Nebraska Newspapers

    Prairieland Talk
Involved Us In War
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 4110 South 51st St., Lincoln 6. Nebr.
United States Senator Kennedy informed Demo
cratic leaders of Nebraska at a party gathering in
Omaha that his name will tie submitted as a Demo
cratic candidate for the presidential nomination
to be voted on at the primary
election. The senator is an
easterner and fitted by exper
ience to serve our country. Vice
President Nixon, the likely
Republican candidate, is a
western man and in recent
weeks has come to the front
as an outstanding statesman
and diplomat. As it looks now'
these two Americans will seek
the presidency at the next
election. I do not know what Romalne
Senator Kennedy’s party of Saunders
free trade and free silver calamities stands for
today, but I do know that during the national
achievements and developments the past one hun
dred years there were twelve Republicans serving
as chief executives, and the four Democratic presi
dents the past fifty years got us involved in war.
• • •
Brothers-in-law, they made out after a fashion
in the lumber business at Fourth and Everett
streets. Joe Mann was the last of a prominent
pioneer O'Neill family, had business ability, but
did he know one piece of timber from another.
Traveling life’s highway alone, he never married
but walked alone with memories of the one he
had loved and another got. Clyde King had mar
ried Joe's sister, a charming miss I had knowm
more than 70 years ago. Clyde buried his life’s
companion and traveled on alone. He was a printer
and writer but knew nothing of the lumber trade.
Clyde was the fastest type setter I ever knew and
as a writer had no equal, touching even a short
local item with a bit of literary beauty. On the wall
of the court house hall is the bit of slab bearing
the word tribute to the pioneers of Holt county.
Clyde and his life-long friend wrote it. Joe and
Clyde lay under the sod, wither all are marching.
And now here you read but a feeble tribute to their
memory.
* * •
Along life's highway we meet the good and bad;
he who does his neighbor a wrong, but as we
pass along there reaches out many a helping hand.
Frowns and snarls as we pass along, smiles and
cheers to all of us belong!
A year ago they went to a heavy populated state
in New England, her husband connecting with an
educational institution in that state. Today she is
in Lincoln in response to a year of homesickness.
In the crowded haunts of men along the eastern
seacoast, a prairieland wolf is forever harboring
a longing to look again when morning comes at
the green-robed landscape stretching as far as eye
can see and above and over it all the bright blue
sky. I met her by chance this morning and there
to the west her gaze was transfixed on the blue
above and drinking again of memory's fountain—
this is home! She said she would remain “home"
for a time and then back to the land of the "Pil
grims’ Pride".
• * *
It was late August in 1904. M. M. Sullivan, in
the 1880's a leasing merchant of O'Neill, had launch
ed into the hay shipping business, contracting to
supply the stock yards in a Missouri city with
5,000 tons of Holt county baled hay, and was negoti
ating with a Buffalo, New York, concern to ship
them a similar tonage of our hay . . . Mrs. J. H.
Addison, an early pioneer of the Minneola country,
was back again in her Holt county home after a
visit with her daughter in Minnesota . . . W. F.
Clevish of Turner came in to re-new his loyalty to
the Frontier by “planking " down a dollar and a
half, the yearly rate those days . . . F. J. Dishner
was at eastern Nebraska points looking after busi
ness matters . . . Dr. Gilligan on a healing mission,
and Attorney Dickson on a legal errand, both over
at Butte . . . J. P. O'Donnell, a pioneer hotel man
of O'Neill, but in 1904 no longer conducting a hotel
business, met with a fatal accident at the O'Donnell
ranch in southwest Holt, and was buried in the
Catholic cemetery in O'Neill.
• • •
As we sit down to partake of the good food the
household cook prepares for us we are unmindful
of those in far away places of earth that make a
meal of human flesh. The story comes from New
Guinea somewhere in the South Pacific, that there
are tribes of human beings who eat their dead.
