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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1954)
o o ° m ° /° European Agriculture; z 30 “ Methods Are Noted & - ^ ° o w o O O o By MRS. 0.0A. HAMMERBERG - o Special Correspondent r0 CELIA—Mrs. Lee Terwilliger, who with her husband Recently returned from an extended Eur o opean trip, presented movies of their trip and a commentary at a recent meeting of the c Celia Homemakers extension cltib. o The cTerwilligers boarded the Jo L'SS United States, world’s newest luxury liner and0one of the fastest ships afloat, on Fri? - day, September 17, 1953. . Not long after the 70-million-dollar i. leviathan hit the open North At lantic,c-strong gales battered the oship for 12 hours. Winds hit 30 a miles-per-hour and succeeded in confining, most of the passengers to their "cabins and staterooms. 3 Mrs. Terwilliger s^id the 53, 000°- ton (displacement)., .vessel o was “tossed about like a ’cork" as oit knifed through and rode ( over the waves. She explained that you’d have to cling to your l^ed to kefep from rolling out. 0 o o One bellboy broke his leg de scending o% stairway and the stewards were kept busy wrestl o yng food to the cabins, occasion ally^ dropping traysful o^ food and dishes. The noise from the storm was ‘‘terrific,’’ creating a sound like thunder or as if huge iron chains were b£ing bashed against the sdde of the ship. Many of the ship's crew dis covered they didn’t own sea legs —some of them becoming vio lently sick. Passengers were ad vised to wear only low-heeled shoes, preferably rubber-soled shoes. o Hug Guardrails By \|onday afternoon, Sep tember 120, passengers still were obliged to cling onto ropes -to walk through the rooms and lounges and to hug the guard rails on stairways and passage ways. They strapped themselves to the tables wenuuuuuawerese to the tables when they dined. On several occasions only 0 two or three persons turned up in the dining rooms for their meals. ’ The proud liner finally reach ed the other side of, the wild Atlantic. :As the passengers dis O embarked lunch boxes, includ ing sandwiches and fruit, were ’given to the passengers \yho had arrived on the U S S United States. The special beat train reached Paris about 2 p.m., on September 22. Taxis were board ed for the trip to the Hotel Europa on Constantinople street where the Terwilligers to stay for two days. Mrs. Tferwilliger told her aud ience she and her husband took a walk around town and soon got lost in the city’s spiderweb maze of street corners. The awkward feature about getting around in Paris, she said, is the numerous “circles”0 or “squares” from which originate six to 10 streets going that many differ ent directions. “If you stopped to gaze into a store or shop window, you’d loose your bear ings and become hopelessly lost.” o Merchandise in rails stores is much higher priced than in the United States. Mr... Terwii liger said she was impressed with the number of sidewalk cafes and the many stands or stalls where vegetables, flowers and variety merchandise were sold. Mrs. Terwilliger had pre pared for the stopover in Paris by learning a few French words, tut she admitted to her listen ers that her French was "sad” from the pronunciation stand point. 1 o « The famous French bread i s baked in loaves three to four feet in length and about three inches in diameter and is sold to you unwrapped. It’s okay to eat it as you walk along. Cathedrals Impres-.ive No visit to Paris is complete without visiting historical Notre Dame cathedral, which required 92 years to build. The cathedral is noted for the statutes of saints, apostles and bishops. Some of these are over 100 feet tall. Domes inside are 223 feet high and are supposed to have been built in 1200 AD. Streets are numbered from Notre Dame. A guide told the Terwilligers a tiny fishing village is said to have stood on the site of the great cathedral 95 years before Christ. The Celia couple also toured several other famous ca • thedrals and they are full of praise for the handwork end carving. One contained 200 bells and was built in 3572 to com memorate a masacre in wbicn 2,400 people were killed. The guide explained to them that many bronze monuments and other pieces of art were stolen by the Germans during the late war and were never recovered because some of the metal ob jects were melted down and put into armaments. On September 24, the Terwil ligers took leave of Paris on a huge bus which featured two drivers and a stewardess. The