Prairieland Talk ' Ph D Thesis Written About Holt B» ROM AINE 8AUVDF.R8. R«lr«l, Former Editor The Frontier LINCOLN—A teacher in the schools up at lias&ott has been writing Prairieland Talker for information about Holt county affairs and people A paper in Ainsworth published a story about the Kinkaid section homestead law in which a “Mr Harrington" was quoted as expres sing concern that the enlarged homestead from 160 to 640 acres would "pro duce an inn»h of people.” '0* ' %. I have been asked to dis- - i elite the name >»f this "Mr Harrington o f O’N e i 11." There were several of that name in this community, but my guess is it was M. F., who had been quoted. The tear nor is wTitlng a thesis to win her university degree, and Holt county is being dealt with in her scholastic literary work As Prairieland Knmaine Talker has added a bit to the Haunders Holt county portion of her prodetion, maybe a Hh D now’ awaits him. Who would have thought it seventy odd years ago as 1 stood by the hay burner in our humble homestead abide where the district school was held with my sire the teacher and read, “Give me of your bark O birch tree, of your yel low’ white skinned wrapped, and I a light canoe will build me, that will float upon the water like a yellow leaf in autumn, like a yellow water Illy " m m w King Saud, from out the ancient land of Ar abia where through the centuries Mohammedans have dropped to their knees at stated hours to mutter o’er a formal prayer, has visited us. No, not us out here on prairieland, but to look in Ara bian wonder at our national official and military dignitaries a few steps in from the Atlantic sea board He visited our noted naval academy but declined to step a consecrated Moslem foot in the academy's chapel as he is said to “abhor every thing Christian." His Arabian scruples did not stand in the way of eating the “Christian Yankee” grub served up. ,The King did not get to the open places out this way, but a half-century or more ago horsemen from his ancient land were a part of Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show that was organized and started out down at Columbus. Cody assembled riders from all sections of earth, humped up riders from Arabian deserts, from Russia, from Canada and from South America, together with our open range riders, the cowboys of whom Gen. Nelson A. Miles said were the best of ill horsemen. And do not the Americans ex cel at everything, even riding a horse? The December, ’56 number of the Nebraska History magazine came out two months late. Are the history stories no nearer the facts? * * ♦ Again there has reached out from high offi cial eminence an inexorable hand and turned the key that closes forever two more historic doors of the prairies of Holt county. Where now will go the bundles of The Frontier that for more than 70 years have gone week-by-week to Star and Dorsey? Will a ruthless hand in Washington spare us nothing that marks historic spots where treaured memories cluster? Which will be the next victim- Amelia, Emmet, Page? “Woodman, spare that tree; touch not a single bough!” According to a decision reached by the Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, Nebraska's outstand ing young guy in 1956 is a young business man here in the capital city. Another community claims the “top young farmer.” Prairieland may have many outstanding young men whose na tive modesty restrains them from seeking notice. I think of one such down there in Swan precinct in southwest Holt county. He is the third gener ation, taken to himself a life’s companion, mak ing his home and carrying on the affairs of the ranch that is yet the home of his father and grandfather. HLs father before him remained on the home place, married and reared a fine fam ily. The son has not been captivated by the glit ter and gloss he has seen in the crowded haunts of men but shapes his future course in the quiet security of a prairieland rancher where verdant velvet spreads a blanket across the landscape, as his sire and grandsire did. His name is Vernon Berry, son of Mr and Mrs. Howard Berry, * * * Frank Spindler, killed recently on the high way near Gordon, was a brother of Will H. Spindler, author of that charming story of ro mance and adventure, “Rim of the Sandhills,” in which the reader is taken in fancy to the wooded slopes anl green vales of northedn Holt county, a land replete in charm and historic interest where the author spent lus youthful days. Other liter ary works of Mr. Spindler includes “Tragedy Strikes at Wounded Knee,” the story of the kill ing of the Sioux chiefs, Sitting Bull, and the last of our Indian wars that followed, when 173 Sioux warriors were killed and three U S. troopers. Frank Spindler made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Will Spindler at Wounded Knee. • * * From somewhere out of the darkness this early morning