Prairieland Talk—
Balloonist Landed in Dakota Field
By BO MAINE SA1NDERS. 4110 South 51st 8t„ Lincoln 6, Ncbr.
LJNCOI-N Men of science have done much
to add to human comforts. They do much that
adds nothing to human comfort, worthwhile know
ledge or avoiding blunders.
One who dwells in scientific realms has told
his story of a Iwilloon flight to the outer fringe of
earth's atmosphere where he fussed and froze for
32 hours, trembled with fear
and came back to earth and
landed in a grain field on a
South Dakota farm.
I low high had he been?
Just 19 miles, the distance
from O’Neill to Atkinson. But
what is 19 miles along the
endless reach of space? When
he landed in that grain field
could he tell the South Dako
ta farmers how to produce
more and better wheat? Some- .
“£ 9.»nd.r,
been accomplished, but all he
has to tell is that one guy from earth lived if
hours out there on the rim of the air we breath.
Yes. his balloon and scientific dingbats he had
with him made work for human hands down here
below his perch 19 miles up.
South pole and north pole adventurers—what
have they contributed to human needs? And out
there a few miles east of The Frontier s editorial
sanctum, where Prairieland Talker roamed the
open prairie as a pioneer kid, scientists have toy
ed with the winds in recent years. 1 could have
told them of the tricks of prairieland winds, of
the wind moving our house one night, and on an
other night, blowing over a barrel of meat and
rolling it down across the prairie scattering chunks
of meat along the way.
What have the "wind tests” out there on Mike
• Carrol's homestead added to the joy of life in the
O’Neill community? But maybe it was a scientific
achievement for that guy out in the Minneola
country to come to my dad’s frontier plantation
and steal a load of com when we were ail away.
The »un burnt forth In golden glory this
morning after days In hiding beyond dark clouds.
Autumn frosts have withered flower and weed
alike, the forerunner of winter coming with silent
tread down the pathway of time. We look today
out upon a landscape robed In autumn's tinted
beauty. So may the autumn of our live* be
adorned with the robes of moral and spiritual
loveliness.
• • •
County Judge Morgan issued the license and
performed the ceremony uniting in marriage Ed
ward Tierney and Miss Fleener a day in October,
1903. . Price's barber shop had engaged a color
ed lad, known only as Billy to look after Maylon’s
many customers, dusting and brushing them up
as they stepped from the barber chair. . . Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Thompson went to Omaha to visit then
son F.lliott, . . M. F. and Judge Harrington, with
Court Reporter Maher were "at court" in Brown
county. . . Mrs. Deaver was another O’Neill cit
izen on the train for Omaha a day in October that
year. . . John Walmer and helpers drove a bunch
of cattle to O’Neill from the Gallagher-Birming
ham ranch for shipment to market. . . Charles
Stout was in Omaha making purchases for the an
nual holiday trade. . . Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Boyle
departed for their home at Darlington, Wise., after
a visit in O’Neill, Mrs. Boyle being a sister of Ed
F. Gallagher and Mrs. Birmingham.
It is noted in a story in a recent issue oi ine
Frontier that Will H. Spindler has rounded out 38
years teaching the young Indians up there in their
picturesque lands of the Pine Ridge Mr. and Mrs.
Spindler make their home at Wounded Knee and
probably can give the Sioux war cry with the best
of them I recall a few years ago while waiting to
board a westbound train at the Union Station in
Omaha of striking up a conversation with a young
woman who sat beside me and learned that she
was a fullblooded Sioux from that Potato Creek
school up on the Pine Ridge and had addressed
friend Will as Professor Spindler. She was on her
way at the time back to the Pine Ridge. What
latent longing for the days when her ancestors
roamed the plains after buffalo may have lurked
behind the polished mask that maybe Professor
Will had lieen instrumental in bringing about was
not for a pale face to know. Beautiful, cultured,
gramatical command of the queen's English there
she sat sedately. Then my train was called. As
I sat in the car riding along I thought was it that
northern Holt county guy turned Indian teacher
who had touched with a magic wand at least one
human life to transform that life from savagery to
enlightened culture.
• • •
A 53-year-old Hollywood notable and hi*
23-year-old "starlet” bride get their pictures In
our evening paper under a three-column bend
line and lengthy story on page one. 8ome 800
college students within editorial arms length
spending a week at special devotions seeking the
guidance of the divine Hand may get a two-inch
space under a 12-point heading on a back page;
young men, young women, working long hours to
earn sufficient to pay their way through the state
university are never mentioned; pralrielnnd pa
triots out over Nebraska making the state what
it is a great place to live are passed by unless
involved In a highway crackup. Such Is "met
ropolitan” ncwspaperlng.