driver sat on the left side. As the big vehicle purred along the luscious countryside, the Holt county pair observed lots of sugar beets and many stacks of small grain crops with thatch ed tops on the stacks. One four or five acre plot included 150 to 200 stacks that resembled tall shocks. They noted that exten sive use was being made o f Eelgian type draft horses pull ing two-way tip-up plows. The farmers there were using a horse and a two-wheel cart, to haul manure, with men trail ing behind to dump the manure into, neat piles. Buildings IUkept The Terwilligers said building were very aid and not kept in good repair. Corners arid turns in tiny villages were so sharp that the bus literally had to crawl. All Normandy and Pa de Calais towns date back to the days of the Romans or older. The Terwilligers remained in Brussells, Belgium, overnight. They were impressed with the beautiful homes, the many trees lining both sides of the streets and roads and tall grass—like America in May. Farm women in Belgium were cutting grass with hand scythes. They ° also noted many small orchards and frequently cattle grazed in the orchards. In the Low Countries the towns appeared to be closer to gether and the farms smaller, which suggests a lot more pop ulation per square mile and richer land. At Antwerp, famous Belgian port, women were sweeping or scrubbing the sidewalks in tra ditional fashion, ndt overlooking the window sills and flowerbox es. Every home had flowers in wmdowboxes. A funeral pro cession was passed. The “lumber wagon” type hearse was drawn by a horse and there was a small casket. About 40 people wearing black walked behind the hearse, three abreast. Border Patrols Between countries the tour ists passed the border patrols. The stewardess looked after the passport details. The farms in the Low Coun tries were mostly one or two acres in size and the farming was done in strips 60 to 100 feet in width. Irrigation or water ditches separated the tracts. There were no° fences because of few cattle. At Dortrecht the Ce lia people saw many potato fields and men and women were harvesting potatoes or. their Knees with a crude scratching instrument. 3 Under the Maas river they passed through a long tunnel which took them into Rotter dam, Holland, a city hard-hit during the war by the Germans. Everybody in Rotterdam rides a bicycle. When the bus stopped for a stop signal, 20 to 50 bikes would hedge in around the big vehicle.0 a x a_a_1 . il . rr* :_11? rvc nxuoicj uaiu cut xcnou.i gers looked out on Europe’s larg-1 est airport Amsterdam is noted! as the ei*y of 90 islands. ° Driving between the Holland cities the Terwilligers got the impression they wevo traveling in a park or formal gardeas. One to four rows df ° trees lined the roads and the dwell’ngs were covered with vines. *t 10 a.m., on Saturday, Sep tember 26, the Terwilligers pull ed =up at the German border. Money was changed into the con of the realm IGerman i. arks) and the Holt countyans made a few purchases at a bor der store. In Germany farm fo’k were threshing grain, using hands in stead of forks to pass bundles to the machine. The wells featured a beam lift to pull the pails of water. “Everything seemed so primi tive to us, by American stand ards, we thought we had turned the pages of history back several hundred years. Towns and ci ties are medieval,” Mrs. Terwil liger told her neighbors “We saw a big herd of fat lows. All were wearing blankets and they were soon to be stabled to keep them warm.” Farmers in northern Germany, vhich was regarded as the Brit sh sector since the war,,, didn’t ook as prosperous as fanners in he Low Countries. LiHle three vheeled automobiles darted ilong the roads which were ined with lots of square-topped ledges. 0 ~ o At one point along the high vay a, large blackboard was sit uated in the road. It vras a “call •oard” for, travelers who were ixpecting messages. The party reached Hamburg^ it 4:15 p.m." Mrs. Te.rwilliger’s ;ister, Lena, and her husband, lendrick, reside there and were. an hand to meet them. The kin lad come to the station with ! heir neighbor in his Volkswag an. The American couple was aken to Eidelstedt, west suburb' •f Hamburg. Next day they boarded a train or an hour’s ride to visit Mrs. rerwilliger’s mother. Lots of rel ieves gathered and fried eel was he delicacy for the meal. Mother Is Aged Mrs. Terwilliger said her nother appeared about the same is she did in 1949, when the rerwilligers were there, but she is growing very old and finds valking difficult. rneir mgnis in viennany weie pent sleeping on feather beds. Later, the couple visited Mrs. Westphal, for whom Mrs fer williger bad worked as a cham aermaid in 1922. Through Mrs. Westphal a motion picture pro jector was obtained to exhibit Q.S. home movies that had been Drought along. It was not a modern projector, by any means, bat it worked. There were sev 2>al showings of the Celia mov ies and Ihe Germans were im pressed with the manner ih which hay is moved and cattle are branded. 