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The Frontier
VOLUME 67.—NUMBER 50. 0 NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1941. PRICE 7 CENTS.
O'Neill, Neligh Bands
*Superior' in Class B
Atkinson, St. Mary’s
Bands Share Honors
in Class C
Neligh and O’Neill high
school bands drew superior
ratings in class B of the dis
trict III music competition here
last weekend. Atkinson high
school and St. Mary’s academy
(O’Neill) held top band hon
ors in class C, and Orchard
won band honors in class D.
More than 1.200 music pu
pils from 30 northeast and
northcentral Nebraska high
schools participated in the
event that opened Wednes
day, April 14, with an eve
ning session and closed late
Friday. April 16.
Classrooms and auditoriums
in both St. Mary’s academy
and O’Neill high school were
filled with contestants, judges
and audiences during the 3
day competition.
Superior ratings went to the
following Holt countyans:
Piano solos (all classes) —
Kathryn Newhouse, of Cham- j
bers; Marlene Brooke, of St.
Joseph’s (Atkinson).
Girl's high voice (class C)— |
Maxine Jones, Atkinson; Mar- |
de Birmingham, St. Mary’s; |
Lorraine Simonson, St. Mary s.
Girl’s low voice (class C) —
Helen Spence, Atkinson.
Girl’s medium voice (class C)
— Donna Krotter, Stuart;.
Elaine Harshfield, Atkinson.
Boy’s medium voice (class
C) — Dale Jarvis, Atkinson;
John O’Neill. St. Mary’s.
Mixed double octette (class
C)—St. Mary’s.
Girls’ duet( class C)— Stu- |
art.
Boys’ quartette (class C) —
Atkinson.
Girls’ sextette (class C)—At
kinson.
Girls’ octette (class C)—St.
Mary’s and Stuart.
Flute solo (class C)—Patri
cia Brennan. St. Mary’s.
Clarinet solo (class C)—John
Berigan, St. Mary’s.
E-flat saxophone solo (class
C) —Dorothy Pollock, Ewing.
Bass saxophone solo (class
C>—Beth Sloan, Atkinson.
Cornet solo (class C)—'Thom
as Harty, St. Mary’s.
French horn solo (class C)—
Kathryn Golden, St. Mary’s.
Baritone horn solo (class C) j
—Rosaline Bosn. St. Mary’s.
Bass horn solo (class C)—
Dean Ratcliffe, Atkinson, and
Stanley Price, St. Mary’s.
Glockenspiel solo (class C)—
Shirley Mead, Atkinson.
Tympani solo (class C) —
Daniel DeBacker, St. Mary’s.
Cornet trio (class C) — St.
Mary’s.
Brass quartette (class C) —
Atkinson.
Girls’ glee club (class C)— ,
Atkinson and St. Mary’s.
Boys, glee club (class C) — j
Atkinson.
Mixed chorus (class C)—At
kinson.
Bands (class C) — Atkinson
and St. Mary’s.
Trombone solo (classes B
an(j D)—Wally Shelhamer, O -
Neill. ,
Bass horn (classes B and D)
—Paul Moseman, O’Neill.
French horn solo (classes B
and D)—Marjorie Hungerford,
O’Neili. , _ ,
Clarinet solo (classes B and
D) —Wauneta Anspach, O’Neill. .
E-flat saxophone solo (class
es B and D)—Carolyn Adams,
Chambers; Ivalyn Brady, O’
Neill. . , , . _ „ .
Cornet sou?
D)—Ted Lindberg, O’Neill.
Cornet trio (classes B and D)
—O’Neill.
Brass sextette (classes B and
D)—O’Neill.
Batons (all classes)—Marilyn
Humpal, St. Joseph’s.
Girls’ glee clubs (class D)—
Chambers.
Girls’ glee clubs (class B)—
O’Neill. . M1
Bands (class B)—O Neill.
Girls’ medium voice (classes
B and D)—Lou Ann Eisenhau
er, Chamber; Delores Groeger,
St. Joseph’s.
