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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1957)
Prairieland Talk Arbitrary Mandates Resented By ROMALVE SAUNDERS. 4110 Sooth 51st 8L. Lincoln «. Ncbr. LINCOLN It is now Nebraska School Im fro\ ement association, that “Small Schools” group *t a recent gathering in Grand Island deciding to thange the name of the organization they had been •orking with. Clyde W id man, living down near Amelia, was earned president of the association. If Clyde has the interest in community and state affairs his late father aad the school association which he hea<ls will accomp iab much. Uoyd Waldo of Amelia community was made one of the Ixrnrd at directors. Among other measures proposed at the Grand Island meeting, the association went on record favoring the elec tion of the administrative head of the state educational com mission, that functionary now Romalne being appointed by the com- Saunders mission members. Amelia taxpayers and those In like communities throughout the state resent the arbitrary mandates relating to high schools that have come from the statehouse in Lincoln. • • * Blue above, green beneath, this bright morn ing following a day of rain, hail and destructive tornadoes in spots here and there acoross prairie land As rain fell, hits of hail pattered the roofs and walls and frightened citizens imagined they saw the tail of a cyclone in the black, clouds neigh tiors took to the basement of the dwelling but came out unhurt by less than an inch of rain and a bit of hail. So this morning dawned on the clean washed community and the unclouded sun inarches across the open heavens. Lilacs have faded and then the hedge rows glow with a pack at gorgeous white bloom. The oak. the elm, the cottonwood, the weeping willow are In full leal and the silken robe of green covers the land. • • • Plaas are said to be now under way for a "space flight” IS miles heavenward. Have not beard of flights to the moon recently, maybe space explorers think they better see what it feels like up a few miles. There have been space flights, the first in human history when Enoch, the seventh feneration from Adam, was taken fro mearth to (leaven. Cenuries later an immortal hand reach fd down to a lonely tomb in Moabland, awakened ' Moses from the sleep of death, brought him forth to Sewness of life and escorted him heavenward. Elijah was the next, he taken from earth to heav- I *n in a flaming chariot. The next we are told will be one grand space flight out of a wrecked and ( •uined world to the pearly gates on high. • • • We have been once again to the alxxle of the dead, placed a flower where now lays the lifeless form of a once animated dear one, as out of the j Mists of the past comes memories that bring a ! ftnile or start the tear. Another memorial day | enrolled upon the scroll of time, another year has Written another wrinkle across the furrowed brow Of him out of whom the bloom of youth has faded. 3bme of us will not be among the living another memorial day, but somewhere yet out of sight the highway of time comes to an end, when an immor tal hand reaches down to the alxxle of the dead to bring them forth to newness of life. “The last enemy of man to he destroyed is death.” • • • Kentucky has been noted as the land of Dan iel Boone, the land of race horses and the dis tllerles pouring out “fire water”. But there Is la more "dry” territory down there than any other community, 100 counties prohibiting the ■ale of liquor. A brewery- at Sheboygan, Wise., comes up with a “teen brew," said to be a milder form of firewater to lure high school kids to the house bar. . . A Catholic bishop in Chicago calls upon the members of his church to refrain from work and shopping on Sunday. . . A friend tells me he spent about three hours as a spectator in the state legislative chamber a few' days ago and knows nothing of what went on because of the clouds of tobacco anokc that enveloped him due to the puffing and sucking at the paper-wrapped weed. He now favors “no smoking" signs at our state house. . , Sign noted outside a downtown sanc tuary: Church is not a rest camp; it is a front line trench. How would it be to get out of the trench and charge head-on to put the devil to plight? • • • Holt county's oldest citizen closed her eyes in death at the age of 105 years. Prairieland Talker had thought to go to Stuart on the next visit to Holt county to see Mrs. Axtell and learn some thing of the early history of the Dustin community at a time when my brother, Ezra. The Frontier’s first printer, published the Dustin Dispatch. Mrs. Axtell came to Holt county with her parents in the long ago, a move advised by doctors at a time when medical treatment just meant “go west for your health.” Mrs. Axtell, a native of New York, "went west” and found health and adventure out where the buffalo roamed. Today Dac says, go to the hospital! • * * A group of doctors of that interesting land "down under” call upon the Australian govern ment to prohibit all smoking in public and gov ernment institutions, on the grounds that smoking "definitely contributes to