Prairieland Talk—
Senator Nelson Is Undecided
By BO MAINE SArNDEKS. 4110 South 31st St., Uncoln 6, NVbr.
LINCOLN State Son. Frank Nelson has been
a citizen of Holt county long enough to be just
about classed with tho natives, though I believe
ho regards Ft. CaLhoun, up above Omaha a few
miles, his life's starting point.
He told me the last time 1 saw him that he
was then undecided about being a candidate for
the job of senator again, but
I gave Frank the wink to re
mind him that I know how
politicians talk. But the sena
tor remembers the first dol
lar he earned and likes to tell
about it. Who doesn’t? As a
lad he took a cow 16 miles,
walking that distance and
back home with a silver dol
lar clutched tight In his fist
and visions of the fine new
duds he was going to buy with
RomaJne
Is there a lad about O’- Maunders
Neill w-ho would walk from Fourth and Douglas
streets south on U. S. 281 to the turn into Cham
bers and back for a dollar? Prairieland Talker
did four-bits better than Frank, when as a kid I
got $1.50 for guiding three night prairie prowlers
to where they could hole up.
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Denny Cronin, the Bigllns, John Weeks, Joe
Meredith, John Mann, Katie Mann, Mrs. We*
Evans, Flo and Agnes Bentley—all the others
who wrote the human picture from the late 70’s
until the turn of the sundial In the 1900’s, no
longer now in the moving scene unrolled upon the
scroll a* you walk the streets of O’Neill. And
where are they all Unlay—Just walk a mile to the
northwest and you will find where they lay.
That patriots down in the Amelia commu
nity will he successful in bringing back an elect
ed state superintendent of schools is devoutly to
be wished. The change to an appointive head of
Nebraska public school system should have never
been made. An elected head of the public educa
tional setup is representing the citizens of the state
who elected him, not a little group of other state
officials, honorable and seeking to promote the in
terest of our public schools though they may be.
But no group of men at the statehouse can de
termine what is needed in a given community as
the citizens of that community know it to be. Out
of the schools in communities such as Holt county’s
Amelia is representative come not the jail birds
but worthwhile citizens. And the elected county
superintendents, from the days of Charley Manvill
to Miss French of today, have seen that competent
teachers were in the schools.
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I can not reach a hand to you glistening
star, nor walk the trackless waste to worlds afar.
I can not pluck a rose from Eden’s blooming
bower, nor sit on celestial heights for one brief
hour. I can go to a lonely soul of whom I have
heard, and bring to him a friendly cheering
word; smile as 1 walk along the pathway where
childhood romps and play.
Good morning! How's the flu? Think you have
a kick coming against President Ike? Remember
Miriam was smitten with leprosy for raising her
voice against a great leader and was expelled from
the camp until she repented. . . October draws to
a close as radiant sunshine glows from out the
clear blue sky. Trees reach bare limbs heaven
ward, dead leaves carpet the ground below stal
wart oak and cottonwood, birds have taken off for !
southern winter resorts. But the morning of this |
last day of October Indian summer returns to nod
a fond farewell to prairieland. Get into your win
ter duds! . . . The little lad held out an open hand
j and I dropped a bit of candy in it, and he ate it.
! Then asked if he could have some to take to his
sister. What can you do but respond with your
last bit when a boy thinks of his sister that way?
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A barefoot lad long ago hiked down town
from a little white cottage at then the western j
limits of O’Neill, slipped into the Gatz meat mar
ket, bought and paid for 15 cents worth of beef,
hiked back home and had a place at the dinner
table with the rest of the family. Today he and
his wife are touring Europe and I have a card
from them mailed at some point in Spain. They
have visited all lands on the continent ending up
in the British Isles, then home. And home for Mr.
and Mrs. Will Meals is in San Diego, Calif. Will
left O'Neill in early youth, attended university in
Berkley (University of California) and became a
mining engineer. He is a cousin of George Meals
of the Atkinson community, and a brother-in-law
of Prairieland Talker.
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November 16, 1905—Mr. and Mrs. John Hal
loran of Inman celebrated the 40th anniversary of
their marriage. Their first Thanksgiving dinner
in their one-room homestead abode on the prairies
of Holt county in the long ago consisted of dried
cherries, all they had as bride and groom in their
pioneer homestead abode. . . Barney McGreevey
was in the news, also in jail, another move on the
part of depositors of the failed Elkhorn Valley
bank. . . A railroad stopping place west of Plain
view was named Copenhagen in honor of a Dane
or two settling there. . . M. F. and J. S. Harring
ton boarded the morning train for Lincoln and O.
O. Snyder was enroute to Omaha . . Miss Belle
Martin went to a South Dakota point where she
had been engaged to teach in the school.