Girl’s low voice (classes B
and D) — Ruth Smith, Cham
bers.
• Girl’s high voice (classes B
and D) — Helen Johnson, O’
Neill; Helen Urton, O’Neill.
Boy’s medium voice (classes
B and D) — Lloyd Hilligas,
Chambers; James Bridges, O’
Neill; Claude Cole, O’Neill.
Mixed octette (classes B and
D)—O’Neill.
Girls’ trio (classes B and D>
—O’Neill.
Girls’ sextette (classes B and
D)—O’Neill.
More than 300 events were
heard during the 3-day con
test. The judges were: Edward
Kurtz, chairman of the music
department, Iowa State Teach
ers’ college. Cedar Falls; Paul
McCollin. chairman, vocal mu
sic department, Morningside
college, Sioux City; James Rei
strup, chairman, piano depart
ment, Morningside college,
Sioux City, and Miss Blanche
Maeda Spratt, vocal instructor,
East Junior school, Sioux City.
Supt. Ira George, of the O’
Neill high school, was in
charge of arrangements.
NEW MANAGER
PAGE—James Voehl has re
cently taken over the manage
ment of the Page theater.
125 AT EWING
YOUTHPARLEY |
Skip Marquardt Named
President of Methodist
Group for a Year
Special To The Frontier
EWING — Over 125 young
people from Methodist Youth
Fellowship groups in this area
attended an all-day sub-district
rally here Sunday, April 18.
Towns represented were: Ne- ;
ligh, Elgin, Oakdale, Clearwa
ter, Ewing, Inman, O’Neill,
Page and Royal.
Officers elected for a year
are: Skip Marquardt, of Ew
ing, president: Ronald Bry
j ant, of Neligh, vice-presi
dent; LaVonne Albright, of
Page, secretary; Dorothy Rise,
of Neligh, world fellowship
chirman; Joanille Wagner, of
Oakdale, community service
chairman; Don Prill, of Page,
recreation chairman.
Features of the afternoon
meeting were: recreation led by
Max Angus, of Ewing; singing
led by Rev. Lloyd Mullis, of
O’Neill; a reading given by
Gayl Widfeldt, of O’Neill, and
selections by the youth choir of
the Clearwater church.
A pot luck lunch was served
by the ladies of the Ewing
church—Mrs. Herman Schroe
der, Mrs. A. S. Evans, Mrs.
Marquardt. They were assist
Earl Billings, and Mrs. Vic
ed by Mrh. Arthur Lucas, of
Clearwater, and Fern Pruden
and Doloris Pierson, both of
Ewing.
A feature of the evening
session were slides on the
boy - meets - girl problem.
These were shown by Rev.
Mullis and Rev. Dawson
Park of Neligh.
Rev. C. Donald Vogel, pas
tor of the Ewing United Pres
byterian church, preached on
the theme, “Youth Meets
Christ.”
Other leaders who partici
pated in the rally were: Rev.
Sarah Ives of Clearwater; Rev.
J. W. Clapper, of Ewing; Rev.
Carl Rayburn, of Page; Rev.
Erwin Kiel, of Elgin; Rev. ,
Baldwin, of Inman; Neil1
Dawes, of O’Neill; A. S. Ev
ans of Ewing, and Gene Clos
json, retiring president oi this
! sub-district Youth Fellowship.
The next meeting will be at
Neligh in June.
The evening service was led
by Joan Marquardt, of Ewing,
who was assisted by Verl Gun
ter and Beth Billings, of Ew
ing, and Barbara Trowbridget
of Page. ;
O’Neill Pupils to
Enter Arts Festival
A group of O’Neill fine arts
pupils—representing both O’- i
Neill high school and St. |
Mary’s academy—are schedul
ed to depart today (Thursday) 1
for Lincoln to participate in the I
statewide high school fine arts ;
festival to be held Friday and :
Saturday. (
O’Neill high representatives j
and their entries include: |i
‘‘Happy Journey” 1-act play, 1
cast—James Bridges, Gayl
Widtfeldt, Eva Coker, Dwaine j:
Borg, Helen Urton, and Keith 1
Anspach, members of the cast 1
of the 1-act play, “Happy Jour
ney;” Gayl Widtfeldt, dramat
ic oration, “Midsummer Night’s
Dream”; Paul Moseman, tuba
solo; Gayl Widtfeldt, flue solo; |
Helen Orton, vocal solo; James !
