Capiiol News . . .
State Fair
Picture Bright
LINCOLN—Probably nothing’s
further from the minds of most
Nebraskans these dreary days
than the Nebraska state fair. But
to the men and women attending
the annual January gathering
this week of the County Fair
Managers association, all was fair.
Edwin Schulte, the able and
amiable secretary of the state
board of agriculture, delivered
his 1951 report to his organiza
tion and it made pretty interest
ing reading. Here are some high
lights:
Total receipts — $611,000 — for
1951 exceeded 1950, the previous
all time high, by 12 per cent. At
tendance topped 1950 by about 3
per cent. Grandstand attendance
set a record, up 6% per cent over
1950. Gross carnival receipts
were $3,000 over the previous
year.
Industrial exhibits last year
were down and Schultz expects a
further cut this year “because of
the continued curtailment of
metals and government restric
tions.
The Galloway cattle show was a
disappointment last year. This
year’s national show will be Aber
deen-Angus.
The 4-H show, termed by
Schultz one of the natipn’s best,
needs more room—like a lot of
other departments.
The secretary said the board
should make plans to go before
I the 1953 legislature with a re
j quest for permission to issue
j bonds for a new coliseum.
• • •
Good Start —
Consolidation of county assis
tance offices, under the plan pro
posed by Myer Avedovech, busi
ness manager for the stale aid
agency, is “off to a good start,”
according to members of the
board of control which has charge
of the multimillion dollar a year
program.
In response to inquiries from
Gage and Red Willow counties,
the board has asked officials from
those counties to suggest dates for
conferences to discuss merging
their offices with those of ne^h
boring counties as a step toward
efficiency.
If the proposed plan is carried
out fully, the number of county
assistance offices would be
slashed by two-thirds. The board
has stressed that any consolida
tion must be voluntary.
• • •
Vital —
The Missouri river states com
mittee and the Missouri basin in
ter-agency committee are meeting
this week at Hastings in sessions
Gov. Val Peterson has described
as “vital.” He said, “They could
be the most important ever held.”
On Wednesday the states’ com
mittee met to discuss a report
from the council of state govern
ments proposed interstate com
pact approach to operate the de
velope facilities of the basin.
Another topic will be President
Truman’s proposal to create a
Missouri basin survey commis
sion. Peterson and others have
called the president’s plan “a
I stalking horse for the Missouri
valley authority.”
On Thursday the agenda lists a
discussion of electric power in Ne
braska with the several Nebraska
power organizations participating.
Also to be aired is the Mid-state
reclamation district project. Pe
terson had asked to get this on
the agenda. £>ince tne depart
ment of interior will be well rep
resented, observers were looking
for a lively airing of the merits
of the department’s development
plan as opposed to Mid-state’s.
• • •
Slowdown —
School land leases, which have
been going across the auction
block just about as fast as the
board of educational lands and
funds could process them, will
move more slowly from now on.
At its meeting last week, the
board voted to curtail the sales in
order to keep its office in busi
nes. At the rate sales had been
going since last September, the
board’s 1951 - '53 appropriation
from the legislature would have
been exhausted before the end ol
the biennium.
The board declined to indulge
in what Governor Peterson, the
chairman, called “go-broke spend
ing” and asked the legislature to
make up the difference.
The slowdown vote brought i
protest from Dr. Archer Burn
ham, secretary of the Nebraska
State Educational association. The
governor had suggested that the
INSEA might want to “lend or
give" the board the $10,000 or
$15,000 it will be short in order to
continue sales at the present rate.
• • •
Answer —
Some time ago, the student'
council at the Milford trade school
wrote Sen. George Syas, of Oma
ha, inviting him to appear at the
school to discuss his proposal to
close the institution. He first
moved to get rid of the place in
the 1951 legislature but his bill
was killed in committee. He has
pledged to renew the fight if he’s
reelected.
Syas replied that he couldn’t
make the date but in his letter he
listed 5 reasons why he thought
the school should be shut down.
Now, the student council has re
plied.
Richard H. Patten, president of
the council, wrote Syas that the
trade schol received only 1.4 per
cent of the amount the legislature
appropriatiated for colleges and
universities this biennium. ‘This
can certainly be justified,” he
said.
Syas protested that not all
trades were taught at the school
and called this ‘discriminatory.’
To attempt such a program, Pat
ten said ‘would be a physical and
financial responsibility.’
