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    Prairieland Talk . . .
Wade’s Father Slain by Vigilanter
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
LINCOLN—A lone horseman rode near the
brink of the Big Sandy up in the Dustin country
a day in the long ago. A human hand sticking
out of the sands arrested his attention. Dismount
ing to investigate, the hand appeared to be at
0 taehed to a human body lying buried there. Re
mounting and putting the spurs
to his horse he hastened to the
home of L. M- Kime, trustee of
what was then known as Stuart
township and told that frontier
• official of what he had seen.
The body was found to be that
of Kid Wade s father and a sin
* * gle bullet hole in a vital spot
told the story of some vigilanter
putting one more of a suspected
ring of horse thieves out of op
eration. The township gave the
old man a decent burial as was Remain*
later given his son who had Saunders
swung from a whistling post at the hands o?
masked men. And so today human bones lie un
der Holt county sod in unmarked and long for
gotten graves. . , ,
Mrs. Prince becomes a victim of our primary
system. As chairman of the board of control no
mark of incompetency has been laid against her.
That primary election built upon an alleged
foundation of popular expression turned out to
be a builder of rival factions. Mrs. Prince was
obligated to the governor, Val Peterson, and
supported him as against Senator Butler. Now
the payoff comes and her resignation from the
board before the expiration of the term for which
she had been appointed became a forced move.
That she had displayed courage and womanly
dignity in putting it up to Governor Crosby to
accept her resignation and name a successor
agreeable to himself and others behind the scenes
is commendable. I do not know at this writing
how Val Peterson will come out there in Wash
ington but entertain a secret hope that he will
tell them all to go jump in the Potomac, while
he comes back home, gets into editorial work,
peels some hides and exposes sore spots for
treatment.
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It was about the year 1905 Ray Saberson in
troduced automobile travel to O’NeilL One day
he, John Weekes, Oscar Snyder and R. R. Dick
son took off at about 11 o’clock, had dinner in
Spencer and then on to Butte, arriving home that
evening. This so impressed the editor of the Butte
Gazette that in telling of it in his paper he said
“with swift travel hke this at hand air ships are
• useless.” Swift travel was rated 20 miles per
hour. . . Lincoln is visited by notables from many
countries. A Canadian mountie featured the ses
sion of state sheriffs in the capital city early in
January. . . February 1 fails on Sunday, the 28th
on Saturday, the only page of the calendar this
year that will have four full weeks with no
blanks. . , Now comes Senator Carpenter from
Scottsbluff with a sales tax proposition to hook
onto Nebraskans. . . A number of Nebraska com
munities have their saddle clubs, but the military
is in the saddle just the same.
• • •
Again creatures of the jungle demonstrated
that they are the true weather prophets. A
calm evening after a day that caused water from
patches of snow to run in the streets, coyotes
hanging in an otherwise uninhabited gulch gave
the alarm of an approaching storm. Twenty-four
hours later rain, snow and a violent wind from
out of the north hit the Lincoln area.
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; Mr. and Mrs. Frank pferce down by Amelia
have had a sale and for the rest of the ^ inter can
spend cold mornings in bed instead of rolling
out to get going looking after the herds. After a
lifetime spent at the ranching business a rest is
due any industrious couple. Frank has known
the privation, the stark want, the struggles oi
the pioneer and the joys, the friendships and
hospitality since those early days now' long gone
when the blizzards in winter, scorching winds
and prairie fires in summer swept the open
country and brought terror to brave men and
courageous women building homes on prairie
land. As you “hang up the shovel and the hoe,
take down the fiddle and the bow,” good wishes
for you, Mr. and Mrs. Pierce.
* • •
I received today a certificate which makes
me a member of the National Geographic society,
which comes through an unknown friend s good
office. As to geography of the globe on which we
dwell the publication w'hich the society puts out
gives thoroughly reliable information and I an
ticipate the pleasure it will bring from time to
time. My present grasp of the lay of the land is
somewhat better than that an old V:out w*ho told
me the other day that he had crossed the river
so he could say he had been in Canada. The river
w'as the Niobrara and he spent the night in a
settler’s cabin in Boyd county and came back to
Holt thinking he had been in Canada.
• • •
How' would you like to have a multimillion
dollar business handed to the governing body of
the church group with which you affiliate? That
has recently been the plum that fell into the lap
of a church group with headquarters at the na
| tion’s capital. A man and his wnfe in an Oregon
i city owming a business capitalized in the millions
have turned the entire property over for religious
purposes and the more than 600 employees turn
out products that bring to the church treasury
periodical profits in the form of checks of six
figures. The Lord’s work has friends, and w'hile
“the poor ye have always with you” it is unusual
for multimillionaires to so graciously turn over
their holdings.
