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VOLUME 71.—NUMBER 22. O'NEILL. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1951. " PRICE 7 CENTS
—The Frontier Photo & Engraving
Melvin Ruzicka (left), O’Neill merchant, receives mail at the
Coyne hardware store from Jerry Spittler, new carrier in the bus
iness district. It was the first day for door-to-door delivery.
INAUGURATE MAIL
DELIVERY HERE
5 Mail Boxes Throughout
City a Convenience
to Patrons
History was written here this
week in the annals of the O’Neill
* postoffice.
Door-to-door mail delivery was
inaugurated and 5 widely-dis
tributed boxes for mail pickup
were put in operation. The ex
panded service began Monday,
October 1.
Under the new plan 2 mail car
riers depart from the postoffice
about 9 a.m. One carrier, John
Hynes, works a door-to-door route
west of Fourth street, including
the northwest and southwest sec
tions of the city. The other car
rier, Jerry Spittler, departing at
the same time, covers the busi
ness district and a portion of the
residential area on Douglas
street.
At 1 p.m., Hynes will leave the
postoffice to service patrons east
of Fourth street—the northeast
-> and southeast sections.
After details have been
ironed out, Spittler will return
from his route in time to make
parcel post deliveries through
out the city.
Assistant Postmaster Harold E.
Weier said it is hoped the parcel
post deliveries will be completed
before noon.
With carriers working the out
lying sections of the city it is j
possible also to inaugurate “pick- !
up” boxes. These are placed at
the following locations: Fourth I
and Douglas (Golden hotel),;
Fourth and Everett (Moore hotel'.
Seventh and Everett (Tim Har
rington corner). Seventh and
Fremont (Neighborhood grocery
* comer), and Madison and Doug
las (south of New Deal Oil com
pany).
“Pickup” boxes at the Golden
and Moore hotel corners are ex
pected to be permanent. The
others are temporary and may be
switched according to the car
riers’ load. Two of these will also j
serve as relay boxes. This means
that a vehicle will take the mail j
to that point from where the car
riers will distribute it.
Acting Postmaster Thomas
E. Sullivan explained that post
office procedure requires that
persons wanting door-to-door
service file a change-of-address
card at the postoffice. These
are available upon request.
“This is essential,” he contin
ued, “because this mail is made
up by address, not by name, and
t there will be delays if mail is
not properly addressed.
“Anyone wanting door-to-door
delivery, in residential or busi
ness sections, should file this card
at their very earliest conven
ience,” he added.
The Frontier, and other publi
cations, will have to have the
proper street address of persons
wanting their paper delivered by
postal carrier. Change of address
cards for this purpose also are
available upon request at the
postoffice.
‘Freedom Crusade’
Coming Tuesday
“The Crusade for Freedom" mo
torcade will visit O’Neill, Tues
day, October 9, sometime in the
afternoon.
The time for arrival and rally
have not been definitely es
tablished.
* Lohaus Motor Company (the
Ford dealer and Midwest Motor
Co., Ltd., (the Chevrolet dealer)
are working together to bring the
program to O’Neill.
“Help our nation bring the
truth to those behind the iron
curtain,” urged O’Neill’s mayor,
J. E. Davis. ‘‘Enroll today to fight
communism here and abroad.”
Grutsch Is Civil
Defense Director
John Grutsch, Holt county serv
ice officer, last week was ap
pointed civil defense director for
the county.
Appointment was made by the
county board. Seventy-two other
counties have directors.
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—The Frontier Engraving
John Hynet . . . daily resi
dential visitor.—O’Neill Photo
Co.
OMAHA HEARING
TODAY ON LEASES
Probst’s Injunction Suit
To Be Heard by 3
Federal Judges
(See legal notice on page 7.)
Today (Thursday) will be an
important day for all state school
land leaseholders. A panel of 3
federal district judges, sitting at
Omaha, will hear an injunction
suit against the state board of
educational lands and funds.
The panel of the 3 judges will
convene at 10 a.m. in the postof
fice building. It had been pre
viously announced the hearing
would be held in Lincoln.
