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VOLUME 68—NUMBER 44 O'NFILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10. 1949. PRICE 7 CENTS
Ted Malone ... to pay tribute to O'Neill's Cliff Adkins.
Cliff Adkins . . . typical air hero of Blizzards of 1948-'49.
—The Frontier Photo by John H. McCarville
Ted Malone to Honor Cliff Adkins
O'Neill’s Clif Adkins, one of
the mercy mission air heroes
of the historic blirzards of
1948-’49, will be honored on a
nationwide radio network on
Wed., March 16 at 10:30 a. m.
From the New York City
studios ot the American Broad
casting Company, Ted Malone,
famous poet - commentator -
philosopher, will pay a tribute
to the O’Neill airman, who
will be represented as a “good
American" and a typical hero
of the worst Winter on record
in the West.
During the course of Adkin’s
relief work, he was mentioned
frequently on the “Voice o
The Frontier” radio programs
on WJAG. One Sunday after
noon, Bill Beha described Ad
kins’ work as representative
of the many airmen in many
communities who were rising
to new heights when people
were running low on food and
fuel because they were snow
bound. Later, Beha interview
ed Adkins on WJAG.
Arrangements for Malone’s
broadcast have been in charge
of Bill Beha. Two years ago
Malone saluted another Holt
countyan—Donna Mae Fuhrer
—on the occasion of her grad
uation from the eighth grade.
Donna Mae is a bedfast victim
of polio and is almost com
pletely paralyzed.
N/?.xt Wednesday’s coast-to
coast salute ol Cliff Adkins—
a “good American”— may be
heard heie over radio station
WNAX at Yankton, S. D.
L. A, Becker Buys
O’Neill Cleaners
L. A. Becker, of Randolph,
has purchased from Charles A.
Weatherford the ONeill Clean
ers plant and took possession
Monday.
At Randolph Mr. Becker op
erated a shoe store since June,
1944. Prior to that time he
was in the dry cleaning busi
ness' in Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Becker have
four children: Barbara Ann,
Donavan, James and Roberta,
all of school age.
The Beckers will move into
the house owned by the Wea
therfords as soon as the Wea
therfords make other arrange
ments.
The Weatherfords came to O’
Neill from Sioux City in May,
1946. purchasing the plant
from Mrs, W. H. Harty, whose
late husband operated the O’
Neill! Cleaners for many years.
The Hartys own the Douglas
street building.
The Weatherfords have two
boys, Marvin and Kenneth.
They have not announced
their plans fpr' the future.
—*—'■
FIREMEN CALLED
ATKINSON— Firemen were
summoned to the residence of
Mr. Porter, the well-digger, at
noon Wednesday. Damage was
slight
Need printing? See The
Frontier. adv
JOHN T. FLEMING
DIES AT ATKINSON
Retired Farmer, Native of
New York, to Be
Buried Friday
ATKINSON—John T. Flem
ing, 74, retired Atkinson farm
! er, died at 9:30 a. m. Wednes
day at the Stockman’s hotel,
where he had been residing
for several years. Mr, Flem
ing. who spent most of his life
in the Atkinson community,
was well-known in Holt coun
ty.
A Son of Michael and Ellen
Fleming, he was born May 20.
1875, in New York state. In
1882 he came with his parents
to Atkinson where the Flem
ings homesteaded four miles
Southeast of the town.
He was reared and educat
ed in the Atkinson commu
nity but never married. He
lived on a farm until retir
ing several years ago.
His father died in 1931 and
his mother died in 1941.
Survivors include: Sister —
Mrs. Earl (Elizabeth) Baker, f. ’
Atkinson: brothers—Henry, of
Ardmore. S. D. and William
of St. Louis. Mo.: six nephews
and three nieces.
Funeral services will be
held at 9:30 a. m. Friday in
St. Joseph’s Catholic church
with Rev. A. A. Lehman,
church pastor, otficinting Bur
ial wall be at Atkinson.
AAA SIGNUP DATES
ARE ANNOUNCED
I recinct Meetings to He
Conducted March 12
Through March 26
The Holt county AAA com-.
mittee has set up the following I
schedule of meeting dates to
give the most farmers in the
county an opportunity to sign .
a farm intention sheet.
