Nebraska Newspapers

    Prairieland Talk—
Kids Get First Horse Ride
By ROM AIN E SAl.NDERS, 4110 South 51st St., Lincoln 6, Ncbr.
IJNOOL24 —It was an early September visit
out across the green-robed landscape of prairieland
to the scenes of other years and to grasp the hand
of friends that I have known- some from knee
pants days to the white crown of glory now above
a wrinkled brow.
Wo drove on through the charming village of
Chambers and made our first
stop at the old Riley Bros.
Shorthorn ranch, now the
home and industrial interest of
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Baker,
Mrs Baker being the daugh
ter and only survivor of the
Will Riley household.
We—who might the plural
pronoun signify” Mr. and
Mrs. E T. Lindholm and two
daughters, Pamela and Cyn
thia, of Burbank, Calif , daugh
ter having been a maiden fair
of that community in the Saunders
1930 s.
A visit to the Riley ranch revives memories
and a talk with Tom and Ruth is always enjoyable.
Tom went to his garden and gathered atx>ut a
peck of red ripe tomatoes which he presented to
daughter and the LindhoLms had Holt county
products to dine on when they reached home.
A visit with the George Meals family near At
kinson followed George still has a handsome hay
mare I sold him in 1944 and that mare was saddl
ed and brought out for the visitors to ride. Little
Pamela and Cynthia had the time of their young
lives when they for the first time sat in a saddle
on the back of a horse. To enjoy real Holt coun
ty hospitality just visit the Meals ranch.
We went to O’Neill, stood first at the graves
of our dead. The cemetery is well kept, and there
lies those we had known and loved. And I learn
ed that another native son, Hugh J. Birmingham,
would join the ranks of the dead in Calvary’s con
secrated soil, having died the day we arrived.
O’Neill friends extend the glad hand.
Among those met with on the street R. H.
Parker, a native son, greeted me and I learned
that he and Mrs. Parker have gone aristocratic
and spend their winters with the classy ones down
in Florida.
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His name is Marshall. He operates a bus to
and from Norfolk and Omaha. I have traveled by
bus across America but never before met a bus
driver the equal in courtesy and concern for his
passengers of that gent at the steering wheel on
the short run from Norfolk to Omaha. Passengers
all on board, he announced the time of arrival at
points along the route and then said if there was
anything he could do to add to the comfort and
pleasure of the trip for any in the bus to just men
tion it and ho would see to it and he would see
tion it and he would see to it? I stepped forward
and congratulated him
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Barbers of Lincoln are charging $1.50 for a
X5 cent hair cut, thus reviving hair clipper busi
ness at catalogue houses, dads getting clippers
to do the family barbering.
Stories of revolting cruelties come out of the
southland inflicted upon Negroes. A cry is raised
here in America over the European barbarisms.
Northerns freed the slaves of the southern planta
tions Can nothing lie done to wipe away the stain
in that fair land that grows day-by-day to frighten
a little child in her cabin home to which the acci
dent of color has secluded her? The Negn> is not
among us by choice, he was brought here from his
native Africa by ruthless dollar chasers among
the paleface and sold into slavery. In view of our
national capital in Washington stands a magnifi
cent monument to a noted military commander
who in 1865 surrendered his sword to General
Grant. Near by on Virginia soil stands the man
sion of many rooms where slaves had waited on
the ones whose bones now repose beneath that
monument and did the work on the plantation.
Somewhere a freed descendant of those slaves suf
fers today at the hands of his ‘‘superior” white
fellow being.
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I looked this morning upon the smiling facet*
of children on their way this first day of school
for their experience in the human temples of
learning. One full roundisl face wreathed in a
happy smile that appeared to belong to a little
Oriental miss who was to have her first lesson
in American education stood out prominently
among others. Children on their way to school
—just step aside and watch them pass. Mem
ories of childhood days come thronging out of
the mists of the past and we romp again where
children play. Enrollment in Lincoln schools
the first day was reported to be 20,942. This
does not include the private and church school
groups.
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Stop by step wo travel the highway of life.
