Prairieland Talk—
Old Printers Visit Brethren
By ROMAINE SAfNDERS. 4110 South 5lst St., Lincoln 6, Nebr.
LINCOLN -Otto Wolfe, a native ot Madison,
where in the days of U. S. Sen. W. V. Allen he
worked as a printer, later venturing into the news
paper business as editor and publisher, is now a
citizen of Lincoln. He stopped his car in front
where I was parked a mild October afternoon on
fhe front veranda.
Mr. Wolfe had c<jme tor
me and we took off for Cort
land, a village south of Lin
coln in Gage county. Fnend
Wolfe has none of the char
acteristics of the creature ot
the wild known as wolf, leath
er he manifests the helptul
spirit of the ministering angel.
We were rolling over high
ways and, with the instinct
horn of newspaper days, we
in the scenes as we rolled
by the fertile fields and plea
sant farm homes. Saunders
But most of all we enjoyed a visit with Chris
Baker, editor, publisher and printer ot the Cort
land News, a neat little four-page sheet, live col
umns to the page and something ot a relic of the
past as the type is hand set. Mr. Baker, now 81)
years of age, dot's all the work. He was seated on
a stool setting type as we entered his print shop.
Mr. Baker said he had been publishing a paper in
Cortland for 28 years.
From Coitland we drove to Panama, another
•mail town a few miles distant. The citizens ot
that community were out that afternoon where a
ball game was on.
Our next stop was at Bonnet, another small
village with a four-page five column newspaper
run by R. E. Clark with whom we visited. He al
so is tht' sole functionary in his Sun olant but has a
linotype machine. Some two pages ot his tour- 1
page paper is devoted to the ads ot the business
concerns of the village.
Refreshed by an ice cream cone each, Otto i
- and Prairieland Talker headed back to Lincoln
over highways passing through the rich farm lands
of southeast Nebraska
• • •
One of the city hospitals gives out that 255
babies were ushered in to a troubled world dur
ing the month of September. There were 132
boys and 123 girls, all hospital baby cribs filled
and empty dresser drawers resorted to for baby
Ixsls. "lie fruitful and multiply and replenish the
the earth”—and the job goes on.
• • •
Vern Scofield represents the Nebraska Press
Association at the meeting of the National Editor
ial association in Chicago this month Bill Der
tel of the Ohio Newspaper association is the prin
cipal speaker. The “Ten Biggest Problems Fac
ing the Newspapers Today” will be thrashed out
by delegates. When I stood at the Gordon jobber
day after day as a 17-year-old the tkiss' biggest
problem was where he would get the five dollars
he was supposed to pay me each week.
• • •
So the Russians have got up toward the moon.
Hope they stay there!
Editorial—
No Sympathy for Dakota
Eggs were thrown late last week trom a j
crowd that had gathered near Sioux Kails, S. D.,
to witness the state's annual mechanical com pick
ing contest, and to hear the nation's Secretary ot
Agriculure, Ezra Taft Benson. One or two ot them
found a targbt. It was not the secretary, but his
hat which was lying on a table near where he was
standing.
The marksmanship of the South Dakotans is
not the question at issue here. Rather it is the
spirit of the act. It was something that no state
can remember with pride. Egg throwing, or any
other debased act, inevitably boomerangs on the
perpetrator. South Dakota owes the nation an
apology and it owes to itself a period of absence
from public view for self-examination.
The Eisenhower-Benson farm program has
neither been satisfactory nor successful in the es
timation of most- in the nation's agricultural belt.
But it has never been evasive nor subtle. The
place it assigned to agriculture was stated at the
outset with candor both by President Eisenhower
and Secretary Benson.
The egg-throwing smacks of the old tarm holi
day telhnique and South Dakotans must teel asham
ed of the actions of the bad eggs.
Do Unto Others—Good Rule
(Jurat Editorial from the Hook County
(Bassett) Leader
Now the hunting season is in full swing it is
time to suggest that practice of the golden rule is
more important than ever. You know how it goes:
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you.”
During the past couple of weeks we have had
quite a number of ranchers in the Leader office
purchasing ”No Hunting” signs. Almost without
exception they say they would not mind persons
hunting on their land EF—
Hunters would ask permission so the rancher
knows who is on his property.
Hunters would treat their (the rancher’s) pro
perty as if it were their (the hunter's) own.
As you no doubt noticed that IF above is a big
one. It is probable that a few careless hunters
spoil the sport for the majority.
One rancher said, when in the office, he was
doing something this year which he had never done
before and which he did not like to do now — al
low no hunting of any sort on his land. He said
last year he lost two cows to hunters and now
aims to protect his property.
There is one thing, which it seems to us, hunt
ers may be Overlooking in their quest for game.
That is, anyone has the legal right to protect his t
property and to say who can and cannot have ac
cess to it.
