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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1957)
Prairieland Talk— __ • Clergy Friend (Doing Africa* Br ROMAINE SAUNDERS. 4110 Soath Mit SL. Lincoln 6. Nebr. LINCOLN D. E. Venden, a clergyman triend of Prairieland Talker and former Nebraskan, and Mrs Vi mien, are "doing” South Alnca. Yes, newspaper guys have friends among tne gentlemen of the cloth, among the Mb's, some dis ciples of Blackstono are with us, bankers as long as our credit is good, teachers and state and fed eral dignitaries. The Vendens will also vis it places of note, like old Rome, Athens and bow before the sacred shrines in Jerusa lem. At the first opportunity upon their return 1 shall be one in the audience to hear Mr Venden tell the story, as rt>w can tell it as he will. Another friend, a brick layer and racially of Danish origin, has gone to Wyoming for his air conditioning this Itoinuine hot weather and will be back saunder* when the frost is on the pump kin and the fodder is in the shock, to borrow words from the Hoosier poet. A physician friend is now in South American jungles to lay a healing hand on sick natives ; ,nd study the human ills not known on prairieland. Next door neighbors are homo Irom the Missouri Ozarks this calm, cool July morning, ihe folks just across the street are back from a visit m Ore con Near neighliors have lately folded their tents like the Arabs and silently taken oft tor West Lin Daughter and son-in-law, as I write today, doubtlessly are rolling along in their new "Chevie” over the hills and plains of southern Wyoming headed for Los Angeles. Calif. Prairieland Talker will presently withdraw from the typewriter to park out on the veranda to idle away the hours while in fancy he goes again along the prairie trail that we knew more than a half-century ago. And grandson is back from a few weeks spent on the ranch of his student pal’s dad in Hookej- county and full of stories of riding the |*>nies and tossing a lasso over a cow. But he acquired the art of milking a cow while out there. # • • Corn is in the making, wheat has been gather ed in. A Fillmore county grain grower reports his wheat yield up to 40 bushels per acre. One hundred acres, 4.CKK) bushels; 4,000 bushels, $8,000. His corn fields will bring him another six or eight thousand dollars. One season’s take the accumu lations of a lifetime a generation or two ago. • • * A young colored man sat beside me on a bench waiting for the next city bus. He came to Lincoln from cast Texas for educational advantages, is attending summer school at the state university preparing to enter medical college and become a physician, when he plans to return to Texas where he can serve the colored people, a great need in the community from which he comes, he said. His problem is how to meet the cost, $180 at the Uni versity and $1,200 a year tuition in medical col lege He l>elie\Tes he can make it. Education up to and through high school is free, to become pro fessional equipped for life costs money. Nebraska's stock of cash is reported trom the , statehouse to be running low, but as the general fund musters something over a million and a halt dollars the situation is less serious than what many know their personal cash balance to be , Another "committee” steps into the prairieland picture, to be known as the Republican Agricul tural Committee. H. W. Harrington ot the Grand Island community, himself a farmer, heads this committee, a sort of corn field adjunct to GOP political interests. . . Former State Sen. K. W. Peterson of Sargent has filed as a candidate tor state treasurer. He had served in three sessions of the legislature. . . Wahoo reports a traffic j crackup with “only six” hurt. , . Over at Omaha the police vice squad rounded up a guy and con fiscated his stock of several hundred pictures of gals in the nude, along with picturing outfit. Over here in the state’s Holy City the ladies walk the streets just about unclad. . Articles oi incorpora tion have been filed with the secretary of state for Peace Evangelical and Retormed church of TU den. . . Robert I* Blackledge of Kearney was cho sen as national head of the Elks organization at a recent session of that group’s representatives in San Francisco, Calif, * * * A farmer living 111 miles south of Lincoln in forms ine Unit while crop conditions are good In liis community there is now the threat of damage by grasshoppers. Always something to take the joy out of life. * • * The late Franklin D Roosevelt when president was telling not only congress what to do but as sumed the function of the supreme court were sub ject to his dictates. Mr. Roosevelt’s moves to "pack” the nation’s high court with new' deal tim ber is still remembered. Now