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Prairieland Talk . . . Granddaughter Cries Unashamed By ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Frontier Editor BURBANK — On iny last day in Southern California clouds gathered as if the heavens would weep. I know a little 3-year-old grand daughter that stood unashamed and cried as we ‘■parted. • The community women were organizing to make a raid on po'ketbooks hoping to raise $3, 009,150 for Red Cross work. And the community was aroused over what those three Puerto Ricans pulled off in Washington, D.C. The humor in reading of our congressmen ducking under desks . was not wholly obscured by the tragedy of it. ' The Spinsters celebrated the 285th anniver • sary of their organization March 1 by taking in 25 new members into this exclusive organization of young women of the Los An geles community. Membership , is not necessarily for life but for the most of them only until some gent, tired of the “heart whole and fancy free-’ way of going it alone comes along and leads a “spinster” to the matri monial altar. Before “folding my tent Romaina like the Arabs” to take off for Saunders the homeland across mountains and deserts and fertile vales, I got a look at one of Southern California’s great industrial centers, the Lockheed airplane factories, landing fields and terminal headquarters, one organization of several operating in the Los Angeles commun ity. The thousands of automobiles parked row upon row' by these plants and management builu ings indicate that the “slave labor” our commun ist friends abroad talk about is doing pretty welL Today’s evenine paper had a picture and story of Mrs. Reese Howell, who was being hor ered on her 107th birthday anniversary. She keeps informed on world events by reading the newspapers and finds spiritual guidance and comfort in reading her Bible. LOS ALAMOS, N M —From just about sea lev el. Prairieland Talker is now up among the clouds, but ther are no clouds—tongues hang out all over New Mexico for a bit of snow or ra.n. This community, a strictly government built city of some 12,000 patriots, situated on a mesa or ta bleland 7,300 feet up in the air, is surrounded by •till more lofty peaks. Three agencies all cen terirg jn the one federal government research program, supervise the industrial activity of the community. Ar.d being such, everything—build ings, homes, streets and bridges spanning deep canyons—is such as only the federal treasury is able to finance. The population is made up of people who have come here from many states, who have been brought here under assignment, or those who cling to the Yankee tradition for adventure and are here also on government work. New Mexico, a sizeable bite taken from the mainland of old Mexico, has had the Spanish fla vor in the public, private and religious life of the wide desert and mountain landscape. This is giving way to the inevitable American tradi tion of amalgamation. Santa Fe, a few miles to the southeast of Los Alamos and the capital of the state, struggles to retain its individuality and resist modem trends. Los Alamos claims the largest number of children per capita of any town in the United States. To contact somn of this thrifty family ex hibit I went to a nearby Baptist church for their service yesterday. There is a large congregation of these people and they gave this prairie wan derer a warm greeting. The pastor in his dis course was something of a f-re eater who did not hesitate to tell his audience. Pueblo Indians are out on the mesa just at your elbow. We—daughter and her husbano, Mr. and Mrs: L. M. Rohrer—were in Bandolier, a national monument to the memory of a long dead race of cliff dwellers of which little authen tic is known. Bandelier has been set apart as a national park, with a museum containing most ly Indian relics, picnic grounds, ruins of what may have bee the abodes of Inca Indians and openings in tne high cliffs solid walls where human beings once made their homes. Coming from near sea level into a region of over seven thousand feet elevation, the new comer may find he has difficulty breathing. So today prairieland calls. I was a passenger on the Santa Fe Chief from Los Angeles to Lamy, N.M. The Santa Fe is one of the country’s best railroad systems and the Chief one of the best passenger trains. From the window of the section I occupied when the lights were out that night, crossing the Arizona , desert, there was spread out in the cloudless heavens above dim aisles of mystery lighted with the glittering beauty of countless stars. Even the desert has its charms. __ Why Penalize Nebraska? (Guesi Editorial from ihe Creighton News) It seems that Nebraskans are going to be penalized insofar as equality in the delivering of power from the Ft. Randall dam and Gavins Point dam. The federal government has allotted 46 million dollars to build heavy transmission lines from Ft. Randall dam to distribution points in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. But none is to be built in Nebraska by the federal government. Neither will the government make an allowance in the charge for electrical energy to compensate Nebraska power districts for building their own heavy lines. To us this appears like discrimination. We believe the heavy transmission line should extend from Ft. Randall to O’Neill, thence east to Belden and from there on south to Nor folk and more southern points. Then when a heavy line is built south from Gavins Point it can join the O Neill line at Wausa, thus doing away with two parallel lines extending from the Missouri river south across the state, as seems to be the present plan. And these lines should be built at federal expense to equalize Nebraska with the other states, or else make a lower rate for Ne braska to make up for the cost of the lines. The first month of 1954 there were 90 traf fic deaths reported. The traffic officer at Glenoaks and Cambridge Drive who sees the school chil dren safely across the street says there are 1,000 cars an hour passing that intersection. It is significant of the times that a penny lay on the living room floor for two days before anyone bothered to pick it up. The average man’s real problem is that he has too much left over when he comes to the end of his money. Live within your income and you live with out worry—and a lot of other things. Editorial . . . Irony and Best Wishes Shortly after 11:30 a.m. (CST) on Monday, March 15, the first of tight power units went into action in the partially-completed Ft. Randall, S.D., multipurpose dam. The initial surge of power went to an REA unit headquartering at Winner, 3.D., and at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, March 17, 20,000-kiIowatts were switched into the Nebraska public power system via O’Neill. It was President Eisenhower who pressed a button in the White House that, in effect, mark ed the historic start in harnessing of the meand , ering, muddy Missouri river. Ft. Randall happens to be situated just in side South Dakota near the Nebraska-Dakota boundary, and, understandably, Dakotans have taken steps to insure that a substantial portion of the power consumption is made inside that state. Randall amounts to a grand 198-million-dol lar monstrosity. Any undertaking so enormous is not without its critics. There are those who say the mud and silt will impair the generating ef ficiency in a matter of a few years. There are those who say a series of small dams upsteam and along the tributaries would better serve for flood control by impounding and controlling the run off nearer the source. Others point to the vast amount of good cropland taken out of production because of the large-scale reservoir which will back up water some 50 or 60 miles. Like so many of the enormous power and i-rigation projects, a full accounting of the economics of the thing is nigh impossible. Enthusiasts for basin development acclaim the Pick-Sloan plan, which was the flood control act passed by congress in 1944, as the start of a new expansive era in Missouri valley history. Ft. Randall is one of several mainstem dams being developed under the flood control act and the first to be nearly completed. The Frontier feels neighborly and kindly toward our Dakota friends who point with pride to the 75 percent completed Ft. Randall project. fact, there’s a touch of irony for us in th*» that Randall is inside Dakota territory, instead of in Nebraska. We’ll not venture an opinion on the advisa bility or soundness of the plan or its degree of ultimate success. We sincerely hope that: (1) Good judgement and care are exercised in the distribution of the energy; (2) the Missouri val ley authority (on the verge of becoming a real power in the basin states) makes its decisions in the spirit in which the authority has been vest ed; (3) Randall becomes a glowing overall suc cess and the taxpayers’ chi-s have been well spent. ‘Speed” Ever since that distant day when man first invented the wheel, the desire to ease our bur dens by inventive genius has taken a turn toward greater speed. Volta and others who discovered the mysteri ous effects of elctromagnetism opened new pathways to speed. The mighty forces of steam, the