Prairieland Talk . . .
Winter Days Not Void of Interest
By ROMAiNE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier
MARION, IND.—Winter days in regions touch
ed with a suggestion of Arctic cheerless wastes
may not be the choice season to venture forth upon
the highways, but it is not wholly void of attractive
interest. Today the sunlight falls from the fair blue
sky. Yesterday was grey gloom with fog envelop
ing the landscape.
The countryside lies lifeless under a blanket
of snow, a clump of weeds, a
bush, a rod or so of black earth,
the trees, accent the dark shad
ows but lend prominence to the
white blanket February clouds
iiad laid across the land. Neither
beast nor bird nor creeping thing
was abroad today; only man, cre
ation’s restless being, is out, but
on wheels rushing down the high
way.
Sitting there on the rear seat,
cushioned for comfort, and with- Romaln®
out a worry as we rolled on into
the fog-shrouded distance came a Saunders
vision out of the bygone years when the fathers
and mothers of this smug generation made their
necessary journeys along prairie trails perched on
a wagon seat in the cold and moving slowly mile
after mile, getting down from time to time to
walk beside a slow-turning wagon wheel to keep
feet from freezing. Highways kept clean for traffic,
today take over where once prairie trails were
blocked with snow and you roll on to your destina
tion a hundred miles away in less time than re
quired in the long ago to go a few miles.
The remnants oi last yeai s uu^i
upon row across the fields raise bare stalks above
the snow and here and there is seen a wheat field
green looming out of the surrounding white. And
here and there by white farm houses stand the
•evergreen cedars of Lebanon. No suggestion of life
about these farms this fog-shrouded morning. It
is Sunday and the family may have gone to church,
a steeple of one now coming into view in the vil
lage just around the bend. We reach our destina
tioh, spend a few pleasant hours with Glenn and
Florence, who once lived in O’Neill, and then are
.traveling down the highway again on the return
trip. Fog turned to rain. Rolling on, we leave the
rain and melted snow belt and again are surround
ed by snow on all sides. And before the shadows
of coming night gather we pull up at the house
which Romaine II and Bobbie built.
One of these days Prairieland Talker will be
on his way back to Nebraska.
* * *
Authorities at state prisons somewhere are
faced with mutinies most of the time. Too many
killers sent up for life that ought to go to the
electric chair.
Federal scouts are now after a new brand of
crook—those fraudulently drawing unemployment
checks. . . The president of Haiti and his wife
spent a few days in Washington, D.C., the guests
of President and Mrs. Eisenhower. . . The supreme
court of Ohio rules that one county in the state
that has refused all along to accept federal funds
must now do so, these funds to be used in aiding
certain needy cases. . . A group of 12 young men,
including two Negroes, left Marion recently for in
duction into military service. . . He had been doing
it in a grand way—a trucker convicted of 50 traf
fic violations.
• * *
Mashed potatoes now come in packages like
breakfast foods and maybe the next is to be a
friend egg poured out of a cornflake package.
Let’s have the cooks do it.
Up at St. Paul, Minn., they don’t take off for
southern bathing beaches, but have winter affairs
of their own. January is the time for the annual
winter carnival. A tenderfoot would consider an
approach to zero weather no time to strut in a
street parade, but not so those hardy Swedes and
Danes up around St. Paul. The Sunday, January 20,
edition of the Pioneer Press contained 100 pages
printed in black, blue and red, devoted to the win
ter carnival. A friend sent me a copy of this car
nival number from which I gather the citizens of
the Twin Cities turn out in throngs to witness the
spectacular display of nude limbs and gay head
gear on a cold January day. It is also an occasion
when the community newspapers show off modern
journalism.
» * *
A gent by the name of Morset, native of Il
linois, is one of the 10 most-wanted by the FBI.
They will eventually get him. He is said to have
started a life of crime in Nebraska stealing horses.
Prairieland turned out top-notchers in that line of
traffic.
*. • *
Forget Yalta. Remember the wedding anni
versary. . . Redskins can get their firewater legal
ly in Nebraska “if.” . . Eight citizens met death on
the Indiana highways the past weekend. Fires,
highways, human killers, cyclone, train and air
planes are mowing them down day by day. . .
