Auxiliary Plans
Memorial Rites
PAGE—The American Legion
auxiliary here wil sponsor me
morial day services at the Page
high school auditorium at 2 o’
clock Friday afternoon, May 30.
Rev. Clarence Hanseom, pastor
of the Plainview Congregational
church, will be the speaker.
There will be singing, readings
and band music. Following the
rites there will be ceremonies at
the cemetery and decoration of
graves of deceased and service
men.
Other Page News
George Park drove to Norfolk
Sunday to bring home Mrs. Park,
who had been visiting there since
Friday, and also Sherry and
Mickey Stewart, who had been
there since Saturday with their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stewart.
The GGG&G Pitch club met
Friday afternoon with Mrs. I. O.
Wood. Guests were Mesdames
Allen Haynes, Evelyn Gray, Rob
ert Gray, Melvin Held, Lester
Riege and William Williamson.
Mrs. Robert Gray held high score
and Mrs. Otto Matschullat won
traveling prize.
Mrs. A. B McClure and daugh
ter, Mrs. Melvin Lamason and
daughter, Marilyn, and Mrs. Em
ma Dorr were Norfolk visitors on
Sunday. Mrs McClure and Mrs.
Dorr visited Ed Stewart at Our
Lady of Lourdes hospital and the
group called on relatives and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Stevens, of
Oakland, were calling on rela
tives at Page Sunday forenoon.
Jimmie Lamason went to Lin
coln Saturday, where he plans to
visit for several days with his
grandfather, Leslie Lamason, and
other relatives.
Mrs. Evelyn Gray left Satur
day afternoon for Valentine
where she will visit for a few
days at the home of her son, Du
ane Gray, and family.
The Contract Bridge club met
Thursday evening with Mrs. Al
ton Braddock, Mrs Melvin Roach
was high score winner. Mrs. Mel
vin Smith received the all-cut;
Mrs. C. E. Walker the traveling
prize.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Copes spent
from Monday until Wednesday,
May 12 to 14, visiting their grand
children, Mr. and Mrs- Dick
Woods, and family at Polk
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snyder
went to Coleridge Friday where
they visited Mrs. Snyder’s broth
er, Lloyd Henry, and wife. They
helped Mr. Henry celebrate his
birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Harold Kelly was hostess
to the Bid or Bye bridge club on
Wednesday afternoon, May 14.
Mrs. Melvin Carson was a visitor.
Mrs. Charles Russell held high
score and Mrs Herbert Stein
berg received the traveling prize.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Park and
son, Ronnie, and Mrs. B. H. Ste- I
vens took Miss Lorna Stevens
and Miss Joyce Clasey to Lincoln
Sunday where they have employ- I
ment at the state capitol building. I
The* Royal Neighbors Kensing- !
ton met Wednesday afternoon,
May 14, with Mrs. Jesse Kelly
with 10 mambers present. Mrs.
Elsie Cork was a guest Mrs. Hes
ter Edmisten and Mrs William
Buxton had charge of the enter
tainmcut. A no-host lunch was
served
Mrs. Gailord Albright and
daughter, Mrs. Robert Stevens, of
O’Neill, Mrs. Neven Ickes, sr., and
Mrs. George Park were Norfolk
visitors Friday. While there they
called on Ed Stewart at Our Lady
of Lourdes hospital. Mrs. Park
remained to visit her sister, Mre.
Cora West.
Mr. and Mrs- Harry Harper,
Mr. and (Mrs. Allen Haynes and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beelaert and
family were dinner and supper
guests Sunday of Mrs. Alionz
Beelaert at Ewing.
Lorna Stevens and Joyce Cla
sey were Friday night guests at
the home of Diana Fussletman.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harper
and Mr. and Mrs M. V Hall were
supper guests Saturday of Mr.
and Mrs Allen Haynes.
I Lois Miller, Joyce Clasey and
• Lorna Stevens were Wednesday
night, May 14, guests at the nome
of Ruth Parks.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Asher and
son, of Fremont, motored to Nor- ;
folk Sunday where they visited
with Mr. and Mrs. George Park
and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stewart,
Sherry and Mickie, who were at
Norfolk where Mr. Stewart is a
patient in Our Lady of Lourdes
hospital. Mrs. Parks is the mother
and Mrs. Stewart the sister of Mr.
Asher
Mrs. Leon Vesley and daugh
ter, of Monowi, spent Sunday af
ternoon visiting at the home of
her brother, Paul Singleton, and
family and her grandmother, Mrs.
Mae Lichty, who is a house guest
at the home.
The following members of the
Help U club motored to O’Neill
Wednesday evening, May 14,
where they had dinner at the
Town House: Mesdames Hester
Edmisten, William Buxton, Vin
cent Jackson, Clarence Finch,
Ethel Waring, Sidney Faulhaber,
Francis Boelter, Kenneth War
ing, Clair Schroth, Clara King,
Paul McBride, Otto Matschullat,
Ed Sukup, Ora Caskey, Ralph
Brookhouser and Leroy Cunning
ham.
