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VOLUME 71.—NUMBER 19. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951. " ~ PRICE 7 CENTS
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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
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^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
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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.
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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.
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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.