Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1952)
Prairieland Talk . . . AdlaVs Divorce a Handicap? By ROMAINE SAUNDERS LINCOLN—They say it was Incompatibility or some such constitutional barrier. At that it was their own affair—until. Now that he is be fore the sovereign citizens of America as a candi date for the highest office with in the gift of the people there will probably be enough said about the Illinois governor, now up for president, having a di vorced wife. It appeals to a lot of homemakers as sheer non sense to discover that thing with which divorces are soft pedaled to the public, a discovery after 20 years together that should have been made during court ship. _ Stevenson has had that „ . handicap as he waves the dem oc**atic banner at the head of un ®r* the procession, but to what ex tent it will have a bearing on the counting of votes in this day of loose thinking in the matter of broken homes remains to be seen. Party supporters always claim victory ior their man before the votes are in. Joe Cowperth waite, one of O’Neill’s few goldbug democrats, when the news came that Alton B. Parker of New York was nominated by the democrats to oppose Theodore Roosevelt, with an air of finality, said, “He will be elected,” knowing as he said it that Parker didn’t have a Chinaman’s chance. Does Gov. Adlai Stevenson have a better chance at it. Anyway, the country has got away from the eastern states for national leadership. In the time of Mr Parker there were three candidates from New York, one from Pennsylvania, one from Indiana and one from Georgia. Canopying peaceful prairieland, the blue of August skies will hover over a notable gathering to assemble in the metropolis of Holt county. Here come the newspaper guys from farflung grass lands for a day’s lovefeast. I wonder what the old boys who mastheaded the fighting week lies of another generation would'have thought of such a conclave. Imagine Doc Mathews embrac ing John McDonough, Jim Riggs smiling benignly on Charley McHugh, George McArthur hobnob bing with Jud Wood, Clyde King taking the ink stained hand of Ham Kautzman or Del Aiken con niving with Sam Eves. But even the bloodiest war must spend its last crimson drops. And now the press breathes sweet peace. Is this to be an occasion to pass the cigars, talk shop and have a big prairieland feed, or something that maybe the FBI should look into, not to mention the justice department stepping in with the view of invok ing the Sherman act? Whatever weighty matters may be the cause of drawing the newshounds together they are assured of a cordial reception and the best Cal, Hap and Fay can extract out of the abundance with which O’Neill is always pro vided. And no doubt it would be worth a trip to O’Neill to see all the fellows. ¥ * V ^ Time writes no wrinkles on the azure brow of prairieland skies. But it wipes out generation after generation. Today we strut about and do our stuff, tomorrow we join that innumerable host from whose borne no traveler returns. Fifty years ago in July two men, Art Mullen and John Maher, went to Kearney as delegates from Holt county to the fusion congressional convention. In aJter years Mr. Mullen was the democratic boss in Nebraska and John Maher was over in Europe hobnobbing with the deposed king of Spain. They, too, have gone the way of all hu manity, other notables strut across the stage. I have known something of the ambitions of men, have felt its urge, its thrill and out of the wealth of the bygone I know of nothing better than the prayer of King David, “So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wis dom.” « * * • After a hot restless night you can't deny a fellow the privilege of taking to his couch next day when skies are overcast and cool winds fan the hot earth. That is, even though a com mon bloke, he doesn't have to rush off to a job with lunch kit in hand in order to keep the grub supply up to somewhere near normal. • The professor emeritus from a medical col lege, the prof of physiology from some other re vered institution, the alleged experts on diet, are setting at naught the accumulated wisdom of the common run of folks in the matter of sum mer diets and pronounce with the finality of the allwise that what goes down the neck has noth ing to do with resistance to cold or heat. I know a few fellows who work out under the glare of midsummer sun and incidentally know some thing about diet, not from lab tests but from daily tryouts. There is