Can any prairieland patriot conceive of a fellow
being picking up the leg of a dead human and down
ing it mouthful at a time? A score of mission bodies
from Christian lands have gone there with the
story of the cross that is changing savage lives and
substituting a loaf of bread for the leg of a dead
man.
Editorial
Trapped Cattlemen
Mr. Holt County Cattleman, whether you know
It or not, there are those who are using statistics
to show that you are getting the best end of this
inflation business.
Now whether you are or are not, might depend,
largely, on how you look at it—or who is doing
the figuring, the gathering of statistics and who
is interpreting them.
The owner of a large chain of food stores in
the eastern part of the United States recently told
a group of your fellow beef raisers and feeders
that he felt the bottom would "probably never" be
allowed to drop out of the cattle market and that
the inflation was working the way of the cattle
raiser and feeder on the range.
Now here is what he did: He spoke of the in
creasing cost of fattening those cattle you raise
and attempted to show, percentage wise, that his
grocery chain’s problems and expenses were in
creasing faster than yours. Of course, since he
was the speaker, he allowed himself to select what
ever he considered to be his big expenses as well
as yours, and came out with a much better look
ing picture for you than those astounded cattlemen
could "draw” for him on the spur of the moment.
The next time someone trys to tell you anything
like this, we suggest you show him these figures:
Fat steers in 1937 were bringing $18 per hundred;
in 1958 they brought approximately $27.25 for a
sizeable increase of 51 percent.
But during that same period of time, a quart of
milk increased from 12 to 25 cents (108 percent), a
loaf of bread from eight to 19 cents (138 percent),
a pound of coffee from 25 to 93 cents (up 272 per
cent), a popular low price automobile from $730
to $2,600 ( 256 percent), a movie ticket from 23
to 50 cents (up 117 percent), a ton of coal from
$1119 to $29.14 (up 160 percent), a pound of steel
from two and one-half to six cents (up 140 percent),
and a board foot of lumber increased from three
to 12 cents (300 percent).
Now you cannot say just as a matter of fact
that you are getting the worst end of the inflation
because of these figures anymore than the big
eastern grocer could say you were getting the
best of it.
But it does point out this fact:
It all depends on who wields the pencil, because
a man who is handy with them can make them
prove just about what he wants to.
Use the figures as guides when you have most of
them, but don’t let anyone put you in the trap
the eastern grocer did you brethren.
Ewing Too
It is anticipated here that the newly formed city
health board will soon enforce an ordinance regu
lating outhouses, livestock and poultry within llie
city.
This must be viewed as an improvement both
to the city as well as the property holder.
We note that Ewing h«3 just passed two ordin
ances dealing with sanitation and will receive offi
cial publication this week. One ordinance prevents
the keeping of livestock within certain prescribed
boundaries and the other makes it unlawful to
construct or erect an outside toilet, cesspool or
ceptic tank.
In O’Neill any outhouse within 180 feet of a
sewer line can be disposed of. Poultry and live
stock will be allowed on the outskirts of town as
long as they are penned not closer than 150 feet
from a neighbor.
We think the ordinances are fair, reasonable
and well intentioned, and hope they are enforced.
Community Thanks
It takes a little spirit to start something you're
not at all sure will be accepted by a community—
particularly if you are young.
This is the case with the O'Neill Players, who
presented their first effort Saturday and Sunday
nights.
They did a beautiful job for the first time out.
They deserve a very sincere community thanks.
You might remember that when you see them again.
All Can Not Survive
From the Dakota County Stur
The battle for survival by high school districts
is on.
With the trend toward larger school districts and
the gradual decline of the small community and the
farm population, high schools are battling for con
tinuance.
That some will not subsist five years and cer
tainly 15 years from now is a foregone conclusion.
Education is getting too expensive for the small
high school district.
Therefore the battle is on.
Communities bent on keeping their high schools
are attempting to lure students and improve fa
cilities to escape the lash of the State Education
Department.
