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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1953)
PAGE 10—THE FRONTIER. O'Neill. Nebr.. Thurs.. Mar. 19. 1953. Prairieland Talk . . . Retirement for Mr. Nesbitt « s o LINCOLN—Ernest Beaver of Deaver, Wyo., sends me a clipping from the Cheyeiyie Tribune telling of the retirement after 18 years as head of the FHA in that state of Allan Nesbitt, at one time a resident of O’Neill when he was employed in the office at the O. O. Sny der lumber yard. He went to Wyoming during the migration to that state thaj drew some oth ers of this community westward. Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt are plan ning a trip that will take them to his native state, Mississippi, and possibly to Stuttgart, Ger many, where they have a son in military service, Col. Allan P. Q Nesbitt. A visit to O’Neill ap parently is not contemplated. A clipping from the Powell 0 Tribune which Mr. Beaver en closed deals with what the wrifer terms the “self interest yardstick” in government and dwells at some length upon the proposal that members of congress be required to meet the conditions re quired of cabinet officers with respect to person al financial interests, these interests allegedly in fluencing their action relating to proposed laws. My own observation has been that members of congress are more interested in retaining their o seats as such than in commercial interests they quite naturally retain. To this end they keep an eye on the situation at home and an ear to the ground to know what the folks whose votes they want are saying. In other words, a vote looks obetter to them than a dollar bill. We had one sueh in O’Neill for many years, and Ernest will call him to mind if he scratches his head and re views the past. o o » * * Of course, fhe frame building in the mem ory of a vanishing generation that was located in what is now West O'Neill wouldn't do today. Maybe that's wh£t up-to-date citizens think % about the Elkhon^ river as a swimming pool and are asking for a chance to vote bonds to build a swank affair uptown. Nice to have such —if you can pay cash. o °0 * * * c“General” Grant conducted a %mall business place in the middle of the blocl^ on the south side of Douglas street between Fifth and Fourth in the long ago when the cow trails about the vil lage had not attained the dignity of being known as such and such street. You could get a steak0 dinner there for two bits with a slab of range beef the size of a quarter page of a newspaper. . That was what brought Az Perry and Shorty Webster there on a certain dajr ° and all but brought them to blows. Otherwise they would have been hoiked up at the Crittic across the street from The Frontier. Each had a theory that water was made for fish to swim in. Shorty was a friendly little fat guy who made a precarious livelihood grooming race horses and hanging about saloons. Az was of the classy type of poker players and could jingle a few coins0in his pock et. Shorty rarely had as much 8s a plugged nick el and on this occasion Az was rubbing it in by displaying two silver dollars he rubbed fogether between thumb and fingerp while Shorty told him what he thought of a lowdown gambler in the rare classics of speech known only to frontier days. ° » 0* • One to whom 200 million Muscovites had looked as to diety has met the common fate of all men. Thee multitudes passed by the richly adorned bier where crownless and scepterless their god lay. "a robe of purple round a form of clay." The dictator dies but not dictation. One ruthless hand is cut down; another takes over. • n * * ° O I met a friend this morning, incidentally mentioning to him that! had just come from the statehouse. His reaction was prompt. No use to go either to the statehouse, courthouse or city hall, said he, assuming I had as a mission to the state house seeking a favor, which I was not but mere ly to call a mjnute on Senator Nelson before the legislative session convened and a visit to other friends holing up for pay at the state capital. But my friend expressed the feeling pretty generally manifest among citizens. It’s no use. Delegations from O’Neill will tell you that. The attitude of state officials is that they represent the state as a whole and feel no obligation toward a given community. But Nebraska made up of com munities. By turning & deaf ear to proposals of representatives from communities who have a le gitimate claim upon consideration of their needs is done for°the state as a whole because nothing is done for communities. Such is the situation too often in the city and county. * * * The independent guy is about as dependent 0as the pther fellow. . . The expressions of sorrow over the passing of Stalin from some quarters have the hollow sound of a report on what was the matter when the airplane plunged to earth. ... A poor guy in Maryland, an American coun terpart of the French Jean Valjean, was sent to jail for 18 months for swiping a bottle of milk. Editorial . . . * © 0 o °A Good Investment O'' The American Cancer society is again conclud ing its annual campaign for funds in this com munity. In considering the request for contribu tions, most people, it is pretty certain, will ask themselves just how important it is that they give to this cause. Can they also ask with justification, “I’ve given year after year and still we’re threatened by cancer?” P'ach man’s answer will°be his own. 0 Our answer is based