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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1960)
Prairieland Talk "Beautiful Earth" By PX)MAINE SAUNDtrtS, 4110 South but St., Lincoln 6, Nebr. Spring, The birthday erf another growing season on prairieland. The earth robed in green, the sky above us spreading a blue canopy over the endless landscape; tree and hush again in leaf, flowering plants in laid, birds aw'ing and sing, creatures of the prairie sniffing the air to catch a scent of something of which to feed upon, the prairie wolf gone from his winter den and the keen eyed deer on the go from gulch to gulch. Farmers oiling up the machines and soon heading for fields to grow again the grain we need; cattle ranchers look ing over their herds, cowboys _ , , Romalne tightening the saddle cinch and mount their nag with lasso rope Saunders in hand to catch and brand any mavericks that might wander their way. The thrifty housewife dusting and cleaning, and many pretty fair maidens go stepping along the way with a smile for any young guy coming her way. Spring! The door closed on winter’s snow and ice. Nature now gives us a picture we think is very nice. • • • April 3 to 9 was nation-wide library week, the promoters seeking to encourage a better read and better informed America. And now is the time to subscribe and read The Frontier. • • • Big business. Yes, prairieland has a sizeable bit of it. In company with my son-in-law, whose steady hand was at the steering wheel, my daughter and son-in-law's mother and I recently visited the scene of the country's great business concern, the Western Electric, there it is a thirty million dollar plant on the open prairie a few miles west of Omaha. We ap proached the great institution and came to a halt on the "parking lot," said to comprise 39 acres of li'idim an pavcu in luiiv.iciu wnctc me umcv four thousand employees of the Western Electric park their cars, many driving from their homes in Lincoln, many coming from Omaha and others that make their home in the nearby village of Millard. The Western Electric produces telephone materials and other things that go to make up human needs and human pleasures along life’s way. The corpora tion previously maintained a large factory in Lincoln and were planning to build in or near the Capital City, but this community of schools and colleges and universities did not encourage building of great factory buildings, but officials of the city of Omaha held out the beckoning hand, secured a hundred acres or so of open Nebraska prairie just west of our state metropolis and there the great factory of the Western Electric stands, about a half mile from one end to the other, a monument of great industry where Indians once made camp and buffalo roamed. • • * U love the mountains, rocks and silver flowing streams, a snow crowned peak and high above all alxjut. I love the level plain, its endless miles robed in silken green, with hero and there a touch of color when goldenrod and prairie rose are in bloom. But for a moment U and I will stand hand in hand! Who walks the streets of O'Neill today that will ] recall when the town maintained a place to weigh loads of hay, hogs and other things brought to town by country dwellers to be sold, that place to weigh such as came along located at what is now the Gol den Hotel corner, the scales and little office building in the street next to the boardwalk that then lay next to Hagerty's store. D. A. Doyle was the first to serve as weigh master, had patches on the seat of his trousers that inspired Editor Doc Mathews to make a bit of fun of Doyle for wearing goggles at his rear. Later the scales were located a block south and just east of the J. P. Gallagher store. And there stood at the Gallagher comer a huge bell that had been converted into a watering tank for horses that those days were plentiful on the streets. Where to day do they weigh the baled hay and other fruits of the land and where could a farmer sell a load of com? • • • So another native son of this community has reached life’s journeys end. Neil Brennan whc breathed his last up at Rapid City where he bad made his home since leaving O’Neill many years ago was the son of Col. and Mrs Neil Brennan, who were among the early pioneers of this community. The re mains of Neil jr., now are resting beside those of his father and mother in the abode of the dead at the northwest limits of this city that his father had a leading part in establishing some 80 years ago. And there were few if any the equal of Col. Brennan in promoting every thing designed to advance the public interests and was a friend of all. The