Meek News
.Mr*. Fred Undberg
Deway ne Anson returned home
Friday evening from Mason City,
la , where he has completed his
two weeks training at Reisch Aucti
oneering college
Mr and Mrs Cecil Haynes left
Thursday for their home at Par
melee, S. D. Grandma Hull being
much improved at this time. Mrs.
Elsie Eppenbach will continue to
care for her
Senator Nelson is scheduled to
hold meetings at Ainsworth the
23rd, Alliance the 24th and Kearney
the 25th of this month.
Dewayne Devall who is attending
college at Ijncoln spent the week
end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Devall.
District No. 16 had a vacation all
week. On arriving at the school
house Monday morning they dis
covered some uninvited little crea
tures had beat them there and had
taken over the premises under the
floor. However this did not inter
fere with their P. T. A. meeting
which was held Friday evening at
the Elmer Devall home. Patrol
men Shorney and Hastreiter were
present and presented a very inter
esting program on safe driving
precautions The meeting was open
ed for discussion. The crowd at
tending reported a very interesting
meeting. Sandwiches, pie and cof
fee were served by the ladies of
the district.
Mrs. Lawrence Johnson is the
teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walters and
Norma Jean were Thursday dinner
guests at the Bennie Johring home.
Paddock Missionary meeting was
held Friday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Elmer Devall. A nice
crowd was in attendance. Next
meeting will be with Mrs. Laurence
Rouse.
Mrs. Lawrence Dobrovolny and
Larry spent the week at Atkinson
with relatives.
Mrs. John Schmitz went to
Omaha Friday to visit her son,
James and his family who are
being transferred to IBM school at
Pulaski. N Y. Mrs Schmitz re
turned home Saturday.
A birthday party was held Tues- j
day evening for Charlene Johring
an<fc Nancy Anderson at the Johring
home. Henry Walters. Allen Wal
ters and Meril Andersons families
were all present.
Naomi Nelson spent the weekend
vacation with her parents, Mr and
Mrs Paul Nelson. Naomi is work
ing for the Hallmark Card Corpora
tion in Kansas City. Since she
finished her college work in ac
counting at the Commercial Ex
tension School of Commerce in
Omaha.
Sunday March 27, Brother Tur
ner will be at the Paddock Union
church to conduct the morning ser
vice.
Riverside News
By Mrs. Lionel Gunter
Mr. and Mrs Edgar Jensen and
the Duane Jensen family, all of
Newman Grove, Mr. and Mrs Z.H.
Fry, the Wayne Fry and Richard
Napier families were guests Sun
day at the Dale Napier home in
honor of Jerry Jensen's birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pollock vis
ited at the Kenneth Pollock and
Art Busshardt homes in Neligh
Sunday.
Wendell Switzer, Bob McDaniel,
Deke Lorenzen and Z H Fry helped
Friday at the Richard Napier home.
Richard started last fall building
an addition onto the west side of
his house He had to quit when
bad weather came. Now that the
weather has warmed a bit he is
continuing with the building.
Mr. and Mrs Clarence Bame
and Diane of Bellingham, Wash,
came Thursday evening for a few
days visit at the Archie Johnston
home The Barnes had visited rel
atives in North Dakota. They plan
to leave Tuesday morning for their
home.
Susan Napier visited at the Dale
Napier home.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Napier call
ed at the R.A. Hord home Thurs
day evening and Leroy, Glenda
and Denms returned home with
them after spending the fore part
<rf the week at the Hord's home
so they could attend the Ewing
school
Mrs Mildred Wnght visited Fri
day evening at the Lucille Biddle
come home.
The Lynn Fry family visited at
the Floyd Napier home Tuesday
evening, Mar 15.
Mr and Mrs Wayne Fry, Mr
and Mrs Lynn Fry Mr. and Mrs
Dale Napier. Mr and Mrs Billy
Lofquest, Mr and Mrs Richard
Napier. Mr and Mrs Bob Me
Daniel, and Mr. and Mrs Don
Larson visited Saturday evening at
the Wendell Switzer home.
Leroy, Glenda and Dennis Napier
and Clayton Hoke stayed the first
part of the week at the R A. Hord
home and attended school.
Mr. and Mrs Lynn Fry and
children visited Wednesday evening
at the Dewitt Hoke home.
