Interior secretary's comments stir protest within Indian community
By Marcy Peterson Journal staff writer | Posted: Sunday, January 27, 2008
125 years ago
BLIZZARD PASSES: The thriftless citizen is now known by the snow-drifts on his sidewalk ... The man who cannot exhibit a frost bite is now looked down on with disdain ... The wind had gone down when the sun came up yesterday. It was cold though -- 25 degrees below zero at 8 o'clock, and 10 degrees below at 3 p.m. The railroad folks began to clear their tracks soon after sunrise.
THOUGHTS ON REFORM: To the editor: I see by yesterday's Journal that you want to "interview" me. That decision on the amendment means more than the temporary defeat of prohibition. It means the defeat of the republican party, state and national, if that party attempts to compete with the democrats in their "high license" bid for the saloon vote. License means partnership with crime, and you can't get around it. The "victory" that makes liquor-vending fiends rejoice, and drunkards' wives, children and loved ones mourn, is not my victory and I'm glad of it. Such victories cannot be permanent in this enlightened age and country. But even if they were, no Christian, nor lover of his kind, would want to share in them. Tell those tender ones who tell you "prohibition is dead" to look out for a "live corpse." -- J.H. Lozier
AREA NEWS: Twenty head of hogs, belonging to G. Rozenboom of Orange City, froze to death on the 18th ... The people along the Maple river branch of the Northwestern are clamoring for a regular passenger train instead of the mail and accommodation now in use ... A man from Calliope says that forty buildings have gone up in the Northwestern town of Haywarden, a city not yet four months old.
TRAIN WRECK: The mixed train on the Central which left Sioux City on Monday night, picked up a broken rail at Whisky slough, five miles east of Remsen, at 10 o'clock that night. Thirteen cars, mostly empties, were thrown off the track. It was understood that no one was hurt.
100 years ago
CITIZENSHIP COMES HIGH: When Andrew Cornwall, 805 Clark street, learned that he would have to pay $4 to secure his second naturalization papers, he refused to take them. Cornwall is a native of Ireland and he said he had been in this country twenty-seven years. He applied yesterday to Deputy County Clerk Harry Snyder for his second papers. The fee was not mentioned until Cornwall had answered all the questions and the clerk had spent considerable time filling out the blanks. "This will cost you $4," said the clerk. "It ain't worth $4 to vote in this country," replied Cornwall after pondering a few moments, and he walked out of the office leaving the papers on the counter. Cornwall wanted to vote at the special election today.
WITHOUT FOOD FOR 34 DAYS: A man who gave his name as Albert Allen was found in a strawstack on a farm six miles east of Le Mars. He was badly frostbitten and claimed he had been living there three weeks and had been thirty-four days without food. He was taken to the county poor farm where he is getting better.
PARENTS SHOULD BE ARRESTED: Complaints have been flooding the office of City Health Officer Dr. S.D. Hoskins against people who have children in school who are virulent with the measles. "If the parents of these children do not attend to the matter and take them out of school they will be prosecuted," Said Dr. Hoskins.
50 years ago
NEW DIRECTION: The City Council has agreed to pay a starting salary of $7,500 for a new city planning director. That would be an increase of $900 over the $6,600 now being paid to Robert J. Selander, who will leave Sioux City for a new job on the Omaha planning staff.
MIDYEAR GRADS: Midyear graduation, that annual January bugaboo, will take its toll here in city basketball ranks, as eight cagers are winding up their prep careers. The present midyear graduation setup extends another two years before it will run its course. East, the hardest hit, will lose three starters, Don Chesely, Jerry Thompson and Dick Suter, plus the No. 6 man, Pat Clare. Central will lose two regulars, Ron Van Hofwegen and Ron Randolph, while Leeds will lose starter Don Ward and reserve Jim Grehm.
LETS TALK BASEBALL: The Western Baseball League for the third time since its reorganization in 1947, has become a six-team loop. Colorado Springs and Sioux City called it quits at a league directors' meeting in Lincoln. Adam Pratt, unable to reach Lincoln because of a snowstorm, told the directors by telephone that he would not operate the Sioux City team this season without a working agreement with a major league club, which is not available.
