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VOLUME 70.—NUMBER 10. _ O'NEILL. NEBR., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1950. PRICE 7 CENT*1
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Progress Event
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Legion - Sponsored 2 - Day
Celebration Will
Feature Parade
O’Neill’s prosperity during
the past 10 years will be the
theme of a 2-day American Le
gion-sponsored celebration here
Saturday and Sunday, July 15
and 16.
There will be a full schedule
of activities, including a parade,
baseball, open house at the Si
monson post Legion clubrooms,
carnival, concessions, Holly
wood Death Drivers, ground
breaking ceremonies for St.
Anthony’s hospital, an aerial
spraying contest and dancing.
The big 2-day festival will
open at 1 p. m. S&turday with
a parade in which prizes will
be $15, $10 and $5.
At 3 o’clock there will be a
baseball game between the At
kinson' Legion and O’Neill Le
gion. At 6:30 p. m., the Atkinson
Midgets and O’Neill Midgets,
also Legion-sponsored, will tan
gle.
Throughout both days there
will be a carnival and conces
sions on lots east of the Legion
club. Rides will include ferris
wheel, octopus, merry-go-round,
and kiddie rides. There will be
6 shows by the County Fair
Shows.
Saturday’s entertainment will
conclude with an old time dance
at the Legion ballroom.
Sunday's program will be
gin at 1 p. m., with the St.
Anthony's ground - breaking
ceremonies. (See story at
left.) At 2:30 p. m., the crowd
will move to the Municipal
airport where the Hollywood
Death Drivers will present
their thrill spectacle with ja
lopies.
A wrist watch will be drop
ped 1,000 feet from an airplane
during the afternoon’s show at
the airport, and there will be an
aerial spraying contest — first
contest of its kind ever held in
Nebraska. Civil aeronautics
officials and University of Ne
braska college of agriculture of
ficials will be the judges. A $100
first prize has been posted.
At 8 p. m. in Carney park the
O’Neill Rockets will entertain
Chambers, a North - Central
league foe, in a baseball attrac
tion under the lights.
The 2-day celebration will be
climaxed with a dance at the
Legion ballroom, featuring the
Starlighters orchestra.
During the course of the cel
ebration the Legion will main
tain open house at its clubrooms
id will provide your favorite
£ mes. Club will open each day
noon.
Last year the Legion spon
sored its first annual cele
bration which was labelled a
Picmond Jubilee celebration,
marking O'Neill's 75th anni
versary.
Theme this year is progress.
During the past decide O’Neill’s
^population swelled from 2,532
♦o 3,050. During the celebration
ground will be broken for the
new 40-bed, 420-thousand-dollar
St. Anthony’s hospital, and it is
planned to' throw the switches <
illuminating a portion of O’- J
Neill’s new white way on Sat
r"day evening.
Music will be provided by
tne Municipal band.
Lt, Baker to
Advance Base
, Lt. John Lee Baker, son of
Mrs. H. J. Lohaus, of O’Neill,
c-n July 2 was reported station
ed on an advance jet air base
on Okinawa preparatory to
f swinging into the Korean war.
Until then he had not seen
action but other elements of his
unit had already gotten into the
fray against the North Korean
Reds.
Baker is a jet pilot. His moth
er received a letter from him
Monday — first news since the
Korean war began. Korea is
within striking distance of Ok
insws
' Until Wednesday Baker was
the only known military man
from the O’Neill region in the
war zone.
O’Neill Firemen
^ Reelect Officer*
O’Neill volunteer firemen
Monday evening in an annual
election meeting reelected all
officers for the coming year.
Reelected officers include:
G E. (“Hap”) Miles, chief; Norb
Uhl, assistant chief; J. Ed Han
cock, secretary - treasurer; Roy
Johnson, captain, and Robert
Davidson, head linesman.
Meeting was held at the O’
"eill firehouse and it began at
'! p. m.
