Walter visited of Mapleton. Ia., lesson on socialism and evangel- upstairs. Laursen, Mrs. Marie Siefken Mr. and Mrs. J. W. or their parents, ism. Mrs. Hansberry gave the The child welfare Mrs. Palmer Skulborstad. Tractor Shed Lost week. chairman, Walter, last prayer. A lunch was served at Mrs. Collene corrected Greene, Mrs. Axel Borg, being the only Prairieland Talk Mrs. Genevieve Bell returned the close of the meeting. The test the safety papers for the bi- one who attended the department Saturday from a week’s visit next meeting will be in the in Farm Blaze cycle campaign which was held convention in Omaha, gave a re- with her son and daughter-in- church parlors on August 20. The in July. auxiliary had given port of the happenings during law, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Grimes, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McDer- toward this The $5 campaign. the three days there. The new A Old Woman at Eaton, Colo. mott returned Wednesday, Aug- Thirsty While new five-gallon server section, department president is Mrs. Fire Starts Mr. and Mrs. Joe O’Malley and ust from a three-weeks to 5, trip' 120-cup coffeemaker has arrived. Lowell Johnson of Valley. By ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Retired, Former Frontier Editor family of Oakland, Calif., are the West coast. At Portland, Ore., Mrs. Laursen read a letter from The door was won Refueling guests of his mother, Mrs. Law- they visited his brother-in-law prize by merciless the state department stating the Mrs. H. D. Gildersleeve. The lit- LINCOLN—The story is told as historically For a week the sun has poured rence O’Malley, and brothers, and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John CHAMBERS — A fire at the membership quota for 1954 is to tle red school house true that woman who was a heat the The concrete carrying foot and Leo. also Mr. and Mrs. Fred fund a young spending upon city. east Jerry Lawyer, be 236. The 1954 dues can be Emil Klabenes farm of Homer and paid amounted to $2.41. few on the sea coast a cup of cold and wheel traffic reflects the heat coming like Mr. and Mrs. Roe of Collins and family and Mr. days supplied Chambers on Tuesday, August 4, now to Mrs. John Stuifbergen. stirs. Drink a California came last week to vis- William They also The lunch committee for Sep- water to an old lady whom she had overheard a blow torch when the breeze quart shed and Mrs. Dailey. destroyed a tractor it her Mr. and Mrs. The people attending the tember will be Mrs. A1 Carroll,. a wish for a drink. of water and it is sweat out like squeezing a parents, visited her brother, Lynn Hanna, express and caused consider- North Central Nebraska Here- Mrs. William Mrs. and the zenith white equipment Charles Walter. and at Roseburg, Ore. Griffin, Pal- The old lady expressed her gratitude sponge. As Old Sol reaches today a tractor. family will be here the able damage to Mrs. A. C. Stiles and Mr. and ford tour night mer Skulborstad, Mrs. Borg and bars of clouds motionless above the hot the Sister M. Quentin, OSB, and wonderment that this charming young person hang The fire started when son, of August 19. Anyone having a Laursen. Mrs. Gerald Stiles, Patty and M. OSB, of Mrs. an interest in the earth. From the scorched of Kansas, Ok- was the Sister Hortense, one or a should have plains Bob Klabenes, refueling of Lincoln visited the for- I room for person couple, field. Judy Atchinson, Kans., left Friday af- welfare of an old woman with lahoma and Texas comes the hot breath of early tractor to go to the hay Mrs. Esther ! please get in touch with Mrs. Frontier lor mer’s sister, Wood, ter a few days visiting printing! learned of the The weather forecaster mentioned some- assisted in putting spending gray hair. She August. Neilghbors a few days last week. Mrs. A. C. of Mrs. Bertha Con- before it reached at the home age, date of her birth, thing about continued heat with here and there out the blaze Stiles remained for another week. girl’s way and other relatives. nam ; and where she lived. Time “local showers.” Maybe those bars of white clouds other buildings. The others returned to Lincoln fire department The girl was home hold- up there in the blue firmament will darken as the The Chambers Sunday. Mrs. Grover Shaw of passed. scene. Fortunately On hours on us a was on the O’Neill is also a of Mrs. ing a job in a music store. go marching and drop cooling who guest Auxiliary’s Member neither Bob nor his sister, this week. the day of her 19th birthday shower. It is something like a half century since Wood was was burned. Ward Smith and a man walked into I fell in with R. R. Dickson as we walked nearby, Rev. and Mrs. Fixed at 236 anniversary along came in