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VOLUME 71.—NUMBER 25. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1951. PRICE: 7 CENTS
— The frontier Ehoto Engraving
SNOW QUICKLY DISAPPEARS . . . North-Nebraskans awaken
ed Monday morning to find a gorgeous wintertime picture outside
each window. Snow had begun falling late Sunday night, melted
for a time, then turned to ice and snow. By noon Monday the
-snow had disappeared. The snowfall was not the season's first.
Early Thursday morning rain turned to snow but melted upon
reaching the ground. Above scene was taken on Benton street.
—Photo by John H. McCarville.
Detours Bog
Mail Delivery
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Star Route Carrier on
Winner Run Want*
4 to Quit
Virtually impassable road con
ditions, principally on 2 detours
between O’Neill and Spencer,
are bogging down the O’Neill-to
Winner, S. D., star route mail
truck.
And the disgusted carrier, Don
Martin, of O’Neill, has told pos
tal authorities he wants to quit.
Martin won a contract for haul
ing the mail between the 2 ter
minals and servicing towns of
Spencer, Butte, Herrick, Fairfax,
Bonesteel, Gregory and Colome
when the Norfolk-Winner train
service was discontinued a few
weeks ago.
But Martin says he didn't
^Tealize the condition of U.S.
highway 281, north of O'Neill.
He says that he is due out of
O'Neill around 8 a.m., after re
ceiving mail from the Omaha
Rapid City train here. He has
a connection to make at Spen
cer with another route, which
services points east of Spencer,
including Bristow, Lynch, Nio
brara. Verdigre, Verdel and
Creighton.
Frequently he has missed the
connections because of the job of
rolling his big tractor-trailer out
fit through the quagmire between
O’Neill and Spencer. This delays
mail a day to the points east of
Spencer.
The present schedule calls for
arrival at Winner around 1 pjm.
and departure around 5, reaching
O’Neill on the return about 10
jp.m. Several times the return
vrip has b*en delayed so that Mar
tin has missed the eastbound
Rapid City-Ounaha train, due out
of here at 12:20 a.m the next
morning.
“Worst place is the detour be
tween Eagle creek and the Nio
brara river. It’s an improvised
road alongside the main roadway.
The stretch of detour is about 2^
miles long and I’ve spent as much
as 5 hours getting through it.
“Another detour, south of Mid
way, is about as bad. The de
tour extends from Midway west
a mile, south 5, then east again
to 281. I’ve been stuck the e.
"Still another detour is be
tween Spencer and Butte where
they're going to put down
some blacktop. Right now it's
clay and it's a headache.'"
“Once I didn’t get. hack to O’
Neill from Winner until 2 o’clock
the next (morning.”
~ Martin said he had confidence
the roads would be better main
tained and provisions made to
keep traffic rolling even while
under construction at the time
he signed the contract.
“But I can’t battle those con
ditions and keep the people hap
py up and down the line. They
want their (mail—and on time—
and it’s impossible the way things
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Martin said, “Today’s my last
trip. I’ve told authorities I can t
hack it and I want out—unless
some altogether new arrange
ments are made.”
At the time Martin was the suc
cessful bidder there were a half
dozen other carriers interested,
.including several from O’Neill
and Norfolk.
\ The Frontier . . . $2.50 in Nebr.
MRS. NEWHOUSE, 85,
DIES AT CHAMBERS
CHAMBERS—Mrs. Clara New
house, 85, died Sunday, October
21, at her home in Chambers.
She had been ill 12 months.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday, October 24, at
the Baptist church in Chambers.
Burial was in the Chambers cem
etpry under the direction of Big
lin Bros.
Pallbearers were Chet Fees, sr.,
Arthur Walter, Dwayne Miller,
Herman Holcomb, Wilson Smith
and Charles Grimes.
The late Mrs. Newhouse was
bom at Jackson, Minn., on Au
gust 16, 1866, a daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hinch
liffe. They became the parents;
of 5 children.
Mrs. Newhouse and her fami
ly came to Holt county from
Bellmont, S.D., in 1912.
Survivors include: Sons— T. E.
Newhouse, of Chambers; Bernard
Newhouse, of Bend, Ore.; James
Newhouse, of Yakima. Wash.;
daughters—Mrs. Tessie Holcomb,
of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs.
Gara Layton, also of Los Ange
les.
Stuart Postmaster,
W. J. Holliday, Dies
STUART—W. J. Holliday, post
master at Stuart, died Saturday
evening, October 20, in the Vet
erans hospital at Grand Island.
He had been in “poor health”
for over a year.
Mr. Holliday was a veteran of
World War I.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Daisey Gardner, and
a son, Don, who is with the air
force at Scott Field, 111.; 3 sis
ters and 1 brother.
Funeral services were con
ducted Wednesday, October 24,
at 2 p.m. at the Stuart Com
munity church.
The late Mr. Holliday was born
April 7, 1893, at Broken Bow, a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Holliday.
Hp came to Stuart in 1923
where he operated a tailor shop
for a number of years. In 1935
he received his appointment as
postmaster, a position he held
until his death.
Kaycees Will Pray
for World Peace
A statewide rosary for world
peace will be recited Monday
evening by members of the
Knights of Columbus. The rosary
will be said at St. Patrick’s
Catholic church, conducted by
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
council.
Plans for the rosary were made
at a recent meeting of the state
officers in Grand Island. Each
council in the state has been ask
ed to sponsor the recitation ot the
rosary in its parish church.