William Probst, holder of a
lease on state - owned school
land in Perkins county, is ask
ing a court order barring the
state board from auctioning
the leases on the school land.
Twenty-one Holt county school
land leases are scheduled for the
auction block within about 10
days. Thus, the outcome of to
day’s hearing in Omaha is of vi
tal concern to Holt countyans.
There are 166 Holt county indi
viduals holding school land leas
es which have been renewed on
a 12-year basis since 1947. The
state’s breaking of the leases,
result of a recent supreme court
ruling that a 1947 Nebraska law
is invalid, is the basis for the in
junction order being sought be
fore the panel of federal judges.
Officials of the Holt county as
sociation met Monday evening in
O’Neill. The Holt group has not
yet filed a legal action but will
back, morally and financially, the
Probst suit.
Meanwhile, lease sales in Holt
county are scheduled as follows:
October 12—SW14 16-30-16, Joy
Greenfield, Stuart; SE!4 16-30
16, Vernon Heyne, Stuart: E%
SWy4 16-29-13, Walter Welsh,
Emmet: SWy.SWy4 16-29-13,
Wm. O’Connor, Emmet; E'aSW1^,
SWy4SEy4 36-31-12, Leo Burival,
O’Neill; NW%NE'/4 36-31-12,
John Claussen, O’Neill; NE'/t
NEy4 36-31-12, John Claussen,
O’Neill; SWy4. S%SE% 36-25-11,
Roy & Ross Rees, Ewing; N%,
NVzSEVi 36-25-11, Roy & Ross
Rees, Ewing.
October 13—NEy4NEy4, SWVi
NEV4, NEl4NWV4, 16-25-9, How
ard Daniels, Ewing; NWy4NEVi,
SEy4NEy4 16-25-9, Howard Dan
iels, Ewing; NVfeSWVi, SWV4
SWy4 16-25-9, Fred Forslund,
Ewing; all 16-28-12, D. C. Schaf
fer, O’Neill.
October 15 — SWV4 36-32-10,
Edw. Carson, Redbird; NWVi 36
32-10, C. L. & W. L. Brady, Dorsey?
all 16-29-9, Hester Edmisten,
Middlebranch & Lydia Backers,
North Platte; all 16-32-14, Edna
Hendricks, Atkinson; NEy4SEy4
36-27-9, Nellie Connor, Ewing;
SWy4 36-27-9, Francis Tomjack,
Ewing: Sy>SEy4 36-27-9, Geo.
Montgomery, Ewing, NWy4SE!4
36-27-9, Howard Montgomery,
Ewing.
Visit Bruder Home
in Atkinson—
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Janzing
and family were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Bruder, of At
kinson on Sunday. They also
stopped at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Janzing.
JOHN KELLAR, 79,
DIES IN MICHIGAN
Rites for Chambers
Pioneer Held
Monday
CHAMBERS—John Kellar, 79,
a pioneer resident in the Cham
bers locality, died Wednesday,
| September 26, in Flint, Mich.,
! where he was visiting his son,
j Bernard. He died in a hospital.
The body reached O’Neill ear
ly Saturday where it lay in
state at Biglin Bros.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Monday, October 1, at the
Methodist church in Chambers
with Rev. Ralph Gerber, pastor
of the O’Neill Presbyterian
church, officiating. He was as
sisted by Rev. L. R. Hansberry,
pastor of the Chambers Metho
dist church.
A quartette composed of Er
[ nest Farrier, Stanley Lambert,
Mrs. C. V. Robertson and Mrs.
j Ed Eisenharuer, with Mrs. Lela
Corcoran as pianist, furnished the
music. Pallbearers were Louis
Harley, William Turner, II. B.
Hubbard, Robert Gartner, Glen
Adams and Kenneth Adams.
John Kellar, son of John S.
and Anna E. Kellar, was born
at Peoria. 111., February 1,
1872. He resided there until
the spring of 1883, when the
family moved to Holt county.
He was married October 2b.
1898, to Luella Mae Fluckey.
