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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1954)
Prairieland Talk . . . O ° O o • Scattering Smiles, Sunshine Pays By RO MAINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Frontier Editor LINCOLN—It costs ^nlyca penny for a bit of candy to make a little child happy. Toss a puppy a scrap of your leftover dinner—he wiggles all over with puppy gratitudes Out of work, out °of money, homeless and, as he thought, friendlesscin a strange place, a man ° of clean countenance sat in a W ^ Q | railroad station where I oawait ed the arrival of a midnight train. He planned spend the night there away from the out side winter cold. He had no O U o money. What would the morn ing bring? Handed sufficient funds to o supplyo his hunger needs his eye lighted with the flame of gratitude voice could not express. You fitay hand a _ _ o hungry man a crust cof bread ° but nothing fbvives hofje, in-L o spires to trenevled effort like the 11,1 n feel cof real cas^. A new {fair Pf shoes brought a o thrill of jjtappiness to the onfe receiving them and to the giver. A cup of cgld water brought to a mother whose; crying child in her arms was thus °soon put to sleep.0Ail of which costs a little in ef fort and money — but so little! Then “scatter smiles and sunshine all along -your way; cheer and brighten every passing day!” 0 O O'-' , „ • * • o In the election of November, 1902, M. P. Kin c kaid of, O’Neill was elected a member of congress, the first republican to be elected-in the Sixth Ne braska congressional district, now the Fourth. . , Jack Meals0 was shaping his affairs to move his ofarhily-to; Valdez, Alaska. .°. -At a 6 o’clock cere mony the morning of November 19, 1902, Gjeorgg Shoemaker and Miss Nellie Joyce were married by Rev. M. F. Cassidy. . .^Another wedding was o that on0November 25 that year when Harvey Stocking and Miss Kittie Bright were married, the ceremony taking place at the home of Miss Bright’s brother, C6 L. Bright, a minister from c Norfolk officiating. , . Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Birm ingham and Mr and Mrs. D. Clem Deaver formed a group of O'Neill citizens who went to Neligh to spend the day with the B. J. Ryans, formerly cot QlNeill. . . December 17, that year, two of O’ Neill's prominent housewives died, Mrs. M. M. Sullivan, wife of a prominent merchant, and Mrs. G- W. Smith, wife o^the Short Line agent. School dismissed and0 district court adjourned for the funerals. ° o ° 0 * * * O A home and family life are not for the pa triot who has been drawn into the army. And home and family life are- the American's her itage because of those who left home and fam ily life to fight to establish a nation of free people. o It may be aQcase of “must,” but is it neces- I sary or merely one man’so iglea who desires to desires to exercise his authority? The streets of O’Neill were wide enough for the array of cover ed wagons, for the burkuf horses plunging high, wide and nandsome and the clutter of automo biles and trucks racing through town. That re routing highways has anything to-do with reduc ing highway^ accidents is questionable. If the changes suggested for O'Neill are made, who pays all the ex'pensei? thus involved—the hapless property owner? The streets of O’Neill are much wider than the strgets found at Grand Island and oother cities through which many overland bus es aqd much heavy traffic moves and which are ample £pr present gay needs. It was immediately following the world trag edy occasioned by the ambitions of Kaiser Wil helm that frightening tales were circulated warn ing us of deadly things science had introduced to wipe out the earth’s living. We are still here. Now it’s the H-bomb that’s going to do it. Val Peterson of the civil defense office is going to exhibit pictures of what the latest cargo of de struction can do, not to frighten but to inform. And being informed, if you are of normal human makeup you are also frightened. A mob may wipe out any city any minute, is the warning. If so, you can’t do a thing about it when blown to atoms. Ancient Ninevah had 40 days warning that a celestial bomb would fall on that great city if the inhabitants did not mend their v/ays. The mayor of the city started a reform movement and Jonah was disappointed that the Ninevehites were spared. Not that Val would be disappointed if neither an enemy nor a bungling patriot get around to blow up some of us. * * * The GOP in Nebraska will probably nei ther gain nor lose prestige as a result of bring ing that fighting Irishman from Wisconsin, Senator Joe McCarthy, into the state for the preprimary keynoter. But he will at least be entertaining as he has not only the gift of gab bu tan originality that sets him apart from the mill run of political spellbinders. * * * March slunk away leaving a bit of melting snow, in came April on a big blow, the sun marked off the hours in flaming grandeur and tints the west at eventide with a flash of gold of departed day. With the gathering shadows the wind goes to rest. April is on its way down the pathway