As in the past, a farm plan
has to be set up and the prac
tices listed have to have prior
approval by either the county
committee >ror the state com
mittee. There will be a mem
ber of the county committee
as well as precinct commit
teemen present at each of
these sign-up meetings. Farm
plans may be signed by either
the owner, or operator, or
both.
Harry E. Ressel, chairman of
the Holt AAA committee, ex
plained that failure to sign at
a precinct meeting makes it !
necessary for cooperators to
contact the county office.
Sign-up schedule follows:
Shields and Grattan—Satur
day, March 12, courthouse an
nex.
Stuart— Monday, March 14,
North town hall.
Scott — Monday, March 14,
town hall.
Atkinson and Sheridan —
Tuesday, March 15, Memorial
hall.
Verdigris — Tuesda*y, March
15, Page IOOF hall.
Deloit — Wednesday, March
16, basement St. John s church.
Josie— Wednesday, March 16,
Amelia cream station.
Fairview, Wyoming, Swan,
Steel Creek — Wednesday, i
March 16, school district 4.
Ewing and Golden— Thurs
day, March 17, Ewing library.
Cleveland and Dustin —
Thursday, March 17, Cleveland
church.
Lake and McClure— Friday,
March 18, Martha school.
Emmet and Pleasantview — j
Friday, March 18, O’Connors
hail.
Willowdale — Friday, March
18, school district 96.
Conley—Saturday, March 19, i
school district 120.
Sand Creek — Saturday,
March 19, school district 74.
Green Valley, Francis, Holt
Creek — Saturday, March 19,
Collins school.
Iowa and Antelope— Satur
day, March 19, Allen’s school'.
Inman— Monday, March 21,
ladies’ aid parlor.
Paddock—Tuesday, March 22,
town hall.
Chambers and Shamrock —
Wednesday, March 23, fire
house.
Rockfalls— Saturday, March
26, school district 33.
Coleman and Saratoga—Sat
urday, March 26, school dis
trict 51.
Meetings this year are for
all day, starting at 9 a. m. and
lasting until 4 p. m.
Chamber Tables
Gas Tax Matter
In a regular meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce Tues
day evening, the controversial
proposed one - cent additional
gas tax problem, now hanging
fire in the state legislature,
was discussed pro and con.
But the subject was finally
tabled.
Chamber members were re
luctant to go on record either
way. Feeling was in favor of
the tax if the state highway
planners would give an indi
cation where the money thus
raised would be spent.
The body voted to send a
wire to Gov. Val Peterson urg
ing him to veto LB 138, which
pertains to the abandonment
of numerous secondary roads
throughout the state which are
considered bv proponents' of
the bill as “local” roads.
The O'Neill Chamber is
primarily interested in fight
ing the proposed abandon
ment as state roads of high
ways 108 and the 16-mile
road linking Lynch with the
Star highway.
Under the plan, the state’s
secondary r o a d s' considered
“local” roads would revert to
county maintenance.
A plan was heard to establish
a Civil Air Patrol wireless
short wave communications
station here. The Chamber
was asked for $150 to help fi
nance the station, but the mat
ter was turned over to the
board of directors.
Mention was made of O’- !
Neill’s forthcoming 75th anni
versary. First colony settled
on May 12, 1874 Plans for a
civic commemoration will be
discussed at a later meeting
President J. Leo Moore said.
Meeting Dale Fixed—
The O’fJeilll Rural Youth
g roup will hold its regular
meeting Friday. March 11, at
the courthouse annex assembly
room at 8 p. m.
ELKHORN REACHES FLOOD STAGE . . .
The Elkhorn river Sunday reached flood stage
in the Emmet and O’Neill vicinities. Top pic
ture shows ice and snow in the swirling wa
ters of the main channel near the Charles
Abart farm, East of Emmet. In the bottom
photograph residents of the Emmet commun
ity are sandbagging an approach to one of the
two bridges that span the stream on a new
county road running South from U. S. Highway
20 from a point one mile East of Emmet. The
new grade was in peril throughout Sunday
and Monday. Approaches to the bridges were
badly damaged, but the sandbagging saved the
day. Working with shovel is Charles Fox. —
The Frontier Photo.
OKAY STREET
LIGHTING PLAN
Consumers Given Go Sign
for Lighting O’Neill’s
Main Thoroughfares
The city council Monday
night issued a “go ahead” to
L. C. Walling, manager of the
O’Neill district of the Consum
ers Public Power district,
towards improving street light
ing facilities on two of the ci
ty’s main thoroughfares —
Douglas street and Fourth
street.