Work and loaf, experience joy and pain, smiles
and frowns, tears and songs of praise, days of
plenty, times of financial stringency. As the rose
blooms its beauty and fragrance among thorns
our lives gather joy and pain along the way, lone
liness as the end of the journey is a little way
ahead. I saw him today, an aged citizen sitting
alone, no son, no daughter, no life’s companion
and no friend to impart the comfort of empany. I
stop for a few moments and talk to the old guy. He
likes it. An aged mother, an aged father sits alone
hoping maybe someone will come along or a letter
will come from a son, a daughter or friend. While
it still costs three cents to mail a letter, write a
cheering message to your aged dad or mother sit
ting alone somewhere.
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Frograms are nut for the 79th annual meet
ing of the Nebraska State Historical society to
be held in Lincoln at tile C’ornhusker hotel Sep
tember 28. This will be followed on the 29th
by the 33rd annual gathering of Native Sons and
Daughters of Nebraska, also held at the Oorn
husker, program for which is also out. Former
Governor Cochran is to address the natives.
Editorial—
We’re for States’ Rights
The South is in a state of confusion over the
school segregation issue.
The United States supreme court May 17,
1954 handed down a historic decision compelling
desegregation of the public schools. Turmoil and
some isolated violence have resulted.
Answer to the question whether social issues
can he legislated and made workable by mandate
remains to be seen.
Legislate is the word, because the supreme
court back in 1954- succeeded in amending the
constitution. From 1893 to 1954 the highest court
of the land saw fit to stand on the precedence of
■"equal educational facilities” for the races. Even
the packed liberal court of the Roosevelt-Truman
heyday didn't attempt to amend the constitution,
on this score, although the National Association
for Advancement of Colored People provided ample
opportunity. The new' court, headed by a “modern
republican” in the form of Justice Warren, reads
into the constitution something that was never
there. The 1954 mandate oi-ders "equal ami the
same facilities.”
We believe much of the strife in the South has
been created by such radicals as John Kasper from
out of the North, some low-grade southerners
(white and black), and radicals in the NAACP.
We feel there are enough decen antd intelli
gent people in both races in the South to work out
the problem in peace and accord. The American
Negro has come a long way from his African start
ing point.
The segregation (or desegration) problem is
largely the South's problem, although increased
racial tension exists in such cities as Chicago, 111.,
Detroit, Mich , and Washington, D. C.
From our Nebraska vantage point, the very
serious aspect of the Gov. Orval E. Faubus case
at Little Rock, Ark., is the matter of states’ rights.
Governor Faubus says he ordered out the Ar
kansas national guard to maintain orderliness be
cause he had information that violence would en
sue when colored pupils entered Little Rock's Cen
tral high school.
Faubus protested he was acting as chief exe
cutive of the sovereign state of Arkansas. He
criticized the federal government for sending in
federal bureau of investigation agents, wire-tap
ping at the governor’s mansion, and other interfer
ence. Then came a quick trip East to confer with
President Eisenhow'er.
Nothing satisfactory to either side came out
of the conference.
In recent years the federal government has
been usurping the sovereign power of the states in
many forms.
If you criticize Faubus you are up against a
Area Pledges at 0Sd* KaPP"
University Told ^chT»0“ s,
Those pledging fraternities at Don Petersen
the University of Nebraska in- Mrs. Harry' Pet
elude: at the Univera
Delta Epsilon—Michael Mur- Warren Peden
phy of Stuart. agent, will ent
Pi Kappa Phi—Fred Dunn of ?chop1 oft !he
Atkinson. Dan Roberts and Gar- braska at Linc<
ion Schmidt, both of Spencer.
Sigma Phi Epsilon—Gordon Enters Trainin
Fox of O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs.
University of Nebraska pledges her sister. Mis:
to sororities include: to Omaha, Sun
Kappa Kappa Gamma—Sharon tered nurses’s
Kokes of Atkinson. Catherine’s hos
basic principle and are going deeply into the mat
ter of states’ rights, and states’ rights is one of the
basic things in our form of government.
