The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, April 14, 1955, Page 2, Image 2
Prairieland Talk . . . Hoosiers Fish on Wednesdays By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Editor The Frontier MARION, IND.—Most of the stores, food mar kets and other business places in Marion close Wed nesday afternoon of each week that all concerned can go fishing if they like. Drug stores and filling stations keep open. Clerks, artisans and workers in various lines have it different today than those of a generation ago. The 30-hour work week now looms as the next step. Among the ventures of Prai rieiand Talker in the days of his youth when still heart-whole and fancy free he took on a clerking job with H. Heinrichson, who had a combination grocery store and public eating place in O’Neill about where a clothing store now is located on Douglas street west of the First National bank. The job involved getting out at 5 in the morning, milking two cows and taking care of a horse, mak ing forenoon deliveries and “tending store” until 10 o’clock at night at a stipend of $15 a month. I lasted two months as a store clerk and roust about and resigned in favor of the late Sam Thomp son, who lasted a month longer than I did. Surviv ing the ordeal there for 60 days, I think was made possible because of a waitress in the dining room— a marked example of the control a woman has over mere males. * * * As I read of the death of Gus Hoppe memor ies came out of the past. Gus—none of us ever em ployed his full name — was the senior partner of Hoppe Bros., Shorthorn cattle breeders of Wheeler county, my neighbors some three or four miles away. The other brother, Hugo, while maintaining his interest in the Hoppe Bros, ranch, took on a job as foreman with the AT outfit of the Beaver Valley. I rode the cowtrails with Hugo and found him to be not an ordinary puncher, but a man of culture and well informed. Some 40 years ago the brothers sold the ranch and went to Sheridan county where Hugo died 10 years ago. Gus was county assessor in Wheeler county during my so journ in that community and wished on me one season the job of precinct assessor. Driving a span of buckskins, I made my last call as assessor on a gent of foreign tongue living in a dugout. He treat ed me with the respect due an official and as I opened the door to leave he handed me a huge onion, the kind they can raise down there along with Shorthorn cattle. * * * Bill Hammond having introduced the sub ject, another of the professionals who has sur vived the wreck of time is L. G. Gillespie. Insur ance agents come and go but Lloyd goes on for ever. * * * Another season of lent draws to an end as this is written. Various church groups that 50 years ago did not follow the custom, now have their lenten services. Millions that have been denying them selves of certain things are glad it’s over. Others come out of a 40-day experience sensing the so lemnity of the times. Still other millions disregard altogether what they consider a hangover of the ancients, observed in memory of Tammuz, the Babylonian bogus messiah. Other churchmen feel that Christianity is a way of life, not the observing of prolonged stated seasons. In this, our day, we have the privilege of choice—take it or leave it. At the drumbeat of eternity when the long roll is called, what will be verdict be? • * # An Indian citizen, A. C. Cast, has been named by Republican National Chairman Hall to head the radio, television and motion picture setup at the GOP national convention to be held next year in San Francisco, Calif. Mr. Cast is state republican chairman of Indiana. . . What is known as the na tional plowing contest is to be held this year in September near Wabash, Ind. Evangelist Billy Graham, now in Scotland, has been invited to ad dress the group of plowmen. . . In a 3C-mile cir cle of prairie at the junction of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma is said to be the richest source of zinc in the United States. . . Gary and Whiting, Ind., are two of the 51 cities of the United States selected as “targets” for make-believe air raids. A few convicts in the Nebraska state peniten tiary got into the swing of things in keeping with the spirit of the times, overpowered guards and took over a pen unit, defying the authorities. Such demonstrations are becoming common at penal in stitutions throughout the counrty. What inspires such moves on the part of prison inmates we leave for the experts to say, but we venture the guess that it comes from the human impulse to rebel against restraints, coupled