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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1958)
Prairieland I alk— Bounty Descendant Gives Advice By HO MAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 5l»l St., Lincoln 6, Ncbr. IJNCOUv It is said that we are in a small world. Maybe so. But it is six thousand miles to one of earth’s smallest inhabited spots in the .South Pacific, Pitcairn Island, one mile wide by two miles in length. I have just seen and heard one of the 152 cit izens of that spot in the Pacific by means of an other world wonder, the TV’. His name is Christian, a de scendant of one of the Bounty mutineers, as are all on that little island. He is a tall man with white hair and furrowed brow. Mr. Christian for the first time set foot on American soil as he came ashore at New York City and was greeted by public officials, news reporters and just ordinary onlookers Romalm. He came to America to at- ^unden tend the world conference of Seventh Day Adventists recently held in Cleveland, 0 , of which church group he is a member with all others living on that island. He told the story of the mutiny on the British ship Bounty a hundred or more years ago and of the few who reach the island they now call home. Asked by his sponsor on the TV for a word of advice to the youth of Ameri ca, he responded by saying he knew of nothing bet ter to advise than that we all follow Pitcairns no smoking, no liquor drinking and daily Bible study. « • • If the railroads are going the way of the covered wagon trains how can the Save-the-Tralns association, commissioner decrees and supreme court edicts bring them back? • • • The night now past; the sunlight glows out of the clear blue sky on buildings stately and grand and high. Streets are alive with the tread of feet, the rushing cars as swish they go, like a mighty river with its ebb and flow. Workers, men and wo men of the business w'orld, those in professional ac tivities, churchmen and the lowly citizen these all on the go another day promoting the industry, thy business and all activities of an industiious, law-abiding and honor loving people of our Capital City. • • • Daughters call him father, sons say dad, little children, both daughter and son, run to meet daddy. Father, dad or daddy he treasures the memory of devoted sons and daughters. • • • Maybe the old reliable C&NW will again roll up the Elkhorn valley with a mail and express car, one passenger coach attached. __ It was in late October in 1945 that a promi nent O'Neill lady. Mrs. Julia Bennett, wife of Dr. H. L. Bennett, died following surgical treatment in the O'Neill hospital. The Bennetts had been out in the Phoenix neighborhood, the doctor stepping out of their car and reaching for his shotgun as he did so with the hope of knocking over a prairie chick en. The gun was accidentally discharged Msr. Bennett receiving the full load below the knee in her left limb. Amputation followed resulting in her death. . . That year the following ladies were ser- j ved notice to report for jury duty: Alma Syfie of Saratoga, Mrs. George Rector of Paddock, Mrs. John Protovinsky of O'Neill. Mrs. Art McClure of Ewing, Mrs. Bertha Butler and Mrs. Vera Anson of Verdigris, Mrs. Genevieve Bell of Chambers. Mrs. Ernest Gruenberger of Green Valley, Ethel Bouska, Opal Keating and Olive McKee of Atkin son. • • • The dust of an early July day settled on street and roof in the Capital City of prairieland and was washed into Salt Creek by a five-inch rain, the win dows of heaven opening at 10 o’clock and pouring out a flood until dawn. The first two weeks of July were wet but as week number two draws to a close, the sun rides high in a cloudless sky and the green of growing things may everywhere be seen. The wheat is gathered in and corn grows rank and tall, the prospects good for food enough for all. In dis tant lands are held out hungry hands, but forever blessed are we of the prairielands. • • • For most of his eighty-odd-years, he has travel ?d the highway of life on crutches, sat in a cart on the ranges of western Kansas and in Colorado, taught school and boasts that he never did a day’s work. Worth a hundred thousand today and col lects his monthly rents. Would you make a fortune? use your head, keep your hands in your pockets. Another, a native of Denmark, came to America as a youth, worked day by day and year after year with his hands. Today