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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1949)
r Mi?#- uo 12 PAGES - SECTION A - PAGES I -A to 8-A RONTIER North-Nebraska’s Fastest-Growing Newspaper VOLUME 69.—NUMBER 11. O'NEILL. NEBR.. THURSDAY. JULY 21. 1949. PRICE 7 CENTS Laurence Haynes (left) and Wallace O'Connell . . . examine autographed baseballs sent by Johnny Hopp. O'Connell will auction balls at all-star benefit game tonight.—The Frontier Photo by John H. McCarville. Throng Expected for All-Star Tilt iear-Record Crowd May Be on Hand for Hospital Benefit Game Last - minute preparations rave been made and all is in •eadiness or the St. Anthony’s aospital benefit all-star game to be played here tonight (Thursday). Outstanding indi vidual performers from each team in the North-Central day - and - night league will form an East team and a West team for the all-star ex hibition in Carney park. The contest is scheduled to get underway at 8:30 p. m. Players representing all the teams in the league will be oh hand to participate in the fracas. Stuart, Atkinson, V alentine and Ainsworth comprise the West team with August Tro shynski, of Atkinson, as man ager. Dick Tomlinson, tutor ior the East club, has under his experienced wing players (from O’Neill, Page, Ewing md Chambers. Players representing the 2ast all-stars are: From Ew ing— Clem Schrad, Vic and Richard Bollwitt, Smith and Dunaway as alternate; from Chambers— Fauquier, Walters, Les Oetter, Lambert and Kenny Oetter as alternate; from Page — Cunningham, Kenny and Darrel Heiss, Trowbridge and Asher as al ternate; from O’Neill—Wolfe, Tomjack, Meserve, Graham md McKay as alternate. The all-stars from the West 1 ire- From Valentine— Sharp, Schmidt, Hahn, Wilson and l roung as alternate; from At f .nson —Mancuso, Pat Miller, Scott, Jerry Troshynski and Judge as alternate; from Stu art-Bill and Howard Tielke, -llg. King and Gene Hoff man as alternate; Ainsworth — Beebout, Sperman, Rudm ek, G. Richardson and Clark i alternate. / Umpires for the tilt will be ‘ vrt Tomlinson, of Inman, and >elbert Carl, of Ewing. "Both teams are eager to get underway," Dick Tom linson said, “to determine which half of the league u the stronger”' Monday Tomlinson received half a dozen autographed baseballs from Johnny Hopp, of the Pittsburg Pirates. These regulation National league baseballs, signed by every nember of the Pirate team, will be auctioned off by Wal ’ ace O’Connell during thesev ;nth inning stretch. Hopp is a former Hastings resident who has been playing in the major leagues for a number of years. A 12-car booster delegation left here at 7:30 p. m. Tues day evening for Emmet, At cinson, and Stuart selling ckets to the contest. Boy Scouts of troop 210 will ict as vendors at the ball •ame, with the Merri Doctor epper Bottling Co. donating soft drinks. 1 The Catholic Daughters of Ip nerica will be in charge of d. ; o State Parley — i ATKINSON — The following % ilegates left Sunday, July 1<, i , attend a three-day depart ent convention in Omaha: Dis ,i;ct Commander Fred J. Jung 4 i, Charles E. Chace, John Mc / lilken, B. H. Wilson, Glenn w ivis, Neal McKee and Earl ller. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Golden id daughter. Miss Ann, return Monday to their home in •shire, Conn., after having ted relatives here. the hot dog concession with the Wonder Bread furnishing the buns free of charge. O’ Neill business firms contribut ed money to buy the weiners. The hot dogs wll be kept warm at the Hardng Cream ery. The city has donated the use of the field and lights free of charge for the contest. Advanced sales of tickets have been good, according to to Laurence Haynes and Matt Beha, who are helping with arrangements. All proceeds will go to the building fund of St. Anthony’s hospital. Admission to the all-star game is $1 for adults and 50 cents for the children. 3HOLTMENON BASIN BOARD Batson Predicts Niobrara Project t# Be Part of Missouri Plan “The full potentialities of the Niobrara river basin are now being investigated and plans are beginning to crystal ize,” according to Regional Director Avery A. Batson, of the U. S. reclamation bureau. Batson predicted, in a speech at the annual meeting of the Niobrara River Devel opment association Friday in Ainsworth, the Niobrara ba sin would be brought into the Missouri river basin plan. Among the newly-elecfed directors from the O'Neill region are John F. Dick, of O'Neill, and Walter Ries, of Atkinson. Carroll ("Cal") W. Stewart, of O'Neill, publish er of The Frontier, was named one of the three newly