a conviction that comes from experience that all the fine spun scientific bunk cannot gainsay. Eat a midday meal of sliced tomato, uncooked fruit and bread and the hot afternoon sun will be merciful, when, if you have taken on a load of heavy hot stuff, you would wilt under that burning sun. So a gent who thus has experimented informs me. I am no expert in such matters but am somewhat inclined in this respect to take the word of the fellow who works out in the hot sun rather than the one loaded with university degrees who spends the hot sum mer days in an air conditioned room poking into scientific mysteries. * * * Julius Caesar, “the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times,” way dry. The “noblest” in our day, at home and abroad, are plenty wet. . . . The primitive has its appeal. Give the kids a tent or anything suggesting camp life, and you touch the basic instinct of the race. . . The de posed Pharaoh of Egypt takes refuge in Europe fortified with 40 cases of whiskey. . . From the status of a penniless actor, Shakespeare became one of England’s largest land owners. . . A 6 year-old neighbor girl was doing “cartwheels” and broke her left arm. . . So long as men have wits to read, Ben Jonson said, and the ladies’ interests in their neighbors continues, The Frontier will be published. . . As one Southern patriot has said, we have a surplus of national leaders but the fellows of good will in all the little towns and rural communities the country over are of great er importance to the general welfare than the popular idol of the moment. * • • • Murray, the CIO boss, makes it clear his bunch will be for Stevenson. Is this an asset or a dead weight? . . Judge Quigley up at Valentine says he has had enough of a thankless political job, so another old guard makes way for the young novices who step into the ring to get their eye teeth cut. . . A 4-year-old child is reported dying of old age in a hospital where the little one has been most of her life, never having known the joys of childhood. . . The recent quakes in California are reported to have been the most destructive since San Francisco was about wiped out in 1906. . . Citizens of York re sent the action of the state liquor commission in granting a license to an applicant who had been denied such by the York city authorities. * * * * A friend writing of bygone days in O'Neill recalls Felix Sullivan, whose childish happy round face and friendly smile are a pleasant memory. On my visits up there Felix is us ually met with, one of the several native sons who sticks around. And it gives the old timer a lift to run into a warm handshake with a guy who came out of the Kid Wade and Doc Mid dleton days. The bakery guy's truck slops out in front, calling to mind the days I drove a bread wagon in O'Neill and the Sullivan house hold was supplied from the bread box on that wagon. • * * • To the neighborhood in which I abide there recently came a woman with her two young daughters to make their home. No, it is not a home; it is a holing-up place provided by public funds for the care of these three fellow creatures. Two miles away from this, our neighborhood, is the Nebraska state penitentiary. The husband and father who should head a happy home for this mother and her daughters is a prisoner in that institution. While posing as a respectable citizen and churchgoer his evil life planted a tree that bore thorns. He has gathered the thorns from the tree he planted; they have torn him and he bleeds. If Polio Comes . . . If Polio Comes to My Community I WILL REMEMBER TO Let my children continue to play and be with their usual companions. They have already been exposed to whatever polio virus may be in that group, and they may have developed immunity (protection against it). Teach my children to scrub thei|: iPmcLs be fore putting food into their mouths. Poi.'o virus may be carried into the body through thS mouth. ^ See that my children never use anybody else’s towels, wash cloths or dirty drinking glasses, dishes and tableware. Polio virus ?ould be carried from these things to other people. Follow my doctor’s advice about nose and throat operations, inoculations, or teeth extinc tions during the polio season. Be ever watchful for signs of polio: Head ache, fever, sore throat, upset stomach, tender ness and stiffness of the neck and back. Call my doctor at once and, in the meantime, put to bed and away from others any member of my family showing such