LEGAL NOTICES
(First pub. July 19, 1951.)
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals will be re
ceived bv the City Clerk of O’
Neill, Nebraska, at this office un
, til 2:06 p.m. August 24, 1951, and
I tat that time publicly opened and
read for the furnishing of a Fire
Truck and fire-fighting appara
tus, the general specifications of
which will meet or exceed the
following: Truck to be equipped
with open or closed type cab,
Hydro-Vac brakes operating on
all four wheels, Steel Hose Body
capacity 1500 ft. 2V4” D.J. fire
hose with 300 gal. auxiliary wa
ter tank. Engine to be of mini
mum 500 cu. inch displacement,
equipped with two fuel pumps,
one mechanical, one electric, du
al ignition systems, oil-bath air
cleaner. Tires minimum of 8.25
x 20 10 ply, single front, dual
rear. Auxiliary water tank min
imum capacity 300 gal. with hose
reel capacity 200 ft. 1” rubber
covered rubber lined booster
Rose. 150 ft. 1” booster hose
mounted. Tank 10 gauge thick or
better. Equipped with pump, two
stage series parallel centrifugal
with Underwriters Class A rat
ing for 750 G.P.M. pumping en
gine which shall be tested upon
delivery by the Nebraska Inspec
tion Bureau and approved by
them as meeting their Class A re
quirements before acceptance by
the City. Such requirements to
be as follows: 750 G.P.M. at 159
lb. pump pressure, 525 G.P.M.
at 200 lb. pump pressure, 375
G.P.M. at 250 lb. pump pressure.
The pump case shall be made of
bronze, and the impellers bronze
mounted on stainless steel shaft.
Auxiliary equipment shall con
sist of 2-10 ft. sections 4 Ms” hard
suction hose mounted, 1-4 Vi x 2,.£
double female hydrant connec
fffon, swivel and long handles, 2
inside and one outside flat suc
tion strainers, 2 compound vac
uum-pressure gauges, 2 red park
ing lights mounted in front, 2
tail lights, 2 engine lights mount
ed under hood, 1 siren, 1 35-ft. 3
sec. aluminum ladder duo grade
or better, 1-14 ft. solid side wood
roof ladder with hooks, 1-10 ft.
pike pole, 1 - 36” crowbar,
1-6 lb. fire dept, type axe, 2 elec
tric lanterns, 2 spring type hold
ers for playpipes, 1 remote con
trol starter switch located on op
erator’s panel, 1 tachometer.
Each bidder must submit com
plete plans and specifications of
their equipment, and accompany
bid with certified check in the a
mount of 5% of the amount of
bid to guarantee that bidder will
^execute contract and file requir
ed bond if successful.
The City reserves the right to
waive informalities and irregu
larities and to make awards on
bids which furnish the equip
ment that will in their opinion
serve the best interests of the Ci
ty irrespective of variance from
the detailed specifications, or, to
reject any or all bids.
Engineer’s Estimate: $14,849.09.
City of O’Neill, Nebraska
J. E. DAVIS, Mayor
DALE FRENCH, City Clerk
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(First pub. July 26, 1951.)
Julius D. Cronin, Attorney
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
HEIRS
.County Court of Holt County,
* Nebraska. Estate of Bert W.
Talcott, also known as B. W.
Talcott, Deceased.
The State of Nebraska, To All
Concerned: Notice is hereby giv
en that Hannah A. Talcott has
filed her petition alleging that
Bert W. Talcott, also known as B.
W. Talcott, died March 11, 1944,
intestate, a resident of Strawber
ry Point, Iowa, seized and pos
sessed of an undivided one-half
right, title and interest in and to
the Northeast Quarter of the
Northwest Quarter of Section
Thirty - one, Township Thirty
one, North, Range Ten, West of
the 6th P. M. in Holt County,
Nebraska.
That petitioner is now the
owner of the interest in real es
tate above described, having de
rived title thereto by inheritance
and by deed.
The prayer of said petition is
for a determination of the time
of death, the heirs, their degree
of kinship, and the right of de
scent of real property of said de
ceased: that he died intestate,
and that there is no inheritance
tax, state or federal, due from
said estate or the heirs thereof.
That said petition will be for
hearing in this Court on the 16th
day of August, A. D., 1951, at
ten o’clock A. M.
LOUIS W. REIMER.
COUNTY JUDGE
(COUNTY COURT SEAL) !2-14c
(First pub. Aug. 2. 1951.)
John R. Gallagher, Attorney
NOTICE OF FINAL
SETTLEMENT
Estate No. 3708
In the County Court of Holt
County, Nebraska, July 26th,
1951. In the matter of the Estate
of Clarence C. Wrede, Deceased.
