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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1950)
Editorial 8c 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. Money Needed for Better Roads Probably too much has been said already and there is consider able misunderstanding over two hills to be voted upon Tuesday, No vember 7. Both mean much to Nebraska’s future road building pro ^This editorial is a final effort to clarify the facts and present what we believe to be the logical answer to assure better roads in Nebraska Both bills, it should be understood, are already in operation af ter being passed by the legislature. The voting is on whether or not the bills, as passed, should bo rejected. These two bills, which will be voted on separately, did two things. They increased the gasoline tax and increased the license fees on cars and trucks. If you with to retain those bills in operation and thus provide ample funds for building and improving roads in our state you should vote "no." When you vote "no" you mean, "no I do not want to reject the present laws as pnacted by the legislature." Usually when you are in favor of a project you would vote “yes” but in this case because of the wording of the referendum you must vote “no.” . . The reason for increasing the gasoline tax and the license fees on cars and trucks was to provide more money for building and im proving roads. Because of the increased prices the state must pay for road materials and labor more revenue was needed. The most fair way of assessing the cost of the new roads to the people is on the basis of road use. Thus under me present iaw. which ihc icic*«uuum w **» peal, the more you drive the more you pay in gasoline tax. The big ger and heavier your car or truck, the more license fee you have to pay. That is a fair plan. Next to the commercial truck and bus operator, the farmer gets the most benefit from the roads. Every state highway built goes by many farms and the more hard surfaced highways the state builds, the more farms there will be on paved roads, and the closer the other farms will be. The more money the state has for building roads the quicker they will be able to pave such highways as 281, 12, 11 and others in this section of the state. County roads in Holt depend principally upon gasoline tax and license fee funds. The bridge levy is 1.60 mills-—the maximum by law; the road. .08. These create a relatively small amount com pared to what is required to maintain the county's roads. Hence, the greater the collection of gasoline and license fees by the state the greater will be the county * *hare to build more and bettor county roads. Thus the farmer gets his full share of benefit from the increas ed gasoline tax and license fees now in effect. The present license fees for cars, commercial and farm trucks and the present gasoline tax is the cheapest method by which the farmer could improve roads in the rural areas. If the law were to be repealed and instead a county toad tax or a state tax for roads put on the books, the farmer with land would pay much more of the v road cost than he does at present. If paved roads were to be built in the state as they are in towns and assessed against the abutting property, paved roads in rural areas would be prohibitive. For the farmer at least the present meth od appears cheaper and more fair and equitable for all concerned. The increased funds enable the state to match more federal road funds, so that actually we get more roads than we pay for as far as gasoline taxes and license fees are concerned. True, we have to pay taxes to furnish the federal government with road funds, but as matters now stand we will pay the same tax whether the roads are built in Nebraska or some other state. You should remember when you go to the polls that you are not voting to increase either the gasoline tax or auto and truck license fees, you are voting on whether or not to retain the increase which has been in effect the past year. It all boils down to this. If you are in favor of more and better roads in Nebraska, if you want to see the state continue with its stepped up road building program of the past year, then you will want to vote “ao” on both of the referendum issues. A Grim Lesson iiim ■ 11 iiurm-rr- n ft PRAIRIELAND TALK Karmelkorn King An O’Neill Boy Who Got Fired Off Wyoming Sheep Ranch By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN — A cartoon or iginating below the Mason- Dix on line endeavors to convey the idea that Korea has been written off as a political and international issue. Korea has not been written off so far as the heart-torn mothers of earth are concerned. It has not been written off for little children who have