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LEGALNOHCE (First pub. March 5, 1953) NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Department of Roads and Irrigation in the State Capitol at Lincoln, Nebraska, on March 26, 1953, until 10:00 o’ clock A.M., and at that time pub licly opened and read for SAND GRAVEL FOR SURFACING and incidental work on the O’ NEILL NORTH Patrol No. 81012 State Road. The approximate quantity is: 5.900 Cu. Yds. Sand Gravel Surface Course Material The attention of bidders is di rected to the Special Provisions ; covering subletting or assigning the contract. . Compliance by the contractor with the standards as to hours of labor prescribed by the “Fair La bor Standards Act of 1938,” ap proved June 25, 1938 (Public No. 718, 75th Congress), will be re quired in the performance of work under this contract. The minimum wage paid to all skilled labor employed on this contract shall be one dollar and five cents ($1.05) per hour, ex cept that a minimum wage of one dollar and twenty - five ' cents ($1.25) per hour shall be paid to: Crane Operators Dragline Operators Power Shovel Operators The minimum wage paid to all intermediate labor employed on this contract shall be ninety-five (95) cents per hour. The minimum wage paid to all unskilled labor employed on this contract shall be seventy-five (75) cents per hour. Plans and specifications for the work may be seen and informa tion secured at the office of the County Clerk at Butte, Nebras ka, at the office of the County Clerk at O’Neill, Nebraska, at the office of the Division Engi neer of the Department of Roads and Irrigation at Ainsworth, Ne braska, or at the office of the Department of Roads and Irri gation at Lincoln, Nebraska. The successful bidder will be required to furnish bond in an amount equal to 100% of his contract. As an evidence of good faith in submitting a proposal for this work, the bidder must file, with his proposal, a certified check made payable to the Department of Roads and Irrigation and in an amount not less than seven hundred twenty-five (725) dol lars. The right is reserved to waive all technicalities and reject any or all bids. DEPARTMENT OF ROADS AND IRRIGATION H. L. Aitken, State Engineer J. M. Crook, Division Engineer C. J. Tomek, County Clerk Boyd County Ruth Hoffman, County Clerk Holt County 44-46 (First pub. Feb. 26, 1953.) Julius D. Cronin, Att’y NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNT COUNTY COURT OF HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA. ESTATE OF THOMAS SA LEM, DECEASED. THE STATE OF NEBRASKA, TO ALL CONCERNED: Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed for final settlement herein, determination of heirship, inheritance taxes, fees and commissions, distribu tion of estate and approval of fi nal account and discharge, which will be for hearing in this court on March 18, 1953, at 10 o’clock, A.M. Entered this 24th day of February, 1953. LOUIS W. REIMER County Judge. (COUNTY COURT SEAL) 43-45 Mr. and Mrs. Billie Marcellus have stored their household fur nishings in the William Ander sons home while Mr. Marcellus is in the service. He will be in ducted into the army on March 9. During his absence Mrs. Marcel lus will reside with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Williamson, at Stuart and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Aim re turned Saturday evening from a trip to Florida. They visited 10 states during their 15 - day sightseeing trip. Frontier for printing! w . State Capitol News . . . County Assessors Ready to Start But All Eyes Are Focused on LB 272 LINCOLN— Nebraska’s coun ty assessors, their calenders ring ed at March 10, have been hand ed a tax assessement policy by the state board of equalization, calling for 100 percent valuation. But there was an air of unreal ity about this bold move because all eyes were on the progress of LB 272, making its tortuous way through the legislature. This bill calls for assessments at 50 percent of actual value. Its passage with an emergency clause would knock the state board’s call for full valuations into a cocked hat. The measure survived two at tempts in the' legislature to kill it, but by a narrower margin the the second time. By the weekend it became even more speculative as to whether the bill woulld squeak through final passage. But with county assessor meet ings underway the state board of equalization couldn’t wait any longer to announce its policy. So it issued a statement urging county assessors “to assess all property in conformity with present law,’’ which means at 100 percent. This decision, already assum ing the adjective “historic,” af firmed that the law! must be fol lowed. At