Civil Defense Director Val Peterson has it that
within two years we will be safe from bomb at
tacks by holing up undergroundwise. . . A young
fellow 19-years-old of Gary, Ind., saved the lives
of four companions trapped in their wrecked car
that burst into flames. Young Cole pulled the others
out of the wreck. . . Canned hummingbird tongues
will compete with diamondback rattlesnake meat
as a table delicacy if a Chicago, III., guy can catch
a flock of the fleet-winged hummers.
* • *
O’Neill has two newspapers and four lawyers.
When it was a town of less than 1,000 population
there were four newspapers, 14 lawyers, 20 func
tionaries in the county offices and a group of 0
some county commissioners—all of these looking to
the courthouse on the hill for a livelihood. The town
storekeepers were not up on the value of advertis
ing and the newspaper publishers cared little about
it as a steady stream of “legal notices” kept the
printers” fingers nimble. Lawyers were kept busy
defending or prosecuting horse thieves and two
gun roughnecks. Courthouse records were copied
in longhand and should any modems be interest
ed they can find in old records in both the treas
urer’s and clerk’s offices beautiful specimens of
penmanship, the handiwork of Jim Harmsh. On
the other hahd, among district court records may
be found specimens of the writing of Moses P.
Kinkaid, district judge, that nobody can read.
* * *
A woman fell out of an automobile and land
ed prone upon the sidewalk. Thirty days later she
and the gent she had been riding with were mar
ried. Three months wedded bliss and then the wife
brought court action for damages because of in
juries alleged to have been the result of the fall out
of the car, claiming it was the fault of her husband
to-be because he neglected to close the car door.
The appellate judge in court down at Indianapolis,
Ind., was up against a knotty problem. He denied
the wife’s claim for damages on the grounds that
Indiana law authorizes a married woman to bring
suit against her husband for damages to her prop
erty or character but makes no provision in case
of injury to person. The remedy, the judge said,
is with the legislature and not with the courts. So
another ‘‘highway problem” faces the country.
Editorial . . .
The Rails and the Mails
Postal rates, postal costs, ana postal service,
all three, are very much in the public eye today.
The Association of American Railroads has just
done a timely and a telling job of informative pub
lic relations work on the railways’ part in the en
tire picture.
What the association says may give but a part
of the picture, to be sure. But until and unless the
figures are refuted much has to be said for the
railroads. Here are a few of the salient bits of in
format a they offer:
The railroads now carry 85 percent of inter
city mail, handling it between 35,000 points, at an
average cost of one-eighth of one-cent for the aver
age letter, compared to 2.62 cents for those sent by
air.
This is made possible by using employees paid
by the railroads and a billion dollars’ worth of
mail-handling equipment provided by the roads for
carrying, sorting, and transferring mail.
On surface-carried first-class mail postal rev
enues in 1953 exceeded postal expenses by $39,
000,000; on air-carried first-class mail postal ex
penditures exceeded revenue by $29,000,000.
This, of course, is the railroads’ case, putting
their best foot forward. But the roads do have a
case on many grounds which the public interest
dares not ignore. They have a vast investment
which is economically waseful if not fully used,
whether for carrying mail or for transporting
freight and passengers. They have been targets for
all kinds of state and local taxation for years.
Rights-of-way and terminals cannot be removed
or detoured as can trucks on public-owned roads.
For speed between distant points rails cannot
compete with air. And the roads would admit this.
But for a great many things—including even much
first-class mail—superspeed isn’t everything.
Rail enthusiasts along the Omaha-to-Chadron
line of the Chicago & North Western will confer at
9 a.m., Friday in Omaha with the general superin
tendent of the mail transportation service. Purpose
of the meeting is to seek to have the postal people
restore to the C&NW trains number 13 and 14 some
of the mail that has been rerouted and diverted.
Time was when a greater volume of Chadron
Rosebud mail came into O’Neill from where it was
trucked north. Now much of that mail is trucked
west out of Sioux City.
Tim was when a greater volume of Chadron
and Black Hills mail was carried by the North
Western on this line; now vast quantities are
hauled by the Burlington to Crawford and “back
tracked” by truck to Chadron and north to the Mill*;
area.
This shrinkage of mail haul is in part respon
sible for the present crisis with regard to the last
two remaining passenger-mail-express trains. The
public has been quick and eager to respond during
an experimental period with increased passenger
and express business, but the mail haul continues
to decline.
The Frontier extends every good wish to the
Save-the-Trains association in its conference to
morrow in Omaha.
The Plan Could Fail
(From the Nebraska Signal, Geneva)
The Geneva Chamber of Commerce is well
along on a plan to welcome newcomers to Geneva.