The American Legion auxiliary
met Friday night at the Legion
hall. President Evelyn Gray con
ducted the business meeting. Nine
members were present. For en
tertainment the group sang the
national anthem and “When You
Wear a Poppy.” Mrs. R D. Copes
gave a reading concerning the
veterans in the hospital making
poppies. Mrs. Ray Snell present
ed a piano reading, “Voice of the
Poppies.” Saturday, May 17, was |
poppy day in Page. The name Er- j
nest Heninger, was on the pop
pies this year. Members are to
meet at the home of Mrs. R. D.
Copes Monday evening to make
poppy wreaths for memorial day.
A lunch of cookies and coffee was
served.
The Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service met Thursday at the
Methodist church basement for at\
all-day session. Mrs. Edgar Stauf
fer gave a review of seven chap
ters of the “Book of Acts” in the
forenoon. A sack lunch was
served at noon. The regular
meeting was held during the af
ternoon. Mrs. Raymond Weiss
led the devotions and Mrs. Em
ma Dorr gave the lesson. The
afternoon was spent quilting and
with other needlework. Host
esses were Mesdarmes Will Neu
bauer, Soren Sorensen, jr., Rob
ert Gray and Evelyn Gray.
Mr and Mrs. Roy Stewart took
their niece, Miss Norma Cullen,
to Mead Friday where she will
be employed. Mr. and Mrs. Stew
art were accompanied to Fremont
by Roy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Stewart, who were met
there by another son, Ivan Stew
art, of Ralston, where they went
for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Stewart visited at the Dale
Asher home at Fremont. Sunday
they were guests at the Ivan
Stewart home at Ralston The
first of this week they will go to
Burwell to visit at the home of
Mr- and Mrs. Earl Hurst.
Returns from Denver—
Mrs. Victor Halva, who has
been visiting her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Elartl, and little granddaughter,
Patricia Anna, in Denver, Colo.,
I came to Omaha by train and her
! son, Fred, brought her to her
home in O’Neill Saturday.
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Young Nebraskans Informally Decide to
Defer Penny Gas Tax on Next Ballot
By MELVIN PAUL, Special Correspondent
LINCOLN—Whether Nebraska
is to have more revenue for its
highways is apparently up to the
legislature now
That became evident this week
with the announcement b y
Charles Thone, of Lincoln, chair
man of the Young Republicans of
Nebraska, that officials of his
group and of the Young Demo
crats and Nebraska Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, after a series of
informal meetings, had decided
to defer action on a proposal to
place a one-cent a gallon gas tax
increase on the general election
ballot.
The plan by the coalition of
voung Nebraskans, exclusively
reported h"re several weeks ago,
thus left voters of the state with
out a direct voice in the matter
of highway revenue.
The publishers of the Sidney
Telegraph dropped a similar
plan sometime ago, explaining,
“We're in the newspaper busi
ness, not politics." The news
paper became interested in the
problem atfer five persons were
killed in an accident blamed on
a chuckhole in the road near
Lodgepole.
"We have not dropped our in
terest in Nebraska highways,”
Thone told capitol newsmen,
"This is a responsibility of us
younger people.” The road prob
lem will continue to grow with
us. It was agreed among the of
ficials of these three organizations
that the legislature will take some
action in the matter.
‘The young people of this state
realize that to build roads re
quires money—more money than
is now available to the state
highway department. If the 1953
legislature does nothing to make
this money available, we will
consider a petition campaign in
1953.”
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Confident —
The president of the Nebraska
School Land Lessees association,
Charles D. Green, of Sidney, is
confident he will obtain some 45,
000 signers to his petition to place
before the general election voters
his proposed amendment to the
Nebraska constitution.
This amendment would take
, the administration Qf Nebraska’s
school lands from the state and
hand it to the counties. The back
bone of the proposal is that the
cOtmties ip wnich the school
lands arc located shall receive the
income from the lands; the coun
ties which have sold their lands
shall get the income from the
trust fund into which the pro
ceeds of the sales went.
Green acknowledged that he
has already circulated his peti
tion among thousands of signer^
altho he could not legally do this
until last week when he filed an
affidavit with the secretary of
I state. He told reporters the peti
tions would be circulated in
some areas.
Opinion here at the statehouse
is that Green will probably get
the issue on the ballot but that
this will be followed by a ding
dong battle between the school
land counties in the west, which
would benefit from the proposal
and the populous counties in the
east, which have most of the
school children.
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Taxes —
The Nebraska citizens council, j
formed to educate taxpayers on j
how much they’re paying and j
what they’re getting for it, had
| some eye-opening news this week. I
Robert M. Armstrong, of Qma- j
ha, former state tax commission
er, told a Lincoln meeting that
percentage wise, taxes in Nebras- |
ka have increased twice as much
as the state’s income during the
past ten years
“In Nebraska,” he said, “froim '
1940 to 1951, taxes have increased
470 per cent. Up to 1950—based
on the latest available figures—
income has increased only 244
percent.”
