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VOLUME 70.—NUMBER 21. _O NEILL NEBR., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1950. _PRICE 7 CENTS
$ LeRoy Moos, 3. drank lye last January ... a siring runs to
his little tummy.—The Frontier Photo.
LeRoy Is Home
LeRoy Moos is a bright, blue - eyed, white-haired little boy
who has had more than his share of troubles.
He’s been pawed by doctors and nurses and instruments un
til—well, it’s a question of how much a fellow can take.
But LeRoy owes his life to those medicos, and they love him
—because he's been the darling at University hospital in Omaha
since last January.
The trouble all started when LeRoy got into some lye wa
ter with which his mother, Mrs. Edward Moos, was attempting
to unclog the drain in the kitchen sink. The little fellow, then
28-monlhs-o.ld, managed to drink about a teaspoon of lye. The
inside of his mouth was burned and his all-important esophagus
* tube was burned.
He was rushed to the hospital where he lay in critical con
dition for many weeks. He had to be fed by injection, there were
numerous trips to the operating room, all kinds of treatment and
bandages by those people in white. •
LeRoy’s father and mother and 2 brothers, Edwin, 8, and
Larry Gene, 4, and sister, Carol Ann, just a baby, were a long way
from Omaha. They were at home in O’Neill.
Every few days a strange man would come and look at him.
Weeks passed, then months.
Finally, about 6 weeks ago, doctors thought LeRoy had
gained sufficient strength for a major operation. That esophagus
tube again. Somehow the tube was punctured; a lung, too. No
fellow should have such rotten luck as that.
The parents were summoned to Omaha. LeRoy probably
wouldn't live until morning. But he did — with a doctor and 2
nurses night and day.
Last weekend the parents were summoned to Omaha again.
The doctors said LeRoy could go home—for 2 weeks. Mrs. Moos
was carefully instructed how to feed him and change the dress
ings.
It’s a delicate proposition feeding a guy when a string fastens
around your face and goes into your nose and straight down to
the stomach. But that’s the way it is. The string helps dilate the
tube for feeding. Now LeRoy can take on liquid and real soft
foods through his mouth. Net so much of this injection stuff any
more.
The Moos family lives three-quarters of a mile west of town
and LeRoy, who didn’t for a minute forget his brothers and sis
ter, romps and plays. But you have to be careful with that string
—pesky ol’ string.
On October 8 LeRoy will reenter the University hospital.
The road ahead is pleniy rough, but this should be the final
stretch. For the darling of the hospital things should be a little
easier.
How could they be worse?
Chambers-Ewing
Traffic Resumed
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EWING—The new South Fork
bridge on the Ewing-Chambers
county highway, about 3 miles
southeast of here, has been com
pleted and i s accomodating
traffic.
Holt Supervisor Frank Cronki
states that the new span is
rated at 20-ton capacity. It is
20-feet long and of wood con
struction treated with creosote.
He predicts the bridge will last
for 25 years.
The approaches to the bridge
have not been completely filled,
he explained, but will be fin
ished “in a few days.”
78 Head of Cattle
Listed at Auction
Seventy-eight head of cattle,
Herefords andf Holsteins, are
listed for the M. G. Goranson &
Son and Joseph Jenny public
sale to be held on Tuesday, Oc
tober 10, southwest of Cham
bers. Also to be sold will be the
improved 320-acre farm, a com
plete lipe of farm and haying
machinery, and some household
goods.
Col. Ed Thorin, of Chambers, |
will be the auctioneer; Leo T.
Adams, of Chambers, clerk.
(Details will be published in
the October 5 issue of The
a Frontier.)
Scout Fund
Drive Is On—
The Boy Scout fund - raising
drive, sponsored by the Cham
ber of Commerce, is in full
swing, according to M. E. Jacob
son, drive chairman.
Meanwhile, Jacobson, D i s
trict Judge D. R. Mounts and
John H. McCarville attended a
Scout executives’ meeting Wed
nesday night, September 27, at
Neligh.
Legion Plans
Barbeque Sunday—
ATKINSON—Farley - Tushla
post of the American Legion
f will stage its annual beef bar
beque in the Spann grove, 2
miles east of Atkinson, on Sun- !
day, October 1.
