Starts Homeward
Trip to Hawaii
AMELIA—Ted Price of Hono
lulu, Haw., TJFL, and his nephew,
Artie Price of New Orleans, La.,
came Friday to join Mrs. Ted
Price, the former Marie Adair.
The group will set out August
3 for a trip through the Black
Hills and Yellowstone park and
then continue on to Los Angles,
Calif. From there Mr. and Mrs.
Price will fly to Honolulu and
Artie will return to his home in
New Orleans.
Other Amelia News
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Warden and
Gaylen visited at the home of
Mrs. Gertie Adair Sunday eve
ning.
Mrs. Irven Forbes has a new
deep freeze.
Mr. and Mrs. Lew Backhaus
went to Page to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Backhaus’ cousin, Rich
ard McIntosh, who was drowned
while in the service.
Mr. and Mrs. Hienie Frahm and
Patty went to Stanton Saturday
to visit Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Krutz and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Bus Enbody and
girls of Atkinson visited at the
Tommie Doolittle, jr., home Sun
day evening.
Mrs. Bird Early and grandson,
Rollin Perriot, of ttoraen visuea
the Lindseys on Wednesday,
July 20.
Mrs. Gertie Adair and son
Ralph, and Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Price went to Lincoln Tuesday,
to attend the wedding of Miss
Joan Adair, which took place
Wednesday, July 27.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rees and
Mr. and Mrs. Link Sageser pic
nicked Sunday at Ft. Randall.
°' Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Barnett and
the Glen White’s were fishing at
Spencer dam Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnston
visited over Saturday night with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Peterson. They were returning to
their home In Lincoln after a va
cation trip.
Rev. and Mrs. Glen Kennicott
of O’Neill called on Mrs. Emma
Lindsey and Florence Sunday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Burge and
family attended a family reunion
of the Burge families at the
Glenn Burge home in Chambers
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Fix of At
kinson spent Sunday at the El
mer Fix home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Winterstien
of Lincoln visited at the Frank
and Lew Backhaus homes on
Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs.
Winterstien is the former Pearl
0 Backhaus, a sister of Frank’s and
Lew’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Hamilton of
Spencer visited Tuesday with
Mrs. Lindsey and Florence. Mrs.
Hamilton is Mrs. Lindsey’s niece.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Marcellus and
laughters left Friday morning
for their home at Pico, Calif. A
phone call from their son, Bob,
on Friday evening stated he was
having mumps. They have been
visiting her father, Art Waldman,
and other relatives here and in
surrounding towns.
Mrs. Link Sageser and Mrs.
Vern Sageser called at the Art
Waldman home last week to visit
with Mrs. Emmett Carr and Mrs.
Leo Marcellus.
Church Notes
METHODIST (O’Neill & Emmet)
Rev. Glenn Kennicott, pastor
Thursday, July 28: Dorcas cir
cle at O’Neill, 2 p.m.
Sunday. July 31: O’Neill wor
ship at 8:30 a.m.; church school,
9:45 ajn.; Emmet worship at 9:45
a m. Sunday afternoon there will
be a sub-district MYF rally at O’
Neill city park. Bring sack lunch
and registration fee.
Monday, August 1: The Kenm
cotts plan to leave on vacation,,
returning August 12.
Sunday, August 7: Rev. Jay
will be in charge.
If you have notices for the pa
per or bulletin, or, if you have
questions during the pastor’s ab
sence, call Clay Johnson, church
secretary, phone 539W.
ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN
(Chambers)
Rev. Howard E. Claycombe,
pastor
Sunday, July 31: Adult Bible
study, Sunday - school, nursery
class, 9:30 a.m.; divine worship,
10:30 am.; family night, 8:30 o’
clock. Informal singing, a 30-min
use inspirational film, and ice
cream and cake served on the
church lawn.
Friends are always welcome
into the fellowship at St. Paul’s.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD (O’Neill)
702 E. Clay
Rev. E. Kirschman, pastor
Sunday, July 31: Sunday-school,
10 a.m.; worship, 11 am.; Christ’s
Ambassadors, 7 p.m.; evangelistic
rally, 8 pm. Subject: “The Great
est Scientific Truth in the Bible.”