Samuel L. Clemens, otherwise Mark Twain,
was bom in Florida, Mo. Of this event he said:
“The village contained a hundred people, and I
increased the population by one percent. It is
more than the best man in history ever did for
any other town.” Mark was bom a hundred years
too soon. Down there at the Inez store and post
office in the ‘’30’s” a babe was bom that in
creased the population of that metropolis of the
tail grass country 33 and a third percent.
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Gents who are interested in the sale of what
they call fertilizing materials are much concern
ed over “depletion of the soil fertility.” Snows
this winter are taking care of any fertilizing
problems on prairieland. But nobody condemns
the fellow who has something to sell for telling
the world about it.
* * •
The oldtimer was having difficulty about sleep
ing at night. Consulting one of the medical pro
fession it was suggested that maybe his con
science was troubling him. The old man came up
with, “If you doctors get by, what could trouble
the conscience of an old scout like me?”
• • •
Mr. Truman, retiring from the presidency,
says the country is capable of a half trillion dol
lar economic development but slyly hints at an
industrial crackup. “Is Saul also among the pro
| phets?”
Editorial
Welcome to the Show
Admirers of beautiful cars (and who isn’t?)
will have a rare opportunity in O’Neill today
and Friday to view and inspect a lineup of lux
urious road beauties on display at the American
Legion auditorium. This show is being conducted
by 12 leading auto dealers in the region in co
operation with The Frontier.
Auto shows are not new. But this is the first
of its kind ever to be held in O'Neill—multiple
dealers lining up their showpieces under one
roof and collectively inviting the public to come
• in.
Probably the only reason a large-scale show
of this type never before has been here is because
only in very late years has there been an inside
auditorium capable of accommodating these
highway vehicles.
This new year, 1953, is destined to be an im
portant year in the automotive industry. There
have been dramatic advances in styling and en
gineering, and on the national level observers
are predicting keen sales competition.
All leading dealers in the area were invited
to participate.
Probably a total of 20 models will be on dis
play inside and outside the Legion auditorium.
Participating dealers have been urged to have
demonstrator cars available outside the building
for demonstration rides. Unfortunately, not all
dealers are able to provide readily demonstrator*
• as well as show cars.
There will be free coffee and cookies pro
vided throughout both days, there will be a spe
cial “Voice of The Frontier” broadcast direct
from the floor, there will be lots of gifts and
favors and, all-in-all, the show is intended to
provide a pleasant and refreshing interlude for
all visitors.
It is sincerely hoped that the show will in
duce visitors to the city from afar, and that in
the years ahead the exciting advancements in the
automotive field again and again can be viewed
first-hand and appraised by folks in the O’Neill
region. After all, we are quite far removed from
the metropolitan centers and an auto show, O’
Neill style, even with some of its limitations, is
an affair that should interest a great many peo
r
Of course, it will be free . . . and we hope
you’ll come.
An “army” of mothers will march tonight
(Thursday) through the streets of O'Neill, as
well as many other cities and towns throughout
the country. They will be giving an extra push
‘X) the infantile paralysis fund-raising campaign
w'hich officially closes Saturday. These mothers
will make house-to-house solicitations. Omaha
will send out 15-thousand mothers; O’Neill per
haps a hundred or more. The drive against polio
is another war against a destroyer of mankind.
And, like all wars, innocent children bear the
brunt. O’Neill residents, we’re sure, will respond
readily and generously to the call.
Bill Plourd of the Nance County Journal
(Fullerton) has written a bit of satire reproduced
above concerning the life of a country newspaper
publisher. Only slant we could add would be a
reference to the well-meaning person who thinks
his contribution should rate page one. This is the
commonest of all requests. Front page items are
screened to interest the most people. Moreover,
we have conducted informal readership surveys
of our newspaper and we’re gratified to know
that EVERY page is well read.
A Real ‘Snap’
(Bill Plourd in Nance County Journal)
Running a newspaper is a snap in case you
have never suspected it. Machinery does all the
work. You sit in the office and write beautiful
prose, and the machinery never breaks down
or causes any trouble. Everybody brings in news
and advertising copy on time, and it is all care
fully written and there are no mistakes in the
dates. The only interruptions you have are when
people drop in or phone to tell you what a nice
job you are doing.