The situation is no different than if a rancher
came into Bassett or any other city and proceeded
to tear down fences, trample flower beds, kill the
family pet and shoot holes in the house or garage.
It is easy to imagine what the owner's leeling in
that case would bo. He undoubtedly would assert
his legal right to protect his property.
We do not infer that all of the troubfe comes
from local hunters In fact, it is likely that local
hunters feel more responsibility for their neighbor's
possessions than persons from out of the county.
However, the fact that carelessness on the
part of a few hunters does not make tor the most
Talking with a young man from Oklahoma,
who has come to Lincoln to attend college, we were
informed that the natives of the Sooner state all
had a bit of Indian in them, he himsell tracing an
cestry to a Cherokee squaw. Oklahoma Indians are
foremost taking to the ways of the pale face and
oil wells have made them the wealthy red skins ot
the country. They come from far and near to this
prairieland educational center. I met one just
today from Spencer, la., and he smiled when told
Nebraska has a town by that name. Our charming
vJlage erf Spencer up there north of Niobrara riv
er was put on the map by guys from O'Neill more
than 60 years ago. Is there to be found today
among the residents of Spencer, Nebr., memories
of Sam Sample, of John McCafferty, of John Mann
or others from the town that John O'Neill built?
• • •
Out of the mists of the past there came to me
this morning a letter from Albert Blinco, mailed at
Oakdale where he and his wife were visiting at
the time but their home is at Wiilmar ,Minn., and
by now are down in Florida where they spend the
winter. Bert, as we knew him in the long ago and
the charming girl that became his wife, Pearl
Hawk, were of "our crowd" in O'Neill 60 years
ago. Mr. Blinco took to railroading and is now a
retired Great Northern railroad worker. His par
ents are burxxi in O’Neill. They were among the
pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. Blinco cherish memories
of youthful years in O’Neill, and Bert in his let
ter speaks of their visit to the scenes of their
youth before taking off for Florida.
• • •
Of course, about everything a chief executive
does there are those who would do it different or
not at all. In a letter to me the writer disagrees
with and points the finger of shame at Editor Cal,
saying that if state authorities can not or do not
protect their' citizens then the federal government
should take over. That is what we thought when
Sitting Bull started the Ghost Dance that was to
usher in an Indian messiah who would scalp the
pale faces and turn the country over to the Indians.
So federal troops were ordered to the scene and
saved our scalps.
* • •
Telephone poles are going the way of the
horse and buggy. About half a million has been
invested in underground equipment and labor to
run telephone wires under ground here in Lincoln.
Six tubes encased in a contrivance about two feet
long and these laid end to end six feet below the
surface and concrete run over them, then the earth
filling the ditch- all done by machine diggers and
scoops while a few guys with shovels toss in a clod
at intervals. How the wires are put through those
buried tubes has not been made known to the on
looking loafer.
• • •
Integration—what is it, what can this terrible
thing be so much before us today. Among other
things Webster defines it as "combination of ele
ments into a single complex.” As used today so
profusely it just means white and black kids sit
together in our halls of learning. What’s wrong
with that?
cordial relations with persons who have game on
their land, should be all the more reason why the
golden rule is a good one to follow in hunting sea
son as well as all year through.
That Other Sphere
That little sphere the Russians have launched
is rightly making a stir.
Many Americans are surprised or chargrined
because the Soviet was able to put up a satellite
before the United States did. Well, it’s not really
such a surprise. For years making satellites has
been a Soviet specialty. Until this artificial
"moon’’ business came up Uncle Sam just hadn’t
been interested.
As with other satellites in their orbit, the Rus
sians don’t count the cost. And they never take
time out for world series!
Recently a lot of Americans have been cran
ing their necks to watch a small round thing spin
ning in space—but it was not a "moon.” It was a
small round thing, sewed up in white leather, that
is launched wham by the bat! Noixxly trom Mars
is interested who sends it up or where it spins,
but millions in Uncle Sam's land, watching on TV,
kept sdore on it.
It isn't that Americans won’t cock an eager
eye to catch a glimpse of the Russians’ amazing
moon as it comes their way, but then they’ll hurry
back to television to catch up on that other sphere!
A 45-year-old Osreola man put in a night at an
O’Neill hotel at the outset of the hunting season.
He said it was his first stay in any hotel in his
lifetime. His wife didn’t accompany him on the
trip; she stayed behind with their 18-year-old son.
When someone says: "Let’s talk about the
facts", that simply means that he’s tired of hear
ing your prejudicial views on a particular subject
and has now decided to air his own prejudicial
views.
An expert, in some areas, is the man or the
woman who has read at least two books on the
same subject
Life as a mere landlubber seems a little dull
in these days of spacemen and frogmen.
