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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1951)
12 PAGES — 2 SECTIONS North-Nebraska’s Fastest-Growing Newspaper VOLUME 71.—NUMBER 19. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951. " ~ PRICE 7 CENTS jy^raiawpl I WMHMMMPpiMBMP !*■£*►? ’ I ■Mhhm'mbmhb SHiHIBW^HEffmB^'HE^'*■*■ wi ^ | t Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Wulf . . . they were reared in sod shanties. —The Frontier Photo & Engraving. iiuuaia ui Cabin on the Wulf homestead . . . built in 1874. pictured in 1896 before it was torn down.—The Frontier Engraving. Wm. E. Wulf, Wife Married 50 Years ■ i i <e .I ^Childhoods Spent in Sod Shanties; Now 74 and 71 (By a Staff Writer) EWING—Mr. and Mrs. William E Wulf have been married 50 years. Both were transplanted to Nebraska at an early age and Sunday, September 9. in.the presence of their immediate fam ily and friends, they turned back the pages and reminisced. Mr Wulf, was born in Clinton county. Ia. He was 11-months old when he settled in the Deloit community with his parente, Fred and Dorothy Wulf. His fa ther initially settled in Antelope county in 1879. came over to Holt in 1881. The location was 1 mile east and 11 miles south of Ewing. . He vividly recalls the old sod shanty, burning hay and corn to keep warm. He remembers those pioneer neighbor fami iies. too—the Noises. Harpsters. Brownslows. Mabens, and there was a Negro homesteader in the locality by the name of Sam Newman. Mr. Wulf came from a family of 6 children. Mrs Wulf, whose maiden name was Emma Neiderheide. was bom in an anonymous little vil lage in the Ruhr valley of Ger many. Her parents w;ere Carl and ' Carolyn Neiderheide who brought their family to the Us. when Emma was 2%-vears-old. They landed in Antelope county, 7 miles southeast of Clearwater, in 1883. Their sod home was on a si<MrhlWulf was asked when he first became aware of Emma NewfthhaKtwinkle in his eye he recalled how he first spotted her vS a bashful little girl hiding be hind her mother’s long, flowing skirt Later, he remembers, when we were a little more grown up. 1 ^aw Emma leading an old cow down the road with her sister n<The romance began with the C°TheyCwere married by the late Judge Finch at Neligh on Septem per 10. 1901. and lived 41 years on the old Wulf homestead. In 1939 Mr. Wulf became a member of the Holt county oar of supervisors. H® held that post for 9'/a years. In July. 1950, he was ap pointed to the Holt county se lective service board. In their observance Sunday. September 9, a 2-course dinner was served at 12 o’clock noon to - members of the immediate fam ‘ (continued on page 4) Mail Delivery Starts October 1 Acting Postmaster Thomas Sul livan announced Saturday that door-to-door mail delivery ser vice in O’Neill will begin on Oc tober 1. If you desire mail delivery to your street address, Sullivan ex plained, it is necessary that you apply at the postoffice for a change of address card. Fill out the card and leave it at the post office. It is also essential that you have your residential or business mail box erected in order to be included on the first door-to-door mail delivery. The carrier or carriers have not yet been named. But present post office employees will be desig nated. Two Persons Hurt in Truck-Car Smash— There was an automobile acci dent near the Danceland corner on Thursday afternoon. A passen ger car and a truck collided. Two persons were hurt, neith er seriously. Mrs. Chester Ander son, of Butte, suffered a back in jury, a cut on the forehead and a cut on a knee. Others in the car in which she was riding were her husband. Rev. Chester And erson, and her son, about 25, who was the driver. Driver of the truck was James Schneider, of Hastings, who suf fered a cut scalp. Both injured persons were treated by O’Neill doctors, but were not hospitaliz ed. Their cars were damaged. Stuart to Be Scene of Tourney— STUART — Supt. K. C. Paul and Coach Ted Schiessler went to Bassett Thursday evening, Sep tember 6, to attend the North Central Nebraska conference meeting. The basketball schedules were arranged and Stuart was chosen as host for the NCNC basketball tournament to be held in the spring, also the NCNC 1-act play contest. Return from Vacation — Mrs. Vivian Martin and son, Allen, and Mrs. Pat B. Watson spent the latter