Prairieland Talk—
Mrs. Orme in Another Try
By ROMA INK SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51« St., Lincoln 6, Nebr.
1JNOOl-N Mrs Fern Hubbard Orme is a can
didate again for the primary nomination seeking a
berth in the state legislature. Mrs. Orme was a
schoolgirl in O’Neill when the family lived there.
She has accomplished much in the field of educa
tion, also has taken an active interest in public af
fairs and served for a time as a member of the
Lincoln city council. Her
friends In O'Neill will watch
with interest the outcome of
the 1 legislative vote in Lan
caster county. . . One of those
long legged, towering neck
South American creatures
that are known as Hamas now
confined in Lincoln's Pioneer
park has a hahy I don’t think
any hahy bom at either of the
Capital City's four hospitals
has crowds of visitors coming
in to see little Johnnie or Mary R tmalne
such as go to the park to get Maunders
a lixik at white-legged baby llama. . . A proposed
wheel tax of five bucks has Lincoln citizens agitat
ed, both for and against. . . The North Western
goes to the supreme court to leam whether or not
passenger trains will travel through O’Neill.
• • •
O’Neill retains its cowboy mayor. Panlner
Schaffer Is the second patriot to he hauled out of
his saddle and exalted to the throne of boss of
the town. Ool. Iloylo functioned as mayor—and
he brought the saloons to time—but never left his
nmiuin mi w a*.
• • •
The Frontier for the first week in April was
delayed coming to my mail box out in front. So I
wondered, has the only remaining institution of
the early 1880‘s in O’Neill died of old age? Or did
envious rivals to the east or to the west inspire a
mob to wreck Editor Cal's modem plant—as an
envious contemporary over at Niobrara in the
long ago got a mob together to put Editor Doc
Mathews out of business? But today on the streets
of O'Neill are not seen the guys wearing boots
and spurs, with a six-gun hanging at the belt, as
there was in Mathew's day to come to the editor’s
aid and put to flight an invading mob. Seventy
eight years ago the first copy of The Frontier
came from the Washington hand press; has the
last one now come from the modem cylinder
press? Hardly!
• • •
Look out for the 14-year-olds wearing skirts!
Once known as the Holy City, Lincoln has a 14
year-old feminine specimen behind the iron bars,
the blood of fellow beings staining her childish
hands. NOw comes the story from Hollywood,
where ;inything can be pulled off, of another ju
venile miss plunging a knife into the vitals of her
mother's "boy friend” and leaving him for the fu
neral directors to dispose of. A Hollywood bed
room scene became the scene of a killing when
that plucky young gal stepped In to turn the amor
ous picture to one of blood.
He was taken today by the officer of a Ne
braska county and numbered just another one be
hind prison wails. In every state in the realm of
American Ixiundaries others were escorted to pris
on. I did a little at one time to secure the re
J lease of a neighboring youth from those prison
J 1 ars but was never crowned with the authority to
escort a fellow being to such a place, an unpleas
ant duty at best. And last night nine youths were
picked up by police in a suburb of the Capital
City and turned over to juvenile court authorities.
The pathway that leads to a life of lawlessness
and then to prison walls is strewn with human
wrecks, capable youth lured by a light that
gleams and glows in the gathering shadows only
to die in the black of the midnight hour.
• • *
He begins his story thus: “I first saw th»v
bones of Noah’s Ark In 1952.” This time it Is a
Frenchman climbing Ml. Ararat hi Turkey, look
ing down over a rock formed wall to see buried
under ice the Ark that rested there five thou
sand years ago. Says he lowered himself to his
amazing discovery and cut out a strip of wood
from that big ship, submitted it to experts in
such things who pronounced it to be of prehis
toric age. It was hack in the 30’s that a Russian
soldier told the world he had discovered the ark.
We have two stories now. Take your choice, or
both.
Following a week of clouds and rain here tn
the Capital City the first morning of the second
week of work in April dawned clear and bright.
As the moments ebbed and flowed the sun rose
in all its bright glory and went its way across the
blue, above, bathing the city and farflung land
scape in light and mellow warmth. April
showers had come to insure again the colorful
bloom of May flowers. Now the sunshine touches
field and garden. So again rain and sunshine en
ables nature to lay a robe of green across the land,
bring forth leaf and bud and blossom. And a
Voice out of the past reaches down across the
centuries for five thousand years, saying: While
the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and
cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day
and night shall not cease.”
• • •
A reformer is someone who insists on HIS
conscience being your guide. This reminds us of
sign that appears in the backroom of one of the O’
Neill stores: Be reasonable: let’s do it my way!