In the spring of 1894 he and his
wife moved to Peoria, 111., where
they lived until 1904 when they
returned to Chambers.
To this union 4 children were
born: Sons— Orville, of Cham
bers; Bernard, of Flint, Mich.;
Lois, of Whittier, Calif., and Vi
ola, who preceded her father in
death in 1942.
Early in life he joined the
Presbyterian church and was a
member at the time of his death.
His wife passed away Decem
ber 14, 1937, after an illness of
several months.
He was married June 22, 1939,
to Etta L. Cooke, of Chambers.
Survivors include: Widow —
Etta; sons—Orville and Bernard;
daughter—Lois; 3 grandchildren
—John Bernard Kellar, jr.. Pat
sy Coleen Kellar and Sharon Lee
Catlett; sister—Mrs. Bertha Do
herty, of Lincoln.
Relatives from a distance at
tending the funeral were: Ev
erett Cooke and Mrs. Howard
Jenkins, of Springfield, Ore ;
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Hanna, ol
Roseburg, Ore.; Bernard Kellar
and daughter. Pat, and son. Jack,
of Flint, Mich.; Mrs. Wayne
Catlett, of Whittier, Calif.; Mrs.
George Ressell, of Oklahoma Ci
ty, Okla.; Mrs. Bertha Doherty
and Mrs. Floyd Anderson, of
Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. Basil And
erson and children, of Columbus;
Will Blake and Mr. and Mrs.
Green, of Burwell; Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Edwards and Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Edwards, of Cush
ing; Donald Gibson, of the air
force; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cooke,
of Bartlett; Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Adams, of Atkinson; Mr. and
Mrs. Arlo Hiatt, Miss Ruth Hoff
man, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murray
and Mrs. C. M. Eason, all of
O’Neill.
'Sing' Will Be
Held Here—
There will be a "sing” held
Friday, October 5, at 1 p.m., at
the O’Neill public school, it was
explained this week by Miss Alice
L. French, Holt county superin
tendent of public instruction.
Mrs. Walters will have charge of
the lower grades and Mr. Welsh
will be in charge of the upper
grades.
Teachers must accompany pu
pils, but attendance is not re
quired. This will count as school.
Mrs. Fred Heerman and Mrs.
Dora Doyle spent the weekend
visiting relatives at Brocksburg.
Mabel Gat* (left) and Winnie Barger, new —The Frontier Photo A EngrAving
owners of the Apparel Shop, a fashion center . . . they need no introduction to O'Neillites.
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New Ownership
for Apparel Shop
The Apparel Shop, ladies’ fash
ion store near the corner of Fifth
and Douglas streets, Monday
went into the hands of new own
ers.
They are Mabel Gatz and Win
nie Barger, who are well-known
in O’Neill.
The former owners, Miss Ruth
Case and Mrs. W. A. Doering,
announced they had made the
sale because distances were too
great between the 3 Doering
stores—O’Neill, Scottsbluff and
Albion.
Miss Case and the late Mr.
Doering established the O’Neill
store in 1947. The Scottsbluff
store was added only a week be
fore Mr. Doering’s sudden death
in June due to a heart ail
ment. Miss Case, meanwhile, had
gone from O’Neill to Scottsbluff
to manage the store there. Mrs.
Doering is operating the Albion
store. The Doerings have lived in
Albion for a number of years.
The new owners say they will
strive to carry on the Apparel
Shop's tradition—“a shop of fine
fashions.”
Miss Case and Mrs. Doering
spent 3 days in O’Neill this week
winding up their affairs.
Congressman Stefan
Dies Unexpectedly
Karl Stefan, Nebraska’s Third
congressional district representa
tive since 1935, died at George
Washington university hospital in
the nation’s capitol on Tuesday,
October 26.
He felt rundown after a long
seige of virus influenza.
Holt county was included in
Stefan’s district until the redis
tricting which followed the 1940
census. At that time Holt was
switched to the Fourth district.
