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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1951)
Editorial It Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Street 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-olass 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. Tsrnu 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. Lynch-Niobrara in 18-18 Deadlock LYNCH—Before a large home coming crowd here Wednesday, October 24, the Lynch high and Niobrara high 6-man grid team played to an 18-18 tie. Susie Eiler and Lawrence Kal kowski, of the senior class, were crowned queen and king by Ron nie Carson and Dorothy Mulhair, of the freshman class, who were runnersup. Many alumni came for the homecoming festivties At 1:30 p.m. a parade of floats of the dif ferent classes at school plus busi ness places in town moved through the streets as an added feature. Other Lynch News Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rosencrans have returned home from a week’s visit with relatives in Hutchinsn, Kans. Mesdames Vincent Jehorek, George Kalkowski, Lorie Mica nek Albert Kalkowski, Clarence Kolund, Frank Weeder, Hannah Streit and Miss Pauline Mulhair represented the Altar society of the Assumption BVM church at the deanery meeting of the Na tional Council of Catholic Women held in O’Neill, Tuesday, October 16 Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Boska and son, of Nyron, Mo., are visiting here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Long accom DRS. BENNETT & COOK VETERINARIANS Phon««: 318. 484. 304 — O'NEILL - panied Mr. and Mrs. Willard Landholm to Norfolk on Thurs day. Frank Haimmon and son, Phil lip, motored to Omaha Tuesday, October 23, to meet Duane Ham mon, who spent a 3-day pass here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Phil lip Haimmon and Mrs. Ed Johns took him to Grand Island, Thurs day. Wallace Courtney is trucking the personal property of Clifford Lewis, of Randolph, to the John son farm on Sunshine Bottom, where the Lewises will farm this coming, year. Mrs. William Teadtke spent Fri day evening with Mrs. Burt Kline at Bristow. Mrs. Elvin Allen, of Bristow, spent Friday with Mrs. Bill Teadt ke. Mr. and Mrs Pat Cas idy vis ited relatives in Spencer, Monday, October 22. Rev. John Wieczorek enter tained friends from Milwaukee, Wise., last week. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Farran of Meadow Grove attended home coming of the Lynch schools, Wednesday, October 24. Elmer Endicott of Creighton, spent several days visiting friends and relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd France were business visitors down the line on Thursday. Mrs. Mary Heiser, of Monowl visited here on Wednesday, Octo ber 24. The Lynch teachers attended teachers’ convention at Norfolk on Thursday and Friday. Shopping Her*— Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis and family, of Butte, were shopping in O’Neill on Saturday and also were callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith and family. Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Smith are sisters. CATTLE AUCTION At Atkinson, Nebraska EVERY MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVERY MONDAY, starting at 12 o'clock noon — WE SELL CALVES AND YEARLINGS. This is the day to bring in your calves and light yearlings. EVERY TUESDAY, starting at 10:30 A.M., we sell butcher cattle and small consignments of other classes of cattle until 2 o'clock P.M., following which we sell carload lots of stockers and feeders. LIST YOUR CATTLE IN ADVANCE AND GET FULL ADVANTAGE OF OUR EXTENSIVE ADVERTISING ! ATKINSON LIVESTOCK MARKET Atkinson, Nebr. NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA HEREFORD ASSOCIATION'S 20TH ANNUAL FALL HEREFORD SHOW and SALE Bassett, Nebraska NEW SHOW BARN WILL BE READY FOR USE Saturday, Nov. 10th SHOW IN MORNING — SALE IN AFTERNOON Show judged by Wilford Scott, of Chadron, starting at 10 a.m. j "Buy Better Bulls at Bassett" 64 Bulls — 2 Heifers LIST OF CONSIGNORS Floyd Arrowsmith, Newport; Harry J. Brown, Bassett; D. E. Bowen & Son, Page; B. T. Buell Rose; H. L. Buell, Bas sett; Herman Boege, Duff; Frieda S. Dabney, Wood Lake; J. Hall Dillon, Long Pine; Charles Dorsey, Newport; Marvin Dorsey, Newport; Joe J. Jelinek & Sons, Walnut; Robert E. Lethert, Almeria; Myron C. McGraw, Taylor; Harold Mel cher, Page; Charles H. Morton, Duff; I. D. Nicholson, Spring view; Max J. Nicholson, Springview; Elmer E. Phillips, Bas sett; Ralph J. Prill & Sons, Page; Paul R. Sellars, Long Pine; F. E. Titus & Sons, Springview; Floyd Tucker, Rose; H. A. and Robert E. Van Horn, Page: Bernard Van Vleck, Clear water; Artice N. Wentworth, Mills; F. E. Wentworth, Mills; Henry Wood, Ewing. IFOR CATALOG, WRITE | TUG PHILLIPS, Secretary-Treasurer I BASSETT, NEBRASKA I CHARLES CORKLE, Auctioneer 1 Usual Field Men Will Be Present 1 I Prairieland Talk— I ‘Cheer Up, Oldtimers! You’ve Handed State a Rich Heritage — Now Trust in Lord!’ By ROMA1NE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—Sweet words float out over the Potomac from the White House about “fighting to preserve our liberties.” It has been an Irish potato farmer in Iowa who has shown us how to do it. He was being made a victim of Washington bu reaucracy when the federal de partment of agriculture came to Iowa to prosecute the farmer on the strength of “directive 60.” The bureau has been issuing arbitrary orders on what to plant, how much, when to sell the crop, size, weight, color of spuds and some other things. The Iowa farm er and his sons proposed to find out whe ther they had any rights as free men to op erate the bus inesss in their Saunders own way, went to bat with the Washington crowd and were backed up by farmers in several states with funds to take the matter to the supreme court. When the bureau boys saw what they had stirred up “direc tive 60” was withdrawn, "lack of interest,” the department ex plained. Fear of the outcome in the courts, suggested the farmers. , Not the White House but mid western farmers lead the way in “fighting to preserve our liber ties." w • There will be no special ses sion of the legislature to grant the old folks another sandwich. An informal feel-out of the mem bers by the governor determined the call a dead letter. In their smug plenty all but 9 of the Ne braska statemen were opposed to a special session in behalf of the needy ag^d. The old folks will make out some way on short ra tions with the hope that this will hasten the ultimate termination of their earthly needs. One ex cuse is that a special session would take the time of the sena tors. Is their time so precious, so highly valuable, that a day or 2 could not be spared for state bus iness? They can come to the eap itol city for football contests, gather at banquet boards and get in on various functions. Cheer up. oldtimers. You have handed on to this generation a rich her itage, and now “Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.”—Ps. 37:3. • • • In 1950 the Rockefeller foun dation put $11,247,964 in the setup's program for "improving conditions of mankind." Allot ments go mostly to big univer sities for such nit-wit proposi tions as putting some highbrow on the trail of a happy guy who is making good at his job to discover the secret of happy and successful living. After a year's study of a cheerful cuss or 2 who haven't learned how to worry the physiologist comes up with reams of his written findings in which he admits he doesn't know anything about it. • * • Dynel socks for men, synthetic fiber, whatever that is, that will not shrink, chafe the foot, sag to the shoe top nor acquire holes at the toe are to be ready for Christ mas gifts. . . A 75-year-old St. Louis boy has free ice cream, all he can eat, for a month for re turning to the ice cream makers $250 ,they had lost and the boy found. . . Some of the delegates had difficulty convincing the po lice guard, but when a gent came along wearing a badge with the letters FBI he was admitted to the assembly without question. A close look at his badge and it was seen in small letters, fan belt inspector. » • • Of the multitude of societies and organizations functioning for one purpose or another none are doing more in a patriotic way erican Revolution, a going and than the Daughters of the Am growing concern conceived out of pique in the days of Caroline Scott Harrison, wife of Pres. Benjamin Harrison. The ladies of that generation who could trace the family tree to colonial roots felt slighted at the attitude of the Sons of the American Revolution who excluded women from mem i bership. Mrs. Harrison, being the country’s first lady, was chosen as the society's first president general. Oddly enough the head quarters address in Washington, D.C., is 1776 D street. There are 150,000 on the membership roll. The patriotism of the ladies is also sometimes snobbish. This lost them a member in the per son of Mrs. Roosevelt, who with drew her membership when Mar ion Anderson, the Negro singer, was excluded from giving a con cert in the society’s hallowed Constitutional hall. The ladies are not to be wholly condemned for a slip in judgment in view of the general influence inculcating pa triotism. • • • The gold of cottonwood with crimson blends, hackberry, spruce and the elm's brilliant tints; the willow's flaming blush in modesty and grace hangs among the trees still greenly scrolled. Across the heaven's blue a curtain cloud in folds of chiffon hangs. Gates are open to the color show of autumn. Admittance free. • • • A paragraph of “old stuff.” Oh yes, no doubt there are some left among The Frontier’s friends who from time-to-time turn back the pages of time. “For heaven's sake, send me a copy of The Frontier containing the official vote of Holt county, and put me on your mailing list,” wrote Ham Kautzman, of Pamora, la., more than 50 years ago. Of the rabid, vindictive, caustic editorial crit ics of The Frontier's political sentiments in the long ago, Ham was the bellweather of them all and his Beacon Light illuminat ing the world about from the basement under the First Na tional bank had the editors of The Frontier sawed and quarter ed once a week. Ham left here for South Dakota, then to his former Iowa home town to open a cigar factory, having bid a fond farewell forever to the newspa per business. Now he became a subscriber to his former editorial victim. 