?rairieland Talk The City Council-and Booze By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 1st St., Lincoln 6, Nebr. The Citizens of Oklahoma voted to have their liqu r on tap in that state One state only m our country, Mississippi, remains dry. O'Neill, where booze has towed in unending stream through the years, turns town in application of one concern to fill the bowl, he artion of city authorities inspired, perhaps by liqu r dealers already here with a monopoly on the l»us nes If other dealers of alcoholic drink are granted tenses, why not another? • • • Dorsey, Star and Red Bird communities of north *sf Holt survive where human drKMeps pressed the virgin sod Horn the beginning of things at north Nebraska. Is the hello fcy telephone now to replace the neighborly handshake, personal iwni't one with another mhere Mary looks into Ann’s ■tiendly eyes, speaks face to tee Telephone if you must. m forsake not the friendly per- Romalnc anal visits, Saunder* • * * tn the pioneer village of O'Neill, six hotels made a p. of it The Valley blouse, run by the pioneer O'Don h4| family was the first to open its doors to the pub dr and stood on east Douglas street alxiut where the Davidson concern now stands. The Mitchel hotel, two fans west of where the bus depot now functions, the Cyans Hotel later known as the Potter Hotel and the Commercial on lower 4th street, the Arcade that stixxi •here the K. C. hall now stands and another in a kidding that stood where the O'Neill post office build up now stands. In addition to these, Jim Campbell ukI Tom Grant each had public eating places on the .friuth side of Douglas street between what now are ■noun a> 3rd and 4th streets. At all of these hotels you would get a whale of a feed for two-bits and a mdit's lodging for 50 cents. Hotel Evans where tie Western now is, was in operation in the early BO s and was the classic place to dine and hole-up tor the night until the Golden opened up some 40 fears ago. • • • Two young women and two young men of our ip-an ieland 4-Hers have been selected for outstanding achievements in that youths' organization to attend tie t-H Conference in Washington, D.C., June 13-19. They are Elaine Bath of Auburn, Kathryn Sides of ioup City. Kenneth Swartz of Fairmont and John Sinhu of Lexington. ' * • * The sun shines in golden glory out of the deep due sky spread across prairieland this calm day in mid April. A day to walk abroad, to meet a fellow traveler along the trail of life here and there; to took into friendly eyes and speak a word face to koe A bright spring day, children out to play, ards gathering twigs to build a nest where they may T*st .jut of sight of man and bring forth a brood to wig as others can. Human hands raking lawns, planting gardens, impatient now to pluck the first jraicie rose and loiter again along the stream where •ystaf water flows. And human hands at work ttpur, what will the harvest be? • * * «Tinrf fanning from out of the frozen Arctic, the ■in stoning bright, he found the south side of a brick wall of a business building a comfortable wind break. He greeted me as I came by, he a stranger to me and me a stranger to him. No. two from the grass robed prairies of Nebraska are never stran gers. To please his wife he was making the best of it here in the crowded human haunts. He had come to the Capital City from Valley county where he lived on a farm near Ord and told me his name was Hayes or Haines. Unless it is Smith of Jones I do not remember names. He had farmed for a life time in the beautiful region around Ord, had fed cattle he bought in Holt county and moved to his feed lot in the good old way seated on the hack of a saddle horse. On one such trail he anti his helpers with their herd spent the night at the McCarthy ranch, a hospitable home in the Inez neighborhood three miles north of Prairieland Talker's rural re treat. He had bought cattle at the Atkinson sales pa vilion. Those were his happy days, he admitted. Atkinson coming into our talk, he informed me that he recently read in an Omaha paper of extensive cattle shipments to the Omaha market of Charley Peterson. On*1 million, a few hundred thousand dol lars and one penny went into Charley’s pocket for his Holt county grass fed beef. • * • Tall if not stately, great for size if not graceous he swung out of the store door followed by his attr active lady—his long legs reached out in steps to the sidewalk edge, his lady following behind. Two steps from sidewalk to street below and he swung around the front of their car to swing in at the steering wheel. Unaided by her leige lord, the