Eagle Brand ft . • L CONDENSED tmsXquick milk PIE CRUST MIX (uaft ^ can 29c MALTED MILK, Kraft’s Chocolate Flavored So good .. 1 LB. CAN ★ PEANUT BUTTER ROBB-ROSS, Creamy or Chunk, 1-lb. Jar ★ MY-T-FINE DESSERT O OU Smooth rich pudding .-..Vpkgs. V GRAPEFRUIT HEARTS, Superb, tender sections Grand for salads.2 No. 2 cans SWEET PEAS Superb, Large Fine flavor ..2 No. 2 cans FRUITS & VEGETABLES CABBAGE, 3 lbs. 10c LEMONS. 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