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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1953)
Prairi eland Talk . . . Bland Had Discipline, Anyway By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired. Former Frontier Editor LINCOLN—I went to school this morning. A long march down the corridors of time since I sat at a school desk in a room presided over by John Bland, a sallow-faced, hook-nosed preceptor with eagle eyes who had discipline to his credit, if nothing else. Today marked the beginning of school life for Prainelar-d Talker’s 5-year-old grandson, so I accompan-ed him for in trod uc tion into present day modes of directing the childish ideas how to shoot, starting in what is known as kindergarten. The ’ teachers were there to take charge of the small fry and place j them at tables where they spend »v a half day on the first lap of long school years ahead. And young America in large numbers marched down the hall ways this morning in a brick structure indeed a far cry from Remain* the sod seboolhouse of pioneer Saunders days. I talked with teachers and they take the re spon5.bh.ty placed upon them seriously. With a bit of the vision of a prophet as she looked at me, one teacher has come to the conclusion that life’s greatest lessons are learned in the school of ex perience, not in schoolrooms. * • • • Seated on a bench at the twilight hour that precedes the restful calm of night when the heat of that first day of the “mild September" had been hung on the hook of time’s highway, I was an early one at an open air meeting where we would hear the “Voice of Youth." And those youth we were to discover have something that transcends the frivolity and pleasures of the times. A lady sat down beside me. She had come to the open to escape the while from the confinement and heat of apartment life. We fell to talking. She was experiencing the thrill of having receiv ed that day a “big check"—not one of these old age assistance handouts, but a check for her share of last year’s corn crop her renter had handed her that morning. She owns the land a few miles out from Lincoln where her parents settled in 1866 after the close of the war between the states, where she and five others of the family were bom. And with emphasis that carries conviction this native daughter of prairieland said she would abide in Nebraska, her life-long home, un til the end of the journey. Her parents settled in a wide-open country as all pioneers did. There they made a home, bringing from time to time what supplies they could afford by mule team and wag on from Nebraska City. And this daughter of pio reeds cherishes the heritage left her. But listen! A young woman on the platform is speaking.’ We are brought back with a jolt to 1953! • * • Take courage. If you are a has-been there is stillhope. There will gather in Omaha October 1 [ for a three-day “panel discussion" a group known as Freedom congress. It is the first annual ses | sion. Among the array of notables to be there and participate in the council and address the gather ing will be Col Charles A. Lindberg, he of the silent tongue and aviation fame. Since the tragedy of the kidnaping and slaying of their child little has been heard of the Lindbergs. The appearance how of the great aviator in public is of special interest arid the themes to be discussed as suggest ed by the title of the organization were never more pertinent. Former President Hoover will be one of the speakers. And look who’s coming—that lady firebrand from Stonington, Conn., who has defied federal authorities and gotten away with it. Not since Florence Zink had that “grass widow” on exhibition at the state fair has this community been so well represented at the state s biggest show as comes up this year when the O’ Neill Saddle club enters the arena. My state fair pians provide for a day to cast a critical eye on the horsemanship of this generation of O'Neill riders and see how it compares with that of the cowpunchers of an earlier generation like Hay McClure. Tkn Bunnell and many others. We were ail bronco busters in those days and Jim Harring ton has a game leg to show for it. Ambrose Biglin is from the Wyoming ranges m recert years and he may have given club members tips on how to neck-rein a norse and place the rider’s foot up to boot heel in the stirrup. There have been the sort of riders that you see at a dude ranch at the fair which would make any guy who had ridden the cattle trails inort with disgust • * • Having survived for 75 years of prairie fires, lightning bolts and gunfire of the cowboys, the state fire marshal comes along and condemns that building as a ’•fire hazard” to the present day town of Ord. . . _Ve not American farmers capable of supplying 'he country with the products of the land without this federal setup known as PM A? While the ax is being wielded in the interests of economy by the letting out of thousands of office and departmental workers, the PMA and other alphabetic programs may well be eliminated from federal concern. . , The building on upper Fourth street that The Frontier ventures a guess as to its years of usefulness and now being torn from its moorings was built in the late 1880 s by Jake Pfund and served