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"Straight Shoot Halts Flood"
By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, 411) South 51st St.. Lincoln 6. Nebr.
North Nebraska snowbound in mid March, snow
drifts said to lie 14 feet high in some communities.
Friend Cal Stewart went home over the weekend
and was snowed in up at O'Neill so was not at his
editorial desk when daughter
and I drove up to the Sun office
in northeast Lincoln a day or
two before this is written. It
may not be thought iiest but by
March 16 it was rumored that
our governor might call a spe
cial session of the legislature to
provide aid for a few commun
ities hard hit by winter storms.
Now spring thaws may mean
flood waters where rivers flow.
We had just that at O'Neill in Romalne
the lHSO's when the Elkhom **«sden
flowed out nearly a mile wide south of town, but
Neil Brennan and others got us busy with teams
and we constructed a straight shoot for Elkhom
waters to do away with floods.
• * *
I was recently asked to go to one of our Capital
City's numerous schools and tell the pupils of the
second and third grades some experiences of pioneer
days out on the Nebraska prairies. Glad to do so
and to know that sch«»l kids today are interested
in their state's history. Yes, I was able to tell them
some experiences of pioneer life in Holt county
back in sod house, hay burner days and Indian
raids. The teachers .and pupils were nice and a
roaring hand clap seemed to say, “Good enough,
Old Timer”.
Out of Russian realms comes the boast that
soon the Muscovites will have flown to the moon
and stars and given us a kick in the pants. What
1 is being done over in Russia is the work of German
scientists, now his captives, who are abiding their
time and when ready will give the Russian tosses
a kick in the pants and re-establish the great Ger
man empire.
* * *
It stands there tcxlay on south First street just
where it was put in the year 1HXH on two lots in
Riggs Addition to the growing town of O’Neill. It
had toen my home for more than 20 years, the
main part of the house moved in on wagons drawn
by horses from the prairie five miles out, two rooms
built on and some more since. No electric lights,
no bath rooms or hot and cold water faucets in my
day. All living in that part of town when r and mine
were there now dead and gone; and Jim Riggs of
the Riggs Addition is no more. Time steps along
life’s highway and we are laid away to await the
call on the first and second resurrections. So let
us walk the highway of life circumspectly and to
among those who hear and respond to the call the
morning of the first resurrection.
• • •
Out of the bright blue sky the golden glow of
sunshine this mid-day of March. Snow is slowly
fading away to make room for the green robed
tjeauty of spring and summer. Flowers to adorn
the scene again, song of birds and buzzing bees,
life and growing things. Come on, Joe, let’s go
swimming where a few weeks ago we went skating.
* * •
Three quarters of a million humans in the
great city of Chicago on "relief”- that is supported
at public expense, and training is now given many
of these thousands to fit them for jobs to support
themselves.
• • *
In a horseback performance in a distant land
aur White House First Lady Kennedy is reported
to have shown those Asiatics how to do it.
• • •
At the state hospital here in our Capital City,
where my daughter-in-law is helping care for the*
unfortunate human specimens and informs me that
there are a numlier of teenage girls mentally crazed
in the institution. Kids gone crazy!
* * *
The sun shines the day this is “talked" to you,
snow all gone and for the first time in many weeks
we see the family washings hung out on the lines
to dry. The cold long winter over? Maybe so and
now the scorching heat of summer just ahead. But
1 will walk out in the sunshine today after being
in for a month or two. Come take a walk with me.
A prairieland clodhopper has in his pens those
short legged grunting creatures from which you
get your pork chops, so he does not approve of
Nebraska being known as the beef state. Well, here
we have it hay, com, wheat, potatoes, horses,
cows, sheep, pigs, dogs and cats.
* * ♦
Has that gifted newspaper writer down at
Amelia, Miss Lindsey laid aside her writing tablet
and gone away? No Amelia news in my last Fron
tier. Maybe Florence and her mother went down
to Omaha for a visit, closing their Amelia store
for a time.
* * *
Where some 60 years ago there were open
spaces in O'Neill, today fine modern homes stand.
To the west of where I lived in southwest O'Neill
it was open prairie and below' the railroad tracks
to the south, a com field. Now modern homes
e\ erywhere. A city today is the county seat town
of Prairieland Talker’s little hometown of other
years; on the streets today automobiles and loaded
trucks in place of the saddle horses and covered
wagons we once enjoyed seeing. But no gilded
passenger trains now rolling in and out of town.
What next?