Colonel, like his compatriot across the street in the "butcher shop,” Fred Gatz, had one superstitution. Gatz would start no new undertaking on Friday. Col. Brennan, in the hardware business, would not give a friend a pocket knife or any instrument to cut absolutely free, supposing that such a gift would cut away their friendship, and if a friend to whom he was especially devoted came in his store to buy a knife he would go out with the best knife in his pocket that had been in the showcase—it cost him just 5 cents. Neil Jr., was brought back to the place where he started life nearly 70 years ago to be laid to rest in the abode of the dead. This 11th day of April the washing is on the line hung out to dry. It was a Monday in April 75 or more years ago Billy Reed came riding on his cow pony along what is now Douglas street, saw a washing on the rope clothes line at the home of Pat and Mrs. Hagerty just east of where the O'Neill National Bank now stands and about midway between what are now 4th and 5th streets. Out came Billy’s six gun, a shot or two and the rope clothes line was cut in two and down went Mrs. Hagerty's washing to the ground. Along came Sheriff Barney Kearns. A few words and Billy's six gun flashed again. Down fell Sheriff Barney Kearns dead. Reed rode aw'ay. Pill Cronin and Mike Tierney got a few fellpws to go with them, mounted their horses and took off after the killer, overtook him up alxuit Atkinson and brought him back to O’Neill where he was kept in the shanty called a jail for a time and when released Reed took off for other parts and w'as killed in a gun battle with a guy quicker on the draw than Billy was. Editorial Newspapers Absorb Postage Hike The Ortl Quiz A half billion dollars of the 4.5 billion surplus the national administration is figuring on for fiscal year 1961 would be in increased postal rates. Postmaster General Summerfield has recom mended first class rates lie raised another cent to 5 cents, and post cards from 3 to 4 cents. But the biggest “bite” would come from second class mail, consisting mostly of newspapers and magazines. Our auditors have figured the postal bill for the Quiz would increase by 515 per cent, and not the “nominal 40 per cent increase” Mr. Summerfield believes. Other publishers estimate their hikes as high as 850 per cent. Proponents of the second class increases like to point to the “free-in-county” delivery of newspapers by the post office department. From the start of the postal system it has re cognized that these publications were playing a major role in educating the public. Another phase they overlooked is that every political subdivision is aided by the wide distribution of legal notices. This saves our various government agencies millions of dollars. Summerfield, however, would totally eliminate the "free-in-county" provision and increase all news paper mailings, at a cost which must be passed along to subscribers or advertisers. If the increases really are put into effect it will result in many publications, now barely able to sur vive being forced to discontinue. Word comes to us from Washington that our Ne braska congressional representatives are none too enthused abuot the proposed postal hikes. They believe there are many other sources from which half a billion dollars can be obtained without further handicapping newspapers, long the most .im portant industry in many communities. Mail carriers and other postal workers are al most solidly against the proposed newspaper in creases. If you feel likewise, it might aid in stiffening the opposition to the hikes if you would drop your repre sentatives a line stating your view's. It's a Good Start Nebraska Signal—Geneva Senator Carl Curtis of Nebraska, in telling the Republican National committee Saturday that if the Republicans are to win they must “follow the con servative line,” performed a real service for voters who may be confused by the loose manner in which politicians label each other. Senator Curtis states he is proud to be called a conservative and he then outlines a few fields in which he believes his conservative position is sound. He is against deficit financing by the federal govern ment, he favors an orderly system for paying off the national debt, he is against new spending that will in crease inflation, he is against the Forand bill which would entitle every social security beneficiary to free medical and hospital care, he is against any form of socialized medicine generally and he is against the continuation of wasteful foreign "giveaways." The Nebraska senator also makes it clear he is against federal aid to education as he believes par ents of America would