Midweek service Wednesday, 8
p.m.
All services open to the public.
METHODIST (Chambers)
Rev. J. M. Hodgkin, pastor
Sunday, July 31: Sunday-school,
10 a.m., Eugene Baker, superin
tendent; worship, 11 a.m.
Rev. J. LaVerne Jay, district
superintendent, was guest speaker
Sunday.
Dinner Guests at I
Tomlinson Home—
Mrs. Anna Carson of Redbird
and Mrs. Vannie Newman of O’
Neill were Sunday dinner guests
at the H. W. Tomlinson home.
Mrs. Faye Pinkerman of Redbird
was a dinner guest there on Sat
urday.
STREETS COATED
SPENCER—An asphalt coating
has been placed on 36 blocks of
streets in Spencer. All streets
east and west of Main street have
been treated.
State Capitol News . . .
Douglas, Lancaster Values Up
LINCOLN—The state board of
equalization this week began the
first hearings on 21 counties cal
led in to explain their tax assess
ment work this year. The fact
that few flurries were expected
showed clearly that Nebraska has
finally settled into a pattern of
statewide equalization. But it
took two years of court and board
action to wrench the state from
its former haphazard patchwork
of widely varying rates of assess
ment.
But things are not smooth
everywhere. In Holt county,
several taxpayers have appeal
ed to the district court the ac
tions and decisions of the Holt
board of equalization.
First counties called to appear
before the state board were the
two wealthiest, Douglas (Omaha)
and Lancaster (Lincoln). But there
is probably going to be little criti
cism of these two since Douglas
showed a $20 million increase
and Lancaster a $5 million hike.
In fact Governor Anderson ex
plained that the major reason
these two were called was be
cause the “eyes of the state” are
on them. Having them tell their
story would help with the re
mainder of the counties, he ex
plained.
The truth this year was that
without the house building boom
in Lincoln and Omaha the state
total of assessments probably
would have been a shade lower.
But this factor plus increases on
railroads and franchises such as
pipelines and telephone compan
ies brought the total up about $5
million higher than last year.
Out of a total of $6 billion
that dosen’t mean too much.
It did mean the taxpayer would
get a hike only because of in
creased appropriations by the
legislature and not because of
any fall in the valuation of pro
perty statewide. About $11.3 mil
lion more is needed to support
state government functions, in
cluding about $8 million more in
the general fund.
It appears now that it will take
a state general fund mill levy in
crease of about 1.50 to 2.00 mills
(that’s $1.50 to $2 more tax per
$1,000 of assessed valuation). The
total for 1955 should be some
where between 6.50 and 7 mills.
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Counties Called—
In addition to Lancaster and
Douglas 19 other counties were
called to “show cause” why their
valuations shouldn’t be raised or
lowered. *|
Chase, Garfield, Grant, Harlan,
Key a Paha, Scotts Bluff and
Wheeler are being called about
their real estate assessments.
Some of the counties have cut
their valuations and others are
being called because their neigh
bors complained their assessments
were too low.
Holt and Franklin, two of the
complainers, have also been
called in. York county has been
asked to appear to show why its
assessments of town property
are down.
Otoe county is to be asked to
explain its downward trend in
valuations and Kimball will be
questioned about oil property as
sessments.
The business inventories in
Dodge, Fillmore and Johnson
counties will be scrutinized by
the state board. Frontier was call
ed because it had not answered a
letter asking for more informa
tion. Garden (as well as Lancas
ter and Douglas) were brought in
because the abstract of assess
ments was filed too late for letters
of query to be sent back.
Computations made after the
June 30 close of the 1953-’55 fiscal
biennium showed that the legis
lature budget committee badly
misguessed on how much unex
pended balances the state’s
various agencies would have.
The committee estimated the
agencies would have $15,082,319
left over. Instead there was $27,
635,625 in unexpended balances.
