Editorial ...
Prairie Wolf Enjoys Blue Pacific
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Frontier Editor
BURBANK, CALIF. — It rained today; not
much of a rain as rains go in Nebraska, less than
a quarter of an inch, but it meant
a lot to a people whose tongues
would have hung out for a sip of
water had it not been for a sup
ply floated this way from the
silvery Colorado river. The occa
sional rumble of thunder was a
familiar sound to Prairieland
Taiker. Lightning shot a bolt
down the high tower of the Los
Angeles city hall and brought
a hush of terror to' the several
hundred Californians in the
building. Prospects, say the wea- Romaine
thcr wise, are for more rain. Saunders
A row of gorgeous yellow floral bloom a lit
tle beyond the window where I have parked for
tne moment is getting a wetting in daughter’s
• buck yard — a drizzle rain today continuing
through the night. However, this community does
not depend upon what comes from the soil so
much as the products of factories and other marts
of trade, along with what Nebraskans and others
.contribute during the winter sojourn here.
Beyond mountains and desert to the east
stietches Arizona with its Grand Canyon, Paint
ed desert, flaming sunsets and stately cactus
standing like silent sentinels watching over their
world of sand. I rode with friends a late afternoon
up a mountain trail to an eminence that overlooks
the landscape far to the east and affords a view of
flaming sunset out in the Pacific ocean, gilding
me rippled waters with gold and crimson that
takes you for the moment away from mountain
and desert and fruitful vale. If you still hold the
magic wonder of childhood you find yourself at
times away from the haunts of men and stand
within the enchanted cathedral nature has built
all around us and feel the touch of the Infinite.
Southern California invites to the open places
at this season while prairieland patriots at home
hi ay have the thrill of looking out upon a world
of white and feel grateful for the snow and win
ter cold that gives them an excuse for sticking
close to the fire. And this old prairie wolf looks
out this afternoon upon the rain-soaked city street
grateful for the shelter of Ed and Mid’s hospitable
home.
* • •
But in one way or another funeral directors
in this live-forever-climate are kept busy. The
engineer of a fast train heading north toward San
Francisco fell from the cab of the engine up
Above Santa Barbara. His body was found near
the track. A guy choked his sweetheart to death
because she reproved him for guzzling firewater.
Another fellow said to be despondent over the
death of his wife shot and killed a neighbor wom
an and then ended his own miserable existence.
Dentists run grocery-style ads and everybody has
something to sell. The Sunday editor of the Los
Angeles Times devotes 32 pages to classified ads.
* * *
Burbank is a city of clean streets, delight
ful hem s with park-like front- and backyards
and municipal affairs managed honestly with an
average annual surplus of two million dollars.
Citizens take pride in their city and they have
that of which to be proud. Colored people are
treated respectfully, but are required to be off
the streets after sundown.
* * *
Doctor McCormick of Toledo, O., has been in
Los Angeles recently in connection with his du
• ties as head of the American Medical association.
He forecasts a cure for cancer within the next
five years, and cautiously approves President Eis
. enhower's health insurance program. Your best
health insurance is at the dining table.
* * *
The city and county of Los Angeles, officials
report, have 7,767 ex-city and county workers
drawing pensions from city and county to the
amount of $12,074,812 annually. One of the pen
sioners is said to be drawing a princely salary
from the federal government through an upper
strata military connection that evades the battle
zone.
Southern California, which means the Los
Angeles community, experienced what prairieland
patriots would consider quite a building, boom
during 1953. For what they are worth, real estate
promoters put the figure at $1,547,599,800 invested
in new homes and other buildings the past year.
Orange groves have been rooted out and replaced
with the abodes of man. The lure calling to those
in states to the eastward is the climate. But there
are gloomy days stretching into weeks when you
wonder if the sun has been blotted out or sunk
in the ocean and then before you are aware of
it you are bathed in a blaze of glory.
* * *
Mink coats are no longer in the Washington
news but at least one sister out here had such
a coat for which she had no use under sunny skies.
She ran a for sale ad. A young couple called to
see the coat and when the young woman had
gotten possession of the coat her escort flashed a
gun and they left with the mink, warning the
lady of the house not to make a move for 15
minutes. A gent in an outlying suburb closed his
business place for the evening and was met as he
stepped out by two gunmen who relieved him of
$700.