Bridges, vocal solo.
St. May’s Academy entries
include: Darlene Steele, dram
atics oration, “The Crucifix
ion”; John Berigan, clarinet
solo; Thomas Harty, cornet >
solo; Daniel DeBacker, tympani
1 solo; Rosalind Bosn, baritone
horn solo; Martha Mullen, John
O’Neill, Marde Birmingham, |
Lorraine Simonson, Bernadet- ;
te Hynes, all vocal solos; mixed
oxtette (Louis Sojka, James
Donohoe, John O’Neill, Edward
McCarthy, Helen O’Biren, Mar
tha Mullen, Janice Jarman, Pa
tricia Funk); girls’ octette
(Martha Mullen, Maxine Bau
er, Bernadette Thiele, Patricia
Fund, Nancy Froelich, Mary
Ann Knerl, Rosalin JBosn, Bar
bara Birmingham); girls’ sex
Itette (Joyce Steele, Joan Bau- j
er, Jean Funk, Patricia Funk,
Bernadette Thiele, Mary Ann
Knerl); girls’ trio (Bernadette
Hynes, Lorraine Simonson,
Marde Birmingham.
Accompanist for the vocalists
will be Miss Esther Kinnier,
Mrs. F. J. Kubitschek will ac
j company the instrumental se
I lections.
Rebekah Lodge Meets—
At a meeting Friday, Ap
ril 16, the Rebekah lodge ob
served the birthday anniver
sary of Schuyler Colfax. Miss
Ruth Hoffman, noble grand,
gave a resume of his life and
work as the founder of Rebck
!ahs lodge organization 97
years ago. Following the meet
ing a luncheon was served.
Mrs. Melvin Ruzicka return- |
ed Sunday from a visit in Red- :
i field, S. D., with her parents. ,
Explosion Causes Death of 2
O'Neill was invaded by an army of more
than 1,200 hiah school musicians lasl week in
connection with the annual district III music
contest. Three Neligh pupils, typical of fhe
instrument-laden, colorfully-uniformed band
members from northeast and northcentral
Nebraska towns, are shown tuning up for
The Frontier's photographer, John H. Mc
Corville. Left-to-right: Kenneth Hildreth,
bass born; Jean Shopland, saxophone, and
Lee Thorin. cornet. (See story in column 1.)
2 SHELTERBELTS
RUINED BY BLAZE
Prairie Fire Scorches
Area 2*4 Miles Long,
% of a Mile Wide
Special to the frontier
CHAMBERS—A prairie fire
Saturday destroyed 2 shelter
belts and endangered a number
of buildings on the Lake View
ranch, which is located south
west of Chambers.
The blaze is believed to have
started by sparks from a trac
tor, which was being used in
cabling hay. The fire swept a
path three-fourths of a mile
wide and miles long.
The shelterbelts, representing
2 years’ of growth, were own
ed by Mr. Homolka. Buidings
endangered were at the Lake
View ranch and at the Ernest
Burrel place.
Kelley Manslaughter
Case Set for Monday
The case of the State of Ne
braska vs. Lawrence M. Kelley,
24, of Long Pine, will begin
Monday in Holt county district
court with Judge D. R. Mounts
presiding. This may be the
only jury case for the Spring
term of the district court.
Charged with manslaughter,
Kelley has been out on $1,000
bond since December. He was
the driver of the automobile
in which a companion, Morris
McNally, also of Long Pine,
was kiiled near Stuart on No
vember 1.
Mrs. Early Is 80—
AMELIA—Mrs. Bird Early
Rolland Parriott, Mr. and Mrs.
P. L. Strenger and sons, all of
Norden, spent Sunday with
Mrs. Lindsey and Florence.