All persons interested in said
estate are hereby notified that
the Executrix of said estate has
filed in this court her final re
port and a petition for final set
tlement and 'distribution of the
residue of said estate; and that
said report and petition will be
heard August 22nd, 1951, at 10
o’clock, A. M. at the County
Court Room in O’Neill, Nebras
ka, when all persons interested
may appear and be heard con
cerning said final report and the
distribution of said estate.
LOUIS W. REIMER,
County Judge.
(COUNTY COURT SEAL) 13-15c
(First pub. July 26, 1951.)
William W. Griffin, Att’y
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate No. 3758
In the County Court of Holt
County, Nebraska, July 19th,
1951. In the matter of the Estate
of John W. Finch, Deceased.
CREDITORS of said estate are
hereby notified that the time
limited for presenting claims a
gainst said estate is November
16, 1951, and for payment of
debts is July 19, 1952, and that
on August 16, 1951, and on No
vember 17, 1951, at 10 o’clock
A. M., each day, I will be at the
County Court Room in said
County to receive, examine, hear,
allow, or adjust all claims and
objections duly filed.
LOUIS W. REIMER,
County Judge.
(COUNTY COURT SEAL) 12-14c
Hugh Bennett Will
Speak at Lincoln
Hugh H. Bennett, chief of the
United States department of ag
riculture soil conservation ser
vice, will speak to Nebraska and
Kansas publishers and editors in
Lincoln Saturday, August 11.
The meeting, sponsored by the
Lincoln Journal, has been called
to consider what daily and week
ly newspapers in the 2 states can
do to speed up a sound program
of flood and erosion control in
the area. Floods in the 2 states
this year have taken a toll of bil
lions of dollars in property and
land damage.
U.S. Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry
has accepted an invitation to at
tend and is attempting to secure
the attendance of Maj. - Gen.
Lewis A. Pick, chief of the corps
of army engineers. Wherry said
this week that General Pick may
have to leave for Europe August
10.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Knower
and daughters, of Lynn, Mass.,
are visiting Mrs. Frank Pribil.
Mrs. Knower is the former Miss
Ann Pribil. They arrived Tues
day, July 24.
Save time and money on auto
parts and accessories. Try us
First.—Western Auto, O'NeilL
11-lGc
Guests at the Lindberg home
north of O’Neill when Fred Lind
berg celebrated his 61st birthday
anniversary July 24, were: Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Worth, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy A. Worth, Mr. and Mrs.
Bennie Wetzler and family, Rev.
and Mrs. Wayne Hall and Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Arrasmith.
Attend tihe 25th Annual
WHEELER COUNTY
FAIR AND RODEO
At Bartlett, Nebr.
AUG. 3-4-5 (Entry Day Aug. 3)
League Baseball Game Each Afternoon
j 100 Wild Bucking Horses —
Rodeo Programme
(August 4 - 5)
Horses Furnished by Walter Plugge
Ralph Kirk Trained Horses, Dogs,
Rooster
High - Class Clowns
A Barrel of Acts Each Evening
Strong Amusement Co. on Grounds
Dance Saturday & Sunday Evenings
Plenty of Thrills and Spills at Bartlett!
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BUDDIES FINALLY SEPARATE . . . Two O’Neill young men
who joined up with the air force together on February 1 are now
going their separate ways. Pfc. Keith E. Anspach (left), son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harden Anspach, is enroute to the Caribbean thea
ter while Pfc. Robert D. Clements, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Clements, can look forward to being in the U.S. for a while. They
enlisted and together went to Lackland air force base, San An
tonio,, Tex., then received recruit training at Shepperd Field,
near Wichita Falls, Tex. From Texas they went to Lowery Field,
near Denver, Colo., on April 4. Clements entered turret gunnery
school and is being trained in bomber armament. He expects to
return to Texas in September and be assigned to a combat unit in
training. Anspach took a course in fiscal budgeting at Denver and
enjoyed a 30-day leave here enroute to a port of embarkation in
New Jersey. He left here July 16. Anspach graduated from O’
Neill high school in 1947; Clements graduated the same year from
St. Mary’s academy.—The Frontier Engraving.
Out of Old Nebraska . . .
Bryan, Dawes Friends
but Political Foes
In 1887, 2 young lawyers, both
destined to make a distinguished
mark in the world, arrived in the
city of Lincoln. One was William
Jennings Bryan, later congress
man, secretary of state, 3 times
a candidate for the presidency,
and a world - renowned orator.
