% Section B — DIAMOND JUBILEE EDIT ION — Pages 1 -B to 8-B lii®l I- fJf North-Nebraska s Fastest-Growing Newspaper VOLUME 69. _ v ■ _O'NEILL, NEBR., THURSDAY JUNE 30. 1949 BANK IN OPEN HOUSE ... A bank holiday was declared Wednesday at Chambers as hundreds of persons toured the new home of the Chambers State Bank. Open house was observed between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.-—The Frontier Photo by John H. Mc Carville, • __ INTERSTATE LOOP TILT DEADLOCKED Wiblemo,Fairfax Pitcher, Registers Another Two teams battled to a 2-2 draw and other games were won by small margins in the Interstate league Sunday. Wiblemo was credited with another shutout while other teams displayed good baseball talent. This marks’ the. opening round of the second half of the Interstate league schedule. The first half was won by Verdel winning seven straight games. Carbol Is Winning Pilcher: Also Swals Home Run— PICKSTOWN — In a close ball game here Sunday eve ning, Pickstown tripped Verdel 6-4 Carbol delivered a sizzling game, getting 17 strikeouts, in taking credit for the win. San ders and D. Barta divided toss ing duties for the losers. Not only did Carbol toss a nice game for Pickstown, but he hit a four bagger in the second frame with no one aboard. Verdel’s Peters took game swatting honors when he banged out three hits for five trips to the plate. Summary: R H E Verdel _ 000 001 300—4 9 2 Fick'n _ 120 011 Olx—6 10 4 Batteries: Verdel— Sanders. D. Barta and Christensen; Pickstown— Carbol and Kra mer. Lynch Commits Only Two Errors— LYNCH — Bonesteel took a DANCE at Siunmerland EWING, NEBR. Monday, July 4 Music furnished by Jimmy White and His Orchestra drubbing from Lynch 12-2 Sunday afternoon here. Bobby Moody, of Lynch, was awarded batting laurels for the afternoon by rapping out four hits for five trips to the plate. Winning pitcher, Thompson collected four strikeouts with Brown, of Bonesteel, tagged with the loss. Summary. R H E Bonest’l 200 000 000 2 6 5 Lynch .. 224 000 004 12 13 2 Batttries: Bonesteel—Brown; Lynch — Thomson and Chris tensen. -- Fairfax Plays Errorless Ball In Gelling Shutout— FAIRFAX — Wiblemo, of Fairfax, was credited with an other shutout Sunday evening. Fairfax won the ball game 4 0. The game was rained out at the end of the eighth but not before Wiblemo had snuffed 10 batters from the box. Summary. R H E Fairfax 300 100 000 4 8 0 Butte _000 000 000 0 1 2 Batteries: Butte— Elwanger and Mahlendorf; Fairfax—Wi blemo and Koenig. Schoberg Knocks Home Run In Tie Ball Game— SPENCER—Winner 2, Spen cer 2. You say that never happens in baseball? It happened here Sunday night. In the last half of the ninth bracket, the rains came and the lights went . . . out, causing the draw. The game will be replayed. Summary: R H E Winner _001 100 000 2 4 1 Spencer _000 011 000 262 Batteries: Winner—Menden hall and Wernig; Spencer — Helmer and Pelc. European Travelers — ATKINSON— Mr. and Mrs. Otto Gloor, who have been' traveling in Europe since early April, expect to return home sometime in August. While in Switzerland they visited Mrs. Gloor’s father, G. Muller, and her sister and two brothers'. She had not seen her people for nearly 20 years. Mr. Gloor also has two brothers in Swit zerland. The last two weeks they spent sight seeing in It aly. They leport the weather has been “quite cool” there. The Gloors, when at home, own and operate Gloor’s Bak ery in Atkinson. The Moscow bell, largest in the world in actual use, weighs 128 tons. 93 RUNS CROSS HOME PLATES Orchard Scores 29 Off Brunswick in North Central Tilt High scoring games were prominent in the North - Cen tral loop this week with a to tal of 93 runs crossing the va rious home plates. That’s an average of 11% points per team. The largest single team score was Orchard’s 29 runs in the Brunswick game. Elgin and Creighton totaled 36 runs for their game. Some wild hitting, ineffec tive pitching and poor fielding were the causes for the large scores. Pitchers Grab i Stick Honors— ST. JOHN’S— When Center blasted St. John’s, 8-4, here Sunday the pitchers walked off respective teams walked off with batting laurels. Center’s Carlow banged out three hits in five trips and St. John’s E. Funk negotiated three in four tries. Hegge, Center’s shortstop, connected twice in two trips. Funk, losing pitcher, set down a dozen Center bats men via the strike-out route, while Carlow whiffed nine. Funk yielded only one hit in the first six innings. Only a fair-sized crowd was on hand, but the customers that were there had their mon ey’s worth. During the last three frames, during which Center came from behind and finished far out in front, there was lots of discussion and ar gument. Summary R H E Center .... 