Survivors include: Widow; son
—Dr. Karl, of Portland, Ore.;
daughter—Mrs. Robert Askren, of
Chicago, II.; brother—Dr. William
Stefan, Omaha; 2 grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were
not completed Wednesday.
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—The Frontier Engraving
Verne Grenier, jr„ 5 . . .
might have been fatally burned.
BOY, 5, TUMBLES
INTO HOT WATER
Verne Grenier, jr., 5, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Verne Grenier, sr.,
is in University hospital, Omaha,
recovering from first and second
degree burns suffered about 7:45
p.m. Saturday at his home here.
His father was preparing a bath
for his son and had poured scald
ing water into a tub on the floor.
While the father war. getting cold
water, the child tumbled back
ward into the tub.
He was severely burned on
the back from his shoulders to
his knees. One hand also was
burned when the child attempt
ed to get out of the tub. He
was not burned on the face.
Dr. J. P. Brown administered
first aid and the boy was rushed
to the Omaha hospital'.
Little Verne had begun school
3 weeks ago. He is a member of
the kindergarten it O’Neill pub
lic school.
Hospital attendants late Tues
day reported that no blood trans
fusions were believed necessary.
The board of directors of the Holt County
School Land Leaseholders maps plans to fight
lease auctions. Seated—James W. Rooney, secre
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tary-treasurer; Ira C. Watson, i,president; Guy
F. Cole and Floyd Whitaker, directors; standing—
John Dick and Dr. H. L. Bennett, directors.
Treasurer Files
Answer to Suit
Holt county’s treasurer, J. Ed
Hancock, the nominal defendant
in a law suit started by Charley
W. Peterson, Atkinson rancher,
has filed his answer in Holt
county district court.
In short, he admits most of
Peterson's charges and allega
tions and frankly asks the
court to tell him whal to do.
In stating his position in the
answer, Hancock said he was per
forming his duties under Ne
braska statute law relating to the
collection of public revenue, and,
in accordance with the order of
the county superintendent of
public instruction, has paid and
will continue to pay returns de
rived from the levies of the tax
authorized by said statutes.
Crux of the suit is a test to de
termine the validity of the 1949
4-mill “blanket” tax law, adopt
ed by the Nebraska legislature.
The law authorizes treasurers
to collect a 4-mill school tax on
real estate and personal property.
Peterson, who is a substantial
property owner in rural school
district 231, said in his petition
that his property in that district
was valued at $235,995 and that
the 4 - mill tax amounted to
$943.98.
He paid the other taxes, leav
ing the $943.98 balance. He then
asked the court to restrain the
treasurer from collecting the bal
ance. Peterson charges the 4-mill
tax is “not levied uniformly and
proportionately” and the law
“provides for a 4-mill levy with
out regard to the needs of the
district."
(Continued on page 4.)
Holt 4-H’ers Rank
High at Ak-Sar-Ben
Holt county 4-H clubbers and
their livestock entries made a
good account of themselves at the
Ak-Sar-Ben.
Five head of livestock were en
tered with the folowing results:
Charlotte McVay, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clare McVay, of
O’Neill—Hereford heifer, 3d blue
ribbon (6th in class of nearly 50
entries); Hereford steer, 1st blue
ribbon (3d in class of 70 steers).
Don and Diane Hoffman, son
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Hoffman, of Chambers —
Hereford steer, red ribbon.
Bobby Beelart, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Beelart, of Page—
Hereford steer—red ribbon, high
in class.
Charlotte McVay was invited to
compete for showmanship honors.
Charlotte wron a purple in the
baby beef show at the Holt
county fair at Chambers and a
blue at the state fair in Lincoln.
She also won a top purple award j
at the tri-county fair at Stuart.
Holt county was well repre
sented with 4-H’ers and adults at
the 1951 Ak.
Other Ak-Sar-Ben winners in
the region were;
Curtis Nelson, of Bristow (Boyd
county)—Hereford steer, red rib
bon.
Eberhart children, of Bassett
(Rock county)—Herefords, 2 reds
and a white.
