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Islanders Eat Human Flesh
By ROM AINE SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Editor The Frontier
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L.IiNCOUN — The speaker stood before „ an
audience of some thousands. His message is heard
each week the world around over the air in what
he Calls the “Voice of Prophecy.” But he
ia in our Capital city for a youth gathering. Young
America has the stage today.
Mr Richards’ message not only roaches the
ends of the earth, but he in person has seen much
of the globe. He told his eager
Lincoln listeners of a visit to New
Guinea, the world's largest is
land, where the native dress
consists of a palm leaf fore and
aft, and their diet includes hu
man flesh. When one of the
family dies, the body is cooked
and eaten. The body may be
buried for a week or so and
then _ taken from the grave,
cooked and eaten.
The island is saucer-shaped
and the inland is ideal cattle Romaine
country. The speaker suggested Haundere
if any Nebraskans are looking for a location for
a ranch they should go to New Guinea.
In old Jerusalem we found the Jews in con
trol of the country with the Arabs having taken
over the city.
Mr. Richards’ message to Nebraska youth:
Loyalty to your country and to your God.
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Out of tho historic halls of congress came
the farm bill. It was laid before President Eisen
hower to bo signed into the law of the land. The
chief executive declined to take his pen in hand
and add his name to the measure. Across the na
tion far and wide he told us why. Under the pres
sure of the hour it took courage for the president
to stay by his convictions. He has the courage to
aay and do what he believes to be right, Agricul
ture, stock raising, life on American farms and
gardens and cattle ranches goes on, will go on un
til the sun and moon and stars forever set. Mr.
Eisenhower, schooled in military science, shows
a more comprehensive grasp of life’s fundamentals
embodied in what the good earth grows than his
swivel chair critics. Com and wheat will grow as
ever on prairieland, herds will bring forth the
yearly increase of baby beef and ranch and farm
families are prosperous and happy.
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Did the gent with wheels in his head who
built that 1,800 horsepower Diesel ever see a
horse?
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An old woman died last week in a Nebraska
village at the age of more than four score and ten
years. By judicial decree her village home had
been made sure to her as long as she lived. Dur
ing the lifetime of her husband the couple had
gone into debt for coal. The creditor considered
his claim a lien on the widow’s home and by court
action sought payment. The principle that an in
dividual's home is his castle was upheld when the
court ruled that the little village home of that aged
woman was her homestead and could not be taken
from her to satisfy a creditor. . . It was during the
"depression” days. A weary husband came home
one evening “depressed” and gloomy—he had lost
his job. A rap was heard at the door. The visitor
was a salesman who solicited the man who bad
just been fired to buy a graveyard lot.
Do .he black tuaalines rnghten you. bnua
der as you read the stories of a maddening world?
Turn away—see the little things that do not rate
a headline •— the humor, the friendly chatter,
neighbor with neighbor, the laughter of a child,
the hallowed home memories and the ties that link
heart to heart. Or has the sweep of time left you
alone in a desolated home hoping for a letter from
an absent son or daughter? Go places, visit other
lonely ones, walk where the sunbeams light the
way, look up into the heavens as far as mortal
eye can see and then with spiritual vision look
beyond. Return then to earth and if you like to
have a little fun let out a whoop and run.
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Answering a question his mother asked, an
eight-year-old lad came up with this: Eloquence
Is thoughts that's awful nice in words that chil
dren understand.
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They are at it again. After 60 odd years this
generation of Nebraska patriots would woo the
elusive rain clouds to pour forth their showeis of
Messing when prairielund thirsts. At least one, L.
G. Gillespie, is still a citizen of O’Neill who can
recall the days when Turn Golden, John McCaf
ferty and Ed Hershiser were ib the rain-making
business. They exploded the dynamite, throw
away the cans, and gave it up as an undertaking
that is beyond the powers of man. Nature moved
on in the changing tenor of its way, the prairie
bloomed and we are still here.
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I.inrnln firemen have been assigned the Job
of visiting some 30.000 homes in the city on a
fire hazard hunt. They go two together, are
courteous, displaying no exalted attitude of of
ficial importance. These with salesmen and
propaganda promoters help keep householders
from becoming lonesome.
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A Brazilian youth has been disillusioned. Fly
ing as a stowaway to a United States airport to
see the wonders in the land of the free and home
of the brave he had heard about, a heartless judge
in Yankeeland sent him to jail for six months on
a eharge of “illegal entry.”