• * •
Stolen from an exchange: A recession is when
you tighten your belt. In a depression you have
no belt. And when you ain’t got no pants it’s a
panic.
* • •
To train children at home it is necessary for
both parents and the children to spend some time
there.
Editorial—
Foot-in-Mouth Afflicts HST
What Harry S. Truman said in 1949:
"A certain amount of unemployment, say from
three to five millions, is supportable. It Is a good
thing that job-seeking should go on at all times;
that is healthy for the economic body.”
What Harry S. Truman said in 1958:
"There are those who have been trying to say
that a little recession is a good thing for the health
of our economy. They would like to have you be
lieve that a temporary curb of prosperity is the
way to halt runaway inflation. This kind of think
ing is like believing a little bit of war might be
beneficial.”
And, on public debt, he has just declared:
”1 never lost sight of the desirability and the
necessity of achieving a balanced budget
(Editor’s note: Neither Harry nor his succes
sor, Dwight Eisenhower, ever achieved a balanced
budget. Ike campaigned on the proposition he was
going to balance the fiscal affairs.)
Mr. Truman took office as president on April
12 1945. On that day the official report put the
national debt at $234,142,255,085.70.
Mr. Truman left office January 19, 1953. On
that day the national debt was officially set at
$267,274,819,744.41.
Net increase in the debt under Mr. Truman:
533,132,564,658.71.
In 1949 and 1950, the economic recession under
the Truman administration hit a depth of 7.6 per
cent unemployment, with 4,684,000 jobless in a la
bor force at 61,427,000.
In January. 1958, under the Eisenhower ad
ministration, unemployment amounted to 5.8 per
cent, or 4,494,000 out of a total labor force of 66,
732,000.
Childe Harold Busy Again
Harold Stassen has obtained a $1 million slush
fund to back his fight for the governorship of
Pennsylvania, has rolled up his sleeves for a long
up-hill battle and — say observers — may wreck
the GOP in the Keystone state. He reportedly
thinks he is on his way to capturing the whole
party.
The money comes from elements in the "Cit
izens for Eisenhower" organization, which was
founded to help Ike in 1952; still other elements
from New York have thrown their weight into the
battle to nominate and elect Harold over the op
position of the Republican party organization in
Pennsylvania.
Those in the know claim that some ot this sup
port comes from Arthur Goldsmith, perennial back
er of internationalist causes, whom Westbrook Peg
ler once called “the spook in the Waldorf" (because
or his technique of creating "letterhead” groups and
his residence in that New York hotel).
In fact, those who have studied this “wreck
the-GOP” effort believe that it shapes up as a big
ger operation than Harold’s abortive 1956 attempt to
get the vice-presidential nomination away from Nix
on Some of Stassen's backers then—such as Amos
Peaslee reportedly have fallen away. Others like
Goldsmih, have suddenly materialized. If Childe
Harold can continue to rally such figures as Gold
smith to his standard, the developing scrap could
well prove noisier and more sensational than Stas
sen's frustrated crusade against Nixon.
Wedemeyer Sounds Off
Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer (ret.) has sound
ed off with some realistic observations concerning
military and economic aid to foreign powers
His views were given during consultation with
the un-American activities committee of the house
of representatives in Washington.
Wedemeyer believes the United States should
withhold military or economic aid from any coun
try “that opixjsed America’s aims in the interna
tional field”.
The Sunday World-Herald’s story from the
newspaper's Washington bureau quoted the Oma
ha-born wartime U. S. commander in the China
theater as saying he would recommend that coun
tries recipient of U. S. aid must indicate what they
intended to do with American aid—and when.
"Further”, says General Wedemeyer, “I
would require those countries to give evidence at
least of supporting objectives compatible with our
own.”
He said he would deny all aid to areas un
der communist control and would break off dip
lomatic relations with them.
Two communist countries, Yugoslavia and Po
land, benefit now from U. S. aid. General Wede
meyer said he thought that if a wartime emergency
developed the British would carefully analyze the
implications of cooperation with the United States.
He believes that a labor government in Britain,
which might be installed at the next elections
there, would discontinue the use of bases by Amer
icans.
“If I were a congressman,” he declared, “I
would oppose any increase to the debt limit and
would cut down on expenditures both at home
and abroad- particularly abroad”.
From where we sit at The Frontier that kind
of thinking qualifies a man—at least in part—for
the presidency. Unfortunately, however, from our
way of thinking the military men have not been our
best presidents.
Betting on Bristow
The state commissioner of education says he
will welcome the test case in the Nebraska courts
being brought by Bristow and two other small
high schools recently placed on the non-approved
list by the state education department.
