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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 sec
ond-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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Death Clouds
Graduation Rites
LYNCH — Death clouded the
commencement exercises for the
Lynch high school seniors.
One of the seniors Deming
Bjornsen, 17, was killed 2 days
before graduation when struck
by a bolt of lightning. His body
lay in state while the others were
receiving their diplomas.
Dr. Victor J. Morey, 46, pres
ident of Wayne State Teachers
college was ill in a Wakefield
hospital and subsequently died.
He was to have given the com
mencement address. Morey was
stricken several days earlier
while speaking at Wakefield.
The commencement was held
Thursday evening, May 17, in the
Lynch ballroom.
The seniors are: Joann Baker,
Beverly Carson, Janet Christen
set, Orven Clinch, Richard Court
ney, Ramon Dahlberg, Roger Da
vy, Arlen DeKay, Wilbur Elsas
ser, Carole Ann Ertz, Elaine
Frisch, Donna Greene, Joyce Ha
selhorst, Maxine Jehorek, Albert
Kruse, Franklin Johnson, Leo
Kalkowski, Robert Maly, Jolene
Micanok, Elsie Piklapp, Janice
Shaw, Leo Sedlacek, Kay Soulek,
Calvin Spencer and Carl Spencer
and Deming Bjornsen, deceased.
Other Lynch News
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Sinclair,
Mr. and Mrs. William Wendt and
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Wendt, of
Gross, attended the Bjornsen fu
neral here Saturday.
Sheriff Claude Collins and son,
Warren, of Butte, were Lynch
visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Endicott, of
Creighton, visited relatives here
Saturday.
Mrs. C. L, Haselhorst and
Joyce, Mrs. Joe Micanek and Jo
lene and Kay Soulek were O’
Neill visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kirwan,
of Gross, visited at the Theodore
Norwood home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Mills spent
Wednesday evening. May 16, at
the Guy Norwood home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johns spent
Saturday evening, May 19, at the
Phillip Hammon home.
District 35 pupils and their
teacher, Mrs. Wayne Taylor, and
patrons of the school enjoyed a
community picnic Friday, May
18. After a dinner, ice cream and
cake were served.
Coach Thomas O’Conner, Dean
and R. Bransteter and Don Tuch,
of Niobrara, attended the Bjorn
sen funeral here Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Haun, of
Spencer, visited relatives here on
Saturday.
Mrs. Eliza Cooper, of Butte,
visited with Mrs. Earl Endicott
here Saturday.
The Elmer Alder family plans
to move to Wyoming.
Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Placek
and sons were recent visitors in
Wagner, S. D.
Mrs. Wayne Taylor left for
Randolph Sunday to meet her
husband and accompany him to
Ft. Riley, Kans., for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. John Schommer,
of Spencer, spent Sunday at the
Vince Jehorek home.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Meuller,
of Pickstown, S. D., spent last
weekend at the Thomas Court
ney, sr., home.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorie Micanek
were Sunday dinner guests at the
Henry Vonasek home in Walnut.
Mr. and Mrs. John Schommer,
of Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Bjorsen and family, of Sioux Ci
ty, and Mr. and Mrs. Arden Dar
nell and Michael and Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Jehorek and family
were 6 o’clock dinner guests at
the Vincent Jehorek home Sun
day, May 20.
Bobby Maly is staying at the
Henry Vonasek home in Walnut
this week.
Patrons, school children and
their teacher, Marjorie Stewart,
of district 33, enjoyed the annual
community picnic Sunday, May
20. A dinner and games were
features of the day.
District 63 pupils and their
teacher, Irene Stenger, and pa
trons gathered at the school Sun
day, May 20, for the closing pic
nic celebration. After the dinner,
ice cream and cake were served
in mid-afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whetham
and family, of Spencer, called at
the Ed Whetham home Saturday.
Priest Entertains
Catholic Seniors—
LYNCH—Rev. John Wieczorek
was host to the Catholic members
of the Lynch high school senior
class and their parents at a
breakfast Sunday morning at the
rectory.
Those present were: Mr. and
Mrs. George Kalkowski and Leo,
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Haselhorst
and Joyce, Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Courtney and Richard, Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Jehorek and Maxine,
Mr. and Mrs. James Maly and
Robert.