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Convicted of manslaughter, he gets eight
months in jail in Kansas City. The poor guy in
Los Angeles, Calif., didn’t fare quite so well—he
was put away for a year for a like offense. Value
of human life does not keep pace with inflated
costs of living.
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The path of sorrow when we walk alone
May lead where sorrow is forever unknown;
And before we can reach that blest abode
We will have thorns and briars along the road.
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A group Of young men are building a house
in a Lincoln suburb for Mrs. Donald A. Rhode,
widow of the young man killed in a plane crash
southeast of Inman. She is the mother of two
children. Her father provided the lot for the
home and the young men furnish the material
for the house and do the work of building.
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Why are democratic leaders ready to spend
untold millions to stop Kefauver when Ike is
willing to do it for nothing?
Editorial ....
How About Commission Revival?
A new city administration takes over the«
reins of city government in O’Neill next week.
Mayor-Elect D. C. Schaffer and four new council
men will be seated and serve alongside one vet
eran councilman, M. J. Golden, and one council
man who will have completed on* year on the
board, Fred Heermann.
About 10 years ago then Mayor F. J. Dishner
appointed a 12-member city planning commission,
a composite group of substantial citizens who
were to make recommendations to th* council and
serve in an advisory capacity only. That commis
sion made recommendations for sewer improve
ments and zoning and these recommendations
were adopted. The planning commission died
when Mr. Dishner became ill and retired from ac
tive leadership. The commission breathed its last
breath when subsequent councils saw fit to change
the zoning laws.
The Frontier would like to recommend to
Mayor Schaffer and the new council a revival of
the commission, thereby broadening the interest in
city government and helping to iron out issues be
fore they get out of hand.
British End Hangings
The house of commons, by a 292 to 246 vote,
has called for the abolition of the death penalty
in Great Britain. After voting, the house of com
mons made it almost certain that the government
end its use of the death penalty.
For over 50 years now, there has been a hot
controversy in England concerning the death pen
alty. Generally speaking, the labor party was of
ficial sponsor of the latest move to end hangings,
although the conservatives went along with the
labor party effort.
Victorious supporters of the anti-death pen
alty bill claimed that hangings did not decrease
crimes, nor violence, because of" the fact that
most killings were not premeditated. On the other
side, there were those who felt that the abolition
Of hanging would constitute the removal of a
psychological barrier to violence of all kinds, in
cluding killings. But there is no denying that the
death penalty is being abandoned by Western
European countries, and only a few now retain it.
The question of abolishing Che death penalty
will be debated anew in the United States, as a
result of the British Action. I'a some states in this
country, the death penalty is not allowed, but in
mopt of them, it is permitted. Since this is a matter
for each state to decide, it seems highly unlikely
thflt the death penalty wilt be eliminated in the
0 United States any dime in the near future.
o Periodically the advisability of Nebraska’s
dCatho penalty comes under odiscussion. At the
o° moment Loyd Grandsinger is sentenced to die
0 in the electric chair and 9 < young Lincoln for
ester, Darrell Parker^ is3 standing trial and is
.charged with the slaying of hig wife, Nahcy
o On thisD page recently Romaine Saunders
declared sympathy against capital “ punishment
only encourages men to walk the highway of
crime.
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<• A classic line to come out of Monaco during
the Ranier-Kelly affair originated with an old
dowager. As the prince’s yacht disappeared into
the mist of the blue Mediterranean with the hon
eymooners aboard, she quipped: “Hope that’s the
hist we'll hear from those two—at least for nine
■oaths!’’
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Soil-Bank Idea Not New
President Eisenhower’s veto of the farm bill,
as conceived by congress, helps to woo city votes.
His veto won plaudits from city dwellers, par
ticularly in the East, who do not want to see food
costs mount (although their wages and manufac
tured products cost more). The veto also was in
tended to placate farmers.
Although the Eisenhower farm program will
provide substantial subsidies, these will not be
as high as was intended by the demo-dominated
congress. In addition, the Ike plan will provide
for soil-bank benefits.
The result is that republicans and democrats
alike are making it difficult for the American
farmer to determine exactly who his friends are.
When the demo leaders put through the farm
bill they thought they had shown conclusively
that their party wished, to be more generous with
farm aid. Some of them still feel the president’s
veto will sharpen such an impression with the
farmer.
But right now the demos are scratching their
heads trying to figure how to deal with the presi
dent’s demand for early enactment of the soil
bank plan—which, it is estimated, could still put
large sums in fanners’ hands this year.
Democrats, meanwhile, might say the soii
hank idea is nothing now Tt’s morolv a
version of early Roosevelt policies.