* * #
Museums and zoos are a perpetual attraction.
The Los Angeles county museum, housed in a
building that occupies something like a quarter
section of land, was visited recently. .The com
munity had turned out that day, some to visit
the museum with its remarkable collection of ex
tinct and existing animal life and the handiwork
of man of past ages, others to take in the football
game in the arena across the way. We found a
parking place where one patriot, having been fed
up with it all, pulled out for home.
* * *
He inherited millions from his dad. who in
his day was an industrial magnate. For beat
ing up his divorced wife he landed in jail. As
Solomon said, give me neither poverty nor
riches.
A lady of culture, socially prominent and
accustomed to luxury, has gone to work in a store,
“my first job,” she explains. Her husband died
owing Uncle Sam something over 185-thousand
dollars on his income tax account. In came reve
nue collectors and took her home and the dead
husband’s life insurance, settling for about one
half of the tax claim. If these officials have the
authority to accept in full settlement half of what
is due they have the authority to cancel the entire
amount rather than turn a widow out of her home.
• * *
Californians are not yet satisfied with the
“ham and eggs” arrangement. A move has been
made to get on the November ballot a proposal
to raise what is termed pensions for the needy
aged of from $8t) to $100 per month. Pensions,
now a nationwide hopeful, were unknown to
an earlier generation other than to the civil
war Grand Army men and they received three
or four dollars a month. Getting around now to
the Doc Townsend pension program.
* * *
Perhaps the largest industry in the commun
ity is the airplane builders, employing many thou
sands of citizens, both in the labor and manage
ment groups. Got two million dollars with which
to buy an airplane? That’s about what the airway
line organizations put up for a transcontinental
ship of the air, so I have, been told by one in the
management end of one of the plane building
establishments.
* * *
There is beauty, romance, culture, every shade
of religious faith from that inherited from the late
Amy Semple McPherson to the followers of the
prophet of the Arabian desert, millionaires, schol
ars, artists and movie performers and mobs of
swell people who greet strangers cordially. And
coughs, colds and sniffling noses are not unknown,
probably the product of warm days, cool eve
nings and houses not heated as they are in O’Neill.
Prairieland Talk . . .
Supreme Court Cheapened?
President Eisenhower has an interesting op
„ portunity facing him when he fills the vacancy
on the supreme court caused by the death of
. Chief Justice Vinson.
The supreme court of the United States is
not “supreme” in the true sense of the word. We
• envision a court made up of distinguished jurists,
men of temperament and ability commensurate
with the highest court in the land.
The court has been cheapened in recent years,
. according to The Frontier’s thinking. Men have
been appointed who are not, in any sense of the
word, “distinguished jurists.” They do not square
with the popular conception of the# noblest tradi
tion of the court through the centuries.
Too often the appointments have been made
in recognition of public or political service—not
in recognition of any outstanding ability in the
jfield of law.
Chief Justice Vanderbilt of the New Jersey
supreme court said last year that the federal ju
diciary is the weakest of the three branches of
American government.
Going down the list we find the make-up of
the court as follows:
Clark. His record should have barred him
from the supreme court. He was nothing more
than an outstanding back slapping politician who
“knew his way around.” His administration of
the justice department is still under a cloud of sus
picion that the supposedly “blindfolded justice”
was on the peek for a fast buck. His role in the
Harry Dexter White case is fresh in our mind, too.
Black. A radical new dealer of the first water
and has been mentioned in the press as having
been a Klu Kluxer. His only judicial experience
was the eight months he served as a Birmingham,
Ala., police judge. A fine background for a seat
on the highest court in the land.
Jackscn. Here’s a former attorney-general
and a solicitor-general. He ascended to the bench
with the background of a substantial law practice.
Minton. A former Indiana senator. He is the
last justice to be promoted from the bench, the
U.S. circuit court of appeals. His appointment was
outstanding from the standpoint of mediocrity.
Reed—was a solicitor-general. He handled the
case for the government in the NRA “sick chick_
«n” legislation. He evidently didn't distinguish
himself for the court ruled unanimously against
him.
- Frankfurter was a Harvard law professor. He
was the head of the cult that swept over Wash
ington in the early days of the new deal and is
. the idol of many of the “hot dogs” who went on to
become some of the reddest lefties that ever got
into government service.
Douglas was a Columbia and Yale professor.