Editorial
More About This Land of Ours
Iftt * * a a.
»»uanvci uapptrnea 10 ine iriea ana true oco
nomic laws of supply and demand?
A great many people in this fair country of
ours would like to see those laws re-applied to
solving the problems of what we all recognize as
THE I .AND. To that end, one organization, the
National Association of Manufacturers, is com
manding attention for its published stand, to wit:
"The nation’s agricultural problems can best
Ik» solved through the operation of the free market—
and not through Federal controls and subsidies.”
The NAM is not seeking to win the top popu
larity award on how to win friends and influence
farmers. Bit it is urging the government to spend
more time advising the farmer on how to gain a
decent livlihood within the framework of free enter
prise- rather than have Uncle Sam try to guar
antee him income through control and subsidies.
The various steps advocated by the NAM on
how to keep 'em happy down on the farm without
subsidies is now on the desks of Agriculture Secre
tary Orville Freeman and members of the Agri
culture Committees of the Senate and House.
We trust this statement gets a repeat reading:
’’The effort to erect an economic umbrella over
all users of rural land to protect them from eco
nomic forces is no more justifiable than a law to
protect all users of urban land from economic
forces.
"The most efficient use of our resources can
come about through competition and the operation
of the economic laws erf supply and demand.”
BROOKVTLLE, PA., JEFFERSONIAN DEMO
CRAT: “In some kind of an economy (?) drive the
United States Post Office Department is clamping
down in no uncertain terms on mailing technical
ities that will affect practically every citizen in the
country and cause them inconvenience and annoy
ance. But Mr. Khrushchev's Communist propa
ganda, by the millions of pounds, is still accepted
and distributed free throughout the United States
. . . and Mr. Kennedy says we shouldn’t stop it . . .
doing so might be an obstacle to the distribution of
U. S. mail in the Soviet Union! My, oh my!”
JUNCTION CITY, ORE., TIMES: **. . . Sec
retary of State Rusk is making an all-out effort to
swing the Latin American nations into line in an
effort to halt the spread of Communism in the west
ern hemisphere. . . . While this is a most com
mendable objective, one of the serious deterrents
toward Communism is being pushed more and
more into the discard. This is the time-honored
dynamic policy erf a nation operating on a basis of
freedom of enterprise and private ownership of
property.”
EL DORADO. KANSAS. TIMES: “Senator
Barry Goldwater of Arizona . . . told the Republican
national committee that the GOP will have to offer
voters 'something different' if it hopes to beat the
Democrats. The senator is so right. The answer
to ‘something different' is right under the party’s
nose if it would only take a deep breath. A plat
form based on solid government, solutions to pre
sent day problems that don’t create chaotic bank
ruptcy. a cleansing of waste from all departments
and a return to sensible management ceasing to
throw good money after bad, is the something dif
ferent for which the senator yearns.”
Valentine Newspaper
Publishing a hometown newspaper has many
compensations, but being well-liked is not one of
them. Everyone hates the editor.
An editor who takes a firm stand on contro
versial issues, and tries to print all the news in
an unbiased manner, may be respected (in a fair
minded community), but he will never be popular.
Sooner or later such an editor will tread on the
toes of everyone who reads the paper, be he friend
or foe, neighbor or stranger.
Prime sources of an editor's woes are weddings,
obituaries and court news. The description of grand
mother’s dress must be included in the wedding
write-up and uncle Joe’s favorite poem must be
appended to his obituary or the editor is an unfeel
ing barbarian, not fit to associate with genteel hu
man beings.
Persons whose names appear in the court news
usually fall into two classes — those who were
badly mistreated by the law, and those who admit
guilt but want to protect someone else by keeping
their name out of the paper. This desire to protect
dear old mother who has a bad heart, or the grand
uruioren in scnooi. or tne minister from embarass
ment, has led people to offer us bribes, threaten us
with mayhem and check the possibility of filing a
libel suit. We have often pointed out that we don't
make the news, we just print it. All anyone needs
do to keep his name out of the court news is to stay
out of court.
Other ways to incur the wrath of readers are:
Disagree with them on a school issue; misspell their
name; give another church more space than you
do their church; refuse to print an item so old it has
long since ceased to be news; decline to work at
night on a rush printing job for someone who would
have ordered it out of town to begin with had he
not been in a hurry; suggest on the fourth or fifth
statement that you would like to be paid; decline
to print all the personal letters, magazine articles
and other material people bring in; get poor re
production of a poor picture, etc., etc., etc.
