Prairieland Talk . . .
Lights vs. Heavies in Classic
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS
ljincul,n—xt was a cc'u day if the fellows
preceding the present generation couldn’t stir up
some fun in O’Neill. The ball and bat were re
sorted to frequently.
At one time the heavyweights about town
challenged the lightweights to cross bats with
them. Here was the lineup: Heavyweights— R.
J. Marsh, catcher; D. H. Cronin,
pitcher; George Triggs on first,
Frank Campbell on second and
Jer.-y McCarthy, third base; T.
V. Golden, shortstop; Steve Mc
Nichols, John Harmon and M.
M. Sullivan, fielders. Light
weights— Jim Triggs, catcher;
Joe Horiskev, pitcher; E. R. Ad
ams on first, John Lewis on
second and Joe Meredith on
third base; Ed Eves, shortstop;
Pat McManus. Walt Keeler and
O. F. Biglin, fielders. Romaine
The score showed 28 runs Saunders
for the heavyweights, 29 for the lightweights. S.
J. Weekes took the risk of umpiring the game.
* * *
A gent down at Clay Center has it figured
out how to provide for his household and meet
living costs half way. He has engaged in
the business of making and marketing catfish
bait. . . Goveror Crosby doesn’t get along too
well with the legislature, and nobody could
blame them if the county assessors of the state
would resign in a body or go ahead on their
own and ignore it all. . . Boys in a Catholic school
m Omaha have organized groups to act as “traf
fic cops’’ and are helping out by directing traffic
in conjested districts of that city. . . Saw a young
fellow from Texas on the street yesterday who
had come to Nebraska to get cooled off, saying
it was scorching hot down that way. . . And a
former Nebraskan, with his wife and two chil
dren, got a bit homesick up there in eastern
Washington, and are here for a month’s stay. . .
The sport season got going for the Western
league when Lincoln’s baseball club known as
Chiefs had their first game at Des Moines in
mid-April.
• * •
North Platte voters elected a patriot for
mayor who starts his administrative reform
movement by closing the synagogues of Satan
about town, of which the city of the Platte was
reputed to have plenty.
* * *
“This is not a way of life, in any true sense.
Under the clcfud of threatening war it is human
ity hanging from an iron cross.” President Eisen
hower, in an eloquent plea for world order, em
ployed the figure of a cross in a vividly moving
word picture of the cost of war and war ma
chines, pointing out what the millions that even
one engine of destruction costs would build in
homes and institutions of learning. Money that
war costs can be replaced; but the blood and
tears and heartache and human misery are not
computed in money. He calls upon the leaders
taking over in Russia and those in red China to
sheath the sword and show honest endeavor for
peace, the human cry for a safe and sane way of
life. It is either this or annihilation. The presi
dent’s cross of iron is a reminder of William
Jennings Bryan’s cross of gold, and as that fig
ure stood for a rallying cry of a political group in
1896 Mr. Eisenhower’s cross of iron may be the
call to save humanity from the abyss.
• • *
At one point in the political knock down and
drag out in Holt county the opposition thought
they had to do something to throw a wet blanket
on the popularity of the author of the section
homestead law. So they went after the individ
ual with a fictitious charge of playing upon the
heartstrings of a maiden lady of the community
to the tune of breach of promise to marry. The
lady involved, then in Council Bluffs, la., wrote
to us of The Frontier denying that there had
ever been any matrimonial designs on her on the
part of the gent involved, and the Hon. Moses P.
Kinkaid rested easy, carried every election and
his popularity expanded.
I warned ioaav aiung a whwj ***— —
me to a secluded glen. Concrete wearied feet
touched the almost sacred soil of Mother Earth
and high overhead slender bars of clouds floated
like the planes of men in the sea of golden sun
light. From the earth I look out into the depth of
that silent sea and for a moment partake of the
enchantment of eternity. Trees that border the
glade into which I have wandered reach aspiring
arms upward as if to dip into that sea of light.
Birds awing dart heavenward to revel in the
sunlight and come again to earth to build their
homes. Insect life had begun to stir after months
of lying dormant. Ants, the great builders, were
at work; they make no noise about it but do
things. Bees, mosquitoes and other little animated
things let us know of their activities. An hour
out where nature speaks to the soul, care and
life’s worries flee away as though they had never j
been.