Meanwhile, O’Neill volunteer
f5remen Friday, July 7, ansver
,( their first alarm in over 70
aays. Firemen responded to ex
tinguish a grass fire west of the
, \ .ctor Halva shop. The record
( hows the last alarm previous
v had been turned in April 19.
John Curtis, Lincoln
Official, to Speak
At Ceremony
The long anticipated date for
ground-breaking at the site of
St. Anthony’s hospital is Sun
day, July 16.
The ceremony will take place
between 1 and 2 p. m. at the
construction site immediately
west of St. Mary’s academy. The
rite is in connection with the
American Legion - sponsored
progress celebration.
John Curtis, of Lincoln,
public relations official for
the Consumers Public Power
in Nebraska will be the prin
cipal speaker. Mother M. Er
ica, head of the Denver, Colo.,
provincial house for the Sis
ters of St. Francis, will turn
the first shovel of dirt.
Program will begin at 1 p.
m. with music by the O’Neill
Municipal band. Solemnity will
be provided with an invocation
by Very Rev. Timothy O’Sulli
van, pastor of St. Patrick’s
Catholic church. The band will
accompany the audience in the
singing of selected hymns after
which Mr. Curtis will make the
address.
James M. Corkle, head of the
St. Anthony’s hospital building
committee, said there would be
brief remarks from several oth
ers.
Mother Erica, who heads the
Catholic order of nuns who will
own and operate the 40 - bed
420 - thousand - dollar medical
center, will be present to move
the first dirt.
Rite will close with the na
tional anthem. •
Mr. Curtis is a veteran of
World War I, is a former com
mander of the Nebraska Amer
ican Legion, is a qualified law
yer.
Busboom & Rauh, of Salina,
Kans., are general contractors
and will begin work immediate
ly. _
174 NEBRASKANS
TO BE INDUCTED
Holt Draft Board in
Session Tuesday
Reviewing Files
One hundred and seventy
four Nebraskans will be induct
ed into the army “as soon as
possible,” Col. Francis Drath,
manpower division chief of the
Nebraska selective service sys
tem, said Tuesday.
Maj.-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
selective service director in
Washington, D. C., wired:
"The call for Nebraska is
for 174 men to be delivered
as soon as possible—and no
later than September 30."
Voluntary enlistments will
not cut down the size of the
first draft quota.
Two members of the Holt
county draft board met Tues
day—Glea H. Wade, of O’Neill,
and Fred Jungman, of Atkinson.
Also present was the chief clerk,
Mrs. W. H. Harty, of O’Neill.
This marks the first draft call
since January, 1949. Holt coun
ty’s draft machinery, however,
has been kept intact.
The board spent the day
checking the file of regis
trants and readying for the
first call, which reached the
statehouse only a few hours
later.
Mrs. Harty stated that all
registrants should notify the of
fice of any change in address.
Meanwhile, the air force is
seeking volunteers from its ac
tive reserve . components and
.ormer air force servicemen.
Officers now possessing crit- j
ical military occupational spe- ,
cialties may request recall
through the nearest reserve un- 1
it or through the nearest num
bered air force.
Former airmen who have no (
reserve status may volunteer j
for enlistment in temporary ,
grade held at the time of last
honorable discharge.
Sgt. James Lyons, O’Neill re
cruiter, can furnish additional
information to former army and [
air force persons interested in
enlisting as well as other candi
dates.
Bentley Sale Set
Next Wednesday
A public sale will be held on
Wednesday. July 19, beginning
at 1 o'clock, to settle the estate
of the late George S. Bentley,
who lived 18 miles south of
Chambers.
Leo T. Adams, of Chambers,
is the administrator; Col. Edwin
Thorin, of Chambers, is auc
tioneer, and the Chambers State .
bank is clerk.
Seventy-three head of cattle
will be sold, including 31 black
cows and 20 yearlings. Also to
be auctioned are miscellaneous
items and equipment and some
household goods. (For listing
turn to page 7 of this issue.)