We trust the descent people of both races will
work out their social problems without the use of
external force. We’re for states’ right and ques
tion the importation of a federal Northern judge
and use of FBI agents (if Faubus’ charges are
correct) to solve a state problem.
The invasion of states’ rights is capable of
being a worse evil than segregation.
The Lord established the colors and tongues.
America’s founding fathers adopted the states'
rights principle.
The liberal 1954 supreme court and Ike’s Cam
paign manager (U. S. Atty.-Gen. Herbert Brown
ell* have taken on a big job if they attempt to
force changes too swiftly. .
It’s An Explanation
Guest editorial from The Nebraska (Geneva) Signal
All of us are proud of the 1957 Nebraska state
fair. We can’t help wondering, however, why the
state fair continues to grow while county fairs are
are finding it difficult to keep the gates open.
An official of the state fair organization gave
me an answer to the queston which I think is
worth repeating. He said he believes county fairs
must change their emphasis. They must stop com
peting with other mediums of entertainment, so
common these days, and concentrate on local
achievements in agriculture.
"Where,” he asked "would the state fair be
if all of these fine animals, these wonderful ex
hibits and these fine demonstrations had not been
developed and produced at your county fair?”
Maybe the official has a point.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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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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—Doris Gunter of Miss Gleed Participates
in Talent Show—
•\lpha — Darlene CHAMBERS — The annua
)encer freshman talent show presentee
’ _, by the freshman students of Mor
, son of Mr. a d njngside college at Sioux Citj
preen, is a student s held Thursday, Septembei
Lty of Nebraska, p
assistant county The capacity audience viewee
er the agr cu ural ^ acts which represented talen
Jmvereity of Ne- from j^ew Jersey to Nebraska.
lln‘ Miss Dorine Gleed, daughte:
-of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gleed o
»— Chambers, played a piano due
Tom Blake drove with Miss Marlene Klein from A1
i Lou Ann Fritton ton, la.
lay where she en- -
training at St. Frontier want ads bring prompt
pital. economical results.
When You & I Were Young . .
Sullivan-Dewey
Battle 45 Round:
Neither Fighter I*
Downed
o« \ ears Ago
Will Lockard has a new mo
torcycle, the first in town. .
The 45-round fight between Jacl
Sullivan and a Negro namet
Dewey at Crawford was a draw
Neither fighter was down or ou
at the end. . . Little Ralph Mel
lor had an appendectomy ir
Omaha. . . Arthur W. Chamber!
and Ava T. Williams, both o:
Atkinson, were granted a mar
riage license. , . The following
were selected as an executive
committee of the newly-electec
county central committee: Jacol
1 Kraft, Stuart; Dell Akin. Atkin
son; D. H. Cronin, O'Neill; L. E
McDermott, Inman; J. E. Hold
| en, Chambers; E. C. McKay
! Ewing; C. E. Cherry, Page, anc
F. W. Phillips, Star. Dr. J. p
Gilligan was elected chairman
and R. R. Dickson was elected a!
a delegate to the state conven
tion.
20 Years Ago
A surprise birthday anniver
sary party was held for “Grand
ma" McNichols. . . Deaths: Pat
rick Clemens; James O’Con
nor. . . A girl was born to Mr
and Mrs. Bert Winchell and £
boy to Mr. and Mrs. Willian
Kelly, jr., of Inman.
10 Years Ago
Ira Moss and C. W. Porter at
tended a reunion in North Platt*
of the 355th infantry regiment
89th division. . . Deaths: Mrs
Charles V. Cole of Stuart; Mrs
William T. Spelts of Grand Is
land, formerly of O'Neill; Gott
fried Huth of Chambers. . . Mis!
Bonnie Bernholtz of Page depar
ted for Yale university when
she will be a dietician.
One Year Ago
Charlie Bigelow of Stuart cele
brated his 90th birthday anniver
sary . St. Dominic’s hall Ewing
is finished and open-house wai
held. . . A group of 25 Ohioan;
came by plane and were guest;
of the Nebraska Sandhill’s Cat
tlemen's association at Ains
worth. . . The price of breac
jumped two cents.
