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Sympathy Goes to Students
By ROM AIN E SAUNDERS. Retired. Former Editor The Frontier
LINCOLN—The first week in September the j
state fair grounds becomes the center of attraction
for Nebraskans.
During the last week in August we heard
•gain the annual boast that the state fair will be
“bigger and better than ever.” To a prairieland
wolf the livestock and farm ex- ' . t
hibits always are something to / km
see* and this year, ’56*—regard
less of the "farmers’ plight” —
doubtless rates well, if not
• bove, previous fair exhibits,
though the humble pilgrim of this
department doesn’t know at this
writing whether he will visit this
“bigger and better” whoop-la
down at the fair grounds.
Rather, his sympathy goes
out to young Nebraskans who
again take books under arm and Romaine
head for school with faltering Saunders
step Another summer of freedom from books and
creeds has ended for them and now they arc
again on the arduous highway of scholarly attain
ment,
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As if it were something new in the field of
industry, a gent, who seems to have counted them,
says there are now 21 million girls and women
holding jobs in the U.S.A. Let us look back 50, CO,
70 years. Nan Oborly and Mary McLaughlin set
the type at The Frontier plant and Mary’s sister,
along with Mrs. Sam Eves, set the type for the
Independent; Rosa Meals, the compositor on the
Sun; Solo Sanders, at the Item; Tess Harrington
took care of the troubled clients in her brother,
Mike’s, law office, as Ada Mills did in Dickson’s
office. Clara Zimmerman, Mrs. Hall, Kate Mann
and others waited on customers in the J. P. Mann
store. P. J. McManus, J. P. Gallagher, Jake Pfund
each had lady clerks. Agnes and Flo Bentley took
care of the trade at the Bentley store. Kitty O’Neill,
Laura Meals, Nellie Dailey, Elizabeth O’Malley
were postoffice clerks. Courthouse, schoolhousa
and hotels could hardly have functioned without
the ladies, and how could the old town have got
ten along without Miss Alice Coykendall?
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Ex-President Herbert Hoover is much more
popular than was President Herbert Hoover.
Government men of both political parties turn
to the venerable ex-president for advice.
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The ornate design of the our new governor’s
cabin in Lincoln is being critically eyed and com
mented upon, condemned mostly by those who ex
plode via print. Probably there are some of us
mortal sticks who, if we should get through the
pearly gates to be escorted by a celestial being
to a mansion above, would cast a critical eye over
heaven’s house of gold provided for us and want
changes made in it. Citizens of Nebraska generally
would like to see a governor’s mansion symbolic
of pralrieland, but the building commission has
reverted to the American colonial period for archi
tectural design for our chief executive’s new
home.
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Four preachers, one priest, one rabbi appear
<»nee a week on TV to tell any and all in Yankee
lhnd "what they believe.’’ Neighbor Sam cares
little what Neighbor Tom believes. What either
beHves is not important—what they do as citizens
of the community, here and there extending a
helping hand, sacrificing a bit here and there to
help a neighbor, speaking a cheering word, being
law-abiding citizens with the vision to perceive
and the courage to do—those are important. “I
believe”—human ego. “I do”—humanity in action.
Frank Leahy, a notable in the field of sports
and a son of the family of that name who were
citizens of O'Neill 50 years ago, was one of the
group of delegates at the republican national con
vention at San Francisco, Calif., who made short
addresses seconding the nomination of President
Eisenhower. A labor union member, a farmer, sev
eral women, including a Jewish lady and a color
ed sister, were shown on TV with fthers who
made short addresses for Eisenhower's nomina
tion. Terry Carpenter of the Nebraska delegation
cast the lone vote for a favorite son, Fred Seaton,
for the vice-presidential nomination, even Harold
Stassen making a lengthy address approving the
nomination of Vice-President Nixon, whom he
earlier opposed. The candidates are: Eisenhower
and Nixon on the GOP ticket, Stephenson and Ke
fauver on the democratic ticket.