Under the plan, latest-type
light poles and fixtures will be
installed.
A Consumers engineer will
make a detailed study of street
lighting requirements and sub
mit a plan to the council.
The new lighting will ex
tend from the American Le
gion club corner West on
Douglas street to the city
limits. Fourth street will be
lighted from the O'Neill
public school auditorium
corner South to the Chicago
8r North Western railway
tracks.
Consumers will make the
new equipment available on
[ cost basis for both material
! and labor.
The business district will be
lighted with eight units per :
block and in the residential
sections the lighting, units will
be three per block.
Wallint’ told the board that
11- to 15 months delay will be
required before the lights can
'm in use Fixtures will re- j
: enable those now in use on
Norfolk avenue iji Norfolk.
Jungman Reburial
May Be Sunday
ATKINSON—Final burial is
tentatively scheduled Sunday
afternoon for 2/Lt. Robert
Jungman. on of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Junggman. who died in
Europe during World War II.
The remains of Lieutenant
Jungman originally interred
in F anec. were held in Chica
go. Ill . during the recent seige
of bad weather.
Survivors include: Widow,
son. parent', and brother—Jay.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Delane Jackson. 23, of Star
and Miss Fern Walton, 17, of
O’Neill. March 7.
Frank Moore
Burial at Bassett
—
Frank Moore, father of Mrs.
James G. Fredrickson, of O’
Neill, died at 9:30 a. m. Friday
at the Fredrickson home here,
where he had been seriously
ill. Mr. Moore had been a
longtime resident of Rock and
Keya Paha counties.
His wife, three sons and
three daughters were near his
bedside when he died.
Funeral services were held
at 2:30 p. m. Sunday in the
Methodist church at Newport
with Rev. Gene Anderson offi
ciating. A male quartette fur
nished the music. Pallbearers
were six longtime friends of
the deceased. Burial was in
the Basset cemetery.
Among relatives who came
from a distance to attend the
rites were: Mr. and Mrs.
George Canfield, of Essex. Ia.;
Mrs. Carrie McClure, of Silver
City, Ia.; Mrs. Carrie Pickin
apug!i and son, George, of
Omaha; and Mr. and Mrs. Mac
McCoy, of Silver City, Ia.
NEW TATTLER . . . The
Frontier’s readers remember
Miss Mary Devine Brennan’s
column. Teen Tattler, which
appeared regularly until
scholastic duties at Clarke
college, Dubuque, la., won
precedence over her - news
paper writing. But Mary De
vine’s sister, Pat. a junior at
St. Mary’s acadpmy here,
this week takes up where
the original Teen Tattler left
off. Turn to page 4, section
1). — O’Neill Photo Co.
ARC CAMPAIGN TO
BEGIN TUESDAY
Holt's Quota in 1919 Fund
Drive is $3,075, Mrs.
Cole Says
Holt county’s 1949 American
Red Cross fund-raising cam
paign will get underway on
Tuesday, according to Mrs.
Guy Cole, of Emmet, who has
been made county fund chair
man. Quota this year, she ex
plained, is $3,075.
The national campaign be
gan the first of March.
Mrs. Cole said the start of
the drive was purposely delay
ed because of adverse road
conditions. Meanwhile, com
munity drive chairmen have
been named as follows:
O'Neill— Mrs. Edward M.
Gallagher; Atkinson — Mrs.
Minnie Shaw; Emmet—Mrs.
P. W. McGinnis; Page—Mrs.
R. D. Copes; Ewing — Mrs.
Bessie Spiitler; Chambers—
John W. Walter.
Chairmen for Stuart and In
man communities' are yet to be
selected. An overall chairman I
ror rural solicitation also is to |
. be named before the kick-off. i
Mailed contributions
should be addressed to: M*rs.
Guy Cole, Holt County ARC
Fund Chairman, Emmet,
Neb.
Mrs. Cole said that because
of bad roads it will be impos
sible for ARC volunteer work
ers to contact all rural people
in the county.
if.” she continued, ‘‘you are
not reached by worker or by
letter, please mail your contri
butions’ to me and' you will be
nrooerly credited. The Red
Cross has done such a fine job j
| in our recent disaster, I know
Holt countyans will want to
'fnd the drive way over the
ton as a measure of apprecia
tion.”
