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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1953)
O’NEILL DRIVE IN - THEATER •B 1 ♦♦ • __ 111 Friday & Saturday — June 12-13 Sunday & Monday — June 14-15 Tuesday & Wednesday — June 16-17 Thursday, June 18 Wm. Ludigan, Jane Greer, Milzi Gaynor, j u ."l . . “THE RAIDERS” »'»i‘r?N^'"VuT. “DARK COMMAND” (Family Night) A ,_r “DOWN AMONG THE “THUNDER HOOF” A good Western the entire family SHELTERING PALMS” Clair Trevor and Walter Pidgeon. * , will enjoy! A technicolor^feas^of musm ^and mermaids. This is a historical Story of early days. ADDEDS SHORTS ij _ ADDED SHORTS ADDED SHORTS ADDED SHORTS $1 Per Carload ^aBBOTHe^wmmmmmmm Ewing News o Mr. and Mrs. Roland Horde entertained the following guests at a 6 o’clock dinner on decora tion day: Mr. and Mrs. Steven Shavlik of Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Switzer and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Gunter, Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Gunter and Verdel Gunter and family and sons, all of Ewing; Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Plog and family of Geneseo, 111., Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Nelson and family of Plainview and Mr. and Mrs. De witt Hoke and children of Ew ing. Mrs. May Gemmill, accompan ied by her son, Fay Gemmill, has arrived in Ewing to spend the summer at her home here. Mr. Gemmill will return to Lander after a short vacation from his duties at a creamery there. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mer chant and son, Richard, of Fre mont were guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Harris. They also called at the William J. Harris and Carl Christon homes. Mrs. Edna Lofquest entertain ed the following guests at dinner on Sunday: Her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Robert browning of Madison; her brother and sis ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller, and Mrs. Alice Miller of 'Ewing. In the afternoon the par ty went to Orchard where they attended the 55th wedding an niversary celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Browning. Weekend guests at the home ci Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bergstron were Mr. and Mrs. Clarenct Bergstrom of Omaha and then son, Leonard Bergstrom of Lo> Angeles, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Borden of Washington, D.C., accompanied by their son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Norvel Bor den, who live in the East, are guests at the home of Mrs. Bor den’s sister, Miss Elizabeth Eg gleston. The Bordens made their home for many years in Ewir.g before moving to Washington, D.C. A family picnic dinner was enjoyed by the Bergstrom family on decoration day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bergstrom in north Ewing. In attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bergstrom of Omaha, Leonard Bergstrom of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Jessie Bittner and son, Clarence, of Plainview, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Munn and children and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Berg strom and family of Ewing. Af ternoon guests were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Napier and chil dren. Richard Tanner, DN, of the navy from San Diego, Calif, is spending a 30-day leave at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cecil Bergstrom. Mr. and Mrs. John Walker en tertained the following guests at dinner on memorial day: Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Walker and fam ily of Page, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Walker and family and Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Graig and family, all of Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baum, sr., Diane and David went to Lin coln on Sunday to spend the day with Henry Baum, jr., and their daughter, Miss Christine Baum They had aJ picnic dinner at the Pioneer park, then spent a few hours at the Capitol beach and later visited Antelope park. Miss Christine, who is a student nurse at St. Catherine hospital, accom panied them home for a two weeks vacation. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hobbs spent decoration day at O’Neill, Lowell Jensen and Duane Hobbs are employed at Portland, Ore. The boys are touring the country, working in various lo calities as they pass through. Johnny Binkerd from Lack land air base, Tex., was a 6 o’ clock dinner guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Angus on Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Angus met their son, A/3c Maxie D. Angus, at Grand Island on , Friday. He spent the weekend I with them. He is stationed at the F. E. Warren air base in Wy oming. Stop Taking Harsh Drugs for Constipation End Chronic Dosing! Regain Normal Regularity This Ail-Vegetable Way! Taking harsh drugs for constipation can punish you brutally! Their cramps and griping disrupt normal bowel action, make you feel in need of re peated dosing. When you occasionally feel consti pated, get gentle but sure relief. 