Prairieland Talk—
Milwaukee’s Win OK with P- T
By RO.HAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South Slst St., Lincoln «, Nebr.
LINCOLN r ive to nothing:
While in O'Neill on a recent Thursday it was
noted that the moderns in the old town, like those
of a generation or two back on the highway of
time are baseball fans, only they get in on the
games now over the air.
In the long ago we stood out there on open
prairie between what is now
First and Second streets and
saw the real thing in action—
Dickson. Merriman, Hanley,
Triggs and the others go to it.
This time the world senes
was on in distant New York
and all the guys in O'Neill
were at the television and ra
dio sets listening as the story
of the battle of ball and bats
came out of an overcast
sky. I stood at the intersec
tion of Fourth and Douglas Romaine
streets waiting for a friend to Saunders
drive up with whom I was going to Atkinson, wnen
a delighted ball enthusiast rushed up to me and
announced. "Milwaukee won!" The Milwaukee
Braves and New York Yanks were battling it on
the diamond, the Braves the victors W).
I, a native son of Wisconsin back about 1870,
was pleased to learn that Milwaukee, the tirst big
town I had ever seen at about the age of 11, had
won. ,
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Are you thinking of taking a trip out Into
■pae*? listen to this: "The heaven, even the
heavens, are the Lord’s; but the earth He hath
given to the children of men.”—Ps. 115:16.
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Paved highways and the family car take care
of traveling Americans today, public conveyance
doing little I was one of three paid passengers
on a north Nebraska bus recently and we sat In
gloomy silence rolling along for a hundred miles,
family cars swishing by, the occupants on the
way to distant points. Seats in passenger trains
are empty, many empty seats on buses. But prairie
landers are on the go in the family cars. 'The bus
driver stops before crossing a railroad but trains i
are not to be seen. Formerly, we traveled the
length of yie Elkhom valley by tram in the glow
of sunlight, now it is in the gloom of night. Day
light train service might induce John and Mary
to leave the flivver at home and go by rail to
Omaha.
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Standing at a bus stop waiting to take the bus
for downtown when a lady with whom 1 had ac
quaintance came along and we exchanged greet
ings, then she said to me, "You look like Mr.
Churchill, the former prime minister of Great Brit
ain". Could you blame me for expanding my ego a
bit? Then the lady asked If I could loan her the
bus fare until she saw me again. I handed her a
twohdt piece and thought it was well worth it.
It was a week in July, uwj—wm ana maoie,
son and daughter o( Mr and Mrs S. F. McNichols,
went to Colo, la., on a visit to their grandparents
. . Mrs. J. J. Harrington and little daughter left
for a visit with relatives in Illinois. . . The H. M
Uttley home entertained as a guest, a sister ot
Mr Uttley, Mrs. Benedict from our neighboring
state of South Dakota. . . Summer dress goods
were on the bargain counter at Mann's store. . .
Seats on sale at Gilligan & Stout’s, 15 cents, 25
cents and 35 cents for a theatrical performance at
the rink. . . Thomas Moss, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.
W, Moss of Amelia, was reported to have died in
Sacramento, Calif. . . P. D. Mullen was called to
Omaha on account of the serious illness of his
brother, Mike, who had been taken to a hospital
in Omaha. . . Haying had started and Frank
Campbell was calling attention of the Maude Mul
ler’s of the day to his stock of mowers and rakes.
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Father and mother and their six-year-old
daughter were living in fear for their lives where
overlords rule ruthlessly in lands beyond the seas.
Out of the welter of fear and horror that family
group of three made their escape to lands in wes
tern Europe, secured passage to America and
found a home in the land of the free. Little daugh
ter, thrilled with joy to be away from the land of
ruthless killer, was out at play bouncing her ball
when a car came speeding up to the corner, failed
to make the turn, plunged off of the street, hit
and killed that little child at play. We have no
ruthless overlords, but we have the reckless, the
drunks, at the steering wheel mowing down vic
tims day-by-day.