25 years ago
RADIO SYSTEM: Pac-Man rides to traffic accidents and fires here. At least that's what some are calling the new computer radio consoles that have been installed in emergency vehicles during the past couple of months. Some police officers are calling it by other names that can't be printed here. Officers are concerned because the system seems to be not working more often than it's working. Brenda Tomlinson, supervisor for the Woodbury County Communications Center, said the new $150,000 radio system has a few bugs that engineers are still trying to squash. They hope to use this radio system as a showcase for other similar sized cities in the Midwest, she said.
LOCAL INDIANS DENOUNCE WATT: Leaders of the Omaha and Winnebago Tribes have joined in the storm of protest mounting within the nation's Indian community over remarks made this week by Interior Secretary James Watt. Watt termed the nation's Indian reservations "an example of the failures of socialism." "We have 50 million acres of reservations -- 1.4 million American Indians and every social problem is exaggerated because of socialistic government policies on the Indian reservations -- highest divorce rate, highest drug rate, highest alcoholism rate, highest unemployment rate, highest social diseases, because the people have been trained ... to look to the government ... and they have not been trained to use the initiative to integrate into the American system. We ought to give them freedom. We ought to give them liberty. We ought to give them their rights." The Winnebago Indian Tribe issued a statement Thursday denouncing Watt's view and calling for his resignation.
NO MUD AT USD: A mud-wrestling show at the University of South Dakota has been cancelled because it would dirty the university image, USD President Joseph McFadden says.
NEW DIET DRINK OUT: One of Sioux City's oldest companies is introducing to its three-state marketing area one of the nation's newest products. It is Diet Coke which "easily may be the most significant new project in the history of our company," according to Cy Chesterman Jr., vice president of sales of Chesterman Co. Some 150,000 red and white Diet Coke cans and a stage lined by liters of bottled Diet Coke provided the gala atmosphere for the introduction of the new sugar free product. The Chesterman Company was founded in 1872 by Cilo Chesterman in Dyersville, Iowa, moved to Le Mars in 1882 and to Sioux City in 1885. The company was franchised in 1904 to produce and sell Coca-Cola in addition to its ginger ale products.
These items appeared in the Journal Jan. 21-27, 1883, 1908, 1958 and 1983.
BLIZZARD PASSES: The thriftless citizen is now known by the snow-drifts on his sidewalk ... The man who cannot exhibit a frost bite is now looked down on with disdain ... The wind had gone down when the sun came up yesterday. It was cold though -- 25 degrees below zero at 8 o'clock, and 10 degrees below at 3 p.m. The railroad folks began to clear their tracks soon after sunrise.
THOUGHTS ON REFORM: To the editor: I see by yesterday's Journal that you want to "interview" me. That decision on the amendment means more than the temporary defeat of prohibition. It means the defeat of the republican party, state and national, if that party attempts to compete with the democrats in their "high license" bid for the saloon vote. License means partnership with crime, and you can't get around it. The "victory" that makes liquor-vending fiends rejoice, and drunkards' wives, children and loved ones mourn, is not my victory and I'm glad of it. Such victories cannot be permanent in this enlightened age and country. But even if they were, no Christian, nor lover of his kind, would want to share in them. Tell those tender ones who tell you "prohibition is dead" to look out for a "live corpse." -- J.H. Lozier
AREA NEWS: Twenty head of hogs, belonging to G. Rozenboom of Orange City, froze to death on the 18th ... The people along the Maple river branch of the Northwestern are clamoring for a regular passenger train instead of the mail and accommodation now in use ... A man from Calliope says that forty buildings have gone up in the Northwestern town of Haywarden, a city not yet four months old.
TRAIN WRECK: The mixed train on the Central which left Sioux City on Monday night, picked up a broken rail at Whisky slough, five miles east of Remsen, at 10 o'clock that night. Thirteen cars, mostly empties, were thrown off the track. It was understood that no one was hurt.
100 years ago
CITIZENSHIP COMES HIGH: When Andrew Cornwall, 805 Clark street, learned that he would have to pay $4 to secure his second naturalization papers, he refused to take them. Cornwall is a native of Ireland and he said he had been in this country twenty-seven years. He applied yesterday to Deputy County Clerk Harry Snyder for his second papers. The fee was not mentioned until Cornwall had answered all the questions and the clerk had spent considerable time filling out the blanks. "This will cost you $4," said the clerk. "It ain't worth $4 to vote in this country," replied Cornwall after pondering a few moments, and he walked out of the office leaving the papers on the counter. Cornwall wanted to vote at the special election today.