He had at one time headed the securities exchange
commission.
Burton. Former Ohio senator. He caught
Harry Truman’s eye as a member of the Truman
investigating committee.
There is not one in that list who ever won
distinction as a jurist—not that only a former
judge should be a member of the supreme court
to be of service to his country. There are only a
few of the jurists on the highest court in the land
who were lawyers of distinction before their ap
pointment.
Eisenhower can’t cheapen the court any more
than it has been—he faces a great opportunity to
help restore some of its lost dignity. Our fervent
hope is he establishes a new trend.
Speaking of courts, Nebraska apparently has
a “super supreme court” now. The state pardon
board took it upon itself to commute the death
sentence of Hugh Griffith, Sidney oil field worker
who was found guilty in district court in the
slaying of his wife. The supreme court upheld the
verdict, but the pardon board last week reduced
the sentence to life imprisonment.
Looks like the county supervisor shakeup is
just a matter of time. O’Neill and Grattan town
ship together will count about two supervisors:
the entire northern half of the county will muster
one.
Now that the Holt county basketball tourney
is over we can have more time for state, national
and international affairs.
Frontier
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,258 (Sept. 30, 1953)
When You and I Were Young . .. !
Innkeeper Scares
Tough Gamblers
_
Pair Tries to Take
Over Hotel
50 Years Ago
Mrs. Charity Hicks died at her
home here. . . George Foster and
Miss Grace Worden were mar
ried in Central City. . . The mer
cury dropped down to 20 degrees
below zero. . . An attempt was
made by two gamblers to take
over the Dewey hotel but they
were impeded by Ira Lapham,
the landlord, who pulled a gun
on them and they got out the door
as fast as their trembling limbs
could carry them.
20 Years Ago
Mrs. Clark Young died at her
home northeast of the city after
an illness of three weeks. . .
Frank Bain was honored at a
surprise party given by his chil
dren on his 75th birthday anni
versary. . . Grasshopper trouble
is forecast to be a serious threat
to the crops this coming summer.
. . . Wild hay is at a fair price of
from $5 to $5.50 a ton. . . Ray
Clyde and Miss Lena Hayne were
granted a marriage license in
county court. . . Frank Dishner
made a business trip to Omaha.
. . . Around 20 neighbors and
friends gathered at the Lynn
Cams home to assist Mr. and
Mrs. Cams, who have been sick
for a couple of weeks and are un
able to work.
10 Years Ago
John Kazda has been recalled
into the armed forces and will
leave soon. . . Pressure cookers
are no longer on the ration list
since the first of January. . . A
campaign to encourage Holt
county cattlemen to take part in
the statewide program to clean
up cattle grubs was started by
County Agent Lyndle Stout. . .
The weather has been unusually
warm for this time of year with
a few showers of rain. . . Pvt.
Francis Murphy left to return to
Ft. Ord, Calif., after spending a
leave here.
One Year Ago
Throngs are expected for O’
Neill’s first auto annual show,
where 13 different cars will be
shown. . . O’Neill boys receiving
their notices for induction into
the armed forces were James L.
Kubik, Donald J. Harding and
Arnold L. Dallegge. . . Mr. and
Mrs. William Anderson celebrat
ed their golden wedding anniver
sary January 29. . . Two firms in
the town of Page were visited by
burglars with about $200 in loot
taken. . . Mrs. Thomas Donohoe
celebrated her 81st birthday an
niversary.
Benson, Crosby
Are Speakers—
Two leaders from the national
and state scene — Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and
Nebraska Gov. Robert B. Crosby
—will be featured speakers at
the annual state convention of
the Nebraska Farmers Union at
Omaha February 10-11.
Secretary Benson is scheduled
to speak at a banquet for mem
bers the evening of February 10.
Governor Crosby will deliver his
address at a noon luncheon the
following day.
'Low Calories'
Lesson Topic—
The Scott Community club met
-,t the hall Tuesday, January 19,
with six members present and
four visitors. Mrs. Charles Gifford
read the minutes of the last meet
ing. Mrs. Frank MacDonald and
Mrs. Charles Gifford gave the
lesson on “Low Calories.”
Next meeting will be February
16 at 8 o’clock. Lunch was serv
ed.—By Mary E. Luber, news re
porter.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hollidav
and children of Grand Island
spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Loy.