Ramage, Snowbound
Officer, Is Killed
Capt. Marion A. Ramage, 35,
of Manhatten, Kans., deputy
commander of Fifth army’s “Op
eration Snowbound” forces here
during February and March,
1949, was killed in action in
Korea.
This news reached O’Neill
through Captain Ramage’s wife,
Margaret, who sent the word to
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Walling.
Captain Ramage lived at the
Walling residence during the
“Snowbound” emergency.
An army engineers officer, he
had never gotten to see his 2
months-old son, Bruce Alan,
born after Captain Ramage
went overseas August 1.
Survivors include: Widow;
sons—Michael and Bruce Alan;
father—Mark F. Ramage.
Captain Ramage was born at
Sterling, Kans., January 26,
1915. He was graduated from
Kansas State college in 1941
with a physical education de
gree. During World War II he
served in Europe.
O'Neill Firemen
Twice Summoned—
The O’Neill volunteer firemen
have been summoned twice dur
ing the past week.
On Thursday, September 21,
they were called to the Asimus
apartments where burning trash
was threatening buildings.
On Monday evening, Septem
ber 25, the firemen were sum
moned to extinguish a fire in a
car belonging to George Shoe
maker near the Harry Ott ga
rage.
ASSISTANT AGENT
Howard Temple is acting as
assistant county agent during
the month of October. He will
assist with both 4-H and exten
sion club work. Mr. Temple is
from Wahoo, and served this
summer as assistant county a
gent in York county.
Attends Meet—
L. C. Walling will attend a 1
day meeting of the Iowa-Ne
braska electric conference Fri
day in Omaha at the Blackstone.
CORN NOT YET
OUT OF DANGER
—
Denting Begins but More
Good Weather Needed
Before Freeze
Holt county’s 1950 corn crop
is not yet out of danger.
At least a week of warm dry
ing weather is needed before
the crop is in the bag.
Seldom have corn fields in
the O’Neill area looked so
, good. Even fields where soil is
light and traditionally poor for
corn thg stands look like a mil
lion dollars.
Denting has begun but
farmers have their fingers
crossed hoping the first kill
ing ireeze is forestalled at
least another week. Average
date for Holt's first killing
lrost is October 10.
County Agent A. Neil Dawes
said that even with an ideal
week of good weather ahead
tnere would siill be "lots of soft
cprn in the country.” fields are
exepected to be “well above
average.”
Southwest Holt is wet—like
it has been ail summer. Many
hay farmers say they’ve been
able to get at only about two-’
thirds of their total hay acre
age because of water.
Mrs. Wm. Hoffman, who lives
15 miles southwest of ijituart in
the Green Valley community,
described the effects of the hea
vy rainfall between Friday, Sep
tember 15, and Wednesday,
September 20.
• vVe had about 5 inches in 5
days. Creeks were flowing bank
full. Lots of hay was down and
lots of it was floating in the
lowlands.
“The unusual moisture has
been a real hardship on many
of the folks who have lots of
hay yet to put up.”
over 1inches of rain fell
in the Deloit community last
wee*. . „ .
Fall pastures are in excel
lent” condition. Lots of rain
(over 3 inches at O’Neill from
September 14 to 20) and cool
weather assures cattlemen lots
of fall range.
A dense fog enveloped the
O'Neill region last Thursday
evening. Motorists along high
ways 20 and 275 traveling
westward encountered the fog
west of Ewing and in the Or
chard vicinity. Fog was so in
tense that traffic was slowed
to a crawl.
No traffic mishaps occurred,
however.
Weeks’ weather summary
(based on 24-hour periods end
ing at 6 p. m. daily) follows:
Date Hi Lo Prec.
Sept. 19_ 78 60 .37
Sept. 20 _ 67 56 .85
Sept. 21 76 40
Sept. 22 _ 75 49
Sept. 23-_ 76 44
Sept. 24 _ 75 44
Sept. 25 - 75 45
Sept. 26_ 74 52
Total _ 122
Return from East—
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Sauers
returned Friday, September 22,
from a trip to the New England
states and Cartada. Mr. Sauers’
sister, Mrs. Minnie Stump, of
Erie, Penn., accompanied them
on the trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Marcellus
and family ,of Pico, Calif., are
visiting his brother and wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Marcellus,
and family.