SEEK TO RESTORE
POSTAL SERVICE
/
Chamber Opposes Recent
Curtailment and Will
Press for Change
The O'Neill Chamber of Com
merce, in monthly session Tues
day noon at Slat’s cafe, went on
record unanimously seeking
restoration of postal service that
prevailed at the O’Neill postof- ;
fice prior to July 1. Thirty mem
bers were present.
Effective July 1, the O’Neill
office made its last mail dis- ,
patch daily at 6 p. m. instead of
10 p. m., and the postoffice win
dow closes at 5 p. m., daily ex
cept Saturday, instead of 6 p.
m. daily, including Saturdays.
The change in hours was in
duced by Postmaster - General
Donaldson’s economy move.
Ed Wilson made the motion
that a resolution be adopted to
have the service restored and
A. P. Jaszkowiak seconded the
move.
President L. M. Diehlman,
presiding for the first time
since his election to the post
a month ago, appointed a
committee to take the matter
up with congressional and |
postal officials. Appointed
were: Carroll ("Cal") Stew
art (chairman), Edward M.
Gallagher, G. E. Miles and
Jaszkowiak.
Diehlman reported that prep
aration was being made to place
a first-class unofficial mail re
ceptacle at the Chicago & North
Western railway depot to enable
people to post mail until the
eastbound train arrives. The
receptacle, however, is not un
der the custody of the postoffice
department.
Director Ira George of the
Municipal band asked the
Chamber to consider sponsor
ship of the band in band day
activities at Lincoln on October
21 (day of Nebraska-Penn State
football game).
Other business at Tuesday’s
meeting included hearing fur
ther details of a recent highway
20 association meeting held at
Sioux City. H. J. Lohaus, who
was a delegate, was heard.
A delegation will go to
Gordon on Tuesday, July 18, to
attend the annual meeting of
the Niobrara River Basin De
velopment association.
The Chamber decided ils
firms would remain open
throughout Saturday and Sat
urday evening, as usual, even
though the American Legion
sponsored celebration will be
time.
Committees appointed b y
President Deihlman include:
Membership and finance —
Melvin Ruzicka (chairman),
John H. McCarville, L. D. Put
nam, Verne Reynoldson, Arnie
Doerning, M. E. Jacobson, Ralph
McElvain, J. B. Grady, John C.
Watson, N. O. McCrary and To
ny Asimus.
Activities— Harold Bumann
and Leo Moore (cochairmen),
James M. Corkle, Arnie Doern
ing, D. H. Clauson, Joe Stutz,
A. P. Jaskowiak, Dr. C. M. Ea
son, Paul Beha, D. D. DeBolt,
Wm. McIntosh, Hugh Ray, Dr.
H. D. Gildersleeve.
Boy Scouts—M. E. Jocobson
(chairman), Judge D. R. Mounts,
M. E. Davis, Ira H. Moss, J, Ed
(Continued on page 8.)
Wanted: Some Sleep\Lost on Jamboree
“I’ll always remember the
great number of Scouts from
all over the world as well as the
things I have learned about
Scouting while attending the
national Boy Scout jamboree ”
These were the words of Wil
liam (“Bill”) Malloy, of ONeill
Scout troop 210, who Monday
returned from the jamboree
which was held at Valley Forge,
Pa., June 28 through July 9.
Malloy, son of Mrs. Ruby
Malloy, of O’Neill, was spon
sored on the all-expense trip
and tour by the Chamber of
Commerce.
The 15-year-old O’Neili high
school junior heard President
Harry S. Truman and Dwight
D. Eisenhower talk, shook hands
with Rep. A. L. Miller, Nebras
ka’s Fourth congresional dis
trict representative, and toured
some historical points in the
northeastern section of the
United States during the trip
enroute to Valley Forge and re
turn.
In addition to the great num
ber of Scouts from all over the
world, Bill said he'd have a
“tough” time forgetting the
night of July 6.