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Sunset, then evening twilight and after that
the dark. And so the ceaseless tide of time spreads
the curtain of night over another day of toll and
achievement, of smiles and frowns, with its
heartaches and rejoicings, ministry of mercy
spreading happiness along the way, a shadow over
ind sin. rhe night brings
rest from life’s daily toil, but factories, planis,
railroads know no rest. 1 looked today into the
wide-open eyes of a nine-weeks-old babe held by
a mother's arm to a mother’s heart. The babe
looked at me with those wide-open eyes and
smiled. An infant but a few weeks in a troubled
world faces life with a smile. Coming down life's
highway through the years—has it warped your
soul? Go learn the lesson of life’s greater meaning
when a nine-weeks-old baby girl smiles for you.
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I saw him today — bowlegged and limping, 1
furrowed face and thinning locks, fat and well-fed. j
He is one of the last left in the city who was em
ployed as a street car motorman when trolley cars
served the public in the capital city. Street car
tracks and trolley lines have gone the way of the
horse and buggy. Now buses and taxis do the con- \
veying of citizens trom place-to-place. The ven
erable “has been” met with today went from i
running a street car to laying brick, and now lives
in peaceful retirement in a Lincoln suburban dis
trict.
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A dime was once a piece of money—
It would buy a pint of honey,
A sack of spuds, a pound of steak,
A loaf of bread, a whole big cake.
Bananas by the dozen for a dime,
Ten cents for a melon ripe and fine.
Now a dollar scarcely sees you through
Where a thin dime once would do.
But a dollar bill is yours today
For the job a dime was once your pay.
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Whom are we to believe? Out of the mouth
and imagination of some comes the story of total
abandonment of all churches in Russia. But one
gentleman of the cloth—and, of course we accept
the word of a churchman—says his church group
(we believe it is the kind Billy Graham counts
as his shrine of fellowship) counts a membership
of 3,000,000 Muscovites.
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Wall Street Journal: If drink drowns Khrush
chev’s career as the life of the communist party,
he should have no trouble forming a Moscow
chapter of the AA’s. The Russians are past mas
ters at making past politicians thoroughly anony
mous.
Editorial . . .
Soil Bank Checks This Month
Checks to farmers signed up in the acreage
reserve of the soil bank program will start going
out this month, Sen. Roman Hruska (R.-Nebr.)
said this week.
“The enthusiastic participation of the nation's
farmers—especially those in the midwest—dem
onstrates the soundness of this program,’’ Hruska
commented. He noted that more than 50 thousand
Nebraska farmers are eligible for 341/z-million
dollars for putting 1.6 million acres of corn and
wheat land into the acreage reserve.
“Nationwide,” said the senator, “12.3 million
acres will go into the acreage reserve. More than
540,000 farmers are eligible for 261-million-dollars
in acreage reserve payments.”
Hruska added that the limited operation of the
acreage reserve in 1956 has been especially valu
able to Nebraskans and other farmers who have
experienced drouth conditions during the late
summer. “This is not a relief program,” the sen
ator emphasized, “but acreage reserve payments
will provide many farmers some return on drouth
damaged acres."
Soil bank legislation, enacted late this spring,
authorizes such a program for basic crops over
a four-year period, through 1959. Each acreage
reserve agreement, however, covers the particular
crop for only one year at a time. For 1957, the
program is being made available early enough so
that most farmers should be able to make their
plans before planting.
The acreage reserve program now available
for participation by farmers for their 1957 winter
wheat crop is the second of four such programs
authorized for wheat and the other “basic” crops,
according to Harry E. Ressel, chairman of the
Holt county agricultural stabilization and conser
vation committee. Winter weat growers who wish
to take part in the 1957 program should call at
the county ASC office and sign an agreement.
Mrs. David Stannard
The death last week of Mrs. David (Margaret)
Stannard, 88, a member of the homesteading Burke
* family and the widow of a pioneer merchant,
closed the book of life for one of the few remain
ing oldtimers of our city.
Mrs. Stannard’s life was long, colorful and
useful, and there are several generations of O’
Neillites who forever will be grateful for her kind
ness and understanding in matters large and
small.
