Father of 5 Is
Polio Victim
Russell Shoemaker Dies
In Omaha Hospital;
Funeral Today
A prominent 41-year-old O’
Neill rancher and father of
five children died at 11:30 a- m.
Tuesday in County hospital at
Omaha. A victim of bulbar pol
io, Russell Shoemaker died
about 60 hours after reaching
the hospital.
Friday he complained of ill
ness but believed he was figh
ting off an attack of influenza.
Late Saturday he consulted
Dr. J. P. Brown, who rushed
the patient to county hospital
where a section of the hospital
is devoted to infantile paraly
sis patients. He was taken in a
Biglin Brothers ambulance ac
companied by his wife, Doctor
Brown and Robert Clinkscales.
Mr. Shoemaker was admit
ted early Sunday and placed
in an iron lung. Hospital at
tendance termed his condi
tion "critical" and it grew
gradually worse.
Bulbar is considered the worst
form of the dreaded poliomye
litis disease.
Funeral services will be held
today (Thursday) from St. Pat
' rick’s Catholic church. Requiem
high Mass will begin at 10: o’
clock. Burial will be in Calvary
cemetery. Pallbearers will be:
Bennett Gilligan, Louis Zas
trow, Edward M. Gallagher, Ed
ward Wilson Lyle Dierks,
Henry Lohaus, James M. Cor
kle and Matthew Beha.
Very Rev- Timothy O’Sulliv
an will officiate. A rosary ser
vice was conducted Wednesday
evening at Biglin Brothers
chapel.
The late Mr. Shoemaker
was born March 18, 1908, at
O'Neill, a son of George Shot
maker and the late Mrs.
George Shoemaker. He at
tended and graduated from
the O'Neill public high school.
He also attended the Univer
sity of Nebraska.
He spent most of his life on
a farm in the O’Neill vicinity.
He was a member of St. Pat
rick’s church and the Knights
of Columbus
On September 21, 1937 he
married’Leona Pribil. They be
came the parents of one daught
and four sons.
Survivors include: Widow;
daughter — Sharlene; sons —
George, William. Joseph and
Owen; father — George Shoe
maker, of O’Neill; brother —
Leonard Shoemaker, of O’Neui;
sister—Sister M. George, of St.
Mary’s convent (O’Neill)
1950 Polio Push
Already Begun
While official date for launch
ing the annual March of Dimes
campaign does not begin until
Monday, January 16, in O’Neill
pep club members from both
O’Neill high school and St.
Mary’s academy are canvassing
the town in selling tickets for
the president’s ball. Proceeds
will be divided between the
Holt county chapter and the
national treasury of the Nation
al Foundation for Infantile Par
alysis.
Ball will be held at the Leg
ion auditorium and Skippy An
derson and his orchestra will
furnish the music.
Legion officials explained
that all proceeds—above bare
expenses—will go to fight polio
and to help care for Holt polio
sufferers.
Meanwhile, the American
Legion auxiliary is drawing
plans for a house-to-house cam
paign for raising dollars and
dimes. The Lions club is spon
soring a special event campaign
and the pep clubs and Parent
Teachers’ association are spon
soring between-half stunts at
the basketball tournaments in
which members of the audience
will pitch benefit coins into a
basket in the center of the gym
nasium floor.
Plans for the March of Dimes
activities are also being pressed
in other Holt county towns and
communities, according to John
H McCarville, of O’Neill, pub
licity director for the county
organization, which is headed
by Mrs. Ralph Brown, of O’
Neill.
High school dramatic stud
ents in most communities have
been asked to give talks at pub
lic gatherings and present
March of Dimes facts.
Officials said it was ironic
that a prominent Holt county
man. Russell Shoemaker, 41, of
O’Neill, should be fatally strick
en on the eve the 1950 drive
gets underway.
The push will continue
through January, Mrs. Brown
said.
Weather permitting a “kig
my” booth will be erected by
the Lions on O’Neill’s main
downtown intersection.
New community chairman
not previously announced are:
Frances Rotherham, Ewing, and,
Mrs. Anton Nissen, Page.
Funeral" services were held
at Page Monday, January 2,
for Mrs. Anna Park, 76, a res
ident of Holt county for 46
years, who died Thursday,
December 29 at Inman.
