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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1952)
Prairieland Talk . . . What of Eternity? By ROMAINE SAUNDERS 9 LINCOLN—Yes, the drought has been wet - down. And gone are the sundrenched days of autumn. This morning the slumbering came to life and looked out upon tree, bush, roof and earth dusted with snow. 'M - As we march on through another Thanksgiving season the dead, dry land lies under a pall from which resurrected life will again spring to bloom with flower and fruitage. And now we tear another leaf from the calendar as time moves on to the close of another year. The year has brought its smiles and tears, its laughter and its heartaches and will soon pass into the scroll of other years. Romaine And so childhood and youth, Saunders maturity and age travel down the highway of time. What of eternity? , * * * Gold will buy a house, a bit of land, A garden gate, a field and hills of sand; A tractor, the latest make of car And airplane that flies afar, A tailored suit, a sumptuous roast— All other things of which to boast. Gold cannot buy the blue of sky Or white clouds floating by, Or green of leaf or sunset’s tinted haze, Or lingering shadows of summer days, It cannot buy the snow, the wind, the rain— These are heaven’s gifts before us lain. * * * As of September 1 last the highway depart ment of the state of New Mexico had under con tract 743 miles of roads at a cost of $13,843,695. It was admitted to the union as a state in 1912 and road building over mountains and rocks means something. Nebraska became a state in 1867 and no state is so favorably adapted to eco nomical road building, but we have the reputa tion of having the worst. This may be only a gripe. One Iowa gentleman, in whose state you make a turn every quarter mile, thought he hit the highway to heaven when he drove the length of Nebraska in one straight shoot. * * * They were quite disturbed up at Valentine over the prospects of Ft. Niobrara being aban doned, and then Congresman Kinkaid went to Washington in the summer of 1904 and worked the strings to retain the fort—for the moment. Troops in the end were moved from there, and Valentine still is!‘That summer, on a hot July day, Gerald Cress was down at the stockyards with a new .22 he had just got and while on the lookout for something to shoot at toyed with .the gun and came home with a hole plowed through his hand by a bullet. The gun was then for sale. * * * It was in November, 1948, O'Neill was buried under snow and it kept up all winter, intriguing The Frontier editor to get out across prairieland in an army weasel and see the fun bucking the snow. Now '52's November sug gests another winter of possible deep snow. Magazines were after pictures of the snowpiled streets of O'Neill as late as 1950, so gel your cameras dusted off and mayPe you can find a market for snapshots. * * * Mr Crosby, who will take over the job of chief executive of Nebraska shortly, is in town sizing up the situation in preparation for the min ute when the robe of state falls on his shoulders and he is a captive of the people. Governor Val is then set free to again start a newspaper and tell the world what he thinks of it—in case he does not care to respond to a call from Ike to come to Washington. ------ I-— * * * > So O’Neill nearly took another step citywise. There would be something doing on Douglas street if a few of the old punchers could come back into the picture and lope up to a parking meter and twirl a six. Meters would be out of the picture. Getting so you gotta pay to stop in town for a minute now most everywhere. * * * Apparently but one of the clergymen who have the notices of their church services in these pages senses the need of stating where his church is located as to street address. He may be getting the strangers within the gates of the city at church service time. * * * One-third of American married women con tribute to the family income and do the job of homemaker besides. . . Automobile factories have as many as 7,000 diamond-pointed tools, 96 per cent of the diamonds coming from South Africa. * * * Don't ignore the penny. A 40-million-dollar industry is represented by a penny stick of bubble gum. It is useful for more things than jaw exercise, plugging leaks in army equip ment and airplane pipelines. * * * “You never had it so good.” But that was what some fellows said who sought and didn’t get favor at the polls. Read what one of our coun ty news reporters had to say a day in January, 1907: “What is the cause for the boom prices the farmer gets for his horses, cattle, hogs, grain and hay? Never in the history of the county have we had such good prices.” * * * What a foot of snow does to praireland is of infinitely more consequence than Thanksgiving day football games. Editorial . . . Relax and Unwind A magazine interested in better living has come up with five “tried and true” tension re lievers aimed at putting nervous persons at ease. One might do the trick, the magazine says, but “if you are really nervous, try all five.” They are: 1— Inhale deeply, exhale slowly, then draw in stomach muscles and repeat. 