part of August vacationing in the Black Hills, S. D., Wyoming, and at Denver and Greeley, Colo. They visited Mrs. Martin’s sister, Mrs. Gertrude Easton, in Greeley. Mr. and Mrs John Grier, of Laurel, were Saturday evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Robertson. VIOLENT WIND ACCOMPANIES RAIN Early Morning Storm Knocks Out Phone, Power Circuits The O’Neill area was hit by a violent wind and rain storm about 2 o’clock Sunday morning. The wind managed to take out the tops of some trees in the res idential section here, did the same at Ewing and a number of large trees were blown over near Chambers. Officially, O’Neill received 2.21 inches of moisture. At Ewing the rainfall measured only about an inch: at Deloit, about three fourths of an inch. Consumers Public Power dis trict had plenty of nuisance trouble over the territory, prin cipally due to falling trees. In O'Neill, workmen Sunday were repairing a number of lines that were torn down. Trouble-shooters had to repair line troubles near the South Da kota-Nebraska line, in Atkinson, and east of O’Neill as far as Hart ington, Coleridge and Belden: southeast of here there was line trouble at Neligh and Norfolk. There was some rather serious trouble in the Osmond vicinity. Apparently the storm did not extend west beyond Atkinson. The Bell telephone company had storm problems in O’Neill. One cable became wet and anoth er cable was struck by lightning. This put 35 or 40 telephones out of commission temporarily in the city. The circuits between O’ Neill and Page and O’Neill and Chambers were out of order for a short time. There was more rainfall ai\p wind Tuesday night. Rain be gan falling about 10 o’clock. In termittent showers through the night netted 1.25 inches. The week’s weather summary, based on 24-hour periods ending at 6 p.m., daily, follows: Hi Lo Prec. September 5_ 68 53 .14 September 6 - 72 57 September 7 - 76 53 September 8 - 68 48 2.21 September 9_ 66 47 T September 10 - 79 59 September 11 - 74 55 1.25 Total ______ 3.60 Ducks Enjoy Swim in Ewing Streets— EWING—The town of Ewing is mopping up from the wind and rain storm damage done early Sunday. A large silver maple tree was I uprooted south of the home of [ Mrs. Grace Briggs. The John Archer and Charles Kruntarod families found it necessary to re move large broken branches be fore getting into their garages. At the J. B. Spittler residence, the sidewalks were blocked by broken branches. Almost every home in Ewing had a certain a mount of clean-up work to be done. A handful of ducks could be found swimming in one Ewing street a few hours after the storm. REA Lines Snapped Near Chambers— CHAMBERS—A hard wind and rain storm Saturday night did damage to many cornfields and trees in the Chambers locality. Trees which fell across the REA lines near the 5-mile comer broke the lines and the current was off all of the morning and part of Sunday afternoon. Over an inch of rain fell in some places. Royal Store Robbed Again ROYAL—The Cliff Rundquist store was broken into by burglars Tuesday n’ght, the second time this year. They escaped with loot amounting to more than one thou - sand dollars in value. The loot included shotguns, rifles, amunition cigarettes, ny- I Ions, clothing, cutlery, radios and $125 in cash. | The Antelope county sheriff was called to begin the investi gation. Royal townspeople found tracks in the alley behind the store. En trance was gained through the front door, exactly like burglars broke in this spring. 4-H'ers Make Good Showing at Fair — The Holt county 4 - H club members attending the state fair made a good showing for the co unty as well as witnessing the exposition. Most of the mem bers journeyed to Lincoln on Sunday, September 2, and return ed the following Friday. In the baby beef division, Miss Charlotte McVay, of O’N’eill, re ceived a blue ribbon with her steer and a red ribbon with a heifer. Mias McVay also won a blue ribbon for her livestock showmanship. * - Frontier for printing! —By John H. McCarvilie McCarvilie . . . new city golf champ.