rather manage their own schools than have a bureaucrat in Washington do it for them. Previous statements by the senator from Minden also have made his position clear on labor racketeers and those who use secondary boycotts, which have riled Nebraskans against labor generally. Of course, the general statements by Senator Curtis will need clarification as the political argu ments become hotter. For instance, he will need to explain which foreign aid given in the past was “wasteful” and which beneficial or if he meant he is against all foreign aid. He will need to explain which federal expenditures should be reduced in order to bring about the balanced budget all of us claim we favor. He will be called upon to explain how far he would go in the matter of federal aid to schools, in view of the administration’s strong stand for financial assistance in the construction of new school buildings and in other areas of education. We believe Senator Curtis will have to go into ( these matters further because he probably will be opposed in November by a man who will in all likeli hood also call himself a conservative but who will label Senator Curtis a reactionary because of his opposition to many of the so-called “liberal” changes we have undergone in the past 30 years. Because we expect to hear a lot of loose labeling , in the senatorial campaign we repeat Senator Curtis has performed a real service to Nebraska voters by indicating he is not ashamed of his position as a con servative. If he will elaborate further on his views and if his opponent in November, yet to be selected, will stick to issues and Senator Curtis's record in stead of attempting to conduct a campaign based on slogans and the reckless use of labels, Nebraskans will have a better understanding of what the candi dates really stand for, regardless of what labels politicians themselves may tack on each other. H. W. H. JAMES CHAMPION, Editor and Co-Publisher Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; elsewhere in the United States, $3 per year; rates abroad provided upon request. All subscrip tions payable in advance. 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 news paper is a member of the Nebraska Press Asso ciation, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bvjeau of Circulations. NATIONAL EDITORIAL | AS^>C0TI0N i I Frontiers Ago 50 YEARS AGO j An ordinance establishing a fire limit in the city of O’Neill was introduced in the city council at a special meeting of the council held Wednesday evening. The or dinance provides that all buildings hereafter erected between Third and Fifth streets in this city from Adams street on the north to the city limits on the south shall be of brick, stone, cement or other nan-combustible material with a fire proof roof. . Mr. and Mrs. M D. Price and family left for Oregon last Friday' monung where they expect to make their future home, providing the country suits them. Their many O’Neill friends wish them happiness and prosper ity in their western home. . John Weekes new Chalmers automobile arrived last Friday. John took out a little extra life insurance and ! was ready to tackle it, when it I snowed and he had to defer his j maiden effort. 25 YEARS AGO ' Last Monday evening a party of friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bauman to assist them in the proper celebra tion of their fifty-second wedding anniversary. . .C. E. Yantzi last week purchased the Ben Harty building on Fourth street, formerly occupied by the Vorce market. As soon as the building has been re modeled and some needed repair ing made, the Farmers Union Gas and Oil company and the Farmers Union Produce station will move their headquarters therein. . .Mr. and Mrs. H. ll. Murray will cele brate their golden wedding anni versary Sunday, May 5, and will hold open house at their home on east Dou’glas street from 2 to 5 in the afternoon and from 7 to 9 in the evening on that day. TO YEARS AGO St. Mary’s academy Sunday will mark its golden jubilee anniver sary. The all-day affair will beck on thousands of alumni, former students and members of their fam ilies to O’Neill. . .Dr. Donald Wy rens, Lynch physician and surgeon, has made an associationship in Va caville, Calif., and plans to leave Lynch sometime in June. This is an advancement in his profession. . . The Chambers lodge 239, Indepen dent Order of Odd Fellows, Thurs day, April 26, will celebrate its 50th year in the order.. .G. C. DeBacker, manager of J. C. Pen ney Co. store in O’Neill this week announced that the interior of the store is being remodeled and re decorated. . .The recently purchased farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Wasson was burned to the ground Monday evening, April 17. Mrs. Wasson said they were not sure what started the blaze, but thought perhaps it started from a spark from a bonfire. 