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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1951)
Editorial 8t Businas* Offices: 122 South Fourth Street O'NEILL. NEBR. “ CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher " Established in 1680—Published Each Thursday Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec ond-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 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; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. Holt’s Average Farm Income in 1949 $7,615; But Magazine Claims Farmers ‘Standing Still’ Nebraska farmers in Brown, Rock, Holt, Thomas and Garfield counties may be surprised to learn that they are listed among America’s agricultural problem children, according to Max Cof fee in the Sunday, March 11, is aue of the Omaha World-Herald. 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He concludes that Amer ican agriculture has a consider able reservoir of inefficient, mis j placed man power. He calls these | people the “underemployed.” The “underemployed” farmers, he says, are “working full time but are so inefficient they add little to the nation’s output.” They have been “standing still,” he reports, "while most of Unit ed States agriculture has been moving forward—using more machinery, better seed, better fertilizer." These “standing still” farmers, he declares, are "still using the methods of their grandfathers. They have not caught up with the Industrial Age." No Nebraska area li men tioned by Mr. Soth. and his article very apparently is aim ed principally at portions of the deep South. But his article is illustrated by a map of the United States, de lineated by counties and show ing by varied degrees of shad ing where the problem children of American agriculture exist. The shading, a lighter hue than most of the map’s shaded areas, covers Brown, Rock, Holt, Thomas and Garfield counties in Nebraska. Just to check on how “bad" the conditions are in this part of Ne braska where beef cattle and hay are among the principal products, Coffee delved into some income figures. The publication Spies Manage ment lists gross farm sales fig ures for every county in the United States. Figures for 1950 are not yet available, but it list ed for 1949: Brown, $3,344,000; Rock, $3, 168,000; Holt, $15,467,000; Thom as. $913,000; Garfield, $2,377,000. The 1950 census reports show Brown has 536 farms, Rock 423, Holt 2,030, Thomas 135, Gar field 380. I Division of the farm census i figures into the farm sales to tals provides these averages of gross income per farm for 1949: Brown, $6,240; Rock, $7,490; Holt, $7,615; Thomis, $6,750; Gar field, $6,150. Considering that the national average of gross farm income in 1948 was something under $4, 800, these Nebraska county fig ures don’t indicate that farmers there have been "standing still.” The Soth article is based on statistics provided by a congres sional committee headed by Sen. John Sparkman, of Alabama. The Soth magazine article quotes, as does the Sparkman committee, statistics gathered in 1945. A Little Mud MORE - OR - LESS . . . means nothing to us. Nor do greasy soiled garments frighten us. Expert dry cleanirrg will do wonders for your wardrobe. Bring ’em in now and have them spic - and - span for the Easter parade. We Call For and Deliver PHONE 30 O’NEILL CLEANERS L. A. BECKER, Prop. The Butcher Boy With Flowers Jsiouxl BRAND Prairieland Talk — California’s Snow Blockade a Huge Joke to Nebraskans Used to ‘Snow That Is Snow’ By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—An hour or so out from the twinkling lights of the Los Angeles area the last night in February, the Plymouth sub urban headed for our prairieland home. Highway patrolmen were halt ing all cars and trucks with the alarming infor mation that a snow blockade lay in our path some 8 miles ahead in a pass over a low ridge in a mountain range. We were told no traffic would be per mitted to pro ceed until the pass was clear ed and then not Romalne Saunderi unless we equipped ourselves with chains, of which we had none. But Ned drove back a few miles and was held up for $12 for a pair of chains. These ad justed on the back wheels, we a waited the word to go ahead, which came some three hours later. The “blockade” proved to be a huge joke to Nebraskans who are used to rolling through snow that is snow. Tnere was a little slushy snow on the high way for 15 miles or so but no earthly use for chains. In the Flagstaff area of Ariz ona, there was snow that render ed travel a little difficult because of falling snow and a haze that obscured the highway, to get off from which you might land a hundred feet in a canyon. After leaving Flagstaff the sky and highway cleared. New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas *n^ Nebraska held no terror of either snow or mud for travel ers. After leaving Needles in Cal ifornia’s eastern desert, you roll into the Arizona desert. Func tionaries in Arizona hold you up to see if you are sneaking in on them with California citrus and other products. If you have it will be confiscated. We had no .contraband and the gent at the inspection stand waved us along with a smile and a cheery good luck. As we rolled over Arizona deserts and mountains we won dered how an orange skin could ; defile or defame the rocks and : cactus. The petrified forest and painted desert are two of Ari zona’s much touted world won ders. The "forest” consists of some petrified sticks on the