lost father and mother and home in the war-desolated land. It has not been written off the seared memories of the young wives whose mates never more will re turn. It has not been written off for the young women whose ra diant dreams for establishing a home when her lover came back from the burning hell of battle have been turned to ashes by one death blow. But it has been writ ten off for the American boys and other boys whose blood flowed on Korean soil. To the mothers of boys who have been drafted for war service Hazel Hartwell Simon has writ ten these lines: Ten thousand mothers pin a pray er tonight On every star their tear-blur red eyes can see. Ten thousand mothers anguish for their sons. Shall I suppose it only came to me? In other wars the horror had no ; claws To rend my flesh, no sword to j pierce my breast; But now my son is gone to face the foe, And I like countless mothers find no rest. The stars pass over as I lie here tense, Where is he, flesh of mine that I gave birth? O God, You gave Your Son Him self to die— Comfort the heart-torn mothers ot the earth. * * * I don’t know if that once pup ular confection known as Karmel korn is still on the candy cases, but many O’Neill citizens may never have heard that a business when at its flourishing height in the hard luck period of the 1930’s was using 15 tons of popcorn daily got started and kept going by an O'Neill boy who got fired from a sheep ranch in the Big Horn country of Wyoming. That was W. C. O'Sullivan, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. O'Sul livan, who liv,9d just west of town. W. C.'s brother, John, still lives in O'Neill. \ W. C. and his wife, the former Stella Hempel, of Spencer, open ed up a little popcorn stand in Casper, Wyo., in 1929 and two years later they were located in Rockford, 111., and had 502 Kar melkom shops in operation in 42 states, the sales from one shop for one month in 1931 amounting to $5,400. Mr. O’Sullivan gave his wife the credit for the candy mix ture that brought them success and fortune out of the lowly pop corn. * * • In a suburb of Lincoln dwells the community’s well digger. He I has a business that reaches far out to surrounding areas putting down wells 100 to 150 feet, pulling out old pipe, injecting life into a played-out well, putting up wind mills and at the age of 83 does the work himself. He lives alone in an old barn—bunk, two broken down chairs, table covered with milk bottles, cans and unwashed cups, a plate and bowl where he eats his simple meals, a cast iron stove, iron bathtub and toilet fa cilities all crowded together. The ! bunk has neither sheets nor pil ! lows, and if ever a fellow lived like a bulldog this hearty old soul does. He is never sick, can work the toenails off of anyone half his age and is not calling on the state of Nebraska for old age pension. Just what is there to our modern sanitary ideas? • * * I did more than one thousand dollars in transactions this morn ing. The only real money handled was $3.02. “Big business” is mostly a few slips of paper. --I I'i O'NEILL LOCALS Mrs. Ann Asher went to Oma ha Friday to visit her son and family and continued to Griswold, la., for a day, returning Monday to O’Neill. Dr. and Mrs. F. J. Kubitschek spent the weekend in Omaha with relatives. Mrs. Ted Heiter and children went to Meadow Grove Wednes , I day, October 25, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Marion Jenkins. They re turned Sunday evening. Mrs. Art Dexter visited Mr. and Mrs. Darold Couch at Chambers Wednesday, October 25. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bly, of Amelia, were callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Art Dexter Fri day, October 27. (Political Advertlnemcnt) (Political Adv«*rtln«nient) I - ■ TOM SULLIVAN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for COUNTY ASSEESSOR GENERAL ELECTION NOV. 7,1950 Your Vote Will Be Appreciated Lifelong Resident of Holt County ■ Ralph N. Leidy P_410 # GENIES that come in CANS r J[ In the story books. Genies usually came in earthen jars that had been I| J > cast up by the sea—or in a puff of smoke generated by briskly rubbing ] > <1 an old brass lamp. Today, however, Genies are at your service everytime '! !| you open a can of delicious canned food. These modern Genies have <! 3; taken the drudgery out of almost every operation of meal preparing— !| J> Nowadays they even peel your potatoes and squeeze your oranges—Yet, ][ <! these canned food Genies do much of your kitchen work and the ones on 't < your Council Oak shelves make the very finest and delightful meals— <! ! | They work for less money fool ! | mmm ■■ ■ ■■ MAI A SUPER SPECIAL THAT WILL RUN Wr? 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