The other was Charles G. Dawes,
who was to become comptroller
of the currency, purchasing agent
for the American expeditionary
forces, vice-president of the Unit
ed States, and ambassador to
Great Britain.
Part of the diary General
Dawes kept while in Lincoln is
included in a book published
shortly before his death, “A
Journal of the McKinley Years.’’
It throws much light on Nebras
ka’s capital city during the
1890’s, as well as on the early ca
reer of General Dawes and the
establishment of his life - long
friendship with Mr. Bryan.
The Bryan-Dawes friendship
prevailed despite the fact that
the 2 men were on opposite
sides of some of the most bit
ter political struggles of their
day.
In the campaign of 1896, for
example, Mr. Bryan was the
Democratic nominee for the pres
idency while Mr. Dawes was
treasurer of the Republican na
tional committee, doing his best
to elect Mr. McKinley. Bryan be
came a bitter critic of the Mc
Kinley administration, and
Dawes became a part of that ad
ministration as comptroller of the
currency and White House inti
mate.
In connection with the cam
paign of 1896, Dawes’ diary en
try for July 9, is of interest:
“Went to convention. Sat on plat
form. Heard my old friend, Wil
liam J. Bryan, make his speech
on the platform’s silver plank.
His oratory was magnificent—his
logit pitifully weak. I could not
but have a feeling of pride for
the brilliant young man whose
life for so many years lay paral
lel to mine, and with whom the
future years may yet bring me
into conflict as in the past. The
scene was memorable. I had for
weeks—knowing so well the ora
torical capacities and abilities of
Bryan—predicted his nomination j
if he made a speech upon the sil- |
ver plank.”
This entry well expresses the
relationship which seems to
have existed between the 2
men.
That their friendship was life
long is evident from the fact
that in 1925, 2 weeks after his in
auguration as vice - president,
Dawes spoke at a birthday din
ner for Bryan — held 2 blocks
from the White House, at which
Bryan had made 3 unsuccessful
trys.
It was the Great Commoner’s
last appearance in Washington.
A few weeks later he died.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Mrs. Gertrude Easton and son,
Charles, returned Thursday, Ju
ly 26, to their home in Greeley,
Colo., after visiting here with
Mrs. Addie L. Wrede, Mrs. Henry
Martin and son, Allen, and the
Clarence Wrede families.
Venetian blind*, prompt deliv
ery, made to measure, metal or
wood, all colors.—J. M. McDon
ald Co- O'Neill. 11 tf
Mr. and Mrs. William Gatz re
turned Monday after vacationing
for a week in Iowa and Minne
sota.
DR. FISHER. Dentist. adv
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1950-’51 State Valuation Comparisons
The 1951 assessment may be compared in detail to that of 1950
by reference to the following table:
1951 Assess’d 1950 Assess'd Amout of %
Valuation of Valuation of Increase of
Tangible Tangible In
Prop. Prop. crease
GRAND TOTAL $3,007,624,740 $2,712,505,446 $295,119,294 10.9
Individual schedules 708,371.108 514,393,988 193,977,120 37.7
Business schedults 199,054,439 179,149,035 19,905,404 11.1
Special schedules 489,342,517 432,367,797 56,974,721 13.2
Lands and improve
ments 1,051,439,473 1,050,704,960 * 734,513 .07
Lots and improve
ments 559,417,203 535,889,666 23,527,537 4.4
Stale Capitol News . . .
Figures Play Big
Part in Week’s News
LINCOLN — Figures played a
big part in the eapitol news
week. Tax Commissioner Philip
K. Johnson announced that the
total assessed valuation of tangi
ble property for 1951 is $3,007,
624,740, the highest in 20 years.
State Auditor Ray C. Johnson
said that the total amount of
general fund appropriations from
which the 1951-52 levy was to be
computed is $28,048,195. And the
monthly tax commission report
revealed that it cost $151,265,088
to run the state of Nebraska for
the past 2 years.
• • •
'Lost Billion'—
Tax Commissioner Johnson
said the total valuation figure
represented an increase of $295,
000.000 or almost 11 percent ov
er last year.
“The 1951 increase exceeds any
previous single year’s increase
since 1921 by more than $116,
000,000. Previously, the increase
of nearly $179,000,000 stood as
the highest single year’s gam,”
he said.
The so-called “lost billion” was
mentioned prominently in the
1947 legislature in support cf
bills to stiffen the state’s assess
ment laws.
Johnson listed these factors as
important in making possible this
year’s bumper increase:
The full-time county assessor
law passed by the 1947 legisla
ture became fully operative
for the first time in the 1951
assessment.