39 YEARS A CARRIER . . .
Perry Saisen (above), Ewing
mailcarrier, has retired after
serving on rural route 1 (De
loit community) for 39 years.
Patrons along the route and
postoffice employees feted
Mr. Saiser and his wife at the
Methodist church parlors on
Sunday, September 17. — O’
Neill Photo Co.
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Displaced Pair In New Home
Ukranian Farmer and
German Wife to
Live at Inman
Zahar Dowhopaiy (pronounc
ed dah-hop-o-lee), a Ukrainian
farmer, and his German wife
are comfortable in their new
home near Inman.
They arrived last Thursday to
take up residence in a small
house on the Harvey R. Tomp
iuns place, 3 miles souui of the
town.
Their entry into the United
States was arranged b y
Church World Service and
sponsored by Mr. Tompkins,
who was in need oi help on
the farm. The Dowhopalys
are the third European dis
placed couple to find refuge
in Holt county.
Mr. Dowhopaiy was born in
the Unkraine. His father was a
farmer — raised lots of wheat.
When Joe Stalin and his crowd
moved in they began to uproot
farmers and work the land the
communal way. In about 1930
Zahar’s father was transplanted
to Siberia, where he worked as
a laborer on a canal, was later
executed
Zahar’s brothers and sisters
have long since been forcibly
scattered to the winds. He has
no idea where they are or if
they are alive.
Zahar went west and picked
up a half-dozen languages on
ihe way. He speaks Ukrainian, 1
Russian, German, Rumanian, j
Polish and Hungarian tongues 1
and is now at work on the 1
toughest—English.
Dowhopaiy ig a trim little
man, dresses neatly, evidences
plenty of hard work.
After American occupation
forces got to Germany he was
given a clean slate and he went
to work for them. Zahar is espe
cially proud of his work record
MORE RESERVISTS
CALLED TO DUTY
50 Draft Registrants Are
Awaiting Preinduction
Examinations
There’s nothing new in the
news for Holt county’s selective
service registrants. Fifty will
report for preinduction physical
examinations on October 1C.
These examinations were orig
inally scheduled for September
but were postponed.
But among the reservists each
mail brings call to duty orders
lor someone.
John C. Watson, assistant
cashier of the First National
bank and city treasurer, receiv
ed orders early Wednesday to
report October 21 at Ft. Lewis,
Wash., for active duty. Married,
Watson is the father of an in
fant daughter, Ruth Ann. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira C.
Watson, of Inman.
Fred Osenbaugh, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John D. Osenbaugn,
of O’Neill, departed September
18 as an air force enlistee and is
now receiving basic training
near San Antonio, Tex.
The American Legion club
was the scene of a going-away
party Saturday evening for Dor
rance Crabb. Simonson Dost
commander who reports for du
ty October 2.
Another party was held Wed
nesday night, September 27, for
rvuy u. jonnson, also a reserv
ist who will report for duty
September 30. Johnson was fet
jd at the Legion club by the Lo
haus Motor company.
Charles Kalina, of Inman, a
selective service inductee 3
years ago, was ordered to Oma
ha Saturday for a physical ex- !
amination. After serving a year
he joined the reserves.
Paul Hiatt, of Amelia, report
ed Saturday for a physical. He
is also a reservist.
Paul Hartigan, of Page, a re
servist, will report for duty in
Omaha today (Thursday).
Pvt. Jack Hartman recently
spent a few days with his moth
er, Mrs. Ed Hartman, at Page.
He was enroute from Ft. Ord,
Calif., to Aberdeen, Md.
Dexters Entertain—
Guests last week of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Dexter were Mrs.
Dexter’s sister and husband,
Mr. and Mrs. Darold Couch, of
Chambers, on Wednesday, Sep
tember 20; her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Rothchild, of
Atkinson, on Thursday, and on
Saturday her brother and wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Garold Rothchild,
and daughter, Cheryl, of Atkin- j
son.
