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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1952)
ErontTEr Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Street CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday Entered the postoffice at O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as sec end-class 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. Terms 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. Prairieland Talk . . . Matron Caring for 3 Aged Men Told to Install $500 Fire Alarm By ROMAINE SAUNDERS A LINCOLN — Official or as sumed official regulations work a hardship on the citizens, most ly ladies, who are trying to do something for the aged and dependent segment of so ciety. A certain official over sight of the places that have come into the picture in recent years may be neces sary but the tendency is where such au thority is either assumed or au thorized to be unreasonable. One place of which I learn where the matron has but three aged men to look after is re quired to install a fire alarm at a cost of $500 and do certain other things at heavy cost be fore she can have a license as an operator of a nursing home. These fire alarms are installed in such places in other states at a profit for $200. High rents for houses added to the cost of li cense requirements tends to dis courage our capable women from entering a much needed field of service for the aged who have no other hope in life. If the situation is a matter of state regulation perhaps Sen. Frank Nelson can work out a corrective measure if he returns again 10 the legislative session. • • • The American Bible society reports the largest volume of scripture distribution, foreign and at home, for the year 1951 in the history of the society, more than 16 million Bibles or portions of the scriptures sent out from the society headquar ters last year. • * • A family prayer and world peace gathering in Los Ange les, Calif., sponsored by prel ates, is reported to have had a response of 80 thousand men and women. Probably there is no other community quite so much in need of what can be done on your knees. • * • Charley W. Petersen is right in contending you can’t levy a school tax unless you have school. Sen. Frank Nelson of O’Neill was righfc in opposing the passage of the blanket tax measure and the supreme court says so, too. I don’t know of a man in Holt county who has made any more honest return through the years of his prop erty holdings for assessment than Mr. Petersen. * A * Lincoln sleepers were awak ened before dawn by the growl of distant thunder. After weeks of wilting heat and southern winds suggestive of the hot blasts in July, 1894, the roll of thunder was sweet music to awakened sleepers and as cool ing rain began to fall naked bodies began to stir in search of something for covering. It was no gully-washer that sprinkled the capital city but the fraction of moisture, cool winds and ov ercast sky brought cheer to a hundred thousand city dwellers, revived vegetation, gave pota toes a new lease On life and punched up the prospects for a wheat crop out on the farm lands surrounding the city. It was noted in this department a year ago when there was an ex cess of bellyaching about the wet conditions that maybe this year tongues would hang out for water. The present shower was wholly inadequate to soak up the parched earth, but having begun more may come. • * • Day-by-day there is seen each new day the genus homo on the go chasing after another dollar. About the happiest gent I ever met has as his material posses sions a safety razor, a battered suit case, the clothes he wears and a Bible. It was said by One that our lives consist not in the abundance of things we possess With neither property nor taxes to worry him there rests upon the hoar head of that old timer 8 sort of halo that softens the gloom of life’s lengthening shad ows and crowns his 87 years with the golden glow of ap proaching sunset. Another old timer encountered from time to time is horribly boring and you walk on as soon as decency will permit. He will talk you into a nervous rage with his detailed accounts of his youthful days down on the farm that have no more interest for the one being so bored than a frog’s croaking. * • • The defeat of a bond propo sition by Lincoln voters by a vote of 8-3 is an expression of how people are feeling over the tax burden. • * • Getting off such nonsense as “rapacious and predatory inter ests,” John L. Lewis, the shaggy old miners’ union boss, offers steel mills strikers $10,000,000 of his union’s funds to aid in their support while out on strike. Some of the most sinister figures in America today have got in control of labor organizations. Demands of certain union groups are largely responsible for the high cost of living. Antitrust laws bear down On corporations while such organizations as Lew is represents feel they are above the laws of God and man. If the miners have 10 million dollars to hand out to help paralyze the steel industry they are faring a lot better than many struggling business concerns all over America. Lewis is particularly bitter about the Taft - Hartley law which gives union and non union labor an even break, and if invoked by one in the White House with the courage of a Teddy Roosevelt or a