came the plaintive note of a cow bawling. Maybe a truck with a bovine loaded aboard and headed for slaughter pens had stop ped while passing on the streets and the cow emotions, expressed in cow language, called to be let out of the truck in order that cloven hoofs could head back home. Or had a surburban city dweller had enough of handing out 30 cents for a pint bottle of “half-and-half,” or whole milk as it comes from the original source, and has in vested in a cow, the bovine not yet adjusted to strange surroundings bawls her protest. Anyway, the call of a cow this morning before daybreak touched this superanuated former prairie wolf with a throb of homesickness. * * * Have you written a letter to the Nebraska members of congress? Maybe they would like to hear from you; they receive only 125,000 letters annually. . . Mrs. Belle Mulligan of Falls City is retiring after 54 years work as a printer. . . A college bred lady I talked with today did not know that the Nebraska legislature is in session, and never heard of the battle of Wounded Knee that followed the killing of Chief Sitting Bull. . . . Statistical experts tell us the personal income of Americans for the year 195(5 totaled 325 billion dollars. Get your share? . . . Three jailbirds escaped at Nebraska City and left the state. Let 'em go. * * * It is never too soon to be kind, for we never know how soon it will be too late. E.d itorial We Spread Out; Others Draw In (The Chicago Tribune) One of the many unintelligible features of the Eisenhower “doctrine” for the middle east is that it commits the United States to large new military obligations at a time when critics are complaining about the effectiveness of the na tion’s military establishment and when other countries allied with us want to cut back their defenses, not add to them. For example, Mr. Eisenhower pursues his policy in the face of these recent developments: 1. Sen. Symington and other Democrats charged that the administration's defense policy was permitting American air and rocket power to “decline relatively as against the steadily glow ing striking capacity of the soviets.” While poli tics may color the judgement, this is not the only expression of concern on this score. 2. Britain is seeking the permission of its North Atlantic Treaty organization allies to re duce its contribution of 80,000 troops in Germany by some 30,000 men Prime Minister Macmillan plans to cut military expenditures at least 25 per cent. The British are seeking a large contract at American exriense to manufacture guided missies as a “contribution to NATO,” thus enabling them to convert to pushbottom methods of warfare, scrap much of their air force, further reduce mil itary man power, and end conscription. Defense Minister Sandys says that the draft will be abol ished as soon as it is practical to do so, while over here the selective service administrator, Gen. Hershey, is clamoring for the conscription even of 4-F’s and fathers. 3. Japan has snubbed American suggestions that next year’s military bulget be increased sub stantially. Premier Ishibashi refuses to go be yond a slight increase, bringing the military bud get to 280 million dollars, altho the United States agreed to pay half of any boost. Rejection of American proposals rules out a planned increase of 10,000 men in the land army Before Mr Eisenhower started to barge into the middle east with an offer to protect the whole area from Pakistan to the Sudan from soviet at tack, this country was already committed to the defense of 42 nations. But, the more we expand our obligations to protect others, the less they choose to do in their own behalf. We propose not only to shoulder the whole task in the middle east wdthout help, but allied assistance in other areas of potential trouble is constantly thinning out. As Sen. Mansfield remarked the other day. the exertions of the Eisenhower internationalists are only succeeding in reducing the nation to a condition of “isolated internationalism.” Horned Owls or Men? Game Conservation Officer Fred Salak of O’Neill, who doubles frequently as a traffic offi cer (by virtue of his deputy sheriff’s badge), late Friday arrested two young men near Inman. We contacted Mr. Salak at 9:10 a.m, Sat urday morning—a short time before our “Voice of The Frontier” radio program. Mr. Salak told us the names of the two men were “Joe Blow” and “Jim Blake" and that he encountered them “up-in-a-tree” near their park ed car. Salak said he was making a “routine patrol" when he sighted the car a half-mile north of Inman. He indicated the “Blow” and “Blake” handles were ficticious; however, we asked him to re peat twice on the “up-in-the tree” angle, and he did. On Saturday’s “Voice” we credited Mr. Salak with the arrests and with the “tree” version. However, after the program, we went to the courthouse. We interviewed (tape-recording) the