lung cancer." Grand father smoked three pipes a day, one after each meal, and a chew of finecut between his toothless jaws the rest of the day; survived 87 years and passed out from grief over the drath of his life's companion. I am looking 87 in the face, doing alright without either pipe or finecut. Nicotine may be food for some, poison for others. At any rate it costs money. • • • <ieary Ames was confined In the Nebraska state prison at the age of 14, the youngest con vtst in Nebraska eriminal history. Convicted of manslaughter he served a term of 19 years and just paroled, coming from iN-hind prison walls an educated 33-year-old having studied and worked during 19 years to fit himself for life’s duties if and when released from prison. • • • It has not been an unheard of thing through the years to be approached for a handout by a beggar, and I sat yesterday in an auditorium just one lone spectator among a vast throng when a collection was taken with which to furnish life’s necessities to the homeless and hungry in foreign lands, maybe a supplement to Ike’s "foreign aid.” But I ran into a strange request when meeting a guy at a bus stop- he asked which was the best tree from which to cut a switch with which to whale his 14-year-old obstreperous kid at home. The willow was recommended, reviving memories of my own kid days. • • a A long train of army trucks rolled up 48th street in Lincoln a day last week loaded with sol diers and equipment from Ft. Riley, Kans., head ed north to a camp for the annual army maneuvers. Military forts disappeared from the Nebraska scene but the marks of the wagon trails moving soldiers from one fort to another are to he seen to- ' day in Holt county. Wagon trains of soldiers en route from a fort below Burvvell to Fort Randall made a trail across Holt county and is still to be seen in places in the southwest section of the j county. Editorial The Dave'Beck Mess 4 As far as the American public is concerned, congress can forget about Teamster President Dave Beck and the courts can go about their methodical business. Dave Beck's personal life is a mess, and in the eyes of American public he has already been tried and convicted. It is almost unbelieveable that a person of his tamper and basic disregard or disrespect for law, arder and personal morals should be able to get Into the position of prominence which he occupied. Yet he has done it—and the ease with which he and other labor loaders have abused their offices is In itself an accusataion. Why should people like that get to the fore front in labor organization? Such flagraant dis honesty very rarely appeal's in government. It practically never appears in business because the dishonest ones cannot possibly get that far with out being detected. Yet, in organized labor it oc «urs wtih frequency. This again points up to the fact that labor leadership has not grown in stature at the same fate at which the public has accepted organized labor as an American institution. Labor has been recognized in our bill of rights and in our congress. There are laws governing this vast business just as (here are laws governing management. The prin ciples of collective bargaining are as well known es possible today, and as completely accepted as any other phase erf our free life. But these unions have never been able to rid themselves of the dishonest, racketeering elements that governed organized labor in the days of its infancy. What is needed, of course, is a militant mem bership. No matter what Dave Beck has done, it will be worth it if his shocking story succeeds to stirring up union membership to the point where they wash their own dirty linen. Time Solves Most Problems It is surprising how time seems to take care *f most of life’s problem, the West Point Re publican philosophized last week, even though some of those problems seem to be insoluble at toe moment. Nevertheless, time is the greatest healer of ■11, and even the most melancholy turn of events can be softened, and even erased, by the passage of time. The Republican continues; • “We mention this because life today is a ireat strain in the fight for the happy’ dollar and the pace today Is one which has created tre mendous mental and psychological problems, as well as nervous disorders, frustrations and dis illusionment, in many “It Is a great consolation to realize that time will solve about 90 percent of your worries and, if you can keep this in mind, it will calm your emotions and improve your philosophy of life and your day-to-day performance. “The psychiatrists say the mind is a won derful instrument, which gradually blocks out unpleasant memories and experiences and heals j over wounds, in a beautiful fashion, given ade- I quate time.” Tornado Time Residents of the middlewest, Texas and parts of the South have been having more than their share of tornadoes. Although tornadoes occur at all times during the year, they come more often during the spring and early summer months. Tornadoes are as destructive as any of na ture's disasters, although they are confined to limit ed areas. Tornadoes are from a few hundred yards to a mile or mile and a half in diameter. They bounce up-and-down and travel for some miles, but their existence does not survive, as do many storms, to be traced from day to day by weather experts. Science has not yet found the answer to tor nadoes, although it is known that tornado eondi i tions exist when warm, moist air is topped by a j layer of cold, dry air. If this happens along an I occluded front, during the daytime, when win con ditions are right, tornadoes are most likely to form. Shelters for tornadoes, which are advisable in , ,some midwestern states, can be built at very little cost and often save lives. In states, such as Ne braska, Iowa and Kansas, tornadoes in large num bers occur every year, during several months of the year. 