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Prairieland Talk . . . ‘Beef’ Not ‘Beet’ for Nebraska By ROMAkNE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier MARION, IND.—The season opens for amateur statesmen coming in from their district primed to do something for their country. One honored gent came to the statehouse with a burden to have a slogan added to the Nebraska auto license plates, “The Beet State.” A little cor ner of prairieland produces sugar beets. Substitute an “f” for “t” to make it “The Beef State” would be nearer it. The commonwealth that has not much to boast about in the way of products flaunts a slogan on its license plates — something like the high-stepping and adorn ed character marching at the head of the home-town band, who produces no music but is some thing to look at. Romalna A member of the Georgia saundnti legislature proposes to keep the names of crooks out of the newspapers and a Hoosier statesman would have a law passed that would require the signature of a majority of the freeholders in a given community to a petition for granting a liquor license, but no slogan such as “The beer that made Milwaukee famous, re quired. _ * * * Within recent weeks there has been sounded from pulpit and platform, scrolled out by type writer and pen the gushing of orator and writer that we were at “the threshold of a new year. ’ We have stepped across the threshold. The year, still young, marches down the avenue of time. An other gray hair, another wrinkle forming, and the troubled world rolls on. The needs of mankind, the ambitions of men, the lusts of the flesh, the schemes of evil minds, the hopes and aspirations of human hearts continue as in the past. Knowledge increases, rushing to and fro is endless, and hurry ing feet tramp the cities’ streets. Down through the centuries into the present truth in its beauty, jus tice softened with mercy, and the greatest of all, love in its tenderness, survive. Without these life is drearv, hopeless. Walking out, I came upon two little girls at play. We visited and I promised them candy the next time we would meet. “We’ll watch for you,” they said in anticipation with perfect confidence and trust. Who could betray the trust of a little child? Once again I walked abroad. Those little girls spotted me, came running to get the promised candy, and again childhood and man hood dipped into the treasures of human fellow ship, they delighted ove~ a bit of candy, the old guy pleased that he could make two kids happy for a nickel. Dean of agriculture of a great university is an honored and exalted attainment. But for the stuff that goes to make up our three squares a day we still have to depend on the guys in overalls riding tractors and saddle horses out on the land. * * » You haven’t seen it all until you have seen the worst. We were out to the city “dump” today. Mountains of tin cans, broken vessels of one kind and another, castoffs and unwanted of which Yan keeland probably exceeds the rest of the world in piling up. The city garbage grounds consist of many acres comparable to fabled lower regions with ore . way in through the mud and the same way out. Others were pulling in as we left to make their contribution to a city’s castaways that must find a place on the landscape. Householders dispose of their garbage independent of any municipal col lector. A bewildered gent up in New England with wounds in his hands and feet and having three followers, a man and two women, says he is Jesus of Nazareth, the four claiming each to be 2,000 years-old, and seem to be lousey with money. The real Man of Nazareth had one of His followers catch a fish to get cash for the Roman tax collect or. . . Football was responsible for 25 deaths in ’54. . . Everybody but your church pastor demands an increase in wages. . . Are we a sickly nation or is the 10 billion spent annually for medical care and advice to cure us or to keep up from being sick? . . A gent at Jackson, Miss., thought holding out $8 every week from his pay check was a taxation outrage—with gun in hand he made a haul of $5,000 in one swoop on the institution where he had been employed. . . Rabbits down in Kansas are said to be growing horns. Maybe coyotes will grow armorplate. . . Marion, Ind., has a church Ill-years-old that is the place of wor ship of a Presbyterian group. * * * Mrs. Glen Wise, a 58-year-old grandmother, has taken over as secretary of state in Wisconsin, said to be the first woman elected to that office in the Badger state. . . Dad is in jail and his two sons, 16 and 12 years of age, on hospital cots from a beating dad gave them for a minor neglect in home duties. Have known prairieland kids that age who would take dad down and sit on him if he got too rough. . . A five-weeks-old baby, the youngest to be stricken with heart disease, was received as a patient yesterday in James Whit comb Riley hospital. . . President and Mrs. Eisen hower received 15,000 holiday greeting messages in their mail. A movie dame out at Hollywood got 25,000. . . There had been a row over the lo cation of the postoffice in the