on the one word, “hope.” It must be remembered that the long hard road of research can turn at any moment. A look at the record of scientific achievement will dem onstrate this better than anything else. The death rate from rheumatic fever declined 53 percent between 1944 and 1950, the last year for which figures o are available. Deaths from o pneumonia and influenza declined 47 percent in the same period. From 1944 to 1949 appendicitis deaths were cut 53.7 percent and the scarlet fever death rate dropped 70 nercent. The over-all death 'rate in the U.S. was re duced 15 percent from 1937 to 1950. This repre sents a saving of 1,763,347 lives. This tremendous improvement is directly due to the development of the sulfa drugs, penicillin and other antibiotics. But these wondrous jailers of infection did not leap full blown from the minds of their creat ors. They were the results of many patient years of plodding investigations. I---— S' And so, too, can it be with cancer. If the pub lic can provide funds to keep the scientists at work long enough they will find the complete answer. Already, half of those who develop can cer could be saved by early diagnosis and prompt treatment. More than $4,100,000 was allocated to re search by the American Cancer society in 1952. The ACS expects to increase the figure this year. When you are asked to give, do it with great expectations — with the knowledge that cancer can be conquered and with the ever constant hope that it will be soon! 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, $3 per year; abroad, rates provided on request. AJ1 subscriptions are strictly paid-in-advance. o ------ -— y o Holt Soil Conservation District o SUPERVISORS RAYMOND HEISS-Chairman ST/JJLEY LAMBERT - Vice-Chairman ELMER JURACEK-Secretary-Treasurer ELMER ALLYN _ Member CLARENCE ERNST_i_Member o o'® o @ ® FINANCIAL STATEMENT 0 I. Cash balance on hand_$ 5.83 0 II. Inventory— Equipment --- 4,853.11 Materials - 1,592.02 o o Bills Receivable_ 784.08 III. Total' assets of district____ <s 7 99a 91 IV. Bills payable ___"__ ’7^44 V. Net worth of district _:_g. ,>_ ■_ 6,509.77 00 o ® . " • ’ Volume of business— Total receipts during year___$17,578 88 Total expenditures during year_$17,705.51 O o © ^ 0 MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE ! O _ I l o Trees— Everg^ens----J'_3.00 per hundred All other trees and shrubs---2.50 per hundred 3 o o * • * ° o ■ o 0 o TREE PLANTING c 5sn"i nnn ~-300 Per hundred ° 1 100'l 500 --;---2-75 Per hundred i'fifin i’25 “------2.50 per hundred „ 2,800-3,500 .. '. o nn ?! hundred ° 4.000-5 000 *2? Per fUndred , 0 5.800 or over-- -_ 1.50 per hundred ' f 0 o GRASS SEED o ° Lincoln type bromegrass, 30c; Landcaster certiifed bromegrass 45c crested wheatgrass, 50c; timothy, 25c; western wheatgrass, 75c- interme diate wheatgrass 70c-75c; tall wheat, 75c; Reed’s canary grass, 55c; alfalfa, , 35c= red clover’ 45c; Alsike clover, 65c; Ladino clover, S1.20- sweet clo Yetch. 20c-25c; sand lovegrass, 80c-$1.00; switchgrass, S1.00-$l 25 All seed state tested for purity and germination. Seed cleaning—grass, legumes and small grains, $4.00 per hour. This means o about le-3cper lb. on legumes; 5c-15c per bu. on small grains. J 'rrT!11!r--25c per acre plus $1 per day |k!'Y 0-°-25c Per acre plus $1 per day Seeder Treader-—o-30c per acre plus ^ per day 0 Combine-on share harvest of grass and legume seed Ac-o-S °_ ° o 0 0 ' ' ___ ( o o o o cP o ° o o o Ex-Congressman Buffett Speaks Former Nebraska Congressman 1 Howard Buffett last Thursday urged the Northeastern Nebraska County Officials’ association to give the Eisenhow’er administra tion time to clean up “evils in government.” The Omaha banker said it will take at least six months to merely catalog “evils” built yp during democratic administra tions. He was speaking gt the Amer ican Legion auditorium before a luncheon audience, including 180 delegates — a record attendance for the officials’ organization. In the address, which he called the most important he had made anywhere, Mr. Buf fett told the officials they have no responsibility for what goes on inside Russia. “Global things are God’s,” Mr. Buffett said. “It is not ordained for us to intervene.” He quoted President Eisen how’er, General MacArthur, for mer President Hoover and Sen ator Taft (Rep., O*.) as saying that America was in no danger of attack by foreign powers or combinations of powers. “More than a year ago Gener al MacArthur asserted that ‘no foreign power or combination of powers could successfully invade A.merica.’ “Hoover declared ‘America is like a Gibraltar. There should be no measure of doubt in anyone’s mind but that we can defend our country against an enemy crossing either the Atlantic or the Pacific.’ “The real problem today for America is internal strain—try ing to carry the world on our shoulders,” Mr. Buffett declared. “Our reckless foreign Rplicy bargains for 6 percent of the earth’s population to police and to finance the world.” Tracing events leading to two world wars and the Kor ean conflict, Mr. Buffett said: "Each intervention abroad, in tended to bring about peace, served only to further the cause of communism/' He labeled as “folly” a foreign policy that three times in 35 years has projected America in to conflicts on foreign soil which cost “sacred American lives.” Mr. Buffett contended that “our entrance into both world wars was provoked by ill advice, fenzy and flag waving.” Germany, a nation which for centuries had resisted Russia, we left prostrate, he said. And we crushed and stripped Japan, which had the know-how and ability to stop Russian ex pansion, he added. Twice during the past 10 years the government has reached in to O’Neill, for example, and pressed the cream of young manhood into military service. Time was when the colleges and universities represented the paci fist viewpoint. That’s all changed now. With military training pro grams carried out on scores of campuses and with a view to the educational spending in the Vet erans administration, our col leges and universities now find preparedness and war both pro fitable. The militaristic state is doom ed to decay and destruction. His tory records such a fate for ev ery nation that has embraced full militarism. ‘The Monroe doctrine was a blessing. For over a century it has kept the lamps of liberty burning. I believe in the Monroe doctrine and in military spend ing for whatever is necessary. “In Rome, American money has built a railroad station that is grander than New York’s Grand Central. French rail work ers are retired at the age of 55 on pensions and there are more pensioners on the railroad pay rolls of France than there are workers — thanks to American benevolence. “Only five countries of the 60 in the United Nations have con scripted troops in Korea and the U.S. is carrying 90 percent of the load. Canada and Mexico have not sent conscripted troops troops abroad for over 30 years. ---' ' The Sandhills Foremost CATTLE AUCTION SALE EVERY TUESDAY HOG AUCTION: Starting at 11 O'Clock A.M. CATTLE AUCTION: Starting at 1 O'Clock P.M. Under the same mangement for over 20 years. Bonded— Insured —Reliable For Highest Net Results — Sell Them at Atkinson Atkinson Livestock Market Atkinson, Nebr. Ernie Weller General Manager Phone 5141 o “On the floor of congress back in 1947 I pointed out that Korea would be the logical place for the reds to start something.” Buffett criticized Chief of Staff Omar Bradley for a recent com ment with reference to Korea. Buffett attributed this., to Brad ley: “ ‘We are in the wrong war, with the wrong people, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.’ ’’ He said this was a poor ex planation for the predicament in Korea coming from the highest offfcer in the defense deparment. “This is a time of crises—one after another,” Buffett conclud ed. “I urge you to be good citi zens, good Christians and good Americans.” ° The former congressman told the county officials that local county government is the best in the world. “I wish the govern ment in Washington was half as good. There is no finer group of public servants anywhere than in the midwestern county court house.” He warned them to be pre pared for more inflation and to be watchful and personally sol vent for the difficult days ahead." . Topic of the ex-congressman’s talk was, “The Key to Our Fu ture." j The speech was generally well received although some in the audience politically oppos ed to Buffett took exception to some of the statements. Louis G. Riibe of Hartington, republican treasurer of Cedar county, commented: “Mr. Buffett points up the fact that we’ve been taken for a ride. His (Buf fett’s) reasoning certainly sets one to thinking.” Harry' Heath of Norfolk, Mad ison county commissioner, was named president of the associa tion. He succeeds Frank Cronk of Page. Other new officers are Albert Schick of Blair, vice-president, and Edward Stevens of Hartingr, ten, secretary-treasurer. The fall meeting of the asso ciation will be held at Colum bus. STUART NEWS Miss Vista Mitchell came from Omaha on Saturday, M a r h c h 7, to visit with home folks. She returned to Omaha Monday night. Don Shald and Kenny Baten horst, students at Creighton university in Omaha, visited over the week-end, March 7 with home foRts. Fred Coats, student at the state university, Lincoln, visited over the weekend, March 7, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norris Coats. A 3c Edmund R. Kaup is new stationed in Mississippi and is taking a course in electronics. Pvts. Ivo Shald, Jim Chaney and Alfred Stracke, who were stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ark., spent a 10-day furlough with home folks. Emil Mashek, Connie Murphy and Fred Mitchell left for Camp Crowder, Mo., as draftees on . ... ......... Monday, March 9. Miss Mildred Kaup, student nurse in St. Catherine’s hospital, at Omaha came Friday, March 6, and spent the weekend with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Kaup. Price Receives Combat Badge— I The combat infantryman badge for excellent performance of duty under fire in Korea re cently was awarded to Pfc. Stanislaus D. Price, son of Mr. Notice to Taxpayers I have been appointed lo cal assessor for O’Neill City and will be located during the day time in the assem bly room in the basement of i the Court House to help you ! with your personal tax schedule. If you can bring o your last year’s copy it will I be of some help. H. W. TOMLINSON Assistant Assessor — cs and Mrs. Ernest Price of O’Neill. He is a member of the second infantry division, which captured “Heartbreak Ridge” in October, 1951, and took “Old Baldy” last July. Price joined the second last December and is now assigned as a rifleman with the Ninth in fantry regiment’s company G. Phones 316 and 304 DR. H. L. BENNETT VETERINARIAN — O'NEILL — Frontier for printing! 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