We sometimes think what really irritates read
ers is the crusty old editor’s steadfast refusal to
drop dead. That seems to be the only way to please
a big majority at one time.
BRUCE J. REHBERG, Editor
BILL RICHARDSON, Publisher
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NATION A l EDITORIAL
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Frontiers
Ago
SO YEARS AGO
Frank OTkxinell, Rudy Ryaj
and Laurence Chapman, repre
senting O’Neill high school
wrestled a victory from the At
kins on high school wrestling
team Friday and this gives O'
Neill the championship of thii
district. . .Mr. and Mrs. J. U
Yantzi and family left the firs
of the week for Seward when
Mr. Yantzi has purchased an in
terest in the creamery. . .W. N
Coats of Stuart is candidate foi
the republican nomination for th<
state senator from this district
. .The school board Monday
night elected C. A. Gorby ai
superintendent and Margare
Martin as principal. . .A son wai
born to Mr. and Mrs. Clevengei
St. Patrick’s Day. . A social wai
given at Bertha Rouse’s schoo
Friday night.
25 YEARS AGO
O’Neill stores will close foi
three hours on Good Friday. .
Cattle show upward trend in salt
held Tuesday at Atkinson. .
Dr. C. A. Perrigo died in a.Nor
folk hospital Monday; he had
been making monthly trips hert
as an optician the past 20 years
. .Holt County 4-H club mem
bers invited to attend the Aber
deen Angus show. . .Hugh James
is convalescing at the home ol
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L
James, from injuries sustained
in a railroad wreck in the vicini
ty of Council Bluffs. . .Mrs. I. L,
Watson and Mrs. E. L. Watson
Inman, entertained for the 24th
wedding anniversary of Mr. and
Mrs. A. N. Butler and the 27th
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. L.
R. Tompkins.
10 YEARS AGO
9pring storm strikes region
with heavy snowfall curtailing
transportation and communica
tion. . .The Frontier’s Holt coun
ty basketball team has the fol
lowing players: Don Godel, Gary
Buckmaster and Davey Eby, O'
Neill high; Bernard Mohr and
Don Becker, St. Mary's; Ronald
Park and Bob Sorensen, Page,
and Bob Knapp, Ewing. . .G. V.
Mott, 74, expires March 22 at
Page. . .Brother and sister,
Mrs. Emogene Baker Bower, 78,
Chambers, and Harry Hubbard,
Rushville, die same day, March
22. . .Miss Bernelda Bolen and
James Mashek jr., both of Stuart,
are united in marriage March
22 in O’Neill at the First Pres
byterian parsonage.
5 YEARS AGO
Mrs. James Davidson, 84, a
Holt county resident since 1876,
died May 22 in St. Anthony’s hos
pital. . .Mr. and Mrs. John M.
Grutsch celebrate their golden
wedding anniversary March 27. , .
Well-known Stuart woman, Mrs.
Ora R. Yarges. dies March 24 af
ter lingering illness. . .First Lt.
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Donna Shelhsse to leave March
31 fur states from Sendai, Japan,
where she has served with the
army nurse corps since April,
1955 . .Joe Subotka jr. receives
the highest grade among 125 stu
dents in the medical school at
the University of South Dakota.
. Bernard Alien, resident engi
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attends hospital engineer meet
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50 YEARS AGO
The young jieople of Inman
expect to present a home talent
play in Chambers in the near
future. . Jim Greenstreet lost
a coyple of cows recently. . .
Lake Litiierland is gradually
growing deeper, if this weather
keeps up, and in a few days it
will be connected with Lake Col
man. . .R. H. Atwood left early
Tuesday morning with John Bat
terson to look up a cream route
in the southwest part of the coun
ty. . .Mr. Wagner of College View
plans to locate for the coming
year on the Green ranch 15 miles
southeast of here. . .Ray Lien
hart went to Amelia Tuesday to
meet their freighter there with
flour from Atkinson. . Mr. Ben
Hubbard and Miss Mabel Earl
were united in matrimony March
20 at the O'Neill Presbyterian
charch.
25 YEARS AGO
Mrs. J. Emmett Medcalf died
March 19 at her farm home be
ing ill four years due to heart
trouble and complications. . .