little town of Santa Claus in southern Indiana, but this past holiday sea son all involved shook hands and vowed to be friends. “Whether you rent or buy you pay for the home you occupy”—a slgoan of a Marion lumber dealer. What that has to do, if anything, with the housing situation is anybody’s guess. In this com munity, however, there is a swing away from apartment house living and young couples espe cially are geting into homes of their own, or which will be definitely theirs when paid for. There was a time in O’Neill whent here were no renters nor a house to rent. That was true the county over. It was a generation in which to have a home you must put up a dwelling place of some sort if only a one-room cabin. This generation would not re vert to the cabin or sod house way of life, but are having homes of their own with all the latest gadgets. * * * Cheer up! There are 162,922,000 Americans not members of the communist party. And those who take a shot at guessing tell us that 37,011,460 marriages will no go on the rocks this year; there are 63,868,000 Americans holding paying jobs; 162,380,580 are not likely to drop dead from heart disease; 162,717,890 wil not die of cancer and 15, 720,000 workers will not go out on strikes for high er pay and less work. . . Twenty juveniles have been nabbed by police in Indianapolis, Ind., and a hudred robberies hung on them. . . Congress is in session, the president has had his say and the weather forecaster is still on the job. . . This Hoo sier city has an organization of ladies known as the It club. * * * Clodhoppers and cowboys in the lush empire of Holt doubtless got a sizeable haul out of that one billion dollar take attributed to Nebraska agri culture interests for the year 1954. Editorial . . . O’Neill Logical Home for Guards O’Neill will be host today (Thursday) to Brig. Gen. Guy Henninger, Nebraska adjutant-general and commander of the state’s national guard, and CoL Evar Peterson, state guard administrative of ficer. These two gentlemen will inspect two pro posed sites for a temporary armory and will sit down with O’Neill civic leaders and discuss pros pects for activation of a guard company here. There are many factors that favor O’Neill as a “home” for a guard company—most important of which is the enthusiasm being shown by civic leaders, the city council and young men and mili tary veterans who have indicated a sincere desire to participate actively. Moreover, there is no guard unit presently located in north-central Nebraska and the city’s geographic position lends itself fa vorably to the distribution of guard strength over the state. O’Neill is being considered for a tank company and the conference today might well finally de termine whether the city is chosen. It O’Neill gets the nod, as The Frontier sin cerely hopes, the temporary armory will be in use only a matter of two years or so. Meanwhile, if all goes well, the guards will plan for a permanent armory. An armor}' is constructed according to a federally-approved and uniform plan and is made available for public functions as well as mili tary purposes. It is possible such an armory would represent a 150- or 170-thousand-dollar installa tion. The Chamber of Commerce, under the direc tion of James W. Rooney, new industries commit tee chairman, has been working on the matter sev eral months now, and it would be especially grati fying if a guard unit is approved for O’Neill. To be sure, a big tank clanking down the road would be of interest to the curious, and O’Neill would have become a definite part of the nation’s defense plan. Science Triumphs Again Science has triumphed again in the radio ac tive field. The latest progress report comes from London, where Mrs. Gillian Crowcroft has worked out a new way of tracking moles. Acting on behalf of the London Zoological soci ety, Mrs. Crowcraft has succeeded in attaching ra dio-active bracelets on the tails of group of moles. She fastens a detector on the end of a fishing pole, and is thereby able to follow the course of the moles underground while standing some distance away and above ground. The detector, which is attached to the end of the fishing pole, sets of a series of clicks when it is near the mole and Mrs. Crowcroft marks the path -at the time with numbered pegs. The object? Mrs. Crowcroft is endeavoring to find out how much time a mole devotes each day to eating, sleeping and looking after its young moles. When we discover this we should have enough informa tion on moles to last for some time, as far as we are concerned. -usnoiam jo ama-H vnum ; jjsisqoa zt lol yIlBi09q29 ,29ilqqua bne 9eid bovroa oH .29 (.9 'jgBq no LonniinoD) .sons / The GE College Aid Plan Phillip D. Reed, chairman of the board of trustees of General Electric company and head of the General Electric educational and charitable fund, announced recently a plan to provide aid for U.S. colleges and universities. Reed said the fund would match contributions that college graduates employed by General Elec tric made to their alma maters in 1955. Reed said this plan, which is called the Corporate Alumnus