and assist- Quota Neighbors family left Monday for Homer the store and handed her a seal- the “cutoff” toward our respective homes. It was in finishing his ed Mr. Klabenes City, Pa., where he will be con- The American Legion auxiliary the en- a chilly in July. We talked of the ed envelope. Opening day early I haying. nected with the West Indies mis- of Simonson post 93 met Wednes- she found a short mes- weather, the wisdom of a and velope expounding lawyer sion. A shower was held for them day, 5, at the Legion aud- — August the old woman she Conclusions were that the as a News sage from printer. sun, great Other Chambers at the Memorial Baptist church itorium with the president, Mrs. of water two ball of was heat and we were head- had given a drink Romaine fire, losing Mrs. Ann Alday and daughter, on Friday evening. A musical Virgil Laursen, presiding. a check made ed for another “ice The solar orb has been came years before and cylinders age.” Thersa, of West Plains, Mo., program was presented followed Mrs. Melvin Ruzicka was au- to her for since that in 6, and visited of taken out $27,500. replenished chilly day July. Thursday, August by a showing pictures thorized to go ahead and get the don’t be for an old wom- 11, with their Now, kids, looking * * • until Tuesday, August by the Smiths during stay bamboo drapes for the lounge a lift ex- Mr. and Mrs. L. W. an or old man to whom you could give her parents, in Honduras. Central America. Miss Mary pecting something like that to come your way. Dressed in creased trousers and white shirt Taggart, and family. A/2c and Mrs. Richard Harley fellow who was of Omaha was a week- And there was the young he is pictured inspecting the situation in a Ne- Taggart and son, Wayne, came Wednes- training. He end visitor. a struggle to get a medical braska corn field. Not an honesl-to-goodness day, August 5, from Limestone having and Mrs. Hale Osborne ARTHRITIS? he at a Mr. a went hungry at times. One day stopped clodhopper who produces the stuff from which airbase, Me., for 30-day leave came to and. Sharon of Winner, S.D., the woman who one which they will spend in Cham- I have been wonderfully home and. asked young we get cornbread and mush, but of those to visit relatives. water. She thought he came Sunday bers. Richard is a son of Mr. and blessed in being restored to the door for a drink of specialists that agriculture has added to its Mrs. Osborne left for of milk in Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harley. He will be looked She gave him a glass Sharon re- active life after being crippled hungry. yearly crop yield. home Sunday evening. his came and went, that sent to England following in in of water. The years a week’s visit. The nearly every joint my place • * * mained for leave. with a disease relatives and with muscular sore- woman lies on a cot in a hospital family had been visiting body Alf the victim of the new deal of the Wisner. Mrs. E. R. Carpenter, Mrs. head foot. I that baffles the specialists but before being given Landon, i't Sioux Falls, S.D., and My- ness from to had was was from Kansas the other of ers, Mrs. Neilson and Mrs. Cooke and die a of nationwide repute 30’s, up day mixing Miss Bonnie Grimes Eaton, Rheumatoid Arthritis other up to physician were hostesses to the recovers. The a little with business his rela- Woman’s called to her bedside. The woman | politics during sojourn Colo., who has been visiting forms of Rheumatism, hands came Tues- Society of Christian Service last asked the authorities to let in Lincoln. The one time presidential coandidate tives in Sioux City, deformed and my ankles were physician hospital will afternoon in the Meth- to the dis- cast a barb at Senator of Wiscon- August 4. She Thursday to see the bill before it was given McCarthy day evening, set. him weeks with her odist church parlors. The presi- She got the bill and was about sin. Others are doing that not without castine spend a couple Limited space prohibits tell- charged patient. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. dent opened the meeting and had as she about how she suspicion on themsevles as red sympathizers. grandparents, more here but if to have a relapse thought Mrs. Genevieve charge of the business session ing you you at not this class. As a kid in and ever such a sum, when she read Probably Landon is in Carpenter, Seventeen ladies answered to roll will write me I will reply at would pay ,the Bell and other relatives. in full with one glass of milk. southern Wisconsin, my best pal was a kid named call and one visitor was once and tell how I receiv- bottom, “Paid Dinner guests in the Hattie present. you Ed McCarthy. Maybe Joe is his illustrious son. At Mrs. Darrel