youths themselves. They gave us their correct names, home addresses, discussed tying up a guard and escaping from the Ft. Carson, Colo-, stockade, and told of acquiring stolen property in a flight across Colorado, Nebraska and South Dakota. Our check into the matter revealed that Mr. Salak knew the names of his prisoners at the time he gave us the “Joe Blow” and “Jim Blake” version. Other news agencies, on the same story, said nothing about “Blow”, "Blake” or the “tree". It turns out the 1950 Mercury the two young men were driving was parked near some bushes. We have been handling general news for more than 20 years and never before have had a public official suppress or distort news, which is a very serious thing in our business. When the two young escapees—Allan Rogers of Isabelle, S. D., and Richard Whitehouse ofi Stillwater, Okla.—told us their story on tape, we were compelled to suggest (on the air) that Mr. Salak probably was seeing horned owls in a tree, not humans, and, as a game conservation officer he should be able to readily distinguish a dif ference. We had no choice but to present both sides of the story and permit the public to draw its own conclusions Perhaps Mr. Salak has been unhappy with The Frontier of late on other matters. Arthur J. Noecker, associate publisher, is secretary of the North-Central Nebraska Game Conservation as sociation (which counts over six hundred mem bers). That association has been somewhat crit ical of Mr. Salak’s performances, and, on one occasion, Mr. Salak was sitting in on a meeting. Asked by the chair if he (Salak) was a mem ber, the answer was "no”. Whereupon the chair asked Mr. Salak to leave. There’s a prominent O’Neill businessman who tends a cow. CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor 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 matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 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 » When You 4 I Were Young . , . I Phone Line Built West of Coburn’s Wearnes, Turners to Say ‘Hello* 50 Years Ago Frank Dishner returned from a trip to Texas. . . Newton Car son, who lives near Dorsey, was injured while felling trees near his home. . . George E. Hansen, one of the wealthy and oldtime farmers of the Blackbird country, has decided to sell out his farm, and retire. . A phone line is being built west from Mrs. Co-) burn’s. George Wearne. Fred Turner, R Bellinger, Charles J Keeler, Frank Ellis, and Mr. Obermier will soon say "hello" to *he rest of us. 20 Years Ago Deaths: Walter McDonough of Miami, Fla , formrely of O’Neill; Patrick J. Reddin, 79; Mrs. Mary Sageser, 93. . . A 64-pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ritts. . . Donald Stannard and i Miss Betty Branch will be mar ried Saturday 10 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hertel of Chambers celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. . . Miss Ardes Hansen of Venus was graduated from Immanuel hos pital school of nursing. One Year Ago Deaths: Mrs. Elenora Dempsey, 64, and M. H Horiskey, 73, both of O’Neill; Floyd E. Crawford, 79, of Redbird; Harley Everett, 57, of Atkinson. . . Pupils of Miss Lois Adams were dismissed for' 2 4 days when their teacher was, married to John Langan. . . j Mary Claire and James Gilg of Atkinson, sister and brother, won speech laurels for 4-H club members. . . Mr. and Mrs. A A. Alden of Ewing celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary quietly at their home. . . John L Bohn received a bachelor of science in education at the University of Nebraska. TB Seal Sales in Holt Are Increased The Nebaska Tuberculosis as sociation has released informa tion on the 1956 Christmas seal sale, revealing that the state to tal is $154,330.62, which is $16, 442.35 or 9.6% under the final figure for the 1955 sale of $170,772.97. Comparisons by counties in the O’Neill area: Jan 15 1956 1957 Final Holt $1,362.65 $1,190.15 ilovd 646.95 516 10 Rock 383.95 599.16 Antelope 849.70 800.85 Knox 1,389.65 1,690 00 Attend Capping Rite at Omaha Mr. and Mrs. James McNulty, Mrs. Will Grutsch, Miss Joanne Landsworth, Miss Karen Maho ney and Lonnie Langan drove to Omaha Sunday, February 10, to attend capping exercises at -St. Catherine’s hospital school of nursing. The Misses LaDonna McNulty and Barbara McCarthy were capped that day Miss I’latt on Dean's List— CHAMBERS — Miss Beverly Ann Platt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Platt of Chambers, has been named on the Bob Jones university dean’s list for the first semester of the 1956-’57 school year. This official list is composed of those students who made “A” or “B” averages dur ing the semester. Known around the globe as the world’s “most unusual uni versity,” Bob Jones university is a eo-educational, interdenomina tional, Christian institution which enrolls each year nearly 3,000 students. The