Upped Classification
Brings Rate Increase
New rates for telephone ser
vice in several cities, insluding
O’Neill, became effective Sun
day, June 13. according to Harry
Petersen, Northwestern Bell
manager for O’Neill. Rate adjust
ments are being made in these
cities to bring their rates up to
the level now in effect in other
Nebraska cities of similar size,
Mr. Petersen explained.
The new monthly rates in O’
Neill will be as follows.
Business individual line, $8.50;
business two-party line, 6.75:
residence individual line, 3.90;
residence two-party line, 3.25;
residence four-party line, 2.80
rural residence. 3.25; service
station, 11.75 per year.
Also, on June 13, a 10-cent
charge for local calls from pay
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Petersen said. This rate hae been
m effect in larger Nebraska cit
ies and is now being made gene
ial, he added.
Meanwhile, the state railway
commission turned thumbs down
on Bell’s latest application for a
general rate increase. The com
pany had asked a general rate
hike—its fifth since World II—
and other changes calculated to
cost its Nebraska customers 995
thousand-dollars more a year.
The commission agreed with
Bell in that in 22 communities
: the number of telephones had in
creased enough to move the ex
changes, including O’Neill, into
the next higher rate category.
Martha Clubbers
Make Tour—
The Martha 4-H club had a
tour Monday, June 7, to see some
of the projects. The group met
at Spath’s and visited several
places before dinner and then
went to the Martha school for a
picnic dinner. After dinner we
played ball till time to go home.
—By Karen Kruse, reporter.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Elsbury and
Ellen of Atkinson are vacation
ing at Glenrock, Wyo., and Den
ver, Colo. They will be gone a
bout a week. Cathv Elsbury is
staying with her maternal-grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Davis, while her parents are
gone.
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Earlybirds Will
See Celestial Show
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pass over Minneapolis, Minn. It
swings through Canada, the
southern tip of Greenland, Ice
land, the Faeroe islands, Nor
way, Sweden, Russia and Pak
istan.
A black sun will set in India
just 2 hours 45 minutes after
the eclipse in Holt county.
The prize part of the show will
be to see the moon covering the
full face of the sun. At this to
tal coverage and visibility per
mitting, Holt countyans (and
others in the narrow band) will
see the corona, the sun’s outer
shell of gas, which normally is
invisible. Around the rim of the
sun will be red, jet-like tongues
of incandescent hydrogen gas.
Totality in the belt will last
one minute in this part of the
world, longer to the northeast.
Millions of other Americans will
be able to see part of the dim
ming sun if they peek soon after
sunrise in their localities. In
New York City, for example, the
moon will cover 74 percent of
the sun at the peak; in Chicago,
111., 85 percent; St. Louis, Mo., 82
percent; Denver, Colo., 91 per
cent.
And here’s a forewarning from'
astronomers: Don’t try to look
without smoked or black glasses
or exposed and developed nega
tive films.
Many persons living in the
Western part of the nation will
miss the show entirely. The sun
will not have risen there when
the eclipse begins.
This will be the first total
eclips© in the U.S. since 1945.
Scientifically the eclipses are
valuable and teams of astrono
mers will make studies from
selected sites on land and in the
air.
By coincidence the celestial
AS GENERAL ELECTRIC SEES IT
Few peop e realize
how rapidly America’s
economy is growing
General Electric is backing its belief in a long-term period
of industrial growth by the biggest building program in its
history, spending more than a billion dollars since 1946
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Anyone who spreads fears that we may
be facing another major depression ig
nores completely how much America
has changed since the 1930’s.
Industrial re
search and develop
ment have broad
ened the base of our
entireeconomvand,
even more impor
tant, have laid the
First G-E refrigerator groundwork for a
helped create 100,000 jobs
steadily increasing
expansion in the years to come.
Here are just two examples of what
has happened.