Gillette led the de- ed this wonderful relief. Interesting stories. But maybe your exper- Tibbets home were Mr. and Mrs. that I talked any rate, he has the of the great state of voticnals and the ience has been like the merchant’s backing Hale Osborne and Sharon of gave quadren- them Wisconsin and has done more than any other one Bonnie Grimes of cers are asked to bring in their to. He had tried to help people by extending Winner, S.D., of dollars. in congress to hunt down the traitors. Mrs. Geenvieve nial goals for 1953-1956. All offi- credit and had been stung for hundreds Eaton, Colo., Mrs. Lela S. Wier * * * L. V. reports for the first quarterly * * ft Bell and Mr. and Mrs. report at the next Mrs. 280$ Arbor Hills Drive Kay Wallace scanned the note. In the death of Senator Taft another of the of Chambers. meeting. Service Representative now done at sale rings, Cooper P.O. Box 2695 Livestock marketing, Mrs. Glen Grimes and John Honeywell played the pre- Puzzled, she looked at the man who had it to nation’s ablest statesmen passes out of the Mr. and brought was the active business of several pic- lude, Mrs. Sarah Adams the Jackson 7, at one time three sons left Sunday for the gave Mississippi her desk in the business office. He touched his A in the long ture. Nebraska republicans have looked upon the Leona Gleed the telephone buyers and shippers in O’Neill. day West coast. They will visit her scripture. gave at “Gal- Ohio senator as presidential quality and will re- mouth and his ear, then shook his head. • collected the Hus- ago a group of these buyers parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank gret his death second perhaps only to friends in lagher corner” were telling some experiences. ton, at Sedro Wooley, Wash., and “You’re deaf and can’t speak?” she wrote on a slip of his team and un- his home state. Men die—the humble and great, One related seeing a gent stop other relatives. He nodded, reaching for the pencil. box and dump the well known and the unknown, and the affairs It In NEBRASKA— paper. cover a large stone in the wagon Mr. and Mrs. Kieth Sexton and Happened to in of the nation and those of the communities that Mrs. Wallace soon learned his need. The it out. He was on the way up town weigh Nadine returned Sunday from a handicapped make up the nation continue to function and will in ■ the after unloading hogs at the stockyard. two weeks’ vacation spent ■ M I man’s wife was ill; he wanted to call relatives out of town. wagon as while for 10G pounds more so continue as long time lasts patriots Colorado. The buyer of those hogs paid for farmers stand on guard in behalf of liberty and justice Quickly she put the call through. “I’m speaking hog than he got. Others told of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Medcalf mess before and truth. arrived Mr. Samson ...” she Then as notes were the wagon clean of hay and of Sedro Wooley, Wash., began. penciled scrape * * * back after unloading. One gent had a during the past week to visit his exchanged, she continued a six-minute conversation. weighing Mrs. William scheme to the weight of his load of Friends of Julius D. Cronin learn with plea- parents, Mr. and novel plug When the call was finished, her customer’s gestures under the sure that he is head the Nebraska State Bar Medcalf, and brother and sister- hogs. He had fastened a sack of sand to scales af- association. J.D. has shunned in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Med- conveyed his thanks. Kay smiled and wrote a last note. wagon and on the way back to the city consistently pub- consent calf. “You’re welcome. to lend a hand—or a voice!” ter out and slit the sack. Another licity but without his knowledge and Always glad unloading got Mrs. Walter was them Prairieland who has known Mr. Cronin Dr. and Floyd and who had sold cattle and driving Talker, The read here was taken from gent son of Detroit, Mich., Mr. and story you’ve telephone to turn over to the buyer was caught two miles from the days of his childhood, feels free to say in Mrs. Ivan Walter of Hoisington, files. Names have been changed to protect the privacy of the cattle with feed and water, that he is not only a capable lawyer who will be out of town filling Kans., and Mr. and Mrs. Irven that the an asset to the association as its people in it. You might meet Kay Wallace, the service the agreement in the transaction being bar president, _ but like his dad is an in office. You’re sure to seller would take the shrinkage occasioned by before him all-around great I— representative, your telephone moving the herd guy. meet someone very like her—for her helpfulness is typical of telephone people in every town we serve. Editorial To attract