The menu included grapefruit
segments, ham and eggs, bread
and butter, strawberry jam,
sweet rolls, ice cream with straw
berries and cake.
Angus Field Day
Slated June 3—
An interstate Aberdeen-Angus
Breeders’ association field day
will be held Sunday, June 3, at
West Point.
The all - day program begins
with registration at 10 a.m.
Ray Siders, of the Holt county
Augus group, said a number of
cattle breeders from the ON’eill
area are planning to attend.
Sieberta Are Hoeta—
Mrs. Charles Ohde and daugh
ter and Mrs. Albert Wasson and
daughter, of Atkinson, visited Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Siebert and
daughter last Thursday.
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Prairieland Talk—
‘Why Don’t He:Jed Communities
Do Something and Stop Yapping?’
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—The annual belly-;
ache epidemic over “watersheds”
has become chronic.
If communities affected by ov
erflowing streams can’t take it
because of the
damage and
hindrance t o
the daily rou
tine, why don’t
they do some
thing about it
and stop the
yapping? A n
earlier genera
tion took things
in hand and
said little.
. I was ridihg
Romaine a white gelding
baunders down the river
trail and just east of Oakdale the
Elkhorn river bridge had been
lifted from its moorings by flood
waters and settled to rest length
wise of the stream some distance
below the point from where it
was lifted.
No delegation went from Ante
lope county to Washington nor
belabored the governor to do
something about their “water
shed.”
But the bridge, a 150-foot span,
was back on its moorings the
next time I saw it, so I did not
have to swim the horse.
The Ten Commandments have
been spelled out with 6-*foot let
ters in stone on a mountain side
near Murphy, N. C. . . The loud
speaker setup installed in the su
preme court in Washington was
working fine but when it was
discovered that whispered words
from one judge to another were
heard by spectators the contrap
tion was removed. . . President
Truman has directed that $881,
000 of the presidential “special
fund” be used in the building of
a bomb shelter for the White
House crowd. Getting shakey? . .
It is said the salt mines of Kan
sas could furnish enough salt to
build a wall around the state 2
miles wide and 1,000 feet high. . .
With the aid of $50,000,000 of
ECA funds, Hilton hotels are go
ing to spread to Europe, invad
ing the capital of Turkey among
other high blown spots. . . Harold
L. Ickes, former secretary of the
interior, says a rich California oil
promoter approached him t o
block federal action in the move
to take the oil-rich tidelands out
of control of the states. Mr. Ickes
was unresponsive, and that night
in 1945 wrote in'his diary that it
was the rawest proposition ever
made to him, and added, “I don’t
intend to smear my record on oil
at this stage of the game.” Give
us more Ickes.
Out at Sidney patriots are pre
paring for the step back into the
days when that town was a fori
with government troops and Tex
as cowboys riding the Chisolm
trail dominating the scene. May
be because this generation oi
men makes such a feeble show
ing in that respect whiskers are
taboo.
Doc Middleton came from
old Ft. Sidney to the O'Neill
region after shooting a soldier.
His full blacK neard was never
shaved and still adorned his
otherwise handsome face the last
time he was seen in O’Neill at
the time of the 1,000-mile cowboy
horse race from Chadron-to-Chi
cago. Men could grow pretty aris
tocratic facial adornments in
Doc’s time. A Van Dyke or a
Buffalo Bill goatee can set an or
dinary guy off as a really import
ant gent.
• * •
It is tulip time. There are parks
to go to where the world-weary
pilgrim may withdraw from the
turmoil rumbling forever in life’s
beaten paths and walk on clean
sog among the flowers. Tulip
stalks stand in stately rows
crowned each with a coronet dip
ped in nature’s variegated colors,
pink and yellow, blue and red.
The frail beauty of the velvet pet
als of the flowers, the stalwart
elms in fresh foliage, the charm
ing things of nature that spring
from the ground anew each sun
kissed month of May. And, too,
the friendly fellows like you out
among the trees and flowers
where for the hour they are a
way from the noise of battle, the
quarrels and backbiting and pol
itical skullduggery. A monument
should be reared on consecrated
soil to the memory of the fellow
who introduced parks to the
world-weary pilgrims.
Half a million wounded or
killled in Korea, a toll of 35.