It is planned to have a hostess call upon new fam
ilies, answer questions they may have about the
community and give them a booklet about the com
munity. The booklet will contain coupons redeem
able at local stores.
Several communities have tried the plan and
others may watch it in operation in Geneva, so the
plan presents a challenge to the community. Since
this plan of welcoming new citizens is new, as far
as we can learn, in cities the size of Geneva, it
will take considerable cooperation to make it work.
Although every possible source will be used
to learn about newcomers, it is possible several
will be missed unless everyone in Geneva is alert.
People who know about new arrivals should noti
fy the hostess or officers of the Geneva Chamber of
Commerce.
While the idea sounds iiKe a good one, it is pos
sible for it to fail. The main threat to its success
would be for the people in the community to feel
since there is an official hostess and a system for
welcoming newcomers they need to do nothing to
make strangers welcome. It would be unfortunate
of the plan were to make us lose one of the finest
things in small communities, the friendliness and
helpfulness which characterizes them. If we lose
that, the plan will fail in its main purpose.
Many parents will learn much by helping
Junior with his school homework.
The educated individual, who ceases to study,
soon becomes uneducated.
Frontier
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When You and I Were Young . . .
Ewing Dam Taken
Out by Ice, Water
Need Ring Only Once
for Central Now
50 Years Ago
P. J. McManus has gone to Chi
cago, 111., to do his sprang buying.
. . . The Elkhorn river has thawed
with these spring like days and
floats a tremendous current of ice
and water. The dam at Ewing was
taken out by flood waters early in
the week. A North Western
freight train was delayed this
week about an hour when the en
gine got off the track while run
ning in on a siding. The rails were
tom up for several yards and con
siderable extra work was entailed.
... A new swich board is being
put in at the telephone office. Un
der the new system one needs only
ring once for central and the oper
ator does the rest of the work.
20 Years Ago
For the second time in history
St. Patrick’s parish, has been
honored in having i/ts pastor raised
to the dignity of a Domestic Pre
late. The investiture ceremonies of
Rt. Rev. John G. McNamara took
place at the catholic church here
with his excellency, Bishop Joseph
F. Rummel, presiding. . . The
farm home of William Beha which
is farmed by Lavem Thorson was
destroyed by fire. . . The O’Neill
Dramatic club presented “Whos
Scared.” It was attended by a
large crowd both nights and gave
universal satisfaction to the
watchers. . . Ed Burge’s car was
stolen from the’streets of O’Neill
during the night. It was found the
next morning by his brother, Art.
All of the carpenter’s tools in it
were gone but were later recover
ed by the authorities.
10 Years Ago
Sgt. Joe Stuitz and Miss Elaine
Oik of Petersburg were united in
marriage at Petersburg. Mrs.
Stuitz was formerly employed by
the O’Neill Photo Co., and Ser
geant Stutz by the Brown-McDon
ald store. He had just returned
from several years’ service in the
Aleutian Islands. . . The O’Neill
Lion’s club took in 26 new mem
bers. They were honored at the
ladies night dinner party at the
Golden hotel. . . Eleven Holt coun
ty men were inducted into the
armed services during January.
. . . The sum of $2,006.97 was real
ized in the Holt county infantile
paralysis drive.
One Year Ago
One hundred registered Here
fords will be offered at auction in
the annual spring sale sponsored
by the C Bar M Hereford ranch. . .
Gov. Robert Crosby is scheduled
to speak on “Operation Honesty”
in the American Legion auditor
ium. He is coming to O’Neill at the
invitation of the Chamber of Com
merce. . . Myrtle Mae Coon, 70,
died unexpectedly at her home in
Page. Burial was made at the
Page cemetery. . . Henry Wood of
Ewing grabbed the laurels in the
annual spring Hereford show spon
sored by the Holt county Hereford
Breeders’ association. Wood’s hon
ors includeed grand champion
hull, reserve champion bull, best
pair, best pen of three, and one fe
male rated best in her class. Wood
had eight bulls and two females
entered.
Miss Lydia Halva
to Wed April 7
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Halva of
O’Neill have announced the ap
proaching marriage of their
daughter, Miss Lydia of Omaha,
to Capt. Lloyd Frederick Haug
.of Ft. Worth, Tex.
Captain Haug is the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. August P. Haug
of Cozad.