The sidewalk past the Stannard store has
been a beaten path for school children for manv
years. Countless have been the occasions when this
little lady befriended school-bound or home
bound children with an extra mitten or an over
shoe, a buttoning of the coat. Her warmth of per
sonality and friendliness made her store a popu
lar stopping place to-and-fro on a blustery day.
^ In a broader sense, Mrs. Stannard, a keen
judge of people, ofttimes extended credit for food
stuffs at periods when she knew the cupboard at
that home was baren.
She directed American Red Cross and federal
government relief affairs (distribution of flour,
etc.) during the “terrible thirties.” Until her de
clining years she was active in community affairs.
She had come to Holt as an early teenage girl
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and endured pioneer life, which was quite differ
ent from the bourgeois life of an older, much larg
er Minnesota community. She married young, be
come the mother of 10 children (two of whom
died in infancy), reared four sons and four daugh
ters, and aided in no small measure her husband
in business. For 72 years the Stannards have paid
taxes on the building which now houses the Star.
nard store. After Mr. Stannard’s death in 1931 she
carried on in business and in the rearing of the
family, and accelerated her interest in business
and civic affairs.
Tired, old and frail, last week she died.
As one member of her family stated it: “A
beautiful life, a beautiful death.”
Those Railroad Land Grants
Certain hoary old legends never die — even
though there is little or no truth in them. Into such
a category falls the charge that the railroads were
lavishly subsidized in their early days through
government land grants.
The charge was repeated the other day by a
letter-writer to the Chicago Tribune. Shortly af
terward, H. M. Sims of the Association of Western
Railways replied with a letter of his own in which
he stated the facts. Here they are:
Less than eight percent of our railroad mile
age was built with land grants — and the land,
prior to the coming of the railroads, had been of
extremely modest value, $1.25 to $1.50 an acre.
Even so, this land was far from a gift. In re
turn, the railroads agreed to carry government,
freight and passengers at greatly reduced rates.
Railroads which had not received land grants still
had to extend land grant rates to the government,
or go without government business. A congression
al committee, in 1954, reported that the railroads
thus had contributed over $900 million in payment
for the lands transferred to them — which was
many times the value of the lands at the time of
transfer.
Lastly, as Mr. Sims stated, “The permanent
values created by the railroad construction which
was encouraged by land grants undoubtedly far
exceed that of any similar project in American
history."
So much for that old legend—
It’s a smart child who understands her
parents.
MI»e Frontier
CARROLL W. STEWART, Ekiitor and Publisher
ARTHUR J. NOECKER and ESTHER M. ASHER,
Associate Publishers
Entered at the postoffice In O’Neill, Holt coun
ty, Nebraska, as second-class mail mSitter under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This news
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Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,559 (Mar. 31, 1958)
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When You and 1 Were Young . . .
Japanese Setting
for Dickson Party
12 Holt Gals Enter
Competition
50 Years Ago
Following is a list of young la
dies who have entered the Fron
tier - Nebraska Farmer contest:
Ella Gaffney of Emmet, Pearl
Robinson and Ethel Fleming of
Atkinson; Katie Gallagher of
Page and Ilene Cain, Mary Hunt.
Lila Jones. Ruth Hamish, Bessie
Dillon, Margaret Sullivan, Hazel
Harrington and May Campbell,
all of O’Neill. . . R. R. and Mrs.
Dickson entertained 50 of their
friends. It was one of the pret
tiest and most enjoyable social
events of the season. Japanese
lantern*, fans and streamers were
used as decorations.
20 Years Ago
Frederick C. Gatz, 84, an old
settler, died after a very short
illness. . . A. T. Crumly, living
about 10 miles east of O’Neill,
harvested over 4,100 bushels of
rye from 410 acres, but other
crops are about a failure for him.
They marketed a truck load of
rye at Orchard the first of the
week at 95 cents a bushel. The
load brought $210. . . Francis
Bejzcr, 11, of Opportunity suffer
ed cuts received when he fell
m a com binder.
10 Years Ago
Julius D. Cronin attended a re
union at Ft. Wayne, Ind., of for-!
mer members of the 137th Aevo
squadron of World War I fame.!