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Seated by his weather gadgets, the prognosta
cater announces that winter just ahead wall be
cold like the ones grandpa had known in other
years . . Neither New York nor London can
claim longer to be the world’s largest city—that
distinction goes to Tokyo, spread out over 1,275
square miles with a population of 8,471,617 Japs.
Who was it that said, Woe to Nipon! Just an
aspirant to world greatness whose names now lie
under European sod. . . It is said that all but one
of the 48 governors of states are church members
Methodists claim 13 of them; Baptists, eight; Epis
copalins, seven; Presbyterians, six; Catholics, five;
Lutherans, four; Congregational Christians, two;
Jews, one; and Mormons, one.
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Our state’s highest court is appealed to for a
review of the findings of the district court of Holt
county in which Judge Mounts held a law taxing
automobiles unconstitutional. Charley Peterson,
Holt’s cattle king, filed the original suit involving
some county officers. Now those officials want to
know what the judicial conclusions of the supreme
court will be. If you have paid the tax and the
high court sustains the findings of the lower court
the way is open to bring suit against the state of
Nebraska on a charge of highway robbery.
Editorial—
They Called It ‘McCarthyism’
"I suggest that we set up a special
Joint congressional committee, with full
subpoena powers, to investigate the guid
ed missle program, and to keep a vigilant
eye on its progress. If the committee
finds that the program is not on an all
out basis, then it must go into the fur
ther question of why it is not on an all-out
basis. If we are failing behind the So
viet Union in the development of a weap
on that may permit communism to con
quer us, then we must find out who is
responsible and what has motivated those
who are responsible.”
Who do you think said that nearly one and
one-half years ago? asks the Omaha World-Her
ald in its editorial columns last week. President
Eisenhower? Senator Stuart Symington? Nope.
It was that much-denounced, archrcactionary,
the senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy,
on the floor of the United States senate, on April
25, 1956.
And, for those who like to keep the record
straight, when the appointment of the newcomer
on the U. S. supreme court was put to the senate
for confirmation, there was one "no” vote against
.Justice Brennan, an Irish-American.
Brennan since his otherwise unanimous con
firmation has been aligned with the liberal ma
jority of the court and thereby helped unlock the
FBI files for communists trying to avoid prosecu
tion.
The "no” vote for Brennan’s confirmation was
registered by none other than Joe McCarthy, an
Irish-American.
Heart Trouble Leads Causes
For the third consecutive year, heart trouble
again leads the list of causes of death in Holt
county, accounting for 54 per cent of all deaths in
the county during 1956. The Holt rate was the
same as the national rate.
The Nebraska Heart association describes
heart trouble as high blood pressure, rheumatic
fever and hardening of the arteries.
The Nebraska association has invested 300
thousand-dollars in research at Nebraska’s twro
medical schools and at national research centers
since the first Nebraska heart fund drive in 1950
Comparisons:
County— Percentage A Number of Heart Deaths
1953 1954 1905 1956
Antelope 60% (70) 64% (62 ) 68% (71) 60% (78)
Boyd . 47% (27) 50% (20) 48% (18) 60% (33)
Garfield 63% (15) 72% (16) 50%, (17) 42% (16)
HOLT 45% (56) 54% (78) 53% (77) 54% (81)
Keya Paha 54% ( 6) 58% (10) 62% ( 8) 54% ( 7)
Wheeler 73% ( 8) 75% ( 6) 70% ( 7) 75% ( 9)
Rock 47% (16) 61% (19) 45% (14) 63% (19)
Knox 59% (74) 56% (76) 51% (59) 57% (70)
Brochure from Georgia
A brochure we received this week signed by
Gov. Marvn Griffin of Georgia (we presume most
newspapers in the land were on the mailing list)
sets forth the racial incidences in the South dur
ing the past few years and puts the finger of com
munists, communist sympathizers, and dupes of
red organizations in each situation.
