The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, July 25, 1957, Page 2, Image 2

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    Prairieland Talk—
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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.
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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
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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.
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