0 • Streets in German towns are swept daily from trash aid [eaves. Restaurants served open faced sandwiches for seven cents with meat hanging over’ the sides. A large craampuff with whipped cream cost only 'our cents. Most German homgs have an pbundance of books, even the most humble homes. Jftcst of the ^coks are the classics. There are as many book stores in Ger many.: as there are food stores - ail doing a good business.0Lea ther goods in Germany sells lor about one-fourth tbe price ° m >ue U.S. . . The Holt countyansa purchas ed a new teakettle for a°birth iay, gift for Mrs. Terwill'ger’s mother, who’was 87. The’, aye cost 75 cents. She received luts of flowers and many visy ns ao Teakettle Cheap “In my sister’s towno — Herz ..orn—we filmed a house bunt in 1620. Inside beams are 20x20 inch oak It’s Still in good repair and is the only house standing in the whole territory which was not burned in the 30 Year Was,’’ Mrs. Terwilliger said. “A sister works for, a farmer who raises vegetable plants. She is paid 15 cents 0 per •hojir °fof pulling, bunQping and tying, also gets 15 cents an hour for raking hay with a wooden rake* all day. A hired mSh gfets from? $25 to $40 per month. The ground is hoed by hand. (Where land is rough the women carry® baskets of the grass home To hang up and dry on wires. “I nmticed especially the friendliness toward America as. Everyone wanted to be helpful O O Or O to us. We visited Nuremberg where a nephew lives and saw many sights. Took a lot of pic tures everywhere we went. "We boarded the ship to re turn to America November 7 at LnHavre at 11:30 p.m. Clocks were set back 75 minutes each day. Return trip required four days at 42 to 45 miles per hour. The distance from LeHavre to New York is 3,155 miles. “While we were sitting at the breakfast table on November 12 a bellboy brought the announce ment of the birth of a son to our son, Perry, and Doris Ter williger. The message came by airmail letter. Everyone within talking distance was glad and we were thrilled. We had the purser put more stamps on the inside for a souvenir for the baby. “We got off the ship and took a taxi to the New York Central depot (Grand Central sration) to pet reservations on the Pace maker which left at 3:30 p.m. We reached Chicago, 111., at 7:30 o’clock the following morning, then on to Omaha—and home' “It was good to get back!” Will Shrader Is 77; Anniversary Noted EWING— Will Shrader, well known farmer living northwest of Ewing, celebrated his 77th birthday anniversary on Sunday, March 21, at the home of is daug hter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wettlaufer of Page. All members of his family were present including eight grand children. A beautiful dinner was served at 1 o’clock by Mrs. Wettlaufer followed by an informal after noon. Pictures were taken of the honored guest as well as family groups. Before departing for their homes luncheon was served. A, huge birthday cake baked by Mrs. Wettlaufer and Miss Alice Shrader lighted with 77 candles, and another made by Mrs. Wil lie Shrader made a centerpeice for the table. Mr. Shrader was assisted by his grandchildren in blowing out the candles. Home made ice cream and coke were also served with the cakes. In attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Will Shrader, Alice and Ed dy, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wett laufer and son, Gary, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Shrader, Sandra and Douglas, Mrs. May Shrader, Mr. and Mrs. Verle Gunter and child ren, Karen Napier and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Powers and family of Norfolk. r ■ Tbi a o o °u ° Q ^ ’ ;f&^SMggestioris) Beatrice Fc:Js COTTAGE CHEESE tfi ° o ^ ° i O o o O ■ O o It’s creamy—it9s dreamyl ta‘J ^ o O o ° 0 ° a salad made with O o o ° Meadow Gold Cottage Cheese o better taste...better texture.*. o ° O o o OO P W • ° t „ fo because it s creamed, try it today! ° CJo ' o o° ° O . 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