Rock Falls News
The Eagle Valley card club met
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Schultz Saturday evening.
Guests were Mike and Bernard
Stems. Mrs. Don Hynes and
Louis Brown won high prizes
and Linda Johnson and Herb Un
derwood won lows.
Orville Thorson was in Neligh
Friday evening.
Don Breiner visited at the John
Schultz home Friday evening.
Pat Gallagher, Herb Under
wood and Mr. and Mrs. Jofcm
Schultz attended the square
dance jamboree in Neligh Friday
evening.
Dan and Helen Rakes called at
the Floyd Johnson home Satur
day morning.
Linda Johnson visited at the
Blake Benson home Sunday eve
rung.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Yantzie and
family of Chadron visited his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Yanl
zie, from Sunday until Monday.
Mrs. Bill Murray visited Mrs.
Floyd Johnson Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Taylor
and family visited at the Louis
Brown home last Thursday eve
ning.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Vequist and
family were Sunday dinner
guests at the Bernard Pongratz
home. Other guests were Mrs.
Celia Grutsch, Mr. and Mrs. Har
ry Lansworth and Mr. and Mrs.
Jim McNulty.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Yantzie and
family and Mrs. Levi Yantzie
were Monday dinner guests at
the Sammy Derickson home.
Mrs. Wesley Taylor and Bar
bara spent Friday with Mrs. Lyle
Vequist.
Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Drueke
and family were Sunday supper
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Brown._
Ardell Curran and Levi Yant
zie helped Sammy Derickson sort
and load cattle Monday. Orville
Thorson trucked the cattle.
Lynda Hynes visited the Lyle
Vequist children last Thursday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brown,
Terry and Cindy were Sunday
dinner guests at Oswald Drueke’s.
Frank and John Schultz were
at Fairfax, S.D., Saturday on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Curran and
family visited at the James Cur
ran home Tuesday evening, No
vember 10.
Lou Seibert and Edwin helped
cable hay last week at Albert
Widtfeldt’s.
Levi Yantzie and Sammy Der
ickson called at J ames Curran s
Sunday. •
The Sunday Night club met at
the Gus Karel home Sunday eve
ning. Bill Claussen and Mrs.
Henry Vequist won high, Don
Thedors and Mrs. James Curran
low. Henry Vequist won travel
ing. Guests were Mrs. Elwin
Benson and the Don Thedors.
Lunch of sandwiches, pickles, pie
and coffee was served.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sterns
vistied the Jamse Curran home
last Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Drueke and
family of Bristow were Sunday
evening supper guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Claus
sen. „
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Davis of
Atkinson visited Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Sterns Sunday afternoon.
Lynda Hynes visited her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Calkins, Saturday night
and Sunday until her parents
called for her.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Claussen vis
ited the Claussen brothers last
Thursday evening.
Alden Breiner and Lonnie call
ed at the John Schutlz home on
Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Hynes were
at Oswald Drueke’s Tuesday, No
vember 10.
Mrs. Elwin Benson and Linda
Johnson were sightseeing at Ft.
Randall dam, S.D., Sunday after
noon.
Sunday evening visitors at the
John Cleary home were Mrs.
Theresa Breiner, Lois and Don
and Leslie Breiner; and Mrs.
Floyd Johnson. Floyd, Norman
Oberle, Bob Gallagher and John
Cleary went coon hunting and
caught a coon.
Linda Johnson was a Friday
evening supper guest at the Bill
Murray home.
Mrs. Bill Murray and Linda
Johnson were Tuesday, Novem
ber 10, visitors at Don Breiner’s.
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Mrs. Charles W. Tasler, nee Miss Wilma McKim . . . bride in
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Nuptials Read
White baskets tied with satin
bows and filled with yellow and
white China and pom pom mums
and candelabra decorated the al
tar of First Methodist church in
O’Neill on Sunday, November 15,
for the 2 o’clock wedding, when
Miss Wilma G. McKim, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle McKim, be
came the bride of Charles W. Tas
ler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charley
Tasler of Atkinson, in a double
ring ceremony. Rev. Wallace B.