and hold good workers like Kay Wallace, to provide them with proper training to serve you well — ‘ ’ In the the frontier border often resounded with shots mid-1800’s, your telephone company must have reasonable rates for from buffalo hunts. Trainloads men Valuations Don *t Make Taxes “sporting” of white would service. We must stay financially sound to continue to near a herd of buffalo to shoot down stop the beasts for pure bring good telephone service to everyone who needs it... to announce-* We are amused by the profound the carcasses to rot on the These actions “sport,” leaving plains. continue to make your telephone worth more than it costs. from Gov. Robert Crosby and the state DR. H. D. GILDERSLEEVE ment End of caused many an Indian war. board of equalization declaring that “valuations Honeymoon? OPTOMETRIST Do you know a true telephone story don’t make taxes.” The first on the Eis- Northeast Corner Vhat a change in Nebraska, even to its NEBRASKA DIVISION general partisan attack like this? Send it to Northwestern Bell This cliche was forthcoming simultaneously of 4th & outlook on tavern operation. the enhower administration comes seven months af- Douglas Today Telephone Co., Omaha, Nebraska. of Holt takes United Stales with the state board’s upping county city ter it took office. It comes from democratic wheel- O’NEILL, NEBR. brewing industry pride in helping ° town real estate values 438 percent; farm Phone 167 tavernmen to realize their responsibilities and horse Sam Rayburn and is aimed directly at the Foundationr-^rf Northwestern Bell Telephone Company 207 household goods, Eyes Examined Glasses Kitted in maintaining wholesome, real estate values, percent; republican congress rather than at President law-abiding Office Hours: 9-5 Mon. thru Sat. establishments. '.. 100 percent; and business schedules, 25 percent. Eisenhower. 710 pirstNat’I Bank Bldg., Lincoln the state board admonished persons Further, This is notable. While it is natural for Mr. I concerned (and who isn’t?) to take their tax bur- Rayburn, as the house minority leader and former dens to their county, school, town and township speaker, to deal particularly with congressional boards. Don’t come to us, they said, because “val- action, he appears also to share a general demo- uations don’t make taxes.” cratic wariness about “shooting” at the president. On page one of this issue of The Frontier be- If the Rayburn blast signals an end to the admin- there is a table showing levy comparisons istration’s political honeymoon, it avoids—for the tween 1952 and 1953. An asterix designates three present—the hazard of running head-on into the state funds on which the levy is fixed by statute popularity of Mr. Eisenhower. law. Combined they represent 1.85 mills or $1.85 valuation. To be sure, however, it is a prelude for low- per one thousand dollars of assessed Holt county’s valuations have been increased ering the boom on Mr. Ike. After all, Ike was a new dealers roughly from 38-million-dollars in 1952 to 42- protege of democratic like Franklin million-dollars in 1953 — or a total of 5-million- D. Roosevelt, George C. Marshall, and others, and dollars. The fixed state levy last year for state miffed the demo wheelhorses when he emerged from the GOP comer. building purposes produced something like 40- thousand-dollars in that single fund from Holt Mr. Rayburn declares the administration has county alone. This year that same fund will get failed to keep its campaign promises. It has not 46-thousand-dollars. And two new fixed levies balanced the budget, cut taxes, halted inflation, (teachers’ pension and medical college building or developed a new foreign policy. Holding the funds) have been added! party in power responsible for everything that The state has shed its 75 percent of the med- isn’t done—or that goes amiss—is a recognized ical load for care of the aged, blind and tactic in political warfare. And voters who ex- ■other persons unable to pay their own way. This pected a bigger and quicker change may be at- has been dumped entirely on the counties, which tracted by the argument. footed 25 of the bill. This is a formerly percent The Rayburn case will have much more ap- subtracted from the state big item treasury yet peal next year if the administration fails to “pass the state were unable to reduce the state bigwigs a miracle” and somehow balance the budget while more than a mill in the face of tremendous levy cutting taxes. But the republicans can reasonably like Holt’s. valuation increases ask Mr. Rayburn if the nation would not have Holt O’Neill school district and O’- county, been even further from balancing the budget, cut- Neill officials have succeeded in slicing the city