Answering other objections, the
council said many students were
unable to get the kind of training
they wanted in their home com
munities. Patten denied the school
was a threat to free enterprise,
and in rebuttal to Syas’ query as
to why other states don t have
trade schools, he listed 246 “tax
supported vocational, technical
and trade schols” in all the other
47 states.
• • •
TThe Nebraska legislature holds
the key to the solution of Nebras
ka’s taxation problems, State Tax
Commissioner Philip K. Johnson
told the county assessors conven
tion in Omaha last weekend.
He urged the assesors to talk
with their senators, ot as a pres- ;
sure group, but for an exchange
of information.
The commissioner said there
are 2 basic faults in the Nebras
ka tax picture:
1. The lack of a uniform pol
icy among the assessing officials
on certain classes of property.
2. The lack of coordination be
tween assesor and the spending
agencies at the several levels of
government.
* * •
Statement —
Quotations from Peterson’s
statement, announcing his deci
sion to stay in the race against
■sen. Hugh Butler instead of go
ing after the Wherry vacancy.
‘The people of Nebraska owe
neither Senator Butler nor me a
thing. We have both been high
ly honored. I have been elected
governor three times and am
starting my 6th year in that of
fice. Senator Butler has twice
been elected to the U. S. senate
and is now in his 12th year. The
question is which man can do the
best job for the people in the 6
year term which starts in Jan
uary, 1953. I believe I can.
‘The action of the congress of
the United States in the next few
years will be tremendously im
portant. In foreign affairs it will
decide whether America will de
mand and restore for American
citizenship and the American flag,
or whether it will continue a ser
vile and humilitating course of ap
peasement toward our open en
emy and toward our pretended
friends.
“In domestic affairs it will de
cide whether the American sys
tem of free enterprise under
which we became the most pow
erful nation on earth is to be con
tinued, or whether it is to be art
fuly merged into the socialistic,
and, in the last analysis, commun
istic plan of totalitarianism.
“The rooting out of these ruin
ous and even traitorous propon
ents and proposals is a task that
will require unhampered energy
and enthusiasm. It is a task for
young, strong, vigorous men.’”
• • •
Politics —
These were the week’s other
political developments:
William Ritchie, former demo
cratic state chairman, announced
he would file for the short term in
the U. S. senate and would cam
paign on an anti-Truman basis.
Lincoln Mayor Victor Anderson,
formed Lt.-Gov. Robert Crosby,
of North Plate, and State Sen.
Hugh Carson, of Ord, continued to
press their campaigns for the
GOP nominations for governor.
From here, it was difficult to as
sess their progress; only one thing
appeared certain: they are the 3
hardest-working candidates in
the state today.
Number Trustees
Upped 6 to 9
STUART — The Stuart Com
munity church held its annual
congregational meeting Sunday
evening, January 13. A report on
the activities of the church was
given and officers were elected.
It was decided there should be
a board of 9 trustees instead of 6,
therefore 5 trustees were elected.
Mark Nelson and George Hitch
cock, whose terms expired, were
reelected for 3 years, and Wesley
Cobb also was elected for a 3
vear term. David Keidel was
elected for 2 years and Fred Tas
ler for*l vear. Other trustees are:
Gooree Keidel. Arthur Kopp, Ber
lin Mitchell and Wilbur Moon.
Donald Krotter was elected
treasurer: Stanley Cobb, head
usher, and Ora Yarges, church
. chool superintendent.
Financial reports show $1,070
has been paid on the manse debt
and $473 used for missionary en
terprises above the operating ex
penses.
LYNCH NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters and
Gordon, of Verdel, called at the
Mrs. Nata Bjornsen home. They
all went to the Ralph Papstein
home at Spencer for Sunday din
ner.
Mr and Mrs. Edward Streit and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Lorie
Micanek and Mr. and Mrs. Beryl
Moody and Douglas were Sunday
dinner guests at the C. L. Hasel
horst home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johns were
Sunday visitors at the Phillip
Ha/mmon home.
On Saturday Kenneth Stewart,
Bud Spelts, Keith Stewart, Ron
nie Carson, Ike McDonald, George
Courtney and Larry Kalkowski
accompanied Coach Elmer Black
bird to Winnebago where they
had a practice basketball game
with Winnebago high school and
in the evening attended Wayne
State-Doane college basketball
: game at Wayne.
Mrs. Lettie Combs returned
home Thursday from an extended
visit with relatives at Grand Is
land.
