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14 PAGES — 3 SECTIONS • I SECTION — 8 PAGES N % North-Nebraska’s Fastest-Growing Newspaper VOLUME 69—NUMBER 49 O'NEILL, NEBR„ THURSDAY. APRIL 13, 1950 ~~ PRICE 7 CENTS Seek to Obstruct New Power Line Handful Atkinson People Protest Line Intended To Improve Service There is a paradox in the power situation at Atkinson. Consumers Public Power district wants to improve ser- ] vice to the community by rout ing a 33 - thousand - volt line i through the city to a strategical ly-located substation site, where ; the power will be “stepped ; down” for distribution through out the city. A group of citizens—18 in all [ —have signed a petition and i seek an injunction against ; CPPD, claiming the new line ; will “create a dangerous haz ard in that children will be playing under and around the power line.” Request for the temporary restraining order was origi nally brought to O'Neill Fri- I day by Francis D. Lee, At kinson attorney, but District , Judge D. R. Mounts would | not admit the request because the petition was "not in or der." On Monday the request was filed and plaintiff is listed as Leo F. Seger et al. Besides Se ger, other signers of the peti tion are: N. P. McKee, Alex Cleary, LeRoy Richards, Rob ert Gaylor, Paul Schultz, Edwin Krugman, John, McQuillan, Hans Bogue, Jess Davis, George H. Frohardt, Frank Weber, Fred R Mack, Edward Moeller, Ar thur Regal, A. G. Miller, L. E. McDowell and Ida Alfs. Upon admitting the new pe tition, Judge Mounts issued a temporary restraining order that was delivered to L. C. Walling, O’Neill district Con sumers manager, at 4 p. m. on Tuesday. .... .. A hearing will be held in the district courtroom at 10 a. m. today. Attorneys for Consumers will be Julius D. Cronin, of O - Neill, and Dan Stubbs, of Lin C°Mr. Walling told The Fron tier that the route now contem plated and on which workmen had already begun was the third route that had been worked . . u . n.n.on ui - neers planned to enter Atkinson from the east with the new ad thousand-volt line and pass near the public school. When objections arose, a new survey was begun but the route near the mainline North Western railroad tracks and on railroad right-of-way, was voluntarily abandoned because of rail haz ard, gasoline storage tanks, etc. The third—and present— pro posal earlier had been discuss ed before the Atkinson city council and no objections were raised, Mr. Walling said. Walling pointed out to The Frontier that 33 - thousand volt lines run through the heart of O'Neill and also are to be found in the middle of the following cities and towns: Lincoln, Valentine, Columbus, Norfolk, Neligh and Creighton. The petitioners claimed that the high tension line running through the town would be ac companied by increased radio interference and television (in future) reception.” The controversial route en ters Atkinson on the southeast corner on Pearl street, traveling 6 blocks west to north-and-soutn Carberry street. It goes north on Carberry to the site of the new substation across the rail road tracks. From the substation the line follows the tracks west ward out of town. Jack Carney Gets Boys’ State Nod Jack Carney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Carney, has been se lected as Boys’ State represen tative by the O’Neill Lions club. Young Carney is a St Mary’s academy junior, has been active in football and bas ketball. , .. John Joseph Uhl, son of Mr and Mrs. Norbert Uhl, also a St. Mary’s junior and an out standing athlete, has been chos en alternate. District IOOF Meet Here April 24— Annual district meeting of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will be held here on Monday, April 24. Banquet will be served in the Methodis church at 6 p.m. , , Session of the grand lodge will begin at the IOOF hall at 7 pm. School of instruction and district meeting will con vene at the O Neill public school at 7:30 p. m., and the third degree will be conferred j upon all candidates. ! Lodges expected to be repre sented include chapters at Oak dale, Neligh, Clearwater Or chard, Page, Inman, Chambers, Lynch, Niobrara and O Neill. Army of Music Pupils Arrive— Vanguard of-high school mu sic pupils moved into the city Wednesday to compete in the annual district music contest Competition opened at 5 p m. Wednesday and continues to day and Friday. Over 1,800 are expected. George Gilbertson (above) . . . owner of new Coasi-io Coast store. (Story at right). -----1% CORA E. THORSON O’NEILL, EXPIRES Widow Dies 11 Days Following Death of Husband Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the