During that day the Scouts
broke camp at Valley Forge
and checked in all equipment.
Stripped of bed clothes and
tents the Scouts slept on the
ground at the national en
campment site the final night.
Malloy told The Frontier he
“about froze to death that night
in the damp, cold climate pre
vailing along the eastern sea
board.”
Although Malloy departed
from O’Neill June 23 with an
other O’Neill Scout, Richard
(“Dick’) Davis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Davis, they did not
arrive at Valley Forge until
June 29.
The 2 O’Neill Scouts joined
others from all parts of Nebras
ka and Iowa at Ft. Omaha on
June 23. They spent 2 days
there for indocrination training
for the national encampment
and then started June 25 on the
first leg of the trip.
Following an overnight train
ride to Chicago, 111., the Scouts
converged on Niagara Falls, N.
Y. Here, Bill thought, the fa
mous falls were “best seen at
night when assorted colored
lights from the Canadian side
were thrown on them ”
June 27 and 28 the Scouts
spent touring New York City
and took a memorable boat trip
around New York’s harbor.
They were guests at a radio
show at Radio City, toured
Rockefeller Center, circled the I
statue of liberty by boat and
saw other points of interest in
the New York harbor.
Following the boat excursion,
the Scouts debarked on the New
Jersey side of the harbor and
from there they went to Valley
Forge.
Scouts from all over the world
poured into Valley Forge on
the night of June 28. “The first |
night we slept on the ground,”
Bill recounts, “with June 30
spent setting up camp and
drawing equipment.”
During the 7 days the Scouts
spent at Valley Forge, time was
consumed by working for merit
badges and other Scouting ac
tivities.
Malloy said he completed nu-'
merous projects toward the rank '
of Eagle Scout.
Besides working on merit
badges and hiking. Scouts
spent some lime viewing the
historcial landmarks of the
famous Valley Forge battle
ground and listening to
speeches made by prominenl
Americans.
Malloy thought President
Truman’s speech "about Com
munism was in most parts, ov
er the heads of the majority of
the Scouts.”
H e recalled Eisenhower’s
speech, about the value of
Scouting, was more "down-to
earth and understood by most
of us.”
Eisenhower spoke to the
Scouts July 4 during the early
evening. He then requested, at
the conclusion of his speech,
Malloy said, a big display of
fireworks.
"We had the fireworks," Ma
loy said with a big smile.
Malloy said there had been
some debate about a fireworks
display until Eisenhower re
quested them.
During the stay at the camp
site, the Scouts took a day off
to sleep and they spent a half
day touring the historical points
of Philadelphia, Pa.
The trip to Washington, D C.,
on July 7, the day following the
breaking of camp at Valley
Forge, they toured the national
capitol building and the con
(Continued on page 8.)
Take a good look . . . the trees in the park
ways on West Douglas street (looking west
from Shelhamer Foods building) are giving
way this week to O'Neill's new white way_
The Frontier Photo by John H. McCarville.
O’NEILL WOMAN
BURIED TUESDAY
Mrs. John W. Kersenbrock
Dies Following
Long Illness
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, July 11, at St. Pat
rick’s Catholic church here for
Mrs. John W. Kersenbrock, 56,
a resident of O’Neill for 27
years. Very Rev. Timothy O’
Sullivan officiated at the rites
and burial was in Calvary cem
etery here.
Mrs. Kersenbrock died fol
lowing a heart attack Satur
day, July 8, at her home at
8:25 p. m. She had been ill
kbout 18 months.
Pallbearers were M. J. Wal- j
lace, Tim Harrington, F. E.
Parkins, C. W. Porter, Harold
E. Weier, Frank Clements, John
C. Watson and Jack Arbuthnot,
all of O’Neill.
Mary Lorettd Keenan was
born December 27, 1893, at
Berks, Nebr., the daughter of
Michael and Mary Keenan.
On February 14, 1917, she j
married John W. Kersenbrock
at St. Mary’s church at Lincoln.