The Clinton, Tenn., affair, the Tallahassee,
Fla., bus boycott, etc., were pictorially documented
and captions carried names and affiliations of
persons involved, most of whom had been cited by
the house un-American activities committee in
days gone by.
In addition, the brochure carries photos of the
training grounds for persons who touch off these
situations. The brochure labels Mounteagle, Tenn.,
as the spawning field, and a place where commie
doctrine is extolled.
It’s an interesting expose being circulated
over the signature of a governor of a sovereign
state, and might give some food forthought to those
who have been critical of Arkansas’ Governor Fa
who have been critical of Arkansas’ Governor
Faubus.
“No European ally needs, or is it endeavoring
to produce the intercontinental ballistic missle.
Since the peace of the free world, and victory if
war is forced upon us, rests on American air and
ICBM supremacy, foreign aid can be safely dis
continued, spending for conventional military pur
poses can safely revert to pre-Korean war days,
and America can gain ICBM and air superiority
without a wild defense spending orgy.’’—Bonner F.
Fellers, retired general and lflilitary analyst.
We do not despair. There will be a resur
gence of Cornhusker football glory, and native
sons will figure prominently in the glory chapters
when they are written. Meanwhile, some of the
University of Nebraska grid losses are monotonous
and somewhat embarrassing.
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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ty, Nebraska, as second-class mall matter under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This news
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O’Neill News
Expected this weekend from
Chicago to visit his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Froelich, will be
Mr. and Mrs. Froelich, jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schmit were
in Omaha Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Marvin Johnson was in
Lincoln Saturday to visit her
daughter, Miss Carole Johnson,
who is a student at a business col
lege.
Mrs. Dick Tomlinson was in
Hastings recently to see her son
and his wife, Sgt. and Mrs. Har
old Dexter.
Friday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Dwayne Philbrick were her moth
er, Mrs. Lottie Lofquest, her sis
ter, Mrs. Elmer Allyn and daugh
ters and her grandmother, Mrs.
Vina Munson, all of north of
Stuart.
Mrs. Iva Hopkins returned Sat
urday from Sioux City where she
had visited her daughter, Mrs.
Edwin Morey, and her brothers
for a week.
Saturday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Williamson were his
mother and his sister, Mrs. C. E.
Williamson, and Mrs. C. P. Leach,
both of Page.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Young
and Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Patton
were guests of Dr. and Mrs. L. A.
Patton in Norfolk Sunday. They
also attended the Norfolk home
tour, sponsored by Trinity guild
of the Episcopal church.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Tellier and
boys left Monday for Grand Island
to attend the funeral Tuesday of
his neice, who died suddenly of
a brain tumor. She had been
married only a short time.
Mr. and Mrs Billie Sitz of Bur
well were Friday dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Philbrick.
Melvin Schmit Feted—
Guests for Sunday dinner at
the John N. Schmit home in
honor of Melvin Schmit’s first
commuion were his grandpar
ents, Nick Schmit of Atkinson
and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Engler
of Stuart and Mr. and Mrs. Al
fred Straka and family of Stuart.
When You & 1 Were Young . . .
Enright Suffers
Severe Fire Loss
C a r r ies No Insurance
to Cover Loss
50 Years Ago
James Enright, who lives on
the old John Cronin place about
five miles northwest of O’Neill,
had a severe loss from fire and
had no insurance. He losts his
barn containing 1,200 bushels of
speltz and oats, two horses and
three sets of harness, a new rid
ing plow and a new endgate seed
er. . . Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Erb.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bellar and
John Grutsch left for Landon and
Stratford, Can., to visit relatives.
. . . Marriage licenses were issued
to John F. Galligan and Tillie
Nightengale of Atkinson and
Richard A. Hont and Ollie Broce,
both of Bassett.
20 Y’ears Ago
Taken from Southwest Breezes
by Romaine Saunders: Added to
the injured foot sustained in a
hay rake, Frank Williamson sub
sequently found himself laid up
with the ever popular but none
the less distresing flu. . . Miss
Beryl Winchell and John Davis
were married. , . The Emmet
school teachers, Miss Kellar, Miss
Pontgratz and Miss Harris, en
j joyed a birthday supper at the
Guy Cole home to honor Bobbie’s
10th birthday anniversary.