First Aid Course
Gets Underway
ATKINSON Around .30 exten
sion club members attended the
initial first aid class, which is
open to all extension club mem
bers. The class was held in At
kinson’s new city fire hall build
ing Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
Leader is Mrs. Claire Engdahl
of O'Neill.
A lesson will be given each
Friday evening until the course
is completed.
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Five Officers
Present Reports—
CHAMBERS — The Women’s
Society of Christian Service ol
the Chambers Methodist church
met Thursday. September 5, a'
the church. Mrs. Alvin Tange
man was hostess assisted by Miss
Miss Alice Johnson, who took
Mrs. Arthur Tangeman’s place
Mrs. Charles Grimes led the de
votionals and Mrs. T. E. New
house presented the lessor
which was on missions. Mrs. E
R. Carpenter conducted the bus
iness session in the absence ol
president, Mrs. Darrel Gillette
Reports were given by five ol
the WSCS officers. Other routine
business was transacted after
which lunch was served by the
hostesses. There were 16 mem
bers and one visitor present.
Mr. and Mrs. Verlyn Gibbs of
Clearwater have named their
son Terry Lee.
DR. II. I). GII.DERSLEEVE
OPTOMETRIST
Northeast Comer
of 4th & Douglas
O'NEILL, NEBR.
Phone 167
Office Hours: 9-5
Eyea Examined — Oiassea Kitted
Monday Thru Saturday
i
Lynch News
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kolund
> and family were Friday evening
I visitors at the Martin Jehorek
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Connelly and
i son, Jay, returned to their home
in Lincoln Friday after a week's
visit here.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Sieler and
Susan spent Friday evening at
the Dale Audiss home near Ano
ka.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Sitterly
i of Manhattan, Kans., visited at
the Bud Stewart home the past
: week.
Mr and Mrs. Emil Micanek
and Mr. and Mrs. Lone Micanek
: were Sioux City vistiors the
weekend of Sepember 7-8.
Mrs. Gene Udey and son of
; California spent several days
| visiting at the Tommy Courtney
II home.
i Mrs. Lewie Christensen was in
Omaha the past week getting ac
quainted with a new granddaugh
. ter. Mrs. Bus Greene cooked
dinner at the school house during
1 her absence.
Mrs. Pearl Spencer Bates of
Oakland, Calf., is here visiting
; her son, Billy Spencer, and fam
. ily and many old time friends.
Joe Peniska, Mrs. Neil Nelson,
Joe Walsh and Mrs. Betty Christ
ensen were hosts at a luncheon
and party Tuesday evening,
September 10, in honor of the
new members of the Lynch fac
ulty.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Counts were
Sioux City visitors over the week
ed of September 7-8.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Darnell
and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Darnell
of Oregon are vacationing on the
East Coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Price
and sons returned home Thurs
day, September 12, from a two
weeks vacation to Niagrara
Falls.
Miss Pauline Mulhair visited
in Sioux Falls, S.D., Thursday,
September 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Novak and
Mrs. Albert Kalkowski were
i Yankton, S.D., visitors Thursday,
. Septeml>er 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mulhair
were in Sioux Falls, S. D., on
i Wednesday, September 11, to at
; tend the funeral of a cousin,
i The American Legion auxiliary
sponsored a teachers reception
. at the legion hall Monday eve
ning, September 16. They en
joyed the impromto program.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Barnes
spent last Saturday at Norfolk on
business and also visiting Mrs.
Barnes parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Holtz while there.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Potter are
in Virgina for an extended visit
with their daughter. Mrs Mar
dell White, and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Barnes re
turned home Friday, September
13, from a week's vacation trip.
They left Saturday. September 7,
and visited Mr. and Mrs. George
Thayer at Hooper on Sunday.
They visited relatives in Thurs
ton. on Monday and Tuesday.
They also visited at the home of
their nephew, Ivan Ward, in
Sioux City. On Wednesday,
Thursday and part of Friday
they took in the Clay county fair
at Spencer, la. They stayed at
the same private home at Spen
cer that they stayed in last year
when they attended the 1956 fair.