. . . John T. Biglin, 61, of Hast
ings, who was born here, died
following a heart attack. . . Sev
eral hay stacks were destroyed
on the Mike Troshynski farm at j
Opportunity. . . Velda Gallagher I
and George Winkler, Helen Toy
and Leslie A. Grim and Estelle
McNichols and Wallace J. O’Con- j
nell were married. . . Among;
those attending the Barnum and
Railey circus at Norfolk were
Mrs. Don Enright and children, j
Mrs. Clyde Elkins and children
and Mrs. H. L. Lindberg.
One Year Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Casper Larson ofj
Ewing celebrated their golden *
wedding anniversary. , . Most
Rev. Gerald T. Bergan, arcrbish
op of the Omaha diocese, offici
ated at the dedication of the new
St. Joseph’s Catholic church in
Atkinson. . . Little Mary Etta
Geary was born at the home of
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Maden Funk of Ewing. Her moth
er was being taken to the hospi
tal by her dad, Robert E. Geary,
v'hen Mr. Stork intervened. . . «
Clyde Streeter has an egg-laying p
hen that has recently developed (
into a rooster. (
REGIONAL DEATHS
Harlan C. Tingle
NELIGH — Funeral services 1
were held for Harlan C. Tingle, *
31, who died in an Omaha hos- £
pital. He was born at Gregory, '
S.D., February 17, 1925, was *
graduated from Neligh high r
school in 1943, and spent three €
years in the air force. Survivots J
include: Widow — the former r
Genevieve Kelly of Winfield, c
Kans.; mother—Mrs. A. A. Tingle I
of Omaha; brothers—Bert of St. ®
Paul, Minn., Robert of O’Neill f
and Donald of Neligh. c
Inspect Machine Gun
Inspecting a 30-calibre machine gun are Midn./2e: Joel D. El
lermeier (left), son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ellertjieier of Spen
cer, and Malvern K. Scagren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Sea
gren of Wausa. Seven hundred naval reserve officer training corps
midshipmen received amphibious warfare training at the Little
Creek amphibious base, Norfolk, Va., August 1 to 23. The training
emphasized the teamwork necessary in amphibious operations and
practical knowledge of the equipment and weapons used in the
assault.
Three Generations in Aircraft Factory
Three generations of one family total over 19 years of service
in the West coast plant for Lockheed aircraft. They arc Mrs. Ade
line Sporn, material control clerk, who began work in the aircraft
industry five years ago; her son, Richard Bowden, lead man in
the receiving department, a veteran of 14 years with Lockheed,
and Stephen Bowden, Richard’s 18-year-old son, a fabrication
helper. All three were born in O’Neill and S. E. Hicks is father,
grandfather and great-grandfather. The trio represents the only
three generation group at Lockheed. “We all got our jobs inde
pendently,” says Mrs. Sporn, who regularly reads The Frontier.
“Dick went to Lockheed first. I went to'work there after my hus
band died and without telling Dick my plans. And Stephen got his
job without any assistance from his dad and I didn’t learn about
it until weeks later.” Mrs. Sporn has another son in the marines,
who, likewise, says he is headed for Lockeed.
I ilden Park Scene
of Family Gathering
A family gathering was held
unday, Adgust 26, at the Tilden
ark. Those attending were Mrs.
>na Price of San Francisco,
lalif.; Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bro
an and family of Lincoln; Mrs.
mna Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
iam Totterhoff and Mr. and Mrs.
.loyd Petersen and family, all of
rorfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ap
leby and Dick, Janice Asher,
lex Krugman, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
irugman and family, all of O’
reill; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ash
r and son, Mr. and Mrs. Don
hssen and family, all of Page;
Ir. and Mrs. Robert Lee of Sioux
lity; Fred Chase, Mrs. Adelia
‘rice and daughters, Mr. and
Irs. Pete Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs.
loy Tubbs, Ralph and Marie, all
f Clearwater; Mr. and Mrs. Arlo
Wulf and Cindy of Pierce; Mr.
and Mrs. Oral Tubbs and Stevie
of Tilden.