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Wheat farmers of a western Nebraska county
must fork over to a federal revenue collector
$977,671.16 because their wheat fields turned out
the makings of too many loaves of bread. Has
it come to that on prairieland when the national
government dictates to the farmer what and how
much his land shall yield per acre; taking over the
job that belongs definitely to the clodhopper, the
soil and the weather. But had those wheat farm
ers stayed by the stock raising industry as others
have in prairieland they would not now be in such
a bondage to the government. As yet, word has
not gone out from Washington to our prairieland
cow toys setting a limit on the number of calves
the cows can bring forth year by year.
Editorial—
Inconsistencies at Ainsworth
Holt eountyans attending the recent Ainsworth
meeting of the Nebraska School Boards association
returned home quite convinced the association
came up with fumbles and inconsistencies.
For example, the association went on record
favoring state aid to schools but rejected any sug
gestion of federal control. The body felt federal
aid would mean a “loss of control" but the thought
of "losing control” in connection with state aid ap
parently never occurred to the policymakers
The association favors a state sales tax with
sufficient money earmarked for schools to assure
$50 annually distributed to the public schools on a
per pupil basis. In Holt, where there are three
parochial and an estimated five hundred parochial
pupils, the proposed sales tax money would be re
turned disproportionately to what is taken from the
county.
Moreover, the association can’t proceed with
the referendum sales tax plan until a present con
stitutional amendment is stricken, in other words
the leadership of the association has the cart be
fore the horse.
The school Ixiard group, strongly influenced
by the Nebraska State Education association and
the state dei>artment of education, wants "shot
gun” redistricting.
State Sen. Frank Nelson ot tJ Neill tooK tne
floor and pleaded the case of voluntary redistrict
ing.
“Don’t make it compulsory redistricting on a
statewide basis,” he warned. “When the mercury
Is below zero I offer a general invitation to every
one at this meeting to come to my house (24 miles
north and east of O’Neill.) Come and learn what
rural road conditions are. The trip will temper
your ideas of how far you can move pupils to and
from their schools.”
The Ainsworth meeting was three weeks ago.
Senator Nelson, returning home that night, got
within three miles of his home, his car bogged
down in the mud and he was obliged to spend the
remainder of the night sleeping in his car.
A speaker from Lincoln, whose apparent mis
sion was to sell state aid, told of "critical areas
in Nebraska where outside financial help is sore
ly needed.”
Nelson pointed out that Ewing’s mill levy re
cently was 99 mills and Naper's 104 mills. Yet
neither of these communities is clamoring for
state or federal aid to education.
"Where are these socalled critical areas?”
demanded Nelson No one had an explanation.
Jumping Through Hoops
Our Washington news letter, Human Events, re
ports day-by-day in the capital there is unfolding
a series of "police brutality” hearings- instigated
by the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP). The hearings are be
ing held before the board of commissioners—the
governing body of the District of Columbia.
Human Events says the District chapter of
NAACP, headed by Eugene Davidson, has charg
ed District Police Chief Robert Murray with "con
doning brutal treatment of Negroes and with dis
crimination between white and Negro members of
the police force.
A preliminary investigation was held by the
justice department—at the request of the commis
sioners—to determine whether there were grounds
for federal action concerning the NAACP's char
ges. The department’s finding was that "the evi
. dence does not warrant criminal prosecution for
violation of the civil rights statutes.” In the hear
. . ings themselves, It was brought out that Davidson.
before bringing his charges against Chief Murray,I
gave only cursory examination to the accusations!
of his witnessess.
As the hearings moved into their final phase1
last week, Congressman Joel Broyhill (R.-Va.), a j
member of the District of Columbia committee. ;
demanded an investigation of Davidson’s NAACP
chapter. “The Washington branch of the NAACP,”
Broyhill stated, “has engaged in reckless accusa
tions and unreasonable demands which, I fear,
have had a veiy adverse effect on the efficiency
and morale of one of the finest police organiza
tions in the nation.”
“One is forced to wonder”, Broyhill concluded,
“how long this racial association will have officials
in high places jumping through hoops.”
Tractor Is Child Killer
(Guest Editorial from the Pierce County leader)
You usually consider a tractor as an adult's
danger when it comes to farm accidents. . . this
will jolt you ... a national survey shows more
lives lost by tractors in the 10 to 14 year-old age
?roup than any other five-year age group.
In a four-year survey the national safety coun
cil obtained the following startling information:
Tractors killed 19 in the 0 to 4-year-old age
group.
A good share of these accidents were young
sters run over while playing in the farm yard.
Tractors killed 18 in the 5 to 19-year-old age
group.
