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O'NEILL. NEBR.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shierk, ac
companied by Mrs. Shierk’s niece,
# Miss Mary Ann Juran, of Win
ner, S.D., and Mr. and Mrs. Stan
ley Gilbert, of Gregory, S.D.,
went to Denver, Colo., Friday to
attend the Shrine convention.
They returned late Sunday.
S/Sgt. Ralph Porter, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C, W. Porter, re
turned early Monday from Tra
vis Field, Calif. He was recalled
to active duty with the air force
a year ago, and is now being dis
charged. Sergeant Porter was
met in Grand Island late Sunday
by his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. George Dickson,
of Lynnwood, Calif., were Sun
day guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles E. Yarnell.
Dean Van Every stopped at the
home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Van Every, enroute
to Denver, Colo.
* Mr. and Mrs. Tom Zakrzewski
went to Omaha Saturday. Sep
tember 29, to visit her relatives,
Mrs. Sylvester Zakrzewski took
care of their children on the farm
while they were gone.
Corduroy t k i r t *, gingham
blouses, seersucker housecoats.—
Hagensick Ladies' Wear. 22c
Allan Martin, who attends
Creighton university, Omaha,
spent the weekend with his
mother. Mrs. Henry Martin.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Miller and
2 sons, of Norfolk, were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
George Van Every.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Oik, of
Petersburg, were Sunday guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
, Stutz.
Mrs. Addie L. Wrede spent
I Sunday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Henry Martin.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Walling, of
Albion, and Mr. and Mrs. F. J.
Walling, of Sioux City,, were
weekend guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Walling.
DR. FISHER, Dentist. adv
Martin Van Ert, of Oakdale,
was a guest at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Underwood from
1 Friday to Sunday. Mr. Van Ert
1 is Mrs. Underwood’s brother.
Mr. and Mrs. c. H. SwiUer and
Mi. and Mrs. Ben Asher and
family were Sunday guests of
'Tr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson, of
Clearwater.
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Venetian blind*, prompt deliv
ery, made lo measure, metal or
wood, all colors.—J. M. McDon
ald Co.. O'Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Ten
borg, of Emmet, were guests at
the home of Mrs. Katie Stearns
on Sunday and Monday.
Mr. .aid Mrs. Elmer Wiseman,
of Page, were Sunday guests of
a .dMrM .sliecrnb-dpzBFlhtdh
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Spry.
Mrs. Dorothy Socha and girls
and Junior Sobotka were guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Sobotka at Inman.
Mrs. Hattie Fox, of Stuart,
visited from Friday until Wed
nesday with her daughter, Mrs.
Leonard Bazelman, and family.
C. R. Clinkerbeard Ranch
Sells for $85,000—
The Weller-Adams Co., of At
kinson, reports the sale of the C.
R. Clinkerbeard ranch 12 miles
south of Chambers, to Alvin
Brown, of Martin, S. D.
Mr. Brown and family are
the owners of several large oper
ating cattle ranches in that part
of the country. He will take po- i
session of the ranch immediately. !
I Prairieland Talk —
Colorful Ken Kitts Couldn’t Have
Escaped Holt’s Sheriff Eli Hershiser
By ROMA1NE SAUNDERS
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LINCOLN — In a county the
size of Holt the school land issue
means something. Two out of each
group of 35 sections are known
as school land. Some of it has
gone begging for years. Now all
at once everybody wants it.
The legislature did what was
deemed best for the schools,
though the schools have been
funct i o n i n g
pretty well
since sod house
days. Many out
lying districts
in Holt and oth
er counties have
few or no chil
dren of school
age.
It appears to
us that patriots
who have put
buildings and
Saunders on SSh°o1
sections and liv
ed thereon for
a half - century are entitled to
some consideration.
Our legislature has had the
knack of getting worthwhile
citizens into trouble while all
the while they thought to pro
tect the interests of the state.
As one man points out, there
may be in given communities in
dividuals who do not want the
land themselves but will run the
bids up to make it a hardship
for the lease-holder who has spent
nearly a lifetime on the land to
raise the other’s bid so as to re
tain possession.
Schools are costing increasingly
more with the coaches and spe
cialists not known by the older
generation, who seem to have met
life’s problems without having
had such influences brought to
bear on their young lives.
m * *
What perported to be young
democrats met in Omaha the oth
er day. The young generation is
credited with being endowed
with a bit of breezy freshness
capable of originality and new
ideas. However, from the hack
neyed stuff about waste in our
state government got off at the
gathering it appears the same
old guard came to town under the
pretext of representing the youth.