With literally thousands of names and dates
and prices and places and circumstances in a
single issue, nobody on the place ever gets any
thing wrong, even when working under pressure
to meet the week’s many deadlines. Nothing ever
gets left out of the paper by accident. Proofread
ers are mind readers and can always know what
the patron intended, whether he wrote it that
way or not. You can always get paper and other
supplies whenever you need them, and the firms
that sell them never expect prompt payment,
which is nice, because everybody you sell to al
ways pays promptly.
You don’t get a vacation because you never
need one. You never get tired. You spend long
evenings at home loafing and you have time
to attend all public gatherings, board meetings,
entertainments and social affairs. People never
ask you to keep news out of the paper or to put
tripe into it. If, on very rare occasions, a mistake
does get into the paper, the people who call
about it always laugh understandingly and say,
“That’s perfectly alright.”
You are never asked to contribute to any of
the many worthy causes because these groups
all know you have been giving the event gener
ous publicity, but shucks, it dosn’t cost anything
to get type set and corrected and printed and
mailed, so you get off pretty easy.
People whose political views differ with
yours never think you are in the secret pay . of
the opposition, and the people who haunt the
office to get favorable publicity for a coming
event always come in right afterward and give
you full details of the program, and you never
have to hunt them up just before press time and
find they’ve left town or gone fishing.
Newspapering is a snap any way you look
at it, and it’s time editors told the public how
wonderfully simple and easy it is.
Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth Si.
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the car over rough road* and
curves and in combination with
other chassis elements produce*
a substantially improved r i d e,
according to Manager Herbert
Kaiser of the Krotter firm.
Describing the new develop
ment, announced as “carve con
trol front suspension.” Kaiser
pointed out that the action of the
front wheel* of an automobile on
a turn is controlled by many
practical limitations which pre
vent the full utilization of the
principles best represented by a
bicycle, where the wheels t fit
or incline into the turn, giving
a natural 'banking action.
After several years of research
and development, curve control
front suspension is introduced
on the 1953 Pontiac car as a prac
tical approach to the adoption of
this principle of front wheel
characteristic* on a curve, Kaiser
said. The net result is a sharp
reduction of wheel tilt on curves,
providing improved line handl
ing and steering characteristics.
Also there is less tire noise, and
tires have longer life.
Tbs Elkborn Extension club
will sponsor a polio benefit card
party at the American Legion
lounge February I at 8 pjn Both
pitch and pinochle will be
played. A lunch will be served.
Admission 50c each,
©
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bumbaugh
and Dell were Sunday dinner
guests in the home of Mrs. Irene
Martin.
State Capitol News .
New Governor Reconu
Less Than/
LINCOLN — Gov. Robert B. i
Crosby went before the legisla
ture this week to recommend
that it appropriate $166,379,614 to
operate the government of the
state for the next two years.
The figure is about $4^ million
less than recommended by ex- I
Gov. Val Peterson and about $7
million less than was appropri
ated for the current biennium.
Perhaps the significant totals
for most taxpaying Nebraskans
is the amount to be spent from
the general fund, supported
principally by state tax money.
(Comparisons are shown at right), j
• * *
Jolf —
Governor Crosby’s budget mes
sage contained a rude jolt for the
counties. He proposed legislation
shifting from the state to the
counties the $1 million a year tab
for health service payments.
“The cost of health services has
been mounting rapidly during re
cent years,” the legislators were
told. “At the centralized level of
state government it has been im
possible to exercise an effective
control over the amounts paid
for nursing home service, hos
pital service, nurses, drugs, doc
tors and so forth. Local financial
responsibility should supply ef
fective local control.”
The scheme, Crosby said, en
abled him to trim $2 million
from Peterson's budget. Cros
by stressed that his recommen
dations for subsistence pay
ments totals the same as Peter
son's.
He said he thinks every assist
ance recipient should be allowed
to live decently and if the present
state ceiling is not high enough,
it should be raised. A bill has j
already been introduced to boost
the ceiling to $70 a month.
* * *
More Jolts —
There were more jolts in Cros
by’s message—two stiff ones for !
! th town of Milford where r
state trade school and home
j unwed mothers are located. Cr
‘ by proposed cutting both agencies
i of with no appropriations.
He said he had voted for es
! tablishing the trade school when i
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he was a legislator himself in
1941, but now “I think the need
for the school is behind us.”
Of the home for unwed moth
ers. he said, “I do not think that j
Nebraska taxpayers are so afflu
ent that they should indulge
themselves in this exceptional ac
tivity.”
