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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1955)
. c o O^o State Capitol News ... 0 | ‘Parity Raid’ Disgraceful, III- Timed LINCOLN—The legislature this week was facing the growing, problems of school finance and reorganization. o Although the spotlight often is on roads and other phases of go vernment, ultimately the schools more and more are be coming a magnetic pole around which a great many other con siderations may have cto align themselves, o This is for two 0 reasons—^more and more children cin this “baby boom” postwar era and therefore more and more costs in operating the schools. This means greater portions Q of tax money will be needed for the schools. Since the cost of other subdivisions of°govern - ment show no signs of decreas ing, this means more taxes, period. The continuing teacher short age will necessitate higher teach ers salaries. The ever increasing ^enrollments in some areas0 will ° inevitably mean mare buildings at additional co$t to lhe Jtaxpayer. When you add' in the Univer sity of Nebraska with, its spiral ing costs as°it strives to stay even; with simular enstutions0of higher learning, you can see why £ lot of things are involved, o . . » o O r Reorganization— n o' rP„ o o A possible step forward may have come when 0 the legislature education committee by a o 5-4 vote sent to the floor of the legis lature a stricter redistricting bill. At the hearing} it was repeated ly said that a lot of Nebraska’s troubles are beccause she has so many school districts. With about 6,000 districts Nebraska has more than any other state in the Union. This means a demand for too many school districts. With about 6,000 districts Nebraska has more _n r. Q - C than any other state in the union. Tdis means a demand for too i many teachers plus the keeping of far too many inefficient dis tricts. ° The bill voted to the floor was LB 398, it would require that if a county reorganization committee doesn’t do something concrete within the next two years it will be dissolved and another commit tee elected. J 0 c This is to budge some com mittees ° which have boasted they were elected to see that nothing was done about re districting in their county. Also, it would require all county plans to be okayed ,by the state committee. o oc ' o Opposition to redistricting comes from areas which fear Qit will put everybody into a tovm school and futher dissolve rural community life. Also, it 0 comes; from farmers who understandably hesitate Qto pay5 higher taxes. 0 Undoubtedly it also comes from the 1,700 districts which dont pay and levy for general "school pur poses. o ° * * * State Aid— 0 o o O This latter was brought out at a hearing on LB 496, which would appropriate out of state funds money for local school - districts. School association officials tes tifying for this bill said it should n’t be voted to the floor of the le gislature unless a sales or income tax is passed. They said they, didn’t want to pile more taxes on , O O property. But? Don Kline of the Nebraska State Education association said that something must be done to help the 30 school districts in the bigger towns which are getting SO percent of the 0 increased enroll ment these days. He said this was ! a cstatewide responsibility. 0 Harry Burke of Omaha said that Nebraska, which is about average among the estates in wealth, is 44th in what it spends, on scchools. o Kline also pointed out that if the states don’t do a good job of financing their schools the feder al government is sure to step in. All of "this'may tie in with the question of passing a sales or in come tax. At least advocates of ‘^broadening the tax base” ask whether we can continue^ to pile these growing taxes on property alone. * * • „c n University Budget— In some areas the° question might be ,“Can we afford^ not to pay more money for0 their bud gets?” For example, the growing talk thaLtccNebraska might get an atomic power plant. If it does, one" factor bringing it Here will be the extensive atomic experiments at the University of" Nebraska the epast few years. 0 ° Should Nebraska get such a plan it might be the most signifi cant event in its entire History. ’Nebraska might grab a lead in the field of agriculture experi mentation that could be all-im portant in all its future history. Those who have studied the possibilties glow when they talk of what might come. With atomic ashes experiments to ’get muta tions of plants may bring wonders untold c in higher producing "crops. Expermintation with meat and food processing would also be possible.0 a 0 The university on a limited scale has been experimenting along several of these lines since the war. c ° o °o v When thp legislature f comes to consider the big increased ° budget the university is asking (3.8 million more up to an $18.8 million total), this will be a factor that cant be pushed < aside. 0 o Will it be wise to save pennies, and possibly lose millions? On the other hand, how much higher can0 the tax blirden be piled? All of .these questions—of such importance" for the future—will be involved in the debate on the school bills and in consideration of budget oitems for educational institutions. o A socalled “panty0raid”0on the 'university campus" last Thursday shockejl not °only tldi legislators but the state. Nine male partici pants were summararily dismiss ed and 50 more are under inves tigation. ° °° o ° o° ° The raid was ill-timed in con sideration of the university’s fis cal problems. One state senator, visiting the campus, got caught in the melee and took a dim view of the “panty rally”.0 * * * ° Pen Chaage— u The latest step hi a long series^ of events at the state penitentiary was the, resigning of 0 Warden Herbert Hann after six years. He had been under fire repeatedly during his career but apparently resigned of his own volition. Ap pointed to his place was Joseph Bovey, 49, of Lincoln, who °the past three months has been state house custodian. Prior to that he was a traveling salesman.0 Bovey had: had 10 years of ex perience in0 federal prison admin istration. But the aspect that worried some people was that the hand of Gov. Victor Anderson could be seen in the appointment. ° Under the present constitution al setup the sta,te board of control, which runs the penitentiary as m Q well as other state instutions, Is | supposed to be a seperate entity. It was established that way in 1913 to take it out of politics and to halt the possibility of political appointments of instution