gasoline internal combustion engine and fi nally shattering the time barrier by jet propul sion give rise to the thought, “What’s the hurry?” Many critics contend that speed, especially on our highways, is a great waste of lives. Yet there is one instance in which it may do just the opposite. It might save thousands of lives each ! year, the lives of those who have cancer. Tne only “wonder drug” that can save the lives of eight out of every one thousand appar ently healthy Americans who nevertheless have cancer is “speed.” Speed, meaning early detection and wide spread public participation in the American Can cer society’s detection program, already is show ing results. A study in Vermont revealed that the number of patients found with early—and controllable — cancer has nearly tripled in the past 10 years. A Mayo clinic survey indicated that women are discovering breast cancers in earlier, less dangerous stages. A Metropolitan Life Insurance company study reported an 11 percent decline in cancer death rate among women policy holders in a 10-year period. The need to detect, diagnose and treat can cer early is only one aspect of the urgency of cancer control. There are others. We need to ap ply speed in research and in providing services for the cancer patient. These, too, are going for ward. Above all, and quickly, we need to recognize cancer as a threat which is growing to the pro portions of a national emergency, and to meet it as we have always met national emergencies, by giving of ourselves and our means to its defeat. Next month is cancer month, designated by the American Cancer society and The Frontier ear nestly suggests you join in the fight with contri butions. Cancer is a killer of the worst order and each week’s issue of this newspaper chronicles the death of one or more cancer victims. It’s a sobering thought and speed is the keyword for attacking the disease. Frontier CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St. Address correspondence: Box 330, O’Neill, Nebr 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—2,258 (Sept. 30, 1953) When You and I Were Young . . . ‘Operation Honesty’ Effort 50 Years Ago ‘Tiberius Caesar’ Is Making Rounds 50 Years Ago “Increased revenues are ex pected with the new law and property oath owners must swear to in the apparent honestey op eration drive,” The Frontier ed itor declared. “We append it herewith that our readers may post up and be prepared for their solemn duty when “Tiberius Saesar’ (the assessor) makes his annual tour. The oath reads. ‘I, -, being duly sworn, say that the foregoing statement and schedule is true ... I have not directly or indirectly con verted or exchanged any of my property temporarily for the purpose of evading assessment . . . and that my answers to the foregoing interrogatories are true. So help me God. ”... F- J. Dishner is in Jefferson City, la. . . C. H. Ferguson has arrived from Omaha where he spent most of the winter. . . The post office and saloon at Meadow Grove were entered by thieves. There are no available clues, but authorities suspect the job is lo cal. . . Miss Lizzie McNichols left for Wood Lake where she is engaged to take a four-month term of school. . . P. J. McMan us has returned from Chicago, 111., and the store now features many and most of the latest styles for both men and women. 20 Years Ago It was announced by compa y officials that the new Garnole store will open on March 31. . . The parishoners held a reception in honor of Rev. J. G. McNamara on his arrival in O’Neill to as sume the duties as pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic church. Rev erend McNamara has been pastor of St. Andrew’s Catholic church at Bloomfield for the last 34 years. He will succeed the late Rt. Rev. M. F. Casisdy. . . Bar gain fares, as low as one cent a mile on certain round trip tick ets, will be offered by the Chi cago & North Western railway this summer to the century of progress exposition in Chicago, IlL . . O’Neill’s low temperature for the week was 21 below zero. . . . Sand storms in Texas todate have cost the wheat growers there $1,000,000 at the present price of wheat. . . Miss Mabel Sheldson, missionary in India, spoke to a large gathering at the Methodist church. . . J. W. Rooney was selected for the posi tion of secretary-treasurer of the newly-formed O’Neill Production Credit association. . . Early in the week the O’Neill town bas ketball team was defeated by the fast moving Chicago Hotten tots, a colored team. 10 Years Ago The St. Mary’s academy Card ianls won the class C district basketball championship. . . Jack