A Ca!M?r
The Frontier's .farm auc
tion sale calendar follows:
Wednesday, March 16—Wil
; ham Kraft, of O’Neill, owner
Geo Colman, auctioneer. (See
advertisement on page 6, sec- i
tion 1.)
Friday. March 25—Will Sitz,
of Atkinson, owner; Ed Thor
in, auctioneer.
MELTING SNOW
FLOODS VALLEYS
High Water Threatens
Residents hut Run-Off
Thus Far Orderly
Holt countyans have been
keeping more than a watchful
eye on the Elkhorn river and
its tributaries. They have been
measuring inch-by-inch its rise
eautfe by melting snow.
Since Saturday most low
lands in the county have been
a veritable sea of water.
Water threatened to take out
two new bridges on a new
county road grade that was
built last fall. An ice gorge in
Holt Creek, a tributary, was
released early Sunday and the
rapidly-raising Elkhorn placed
a heavy burden on the new
spans.
Residents of the Emmet
community turned out Sunday
to place sandbags on tthe ap
proaches to both bridges. Ap
proaches were damaged but
the bridges withstood the test.
Had one* of the bridges yield
ed, the entire grade would have
been lost, observers said. The
road runs South from U. S.
highway 20 from a point one
mile East of Emmet.
Glea H. Wade, Holi county
disaster preparedness direc
tor, made a recon
naissance of the valley
throughout the day Sunday
and flood warnings were is
sued by the Norfolk wealher
bureau to valley residents
downstream.
Meanwhile, Dry Creek and
South Fork, principal tributar
ies of the upper Elkhorn wat
ershed, were overflowing and
innudating hundreds of acres
of Holt county lowland.
The river reached its high
point at O’Neill Sunday about
midafternoon.
Flood water has been moving
slowly in comparison to run
offs and cloudbursts of other
years'. This has been attribut
ed to almost nightly ireezing
and the fact that the abund
ance of snow and ice holds
back the water. Observers say
the frequent freezes have
been t godsend. More mois
iare is' I’nwed to be absorbed
into the ground, which is get
ting into excellent conditions
for Spring operations.
Dry Creek for a quarter of
a mile has been running over
state highway 281, four miles
South of O’Neill, since Sun
day. Considerable damage has
been done to the oil surface.
One approach to a bridge
spanning a Dry Creek over
flow, about a mile from the
main stream, was washed out.
The highway 28! span across
the old Elkhorn river bed,
about a mile South of O’Neill,
was damaged, but traffic is
moving over planks.
A South Fork bridge,
across an overflow, about 14
miles South on 281, was
washed out early Sunday and
through traffic from O'Neill
South to Bartlett and Grand
Island has been detoured ov
er highway 14, South from
Neligh, or highway 11, Sout
from Atkinson.
An Elkhorn river bridge on
U. S. highway 20, East of the
junction of highways 20 and
275, gave away late Monday
and traffic has had to be rout
ed via Page over highway 108.
Dynamite had to be used to
blast ice in the Elkhorn near
the Harry Harte bridge, two
miles Northeast of Inman.
Chambers has been virtual
ly isolated from th>? North and
East for several days. Practic
ally the only access to the town
Tuesday from these two direc
tions was by air. Later, a
(bridge South of the Chambers
junction was damaged and
cut-o f traffic from the South.
(Continued on page 8.)
EDITH NEILSON, 61,
DIES AT CHAMBERS
CHAMBERS — Funeral ser
vices were ’’('H Wednesday af
ternoon at the Methodist church
for Mrs. Louis Neilson. 61, who
died Monday a ter a lingering
illness. Burial was at Cham
bers.
Mrs. Neilson had been bed
fast for 10 days prior to her
death.
Edith Odell Duncan, daughter
of the late John and Lyroka
Ouncan. earlv residents of the
Chambers community, was born
near here on April 27, 1887.
She graduated from high
school al Fremont. She taught
school for several years and
worked in Omaha for three
v®irs. In 1916 she married
Louis Neilson at Fremont.
The couple moved to Holt
county the following year.
The Neilsons farmed for
many years 2% miles West of
Chambers, moving recently into
town to retire.
The late Mrs. Nielson was a
member of First Church of
Christ Scientist of Boston, Mass.
Survivors include the widow
er, Louis Neilson.