“In other words, taxes have in
creased twice as much in the last
ten years. In 1951, Nebraska paid
in direct taxes—not including
hidden taxes or indirect taxes—
for federal, state and local gov
ernment, over $508 million. This
was 26 percent of our income.”
Armstrong cited figures show
ing that federal taxes had in
creased from $20.7 million in 1940
to $362.5 million last year. He
said state taxes have gone from
$28.6 million to $52.5 million and
local taxes have increased from
$39.8 million to $93.3 million.
Thus total taxes in the state went
from $98.1 million ten years ago
to $508.1 million last year.
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Headache —
The county clerks of Nebras
ka, barely recovered ,from the
headache of tabulating one of the
longest primary election ballots
in the state’s history, were hold
ing their throbbing temples again
this week
The reason: the state convas
sing board has asked them to re
submit complete and accurate fig
ures on the vote in both repub
lican and democratic balloting
for president and vice-president.
The board acted after the Lin
coln Journal revealed that 18
counties submitted reports show
ing either Gen. Dwight D- Eisen
hower or Sen. Robert A. Taft, or
both, receiving no votes in the
GOP presidential popularity con
test iBj
Gov. Val Peterson urged he leg
islature to change the law next
year to remedy the situation and
State Auditor Ray C. Johnson
assured him that the county
clerks would see that pressure is
applied to the lawmakers to
aixend the law.
Slap —
State Sen. Glenn Cramer, of
Albion, one of the hardest-work
ing members of the legislature,
took a slap at some rural Ne
braskans here last week.
Senator Cramer, a former
teacher and onetime newspaper
editor, is chairman both of the
legislature’s education committee
and of the legislative council
committee studying educational
problems.
He told the Nebraska council
for better education that rural
people just aren’t taking enough
•interest in educational studies.
He said reports to his committee
indicate that a majority of high
school principals consider stu
dents handicapped when they at
tend city high schools
Teachers who gain certification
immediately after high school are
considered to be unable to give
equal educational opportunities,
he said.
Altar Boys Have Outing—
Rev. Kenneth Carl, of St. Pat-*1
rick’s Catholic church, entertain
ed a large group of altar boys at
an all-day outing and picnic on
Tuesday. The group left O’Neill
in a truck after the 8 o'clock
mass for the Ed Determan farm
north of Emmet.
Dr. Jackman Talks
to Page Graduates
PAGE—The Page high school
baccalaureate service was held on
Sunday, May 11. The sertmon was
delivered by Rev. C. E. Wilcox,
Methodist church pastor. His
theme was “The Keys to the
Kingdom of Heaven.” The invo
cation and benediction were giv
en by Rev. George Francis.
Hymns sung were: “Jesus,
Savior of My Soul,” “Bless This
House,” “Were You There,” and
“I Need Thee Every Hour.”
The commencement exercises
were held Tuesday, May 13. The
address was given by Dr. Everett
E. Jackman. His topic was, “What
is Your Name?”
The presentation o f eighth
grade diplomas was made by
Walt Christoit. Supt. Lamason
presented the scholarships and
awards.
Scholarships were awarded to:
Diana June Fusselman, valedic
torian; church school scholarship:
Lorna Mae Stevens, salutatorian,
normal school scholarship; Ver
non L. Dorr, Norfolk Jr. college.
Lorna Mae Stevens, regents to
University of Nebraska, Diana
June Fusselman, alternate for re
gents to University of Nebraska.
Members of the eighth grade
class are: Charles F. Singelton,
Hugh Troshynski, Dean A. Tay
lor, Brenda F. Beelaert, Bette J.
French, Lloyd A. Fusselman, Vel
don G. Gray, Helen J. Finch,
Larry J. Roach.
Members of the senior class are
Diana Fusselman, Lorna Stevens,
Joyce Classey, Roxana Sifmmons,
Mary Halstead, Judith Trow
bridge, Maxine Park, Norma Cul
len, Nancy Heiss, Virgil Parks,
Jerry Summers, Richard Chris
ton, Wilson Lamason, William
Zempel, Robert Sorenson and
Vernon Dorr.
Arlene Beckwith
an Omaha Bride
EMMET — Mr. and Mrs. Ver
non Beckwith and Mrs. Guy
Beckwith and Darrell attended
the weddine of their daughter
and sister, Miss Arlene Beck
with, to Estel Cary at a 2 p.m.
ceremony Saturday at the Han
son Park Methodist church at
Omaha.
The bride appeared in a white
ballerina length gown of net
over taffeta and carried a bou
quet of yellow roses. Mrs. Max
Davis, a friend of the bride,
served as maid-of-honor, and
was gowned in a pink taffeta
ballerina length dress and car
ried a bouquet of red roses. Max
Davis served as bestman for the
bridegroom and both wore white
carnation boutonnieres.
A 5 p.m. dinner was served at
the Birchwood club for imme
diate relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Cary will reside
in an apartment at 118 South
25th street, Omaha.
Mrs. Eby Hostess—
Mrs. E. J. Eby entertained the
RFF club Wednesday afternoon
at her home Mrs. John Quig gave
a book review. Refreshments
were served by the hostess.
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