with criminal instincts. No period of human history could claim free dom from the deeds of evil men but maybe we are not far in the rear of it all at the present time in view of what happened down at Rock Island, Tenn., a few days since and similar stories coming all too frequently from other points. A young man, who had just become the father of twins, went to the farm home of his cousin and the two went fishing. Got into an argument, the young fellow killed his cousin, then went to the house and beat to death the victim’s wife, a baby and 10-year-old girl. After all this he stole the livestock and sold it. There was a time communities would make short work of such as he, but he has been arrested and will have a court trial. Maybe get a few years in the pen at public expense. The person charged with crime has a right to a hearing. The public also has a duty to deal with the criminal as he should be dealt with. * * * Governor Stratton of Illinois wants a boost in the sales tax to provide funds for schools and other things. Give us a statesman who can see a way to reduce taxes. * * * The government hospital for the care of war scarred soldiers located in this Indiana community apparently has a large number of vets enrolled, judging from the score of buildings comprising the medical setup. Another building is now in process of construction. Connected with the institution, too, is a graveyard where slabs row-upon-row mark the remains of dead soldiers. The destiny of a sol dier is to die, if not on the bullet-scarred battle jfield, then it may be in the embrace of wife or mother within the towering walls of one of the many buildings comprising the soldiers’ hospital in Marion, walls that can not exclude the stealthy tread of the messenger of death. * * * Caught at it and now stowed away. That there can be individuals who will betray a trust is a sad commentary on human nature. Joseph Sidney Pet ersen, jr., a trusted employee of a government de partment, was discovered passing important secret government documents to agents of foreign pow ers. His good name is blacked out, a pleasant and well-paid position is exchanged for a cot and a crust in a federal prison. Some guys never know when they are well off, thinking by taking a step onto the highway of crime they are on the way to a big fortune, only to land behind prison bars. * * * Word from “back home,” where I expect to be by the middle of April, tells of two Indians visiting a welfare center where clothing and some food pro visions are kept for needy families and asking for money to get gas for their road boat so they could drive to where they could get work. Informed by those in charge of the welfare setup that day that cash was not to be had, the redskins left. It was later learned they had been in a week previous with the same story and the sympathetic sister in charge that day had given them money from her own stock and store. The poor soon learn the tricks of the trade. * * * Val Peterson, our civil defense defender, en courages any who may be shaking in their boots in fear and dread of bomb raids by giving out that 52 million dollars has been authorized for the pur pose of providing shelters in certain localities. It will make some jobs if nothing more and maybe a few unscrupulous gents can see in it an opportunity to peel off a sizeable chunk from those millions, but having Val to deal with they have another guess coming. And let us venture a guess—Turkey, Egypt and Persia loom as the polestar of Muscovite lust for other worlds to conquer. He doesn’t like the looks of American H- and A-bomb piles on this side of the globe. Editorial . . . Giving to Private Colleges The Standard Oil company of New Jersey, which recently announced a gift of over $500,000 to the private colleges of the United States, has issued a booklet explaining their theories on fi nancial support of the private colleges. We think this is one of the better statements on this prob lem, and worthy of attention here. In the first place, the statement set forth the responsibility of Americar citizens, businesses and other groups regarding private colleges. The existence of private colleges was described by the huge oil company as a great factor of strength in our democracy,” because of the diversity and independence of the various institutions. Their qualities are such that America profits by having both the tax-supported institutions of learning and the privately-supported institutions of learn ing, which are both competitive and mutually stimulating. We point out the basic assumption