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mm FATAL TO
j 1-YEAR-OLD CHILD
I Tot Spills Kerosene On
Self and Body
Catches Afire
ATKINSON — A one-year
old child, Clyde Allen Craw
ford, jr., died early Tuesday in
a Bassett hospital as a result of
third degree burns received Fri
day in a household accident.
The child spilled kerosene on
himself while playing with a
gallon jug in which there were
several inches of the fluid in the
bottom. After spilling it in his
hair and on his clothing he went
near the kitchen range. The
fluid was ignited and the child
was critically buined.
Three adults were in the
house—but in another room—
when the accident occured_
The child was taken to the
Bassett hospital but died 3 Vz
days later.
Parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde A. Crawford, sr., who live
on the Bogue ranch 5 miles
Southwest of Bassett. The moth
er is the former Deloris Claus
sen.
Survivors include: parents;
grandparents — Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Crawford, of Ewing, and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Claussen, of
Atkinson; great-grandfather —
Clyde Hull, of Atkinson; great
grandmother—Mrs. Dolly Beav
er; great-great-grandmother —
Mrs. Ella Hull, of O’Neill.
Funeral rites were held at
1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Se
ger funeral home. Rev. Orin C.
Graff, of the Presbyterian
church, officiated and burial
was in Paddock Union cemetery,
Northeast of O’Neill.
The mother received burns on
both hands. It was estimated a
gallon and a half of kerosene
was spilled.
WOMAN, DEAD
2 DAYS, FOUND
A neighbor boy discovered the
lifeless body of Miss Mary Jane
Flanigan, about 70, at noon last
Thursday at her home on the
Sast edge of O’Neill.
The youth, Edward Tomlin
,un, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rich
d Tomlinson, recently had
>een helping Miss Flanigan with
her chores and bringing her
mail to her.
Thursday was the second day
he found no response at the
door so he decided to investi
gate. He found the retired Boyd
county rural school teacher’s
body in the bed.
Dr. O. W. French, who was
summoned, said Miss Flani
gan had been dead at least a
day and he said she probably
died from natural causes.
County Attorney W. W. Grif
fin was out of the city and there
was no inquest. Neighbors said
the last time they had seen Miss
Flanigan alive was on Tuesday
evening, January 3.
Young Tomlinson reported
there were no footprints in the
fresh snow on Wednesday and
Thursday, January 4 and 5, to
indicate that Miss Flanigan had
been out-of-doors.
Body was taken to Biglin
Brothers. Funeral rites were
held Saturday morning at 9
o’clock from St. Patrick’s Cath
olic church. Rev. C. J. Werner,
assistant pastor, officiated and
burial was in Calvary cemetery.
Survivors include: a sister,
Mrs. Nathan Harvey, of Alta,
,k., Canada.
!i rosary service was said Fri
day night at Biglin Brothers.
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NEWS OMITTED
Because of the late volume
of advertising, many news it
ems were omitted in this issue.
However, they will be publish
ed in the January 19 issue of
The Frontier.
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10 PAGES — 2 SECTIONS SECTION I — PAGES I -8
7 CENTO"
HOLT BOARD
REORGANIZES
Stearns Succeeds Clark;
The Frontier Named
Official Paper
Albert Stearns, of O’Neill, su
pervisor from the First district,
Tuesday was unanimously elect
ed chairman of the Holt county
board of supervisors for 1950.
A Democrat, he succeeds Andy
Clark, of O’Neill, a Republican
from the Third district. Clark
served one year.
Other members of the board
are: Axel Borg, of O’Neill, (Re
publican), Second district;
Frank Cronk, of Page, (Repub
lican), Fourth district; A. M.
Batenhorst, of Stuart, (Demo
crat), Sixth district; and Alex
Frickel, of Atkinson, (Republi
can), district 7, and Miss Ruth
Hoffman, of O’Neill, county
clerk.
The Frontier was designated
as the official Holt county
newspaper for the new year.
The Atkinson Graphic and the
Holt County Independent were
named to divide publishing of
the supervisory proceedings.
Wages in three catagories of
county road workers were in
creased as follows:
Foremen of bridge crews
from 90c to $1 per hour;
Experienced operators and
mechanics from 85c per hour to
95c per hour;
Dragline operators from 90c
per hour to $1 per hour.
Chairman Stearns appointed
the following committees:
Courthouse—Clark, Borg and
Frickel.
Finance—Hubbard, Cronk and
Batenhorst.
Printing—Frickel, Clark and
Hubbard.