90% For! 10% Against Railroad workers are represented by 23 standard unions. By mutual agreement, 20 of these unions—com prising about 1,200,000 men, or more than 90%—are working under wages and rules agreed to by them and the railroads. But leaders of three unions—with only about 130,000 men, or less than 10%—still refuse, after more than a year of negotiations, to accept similar wage and rules agreements. These are even more favorable than the terms recommended by the Emer gency Board appointed by the President. •< Yes, it certainly seems to be finally about time that the leaders of the three unions stop their delaying tactics—their quibbling. But the leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Order of Railway Conductors continue to refuse. They continue a course of dillying and dallying. It is definitely time to On June 15, 1950, an Emergency Board appointed by the President under the terms of the Railway Labor Act—an Act largely fathered by the unions themselves —made its recommendations on certain wage and working conditions ("rules” in railroad Language) which had been in dis pute between employes and the railroads. More Than 90% of Employes Accept Since then, terms equal to or better than the Board recommendations have been accepted by about 1,200,000 railroad em ployes—more than 90% of the total of all workers. They are represented by 20 of the 23 standard railroad unions. Less Than 10% Refuse But three unions—with about 130,000 men, or less than 10% of the total—have refused to accept, even after months of negotiations. These three unions are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Order of Railway Conductors. These are three of the so called "operating” unions. Already the highest paid men in the industry, their leaders demand still further advantages over other workers. In all, there are about 270,(XX) operating employes. But not all of them, by any means, are represented by BLE, BLF&E, or ORC. As a matter of fact, less than half—132,000 to be exact—are in these three unions. More than half—about 140,000—are in other unions, principally the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. What makes the whole situation so hard to understand is that these 140,000 op erating employes are working under wages and rules which the leaders of the other 130,000 say they cannot agree to. What Do the Railroads Offer? They offer these three unions the same settlement which was contained in a Mem orandum of Agreement signed at the White House on December 21, 1950, by four brotherhoods and the railroads. Later these brotherhoods sought to repudiate this agreement. But on May 25, 1951, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen signed a complete agreement carrying out the principles of the Memorandum Agreement of December 21. They have been working under this agreement since May 25. What About Wages? Under the terms of the agreement, yard engineers, firemen and conductors would now be receiving a wage increase of $.34 an hour ($2.72 a day) and road engineers, firemen and conductors would now be re ceiving an increase of 19H cents an hour ($1.56 per day). Large sums of retroactive pay have already accrued and if the agree ment is carried out, will be paid promptly. What About “Cost of Living” Increases? The White House Agreement includes an "escalator” clause under which wages will be geared to changes in the Government’s cost-of-living index. Two such increases —Apriland July, 1951—havealready been paid to the 90% of railroad employes cov ered by signed agreements. What About the 40-lIour Week? The White House Agreement calls for the establishment of the 40-hour week in prin ciple, for employes in yard service. The employes can have it any time after Jan uary 1, 1952, provided the manpower sit uation is such that the railroads can get enough men to perform the work with reasonable regularity at straight time rates. If the parties do not agree on the question of availability of manpower, the White House Agreement provides arbitra tion by a referee appointed by the President. What Else Do the Union Leaders Demand? The continued quibbling of the leaders of the three unions has to do principally with We are publishing this and other advertisements to talk to you , 1 at first hand about matters which are important to everybody. % rules changes, which have already been agreed to by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Of these, the principal one seems to be that having to do with so called "interdivisional service”—runs 1 which take in two or more seniority dis tricts. The union leaders would bar progress and efficiency in the industry, and better service to the public, by maintaining a situation where they can arbitrarily stop a railroad from establishing such inter divisional runs. The carriers propose that if a railroad wishes to set up an inter divisional run, the railroad and the unions should try to agree on such run and the conditions which should surround its es tablishment, and if the railroad and the unions can’t agree, the matter will be sub mitted to arbitration. But the tlvree union leaders still refuse. Rules Can Be. Arbitrated The railroads have not only offered these t hree unions the same rules agreed to by the BRT and covered by the White House* Agreement, but have even agreed to sub mit such rules to arbitration. The Industry Pattern Is Fixed With the pattern so firmly established in the railroad industry, it seems fair to sug gest that the leaders of BLE, BLF&E, and ORC stop their quibbling and take action to make the railroad labor picture 100% complete. Certainly today’s eco nomic and ini emational situation calls for a united front. And certainly no good rea son has been advanced why these three unions should be preferred over all other railroad employes. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Meals and A, T. Potter were back from the Klondike in November. 1900, to report that the O'Neill delegation up there were fat and sassy. In 8 days they had dug $400 in gold. It was in that autumn that cattle losses were sustained from "corn stalk dis ease." Henry Hartland was in town one day and reported the loss of 15 head within 2 days. • • • Mr. Truman admits that Irish senator from Wisconsin is a thorn in the flesh and wants him out. Quite a few folks want some oth ers out. The political rabble rous ers a year from now will rival the 1896 blare of fiate money and free silver trumpets. That fight ing senator from Wisconsin bears the name of a boyhood pal in that great dairy state. His course in bringing to light the records of public officials is endorsed by his home state young Republic ans and he probably can retain the senatorial toga if he so de sires. When You and I Were Young . . . 600 Tons New Hay Lost in Ryan Fire 50 Years Ago Snow “flew” Monday and the Atkinson and Northern isn’t run ning trains yet. . . Mr. Freeds having built a new barn will give a dance in it Saturday, October 26. . . Dr. P. N. Saltier, of Norfolk, was in the city and assisted by Doctors Gilligan and Flynn, per formed an operation upon John J. Harrington for appendicitis. The patient is “getting along splendidly” and it is hoped that he will be up and around in a few days. . . Wild waterfowl in large and numerous flocks flew fast Saturday and the crack of rifles was heard over the city. . . Mike Sullivan, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Sullivan, was given a farewell reception at the home of his par ents. . . Mrs. Fred Hitchcock has been visiting with her sister-in law, Mrs. Will Hitchcock. 25 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Loy and children, of Ft. Scott, Kans., ar rived Friday for a week’s visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Loy of this city. . . Miss Elizabeth Henry entertained 12 little friends at a party from 2 i until 5 o’clock October 16. Miss I Elizabeth was celebrating her 12th birthday anniversary. . . About 12 o’clock Sunday night, the large hay barn belonging to J. B. Ryan was discovered to be on fire. The building contained between 500 and 600 tons of new hay. 10 Years Ago J. W. Rooney, Dewey Schaffer and M. F. Gribble left Friday for Lincoln to attend a PCA meeting . . . Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Marcel lus, a girl, born October 27. . . Mrs. Mary Osenbaugh, returned to Auburn Saturday, after spend ing 2 weeks visiting at the home of her son, J. D. Osenbaugh and family. . . Mrs. William Gatz, Mrs. Mabel Gatz and son, Eddie, and Keith Vincent spent Monday in Norfolk. Tune in! “Voice of The Fron tier, Mon., Wed. and Sat., 9:45 a.m., WJAG, Norfolk, 780 kc. Mobilization Board Will Launch Drive The Holt county mobilization board, headed by Harry E. Res sel, of O’Neill, on Novetmhber 15 will launch a scrap iron drive in the county. The board consists of mem bers of the U. S. department of agriculture council. • ~ Homemakers Hold Pitch Party— The Victory Homemakers held a pitch card party, Sunday night, October 28, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Janzing. High scores were won by Mrs. John Jensen and Ray Tunender and lows by Mrs. Albert Havra nek and Hubert Ramold. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Kenny and daughter, Jeanie, of Atkin son, were in O’Neill on business Thursday, October 25. FARM SELLING AT AUCTION 160 Acres Improved Va mile south and 2 miles west of Butte. Boyd County. Nebr. on — SATURDAY, NOV. 10,1951 - 2 O’Clock At — The Butte State Bank Building Butte, Nebraska Complete set of farm buildings consisting of 24x28 4-room house; good leanto barn 32x32; good hog house 18x20, with new roof and lately remodelled; 2 poultry houses; granary and machine shed combined. Forty acres of pasture watered by a creek; 120 acres of ' good farm land in a good state of cultivation; one of the best wells in the country and one good windmill; REA; new me tallic telephone line; Va mile to grade school; on daily mail d route. Terms: 25% down payment on date of sale; the balance on January 2nd, 1952, when possession will be given. Mer chantable abstract will be furnished showing good title. IF INTERESTED SEE WELLER-ADAMS COMPANY, Atkinson. Nebr. ERNIE WELLER. Auct. LEO ADAMS, Mgr. JOSEPH F. WINKLER, Owner