Grover Cleveland labor troubles would be curtailed- Some years ago members of the International Typographical union, affiliated with the well-managed Ameri can Federation of Labor, con tributed to the support of strik ing printers in Chicago until they were tired of it, withdrew such support and the Chicago printers had to root hog or die. They went to work. • • * Can’t blame him for denying it, seeing h|is official job was at stake. The incident reported from Milwaukee involving a Nebraska M.D. in a police action and fine for setting the hotel bed on fire by way of the ciga rette route may have given even free and easy Milwaukee a shock and wholely and scandal ously misrepresented our fine group of prairieland doctors. • * * June 28, 1904, the date set for land office officials to accept en tries for the enlarged homestead in Holt and other counties with extensive tracts of grazing lands, there were lined up to file on claims at the O’Neill govern ment land office between 600 and 700 men and a sprinkling of women to whom a homestead of 640 acres looked good. For two weeks before the day that such homestead applications could be received strangers were drifting into town, having spot ted a section of land mostly out in the sandhills they wanted to homestead. Congressman M. P. Kinkaid of O’Neill had secured the passage of the enlarged homestead law for his district and homesteaders then became known as Kinkaiders. Among O’Neill people who secured such homesteads were Jake Pfund, Jim Harnish, Guy Green and Phil Ziemer. * * • Along this time of year school boards make the levies and other provisions for the next school year. At one time the Minneola district failed to accomplish this at the annual meeting because of a tie vote. Then County Superintendent Slaymaker brought mandamus suit in district court to com pell the board to act to the end that school for the coming year would be provided for. * • • Not that it concerns prairie land, but first resorts and dude ranches up in the Colorado Rockies crowded out the pictur esque prospectors, put to flight the bald eagle, started the sil vertips waddling down the mountains and frightened away the antlered monarchs of the waste- Now on the site of a once hopeful miner’s cabin there is a broom factory, the promot ers of which report the sale of $125,000 worth of brooms in a year. Is nothing to be left invio late, since here comes the house hold broom to sweep away the charm of wooded slopes and snow-crowned peaks? “The plain truth is that Amer icans, as a people, have never learned to love the land to regard it as an enduring resource. They have seen it only as a field for exploitation and a source of im mediate financial return.” — Dr. H. H. Bennett, chief of U.S. soil conservation service. Concession stand (above) did a 180-degree turn when O'Neill's new drive-in theater was visited by a small twister on Si<nday evening, June 15.—The Frontier Photo. Scene of debris behind the screen. Mrs. Ed Ludeman, O'Neill spectator, views piece of 2x6 kindling wood. The owner, R. V. Fletcher, says the theater will reopen on Thursday, June 2b.— The Frontier Photo. ROCK FALLS NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Joe Curran and family, of Minneapolis, Minn., ar rived Friday evening, June 13, to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Curran. Mrs. Albert Sterns and Doris attended the Bowden-McKenny wedding in ONeill Monday morn ing, June 16. Guests at James Curran’s Sun day, June 15, for dinner were: Mr. and Mrs. Francis Curan and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs Dale Curran and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cur ran and family and George Cur ran. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sterns and family were supper and eve ning guests at the Albert Sterns home Sunday, June 15. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Waegli and Leroy were guests at the James Curran home Wednesday evening June 11. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Margritz and family were dinner and supper guests at Bernard Blackmore’s near Amelia Sunday, June 15. They attended the wedding and reception of Bob Blackmore and Phyllis Watson. Mrs. Leona Hynes and Oswald Drueke called at the James Cur ran home Sunday, June 15. Mrs. Henry Vequist visited Or ville Morrow’s Saturday, June 14. Betty and Judy came home with her to stay until Tuesday mom I ing, June 17. Guests at James Curran’s Fri day evening, June 13, for supper were Mr. and Mrs. Francis Cur ran and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Curran and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Curran and family and Delia Ernst. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Vequist and family attended a family dinner at Mrs. Celia Grutsch’s Sunday, Also present were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Grutsch and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Grutsch and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Pongratz and family, Mr. and Mrs. James McNulty and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lansworth and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brown and family visited at Oswald Drueke’s Friday evening, June 13. Mr. and Mrs. Don Hynes at tended a father’s day dinner at Kenneth Young’s in Ravenna. They were on their way to Yel lowstone national park and other points in the West. Wesley Tay lor’s are doing their chores. Some of the chickens are going into the freezers in this neighbor hood. Mrs. Don Hynes, Mrs. Wes ley Taylor and Mrs. Henry Ve quist dressed some for Mrs. Lyle Vequist Thursday afternoon and Mr. and Mrs. Don Hynes and Mrs. Lyle Vequist dressed some for Mrs. Hynes Friday. Mrs. Anna Brown and Mrs. Albert Widtfeldt dresed a bunch Friday afternoon, June 13. Tommy Vequist has been spending considerable time at liis grandparents recently. Visitors at the Gus Karel home Wednesday, June 11, were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morrison from Boulder, Colo. Dinner guests at Bill Claussens Sunday, June 15, were Mr. and Mrs. Gus Karel and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Waegli and Leroy Harris. Guests at Floyd Johnson’s Sunday, June 15, for supper and the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rakes and family and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brown and fam ily Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Lange and family were guests at Bill Claus sens Wednesday evening, June 11. Mr. and Mrs. John Schultz, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Vequist and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Taylor at tended the dance at Bernard Pongratz’s Sunday evening, June 15. Supper guests at Bill Claussens Sunday, June 15, were Mr. and Mrs. Don Drickey and family and Charles Drickey of Bristow. Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Ernest and family and Mrs. Fannie Er nst were guests of Louis Vitt’s for dinner and the day Sunday, June 15. Regina and Marvelle Vitt came home with them to stay until Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl McClanahan were guests at Bill Claussen’s Sunday evening, June 15. The soil is the foundation of the farm family’s living. Kow well it yields will depend on how well you treat it. LEGAL NOTICE (First pub. June 26, 1952) NOTICE WHEREAS, Dale Leo Hines, Convicted in Holt County, on the 28th day of March, 1951, of the crime of Burglary, has made application to the Board of Par dons for a Commutation & Pa role, and the Board of Pardons, pursuant to law have set the hour of 9:00 A M. on the 24th day of July, 1952, for hearing on said application, all persons interested are hereby notified that they may appear at the State Penitentiary, at Lincoln, Nebraska, on said day and hour and show cause, if any there be, why said application should, or should not be granted. JAMES S. PITTENGER Secretary, Board of Pardons. RICHARD C. MEISSNER Chief State Probation Officer. (NEBRASKA BOARD OF PAR DONS SEAL) 8-9c First pub. June 19, 1952 William W. Griffin, Atty. NOTICE FOR PETITION FOR ADMINISTRATION Estate No. 3841 In the County Court of Kolt County, Nebraska, June 16, 1952. In the Matter of the Estate of JENNIE HOLLOWAY, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested in said estate that a petition has been filed in said Court for the appointment of NORA EVELYN PUGH as Ad ministratrix of said estate, and will be heard July 10th, 1952 at 10 o’clock A. M., at the County Court Room in O’Neill, Nebraska. LOUIS W. REIMER, County Judge. (County Court Seal) 7-9c (First pub. June 19, 1952) NOTICE Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the Holt County Board of Super visors of Holt County, Nebraska, for the furnishing of all labor and material for the construction and repair of all wood, steel and concrete bridges and culverts in said County of Holt for the ludget year 1952 - 1953, as necessity may require and at the direction of the County Board of Supervisors. Sealed bids must be submitted n bidding blanks furnished by the Department of Roads & Irrigation, State of Nebraska, and must be accompanied by a certified check in the amount of $1000.00, said check to be on a solvent Bank in Holt County, Nebraska, as a guarantee. Sealed bids as requested above will be received up to 11 o’clock A- M. on the 15th day of July, 1952, at the Office of the County Clerk, at O’Neill, Nebraska, and will be opened by the Board of Supervisors at that time. The Board of Supervisors re serve the right to accept or re ject any or all bids. Done by order of the Board of Supervisors of Holt County. Nebraska, this 28th day of May, 1952. RUTH HOFFMAN County Clerk 7-10c State Capitol News ... Special Legislative Session May Be Called to Face Nebraska’s Highway Crisis 'i LINCOLN — Highways moved back into the headlines this week after a Sunday meeting of news paper editors at Kearney called to urge Gov. Val Peterson to summon a special session of the legislature to deal with the grow ing problem. Peterson explained that he was reluctant to call the lawmakers to Lincoln because in their last regular session they voted down, 24-17, an attempt by Sen. Otto Prohs of Gering to reenact the penny-a-gallon gas tax increase. The governor went on to say he could understand the legisla tors’ action; they had what sound ed like a clear mandate from the people who in the fall of 1950 knocked out the gas tax boost ap proved by the ’49 legislature. Peterson did note that the vote was narrow—about 12,000 votes out of 40,000—and that the language of the proposition was confusing, "but expect that