Prairieland Talk
Man Beckoned Outdoors
B? RO.WAIVE SAUNDERS, 4110 Sooth 51st St, Lincoln 6. Ncbr.
LINCOLN—Pioneer park, some 640 acres of
Iree-covered hills, valley stretches and water
ways, at the weekend was the rendezvous of the
human population of the capital city, Lancaster
county also contributing a sprinkling of onlookers
where deer and antelope play, where the buffalo
roam and webfooted feathered creatures paddle
about in the water. Toddlers ~~W
Just learning to walk, child
ren, youth, ladies and gents
In full spring bloom and the
hoary heads—all inspired by
the primitive instinct in man
that beckons to the outdoors.
The day was bathed in
sunlight poured forth from
from the bright blue above.
Not yet in full floral glory
but down the long avenues
of stately cedars and pines
came the fragrance of burst- Komaine
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ing buds.
Prairieland Talker was with three friends
as we rolled along in just one of a thousand or
more cars among trees, bushes and open spaces
where animal life is seen at close range. 1 hat
park in the long ago was the camping ground uf
a delegation looking for the proper place to lo
cate the capital city of Nebraska. T his is it! And
human hands pointed to the open country to the
northeast where Lincoln now is.
From the park, we drove some 11 miles west
of the city where a farm home had been visited
by the cyclone that toer up the town of Milford
Just four more of the scores of curious folks out
to see the rubble that once had composed the farm
buildings, the effective evidence of what forces
of nature can do. The house, twisted and dam
aged, still stands, bams and sheds wrecked. No
one there at the time the cyclone hit was injured.
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It haa been written up as a tornado. What
sucked a path through five counties and demol
ished Milford was a cyclone, not a tornado. In
the great plains region tornados come as a
straight blow out of the northwest, as pioneers of
Holt county, if any survive, well know. About
every pioneer family out on the prairie provided
themselves with an outside “storm cave, and
when that sinister cloud rose majestically above
the northwest rim of earth, pa, ma an dthe kids
ducked into storm shelter, remained there until
the blow was over and maybe all night. When
a head bobbed up out of the cave the homestead
er might see his house still standing where he left
it or a half mile away. No civil defense to come
to the rescue nor have I read of any taking over
*t Milford While tornados on prairieland come
eut of the northwest, cyclones come up in the
southwest as pioneers understood it, maybe dic
tionaries say differently.
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On lines hung out to dry today are family
washings. There hangs the two legs of toiling
dad's overalls, sheets and linens white, things
when worn are out of sight and hanging just be
side them I see some ladies’ shapely stockings. The
bashings on the line is a reminder of the days
when cowboys came loaping into O’Neill and if a
washing was on the line hung out to dry a reck
less booted and spurred guy pulled out his six
shooter blazed away and down it came into the
dirt, the housewife’s days work. It was a quarrel
over just that bit of cowboy fun that made Billy
Reed shoot and kill Sheriff Barney Kearns.
The dainty yellow bloom of the despised dan
delion is the first to add a touch of bright color
as spring comes around again. . . The citizens of
storm tossed Milford have found that the milk of
human sympathy has been expressed in some
thing more than words. One of the most outstand
ing examples of helpful acts following this dis
aster was that of an 8-year-old Lincoln girl who
could not go and take a helping hand 20 miles but
added her weekly allowance of 35 cents to the
fund raised for the disaster victims, accompanied
by a sympathic childish letter . . . Word from
Washington is that soon our former governor,
Val Peterson, sets sail for Copenhagen to repre
sent us at the Danish diplomatic table. Who wrill
| take over civil defense was not announced by
May 1.
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Lincoln has an air base. Restless gents out
there under restrictions that suppress the human
instinct to cut loose, they walk the streets of the
city on their day off from base duties. Those hu
man instincts burst forth, smash up something.
So city courts where fines are imposed are en
riched. Two gents yesterday w'ith confined ener
gies that exploded in a window smashing spree
tossed in one hundred dollar each in fines. The
young fellows at the military camps throughout
the country are not exactly the Sunday-school
type of citizen, and while “away on leave" pent
up energies sometimes explode in acts of law
lessness, inspired in many cases by too many
gurgles of fire water.