» * *
The ladies have taken over the work of as
sessing fhe householders of Lincoln, going from
door-to-door with their pads cf schedules. One
of them got around to my son's home a few
minutes before bed time last night, jotted down
ages, possessions and bank balance but not in
terested in bills due and payable.
* * *
If you heard the music ringing, not in the
bright celestial dome, but from out across the
country a d3y recently, that was when a couple
thousand musically minded high school kids got
together down at Wayne and let go on the tunes
of the day. . . Lincoln barbers have some song
birds, organized into quartets and hooked up
with a national organization of vocal performers.
Among the tonsorial artists John Smoot was 60
years too soon as an O’Neill barber. . . Two thou
sand Burlington railroad workers in the Lincoln
area have taken a cut of three cents an hour in
pay, action based on government figures on to
day’s living costs. . . Searching for the thing to
put a stop to the ravages of polio has cost todate
$18,000,000. . . Surviving disciples of the late
George Norris are putting on a memorial ban
quet next month in Omaha, Senator Morse, the
insurgent from Oregon being annouced as the
speaker. . . Weather forecast was for “nearly
normal.” Next day—70-mile wind.
* * *
As quoted by a writer in the Nebraska His
tory magazine, E. S. Newman, who was living in
retirement in El Paso, Tex., after having operat
ed cattle ranches in Texas, Wyoming, Nebraska
and Montana, was visited by Bill Miller of Bur
well, a one-time trail rider for the Newman out
fit, who says: “I asked him if he ever found any
range that would equal the sandhills of Nebras
ka and he said no.” F. M. Widner, one of the big
operators in the cattle business in Holt county
40 years ago, said the reason the sandhills coun
try was ideal for cattle ranches is the fact that it
furnishes both summer and winter feed.
Congressman Miller has suggested to
those interested that they form a legal Nio
brara irrigation district. Despoil nature to
raise a few more spuds for Uncle Sam to dump
into the seas!
• * *
Taxation of church property is agitated in
some states. Exempting religious interests from
the tax rolls is of ancient origin. It was about the
year 500 B.C., that the then world sovereign,
Artaxerxes, who styled himself “king of kings,”
from his throne in old Babylon promulgated this
decree when the Hebrews were returning to their
homeland after 70 years in exile: “That touching
any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters,
Nethinims or ministers of this house of God, it
shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute or cus
tom upon them.”
* * *
With one negative vote, the Lincoln city
council has gone back to the blue laws age. An
ordinance closing business places on Sunday has
become law. That certain exemptions are provid
ed for makes any reference to religious senti
ment look ridiculous. It springs from business in
terests that want a day off and they don’t want
others in their line of business to pick up a few
dollars while they close up.
Editorial . . .
Its Don’t Count in Korea
Many Americans are deriving more bitter
ness than joy from the exchange of prisoners in
Korea. The cry of “appeasement” is raised again,
and some citizens advocate the breaking off of
any negotiations with the reds.
It is entirely natural for people to be arous
ed by reports of cruelty. And certainly every
thing possible must be done to halt it and punish
it. But it is also essential to consider what is
possible—and to get all the facts and to put them
in perspective. There are too many politicians
and too many newspapers seeking to exploit
public anger recklessly—even to halting the re
turn of prisoners or needlessly enlarging the
casualty lists.
Sharp indeed is the disappointment of rela
tives who had hoped for the return of a son,
brother, or husband who has not been released.
Certainly everything possible should be done by
the United Nations command to make sure the
reds deliver all the sick or wounded prisoners
they held. It was good news when the reds
agreed to release more prisoners. Surely every
possibility of air transport for those difficult to
move—of which the UN also holds some—should
be explored.
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who are most bitter — or most ready with de
mands for breaking off negotiations. It is citizens
angered by red brutality and duplicity, annoyed
by a sense of frustration and fully aware of the
grim alternatives in Korea. Sometimes, too, they
are simply reacting to partial, irresponsible re
ports, without getting an accurate picture of the
situation.
For instance, anger over the small number of
prisoners returned by the communists is lessened
when it is realized that proportionate to the to
tals held the reds are returning more than the
UN. So, too, with the stories of brutality and
neglect. Nothing of the kind should be excused.
But it must be remembered that these prisoners
wpuld not be coming home now had not the reds
cared for them at some cost and trouble to them
selves. Apparently, as a rule such care matched
that given by the Chinese to their own soldiers
Even the reported “death march” took place
under battle conditions and in an area where
Chinese standards of food, transport, and care
governed. If the prisoners could have been left
near the front—if American planes had not been
strafing columns moving in daylight and cutting
down down supplies—if the standards of fooa,
transport, and care to which American soldiers
are accustomed had been available, the new
wave of hatred against the Chinese would make
0 o more sense.