student body this year includes representa tives from 47 states of the union and from 25 foreign countries. Miss Platt is a junior enrolled in the college of arts and science. Eight Guests Aid— Little Gregg Marcellus had a party Tuesday February 5, to celebrate his third birthday an niversary. It was held at the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs. Billie Marcellus. Eight little guests and their mothers were present DIVIDENDS on insured SAVINGS (current annual rate) First FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION SIOUX CITY, IOWA 511 Pierce St. ——————' ‘Good Turn Day’ Results Announced Goodwill Industries, Inc., of Sioux City has released the fol lowing results of the "good turn day’’ used clothing drive' con ducted by Boy Scouts m the Covered Wagon council: Bags Bags Perc't. Del. Col. Clearwater 107 112 104.7 Spencer 150 108 72.0 Virdigre 150 87 58.0 Creighton 392 225 57 3 Neligh 446 250 5C.0 Ewing 149 74 49.7 Page 75 33 4 1 0 O'Neill 678 296 13 6 Chambers 100 100 100.0 Kolm Family Moyes to Mertha Community— Mr. and Mrs. William Kolm and four children of Schuyler have moved into the farm vacat ed earlier in the winter by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Chipps and family, who have moved to the West coast. The oldest of the Kolm children attends high school in Chambers; three are attending Martha rural school. Dinner Hosts— Mr and Mrs. Duane McKay were hosts at a birthday dinner Sunday in honor of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harley of Chambers. Other guests were another daughter of the Harleys, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Struebing and family of Grand Island. MAKE MOVE Mr. and Mu. Kenneth C. .lur an and sons have moved to the I J. C Bazeiman dwelling. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon White have moved into the residence vacated by the Jurans. Bridge Club Meets— Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Liddy were hosts to the Bridge club Sunday evening. High winners were Laur ence Haynes for the men and Mrs. Haynes for the women. "Welcome Back"— Mrs. Edward M Gallagher was hostess to a “welcome back" tea Monday. February 11, to honor Mrs. W. J. Froelich, who had re turned from a Caribbean cruise. I llllllllllllINIlllllllllll 11111111IHIIIIIIIIII Pasture Hooded; Skating Party Held CELIA—Mr. and Mrs. Herman Meyer were hosts to 45 persons at an ice skating party at the f lovd Butterfield ranch. The Butterfields had spread water over a pasture, and the ice provided good skating. Among hose from the Celia community attending the party were Mr and Mrs. Joe Hend ricks and family, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Chaffin and family and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hendricks and family. Other Ceclia News Mrs, William Coleman and Mrs. Don Coleman and children of Thedford were Sunday after noon. February 10, visitors at the Victor Frickel home Mr. and Mrs Joe Hendricks and family were Sunday, Febru ary 10, dinner guests at the1 Kobert Lewis home. Other guests were his parents from Springview. Mrs. Louise Johns, Mrs. Bertha Gottsehalk of Silvercreek, Ore., and Mr .and Mrs. Fritz Naber were Friday, February 8, visitors at the Milton McKath nie home. Mrs. E W Snmms, Carla and Dickie of Wichita, Kans. Mr. and Mrs O. A. Hammerberg and Miss Dorothy Scott were Sunday, February 10, dinner and supper guests at the William Maloun home. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Beek and Sheryl were evening visitors and showed pictures they had taken. Arlin Hendricks celebrated his eighth birthday anniversary Friday, February 8, while at school. His mother brought icc cream and individual angel food cakes. Mr. and Mrs Mark Hendricks were Friday. February 8 visitors at the Leonard Chaffin home. The men worked with cattle. Notes 7th Birthday— Bonnie Williamson, daughter of Mr .and Mrs. Harold William son, celebrated her severiih birthday anniversary, Wednes day, January 30, at a party for 15 little guests. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll I llostf Year*— Mr anti Mrs Harry Graham celebrated their 26th wedding an niversary Sunday at a family din ner Among those attending were Don Graham and Miss Marge Nor man of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Kimball of Osmond, Mr. and Mrs David Maughan of Tild en. and Mr. and Mrs Phil Demjy sey and Mi's. Bob Cook. Try FRONTIER want ads! Never An After-Thirst SWITCH TO SQUIRT RANCH AUCTION I : * * * • _ if 3,320 ACRE ROCK COUNTY RANCH MONDAY, MARCH 4 1957 — 1 P. M. — On premises, located 1 3 miles south of » Bassett and 2J/2 miles west LEE ANDERSON & SONS — OWNERS — I THE LAND ft < 1,1 zU Acres of Hayland, Balance Range. I his is a well-balanced unit as to good •j quality hard grass and sand grass range : land. 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