The occasion was Mrs. Early’s
80th birthday anniversary.
Legion Sponsors Dance
in Floodlight Drive
The American Legion is
sponsoring a benefit dance on
Monday, April 26, in the Leg
ion auditorium, in behalf of
the drive for funds for base
ball floodlights.
The Aces of Rhythm orches
tra has been signed to pro
vide the music, Commander
Glea Wade said.
“Only a few hundred dollars
stand between O’Neill and
night baseball,” Manager Dick
Tomlinson, of the O’l^tli Rock
ets. said last week. The city is
cooperating with the subscrip
tion fund-raising drive to pro
vide the lights.
CHECK FORGER
PLEADS GUILTY
Mr. and Mrs. Arlie L. Dins
more, 26 and 21, respectively,
were taken into custody at
Chadron last week on request
of Holt county authorities.
|They were brought here to face
'charges as a result of 2 al
leged check forgeries.
Mr. Dinsmore pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to 1 year in
the men’s reformatory by Dis
trict Judge D. R. Mounts. His
wife, Virginia, is being held in
protective custody
Two checks in the amount of
$23.72 each were passed at the
Green Arrow bar and the Ap
parel Shop. The drafts were
written on the O’Neill Nation
al bank and signed by “J. W.
Swenson & Co.”
County Attorney William W.
Griffin said the firm name was
“ficticiOus.”
MOVE FROM NELIGH
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hancock,
of Neligh, have moved to O’
Neill. Mr. Hancock is a form
er resident of this city. He
will office with the Paul
Shierk Insurance Agency.
TOURNEY, BALL
HIGHLIGHT CARD
Busy Season Foreseen
for Country Club;
Drive Begins
A busy season lies ahead at
the Country club.
At a recent meeting of the
stockholders, the current set
of directors were reelected for
1948 and a full social pro
gram was outlined for the ap
proaching season. The card
includes the traditional men's
smoker, the opening dance, the
annual invitational golfing
tournament, the annual Fourth
of July celebration with an
outstanding display of fire
works, the usual ladies’ bridge
parties and Sunday evening
dinner-dance parties, the annual
men’s stag party, and a costume
ball.
One officer explained that
^ 1947 was “the most successful
year in the history of the
club."
R. M. Sauers is chairman of
the membership committee. A
drive for memberships will be
launched immediately.
Courthouse to Close
Saturday Afternoons
The Holt county court house
henceforth will be closed on
Saturday afternoons.
The following announcement
was issued this week:
“Notice to the general pub
lic: Commencing May l, 1948,
the courthouse at O’Neill, Ne
braska, will be closed Saturday
afternoons.—Holt County Board
of Supervisors.”
Ira George, superintendent
of the O’Neill Public Schools,
is attending a national music
educators’ conference in De
troit, Mich., this week.
Sgt. Brady’s Remains Identified
The body of a Holt county |
airman, who became missing in
action in Europe on April 13,
1944 and who 13 months later
was declared dead, has been
positively identified, and the
remains are now resting in the
United States military ceme
tery at Neuville-en-Condroz,
Belgium.
The airman is the late S
Sgt. Lloyd G. ("Jack") Brady,
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Lee
Brady, of Dorsey. At the
age of 20, he was serving as
a ball-turret gunner on a B
17 Flying Fortress. The air
craft in which he was flying
was enroule back to its base
in England following a heavy
bombardment of the Schwein
furt ball bearing factory in
Bavaria, Germany.
The Fort was in the vicinity
of Brussels, Belgium, when
German anti-aircraft batteries
scored a direct hit. Four of the
10 crew members perished in
the crash of the Fortress.
Three other crew members,
who safely parachuted from the
ill-fated craft, managed to es
cape to England from the Ger
man occupied territory via an
'underground system.
The late Sergeant Brady was
rejected by the Navy air arm
shortly after the outbreak of
World War II. On December
30, 1942, he joined the Air
Force.
S-Sgt. Lloyd G. Brady . . .
he went to his death in a
Flying Fortress returning
from Schweinfurl. — O'Neill
Photo Co.