The catch is that the legisla
ture reappropriated most of these
“unexpected balances.” That
means the agencies have a $12.6
million windfall. It means the
total state budget is really $237.4
million instead of the $224.8 mil
lion the legislature thought.
Gov. Victor Anderson im
mediately warned the agencies
not to feel they could go right
ahead and spend this extra
money.
State Sen. Hal Bridenbaugh
of Dakota City, chairman of the
budget committee, said the com
mittee had taken the estimates
by the agencies themselves.
The facts appeared to be that
most of the agencies made their
estimates last September, or 10
months ahead of time. Most
guessed low to be on the safe
side. Others hoped for just the
type of windfall they got.
In past sessions the budget
committee has closely watched
agency spending, revising the
balances upward as it appeared
there was going to be more left
than the agencies orginally esti
mated. But there is reason to be
lieve that the budget committee
this time, frightened by a budget
that had skyrocketed from last
session’s $197 million to $224.8
million didn’t want anything that
would make it higher.
The only catch to this is that
for the general fund alone an
“unneeded” $1.8 million will be
raised from the taxpayers. The
general fund balance was esti
mated at $3,867^555 and it came
out $5,697,555. So out of that 1.5
to 2 mill increase on all Nebreska
taxpayers about .3 mill will come
because the budget committee
didn’t watch those balances close
enough.
Redistricting—
The state supreme court ap
parently has upset the applecart
on school redistricting in the
state.
In a Hitchcock county case the
high court ruled that the state
school reorganization committee
has no power to veto plans sub
mitted under the 55 percent peti
tion plan. This type of plan ac
counted for about 95 percent oi
the work the committee—com
posed of both educators and non
educators—has had thus far.
For all practical purposes it
means the state committee will
be confined to plans drafted by
county reorganization committees.
And there have been very few of
these so far.
State Education Commissioner
F. B. Decker immediately labeled
the decision one which will “set
back redistricting in Nebraska
by many years.”
Decker said that in many
areas rural districts will band
into slightly larger districts and
erect a rural school. This will
be used to block off “larger
and saner” redistricting.
The commissioner even quar
reled with the court’s thinking on
the matter. The court said it fol
lowed legislative intent. But Dec
ker said the legislature had re
peatedly shown it wanted the
state reorganization committee to
have this power. The latest in
stance was the killing by the
1955 legislature education com
mittee of a bill by Sen. William
Purdy of Norfolk which would
have stripped away this power.
A recent calculation by the
state education department is
that there are 5,678 school dis
ricts in the state. While this is
less than the 6,113 reported a year
ago, it means that Nebraska still
has more school districts than any
other state in the union.
One real reason appeared from
statistics in the same survey.
These showed that the average
mill levy in class I rural elemen
try districts was 9.58 while the
average for all other districts was
27.45. This tended to back up the
belief of many school officials that
the real reason that there is not
more redistricting is that many
rural people are reluctant to pay
higher taxes even if it meant bet
ter schools. This remains true
even though it has been proved
in the York and Hamilton county
reorganizations that mill levies
drop sharply in properly redis
tricted schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Meier, sr.,
of Prescott, Wise., and Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Meier of St. Paul,
Minn., were guests from Wednes
day, July 20, until Friday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Meier.
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Noted at Inman
INMAN—A good deal of moving
has been going on here the past
few days.
Otto Retke moved his house
hold goods from the Arthur Ren
ner home to the newly-built ga
rage on the Ermand Keyes place,
which Mr. Retke recently pur
chased. James Banks held a pub
lic sale on Saturday and moved
his household goods to the Renner
place.
Woodrow Gaughenbaugh and
family of Atkinson are moving to
the place where the Banks family
formerly resided. Mr. Gaughen
baugh recently purchased this
place from John Nickels.
Other Inman News
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Nielsen of
St Paul were weekend guests in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Nielsen and Kay.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hertel and
grandson, Richard Clouse, spent
Sunday evening with Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Nielsen and Kay.
Pvt. Harold Nielsen of the
army paratroopers has been trans -
ferred from Ft. Bragg, N.C., to Ft.