Commissioner F. B. Decker says he is anxious
to know the strength of the law under which his
department operates.
Bristow and the other high schools are chal
lenging the department of education’s arbitrary
policies and standards which have the effect of
keeping a school in business or forcing it to close
its doors.
We’ll venture a guess the socalled arbitrary
procedures are unconstitutional like so much other
school legislation has turned out to be during the
past decade.
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When You Si I Were Young . . .
Accidental Shot
Hits 4 Children
Johnson Boy, 6, Hit
in Heel
50 Years Ago
A muzzle loaded shotgun,
which was accidentally thrown
to the floor in the R. R. Johnson
home in Stuart, discharged and
hit the heel of a six-year-old boy.
It tore the flesh and splintered
the bone. The shot then struck
a heavy granite pail and scat
tered and slightly wounded three
other ehildre ... A birthday
surprise party was held at
the home of Mrs. Sam Burge in
honor of their son, Edgar. . .
Michael Gallagher's horse was
killed instantly by a Northwest
ern train. Mr. Gallagher and J.
A. Cowperthwaite were fishing at
mud bridge and the animal broke
loose from a post. He ran toward
town and a passing freight caught
him near the crossing.
20 Years Ago
Miss Madeline Ullom has ac
cepted a position at the Walter
Reed hospital in Washington. D.
C. . Craig Hazelet, an engineer
in Chicago, 111., and a former res
ident of O'Neill, won the highest
award an engineer can win-^-a
$500 award for his elevated high
way design. . . Carla, four-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Oppen, suffered severe
burns on both legs when a coffee
pot she had pulled saturated her.
. . . Mrs. Margaret Allen, who
has been seriously ill with grippe,
is better. . . Leo Matthew’s re
turned home from a Sioux City
hospital where he had submitted
to an appendectomy. . . The
Shamrock Stamp club was organ
ized: Chris Yantzi, president;
Melvin Ruzicka, vice-president,
and Arlene, Kilpatrick, secretary
treasurer.
10 Years Ago
The home of Mrs, Martha Harp
ster, Neligh's oldest resident, was
the scene of a five-generation
gathering. Mrs. Harpster is 99;
. .Three soldiers’ bodies were
returned to this vicinity for bur
ial. Pvt. Warren M. Woeppel,
of Ewing, was killed at St. Lo,
France: Pfc. LeRoy Elston of
Clearwater was on the ill-fated
British vessel, Leopoldville, and
Pfc. Walter E. Meyborg of
Ewing, a paratrooper, lost
his life in France. . . Deaths:
Mrs. Effie McKamy, 76, of Val
entine, formerly of Clearwater;
Rev. Fern Smith of Johnstown,
N. Y., formerly an editor of the
defunct Chambers Bugle; Ivan
G. Bain, 60, of Gregory, S. D., a
former O’Neill resident.
One Year Ago
Deaths: Alfred S. Sanders, 76,
of O’Neill; Rudolph Barta, 84, of
Verdigre; Mrs. James Zidko, 51,
of Spencer. . . The windows at
the postoffice will be opened
from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Post
master General Summerfield or
dered the shorter hours because
of a shortage of funds. . . Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Ceams, farmers
living near Atkinson, are es
She has presented them with twin
peeially proud of a Hereford cow.
calves for the past five years.
Cora Maly Shelly
Burial at Palmyra
Mrs. Cora Maly Shelly, 79, a
former resident of O’Neill and a
longtime resident of Palmyra,
died Sunday, March 30, in a nur
sing home at Syracuse after a
two-year illness.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, April 1, at 2 p. m., at
the Palmyra Methodist church
with Rev. Robert Ahlschwede of
ficiating. Burial was in Rosewood
cemetery at Palmyra.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
E. B. Hatch, she was bom May
25, 1878, in Ulysses.
Mrs. Shelly lived at O’Neill be
fore moving to Palmyra. She was
a member of the Methodist
Lchurch.
Survivors include: Brother —
Orrin H. Hatch of Lincoln, also
a former resident of O’Neill; two
nieces and nephews.
News of Mrs. Shelly’s death
was forward to The Frontier in a
leter from Mr. Hatch to Clyde
Bowden.
Mrs. Frank Cronk
Next Hostess—
PAGE—Mrs. Jerry Asher was
hostess to the members of the
Bid-or-Bye Bridge club Wednes
day afternoon, April 9, at the
home of Mrs. Jerry Lamason.
At cards, Mrs. Herbert Stein
berg held high score while Mrs.