little cultured lady walked to the sidewalk edge, down the two steps to the street below, opened the car door and climl)od in. Just a street scene, an ungallant guy with not a helping hand for a life’s mate. Mayt>e that mate preferred it that way. But was it so court ship days? * * * Beef on-the-hoof in the sales ring 20 cents a pound, the 20 in 6-point type. Beef on the meat block in the marts of trade 89 cents a pound, the 89 set in 84-point black type. Where now is Fred Gatz with his butcher knife gripped in a capable hand cutting you a choice slice of beef for a thin dime? Should crushing sorrow flood your soul and dear est things seem forever lost, just calm your troubled heart with the prayer that this will pass away. If fun and frolic make you bounce along for joy and smiles and laughter—hold on a minute—this, too, shall pass away! • • • The mail carrier brought you no letter? Then no dun letter with statement of what you owe— please call and pay up! * • * * He owns a few square yards of mother earth in the Capital City, so he shakes a capable fist of disapproval at a proposed measure in the "Unicam” that would authorize cities in the state to kick out the property owner and take over his real estate for some municipal project. Haven’t heard whether or not it has been added to our mounting list of state laws. * • • Still bare the wounds of a cruel wrong a thought less friend inflicted, or does the day that brings life's heavy burden seem endless long? Cheer up— tomorrow comes a song! factorial Fuel To The Fire A severe split of opinion will soon face the com nunities in and around O’Neill. Discussion of school iedisfricting is becoming more and more prevalent. Referred to as a ‘‘double headed monster” by aome. and the only way to solve our educational problem by others, the actual result of redistricting w as old as education itself. Any time that imaginary school boundaries are •hanged, ‘‘redistricting’’ has taken place. But the special kind of redistricting that is being discussed aow is not just the changing of boundaries. The re arrangement of children's lives is at stake. To give you an idea of just how hot an issue this ■ne is, consider this: The Neligh Chamber of Com anerce voted to take a "hands off” policy where Bedistrrcting is concerned. In effect, the Chamber voted to leave the matter with the school board. Why it ever got to the Chamber in the first place is more than can norm ally be understood. Those who are against redistricting have been warned for years that the small communities would “fay up” at the hands of those towns who were “fartunate” enough to get the children. Although fefa is. perhaps, only partially true, no Chamber fea its right mind would go on record favoring it, regardless of what each individual thought. There are so many advantages and disadvantages fa redistricting, and to ask a group of merchants to give • “group opinion” on an educational problem Jnat adds fuel to the fire. A New Crop (.From the Btasrt Advocate) Don’t lose Heart, you skinheads. Read in a rival (aver the other day where a 98-year-old man in ■MValo. Wyo , is sprouting a new crop of hair. Not •air that but a new tooth is pushing through his tower gum. Imagine that he is probably going famugh his second childhood, don't you? • • • 4 B has been called to my attention, to oall to your dtitontian, that it is mandatory, according to law, to •rfl to far side of the road and stop when meeting m a-uy followed by a fire truck. In fact, the law □to do so the minute you hear a vehicle with . The rule has been flouted locally many in the past when the fire department is mak tog a fire run. Please pull over and atop. Don’t tonw up. It is much mote important that they yt Aere as soon as possible, than for you to. An •■wr that saves many minutes, and con possibly much property, is Bar someone fa (jade the boys whan they near the destination of • Ore An evened cattle gate or twa, awi a leader way save that etack of hay or houoe. It’s too bad that the Academy Award winners have already been announced as I understand that there is a future Kim Novak and future Jane Russell to be unveiled at the Home Talent Show Friday night at the auditorium. One gentleman told me that the Hat Shop style show is just an excuse for him to show off his legs. Wonder if he is going to wear two hats on his feet? We’ll bet you’ll get a laugh or three if you remember the date and time— 8:00 p.m., and attend this annual P-TA thing. * * * Overheard in Stuart: Housewife: “I hear the school board is eliminating (subject) from the cur riculum because it is a “frill”. I agree, as