program, is a new one in “business-education cir cles.” He said General Electric employed approxi mately 23,000 college graduates and that they have earned their degrees from over 500 different schools. The fund is matching contributions by these graduates, up to a $1,000 figure, in the next year. The program, according to Mr. Reed, is an ex perimental one and it is hoped that other corpora tions will adopt similar ones. The GE plan is a commendable one in our opinion, since it will en courage graduates to give to their alma maters, and also provides a way for large corporations to reward the educational institutions which have provided them with trained minds. The word from the meeting of the Save-thc Trains association, held here Monday night, is en couraging, indeed, although it is too early to as sess the results of the eight-months’ trial period for C&NW trains 13 and 14 with modem, stream lined equipment. The 1955 session of the Nebraska unicameral legislature is well underway. Already there are two familiar cries: (1) Demands for increased and bettered services from the state on one hand; v2) clamor for reduced taxes on the other. The two are impossible to reconcile. It’s either one way or the other. ^SeFrontier 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 coun ty, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This news paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Associa tion, 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 subscriptions are paid-in-advance. Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,335 (Mar. 31, 1954) v/ "tunosai -isino azelo ot>e~g irngio om riol bomie orli mml brie mei^onq Jioria s riiiw bon [ r.i Eifin m .bev/olfol rionul 9 When You and I Were Young... Talk Extension of Great Northern Building from O’Neill West Is Topic 50 Years Ago The O’Neill Commercial club will go to Sioux City. The pri mary object of the visit is in the interests of the westward exten sion of the Great Northern rail read. . . Miss Sue Gillespie, daughter of Judge and Mrs. B. S. Gillespie, became the bride of George Quinton Whitney at an evening ceremony held at the Gil lespie home. . . M. R. Sullivan has been transferred from the First National bank to the Gallagher bank in Atkinson where he is as sistant cashier. . . G. C. Hazelet, formerly of this city, has been recommended by Senators Millard and Dietrich for the position of United States marshal for Alaska. 20 Years Ago The O’Neill high cage team beat Lynch by a score of 25-21. . . Mayor John Kersenbrock tender ed his annual midwinter supper to firemen, city and county offi cials and editors. Over 30 attend ed the chicken fry. . . The Omaha land bank has made 438 loans to farmers in Holt county totaling an advancement of over one million dollars. . . Arthur Wyant, 47, died at his home in this city after an illness of several months. 10 Years Ago Sgt. Ralph D. Strong has been awarded the bronze star medal for heroic achievement in connection with military operations in the Maffin Bay area of New Guinea. . . . Rose Ann Schulte recently enlisted in the army nurse corps. She was graduated from St. Mary’s academy and St. Josephs’ school of nursing at Aliance. . . There were 42 Holt county men inducted into the armed services during the month of January. One Year Ago A new four-passenger airplane owned and operated by Bob Greenfield, Stuart farmer, was damaged badly in a forced land ing. The pilot and three passen gers were unhurt. . . The weather man warned O’Neillites to brace themselves for the coldest weath er this season. The mercury is ex pected to dip to 20 degrees below zero. . . A. P. Jaszkowiak, John C. Watson and Ray Eby have been named as members of the munici pal park board. . . Rev. Anthony Urbanski, 42, died in an Omaha hospital. He was pastor of the Church of the Epiphany in Em met. Eastern Star in Installation Rite At a meeting of Symphony chapter 316, OES, held on Thurs day evening, January 13, the fol lowing officers were installed: Mrs. D. C. Schaffer, worthy ma tron; District Judge D. R. Mounts, worthy patron; Mrs. H. E. Asher, associate matron; H. E. Asher, as- ! sociate patron; Mrs. J. D. Osen baugh, secretary; Mrs. James Mc Mahan of Inman, treasurer; Mrs. W. W. Waller, conductress; Mrs. Esther Harris, chaplain; Mrs. D. H. Clauson, marshal; Mrs. George Peterson, sr., organist; Mrs. Gale Dierberger, Adah; Mrs. Alice Eridges, Esther; Mrs. Don Mc Kamy, Martha; Mrs. Eugene Por-_ ter, Electa; Mrs. Paul Shierk,* warder; A. E. Bowen, sentinel. Installation of Mrs. Dwight Harder as associate conductress and Mrs. Elwyn Robertson of Chambers as Ruth will be made at a later date. Both were absent due to illness. Seek and Share Club Entertains Guest— EWING— Mrs. Bertha Urban was the guest of the Seek-and Share club when members met at the home of Mrs. W. J. Bomer. Mrs. Urban participated in the lesson on health education, which included a discussion on polio. Mrs. Carl Christon was also a guest. An election of officers was held: Mrs. Dale Napier, president; Mrs. Alfred Napier, vice-presi dent; Mrs. William Lofquest, treasurer; Mrs. Walter Miller, re elected secretary. Mrs. Alfred Napier assisted the hostess in serving refreshments. The Frontier for printing. MILLER THEATER — Atkinson — Fri.