They became the parents of 2
children.
The Kersenbrocks came from
Osmond to Holt county during
1923. Mr. Kersenbrock is a well
known O’Neill businessman and
served as mayor for many years.
The late Mrs. Kersenbrock
was a member of the Catholic
Daughters of America.
Survivors include: Husband—
John W., of O’Neill; sons—Dale
A., of O’Neill; and Jacques C.,
of Chicago, 111.; mother— Mrs.
Mary Keenan, of Lincoln; sis
ter—Mrs. L. H. Pierce, of Lin
coln; brothers—L. H. Keenan,
of Lincoln; P. J. Keenan, of
Seward, and J. H. Keenan, of
Dillon, Mont.
A rosary service was offered
Monday evening at the Kersen
brock home.
1 Charles Ruther
Back from Chile
STUART — Charles Ruther,
of Chuquicamata, Chile, arriv
ed in Stuart Saturday, July 8,
to spend his vacation with his
wife and daughter and visit his
sister, Mrs. Frances Roberts.
Mrs. Ruther and Billie mo
tored to Omaha to meet Mr.
Ruther, who came by plane to
Omaha. He is with the Chile
Exploration company.
Mrs. Ruther came from Chile
in April to spend the summer.
Miss Billie has been staying
with her aunt and attending
high school here.
HARMENDAMERO
DIES SUDDENLY
PHOENIX—Harmen Damero,
77, farmer residing a mile south
of here, died suddenly at 7:30
p. m. Saturday, July 8, while
doing chores at his farm home.
He was milking a cow when
stricken with a heart attack
and died immediately.
The late Mr. Damero was
born October 10, 1873, and
he spent many years in the
rtioenix community.
Funeral services were held at.
2 p. m. Tuesday from the Seger
funeral home in Atkinson. Rev.
Orin C. Graff, Presbyterian pas- |
tor, officiated and burial was ,
in the Phoenix cemetery.
A large crowd attended the
funeral and made the trip to
the cemetery despite rain and
bad road conditions.
Survivors include: Widow;
brother — John Damero, of
Phoenix; sister — Mrs. George
Syfie, also of Phoenix.
Mrs. Jacobson and
Mrs. Birmingham Hostseses—
Mrs. M. E. Jacobson and Mrs.
H. J. Birmingham were chair
man and cochairman at the
Country club fortnightly dinner
Sunday evening.
PASTOR, FAMILY
IN HIWAY CRASH
O’Neill - Bound Lutheran
Family Escapes with
Minor Injuries %
Rev. Robert Olson, 25, Mrs.
Olson and their 14-months-old
son, Bruce, escaped serious in
jury last week enroute to O’
Neill where Reverend Olson is
the new pastor at Christ Luth- j
eran church. They sustained
cuts and minor bruises in a
highway accident in which a
truck crashed into the rear of
their passenger car.
Reverend Olson, a recent
graduate of the Missouri
Lutheran synod theological
school at Springfield, 111.,
said the impact demolished
their car. The accident occur
red in Wisconsin.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harley,
of Atkinson, drove to Sherburn,
Minn., to bring the new pastor
and his family to O’Neill.
Reverend Olson will serve ;
Emmanuel Lutheran church at j
Atkinson as well as Christ !
Lutheran church in O ’Neill. He
succeeds Rev. Clyde O. Cress, j
who was transferred to Cleve- ■
land, O., in the spring.
Installation services were1
held Sunday, July 9, at both
churches. The rite in O’Neill
was conducted in the afternoon
and the service was held in At
kinson in the evening.
Rev. Waller Hartmann, of
Ainsworth, was the installing
officer. Several visiting cler
gymen were present.
Reverend Olson served 2
small Chicago, 111., parishes
during his vicarage and prior to !
his ordination. The O’Neill-At
kinson post is his first pastor- |
ate.
The new pastor’s original
home is at Eau Claire, Wise.