offi cials by the governor. Regardless of the merits of Bo vey and the board of control, there were some who had doubts about the wisdom of the governor crossing that line. In other words, j it might be fine in this case but is it setting a precedent where an unscrupulous governor might use this as a form of patronage? * * • Ton Mile— One of the hottest bills of the session, LB 362, calling for a weight-distance tax on big trucks, brought out some good arguments from both sides. ' I Former Gov. Robert Crosby,1 speaking, for the Better Nebraska association, said there is a crying need for more money for roads. It logically should come from the f>ig trucks which cause the need for thicker: pavements and heavier bridges, he contended. But representatives of the truckers groups said: that the big trucks, which comprise one third , of°one percent of all motor ve hicles, pay 22 percent of all li cense fees. This means they are paying ’their share, they said. 0 They also said thaf passing s a ton-mile tax in Nebraska and en forcing it o against put of state trucks would o only mean that other stateso -would retaliate by charging the same tax against Nebraska trucks. This would add a great cost to Nebraska shippers they said. 0 The truckers also said that Ne braska would lose a lot of license plate money from out-of-state trucking firms which buy their tags here because c there is now such good reciprocity with “other states. 0 o Crosby said he thought one reason why many trucking firms domicile in Nebraska is because they have found school districts where the tax is excessively low. .i .. — -. O’Neill News °o°_o ° ° ° ° Pvt. David Eby and His moth er, Mrs. Raymond Eby, spent V/fednesday, April 13, in Ains vvorth at the home of his grand mother, Mts Alrha Eby. He vis ited from Friday until Sunday in Wayne,0 c Fremont °o and Omaha with former classmates at Wayne "State college, o 0 Dr. and Mrs. O. W. 1 French were dinner guests Sunday -at the home of his r brother and sister in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Merwyn French, sr., in Page. Other guests were. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Brobsto of3 Council Bluffs, la. Mr. Brobst is an uncl£ of Doctor and Mer wyn French. The Brobsts plan to visit in O’Neill at a later date. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Blake Benson and Stan ley met Mrs. Hugh Bergson’s fath er, Jdhn Tiefenthaler of Butte, in Beemer Sunday. His daughter, Miss Mae, and Tflrs. Erwin Ben^ son had brought him from Om aha where he had come by plane from Oakland, Calif., to Beemer. Heohas be.en visiting since No vember in Oakland with his son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Pandorf, his daughter, Miss Margaret, and his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Tiefenthaler. P. J. Donohue of Bonesteel, S. D., and William Brennan of Butte were Saturday luncheon guests at the home of Attorney Dono hue’s brother-in-law and sister. Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Gleeson. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Nissen Und family of Page were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs< Raymond Eby. I Kearney State Teachers college trumpet trio (above) ... to be featured in “Bugler’s Holiday” O’Neill concert, 3 p.m., Thurs day, April 28. Left-to-rigbt: Allen Farm, Wilcox, freshman; Don Munson, Kearney, freshman; Joyce Springer, Phillips, sophomore. Chambers News , o o-T— O Q Mary and Jacqueline Taggart of Omaha came Saturday o and visited until Sunday with their parents, M#. and Mrs. L. W. Tag gart. o Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lidgett and son, Donald, drove to Huron, S.D., Saturday where they visit ed her mother, Mrs. Malone, and other relatives. They returned on Sunday o oo c Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Cooper and Mrs. C; E. Tibbets drove to Bone steel, S.D., Saturday morning where they met their niece, Mrs. Hale Osborne. They cdrove from Bonesteel to Sioux City" and back to Winner Saturday, 0returning Sunday? Q ° 0” o Dean Fleming0 of Atkinson was guest speaker at the Amelia and Chambers Methodist churches on Sunday. • O O c Mrs: Ed Hoffman and children of N,eligh visited Friday with her sister, Mrs. Alfred Maas, and niece, Mrs. Orville Svatos. She attended extension club meeting at the Svatos home. Mr.. Hoffman came for them, in the" evening. The o Billy Grahanj film, “Oil Town, U.S.A.,” which was shown at the high school gymnasium ron Sunday evening, drew a large crowd. It was sponsored by thej Baptist Memorial church. Mr. and, Mrs. H. C. Walter drove to Central City Friday to bring their daughter, Marilyn Walter, home for °the weekend^ 0 The senior class of the Cham bers high school presented the comedy play,o “Let Me Out ° of Here.” The play was well ^pre sented and drew a large crowd. Kearney sState * o c. o Band to Appear o o o o o Concert Also . at Butte Next Week o o Five-Nebraska ctewns will be on the -itinerary forQ the 70-piece concert band from Kearney State Teachers college Thursday and" Friday, oApril 28 and 29. Director Robert House twill con duct the concerts Thursday, April 28, at St. Pa°ul (10 a.rm); O’Neill, (3 p.m.) and Butte (8 p. m.), and°on Friday, Apyl °29, at Neligh, (10:30 p.m.); and Fuller ton (3 p.m.). Included on the pro g r a m will be L e |t o y An derson’s “Bugler’s Holiday”, ar ranged for a trumpet ° trio; Cop land’s “Outdoor Overture’’; selec tions from “Porpr and Bess”, by George Gershwin; Holst’s “First Suite for Band”; the “Polka and Fugue” from Schwanda, by Weinberger, and two brilliant marches, Goldman’s “On the Mall” and “March of the Steel Men,” by Belsterling. Concert-goers also will be treated to a delightful and hu morous contrast in the composi tion “The Man Who Invented Music.” Scored quite recently by NBC composer-arranger Don Gil lis, the number uses a narrator in the guise of “Grandfather” ex plaining to the granddaughter, “Wendy”, how he invented music —incidentally developing melody, harmony, sharps, flats, radio, dance music and march music along the way. Two recent graduates of Kear ney State will be on hand for two and Don Zimmerman, 1951 gradu music graduate who directs th® Butte high school music program, and Don Zimmerman, 1952 gradu ate who is now band director at Fullerton high school. Mrs? Henry Schlueter and Rick ° spent from Friday .until Sunday in Abie visiting at the home of °Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Franta. 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