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editorials Page 2 Garden City Telegram Sotwdoy. April 15. 1967 Reflections on Southwest Konsos John O'Loughlin Became First Settler in Kearny By BARBARA ORINGDERFF settle on west of Dodge. An months in Dodge City, and then Today when we look at all Irish immigrant who left Iowa set out across the prairie to- the towns highways, grain ele- to come west when be Tvas just ward his new home in what is vators and other marks of seventeen, he was already ac- now Lakin. civilization in Southwest Kan- customd to the hardships of In Ig7 had sas, it's almost impossible to pioneer Ufe of Dodge.

He had erg fa dugout imagine that less than a bun- first came to Kansas in 1861, would seem dred years ago there was noth- when he went to work as a such ing here except miles and government teamster at Fprt railroad miles of barren windswept Leavenworth. (As a teamster were VtA TM A tttA hlK'A filllYl Of In 1973 Dodge City, a town $25.00 a month!) boffato just barely two years old, The black haired young Irish- Ueg covered was the last outpost on the man was a hard worker, and passing through and to edge of this vast prairie into be was soon promoted to wagon ran chers that were in which only a few brave men master on this job he made area xao dared to venture. John 0'- about $40 a month. Then, for Loughlin was one of the first eight existing years, he worked of these men. In March of with government troops 1873, O'Loughlin loaded up his throughout the Southwest He wagon in Dodge and headed was with Hitchcock in 1866, west.

Alone, this young man when he came up the Pawnee traveled over miles and miles to make peace with the Indians of unbroken sod with only the (Custer was the lieutenant So it always time for rain or snow, and sight of an occasional buffalo colonel of the command), and ogmze the area as perfect cat- docs it fall when it isn't needed. or antelope herd to break the he was with Sheridan in the began IOKO wVion VIA Duiia up a nera or his own. No Beauty to War Weekend comments: A Kansas pilot with the Air Farce in Vietnam was quoted in wire dispatches recently, describing falling bombs hitting- targets in North Vietnam as "a beautiful sight." He had a job to do, and as a well-trained warrior no doubt was gratified that his bombs fell on target. But it's a sad commentary that so-called civilized man can call death and destruction "beautiful." There's no beauty in war, except the end of it Rain is never too late in these parts. This much-needed moisture which blessed the area this week would have been of more help a month ago to some wheat fields, but fell in time to give sub-soil moisture for milo planting in May and June- two ranches west of J73, and they were the Brothers Ranch at the at on the Colorado line, was quick to rec- seldom More time confusion: An opponent of daylight savings time writes: "Our experience with daylight saving in these past years has been that lunch came too soon after breakfast, and the afternoon seemed 8 hours long." Apparently this person breakfasted by the clock, but lunched and dined by the sun.

I think standard, daylight, central or mountain time can solve his problem. On a cloudy day, he could miss the noon and evening meals. monotony of his trip. The wagon bumped along over the Santa Fe Trail through what is now Ford County, Gray County, Finney County, and finally came to what is now Kearny County. d.

h. YOU HAVE only to look back in history to find counterparts of the Mods and Rockers in England today, says J. H- Plumb, a professor of history at Christ College in Cambridge, England. "To the middle-aged, long hair and effeminacy seem synonymous; hence the sense of outrage in American and British homes when adolescent hair began to lengthen. Beatle mops might be cute on a 5-year-old at 14, ithey are irritating; at 18, an outrage.

"But if mothers and fathers knew their history, perhaps they would be less excited about the hair and more preoccupied with the deeper problems of the young male, particularly the affluent adolescent in a permissive society. Give young men money, and sooner or later they will dress like peacocks and behave like goats." The historian cited Renaissance Italy and Elizabethan London, the courtiers of Charles II, and the Mohocks who terrorized Londoners in Queen Anne's day. "Since before Samson's day, long hair and virility have been, shall we say, bedfellows," the professor wrote in Horizon Magazine last winter. WE DUG this article out of the stack this week after we'd read for the umpteenth time in less than a week headlines proclaiming the gay, fancy fashions predicted for men- Then we saw a full-page layout of fine feathers for "the male of the species" centered by a large peacock. We read the entire article and it did, indeed, say that men "proud as peacocks" were about to emerge in plumage bold and bright- It didn't, however, mention they'd "behave like goats." Garden City Telegram Published Daily Except Sunday and Five Holidays Yearly By Telegram Publishing Company BR 6-3232 310 N.