Visit Denver—
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Johnson
and sons left Friday for Denver,
Colo., where they will visit the'r
daughter. Miss Lynette, also tne
Misses Verle Ralya and Sharon
Hancock, formerly of O’Neill.
The three young ladies are em
ployed in Denver and share an
apartment.
Paul Shierk
INSURANCE AGENCY
O'NEILL, NEBR.
Insurance of All !
Kinds
Elsworth \Vales
Family Visit* Venus
VENUS — Mr. and Mrs. Els
worth Wales and son, Larry, ot
Minneapolis, Minn., recently vis
ited with old acquaintances in
this vicinity. They calk'd at the
Cecil Moser and Lyle Davis,
homes.
Mr. Wales resided here with
his parents about 18 years ago.
His parents are no\\* living in
Oregon.
Other Venus News
Fred Uhlir and Franklin calico
at the Ralph Brookhouser home
Friday.
Spending a week recently with
their uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. ’Gordon Hamilton, and sons
and their grandmother. Mrs. Ag
nes Hamilton, were Charlotte,
Shirley and Bobby llalsted, all of
Bassett.
Mrs. Ottie Mitteis, Mrs. Albert
Boelter and Mrs. Gerald Waring
wi re busy preparing an apart
ment at Orchard for their chil
dren who are attending the Or
chard high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Ora Caskey and I
sons visited at the Johnson Cas
key home at Bassett on Sunday,
August 26.
Arthur Von Seggern has been
carrying mail while Lester Raff,
the Orchard rural mail carrier, is
\ acationing.
Boettcher Infant
Dies After Surgery
SPENCER — Funeral service;
for Elise Elaine Boettcher, infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert I
Boettcher of Butte, were con
ducted Monday afternoon, Sep
tember 3, from Immanuel Lu
theran church here. Burial was
in the Lutheran cemetery north
of Spencer with Rev. J. Rath of
ficiating. I
The child was born August 12,
in Sacrqsk Heart hospital at
Lynch, was baptised August 17,
submitted to surgery August 23
in Our Lady of Lourdes hospital
at Norfolk, and died Thursday,
August 31, having been in failing
health since birth.
Survivors include : Parents;
brother—Robert William; grand
father — Wilhelm Boettcher of
Butte.
O'NEILL LOCALS
Dr. W. F. Finley will depot t
Friday f<* Philadelphia, Pa., I
where he will visit for two
weeks.
Sr. M. Laurissa, who is on a
two-year leave from St. Mary’s
academy, Friday arrived in Na
I
plea, Italy, aboard the SS Inde
pendence and was to proceed to
Rome where she will study for
two years. Her sister, Mrs. Ed
ward Johnson of Omaha, was a
weekend visitor in O’Neill.
ROYAL THEATER
— O’NEILL, NF.BR. —
Tburs. Sept. 6
Family Night
Jack Palance, Barbara Rush in
KISS OF FIRE
Co-starring Rex Reason, Mar
tha liver, with Alan Reed, Leslie
Bradley. Print by Technicolor.
The story of El Tigre . . . the
outcast . . . who cut a blazing
swath across the savage Coman
che frontier ... to seize the love
of a spitfire beauty.
Family admitted fur 2 adult tick -
ets: adults 50c: children 12c
Fri.-Sat. Sept. 7-8
There’s tio place to hide—in the
NAKED DAWN
Starring Arthur Kennedy, Bet
ta St. John, with Eugene Iglesias,
Charhta, In every shadow — a
waiting gun and every moment
the fury mounts!
Adults 50c; children 12c; matine
Sat. 2:30. All children under 12
Ircc when accompanied by parent
sun.-Mon.-Tues. Sept. 9-10-11
Warner Bros, present Alan Ladd,
Rossana Podesta
SANTIAGO
Color by Warner Color. Also
starring Lloyd Nolan and Chill
Wills. This was the jungle of no
rcturn — and now there was no
turning back! He was “Cash”
Adams. He ran guns and, in the
tight spots, used them. He could
imell money a thousand miles
away—but this time he’d need a
thousand lives to get it!
Adults 50c; children 12c; matine
Sun. 2:30. All children under 12
ice when accompanied by parent
Money to Loan
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