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Trip to the Moon
Russia’s successful launching
of the earth satellite Sputnik and
the rash of flights to the moon
stuff revives a talk we had one
evening with Dr. Gunter Loeser,
famous German scientist who
was killed in the 1953 helicopter
tragedy here in which six men
lost their lives.
Until Loeser transferred his
talents to the United States, he
was secretary of the International
Interplanetary society in Ger
many. During World War n he
worked on nazi rocket problems
and was a ballistics consultant
at the famous Krupp works.
Loeser was captured by the
Americans during the war and
was put to work for the U.S. He
made several trips to O’Neill to
establish the 1953 air force-spon
sored wind test, which was de
voted to a minute study of wind
turbulance.
Whether the O’Neill test was
a parcel of the overall problems
relating to space flights is a mat
ter of conjecture. The findings
hero -and the 1956 test—were re
garded as basic research.
One evening before the 1953
tests began, Bill Bowker and I
had a long talk with Doctor Loes
er. He freely predicted trips to
the moon within 25 years. More
over, Loeser insisted he was going
to be aboard on the initial junket.
While making a test hop in a
helicopter, preparatory to drop
ping smoke bombs for the O’Neill
test, a blade on the big ’copter
snapped and the bird plummeted
to the ground and burned in a
field near the test site.
Later, at the scene of the
tragedy. Bowker stepped over to
where I was snapping pictures
and said:
“Well, doc got his trip to the
moon.’’ -CAL STEWART
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When You & I Were Young . . .
Dailey Gets $4,000
Check from Company
With King Coalition
in Utah
50 Years .Ago
Miss Nora Ryan, daughter of
Mrs. James Ryan and Timothy
Duggan of Roanoke, IU., were
married. . . M. O. Howard and
Miss Josephine Soukup, both of
Page, were granted a marriage
license. . . James Early had a big
smile when he stopped into the
office. He finished threshing and
received 3,780 bushels of grain,
which should do all winter. . .Supt.
M. J. Dailey of King Coalition
company of Salt Lake City, son
of Mrs. John Dailey of this city,
was presented a check for $4,000
as a testimonial for his fine ser
vice in this mining company.
20 Years Ago
Airplanes were used to scare
pesty crows into a grove one mile
west and a half mile east of the
Hubbard filling station in Cham
bers. The Collins, Newhouse and
Fees planes were used. Every
time a plane would swoop down,
the crows headed for the grove
where hunters awaited them. . .
Two old time buildings were
moved to to the rear of the lots
on Fourth street, immediately
south of the telephone building to
make room for a new building to
be erected by Emmet A. Harmon.
The old buildings once housed
offices of L. G. Gillespie and Dr.
H. L. Bennett.
10 Years Ago
Deaths: Mrs. P. V. Hickey at
Sioux City; Mrs. El wood Wallen;
Mrs. Clyde Hull of Atkinson; Per
cy A. Grass of Ewing; Charles G.
Case formerly of Inman; Leonard
Herman of Greeley, formerly of
the Page and Inman communities.
. . . Snakes and crows are dis
trubing the Celia community.
One Year Ago
Inman Methodist church cele
brated its 75th anniversary; Dick
Bilstein of Amelia showed the
champion, a Hereford steer, at
the annual 4-H Stocker feeder
calf show and sale. . . Page Meth
odist church received a second
anonymous gift of 55,000 for the
expansion program.
Emmet News
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sidak and
family went to Long Pine Sun
day, October 6, to visit his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sidak,
and Gene.
Jim Fritton, a student at the
University of Nebraska at Lin
coln, spent October 5-0, weekend
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Fritton.
A family dinner was held at
the home of Mrs. Mary Lewis,
Sunday, October 6. Those present
were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Peter
man of Cedar Falls, la., Mr. and
Mrs. Billy Clausson and Mr. and
Mrs. Johnny Clausson of Long
dale, Calif., Mrs Ed Clausson and
Kenny, Mr. and Mrs. LaVem
daussen and daughter, Mrs. Vic
tor Jacobson, Rudy Claussen,
Charlie Shaw and Eddie Ething
ton.
Mrs. George Pierson and three
sons of Sinclair. Wyo., arrived
Thursday morning, October 3. at
the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Kloppenborg. The
Pierson family left for their home
on Sunday morning. Lee and
1 >on Pierson did not have school
Thursday and Friday as their
teachers went to a teachers' con
vention.
Gary Beckwith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Beckwith of Tekamah,
was crowned king at the home
coming in Tekamah on Friday
night, October 4.
Miss Bertha Bruder of Boulder,
Colo., was a Monday, October 7,
visitor at the Joe Winkler home,
October 5-6, hunting guests of
Bud and Bob Cole were L. C. Ol
son, Jack Johnson and Leigh Net
ler of Omaha.
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