Smith performed the ceremony.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, chose a white bal
lerina-length gown of nylon net
over satin, with a fitted bodice
of brocaded nylon lace, featuring
a peter pan collar and long
sleeves forming bridal points ov
er the wrists. Her fingertip veil
was held in place by a pearl
beaded tiara. Her colonial bou
quet was an orchid surrounded
by white pom pom mums tied
with white satin streamers. Her
only jewelry was a three-strand
necklace of pearls with matching
earrings, a gift from the bride
groom. She followed the tradition
of somehing old, something new,
something borrowed and some
thing blue with a penny in her
shoe.
Miss Beverly Norman, maid-of
honor, wore a ballerina-length
gown of yellow net over taffeta,
with a fitted lace bodice, and a
matching head dress.
Miss Mary Graham, bridesmaid,
wore a ballerina-length gown of
aqua net over taffeta with match
ing head dress. Both carried co
lonial bouquets of mixed pom
pom mums.
Little Shirley De George of
Omaha, niece of the bride, was
flowergirl and wore a floor
length gown of aqua taffeta and
carried a colonial bouquet of
mixed pom pom mums. Dickie
McKim, cousin of he bride, car
ried the rings on a white satin
pillow.
The bridegroom wore a me
dium brown business suit. His
attendants were James Puckett,
a friend, and Leslie McKim,
brother of the bride. They wore
blue business suits. The bride
groom and attendants wore white
carnation boutonnieres. Delbert
Rossman, cousin of the bride
groom, and Kenneth McKim,
brother of the bride, ushered.
The bride’s mother chose a
brown rayon crepe dress with
dark brown accessories and wore
a yellow carnation corsage. The
bridegroom’s mother chose blue
taffeta with red accessories and
wore a pink carnation corsage.
Miss Karen McKim, cousin of
the bride, and Keith McKim,
brother of the bride, lit the can
dles.
Miss Lynette Johnson was in
charge of the guest book. Miss
Esther Kinnier played the wed
ding music. Two songs, ‘’Just for
Today” and “The Lord’s Prayer,”
were sung.
The Misses Mary Ann Winchell,
Janet Strong and Kay Martin had
charge of the gifts.
Following the ceremony, a re
ception for 200 guests was held
in the church parlors. The three
tier wedding cake, topped by a
miniature bride and bridegroom,
was baked and decorated by Mrs.
Charley Tasler, mother of the
bridegroom, and was cut by Mrs.
Harold Williamson. Mrs. Clifford
Harding poured.
Others who assisted in serving
were Mrs. Melvin Marcellus, Mrs.
Raymond Stowell, Mrs. Jasper
Hitchcock, Mrs. Herbert Timm,
Mrs. Lowell Johnson, Mrs. Orville
McKim and Mrs. Maurice Gra
ham.
For her going away costume,
Mrs. Tasler chose a grey wool
jersey dress with black acces
sories. She wore an orchid cor
sage. The young couple left for
the Ozarks on a 10-day honey
moon. After their return they
will make heir home southwest
of Atkinson, where the bride
groom is engaged in ranching
with his father.
Out-of-town guests here for the
wedding were: Bob Lemmer, Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Rossman, La
Veme, Shirley, Twila and Berna
dine, Delbert Rossman, Mr. and
The Frontier Woman . . .
Teachers Are Human Beings
By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
We are donating all our space
today to the writer of a letter
which answers a letter recently
published in these columns, “Is
a Teacher’s Noon Hour Free?”
written by “An Amateur.”
This is a rather long letter, but
all of it is very good, and I hope
The Frontier editor, in fairness
to teachers, will publish all of
it, although it will require more
than the usual amount of space
allotted to The Frontier Woman.