Many of these are dad letting the youngster
ride on the draw bar while he is driving around
the place.
Tractors killed 33 in the 10 to 14-year-old age
group.
This is the greatest number killed in any age
group. The biggest proportion of these deaths are
results of youngsters operating a tractor before
proper training.
Tractors killed 29 in the 15 to 19-year-old age
group.
Youngsters who have not learned to recognize
danger when it appears . . . youths whose judge
ment is not sound ready to gamble they can make
a tractor do things it was never designed to per
form.
Tractors killed 10 in the 20 to 24-year-old age
group.
Part of this is a reflection of youths gone to
college or to the service . . . but judgement is bet
ter, arms stronger to hold a steering wheel and
death drops.
The death ratio changes little then until the 55
59 age group when 31 were killed, where overwork
and fatigue starts to reveal itself.
Our daughter, 6, refers to the Tilden baseball
whiz as “Richie 'Aspirin’ ".
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CARROLL W. STEWART. Editor and Publisher
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WI«TH-30
"I think his brakes are grabbing.”
When You & 1 Were Yountr . . .
Hay Partnership
Builds Addition
James Matthews Dies
at His Home
’ 50 Years Ago
J. B. Ryan and William Froe
lich have formed a partnership
in the hay business. They are
building an addition to the stor
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age room near the railroad!
tracks. . . Ross Ridgeway and
Miss Florence Wrede, both of
Agee, were married, also George
Robertson and Pearl Miner, both
of Stuart, and Eugene L. Carey of
Orchard and Bessie A. Newberry
of Page, Scott H. Bowers of De
loit and Miss Maude Workman of ■
Ewing. . . James Matthews, a
pioneer of this county, died at his
home eight miles north of the
city. . . Patrick Gahagan died of
a heart attack , . . John A. Har
mon’s little daughter, who had
her here appendix removed in
Omaha, has to have an other op
eration.
-0 Tears Vgo
Third grade winners in the pub
lic school (or health are Cbrunie
L. Williams, Bonnie Mortem, Lois
Sternes Marvel Neal. Charles
Jones and Bobbie Harmon, . .
Lottermen returning to St. Mary's
academy are Hardy Kubitsohke,
Robert McDonough, Francis Con
nelly, forwards; Robert -shoe
maker. center; Edward Quinn
and Frank Valla, guards. The
coaching staff consists of Jack
Arbuthnot, Ben Grady and Matt
Beha.
10 Years Ago
Harry Keeler was lost in On
tario, Canada, for 72 hours. He
is a resident of Ewing and had
been hunting. . . Deaths: Char
les Grahma, 99, of Clearwater;
Max J. Seger of Stuart.
One Year Ago
Deaths: Mrs. A1 J. Sauser, 62;
Mrs. Martin Hamik of Stuart;
John Moses, 86. of Atkinson; Mrs.
Mina Green, who was roared east
of Chambers, at Seattle, Wash.
. . . Claude Pickering, a farmer
who has been ill, was aided by
neighbors. . . Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam C. Kelley of Inman cele
brated their 60th wedding anni
versary.
Disabled Should Heed
Social Security Policy—
Persons who are so severely;
disabled that they cannot do a
substantial amount of work should
file an application with the social
security administ ration to
"freeze” their social security
records when they are in the sev
enth month of their disability,
according to Clifford Kittleson,
manager of the Norfolk social
security office.
Failure of a disabled person
age 50 or older with at least five
years of coverage out of the last
10 years, to file for disability in
surance benefits when he is in j
the seventh month of his disabil
ity could cost him one or more
monthly benefit payments. Appli
cations filed before January 1,
1958 may be retroactive to July
1957, the first month for which
such payments could lawfully be
made.
Christmas Seal Sale
Starts Friday—
TB Christmas Seals to support
the voluntary fight against tuber
culosis will be mailed to 360.944
homes in communities through
out Nebraska lieginning Friday,
November 15. signaling start of
Nebraska's 50th annual Christ
mas seal the 51st in the nation.
Tlie campaign, which will con
tinue through December, supports
medical research and education,
cace finding, and programs for tlie
lienefit of TB patients and their
families and other vital work,
according to Raymond M. Crass
man, jr., of Omaha, president of
the Nebraska Tuberculosis Assoc
iation.
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•kiss Me k»te’—
Miss Carolyn Wilson, daugh
ter of Mr and Mrs Edward Wil
son. 903 East Douglas, is a mem
ber of the lighting crew of the
fall musical, “Kiss Me Kate,” to
be presented at the College of St.
Ten's a. Winona, Minn , Novcm
hor 22-25. Miss Wilson is a soph
omore majoring in elementary
education.
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