The Holt county board of su
pervisors met in a scheduled
session Tuesday.
DR. J. W. GILL, 69,
DIES AT NORFOLK
Funeral Rites Wednesday
For Chambers
Physician
CHAMBERS—Dr. J. W. Gill,
69, well - known south - Holt
county physician and surgeon
who was known intimately by
hundreds of families through
out this section, died Sunday,
July 9, at 11:40 p. m. in a Nor
folk hospital.
He had been ill since March,
1949, and had been in-and-out
of hospitals during that inter
val.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon, begin
ning at 2 o’clock, from the
Methodist church in Chambers.
Rev. Lawrence McElheran, Bap
tist church pastor, officiated,
and burial was in the Chambers
cemetery. Rev. L. R. Hansberry
assisted.
The body lay in state at
Biglin Bros, mortuary in O'*
Neill from Monday noon until
Wednesday morning, when it
was taken to the Gill home
in Chambers.
Pallbearers were William
Renninger, Walter Brown, Vic
tor Harley, Kenneth Adams,
Vern Sageser and John Watt
ers.
The late Doctor Gill was born
on December 1, 1880, at Teka
mah, a son of Thomas and Mar
tha Gill, who had migrated
from Pennsylvania to Nebras
ka.
He was graduated from the
Tekamah public school and re
ceived his doctor of medicine
degree from Cotner university's
college of medicine.
At Omaha on June 14, 1911.
he married Bertha Marie Wetz,
of Omaha.
The Gills became the parents
of 4 children—3 of whom died
in infancy.
The Gills came to Chambers
in 1912 from Lincoln. Mrs Gill
died several years ago.
Survivors include: Daugh’er
—Mrs. Frank (Melba) Spath, of
Chambers; brothers— Delmar
Gill, and Alfred Gill, both of
Tekamah; sister — Mrs. Harry
Richardson, of Hoxie, Kans., t
grandchild. '
He was a member of the
AF & AM lodge, was presi
dent 4 years of district 8 of
the Nebraska Medical associa
tion, was a member of the
Methodist c h u r c h and his
hobby was gardening.
In charge of floral arrange
ments at the rites were Hattie
Tibbetts, May Sageser, Blanche
Sageser and Myrtle Bell.
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Burial Here Sunday
for Kopejtka Infant
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 9, at
the Methodist church here for
Dennis Frank Kopetjka, 3 -
month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank J. Kopetjka, who reside
21 miles northeast of O’Neill.
The infant, after an illness of
2 weeks, died about 2:30 a. m.
Friday upon arrival at the O’
Neill hospital.
Rev. V. R. Bell, Methodist
church pastor, officiated and
burial was in Prospect Hill cem
etery.
Survivors include: Parents,
3 brothers; Larry Jerry and De
way ne; 4 sisters: Norma Ann,
LaVonne and Sharon, all at
home and Mrs. John Alder, of
Inman: grandmother — Mrs Joe
Kopetjka; grandfather — Hen
ry Butterfield; great-grandmoth
er — Ms. Anna Winchell.
A. W. Carroll Fill*
Hugh Ray Vacancy
A. W. Carroll, of the O’Neill
Auto Supply, has been appoint
ed to succeed Hugh Ray, O’Neill
lumberman, as First ward city
councilman. Appointment was
made Wednesday evening, July
5.
Ray, head of the Spelts-Ray
Lumber Co., resigned from the
council several weeks ago. He
was serving his second term.
Nuns Visit at
Conway Home—
Sr. B0. Quentin and Sr. M.
Hortense, of Atchison, Kans-,
arrived Saturday and spent a
few days visiting at the home
of their mother, Mrs. Bertha
Conway. Other relatives who
spent Sunday at the Conway
home were: Mr. and Mrs. Emil
Kjeldgaard and son, Dean, of
Lyons: Mr. and Mrs. J W Mc
Cloud, of Hartington, and Mr
and Mrs. Charley Thomson and
family, of Chambers.