The upward trend of the eco
nomic cycle since Korean hostil
ities began in June, 1950.
A more cooperative attitude by
the majority of taxpayers in the
filing of honest personal proper
ty tax returns. (Property in Ne
braska is supposed to be assessed
at 100 percent.)
Continuation of the postwar
rate of construction of new build
ings.
Support given assessing offi
cials bv the county boards of
equalization and the state board
of equalization. (See table above.)
• • •
Only Way'—
“The only way to avert disas
ters like the Kansas and Missouri
floods is completion of the Pick
Sloan plan and a stepped-up pro
gram of soil conservation.”
That’s what Gov. Val Peterson
told a senate appropriations com
mittee in Washington, D.C., after
a meeting in Kansas City of the
Missouri basin states committee
which adopted resolutions calling
for finishing of the Pick-Sloan
program.
The governor was asked bv
Tennessee’s crochety old Kenneth
McKellar, chairman of the sub
committee which heard Peter
son’s testimony, whether there
was any truth to the talk on cap
itol hill that the Pick-Sloan plan
plan was “loaded" with pork bar
rel legislation.
"So far as the Missouri basin
is concerned, there is absolutely
no pork barrel whatsoever." Pet
erson snapped. “Every project is
justified.”
'Bunk!'—
Earlier. Peterson had termed
“pure bunk" a statement by
Montana’s Democratic Seri.
James E. Murray that the Kan
sas - Missouri deluges show the
need for a Missouri Valley Au
thority. The Montanan charged
that the floods proved the failure
of the Pick-Sloan program has
been completed and that when
the whole job is done, ‘‘there will
be no more floods of this char
acter in the basin.”
• * *
Undecided—
Whether the Nebraska Stock
Growers’ association would ap
peal to the state supreme court
its protest against the state
board of equalization’s hike in
cattle assessments in 22 counties
was undecided this week’s end.
Allison Johnson, the portly sec
retqry-treasurer of the associa
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Central Finance
Corp.
C. E. Jonea. Manager
O'Neill i Nebraska
. ■■ ..." - ■ “
tion, was hopping mad at
board’s decision. "Apparently t **
hearing was a useless waste
time and expense because tl *®
board did not take into considei v>
ation the facts ...” he charged.
Observers have felt it was un
likely the association would **
press the matter further—at least
until election time.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
WD—Harry Pelcer to Fern R
Warren 7-21-51 $12,000- West 8
ft lot 7 East 16 ft lot 6- Blk 12
Atkinson
WD—Henry J McCarty to Al
bert Carson & wf 4-5-48 $2000
NMjSWV4 and S^NWVi 31-32-9
Frontier for printing.
ROYAL THEATRE
— O'NEILL —
Thursday, August 2
James Whitmore and Nancy
Davis in
THE NEXT VOICE YOU
HEAR . . .
The story of the day God spoke
on the radio
One night at exactly 8:30 the
voice of God was heard on the
radio . . . not just here, but all
over the world . . . not in just one
language, but in every language.
Adm. 42c, plus tax 8c, Tot. 50c
Children 10c, plus 2c tax. Tot. 12c
Friday • Saturday
August 3-4
Big Double Bill
The Siren-Screaming Story of the
Smoke-Eaters!
ROOKIE FIREMAN
with Bill Williams, Barton Mac
Lane, Marjorie Reynolds, and
Gloria Henry.
GENE AUTRY, World’s Greatest
Cowboy, and CHAMPION,
World’s Wonder Horse, in
THE BLAZING SUN
Gene and Champion bring
bank robbers to justice . . . with
a “posse” of two gun-totin’ galsr
Adm. 42c, plus tax 8c, Tot. 50c
Children 10c, plus 2c tax. Tot 12c
Matinee Saturday 2:30
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
August 5-6-7
Joan Crawford, Robert Young,
and Frank Lovejoy in
GOODBYE, MY FANCY
with Eve Arden
No one could look more like
an angel—and love like a devil!
Adm. 42c. plus tax 8c, Total 50c.
Matinee Sunday 2:30, Adm. 42c.
tax 8c. Total 50c; Children 10c.
plus tax 2c, Total 12c
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Wednesday, Thursday
August 8-9
Marjorie Main and James
Whitmore in
MRS O'MALLEY AND MR.
MALONE
with Ann Dvorak
They’ll tickle the nation’s fun
ny bone! She’s on a man-hunt
and he’s on the town!
Adm. 42c, plus tax 8c, Tot. 50c
Children 10c, plus 2c tax. Tot. 12c
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