Arbuthnot was transferred from the U.S. naval training center at Farragut, Ida., to Samson, N.Y.. to undergo nine w^eeks training in the postal department . James McNally of Omaha is in O’Neill visiting friends and rela tives. The Alpha club was enter tained at the home of Mrs. Al fred Drayton. . . Sister M. Eu gene celebrated her silver jubi lee in Sioux City as a Sister in the Benedictine order of nuns. One Year Ago . . . Ten-year chevrons were pre sented at a Lions club meeting to G. C. DeBacker and D. II. Clauson. . . Ed Thorin and Rni Bowker established an office in tne Hagensick building at the corner of Fourth and Douglas. ' ' ;,A surprise party was held ft the Lyte Vequist home—10 self-invited couples were pres rHJ°r ihe a/fair' ' Mr‘ aud Mrs. Guy Cole returned from a three stat^f °f-the Southwestern states and a visit to California. 5 in Family Have Tonsils Removed DELOIT — Five of the six phllL?re? °J Mr- and Mrs. Alvie theJr tonsils remov m Thursday at the Ante lope Memorial hospital, Neligh. SThaTtarsdj! nish,a‘ ^Jhflr*father pIans to have a tonsilectomy this week. Other Deloit News Mr and Mrs. Rudy Juracek and family of Ewing were sup twt*' guests Monday evening a* ®eh Sehi home' Mr and Mrs. Clint Taylor called at the Henry Reimer home Tuesday, March 9 Mrs. Wayne Paul and Mrs. Bud Bartak attended the style show given by Jhe freshman girls’ home economics class on Fridav afternoon. . y Mrs. Roy Johnson and Wini fred and Agnes Hemenway spent Wedesday, March 10, at the Fred Harpster home ^r*yrandT Mr?i Ralph Tomjacs and Mrs. Jewell visited relatives in Niobrara on Sunday. The HEO club met last Thur« da ywith Mrs. Frank Miller The next meeting will be April 8 at the Ralph Tomjack home. Bob Knapp and Gene Tomjack attended the basketball tourna ment in Lincoln last week. Mrs. Johnny Bauer and Max ine and Mrs. Myrtle Jewell spent the weekend in Omaha. Mrs. Sixton Carlson and Mrs Henry Reimer attended a lead ers’ training meeting in Neligh on Wednesday, March 10. Mr. and Mrs. Web Napier and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Napier Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Napier and family and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Napier were Sunday dinner guests at the Glenn Harpster home in honor of Terry’s sixth birthday anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bartak, Mr. ana Mrs. Glenn Harpster and sons and Mrs. and Mrs. H. Rei nier attended the 25th anniver sary celebration for Mr. and Mrs. -arl Christon in Ewing Tuesday evening, March 9. Ed Urban has been sawing lumber at the Fred Stearns and John Hupp farms. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Schmi ser and family were Sunday din ner guests at the Welke home re cently. Mrs. Bill Schindler of Omaha visited friends and relatives here last week. Shop Group Goes to Lincoln— INMAN—Supt. E. J. Runnalls said this week the shop boys at Inman high school have com pleted their first shop projects, and praised them for an “excel lent job” in assembling and fin ishing their projects. Series of Moves Noted at Chambers Peltzers Now Live in Town CHAMBERS— Friday, Febru ary' 26, was moving day for three Chambers families. Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Peltzer, who had a farm sale at their place southeast of town last fall, moved into their house in town which had been occupied by Mr. and Mrs. William Ritterbush. The Ritterbushes moved to the house in the east part of town where tylr. and Mrs. Raymond Walter and daughter have resid ed during the winter. The Walt ers, in turn, moved onto the Peltzer farm. Also on the moving list were Mr. and Mrs. Wade Davis and children, who have moved from the place northwest of Chambers where they have resided for sev ral years, to the Hugh Can ranch, southwest of Amelia. Go ing onto the place vacated by the Davises are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Winings and baby from north of Amelia. Other Chambers News Harold Dean Young, FPFN, came Wednesday, February 24, from Norfolk, Va., to spend a 15 dav leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Young, and family. On Thursday, February 25, A/3c Burl Lee Young came from San Antonio, Tex., to visit until Thursday, March 4, with his family. Weaver Brotherton of Greeley, Colo., drove through Chambers Monday, March 1, enroute to Yankton, S.D. He called on Mrs. Brotherton’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Alderson, while jn town. Mrs. Esther Wood returned on Saturday, March 6, from a three months’ visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Christianson, at