000 000 13x 8 6 3 St. John’s 020 010 100 4 7 4 Batteries: Center — Carlow and Decker; St. John’s — E. Funk and B. Funk. Orchard Cracks Out 22 Hits— ORCHARD— Wind of high velocity forced the Brunswick at Orchard game to be called at the end of the seventh frame with the home team way out in front, 29-8. The Brunswick Bears used four pitchers in an attempt to stem the scoring tide by Or chard, but were unsuccessful. Ogan and Moser tossed for the Orchard win. Schleusner, of Orchard, a gain topped the batters with four hits for four trips to the plate, including a triple. Summary: R H E BrunSw’k 032 011 1 8 7 7 Orchard 435 674 0 29 22 3 Batteries: Brunswick— Pi chel, Harvey, Anderson, Hall and Stubbs, McMann; Orchard —Ogan, Moser and Metteis. Petersburg Outhits Niobcara, 15-4— NIOBRARA — Peters burg spanked Niobrara here Sunday afternoon by the score of 7-1 Faust performed the mounH duty for the winners with Whipple and E. Breeze chuck ing for Niobrara. THERE’S BEEN SOME CHANGES MADE! w w 1874 to 1949 O’NEILL’S 75th ANNIVERSARY Congratulations ! GREEN ARROW DICK TOMLINSON, OWNER Phone 349 O’NEILL, NEBRASKA _-./... .1 M ■ :. " Kermit Mortenson of Albion (left), champion of the 1949 O' Neill open golf tourney, receives congratulations from Harold Johnson, of Norfolk, runnerup in the championship flight. Sev enty-eight qolfers were entered. — The Frontier Photo by John H. McCarville. I Summary: R H E Petersb’g 201 002 011 7 15 2 Niobrara 000 000 001 1 46 Batteries: Petersburg—Faust and Diers; Niobrara—Whipple, E. Breeze and L. Smith. Elgin Loses Wild Game— CREIGHTON —Elgin lost at Creighton “B,” 16-20, in a wild scoring ball game Sunday af i ternoon in the North-Central I league. Ayers took credit for the win with Yocum and Clark divid ing mound duties for Elgin. Batteries: Elgin — Yocum, Clark and Speaker; Creighton i "B”—Blair, Ayers' and Cron ishky. Rockets Drop Atkinson Thursday Night — O’Neill dropped Atkinson here Thursday night, 11-8, at Carney park. Elmer Conrad was tagged j with the win while Troshynski ! was credited with the loss. Summary: R H E O’Neill 302 202 200 11 11 10 Atk’s’n 302 012 000 8 9 8 Batteries: O’Neill— Graham, E. Ccnrad and Tomjack; At kinson—Troshynski. Scott and T. oshynski. West Family Reunion— ATKINSON — For the first time in nearly eight years, the entire family of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer West weie at home with their parents for a few ys this week. Mrs. William (Gertrude) Ross, of Albany, Calif., came unexpectedly on Tuesday, June 21. Mr. Ross ac companied his wife as far as Grand Island From there he went on to Quebec, Canada, where he will be stationed this Summer. Mr. Ross is in the An Force at present. Mrs. Henrv Zahradnecek and sons, Ronald and James, of Scotts bluff. came Saturday. They re turned home Tuesday, but Mrs. Ro-s will remain for a longer visit. Mrs. Zahradnecek was the former Ella West. The other daughter, Mrs. Eli McConnell, the former Wilma West, resides in Atkinson. The McConnells have four children , Wilmer, Dean, Richard and Marilyn. Methodist Young Adults Meet — The Yuung Adult Fellowship of the Methodist church njet at the church Tuesday evening, June 21. for a regular meeting and party In the absence of the president, the vice-presi dent, Bob Hill, presided at the : business meeting. The social time was in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Evans and Mr. j , and Mr John Watson. Thirty ’ members were present. A [ . lunch was served by the hosts at the close of the meeting i The group was invited to the home >f Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Tompkins for a party Friday i evening July 1. The next regular meeting i and party will be Tuesday, Ju- , ly 5, at the church. , j Mr. and Mrs. William W. 1 McIntosh and Billy Dean at tends a family picnic in Nor- ! folk Sunday. I j THE SCOREBOARD NORTH-CENTRAL DAY AND-NIGHT LEAGUE Team W L Pet. Ainsworth 2 0 1.000 O’Neill _ 4 1 .800 Valentine _ 3 1 .750 Stuart -_ 2 2 .500 Atkinson _ 2 2 .500 Page . 