Not many people fully understand the farm
bill or the complex farm problem.
Wish the rain-makers would get busy and
produce some moisture. Pastures will green-up,
all right, with the advent of warm weather, but
there’s a definite need for spring moisture.
Life becomes nothing more than a wrangle
for those who think they must make friends and
family do as they say.
Sometimes we get the impression the only
decision confronting teenagers concerns whether
’ it will be chocolate or vanilla.
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What this country needs is anything that
can be bought for a nickel.
The dizzy round of term-end school activ
ities already has begun.
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V\ h\ I! luu .iUii 1 \v<:rr t ulinj
3 Boyd Supervisors
Oppose New Bridge
4 Approve Paying
Half of Cost
1
50 Years Ago
j The supervisors of Boyd
county who voted “yes” to pay for
half the bridge over the Niobra
ra river were Reed, Peterson,
Kenaston and Seevers. Voting
“no” were Lynn, Couch and
Long. . . Thomas Griffin and
Miss Bridget Colvan of New Ha
ven, Conn., were married. . . A
suprise was planned on A! Me
Main of Phoenix in the way of a
dinner party. . . Miss Maude S.
Posson of Stafford and Barney
R. Gunter of Ewing wore mar
ried, and Will Benson and Ethel
Harris of Page were united in
marriage.
20 Years Ago
Mrs. Ira Moss, Mrs. Max Gold
en, Mrs. R. R. Morrison and Mrs
J. J. Harrington entertained 45
ladies at a post lenten party. . .
Members of the Country Club
board of directors are: Ira Moss,
R. M. Sauers, W. J. Biglin, P. C.
I Donohoe. I* A. Burgess, W. S.
! Hammond and E. M. Gallagher.
... Mrs. J. V. Dwyer and Miss
Mary Sullivan of Butte, Mont.,
are visiting friends and rela
tives.
10 Years Ago
Miss Alma Wallace and Dale
A. Kersenbrock and Miss Iona
Kee of Emmet and Pvt. Rodney
A. Livings of Davenport were
married. . . Mrs. Margaret Jung
bluth told that her daughter,
Mrs. William Steskal of Emmet
had recently returned from the
Stuart hospital where she had
undergone a major operation. . .
Mrs. Chris Reimer of Inman en
tertained the primary room and
their teacher, Miss Mildred
Keyes, in honor of her son Bob
by’s birthday anniversary.
vuc m cm n|(v
Center Union church, north
west of O’Neill, celebrated its
golden jubilee. . . John R. Wells,
84, died. . . A Junior Chamber of
Commerce was formed. . . Mrs.
Edgar Stauffer and Mrs. Melvin
Smith, both of Page, and Mrs. A.
J. Camp of Atkinson were elect
ed to district offices at the district
meeting at the Woman’s Society
of Christian Service at Wayne.
Estate Provides
Hospital Bed
CHAMBERS—Members of the
American Legion auxiliary met
at the home of Mrs. Don Dank
ert. It was voted to send a con
tribution to the Easter seal cam
paign. The auxiliary is recipient
of a hospital bed from the estate
of the late Mrs. C. J. Barnum of
Neligh. The bed will be made
available to anyone for a small
charge for the use of the mat
tress.
A program was presented with
a Haiti theme. A piano solo was
played by Elaine Dankert, who
is a junior member. Mrs. Ruben
Peltzer and Mrs. J. W. Walter
sang “A Green Little Island.”
They were dressed as Haitians.
Mrs. L. O. Lenz read a descrip
tion of the island and its people.
Next meeting will be a gold
star tea at the home of Mrs.
Walter on May 4.
Demonstration Week
to Be Observed
PAGE — Mrs. Elmer Trow
bridge was hostess to the Page
extension club on Tuesday, April
' 17, for a lesson the care of the
sewing machine. Mrs. Raymond
Heiss and Mrs. Elmer Trow
bridge presented the lesson. Mrs.
Edgar Stauffer demonstrated a
modern sewing machine.
Plans were discussed for home
demonstration week that will be
observed at the Page Methodist
church Tuesday afternoon. May
1, by the extension clubs of the
Page center.
The Page extension club will
furnish the sandwiches and an
entertainment number. The May
meeting will be at the home of
Mrs. Judd Russell with a lesson
on “Sewing New Fabrics.”
Society to Help
Pay Electric Bill—
STUART — The Women’s so
ciety of the Community church
met last Thursday afternoon in
the church basement with 20
members present.