O’Neill Methodist church for Mrs. Cora E. Thorson, 81, widow of the late Theodore Thorson. Rev. V. R. Bell con ducted the rites and burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery. Mrs. Thorson died 11 days following the death of her hus band on March 28. Death was attributed to pneumonia. She died at her farm home 11 miles north of O’Neill Friday at 11:40 a.m. Mrs. Thorson was born Aug ust 25, 1868, at Leland, 111., the daughter of Jonas and Isabella Thorson. She attended the Uni versity of South Dakota at Ver million and then taught school for 7 years in Clay county, S. D. On July 9, 1898, the late Mrs. Thorson married Theodore Thor son at Meckling, S. D., and to them 3 children were born. Mrs. Thorson was active in church, Sunday • school and community welfare work both in South Dakota and Holt county. She taught Sunday - school at Honey Creek and Joy communities. The Thorsons lived in Meck ling until 1919. Then they mov 1 Mrs. Theo Thorson . . . dies 11 days after husband's death. mm mmm m m ^ Mr. Thorson . . . born in Norway. ed to Holt county and lived here thereafter. The Thorsons celebrated their golden wedjiing anniversary in 1948. Survivors include: daughter— Mrs. H. E. (Elnora) Hunt, of La Mesa, Calif.; sons—Orville, of O’Neill, and Leverne, of Ver milion, S. D.; a grandson; a brother—Oscar Thorson, and a sister—Mrs. J. A. Westre, both of Vermillion, S. D. Out-of-town people attending the funeral rites were: Mrs. H. E. Hunt, of La Mesa, Calif.; Leverne Thorson, of Ver million, S. D.; Mrs. J. A. Westre, of Vermillion; Harold J. Westre, of Miller, S. D.; R. T. Westre, of Wessington, S. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pederson, of Carthage, S. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Tore Stange land, of Rutland, S. D. McDonald Days Begin on Friday McDonald’s thrift days begin Friday, April 14, and continue for 8 days. This is announced today (Thursday) in a full-page advertisement on page 9 of this issue of The Frontier. Joe Stutz, manager of the O’ Neill J. M. McDonald Co. store, said ‘ prices have been slashed for great spring and summer savings.” Twice each year McDonald’s sponsor thrift days. COAST-TO-COAST OPENSTHIS WEEK Formal Grand Opening Friday and Saturday; Store Is New George Gilbertson announced Wednesday that the formal grand opening of his Coast-to Coast store to be located at O’ Neill will be Fridey and Satur day, April 14 and 15. Mr. Gilbertson said, “I have chosen O’Neill for the^stablish ment of a Coast-to-Coast store only after a very careful survey of this, and other trading areas. Although I shall have the ad vantages of the great purchas ing and merchandising power of the Coast-to-Coast stores organ ization, which now includes ap proximately 535 individual re tail outlets, my Coast-to-Coast store, as all others, will be lo cally-owned.” % Coast-to-Coast stores fea ture complete lines of hard ware. automotive supplies, housewares, sporting goods, home appliances, paints, farm equipment, and other mer chandise for home, farm and car. Firmly established in 15 northwest states, the opening of the Coast-to-Coast stores in O’ Neill is one of the first in the current Coast-to-Coast stores central organization’s expansion program. It is contemplated oth er Coast-to-Coast stores will soon be opened to the public throughtout the state of Ne braska, and in neighboring states. in speaxmg or me organiza- j tion’s program, Charley Cloud, J of Minnesota, who is on hand i for the opening of the local Coast-to-Coast stores, said “Mr. Gilbertson will have at his command the complete services of our organization, which we feel will enable mm to give to the people of this community a merchandising service which will be most welcome to them in terms of good merchandise at money-saving prices. The local owners of all Coast-to-Coast stores affiliated with our organ ization, depend upon their own communities for their success. Our organization, now in its 20th year, has grown tremend ously, largely because each lo cal Coast-to-Coast stores owner is fully appreciative of his res ponsibilities to the community in which he does business.” Mr. Gilbertson extends a cor dial invitation to the people of O’Neill to attend the grand op ening event of his store on Fri day and Saturday. Coffee and doughnuts will be served free of charge on Saturday, April 15. Special pries will be offered every hour on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. The grand opening ad vertisement of the Coast-to Coast stores appears in this issue of The Frontier on pages 4 and 5. Mr. Gilbertson and his