If the UN could enforce a demand for a Red
Cross inspection of communist prison camps—
if the UN could require a full accounting of all
the missing men—if all who have been responsi
ble for brutality or neglect could be punished—
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if the breaking off of negotiations today would
not blast hopes for those still to be returned—
if the people who cry “appeasement” could win
the war in Korea and impose their will on the
communists, the bitterness currently expressed
might be turned to more useful ends.
But ifs don’t count in Korea. The civilian and
military leaders of the nation—both parties—
have come to the conclusion that the alternatives
to negotiation are stalemate or far heavier fight
ing. The experience with the prisoners again un
derscores the choice and asks those who oppose
negotiation to offer a better wray.
If the air force wind geniuses had been here
abouts during the past fortnight they would not
have wanted for ample breezes to study. They’d
had an opportunity to apply their sensitive in
struments on anything up to 50-miles-per-hour.
Next year, perhaps, we’ll be visited by Arctic
explorers with a special interest in 18-ft. deep
snowbanks.
Anyway, O’Neill citizens emphatically have
made known their feelings regarding a swim
ming pool. There was eloquence yet simplicity
in the pleadings of the kids who for the past
several weeks have been soliciting pool support
from their elders.
Lush lawns in mid-Nebraska along the Platte
river are being sheared for the first or second
time. Remarkable difference one hundred miles
north makes. Only O’Neill’s artificially nurtured
lawns are even green!
High school kids, contemplating a busy sum
mer, already are soliciting jobs from merchants
and shopkeepers.
Memorial day is only a month away.
Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth SL
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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.
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When You and I Were Young . ..
Skeletons Found,
Murders Solved
Remains Identified by
Friends
50 Years Ago
At annual meeting of the O’
Neill fire department, the fol- j
lowing officers were elected: C. |
C. Reka, president; Merritt Mar- 1
tin, secretary, and James David- j
son, chief. . . Joe Ryan left for j
Hot Springs, S.D., to spend a j
two-weeks' vacation. . . An un- j
known exchange says “e” is the j
most unfortunate letter in the |
English alphabet because it is !
never in cash, always in debt ;
and never out of trouble. . . The
mystery surrounding the sudden
uisappearance of “Old Man”
Hill and son, Charles, in 1893,
was undoubtedly solved yester
day, as far as the son, Charles,
is concerned, when Charles Dai
ly plowed up a skeleton on his
tarm located on the south bank
of the Niobrara river' in Holt
county. The remains had been
buried face down, evidently in a
big hurry, and they were identi
fied by people who had known
him in life. It has always been
understood that the Holt county
vigilantes made away with the
Hills, but up until now no trace
of them was ever discovered
and it was the general supposi
tion that the vigilantes hung
them first and then sank their
bodies in the quicksand of the
Niobrara.
20 Years Ago
The Holt county baseball
league organized with John J.
Harrington elected as president
and W. J. Holliday of Stuart as
secretary and treasurer. The ad
mission fee to all games was
fixed at 25 cents. . . Thomas J.
Smith, who edited the first
newspaper published in the city
and Holt county, the Holt Rec
ord, died at the home of his
daughter at McCook at the age
of 87 years. . . Charles Hancock
and Miss Mable Buxton eloped
on April 1 at Lake Andes, S.D.
. . , Clarence Bergstrom'return
ed from Sioux City where he
submitted to an operation re
cently. . . Walt Stein, Fred
Saunto and Howard Bauman
went to South Bend, Ind., to
bring back some new cars.
10 Years Ago
Pfc. Henry Reimer of the air
base at Kingman, Ariz., spent a
15-day furlough with his par
ents, Judge and Mrs. Louis Rei
mer. . . Sam Lofquest and Lois
Siders, the 4-H club winners, re
ceived awards at the Sioux City
Stock Yards company and Crete
Mills and were paid $12 in war
stamps. . . Mrs. Ben Asher left
for Neosha, Mo., where she will
join her husband at Camp
Crowder. . . Miss Lois McKenzie,
a student nurse at St. Vincent’s
hospital, Sioux City, spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde McKenzie, sr. . .