as his grocery store. Jake came from the same town in Wisconsin the founder of The Frontier came from, but some 10 years later. • • • With eight column* of the Sunday paper taken up with "house* for sale" the capital city may experience either an exodus or a consider able turnover in population. • • • Jim McFarland, an O’Neill expert with hunt ing dogs a half-century ago, had a $5,000 setter under his care at one time, brought here from Pennsylvania to be trained for the hunt. There were many native birds on the prairie in those days, a lure to the young fellows with shotguns. Game wardens were introduced into the scene about that time. Two of them hung out in O’Neill. One day they caught the four Sullivan boys, John P., Patrick, Peter and Jerry, red-handed with 18 prairie chickens taken out of season. The boys were taken to county court, tried before a jury composed of P. J. McManus, J. P. Gallagher, James F. O'Donnell, J. H. Peeler, James Connelly and Grant Hatfield, founa guilty and fined $80. * * * It is reported from the communist prison zone of Korea that 320 American soldier-prisoners have fallen victims to the red propaganda and de cline to come back to their native land, this hor rible “capitalistic” country of free enterprise. Anyway, they will not be among us as spies for their crafty seducers. Or is it that these 320 are staying to mingle with the crimson dyed to do some spying for Uncle Sam? * * * This last day of August, 100 at 10 a.m., holds a slight promise of better things than the winds that have been bringing the breath of the celestial . furnace for a week. Clouds float across the hea vens. Those inventive Muscovites may yet come up with the solution of the problem of storing summer heat for winter use now that they have solved the H bomb riddle. Editorial . . . Turbulence Project Ends At 12:30 p.iru, on Tuesday, September 8, the ' Great Plains Turbulence Field Project came to a close. The research, however, has only begun be cause the scientists are taking with them back to their laboratories voluminous data that has been recorded here since the minute study of wind and air got underway around August 1. Perhaps several years will elapse before the full import of data gathered here will become apparent. There will be exhaustive study of the material by skilled experts, abstracts will be com pared, correlations drawn. Finally, scholarly pa pers and summaries will be written and analyzed ' and only then will the true value of the O’Neill experience become known. Some two hundred scientists, researchers, technicians and air force personnel have been headquartering in O’Neill for the greater part of the summer and there is a certain nostalgia in saying goodbye. These people have come from most of the 48 states and several foreign coun • tries. Th1" ir scholarly and technical backgrounds have proved intersting to most O’Neill residents. They have been a grand bunch. And we’ll ven ture there nasn’t been a single incident in which there has not been near-perfect harmony between the t moorary residents and the citizens of this community. It can be said these visitors, who be came an active part of our community, will be missed. For most of them, however, it means a joy ous reunion with their families and the univer sity people will return to their campuses and prepare for the routine with which they are so • familiar. In Massachusetts, South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California and Wisconsin there are broken homes. Around those isolated firesides across the country there will be no earthly re unions with wind test loved ones. In those six homes there is bereavement because six persons were killed in a helicopter crash near here July 30. It might be comforting for the survivors to know that the O’Neill test already has been ac * claimed a success, and we are reasonably sure that one day the findings here will have an effect on the lives of most of us, militarily and econom ically. Police Action or War? The United States has engaged in more than 150 punitive or police actions which have not been declared wars. Was the three-year fighting in Korea one of them? This is more than a rhetorical or historical question, and it may be decided by the United States supreme court. Depending on a final decision will be widows, orphans and parents of casualties who had life insurance policies that did not provide for full payment if death occurred in military service in wartime. Since contrary decisions have been given in the Pennsylvania supreme court and the United States district court in Southern California, the United State supreme court may have to decide. The commerce clearing house, national reporting authority on tax and business law, says the Penn sylvania case has been appealed to the highest court by an insurance company after a mother’s claim for double indemnity had been upheld. At issue are legalistic problems that involve these facts: Congress did not make an official declaation of war in Korea; congress did sanc tion the fighting through appropriations; the conflict was among the longest and bloodiest of those in which the United States engaged, and, though called a “police action” at first, it was commonly referred