The first electric refrigerator with a
sealed-in mechanism was introduced by
General Electric in 1926, and its pro
duction in that year required only a few
hundred people. Today, refrigerators
and freezers make up a billion-dollar
business which employs more than
100,000 men and women in manufac
turing, plus additional thousands in re
tailing and distribution. The freezer
itself has made possible another whole
'v>~' new industry, fro
zen foods.
In 1939, most of
us knew electronics
only as tubes in
our radio, and the
entire industry sold
230 million dollars’
Today’s now products and Worth of equipment,
new industries.. j .
Electronics is now
a 4M-billion-dollar business, and some
experts predict it will grow to 20 billions
in the 1960’s. General Electric, just one
producer, now has electronic-equip
ment factories in 13 different part3 of ,
the country and has stepped up its pay
roll in this field to 27,000 in just 15 years.
This trend of expansion is not slowing
down. It's rapidly accelerating.
Many exciting new industries are
predictable as we learn how to make full
use of atomic energy. Another im
portant new field will be electronic
machinery that will make work easier,
production swifter. Our scientists are
experimenting with metal crystals 50
times stronger than any metals we now
know. New and better home appliances
are on the way. More uses for the gas tur
bine are coming out of jet-engine
experiments.
These are only a few of the things
General Electric is
interested in, and
other companies, of
course, are hard at
work on equally
promising projects.
Our belief in a
long-term period of
industrial growth is } ■. will continue to keep
not wishful specu- America s economy expanding
lation. It’s being backed by the greatest
building program America has ever
seen. Last year, the nation’s industries
spent 28 billion, 400 million dollars
for new plant and equipment; this yea ,
they will spend only slightly less. Our
own investment since 1946 has already
reached more than a billion dollars. In
1954, a record 175 million dollars will
be invested in new plant facilities by
G.E., 24% more than last year.
This is the kind of confidence we have
in the country's future.
Progress Is Our Most Important Product
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attention of the scientific world
is being focused on Holt county
for the second time within a
year. During late July, August
and early September, 1953, the
air force research center at
Cambridge, Mass., in cooperation
with 14 universities, colleges,
weather units and other govern
ment agencies, conducted a mi.
nute study of air turbulence on
a prairie site six miles northeast
of here. Those studies, however,
concerned turbulence at low al
titudes although studies of the
sun’s rays, evaporation and tem
perature changes were byprod
ucts.
The Cambridge research per
sonnel, some of whom were here
last year, will be working on the
eclipse. One important project is
to use the eclipse to learn more
accurately distances between
North America and Europe. The
exact instant of totality will be
timed at sites established in
North America, Europe and the
East. Since the speed of the
moon’s shadow is known, dis
tances between the continents
then can be measured with great
precision.
Cooperating with Cambridge
in these field studies will be
Georgetown university, Ohio
State university, American Geo
graphical society, and others.
Other astronomers will
study the sun's corona and jet
like prominences and measure
again how much the sun's
gravity bends the light, com
ing from the stars, that passes
the sun.
At Denver, scientists will
make studies of the zodiacal
light, the glow in the sky believ
ed to be caused by sunlight re
flected from dust masses near
the sun. They will try to meas
ure the chemical makeup of such
Oust clouds.
All this is a different attitude
toward eclipses compared to an
cient times, when superstition
held a terrible dragon or some
monster roamed the sky and
caused blackouts.
The south “comer” of the
path will be about three miles
west of Cumminsville, or 27
miles west of Elgin. The north
west “corner” of the path will
start 12 miles north of Bassett.
By drawing a line between those
points on a map you will see the
eclipse “front.”
ihe eclipse will move norlh
aesiward at a rapid rate. O'
Neillites will get a good view
—probably about a minute.
Niobrara probably will have
the longest look at the total
eclipse of any place in Nebraska
—lasting about 1 minute and 10
seconds. Best vantage point in
ill Nebraska will be on a high
bluff in the Niobrara locality.
Atkinson, Butte, Creighton,
Lynch, Spencer, Bristow, Verdel,
5tuart, Emmet, Inman, Page,
Ewing and other nearby towns
ire in the belt.