of time and introduces to prairieland another season of wind and rain necessary to the fulfillment of human hopes forever anchored to the soil. Wind and sunshine and showers wipe away the picture drawn by winter’s frosts upon the window pane and bring to life another sea son’s flowing robes of green and crowns of gold. And so in our lives, the winds of adversity blow away the dust of time and the shqwers of count less blessings wash away life’s shadows and let the sunshine in, so at the dawn of each new dav you awaken to get out and do your stuff for an other eight hours. ± ± * Whether Gov. Robert Crosby’s varied taxa tion proposals would be any improvement over the present setup is anybody’s guess. What we have today is certainly no advance step from the old way of precinct assessors going the rounds from citizen to citizen and listing the property, which for the most part meant an honest return of goods and chattels. But this is a day of big ideas and we will have something to chew the rag about. * * * Governor Crosby is kept busy explaining his “taxable” ideas. It is something like 50 years ago Governor Savage was busy explaining why he paroled Joe Bartley, judicially assigned to the pen because of a half-million dollar shortage as state treasurer. * * * The county attorney of Lancaster county joins the chorus of those who think the world's problems can be settled by a special session of the legislature. * * » It is harder to be poor without complain ing than to be rich without boasting.—Chinese Proverb. c Editorial0 . .Q. 0 [ *e & • -More of the Same? ° n o Inauguration a few months ago of 12 stra tegically located truck weighing stations on the Nebraska highway system is producing some in teresting:: reaptipns0 ° o Tlje stations, are doing 'aolandoffice business and the penalty money is pouringjfhto school cof fees in “ the counties in which the stations are o located. On any given day the Nebraska highway patrol elects0 to open a weighing station, all truck traffic on the routes on which the station is situated is obligated to stop for weight check o o For years the behemoths of the highway have been getting away with Gmurder,0 overload ing their outfits to the hilt. (The Nebraska leg islature has ordered a^ “g-et tough” policy and the carrier^, guilty of overloading are0,being nabbed right-and-left and frequently are ordered to re duce their: cargo before proceeding. o Some of tt}£ national truck lines vary in their approach to the° problem when their drivers are detained. In one instance a roving peacemaker comes along periodically, °graciously pays the accumulated fines and costs and moves to the next county^ in which his°boys have been: in weight station trouble. On the other hand, an other national concern turns out a ream of gob bledeegook °with the idea their legal beagles will wear down the hick county officers and charges will be dropped. One truck line operating o through O’Neill has had on^ of its drivers found guilty of overloading 0six times at the station located east of Inman at the iunction of TT s highways 20 and 275% o ° ° The weighing1 stations are ° c distributed 0 throughout Nebraska without particular regard % to population but with the interception idea in O - mind, making it difficult for ^ny truck driver to wilfully bypass a check point while a weighing o seige is in progress. 0 (Of course, oncoming drivers osometimes’get signals from°others who have been through the mill. The oncoming guy thereupon pulls off to the side of the road for a snooze or s\yeats it out in a town for the duration, resuming his trip a few hours behind schedule. And, occasionally, patrolmen are not outfoxed by this and simpiy wprk overtime to finish the job.) But the real point we wish to make is this: Counties (like Holt) are now enjoying an advant age over counties without stations (there are 81 in the latter category). As we’ve stated before, the big portion of the fines collected goes to the schools in thp counties in which the charges are pressed. Already a substantial sum has found its way into Holt county schools—perhaps $5,000. Many persons and3 some state legislators are now aware of this situation and already are lick ing their; chops and devising ways and means of a more equitable distribution of weighing, station spoils. North-central ar.d western Nebraska 'peo ple, who have been close to the school land lease issue for years are not shedding tears for eastern Nebraskans, who all of a sudden are squawking for weight station revenue. Eastern Nebraska school land long since has been sold and placed on the local tax rolls. In the north-central ando c < . I \ western portions of the state, where most school land is located, lease rentals have gone sky high and schools throughout the state benefit propor tionately. Many lessees wouldn’t resent the rough rental treatment of recent years if the moneys were spent locally—in the county. Comes now the order to liberate a half-hun dred or more patrolmen from desk jobs and weighing scales and put them on the highways to crack down on speeders and other traffic of