10 Years Ago
Royalty at O'Neill high school
were: King—Robert Matthews,
queen — Miss Marjorie Hunger
ford. . . At St. Mary’s academy
Miss Maxine Bauer was queen
and the Misses Alice Biglin and
Martha Mullen were attendants.
. . . Alex Frickel and Edward
Albrecht of Celia returned from
a 5,600-mile trip without a flat.
You guessed it. They discovered
one the next morning.
One Year Ago
The Republican caravan, with
Sen. Roman Hruska. Gov. Victor
Anderson and Rep. A. L. Miller
and R. E. Spelts as speakers, ap
peared in O’Neill. . . Norman
Uhl and Bert Urban landed a
47-pound turtle at Ft. Randall
dam. . . Deaths: Mrs. Catherine
F. Pribil; G. A. Bauer of Ewing,
John G. Schneider of Atkinson.
Letter to Editor
77 Doris Drive,
Security Village,
Colorado Springs, Colo.
We are grateful to the Roy
Humrichs for the gift subscription
to The Frontier. We look forward
to receiving it each week.
We have purchased a new
home and have been very busy
seeding the lawn and landscaping
the yard. We enjoy the cool
mountain air and the beauty of
this area. This is the most beauti
ful season of the year for the
aspen have turned yellow and'
the vines have turned red making
the mountains very colorful. Ev
en though we are happy here, we
do imiss O’Neill and our many
friends there.
We enjoyed having several
families from O’Neill visit us this
summer. We were pleasantly sur
prised yesterday when Chaplain
and Mrs. E. G. Smith, formerly
of Christ Lutheran church in O’
Neill, and their two daughters ar
rived to spend a few days with
us. We see the Dan Sullivans, for
merly of O’Neill, quite often.
Their daughter, Rita, baby sits
for us.—THE ELDON RAMSELS.
Kaasa Has Calf
Named ‘Sputnik’
LYNCH—Floyd Kaasa, farm
er near here, has a calf which
has been dubbed “Sputnik”.
The calf, Kaasa says, has a
tendency to hold its head high
and run in circles.
“I figure the calf will be tak
ing off for the moon one of
these days,” he told his wife.
ROYAL THEATER
— O’NEILL —
TTiurs. Oct. 24
THE PRINCE AND THE
SHOW GIRL
Technicolor
There’s only one Marilyn Mon
roe, but there isn’t one Marilyn
Monroe picture that teases and
tickles like Marilyn Monroe star
ring with Laurence Oliver in
"The Prince and the Showgirl.’’
Laurence Oliver is the prince who
never should have seen her show.
. . . and never, never should have
seen her later!
Fri.-Sat. Oct 25-28
GOD IS MY PARTNER
A Regalscope picture starring
three-time academy award win
ner Walter Brennan, co-starring
John Hoyt, Marion Ross, Jesse
White. How Christmas came in
Maytime to one American town.
The story of a miracle that hap
pened on m^in street. A wonder
ful motion picture warmed by
the sunshine that comes from the
human heart.
Sun.-Mon.-Tues. Oct 27-28-29
James Stewart and Audie Mur
P>' in
NIGHT PASSAGE
Co-starring Dan Duryea, Di
anne Foster, Elaine Stewart and
Brandon deWilde as "Joey" with
Jay C. Flippen. The first motion
picture filmed in TECHNRAMA,
the ultimate in photographic ex
cellence ! Technicolor.
The saga of the McLaine broth
ers, the woman who stood be
tween them, and the bullet that
ended their blood-feud.
—
Matinee Saturday & Sunday 2:80
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and
Friday and Saturday admission—
Adults 50c; Children under 12,
12c, Free If accompanied by par
ent. Wedn. and TTiurs. Family
night, family admitted for two
Adult tickets.