Entire counties with six to seven high schools
at present must be reduced to one or two high
schools in the long-range plan. Yet all towns hope
and desire to be the home of high school facilities.
Of course, this is an impossibility.
School buses are becoming the number one lure.
Ponca w’ill operate a school bus for rural students
next fall. Newcastle, 12 miles away, has done the
same for the past couple of years.
When it boils down, education, at present, is a
competitive business, with towns competing against
their neighbors to keep- their high schools.
There will come a day when leaders of K-12
districts must face facts and meet together to solve
the problem of redistricting.
All can not survive.
We hear townspeople and businessmen complain
that if the high school closes, so goes the town.
Rather mercenary, we’d say. Is not the welfare
of the youngster worth considering?
“Any old education is satisfactory,” seems to
be the motto, “just as long as we maintain a high
school in our town".
Few ask what's best for the youngster.
JAMES CHAMPION. C»-Publisher
JERRY PETSCHE, Editor
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Entered at the postoffice in O'Neill, Holt coun
ty, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the
Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This newspaper is
a member of the Nebraska Press Association, Nation
al Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau of
Circulations.
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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Frontiers
Ago
."»0 Years Ago
Sheriff Hall and Deputy Harding
were out at Amelia and placed
under arrest a man wanted in
California on a charge of bigamy.
... A committee of O'Neill people
met to discuss and decide upon a
location of a state normal school
in the event the school was lo
cated here. . . . H. A. Polk made
the best figures on an 80 acre
tract, $40 per acre and his propo
sition was accepted by the com
mittee. ... In its three day ses
sion, the county board of super
visors made a 15-mill levy, claims
were audited and allowed and
some bridge work was disposed
of. A resolution was passed auth
orizing the construction of a coun
ty jail and die clerk was directed
to advertise for bids for the same.
... A few Lincoln pennies have
appeared in O’Neill. . . . The pri
mary election brought out a little
over 600 voters. The only contest
on the county ticket was that be
tween S. F. McNichols and S. A.
Hickman for county clerk. . . .
From present indications, Atkin
son will not have her school build
ing this year, as the building com
mittee is unable to get any bids
within the amount of $13,500.
20 Years Ago
Mrs. Simar and Creola Carney
moved their dress and hat shop in
to the remodeled Simar building
next door to their present loca
tion. . . . Vernon Wertz was aw ard
ed one of the highest awards in
Boy Scout work, the Scoutmaster's
Key, at Washington, DC. . . .
Married: Miss Marjorie Learner
of Wayne and Jean Rummel of O’
Neill at Madison. . . . Holt county’s
veteran 4-H clubber, Margery
Rees, was again outstanding in
both the clothing and cooking judg
ing contests at the exhibit held
August 12 at the O’Neill Public
school. The livestock judging con
test was won by Jack Ressel of
Chambers with Ed Hanley of O'
Neill and Delbert Robertson of
Chambers next in line. . . . Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Fox of Emmet
are the proud parents of a nine
pound boy born Sunday, Aug. 13.
... At a recent meeting of the
school board, Miss Johanna Engle
haupt of Spencer was elected to
teach the seventh grade. . . . Mr.
and Mrs. Fred McNally went to
Schuyler where they visited
friends and where Fred participat
ed in an old time ball game. . . .
Tom Harty entertained 19 young
guests at his home followed by a
theater party. The occasion was
Tom’s ninth birthday.
10 Years Ago
In special session, the O’Neill
city council unanimously passed
a "resolution of necessity" with
a view toward alleviating critical
sewerage problems. . . . Mr. and
Mrs. H. O. Russ held open house
for relatives and friends in honor
of their 25th wedding anniversary.
. . . Married: Max Le Masters,
Venus and Miss Vivienne Boelter,
Page; Miss Phyllis Fry and Duane
Jensen, Ewing. . . . Kieth Abart,
Ilolt county officer and auctioneer,
was named adjutant of Simonson
post 93 of the American Legion.