of the Standard Oil company, in assuming that it has a responsibility to help the country’s privately supported colleges. It is set forth effectively in the first paragraph of that company’s recent statement: “The material, intellectual and spiritual de velopment of mankind rests on the accumulation of knowledge. The fundamental duty of society is to preserve knowledge, increase it and transmit it to successive generations. For the accomplish ment of this purpose, colleges and universities are prime instruments.” This statement seems almost beyond contra diction, and in view of the great progress being made in totalitarian countries, in the scientific educational field, it seems more than obvious that we American citizens, and businesses, have a duty to further the advancement of knowledge in this country. No one company, as the Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey admits in its statement, can do much for the total picture of education in the United States. But if other companies will follow the example of those which have already given generously, and if it becomes something of a cus tom in this country for private industry to take part of its charitable contribution and earmark it for privately-supported colleges, then the fi nancial structure of these institutions will be strengthened to such an extent they will no longer be in danger of being swallowed up by increasing financial hardship. Unfortunately, many private colleges and uni versities are in financial straits because private endowments have declined—largly because of in creased tax bites. They Still Like Ike Just at the present at least it appears that if Ike Eisenhower wants to have the presidency for another term all he has to do is to say so. Every effort is being made by the opposition to create issues that they hope will mean his eventual downfall. But in spite of that his popu larity increases instead of diminishes. We believe that the real reason for it is that common voters who cast most of the votes, realize that in Ike they have one of the poorest politicians that this coun try has had in a quarter of a century or more. He has made political errors by the score, so many in fact that folks believe that he is more concerned about the welfare of the country than the welfare of his party. And we believe that they are correct. The latest poll shows that 71 percent of the voters now approve of his administration as com pared with 60 percent the month previous. Repub licans approve by 91 percent, democrats by 57 percent, and the folks who really determine the elections, the independents, approve by 74 per rent. The midwest, which is supposed to be in an anti-Eisenhower mood, approves by 71 per cent. It’s going to be a tough job to create issues that will take away that kind of support. 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, 1379. 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) f=- ^ News, Views and Gossip By THE EDITOR Hot Tip Harry R. Smith, prominent O’ Neill farm implement-auto deal er, received this bit in the mail the other day. One of his business friends passed it along as a hot tip from Washington: Population of the United States .160,000,000 People 65 years or older 49,000,000 Balance left to do the work .111,000,000 People 21 years or younger . 56,000,000 Balance left to do the work . 55,000,000 People working for the government . 29,000,000 Balance left to do the work . 26,000,000 People in the armed services . 11,000,000 Balance left to do the work . 15,000,000 People in state or city offices . 12,800,000 Balance left to do the work . 2,200,000 Bums, drunkards, & others who won’t work . 2,000,000 Balance left to do the work . 200,000 People in hospitals and otherwise afflicted . 126,000 Balance left to do the work . 74,000 People in jail . 73,998 Balance left to do the work . 2 Two??? Why, that’s you and me! Then get to work, you lazy bum, because I’m getting tired of run ning this country by myself! * * * Worthy Cause Mrs. K. O. Britain, jr., of Com stock, Custer county extension chairman, was in town Monday campaigning for a worthy cause. She wants the state to do some thing about the care of retard ed children and claims the Beat rice school for feeble minded is the only publicly-supported in stitution of its type in the state. Mrs. Britain, a Texas gal who married a Nebraska quarter horse breeder, is wrapped up in her project. She says parents of retarded children pay taxes for educating all children but many of the unfortunates never receive schooling or training of any type. She insists