family | reside at the Clevish residence. Store location is several doors west of the stoplight on the north side of Douglas street in a building vacated last year by ! Rickley’s variety store. Married, Gilbertson has a 15 I year-old daughter. Formerly he ' was in the bariking business at Roslyn, S. D. ‘Sign Post’, April Issue, Is In Mail “The Sign Post,” April isue a periodical “published every once in a while,” is in the mail enroute to more than 2,000 box holders in the O’Neill region. Editor and publisher is Ralph Leidy, O’Neill dealer in Propane Gas, Magic Chef stoves and poultry remedies. A 4-page paper, featuring large, easy-to-read type, pithy paragraphs about his customers and what they’re buying and doing, a column of jokes label ed “Stuff & Nonsense” and some advertising, it is a unique publication. Editor Leidy digresses from the trade news frequently to in- j ject such lines as: “I think Bill Jutte has more fun while he’s sick than most of us do while well!” . . . “Jim Kelly is the only man who ever came home from a hospital with the hospi tal owing him!” . . . “We’re giv ing away about 2,000 gladiola bulbs to our customers. Should make quite a showing this sum mer.” The Frontier’s printing de ! partment produces “The Sign 1 Post.” Move to O'Neill— Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McDer mott moved from Long Pine to O’Neill Saturday mm mar First reunion lor family of 11. Left-to right (standing)—Mrs. Don (Velma) Huston; Mrs. George (Hazel) Culler; Mrs. Clifford (Thelma) Green; Mrs. Delbert (Irma) Edwards; j jppr’--•w ' Mrs. Ira (Elsie) Goodwin; Mrs. Albert (Ethel) Sanford; Mrs. George (Opal) Vargason. Seated —Mrs. Edna Jones; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Snelson and Emel. Family of 11 Together First Time in 60th Wedding Event J. H. Snelson and Wife Receive Friends and Relatives By CHUCK APGAR Staff Writer LONG PINE — Surrounded by their 9 children, all together for the first time in their lives, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. (“Jim”) Snelson, of Long Pine, formerly of Amelia and Ewing, Friday, April 7, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. A large noon dinner for fam ily and friends was held in the Snelson’s honor in the social parlors of the First Congrega tional church at Long Pine. Ov er 75 relatives, friends and well wishers paid their respects and heard Mr. and Mrs. Snelson to gether recount their experiences of pioneer days in Nebraska. The day's activities started early and by 11 a.m. the Snel son's little home, located in the west part of Long Pine, was overflowing with rela tives. Plans for the event re volved around the ability of their son and daughters to get home. Ninety minutes before the noon dinner, the last child f rrived from the state of Washington. Other children came from Oregon, Washing ton and California. Following the dinner, a 2 hour unrehearsed pantomime, depicting 60 years of the Snel son’s married life, was present ed by the children, grandchild ren and great-grandchildren. During the pantomime, when confronted with the early phases of his active ranching life, Mr Snelson fought back tears even though he jostled a great-grand daughter on his knee through out the program. Although somewhat hard of hearing, Mrs. Snelson is always active in summer gardening and raising of chickens. iiilS . mis. sneison was Dorn ai Kirkwood. 111., January 16, 1874. She came with her parents to Genoa when she was 10-years old. Mr. Snelson arrived at Ge noa in 1888 from Oskaloosa, la., where he was born November 8, 1866. At Genoa the couple met and on April 7, 1890, they were mar ried at Albion. After 15 years in and around Genoa, the Snel sons filed on a homestead in Wheeler county, 16 miles from the southern Holt county border. During the first 2 years on the homestead, prairie fires threatened their sodhouse var ious times. However, all were successfully fought off. Mr. Snelson is 83-years-old while his wife, Rose, is 76. To gether they humorously remi nisced about the wagon treks to Bartlett and Ericson and of the square dances they attended. “Jim fiddled at many parties,” Mrs. Snelson said, “in order to fill the financial gap at home.” Mr. Snelson recounted the part he played in the annual Kinkaid fair that was held on the border of Garfield and Wheeler counties. He operated the merry-go-round with hi. mule, Don Pedro. Snelson’s pet crow, Grumble, was famous foi ruining Mrs. Snelson’s weekly wash which was laid to dry on the bushes and trees around the farm yard. After spending nearly 17 years on the Wheeler county homestead, Mr. Snelson moved his family to Ewing. There he carried mail to and from Bliss and the Martha postofice in , northern Wheeler county. During 1926 they moved to Long Pine. Two years later the Snelsons went to St.