Mr and Mrs. Billy Lofquest and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Z.H
Fry visited Thursday evening at
the Wayne Fry home.
Mr and Mrs. Leo Miller and
family had a lunch of ice cream
and cake Thursday night at the
Dave Pollock home.
The Lynn Fry family were din
ner guests Sunday at the Kitty
Fry home.
,Mr and Mrs. Rudy Ahlers vis
ited Friday evening, March 11 at
the Frank Schmidt home on the
Schmidt's 57th wedding anniver
sary- t
The Harold Bennett family of
Crawford came Friday and were
weekend guests at the Wilbur Ben
nett home. Harold left Sunday for
his work at Crawford His wife,
Shirley and children stayed for a
longer visit.
The Riverside Missionary Socie
ty met Friday afternoon with Mrs
Vera Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Switzer
and family were guests Wednesday
night at the Ora Switzer home.
The Ed Walters family of Cham
bers visited Friday eve. at the
John Napier home.
The Alfred Napier family visited
Friday evening at the Charles Roth
erham home. .
The Fred Ritter family of Til
den were guests Sunday at the
Rudy Ahler’s home.
Venus News
By Mrs. Ralph Brookhouser
The Work and Fun club which
was to be held at the home of
Vlasta Pospeshil on Tuesday,
March 8 was not held, on account
of the snow storm and drifted
roads. Miss Viola Pospeshil will
have the April meeting.
The mail carrier was unable to
make his route on Tuesday, March
15 and only parts of the route was
covered on Wednesday due to drifts.
A/3c Marion Cederburg spent a
three day furlough with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Ceder
burg of Orchard enroute from
Montgomery, Ala., to Colorado
Springs, Colo., where he now is
stationed.
The Adolph Janak family have
moved from the Jelen community
to the former Wilbert Widhalm
farm which they purchased last
fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kinnison
were O’Neill shoppers Monday,
March 14.
Walt Ozenbrun returned from a
trip to the west coast on Thursday.
Mrs. Cecil Moser was an Orch
ard visitor Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Tyler were
Monday, March 14 supper guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Raff and |
Robert.
Norfolk visitors Monday, Mar.
14 were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brook
houser where they were dinner
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Brookhouser.
Sunday dinner guests at the home 1
of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Caskey and
twins, were Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Porter of Orchard and Mr. and
Mrs. Verlyn Gibbs and sans of
Clearwater. _
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Capitol News
More On The
Dispute Over
Superintendent
By MHvtn Paul
Statehouse Corresponded
The Nebraska Press .Association
LINCOLN—A six-year-old State
Board is again the center of con
troversy.
It is the State Board of Ed
ucation, whose members were first
elected in 1964. There are six of
them, who run on non-political tic
kets.
The question at hand again is
whether the State Board of Ed
ucation should be abolished and
the Commissioner of Education ap
pointed.
Now, the board names the com
missioner and sets his salary. Dr.
F.B. Decker holds the post, which
pays $11,500 per year.
Prime mover in a petition drive
to put the issue on the November
•ballot is the Nebraska School Im
povement Association, which says
it represents 600 rural and small
high school districts
Openly opposing the petition drive
is the Nebraska State Education
Association, Nebraska Congress of
Parents and Teachers, and the Ne
braska State School Boards As
sociation. They say they represent
80 per cent of the school children
in Nebraska.
Two years ago the School Im
provement Association tried unsuc
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FLORENCE PONTON, Prop
Phone lOfl Golden Bids
; cessfully to put the issue on the
I ballot.
It needs 42,107 valid names to
get the matter before the voters
this fall.
The group has had many differ
ences with Decker, the State De
partment of Education which Dec
ker supervises and individual mem
bers of the Board of Education.
S.H. Brauer Jr., of Stuart, field
representative for the School Im
provement group, says his organ
ization’s principle position is that
"one person should have executive
power in the state for formation
of policy. It's alien to our system
of administrative government to
have an executive board."
The three major organizations,
on the other hand, claim "repeat
edly trying to revive a question
so decisively settled in 1954 is a
mistake, as well as a burdensome
expense to the state."
They say the board system is
"democratic and brings control of
the State Department of Education
j closer to the people".
Statistics
Agricultural statistics were ga
thered in Nebraska by the federal
government as early as 1866.