helped one side as much as the other." (The 1951 legislature changed the referendum law to avoid such “confusion” in future elections.) The governor laid before the editors a yardstick for measuring a problem to determine whether a special session call is warranted; First, there should be a wide spread recognition that a real problem exists and second, there must be a solution upon which there is pretty general agreement. Peterson was asked whether he would consider including the cre ation of a highway commission in a special call since opponents of the revenue laws have said they will not agree to “pouring money down the same old rathole” and won’t give up the fight until a commission runs the state high way department. “I will consider anything that would forward the best inter ests of Nebraska, even though that may not agree with my per sonal thinking.” The governor has often said he would not op pose a highway commision bill. The editors moved to appoint a comlmdttee which would con sider the advisability of urging a special session of the legislature. * * * Who's Who — Since the special session talk ha come up, this reporter has had several inquiries as to the voting records of the various legislators on the bill to boost the gas tax. The measure was LB 122 and Sen. O. H. Person of Wahoo moved to kill it. It was on this (motion that the proposal felL Here’s the vote on Person’s mo tion. A vote for the motion was a vote to kill the bill: For—Beaver, Hill, Kotouc, Lie bers, McKnight, Person, Shalla, Vogel, Carmody, Hoyt, Kreutz, Lillibridge, Marvel, Peterson, Syas, Wellensiek, Carson, Klaver, Larkin, Lingren, Moulton, Pizer, Tvrdik and Williams. Against—T. Adams, Burney, Diers, Lee, Metzer, Shultz, Brid enbaugh, Cole, Duis, Lusienski, Nelson, Wilson, Brown, Cramer, Hern, McNutt and Prohs. Senators John Adams and Ray Babcock did not vote. • * • Tough — Governor Peterson said last week he thinks the board of con trol has been too tough on Ne braska assistance recipients by denying them payment of their medical expenses while they are out of the state. The board’s chairman Mrs. Mary Prince, said it was felt that if recipients could afford to go traveling, they could afford to foot their own medical bills. This, Peterson said, is “unreal istic and unduly harsh” and he asked the board to see if the pol icy couldn’t be softened. Then the governor opened up on administration of the assist ance program at the county level and said that county com missioners are in the best posi tion to know whether ineligibles are on the relief rolls and should toss them out. “If these people are not taken of the rolls,” he said, “It’s simply because of political reasons.” The governor’s remarks are similar to those of Sen. W. J. Wil liams of Kearney who drew the wrath of several counties when he said the aid program “stinks at the county level.” Later Wil liams said he had intended his remark to be off the record. Going Up — Still on the subject of assist ance, payments last month av eraged $52.48, according to fig ures on file in the office of State Aid Director Neil C. Vandemoer. The average is up three cents from April and up 55 cents from a year ago. The number of recip ients, however, is down some 1, 300 since last year. There were 21,326 persons receiving aid last month. Total old age payments amounted to about $1,120,000 last month compared to $1,181,000 a year ago. Aid to dependent children last month amounted to $258,000 for 6,854 children, averaging $93.96 per family. This form of assist ance amounted to $304,288 in. May, 1951, for 8,202 children, an average of $89.03 per family. Aid to blind amounted to $46, 416 last month or $62.22 per case for 746 persons. A year ago, it was $44,807 for 729 persons, or an av erage of $61.46. O'NEILL LOCALS Miss Kathy Rubeck is spending the week in' Chambers at the John Honeywell home. Miss Barbara Muff arrived in O’Neill Sunday fom Washington, D.C., where she is employed in the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion and plans to spend a three weeks vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Muff and family. DR. H. D. GILDERSLEEVE, OPTOMETRIST Permanent Offices In Hagenslck Bldg. O’NEILL, NEBR. Phone 167 Eyes Examined . Glasses Fitted Office Hours: 9-5 Mon. thru Sat. '. ~~~ -.~ --A CATTLE SALE Every Tuesday Starting at 12:30 P.M, “Your consignments solicited” Sell Them Where They Have The Buyers Atkinson Livestock Market Atkinson, Nebraska Phone 5141 DR. H. L. BENNETT VETERINARIAN Phones 316 and 304 — O'NEILL — For The Rest of Your Life-Time on this pleasant job, you will have top income and your de sired living standard, if you but follow our “Up-To-Min ute” free sales training and free leads. Man or woman, ages 25 to 50, for regional sales director, only one for this area. We give either advance against commissions, or salary up to $400.00 per month, to one selected. Write at once stating “Why I am the one”— to: L. H. Engstrom President, Nebraska National Life Insurance Company 501 So. 12th Si., Lincoln, Nebr. 6-8c IN NEBRASKA . • ■ i @ O ' . ftm'r ■" - / * LIGHT 0 FROSTY dry SMOOTH $K THE DIFFERENCE- TASTE THE DIFFERENCE •TORZ BBSWiMO COMPANY. OMAHA. NEBRASKA JOHN R. GALLAGHER Attorney - al - Law First National Bank Bldg. 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