symptoms. I WILL NOT Allow my children to mingle with strangers, especially in crowds, or go into homes outside their own circle. There are three different viruses that cause pi lio. My children’s group may be im mune to one of these. Strangers may carry an other polio virus to which they are not immune. Let my children become fatigued or chilled. Overtired or chilled bodies are less able to fight off polio. Take my children away from our community without good cause. Polio time is the time to stay at home and keep with everyday compan ions. , If Polio Strikes My Home I WILL Pave confidence in my doctor, knowing the earlie>* the care the better my child’s chances for complete recovery. I know that my child has a better than even chance to recover without paral V ysis. Call my local chapter of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis immediately for in formation or help. The telephone book or my health department will tell me how to reach the rhapter. Remembe - that whatever financial help my fimily needs\{or polio care will be given through \e chapter. \_ - \There is a.ways a way to develop more trade te merchan.k of O’Neill will cooperate on the ©f merchant'ising. \ \ i Senator Byrd’s Budget Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia has proposed that almost $9,000,000,000 be cut from President Truman’s $85,500,000,000 budget. The Virginia senator says such a cut will avoid “destruction of our currency and chaos.” Senator Byrd has each year, in the last sev eral, offered a Byrd budget, in which reductions were made in the administration budget. This year, he would eliminate economic aid to foreign countries abroad, cut military aid to foreign na tions slightly, trim military spending several bil lions, and whack domestic civilian expenditures by about $3,000,000,000. The Byrd budget totals $76,800,000,000. One of the ways Senator Byrd would trim federal expenses would be to eliminate 231,000 federal jobs, proposed by Mr. Truman. If Sena tor Byrd’s budget is adopted—which is unlikely— Bpending in the next fiscal year would be only some six or seven billion dollars more than esti mated income. And since estimated income has m the past turned out to be higher than the esti mates, Senator Byrd’s budget might put the U nited States on a pay-as-you-go basis, or some thing very close to it. Senator Byrd’s recommendations deserve the serious consideration of every American, and white they may not be adopted, because of dif fering views in congress, they offer a basis for analysis. The American taxpayer has seen many proposed cuts in the newspapers in the last few years but few cuts on this scale in the actual budget appropriations. He still hopes to see more cuts in .lhe actual appropriations, to balance the very popular proposed cuts he reads each year in the newspapers. .Slff F rontTer Editorial 8c B isiness Offices: 122 South Fourth St. CARROLL W STEWART, Editor and Publisher Established, in 1880—Published Each Thursday Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt county, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. This news paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Associa tion, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of ^irtmlations. Terifis of Subscription: In Nebraska $2.50 per yearx elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. All subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS WD—Frank J Fisher to Lorin C Keyes & wf 6-11-52 $10,009 Lots 3 & 4 Gilg’s Replat- O’Neill WD—Henry F Dyke to Walter Farewell 4-24-29 $34.65- Part of SWV4 Sec 20-26-12 QCD—Heirs of Walter Fare well to Bert Farewell 11-15-45 $1- Part of SWV4 sec 20-26-12 WD—Agnes Gaffney to Cecil McMillan & wf 7-52 $1- Part of Blk “D”- Lyons Add- Emmet WD — Genevieve Kopp to Genevieve - Katherine Almira & Betty Mae Kopp 11-14-51 $ 10 Lot 5 & West 20 ft lot 6- Blk 2 Westem Town Lot Co 1st Add Stuart When You & I Were Young... 