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The hardy sons of the soil take the steering
wheel today, drive to the city in haste, drop a
coin in a parking meter, look the shops and
crowds over, pay $1.25 for a chicken dinner, go
to the afternoon movie, back to the farm for the
night. Tyler Striven drove up from the South
Fork 70 years ago with team and wagon, tied his
horse to the wagon in the alley by Barnett’s
lumber yard, did his two bit trading at Mann’s or
Sullivans, got a dimes worth of crackers and
cheese, went to his wagon to give his horse a few
ears of com, sat down on the spring seat and ate
his dinner of crackers and cheese. And the alley
was lined with others like him.
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As a neighbor lady of the higher educa
tional group sees it the Irish, the English, the
Germans and the Missourians are at the head of
the class in about everything human. Maybe
so, but it takes Nebraskans to run a great prai
rie state free from bonded indebtedness.
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Down in Boone county officials have had
pity on tax-burdened citizens of the county with
the result of much unpaid taxes. Now a grand
jury comes into the picture to deal with the neg
lectful officials, with a lawyer imported from
Platte county to “prosecute”. When Sheriff Pete
Duffy some 25 years ago was handed a bunch of
delinquent taxes to garner in, he would dig down
in his own jocket rather than cause an impover
ished Holt county citizen any trouble.
• • •
Jay Roblyer, who died April 24 at a hospit
al in Neligh. where he and Mrs. Roblyer had
made their home the past 14 years, was a for
mer citizen of Holt county, at one time in busi
ness in Amelia, moving from there to a farm
in Swan precinct and later to the Atkinson
community. Mr. Roblyer was 76 years of age.
Editorial
Word Speeding Overworked
Several state legislatures, including Nebraska’s,
have been considering the speed laws.
In our state the present limits are 60-miles
per-hour by day and 50 by night These limits
would be increased to 65 by day and 5,i by night
Excessive speed is blamed for a dispropoi 1 lon
ate share of the accidents in the minds of some
persons, who pull their hair at the suggestion of
abandoning the model T limits and adjusting them
to modern roads and modern machines.
Iowa made a survey in 1955 of 54,877 reported
accidents. This report from a state, where the
limit has since been fixed higher than Nebraska s,
is surprising because speed was 10th on the list of
highway accident causes. Consider, too, that the
auto and civil populations are denser there than in
Nebrska’s open spaces.
While speed was listed as 10th as accident
causes, percentage-wise it was officially responsibh
for approximately one-fiftieth of the 54,877 acci
dents.
The Iowa report, in brief, follows:
1. Failure to yield right of way 7,317
2. Following too closely 6,159
3. Improper start from parked position 5,861 #
4. Icy or wet roads 5,584
5 Vehicle not under control 4,558
«, Improper left turn _ ... .— 3-439
7, Improper passing 3>391
8, Failure to stop at stop sign 2,504
9, Wrong side of road (not in passing) 2,250
t0. Speed 1,508
11. Pedestrian carelessness - M88
12. Improper right turn — i>152
13. Illegal parking l*109
14. Driver carelessness -— 1,047
Commenting on me same subject, cm uu
lie Pierce County (Nebr.) Leader said:
“The- word speeding is being overworked and
abused. An accident occurs and immediately some
one asks: 'Who was going too fast?’ ”
Automobile operators (not truck operators) are
hailed into court most frequently for speeding vi
olations. Why? Because it is the easiest violation
to check.
Following another vehicle too closely is more
dangerous; passing on a hill is terrible, but the run
of-the mill violators are hailed into court for
speeding.
In addition, law enforcement officers use a
crutch—the radar eye—to intensify their campaign
against speed.
If the Iowa study is true (and it was obtained
from insurance reports) then the speed limit on Ne
braska's open highways should be raised.
The days of right angle turns and model T’s
are over and, after all, that’s when the present
limits were fixed.