to as a war as it continued. Whatever the final court decision, we hope it may have been “World War III” without our fully realizing it and that there won’t be another. — General Wainright Not to many men comes so grim and heart breaking a duty as that which descended upon Gen. Jonathan M. Wainright on beleaguered Ba taan. And not to many are given such appropriate compensations during their lifetime. To accept as he did, on that black March 11, 1942, without question or twinge of resentment, the bleak mission of commanding a hopeless— albeit not futile—last stand with certain surren der and imprisonment at the end of it, and to carry out that mission unflinchingly, bespeaks a man both brave and at peace with himself. And for General Wainright to survive both siege and prison camp, to participate in accept ing the surrender of Japan on the deck of the Missouri, to receive personally the capitulation of the Philippines from the very officer to whom he himself nad surrendered on Corregidor, and to have the nation’s highest award, the con gressional medal of honor, bestowed upon him at the hands of the president of the United States, writes an epic of poetic justice that will not soon be forotten. The landslide victory of West Germany’s Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is the most en couraging news in many months from the Euro pan continent. The West Germans defied Soviet threats, threw' communists out of the lower house of parliament and generally slapped a nazi comeback. Jolly good work, we say. Was that Hebrew propnet looking down the centuries and getting a view of 1953 airplanes when he wrote in 700 B.C.: Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their win dows? CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St. Address correspondence: Box 330, O’Neill, NeLr 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 newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Association, 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; rates abroad, provided on request. All sub scriptions are paid-in-advance. Audited (ABC) Circulation—2^00 (Mar. 31, 1953). When You and I were Young .. . Ex-Russian Officer Here for Lecture Sheriff Hall Sports New Buggy SO Years Ago The examination of candidates for appointment to West Point milita-y academy held at Kear- ’ ney last week resulted in the appointment of Owen Mededith of O’Neill as principal and Merle Kline, also of O’Neill, as alter nate - . . Fred Groffens, 14-year old boy, met with a distressing accident while raking hay. He was driving a more or less frac tious team of horses and they ran away wtih him. He was thrown from the seat and caught in the rake and dragged for quite a distance. The boy was severly cut and tom . . . The Masonic fraternity of this city has secured the services of Capt. S. Alberti, an ex-officer in the Russian army, to give his famous lecture, ■Through Russia and Siberia as an Officer in Exile” . . . M. F. Cronin has resigned as “managing editor” of a threshing crew and has gone to Stuart to assist on the Ledger temporarily . . . J. P. Gallagher is considering the ad visability of erecting a residence just north of J. H. Meredith’s home in the western part of town ... Sheriff Hall has a spark ling new buggy with red wheels, and his spotted ponies betray a conscious pride of something new' behind them . . . Father Isadore, better known in O’Neill as Rich ard Dwyer, arrived in this city from the East on a visit. He has I been missionary to South Amer- j ica for a number of years - - - The Alliance Herald is boasting ; of 10-foot com stalks in Box Butte county. That’s probably j pretty big for Box Butte. Come J up to Holt and we’ll show you some 14-footers. 20 Years Ago Albert C. Carson of Walnut and Miss Emma K. Ur win of Creighton were united in mar riage by Rev. H. D. Johnson at the Presbyterian manse last Sat urday ... A crowd estimated at 800 attended the Holt county fair on opening day in this city . . . John Miskimmons has been appointed appraiser for the Omaha Federal Land Bank and has been working in Dixon coun ty for the past week. The great demand for loans has compelled the bank to add several new ap praisers to their pay roll in order to handle the increased business. It is said that real estate business is picking up a little - . . John j Kersenbrock. Frank Pruss, Joe Cuddy and Jack Honeycutt went down to Bartlett last evening and took in the night baseball game played there . . . Labor day, out- ■ side of banks and other public buildings being closed, the day was no different from any other . . . George Bressler traded his stock of goods to Charles Hartford of Page for a 160-acre farm in Knox county ... Holt relatives received word of the death of Mrs. James McWhorter at her home at Foster . . . Norb Uhl purchased the Clarence Sim merman residence in the south eastern part of the city and ex pects to make his home there. 