• • •
Now its radioactive materials in milk, so the
Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center at
Cincinnati, O., is going after it. . . Sixt-five thou
sand preachers and priets are at work in the
world on missionary missions. And the world has
never been more in need of their ministry. . . Sev
en million American youth attended Bible school
and summer camps the past summer. . . 10 per
cent of the 52,000 names listed in Who’s Who in
America are New Englanders. . . American Luth
eran church, with a mem!>ership of two million, is
being formed to be in action in the religious field
of the country by 1960... . A congressman, a form
er U. S. senator, a state of fiscal and community
notables stowed it away at the banquet table and
heard speeches in Osmond, the occasion being a
pubilee over the completion of new U.S. highway 20
connecting Osmond and Plainview.
* * *
There are at least 10 million Americans who
can tell you, right now, who will be the next pres
ident of the United States.
* * •
Indirect taxes are favored by politicians be
cause the public rarely has sense enough to know
when they are paid.
• • •
Correct this sentence: “I did not take Junior
to the circus because he was satisfied after seeing
the parade.”
Editorial—
Advisors Fresh Out of Ideas
The Omaha World-Herald Friday took occa
sion to comment on reported utterances of former
Defense Secertary Charles Wilson, who now' is
back in the privacy of his Detroit, Mich., home.
Wilson is supposed to have told friends that
he thinks President Eisenhower got bad advice
and made a serious, long-lasting mistake in Little
Rock.
The World-Herald offered this:
“‘There are other reports that Mr. Eisenhow- I
er suspects it was a mistake and is unhappy with
his advisers, particularly the departing Herbert
Brownell, a native Nebraskans and the retiring at
torney-general.
“Whatever the misgivings and whoever gave
the advice, it was Mr. Eisenhower who made the
move. And it will be up to the president to get
himself and the country out of an unhappy predic
ament. It seems pretty clear that his advisers
are fresh out of ideas”
Easy Living Not Good
Dependability is a trait In human beings which
is often underrated and which should be cultivat
ed by every young man and woman—and others
too. for that matter.
Today's young men and women can take a job
or leave it, and be fired from one job and find
another, and can usually find a way to obtain
enough money to get by on, one way or the other.
All of this is good, except for the fact that an easy
life does not necessarily build character.
We have seen that soft, easy living has pre
vented America's youth from being good physical
specimens Recent tests involving both American
and European boys show that the Europeans are
In far better physical shape than we are. So, we
must conclude that an easy life does not develop
the qualities of self-sufficiency and dependability
as widely as these characteristics are developed
in tougher times.
Perhaps it is better to have the easy times
and the advantages that go with them rather than
tight times. It is nevertheless desirable to see the
present generation develop the quality or reliability
and dependability which so many older people seem
to have. It will be noted that many of the top
executives in the business world are far more eag
er to perform a personal service for a small pro
fit than many of today's youngster’s who seem to
lack the fire and the will to please that are so
necessary if one is to stay on top during both good
times and bad. »
Reprehensible Crime
There is one remedy which might curtail the
amount of drunken driving on U. S. highways. It
was used recently in Russia and it certainly eli
minates the possibility of a recurrence of this of
fense by the same party.
Not long ago a driver in Russia was hurrving
along on an icy road, attempted to pass another
vehicle, skidded and struck four pedestrians. One
of the pedestrians was killed.
The driver was held and tried by Soviet court
and found guilty of reckless driving and homicide,
and sentenced to death. A death for a death, so to
speak, was the Russian justice dispensed.
Although we do not propose such a penalty in
the United States, the fact that one unintentionally
kills, rather than intentionally, nevertheless fails to
be of any value to the victim, death being a pretty
permanent affair. It might be that a suitable pen
alty for reckless driving, under the influence,
which takes a life, should include a bar from pos
session of a driver’s licenses for a number of
years—if and when the court’s punishment is
served.
And, while we do not favor the death penalty
for accidents, even if they are the result of neg
ligence or driving under the influence, the taking
of other lives on the highways, because of excesses
by the driver, is perhaps as reprehensible as kill
ing another person in a fit or rage in any unpre
meditated manner.
And since one’s conscience is a harder judge
than the courts, thought along this line is certain
ly in order.
There are millions of Americans whose eye
sight remains unimpaired who do not read any
thing by design.
Businesses succeed when somebody attends to j
the small details that the average boss is too busy
to fool with.
One reason why so many of us fail to get rich
is that we run from hard work like it might be a
plague.
You can travel thousands of miles without
finding better people than those who live next door.
There is always a point to our paragraphs—
even if it is the period at the end of the sentence.
The enthusiasm of a salesman is in direct pro
portion to his percentage.
Front &
CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher
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MIRTH-30
»How iowy Hwot d«*i fho light hwt to chongo botoro yoo got*
W hen You & I Were Young . . .
Sheriff Hall Is
Passing Out Cigars
His Daughter Gives
Birth to Son
I ’ SO Years Ago
Garry Benson, who has been
helping The Frontier for the past
month, went home to vote. . .
James Carton, a nephew of John
Carton, arrived from Ireland and
plans to make his home here. . .