some could be taught to be self-sufficient. A very worthy undertaking, Mrs. Brit ain, and we wish you well and we offer any help we can give. . . . The Frontier grievously erred last issue in naming Mrs. John H. McCarville as head of the Holt chapter, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for 1955. The leadership is in the family, how ever, because her hubby, long ac tive in the work, is the new chairman. * * * Miscellany Mrs. Carl Christon, The Fron tier’s correspondent in the River side community, Ewing, wrote this pithy reference to Sunday, April 3, weather: “Received soil samples Sunday from Texas, Ok lahoma and Kansas”. . . Some folks on the north side of town are going to be getting im proved telephone service, judging from the cable-laying activity in progress. Three hundred pairs of wires are in the oversized “gar den hose” size cable which is threading its way underground from the telephone office east to Fifth, north several blocks, then west. Some folks are looking for ward toward the end of “party line” service. —CAL STEWART Carrolls Hosts— Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Carroll en tertained the HVW club Sunday evening at their home. Mrs. Car roll had the ladies’ high bridge score and Laurence Haynes won the high score for the men. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac DeHamer of Sibley, la., visitied from Tuesday, March 29, until Thursday, March 31, at the home of their son-in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs A. W. Carroll. MILLER THEATER — Atkinson — Sun.-Mon.-Tues. April 17-18-19 Wed.-Thurs. April 20-21 Juuus &SBE3 CAESAR^HM J. B. Mellor, Wife Wedded 40 Years ATKINSON—Sixty guests were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Chaffin of Atkinson April 3, honoring the 40th wed ding anniversary of Mrs. Chaffin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mel lor of Atkinson. Attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hipke and family of Stu art; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ste phens and Susan of Council Bluffs, la.; Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hipke and Clint of O’Neill; Mr. and Mrs. George Mellor and family of Spencer; Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sum merer and family of Ewing; Mr. and Mrs. Murray Mellor of Atkin son; Benton Mellor of Cody; James Mellor and Mr. and Mrs. Hershal Halstead and family, all of Atkinson; Mr. and Mrs. Leon Mellor and Deloris and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Halstead and family, all of Redbird; Mr. and Mrs. I.ieonard Halstead and Mr. and Mrs. Don Parks, all of Page; Charlie Starr and Bob Schneider, both of Cody; Joan Schneider, Pat Schneider and Marilyn Donaldson, all of Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Mellor received several gifts. When You and I Were Young . . . Bartlett Periled by Prairie Fire Heroic Efforts Save Nearby Town 50 Years Ago S. F. McNichols loaded his sixth car of oats that is to be shipped to Manila, P.I. . . All of the fair young maidens in one public school room followed the example of their male classmates and play ed hooky one afternoon. Their suspension followed. After quite a flurry the young ladies appeared in the classroom and all that can been gained from any of them is “teacher didn’t do anything.” . . Sanford Dodge will appear soon in O’Neill in Shakespeare’s great tragedy, “Macbeth.” . . A terrible fire raged south of Chambers for the entire week. By heroic effort of the men in the area, Bartlett was saved. A great deal of loss and damage was done reaching clear to Ono. Prairie fires raged around Atkinson also. . . Mr. Jep peson and L. G. Coburn are “courting” in O’Neill this week. . . The public high school, citizens of Atkinson and the band gathered at the depot to greet Phoebe Scott on her return from the north-Ne braska oratorical contest held in Norfolk. She won first place in the humorous class readings. 20 Years Ago Workmen started seeding the parking along the mile of paving in the city with blue grass. . . Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schollmeyer cele brated their 41st wedding anni versary at their home. It was a surprise party given by their children and guests. . . Patrick A. Morrison, 68, died in an Omaha hospital following a short illness. . . . Schools were closed in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, due to the bad dust storms. 10 Years Ago Death came to President Frank lin D. Roosevelt at his Warm Springs, Ga., retreat. . . Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Watson of Inman receiv ed a certificate of merit in behalf of their son, John C. The citation reads: “Sgt. Watson, with com plete disregard for his welfare while under heavy fire, success fully administered medical aid to three wounded men and removed them to a place of safety, thus saving the lives of the stricken soldiers in the European theater.” . . . LB 120, the teachers’ pension bill, passed the state legislature with only four votes being cast against it. It will take $85,000 to get this started and the state will have to put up this money. . . Ted McElhaney was elected president of the Commercial club for the coming year. Other officers are C. E. Lundgren, James M. Corkle, Ira George, Dr. J. P. Brown and Pat Harty. One Year Ago Sen. Dwight Griswold, three time governor of this state, died at the Bethesda naval hospital in Maryland. . . The Lohaus Motor company of O’Neill received the four-letter award, the highest honor bestowed by the Ford Mo tor company. . . Plans for an 80 thousand-dollar addition to the O’Neill public school plant were announced in a special meeting of civic service and church groups. . . . One unit of the Gateway mo tel suffered an estimated $300 damages in a clothing fire. Grade Spelling Winners Named Fourteen group spelling con tests were held during the week of March 28-April 1 when 622 spellers representing 113 rural districts competed to select winners in grades three through eight. The winners will compete in the Holt county contest to be held in O’Neill Saturday April 16, at 1 p.m. Three groups having 100 per cent representation were: Group V meeting with Miss Dotty Moore; group IX meeting with Mrs. Dorothy Sanders; group X meeting with Miss Helen Martens. Following are the winners by groups with grade of pupil given in parenthesis: Group I—Judy Krysl (3), dis trict 205; Anita Morgan (4), dis trict 69; Darlene Vanderbeek (5), district 172; Darlene Hoffman (6) , district 136; Charlotte Hal stead (7), district 229; John Head (8), district 169. Group II—Renee Hitchcock (3), district 232; Harold Frickel (4),i district 74; Jerry Hendricks (5),i district 246; Beverly Meyers (6), district 180; Joan Timmermans (7) , district 232; Marketa Hend ricks (8), district 246. Group III—Keith Hipke (3), district 22; Ellen Frost (4), dis trict 249; Zane Frost (5), district 249; Marilyn Schmaderer (6), dis trict 11; Donald Fuelberth (7), district 86; Calvin Allyn (8), dis trict 86. Group IV—Gaylen Dulitz (3), district 233; Bonnie Clifford (4), district 206; Faye Garwood (5), district 238; Bobby Clifford (6), district 206; Glenda Wolfe (7), district 233; Sharon Swanson (8) district 233. Group V — Chucky Smith (3), district 174; Rosemary Mahoney (4) , district 5; Rolland Johnson (5) , district 17; Agnes Mahoney (6) , district 5; Pauline Mahoney (7) , district 5; Gene Schneider (8) , district 5. Group VI— Anna Marie Wells (3), district 3; Esther Young (4), district 127; David Landen (5). district 56; Gayiene Kaasa (6), district 3; Janet Krugman (7), dis trict 60; June Carson (8), district 32. Group VII— Angie Hupp (3), district 18%; Vic Thoendel (4), district 227; Darlene Heumesser (5) , district 118; Judy Tinsley (6) , district 227; Margaret May Funk (7), district 46; Wanita Wragge (8), district 227. Group VIII—Phyllis Davis (3), district 39; Carolyn Sorensen (4), district 241; Aletha Rutherford (5) , district 88; Bonnie Crumley (6) , district 23; Mary Lou Lueb cke (7), district 55; Wayne Hol iday (8), district 88. Group IX—Robert Falter (3), district 92; Ann Johnson (4), dis trict 62; Betty Widtfeldt (5), dis trict 37; Nicky Hammerlun (6), district 92; Connie Johnson (7), district 62; Nancy Devall (8), dis trict 27. Group X—Donald Pretzer (3), district 15; Larry Beck (4), dis trict 36; Melvin Sanders (5), dis trict 15; Maureen Schaaf (6), dis trict 20; Arthur Wells (7), district 20; Marlene Beck (8), district 36. Group XI—Wayne Pacha (3), district 77; Phyllis Kaup (4), district 99; Carol Pacha (5), dis trict 77; Gaylard Rossman (6), district 119; Ernie Shiffem (7), district 148; Sharon Kaup (8), district 99. Group XII— Sandra Whitaker (3), district 107; Francis Kamp haus (4), district 216; Danelia Whitaker (5), district 107; Vietta Edwards (6), district 163; Mary Homolka (7), district 178; Jim my Cavanaugh (8), district 202. Group XIII-Deborah Eisenhauer (3) , district 156; Jimmy Kruse (4) , district 134; Elaine Whiting (5) , district 134; Norma Brewster (6) , district 73; Marlene Peter (7), district 65; Karen Kruse (8), dis trict 134. 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