Prairielajid Talk—
Sun Shines 22 Hours in Fairbanks
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 411* South 5Ut St., Uncoln 6, Nebr.
LINCOLN Ira Vorhies, who operates a clean
ing establishment where I take my messed up
coats and trousers when daughter thinks It neces
sary, with Mrs. Vorhies, is back from a six^veeks
10,000-mile vacation trip that took them to Fair
banks, Alaska. Most vacationers think themselves
lucky to get away from the job for two weeks,
but being in the profitable bus
iness of keeping half of Lin
coln clean, Vorhies’ could stay
away most of the summer.
They found the sun shines SI
hours a day on Fairbanks
and Nebraskans don’t know
when to go to bed. Ira fish
ed in Alaskan waters, the
largest of his catch being a
34-pound trout.
Why go all that distance
to catch a mere minnow?
Hank Mills and Prairieland Saunders
Talker snagged 10-pounders
in a little lake down toward the South Fork.
A letter from Homer Campbell of Seattle,
Wash., expresses a doubt that he would be recog
nized by anyone in O'Neill or Atkinson. After the
passing of three score years, maybe not. But the
green robed prairieland stretches across the land
scape just as it did in your day, Homer. And here
Is at least one of the prairieland dwellers who would
look into aging eyes, grip his hand and say wel
come, old boy do you remember the day we drove
out to Dry Creek hoping to hook a pickerel and
came back empty?
Editor Cal takes as his English text book the
Chicago Tribune. Why reach an arm across
nearly three states when we have better papers
In Lincoln and Omaha in the shadow of classic
universities? Maybe Editor Cal would have us
address it the frontier, o’neill, nebr., in view ot
his abundance of the ABC’s. Out of Stuart in the
long ago came literary gems from the fertile brain
of John Wertz, from the inspired pen of Rosa Hud
speth, from a Milton-inspired Editor McArtur in
Atkinson, from the master of prairieland word
pictures Doc Mathews and the simple beauty of a
few lines from the hand of Clyde King. And there
was Edgar Howard down at Columbus, John
Sprecker of the Schuyler Quill, Ross Hammond of
Fremont Tribune, Bixby, Mason, others that might
be named -all gifted newspaper writers that
clothed the news stories of the day in beautiful
language, capital letters and all. But Ed. Cal
will agree that the real gems are those columns
Of "Legal Notices.”
* • •
Senator Hruska’s Washington report tells of
13 teenagers passing through Washington re
cently headed for their homeland after a year in
Nebraska, Norway, Sweden, Great Britain, Spain,
France, Germany and Austria were among the
countries represented in the group. They had
lived for a year with families in Omaha, Lincoln,
Beatrice, York, Hastings and Scottsbluff, attending
public schools and became quite thoroughly Amer
icanized, including teenage slang, the senator says.
• • •
Floyd Kaasa of the Lynch neighborhood, may
be more properly of the Redbird bridge locality,
was in Lincoln a few days recently attending
something that is hardly a memory these days
among church going groups a "camp meeting” for
Nebraska members of the church organization to
which Prairieland Talker's friend from Redbird be
longs.
Mrs. Roger McGinnis of Cody, Wyo., spent
the last week of August in 1905 with fnends in O’
Neill. . . R. R. Dickson, S. J. Weeks, C. C. Sny
der and Ray Saberson went to Atkinson and return
ed in one of the 1905 style autos . . . Mrs. S. J.
Harrington and children were back from a protract
ed visit in Colorado. . . Del Atkin, editor of Atkin
son Graphic, was in O’Neill between trains. . .
Dr. Gilligan was called to Long Pine to do a sur
gical job on an injured citizen of Rock county. . .
O’Neill was just entering the concrete sidewalk
era. . . C. E. Hall was renominated for sheriff
and C. J. Malone for county judge by Republican
county convention delegates. . . Prof. J. V. Dwy
er and Publisher D. H. Cronin were among the O’
Neill citizens to take in the fun at the first Old Set
tlers’s gathering near Meek in late August. 1905.
• • •
Prairieland patriots calling themselves a Bet
ter Nebraska association have bombarded citizens
with appeals to know how you stand relative to
tax on the gasoline you buy. That tax money is
supposed to maiintain the highways over which
the autos roll. But many who contribute their bit
to the fund live in sections of the state where little
or no “highway maintenance’’ is in evidence. We
seem to have outlived the township road overseer
and turned the road work over to a guy down at
the state house. But tomatoes are red, peaches
are ripe and corn on the cob is piled in a pyramid
on a platter in front of you at the dinner table.