Omaha, and son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hannah, and other relatives at Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Young and family and Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Hoerle and children at tended the funeral services at Magnet Friday, February 26, for the former’s brother. Pictures taken by Don Gartner in Europe featured the February meeting of the American Le gion. About 70 cub scouts and par ents attended a meeting of the Chambers and Aemlia packs at St. Paul’s Lutheran church par- „ lors. Each mother was given a corsage made by the boys. Roy Cooke of Bartlett called on his mother, Mrs. Etta Kellar, Sunday. Forty-five friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Honeywell Sunday evening to help Mrs. Honeywell celebrate her birthday anniversary. Mr, and Mrs. Milton Grimes of Omaha spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clair Grimes. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wyant returned recently from Bremer ton, Wash., where they had spent the winter with relatives. Mrs. Charles Wright spent last week and this week with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Taggart, and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Kieth Shoemaker and family of Elgin spent Sun day in the Vernon Elknis and Charles Wright homes. Emmet Residents Mark Birthdays EMMET—A number of Emmet residents celebrated birthday anniversaries the past week. Mary Richards celebrated her 10th birthday anniversary Friday afternoon at Emmet school dis trict 20. A lunch of cookies and ice cream cones was served. Her anniversary was Sunday, March 14. Also celebarting a March 14 birthday anniversary was Kath leen Grothe. She treated the( school group Monday. She was l 13-years-old. Jerry Schaaf observed nis 14th birthday anniversary on Wednes day, March 10, with a lunch of ice cream cones and cup cakes for his school friends. His anni verysary was March 7. The second birthday anniver sary of Robert Guy Cole was ob served Saturday, March 13. He received many gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hampal and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schaaf were guests. Lunch of angel food cake, chocolate cake, ice cream and coffee was served. Other birthday anniversaries celebrated included those of Mrs. William Newton, March 14; Rena Lee Calkins of O’Neill, March 14; Mrs. Georgiana Mc Ginnis, March 8. and Mrs. Dean Perry. March 8. Mr. and Mrs. John Conard and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cole telephoned Monday night, March 8, from Nickman, Calif., to wish Mrs. McGinnis a happy birthday anniversary. Other Emmet News Mrs. Agnes Gaffney called on Mrs. Georgiana McGinnis Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Clouse were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Newton. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fox were Sunday guests of the Paul New ton family. Barbara Fox. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Fox, spent last Thursdav afternoon at the Wayne Fox home. Mr. and Mrs. G. Owen Cole were Sunday evening dinner hosts to Mr. and Mrs. William Artus, Mr. and Mrs. Dale French and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Kersen brock. all of O’Neill. Mrs. Robert Cole was hostess at a coffee social hour Friday af ternoon. Guests were Mrs. G. Owen Cole and Mrs. Larry Schaf fer and son, Dewey. Mrs. Charles Abart, Mrs. Leon Beckwith, Mrs. Frank Foreman and Mrs. Agnes Gaffney visited Mrs. Georgiana McGinnis on Wednesday afternoon, March 10. Mrs. Beckwith entertained with colored slides. John Schaaf and Merle Fore man went to Fremont on Sunday morning on business. Mary Lou Conard, a student at Wayne State Teachers college, and two schoolmates came home this weekend. The roads were bad so they could not get home until Sunday morning. LENTEN SERVICES Midweek lenten services for the five thousand member churches of the Lutheran church (Missouri synod) are being held. Rev. R. W. Olson says lenten rites are being held at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Chambers, Tuesdays, at 7:45 p.m.; Christ Lutheran church, O’Neill, Wed nesdays, 7:45 p.m., and Imman uel Lutheran church, Atkinson, Fridays, 7:45 p.m. Time in “Voice of Tne Fron tier’’, thrice weekly! SOMETHING FISHY? Whenever you clean or cook fish, use Aloma Lotion to help remove fishy odors from your hands. Aloma is the only hand lotion with deodorant action. Aloma softens and smooths rough, dry hands and leaves them with a clean, delicate fragrance. 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