my John ny is not taking it.” Other housewife: “What do they mean "frill”? It is a necessity because my Mary is taking it.” A Thousand Babies Ago A thousand babies ago the Atkinson Memorial hospital, with a staff of a few nuns (who are also registered nurses) began a modest operation. When Richard Lee Davis came along the nuns cut out a square piece of cardboard and placed it on Richard's crib. “God bless you, Richard," it said. Richard was the 1000th child bom there. But this was not the only thing which impressed The Frontier reporter as he was shown the “modest little hospital.” Accustomed to seeing and visiting much larger ones in much larger cities, he was sur prised to see a very well equipped hospital. The people of Atkinson are very fortunate. Few towns the size of Atkinson have such facilities and such fine people running them. The Atkinson Graph ic featured the event with a full page in their news paper_it reflected, we think, the spirit of the people. JAMES CHAMPION, Co-Publisher JERRY PETSCHE, Editor Entered at the poetofflce In O’Neill, Holt coun ty. Nebraska, as second-class mail matter tinder the Act of Congress of March 3, 1179. This newspaper la a member of the Nebraska Press Association, Nation al Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Terms of Sobeertpttea: In Nebraska, 12.50 par year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; rates abroad provided upon request. All subscriptions payable in advanoe. •1 • m Frontiers THE FRONTIER WAS YOl .Mi The O'Neill Grocery Company kvith F. M. Raymond manager, had a coffee advertisement in the April 13, 1899 issue of the Frontier. It read: Coffoe-8, 10, 124, 15, 18, 20. 25, 30 and 35 cents per pound. Walter O'Malley still holds the tro phy as the best shot in Shields township, by shooting two geese. One weighed eighteen pounds — This correction item appeared in the April 13. 1899 issue of the Fron tier "An item last week in this col umn relative to some trouble be tween Mike Fallon and George Gaughenbaugh was slightly incor rect. George was not in it, but a brother of his.H. W. Wood ward of Ainsworth rented the Doyle building occupied by the postoffice and put in a stock of general mer chandise., ... An article in the April 13, 1899 issue of The Fron tier stated that more farm imple ments had been shipped into O' Neill this spring than any time lor the past ten or twelve years. Tom Hopkins got mixed up in a runaway and bruised a hand slight ly. He bought some hogs from a farmer and while driving to the pens to unload, the team started to run. Tom scrambled out of the wa gon, sustaining the above bruises, while team, driver and hogs rushed onward. The horese were brought under control without any serious damage occurring. MOST OF I S REMEMBER On April 7, 1953, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Snelson, former residents of the Chambers and Ewing localities, observed their 63rd wedding anni versary at Long Pine. Mrs. Floyd Hershiser was honored at a baby shower April 9, in the home of Mrs. Alvin Vorce...Lt, Bryan T. Postman, liaision officer for the air force research center at Cam bridge, Mass, and Dr. Guenter Loo ser, a renowned meteorologist from Germany were in O'Neill on a pre liminary visit discussing plans for the wind tests conducted in Aug ust of 1953.Two hundred and three persons attended the K of C Jubilee banquet held April 12 for Charles Carroll of Carrollton coun cil.The Misses Marilyn Lind berg, Janice Holsclaw, Charlotte McVay and Marjorie Norman were the four O’Neill high school Fu ture Homemakers ol America, who attended the 1953 state FHA con vention in Lincoln.Coach Mar vin Miller's high soaring O’Neill high eagles flew to an easy victory over Neligh and Norfolk, April 10, 1953 in a bone chilling 40 degree weather.A freakish spring storm moved into the O’Neill re gion late Tuesday, April 14, 1953, with high wind gusts up to 70 miles-per-hour . DEATHS: Cherri Kaplan, 3Vis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vere Kaplan of At kinson, fatally burned, April 13, 1953 at their farm home, died en route to Omaha hospital; Mrs. Ro bert Keating, 34, wife of an Atkin son Implement dealer, April 12 at her home, of a heart attack; Ne braska State Safety Patrol Sgt. John Meistrell, in an auto acci dent March 31. 