• m •
A baby girl bom in the home on what today
is known as O’Neill s South First street, now a wo
man in government service nearing “retirement
age ”, writes from Washington, D. C., and expresses
an ambition to some day soon leave the crowded
human haunts and see again the open country. A
radio spieler said the other day he was in New
York City and the best part of it would be the first
train out. I felt a little that way as I stepped on
i bus to head west from our nation’s great cap
ital city.
The speaker was telling of experienres when
serving as an army chaplain. A soldier in the
front of battle fell to earth when struck by a bul
let. A clergyman of the Catholic faith serving
as a chaplain stepped forward, went to the wound
ed soldier, knelt by him to minister comfort. A
deadly thing hit the kneeling chaplain and he fell
lifeless. The fighting men not alone perish on
battlefields.
* • •
Governor Anderson thinks the job of chief ex
ecutive is worth another try. He has made a good
governor and doubtless can be elected again. So
far that self-pitying patriot ousted from the reform
atory and a petition candidate for governor at the
last election has not been heard from. The few
hundred votes he received may have convinced
him that politics is an uncertain venture.
* • •
Fifty thousand capital city patriots gathered
at the air base a recent Sunday. Angels were to
float on celestial wings above the base. A visit
of heavenly beings to this troubled world of ours
invites the human imagination to spiritual flights.
But one there at the airplane livery barns we saw
only earthbound men floating aloft on their factory
built Lockheed wings.
• • •
Lives of the great just remind us that we
travel the highway of time among the nobody’s
to gather along the way the joy of fellowship sub
lime.
Editorial—
*Modern Republicans* Asked for It
William E. Proxmire, a new deal democrat-<
socialite and a Yale-Harvard product, soundly de
feated Wisconsin Gov. Walter J. Kohler in a spe
cial election to fill the seat in the United States
Senate left vacant by the death of Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy.
Proxmire’s margin over Kohler was 122,000
votes in a total of less than 800,000. Koh
ler campaigned on the single issue that he was a
faithful Eisenhower republican. But that propo
sition failed to bring out the vote with the result
that Proxmire, whom Kohler had twice defeated
for governor, carried 55 of the 71 counties.
In his last race in 1952, Senator McCarthy pol
led more votes than Proxmire and Kohler com
bined in last week's special election.
Proxmire, by the way, had been a resident
of the Badger state only 10 years.
Kohler, who had the strong blessing of Ike,
was even a minority candidate in his own party.
In the July 30 primary he won scarcely one-third
of the votes scattered among seven republican
candidates.
The Eisenhower “modem republicans ”, led by
Sherman Adams, have succeeded in gutting the
party of the individuality it once possessed. Today
It is almost indistinguishable from the new deal.
In Wisconsin the campaign failed to produce
• single major issue. There is nothing left to ar
gue between the “republican modems” and the
new deal democrats.
Kohler, who refused to call out the state mil
itia when labor violence flared at his kin’s Kohler
of Kohler plant, succeeded in standing for nothing
except the public blessing of Ike.
Democrats saw the realities much clearer
than Kohler. Large numbers of demos jumped
the ticket in the primary to vote for Kohler, whom
they felt they could lick in a special election. They
also felt that voting for Kohler would prevent a
collision in the special election between the dem
ocratic candidate and a good conservative repub
lican.
And that's the way it worked. Hordes of con
servative republicans stayed at home and didn’t
vote because there wasn’t much choice; others
voted for Proxmire as a vote against huge Eisen
hower foreign handouts, federal aid to schools, etc.
In other words, Wisconsin conservative re
publicans refused to comprise their republicanism
by voting for a phony article.
The GOP hierarchy should take heed. Ne
braska’s governor and congressional delegation
might do well to analyze Wisconsin’s special sen
atorial election.
Sixteen months hence—at the next regular
general election—we predict Wisconsin will restore
a conservative republican to the senate.
The shakeup in the Moscow high command
further demonstrates the everlasting intrigue and
deceit that accompanies phoney governments. But
just how far the Krushchev shakeup will dare
change the soviet communist pattern remains to
be seen.
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Typographical Error
That typographical error is a slippery
thing and sly.
You can hunt till you are dizzy, but
it somehow will slip by.
Till the forms are off the presses, it is
strange how still it sleeps;
It hides down in a comer, and it
never stirs or peeps.
That typographical error, too small
for human eyes;
Till the ink is on the paper, then it
grows to mountain size.
The editor stares with horror, then he
shakes his fist and groans;
While the copy reader drops his
head in shame and moans and
moans and moans.
Plenty of Wind
Too bad the wind-testers from the East haven't
been around the past 10 days. Plenty of hot wind
to study, much to the regret of com growers.