Campbell, Ky. Enroute to Ken
tucky he stopped at Portsmouth,
Va., and visited with his sister,
Ensign Delores Wylie of the navy <
nurse corp. j
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Morsbach
and son of Neligh spent Sunday
visiting in the homes of Mrs. Eliz
abeth Morsbach and Mr. and Mrs.
Daviid Morsbach and girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mann and
their son and daughter of Spo
kane, Wash., stopped here onj
Tuesday p.m., July 19, and were
overnight guests in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Moore and
Mrs. Anna Clark. The Mann’s
were enroute to Lincoln to visit
their son-in-law and daughter, j
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Moore and
family.
Mrs. Ira Watson and Mrs.
James McMahan attended a din
ner meeting Tuesday, July 19, at
the M&M cafe in O’Neill of the
Holt county committee of the Ne
braska Society for Crippled
children.
John Sobotka and son, Harold,
arrived home on Wednesday from
a 10-day’vacation spent in Yel
lowstone national park and in
Buhl, Ida., where they spent sev
eral days visiting relatives and
friends.
Miss Carolyn Watson spent
from Friday until Monday in
Hartington where she visited
friends.
H. F. Chenowith of Omaha
visited in the home of his broth
er in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Ira L. Watson a few days last
week. Mr. Chenowith was on his
way to the West coast.
Cal Geary left Tuesday for his
home in Lyons after spending the
past few weeks here helping his
brothers, Reginald and Haddin,
put up their hay.
Postmaster and Mrs. B. H. Ste
vens of Page were Sunday eve- “
ning callers in the home of Post
master and Mrs. James M. Mc
Mahan.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Stuckey and
family of Grafton were recent
guests in the home of Mrs. Stuck
ey’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Chudomelka.
Visit Yankton, Wynot—
LYNCH — Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Kalkowski spent several days in
Yankton, S.D., and Wynot re
cently.
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LEVI HOP!
The Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring another
“Community Levi Hop” at the American Legion Hall on Friday,
July 29, for all young people, ages 10 to 19.
Dancing from 8:30 till 11:30. Dancing contests will be held
and prizes will be awarded to the winners. Only kids in levis
1 will be admitted!
This dance will be chaperoned by parents and the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. All parents are welcome and will be
admitted free.
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TEEN-AGE ADMISSION: 50c
MUSIC by the NOSMO COMBO
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FRIDAY-SATURDAY JULY 29-30
Double Feature
“BROKEN LANCE”
CINEMASCOPE
“THE GLASS WEB”
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SUNDAY-MONDAY-TUESDAY JULY 31, AUGUST 1-2
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CINEMASCOPE SPECIAL!
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II OUR BIG SUMMER
Starts Thursday, July 28th
| FVF.RY PIECE of Summer Merchandise included in this huge money-saving clearance
of all Summer Goods at these sacrifice prices.
NO ALTERATIONS — NO APPROVALS — NO LAYAWAYS, PLEASE
Doors open at 10 A.M. We must have time to prepare for this big event!
Be here promptly at 10 for best selections!
DRESS PRICES ARE SLASHED
Our Entire Summer Stock Included in 3 Big Money-Saving Groups!
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GROUP 1
999
Values to 24.95
Better dresses by well-known
makers. Real bays!
GROUP 2
6.99
Values to 12.95
Sensational bargains . . . nylons,
voiles, etc. In regular, junior,
half sizes.
of Nationally-Known ___ Simplicity Frocks toco at $2.49
The Best House Dress on the Market!
SUMMER COATS
ONE-HALF PRICE
Formerly priced to 49.95
Now 14.98 to 22.98
ALL NEW STOCK
Perfect for late Fall wear!
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SUMMER BLOUSES
1.00 - 1.99 - 2.99
Values to 4.95
Odds and ends, but
REAL BUTS!
COSTUME JEWELRY
59c
Including tax
Values to 2.00
Out it goes for fast clearance!
Select yours today!
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COME to the APPAREL SHOP for our usual big savings on Summer Merchandise.
Air-conditioned for your shopping comfort. Don’t miss this big sale!
THE APPAREL SHOP