They were on their way to Eu
gene, Ore., where they will make
their home and he will be em
ployed.
R. G. (“Bob”) Clinkscales went
to Columbus Friday to spend the
weekend with his wife and fam
ily- _
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Thuxs. Jan. 28
A GIRL IN EVERY PORT
Starring Groucho Marx, Marie
Wilson, William Bendix with Don
DeFore and Gene Lockhart. They
are wolves in ship’s clothing who
go overboard for Marie . . . the
sailor’s delight!
Family night $1; adult 50c;
children 12c; tax incl.
Fri.-Sai. Jan. 29-30
FORT TI
Color by technicolor, starring
George Montgomery. The Fron
tier flames ... as Roger’s Rangers
,ride, fight and love ... at the
savage siege of Ft. Ticonderoga!
Adult 50c; children 12c; tax inch
Matinee Sat. 2:30. Children un
der 12 free when accompanied
by parent.
Sun.-Mon.-Tues„ Jan. 31, Feb. 1-2
John Wayne in
ISLAND IN THE SKY
An adventure in a thousand,
co-starring Lloyd Nolan, Walter
Abel, James Amess, Andy De
vine. They’ll fly anything, any
where, anytime—the world’s dan
ger-routes are their beat.
Admission: Adults 50c; children
12c; tax inch Matinee Sun. 2:30.
All children unless in arms must
have tickets
Mrs. Gaffney Back
from Extended Trip
EMMET—Mrs. Agnes Gaffney
arrived home on the train after
spending Sts months visiting rel
atives and friends in Kansas, Illi
nois and Iowa.
Other Emmet News
Mr. ana Mrs. Dean Perry vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. Dale Perry and
girls last Thursday evening.
Mrs. Henry Benze and Nancy
of O’Neill called on Mrs. James
O’Connor Saturday afternoon.
Mary Helen, Carmen and Pat
rick Benze called on Mrs. Dean
Perry and family Satui-day after
noon.
Mrs. Dean Perry called at the
Billy Perry home last Thursday
evening.
The WSCS met Tuesday after
noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John Conard and Mary Lou.
The Emmet Methodist Bible
study group met with Mr and
Mrs. Robert Fox Wednesday.
Mrs. Henry Benze and Nancy
of O’Neill called on Mrs. Frank
Foreman and Mrs. Agnes Gaffney
Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. George Skopec
spent Friday evening visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Dusatko.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Fox were
Friday supper guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Fox and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Fox and
family were Friday supper guests
of Mr. and Mrs. William Kelly «>f
O’Neill.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bra'.nard
and family of Grand Island spent
the weekend visiting friends and
relatives.
Mrs. Charles Abart visited Mrs.
Agnes Gaffney Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bates
were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr and Mrs. Claude Bates of O’
Neill.
Jimmy Fritton spent Friday
afternoon visiting Mrs. Emma
Maring.
June Burge arrived home Fri
day afternoon after spending a
week visiting at the Clyde Burge
home at Amelia.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tomlinson
and Veldon of Star spent Sunday
evening visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert Fox and Barbara.
Tom Troshynski, Anthony O'
Donnell, Mrs. Dolly O’Donnell
and Mr. and Mrs. Al Havranek
and daughter, Ellen, attended the
funeral of Rev. A. A. Urbanski
Friday. Father Urbanski aied
Tuesday, January 19, at Omaha.
He served as a priest at the Em
met Church of Epiphany. A sol
emn requiem high mass will be
sung here for Father Uroanski.
Mrs. Leon Beckwith spent last
Thursday afternoon visiting Mrs.
Agnes Gaffney.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Winkler spent
Saturday evening visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Foreman and '
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Winkler spent
a couple days last week visiting
relatives in Omaha.
Mable Perkins and Dick Herton
of Ainsworth spent Sunday visn
ing Mr. and Mrs. James O’Con
nor.
Mrs. Henry Kloppenborg, Mrs.
Cecil McMillan, Mrs. Jesse Wills,
Mrs. Norman Wayman, Mrs. Ag
nes Gaffney and Mrs. Gilbert
Fox visited Mrs. Frank Foreman
Tuesday, January 19.