10 Years Ago Holt county’s quota in the third war loan drive is a large figure < when viewed by the individual but when distributed among 16,CK;0 people it is not at all im possible to attain. The quota for the drive opening today is $866,400 . . . Lt. Nadine Coyne of the medical department of the United Sta e army, has arrived to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Coyne. . . A successful one day golf tournament was held at the Country club. The tourna ment was won by A. P. Jazkow iak, who defeated George Light ner of St. Edward . . . Mrs. Sarah Hull celebrated her 88th birthday anniversary . . . Football practice ! started at St. Mary’s academy. : Coach Arbuthnot is back this year. Father Brick will assist with Joe Biglin as student man ager . . . Cattle buyers are look ing over herds out this way with an eye to get some good found ation stock to build from. Few if any buyers are looking for feed ers .. . Attorney John Wear and a party of friends from Omaha was in the city. John is the own er of a ranch in Wheeler county and he put in a few days looking nfter his interests there ... At 11:30 a.m.. September 8, 1943, it was announced by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower that all the armed forces in Itlav have surrendered unconditionally to the Allies . . . | Mr. and Mrs. Ray Karr have pur chased a residence in Spencer 1 and expect to move shortly. They recently sold their ranch near Midway to Orville Miller . . . One Year Ago A try for oil in the bowels of Stop Taking Harsh Drugs for Constipation Avoid Intestinal Upset! Get Relief This Gentle Vegetable Laxative Way! For constipation, never take harsh drugs. They cause brutal cramps and griping, disrupt normal bowel action, make re peated doses seem needed. Get sure but gentle relief when you are temporarily constipated. Take Dr. Caldwell's Senna Laxative contained in Syrup Pepsin. No salts, no harsh drugs. Dr. Caldwell's contains an extract of Senna, one of the finest natural vegetable laxatives known to medicine. I^r- Caldwell s Senna Laxative tastes g9°<L gives gentle, comfortable, satis tnng relief for every member of the family. Helps you get “on schedule" without repeated doses. Even relieves often*bringsUrnC** ^ constiP‘tio“ Buy Dr. Cxldwdi’s 30* size today. Money back if not satisfied. Mail bottle to Box 280, New York 18, N. Y. Holt's county's rolling farm coun try has gone the way of similar elf arts erf other years. No soap. Lloyd J. Twi'oell and associates, who bold oil leases over an ex tensive area in the Page and Or chard communities, made an earnest effort, but the try was abortive at the Neil Asher farm . . . Lightning struck at the Clifford Wells place Wednesday, September 3, while they we. e at the Spencer fair. ’Hie bolt splintered several boards and shingles and broke the window. .. O'Neill and Atkinson firemen battled a grass fire on the D. C. j Schaffer property, three miles southwest of here, for three hours Seventeen haystacks were des troyed and the fire swept across about 100 acres of grassland . . . A 23-year-old Omaha nurse and her mother, both known at O’ Neill, died as the result of two highway accidents. Miss Loretta Berkentrotter of Denver. Colo., was fatally injured on highway 30 west of Fremont with the car in which she was riding went out of control and collided wth a truck. Meanwhile, her mother. Mrs. G. F. Berkentrotter. of Den ver, was rushing to her daughter’s bedside. West of Keamev, her son- Richard, was blinded by the early morning sun and crashed into the rear of a stalled truck. Mrs. Berkentrotter died instantly. O'NEILL LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. George Peter son and children and Francis Clark of Grand Island spent the weekend visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Donohoe and daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Nissen and children returned to their home in Ogallala on Monday. Mrs. Nis sen and the children had spent a week visiting her parents. Mr and Mrs. Matt Hynes, and at tending the funeral of her cou sin, Austin Hynes and children. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fuhrer, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Murphy and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Curran spent Monday in Pickstown, S.D., and at the Ft. Randall dam. Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Hynes of Portland, Ore., left last Thurs day for Chicago, HI., where they are spending a week visiting at the home of their daughter, Mrs. George Mymer. They will return for a longer visit here. Bill Hynes and son, Mrs. Floyd Rhinhardt and Mrs. Frank Skradski, all of Omaha, attended the funeral of Sgt. Austin Hynes and children Tuesday, Septem ber 1. Phone us your news — 51. I Ewing Bride-Elect Shower Recipient EWING—Miss Dorothy Black, a September bnde - elect, was honored by her friends and rel atives at a miscellaneous show er Monday evening, August 31, j at Sanders cafe. Fifty friends and relatives gathered. Household hints were given by each to Miss Black followed by a list of “probable”’ duties to be found by the housewife of 1968. This and other games provided entertainment in charge of Miss Bemadine Sanders and Miss Marilyn Weyhrich. The bride-elect was invited "lo the long serving counter of the cafe, which was filled with gift packages. The honored guest dis covered in each an article which will help furnish her new home. Miss Florence Van Ostrand had charge of the gift book. Ice cream, cake, coffee and iced tea were served as refresh ments. The