comes the story out of Washington that Nebraska's Congressman Miller starts talk for congress to clip the wings ot the supreme court. The court is a branch of I government created by the constitution and does I judicial service of citizens irrespective of political, religious or race and Americans hope it will ever continue without interference from legislative or executive sources. • • • From an interesting letter from Oran Bowen of Wayne I get the first word that I have had of a cowtrail pal of the long ago, Hayes McClure of the ranch of that name in southern Holt county. | Hay, Oran writes, died some years ago but his widow still lives in Wayne. Doctor Hess, formerly j of Chambers, who became the husband of Carrie Benson of the Phoenix neighborhood and located in Wayne 50 years ago, has also passed away. * * * . Nature’s Master Artist Hand reached silently across prairieland some time after the midnight hour to dip the sky in a vat of brilliant blue. So Ibis mid-July early morning we look out upon the scene that nature paints and the hand of man can , not deface. Out lieyond the blue in the vast ex panse of space hidden from our view that Master ! Artist Hand tints with color other scenes not for mortal eye. Editorial— Application Should Be Denied •The Chicago & North Western railroad's sins over the years would fill a hook a hundred feet kighr Those are the words of Fay Hill ol Gordon, di rector of the Save-thc-Trains association, which is battling to keep the last two remaining passenger mail-express trains in service on the 450-mile Omaha-Chadron line. "The North Western's zeal to cut-off trains 13 and 14 and eliminate passenger service to most of north Nebraska is the classic sin ol all,’’ Hill de clared. A hearing has been set for Monday, July 29, at Valentine and will be conducted by the Nebraska state railway commission. Irn its application to eliminate these last two passenger trains, C&NW claims the trains had been "efficiently operated" and substantial out-of pocket expenses have been incurred. Ben W. Heineman is the new chairman of the board of C&NW and C. J. Fitzpatrick is the new president. Claude Currie of Valentine, S-T-A director, charges C&NW with “a lot of double-talk". Currie said: "If they are such efficient admin istrators they should be given an opportunity to operate these last two passenger trains efficiently. They can't even tell us how much fuel a diesel en gine uses pulling one of these trains from Omaha to Chadron. All they use is system-wide aver ages." Norris W. Coats of Stuart, also a S-T-A di rector, said he had heard through a Chicago source that Mr. Heineman and Mr. Fitzpatrick "might be surprise witnesses” for the railroad at Mon day’s Valentine hearing. “Nothing would suit us better,' Coats comment ed The Stuart man said Heineman and Fitz patrick appealed before the Wisconsin utility com mission in March and sought discontinuance of 21 Wisconsin passenger trains. The Wisconsin com mission authorized discontinuance of 18. “C&NW blithely boasts of the butchery in Wisconsin. But tliere is no correlation whatsoever between Nebraska and Wisconsin. You'd do well to find a square foot of farm land In Wisconsin where there isn't another railroad within 12 or 15 miles. In our sandhills country you can strike out some directions up to 150 miles or more before finding a passenger train.” Cal Stewart of O’Neill, president of S-T-A, said three years ago a C&NW survey was made which indicated these two bains could be speeded up about an hour and a half in running time be tween Omaha and Chadron. “The efficient management hasn’t seen tit to accelerate the trains Not surprising, though, be cause when the line switched bom steam to diesel several years ago nothing was done about revising the schedule. “C&NW brass and some of the employees, too, have willfully chased business away”. "They'll chase a lot more by their persistence in removing 13 and 14,” Hill countered. "Wide spread freight diversion Is underway.” The Gordon Journal said in the July 17 issue: “It’s an eye-for-an-eye. That’s the only language C&NW can understand.” Said the Rock County Leader (Bassett): “It seems to us here is a case of the railroad wanting to keep the cream in the form of freight and throw out the skimmed milk in the form of passenger business. We hope the application is denied ” Said Ray Dover, publisher of the Valentine Re publican: "We feel C&NW owes us this passenger mail-express service if it can be made to break | even, or nearly so, in return for the lucrative freight business". On Wednesday, July 17, a 150-car eastbound freight train zoomed through O'Neill without both ering to pickup four carloads of freshly combined wheat which had been loaded the day before and necessary