provided - for direc tors-at-large. E. A. House, of Ainsworth, was re-elected president with Lyle Dierks, of Ewing, re lected vice-president. Sixty-seven thousand acres in the O’Neill-Atkinson-Stuart localities are considered “irri gable in the class I category,” according to the proposed plan. Dick and Ries succeed Tony Asimus, of O’Neill, whose term expired, and Ed J. Mat ousek, of Atkinson, who re signed. O’Neill delegates at the meeting included Melvin Ru zicka, Chamber of Commerce president; James W, Rooney, Harry Ressel and District Judge D. R. Mounts. Visitor Dies Here Late Tuesday William A. Cordes, 82, grand father of Mrs. Roy D. Johnson, of O’Neill, died “about” mid night Tuesday after suffering a heart attack here. Funeral ser vices will be held' in Chicago. The late Mr. Cordes and his wife had been visiting the granddaughter and her husband here since June 11. Mr. Cordes, a retired Chicago streetcar motorman, was born in Germany in 1866 and came to the United States in 1881. He had lived all his life in Chicago, retiring in 1942. Besides his widow, he is sur vived by Sons — Fred, George and Thomas; daughter — Mrs. Hapel Heid. All children are res idents of Chicago. The late Mr. Cordes’ first wife and a son preceded him in death. ELECTRIC STORM DISRUPTS LINES Prolonged Heat Booms ’19 Corn Crop but Rain Is Needed 1 ■" 1 ■■ Prolonged hot weather con tinues to boom the 1949 corn crop in the O’Neill region. Some of the corn planted on schedule already is shoulder high and beginning to tassel. Highest temperature during the past seven days —92— was recorded Sunday after noon. Haying in Holt county is just getting under way, County Agent A. Neil Dawes said, but it is to early to determine the yield or the number of acres that will be harvested. The 1948 records show that j 372,940 acres of hay were har vested, representing 247,510 tons that were valued at $2, 836,460. Holt county farmers are now in the midst of the sec ond harvest of the alfalfa, according to County Agent A Neil Dawes. Aside rom the crop picture, a light rain started falling a bout 11:30 p. m. Tuesday night and continued long enough so | that .12 of an inch fell. There is a definite need for rain in the North and North west section of Holt county, I most observers report, but in the Southern part, mainly a j long the Elkhorn river, the farmers claim they have had plenty of moisture. * During the Tuesday night se vere electrical storm, Con sumers Public Power district said that not a single lineman was out in the O’Neill region as a result of the storm. The : automatic switches were hand ling the reaction each time lightning struck power lines. The telephone company re ported Wednesday that four lines were down as a result of the storm Tuesday evening. A line South of Atkinson | was out of order and three l lines in the Stuart area were down, according to officials ot phone company here. Some trouble on the Ion | distance wires in O’Neill was | reported. This week’s weather sum mary, based on 24-hour pet iods ending at 8 a. m. daily follow: Date Hi Lo Prec. July 16 ..._. 82 62 July 17 88 68 July 18 92 60 July 19 88 57 July 20 89 65 12 P-TA Offers Scouts Building Site — At the regular weekly meet ing held Wednesday evening of troop 210 of the Boy Scouts. Bennett Gillespie and Verne Beckwith made a formal offer ing of a building site in Ford’s park for a Scout meeting place. The offering was in behalf of the entire Parent-Teacher asso | ciation. Meanwhile, M. E. Jacobson, troop committee chairman, said Wednesday that he had more investigation to do on the cost of the proposed building The second lesson on first aid ' was administered at the meet ' ing by William Beha, registered I nurse, of O’Neill. Father Kaup Returns — DELOIT—Rev. C. J Xaup, of St. John’s parish, returned Sat urday from a two-weeks’ fish . ing trip to Richmond, Minn Jim Harty . . . becomes manager of Osborne's Shoe Store. Harty Appointed Osborne’s Manager James (“Jim”) Harty. 