Lois Stewart returned home
from a 2 weeks visit in Omaha.
Mr. and iMrs. Sam Hansen, of
Spencer, visited patients at the
Lynch hospital Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Spencer
and Mr. and Mrs. Veldon Lee and
Mr. and Mrs. William Stouffer
called on Mrs. Winnie Lee at the
Lynch hospital Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Marshall,
of Walnut, visited in Lynch Sun
day.
Mary Stenger, of Petersburg,
spent several days at the M. P.
Stenger home this past week.
Mrs. Lillian Baker was hostess
to the Happy Hour club Monday,
January 14. Eleven members
were present. Mesdames Clare
Coulthard and Claude Rutledge
demonstrated the lesson “Yeast
Rolls” and “Quick Breads." Sev
eral different kinds of rolls were
baked and served as part of the
lunch that evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Scheinost, of
Spencer, brought Mrs. Lettie Sed
lacek here Sunday for a few days
stay at her home here.
BOWLING NEWS
The Sovereign Service team
bowled a 3-game series of 2,795
and a single game of 1,038 in
league play here during the past
week. These scores are the high
est bowled vet this season.
The Sandwich Shop was second
high for last week with scores of
2,727 and 999.
Marv Guern, of Lester Elec
tric, was the best single bowler of
last week with a single line of
198. Lyle Green and Welly Shel
hamer each got 189 pins.
Ben Wetzler, of the Sandwich
Shop’s entry, knocked over 497
oin« for the highest single series.
The games tonight (Thursday)
will be called off because of the
Holt county basketball tourna
ment.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Mrs. John Conard and Mrs. Guy
Cole, of Emmet, were “snowed
in" Tuesday and Wednesday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Schaffer. Mrs. Robert Cole and
Mrs. Bud Cole, both of Emmet,
were also in O’Neill and were un
able to return home immediate
ly on account of the storm.
Orville McKim and Harry Sul
livan went to Fairfax, S.D., and
enroute home on Tuesday were
strand in Butte on account of the
storm.
Brownie troop III met on Mon
day afternoon, January 21, at the
bandroom in the O’Neill public
school. Officers were elected:
Frances Kelly, president; Betty
Jo Turner, secretary; Sue Guem.
treasurer. Games were played
following the election and re
freshments were served.
ROYAL THEATRE"
— O'NEILL —
Friday and Saturday
January 25-26
CALIFORNIA PASSAGE
Starring Forrest Tucker, Adele
Mara and Estelita Rodriguez with
Jim Davis, Peter Miles. Charles
Kemper, Bill Williams and Rhys
Williams.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
Adm. 42c. plus tax 8c, Tot. 50c
Children 10c, plus 2c tax. Tot. 12c
Matinee Saturday 2:30
Sunday. Monday and Tuesday
January 27-28-29
Jane Wvman in
THE BLUE VEIL
Co-starring Charles Laughton,
Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson,
Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor,
Audrev Totter, Cvril Cusack, Ev
erett Sloane, Natalie Wood.
Adm. 42c, plus tax 8c. Tot. 50c
Children 10c, plus 2c tax. Tot. 12c
Matinee Sunday 2:30
Wednesday and Thursday
January 30-31
A picture about a wonderful fam
ily—for the whole famiW!
AS YOUNG AS YOU FEEL
Starring Monty Woollev, Thel
ma Ritter. David Wayne. Jean
Peters, with Constance Bennett,
Marilyn Monroe, Allvn Joslyn,
Albert Dekker, Clinton Sund
herg. Minor Watson.
Adm.: 42c, plus tax 8c. Total 50c
Children 10c. plus 2c tax: tot. 12c
CLEARANCE SALE
USED OAKS AND IMPLEMENTS'
1—1951 Kaiser Sedan_$1,595
Radio, heater, overdrive, A-l condition
1—1951 Henry J Deluxe ‘6’ Save $500
Radio, heater, overdrive, low mileage
1—New Galloway Manure Spreader $275
70 bushel, a $400 value!
1—Allis-Chaliners G Tractor _ $350
Never had an owner, a $875 value!
A Few Sets of Tractor Chains
12x28 13x28 11x38
Some New 12x38 Tractor Tiresf
Goodyear & Goodrich_$150 a Pair
USED EQUIPMENT
1—Regular FARM ALL, good.
1—Allis - Chalmers Combine or Baler
Motor
Used very little!
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