However, increasing the limit will make the
highways more hazardous in the sense that indeci
sive drivers and old flivvers will have to be con
tended with.
That leads us up to a point which Isn’t cover
ed in the voluminous statistics:
Aren’t most accidents caused by bad judge
ment?
Hospital*—Dramatic Progress
It’s national hospital week, May 12-18.
Probably no other national week, set aside for
this purpose or that, has more significance or more
realistic meaning for the average resident than
does national hospital week.
In our own area the past decade has witness
ed the erection of the fine medical center here—the
half-million-dollar St. Anthony’s hospital; in near
by Atkinson a hospital was erected and since ex
panded; Creighton has a new hospital; Sacred
Heart hospital at Lynch, the “grandfather” of
healing institutions in this immediate area, has
been expanded; Neligh now boasts a fine modern
hospital.
Probably in no other field has progress been
so dramatic in the post-war era.
National hospital week is a good occasion to
take stock of the facilities we have, to pass along
a grateful thank-you to the persons who have made
these hospitals possible, to appreciate those who
today are maintaining these mercy missions.
Most families in our own community have, at
one time or another, had a loved one in St. An
thony’s hospital. None can refuse that many lives
have been lengthened, much suffering has been al
leviated, much compassions has been shown.
Healing is a high calling. Few can qualify for
the rigid requirements.
During national hospital week let us offer a
special prayer of gratitude for (a) the institutions
and the facilities; (b) the hospital staffs.
In a very essential and vital way they help to
make our region a better place in which to live.
We have long admired the people of Norway
and now again we have occasion to compliment
them. Russia turned their worldwire propaganda
on Norway trying to scare them as Russia has scar
ed so many countries of late. But the Norwegian
ambassador delivered a note to Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bulganin advising him in “friendly but
firm terms” that Norway’s defense arrangements
are none of Russia’s business.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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When You & I Were Young . . .
Stannard Buys
3 Colts to Train
Will Work Them Out
on Track Here
50 Years Ago
M. M. Stannard received three
two-year-old colts, which he will
train on the track here. They are
owned by Charles Jenkins and
Doctor Hall of Clearwater. . . Mr.
and Mrs. F. B. Cole and his broth
er. N. V. Cole of Michigan City,
Ind.. visited with Charles Cole and
family for a few days. . . Peter
McMonigal departed for New
York and Ireland. He expects
to be gone all summer. , . .
M. J. Miller, living 10 miles
southeast of town said that six
years ago he bought a quarter sec
tion for $1,700. Two months ago
he sold it to Supervisor C. D.
Keyes for $3,700. . , Goven Disney
and Minnie Major, both of Cham
bers, were married. Marriage li
censes were issued to Ernest E.
Wilson of Redbird and Ethel El
liott of Dorsey; Charles Barnum
and Hattie Doherty, both of
Chambers. . . Lawrence Casey,
94, died at his home in Shields
township. He was born in Ireland.
20 Y’ears Ago
M. F. Norton celebrated his 90th
birthday anniversary. Mrs. Min
nie Bowen gave him a large birth
day cake. . . Jack Kersenbroek,
the 15-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Kersenbroek, who acci
dently cut his right leg above the
knee with a hatchet, was taken by
ambulance to a Lincoln hospital
after a specialist from Lincoln
rushed here when the boy’s con
dition became very bad. He is
expected to recover.
10 Y’ears Ago
Mrs. Helen Simar has sold her
Apparel Shop to W. A. Doering of
Albion. . . Robert A. Golden of
Stockton, Calif., born in O’Neill,
was killed in an airplane crash.
. . . Miss Joyce Urban and Donald
Payder were married at Ewing
... A feature of the junior-senior
banquet of O’Neill high was “Saga
of Little Nell”. The WSCS served
the banquet.
One Y'ear Ago
Members of the Casper Winkler
family held a reunion—the first
in 11 years. . . Deaths: Miss Mary
Ellen (Mamie) Shoemaker, 82; A.
N. Butler, formerly of Inman, at
Independence, Mo.; Bror Beng
ston, 68, of Eugene, Ore., formerly
of Page; Mrs. Tillie Tower, 78,
former Atkinson resident, at Min
neapolis, Minn.; Mrs. Anna M.