—The Frontier Engrav ing. ★ ★ ★ New City Golf Champ Crowned “Joltin’ Joe” McCarvilie, O’ Neill clothier, captured the 1951 O’Neill city golf championship by defeating M. J. Golden 4-3, Sunday afternoon on a water soaked course. The greens, nor mally a little fast, were slowed to a walk by the 2 inches of rain that fell.early Sunday morning. McCarvilie reached the finals by beating Ed Campbell, jr.. 2-1, in the semi-finals and Golden gained the top pair by eliminat ing H. J. Lohaus. also by the score of 2-1. In the consolations of the championship flight, De Witt downed A. P. Jaszkowiak, 2-1. Duke Kersenbrock captured first flight honors by pushing past Dale French 2-1. Consolation in the first flight was won by Dr. Harry Gildersleeve, who squeezed by Marv Miller 1 up on 19 holes. The second flight title is still to be decided as Amie Doerning has not been able to swap his crutches for a putter. He will meet John Watson. A1 Carroll bested Lawrence Haynes in the consolation. In the third flight, Short Hunt knocked over Bobby Carroll, 3-2. In recent years the city golf title has been evenly shared by Golden and Jaszkowiak. McCarville’s triumph ends the Golden-Jaszkowiak hold on the crown. Lad, 10, Killed Enroute from School DELOIT — Paul Jenkins, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Jen kins, who reside several miles east of the Park Center commu nity, was instantly killed late Monday enroute home from school. He and 2 other Park Center school pupils had received a lift from a motorist, Charles Fuller, of Elgin. When the children got out of the car, young Jenkins crossed the road to the family mail box. He was struck by a car driven by Allan Kennedy, a Bartlett rancher. The lad became Nebraska’s 218th highway fatality of the year as compared to 198 a year ago. The body was removed to El gin pending funeral arrange ments. Survivors include: Parents; sis ters, Kay, who teaches In Antel ope school district 97, and Joan, who is a junior in Elgin high school. The accident occurred o n ! highway 53 in Antelope county. Kennedy is reported to have driven on down the road before it occurred to him he had ctruck an object. The Antelope county attorney Wednesday said a coroner’s in quest will be held to determine if the death was accidental or it was caused by criminal neg ligence on the part of Kennedy. Presbyterian Women Witiness Film— A meeting of the Women’s as sociation of the Presbyterian church was held last Thursday. Mrs. George C. Robertson had charge of devotions. Mrs. Ralph Gerber showed a film, “Again Pioneers,” which is one of the latest films produced by the Protestant Film commission. The hostesses were the Mes dames Rov M. Sauers, Dorrance Crabb, Ralt>h Gerber. Arlo A. Hiatt and Helen Starlin. Hold Barbeque— Attending a picnic at the bar beque pit at the home of Mr. and Mrc Norman Medealf Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Allen Miller, of Clearwater, and Mr. and Mrs. ! Darrel Van Wey. of Elgin. “Voice of The Frontier” . . . Mon., Wed., Sat., WJAG, 9:45 a.m. NIOBRARA BASIN MEET MONDAY Nebraska Governor and Burdick’s Report to Be Heard Fifth annual meeting of the Ni obrara Basin Development asso ciation, chief proponent of irri gation and development of the Niobrara valley, will be held in O’Neill Monday. September 17. The O’Neill Chamber of Com merce will be hosts. The business meeting will be opened by President E. A. House, of Ainsworth, at 3 p.m. in the Holt county district courtroom The annual basin progress report will be made by Clyde E. Bur dick, of Ainsworth, area engineer for the bureau oif reclamation. Summary remarks will be made by A. A. Batson, of Denver, Colo., regional director of the bureau and a former Nebraskan. The business session will be closed with the election of offi cers. An evening banquet will be served at the American Legion auditorium at 7 p.m. Gov. Val Peterson will be the principal speaker. Members of the tentative Ne braska-in-the-making tour plan to attend the evening session. The tour is being sponsored by the Nebraska Reclamation associa tion and the group, perhaps 60 persons, will leave their special train at Broken Bow and come to O’Neill by car. Included in the tour will be: Michael J. Strauss, commissioner of the bureau of reclamation; William E. Warne, assistant secretary of the interior, and Chancellor R. G. Gustavson, of the University of Nebraska. More than 50,000 acres of irri gable land adjoin the city of O’ Neill, which has an enviable location with regard to irriga tion development. All landowners in the irri gable area as well as business men are urged to attend the