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Mr. and Mrs. Zah3r Dowhopaly . . . latest displaced persons
to reach Holt. Infant is Alan Tompkins, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harv.’y Tompkins, of Inman, with whom the Dowhopalys will
make their home.—The Frontier Photo.
with the Americans and several
officers took the trouble to write
some nice things about him. He
was never tardy at the quarter
master depot at Geissen and
never absent without leave.
Working in a nearby intern
ment camp was a young Ger
man widow, whose husband
had been killed. She helped
with innoculations. There
they met and in July, 1949,
were married.
Mrs. Dowhopaly’s children by
her first husband are reared
and on their own.
The couple applied for entry
into the U. S. and that’s how
they got to Inman. They landed
at New Orleans, La., having
j sailed from Bremershaven, Ger
' many, on the USS Gen. C. V.
Langfitt. Originally intended
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TO MANAGE CLUB . . . Glea
H. Wade (above) has been
signed by the executive com
mittee of Simonson post of
the American Legion to man
age and operate the Legion
club and auditorium, effective
October 1. Wade was com
mander and one of the most
active workers when the audi
torium was built in 1947. He
is chairman of the Holt county
selective service board.—O’
Neill Photo Co. 9
BREAK SOI) FOR
CHURCH ADDITION
EWING — Members of the
nited Presbyterian church con
gregation of Ewing gathered
Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock
for a brief ceremony as ground
was broken for an addition to
the church building. Following
the singing of the doxology by
the congregation, the pastor,
Rev. John Graham, read from
the Book of Nehemiah. Text
concerned people having a mind
to work, and working together
to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem.
There were then a few words
spoken concerning buildings
the congregation had worship
ped in in the past, and about
the need for the addition to the
present house of worship. Fol
lowing a prayer dedicating the
congregation to the task of
building together, the people
sang “Blessed Be the Tie That
Binds,” while Elder Ralph Shra
der, chairman of the building
committee, turned the first
shovelful of earth.
Mrs. Ralph Shrader, Mrs. W.
M. Napier and Mrs. R. Hord
served lunch at noon to the
working men.
The Frontier for prompt de
liveries of quality printing.
for a farm in Alabama, they
were diverted to New York
where Mr. Tompkins’s offer was
on file.
Zahar’s background is prinoi
pally agricultural and Mr.
Tompkins thinks he’ll bo a big
help on the big farm. Mrs. Dow
honnly spent Tuesday afternoon
helping Mrs. Tompkins care for
the 3 Tompkins children and
assisting in canning apples.
Mrs. Dowhopaly’s English is
not so good but it makes no
difference to Alan Tompkins,
the infant son (see photograph).
The “Voice of The Frontier’s”
special events unit dropped in
Tuesday evening for a visit
with the Dowhopaly and Tomp
kins families. The interviews
were rebroadcast on the Wed
nesday program at 9:45.
CHECK TRUCK
OVERLOADING
7 of 14 Inspected by State
Patrol Found to Be
Overweight
In a coordinated check of
trucks rolling across Nebraska
highways Sunday evening, the
Nebraska safety patrol at O’
Neill stopped 14 trucks and
found 7 of them to be over
weight.
Patrolmen Fay Robeson and
Frank Dineen set up the road
blocks and conducted the in
spection.
Found overweight were 4
trucks belonging to the May
Trucking company, of Ains
worth; 1 from Buckingham
Transportation company, of Om
aha; 1 from Missouri Transpor
tation company, of Missouri
Valley, la., and 1 belonging to
Karl Jones, of Ainsworth.
Joe Boyer, Marvin Philama
lee, Harley Hansen and O. W.
Williams, drivers for Ihe May
firm, were each fined $20 and
costs for overloading axles in
Police Justice H. W. Tomlin
son's court.
John H. Booth, driver for the
Missouri Transportation compa
ny, was fined $20 and costs for
gross overload on truck.
Karl Jones was fined $10 and
costs for gross overwidth of
load.
Also in Tomlinson’s court,
Donald Dahmen was fined $10
and costs for being intoxicated
in ihe city of O’Neill.
State Republican
Caravan Coming
Holt county will be visited by
the Nebraska Republican cara
van on Friday, October 6.