000 dead and 1.799.800 injured
in traffic accidents within the
space of one year in the home
land, there will needs be re
plenishment of able-bodied cit
zens from some source.
• * *
Two little girls stood in the
entrance to a stairway leading to
living rooms over a store. They
greeted me with the information
that it was their birthday. Dirty
faces, long and straggling hair,
indifferently clad but friendly
with childish confidence. A child
hopes for presents on birthdays.
The larger of the 2 said she was
7, the other 5 years of age. That
day I had bestowed a birthday
gift on a child of my own tribe.
Here was another opening. With
a few words that entered into the
happiness of those little girls and
a glow overspread soiled faces,
brown eyes sparkled with child
ish delight as each was handed a
coin with which they could get
bars of candy.' Oh, to be a child
again, dirty face and all!
...
Senator Fullbright plans for a
commission to form a “code of
ethics” for Americans. Of course,
I one more commission to look af
! ter us need not frighten anyone.
| We are pretty well inured to be
ing shoved around and maybe
our ethics need straightening out.
But just how is a code of ethics
going to do the job we must ad
mit is some job. Just about every
profession has its “ethics.” Even
the crooks follow something of
that kind. You may be strictly
ethical within the sphere of your
profession and crooked as the
next one in a horse trade. Amer
icans are not so much in need of
a code of ethics as they are to re
turn to the century-tried moral
code, including the honorable
senator and all his crowd!
* * *
A notable of the movie world
has returned home from a for
eign land to join her children
and seek “maintenance and an
annulment" from the sacra
ment of adultery with a Prince
Charming in distant climes.
* • *
Cherry county retains its
standing with the largest number
of beef cattle produced in any
county in any state. The size of
the herd is in keeping with the
size of the county and probably
a like territory in any group of
sand hills counties could count
as numerous herds as Cherry.
And it was once a part of Holt
county, as were also Rock and
Brown. The treasure chest of
Cherry, like a lot of Nebraska, is
the grass and the sand hill lakes,
most of them lousy with fish. So
you may rope a beef or hook a
fish most anywhere.
The fragrance of lilacs, apple
and cherry bloom floats in at the
open door. Lilac bushes hang
heavy with clusters of their year
ly yield of color and charming
fragrance. Compensating with no
fruitful product they charm us
for the day and are gone. The
beauty and perfume on apple
and cherry tree linger, too, but a
day and within a few weeks com
pensate for departed floral love
liness with loaded boughs of ri
pened fruit. So nature moves in
ordered circles to place before us
her beau monde and abundance.
* * *
The Des Moines Register-Tri
bune is taking the temperature of
“Washington’s Moral Climate” in
a series of stories that smell to
high heaven with such startling
lines as “Fraud, Gifts and Pull
Cast a Dark Shadow Over Ad
ministration.” Penderg a s t i s m
from the muddy Missouri has
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Central Finance
Carp.
C. E. Jones. Manager
O'Neill t Nebraska
darkened the waters of the Po
tomac. That some in positions
carrying federal responsibility a
dopt a shady course is not so sur
prising as public indifference is
alarming.
* * •
We are a full-fed generation,
food experts bringing out new
wonders to please the taste. This
is so because an earlier genera
tion laid the foundation for the
present abundant fruitage. A
husky gent born on the prairie in
pioneer days tells of being awak
ened from sleep when a lad by
his mother who told him to come
to dinner. “What is there for din
ner?” he asked his mother, who
said, “Potatoes and gravy.” “Let
me sleep,” was his reaction to the
call to dinner.
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WARNING TO ADUUS
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The Industry’s No
Sale-To-Minors Sign
Now A Legal “Must”4
The improved “No Beer
Sales to Minors” law re
quires that a sign be dis
played prominently in tav
erns to inform miriors of
the new and larger pen
alties.
The Nebraska Division, U.
S. Brewers Foundation, ap
proves this requirement. In
fact, the Foundation, of its
own accord, supplied simi
lar signs for years. The in
dustry’s sign proved to be
so successful that its use ^
has been adopted by the
legislature, embodied in
the new bill, and is now
mandatory.
This is further public rec
ognition of the industry’s
sincere efforts to operate in
the public interest.
NEBRASKA DIVISION
United States
Brewers
Foundation
710 First Nat’l Bank Bldg., Lincoln
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