1953. died April 10 at a Fremont hospital. THE CENTURY TURNS A meeting of the local organi zation of the Lzaak Walton League was held at the band ball Monday evening, April 14, 1930.The choir of the First Methodist church of O’Neill, under the direction of Miss Ruth Kramer, came down Aprli 15, 1930 and sang at the ser vice held here that night. Wil lis Johnson has sold the Sanitary Meat Market at Page to Mr. and Mrs. Fetrow Muller, who took pos session April 14, 1930....A son was born in April of 19:40 to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kennison, residing about 7 miles southeast of O’Neill .A large crowd gathered at the home of Mrs. Louis Ermer, April 15, to help celebrate her bir thday . • • Miss Mary Sauser re turned to Hines, 111., April 16, 1930 where she is employed as a regis tered nurse in Edward Hines, jr. hospital. She had been visiting with her mother, Mrs. A. F. Sauser and other relatives... .R. L. Arbuthnot and family have moved to the Par nell Golden house....The Mellor Motor Company are putting a ce ment floor over the vacant space east of the garage, which will be used for oiling and greasing cars. Money To Loan! Household Goods, Personal Property, Oars, Trucks, Warm Equipment HARRINGTON Loan and Investment Company LOW RATES CAPITOL NEWS B> Melvin Paul S(alehouse Correspondent The Nebraska Press Association LINCOLN The labor-manage ment fight has broken out into the open in the Nebraska legislature The scrapping revolved around basically the measure to outlaw secondary boycotts until G o v. Ralph G, Brooks stepped into the ; picture. Brooks introduced a measure calling for a State Labor Relations act, governing tvoth employe and I management situations. Labor and management has teen i testing strength on sev eral hills of | less importance overall than the secondary boycott bill. Most of the j early maneuvering has teen the | silent type in the nature of lobby ! ing of senators, done by both labor | and management. Brooks says his bill, LB 708, would apply to activities within Nebraska and “guarantee the right of employes to join or refuse to join lalxir organizations without retaliation by management or by labor unions.” Also, the chief executive com mented, it would define “unfair practices by both management and labor. A commissioner of elections would supervise and administer elections involving union problems. Said the governor: “This propos al also seeks to substitute orderly procedure for economic combat and provides that an employer and a union can agree to submit to nmr iccitn \fhinh is: n proper subject of collective bar gaining.” There is no question but what the Brooks proposal will provoke some heated discussion among state senators. Brooks said all persons involved in a State Lalwr Relations Act had publicly stated the need for it, but that a Legislative Council commit tee studying the problem could not come up with a proposal that it felt would be fair to everyone. The governor said he introduced the legislation since both manage ment and labor publicly had ex pressed a need for the law. legislature Sessions The legislature should swing in to all-day sessions in about two weeks. This will start taking a healthy bite out of the heavy load of bills backed up awaiting first debate. Thirty-one measures were slat ed for public hearing this week. Some committees have completed their work. The Legislature’s bud get committee expects to wind up its calculating in about two weeks. Roughly, the Nebraska legisla ture is half through the session Most observers do not hesitate to say it will be the last week in June before the lawmakers can go home Of the first 708 bills intro duced, 147 have been killed in committee or on the floor, as against 116 for the same period two years ago when there were only *615 bills introduced. This, however, was the record until the current session. Veteran observers say the rea son for so many bills each year Is that annually lawmakers are representing more people than they did 10 years ago and also that government is becoming more complicated. Harr Resigns State Aeronautics uirecior in land Harr’s resignation caused con siderable fussing. Harr quit his $10,200 per year iob with a blast at Gov. Ralph G. Brooks, stating that the governor s “indecision” in announcing who would be areonauhcs director “hurt” the department The governor was told in a letter from Harr that the aeronautics chief could not obtain and keep qualified personnel because he did not know “from day to day whether he was in or out of °f,'ce: Harr also charged Brooks had asked him to fire Asst. Atty. Gen. Rush Clarke of North Platte‘. who with Harr, helped bring Nebraska into national prominence in tne local airline service picture._ “If the situation continues much longer,” Harr warned, “the state will certainly lose some of the air line service which has been grant ed it on a trial basis." Brooks said he