"Extravagence” in the :nanage
ment of the state’s business
frightens these apostles of econ
omy but they say not a word in
reproach of glaring conditions un
der the national administration to
which is daily being added the
stories of barter and trade go
ing on to secure government fa
vors, of the president’s actions
in defiance of law, contravene ju
dicial findings and legislative en
actments. Party loyalty is com
mendable but when it condones
wrongs on the one hand and puts
up a straw man to condemn on
the other hand party loyalty then
becomes partisan prejudice.
* * #
A former Nebraskan, C. W.
Morton, has had the temer
ity to publish a book about
"How to Protect Yourself
Against Women." Perhaps the
gentleman had become a lure
irresistible to the fair ones
and may have some valuable
tips for any gents of like
charm.
* * •
Senator Taft feels that Gover
nor Dewey’s feeble campaign cost
the republicans the last presi
dential election and resulted in
one of the country’s most un
fortunate national administra
tions. I was favored with a place
on the platform when Governor
Dewey spoke in Lincoln. The gov
ernor was rather disappointing to
all of us in that platform group.
His lack of punch and strong
presentation of a program left his
supporters without enthusiasm
The ghostly figures of military
men are now outlined on the
1952 political horizon. It looks
to this humble and superanuated
pilgrim that a clean capable
business executive, free from the
shadows that have gathered in na
tional circles, is the need of the
hour to head the nation. Let us
take a fresh start with clean
hands and clear vision.
• • *
Four-bits 10 years ago was
equal in purchasing power to $1
today, say the experts. Why 10
years ago? Say 20, 40 or more!
The dollar now is on the level
with a dime. What has been can
be again. What you stubbed your
toe on yesterday you may do it
next week. Inflation has been in
•
| the air for a decade. It may get
1 worse before it fades. An old
| $30 cow was never worth $300. A
$3 shoe is not worth $20, what
they ask for them today down on
“O” street. Five dollars-an-acre
| land isn’t worth $50. A 2-doliar
a-day man isn’t worth $2 an hour.
Inflation—what makes it? A lot
of things enter into the final re
sult. It began with the new deal
supplanting the law of supply and
demand by handouts that have
struted as the (means of maintain
ing “parity” and have blown the
everlasting daylights out of our
pay-as-you-go tradition to pile up
a monumental debt against the
taxpayers of the future, the ba
bies now in swaddling clothes.
* * *
Congressman Buffett has as
sembled the figures. He wonders
how long it can continue. But
17,663,783 beneficiaries trust that
it goes on forever. That is the
number, or 1 out of 9, citizens
who receive each month a gov
ernment check not now in the
service of the government. These
figures do not include the other
millions who receive government
funds from time-to-time, such as
“parity” payin',ents. The smallest
group in on this monthly cheer
are 6,325 coast guard pensioners,
the largest number of pensioners
being 3,605,234 aged persons. It
will not be completely satisfac
tory till the other 8 are in on
handouts.
* * *
Comes fhe wind clean and
cold. The sun the other side
of the equator comes late
over the hills to the east. The
wind, being clean and cold,
brings the blush of fire in the
blood to the faces of those
pressing into the wind on
hurrying feet. The wind, so
cold and clean, the worry is:
will those ears of corn among
the stalks be any good to turn
into Kellogg's corn flakes?
* * *
The September report of the
Nebraska library commission
gives the program for the meet
ing of the state association in
Omaha, October 11-13. The re
port says: “The Atkinson public
library is being remodeled by
pushing the front wall forward
to the street line. This will add
aproximately 7 feet to the build
ing. When the construction work
is completed the whole building
is to be redecorated.” Miss Clara
B. Johnson, who resigned as
executive secretary of the com
mission a year ago to be with her
mother in Broken Bow, is taking
over the county librarian work at
Millersburgi Ohio.
• * •
A gentleman of the cloth has
visited some Nebraska points on
his “circuit riding” tour that is
said to have added up to a mil
lion miles, hoping thereby to ac
complish something in the inter
est of world peace. All may wish
his reverence Godspeed, at the
same time entertaining suspicions
that world peace cannot be a- j
chieved by beating the air in this
fashion.