at the age of 92 has nothing and is a public charge in a nursing home. • • • A two-mill increase for the taxpayers and Lin coln city teachers have $200 added to their yearly income. Many taxpayers are long since past school age, nor have they sons or daughters in school. Many taxpayers never visit the county courthouse, the city hall, the state house and wouldn't know a public official from a railroad section hand, pay their taxes by proxy or by mail, growl a little but don’t miss the fun of being a citizen of prairieland’s Capital City here in Lancaster county, Nebraska. • • • lie tells me the most fun he gets out of a va cation 1s the two weeks lying in bed in the morn lug. _| Editorial— Beethoven Snubbed Here Too! An editorial in the July 19 issue of The Satur day Evening Post warrants reproduction, we S, r. Mato in which school administration par ■ntjTSitf'SSW -They Wouldn’t Let Beethoven Teach Music in Indiana. The editorial follows: One would have to look to our more bureaucratic trade-unions with rigorous rules governing such endeavors as which u.linter can paint on wood and which can paint on iron, to find a comparison to the regulations under which teachers m many American communities are supposed operate. We have immediately in mind the case of Dr. Otto Miessner, former head music department at the Umversdy of Kansas former professor of music at Northwestern university, ‘"under of tie Slate Teachers College ol Mus.e at M l willkee Wise., former head of a mus publishing house, and inventor of a spine type piano. . Doctor Miessner retired from the Uni versity of Kansas position in 194a, but soon tired of retirement and took a job teach ing music in the Fairview township school at ConnersviUe, Ind. He took the job on a permit. Being ‘‘on a permit” is what makes Doctor Miessner a case. The Indiana state hoard of education lias ruled that Doctor Miessner’s permit to teach in Connery Mile school cannot be renewed unless he takes five more hours of courses on idu cation! Doctor „|lt take the five hours because it s silly • But Robert L. Pabst, director of teacher train ing and licensing of the state board of edu cation. is adamant. "There are college teachers and there are school teachers ho said. "After all. you wouldnt let an architect pull your teeth." That is the classic ‘‘educationist, trade-union-type argument. It is easily disposed of by asking: Would you have your plans for a house drawn by a man who had taken endless courses in How to Get Along With the Folks Upstairs, but was weak on design, strains and stresses and cost estimating? The Connersville school board, teach ers and pupils want Doctor Miessner to go on teaching, according to the Indian apolis Star, and. by the time this gets into print, they may have prevailed on the shop stewards in the state board of education to ‘‘evaluate” Doctor Miessner’s record and give him another chance. In the meantime, it looks as if the Star said a mouthful when it blamed the people of Indiana for “permitting a bunch of doctrinaire educationists to make and enforce their self-serving rules.” The techniques of the professional educators and professional school administrators in Indiana are carton copies (or visa veral of the policies laid down in Nebraska. In O'Neill there is a hold er of a masters degree in elementary education from Duke university (N.C.), but the holder couldn't teach in a public school system here un til she has studied geography of Nebraska! The same educators who spawn such arbit rary certification standards also dream up K-12 programs, and John and Mary go out into the world apparently less equipped to read and write than their grandparents were when they fin ished lower levels of schooling. Some of the theorists in education should be turned out and let the realists take over Only way to get at the dug-in doctrinaries is through the ballot box. Failure of the Nebraska School Improvement association to get enough valid signatures into the secretary of state's of fice earlier this month simply provides more time for what The Post calls “bureaucratic trade-union rules” to build up. NSIA officials, however, promised Nebraskans at another date will lie given an opportunity to vote for or against an appointed commissioner of education. Nebraskans elect a state board of ed ucation, which appoints the commissioner, but the state board members are elected by districts on a staggered