present the statutes call for assessments uniform on all properties and at 100 percent of actual value. The state board has been in hot( water since ^then trying to figure out just what the high court meant. It left the Johnson assessments unchanged, was haul ed up before the supreme court and asked why, turned around and lowered the valuations 15 percent, and is now waiting to see if that will satisfy the judges. So the “Alice in Wonderland” atmosphere continued for’ both county assessors and the mem bers of the state board—Govern or Crosby, Secretary fo State Frank Marsh, State Auditor Frank Heintze, and State Tax Commissioner i Norris J. Ander son. Everybody was looking over his shoulder to see what the Leg islature does. * * * Behind—| The Legislature has been in session now something under two months and finds itself con siderably behind the pace set two years ago. What have the lawmakers to show for two months’ work? The record is not overly impres sive. In addition to grappling with such perennial headaches as tax es, roads and election laws, not with phenomenal success, the Legislature has expended a lot of time—and words—on such weighty matters as the location of the Bryan statue, where lob byists should sit, and whether the mourning/dove is a song bird or a game bird. On the brighter side, there are indications, some of the “chick en feed” bills may have been sifted out and that from here until May the legislators will be able to devote more of their time to wrestling with the really ser ious matters of state. Despite the slow start, some members believe that adjourn ment will come after about 100 legislative days. If it does, the big blackboards at the front of the' chamber are going to have to get a real going over and the bills which now clutter them will have either to be axed or advanced without to much de bate. * * * puss Whenever Sen. Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff rises to speak, the galleries fill almost magically and the arm-waving freshman never fails to disappoint them. Don’t ask me how, but the word gets around the Statehouse of fices that “Terry’s talking, and the state’s business just has to wait while enthralled employees watch him declaim. Last week his target was Gov ernor Robert B. Crosby and spec ifically the “political grandstand the governor employed in suo mitting his budget to the legis lature. Carpenter, who several days ago proposed that the legislature pass Crosby’s budget and quit m an effort to shock Nebraskans in to what he considers a better ap preciation of the legislature s abilitiess, this time teed off on Crosby’s budget recommenda tions for the state highway de partment. He recalled lhat in the gover nor’s message to the legislature, he saw the role of state govern ment in these times as one of re straint and that he had proposed the state highway department spend about 12 million dollars less than in the past two years. Crosby had said in that mes sage that some might accuse him of grandstanding. “If that’s not political grandstanding, then I never saw anything that was, Carpenter said. The Scottsbluff senator founc that State Engineer Harold Ait ken was in agreement with him that budget requests should be based on need, rather than on existing revenues. Crosby’s bud get was based on the latter. “How,” Carpenter demanded* “can we get the picture when one part of the government nul lifies another part by inflicting a political approach to the prob lem.” * * * Retort— Governor Crosby wasted no time in firing back. Newsmen hurried from the legislative chamber to the executive suite. Crosby had not heard Carpenter attack but his administrative as sistant, Max Denny, had. In one M his rare moments of annoyance, Crosby still weighed his words carefully and said: i u lyuvie v»**iw* cussion of highways in my inau gural message and to ignore the entire premise of my budget mes sage are useful stratagems in political debate. “The effort to distort both mes sages is deliberate. “In the introductory part of my budget messages I said plain fly, ‘This message deals with a discussion of the important de partures from the general fund recommendations in Governor Peterson’s budget.’ ” For emphasis I repeated that what I woyld discuss in the bud get message were “what must be appropriated from the general fund.” I especially excluded dis j cussion of cash funds. Anyone ! famaliar with Nebraska’s budget procedures knows that highways are not constructed or maintain j ed through general fund appro ! praitions. . There was no occasion in the budget message to discuss high way funds because present Neb raska laws gave me no opportun ity to recommend an increased amount. My budget recomended the same ts Governor Peterson's budget for road maintenance and construction. A considerable part of my inaugural message on January 3 was devoted to the highway pro blem. I called it "an acute prob lem’’ and departed from the text to say that was an understate ment.’ I told the legislature that I regarded it to be a fact that any substantial improvement on high ways would require more funds than now available.” * * * ; Picture— The 'Springboard for Carpen ter’s blast was a lengthy and detailed description of Nebraska highway system and its problems by State Engineer Aitken. He told tne lawmakers only a third of the 9,600-mile system is adquate for present—day traf fic. And at the other end of the scale, more than 500 miles is in “red” emergency condition. Still another 500 miles measured less than 50 percent on the Highway Department’s “sufficiency” yard stick. Under existing revenues, the legislators were tcdd, the depart ment can spend ll milion dollars for new construction in the next two years. A little more than half of this would be state funds. The money would permit the improvement of 289 miles of road just about half of the miles in the “red’’ category. Bills to raise the gas tax a pen ney and to increase registration fees—now before the legislature would bring in 12 million dollars in state revenue in the next two years, the department estimates. Matched with federal funds, this would become 24 million dollars and added to the 11 million would give the department- 35 million to' spend in 1953-’55. What would this amount buy? Said Aitken, between 900 and 1,000 miles of highway. In an impressive marshalling of his facts, Aitkens used two screens to show the lawmakers ] pictures of crumbling, narrow highways, antique bridges and sharp curves, all black marks against a road He told the senators he hoped they would give the sufficiency rating system, now merely de partmental policy, the weight of statutory authority. Harkins Receives 50-Year Award Lumber Dealer from Inman Honored _ INMAN — M. L. Harkins and Horace Kiel went to Omaha Wednesday morning, February 25, where they attended the 62d annual convention of the Nebras ka Lumber Merchants associa tion. Mr. Harkins has had 55 years experience in the lumber business and was presented a 50 year club certificate by the asso ciation. Mr. Harkins said in early days the conventions were for getting acquainted and having a good time but he thought today’s con ventions were more interesting and better for business and he thoroughly enjoyed the colorful and activated exhibits. Mr. Hark ins and his family came to Inman in 1933 from Duncombe, la. His family consists of two daughters, Hildred at home and Mrs. H. E. Smith, also of Inman, one son, Forrest of Turlock, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Harkins celebrat ed their golden wedding anniver sary last year. Mr. Harkins says he has no intention of retiring, that he would be lost and would n’t know what to do with him self. He is also an ardent garden er and in the spring and summer is seen early in the morning in his garden. Other Inman News Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bean spent the weekend in Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hutton are spending a few days visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Hutton. Mr. and Mrs. James Boies and son, Stephen, of Omaha spent the weekend visiting in the home of Mrs. Boies’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Luben. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tomlin son of Omaha spent the weekend here with relatives. Harlan Morsbach, who is em ployed at Rapid City, S.D., spent the weekend visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Morsbach. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller were Neligh visitors on Friday. Ernest Trowbridge returned Friday from Texas where he had spent several months visiting relatives and friends. Horace Kiel, M. L. Harkins and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Sawyer and son returned Friday evening from Omaha where they spent a few days. Mr. Kiel and Mr. Harkins attended a lumbermen’s convention. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilhoit and sons spent the weekend in Oakland visiting Mrs. Wilhoit’s frther, Mr. Osterberg. The WSCS met last Thursday afternoon at the Maxcy Memor ial addition for a regular meet ing. The devotions were led by Mrs. Anna Clark. A birthday party for those celebrating birth day anniversaries in December, January and February was en joyed. The program was in charge of Mrs. Roy Gannon. Re freshments were served by a committee composed of Mrs. Herbert Nielsen, Mrs. Lewis Ko pecky, jr., and Mrs. Leon Tomp kins. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Tompkins accompanied Harvey Tompkins and son, Roger, to Omaha on Thursday. Harvey and Roger re turned that evening. Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins remained in the home of their son, Dr. Charles Tomp kins, and family for a longer vis it. The Women’s department of the RLDS church met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Ralph Brit tell. At the close of the study period a lunch was served by the hostess. Mrs. James Kelley and son, Neil, and Ned Kelley spent the weekend in Burwell visiting James Kelley who is employed there. Mr. and Mrs. Mick Gallagher and daughter, Janet, and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Coventry were callers in the Fred Moore home Wednesday evening, February 25. 25. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Seastadt of Omaha spent the weekend vis iting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Youngs. Mr. and Mrs. John Mattson and Mrs. James McMahan spent Fri day afternoon in Neligh. Band Bedecked in New Uniforms for Tonight’s Concert EWING — The Ewing high school senior band will present its first full band concert of the school year tonight (Thursday), forms in the school colors of or ange and black will be worn for The new military style uni the first time by the members of the band. The uniforms were furnished by the Band Boosters club, formerly organized as the Band Mothers’ club. Their first project was to build a fund for the purchase of new uniforms for the school band. New equipment which will be in use in the concert will be the two special drum stands and a bell lyre. The public is invited to attend free of charge. The program that follows will start at 8 p.m. “Little Grey Church,” by Ben nett; “Yare Overture,” by Ben nett; “Pavane,” by Ravelle; “Tri umphant Overture,” by Mesang; “Gypsy Dance Song,” by brass quartet, second trumpet, Bonnie Jo Jefferies, first trumpet* Je rome Bahm, trombone, Sandra Dierks, baritone, Paul Gunter; “Military Escort March,” by Bennett; “Activity March,” by Bennett, directer by student con ductor, Marcia Gibson; “Father of Victory March,” by Ganne; “Alma Mater March,” by Chen ette; “Algeria March,” by Chen “Square Dance,” medley, by Heine; “Oh, Happy Day,” by Koplow. Paul Cooper, head of the music department in the Ewing school, will be the director. Frontier for printing. Prompt deliveries! O'NEILL LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fetrow and Nancy took their son, Paul, and Edward Tomlinson to Lincoln Sunday where they attend the University of Nebraska. They spent the weekend here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fet row and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Tom linson. 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The law provides a penalty of 50 percent of val- t uation for failure to list, refusal to list, to list falsely or to transfer property for the purpose of evading taxes. • In order to keep taxes as uniform as possible a spot check j will be made in each precinct to determine if the taxpay ers are turning in their correct valuation; if it is found that anyone has failed to list their property correctly the 50 per cent penalty will be applied as provided by law. • - List your property as it should be to avoid embarrassment if you should be in the spot check. Due to the bad road conditions we are asking everyone to cooperate with the Pre cinct Assessor to get the assessing done as soon after March 10th as possible. Taxpayers are requested to bring their 1952 schedules with them, along with any other information, so the proper school districts, road and fire districts can be ascer tained for this year’s listings. THE ASSISTANT FOR EACH PRECINCT WILL BE AS FOLLOWS: Antelope & Iowa—Ed Sterner Atkinson Pre. & Vil. — Carl Smith Chambers Vil., Chambers & Conley Pre. — Clarence Young (Ford Garage) Stuart Vil., Stuart Pre. & Cleveland—Edwin Engler Coleman & Saratoga — Roy Margritz Deloit—Albert Latzel Dustin—L. E. Axtell Emmet Pre. & Vil. — Joe Winkler Ewing Vil., Ewing & Golden Pre.—Eben Graft Fairview—Harold Gilman Francis—Jos. Dobrovolny Grattan—Marvin Clouse O’Neill—H. W. Tomlinson Green Valley — Robert Le Munyan Holt Creek—Harold Shaw Inman Pre. & Vil. — Vernon Davis (Inman Co-op Cred it Association) Josie, Swan & Wyoming — R. E. Bly Lake & McClure—O. McClen ehan Paddock—Elmer DeVall Pleasantview—Joe Wagman Rock Falls—Levi Hull Sand Creek—Alex Forsythe Scott—Ray Wilson i Shamrock—Robert Strong Sheridan—Chas. Kubart Shields—Clarence Gokie Steel Creek—C. L. Brady Verdigris and Page — C. W. 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