2 3 .400 Chambers . 1 4 .200 Ewing _ 2 4 .333 Results Sunday, June 26: Valentine 15 _ at Stuart 0 At O’Neill 7 Ewing 0 Page 22_at Chambers 13 Atkinson at Ainsworth rain ed out) Games Sunday, July 3: Chambers at Atkinson. O’Neill at Valentine. Ainsworth at Page. Ewing at Stuart. INTERSTATE LEAGUE Standing last half of sched ule: Team W L Pet. Fairfax-1 0 1.000 Lynch__ 1 0 1.000 Lynch_1 0 1.000 Pickstown-1 0 1.000 Butte___ 0 1 ,000 Bonesteel_0 1 .000 Verdel _0 I .000 Winner_ 0 0 .000 Spencer- 0 0 .000 Results Sunday. July 26: At Pickstown 6 _ Verdel 4 At Lynch 12 Bonesteel 2 At Fairfax 4 - Butte 0 At Spencer 2 - Winner 2 Games Sunday, July 3: Pickstown at Bonesteel. Spencer at Verdel. Fairfax at Winner. Lynch at Butte. NORTH CENTRAL LEAGUE Team W L Pet. Elgin . 4 1 .800 Center 4 l .800 | Orchard 3 1 .J50 Petersburg _ 3 2 .600 Creighton “B" _ 3 3 .500 j Niobrara _ 1 4 .200 j Brunswick — 1 4 .200 St. John’s _ 0 4 .000 Results Sunday, June 26: At Orchard 29 Brunsw’k 8 At Niobrara 1 Petersb’g 7 Center 8 at St. John’s 4 At Creighton “B” 20 Elgin 16 . Games Sunday, July 3. St. John’? at Niobrara. Petersburg at Center. Elgin at Brunswick. Orchard at Creighton. | Mrs. Harkins Entertains— INMAN—Mrs. M. L. Hark ns was hostess to the LL club ( it her home on Wednesday. | rhe time was spent socially md Mrs. Harkins served a re reshing lunch in late after loon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. :rook and family expect to ( eave Friday for a 10-days’ rip. They plan to visit his nother, Mrs. Cordelia Crook, n Wichita. Kans.; and her par nts, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Al en, in Bluff City, Kans. The accordion was invented n Vienna in 1829. 1 The Frontier’s SPORTS DEPARTMENT RAIN HAMPERS NIGHT GAMES 2 Shutouts in I)ay-and Night League; Page Wins Wild One Two shutouts, one scoring marathon and one game rained j 1 nut were features of Sunday’s North-Central day and night league baseball games. The two shutouts did not go the scheduled nine innings with the Atkinson at Ains worth game rained out after three innings of play and the O’Neill-Ewing fracas breaking up after the seventh. Graham Pitches O'Neill to First Shutout— O’Neill got its first shutout of the season Sunday evening under the lights at Carney park by defeating Ewing, 7-0. The game was called at the end of the seventh frame be cause of wind and threatening rain. Graham was the winning pitcher, getting five strikeouts with Meserve, of O’Neill, tak ing evening batting laurels by cracking three hits for four i trips to the plate. Schrad was the losing pitch I er, collecting three strikeouts. The box score: EWING (0) ab r h Bollwitt, 3b_3 0 0 Bollwitt, cf.. 3 0 0 Dunaway, If-3 0 0 Jensen, 2b-3 0 0 Oetter, c _3 0 1 Boelter, ss _ 3 0 0 Smith, lb _ 3 0 1 Podany, rf _3 0 0 Schrad, p 3 0 0 Totals . _ 27 0 2 O’NEILL (7) ab r h Meserve, If_4 2 3 Haynes, c-4 11 Tomjark, 3b_4 2 0 Wolf, cf _ 4 0 1 1 MrKay, ss---4 0 0 Morrow, lb_4 0 0 Ellingson, 2b _ 3 0 0 Adamson, rf_3 10 Graham, p_2 11 Totals_32 7 6 Summary: R H E Ewing _ 000 000 0 0 2 5 O’Neill ___ 110 041 x 7 6 1 Batteries: Ewing — Schrad and Oetter; O’Neill — Graham and Haynes. Page and Chambers Total 35 Runs— CHAMBERS— Four Cham bers pitchers attempted to stop a Page scoring marathon Sun day afternoon here, but could n’t get the job done. Chambers overran Page, 22 13, with Asher taking credit for the win. The Chambers hurling staff could total only seven strikeouts while the win ning pitcher whiffed seven. Page’s Cunningham laid the wood to the ball five times for seven times at bat for the af ternoon hitting honors. Box score; CHAMBERS (13) ab r h Fauquier, ss - 6 2 2 Hixon, 2b ..6 11 K. Oetter, c ..5 10 David, rf ... 