34. has been appointed manager of Os borne’s Shoe Store here in O’ Neill by John Daly, present manager, and D. M. Osborn, owner. Daly has been assigned to a new Grand Island branch and will assume his duties about September 1. Mr. Daly will open the Grand Island store around ! October 1, according to D. M. I Osborne. Mr. Harty. a veteran of World War II. has extensive training in merchandising. He has spent the past two years with Gambles here in O'Neill, as manager of the soft lines department. Prior to that he was with the J. C. Penney Co. here as assistant manager. Before the late war he spent six years in Portland, Ore., with the Meier & Franks and Lipman & Wolfe department stores. Married, he is the son of Mrs. W. H. Harty and the late Mr. Harty, a longtime family here. LONGTIME HOLT RESIDENT DIES John Wright Hitchcock, 72, Settled with Parents on Homestead ATKINSON — John Wright I Hitchcock, 72, son of a pioneer Holt county couple, died at ; 11:45 p. m. last Thursday in Our Lady of Lordes hospital at Norfolk. He had been ill several months. s Funeral services were held ! Sunday at the Methodist church with burial in Woodlawn cem etary. Rev. W. C. Birmingham officiated. The late Mr. Hitchcock was I born in Illinois on October 25, 1876, a son of Mr. and Mrs. lohn Leslie Hitchcock. The 'amily Cume ti Holt count/ in 882 and settled on a home stead eight miles East of here. Though most of his life, the' late Mr. Hitchcock was in the cattle and horse business. For a time he operated a livery stable here. Survivors include: Widow; sons—Jasper and George, of Atkinson; daughters—Mr. Roy (Irma) Greenfield, of Stuart, and Mrs. Ralph (Evadean) Shald, of Stuart. Halvas Entertain — Mr. and Mrs. Bill Halva, of Lynch, were Friday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vic tor Halva. INCREASE IN TAX LEVY IS PROPOSED Hearing on 1949-’50 Holt Budget Set for Next Wednesday A hearing on the proposed 1949-’50 Holt county budget will be held before the county board of supervisors on Wednesday, July 27, according to J. Ed Han cock, county treasurer and bud get authority. There is a proposed increase of .22 of a mill in the levy to meet, principally, the estimated rising cost of unemployment relief and the increasing amount expected to be spent front the bridge fund. The 3.76 mill levy represents $3.76 per $1,000 assessed valua tion of real and personal proper ty in the county. A mill is equal to one-thousandth of a dollar or one-tenth of a cent. The actual expenditure of the county unemployment relief during the fiscal year ending June 30, was $9,489.53 with the proposed 1949-’50 relief fund set at $14,600--$14,048.06 of the to tal to be raised by taxes during the new fiscal year. This repre . sents an increase of .36 mills. Another increase in the mill levy for the next fiscal year is in the bridge fund. The proposed hike is .66 of a mill. This increases the estimat ed expeditures for the 1949-’50 fiscal year for the bridge fund to $65,600. Actually spent for the fiscal year ending June 30, was $37,718. It is estimated that $47, 382.97 will be raised in taxes by the proposed hike in the mill le vy for the bridge fund. The general fund proposed mill levy will lake a consider able dip. It is proposal to go down from last year's two to 1.20 mills for the 1949-'50 fis cal year. The actual expenditures from the general fund for 12-month span ending June 30 amounted to $85,985.74 with the estimated expenditures for the 1949-’50 fiscal year set at $97,146, with approximately $30,602.39 to be raised via taxes. The proposed mail route fund would take a sharp increase ov er the last fiscal year actual ex penditures. It is estimated that $78,000 will be spent during July 1 to June 30, 1950,.as against $39, 015.02 that was actually expend ed during the past 12-month period ending last June 30. Total estimated expenditures for Holt county is $377,282. This estimation for the 1949-’50 fiscal year is $56,093 more than was actually spent during the 1948 ’49 12-month period. Actual expenditures for the 1948-’49 fiscal year totaled $321, 189, with the estimated money needed to run the county set at $381,530 for the same period. This should leave a balance of $60,341 of the 1948-’49 funds in the Holt county treasury. According to the proposed budget figures, there will be an estimated $98, 050 raised by tax es this next year. Return from Iowa — Mrs. Bennie Hill and sons returned Friday from Iowa City, la., where they were call ed by the illness of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Mrs. Anna Bowers. Mrs. Bowers is “somewhat bet ter” although she is still on the “critical list.” Mr. and Mrs. Allen Haynes, of Page, were Sunday dinner guests of their son and his family, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Haynes. Linda and Lonna Hay nes accompanied their grand parents home. _ Mrs. Davidson: ‘Auxiliary Mother’ Mrs. Anna Davidson, of O’ Neill, has been selected as the “Nebraska Auxiliary Mother of 1949”. This honor was bestowed up* on her in Omaha Monday ev ening during the annual Am erican Legion auxiliary ban quet held in conjunction with the annual statewide auxiliary convention. Mrs. Dorothy Sutter, depart