In Atkinson the sun will come
up covered by the moon and
then begin to peek behind the
noon 40 seconds later.
The eclipse will race half-way
iround the world in 2 hours 45
ninutes. As it gets farther on
northeastward the path will be
wider and the length of blackout
longer.
A total eclipse does not bring
total darkness. The sun’s corona
nr halo appears outside the
shadow of the moon. When the
;clipse begins, a pale purple
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covering spreads over the land
scape. As the total phase nears,
there will be flitting bands of
light (caused by mountains on
the moon).
Tota eclipses of the moon are
rather common affairs, but the
rarity of the total eclipse of the
sun can be appreciated by learn
ing that Rome saw only three
total eclipses in 12 centuries,
I.ondon only two. Omaha will
be in the center of a solar eclipse
in 2048—a memo tto hand down
to your great-grandchildren.
Butler Holds Ike
to Asia Promise—
“President Eisenhower has
publicly promised the country
that he will take no action to
send American troops into Indo
china without first. . . . securing
congressional approval”. Sen.
Hugh Butler (R.- Nebr.) pointed
out.
“I believe that promise is of the
greatest importance”, the senator
continued. He reminded his lis
teners that when the Korean con
flict broke out, American troops
were ordered into action without
congress being asked for per
mission.
“We were simply told about it
later, after it was too late to
back out,” he said. “Nothing like
that can happen in' Indochina.”
O'NEILL LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. DeBacker
will leave today (Thursday) for
Omaha where they will visit un
til Sunday with their son. Rev.
Thomas E. DeBacker, who is the
assistant pastor at St. Agnes
Catholic church.
Mr. and Mrs. Harden Anspach
visited at the R. B. Marston
home in Dorsey Sunday. Mrs.
Charles Marston and Debby ac
companied them.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Zimmer
man of Hastings were Saturday
visitors here.
Drive-In Services
Being Discontinued—
The regular Sunday morning
worship services at the O’Neill
Drive-In theater, sponsored by
the O’Neill Ministerial associa
tion, are being discontinued.
This announcement was made
this week by the association.
Royal Theater
— O'NEILL. NEBR. —
I’hurs. June 24
Famliy Night
JIVARO
Pronounced HE-VA-RO (head
quarters of the Amazon).
Color by technicolor. Starring
Fernando Lamas, Rhonda Flem
ing and co-starring Brian Keith.
Primitive passions unleashed. . .
Family SI; adults 50c;
children 12c
Fri.-Sat. June 25-26
TAZA, SON OF COCHISE
Color by technicolor. Starring
Rock Hudson and Barbara Rush.
When the Apache nation rose in
wild revolt ... to meet the fury
of Geronimo’s pillaging hordes!
Adults 50c; children 12c; mati
nee Sat. 2:30. All children under
12 free when accompanied by
parent
Sun.-Mon.-Tues. June 27-28-29
Only the magic of Cinemascope
can bring you one of the truly
magnificent adventures of our
time . . .
HELL AND HIGH WATER
Starring Richard Widmark
and Bella Darvi in technicolor
deluxe in the wonder of stereo
phonic sound.
Adulls 50c; children 12c; mati
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★ Old Fashioned Balloon Ascension
★ Huge Display of Fireworks
★ Top Theatrical Acrobatic Acts
★ Central States Carnival Shows
★ Dancing — Big Midway
Lots of Fun
★ Baseball — Kansas City Giants vs.
North-Central All-Stars ^
SUNDAY, JULY 4th
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Martens Infant
Dies at Norfolk
ATKINSON — Graveside fun
eral services were conducted
Wednesday morning, June 16, for
Jocelyn Iris Martens 18-months
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Martens of Atkinson
The child died Sundav. June 13,
in a Norfolk hospital. She had
been a patient at the hospital two
days.
Rev. E. G. Hughes officiated in
the rites at Woodlawn cemetary.
Survivors include: parents; sis
ters—Jaqueline, Jaralyn, Jean
and Shelly; brothers—Brian and
James.
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