fenders. They are to be replaced in the admin istrative work by non-uniformed employees, whose pay will come from the state highway de partment’s budget. Or stated another way, pay for the 63 new employees will be subtracted from new highway construction projects. Howsoever noble and well-intended are Gov. Robert Crosby’s desires to cut highway injuries and deaths by liberating a half-hundred or more patrolmen, we wonder if it isn’t a mistake. It apparently makes no difference how many pa trolmen there are—they seldom arrest the driver of a highway boxcar for speeding. We can’t recall when last a big bruiser was arrested and fined for speeding in these parts, and neither could a court official with whom we checked. In visiting with other newspaper men we find that, strange ly enough, very few big boys are hailed into court for speeding in other sections of the state, and it takes only 30 minutes or less to find two or three of them pounding the roads at unlawful rates of speed, inflicting tremendous punishment of the roadbed and compounding the risks of the open road. The legislature authorized the weighing sta tions to defeat an overload abuse that had been generally practiced for years. We’d like to ask Governor Crosby if the half-hundred or more liberated patrolmen are going to give us more of the same or if they are really going to crack down on the big boys as well as the passenger car operators? Your temper is one of the few things that improves the longer you keep it. 3 o iSigE FrontTer CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St. Address correspondence: Box 330, O’Neill, NeLr Established in 1380—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, 187a. 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 paiti-in-advanee. Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,258 (Sept. 30, 1953) ) O When You and I Were Young... Gets Idaho Post at $60 Per Month © Lillie Galleher Is Leaving Stuart SO Years Ago For want of a better place to go, Dan Cashman returned to O’Neill after extensive travel ing pver the United States. . . A new soda fountain has been installed at the Gilligan & Stout drug store. . . Miss Lillie Galle her will resign from her teach ing position in Stuart to go to the Cour d’ Alene public scho^'S at a salary of $60 per month. 20 Years Ago A furnace explosion in the Scott building caused property damage estimated at close to $1,000. . . Six inches of snow blanketed O’Neill the latter part cf the week with more on the way, according to predictions of the weatherman. . . C. E. Melena began work on Mrs. Margaret Clauson’s beauty shop building. . F. M. Reese of Valentine ar rived in O’Neill to assume the duties of agriculture agent, a po sition made vacant by the resig nation of James W. Rooney. 10 Years Ago Margaret Hammond, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Ham mond, and Lt. W. H. Bowker of Neligh were married at St. John’s Catholic church in Om ana. . . Constance Golden left for Hunter college, N.Y., to begin her training in the WAVES. .. . A former O’Neillite, Gerald Cress, is campaigning for city councilman in Denver, Colo. One Year Ago The air force research center has selected a location north and east of O’Neill for the site of the largest and most exhaustive wind research field tests ever at tempted in meteorological his tory. . . Miss Carolyn Watson will be presented in a recital by Mrs. Charles B. Houser at the St. Mary’s auditorium. . . The junior American Legion auxil iary held an Easter egg hunt in the American Legion auditori um. Fourteen children w’ere ■esent. . . George Hammond, “Voice of The Frontier” an ouncer, preached for two min utes on sane and safe driving ver the Easter holiday—a re sult of a hair raising trip from Sioux City to O’Neill made by the Hammond family. “Many travelers depend upon the sane ness of others for tneir own safe ty on the highways.” 'Dish Washing* to Be Demonstrated— The Evergreen 4-H club held its sixth meeting with all but one member present. At the session, Pat Wabs and Anita Doty demonstrated setting the table and serving a meal. Shar on True demonstrated how to make a potholder. Other mem bers judged potholders made by older members. The next meeting will be Ap ril 20 with roll call a safety slo gan and a picture to match the slogan. A shoulder cover or laundiy bag is to be made by the older members for the meet ing.^_ Mike Wabs and Shirley Stor johann will demonstrate how to make a shoulder cover. Susan Margiitz and Linda Storjohann will demonstrate how to wash dishes. — By Bonna Margritz, news reporter. Nifty Needlers Gel Record Books— A demonstration on plain muf fins was given by Connie Riege in the presence of the Nifty Needlers 4-H club. Mrs. J. O. Balantyne and Faye Irene were hostesses to the girls Monday, March 22. Record books and project les sons were given to the members. Marlene Frahm and Diane Cork were guests of the girls. Diane decided to join the club. Songs led by Donna and Janis Crumly opened the meeting. Games were led by Faye Irene Ballantyne. 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