James Mullen has completed a
fine new bam that rests on con
crete. He lives just west of
town. . . Sheriff Hall is passing
out cigars. His daughter, Mrs.
G. A. Hamilton of Leavenworth,
Wash., had a son.
20 Tears Ago
Fred Dobias died suddenly of
a heart attack while on the way
to Lincoln to enter a hospital. He
was a war veteran. . . Orville
Searles was killed and four other
persons seriously injured when
their car stalled on the tracks
and was hit by a train, which
they did not see. . . Miss Margar
et Cuddy was honored at a pre
nuptial shower. She is to be mar
ried to John Jansen. . . Prizes
were awarded for the best cos
tumes at the Country club Hal
lowe’en party to the following: i
Mrs. Homer Mullen and Miss
Bernadette Brennan,as a couple
of blind beggars; Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin Ruzicka Ted Olson, Mrs.
Ralph Oppen, the Misses Anna, !
Theresa and Grace Connolly, as
Dr. DeFoe (Mr. Ruzicka), a
French nurse (Mr. Olson) and
the quintuplets. Honorable men
tion went to Mrs. Max Golden as
Pop Eye, the sailor; Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Coyne, as gentlemen
of fashion; Ted Horn, as a col
ored mammy; the Misses Reta
Reardon and Marion Dickson, as
Siamese twins; Mrs. R. R. Morri
son and Mrs. F. J. Dishner, as
policeman with batons, etc. Mrs.
Golden and C. E. Stout won first
prize in the waltzing contest.
10 Tears Ago
Deaths: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
West of Page; M. F. Kirwan; |
Peter Mulhair of Lynch; Irwin
Simonson.
One Year Ago
The farm of Carl Michaels,
living five miles southwest of
Clearwater, was the scene of an
unseasonal twister. Less dam
age was done at the Walter Fin
ley and Omar Hoffman places.
Slight damage was inflicted at'
the Lloyd Kimes place.
Mrs. Hunt Hostess—
Winners of the Bridge club held
Tuesday evening, October 29, at!
the home of Mrs. Earl Hunt were
Mrs Winnie Barger and Mrs. L.
A. Becker. Guests were Mrs. K.
Hunt and Mrs. Marvin Miller.
Jeudi Winners—
Winners of Jeudi club Thurs
day, October 24, at the home of
Mrs. J. B. Grady were Mrs.
Winnie Barger, Mrs. Dale Ker
senbrock and Mrs. Grady.
Supper Club
Fourteen guests attended the
masquerade party held Saturday
evening, October 26, at the John
L. Baker home for members of
the supper club.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Sydow
and Jackie of Stanton were Sun
day, October 27, guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Mlinar.
I
The World's Most
Honored Show
> MICHAEL TODD’S .a
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Admiral Theatre
OMAHA
Tickets on Sale:
TOWN HOUSE
Phone 273, O’Neill
Purchases Martin
Rmidcnsr—
Marcellus Schaaf purchased the
Meta Martin estate eight-room
dwelling for $5,100. The guard
ian's sale was conducted Tues
day, October 29; Elenor Haynes,
guardian; John R. Gallagher,
attorney.
17th Anniversary of
Wsot Noted—
AMELIA Women's Society of
Christian Service met at the
church annex Wednesday, Octo
tx»r 16 It was the 17th anniver
sary of the WSCS and the society
celebrated the event with a spe
cial program.
Mrs. George Fullerton baked j
and decorated a large birthday
cake. Mrs Lee Gilman and Mrs.
Dick Doolittle serv ed the lunch, j
Participates in
Okinawa Assault—
Marine Cpl. Uoyd E. Rits, son j
of Mr and Mrs Uoyd Ritts of O'
Neill, participated in an assault
landing exercises on Okinawa,
October 21.
The landing was held during
the movement of Japan based
marine units of the third marine
division to their new home on
Okinawa.
Robert Freed Serving
on Commander's staff—
ATKINSON Robert M Freed,
seaman apprentice, USN, grand
son of Mrs. Bert Freed of Atkin
son, s serving on the staff of the
staff of the commander of the
Atlantic fleet air force at the na
val air station at Norfolk, Va.
ON DISPLAY
CHAMBERS- The 1958 Chev
rolet went on display at the Gil
lette & Son garage Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. Free
doughnuts and coffee were serv
ed Saturday to the many who
came in to see it.
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Makes Report on
Rebekah Assembly
INMAN Arbutus Rebekah lodge
met Wednesday evening, Octo
ber 23, at the lOOF hall. Mrs
Carrie McMahan, noble grand,
was in charge.
Mrs. Hazel LoretU gave a re
port of the Rebekah assembly at
York and also the IOOF home at
York.
Mrs Ellen Brown and Mrs.
Eunice Appleby were hostesses
for the evening and served re
freshments in keeping with the
Hallowe’en season.
Other Inman News
Miss LuElla Watson, who
teaches at Hokirege. spent the
weekend of October Jt>-27 with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs E. L.
Watson.
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