Prof. A. B. 9ageser is spending
his Easter vacation here from
his duties as instructor at the
Presbyterian college of Empor
ia, Kan. . .Fred Lowery is now
making his regular trips on the
mail route after being in the
Veterans hospital. . .A heavy
snow storm struck here Friday
afternoon. . .Chambers riflemen,
Frank Porter, Lurlin Collins, Chet
Fees, Clarence Tibbets and Eu
gene Baker, tested their ability
with rifles by contesting with the
High School Rifle club. . .Clet
tus H aerie, Myron and Melvin
Smith left March 15 via auto for
Idaho, Washington and Orrg>ui
looking for occupation
Riverside News
By Mn,. Ijoo#4 U outer
Mrs. Wendell Switter entertain
the United Presbyterian wonnn
Friday afternoon at the church
annex with Mrs. Richard Napier
as co-hostess Mrs Leo Miller
gave Chapter 3 in the program
guide “Who Cares”, and Mrs.
Dale Napier reviewed Chapter
3 in the study guide on Romans
Mrs. Richard Napier led the
prayer group. Mrs. Veurl Tut
tie presided at the business
meeting. Mrs. Wilbur Bennett
read the minutes of the Febru
ary meeting. The 15 members
present answered roll call by
giving biblical characters and
their relation to each other. Mrs.
Z. H. Fry, secretary of the sew
ing and supplies, received an
award certificate from the World
Clothing Fund, St. Louis, Mo.,
for clothing sent to them last
fall. The next meeting will be
April 19 with Mrs Keith Bid
dlecome and Mrs. Wilbur Ben
nett.
Mrs. Don Larson entertained
the Seek and Share club at the
church annex Tuesday afternoon
with Mrs. Dave Anson serving
the lunch. Twelve members were
present.
Alice Shrader came home with
Diane Shrader last Saturday af
ter spending the week visiting
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. George Montgom
ery visited in Neligh Tuesday and
Friday.
Mrs. and Mrs. Wayne Fry and
Kevin and Z. H. Fry visited in
Norfolk Friday. Kent Fry stay
ed with his grandmother, Mrs.
Z. H. Fry
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ritter
and family, Tilden, had dinner
last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Rudy Ahlers. Mr. and Mrs. Ro
bert Ahlers and family, Wisner,
were evening visitors.
Mrs. Daisy Miller, Linda Strik
er and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Na
pier and Carol Ann were din
ner guests last Sunday at the
Bert Fink home.
Tammy Mott stayed at the
Arlen Miller home Thursday af
ternoon while her mother, Mrs
Grant Mutt, helped with the Alb
letic Banquet at the Ewing high
school. Mrs. Leo Miller ami Mrs.
Wendell Switaer also assisted st
the banquet
Mr. and Mrs Dave Pollock
called on Mr and Mrs. Howard
Miller Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs Grant Mutt. Sharon and
Tammy visited Mr* Everett
Keesler Friday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Nelson
and Jimmy. Plainview, were
guests last Sunday at tlie Dewitt
Hoke home
Mr and Mrs Grant Mott,
Stiaron and Tammy were guests
last Sunday at the Rev. George
Francis home in Neligh They
also called on Mr and Mrs
Ronnie Mott.
Mr and Mrs. Lynn Fry and
Mr. and Mrs Willie Shrader vis
lied in Norfolk Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Z. H Fry, Mr
and Mrs. Art Busshardt and Mr
and Mrs. Kenneth Pollock and
family visited last Sunday after
noon at the Dave Pollock home
and were guests at a lunch of
ice cream and cake and coffee
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fink and
Jill were guests last Monday at
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the Bert Fink home
Mr and Mrs. Rudy Ahlera and
Mr and Mra. Fmlerlek Ritter
visited in Saw* Cuy. la.. Tue*
day.
Ralph Pollock, battle, Wash.,
came Sunday to visit hia parent*,
Mr and Mra. Dave pollock. He
will also visit relative* in Ne
llgh
The John Napier family vuuted
last Sunday at the Jerry Cuddy
home in O’Neill.
Mr. and Mm l.ro Miller vU
lled Howard Miller la the Aa
n-lop<- Memorial hospital 1'rl
day evening. Mm. Howard Mil
Irr came haute with them af
ter spending the paat few day*
In Nellgh.
Mr*. Alvm Nelson and Mrs.
Irene Aahburn, Plain view, were
luncheon guests of Mr*. Keith
Btddlecofne Saturday. Mrs. Mil
dred Wright visited Mr* Biddle
come Friday evening.
Grant Mott and Tammy and
Mr. and Mr* Lorraine Montgom
ery aitd Debra visited at the
George Montgomery home Mon
day af ten* ton.
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