A Lynch high school gradu- |
ate and an auctioneer trainee,
young Brady became the fath
er of a son a few weeks before
going overseas. His wife was
the former Florence Schlinder, I
of Boyd county.
Sergeant Brady was on nis
9th aerial combat mission when
he was killed.
The body was originally
interred, presumably under
German direction, in the
Chievres communal cemetery
at Chievres, Belgium. The
remains were later disinter
red and "properly identi
fied," the Department of the
Army has advised the young
soldier's kin.
Sergeant Brady’s widow has
since remarried. Their son, Al
bert Lee Brady, is now 4-years
old, residing with his moth
er at Beaumont, Tex.
The parents of the deceased
soldier are undecided whether
they will have the remains re
turned to the United States for
final burial. The Neuville-en
Condroz cemetery, located 9
miles southwest of Liege, is a
permanent, well-kept American
military cemetery.
Mother of 4 Suffocates;
Burns Fatal to Man
By a Staff Writer
ATKINSON—Two persons are dead as the result of one of
the worst tragedies in recent Atkinson history.
The dead are:
Mrs. Thomas Slattery. 44, mother of 4.
Edward L. Hamik. 48, gasoline and oil dealer.
An explosion in the Slattery residence about 9:10 a. m.
j Monday took the life of Mrs. Slattery, wife of an Atkinson mer
; chant. Death is believed to have been caused by suffocation.
Mr. Hamik escaped from fhe blazing house with his clothes
afire. He was rushed to Our Lady of Lourdes hospital at Nor
i folk where he died 10 hours later.
Mr. Hamik was delivering fuel oil to a barrel in the
Slattery basement, at is believed that Mrs. Slattery turned
on an electric light switch and a spark ignited the fumes.
The explosion was heard throughout the north section of the
city.
Mrs. William Morgan, a neighbor living a half-block away,
i way the first person to arrive at the scene. In helping tear
| burning clothes from Mr. Hamik’s body her hands were burn
ed—her right hand badly burned.
HOLT DELEGATES
ARE SELECTED
I County Women Going to
Home Demonstration
Parley at York
'
Special To the tbomtieb
ATKINSON —.The Spring
meeting of the Holt ’County
Home Extension council was
held last week at Memorial hall
in Atkinson. Twenty club
presidents and group chairmen
were present with Mrs. Edgar
Stauffer, of Page, county chair
man, presiding, and Mrs. Rob
ert Martens, group chairman
at Atkinson, in charge of ar
rangements.
Plans were made by the
.council to observe national
home demonstration week, May
2-9. Each center plans to have
an exhibit showing the pur
pose of home extension club
work. Group chairmen were
also selected to represent the ,
county at the state council
meeting in York, June 9-11. |
Those women representing the
county will be: Mrs. Edgar
Stauffer; Mrs. Robert Martens; |
Mrs. M. L. Jensen, of Stuart;
Mrs. Charles Switzer, of O’- h
Neill; and Mrs. Frank Spooth, l|
of Chambers.
Mrs. Vern Sageser, of Am- 1
elia, vice-president of the state
home demonstration council, 1
was also present to explain ;
new resolutions that may be ■
passed by the state council.
Ewing Editor on Air
Tour of the State ;
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(
EWING—Editor Ray Crellin, \
of the Ewing Advocate took ,
to the air on Saturday, April
17, when he flew across the ■
slate. However, he was not in <
quest of a story. He was lone- J
ly for a glimpse of his daugh- J
ter, Martha, who teaches at <
Sidney. <
Pilot Carl Ilubbel and Edi- t
tor Crellin took off at 6 a. m., 1
stopped at Sidney, hopped ov- i
er to Julesburg, Colo., to take I
a look at the town, and on the
way back stopped at Cozad to
say “hello” to the editor’s moth- i
er, Mrs. Martha Crellin. The
air tourists were back in Ew- 1
ing at 7 p. m.