meeting, according to James W. Rooney, Chamber secretary. The association was organized in 1946 for the purpose of pro moting the reclamation of the Niobrara basin. Through the as sociation’s efforts, the bureau of reclamation. U.S. army corps of engineers, and other federal and state agencies have made studies and surveys of the basin to de termine the feasibility of irriga tion. These surveys and studies are now completed and the bureau of reclamation’s final report will soon be submitted to their region al office at Denver, Colo., and to Washington for consideration and action. It has been determined that there are approximately 150,000 acres of irrigable land in the Niobrara basin and potential power as a result of the devel opment will greatly contribute to the needs of this state. The national park service rec ognizes the many recreational potentialities of the basin. The existing scenic streams and lakes of the basin will be supplemented with man-made reservoirs. Irri gation will provide the greatest beef producing area in the nation with a more stable feed supply and open avenues for industry. DRAFT CALL UPPED The Holt county selective ser vice board reports that the Oct ober draft requirement for the county has been increased from 11 to 14. Frontier for printing ! ■f RECEIVES DIPLOMA . . . Miss Rosalvn Bosn. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bosn, of O’ Neill. graduated from St. Eliza beth's school of nursing. Lin coln, on August 30. She has also passed the state board examin ations and is now a registered nurse. — The Frontier Engrav ing. Lease Holders I Hoppin’ Mad Young French Farmer Leaves Jean Radisson, 23, a young French farmer whose home is at Villeneuve. southeast France. Friday terminated a 3-months’ stay at the Robert Summerer place, 21 miles south and 3 miles east of O’Neill. He has been in the U.S. on an agricultural study trip and after visiting over the weekend at the Nebraska state faff, he was sched uled to go to Michigan State col lege to enroll. He has ^ scholar ship made possible under the Marshall plan. Radisson's home is on a plain at the foothills of the Alps moun tains. His mother and a brother own small farms. The young Frenchman attended the national agricultural school of France and he speaks very good English. He was particularly impressed by the mechanization on the Am erican farms and ranches. He ad mitted the Holt county units were “vaster and larger” than he ever dreamed. High cost of fuel, because virtually all of it is imported, prohibits extensive use of power machinery in France. Radisson had lavish praise for the U.S. Marshall plan and the “miracle” it is performing. He believes the communists are losing ground daily in France and his own government is con siderably more stable than it was the months after World War II. C of C Votes 4 Meetings Per Year The Chamber of Commerce in session Tuesday noon at the Town House voted to abandon monthly meetings in favor of 4 meetings a year — March, May, September and November. Routine business during the in tervals will be conducted by the board of directors. It was also de cided to hold evening meetings with special entertainment. The move is intended to increase C ol C attendance. Fifty-three firms already have joined the Chamber for the 1951 ’52 year, according to Secretary James W. Rooney. College Set Leaves for Various,Schools Among those attending colleges and universities for the 1951-’52 term are; Creighton university, Omaha John O’Neill, Edward McCarthy, Pat Hickey, Francis Flood, Mor ris Howard, John Joe Uhl, Tom Harty, Jack Carney, William Froelich. Creighton graduate school: Allen Martin. Creighton medical school: Rob ert Wallace. Nebraska Wesleyan, Lincoln: James Bridges, Guy Harris, Phil lis Seger, Donna Crabb. Wayne State college, Wayne: Darrell Weingai tner, Claude Cole, Ted Lindberg. St. M ar y ’ s college, Xavier, Kans.: Nancy Beha, Lorraine Si monson, Bernadette Hynes. Duchesne college, Omaha: Bar barba Birmingham, Marde Birm ingham, Nnncv Froelich. University of Nebraska, Lin coln: Paul Moseman, John Beri gan. Briarcliff college, Sioux City: Gayle Widtfeldt. Colorado university, Boulder, Colo.: Joann Burgess. Hastings college, Hastings: Lois Harder. Kemper Military school, Boon ville, Mo.: Don Petersen. St. Catherine’s school of nurs ing. Omaha: Mary Lois