Taxes—Clark, Hubbard and
Cronk.
Bonds—Hubbard, Cronk and
Borg.
Bridges—Batenhorst, Clark
and Frickel.
Roads—Borg, Hubbard and
Cronk.
Annual reorganization meet
ing ended about 5 p.m. after an
all day session. Regular Janu
ary meeting of the new board
will be held later in the month.
xfliPiR* mmmMto*'WVIi m
Mayor H. E. Coyne buys first ticket for President's ball
from Kathryn Judge (center), of St. Mary's academy pep club,
and Donna Crabb. of O'Neill high school pep club.—The Fron
tier Photo by John H. McCarville.
FRANK J. HEYING
DIES AT SPENCER
Hurial at Petersburg For
Nebraska Resident
Since 1906
ATKINSON — Requiem high
Mass was said at 9:30 a.m. Mon
day in St. Joseph’s Catholic
church here for Frank J. Heying,
74, a Nebraska resident since
1906. Rev. A. A. Lehman, church
pastor, conducted the rites.
He died last Thursday at the
home of a daughter, Mrs Ralph
Black, near Spencer.
Burial was in the St. John
the Baptist Catholic cemetery
at Petersberg with Rev. Albert
Sudbeck officiating.
The late Mr. Heying was born
on September 18, 1875, at Lux
embourg, la., a son of John and
Anna Heying. He lived for a
number of years in the Luxem
bourg and New Vienna, la.,
communities where, after at
taining manhood, he worked in
a creamery and carried mail.
On November 21, 1899, he
married Helen Keuler, at Lux
embourg and they became the
parents of 11 children.
The Heying family came to
Petersberg in 1906, settling on
a farm. Mrs. Heying died in
1922.
Mr. Heying moved into Pet
ersberg where he operated a
cream station until 1938 when
he came to Atkinson. He made
his home here at the William
Carroll home and worked for a
time in a tavern.
Survivors include: Sons—Al
bin, of Lincoln; Arthur, of Pet
ersberg; Leonard, of Anaheim,
Calif.; Raymond, of Chicago,
111.; Alfred, of Atkinson, and
James, of Central City; daugh
ters—Mrs. Edward (Malinda)
Siebken, of Stuart; Mrs. Ralph
(Florentine) Black, of Spencer;
Mrs. Lucretia Hoban, of Aus
tin, Minn.; Mrs. DeLoris Flan
nigan, of Waterloo, la.; and Mrs.
Rosamond Breithautt, of Tope
ka, Kans.; 25 grandchildren; one
great-grandchild; brothers —
John and Barney, both of Rich
mond, Minn., and Peter, of Du
buque, la.; sisters—Mrs. Nora
Klasterman and Mrs. Mary
Kluessner, both of New Vienna,
la.
Pallbearers were: John Cole,
William Carroll, Milo Hupp.
Earl Penry, Joseph Bouska and
Henry Heuton. Sagers were in
charge of arrangements.
Production Credit
In Annual Meeting—
The 16th annual meeting of
the stockholders of the O’Neill
Production Credit association
will be held Saturday, January
14, at the Golden hotel dining
room. Registration of the stock
holders and their families will
be held from 11:30 until noon.
Immediately following the
luncheon, the annual meeting
is scheduled to be held.
COACH GLASSFORD
COMING TO O’NEILL
Husker Tutor to Speak
At Banquet For
Holt Athletes
Coach J. William ("Bill”)
Glassford, Nebraska universi
ty’s head football coach who
came to Huskrrland a year ago
from New Hampshire univer
sity, will speak in O’Neill on
Wednesday, April 19. He will
appear here as main attraction
on an banquet entertainment
card in which scores of Holt
county prep athletes will be
honored guests.
The term-end affair will be
under the sponsorship of the
O’Neill Chamber of Commerce.
Word of Glassford’s accept
ance was made public Tuesday
at a luncheon meeting of the
Chamber. A. P. (“Scovie”) Jas
zkowiak and M. J ("Max")
Golden have been in touch with
Glassford.
Three hundred persons are
expected to hear the Corn
husker grid chief, whose team
this past season began the up
hill road back to national
grid glory.
The new Nebraska coach and
his assistants are making doz
ens of excursions to outstate
towns to build Nebraska U.
athletic prestige. Glassford op
enly asserts he wants all Ne
braska’s best prep athletes that
he can find.