* * *
Lincoln is known the world
aroujid for its educational ad
vantages. One college, Union,
has on its campus students from,
Indies, Canal Zone, Canada,
China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Pan
ama, Sweden, Hawaii, Peru, Ko
rea, Jameica, Honduras, Nigeria
and young men and women from
30 of the states.
The FBI got him. But the halo
of the heroics is woefully absent.
Kenneth Kitts, the poor cuss, out
law that he is, chained hand and
foot and 30 of those federal flat
foots hovering over him with a
6” gun in each hand. A gent
like Eli Hershiser could have
brought him in single-handed.
Kitts killed nobody, held up a lew
banks, stole automobiles and got
out of jails. Even a crook ought i
to have somewhere an even
break with the police. The FBI j
has Jiim. Let them keep him.
Enough now in our state prison. 1
(Editor’s note: Mr. Hershiser,
too, thinks Kitts couldn’t have
gotten away with the element
ary noak he used on a Nebraska
pen guard. He recounts back in
1883, when the original court
house had room for only a clerk,
treasurer and judge, he used to
bed down prisoners in “cells”
designated by chalk marks on
the floor. A ward from Illinois
suggested to Hershiser the sher
iff would have trouble confining
him within the chalk lines. Her
shiser invited him to “Start
something!” The prisoners stay
ed.)
* * *
According to chemists of the
Ohio state university chlordane,
lindance or dimite will clear the
lawn of chiggers. Jack Frost is a
bout ready to do the job with no
effort on your part.
0 0 •
An Indiana cattle feeder, in bed
sick, got in touch by telephone
with the sale ring auction out at
Harrison and bought 80 head of
young Nebraska feeders, $33.80
hundred weight.
Up-and-At-It Meets;
1 Member Absent—
The Up-and-At-It club met at
the home of Doris, Patty and Dar
lene Pierson on Sunday after
noon, September 16.
This meeting was a special one
concerning those who did not
have all of their book filled out
for the end of the year and some
were handed to the leaders that
afternoon. All members were
present but one.
Doris Pierson led the flag
pledge. Mary Schmitz led the 4-K
pledge. Awards were given to
those who went to the Tri-Qoun
ty fair at Stuart.
The next meeting will be held
at the Slaight home but no defi
nite date was set. After the meet
ing we sang songs for entertain
ment. Mrs. Pierson served a
lunch. —By Elaine Babutzke.
Awarded $1,550 Damages
on Power Lines—
Alfred T. Drayton, of O’Neill,
and Ed Kocian, of Spencer, were
awarded $1,550 in damages last
week by a federal court lury in
session at Norfolk.
The government filed the case,
asking the jury to decide the a
mount of damages to the defend
anst land when electric transmis
sion lines were constructed to Ft.
Randall.
Juiius D. Cronin, of O’Neill,
and F. M. Deutsch, of Norfolk,
were Drayton’s attorneys.
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Auxiliary Plans
Stamp Salas—
The American Legion auxiliary,
Simonson unit 93, is sponsoring a
sale of savings stamps to be sold
in both schools in the first and
third week of every month.
*
County schools are also partici
pating in this drive and orders
are already coming in.
The sale of the stamps at 10
cents a stamp, is a start to en
courage children to place at least
a small amount in savings._
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Central Finance
Carp.
C. E. Jon*a. Muiigtr
OHaill t Nebraska
“Don’t be frightened” said the
voice, “I’ll be your sitter”
KATHY CONNER*, age 5, sat up suddenly in her bed. She’d
been asleep and now the house seemed strangely dark and still.
Somehow she needed to hear a friendly voice. Then she remem
bered : her parents were out for the evening.
Kathy called out to the sitter, but nobody answered. In a near
panic, she raced to the telephone.
"Don’t be frightened,” said the reassuring voice of Operator
June Swanson. ‘Til be your sitter till your folks get home.”
As she talked to Kathy, she learned where the parents were
visiting, got another operator to call them. In minutes they were
home. Pretty short minutes, too, with a telephone sitter to talk to.
•rw uwi Hay beta chang'd; tht ttory U tna.
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WAGES AH these are costs which have continued
«n to rise. If we are to keep on serving you
rtJMn well, we must have prices for service that
ifli l cover these costs, yet leave a reasonable
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raw/ That is the only way we can attract
the necessary investment money to ex
TAXES pan* the telephone system to meet
growing civilian and defense needs.
Horthweetern Bell Telephone Company
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