Dear Frontier Woman:
The letter from “An Amateur”
who asked, “Is a teacher’s noon
hour free?” interested me great
ly. I am a teacher, but I am a
mother, also. As I read her let
ter, the teacher’s side of the af
fair as well as the mother’s came
to mind.
First of all, has that mother
visited the school? Has she vis
ited with the teacher? After all,
teachers are human beings also
and most of them are reasonable
humans. Sometimes a parent
draws all of his or her conclu
sions about school by what the
children tell at home. While I
do not mean to infer that chil
dren are not honest, they may
tell only part of the truth and
that part may be the part that
will benefit most the teller.
Children are clever and some
learn what kind of stories get
the reaction they wish at home.
Go visit the school. Talk to the
teacher—writing it to a newspa
per probably won’t solve the
problem.
OOllier LTlilUicn a i. K,
“teased” also. A mere look will
send them into spasms of false
tears. They think everything
applies to them personally; they
grow up into adults who are al
ways having their feelings hurt.
They should learn as children to
ignore much that goes on about
them; it probably is not intended
for them personally.
I agree with the mother that
the playground should be super
vised. I’m out on the school
ground with my pupils every
day, but they must learn to set
tle their minor differences with
out my interference. In our
modern world, people must get
along with others without police
supervision all of the time.
That is the way of a dem
ocracy and the learning of
Mrs. Francis Hanel, Mr. and Mrs.
Truman Rossman and family,
Mr. Anna Rossman, Gladys Mae
Weller, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper
Hitchcock, Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Gans and Janith, Mr. and Mrs.
Will Tasler and family, Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Tasler, Mr. and Mrs.
DeWayne Tasler, Sharon An
drews, Mr. and Mrs. Darel
Bright, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Gal
yen, Elwood Brady, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Hoppe, Mr. and Mrs. Garold
Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Collins,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Sloan,
Wilmer Warner, Helen Martens,
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Addison and
Bonnie Jean, all of Atkinson.
Mr. and Mrs. John De George,
Shirley nad Sherry, Mr. and Mrs.
James Schindler, all of Omaha;
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Loewe of Bruns
wick; Mrs. Forrest Storm and
sons of Royal; Mrs. Cora Tasler,
Mr and Mrs. Clarence Tasler,
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Gilbert and
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Jansen and daughters, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Ceams, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Williamson, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Tasler, LaVerne Grenoble,
Cecil Radcliff, all of Stuart.
Miss Virginia Buckmaster of
Fremont; Mrs. Ralph Norman
and Miss Sandra Norman of Ord;
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Tindall of
Akron, la.; Mr. and Mrs. Meral
Bouldin of Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs.
Wilmer McConnell of Emmet.
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“North-Central Nebraska’s Finest”
that social ability should bo
gin in childhood.
Have you ever noticed, too,
that quite often parents who cry
the loudest for supervision at
school, are the same parents who
take their children to town and
turn them loose to run on the
streets, or through the stores all
afternoon without supervision?
Or send the children to the
movies so mother may have the
afternoon free? It seems to make
a difference, if it is the parent
who wants the free time or if
it is the teacher.
This mother wondered if the
county superintendent doesn’t
have the authority to see that
there is supervised play. Did the
county superintendent hire your
teacher? Did she even recom
mend that teacher as a good
teacher to your board? I know
that there are teachers in schools
of this county whom the super
intendent will not recommend;
yet the boards will hire them
because they can secure these
teachers for lower wages.
Don’t blame the superintend
ent, it is your own board’s place
to speak to the superintendent
if necessary. If the superintend
ent had it in her power to make
every teacher into the kind that
could satisfy every parent, I’m
sure that the teachers would then
want every pupil to be transform
ed into a clean, smart, well man
nered, perfectly adjusted pupil
and every parent into a co - op
erative parent in place of so
many fault finders.
1 also realize tnat tnere are
teachers in our schools to whom
I would not want my children to
be going. If this mother happens
to have one of those teachers, I
sympathize with her. But Holt
county got what it wanted. Holt
county sent the delegation to
Lincoln that blocked the certifi
cation act from passage in the
legislature.