WITHOUT FOOD FOR 34 DAYS: A man who gave his name as Albert Allen was found in a strawstack on a farm six miles east of Le Mars. He was badly frostbitten and claimed he had been living there three weeks and had been thirty-four days without food. He was taken to the county poor farm where he is getting better.
PARENTS SHOULD BE ARRESTED: Complaints have been flooding the office of City Health Officer Dr. S.D. Hoskins against people who have children in school who are virulent with the measles. "If the parents of these children do not attend to the matter and take them out of school they will be prosecuted," Said Dr. Hoskins.
50 years ago
NEW DIRECTION: The City Council has agreed to pay a starting salary of $7,500 for a new city planning director. That would be an increase of $900 over the $6,600 now being paid to Robert J. Selander, who will leave Sioux City for a new job on the Omaha planning staff.
MIDYEAR GRADS: Midyear graduation, that annual January bugaboo, will take its toll here in city basketball ranks, as eight cagers are winding up their prep careers. The present midyear graduation setup extends another two years before it will run its course. East, the hardest hit, will lose three starters, Don Chesely, Jerry Thompson and Dick Suter, plus the No. 6 man, Pat Clare. Central will lose two regulars, Ron Van Hofwegen and Ron Randolph, while Leeds will lose starter Don Ward and reserve Jim Grehm.
LETS TALK BASEBALL: The Western Baseball League for the third time since its reorganization in 1947, has become a six-team loop. Colorado Springs and Sioux City called it quits at a league directors' meeting in Lincoln. Adam Pratt, unable to reach Lincoln because of a snowstorm, told the directors by telephone that he would not operate the Sioux City team this season without a working agreement with a major league club, which is not available.
25 years ago
RADIO SYSTEM: Pac-Man rides to traffic accidents and fires here. At least that's what some are calling the new computer radio consoles that have been installed in emergency vehicles during the past couple of months. Some police officers are calling it by other names that can't be printed here. Officers are concerned because the system seems to be not working more often than it's working. Brenda Tomlinson, supervisor for the Woodbury County Communications Center, said the new $150,000 radio system has a few bugs that engineers are still trying to squash. They hope to use this radio system as a showcase for other similar sized cities in the Midwest, she said.
LOCAL INDIANS DENOUNCE WATT: Leaders of the Omaha and Winnebago Tribes have joined in the storm of protest mounting within the nation's Indian community over remarks made this week by Interior Secretary James Watt. Watt termed the nation's Indian reservations "an example of the failures of socialism." "We have 50 million acres of reservations -- 1.4 million American Indians and every social problem is exaggerated because of socialistic government policies on the Indian reservations -- highest divorce rate, highest drug rate, highest alcoholism rate, highest unemployment rate, highest social diseases, because the people have been trained ... to look to the government ... and they have not been trained to use the initiative to integrate into the American system. We ought to give them freedom. We ought to give them liberty. We ought to give them their rights." The Winnebago Indian Tribe issued a statement Thursday denouncing Watt's view and calling for his resignation.
NO MUD AT USD: A mud-wrestling show at the University of South Dakota has been cancelled because it would dirty the university image, USD President Joseph McFadden says.
NEW DIET DRINK OUT: One of Sioux City's oldest companies is introducing to its three-state marketing area one of the nation's newest products. It is Diet Coke which "easily may be the most significant new project in the history of our company," according to Cy Chesterman Jr., vice president of sales of Chesterman Co. Some 150,000 red and white Diet Coke cans and a stage lined by liters of bottled Diet Coke provided the gala atmosphere for the introduction of the new sugar free product. The Chesterman Company was founded in 1872 by Cilo Chesterman in Dyersville, Iowa, moved to Le Mars in 1882 and to Sioux City in 1885. The company was franchised in 1904 to produce and sell Coca-Cola in addition to its ginger ale products.
These items appeared in the Journal Jan. 21-27, 1883, 1908, 1958 and 1983.
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