LEGAL NOTICES
(First pub. May 1, 1952)
William W. Griffin, Att’y
LEGAL NOTICE
TO: Pacific Townske Company,
a Corporation:
You are hereby notified that
on the 26th day of April, 1952,
Jennie Holloway, as plaintiff,
filed her petition and commenc
ed an action against you in the
District Court of Holt County,
Nebraska, the object and prayer
of which is to have the plaintiff
decreed to be the absolute owner
in fee simple of the real estate
described as Lot 15 in Block 19
of the original town of Page, Holt
County, Nebraska; to have the
title to and possession of said
real estate quieted and confirm
ed in the plaintiff and to have
you adjudged and decreed to
have no title to, lien upon, right
or interest in said real estate.
You are required to answer
said petition on or before the 9th
day of June, 1952, otherwise
judgment will be rendered a
gainst you accordingly.
JENNIE HOLLOWAY,
Plaintiff.
52-3
(First pub. May 8, 1952)
Julius D. Cronin, Attorney
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate No. 3821
In the County Court of Holt
County, Nebraska, May 1st, 1952
in the matter of the Estate of
Asa R. Baker, Deceased.
CREDITORS or said estate are
hereby notified that the time lim
ited for presenting claims against
said estate is August 29th, 1952,
and for the payment of debts is
May 1st, 1953 and that on May
29th, 1952, and on August 30th,
1952 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) 1-3
((First pub. May 8, 1952.)
Julius D. Cronin, Attorney
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate No. 3820
In the County Court of Holt
County, Nebraska, May 1st, 1952
in the matter of the Estate of
Agatha Heeb, Deceased.
CREDITORS or said estate are
hereby notified that the time lim
ited for presenting claims against
said estate is August 29th, 1952,
and for the payment of debts is
May 1st, 1953 and that on May
29th, 1952, and on August 30th,
1952 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) 1-3
(First pub. May 15, 1952.)
John R. Gallagher, Attorney
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate No. 3822
In the County Court of Holt
County, Nebraska, May 8th, 1952
in the matter of the Estate of
Chester G. Carsten, Deceased.
CREDITORS of said estate are
hereby notified that the time lim
ited for presenting claims against
said estate is September 5th,
1952, and for the payment of
debts is May 8th, 1953 and that
on June 5th, 1952, and on Sep
tember 6th, 1952 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.
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State Capitol News . . .
Committee Opposes Selling School
Land or Chan^ins Rental Formula
Watersheds—
Another committee of the leg
islative council which is nearly
ready to submit its report is the
watershed committee, now head
ed by Sen. Otto Kotouc, of Hum
boldt, who was appointed after
the resignation of Sen. John P.
McKnight, of Auburn.
The group met in Lincoln last
weekend to polish the language
of its model bill and a commit
tee member said the measure
would be resdv for release with
in several days.
The object of the committee
was to get its study completed as
early a3 possible in order that a
maximum amount of public dis
cussion could be had before the
1953 legislature. The defeat of
LB 455, the watershed bill of the
last session, was due largely to
ignorance of the proposal by the
members, its sponsors felt.
There was some discussion at
the time Gov. Val Peterson call- j
ed the special flood relief session
of the legislature about asking
him to include a watershed bill
in his call. But backers of the
proposal decided against it on
the basis that the lawmakers
would resent its being pushed
upon them and the bill is given
a good chance of passage in 1953
since most of its opposition ap
pears to have been overcome.
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School Land Leaf^s—
Sen. Robert McNutt’s commit
tee studying school land legisla
tion is ready to digest the sug
gestions handed it during public
hearings in western Nebraska.
McNutt told reporters the
Troup’s thinking is not yet crys
tallized but that generally the
members opposed selling the
'ands or changing the rental
formula from its present six per
ent of the assessed valuation.
Changes likely to get the com
nittee’s approval involve elimi
nation of the procedure whereby
e high bidder at an auction
nay lose the lease because an
'her bidder has submitted a cer
‘irled check for a higher amount
o the board of educational
'mds and funds and the hiring
of a top-flight land administrat
r as the executive director for
Ahe board.
'mother matter getting serious
consideration from the commit
"" is a proposal that the bonus
ids go into the permanent school
f”nd making only the interest
mediately available for distri
■ -Hon to the districts. Legislators
rmr the sudden flush of dollars,
in the three million dollars
‘ributed recently, sound.finan
al practices may not be observ
* * *
Apportionment—
In 1874 there were 72,991 chil
dren in Nebraska schools and on
fhe basis of $3.07 per pupil,
*!2n8,369 was distributed from
tate funds.
This year, with 318,023 pupils,
o total of $2,934,602 was appor
ioned, or $6.20 per child.
Those facts are contained in a
'urvey by State Superintendent
^recman B. Decker of apportion
nent of state school funds since
1874.
Highlights of the study:
T’’e peak school census was
>n the dust bowl year of 1933
whnn 410,907 youngsters were
nrolled.
TMs year’s record divvy of
^103.87 for each district was
oused by the unexpected income
‘rom school land lease sales
caused by the 1951 supreme court
decision.
The lowest per pupil apportion
ment was in 1937 when the split
was only 98 cents per child.
The total number of districts
was at its highest in 1917 when
7,116 were in operation. Lowest
was in 1925 when only 5,805 were
eligible for slicing the state mel
on.
* * *
B ankel Tax —
The state supreme court has
taken under advisement an action
challenging the validity of the
1949 blanket mill school levy tax.
Charley W. Peterson, a Holt
county taxpayer, brought the ap
oeal to the supreme court after
the district court at O’Neill up
held the act.