Norma Lou Foreman and Mary
Lou Conard spent Sunday after
noon visiting Miss Sharon Han
cock in O’Neill.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
WD—LaDonna Bowers to Har
ry Johnson 1-6-54 $1- Undivided
Int in NMsNWV4 2- NEV4NE% 3
32-12 Lot 1 in Sec. 25- Lots 1-2-3
in Sec 26- Lots 3 & 4 in Sec 27
EVfe 34- Ny>- SWy4 35-33-12 &
2^ lot 3- All lot 4 & EMsNWv4
Sec 6 in Township 32- Range 11
WD — Charles E Havens to
Philip J Keating 3-30-45 $16,600
Lots 2-3-4 & 5 Blk 6- Atkinson
QCD—R H Parker to Charley
WaiTen Peterson 6-20-44 $1
SEVi 17 SWy4 7-33-14 ,
WD—Ethel V Bouska to Fred
Juracek & wf 1-18-54 $14,000
Part of the NEy4NWy4 32-30-14;
293 ft by 193 ft
WD — Barbara West to West]
Lumber & Coal Co of Ewing,:
Nebr 12-31-53 $3399- Lot 5 Blk j
| 21- Ewing
QCD — Blanche L Sisson to
Clarence L Sisson 1-8-54 $1- Stfe
i swy4- swy4-SEy4 14- wy>Nwy4
12?- sEy4NEv4 22- NEy4swy4
NWy4SE»'4 21-26-10 NM>SEy4 27
NWy4SEy4 29-27-9
WD—Byrl Beck to Inez Hayes
I- 11-54 $2700- Lot 11 Blk 13
I Kimball & Blairs Add- Atkinson
WD—Mary M Swingley, et al
| to Robert J Mick 3-25-53 $8000
NWV4 20-29-14
WD—Consumers Public Power
Dist to Roy J Shelhamer & wf
II- 20-53 $2015- So 73 ft lot 1 &
East 21 ft of So 73 ft lot 2- Blk
20- O'Neill
WD—Farmer Withers to Oliver
T Anson & wf 1-14-54 $8000- Lot
4 Blk 19 Bitneys Add- Atkinson
Studies for
Master's Degree—
Miss Barbara Birmingham left
Sunday for Catholic university,
Washington, D.C., where she will
study for her master’s degree :n
English. Miss Birmingham, who
has taught at St. Mary’s acad
emy and in Omaha, received her
bachelor’s degree at Duchesne
in Omaha Mrs. H. J. Birmingham
accompanied her daughter to
Omaha.
Mrs. John Pray of Ft. Dodge.
Ia., arrived Sunday for a stay
with her son-in-law and daugh
ter. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Grady,
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Harding
and family visited at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L
ernau, near Redbird, Sunday.
Fee Harlem Globe Trotters
Play at Yankton—
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Prouty, Mr. o
and Mrs. Edward Prouty and
John Prouty spent last weekend
in Yankton, S.D., visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Clvde Prouty. While
there they attended a basketball
game featuring the Harlem Globe
Trotters.
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REX W. WILSON,
M.D. ;
ROBT. M. LANGDON,
m.d. ;
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It Happened In NEBRASKA-—
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Hollywood setting? No, this is a busy steamboat dock in the
Omaha of lt5t! Here travelers leaving the boat would continue
their journey by stage coach. But steamboat prosperity on the
Missouri was extremely short-lived, for soon the railroad gained
favor as the fastest way to travel.
Another picturesque setting soon to go NEBRASKA DIVISION
was the colorful “bar-room” immortalized
by Western movies. Today, Nebraska United statet
taverns are clean, wholesome, law-abid- Breuerx
ing business establishments which play a Foundation
well-regulated part in community life. 710 Fif>t B.nfc B!dg , Lincola
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built before World Wrar 11,
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IF: • Various appliances must be disconnected to plug in others.
• Arrangement of furniture is limited by the location of loo
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| • Lights dim perceptibly u!:cn appliances are operating.
• Heating appliances, such as irons and toasters, come up to
temperature slowly.
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• Outlets are choked with an octopus-like tangle of extension
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® fuses must be replaced too frequently or circuit-breakers
reset.
• Accidents occur as a result of having to enter rooms in dark
ness and stumbling over furniture to find a pull chain or
switch.
ADEQUATE WIRING CONSISTS OF:
1A large enough electric service entrance bringing elec
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2 Enough branch circuits of large enough wire to conduct
t a full measure of electrical energy to your lights and
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m and efficient use of lights ai d appliances.
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