In 1898 Nebraska provided for col
lecting of these facts through as
sessors and in 1914 the state and
federal governments signed an
agreement—still in force—to joint
ly pursue the work.
Nearly a report a day comes
out ot the Stale-Federal Division
of Agricultural ^Statistics today.
Probably the best known and the
most frequent, is the weekly an
alysis of crop conditions The big
gest is the farm census.
The division gets its information
through personal visits and from
correspondents, either by telephone
or mail.
Mailings from the division year
ly run close to the one million
mark.
The office reports it has nearly
70,000 correspondents on its mail-1
mg list.
Closely watched by farmers and
city folks alike, is the crop report—
a weekly barometer of the protv
able condition of Nebraska's num
ber one industry.
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Delegates
There are a lot more persons
seeking a seat at the national
party conventions this year.
One of the reasons for the boost
in interest in Nebraska is revival
of the two-party system thus creat
ing more interest in the Democratic
partv.
Another is the ease with which
a delegate could file this year.
In the past, it w-as necessary to
circulate petitions and then file the
petitions with the Secretary of State
This year, all that was required
was a $25 filing fee.
There are 131 Democrats filed
either for delegate or alternate and
92 Republicans. The Republican to
U1 is roughly the same hut the
Democratic figure is up.
An added reason for the boost
m the l>mocraUe side is that the
party is having half votes at the
convention, thus doubluvg the num
ber who can be elected.
Running for party convention
traditionally has been a place that
would be office seekers could "test
their wings,” and get their names
familiar to Nebraskans
It also is sought after by party
workers who have a chance to be
in an important position once ev
ery four years—casting a ballot
for a possible president.
In all there are 383 persons seek
ing seats in both parties.
This list, plus interest in other
state races is expected to slow
counting of the primary by elec
tion workers.
The primary balloting is May 10
Flooding
Anxious officials are eyeing
snow-choked streams and gullies,
especially in the eastern thin! of
Nebraska, for possible spring flood
ing.
The state is taking steps to or
ganise volunteer and other state
and federal agencies to combat the
problem when it arises.
As of now. officials anticipate
some heavy flooding, especially
with a fast thaw.
It is expected the Army En
gineers, Civil Defense ami volun
teer agencies like the Red Cross
will carry a heavy share of the
load in handling any high water
problems.
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gen needs this spring.
Anhydrous Ammonia is Nebraska's lowest
priced nitrogen. The results cannot be bettered ^
by any other form of nitrogen. Anhydrous Am
monia is the most concentrated form of nitrogen.
Easier to handle, no bags, extra bulk or extra
freight and a much longer application season.
We are much better equipped this year with
applicators, nurse tanks and trucks and will have
a man at the plant at all times. Our plant is just j
across the street north of the Atkinson sale barn, j
The price of this is 9 cents per pound of
available nitrogen and we furnish the above
equipment.
FRANK SCHAAF, Mgr.
Phono 7511 — Atkinson, Nebr.
A. E. TROWBRIDGE
Atkinson, Nebr.
AT AUCTION
Sale Of Dwelling House And Personal Property
I will sell at Public Auction on the premises the dwelling house and
personal property located on 1st street in O'Neill. The residence is known
as the Hanabery residence, on—
SATURDAY. MARCH 26*
SALK STARTS AT 1:00 P.M.
LOCATION: 325 South 1st Street in O'Neill.
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lots 9 and 10 in block 43, Riggs addition to O'
Neill, Nebraska.
THE HOUSE: This is a semi-modern two story structure located on two
lots in a desirable residential district. This is a five room dwelling house
with bath including three bedrooms. Property also includes a garage with
new cement floor.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: The personal property consists of usual house
hold furniture and kitchen maintenance and many hand tools and garden
tools and other miscellaneous items.
For Inspection: Contact John R. Gallagher A tty, 111 North 4th Street
O'Neill.
TERMS: Personal Property, Cash. Real Estate 25% down on date of
sale. Balance when abstract and warranty deed are delivered.
NELLE C. ROTH, °wne'
John R. Gallagher, Attorney
Col. Wallace O'Connell, Auctioneer Ed Murphy, Clerk
L. V. GANT & SONS
45th Anniversary Sale
Selling 60 Head of Registered Polled Herefords
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
35 Coming Two Year Old Bulls
25 Coming Two Year Old Bred Heifers
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