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And Governor Robert Crosby, who didn’t get very far with his legislative proposals, had words of praise for the session. “This legislature has distin guished itself in refusing to duck problems. They’ve hit every one of them—taxation, assess ment, university, highways. You might not agree with their solu tions in every case but you have to admit they actually did some thing,” Crosby said admiringly. The governor said that what made him happiest was that it begins to look like the state will take less in property taxes this year than last. Crosby has con sistently preached a policy of "restraint" in goverment spend ing. Crosby said that two other factors besides “restraint” had to be given credit. One was that there were favorable balances in the various departments. The other, said the governor, was that the legislature budget committee, held down increases for most departments. This was a bit different tack from a speech the governor made over the radio some weeks ago in which he wished the budget committee had been able to hold appropriations down closer to his recommendations. That speech didn’t go over well at all with Sen. Arthur Carmody of Trenton, the committee chairman, and other committee members. A study he had made showed that the budget committee stuck to his recommendations in all but 12 cases, the governor said. This legislature has set new records all over the place. Such as most bills introduced, 594, or 13 more than the previous uni cameral record set in 1937. Or days in session. This was virtually certain to be topped. The old uni cameral record was set in 1939. when the legislature met until June 7, for a total of 111 legis lative days. The 1953 group had met 102 days even before mem orial day. * * * Accomplishments— Besides being credited with passing what promised to be a 194 million dollar overall budget, the legislature could look back on these accomplishments. Tax ation—Passing the 50 percent as sessments law to meet the situa tion created when the supreme court said tax laws have to be obeyed. The group refused to re peal the law even though Gov ernor Crosby asked it to. High ways—Passing a one cent gas tax increase law and hiking license fees. This brought praise from State Engineer L. N. Ress who said “this legislature had given us a highway program for the next two years that will result in the improvement of our state highway system. New levies— Passing a quarter-mill levy to improve the University of Nebr aska college of medicine and ap proving a half-mill levy to put the teachers’ retirement fund on a sound financial basis. In addition, the legislature changed the primary dates to May in presidential elections years and to August in the off-years; took the county clerks and assess ors off the county boards of equal ization; and abolished the pre primary conventions. This was a bill introduced by O’Neill’s State Sen. Frank Nelson and “shot at” two or three times by opponents before final reading. • * * Total Budget Record— Another all-time record was hung up by the legislature—the overall budget. Actually, this fact was mislead ing. The general fund portion of the budget, that which comes from property tax dollars, is ex pected to be down from that re quired two years ago. The figure last biennium was $58 million. As George Syas of Omaha, a member of the budget committee, took pains to point out, the total budget includes such things as money from ticket sales to Uni versity of Nebraska football games, as well as tuition fees and revenues from taxes, not to men tion all the federal money allocat to Nebraska state agencies to spend. * * * Unchanged— But huge as it seemed, the bud get bill stood like the Rock of Gibraltar against any attempts to change it. This was largely a tribute to budget committee chairman, Ar thur Carmody of Trenton and his group. In fact, the legislators warmly applauded Carmody as he finished reading his budget mess age. But more than empty words of praise came from the legislators as they stood by the Carmody budget and refused to change any of it. Sen. Dwight Burney of Hart ington tried to alter it—once to increase the safety patrol appro priation by $125,(WO and later to scissor $500,000 off the University of Nebraska’s $15 million general fund allocation. But the senators would have none of it. Carmody explained that his budget— like all government bud gets— was a compromise between what the agencies think they need to do their work properly and, on the other hand, what the tax payers can stand. The Trenton senator said that another factor his committee kept in mind this year was “the end of the inflat ionary spiral,’’ signalled by falling farm prices and other signs of a leveling-off of the economy. • * * Schools— Not joining too loudly in the chorus of praise, however, was State Superintendent F. B. Deck er. Although the legislature passed a number of laws improving the school situation, Decker felt they ducked the key to the whole pro blem—reorganization. The nearest thing to it was a watered down contract-halt ing law. Its five-year provision gives too much margin. Decker said. When the legislature passes some laws to bring about speedy reorganization, then you’ll find a lot of our problems disappear ing—teacher shortage, low teach ing standards, high per-pupil costs, Mr. Decker declared. * * » Teacher— With the July meeting of the state board of equalization near ing, Governor Crosby embarked on a campaign of “educating the public on what inequalities in assessments in past years have done to the people of Nebraska.” The governor started a series of press conferences in which he planned to discuss county-by county the “glaring errors” of inequalities. He said he was par ticularly interested in showing that some classes of citizens pay as much as two or three times in taxes what other “favored groups” pay on the same value of property. Douglas, Richardson, Hall, and Dawes were high on his list of counties to be discussed, the gov ernor remarked. He said this was a moral problem where taxes were paid inequally. * * * Compromise— Another thing the