Clark, 87, of Inman; Mrs. Mamie
Sammons, 69, of Amelia; Mrs.
Laura Yarges, 85, of Stuart. . .
S/Sgt. Larry Minton was dis
charged. . . Miss Virginia Thiele
of Elgin and Leland Anson of O’
Neill were married.
Herbert Stenger, 44,
Killed in Crash
LYNCH—Mike Stenger received
word that his nephew, Herbert
Stenger, 44, of Peoria, 111., was
killed in a two-car accident re
cently.
Herbert has visited the Stenger
family here a number of times.
Dorsey News
Sgt. and Mrs. Vernon Oleson
and son, Neil, arrived Saturday
morning from Ft. Leonard Wood,
Mo., to visit with relatives a few
days before leaving for a visit
with other relatives on the West
coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carson
and the Carson sisters were
Thursday evening dinner guests at
the Mrs. Myrtle Pickering home.
Claranna and June Carson and
Marilyn Graham and Ruth Os
born helped with the entertain
ment at Ash Grove Friday night.
There was a “very good atten
dance.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Wells and
Susan visited at the Howard
Slack home Sunday.
Thomas Hiscock returned home
from Oregon on Saturday, after
having attended the funeral of his
nieces.
Stelling Gets
Basic Training—
ORCHARD—Pvt. Richard E.
Stelling, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry C. Stelling of Orchard, is
receiving basic combat training
with the fourth infantry division
at Ft. Lewis, Wash.
Stelling was graduated from
Orchard high school in 1952.
To Randall—
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nelson
and family and Mr. and Mrs. El
gin Ray and Mary were at Ft.
Randall Sunday.
Visit Here—
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Miles of
Chambers visited Mr. and Mrs,
Charles F. Nutter and family
j Sunday. •
Annual May Affair
Held at Page
PAGE— A flower garden was
the setting for the May breakfast,
an annual affair, held at the par
lors of the Methodist church Sat
urday morning at 9:30 o'clock.
The garden was centered with
a pool. The breakfast tables cir
cled the garden.
Mrs. Lisle Mewmaw, as master
of ceremonies, invited her guests
into the garden to the accompani
ment of garden music.
"Thanks” to the Great Gardner
was expressed in song. The pro
gram reading ‘‘Johnny Jump-ups”
was translated into group singing
led by Mrs. Merwyn French, jr.
"Bugs and Insects” introduced a
skit in which Mrs. Hattie Carson.
as Father Time, was assisted by
Mesdames Harold Kelly. Elmer
Trowbridge. Arnold Stewart, C. P.
Leach. I. O. Wood and Mewmaw.
Mrs. Lou Heiss and Mrs. A. O.
Weber were responsible for a
I "backward” musical number.
Mrs. Herbert Steinberg gave a
reading “I’m So Sensitive". Mrs.
Elmer Trow'bridge, president of
the WSCS, and Mrs. Ivan Heiss,
president of the King’s Daughters,
I presentted reports on progress
made during the past year in their
| respective socities.
Mrs. Kay isnell and Mrs. Cordes
Walker sang a duet, “Grand
mother’s Garden.” The devotions,
“How Does Your Garden Grow,”
were given by Mrs. Raymond
Heiss. Mrs. Merwyn French, jr.,
sang a solo, “ In my Garden."
Mrs. Mewmaw presented a pa
per written by her mother’ Mrs.
Clem Haworth of Donnelson, 111.,
on “Gardens of the Bible.”
The favors were small packets
of flower seed and the place cards
were minature baskets of flowers
wdth the flower stems concealing
the program numbers inscribed on
the s/tems.
The back of the basket gave the
| breakfast menu.
Accompanists for the musical
numbers were Mesdames Tom
Knudsen, Merwyn French, jr., and
Mrs. Mewmaw.
Chairman of the social relations
committee in charge of the kitch
en and serving arrangements wras
Mrs. Harold Heiss.