Counsel for Peterson contended
the tax is not levied uniformly
■md proportionately as to school
districts having fewer than five
oupils, since the funds derived
from blanket levy on property in
these districts is given to other
districts for local school purposes
without any participation by dis
tricts having less than five pupils.
Some critics of the act have re
ferred to it as a “socialistic
scheme.” The act was intended to
reach certain districts which had
levied no school tax for years be
cause they had too few pupils to
maintain a school.
Deputy Attorney General Wil
liam Gleeson argued that in spite
f epithets applied to legislation
of this sort, it does not violate
the constitution, but does encour
age larger and better districts, to
the benefit of the pupils affected.
• • •
He Likes Ike —
Val likes Ike.
In fact, Nebraska’s governor
likes Gen- Dwight D. Eisenhower
so well, he’s virtually staking
his political future on the NATO
commander’s nomination for
president of the republican na
tional convention in Chicago in
July.
Peterson is filling all the speak
ing engagements he can to thump
the tubs for Eisenhower and is
sporting a fancy Ike pin in his
lapel.
Capitol know-it-alls say that the
governor is gunning for no less a
job than secretary of interior if
Eisenhower makes it all the way
to the white house.
If that spot isn’t forthcoming,
his friends say, Peterson would
be available for a top civilian post
invited guests that better schools
are bound to cost more money but
Nebraska' can afford them if a !
proper tax program is set up.
Later, Doctor Cornell indicated
his idea of a proper tax program j
includes a state sales and or in- |
come tax. He called them the
“best bets.”
• • •
"I suggest," he said, "that if
you' don't take advantage of the
state sales tax idea the federal
government may beat you to it
with one they've got in the mill
now."
* • *
Bad News —
The highway department had
a double dose of bad news last
week.
The first came from the state
department of agriculture which
collects the nickel-a-gallon state
tax on gasoline. It reported that
Nebraska took in $1,523,501 from
this source during April, a five
percent drop from March. The
figure this year compares with
$1,632,361 for April, 1951.
Since the department's share
of the gas tax represents one of
its major sources of revenue
the announcement caused some
headaches in an agency already
beset with one of ifs most ex- i
tensive maintenance chores in
years.
ference committee.
In passing the army civil func
tions bill last month, the house
voted 492-million-dollars for
flood control and navigation pro
jects. Thus is 29 percent less thar
the amount asked by President
Truman.
When he was in the flood area a
couple of weeks ago, Truman said
he would ask the senate to restore
the cut. If it does, members of
the two houses will have to meet
to reconcile the two measures. It
is this joint committee which
Peterson hopes to have hear the
flood-state governors.
* • *
Upstairs —
Herbert F. Thies, Nebraska’s
director of civil defense, has
moved upstairs to a federal CD
post. Starting May 15, Thies, a
former editor of the Scottsbluff
Star-Herald, will be liaison offi
cer of the six-state region VII,
with headquarters at Denver,
Colo.
A. C. Tilley, former Nebraska
state engineer, is the regional
director and R. F. (“Bud”) Weller,
until recently number 2 man in
the Nebraska highway depart
ment, is the regional engineer for
the civil defense agency.
Thies, who met with other state
CD directors during the recent
atomic bomb tests in Nevada,
pronounced Nebraska’s organiza
tion “as good as any.”
* • *
The other half of the pincers
move was the announcement that
engineering and maintenance
workers in the department will
get pay increases ranginf from $5
to $30 a month.
State Engineering Harold Ait
ken said the raises were an “at
tempt to keep the loyal em
ployees the department now has.”
Even with the increases, he said,
the department will be unable to
attract qualified highway em
ployees. In the past two years, he
said, 160 engineering employees
have left the department for jobs
with better pay.
• * *
Flood Funds—
Gov. Val Peterson, in Washing
ton recently to probe the Lin
coln air base deadlock, took time
out to talk with Rep. Clarence
Cannon, chairman of the house
appropriations committee, about
restoration of cuts in the budget
of the army engineers for flood
control work.
The governor is expected to ask
other flood-state governors meet
ing at Pierre, S.D., this week to
name a committee to go to Wash
ington and discuss the problem
with Representative Cannon and
members of the senate-house con
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The Vote —
More voters marked ballots in
the April 1 election than m any
Nebraska primary since 1934.
The final tabulation by the
state canvassing board showed,
that 366,954 persons picked up
ballots. In 1934, the figure was
408,328. There were no partic
ular surprises in the official fig
ures except that 48 republicans
voted for Democrat Robert &.
Kerr and that Republican Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower received
2,705 votes in the presidential
races.
Mrs. Christene Williams spent
the weekend at the home of her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Harold McNally, and
daughter.
JOHN R. GALLAGHER
Attorney - at - Law
First National Bank Bldg.
O'Neill t Phone 11
DR. H. L. BENNETT
VETERINARIAN
Phones 316 and 304
— O’NEILL —
DR. J. L. SHERBAHN
CHIROPRACTOR
O'Neill, Nebraska
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* * •
Research Starts—
Two research committees of
the Nebraska legislature began
the final work on their reports to
the 1953 session. . . The state su
perintendent of public instruction
took a look at the apportionment
of state funds to local school dis
tricts for the past 79 years. . . .
The statehouse buzzed with spec
ulation over the political ambi
tions of Gov. Val Petersaon. . .
The supreme court heard oral
arguments in the case challeng
ing the constitutionality of the
blanket tax school levy law. . . .
That was the week’s news from
Lincoln.
* * *
Urqes Sales Tax—
The biennial campaign for
state aid to education was
launched in Lincoln recently at a
meeting of the structure and sup
port committee of the Nebraska
( State Education association.
Dr. Francis Cornell, of the Uni
I versity of Illinois, told the com
mittee and a handful of specially
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