2 Closings Leave Ewing Without Bank Fay C. Hill Will Be Receiver 50 Years Ago Jessie Newton of Atkinson was in OINeill transacting business . . . The music-loving public will be pleased to learn that Mrs. Wagner Thomas, soprano soloist, will appear at the opera house . . . Thomas Simonson was in town exhibiting a limb cut from an apple tree in his orchard. The limb was not much thicker than a lead pencil but contained 12 nice juicy apples. Mr. Simon son says the trees are bearing un usually heavy this year. 25 Years Ago Clarence Zimmerman has pur chased what is known as the Grady residence in the west part of town. . . The Ewing State bank and the Pioneer State bank of Ewing, which have been oper ated by the state guaranty fund commission for the past two years, were closed and will be in charge of Fay C. Hill, a member of the commission, as receiver. The action leaves Ewing without a bank. 10 Years Ago Gerald Langan, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Langan left for Sioux City to enlist in the ma rines. . . Mr. and Mrs. Pete Heri ford received a cablegram from their son, Pvt. Bennett Hertford, that he had arrived in Honolulu . . . Mr. and Mrs. Seth Noble went to Sioux City to attend the funeral of an aunt of Mr. Noble’s . . . Miss Ima Jean Calkins en tertained six girl friends at a 5 o’clock dinner at her home and a theater party in the evening, the occasion being Ima Jean’s 13th birthday anniversary. One Year Ao Cpl. Paul Hartigan of Page landed in Seattle Wash., after serving nine months of service in Korea. . . Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Tomlinson celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary. . . Mr. and Mrs. James W. Rooney are vaca tioning in Canada. Say Garter Snakes Are Very Prolific Plains garter snakes get quite large and are apparently very prolific. This was learned by “an on the scene” encounter by two game commission employees and a garter snake in the sandhills. Supervisor of Game Lloyd Vance and Warden Bill Ahem ran over a garter snake. They stopped to check the snake and found it measured 38 inches in length, about the known maxi mum length attained by a plains garter snake. The snake was cut open to get an idea of what it had eaten. Found in the stomach was a partly digested salamander. Fur ther dissection of the body cav ity released 116 young snakes about ready to be bom which is considerably more than the av erage. The plains garter snake, non poisonous, is one of the few snakes which gives birth to live young. Most snakes lay eggs. 'Behavior' Course Is Begun — The off-campus course, “Human Development and Behavior,” held the first meeting on Monday August 4, at 9 a.m. at the O’Neill public school, according to Miss Alice L. French, Holt county su perintendent of public instruction. Examination for entrance into the kindergarten grade for chil dren who are not 5 on or before October 15 will be given August 22, according to Miss French. State Capitcl News ... •. 19 Western Nebraska Counties Affected by Valuation Change LINCOLN—Nebraska’s county officials this week were totaling up your tax bill, based on a state levy of 6.98 mills, .39 mills higher than last year’s levy. This means taxpayers will pay $6.98 for each $1,000 their prop erty bears on the assessment rolls. The levy was set by the State board of equalization and will produce $21,552,958. The resolution adopted by the board shows the amount to be raised at $28,051,526. Estimated revenue to the general fund from such sources as the cigarette tax, liquor tax, head tax, etc., was set at $10,424,000. Applying the 3 percent ‘cushion’ required by law, this leaves $18,156,352 to be raised by the property tax for state general fund purposes. A 5.88 mill levy will produce this amount and the 1.1 mill in stitutional building levy added to it, produces the 6.98 mill levy. This isn’t the biggest levy the state has ever known—it was 13 mills in 1919— and wouldn’t have shown an increase over last year had a near-million dollars In op erating funds saved by Gov. Val Peterson’s 5 percent saving or der been allowed to apply against next year’s budget. But since the legislature drafts a budget for a two-year period, savings in the first year are not reflected in the second year’s levy. * * * Hearing— The levy was set by the board immediately alter it had ruled tnat increases ranging irom 10 to 50 percent on farm land valua tions be applied in 19 counties. The vote was 3-2 with Gover nor Peterson, Secretary of State James Pittenger and Tax Com missioner Philip Johnson out voting State Auditor Hay C. Johnson and State Treasurer Frank Heintze. Auditor Johnson objected on the basis that county assessors in the 19 counties would have to rework their books com pletely on short notice and Heint ze said he was against the plan because it did not completely solve (Nebraska’s tangled tax problems which should be given the attention of the legislature. The order brings counties where the average per-acre val uation is les than 50 percent