Menu for the breakfast was:
Sunflower on toast (creamed
j chicken on toast with egg yolk
center), beet flowerettes (beet
pickles), fruit blossoms (jelly),
cinnamon rose (rolls), garden
liquid (coffee).
The program was concluded
with the singing of “The Lord’s
| Prayer” in unison.
Frontier for printing.
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Haselhorsts Leave
on Western Trip
LYNCH—Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Haselhorst left Friday, May 3, for
a month’s sight-seeing and visit
ing trip.
They stopped in O’Neill and
called on their son, Melvin, and
family, then left for Sidney where
they will visit, their daughter,
Mrs. Herbert Rossmeier and fam
ily.
Their trip was then to be con
tinued to Navato, Calif., where
I they plan to visit their son. Del
bert, and family. Delbert is sta
tioned with the air force at that
place.
They also plan to visit relatives
in Washington, Oregon and Mon
tana before returning home.
Other Lynch New*
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bryan and
their daughter, Mrs, R. P. Berry,
all of Lucedale, Miss., came Wed
nesday, May 1 to visit Mrs. Bry
an’s sister, Mrs. Bill Stoufer, and
husband. They all visited the two
women’s brother in a Hot Springs,
S. D., hospital. They also visited
a brother in Rapid City, S. D.,
during the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sixta are |
in Minnesota looking after land
interests there.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Davy en
tertained Mr. and Mrs. Veldon
Lee and family at dinner Sunday,
April 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Havranek
of Humboldt, la., came Saturday,
April 28. for several days’ visit
with friends and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pinkerman
of O’Neill were Lynch visitors
Saturday, April 28.
Miss Margaret Stenger, Mrs.
Martin Jehorek and Mrs. Albert
Kalkowkki visited Mrs. Don Allen
Tuesday, April 30.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Haselhorst
and family of O’Neill, Mr. and
Mrs. Dale Audiss of Anoka. Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Streit and fam
ily, Mr. and Mrs. Lorie Micanek
and Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Moody
and family were Sunday, April 29,
dinner guests at the parental C. L.
Haselhorst home.
Several from Lynch attended
the Bill Chesak funeral at Spen
i cer on Tuesday, April 30.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Vomacka
and baby of Gregory. S. D., spent
Sunday, April 29, at the Martin
Jehorek home.
Mr and Mrs. Glen Davy ^>ent
Sunday evening, April 29, at the
Ed Johns home.
Francis Stenger was a Sioux
City visitor Tuesday, April 30.
Mrs. Bill Spencer entertained
nine ladies Thursday morning at
a "come just as you art* party."
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vonasek
and daughters of Verdel spent
Wednesday evening, May 1. at the
C. L. Haselhorst home.
Mr. and Mi's. Peter Mulhair
were in Sioux City on Wednesday*
May 1.
Visit Norfolk—
Mr. and Mrs, Rood R. Herley
and daughters were in Norfolk
Sunday visiting his brother and
wife, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Her
ley.
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Third Generation at the Wheel I
“Like father, like son”, the poets say.
And never was it truer than in the case of a
great many fine Cadillac families.
For there are, in our land today, a number of
families that currently boast as many as three
generations at the wheel.
We mention this simply to underscore a great
and dramatic truth about Cadillac — that, of
course, is its unchanging goodness and quality.
For fifty-five years, the Cadillac name has
signified one and the same thing to motorists
everywhere—a motor car created at the InJiest
level that automotive science would permit.
Over that time, Cadillac has attracted to the
ranks of its owners the finest list of names to be
found anywhere on the American motoring scene.
And, those who have followed the path to
Cadillac in 1957 are enjoying the most abundant
blessings of this ceaseless crusade for quality.
The new "car of cars”, with coachcraft by
Fleetwood, is l>eautiful and luxurious to an un
precedented degree. And its performance and
handling ease are a revelation 1
Certainly, the Cadillac car has now become an
even wiser investment for an even wider circle of
America’s motorists.
If you have yet to acquaint yourself with these
br illiant Cadillac vir tues for 1957, your dealer will
be delighted to tell you how easily you can make
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