ment secretary, made the an nouncement to 400 delegates attending the banquet. Mrs Davidson was presented with an orchid corsage and an aux iliary emblem. The title went to the O' Neill woman, widow of the late James Davidson, sr., for having the largest family of Amerilan Legion and aux iliary members—totaling 31. These include five sons, one I son-in-law and three grand- | sons, all Legionnaires; three daughters, six daughters-in-law and two great-grandchildren, i all auxiliary members. “Mother” Davidson, as she is affectionately known throughout the O’Neill com munity, is 76. She became a charter member of Simonson unit in 1942 when the unit was organized. Although not to active in recent years be cause of advancing age, she regularly enjoys the auxiliary’s social functions. Her sons have served in both World Wars. In World War 1, John and Clyde were in the Army and Ralph in the Navy. In World War II, Frank and Owen were in the Navy. Three grandsons also served in the late war: Kenneth Eu gene, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Davidson, in the Navy; Stephen E and Richard P., sons of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Davidson, in the Army. Her descendants and “in-laws” belong to posts in Culver City, Roscoe and Huntington Park, Calif.: Casper, Who., Omaha and O’Neill. Mrs. Davidson has been a resident of O'Neill 44 years. She was married to James Davidson in O'Neill in 1892 and went at once to the home in South O'Neill, where she still resides. They became the parents of 11 children — eight sons and three daughters, all living. The only death in the family was that of her husband, pioneer O’Neill businessman, in 1942. Her children are: John, Ralph. James jr., and Owen, of O’Neill; Edward, of Casper, Wyo., Clyde, of Roscoe. Calif., Frank and Lloyd, of Culver, City, Calif.; Mrs. Cy Bruning (Eileen), of San Gabriel, Calif; Mrs O. H. (Frances) Johnson, of Clark Fork Ida., and Mrs. J. Fred (Dorothy) Degnan, of Buffalo Gap, S. D. Congratulatory wires were received from members of the family Monday afternon. WJAG ... 780 on your dial Man Arraigned in Tavern Robbery James D. Brickely, 26, oi 6437 South Mullen, Tacoma, Wash., has been arrainged in county court on charges of breaking and entering the Matt I Hynes tavern here on Sunday, July 10, according to W. W. Griffin, Holt county attorney. Preliminary hearing was held in the county court Tues day afternoon. Brickley plead guilty to the charge and was immediately bound over to dis trict court with bail set at $500. I Brickley and an accom plice were picked up in Ok lahoma City, Olda., by pol ice officers and allegedly confessed to the O'Neill , charge. However, the federal auth orities are holding the accom plice, John G. Davis, on char- i ges of violating the Dyer act, (driving a stolen vehicle across a state border). Brickley was exonerated oi Dyer act charges, as he alleg edly claimed he did not know the car in which he was a pas senger was stolen. According to Fay Robeson, state highway patrolman, Dav is picked Brickley up East of Cheyenne, Wyo., on July 9, and arrived in O’Neill around 11 a. m. the morning of the robbery. Val Darling and Robeson re turned Brickley here early Tuesday morning. Matt Hynes, owner of the tavern, said tere had been an undetermined amount of cigarettes, candy, beer, and between $20 and $25 taken en. Robbers had gained entrance to the tavern through the back door transom around 10 o’clock July 10. SKULL FRACTURE, YOUTH, 15, DIES Harold Kaup, Youngest of 14 Children, Falls from Horse STUART — Funeral services will be held at 9:30 today (Thursday) in St. Boniface Cath olic church here for Harold R. Kaup, 15, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kaup. He died early Tuesday from a skull fracture as a result of a fall from a horse at the Kaup place, a mile Southeast of Stu art. The youth had mounted a horse about 6 a. m. to bring in the cows. Returning to the house, he discovered he had overlooked one cow. Upon returning to the pas ture. the horse is beliaved to have been attempting to round a corner in the lane at a fast pace, was unable to make the turn, stopped abruptly and threw the yo uth against a tree root. Those who reached the scene first thought the youth had died instantly. The youth, youngest of 14 children was to be a sopho more at Stuart high school. A rosary service was held at , the Seger funeral home in At kinson Tuesday evening. The body was removed to the Kaup home Wednesday afternoon and a rosary service was held there Wednesday night. Classmates will be pallbear | ers: Richard Kaup, Kenneth ' Batenhorst, Henry Murphy, Ivo Shald, Richard Hytrek and Robert Tielke. Rev. Joseph Kaup, of Oma ha, cousin of the accident vic tim, will officiate. Harold Robert Kaup was bom April 4, 1934 at Stuart. ; One sister, Mrs. Ernest Smith, j preceded him in death. She died in 1946 at the age of 19. None Injured As Autos Collide _____________ i | CHAMBERS — An accident involving two cars occured Sunday evening on the comer two miles North of town. Stan ley Elkins, who was alone, was driving North to get his wife and hoys at the home of her mother, Mrs. Lela Grubb. Mrs. Le Roy Holcomb and two boys were coming from the West, where they had been ! visiting in the Floyd Whit aker home. The cars jammed together, causing considerable damage to both. None of the occupants was injured. HOSPITAL FUND UPPED $1,754.55 Grand Total Now $82,278; V a r i e d Activity Helps Movement As hospital benefit auctions, games and food sales increase the St. Anthony’s building fund swelled $1,754.55 for the week ending Wednesday, July 20. Total amount of the funds that have been popularly subscribed to the building fund now stands at $82,278.55. It leaves $17,721.45 to be donated before physical construction can get underway on the 300-thousand-dollar Sand Hills area health center. The benefit spotlight centers tonight (Thursday) on the North-Central leaugue all - star benefit game at Carney park here. (See columns 1 and 2.) Saturday night an auction was held on the corner of Fourth and Douglas street, sponsored by the Catholic Daughters of Amer ica. A cake and its tray brought $125.50 after it had changed hands 10 times. The cake, fur nished by Mrs. Oliver Ross, and the tray, by Jonas Furniture Ex change, were bought successive ly by Herman Janzing, Bill Der ickson, Axel Borg, Harry Ressel. Paul Shierk, William McIntosh. James Fredrickson, Henry Mar tin, G. E. Miles and Harry Sulli van. A chair donated by Jonas sold to Larry Bourne, with ice cream donated by Fox’s Ice Cream parlor selling to Bill Derickson. Axel Borg and Janie* Corkle.bought hair permanents, one from Margaret Clauson and the other from Alma Evans. A desk light that was donated by Jonas, was purchased by Fred Heerman. Mrs. Jilg pur chased a wagon load of grocer ies. The wagon was donated by Jonas and the groceries by the Council Oak store. R. V. Lucas, owner of the Bea Franklin store, donated two lamps. Earl DeLong bought one while Hubert Underwood pur chased the other. In addition to the auction sale, a bingo game was' also held dur ing the evening. The Starlight extension club Saturday held a benefit food sale at Shelhamer's that totaled $70.32, which was donated to tha building fund. The O’Neill extension clubs will hold a benefit community food sale Saturday, July 23. The food sale will be held in the Hoffman Electric building and will begin at 9 a. m. and contin ue until 9 p. m. Donations to St. Anthony’s hospital fund from July 11 to July 10, 1949: L. A. Simonson, O’Neill 15.06 LeRoy Dobrovolny, Atk 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Con nor, Orchard _ 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ar buthnot, O’Neill _ 50.00 S. W. Schaaf, Atkinson .. 5 00 R. B. Mellor, O’Neill .... 10.00 J. D. Walker, Ewing . 23.00 Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kelly, Atkinson .. 50.00 A. E. Ponton, Ewing. 5.00 Frank Peter, O’Neill 250.00 Mrs. Lloyd Gibson, O’N 20.00 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Det erman, Atkinson .... 10.00 Wm. Kipple, O’Neill 5 00 Catholic Daughters, O’N 250.00 Yvonne J. Sirek, Chicago 25.00 Girl Scout Troop I, O’N 38.25 John Weichman, Stuait 1.00 Henry Murray, O’Neill.. 25.00 Edw. Kramer, Atkinson . 1.00 William P. Morgan, Atk 1.00 Elmer C. Allyn, Stuart 10.00 Atkinson 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pease, Catholic Daughters, O’N 176.00 Elja McCullough, O’Neill 20.00 John Kennedy, O’Neill 10.00 L. A. Roberts, Stuart 10.00 Golden Rule Club, Page 5.00 Total 1,042.25 Total todate: $81,208.55. Ratigan Rites Friday at Stuart STUART — Funeral services for Virgil Ratigan, 48, who died early this week at Cas per, Wyo., will be held Friday at St. Boniface Catholic church here. Rev. A. A. Lehmen, of Atkinson, will officiate in the 9 a. m. rites. The late Mr. Ratigan, who suffered a heart ailment, had been living in Casper. He was a son of Mrs. John Ratigan, of Stuart, and the late John Ratigan. The remains reached Stuart late Tuesday. Survivors include: Two daughtrs, mother. J. J. Hanaberry, of Holly Rood. Kans., arrived Tuesday to visit relatives and friend*.