Plans for the April 19 affair
were outlined at Tuesday’s
meeting. Jaszkowiak said it was
inteded to invite all Holt coun
ty high school football, basket
ball and track lettermen. Each
i athlete would be matched by
I a businessman, farmer or a par
ent.
Banquet will be held in the
American Legion auditorium
and tickets will be sold at $3
I each. Other details will be an
nounced.
Secretary James W. Rooney
reported that two silver cups
have been purchased for pre
sentation to winners in the an
nual Holt county Aberdeen
Angus Breeders’ show and sale
and annual Holt county Here
ford Breeders’ show and sale.
Cups will be presented winners
by the Chamber to encourage
competition.
(Continued on page 8)
Master David Tracy Is Derby Winner
Well, The Frontier’s fourth
annual first baby contest is ov
er. The winner is none other
than Master David Lynn Tracy,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Tracy, of Chambers.
Master David won the honors
this year in a walkaway. After
all, when a fellow finishes the
nine-day derby within an hour
after it begins that’s fairly easy
going.
Master David got his first
glimpse of the cold world be
fore the sound of the New
Year's eve bells had subsided.
His mother had risen early
the day before and gone to
the O'Neill hospital.
Before the stork circled the
hospital the first time the at
tendants—and some of the oth
er patients—were jesting with
Mrs. Tracy concerning the heap
of gifts The Frontier had lined
up. But the baby had to be bom
after midnight on New Year's
eve.
And he was!
Dr. O. W. French was the at
tending physician. Dr. J. W.
Gill, who was on hand when
David’s two brothers and two
sisters were born, was taken to
a hospital himself a day or so
earlier because he was ill.
David’s oldest sister’s name is
Carol, 8-years-old, and already
she has held him four times.
Others in the family are: Kay,
5; Richard, 3, and Ralph, 1
The mother is the former Evelyn
Mitchell, daughter of Carl
Mitchell and the late Mrs. Carl
Mitchell. They live in Chambers,
in a frame house South of the
American Legion building. Mr.
Tracy helps Cecil Thornton in
house-moving
Other early 1950 arrivals
were: A daughter born to Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Clyde, of O’
Neill, on Monday, January 2;
a daughter, Nancy Lee Mlinar,
born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Mlinar, of Atkinson, on Tues
day, January 3, at 1:45 p.m.
Dr. Neal P. McKee, of Atkin
son, was attending physician
for the Mlinar entry.
Here’s the shower list for
Holt county's first 1950 baby is a novelty
among his brothers and sisters. Sister Carol, 8,
holds Derby Winner David Lynn Tracy while
Kay. 5. and Ralph. lVa, look on (at left) and
Richard. 3, watches (at right).—The Frontier
Photo.
* Master David Lynn Tracy, Holt
i county’s 1950 baby derby
champ:
McCARVILLES: Have a pair
of Red Goose shoes for the der
bv winner:
COYNE’S HARDWARE: Will
present a highboy drying rack
(regular value $3 95);
O’NEILL PHOTO CO.: Com
plimentary photographs valued
at $12 (including one 8x10 tint
ed enlargement with frame and
a dozen 3x5 mounted prints),
J. M. MCDONALD CO.: a doz
en white new-fangled diapers
that you’ve been reading and
hearing so much about; they’re
called Snappi-Didi — regularly
sell for $3.98;
NEW OUTLAW GROCERY:
A case of Carnation evaporated
milk for the champ;
SHELHAMER FOODS: Case
of Heinz baby food for the 1950
derby winner;
NELIGH CREAMERY: One
case of vitamin D homogenized
milk—the best for baby;
SPELTS-RAY LBR. CO.: Five
hundred pounds of coal, par
ent’s choice—Master David must
be kept warm;
GILLIGAN & STOUT; A B.
F Goodrich standard baby wat
er bottle from baby’s drug head
quarters in O’Neill;
JACOBSON’S; Hotpoint pres
sure saucepan — a gift mother
' will appreciate, too;
McIntosh jewelry: a 10
karat gold baby ring—something
Little David will cherish for a
lifetime;
MIDWEST FURN. & APPL.:
A play pen pad, valued at $3,
and a bufper guard, valued at
$2.50;
And, for good measure. The
Frontier will issue to the lucky
one a FREE one-year subscrip
tion to North-Nebraska’s fastest
growing newspaper.
In setting forth the rules
for the contest The Frontier
stressed that the champ must
have been born within the
Holt county boundaries after
midnight December 31. 1949.