committee in charge of the entire shower were classmates of Miss Black in the senior class of 1954 of the Ewing school. They are Bemadine Sanders, Marilyn Weyhrich, Judy Jefferies, San dra Dierks, Jeanne Welke and Florence Van Ostrand. Other Ewing News Merle Lee and his sister, Mrs Harold Brown, both from Om aha, visited Mr. and Mrs. Dwaine Daggett of Lake Andes, S.D., from Tuesday, September I, to Thursday. They were also guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hawk and sons of Ewmg. Mr. and Mrs. George Nickolite, accompanied by Mrs. Joe Tom jack, Mrs. Siloski and Mrs. Uz endoski, spent Sunday in Fuller ton. Mr. and Mrs. Art Sanders and daughter, Bemadine, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Bahms and son, Jerome, spent Sunday at Picks town, S-D. A picnic dinner was enjoyed. Julie and Carolyn Craig, who have been guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker and family, returned to their home in Norfolk on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Loebe of Stanton were overnight guests on Monday, August 31, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Benja min Larsen. Mr. Larsen, who has been on a business trip to Wood, S.D., returned home the same evening. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Zeims went to Norfolk on Sunday where they attended a minion of the Zeirris family held at the Ta-ha-zouka park. Mr. and Mrs Leonard Soren sen spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs Robley Sisson, sr., and family, returning to their home' in Omaha on Fri day. Rev. and Mrs. Walter Kemp and family left Tuesday. Sep tember 1, for Dead wood, SD, S.D.. where Reverend Kemp will have charge of a church. P. B. Cooper of Winner, S.D., came to Ewing Tuesday, Sep tember 1, to get Mrs. Cooper and daughters, who had been guests at the Pruden home since Saturday, August 29. Mrs. J L. Pruden spent last week at Win ner visiting at the Cooper home. Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Pruden are sisters. Miss Anna Van Zandt and her sister, Mrs. Florence Butler, spent Tuesday, September 1, at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tomjack. Sunday, September 6, is the date set by the United Presby terian church for the enrollment and organization of its youth club. Regular meeting will begin on Wednesday, September 16, for a period of It) weeks. Boy Scout troop 181 met last Thursday evening at the Scout headquarters. Sixteen members were present. The main business of the session was to organize for the fall months. Wood work ing project was discussed. Much interest was shown in the dis cussion. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mc Carty and grandson. Dean, of Douglas, Wyo., were guests of Mrs. Josie Versaw and grand daughter, Sandra Tellaner, un til Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Marquardt of Tekamah were recent guests o at the home of his parents Mr. and Mr*. A. H. Marquardt The Masses Sal.y Anr. Christen and Altha Lou Miller began ■ their teaching duties at district 35, a two-teacher school on Tues day, September 1. Miss Chr.s ton will instruct the four upper grades while Miss M.-.er will have charge of the four lower grades. Miss Miller taugnt last year in the Ewing public school. Christon was a second-year student at Sterling college. Ster ling, Kans., last year Change Made in rail Concert— . In place of the two piano team there will be a concert. pianist and violinist, who will assist Mary lee Myers, soloist, m a con cert here in October.‘to be spon sored by the Methodist men for the benefit of the church t - mg fund. Mr. and Mrs Bud Schhe.ger and family of Columbus ‘spent the labor day weekend visiting Mrs. Schneider's parents. Mr. and Mrs Mike Langan. ROYAL THEATER Thurs. Sept. 10 SALLY AND SAINT ANNE Starring Ann Blyth. Ec.~.ur.: Gwenn, with John Mclntire, Palmer Lee. Hugh O’Brien, Kathleen Hughes Family night SI; adult 50c• children 12c; tax incL Fri-Sal Sept. 11-12 Big Double Bill YOU FOR ME Peter Lawford, Jane Greer. Gig Young. — also — THE MARSHALS DAUGHTER Starring Laune (I like the • open spaces) Anders and Hoot Gibson with Ken Murray. Adult 50c; children 12c; tax incl. Matinee Sal 2:30. Children un der 12 free when accompanied by parenl Sun.-Mon.-Tue*. Sept. 13-14-15 Ann Sheridan and SterLng Hayden in TAKE ME TO TOWN Color by technicolor, with Philip Reed, Lee Patrick, Lee Aaker. The rip-roaring saga of a timbertowm gal . . . the fun she had and the men she fooled: Adult 50c; children 12c; tax incl. Matinee Sun. 2:30. Children un der 12 free when accompanied by parents. --—-1 Dr. Edw. J. Norwood. O.D. Optometrist, from Crawford, Nebraska, will be in O'Neill on SEPTEMBER 14 9 AM. to 5 PM. At the Hotel Golden Glasses Properly Fitted Eyes Scientifically Examined _ 'WH |mhmb| wmpr . Wbstinghouse , » a^mousnced the arrival of another set of Twins ... a new LAUNDROMAT Automatic Washer and a new Electric CLOTHES DRYER! They’re identically styled . . . with many work, time, and money-saving features . . . yet at neic loic prices! The Laundromat is completely automatic, full-sized, with convenient large loading door on slanting front, plus Agi-Tumble washing action! 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