ground a little out from the high way and the painted desert con sists of a tinted rocky gorge that forms a drop off at a level stretch i of desert land touched by weird shades under the Arizona sun. Some miles out from the sprawling and ancient city of Santa Fe, N. M., lies Los Alamos in a picturesque setting of tower ing mountains crowned with snow and wrapped in skirts of vice and occupying government purple. It is a community of 10, 000 patriots in government ser- i buildings, and as buildings they are no shanties. You must have a friend within its federal pre cincts to get in at all, and my daughter, Mrs. L. M. Rohrer, pro vided us with passes. She has be come interested in putting on canvas the charming scenes of nature with which they are sur rounded and has her home beau tified with such works of art, which are strictly home products. Mrs. Rohrer was an O’Neill girl. New Mexico, like other states with large mountain and desert areas, is tax burdening its peo ple. Nothing is derived in the way of state revenue from the | william w. griffin ATTORNEY ! Pint National Bank Bldg. O'NEILL vast reaches of unoccupied mountain and desert and the In dian reservations. Sales tax touches everything, even medi cine and doctors’ fees. One man on a sizeable pay roll has had as much as $33 withheld from his week's earnings. In the minds of tax-burdened Californians, Nebraska stands out in the picture of the 48 states as the one without a state debt, no sales tax, no income tax, and an able-managed state government In Los Angeles. I visited an old lady who sits the day out in an easy chair and has two canes at hand and who as a young woman lived in O'Neill and did clerical work for M. P. Kinkaid and G. M. Cleve land. She spoke of Holt coun ty as a cherished memory and said she would like to see that beautiful prairieland again. When times’ unrolling scroll has carried you into the serenity of life’s lengthening shadows, when bitter biting frosts and the stern reality of January blizzards chill to the marrow, a quiet re treat along Glenoaks Road away from the maddening millions in Southern California is not a bad place to hole up for a month or two. But prairieland will look good to you upon your return. « ft a The life of a soldier has been saved on more than one occasion because the slug from an enemy’s gun struck something the soldier carried In his pocket. The life of one Holt county girl depended on a corset steel that was hit by a bullet fired by one of the party that took Barret Scott to his doom. The story comes out of Korea of a soldier who escaped death because he had a Bible in a breast pocket. The bullet from an enemy gun found lodgement in the Bible and came to rest at the 7th verse of the 91st Psalm, which reads, A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thou sand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. * • m I see Editor Cal has had the courage to step in where hereto fore editors thought angels fear ed to tread. Maybe the oldtimers of Holt county who have spent a life time on the soil have indulg ed tolerant smiles over the ex postulations about agronomy and agrotechny of the white - collar and red - necktie farmers who learn out of a book the proper angle to set the cultivator shov els. w • * Much that is being promul gated at present designed to : bolster up courage reminds us of those deluded guys of a quarter century ago who tried to make themselves think that day by day in every way they were doing better. • * • At least two factories in Lin coln have taken on war equip ment contracts, the lure of profit maybe offsetting the vulnerable aspects. Asks Applicants Not Wait Until Final Date— After March 15, all 1951 state ments of intention will be back in the county PMA office and any who have not signed at the four scheduled meetings may come in any day of the week, including Saturday. This was announced this week by Harry E. Ressel, of O’Neill, chairman of the Holt county PMA committee. April 15 has been set up as the deadline for signature of any farm or ranch operator who plans to participate in the 1951 farm program. Please do not wait un til the last day, Ressel asked. The 1950 applications for pay ment should be in the mail in the very near future. Club Meets March 21— The O’Neill Women’s club will meet on Wednesday afternoon, March 21, at the home of Mrs. R. E. Evans. Mrs. A. Neil Dawes will be in charge of the program. Hoosier Hoi Shots Are Reorganised— Hoosier Hot Shots 4-H club re organized at the Albert Havran eic name Friday night, March 9. Officers for the coming year are: Mrs. Albert Havranek, lead er; Albert Havranek, assistant leader; John Ramold, president; Gary Braasch, vice - president; Patricia Mullen, secretary and treasurer; Lois Mullen, song lead er; Dolores Tunender, news re porter. We have three new members. They are: Ronnie Richards, Lu ann Tenborg and Jimmy Ten borg. We decided what projects to take the coming year. After the meeting we played games. Our next meeting will be held at the Ramold home March 30. Lunch was served.—By Dolores Tunender, news reporter. Buy I TRADE I ETC. THE FRONTIER Phone 51 Customer Confidence is respect ed and cherished by Council Oak. That's why we stand behind everything we sell with a 100% Guarantee. That's why we price EVERY item fairly — so your TOTAL grocery bill is low. That's why we are ever vigilant to see that NO sub-standard foods are ever sold at Council Oak. 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