5 YEARS AGO Arbutus Rebekah lodge met in regular session on Wednesday eve ning, April 13, at the IOOF hall. The members of the Inman IOOF lodge and of their families were entertained at a 7 o’clock no-host dinner in observance of the 136th anniversary of Odd Fellowship . . . John Robert Richter, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richter, jr., of O’Neill, was struck by a moving car on Benton street in front of St. Mary’s academy about 11:35 a.m., Wednesday. The boy had gone into the street to meet his parents, who were seated in a waiting car . . .Lt. Donna Shelhase, an army nurse, departed Sunday for an ov erseas assignment. Her first stop will be Yokabama, Japan. She has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Shelhase, for the past 30 days. . .Holt county’s 1955 grade school spelling champions were de termined Saturday afternoon at the O'Neill public school where six syl lable words were a dime a dozen. The first place winners were John Wabs, third grade; Bonnie Clifford, fourth grade; Danelia Whitaker, fifth; Bonnie Crumly, sixth; Janet Krugman, seventh; and Marlene Beck, eighth. Try The Frontier Want Ads — It Pays ! 'gou'W YOU’LL REST EASIER with a low-payment, long-term loan. That’s why, each week, hundreds ol farm ers and ranchers combine their obligations in a long-term Land Bank loan on land — a loan that can be paid in advance without Eevialty. You can also use a Land lank loan to buy land, livestock and equipment; to make improve ments, and for other purposes. Come in and talk it over with us today. Federal Land Bank Assn. LYLE P. DIERKS Manager Phone 91 O’Neill j The Long Ago At Chambers 30 YEARS AGO The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. MoGowen will be pleased to learn that they have returned to ! Chambers after spending the win ter in Calif.. .Mrs. A. Noble re turned to Chambers Tuesday after a visit of some months to friends and relatives in the eastern states. Mrs. Noble brought her little grand daughter, Isabelle Putnam, home with her from Sioux City. . A few friends gathered at the Goods peed home Tuesday evening to bid Mr. and Mrs. Gooctepeed good bye. The evening was spent in dancing and a pleasant time was enjoyed by all present. . .Air. and Mrs. Roy Pierce have moved into the Frank Dyson house. . .Arthur Noble has rented the Ingersoll farm in Harold and will work the same this year. 25 YEARS AGO The sale at the Chalmers Pavi lion Wednesday, drew out a big * crowd and buying was very lively Top hogs sold at $8.30, within 45 cents of Omaha prices. . .Tree, shrub and potato planting at this time is well set, all account of the rains we are receiving, Wednes day a beautiful Chambers Valley received a soaking rain. . .It is said to be very difficult these days to hire a man to work as a farm hand Maybe the farm hands are afraid of being plowed under. .. A prairie fire 12 miles southwest of Chambers last Sunday, burned over considerable meadow.. .Sever al from the Ballagh community took horses to the sale at Ord, Saturday. . .Mr. and Airs. Donald Grubb who have lived above the Richard Cafe, moved their house hold effects to the east part of our city. . .Warren Gilman, early resident, passed away Saturday at 74 years of age. Phone Your News to The Frontier Phone 788 A Poem From Mrs. Eby ... —Believe in Yourself— Believe in yourself; believe you were made to do any task with-1 I out calling for aid. Believe, without growing too scorn fully proud. That you, as the greatest and least are endowed, A mind to do thinking, two hands and two eyes. Are all the equipment God gives to the wise. Believe in yourself! you're divine ly designed and perfectly made for the work of mankind. This truth you must cling to through danger and pain, The heights man has reached you can also attain. Believe to the very last hour for it’s true, That whatever you will, you’ve been gifted to do. Believe in yourself and step out unafraid, By misgivings and doubts be not easily swayed. You've the right to succeed; the precision of skill. Which bestakens the great you can earn if you will, The wisdom of ages is yours if you’ll read, But you’ve got to believe in your self to succeed. (Edgar A. Guestl about last week's news item con cerning him being a little windy No offense was meant, but right now is a giKxi time for Yours Tnt ly to state his policy for report ing the news. J. C. Fudd feels his right to re port the news as he sees it is as sacred as this Hippoente