The couple will be married in
an informal ceremony April 7 in
Memorial chapel of the First
Presbyterian church, Omaha, in
the presence of the members of the
immediate families. Dr. Thomas
R. Niven will officiate at 4 p.m.
A reception following the cere
mony will be held at the Omaha
Field club for friends and rela
tives.
Mrs. Paul Elam of Denver,
Colo., will be matron-of-honor
for her sister and Victor A. Haug
of Cozad will be his brother’s
bestman. Maj. Glen R. Dunlop of
Omaha will usher.
Spends Weekend Here—
Miss Dianne DeBacker, situdent
at Briar Cliffe college, Sioux City,
spent the weekend at the home of
'hier parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
DeBacker. Miss Joan Binkard of
Ewing spent Sunday night at the
DeBacker home. They returned to
Sioux City on the bus Monday
morning.
‘ The Misses Mary and Kathryn
Grady of Denver, Colo., spent
several days in Atkinson visiting
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Chace and family.
9TH ANNUAL SPRING
SHOW & SALE
NIOBRARA VALLEY HEREFORD ASS N
Butte, Nebraska
BUTTE LIVESTOCK MARKET
Tuesday, March 1
33 - BULLS - 33 I
Many Strong Aged 2-Year-Olds
3 - FEMALES - 3 I
SHOW 10:00 A.M. — SALE 1:00 PM., C.S.T.
For Catalog Write: S
W. G. SIRE, Sale Manager ;
Butte, Nebraska I
Hickey Successor to
O’Donnell at NFLA
Miss Claire Hickey has been
named secretary of the Elkhorn
Valley National Farm Loan as
sociation at O’Neill, suceeding
Miss Anna O’Donnell, who retired.
Miss O’Donnell retired January 31
after serving as officer of the as
sociation for 19 years.
Miss Hickey has been office
manager at Tri-State Produce
company for several years. She
began her new duties Monday,
February 14.
BETTER THAN MEDICINE
“Good food grown on good soil,
properly prepared, will do more
than all the medicines in the
world to make life longer and
happier for the average citizen.—
Jonathan Foreman, MJ).
LETTER TO EDITOR
Lincoln, Nebr.
I enjoy the paper very much.
It’s next best to having an old
neighbor giving you a call on the
phone while they are visiting in
the city here. There are only two
numbers in the telephone direct
ory with thd name McDonough
and we both are called Agnes. It
would be just too bad if we lived
on the same street!
mrs. 'w. j. McDonough
O 4
At the same hearing were those
who advocate moving the insti
tution to Crete or to Omaha.
Because of this pulling in sever
al different directions there was a
prediction that the school would
sitay where it is. However, atten
tion has been focussed on the insti
tution and the construction of new t
buildings there may be the next
call.
Mrs. Sue Deaver and Miss Anna
O’Donnell left by train, over the
weekend for Dallas, Tex., where
they will visit their brother, Frank
O’Donnell.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hammond
left Monday for Omaha.
State Capitol News . . .
Solons Up Against Old Dilemma
LINCOLN—The legislature this
week indicated it will have a hard
time of swallowing the pill of an
increased budget.
It chipped here and there at
salary bills and discussed ways of
saving money.
But ift was becoming increasing
ly evident that the legislature
faces the prospect of a budget con
siderably higher than what was
appropriated by the 1953 session.
The total budget for the current
two year fiscal period was around
$194.5 million.
There is reason to believe that
the budget for the next two-year
period, starting July 1, will soar
above the $215 million mark.
Sen. Karl Vogel of Omaha, no
spendthrift, said in the course of
debate, “It is going to be impos
sible to hold the budget down. It
is not only going to be much
more than two years ago but it
is going to be bigger than what
Gov. Victor Anderson pro
posed.”
All this was bitter medicine for
some senators who had campaign
ed on a platform of voting against
budget increases.
They are finding the demands
from the taxpayer are growing
enormously, even though the citi
zen doesn’t want a higher tax bill.
He wants better roads. He de
mands that the mental hospitals
be humanly operated. He asks
higher welfare payments. He
wants a superior university and
the best teachers’ training col
leges. .
And the legislature is funding
that to keep or lure good men into
government it is taking higher
salaries. All of these things cost
money.
One veteran on the budget com
mittee said that the legislature
sooner or later will have to decide
jits philosophy. Will it take the
“save a dollar at any cost” at
titude, even if necessary to sacri
fice quality? Or will it make up its
mind to try to keep even with the
growing needs. It’s the same old
dilemma—demands for more ser
vices versus clamor for less tax
es.