* Ed I ward and then returned to Long ! Pine for a brief period in 1931. Between 1932 and 1934 they farmed north of Stuart, then moved to the Amelia commun ity where they resided until 1941. They traveled between the state of Washington and Amelia for the period of l'J4l t 1945. Finally, during the latter part of 1945, they moved to (Continued on page 4) Mr. Snelson ... 83 a m ^ m • Mrs. Snclson ... 76 Weather-hardened O'Neill residents re garded Monday's snow and sleet as an April squall. Visibility was reduced to 50 yards, about 4 inches of fresh snow fell. Traffic on O'Neill's Douglas street, looking east from Knights of Columbus building (left), moved with lights on.—The Frontier Photo by J*hn H. j McCarville. ■* ATHLETIC DINNER TO BE SELL-OUT 150 Holt Prep Athletes Will Be Honored On Wednesday Eve The O'Neill Chamber of Com merce-sponsored Holt county athletic banquet, which is set for Wednesday evening, April 19, will be a sell-out. This was announced Tuesday by A. P, (“Scovie”) Jaszkowiak, banquet committee chairman, at the regular monthly luncheon meeting of the Chamber at Slat’s cafe. All prep athletes having earn ed letters in football, basketball and track will be honored guests. This is expected to rep resent about 150 guests. Mean while, already 142 out of 175 other ticket have been sold to persons in various Holt coun ty communities who are inter ested in athletics. Attendance will be limited to 325. Principal speaker on the evening's program will be James William ("Bill") Glass ford, 36, head football coach at the University of Nebraska. Glassford is a native of Lan caster, O., played football 3 years under Dr. John Bam (“Jock") Sutherland at the Uni versity of Pittsburg, was an unanimous all-American selec tion in 1936. He was assistant coach at Manhattan college, New York City, 3 years later return ed to Pittsburg as line coach at Carnegie Tech, in 1942 went to Yale university as line coach. While in the navy he coached the naval air station team at Miami Beach, Fla. After the navy, he returned to Yale and a month later signed as head coach at New Hampshire uni versity. He came to Nebraska a year ago. Glassford will be accompan ied to O’Neill by several mem bers of the Cornhusker grid camp, including Gregg McBride, Omaha World-Herald sports columnist and reporter. Banquet will be held at the American Legion auditorium and dinner will be served by Simonson post 93 unit of the American Legion auxiliary. President Melvin Ruzicka pre sided at Tuesday’s noon meeting of the Chamber at Slat’s cafe in which 36 members were in at tendance. Secretary James W. Rooney read 2 letters received from Valentine and Amelia women. The letters thanked the Cham ber for the “fine” recognition day program and activities held here Thursday, April 6. The event was sponsored by the Chamber. Members voted to appoint a retail sales promotion commit tee to supervise and coordinate future merchandising events. Committee will be appointed by President Ruzicka. In addition, Ruzicka announc ed that a U. S. highway 20 meet ing is scheduled to be held in Valentine April 23. At a pre vious meeting of this group, Ruzicka said O'Neill was not represented. Rooney told of a district stockgrowers meet which is slated to be held here April 26. Holt, Boyd, Wheeler, Garfield and Brown counties comprise the district, and Rooney indicat ed approximately 300 people would attend Crosley Cooking School April 20 A cooking school and freezer demonstration, sponsored by Montgomery Hardware in co operation with the Croslev Corp., will be held in O’Neill on Thursday, April 20. Event will be held at the American Legion auditorium, beginning at 2 p. m. There will be favors for lav dies, door prizes will be award ed and refreshments will be served. Crosley’s home economist, Mrs. Maloney, a nutrition spe cialist. will conduct the school and demonstration. She will bring to her listeners answers to many homemaking problems. F. Montgomery, proprietor of Montgomery’s Hardware, said this will be a big event of the year. (See advertisement on page 3 of this issue.) Clinic For Crippled Children— A crippled children's exten sion clinic will be held at the public school auditorium here Saturday, April 22. Registra tion will begin at 7:30 a. m. Nine counties are to be served by the clinic according to of ficials. Clinic will be conduct ed by Dr. Charles TompkiEi and Dr - L. S. Campbell. ,