The next meeting will lie with
Mrs. Wallace Moffett and Mrs.
Ray Long, assistant hostess. The
leaders for October will be Mrs.
Jack Tarr and Mrs. Vernon
Dahl berg.
The Sunshine extension club
met with Mrs. Harlan Holtz
Wednesday afternoon, September
11. All members but one were
present. Mrs. Ruth Mikkelson
: •. xt.rr;
V* no <1 Vl^llUl . v a v «v v •
ed were Mrs. Gladys Spencer,
president: Mrs. Lloyd Spencer,
vice-president; Mrs. Glen Davy,
secretary; Mrs. Harold Potter,
treasurer. The club had pre
viously sent several Care pack
ages and this week received an
answer from one sent to Ger
many. The letter was written in
German so the ladies had ii
translated. It was a very nice
thank you letter from a family in
Germany.
Monumenta of lasting beauty
made by skilled craftsmen of
the J. F. Bloom Co. . . . monu
ments from the factory to the
consumer. — Emmet Crabh, O'
Neill, phone J39-J. 37tf.
The Excello extension club
met with Mrs. Leland Moody and
Miss Pauline Mulhair for the
first fall meeting Monday eve
ning, September 9. Nine mem
bers were present. The president
urged members to attend the
tour of model homes in Spencer
Thursday, September 12, also
achievement day, October 25.
Officers elected for the coming
year are Mrs. Herbert Price, |
president; Mrs. Elizabeth Peklo,
vice-president; Mrs. Don Allen,
secretary-treasurer. The reading,
music and health leaders will be
appointed by the new president.
The leaders training will In'
Septemln'r 26 with a lesson on
soups and sandwiches. The pres
ident reported that the Excello
club donated $16 toward the up
keep of the city park. Mrs. Al
bert Kalkowski gave a report on
the Boyd county club tour to
Hastings last June. The next j
meeting will be with Mrs. Fred
King and Mrs. Herbert Price.
The Rural Progcssive club met
with Mrs. Peter Mulhair Tues-!
day, September 10. Mrs. Glen
Hull was assistant hostess. New
officers elected were: Mrs. Wal
lace Moffett, president; Mrs.
Vernon Dahlberg, vice-president;
Mrs. Howard Anderson, sec
retary-treasurer; Mrs. Jack Farr,
news reporter. Mrs. Leo KaUtow
ski was a visitor. A discussion on
the lesson, "Eyes that See and
Ears that Hear", proved very
interesting.
Murray Reunion
Held at Lincoln—
Mr. and Mrs. George Murray
of Lead, S.D., Mrs. Ellen Bloom
burg of Buffalo, SD., Catherine
Perkins of Hanson, Ida., and
Martha Soukup of Casper. Wyo.,
arrived Wednesday evening,
September 11, to visit their sis
ters, Mrs. Clyde Streeter and
Mrs Dean Streeter, and their
husbands. Thursday the Streeters
accompanied them to Lincoln
where a Murray family reunion
...ne bnl/f of thn hitmt' of 11 n
other sister, Mrs. Bernard Mat
thews. The occasion was the 30th
wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mi's. Matthews.
The George Murrays accom
panied the Streeters back to O’
Neill Sunday evening.
O’Neill News
Mr and Mrs. Ralph Morrow of
O’Neill have named their son,
Michael John.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mlinar
w e r e Sunday, September 8,
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Mlinar of Stuart and evening
gudsts of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mli
nar of Atkinson.
Mrs. William Knoll of Mar
shalltown, la., was a guest here
week of September 8-15. She ar
rived Sunday. September 8, with
Mr. and Mrs. William Knoll, jr.,
For Auto Liability
& Property Damage
INSURANCE
Town 5-10-5 17.20; Farm, 13.60
Town 10-20-5 19.00; Farm, 15.00
Town 25-50-5 20.20; Farm, 16.00
Fire and Extended
Coverage
5 year Annual Pay Town Dwel
ling $2.60 per $1,000.00.