Other winners of the contest
have b?en:
Kathleen Wanser, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Max Wanser, of
Inman, born 4 a m. on January
2, 1947.
Nancy Elaine Harshfield,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neal
Marshfield, of O’Neill, born 6:35
a m. on January 1, 1948.
James Michael Beha, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Beha,
of O’Neill, born 7 a.m. on Jan
uary 1, 1949.
As is the custom a letter of
introduction is being forwarded
to Mr. and Mrs. Tracy. They
will show the letter to the store
and firm managers upon mak
ing the rounds in claiming Dav
id’s gifts.
MRS. M. MELLOR,
79, EXPIRES
Widow' of Jesne Mellor,
Pioneer O’Neill
Itusinessman
Mrs. Mame Mellor, 79, wid
ow of a pioneer O’Neill busin
essman, died at her home here
Tuesday. She had been ill about
six months and was suffering
from a liver ailment.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at 10 a. im- from St. Pat
rick’s Catholic churoh here and
burial will be in the Calvary
cemetery. Rev. C. J. Werner
will officiate.
Pallbearers will be: J. D.
Cronin, J. B. Grady, Alfred
Strube, Henry Boh a us, Sum
ner Downey and D. H. Clausen,
all of O’Neill.
Mrs. Mellor was the wife of
Jesse B. Mellor, the first Ford
agency dealer in O’Neill. He
was the builder and owner of
the building where the Bohaus
Motor company is located. He
sold the Ford agency and the
building in 1939.
The late Mrs. Mellor was
born Mame Burke, August 27,
1870,, in Winona, Minn.
On July 21 1895, she married
the laite Mr. Mellor at Stuttgart,
Ark., and to them one son,
Ralph, was born.
Mr. Mellor dieu April 11, 1940.
The only survivor is the son,
; Ralph.
Sen. Nelson Files
For Nomination
Sam. Frank Nelsor* OINeill
farmer and incubent member of
j Nebraska’s unicameral legisla
ture, Friday filed for nomina
tion in the August, 1950, pri
| mary election.
Earlier Fred Jungman, of At
kinson, whom Nelson defeated
jin the 1948 election, filed for
[the same post.
The seat is non-political and
two highest candidates in the
August primaries will vie in the
j November general election.
In 1946 Senator Nelson was
an unsuccessful candidate for
the post, which went to John
Copeland, of Mariaville. The
Twenty-eighth legislative dis
trict embraces Holt. Boyd.
Rock and Paha counties but
Holt's preponderance of votes
usually determines the win
ner.
Both Nelson and Jungman
filed with the secretary of state
at Lincoln but paid their filing
fee in Holt county.
Other early candidates are:
L. G. Gillespie, of O’Neill, and
Joe Winkler, of Emmet, both
candidates for county assessor.
Both are Republicans and Gil
lespie is the incumbent.
Wright, Maguire Sale
On Frontier Calendar
On The Frontier’s sale calen
dar this week is the public auc
tion of personal property be
longing to Cotton Wright and
Ray Maguire, of Page. The sale
is scheduled for January 20, at
the farm located 8 miles East
and 2*4 South of the O’Neill
livestock Market; or miles
Northeast of Inman on the Page
road, or 4 miles West and 1
North of Page.
The offering includes 30 head
of cattle, eight of which are
outstanding milk cows that are
exceptionally good producers,
an Arabian stallion horse and
some farm machinery. (See ad
vertisment on page 9 of this
issue)
Buv Wanser, of Page, will be
the auctioneer and the Farmers
State Bank at Ewing will clerk.
The Frontier’s auction ser
vice includes newspaper and
radio advertising and handbills
—a three-way plan that assures
maximum results.
Bank Officers and
Directors Reelected
Stockholders of the O'Neill
National bank Tuesday held
their annual meeting here.
All members of the board of
directors and all officers were
reelected for another year. They
are:
Officers: F. N. Cronin, presi
dent: Mrs. Emma Dickinson
Weekes, vice-president; J. B.
Grady, cashier: O. D. French
and W D. Melena, assistant
cashiers.
Members of the board: Mrs.
Emma Dickinson Weekes, Juli
us D. Cronin, E. F Quinn, Mary
I Cronin and F. N. Cronin.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hynes vis
ited Mr. Hynies parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Rudy Funk, at Clear
water on Sunday, j