PAUL MONTGOMERY
KILLED IN CRASH
Former Hardwareman Here
Dies in Oregon When
Truck Hits Ditch
Paul F. Montgomery, 45, of
Baker, Ore., former O’Neill hard
wareman and husband of the for
mer Doretha Grady, died instant
ly Thursday, September 27, in a
truck accident near Baker, Ore.
Mr. Montgomery had stopped a
truck he was driving to discharge
a passenger. He resumed his trip
over rough highway, the machine
left the road and plunged into a
ditch. The driver was thrown
free of the machine.
His brother, Francis, O'Neill
hardware merchant, was in a
passenger car ahead of the
truck. He did not witness the
accident. But the discharged
passenger, a man for whom
Montgomery's crew had been
doing some work, saw the ma
chine leave the road.
Further details are not known
here.
Funeral services were con
ducted Monday, October 1, at
Baker and burial was made there.
The late Mr. Montgomery was
born at Creighton. He attended
school there and at Ohio state
university and Armour Tech,
Chicago, 111., where he was trained
as a civil engineer. He spent more
than a year in engineering in Co
lombia, South America.
The late Mr. Montgomery help
ed found the Montgomery hard
ware stores in O’Neill and
Creighton, coming here in the
spring of 1933.
In 1935 he married Miss Dor
ehta Grady, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. D. Grady.
Leaving O'Neil he went to
Baker where he resumed engi
neering in the construction
field.
Survivors include: Widow —
Doretha; daughters—Mary Claire,
8, and Julia Ann, 5; brother—
Francis, of O’Neill; sister—Miss
Kathleen, of Ainsworth.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Grady de^
parted early Friday for Baker to
atend the funeral rites. Francis
Montgomery remained there for
the services.
George L. Lines,
Inman, Succumbs
INMAN—Funeral services were
conducted at 2 p.m., Wednesday,
October 3, for George Leonard
Lines, 88, retired former, who
died abut 3:30 n,m., Monday, Oc
tober 1, at the home of his son,
Dana Lines, 2 miles south and 2
miles west of Inman.
He had not been seriously ill
and had been active up until
the time of his death.
Rev. C. C. Chappell officiated in
the rites at the Methodist church
here. Burial was in the Inman
cemetery under the direction of
Biglin Bros.
Pallbearers were James Kelly.
William Kelly, Harvey Harte, Er
nest Brunekhorst, George Harold
and Charles Young.
The late Mr Lines was bom at
Auburn, N. Y., on March 23, 1863.
a son of Levi and Sarah Burton
Lines. On March 13, 1896, he wag
married to Belle May Nicewanner
at Ainsworth, and he came to
Holt county from near Sprin
gview in 1899.
Mr. Lines farmed and ranched
in the Inman locality for many
years, retiring 5 years ago.
Survivors include; Widow —
Belle May; son—Dana Earl Lines;
daughter—Mrs. Alma Ross, both
of Inman; 10 grandchildren; 5
great-grandchildren 2 nieces.
One son, Lloyd, died 55 years
ago, at the age of 2, and a daugh
ter, Mrs. Ethel Stevens, died in
1940.
Gets Transfer
Meets Holt Men—
Pvt. Lyle C. McKim, jr., has
been transferred from Aberdeen
Proving Grounds, Md., to Atlanta,
Ga., where he will attend schooL
Hadold Pribil, son of Mr. arid Mrs.
Jacob Pribil, of O’Neill, was trans
ferred with him.
Among Holt county men Lyle
has encountered at Atlanta are:
James Coker, of O’Neill; Frank
Soukup, of O’Neill; Dale Mlinar,
of Atkinson, and Eugene Kaup, of
Stuart.
5,518 LICENSES, ISSUED
The Holt county treasurer’s of
fice has renewed 5,518 motor ve
hicle licenses since the old li
cense expired eptember 1. Oper
ators will have to take a test to
be eligible for a license if not ap
plied for before October 30.
Mrs. Martin Feted—
A birthday dinner was held at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Hickey in honor of Mrs. Hickey’s
mother, Mrs. Irene Martin.