12 PAGES — 2 SECTIONS North-Nebraska’s Fastest-Growing Newspaper VOLUME 71.—NUMBER 19. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951. " ~ PRICE 7 CENTS jy^raiawpl I WMHMMMPpiMBMP !*■£*►? ’ I ■Mhhm'mbmhb SHiHIBW^HEffmB^'HE^'*■*■ wi ^ | t Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Wulf . . . they were reared in sod shanties. —The Frontier Photo & Engraving. iiuuaia ui Cabin on the Wulf homestead . . . built in 1874. pictured in 1896 before it was torn down.—The Frontier Engraving. Wm. E. Wulf, Wife Married 50 Years ■ i i h Gerber. Arlo A. Hiatt and Helen Starlin. Hold Barbeque— Attending a picnic at the bar beque pit at the home of Mr. and Mrc Norman Medealf Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Allen Miller, of Clearwater, and Mr. and Mrs. ! Darrel Van Wey. of Elgin. “Voice of The Frontier” . . . Mon., Wed., Sat., WJAG, 9:45 a.m. NIOBRARA BASIN MEET MONDAY Nebraska Governor and Burdick’s Report to Be Heard Fifth annual meeting of the Ni obrara Basin Development asso ciation, chief proponent of irri gation and development of the Niobrara valley, will be held in O’Neill Monday. September 17. The O’Neill Chamber of Com merce will be hosts. The business meeting will be opened by President E. A. House, of Ainsworth, at 3 p.m. in the Holt county district courtroom The annual basin progress report will be made by Clyde E. Bur dick, of Ainsworth, area engineer for the bureau oif reclamation. Summary remarks will be made by A. A. Batson, of Denver, Colo., regional director of the bureau and a former Nebraskan. The business session will be closed with the election of offi cers. An evening banquet will be served at the American Legion auditorium at 7 p.m. Gov. Val Peterson will be the principal speaker. Members of the tentative Ne braska-in-the-making tour plan to attend the evening session. The tour is being sponsored by the Nebraska Reclamation associa tion and the group, perhaps 60 persons, will leave their special train at Broken Bow and come to O’Neill by car. Included in the tour will be: Michael J. Strauss, commissioner of the bureau of reclamation; William E. Warne, assistant secretary of the interior, and Chancellor R. G. Gustavson, of the University of Nebraska. More than 50,000 acres of irri gable land adjoin the city of O’ Neill, which has an enviable location with regard to irriga tion development. All landowners in the irri gable area as well as business men are urged to attend the meeting, according to James W. Rooney, Chamber secretary. The association was organized in 1946 for the purpose of pro moting the reclamation of the Niobrara basin. Through the as sociation’s efforts, the bureau of reclamation. U.S. army corps of engineers, and other federal and state agencies have made studies and surveys of the basin to de termine the feasibility of irriga tion. These surveys and studies are now completed and the bureau of reclamation’s final report will soon be submitted to their region al office at Denver, Colo., and to Washington for consideration and action. It has been determined that there are approximately 150,000 acres of irrigable land in the Niobrara basin and potential power as a result of the devel opment will greatly contribute to the needs of this state. The national park service rec ognizes the many recreational potentialities of the basin. The existing scenic streams and lakes of the basin will be supplemented with man-made reservoirs. Irri gation will provide the greatest beef producing area in the nation with a more stable feed supply and open avenues for industry. DRAFT CALL UPPED The Holt county selective ser vice board reports that the Oct ober draft requirement for the county has been increased from 11 to 14. Frontier for printing ! ■f RECEIVES DIPLOMA . . . Miss Rosalvn Bosn. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bosn, of O’ Neill. graduated from St. Eliza beth's school of nursing. Lin coln, on August 30. She has also passed the state board examin ations and is now a registered nurse. — The Frontier Engrav ing. Lease Holders I Hoppin’ Mad Young French Farmer Leaves Jean Radisson, 23, a young French farmer whose home is at Villeneuve. southeast France. Friday terminated a 3-months’ stay at the Robert Summerer place, 21 miles south and 3 miles east of O’Neill. He has been in the U.S. on an agricultural study trip and after visiting over the weekend at the Nebraska state faff, he was sched uled to go to Michigan State col lege to enroll. He has ^ scholar ship made possible under the Marshall plan. Radisson's home is on a plain at the foothills of the Alps moun tains. His mother and a brother own small farms. The young Frenchman attended the national agricultural school of France and he speaks very good English. He was particularly impressed by the mechanization on the Am erican farms and ranches. He ad mitted the Holt county units were “vaster and larger” than he ever dreamed. High cost of fuel, because virtually all of it is imported, prohibits extensive use of power machinery in France. Radisson had lavish praise for the U.S. Marshall plan and the “miracle” it is performing. He believes the communists are losing ground daily in France and his own government is con siderably more stable than it was the months after World War II. C of C Votes 4 Meetings Per Year The Chamber of Commerce in session Tuesday noon at the Town House voted to abandon monthly meetings in favor of 4 meetings a year — March, May, September and November. Routine business during the in tervals will be conducted by the board of directors. It was also