The caravan, studded with
congressional and state lumi
naries, will arrive in O’Neill
from Creighton at 3:45 p. m.
for a street meeting. The GOP’s
will leave O’Neill at 4:45 p. m.
will leave O’Neill at 4:45 p. m.,
arriving in Atkinson at 5:05 p.
m„ for another street meeting.
A dinner meeting will follow
in Bassett at 6:30 p. m., after
which the caravan will move on
to Ainsworth for the n.ghti
Weekend Out-of-Town—
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Bright
visited over the weekend in
Sioux City, Wayne and Norfolk.
Eddie Rae stayed with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harrison Hovey, of Stuart.
WJAG . . . 780 on your dial! ne:
3 JUVENILES
ARE SENTENCED
Confess Taking Autos
and Burglarizing in
3 Towns
Three O’Neill youths are in
the Nebraska state training
school for boys—a correctional
institution at Kearney—as a re
sult of a series of felonies with
in tne past few weeks.
The boys are:
CHESTER HICKS, 16.
EUGENE BAUMAN. 16.
FRANCIS BAUMAN. 14.
All have been in the Kearney
institution previously on juve
nile delinquency charges.
Before District Judge D. R.
Mounts in Holt county district
court on Tuesday, the 3 signed
confessions. They admitted tak
ing automobiles and burglariz
ing cars in O’Neill, Stuart and
Bassett.
They also admitted shooting
out giant floodlights in Carney
park, but were not charged with
the offense.
l'he boys, as second offenders,
will be in the institution until
they are “21 years of age or un
til discharged by due process of
.jw," Judge Mounts said.
The Bauman boys, who are
fatherless, were committed to
Kearney from Holt county 2
years ago; Hicks was sent to
Kearney from Rock county 3
years ago.
Miss McCullough
Feted in Banquet
A banquet was given in hon
or of Miss Elja McCullough by
he Holt county rural teachers
on Friday, September 22, at the
American Legion auditorium.
Miss McCullough, who was
not a candidate for reelection
as county superintendent of
public instruction, will go to
school after the first of the year.
She has disposed of her home
here and will leave after her
term expires.
Miss Helen Martens, of At
kinson, was toastmaster, and
Miss Twila Whaley, of O’Neill,
offered a greeting.
Speaker of the evening was
Dr. Howard Tempero, dean of
the Wayne State Teachers’ col
lege. Theme of the banquet was
i “Memories,” featuring talent
I from the rural schools.
About 85 friends and teachers
! were present.
Program:
"M-emories,” musical selec
; tions by Prussa band and oth
I ers; “E-ducation," speaker, by
Doctor Tempero; “M-usical,”
I solo, by Leslie Sweet; “O-rigi
! nal," solo, by Karen Garwood;
”R-eminiscence,” memories, by
Etha Walters; “I-nspirational,”
musical reading, by Elsie Man
son; “E-xpresion,” solo, by Mar
lene Reimer; “S-urprise,” pre
sentation of gift, by Mrs. Art
: O’Neill, _ , <
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Atkinson Man Is ’ ^
Missing in Action
ATKINSON — Pfc. Robert
Wright, an Atkinson soldier
serving in Korea, was listed as
missing in action on September
5, according to an announce
ment by the department of the
army.
Earlier Wright was reported
wounded and placed on a hospi
tal ship bound for Yokohama,
Japan.
He is the son of Mrs. Tom
iDora) Maring, who now resides
at Maywood, and is a grandson
of the late Karl Seimsen. He
had been in the front lines 18
days when he was wounded.
Further details concerning
Wright are not known here.
Holt People to Be
Heard on W N A X
Several forthcoming . radio
broadcasts will be of interest to
Holt countyans.
These broadcasts will be in
the form of tape recordings to
be heard at 12:50 p. m. from
WNAX on the following dates:
October 2 — A visit with an
extension club; 3—a visit to the
Emmet Revell family in north
east Holt; 4—a visit with Fred
E. Boetcher, southwest of At
kinson; 6 — a stop at the Ra?
Siders place near Opportunity.
Chris Mack, of WNAX, con
ducted the interviews.
Tune in regularly to the
“Voice of The Frontier” . . . 780
. . . 9:45 a. m., Mondays, Wed
idays and Saturdays.