Miss Dorothy Christensen and
Guy Pinkerman were married on
April 24. . . At a special meet
ing the city council purchased
$25,000 worth of war bonds as
an investment for the city.
One Year Ago
O’Neill purchased a new fire
truck for $15,000. . . Four Boy
Scouts were advanced to star
Scouts. They are Daniel Put
nam, Frank Fetrow, Roger
Niemeyer and Ivan Kaiser. . .
Ninety-six rural teachers met at
the O’Neill public school for a
workship session. . . Mr. and
Mrs. Norman Gonderinger be
came parents of a son, Charles
Norman, born on April 26. . .
The Carl Asimus “goat farm” is
open to visitors on Sunday. Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Everitt are the
present occupants.
District Judge D. R. Mounts
and Ted McElhaney went to
Pawnee City Sunday morning
where they are holding court
this week.
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ROYAL THEATER
FrL-Sat. May 1-2
Randolph Scott
Amerioa’s Favorite Adventure
Star in His Biggest Adventure
of All! As
THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN
From Warner Bros, with all
its surging excitement! Also
star starring Patrice Wymore,
Dick Wesson, Philip Carey, Lina
Romay.
Adult 50c; children 12c; tax incl.
Matinee Sat. 2:30. Children un
der 12 free when accompanied
by parents.
Sun.-Mon.-Tues. May 3-4-5
Sir Walter Scott’s
IVANHOE
Color by technicolor. Starring
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor,
Joan Fontaine, Emlyn Williams,
George Sanders.
Adult 50c; children 12c; tax incl.
Matinee Sun. 2:30. Children un
der 12 free when accompanied
by parents.
Wed-Thurs. May 6-7
FEARLESS FAGAN
Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpen
ter, Keenan Wynn and introduc
ing Fearless Fagan (the famous
lion himself).
Family night. $1.00; adult 50c;
children 12c; tax incl.
Dr. Edw. J. Norwood, O.D.
Optometrist,
from Crawford, Nebraska,
will be in O'Neill on
MONDAY, MAY 11
9 Add. to 5 Pdd.
At the Hotel Golden
Glasses Properly Fitted
Eyes Scientifically
Examined
Farewell Tea for
Mrs. Esther Atkinson—
CHAMBERS — The Beautiful
Valley Garden club held a sur
prise tea and a handkerchief
shower Saturday, April 25, in
honor of Mrs. Esther Atkinson
at the home of Mrs. C. E. Tib
bets.
Upon her arrival at a “special
meeting.” as she had been told,
Mrs. Atkinson was completely
surprised when she was present
ed with a handsome jonquil cor
sage by the club president, Mrs.
Bernice Platt.
After an entertaining “quiz”
program conducted by Mrs. Ar
dith Robertson and Mrs. Jean
Hoffman, little Donis Hoffman
entered with a small, open, blue
silk umbrella, which she pre
sented Mrs. Atkinson as protec
tion against the copious down
pour of lovely handkerchiefs
showered upon her by the club j
members. In such variety of col
or and design, the handkerchiefs !
gleamed with all the tints of a j
summer garden.
The tea table was beautifully |
appointed with sparkling silver |
service and crystal, tall candles,
and a centerpiece of delicate '
blue spring iris. Mrs. C. E. Tib- j
bets and Mrs. C. V. Robertson
poured. Dainty cakes and sand
wiches were served.
The Atkinsons, who sold their
farm west of town last fall, have
purchased a home at McPher
son, Kans., where Mr. Atkinson
is now employed. The family
will move to McPherson in May,
after the boys complete the
school year here in Chambers.
Club members hope to be able
to accept Mrs. Atkinson’s invita
tion to visit them after they are
settled in their new home.
Tarry Gallagher
Adopted Shutin—
The Goldenrod extension club
met at the home of Mrs. Oliver
Ross on Wednesday evening,
April 15. We answered roll call
by telling our most embarrass
ing moment and of course this
provoked much merriment.
We voted to use our hobby
chine and then sell the articles
money to buy a hobby-knit ma
chine and then sell the articles :
which we can make with it.
Some of the members are plan
ing to visit Donna Mae Fuh
rer in the near future.
We turned in safety question
naires, and if any of the mem
bers still have theirs they are to
send them to Mrs. Vera McDer
mott by May 1. A potted plant
was sent to one of our members,
Mrs. William Luben. who has
been ill in a Sioux City hospi
tal. A May basket kit was also
sent to Terry Gallagher, our
adopted shutin.