7th Garden City. Kansas 67846 winter of 1868-69. when he marched from Fort Hays, 300 is ma miles south, and located ort- bmldin up a cattle herd an ojjj area where there are virtually Finally, in 1869, O'Loughlin no cattte? Well O'Loughlin did decided it was time he went 8 8 sup bes ai uuw iu utj into business for himself and livestock. Actually, very little On this trip, he saw no human he built a trading post on the monev changed hands in those habitation except the small set- military road between Fort da anyway, and by the time tlement at Pierceville, which Hays and Fort Dodge in what 60 traveling west cov- had grown up around the Bar- is now Hodgeman county. (He er reached his dug- ton Brothers Ranch headquar- is also recognized as having ou store in Lakin the were ters established there a year been the first permanent white ha PPy to trade foot or so before.

settler in Hodgeman county.) st ws and horses much In Kearny county, on a site He built a toll bridge across the supplies. close to the new railroad Pawnee at this point had his It took years, but in O'Loughlin, unloaded the small trading post, and did a boom- 1879 John O'Loughlin had stock from his wagon and start- ing business with government enough cattle that he decided ed a store in a dugout. When troops, buffalo hunters, cow- to start his own ranch at Wag- he did this, he could not have boys, and even with the Indians on Bed Springs, in what is now known that he had just become who often led their warriors Grant county. Thus, he be- the first settlor in Kearny along the white man's trail. came one of the first ranchers County, founded the town of Three years later, in 1872, in Southwest Kansas.

Lakin, and started a store that the railroad was extended from would for many years be the For Hays to the infant town of (My sincere thanks to Miss only trading post between Dodge City, and since it did Jennie R. O'Loughlin, Miss Dodge City and Granada, Colo, not pass near his trading post Helen O'Loughlin, and Mrs. O'Loughlin was already ac- on the Pawnee, O'Loughlin de- Margaret O'Loughlin Hurst of custoraed to the hardships of cided to sell out and move fur- Latin for providing me with pioneer Ufe when decided to ther west. He spent a few material on their father.) Drew Pearson Reports: Income Tax Time Brings Thoughts of Senator Dodd WASHINGTON As you mail your income tax return law tte ague Wimams 3S Clear 8S It won't do any good for you in the halls of next to write to Internal Revenue week. you mighraisoTendTletter to Dodd expenditures were first cult television can be used to the Senate Ethics Committee in this column, IRS spot rapes and robberies in asking what it is doing about jf 1 to pretend that Parks so that one Pieman, another citizen of the United the law was Sen.

John watching a large area on IV, States who hasn't paid his in- Williams, the Senate's can detect crime immediately, come taxes on a whale of a lot chie watchdog, called a halt of dough. on this by charging that IRS He in Sen. Tom Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat, who by rough arithmetic collected an admitted $453,000 above the in- th Vnar Ij1im come lie reported to the Treas- etEl lsh lan ury during 1961-65. a Of all this money, Dodd So it you-believe in tax spent less than $200,000 for quality, write to the Senate legitimate political campaign thics Committee, whose purposes, leaving more than members are: John Stennis, 250,000 of record on which he Miss Mife Monroney, didn't pay a penny of taxes. Eugene McCarthy, He spent this on such things as Democrats; with Wallace Ben- AMC loaauu repairing his summer home; nett Utah, John Sherman Coo- about country club dues; vacation er and James Pearson, ex hibit is because its au- trips lor his family to London, Kansas, Republicans.

thor Rep James Scheuer, the the Caribbean and Florida; Ask them among other Bronx, N.Y., Democrat, pro- Jiquor; rent for a car to go to tilings, why they didn't call poses to establish a new divi- the race track; to pay old upon Dodd's former staff to sion inside the Justice Depart- debts; settle parking tickets, testify regarding cash which ment called the National Insti- Edlto, and even pay his federal taxes. Dodd accepted on the side and tute of Criminal Justice, head- inoqer This was clearly against the which is not included in the ed by a new assistant attorney ltot 'aw. The income tax law stat- $453,000 total amount which he general. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION es; portion of a political admitted receiving. The staff Hoover has been opposed Carr Payable fo carrier in contribution received by a polit- members told Senate investi- to any crime agency in- By a mer In other cities where service avaiUble.

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1 ivtr iuul J. iiWjon cr intiviaual. be enthusiastic about will open er organized crime. will show how infra-red rays can detect criminal in the dark. It will demonstrate how tranquilizing pellets can be fired at fleeing suspects knocking them out as animals are knocked out in the zoo instead of injuring or killing preventing racial bitterness.

It wiB demonstrate how the clothing of suspects can be sprayed w.ith dye so they can easily be identified in a crowd. The reason J. Edgar Hoo- ill! Brown Marvin Smith John Frailer.