has assured members of the aviation indus try «h«-t Harr’s replacement would be made “only in the in terest of advancing aviation In Nebraska,” and denied he asked Harr to remove Clarke. Harr was appointed two years ago by former GOP governor Vic tor Anderson. A bill was recommended for in troduction to remove the aero nauties department from the juris diction of the governor. The bill had been prepared long before the Harr resignation, however. Under the proposal, the aeronautics com mission would appoint the air chief and set his salary._ ---r DIAMOND LECTURE From the American Gem Society we have available to you, “The Illustrated Diamond Lecture”, complete with gem testing Instrument*, and slides la beautiful Oder, This lecture covers all phases of the history, mining, distribution and the 4 0’s that v IMtbrmlne diamond quality. Especially designed for schools, clubs and other groups by the American Gem Society—(the non-profit organisation topee seating the customers Interest)—this program has been enthusi astically received throughout the VJ-8- - This lecture Is avail ship as a public service of McIntosh Jewelers and ths American OemSociety. McIntosh jewelry Wl E. Douglas Phone IN Budget Matters Gov. Ralph G. Brooks notified the Legislature m a personal ap pearance that he will veto any spending bills that require general fund tax money above hts recom mendation. A short time later, the governor announced he had increased his recommendation for the University of Nebraska. Brooks originally sug gested a $2 million tax fund hike for the school, but he has raised this to $4 million. Brooks said additional informa tion was presented to him which showed the need for the change. Sen. Otto Libbers, chairman of the Legislature's budget commit tee, said he thinks the governor had misunderstood that cash funds were available to meet salary prol> lems at the University . Check Finds 29 Cattle With No Ownership Meeting at the brand office in Alliance, the Nebraska Brand Com mitte reviewed the operations of the committee for the past fifteen months, January 1, 1958 through March 31, 1959. Members ol the committee present at the meeting were Bern R. Coulter, Bridgeport', Chester Paxton, Thedford; Mose Trego, Sutherland, and J. H. Vin ton, Gordon. Frank Marsh, Lincoln, was unable to attend. Inspection records in the office at Alliance for the above period show a total of 2,767,521 head ol cattle inspected for brands. Of this total, 13,742 head were held by brand inspectors for proof of own ership. During the above period the committee settled claims on ■ _ .*_. _..ik...■ rtt tu.ik'o 4L/\i were 29 cases considered by the committee for which no rightful owner could be found. Proceeds of these 29 cases with a total of $2,760.37 were paid to the school funds of the counties where the shipments originated. The Investigation Department, with cooperation of local authori ties, aided in the ‘prosecution of eight persons involved in cattle theft, with one additional theft case now pending in the courts in South Dakota. Thirteen other court ac tions were conducted and fines im posed for a total of $650.00 Two more arrests were made and turn ed over to South Dakota authori ties for prosecution. It is the policy of the committee to cooperate with authorities of neighboring states as far as it is practical. Cattlemen of Nebraska generally are familiar with brand inspection in this state and are aware of the purposes and necessity for com plete, effective and impartial in spection. It is the desire of the committee to conduct the work thoroughly and with the least pos sible inconvenience to everyone. The cooperation of the cattle people in the state is essenial for the most complete protection. All losses or suspected thefts should be reported immediately to the Nebraska Brand Committe as well as your local authorities. O'Neill Locals Crowded Out Last Week Mrs. Rosa Bowers and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Woidneck were among the guests at the Soukup Kruse wedding in Spencer Satur day. Claude Johnson, Sioux Falls, S. D., was here Wednesday at the ■ homeof lus mother, Mrs. Chun Johnson. Guests at the Marion Muhin rok home SuiHta> were Mrs. Min nie llingens and Mrs. K<>sa Bow ers. Dale Stems. Hastings, was lu re aver the weekend to visit with his mother, Mrs. Nina Sterns Also here from Grand Island was Dor rest Smith, whose wife is curing for Mrs. Stems. Mr and Mrs Ed Tharnish atten ded the First Comnumtion of their iodson. Handy Tharnish. in Colum bus Sunday. At the (H*orvo Van K\er> home ruesday was their swat, Marvin, jlrom Norfolk. >|r