Kelly. Electronic Radio Television Jn s itute, Omaha: Patricia Bren nan. EDUCATIONAL NOTES The off-campus art class from the University of Nebraska will start September 15. You may reg ister for art 21 oc, methods; art 22 oc, methods continued or art 30 oc, art orientation. Each course is 2 or 3 hours. Holt coun ty institute will be held Septem ber 21. All rural schools will be closed so vour teacher may attend this meeting. — By Alice L. French, county superintendent. To Black Hills— Mr. and Mrs. George Robert son spent last weekend in the Black Hills. At Rapid City they visited their daughter. Mrs. R. P. Orth, and family. Take Dim View of Sales Being Ordered t Holt county school land lease holders are irritated—like hun dreds of others throughout the state. They take a dim view of put ting the leases on the auction block under present circumstanc es. The fuss has come since the Nebraska supreme court recent ly held as unconstitutional the statute which gave the current leasee the absolute right to re new the lease at the expiration of the old term. The statute in question was amended by the 1947 legislature. C. D. Greene, of Sidney, for mer state senator and now secre tary of the Nebraska School Land Leaseholders’ association, was in O'Neill Wednesday. Holt county has an association that was founded in 1947. Ira C. Watson, of Inman, is president; James W. Rooney, of O’Neill, secretary; Guy F. Cole, of Em met, director. Other original directors were Frank Nelson, state senator who resigned the lease job, and the late J. B. Ryan, of O’Neill. Greene declared that lease sales now are being advertised as fol lows: Cheyenne county, 10; Duel, 7; Kimball, 10; Scottsbluff, 7. He estimates that Holt county land will not be sold, under present plans, until early in 1952. There are approximately 2,400 sections in Nebraska to be sold. Greene is quite bitter about the whole thing and labels the results a "black market deal." He points out that if eastern Nebraska counties had never sold their school land the normal an ! nual revenue today from all I school lands in the state would I amount to what is presently in the permanent school fund. As it is, revenue from sand hills school land, for example, s helping maintain eastern Ne braska schools. There are 192 Holt county leaseholders with 12-year agree ments written since 1948 whose school land will be auctioned un der the present plan. There are 15 holders with 25-year leases. The question is a vital one be cause 1n many instances the lease holders have built improvements on the sections. If sold, the value of the improvements will be put before an appraisal committee. Furthermore, the sections may be sold piecemeal as attemped last week near Big Springs. Legion, Aux Meet Slated on Monday ATKINSON — The annual dis trict II convention of the Ameri can Legion and auxiliary will convene in Atkinson for an all day session on Monday, Septem ber 17, Fariey-Tushla post and auxiliary will be host. For the legionnaires sessions will be held at the Miller theater, for the auxiliary, the meeing will be held at the Methodist church basement. At 4:0 p.m., the Legion and auxiliary will mass for a pa rade. A barbeque and floor show are scheduled for 6.:30 p.m. in the Crystal ballroom. Mrs. Noble Honored by OES— Mrs. Seth Noble, who has been a member of the Order of East ern Star for more than 50 years, will be honored by Symphony chapter at a dinner and at the regular meeting of the chapter tonight (Thursday). The dinner will be given at the Town House. The Atkinson chapter has been invited to attend. Mrs. Noble was a former member of the OES there. Her original membership was held in the Plankinton, S. D„ chapter in 1898. Ewing People Back from Rochester— EWING—Mr. and Mrs. Benja min Larson returned home from Rochester. Minn., on Sunday where they had spent the past 3 •weeks while Mrs. Larson was un der medical care at the Mayo hos pital. During their absence her mother, Mrs. Matilda Lee, who makes her home with them, was cared for by the Misses Ann and Tressa Bauer. Plan Card Shower for Donna Mae— Miss Donna Mae Fuhrer, well known O’Neill polio victim, who has been paralyzed since she was 7, wrill observe her 19th birthday anniversary September 19. The Alpha club, which met Wednesday at Mrs. Aaron Bosh art’s, decided to sponsor a card shower for Donna Mae.