Despite the late August telling blows to the com,
it’s been a wonderful year and there’ll be a lot of
com in the country which, bear in mind, is the
western-most edge of the combelt.
Hardships of the pioneers, however, didn't
include trying to keep up with the Joneses by
buying a new model covered wagon every year.
The Dodgers, when they transplant to Los An
geles, Calif., will have to exercise care. Some
high fly balls might get lost in the smog.
School reopens and teachers now reshoulder
mom's burden of taking advice trom the children.
Comes now the parents who have decided to
name their daughter after a hurricane.
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
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Bunvan Beckons
Early Saturday an O'Neill four
some pushed off for Oetter Tai
lake, 'er sumplace, in Minrvesotf
on a fishing excursion.
The lakes have beckonet
O'Neill enthusiasts for years, bu
the composition of the crowd ha!
changed.
For a long time it was P. C
Donohoe, Ira Moss. Herber
Hammond, Mike Horiskey anc
Bill Martin, the official cook
making up the expedition. Onlj
Donohoe and Moss survive.
Leo Carney and Frank Clem
ents are filling in this year foi
the departed fishing compatriots
Hugh Coyne has made quite a
few junkets up there, also Dr. O
W. French and Ira Watson. Of
ten the haven has been near Park
Rapids.
Our information is that Car
ney's chief interest is Minnesota
highway construction (he’s ar
employee of the Nebraska de
partment of roads and irrigation).
Clements wants to study sign
board techniques in the Paul
Bunyan wooded country (he runs
an outdoor sign agency). Donohoe
uses the Minnesota retreats as
an escape from the “cooking ol
the corn” seige in Holt in late
August.
Moss, apparently, is the only
guy that goes up there to fish.
Miscellany
When Evelyn Stannard and her
sister. Laura Burks, visited Utah
for 11 days last month, it was the
first time in 48 years there wasn’t
a Stannard in town. Their par
ents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Da
vid Stannard, and the two sisters,
present proprietors of Stannard’s
store, have been paying taxes on
the place 72 years. Time was
when the room was a monument
works, a cigar factory and a
pool room . . . Charley Shaw, a
World War I vet, recalls: It was
in 1916. There was a celebration
in progress at Inman and the
Dry Creek baseballers were play
ing. Inman. In the sixth, Charley
got a homerun, upping the score
to 3-2 for the Dry Creekers, and
that’s how the game ended. . .
The county agent in Garfield
county (Burwell) recently was re
lieved of his job—an unusual
situation. The extension service,
like any other bureaucratic set
up, needs a housecleaning once
in a while.
• * *
Hungry Field Mouse
Donnie Clyde, 8, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Don Clyde, won’t be fondl
ing a field mouse again.
The family was at Long Pine
several weeks ago for an outing,
which included swimming in Long
Pine creek, lots of food and fun.
Then it happened.
A small field mouse came upon
the scene. The mouse was not so
elusive but what Donnie captur
ed it. The mouse took a chomp
into Donnie’s finger.
The bite was bad enough, but
not as bad as the 14 anti-rabies
shots which ensued when the
youngster got home. Parents
feared the mouse might have
been diseased and ordered the
shots as a safety precaution.
Rats nip readily, but not in
our newspapering experience
have we chronicled a bite from a
timid little field mouse.
— CAL STEWART
Letter to Editor
Atkinson, Nebr.
The first thing I read when
The Frontier arrives on Thursday
mornings is your editorials, which
I think are "the most’’.
Congratulations on the one to
day. Mrs. Smith (Sen. Margaret
Chase Smith) is also a big dam
aging help in turning the Japan
ese people against us by her re
msrks
—MRS ALFRED W. MARTENS
ROYAL THEATER
— O'NEILL —
Thurs. Sept. 5
Ben Gazzara brings his sensa
tional stage role to the screen in
his motion picture debut as . . .
THE STRANGE ONE
Introducing Julie Wilson, with
Mark Richman, George Peppard,
| Pat Hingle, Arthur Storch and
James Olson. The story of a guy
bom mean! Shock novel. Shock
play! Smash movie. After they
blow “lights out’’, he starts
operating.
Fri Sat.
The riotous saga of th
ious heroes who fought Operation
Kimona!
JOE BUTTERFLY
Actually filmed in Japan! Star
ring Audie Murphy, George Na
der, co-starring Keenan Wynn,
Keiko Shima, John Agar, Charles
McGraw, Fred Clark and Burgess
Meredith as “Joe Butterfly”.
Cinemascope and technicolor.
Sun.-Mon. Tues. Sept. 8-9-10
FIRE DOWN BELOW
Cinemascope and technicolor.
Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum,
Jack Lemmon. Out of the fiery
filming in the Caribbean of their
explosive story comes a picture
of big and burning excitement!
Islanders are fishing and agri
cultural folk, committed to such
a steady routine of simple work
anr even simpler pleasures that
the unit was able to get down to
its own job of filming in peace.
Matinee Saturday & Sunday 2:89
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Friday and Saturday admission—
Adults 50c; Children under 12,
12c, Free If accompanied by par
ent. Wedn. and Thurs. Family
night, family admitted for two
Adult tickets.
When You & I Were Young . . -
Duffy, McBride
Feted by Firemen
Former Inman Editor
| Makes Visit
.10 Years Ago
A banquet was given at the
firemen's hall in honor of two
members. Arthur Duffy and J.
i G. McBride, who will attend
i school in Omaha. . . James Mc
Allister of Agee was a passen
| ger on the North Western for
Lincoln where he will attend the
state fair. . . H. G. Cross and
j daughter. Evelyn, of Petersburg
visited The Frontier office. Mr.
I Cross, a former publisher at
Inman, moved away 30 years
ago.
20 Y’ears Ago
Robert E. Gallagher was ap
pointed drivers’ license examiner
in Holt county. . . Edward
Young, 14, had a narrow escape
when he was struck by lightning
He was found by Anton Jirak
and Joe Soukup, who were on
their way home from mass. Un
conscious, the boy was brought
to O’Neill. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Young, who
live northwest of town. . . .The
will of Mrs. Bridget Corrigan
left 10-thousand-dollars for a
home for the aged poor. 1710
money is directed to be given
to the Roman Catholic bishop of
Omaha for administration.
10 Years Ago
John F. Schmit, 23, a Con
sumers Public Power employee,
was electrocuted while working
on a 2,300-volt power line in
West O’Neill. . . Deaths: Mrs.
Julia E. Parker, 91, one of the
last two remaining original mem
bers of the O’Neill colony; Ger
ald F. Harrington, 55, of Oak
land, Calif.; Mrs. Phoebe Page
Adams, daughter of the man
for whom the town of Page
was named; Mrs. Mary A.
Knapp. 85, a resident of Inman
for more than a half-century;
Harry Campbell. 59, died in
Los Angeles, Calif., following
i an operation; Casper P. Uhl, 69,
from a stroke; Michael M. Min
ton, 55, of Albuquerque, N.M.
One Year Ago
A circus visited O’Neill. . .
Deaths: Mrs. David Stannard,
88; J. F. Melena, 73, of Amelia;
James M. Whidden, 84, of
Chambers; Art Schumann, 61,
a farmer near Butte, who was
pinned under his tractor; Julia
Schneider, 71, of Atkinson. . .
A truck went berserk at the east
edge of town and landed on the
parking terrace of the Edward
Verzal and D. D. DeBolt resi
dences.
Page WCTV MeeW
:vnd Elect**—
PAGE- Members of the WCTU
met at the home of Mrs Dora
Townsend Friday, August 23. and
the following officers were elec
ted.
Mrs. Dora Townsend, presi
dent; Mrs. Floyd Wertz, vice
president; Mrs. Edgar Stauffer,
secretary and treasurer
Mrs. Mary Mewmaw was
chosen department director o(
| child welfare; Mrs. Edgar Stauf
fer. Christain citizenship; Mrs.
Hattie Carson, parliamentary;
Mrs. Rollie Snell, flower mission
and relief; Mrs. Dora Townsend,
s c i e n tifie temperance instruc
tion; Mrs. Louise Heiss, spirit
ual life; Mrs. Merwyn French,
sr.. temperance education.
The county organization pre
sented the group with the book,
"Cup of Fury" by UptoQ Sin
clair.
The Page unit was organized
in 1909. Two of the charter
members, Mrs. Ethel Coover
Park and Mrs. Louie Downey,
are still residents of Page.
The hostess served refresh
ments.
Graduate* from
Nom-Oom School —
LYNCH-Sp. 2/c James I sic
ken, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin A. Lueken, recently was
graduated from the Seventh
army non-commissioned officer
academy in Germany.
A squad leader in company A
of the 14th armored cavalry
regiment in Fulda, he success
fully completed a four-week
course in leadership, map read
ing and other military subjects.
Specialist Lueken. a 1955 grad
uate of Lynch high school, en
tered the army last January and
completed basic training at Ft.
Leonard Wood, Mo. He was a
school teacher for district C-5
in Santee before entering the
army.
Danny Holsclaw celebrated his
seventh birthday anniversary at
a theatre party for his little
friends Saturday, August 24. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Holsclaw.
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Insurance Agencv
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