arrangements had been made lor mov ing. Not long ago a freight train at Gordon "would n't hold up five minutes” for three more carloads of Om a ha-hound livestock. The S-T-A officials predict that the ponderous big freight trains will be too small to be "efficient” if trains 13 and 14 come off. We, here at The Frontier, hold that predic tion to be true and sincerely hope, for the benefit of the railroad and the people alike, the commis sion will see fit to deny the application to dis continue. Greatest Fraud (Guest editorial by Bernie (lamp, Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation) The first justification for a tax at any level of government ought to be that the tax and its impo sition be excruciatingly painful to the taxpayer. Pather than assess taxes by "dribs and drabs,” the extraction should be by the painful "pound of flesh" method to protect the taxpayer against the fraudulent assumption, “It’s only a little tax." Taxation by "dribs and drabs” so numbs the aver age taxpayer he does not realize how great is the burden he bears. The "pound of flesh” method is rude and extremely painful, but guarantees that taxpayers are aware of how heavy is the load of taxes. Big government has burgeoned on the pain less “dribs and drabs" of federal taxation. The withholding method of income taxation is the great est fraud imposed in the histoiy of American de mocracy. With the institution of the withholding tax the taxpayer and citizen began to lose control of federal government. The way was opened for congress and the people to surrender fiscal and monetary decisions to the executive adminis trative employees of government. There is no pain involved in extracting $10 a week from a paycheck before the check is receiv ed. It is literally true you "never miss that which you do not have.” The same thing is true of ex tractions every two weeks or every month. If taxpayers had to be aware—as they once were— once or twice a year of the impact of fed eral income taxes on their lives, there would be less federal government. ; CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher 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 erf Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; rates abroad provided upon request, All sub scripitons payable in advance only. When You & I Were Young . . . Roadmaster Dies in Motor Derailment Wayne Norman, 35, Suffers Broken Neck 50 Years Ago Frank Daley of Park City, Utah, is here visiting friends and relatives. . . Anna, the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Rob Conrad, died of typhoid fever Her mother is down with the fe ver . , . Captain H. A. Walker, 71. and Mrs. Melvina Simmons, 59, were married. . . Maine Rich ardson of Chambers and Miss Ethel Hubbard, daughter of A. C. Hubbard of Ewing, were married in O'Neill. ■JO Years Ago Mrs. R D. ("Elizabeth") Pond, who had come from her home in Long Beach, Calif., to attend the funeral of her brother, John Cran dall, died at the home of a neph ew in Spencer. . . Miss Geneva Grady and Arthur King were married. . . Wayne Norman, 35, roadmaster of the Burlington railroad, died of a broken neck when the motor car he was driv ing, was derailed. . . C. P. Han cock came up from David City to visit relatives. JO Years Ago Hail struck for the third time in a year. The corn crop was vir tually wiped out between O’Neill and the Eagle. . . Members of the Holt County School Land Lease holders association protested what they considered to be a “sharp increase” on the valua tion of Holt’s 77,000 acres of school lands. . . C. J. Towle of Albion is the new agent for the Chicago and North Western rail road company. . . Rev. IJoyd W. Mullis, Methodist minister, wrote a "Parable” to the editor of The Frontier and closed it by ask ing: "WHEN, WHEN will we build the O'Neill swimming pool?” One Y’ear Ago A barn on the Z. X. Marshall farm south of Stuart was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. A stack of alfalfa was struck and burned on the Wright farm and a hay stack destroyed at the Bartak ranch, both in the Deloit area. . . A reunion of the Merritt Clark family was held at Inman. Double Shower Is Held at Ewing EWTNG — A double miscellan eous shower was held Friday evening, July 19, at the parlors of the Ewing Methodist church hon oring the Misses Patty Mosel and Marilyn Weyhrich. Decorations were earned out in the chosen colors of the brides to-be. The gift table featured double wedding rings, with the names of the honored couples, suspended by streamers. Refreshments were were serv ed to the guests. Those assisting with the shower were: Misses Jeanne Welke, Dor is Ann Spahn and Mary Ann Kall hoff, Mesdames Watson McDon ald, Dwight Schroeder, Louis Van dersnick, Arthur Sanders, James Mlnarik, Vernon Rockey, Helen Sisson. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Stanton and daughter, Mrs. Rex Stowell and children went to Sioux Falls, S. D. Friday to visit the Stanton’s daughter and husband. Prize- Winning Essays (Editor's note: The following essays were winners in the Save-the-Trains association es say contest Miss Judith Lee of Atkinson won first place in overall competition. Her topic: "What Trains 13 and 14 Mean to My Town''. Miss Pat Wright of Ewing submitted the best essay from her school and won honorable mention in overall competition. Miss Wright’s top ic: "The Powers and Duties of the Nebraska State Railway Commission”. Ity Judith Lee, St Joseph's High School (Atkinson) At breakfast one morning in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes read that the frigate Constitution, the vessel that had fought the Bar bary pirates for Jefferson ami won her fame against the British in the War of 1812, was to be dis mantled and sold for scrap. Holmes hurried to the rescue with a forceful plan that aroused pub lic opinion and eventually saved "Old Ironsides". We need the brilliant Holmes to day to rescue the "Old Ironsides of 1957”. In the poem, Holmes asserts that better than to dis mantle "her shattered hulk” would be to let it "sink beneath the wave", and to let "her thun ders shake the mighty deep and there should be her grave.” Our "Old Ironsides of 1957" has a better reason than sentiment for preservation, and surely more than emotions battling for her. There are practical reasons why "Old Ironsides of 1957” should not be "dismantled". For years it has served the communities in many useful ways. First and fore most of the reasons is the fact that it has in the past years been our most faithful mailman. And likewise for years, although on a smaller scale, it has been a means of transportation for the people up and down the line. Most of the communities that it reaches are farming communities and, therefore, need the railroad as a means of shipping their produce. All arguments favoring the truck ing industry may w'ell be frowned upon in view of the harm which they do to our inadequate high ways. The trains are also uses! quite extensively by college students, and those working in cities up and down the line as, for instance, Omaha. One may travel from Omaha lo these parts by night, l)oth going and coming, without loss of working hours or “learn ing” hours. I hope I have shown that “Old Ironsides of 1957” is of vast im portance to my town, and that it is not emotion or sentiment that urges us to fight for it, but a spe cific and real need. By Pat Wright, Ewing High School The Nebraska state railway commission had its beginning in an act of the Nebraska legisla ture approved March 5, 1885 which created the board of railroad commissioners. The act w'as re pealed in 1887 and a board of -transportation was created This lioard was held to be unconstitu tional bv the state supreme court on November 21, 1900. The pres ent railway commission was cre ated by an amendment adopted by overwhelming vote of the people of the state. The commission consists of three members elected by the vot ers of the state for terms of six years each. One commissioner is elected every two years. By a specific legislative enact j mont, the commission has con trol and jurisdiction over the fol lowing : 1. Rates, depot facilities, j stockyards, train service, safety laws, transfer tracks, passes, } crossings, and compilation and filing of reports required by law of railroads. 2. Rates, service and general ! control of street railways 3. Rates, service and general j jihysical connections, eonsolida-1 | tions, and general control of tele* j phone companies. 4. Rates and service of ex press companies, telegraph eom i parties, pullman companies, and ; irrigation companies. 5. Rates, service, territory, j ; safety ami insurance and ac counting of motor transportation, | taxicab companies, busses and trucks. 6. Construction methods, rout-1 ing, and controversies between companies of electric transmis sion lines. 7. Rates upon complaint of rural telephone companies. 8. Licensing, bonding, inspec tion and issuance of certificates of public grain warehouses. 9. Licensing and bonding of public storage warehouses. 10 Complete supervision of farm storage of grain. 11 Issuance of securities by public utilities and common car riers. 12 Enforce requirements relat ing to operation and sale of liquid fuel tractors. 13. Rates, service and certifi i cates of pipe line companies. 