Hospital Notes
ATKINSON MEMORIAL
Admitted: October 14 George
Robertson of Stuart, medical;
15—Mrs. Frank Merry of Pender,
medical; 17 Mrs. Harvey Alls
house of Stuart, obstetrical
Mrs. Leo Wabs of O'Neill, obstet
rical; Mrs. Charley Tasler of At
kinson. surgical; Timothy Kaup
of Atkinson; 18 — Mrs. Robert
Slaymaker of Atkinson, obstet
rical; 19— Walt Counts of Bur
well, accident; Mrs. Walt Counts
of Burwell, accident; Charles
Freouf of Stuart, accident; Larry
Lamunyan of Stuart, accident;
21—Mrs Edward Walnofer of
Atkinson, medical.
Dismissed: October 14 — Mrs.
George Wallinger of Stuart, Harry
McShane of Atkinson; 15—Mrs.
Vernon Berry of Amelia, Mrs
Duane Domina and son of New
port; 17~Mrs. Keith King of
Stuart, Mrs. William Morgan of
Atkinson; 18-Dean Perry of Em
met, Mrs. William Newcombe of
Long Pine; 20—Mr. and Mrs.
Walt Counts of Burwell.
Hospitalized: Mrs. Gertrude
Zinky of Atkinson, Mrs. Robert
Slaymaker and son of Atkinson,
Mrs. Leo Wabs and daughter of
O'Neill, Mrs. Peter Engler of
J Stuart, Mrs. Harvey Allshouse and
son of Stuart, Mrs. Charley Tas
ler of Atkinson, Charles Freouf of
j Atkinson, Larry Lemunyan of
■ Stuart, Mario Lucian Astuto of
Omaha. George Lane of New
| port, Tim Kaup of Emmet, Mrs.
Edward Walnofer.
Expired: October 20—George
Robertson of Stuart, Mrs. Frank
Merry of Pender.
LlXDBFJti MEMORIAL.
(Creighton)
Admitted: Mrs. Lavaine Hines
of O'Neill. Mrs. Harry Honey of
Verdel, Billy Sukup of Verdigre,
Mrs. Everett Meeke of Creighton,
William Mathine of Creighton,
Harry LaFrenz of Creighton.
Dismissed: Mrs. Alfred Bert
schinger and daughter of Creigh
ton, Mrs. Kenneth Johnson and
daughter of Creighton, Mrs. Cliff
Largen of Creighton. Mrs. La
vaine Hines of O'Neill, Billy Suk
up of Verdigre, Mrs. Harry Hon
ey of Verdel. Mrs. Lee Ballard of
Center, Harry LaFrenz of Creigh
ton, William Mathine of Creigh
ton.
Dorsey News
Monday evening, October 14, a
group of friends gathered at the
George Calkins home to help
celebrate their wedding anniver
sary.
Mrs. H H. Miles and daughter,
Linda, took little Ronald Kruse
back to his parents in Lincoln,
Saturday, October 12. He had
spent a week with his grandmoth
er on the farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Harden Anspach
fo O'Neill visited the Richard
Marsten home Sunday, October
13.
A group of friends surprised Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Graham Friday
evening on their anniversary.
Men have been working on the;
Dorsey telephone lines from Red
bird to the switch.
Mrs, H. H. Miles and Linda
were dinner guests at the John
Derickson home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sibbel and
children of Butte visited at the
R. B. Marston home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Osborn
were Sunday evening supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs Leman
Huber.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Marston
and Mrs Charles Marston and
children visited at the Ray Sibbel
home in Butte Tuesday, October
15.
Mr. and Mrs. John Waggner of
Coleridge were here visiting Mrs.
Sarah Hansen. Mrs. Hansen went
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home with them for the weekend
and returned Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Greg Baker of
Denver, Colo., were Thursday
and Friday guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Lohaus and Mr. and Mrs.
John Baker. _
Paul Shierk
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