5 11 J. Grimes, 2b _ 5 2 1 B. Oetter, lb _ 5 2 3 Cameron, cf _ 5 2 0, B. Grimes, If .. 5 1 3 j Walters, p.. 4 12, Totals ..46 13 13 PAGE (22) ab r h Trowbridge, 2b 5 3 2; Cunningham, ss . 7 4 5 Dorr, If . . 7 11, Max, lb 10 0;] Heiss. lb ... 5 11, Hartman, 3b 5 11 Soukup. cf 5 3 4; R. Heiss, rf 5 3 2 \ Kennedy, c 6 3 2, Asher, p 6 3 4 ( Totals 52 22 22 Summary: R H E Page 600 030 10 03 22 20 5 Ch’b’rs 040 060 3 00 1.3 13 5 ; Batteries: Page— Asher and : Kennedy: Chambers— Alders, ; Davis, better. Grimes hnd K. Detter. 1 Sharp, Valentine, | Shutsout Independents— STUART—Valentine shutout ! he Stuart Independents under he lights Sunday on the Stuart , liamond, 15-0, while playing i ?rrorless ball. >1 The game was rained out at he ena of the sixth inning, jut. according to league rule*; vill be counted in the stand ngs. Sharp was credited with tha /alentine win while the Indfr jendent’s hurling duo, Tielke ind Rudolph, were tagged vith the loss. Summary: R H E Valentine 262 320 0 15 16 0 Stuart 000 000 0 0 1 9 Batteries: Valentine— Sharp ind McCormack; Stuart—Tief ce, Rudolph and King. Expect 300 Entries at Madison Meet The annual eight-day race meeting at Madison opens on Thursday, July 7, and from all indications it will be the best ever held at this half-mile track, officials said this week. Horses are already on the grounds, some moving directly to Madison from as far away as Oklahoma City, Okla. Larg est stable to make inquiry a bout stalls is Brown-Gillespie, of Prescott, Ariz. C. B. (“Char lie”) Brown, manager, now has 22 head racing at Ak-Sar-Ben. Near - capacity registration* three weeks before opening day have officials searching the countryside for outside stalls. E. J. Moyer, secretary of the racing committee, said he expected entries to pass the 300 mark. Final arrangements, includ ing signing of all officials, pho to-finish service and electric starting gate, have been com pleted. Eight races daily is again the program. Post time is 4 p. m. and the daily double win dows will open at 3 p. m. Mrs. Ralya to Sing in Saturday Concert The weekly band concert will be held Saturday evening at the bandstand. The selec tions are as follows: “Star Spangled Banner,” by Key; march, “National Em blem,” gy Bagley; selection, “There’s Something About a Soldier.” by Gay; paraphrase, “Marching Through Georgia, by Miller; “America, The Beautiful,” by Frangkiser; vo cal solo, selected, by Mrs. Earl Ralya; march “Bugles and Drums,” by Goldman; selection, “American Patrol,” by Meach am; “God Bless America, ” by Yoder; march, “Stars and Stripes Forever,” by Sousa. O'NEILL HOSPITAL NOTES Admissions: June 21 — Mrs. LaVerne Finley, of Page, ton silectomy, condition “good;" Janis Vequist, of O’Neill, med ical, condition “good.” June 25 —Frances Laurence, of Valen tine, tohsilectomy, condition “good;” Mrs. Nels Linquist, of Star, medical, condition “im proved.” June 27 — Richard Laursen, of O’Neill, tonsilect omy, condition “good.” June 28 —Baby Clara Hansen, of O’ Neill, medical, condition “good.” Still in hospital: Mrs. John Kersenbrock, of O’Neill, condi tion “good;” Mrs*. Roy Shel hamer, of O’Neill, condition “improved.” Dismissed: June 22 — Mrs. James Hawk, of Ewing; Cher yl Tesch, of Atkinson. June 25 —M r s. LaVerne Finley, of Page; Janis Vequist, of O’Neill? Francis Laurence, of Valentine; Mrs. Joseph Gokie and son, of O'Neill. Davis Family Reunites— ATKINSON — Members of the family of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Davis, with the exception of one son, Ralph, of Seattle, Wash., were all home to enjoy Sunday dinner with their par ents. The dinner was served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Shane. Mrs. Shane was Fern Davis. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Fullerton, of Ains worth, (Mrs. Fullerton was Lora Davis); Mr. and Mrs. Smith Thompson, of Beaman, la., (she was Marie Davis); Mrs. Verna (Davis) Cosgrove and son. Burton, of Seattle, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Davis and nephews. Keith and Stephen Bennett, of Hay Mrs. John Cheney and Miss Springs; Mrs. Davis, sr., sister. Fredda Pettijohn, of Stuart. The dinosaur Brontosaurus weighed about 40 tons.