-Sat. Jan. 21-22 AIM HOT-LISA SATE LTLEBEnSER-HALTER BRENNAN — also — Sun.-Mon.-Tues. Jan. 23-24-25 HUMPHREY BOG AW AUDREY HEPBURN WILUAM HOLDEN -1 1 YVed.-Thurs. Jan. 26-27 -auxins msnoui .zihl nnt» /nvi oi 61 rJaeirg gninove yetmifrig 019.7 n: e ; . noaloH .3 .d .aiM bne iM ] Miss Pokorny to Wed Mrs. Helen V. Pokorny of At kinson announces the engage ment of her daughter, Miss Elsie Mae (above), to Eugene Schmit, son of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Schmit of Osmond. Miss Pokorny was graduated from Atkinson high with the class of 1954 and is now teaching in a rural school near her home. Mr. Schmit was graduated from Osmond high school in 1951 and is engaged in farming with his father. No wedding date has been set. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fraber and daughter, Denise, of Landover, Md., arrived Wednesday to visit at the home of her mother, Mrs. John J. Harrington. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fuhrer enter ained 15 persons at their home Sunday evening. Scott Bower Rites Held at Neligh DELOIT—Scott Bowers, 82, a resident of Deloit for many years, died at the Veterans hospital at Grand Island Saturday, January 15. Funeral services were conduct ed at Neligh Wednesday, January 19. Mr. Bowers’ daughters, Mrs. Howard (Tessa Mae) Dunlap of Casper, Wyo., and Mrs. Maurice (Vera Dell) Archer of Grand Is land, were born at Deloit. He was the first “Santa Claus” many Deloit children knew. Survivors include: Widow; son — Bert Marion of North Platte; Mrs. Dunlap and Mrs. Archer; three grandchildren; two sisters and two brothers. Other Deloit News The Deloit Pinochle club met Thursday, January 6, at the Frank Miller home. Mrs. E. L. Sisson v.on both the high and traveling prizes. Mrs. Koenig won low. Lunch was served by the hostess. Guests Friday evening at the Ralph Tomjack home were Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bauer and Mr. and Mrs. H. Reimer and Elayne. Leonard Miller and Gene Tom iack are taking their boot train ing at a camp near Oakland, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Bartak went to Wyoming Saturday, January 8, to atterfd the funeral of her oldest sister, Mrs. Ellison, formerly of the Park Center community. The HEO club met last Thurs day at the Fred Steams home for a 1 o’clock covered dish lunch eon. A lesson on polio questions ai d answers was given. The next meeting will be on February 10 at the Ralph Tomjack home for a covered dish luncheon. Mr. and Mrs. H. Reimer were dinner guests on Friday at the Fred Harpster home. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Huffman, Becky and Zoe Ann, Mrs. Zoe Huffman of Elgin and Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Huffman of Ewing attended the stock show in Den ver, Colo., last week, leaving home Saturday, January 8. Bob Knapp is taking boot train ing in a camp in Texas. He was home for Christmas. Several from here attended the farm bureau meeting and supper at Bartlett Wednesday evening, January 12. Sfinday dinner guests at the J. A. Larson home in Ewing were the Don Larson family, the Don Storrs from West Point, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Christon and the Henry Reimers. The dinner was in hon or of Mrs. Christon and Henry Reimer, to observe their birthday anniversaries. Mr. and Mrs. L. Billing of Or chard were guests Sunday at the Fred Harpster home. Larry Shavlik celebrated his eighth brithday anniversary on Monday after school with his teacher and schoolmates. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Pavlik and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Kruntorad were Grand Island visitors Sat urday. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Bob Green and baby girl. Mrs. John C. Gallagher and Mr. and Mrs. James Gallagher visit ed Sunday at the home of Mrs. James Gallagher’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Flakus, in Ne ligh. Appears on TV— Miss Mary Lou Conard, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Conard of Emmet, appeared Friday eve ning over KVTV, Sioux City, in three tap dance numbers in a half hour presentation of modern dances and tap dancing presented by the dance department of Wayne State college. Miss Conard is a sophomore. Visit Mellor Home— Roy Lanman and Rosemary Grenier spent Saturday at the George Mellor home. ' - — Mr. and Mrs. Vem Grenier were Friday night guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Mellor. WIN $15,000 in Prizes Enter the "MRS. AMERICA" Contest An all-expense paid trip to Florida for State Winner to Y.«r “MRS. AMERICA” Contest Entry Blank After January 22,1955 — At Your GAS Appliance Dealer or The GAS Co. The 1955 WILLYS Models hove all these famous features... ECONOMY SAFETY Low price; high gas mile- Low gravity center; aero age; low repairs make this frame; big glass area com the thrift buy. bine for safety. 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