ting taxes, halting inflation, and finding a new and we wonder how far an individual levy some, foreign policy if the democrats had continued one boards to re- would get in pressing of those on the Truman road. duce its texas—as the state board of equalization His remarks cast a forelight on democratic suggests we do. strategy. Plainly one feature is to be a at- It would seem the economy could begin at the strong tack on the hard-money” under which in- state level, which fixes its levy first. And, the policy terest rates have been raised. The admin- state board, after all, is in the middle of the already istration can argue that this tightening of credit present tax muddle. is one of the best “Valuations don’t make taxes,” the board ways to curb inflation. It may even that there are more cred- chirps. prove statistically itors than borrowers in America. But But somehow the state’s take becomes appre- politically this row can be hard to hoe. ciably bigger and bigger. very

we '• »- Frankly, have not been impressed with • • Ike’s record during the first seven months, and In all-around performance, Pontiac compares favorably Was Best Paid we his record will deteriorate now that Ruth Player suspect he with any car—and you get this performance along with an has lost the wise, sound counsel of Robert A. Taft, and Babe Ruth still ranks the best paid ball play- unsurpassed record for dependability, economy long who had Ike’s ear on occasion much to the bewail* See Hotr Murh You Get 122' WHEELBASE No car so is er in the history of baseball. life. But Pontiac with the finest cars in other big ment of Sherman Adams, Thomas Dewey, Herbert compares priced so low—and this long wheel- We don’t care what you say about Ted Wil- too: in in roominess. All At So Little base means Brownell, et al. ways, in handling ease, comfort, Very Conti extra roominess and a liams the or what more getting highest salary figures this makes Pontiac’s low price even more remarkable. solid feeling of security. produce. Figures are facts but they can fool you And not only is Pontiac right down next to the lowest you. priced PONTIAC’S GREAT POWER PLANT POWER STEERING* Parking’s but it also saves mile drive. And to with Babe RuWs biggest salary year was the $80,- you money every you This powerful, high-compression simple Pontiac’s Power Steer- which he drew down in 1931. off Pontiac’s low cost can look ahead to its assured engine gives you more power than ing, relieves you of almost 00Q. top you all you’ll probably ever need. Pontiac steering effort but at the same Ted Williams hit the $125,000 mark. resale value. not come in and let us prove it? time Frontier high Why engines are famous for delivering requires absolutely no He have earned the most dollars but change might years and years of wonderful miles in driving habits. he wasn’t the highest paid. CARROLL W. STEWART, Editor and Publisher with only routine attention. :® Out of the $125,000 paid Ted Williams the BODY BY FISHER Pontiac’s de Editorial & Business Offices: 122 South Fourth St. x Dollar Jbr Dollar cant beat a luxe government dipped in so heavily that he had only you DUAL-RANGE HYDRA-MATIC* Lets interiors are keyed to body color. Address correspondence: Box 330, O’Neill, NeLr. choose the left after his taxes. you performance you Appointments and conveniences $62,028 paying when Established in 1880—Published Each Thursday want, you want it: alert compare with the finest. There’s When Ruth pocketed the $80,000 in 1931 the 5 in traffic or response city gas-sav- ample room to stretch out and left him $68,535 as his “for on the open road. relax. government keeps.” Entered at the postoffice in O’Neill, Holt ; ing cruising *Optional at extra coxt. Those figures in themselves are not capable county, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter { -v.W' •/ V WV W .• VAW/ ww V .Vvv -Arws.w K •••/>. V of the whole story. The $68,535 received under the Act of of March 1879. This w-jw-...... telling Congress 3, -TV ■. V* .j». ff' rthfcrM by Ruth would buy twice as much as the $62,028 newspaper is a member of the Nebraska Press Ihmtiae “net after taxes” of Williams. Association, National Editorial Association and the Audit Bureau We still say that Babe Ruth was the best paid of Circulations. ball in history. player Terms of Subscription: In Nebraska, $2.50 per year; elsewhere in the United comment on the Lincoln States, $3 per One lady’s city rates Wm. Kroner9 Co. year; abroad, provided on All sub- to outlaw the female parade in request. council proposal scriptions are paid-in-advance. shrots: ‘They’ll never do it—too many men want PHONE 531 O’NEILL, NEBR. to see us that way.” Audited (ABC) Circulation—2,200 (Mar. 31, 1953).