In a period when the Nebraska
economy seems to be levelling off
and people are watching the costs
of government closer, this will be
the crucial question facing the
legislature and its individual
members in the coming months.
# * *
Cost Cutting—
The legislature took a few stabs
at budget items.
For instance, it turned down a
bill to add a $200,000 item to the
general fund budget for building
a new governor’s mansion. In
stead it appears 'that this amount
will be carved ijrom the special 1.1
mill levy on property. Income
from this special levy has been■
used for construction of buildings
at the University af Nebraska, the
board of control institutions, the
state .teachers colleges, and arm
ories for the national guard.
The 'theory here was that the
taxpayers were going to get nick
ed this amount anyhow and it
might be less painful if the $200,
000 were taken away from the $3
million a year the special levy
brings.
The legislature miscellaneous
appropiations committee cut the
proposed salary increases for
supreme court and district court
judges from a proposed $15,000
back to $12,000 and from 12,000
back to 10,000. The surpreme
court judges now get $9,100 a
year and the district court jud
ges $7,400.
Bigger news than this though
came when the legislature tacked
on an amendment to forbid the su
preme court judges from getting
“outside income” from working on
federal labor mediation boards.
Sen. William Metzger of Cedar
Creek proposed the amendment.
It developed that in the past five
years six of the supreme court
judges had earned a total of $100,
000 from these “extra jobs.”
Metzger said that if the judges
were earning this much they
shouldn’t get a pay raise. On the
other hand, their being called by
the federal government far such
duties showed their worth, he add
ed. So the pay raise should be
granted but the amendment added
forbidding extra work in the fu
ture.
While the legislature was debat
ing the point, Sen. John Aufen
kamp of Julian, said it should be
made clear that the judges had
done nothing wrong. It had been
the custom and it was an honor
for them to be chosen.
In another cost-saving move the
legislature voted down a bill which
would have allowed state depart
ments to set up payroll withhold
ing plans so employees could buy
government savings bonds. On
grounds that this might cost a lit
tle extra money in some depart
ments, the legislature killed this
measure.
At the same time it voted to
bunch the bills calling for salary
increases for state increases for
state officials and act on them all
at once.
The budget committee continued
to whack off a few hundred or a
few thousand dollars here and
there from budgets submitted by
state agencies.
But one member said sarcastic
ally, “We are going to a lot of
work to save maybe $100,000 alto
gether when we know the budget
will increase by millions on things
we can’t help.”
more mare more more more more
• • *
Soft Approach—
Gov. Victor Anderson gave
every indication that the state
isn’t going to push hard on tax as
sessments this year. This will be
left pretty much up to the counities.
He has the hard lesson of Gov.
Robert Crosby who lost 'his politi
cal shirt in an attempt to equalize
assessments across the state. An
derson said he planned to leave it
pretty much up to the counties
this year. That indicates that the
“let alone” policy by which the
state slid into such a confused
state of tax inequality over the
years may prevail again.
The governor apparently is
banking on the fact that assess
ments are fairly well on an even
keel county by county. Whether
this line will hold under the pres
sure to lower assessments in many
areas remains to be seen.
* * *
School Lands—
At last week’s end it looked as
though the legislature education
committee would hold the bill
calling for sale of school lands,
last week at which leaseholders
This was given a public hearing
urged the sale and school groups
opposed it.
It seemed there wem’t enough
people on the committee who
wanted to send it to the legisla
ture. In other words several sena
tors were undecided.
But among these undecided sen
ators were some who felt that
while sale of the lands might not
be the final answer there should
be something done about the pre
sent system. They felt that the
leaseholder has not had completely
just treatment in the past. More
over, the system had placed a
penalty on toe conservation-mind
ed leaseholder and led to “min
ing” of the land by poor practices.
* * *
Blind School—
There was also a good possibil
ity that the state school for the
blind would stay at Nebraska City.
An association of parents of
blind children made an eloquent
plea at a Public Health Committee
hearing that the school should be
moved to Kearney. They said it
was more centrally located and
that the teachers college there
Could help with the training of the
blind.
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FITZGERALD’S 7TH ANNEAL
HEREFORD BULL
SALE
Postponed on Account of Last Friday’s Storm
WILL BE HELD ON
Friday, February 25
1:30 O’clock P.M., at the Atkinson Livestock Sale Pavilion
ATKINSON, NEBRASKA
SELLING 32 BULLS
«
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