Cordes Walker received the low
score token. Mrs. Jerome Allen
and Mrs. Harold Asher were
guests.
Mrs. Frank Cronk will be Wed
nesday, April 23, hostess.
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— O’NEILL —
Participate* in
Exercise—
CIJlAHWATER — Army Pfc.
) Jimmie D. Thompson, 19, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Deloss C. Thomp
j son of Clearwater, recently par
! ticipated with the 51st ordnance
i group's headquarters com puny
in a communications exercise in
; volving select units from NATO
| member nations in Germany.
A clerk-typist in the company,
Thompson entered the army in
February, 1957. He completed ba
sic training at Ft. Chaffee, Ark.,
and arrived in Europe last July.
A 1955 graduate of Clearwater
high school, Thompson was a
farmer before entering the army
Sedivy Stationed
Near Curtain Border—
SPENCER — Sp 3/c Wesley D.
Sedivy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Adolph Sedivy of Spencer, is serv
ing with the 11th armored cavalry
regiment on the brink of the iron
curtain, near the Gorman-Czech
oslovakian border.
Specialist Sedivy, a jeep driver
in the regiment’s headquarters
company, entered the army in
August, 1956, and was stationed at
Ft. Knox, Ky., before arriving
overseas in March 1957.
The 24-year-old soldier was grad
uated from Spencer high school
in 1951.
Mrs. Frank Shefl, 82,
Dies in Hospital
VERDIGRE Mrs. Frank Shefl,
sr., 82, died Wednesday, April 9,
at Lundberg Memorial hospital
at Creighton.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Saturday morning, April 12.
at St. Wencelaus Catholic church
at Verdigre with Rev. Charles
O’Bomy, church pastor, officiat
ing.
The late Anna Sladek Proneke
Shefl was bom May 12, 1876, at
Dodge. *
She was married to William
Proneke at Pierce in 1897. They
became the parents of two chil
dren—one of whom died in in
fancy. Mr. Proneke died in 1900.
In 1903 she was married to
Frank Shefl at Verdigre. Six
children were bom to this union.
One died at the age of 23 and one
child died in infancy.
The Shelfs spent most of their
married life on a farm near Ver
digre.
Survivors include: Widower —
Frank, sr.; daughters — Mrs.
Frank Kimble of Billings, Mont.,
and Sister M. Leah of Ft. Yates
Mission, N. D.: sons—Frank, jr.,
of O’Neill; Anton and James,
both of Winnetoon; 11 grandchild
ren; 25 great-grandchildren; two
brothers and one sister.
Frank Shelf of St. Paul (Minn.)
seminary, son of the Frank Shelfs
of O’Neill, arrived Friday even
ing for his grandmother’s funeral.
Grattan Hustlers
in Session—
Members of the Grattan Hustl
ers 4-H club met at the Robert
Young home Friday, April 11. All
the memebrs were present.
The beef members identified
the parts of a beef animal.
Range management was also dis
cussed by those taking part in
that phase. Some of the mem
bers brought and showed the bird
houses they had made..
The junior leaders worked on
their project and helped others
with projects and record books.
The boys and girls taking “Be
ginning Baking” judged the tnuf
lins they had brought. Mrs.
Young led the girls in discussing
patterns, material, etc.
The club practiced on the skit
which was presented fun night.
The evening was finished with
singing songs and playing games.
Meeting in May will be at the'
Boyd Boelter home. By Carolyn
Kuhrer, reporter.
'Old Couple’’ Portrayed
at Shower—
CHAMBERS A large group of
friends and relatives gathered at
St. Paul s Lutheran church Thurs
day evening, April 10, to honor
j Miss Dorothy Haake at a pre-nup
i tial shower.
Mrs. J. W. Walter was in charge
of the program. Mrs. L. O. Lenz
and Miss Lorraine Farrier por
trayed the "bride” and “bride
groom" celebrating a future anni
versary as an "old couple". Mrs.
Leonard Peterson played some se
lections on the piano accordion. A
guessing game completed the pro
gram.
Lunch of sandwiches, salad and
i coffee was served.
Miss Haake was married Sat
urday, April 12, to Carol Hagemier
of Nakomis, 111.
Metory t'lnli Not
on Fun Night Program—
INMAN The Victory Boys and
Girls 4-11 club met Monday." April
7. at the lOOF hall. Roll call
was the naming of projects we
are taking this year. We decided
not to have a number at fun night
as we have been on the program
nearly every year.
Our olub president, Gary Fiek,
won the senior boys' division of
the speaking contest. We sang
and learned some now games.
By Kathy Fiek, reporter.
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