2— Try to recall names and faces of high school classmates. 3— Take a walk around the block. 4— Recall a funny experience and try to see it as a short “mental movie.” 5— Plan next year’s vacation in great detail, including wardrobe, transportation and amuse ments. Of course, these might not work despite claims made for them. If a nervous person be gan thinking about paying for next year’s vaca tion, for instance, he might become more nervous than ever. Editorial & Business 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 of March 3, 1879. This news paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Associa tion, 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. \ State Capitol News . . . Crosby’s Revamping of Administrative Functions Already Finding Opposition By MELVIN PAUL Slatehouse Correspondent Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN—Gov.-Elect Robert B. Crosby plunged deeper into his probing of state government here this week after one day off to at tend meetings in Omaha of the (Missouri river states committee and the basin interagency com mittee. As Crosby listened to the re quests of the various apencies for funds with which to operate in, the biennium beginning next July 1, he asked questions revealing his ambition to effect one of his ma jor campaign issues, the reor ganization of the administrative side of state government. And he found storm signals flying. His first experience with a de partment head must have been disappointing. Crosby, through out his long campaign, hammered away at how “silly it is” to have inspectors from the department of agriculture inspecting hotels, rooming houses and restaurants. “That,” he said, “should be the job of the health department.” But Acting State Health Di rector Dr. E. A. Rogers didn't agree. He told the governor - to-be that there is "no public health significance" in the in specting of hotels and rooming houses. That function could very well remain in the hands of the department of agricul ture and inspection, he in dicated. Then how about restaurants, urged Crosby, surely they are within scope of the health depart ment. Most certainly, Doctor Rog ers agreed. But the health depart ment inspectors should be of the educational type, encouraging better operating methods, where as the ag department *now in spects primarily to collect license fees. The health department, he hinted, is not eager to get into the license fee collecting field. Some of the other proposals Crosby has suggested are getting a lukewarm reception at the state house, too. State Engineer Har old Aitken can’t see why the safe ty patrol should be taken away from his non-political office and handed to the political attorney general’s office, as Crosby has suggested. And Tax Commissioner Phil ip K. Johnson said he saw "cer tain difficulties'" in the propo sal that his agency colled all taxes. These difficulties would include the separation of the enforcement functions of such agencies as the liquor commis sion from their tax-collecting function. If Crosby is successful in bring ing about the changes he pro poses, he will be considerably ahead of a legislative committee which tried in the 1951 session and failed miserably. * * * Farm Bureau— The Nebraska farm bureau fed eration has long been recognized as a powerful political influence in Nebraska. Any doubt was re moved in 1950 when the big or ganization led the drive to repeal the gas tax and registration fee increases voted by the 1949 legis lature. That’s why responsible state of ficials always watch closely when the farm bureau’s delegates adopt resolutions. Here are some of the major ones approved here last week: ROADS — Repeated earlier stand for five-member highway commission, indicating no support for more revenue until commis sion is established. SCHOOLS—A somewhat veiled endorsement of a stiffer redis tricting law and a call for reten tion by the state of its school lands and the establishment of sounder business practices by the board of educational lands and funds. TAXATION—Support a state sales and/or income tax. Urged the 1953 legislature to plug the loophole on motor vehicle tax evasion by requiring taxes and licenses to be handled in one transaction but said the present property tax formula shouldn’t be changed for a while. WATER CONTROL—Called for federal-state-local cooperation on a grant-in-aid basis to avoid ex cessive federal control or loss of efficiency at the state and local levels. Approved the proposed leg islation to provide for creation of watershed districts. * * * Blue Sky — The booming oil and gas in dustry in western Nebraska has