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 and I Were Young . 4 Persons Perish in Wunner’s Lake O n 1 y 2 Graduates i n O’Neill High Class 50 Years Ago Four persons were drowned in Wunner's lake, eight miles south east of Page. They are: Clinton Samson, 44; Morris Samson 20 months; Mrs. Blanche Tracy, 30. and Miss Alice 1 >rtmi. 20. ‘They all lived in the neighborhood four , miles northeast of Page . . . j Ben H. Woodruff and John P j McCarthy were the only gradu | ates at the O'Neill high school Charles Barrett and Miss i Celia Brady of Sioux City were j married in Jackson . . . Miss Mayme Coffey, who has been employed as a nurse at the Pres byterian hospital in Omaha, ar rived home for an extended visit Mrs. Ben Kinney and three children have measles. 20 Y'ears Ago Mrs. Catherine Matthews, a pioneer mother of 11 children, died . . . The Nimble Fingers Sewing club of Atkinson was or ganized with Mrs. Charles Deer mer of Atkinson as leader and Eva Osborn as assistant leader . . . Three bridges on Honey creek and four or five on the Eagle are out because of flash floods. 10 Years Ago Three inches of snow fell in a freakish storm . . . Tommy Kais er. 1 ^-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Art Kaiser of Amelia, is re covering from drinking kerosene and having pneumonia set in . . . Funeral services were held for Mrs. Elizabeth Keys and Fred Eppenbach . . . Harrison Belew and his bother, Julius, held a re union after not having seen each other for 30 years. Harrison and his wife and daughter arrived from Kalispell, Mont., to visit his brother in Chambers. One YTear Ago By a vote of 5-0, one member not voting, the city council voted to terminate the services of the seven striking members of the city employees . . . Mrs. J. M. Hodgkin of Chambers fell dow ! the basement stairs with a butch er knife in her hand and a blank et in the other hand. It was th fourth time in less than a yea j she was hospitalized . . Deaths ; Clarence V. Donohoe. father o 10 children; Earl Baker, 71, o Atkinson; John Wunner, 72, o Ewing. . . . Neighbors of Ken j neth Ellingson listed 123 acres I for him. Parkins Again Head of Concert Group Officers and directors of the O' Neill Community Concert assoc iation convened Sunday in i meeting with Mrs. Pauline Wals Ion of Kedfield. S. 1). Mrs. Wals ton ih midwest representative foi Community Concerts, Inc. Tentative plans for the '957-5! season wtre discussed. Officers elected were; F E Parkins, reelected president; John C. Watson, reelected vice president; Mrs. J. P. Brown, re elected vice-president in ehargt af memberships; W i 11 i a m ("Bill"* Miller, assistant mem bership chairman; John H. Me Carville, reelected publicity chairman. Member drive will be conducted in mid-September. Bl'KIAL IN OMAHA William P. Wagner, 55, of Oma ha was buried in Omaha Monday. His wife is the former Julia Fitz simmons of O'Neill. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, a daughter and a brother. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fox, who spent the winter in California and returned recently, attended a fam ily picnic at the George Bosn memorial day. : Chambers Blanks O’Neill Rockets f - The Chambers Towners nudged ■ *be O'Neill Rockets from the top rung of the North-Central base ball league ladder Sunday after noon by posting a 7-0 win on the Chambers diamond. Coach Fred Appleby’s Rockets outhit their opponents but couldn't punch across tallies in the pinches. Shorty Fauquier showed the wa> for the victors, getting a triple and a single in throe trips Lloyd Hilligas, losing pitcher, issued six walks Dick Tomlinson managed two hits in two trips for O’Neill. Ted Tomjack. Chambers catch er. was hurt by the ball at the 1 plate. He was taken to St. An thony's hospital where doctors treated the new injury and an old injury. Tomjack was told by his doc tors the old injury a pinch of a nerve in the head might have led to blindness if the hurt had not been detected. Summary; R H E Chambers 7 4 0 O’Neill 0 6 4 Batteries: Chambers Gerry Grimes and Ted Tomjack; O’Neill Lloyd Hilligas, Larry Heiss and Dick Tomlinson. O’Neill 7; Atkinson ■,» ATKINSON O'Neill fashioned a 7-2 win over the Atkinson Town ers Thursday night in North-Cen tral league play. Larry Heiss, chucking for O’Neill, set down 13 via the strikeout route. 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