basis a device which makes it exceed ingly difficult to change the state board’s compo sition and policies unless you can afford to spend eight or 10 years at the job. Meanwhile, the theorists with their "trade union rules” fix things to suit themselves. They talk about a teacher shortage! No won der! Some keen, smart and aggressive men and women can't stomach “bureaucratic trade-union rules”. How many good teachers with native in stinct and ability are purged because of arbitrary standards established by the theorists? After all, Beethoven probably would have to study school administration and geography of Ne braska before he could go to work here. No World War 111 Right Now The United States and some other American military units are now in Lebanon, backed by the assertion of President Eisenhower that such addi tional force as needed will be provided. The Brit ish have moved militarily into Jordan. We feel there will not be an outbreak of World War III. The Russians have been too successful with their low-cost cold war which, since the end of World War n, has encompassed millions of peo ple and hundreds of thousands of square miles. Sure, the reds will continue to foment trouble if and where they can. That is their forte. The U. S. deployment of military forces in the Middle East area is capable of being a long drawn out proposition. We feel the United Nations played into Nas ser’s hand when it forced British troops out of Suez two years ago. Nasser has since had time to build up the Greater Arabic Republic, whereas he would have been a broken dictator months ago had the British will prevailed. The United Nations, therefore, is in part held accountable for the GAR position today and now the police job is rightfully a U. N. task. If the U. N. fails to bail out this situation forthwith and firmly it will be a colossal disappointment to man kind. Entered at the postofflce In O’Neill, Holt coun ty, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. This news paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Associa tion. National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Term* of Subscription: In Nebraska. S3.5U per year; elsewhere In the United States, >3 per year; rates abroad provided upon request All sub scriptions payable in advance. When You & I Were Young , . . Woman, 81, Dies in Shallow Creek Miss Ryan Getting Pail of Water 50 Years Ago Miss Bridget Ryan. 81. who liv ed with her brother, John, near the Niobrara river northwest of Eagle mills, suffered a stroke when she was getting a pail of water from the creek. She drown ed in eight inches of water. . . | Constantine Ray Mares, Schuyler and Miss Anastasia O'Fallon were married. . . Mr and Mrs. Will Blueball of Omaha are visiting at home of their daughter. Mrs. Arch Henry, in the Minneola neighbor hood Mr. Blueball was in the mercantile business in Minneola about 16 years ago. . . Willie Mey er. eldest son of William Meyer, living six miles northeast of town, had his eye ruptured when he stepped on a stick which flew up and struck his eye. It is feared he might lose the sight of his eye . . . Miss Ethel Smith and Wralt Shermer were married at the home of Miss Smith s parents in O’Neill, writes The Frontier’s cor respondent. . . The Holt county farmers of the Dorsey neighbor hood purchased the Verdigre tel ephone line and have ordered sup plies for its extension there. It I will be connected with the Gross I line in Lnch. 20 Years Ago Arthur Mullen, 65, of Omaha, a democrat national committee man and well-known political fi gure, died at his country home in Omaha. He formerly lived in O’ Neill a number of years, . . Quite a delegation of O'Neill taxpayers j were before the lioard of equaliza-! tion to protest proposed increase ! in the assessment of real estate a long certain portions of Douglas and Fourth Streets. After an in- i quiry from the county board to the ! attorney-general, the opinion stat- i ed that it was too late to make raises this year. . . F. E. Alder of Pierce is to be the superintendent of schools here. . . A farmers’ pic nic is being held in Atkinson sponsored by the Holt county farm bureau. , . Miss Constance Golden entertained eight girls at a picnic at the garden of her aunts, Mrs. McMillan and Miss Markey. Another aunt, Mrs. F. J. Dishner, cooked on an outside fireplace. 