created an undesirable by pro ;duct: the fleecing of gullible Ne braskans. Harold Johnson, chief of the state banking department’s bu reau of securities, has asked Att. Gen. C. S. Beck for help in curb ing violations of the socalled blue sky law. Beck responded by appointing Leslie Boslaugh of Hastings, a former assistant in the justice de partment, as a special aide to help county attorneys in blue sky cases. * * * Official - Almost — The November 4 election is now official—almost. The state can vassing board—the governor, at torney general and secretary of state—met at the capitol last week and declared that 616,236 voters went to the polls last month. This is about three out of every four eligible voters in the state and means that the 1952 total turnout was the third highest in Nebraska’s history. It was about 7,500 short of the record 623,781 cast in 1940 and came within a hair of the second-high 617,066 cast in 1936. Reason the canvass is not quite official is that the supreme court held in the Caldwell case that the legislature must make the final canvass. So strictly speaking, nobody is really elected until the leisla ture goes through the necessary motions—and that's all they are —in January. Harold Caldwell, you’ll recall, was the Omaha democrat who filed at the last minute for the so called short-short term as attor ney-general and served for one day. Most reports immediately after the election showed Walter Raecke, the democratic candidate for governor, carrying only six counties, but the official tally showed him with seven: Butler, Howard, Merrick, Nance, Saline, Sarpy and Sherman. Holds Retreat at St. Mary's— Rev. Eugine F. Gallagher, S.J., of St. Louis, Mo., university, St. Louis, Mo., arrived Monday to hold retreat for the students of St. Mary’s academy. Father Gal lagher is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gallagher. The retreat will end today (Thursday). Circuitous Route for Short Trip Family Travels 80 Miles to Ewing DELOIT—The fact that most everyone in the Deloit commun ity had to dig out following the snowstorm on Tuesday, Novem ber 25, no longer is news. But a story is making the rounds concerning one family trying to reach Ewing—normal ly a distance of only 20 miles. They cranked up the flivver after shoveling some snow, went south from their place to state highway 53, travelled west to U.S. highway 281, went north to O’Neill, and from the countyseat angled southeast on U.S. high way 275 to Ewing. The circuitous routing took them about 80 miles. — Other Deloit News About 30 representatives from Bartlett, Elgin, Ewing, O’Neill and this locality interested in the completion of state highway 108 met with officials including the governor on Monday, No vember 24, at Lincoln. A large number of telegrams were also sent by interested groups and in dividuals. James Squire, Fred Sison, Stanley Huffman, Harold Werkmeister, Joe K n i e v e 1, Claude Elliot, John Funk, Joe Funk, Mr. and Mrs. Royvan Day and Mrs. Reimer were among those who attended the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Reimer of Lincoln were guests on Thanks giving day at the E. L. Sisson home. Mrs. Reimer arrived on Monday, November 24. Otto ac companied Aubrey Woods home Wednesday evening, November 26. Mr. and Mrs. Royvan Day and Mrs. Henry Reimer attended the farm bureau convention at Lin coln last week. The farm bureau is to meet December 9 at Adolph’s Bartak’s. Sandwiches and coffee will be o served. The county agent is to» be present and give an account of his recent trip to Chicago, 111. The pupils of Wheeler county high school enjoyed a two day vacation last week. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Temple of Thedford and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reimer and Elayne spent Thanksgiving at the J. A. Larson home in Ewing. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Bright and. son spent Thanksgiving day in Stuart in the home of Mrs. Bright’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Hovey. • • l • I low to Pour Molasses Out of a Cup The first woman who greased the cup before measuring mo lasses deserves a small but appropriate medal for ingenuity. Likewise, the first man who thought to tape an emergency key under his car hood. Or whoever first sprinkled salt on an icy sidewalk. Or whoever first tried warming a knife before cut ting fruitcake. In case you think all pesky problems center around the home, try soldering the connections on a radio. Or assembling the bits and pieces of an automatic toaster. If you did it for a living, you’d be on the lookout for better ways of working. That’s for sure. In our family, a General Electric man or woman who finds an easier way to work a tool, to tighten a belt, or pack a parcel may win the price of a new hat, or a suit, or maybe even win the price of a new car. 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