We said we wanted to keep on
getting our poorly prepared
teachers and we are getting
them.
A blanket statement in this re
spect is not a valid statement.
One cannot say that all teachers
with 64 hours of college work
or more will be good teachers.
Nor can one say that all normal
training graduates will be poor
teachers.
I know normal trainers who
are being sincere, earnest
teachers and I know college
graduates who aren't worth a
nickel as teachers.
However, on the average, the
better trained person is the bet
ter teacher. Too many of the high
school graduates simply plan to
teach a year to get the money
to do what they really want to
do. That may be marriage, busi
ness college or nurses’ traininig.
These girls want the money for
the money’s sake, they sign the
contract and collect the wages,
not caring what happens to the
children.
We wouldn’t think of taking
cur children to a doctor whose
only training consisted of three
years of biology in high school.
No, he must have spent some six
years or more in specialized
r— —
study, have passed his exam
inations and be licensed by the
state. But we will send our chil
dren, our most valued possession,
to teachers who have had very
little training and expect expert
results.
A. child’s mind is. not like a
pan of bread sponge. If I make
a mistake with the bread, I can
throw it out and start tomorrow
with some new yeast. The child’s
mind cannot be thrown out. If
I make a mistake in training
that mind, the mistake must be
erased if possible and then train
ing in a new line must be begun.
God help the teacher who does
not even know when she is mak
ing a mistake. A child is a great
responsibility to place in the
hands of a person with no train
ing.
But Holt county wanted no
training required. So it is not.
They said there was a shortage
of teachers. True. But there will
continue to be when a district
can hire a teacher for only one
pupil. That teacher could profit
ably be instructing 10 pupils.
There are any number of schools
keeping a teacher with three,
four or five pupils.
Do we really expect the time
to come when there will be
plenty of college trained teach
ers so that every two or three
pupils can have a teacher?
We should face the facts. Gath
er up these little districts that
were laid out in horse and bug
gy days, put 20 to 30 pupils in a
school with two trained teachers
and we would have better schools,
better students, better pupils.
We are getting just what we
asked for. If we hire baby sit
ters, that’s what we get. If we
keep our schools as they were
in grandpa’s day, we should not
grumble. We buy the latest mod
el car, put bathrooms in our
farm homes, television sets in the
living rooms and power machin
ery in the fields.
But our schools were good
enough for grandma and grandpa
so they are what our children
get, too. We just can’t change
them. If the more progressive
citizens attempt to modernize the
educational system, too many
citizens oppose the move. Nothing
is done.
The teachers aren’t to blame.
'
The voter is the only one who
can change the present system.
If the mother who signed herself
“An Amateur’’ cannot get justi
fied action from her school board,
then she can head a group to
change the school board. If she is
in the right, other parents will
join her. And when enough of
the people of Holt county be
come aroused over our educa
tional problems, perhaps we can
erase the black mark that episode
lest spring in Lincoln gave Holt
county.
In the meantime, visit your
school, get acquainted with your
teacher. She may be just as up
set and worried about problems
facing her as you parents are
over something that you think
is happening to your children
You’ll probably have a better un
derstanding of each other if you
visit together an hour.
“A TEACHER AND A
MOTHER”
Spangler Twins
Party Honorees—
EWING—A surprise party On
Sunday afternoon, November 15,
made a gala affair of the eighth
birthday anniversary of Judy
and Joan Spangler, twin daugh
ters of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
Spangler.
Outdoor games were played on
the lawn at the Spangler home
under the supervision of Mrs.
Spangler, providing entertain
ment for the 15 boys and girls.
Later, the group was invited into
the house where Judy and Joan,
assisted by their small brother,
Leon, had the thrill of opening
the gifts.
For the luncheon, the guests
were seated at the table, carrying
out a color scheme in pink, white
and green. The candle-lighted
birthday cake was the center of
attraction as Judy and Joan made
a wish and blew out the candles.
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