Devotions were led by Mrs. '
Wilber Moon. Reports on the
Presbyterial meeting held in Val
entine April 16-17 were given
by Mrs. Jone Cobb, Mrs. Ward
Dyer, Mrs. D. D. Su and Mrs.
Noma Hall. A $50 pledge was
made to apply on electricity.
Lunch was served by the host
esses, Mrs. Norris Coats, Mrs.
Roy Rhodes and Mrs. Berlin Mit
chell. •
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Provincial Sorority Honors to U of N Coed
Miss Imogene Davis (above), a University oX Nebraska coed
who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Davis of Inman, was
elected as "spoke of the wheel” from Theta province for National
Delta Omicron. She is a senior voice major and has served as
secretary, first vice-president, rush chairman and senior parlia
mentarian for Delta Omicron. Miss Davis was awarded the Na
tional Delta Omicron honor pin for the senior with the highest
accumulated scholarship in Theta. She is a member of the "D. O.
Triads,” and was director for the annual inter-sorority concert
with Sigma Alpha Iota and Mu Phi Epsilon. Other activities in
clude Kappa Delta ivy day song director and Pi Lambda Theta.
Real Estate Transfers
WD—Roy J Stewart to Hester
Edmisten & Lvdia O Gerken 4
19-56 $1600- Lots 1-2-3-4 Blk 12
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WD— Henry Burival to M V
Landreth 4-19-56 $8640- SEV«
NEy4 19- Ey.SEy4 19-29-9
WD—Henry Burival to Harold
L Summers & wf 4-19-56 $8800
NEy4 21-29-9- NEy4
WD—Marne Melvin to O’Neill
Prod Credit Assn 4-19-56 $750
Sy>Sy> Lots 7 & 8 Blk 14- O’
Neill
WD—Marne Melvin to Elkhorn
Valley Natl Farm Loan Assn 4
19-56 $750- NM-Sy. lots 7 & 8 Blk
14- O’Neill
QCD—Consumers Public Pow
er Dist to Hcnrv Krier 3-20-56
$1- Part EM>SWV4 Sec 19-29-11
OCD—Harry E Ressel to Henry
Kf*r 4-19-56 $1- Part SEy4SWy4
19-29-11
WARRANTY DEEDS TO THE
STATE OF NEBRASKA—
Matie Weller, et al 2-10-S6
$366- Part of SEy4 Sec 29-29-14
& Part of Wy)WM> 21-29-14
Clarence V Donohoe 3-1-56
$206.50 Part of W% 19-30-11
Henry Spicka 2-17-56 $687
Part of Sy>SEy4 23-26-12 (7.27
acres)
A B Hubbard 2-3-56 $307- Part
of SEy4 24-26-12
George H Rowse 2-4-56 $1,135
Part of SM>SEy4 20- & Part of
S%SWy4 21-26-12
Collect for Cancer—
PAGE — Coin containers for
contributions to the cancer fund
were circulated among the mem
bers of the project clubs of the
Page center and the Improve
ment club. The containers will be
turned in at the center at the
demonstration week observance.
Mrs. Earl W. Ralya of Grand
Island Friday stopped in O’Neill
to visit her daughter, Miss Verle,
while enroute from Wood Lake,
where she had been visiting, to
her home.
Frontier for prlntingl
DANCE I
for One and All
Tuesday, May 1
American Legion
Auditorium
50TII ANNIVERSARY AT
LABOR
Vic Halva
May 1, 1906 — 31 Years in
O’Neill
VENCS NEWS
Edwin Porter of Orchard and
Clare Schroth of Brunswick
helped with farm work at the
Ora Caskey farm Wednesday,
April 18.
Mr. And Mrs. Ralph Brook
hoUser visited at the Otto Sokol
home at Madison Thursday, Ap
ril 19.
Mr. and Mrs, Ralph Bldok
houser and Anita attended the
funeral of Mrs. Brookhouser’s
cousin. Frank Juracek, jr., of
St. Helens, Ore., at Bloomfield
Monday, April 16.
Mrs. Gordon Gentaler left for
her home at Oceanside, Calif., on
Monday, April 16, after spending
several weeks with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Finch.
DANCE
Sunday, April 29
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— O’Neill —
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FRANK NELSON |
O’Neill, Nebraska I
Candidate for
Renomination on the
Non-Political Ballot
to the | {
STATE
LEGISLATURE
from the
28th District
Holt, Boyd,
Rock, Key a
Paha Counties
A Farmer and Legislator with
Experience
1 believe in home rule on local problems
and will appreciate your support at the
Primary, May 15, 1956
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