10 Years Ago Deaths: Mrs. Anna Zuehlke, 73, of Chambers: Pat Hanaberry, 66. of 0'Neill; Abe Saunto, 67, of Sioux City, formerly a merchant here. . . Rev. Ralph Gerber was officially installed as minister of First Presbyterian church here. .. Clarence Hicks drove Mrs. Wil liam J. Froelich and children and Marde Birmingham and Elizabeth Latta to Yellowstone national park for a 10-day vacation. . . Mary Kathryn Turner celebrated her 12th birthday anniversary at a party for 12 friends. One Year Ago Deaths: Robert L. McQuiston. 27, of Spencer in a one-car acci dent: Paul Thompson, 51, of Clear water, also in a one-car accident; Mrs. Carl T. Friedrich, 77, of Spencer; Charles Henry Sanford. 76, of O'Neill. JOINS ASSOCIATION Miss Beverly J. Linquist of O’ Neill has been awarded a junior membership in the American Shorthorn Breeders' association, oldest purebred livestock organi zation in America. Purpose of the group is to collect, verify and pre serve pedigrees of Shorthorn and Polled Shorthorn beef cattle and to promote greater use of the breed. Frontier want ads pay. Page Midgets Riding I ligli Members of the high-riding Page Midgets baseball team, sponsored by the American Le gion, are: Front row Freddie Cronk, Gene Har vey, Arnold Hall, John Cork, Bruce Bowen and Al vin Crumly; back row Assistant Manager Har old Meleher. Jimmy Meleher, Claire Park, Denny Iekes, Ronnie Asher. Harlan Saltz, Ronnie Parks, Dennis Cork, Norman W’ettlanfer, Norman Mudioff and Manager Lloyd Cork. The Frontier Photo. I NlTKn I’KKSIIYTKKIAN (Ewing) Dr. William II. Ross, pastor Saturday. July -'6: Choir prac ln-r, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, July 27: Bible school, 10 am; sermon "Great Calvary Words” I being the second of a series on this subject); youth fel lowship, 7 p.m.; junior fellow ship. 7 p.m.; singspiration. ser mon "Seek Ye The Lord". 8 p.m, Monday. July 28: Nebraska Presbytery at North Bend, 1:30 p.m.; U. P. Men. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 30: Prayer iunl Bible study. 8:30 p.m., \\ il hur Bennett, leader. 8:30 p.m. Friday. August 1: Forum. 8;30 p.m. Frontier for printing! n WE CAN REPAIR SEWING MACHINES ALL MAKES ELECTRIC AND FOOT OPERATED Adler Sewing Center llil So. ttli — O’Neill Blair Man Winner of Golf Laurels The Northern Nebraska Optorn etric sociely held its annual golf tournament Thursday at the O' Neill Country club. Winner of the championship j flight was Dr. Keith Finn of Blair. Runnerup was Dr. II D. Gilder sleeve of O'Neill, who was defend ing champion. Dr. Elmer Miller of Neligh grab bed top honors in the first flight and Dr. Vernon Hybl of Ainsworth was runnerup. The "duffer’s" trophy went to Dr. William Slusher of Valentine. In the women’s tourney, Mrs. Gildersleeve was the winner with Mrs. Finn runnerup. Ladies’ bridge was won by Mrs Slusher. Mrs. Vernon Hybl was second. Thirty attended the steak fry in the evening, including the optome trists and their wives. Sexton to Head Fremont Schools Lloyd W. Sexton, 46, a former Nebraskan, Thursday was namer superintendent of Fremont public schools. He will succeed Lloyc' TeSelle, who will be superinten dent at Lakeview, Mich. Sexton served as principal at O’Neill for one year and as super intendent at Lyons from 1949 to 1955. Mr. Sexton has been super intendent at Cherokee, la., since 1955 He is a graduate of the Orchard high school and Wayne State Tea chers college, and received a masters degree at the University of Nebraska in 1942. Home for Weekend— The Misses Helen Hynes and Carolyn Muff were home for the weekend from St. Catherine’s school of Nursing. Accounting AND BOOKKEEPING SERVICES Morgan Ward ACCOUNTANT Golden Bldg. — Phone 414 O’Neill, Nebr. Son in I-an Promoted by Reserve Rank— Homer F. Krelxs, 38. husband of I the former Viola Bowers of Spen cer. has been promoted to assis-i tant cashier of the Denver (Colo.) branch of the Kansas City Federal j Reserve bank. An employee of the bank since 1946, Krebs served as assistant chief of the collection department for six years and has been in the branch's planning department for the past tthree years. A native of Dover, O., Krebs went to Denver after serving in the military during World Wat 11. Krebs holds the standard cer tificate of the American Institute of Banking and has attended tiie banking school at the University of Wisconsin. His wife is the dau ghter of Mrs. Rosa Bowers of O’ Neill. The Krebs have two sons and two daughters. 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