of the 20-year sales prices in those counties, up to or slightly over 50 percent. Other counties range up to 82 percent of this figure. Johnson county representatives appeared at the hearing to ask that its valuation be cut but the board took no action on the request. Grant county was handed a 50 percent increase and its county attorney L. C. Hungerford pro tested because “land sales out in our county are primarily squeeze plays” between ranchers com peting for needed land. * * * Sidelights — The hearing had more than its ,share of sidelights* (jjovernor Peterson suggested that the 19 counties below the 50 percent fig ure should be raised to 50 per cent while those above be lowered to that figure. “That would be< real equalization,” he said. To which Auditor Ray Johnson said, “Yes and three-fourths of the other 74 counties would go broke” because they need the high valuations in order to sup port their county government costs because the state constitu tion places a limit of five mills on the levy. Peterson suggested that per haps the state should get out of the property tax field altogether, leaving it to the counties and find some other way—perhaps a sales or income tax—to pay the cost of state government. On one point almost everyone was in agreement: Nebraska’s tax picture is in a pretty hopeless mess. State law requires 100 per cent valuation of property, yet only a fraction of the classes of property, notably cars, are as sessed at anything like actual value. * * * Hogs - A special session of the Ne braska legislature will be sum moned if the federal government and other agriculture states agree to pay farmers for their losses caused by the epidemic of vesi cular exanthema among swine. Governor Peterson said he would ask the lawmakers to ap propriate $200,000 to be used for matching with federal funds to indemnify the farmers for their losses. The governor’s office setimated • . j it would take at least three weeks for action by the federal government and other states and that a final decision on summon ing the lawmakers would be made then. Meanwhile State Agriculture Director Clay Wright issued an order banning swine shows at any of the state’s 88 county fairs, the Nebraska state fair and the Ak-Sar-Ben show, because of the outbreak of the disease. * * * _ Tour — Governor Peterson is Colonel Peterson of the air force this week. He is on a two-week tour of active duty with the strategic air command and will examine air bases in the United Kingdom and North Africa. He made a similar tour last summer and visited with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in his SHAPE headquarters outside Paris. Be fore leaving for this year’s duty, Peterson met with the general, now the Republican presidential nominee, at Denver. * * * Democrats — A scrap for the national com mitteeman’s post vacated last week by Judge James C. Quigley was beginning to take form this week as Frank Morrison of Mc Cook and Edward Dosek of Lin coln announced they would cam paign for the job. Morrison is considered here to be a top-heavy of the “New Life” wing of the par ty and Dosek has been associated favorite since he has the support with the Old Guard, although he denies being a “Aiember of any clique or faction.” Officers will be named by the democrats at their biennial post primary convention in Grand Is land August 12. State Chairman William Meier of Minden has announced he will seek reelection against the an nounced candidacy of Francis Robinson of Ashland, the New Life entrant. Mrs. Grace Barmore of Lincoln, elected four years ago by anti Quigley forces, said she will also I be a candidate for reelection. Honor Infant Son — Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grubb of Chambers entertained Sunday in honor of their son, Donald, on his first birthday anniversary. Guests included Mr. and-Mrs. Ed Jones and son Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Gay Wintermote and daugh ter Carolyn, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Elkins and family, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Baker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bayne Grubb and family and Mrs. Grubb, all of Chambers and Mr. and Mrs. Roland Weyhrich and family of O’Neill. • .—- - Ivan Kaiser returned home Thursday, July 31, from Verdi gre where he had been visiting. drs, brown & French Eyes Tested—Glasses Filled Broken Lens Replaced in 24 Hours Other Repairs While Ton Wail Complete X-Ray , -. ....