Oath that a doctor takes before he starts ui rolling pills and should be aotdeil by regardless of whether the di sease (or news' is good or bad, and whether the patient (or citi zen > is rich or poor Remember too, folks, you signed that pe tition making me your correspon dent and nobody twisted your arm either so hold your fire. Old Man Chinn wishes to thank all those who showered him with cards and letters on his 81st birth day. He received 9 cards and 3 letters. The big black card that said, "My Birthday Wish t r Vu DROP DEAD!" was not signed so he does not know who to thank for it. Mrs. Newt Bundy was operated on at the County Seat hospital last Tuesday. The doctor really hit pay dirt when he took out her gall bladder. Found one stone as big as a cockle burr and five ot hers the size of navy beans be sides a scad of gravel. She came through the ordeal in fine shape and Newt says she is feeling good as new again except for gas pains. Go to see her U \ ou're up that way folks, she'll be there tor a few days yet. Miss tiavus reports Uie school kuis are busy practicing on their spring operetta which tliev will present some tune in the* near fu ture, There will be a box social connected with it so ladies,why not get busy now and see what kind of artistic creations you can turn out. The Corners store has ail colors of crepe paper on hand, plenty of paste and will give aw.iy all sizes of empty boxes for such a worthy caose. Folks along the crick are still waiting for the rich Texas widow to come riding up in her fur lined Cadillac to buy up the oil leases but the excitement has sort of sim mered down now. All you can hear on the party line is speculation about the wedding Unit is oommg off next week. See you then. jmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmak. Smoke from "Brandin' Iron" Crick By J. C. Fudd Spring is actually moving in cun Brandin’ Iron Crick. You can tell by the hrown of the water, the greening of the banks and the action of the old cows like they was trying out for a chance to do the polka on a Laurence Welk T. V. show, that it has sprung. Otty Camber was pretty sore s-——1 .....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm m. V []] F GI.I'ANINGS from onr —■ [Heritage of Freedom r Freedom is not inborn or r- imperishable — it must be ac quired anew by every genera - tion — a serious interruption | in its transmission may bring it to an end. — Will Durant. !L —{ f * * One of the friendliest ways to NEBRASKA DIVISION : say welcome to your guests is by as'v ... ... * serving frosty glasses of golden "/i',,,,/,"'" beer. It is the congenial bever- * Pq Foundation age always in good taste. Enjoy ''ou* it often! First Nat’l Bank Bldg., Lincoln \ L. . ' ■ ■ Mr Conditioning—temperatures made to order—lor ill weather comfort Get a demonstration! See The Dinah Shore Chevy Show In color Sundays. 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Chevy’s coils have nothing to do but tame the bumps. 4 hydraulic valve lifters Oil hushed hydraulic valve lifters in all popular Chevy engines (including the six) never need adjustment, lengthen valve life. 2 m 'ihest choice or r oir eh Tiui.ua Seven spunky engines, five (rusty transmissions, includ ing satiny, shift-free Turbo glide.* Twenty-four combos l n all! ‘Optional at extra cost. 3 tefe Those crank-operated vent windows, for example, will give you an idea of all the extra care you get. r MORE 0“EXTRAS” at no extra cost! Single-key locking and starting . . . anti glare hoods for each instru ment ... an enclosed steering column . . . Safety Plate Glass all around . . . precision balanced wheels and tires. And a whole lot more besides! 6 SAFETY-.GIRDER FRAME Chevrolet’s frame is X-built, not just X-braced, for greater torsional rigidity. ' 7 SHOCK CUSHIONED STEERINO No other car in Chevy’s field keeps road shocks away from the steering wheel with a cushioned steering column. 8 HIGHER ENTRANCEHEICMI Up to 3.1 inches extra, in fact. See your local authorized Chevrolet dealer for fast delivery, favorable deals MARCELLUS CHEVROLET CO. 127 North 4th 5* O’Neill, Nebr. Phone 100 Alice's Beauty Shop Res. S doors went of Texaco 125 East Hour lap Phone 203 — O’Neill Ponton Insurance Insurance of All Kinds and Bonds FIX>RENCE PONTON. Prop Phone 100 Golden Bldg. SALES - RESEARCH - RESULTS DeKalb’s leadership in sales for many, many years certainly attests to the soundness and progressiveness of its research staff, and the thoroughness of its country-wide testing operations. RESULTS tell the story-MORE FARMERS PLANT DEKALB than ANY OTHER CORN—and have for a good, long time. A. M. 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