legislature finally decided not to budge on was its motor vehicle license fee increase bill. Action on this bill, LB 259, had see-sawed all during the session. First it was held for weeks by the revenue committee. When it finally came out on the floor and met its first test, it required days of debate. At one point, the truck ers, fighting to keep down in —■'i | creases on the big trucks, had a j victory dinner. But this proved , premature as the legislature turn ed around and pegged the in | creases somewhere near where they had been in the original bill; Tired of wrangling, the major ity o f the state senators stayed with, the amended bill. Various attempts were made— most notably by two Lincoln state senators—Britt—to scale down the increases, I especially on automobiles and small trucks. But they ran into a stone wall of resistance. A major reason was that the legislature had finally okayed another controversial measure, the 5 percent truck tolerance bill. This was generally considered an “anti dote” bill for increases to the truckers’ fees. In fact, Sen. Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff, tried to get them paired to pass at the same time. No friends of the truckers lobby but anxious that the tolerance bill pass so the senatorial friends of the truckers wouldn’t scuttle LB 259, Carpenter said he thought both should be passed “as is.” But some senators, resentful of the implication that either bill was a compromise on their part, voted him down. The only cloud on the horizon was Gov. Robert Crosby who said he had considerable advice asking him to veto the truck tolerance bill. His own appointee, State Engineer L. N. Ress, had written | a letter to the legislature stating ! that passage of this bill would ; allow heavier loads on the high ways and thus bring more high way and bridge construction cost. And Crosby’s predecessor, former Gov. Val Peterson, vetoed a sim ilar bill two years ago. * * * Issue— Fiery Terry Carpenter may have found himself a real issue in the controversial corporation stock taxation problem. The supreme court said certain kinds of cor porations would have to obey a clause of the state law calling for the share holders of their stock paying the intangible tax. The corporations then urged the leg islature to pass LB 411, which would let them pay the tax. But Carpenter said this was only a I hoax because the “formula” for taxation of these particular cor porations is such that after all the deductions are taken out, neither company nor shareholders pays the tax. In two long explanatory speeches in the legislature, Car penter said he didn’t doubt the companies wanted the law passed when it wouldn’t tax either them or their shareholders. And when his efforts appeared to no avail and the legislature went right ahead and advanced the bill, Terry shouted, “I’ll go up and down this state, I’ll appear on television and in person, and I’ll tell them what you’ve done here.” * * * Tempers— As the legislature drew «to a close, tempers often became short and long wrangles held. One day the group discussed the federal income tax, and another day an attempt was made to raise the sales tax issue again. But the group did decisively vote down 7-29 a bill which would have restricted liquor advertis ing—called a “special interest” bill by its opponents. And they voted Hebron $40,000 to help it rebuild its tornalo-wrecked high school. They also decided to ap propriate $10,000 each to the fam ilies of three highway safety pa trolmen killed in line of duty. But the legislature just could n't bring itself to let the public know how it votes in committee. For the second time this session the group voted down a sugges tion that committee votes be an nounced by name. Some mem bers insisted they had “sacred rights” to keep their votes secret and that this was the only way to protect them from attack“after voting our consciences in com mittee.” Pfc. Norbert Dobias of Pendle ton, Calif., arrived Tuesday to visit his aunt, Mrs. Herbert Kai ser, and family, and then he left to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Dobias, at Atkinson. He has been on a furlough. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vequist visited at Lyle Vequist’s Friday evening. r—-------— — — — — To Girls' State Miss Esther Kaiser left Tues day morning for girls’ state in Lincoln. She accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ben Vonasek and Janet and Ruthie of Star. Mary Chvala of Lynch, also a girls’ state rep resentative, accompanied Miss Janet Vonasek, likewise a dele gate. DANCE SUMMERLAND at Ewing ; Friday, June 12 Rodney Morrise Orchestra Plans Fall Wedding Mr. and Mr. Charles Sum mers of O’Neill announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Rosalie, to Boyd Resse1, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry £. Ressel of O’Neill. The couple plans a fall wedding.—O’Neill Photo Co. USED EQUIPMENT BARGAINS 1950 Model A John Deere Tractor $1,395 Starter, lights, power lift, 12.38 tires in good condition. 1946 Model B John Deere Tractor„ $695 With starter and lights. 1939 F-20 Farmall Tractor _ $475 Good rubber, good mechanical condition. 1937 F-20 Farmall Tractor_ $425 High gear, good condition. 1946 Power-Takeoff 12-A John Deere Combine_$325 10-C International Hammermill_$175 LLOYD COLLINS . .. O’Neill f THE FRONTIER, O'Neill. Nebr.. Thurs.. June 11, 1953.—PAGE 9. ELKHORN FLOWER SHOP j 405 E. DOUGLAS ST. O’NEILL, NEBR. j Night Phone 530W Day Phone 579 j We Telegraph Flowers Flowers For All Occasions } L_j RUPTURE Rupture Appliance Specialist Harry G. 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