. . . Mr. and Mrs. Lee Terwilliger
and son, Perry, of Celia, have res
ervations to sail on the Queen
Elizabeth for a visit to Germany.
. . . Miss Beth Sloan and Alex Fri
ckel were chosen King and Queen
of the 1919 Hay Days celebration
at Atkinson. . . . Max Golden
played Scovie Jaszkowiak in the
finals of the championship flight
of the city golf tourney. . . . The
12th annual homecoming of Grim
ton school had the largest attend
ance since 1941 according to Mrs.
Albert Pospeshil, publicity chair
man. Deaths: Mrs. Jennie Ward,
78, died at her home east of O’
Neill; J. T. Thompson, 71, of In
man, longtime resident of Holt
county; Mrs. Edward F. Porter,
84, of Chambers.
Five Years Ago
Both quality and quantity of live
stock exhibits hit a new high this
year at the 62nd annual Holt coun
ty fair at Chambers. . . . Sgt.
Donald E. Boyle was presented a
bronze star medal, the fourth high
est valor medal awarded by the
U. S. government. . . . Short
wave radio transmittters and re
ceivers were installed in the of
fice of the Holt county sheriff as
well as mobile units in automo
biles owned by Sheriff Leo S.
Tomjack, deputy sheriff James
Mullen and the O'Neill police
cruiser tar. . . . Tim Harrington
was pictured in this week’s issue
of The Frontier with his 7 ft. 4
in. hybrid tomato plants. . . . Three
new teachers were signed at O’
Neill high school. They were El
mer Murman, Mrs. Louis Reimer,
jr., and W’illiam P. Gallup. . . .
The Nebraska game commission
announced the 1954 pheasant hunt
ing season is curtailed to 10 days
compared to 38 days in 1953. . . .
Mother M. Agnese is the new sup
erior at St. Mary’s academy re
placing Mother M. Muriel, who is
stationed at St. Joseph’s hospital
at Minot, S.D. . . . Deaths: E. A.
Chichester, 77, Page farmer.
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State Capital News
Democrats Gear State Machinery;
Nebraska Is 'Key' For Kennedy
By Melvin Pan I
Statehouae Correspondent
The Nebraska Press Association
LINCOLN There is considerable
behind-the-scenes activity in the
Democratic party in Nebraska.
This likely will continue for a
while until candidates begin get
ting their bids in for the U S. Sen
ate and governor.
Gov. Ralph G. Brooks has been
talked about as a possible candi
date for the Senate, and his ad
ministrative assistant, Robert Con
rad, for the governor s post.
Neither flatly denied the reports.
It is obvious when attending Dem
ocratic meetings that there is con
siderable enthusiasm in the party,
which also is in better financial
position than in two decades.
Other behind-the-scenes talk cen
ters around the favorite national
figure in the presidential picture.
It appears, from talking with
Democratic leaders, that Sen. John
Kennedy of Massachusetts plans
to enter the Nebraska preferential
primary.
Kennedy himself has indicated
this and stated further that he
considers Nebraska a “key”
state in the presidential picture
for I960.
The reasons, Kennedy says, in
clude its location geographically,
the fact the state has both agri
culture and industry, and that it
has indicated a trend to the Demo
cratic party.
Another important factor is that
delegates to national party con
ventions from Nebraska are not
bound by law to support the win
ner in the state's preferential pri
mary.
Bernard Boyle, Democratic na
tional committeeman, who is prob
ably the most powerful man in
the party in the state, says as far
as he knows no Democratic lead
ers in Nebraska have committed
themselves to support any can
didate.
Boyle held an informal gather
ing for Kennedy in Omaha and
says he will do the same for other
candidates who indicate an inter
est in such an event.
Boyles Dies
Owen Boyles, secretary of the
State Highway Commission, died
in Lincoln after a short illness.