Farm: $8.00 per $1,000.00 first
year and $3.50 each subsequent
year. No renewals required.
See, Write or Phone
L. G. GILLESPIE
Insurance Agency
O’Neill Phone 218 and Ut
who went on to Denver, Qolo., to
spend the week.
Sunday guests of Mrs. Ethel
Frisch and boys were Mrs. Min
nie Mott and Donald of Spencer,
A1 Moore of Nutley, N J., Rich
ard Carlson of Key \Vt*>t, Fla.,
and Mr. and Mrs. George Mott
and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Clyde
and family of O'Neill.
Mrs. Anna Donlin visited her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. John Murray, of Spencer
several days last week. While
there she visited her sister. Mrs.
J. P. Ryan of Bonesteel, S.D.
Mr. and Mrs. John Murray of
Spencer visited her mother. Mrs.
Anna Donlin, over last Tuesday
Septemeber 10. They attended
the wedding of her cousin, Fran
cis Rohde and Maureen Mahoney.
ROYAL THEATER
— O’NEILL —
Thun*. Sept- •»»
ABANDON SHU*
Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling,
Lloyd Nolan. Co-starring Stephen
Boyd, Morin Lister, James llny
ter with Marie Lohr.
Fri.-Sat. Sep. 20-21
Big Double Bill
DESTINATION 60,000
Starring Preston Foster, Coleen
Gray, Pal Conway, Jeff Donnell.
Man-flown bullets running out of
sky. An Allied Artists Picture.
—ALSO —
Howard IXiff in
H1KRKA STRANGER
Co-starring Gloria McGhee
Dick Foran, John Hoyt, Barton
Me Lane, George E. Stone, and
introducing Ed Kemmer. "I'm
staking my claim on the woman
. . . and stakin’ my life on these
six guns."
Sun.-Mon.-TueH. Hep. 22-23-24
BEAT JAMES
The story of fabulous Jimmy
Walker . . . mayor of New York.
Starring Bob Hope, Vera Miles,
Paul ixmglas, Alexis Smith, Dar
ren McGavin; guest stars: Geo
rge Jossel, Walter Catlett. Tech
nicolor, VistaVision.
Wed. Thurs. Sept. 25-26
Columbia Pictures presents
THE GARMENT JI NGLE
Starring Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin
Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard
Boone, Valerie French. Ripped
sis-side out by the same com
pany that brought you "On The
Waterfront.”
Matinee Saturday & Sunday 2:3
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Friday and Saturday admission—
Adults 50c; Children under 12,
12e, Free if accompanied by par
ent. Wedn. and Thurs. Family
night, family admitted for two
Adult tickets.
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To the IVf an Postponing a D ream I
The man you see above—watching a beautiful
new 1957 Cadillac as it takes the sweep o’ the
boulevard—is representative of a goodly number
of American motorists.
He is a gentleman who would like ever so much
to own a Cadillac car—but who feels the time is
not quite propitious for him to do so.
Well, we have some sound advice for this
gentleman, and for those like him, and it is this:
Come in, sir, and see Jor yourselj!
First of all, you will find that today’s Cadillac
car is exceptionally practical to own and to enjoy.
In fact, its relatively modest cost, its wonderful
efficiency of operation, its great dependability and
its marvelous resale value mark it unmistakably
as one of motordom’s soundest investments.
And then you will discover that your dealer is
currently prepared to give you a most generous
allowance on your present car. In fact, the transi
tion to Cadillac is easier today than it has been
in many, many years.
And, as if this were not sufficiently gratifying
in itself, your dealer can assure you of prompt
delivery on your favorite model.
In short, if you are the man postponing his
dream of a Cadillac, then the odds are that the
"golden moment” has arrived 1
You should visit your dealer today—take the
wheel for yourself—experience the marvels of
Fleetwood luxury—and listen to the revealing
facts about Cadillac practicality.
He'll be waiting to welcome you—soon 1
VISIT YOUR AUTHORIZED CADILLAC DEALER