14. Transportation by air craft in Nebraska interstate commerce. The supreme court has this to say about the Nebraska state rail i wav commission: No other agency of the state subordinate to the sovereign government itself lias more broad far-reaching and important powers and functions than does the state railway com mission.” Letter to Editor 381 South Logan Denver, Colo. Now: that But) and I have an ad dress I should like to have you change the name on my subscrip tion to Mrs. Robert C. Ridoll and mail the paper direct to us at the above address. We miss reading about home town folks. The weather has been nice, and the nights are pretty cool some times. We have enjoyed going to the city park for a picnic and , feeding the tame ducks on the I lake there. It is a very nice place, j Last night we made a drive out to the Red Rock theatre which is nothing short of beautiful and more so when it is lighted up for; the evening’s entertainment. The mountains are beautiful at all times, of course. The water department here has made the statement that Den ver’s water supply system has gone over the record and resi dents are happy about watering without ration. - MRS. ROBERT C RIDELL Sunday Guests— Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tharnish were his sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. John Climent of Vivian, S. D. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Vorce and Mr. and Mrs. Harold McNally of Ainsworth spent the weekend in the Vorces’ camping trailer at the City Park at Valentine. t m • Ewing News Mr. anti Mrs Leonard Sorenson and Gene Sisson of Omaha spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Helen Sisson Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Spangler and children returned Friday from a vacation trip through the Black Hills. Bobbie, Carolyn, Jerry and Ja nell Tams spent the weekend in Ewing returning to Ft. Pierre, S.D., Sunday afternoon, accom panied by Herman Schroeder, who will assist the Tams family in putting up hay. Billy Harris accompanied his grandparents, Mr and Mrs. Rus sell Fink, back to Fremont on Monday. The Finks had Itoen guests for a few days at the home of his brother and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fink, while Billy visit ed his uncle H. R. Harris and family. Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Davis and daughter, Marie, accompanied by Bertha Harris, were guests on Sunday at the home of his moth er, Mrs. Gertrude Davis, at Or chard. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunaway and family were weekend guests at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Billings. They at tended the wedding Sunday even ing of his niece. Miss Patty Mosel and Lowell Jensen of Newman Grove, at Orchard and returned to their home at Hastings after wards. Mr. ad Mrs. Roy Dunaway of Hastings spent the weekend at their home in Ewing. Their guests were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dun away of Omaha. All attended the wedding of Miss Patty Mosel and Lowell Jensen at the St. Peter’s Lutheran church at Or chard Sunday evening. They re turned to their homes on Monday. M H. Dierks and daughter, Mrs. Sidney Adrian, of Wichita, Kans., were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Dierks. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Harris and daughter, Bertha, were O'Neill visitors on Saturday. Miss Bertha kept an appointment with the dentist. Guests for the past 10 days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Norwood were her sister, Mrs. Helen Lee and two daughters from Eureka, Calif , and also their granddaughter, Miss Linda Nor wood from Midwest, Wyo. Mrs. Lee and daughters and Miss Lin da plan to leave Sunday evening to return to their homes. Mrs. Carrie Johnson of Pasa dena, Calif., is a guest at the home of Mrs. Amy Jacobsen. She also visited other relatives and friends in the Ewing community this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rother DR. II. D. GILDERSLEEVE OPTOMETRIST Northeast Corner of 4th & Douglas O’NEILL, NEJ3H Phone 187 Office Hours: 9-5 Eyes Examined-Glasses Fitted Monday thru Saturday Ah-h! That famous Hamm's refreshing flavor! Isn’t this a cool, refreshing idea?—a frosty-cold glass of Hamm’s Beer, from the enchanted land of sky blue waters. Hamm’s crisp, clean-cut taste is your kind of flavor—try it! Tonight! Theo. Hamm Brewing Co., St. Paul, Minn, and San Francisco, Calif. TT 9 ; Hamms the BEER refreshing From the land of shy blue waters• „ * • * ham anti family left Saturday for a two weeks'. vacation trip. They will go through Yellowstone park and visit Salt l^ake City anti other places of interest in the western states. September Rites Mr. and Mrs, l»uis Klasna of Spencer announce the engage ment of their daughter, Miss Nola (above), to Morris Hag berg, son of Mr, and Mrs. Er nest Hagberg of Spencer. A September wedding is planned. o o Merri Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. — O'NEILL —