Mrs. McDermott gave a report
on head colds and Mrs. Ressel
reported on the Korean situation.
The mystery box proved to
have only a stamp in it but the
game netted 52 cents as no one
could guess the clues.
The lesson for the evening was
given by Mrs. Ressel and Mrs.
Lee Brady, jr. We learned a
great deal about soaps, deter
gents, bleaches and water soft
eners.
Mrs. Ross served a lunch of
barbecued sandwiches, potato
chips, relishes and coffee.—By
Mrs. Neil Dawes.
REJOINS PENNEYS
Quentin Cavanaugh has re
j turned to the J. C. Penney or
| ganization after two years in the
army. He resumed' his work
Monday at the store here. Later
he will be assigned to a Penney
store elsewhere. Meanwhile,
Herman Janzing, assistant man
ager here, Monday began a
week’s, vacation.
McKee Now
Aboard Flagship—
ATKINSON—Recently reported
aboard the amphibious force flag
ship USS Mount McKinley was
Navy Lt. Neal S. McKee, son of
Dr. and Mrs. N. P. McKee of At
kinson.
He was formerly commanding
officer of the USS medium land
ing ship number 282, and later
executive officer of the USS med
ium rocket landing ship number
405 before reporting to the USS
Mount McKinley. Lieutenant Mc
Kee attended the Atkinson high
school and the University of
Nebraska at Lincoln.
The Mount McKinley recently
returned here after an 11 month
tour of duty in the Far East.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Knight and
Mr. and Mrs. Fora Knight were
Sunday dinner guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Loukota at
Gross.
Arrives from Missouri—
Earl Reed of Branson, Mo.»
spent several days here on busi
ness and visited relatives.
MONEY TO LOAN
ON
AUTOMOBILES
TRUCKS
TRACTORS
EQUIPMENT
FURNITURE
Central Finance
Corp.
C. E. Jones, Manager
O'Neill : Nebraska ■
O'NEILL DRIVE IN
Fri-Sal. May 1-2
“Wagons West”
•
A technicolor Western with
Rod Cameron and a big cast.
Added Shorts
Sun.-Mon. May 3-4
“Back at the
Front”
Willie and Joe with an
all star cast
See these two guys with the
Tokyo Geisha girls in a rip
pin’ comedy.
News and Shorts
4'
Tues.-Wed May S-G
“Island of Desire”
A South Sea adventure story
in color.
Added Shorts
Thursday May 7
“Scarlet Angel”
Yvonne DeCarlo and
Rock Hudson
A ravishing riot of fun in
New Orleans, in color.
Added Shorts
Charter No. 5770 Reserve District No. 10
Report of the Condition of the
O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK
of O’Neill, in the state of Nebraska, at the close of business on
APRIL 20, i 953 .o
Published in response to call made by Comntroller of the
Currency, under Section 5211, U.S. Revised Statutes
ASSETS
Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve
balance, and cash items in process of collection.$ 671,479.4£
United States Government obligations, direct and
guaranteed _ 2,272,264.07
Obligations of States and political subdivisions 52,467.20
Corporate stocks (including $4,500.00 stock of Federal
Reserve bank) _:_______ 4,500.00
Loans and discounts (including $363.24 overdrafts)_ 423,212.42
Bank premises owned $3,000.00 _I_ 3,000.00
Other assets_ 151.44
Total Assets_$3,427,074.62
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and
corporations___^$2,862,430 33
Deposits of United State Government (including postal
savings)_ 91,849 03
Deposits of States and political subdivisions_ 142,859 56
Deposits of banks_ 88,607 63
Total deposits___$3,185,746.55
Total Liabilities_ $3,185.746 55
CAPITAL ACCOUHTS
Capital Stock:
Common stock, total par $50,000.00 _$ 50,000.00
Surplus- 100,000.00
Undivided profits___ 91,328.07
Total Capital Accounts_ 241.328.07
Total Liabilities and Capital Accounts -..$3,427,074. <i2
MEMORANDA
Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for
other purposes _$ 440,000.00'
State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss:
I, J. B. Grady, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
_ J. B. GRADY, Cashier
Correst — ATTEST: F. N. Cronin, Julius D. Cronin, E. F. Quinn.
Directors.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of April, 1953.
and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this
bank.
R. H. PARKER, Notary Public.
(SEAL) My commission expires October 1, 1953
Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stockholders)
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