de cided to hold evening meetings with special entertainment. The move is intended to increase C ol C attendance. Fifty-three firms already have joined the Chamber for the 1951 ’52 year, according to Secretary James W. Rooney. College Set Leaves for Various,Schools Among those attending colleges and universities for the 1951-’52 term are; Creighton university, Omaha John O’Neill, Edward McCarthy, Pat Hickey, Francis Flood, Mor ris Howard, John Joe Uhl, Tom Harty, Jack Carney, William Froelich. Creighton graduate school: Allen Martin. Creighton medical school: Rob ert Wallace. Nebraska Wesleyan, Lincoln: James Bridges, Guy Harris, Phil lis Seger, Donna Crabb. Wayne State college, Wayne: Darrell Weingai tner, Claude Cole, Ted Lindberg. St. M ar y ’ s college, Xavier, Kans.: Nancy Beha, Lorraine Si monson, Bernadette Hynes. Duchesne college, Omaha: Bar barba Birmingham, Marde Birm ingham, Nnncv Froelich. University of Nebraska, Lin coln: Paul Moseman, John Beri gan. Briarcliff college, Sioux City: Gayle Widtfeldt. Colorado university, Boulder, Colo.: Joann Burgess. Hastings college, Hastings: Lois Harder. Kemper Military school, Boon ville, Mo.: Don Petersen. St. Catherine’s school of nurs ing. Omaha: Mary Lois Kelly. Electronic Radio Television Jn s itute, Omaha: Patricia Bren nan. EDUCATIONAL NOTES The off-campus art class from the University of Nebraska will start September 15. You may reg ister for art 21 oc, methods; art 22 oc, methods continued or art 30 oc, art orientation. Each course is 2 or 3 hours. Holt coun ty institute will be held Septem ber 21. All rural schools will be closed so vour teacher may attend this meeting. — By Alice L. French, county superintendent. To Black Hills— Mr. and Mrs. George Robert son spent last weekend in the Black Hills. At Rapid City they visited their daughter. Mrs. R. P. Orth, and family. Take Dim View of Sales Being Ordered t Holt county school land lease holders are irritated—like hun dreds of others throughout the state. They take a dim view of put ting the leases on the auction block under present circumstanc es. The fuss has come since the Nebraska supreme court recent ly held as unconstitutional the statute which gave the current leasee the absolute right to re new the lease at the expiration of the old term. The statute in question was amended by the 1947 legislature. C. D. Greene, of Sidney, for mer state senator and now secre tary of the Nebraska School Land Leaseholders’ association, was in O'Neill Wednesday. Holt county has an association that was founded in 1947. Ira C. Watson, of Inman, is president; James W. Rooney, of O’Neill, secretary; Guy F. Cole, of Em met, director. Other original directors were Frank Nelson, state senator who resigned the lease job, and the late J. B. Ryan, of O’Neill. Greene declared that lease sales now are being advertised as fol lows: Cheyenne county, 10; Duel, 7; Kimball, 10; Scottsbluff, 7. He estimates that Holt county land will not be sold, under present plans, until early in 1952. There are approximately 2,400 sections in Nebraska to be sold. Greene is quite bitter about the whole thing and labels the results a "black market deal." He points out that if eastern Nebraska counties had never sold their school land the normal an ! nual revenue today from all I school lands in the state would I amount to what is presently in the permanent school fund. As it is, revenue from sand hills school land, for example, s helping maintain eastern Ne braska schools. There are 192 Holt county leaseholders with 12-year agree ments written since 1948 whose school land will be auctioned un der the present plan. There are 15 holders with 25-year leases. The question is a vital one be cause 1n many instances the lease holders have built improvements on the sections. If sold, the value of the improvements will be put before an appraisal committee. Furthermore, the sections may be sold piecemeal as attemped last week near Big Springs. Legion, Aux Meet Slated on Monday ATKINSON — The annual dis trict II convention of the Ameri can Legion and auxiliary will convene in Atkinson for an all day session on Monday, Septem ber 17, Fariey-Tushla post and auxiliary will be host. For the legionnaires sessions will be held at the Miller theater, for the auxiliary, the meeing will be held at the Methodist church basement. At 4:0 p.m., the Legion and auxiliary will mass for a pa rade. A barbeque and floor show are scheduled for 6.:30 p.m. in the Crystal ballroom. Mrs. Noble Honored by OES— Mrs. Seth Noble, who has been a member of the Order of East ern Star for more than 50 years, will be honored by Symphony chapter at a dinner and at the regular meeting of the chapter tonight (Thursday). The dinner will be given at the Town House. The Atkinson chapter has been invited to attend. Mrs. Noble was a former member of the OES there. Her original membership was held in the Plankinton, S. D„ chapter in 1898. Ewing People Back from Rochester— EWING—Mr. and Mrs. Benja min Larson returned home from Rochester. Minn., on Sunday where they had spent the past 3 •weeks while Mrs. Larson was un der medical care at the Mayo hos pital. During their absence her mother, Mrs. Matilda Lee, who makes her home with them, was cared for by the Misses Ann and Tressa Bauer. Plan Card Shower for Donna Mae— Miss Donna Mae Fuhrer, well known O’Neill polio victim, who has been paralyzed since she was 7, wrill observe her 19th birthday anniversary September 19. The Alpha club, which met Wednesday at Mrs. Aaron Bosh art’s, decided to sponsor a card shower for Donna Mae.