The 53-year-old Boyles formerly
had been director of the Motor Ve
hicle Division of the State Highway
Department, from 1941 until 1956
when he joined the commission,
except for a brief spell in private
business.
Born in Ericson, Boyles was a
former county clerk of Wheeler
County and was widely known in
the motor vehicle world in Nebras
ka.
Legislature Lost
It cost 19 per cent more to run
the 1959 Legislature than the one
two years earlier.
Figures compiled by Clerk
Hugo Srb showed the $241,090
tab for 1959 was only slightly
higher than the cost of the last
two-house meeting in 1935 when
tile hill was $202,593._
The increase was due to more
employees, longer session, more
bills and higher pay for workers.
WED.-THURS.-FRI.-SAT.
AUG. 19-20-21 22
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In Color
With Charlton Heston, Yul
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Edward G. Robinson
One Show Each Night
Starting at 8:15 p.m.
Adm. 90c—Children under 12 Free
SUN. MON. TI ES. AUG. 23-24-25
The Powerful Story of the
Irish Rebellion
"Shake Hands
With The Devil"
Starring James Cagney, Dana
Wynter, Don Murray
Plus Two Cartoons
WED.THURS. AUG. 26 27
Buck Nights
"The Naked Maja"
With
Ava Gardner, Anthony Francisca
Filmed in Technirama-Technicolor
Plus Cartoon
Cost of material also was higher.
No Special Session
There is no need for a special
session of the Legislature to set
up a clearing house in the Capitol
for state banking business.
That's the conclusion of Gov.
Ralph G. Brooks to a suggestion
by State Sen. Terry Carpenter of
Scottsbluff.
Carpenter claimed a state clear
ing house would give Nebraska $20
million more to invest in bonds
that could put money into the state
general fund.
But the governor argued that
the six banks now clearing state
warrants and the federal reserve
system are adequate.
Establishment of a state clear
ing house would be too expensive
and not do the job any better.
Brooks noted.
He also said his administration,
under State Treasurer Richard
Larsen, already had invested more
money in bonds than any other ad
ministration.
Concluded the governor: "Above
all, however, we are not going to
jeopardize the ability of the state
to transact its business by cur
tailing its supply of cash to a de
gree which would prevent proper
business procedures.”
Mental Clinic
The problem of the mental health
clinic at Scottsbluff has tempor
arily been solved after a fuss in
volving the two Democratic mem
bers of the State Board of Con
trol.
The board’s chairman, Charles
Leoman, and Mrs. Ethel Kirwin
of Scottsbluff. a member, got into
a public scrap over who caused
loss of the clinic.
Mrs. Kirwin blamed Ur. Feed
Wittson. state mental health di
rector, for "unwise" planning in
opening a clinic that could not
be staffed because of the short
age of psychiatrists.
Leoman blamed the Legislature’s
budget committee and said Wittson
is doing a good job.
The clinic closed July 1. But
Leoman announced that a psychi
atrist from the Nebraska Phyehi
atric Institute at Omaha would
v isit Scottsbluff weekly using funds
from the Institute's Community
Services l'ni*
Anti-pollution Funds
Nebraska will get at least
$274,660 in federal funds for sew
age treatment plant construction
during the current fiscal year.
That's the report from State
Sanitation Director T. A Filipi.
Filipi said he was so advised by
the U. S. Public Health Service.
Regardless of the amount re
reived or the $<;K»i,<i."><l that could
be gotten this year, with favor
able action in Washington, there
still would not he enough to
meet applications on file, Filipi
said.
Priorities would be set by the
State Water Pollution Council
where there are more demands for
federal funds than money avail
able.
Filipi said high priorities almost
certainly would he given to a
$69,000 project at Bellevue, at Ne
braska City where $117.0(H) is in
volved, and at Plattsmouth where
the cost is $73,0(H). All figures are
federal funds and not total cost.
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