—..... . NOTICE TO BIDDERS THE CHURCH COUNCIL of Christ Lutheran Church will re ceive sealed bids on Lots 20 and 21, Block “D”, O’Neill and Hagerty’s addition, O’Neill, Nebr. This is the old Luther an church property located near corner of First and Clay Sts. ; THIS PROPERTY includes a frame building, 26 by 36, with small addition on rear, 9 by 12. Ceiling is insulated, 2 by 6’s have been used extensively in construction. Water is piped to lot but not into building. THE COUNCIL will receive these bids by mail until 6 p.m., on Tuesday, August 15, and reserves the right to re ject any and all bids. The Council further reserves the stained glass windows. It is intended to use these in the new church building now under construction. IMMEDIATE POSSESSION will be given upon completion of sale. MEN’S COUNCIL Christ Lutheran Church P.O. Box 428 — O’Neill, Nebr. I LETTERS TO EDITOR Oakdale, Nebr. Dear Friends: I heard your interesting pro gram Sunday, July 27, over WJAG. Here’s a hearty “thank you’’ to The Frontier for what it has meant to me and the com munity that listened to your broadcasts these three years past. Especially did I enjoy your ac count of the snowbound days of 1948-’49. It vividly brought back to me the horrible experience I had when I suffered a broken leg and injured ankle on January 1, 1949. I was unable to reach ; medical aid until weeks later, when the Fifth army took me to a doctor on a weaseh—too late, however, for much medical help. I was bedfast eight weeks. The two windows in my room only afforded the view of uninterest ing snow piled in drifts. Some times I watched a pair of beau tiful cardinals that were fed ta ble crumbs on the snow. Mail reached us only occasion ally through a relay system of the neighbors—but The Frontier was good even though a week or so late. Radio was one wonderful ser vice, especially WJAG and par ticularly The Frontier. If the members of the family were in the far comer of the house, I’d ring the bedside bell and call until someone came to tune in the radio, so I could hear the programs. Even today when I hear your opening tune it brings to my mind’s-eye the blizzard winter, the snow drifts, the hardship, which was lit by the sunshine of The Frontier program and WJAG’s service in general. Every program is swell. Congratulations and thank you. Respectfully, MISS MABEL GUILD Escape Unhurt When Auto Overturns EMMET—Ronnie and Maureen Murphy, brother and sister, es caped serious injury Sunday aft ernoon, when their automobile upset one-half mile east of Em met, The Emmet young people had driven to the side of the road to avoid a mudhole when the front wheels struck a hole in the weeds. The car upset with all four wheels in the air. Neither of the occupants was injured. Lawn Mowers Sharpened Th» Factory Way YooU Ilk* th* way your mower rate* through heavy «raa* when It'* been sharpened on our pre ciaion machine. A few minutes her* w vou hours in the Hand $2.00 — Power $2.50 Pete’s Saw Shop Phone 49 lw O’Neill YOU get thousands of safer EXTRA miles from your present worn tires with GOO XTRA-MILEAGE NEW TREADS • Applied by factory trained experts using Goodyear approved methods. • Same top grade materials found in new Goodyear tires. • Same tread thickness found in new Goodyear tires. FOREE TIRE & SUPPLY Phone 389 — 126 W. Douglas. O'Neill <> TB and the X-Ray Bus • , * Time was when the TB victim innocently walked the streets of his town undetected—and undetectable. For who had the millionaire’s pocketbook to pay for examining a whole town of a thousand people to sieve out one possible victim? Now comes the x-ray bus, able to be TB detective , for whole cities, for a few pennies a person. Millions of people now have their TB worries erased when the doctor says "Okay.” How long did it take to get the x-ray bus: Well, for its part, General Electric had been working on x rays for 57 years. Costs of diagnosis have come down by better and better equipment. No year passes without some new development. So this was another big chapter in a long book of events. Notice the nice way these buses get into service. They are usually purchased by voluntary contribu tions of plain people trying to get a job done. It is always hard to write a definition of the ' 'Ameri can Way.” But this hand-in-hand achievement of state and national health associations, General Elec tric, and the local communities comes close to being a perfect example. 'oa ca/i bi-s, GENERAL ELECTRIC ■?w , _ ■