• • *
Nebraska U—
From a dollar standpoint, Cros
by’s recommendation on the Uni
versity of Nebraska was the same
as Peterson’s: An additional $2
million in general fund money
over its current appropriation of
$12.5 million. The university had
asked $16,356,000.
But there was one significant
difference. Peterson said he was
recommending the additional $2
million to enable the university
to continue its present program
and left up to the legislature the
question of whether more money
was to be spent for expansion.
Crosby’s message indicated he
thought no money should be
spent for such things as cost-of
living salary increases and the
additional S2 million should go
for the college of medicine and
for agricultural research.
• • •
Bills —
After hearing the governor, the
lawmakers dashed off on another
lap on the big bill derby.
Deadline for introduction of
bills by individual members is
next Monday and the senators
had observers wondering on what
day they would go over the 500
mark.
The halfway point wras reached
early this week and there was no
letup in sight.
Killed —
The dubious r.onor of o rung
the first bill to be killed by a
commit'. £ wen. \. AiuroiVs oen.
Les Anderson.
He had proposed that no candi
date for public office could spend
more in his campaign than the
salary for the term of the office
he sought.
The bill was the result of a
campaign promise made when
Sen. Anderson said he was ap
palled at the amount of money
being spent in the 1952 GOP
gubernatorial primary.
The committee tooK less than
five minutes to decide the bill
wasn't much good.
* * *
Hot Water —
State Engineer Harold Aitken
got himself in hot water with the
introducers of a bill to allow
trucks a 5 percent tolerance in
overload limits when he spoke
against the measure to a group
of engineers in Omaha.
The three sponsors, Sens. K. W.
Peterson of f>argent, Art Car
mody of Trenton and Bill Moul
ton of Omaha, landed on Aitken
with six feet and in effect told
him to mind his own business.
This is the same bill which
then-Gov. Val Peterson vetoed
after adjournment of the 1951
session.
LYNCH NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spencer
of Casper, Wyo., spent the past
week here with relatives. They
visited their daughters, Mrs. Vel
don Lee and Mrs. Gene Harris,
and families. They also attended
the Halsey Hull funeral on Tues
day, January 20.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Peters of
Spencer visited the Bill Teadtke
home Sunday.
Ed Johns was a business visitor
in Sioux City Thursday.
Mrs. Don Allen was a business
visitor in O’Neill on Wednesday,
January 21.
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Pontiac Feature
-ha new 1953 Dual-Streak
Pontiac, the finest, most beauti- j
-ui, mast luxurious car that can
be built at a price so close to the
lowest, will be a feature of the
O’Neill auto show.
From an engineering stand
point, probably the most inter
esting tec hnical development in
the 1953 Pontiac car is the im
proved steering system and front
suspension which contributes
greatly to the easy handling of
Crosby’s Proposed Expenditures
Here is the breakdown of state general fund expenditures pro
posed by Crosby and largely supported by state tax money:
All Fund* Gen! Fund
Current Appropriations _—$173,383,571 $53,081,519
Asked by state agencies -- 173,908,663 61.918.552
Suggested by Peterson _ 170,830,874 59.241.314
Suggested by Crosby_ 166,379,614 54.762.554
Biennium Distribution of State Tax Mone^
Here is a breakdown on some of the larger agencies:
Crosby's Agfy Expects Peterson's
Recommend. to Spend Recommend.
Highway department_$39,683,000.00 $51,122,811.66 $40,427,200.00
Assistance_ 34,728,367.02 36,532,998.51 36.899,617.02
University of Nebraska— 33,961,600.00 29,288,065.13 33,661 6 0 00
Board of control _ 26,606,013.00 22,408,401.17 27,046,793.00
Normal schools _ 6,419,000.00 5,680.637.15 6.559.000.00
Military department _ 2,740,070.00 976,530.96 2,730,270.00
Health department _ 2,717,100.00 3,888,77^.00 2,771,200.00
Vocational education _ 2,655,000.00 5,367.965.96 3,131,600.10
Game commission _ 2,588,000.00 2,259,416.03 2,605,000.00
State superintendent _ 2,121,250.00 2,065,248.03 2,272.500 • 0
Labor department __ 1,980,200.00 1,837,737.98 1,980,200.00
Agriculture department _ 1,914,500.00 1,781,283.48 2,04O,6OoX}Q
Aeronautics department _ 1,409,000.00 1,346,009.25 1,4.9,000.00
Educational lands & funds 1,067,337.00 1,004,618.39 1,042.337.13
Twentv-nine other depts._ 5,789,076.90 5.415.934.18 • 6.254 357 32
Total _166.379,614.92 170,976,428.15 170.330.874 47
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