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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
R H E
O'Neill _ 7 6 2
Atkinson 2 5 8
FOURTH STREET GARAGE
VIRGIL TOMLINSON, Ownt-r
SHOP WILL BE CLOSED
JUNE 7 thru JUNE 10
OPEN AGAIN TUESDAY, JUNE I I
THANK YOU!
Batteries: O’Neill Larry Heiss
ami Dick Tomlinson; Atkinson
Prtissa ami Hawthorne;
CENTER I MON (O'Neill)
Rev. C. P. Turner, pastor
Sunday, June 9: Sunday-school,
10 am.; preaering service, 11
a nt.; yousg peoples’ meeting. 8
pm.; preaching service follow
ing young peoples' meeting.
Wednesday, June 12: Prayer
meeting and Bible study will la'
held in the home of Mr and
Mrs. Clarence Ernst at 8 o’clock
Arriving This Week—
Mrs I Vm Berg and Children are
expected the last of this week
from Sterling, Colo . to spend a
couple weeks' vacation with her
mother. Mrs. W. J. Biglin. Mr.
Berg will arrive later.
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I Mr. anti Mrs. Leo Brill and
i Onla wore in Atkinson memorial
| da> to visit her parents, Mr. and
Mrs Louis Kirklaml.
Alice’s Beauty Shop
Rea. 3 doors weal of Texaco
Its East Oouflaa
Phone t6S — O'NelU
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