Kansas Legion Croup
Inspects Club Here
A group of American Legion
members from Oberlin, Kans.,
headed by the post command
er, Wilbur E. Hunter, flew to
O’Neill Sunday to inspect Sim
onson post’s 25 thousand dol
lar quonset-type club building
that was completed here last
Fall.
Hunter and his party were !
m^i by Commander Glea H.
Wade and Chaplain Pat Harty ;
of Simonson post. The Legion
building project here had been
brought to the attention of the |
Oberlin Legionnaires through a i
pirture in a trade journal.
The Kansans enplaned for
Oberlin about 2:30 p. m.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Charles O. Smith, 24, and
Bonnie B. Linville 24, both of
Atkinson, on April 14.
Rolland L. Farner, 35, and
Oma E. Baker, 21, both of i
Winner, S D., on April 14.
Robert N. Moody, 21, and
Mardelle Shaul, 22, both of (
Ainsworth, on April 17.
Returns from West—
Joe Mann returned Tuesday
from a 3-weeks’ visit in Phoe
nix, Ariz., and San Diego,
(Calif.
Mr. Hamik was given first
aid treatment by doctors before
being rushed to Norfolk in a
Seger ambulance. He was
burned almost all over his body
and Atkinson doctors gave lit
tle hope that he would survive.
The injured man was accom
panied to Norfolk by his wife.
The ambulance passed through
O’Neill at 10:10.
The explosion occurred in the
north end of the basement.
The hot water heater, which
operates on fuel oil, had been
idle since Saturday when the
fuel supply became exhaus
ted. Mr. Hamik was believ
ed to have been in the pro
cess of transferring fuel oil
from a tank wagon in the
street into a barrel in the base
ment when the explosion oc
cured. Mrs. Slattery was pre
paring to do the family wash
ing.
The 4 Slattery children—
all pupils at St. Joseph's
Hall—had been out of the
house at least 15 minutes.
Flames quickly filled the
basement and the north-end of
Ihe main floor. Damage to the
house wras extensive. Obser
vers said the firemen were ex
ceptionally successful in ex
tinguishing the flames in the
time that they did.
The Slattery home is on thr
Northeast corner of the inter
section of Atkinson’s main
street and federal highway 2^
[t is 1 block from the baseball
Dark.
The late Mrs. Slattery, frrm
?rly Claire Connors, was born
it Jefferson, S. D., on July 18,
1904, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Connors. She
vas educated at Jefferson and
ater attended Southern State
formal college at Springfield.
5. D. She married Mr. Slattery
it Jefferson 17 years ago. Mr.
Slattery was athletic coach and
eacher in the Jefferson
schools.
The couple came to Atkin
son 14 years ago where Mr.
Slattery established a Gamble
store. He also operates a
Gamble store at Tilden. Mr.
Slattery has been coach of the
St. Joseph’s Hall basketball
earn, which in recent years
las won 2 state championships
n class C.
Mrs. Slattery's children
range from 6- to 14-years-old.
Survivors include: Widower;
SOns—Thomas. James and
William: daughter — Mary
Margaret; father; sisters —
Mrs. B. J. Smith, of Kansas
City, Mo„ and Mrs. Nap Ber
nard, of Burbank, S. D.;
brothers—Earl and Hubert
Connors, both of Sioux City:
(Continued on page 10)
Clinic at Bassett fer
Crippled Children
The regular extension clinic
for crippled children will be
held at the Bassett hospital in
Bassett on Saturday, April 24.
Clinic registration begins at 7:
30 a. m. and all registrations
are expected to be completed
by noon.
The clinic will be conducted
by Dr. Paul Morrow, pediatric
ian, and Dr. W. R. Hamsa, or
thopedist.
The clinic is for diagnosis,
consultation, check-up, and af
ter-care services of cases re
ceiving treatment. Children
who are not now receiving ser
vices under the program of
services for crippled children
may be admitted to the clinic
[when referred by a local phy
sician, or, in certain cases, at
the request of the child's par
| ents or guardian, a spokesman
|said. . *
The Elks lodge is furnish
ing, without cost, a noon lunch
to all children and their par
ents who are registered for
,the clinic examination.