State officers decided on a time
nearest to 7:30 p.m. in order to
have the recitation at the same
time throughout the state.
Frontier for printing.
Burke, McCarthy, Sullivan & O’Troshynski, Inc.
Holt Gals in Big
Town Have Whale
of a Time
BR-R-R-ING: The phone’s
ringing at 4612 Bedford (a ve
ry busy line) and a lilting voice
answers, “Burke, McCarthy, Sul
livan and O’Troshynski.”
No, it isn’t an advertising firm
nor is it a law office . . . but it
is one of the best corporations in
Omaha. That announcement, with
its ring of Erin, is the way 4 Om
aha telephone girls answer the
telephone at the apartment they
share.
Thus began an illustrated sto
ry in the October issue of the
Northwestern Bell, a house or
gan published by the telephone
company.
It would be difficult to find a
more engaging, amiable, full-of
fun and cooperative foursome
than Marguerite (Maggie) Burke,
Beverly (Bev) McCarthy, Ger
trude (Sully) Sullivan and Rita
Troshynski . . . the prefix “O” is
O.K. for Rita who explains, “I’m
half Irish you know.”
Living under the same roof is
n't their only tie. All in their
twenties, the girls also work un
der the same roof. Bev, Maggie
and Rita are operators and Sully
is a service assistant. “When
we’re all together, or even just
2 of us, we spend a lot of time
talking about our jobs.” Although
the girls work different hours,
they usually have the same Sun
day “off."
“Sully has the most telephone
service” and with that, they tell
how their corporation came a
bout. In 1945, after a year as a
school marm, Sully started work
ing in the O’Neill telephone of
fice. Two years later, Bev joined
the “family” and in a couple of
weeks, Rita came from nearby
Atkinson to complete the trio
which later transferred to Oma
ha.
Rita and Sully came in 195U
and Bev in January, 1951. That’s
when Maggie, who had worked
in the Omaha toll office since
1949, rounded out the foursome.
They moved into the attractive
3-room apartment on the second
floor of the brick home owned by
Maggie’s mother. (Mrs. Burke
and Maggie’s brother and sister
live downstairs.)
It’s a cozy, home-like apart
ment with ample space for the
girls. “Well, we are a bit crowd
ed for clothes closet space but
we get along fine on that, too.’’
Everything looks very new and
shines with good housekeeping!
The living room is a popular
spot when the girls want to con
centrate on music (their record
selections range from classical to
popular with an album of Irish
dances taking a special place).
The colorful drapes were whisk
ed up in a hurry by Rita before
these pictures were taken —
“We’ve been planning on getting
some and just didn’t get to it.”
Their favorite room is the great
kitchen, a-gleam with white por
celain stove, refrigerator, cup
boards and work table. It serves
us the dining room and a gener
al community center. "We enter
tain our guests out here” and it’s
no wonder, there’s so much
space, and so pleasantly inform
al.
Sleeping accommodations are
solved very conveniently. The
first two to retire get the bed in
the one bedroom, the late comers
sleep on the davenport-bed in
the living room. “It’s fun — we
never know in advance where
we’ll be sleeping.”
And the back yard doesn’t go
to waste! Complete with picnic
table, benches, lounge chairs and
outdoor fireplace, it’s a perfect
spot for their leisure hours and
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they add, “Steak frys are a
grand way to entertain our
friends.”
Believe it or not, the girls have
never had a disagreement. There
is a good deal of pleasant ban
tering (each one has a delightful
sense of humor) but never ' any
bickering or friction. With their
happy dispositions and good
sense, they combine fun with
proper seriousness and good
judgment.
Finances could be a bug-a-boo
but not for these girls. Whoever
has time does the shopping (that’s
true of cleaning the apartment,
doing the laundry, ironing, cook
ing and everything). It’s a team
work proposition, and no one has
any assigned duties—they just
do it. When a purchase is made
for the household, the girl who
spent the money signs the sales
slip and puts it in “kitty” — a
cute pottery choo-choo train.
Once a month at a financial ses
sion, expenses are straightened
out. (One item in the account
book reads, “budget book—29c.)
Rita, Bev, Maggie and Sullie
pay a lot of attention to good
well - chosen — mostly tailored
grooming. Their wardrobes are
suits, dresses, skirts and blouses,
and of course the inevitable
jears—their favorite “at home’’ j
attire. The girls always look
trim and smart. And their hair—
talk about a “crowning glory”—
they have it! Sully, a blue-eyed
colleen, has dark, sniny hair; Ri
ta, lovely light brown tresses;
Maggie is brunette and Bev, a
golden-red head. In usual team
work style, they assist one an
other on shampoos and pm curls.
A most persistent little guy,
Dan Cupid is doing his best to
break up the corporation. One of
these days he’ll win, but in the
hearts of the girls, there’ll always
be a Burke, McCarthy, Sullivan
and O’Troshynski, Inc.
Car, Truck Collide
On Highway, Stuart
STUART—A car-truck acci
dent occurred in Stuart about 9
o’clock Wednesday morning. A
truck driven by Curtis Hitchcock,
of Jameison, and a car driven by
William Grunke, of Stuart, col
lided in the south part of Stuart
on highway 20 in front of the D-X
oil station. No one was hurt and
there was not much damage, ex
cept on Grunke’s car—the fender
was bent and wheels were knock
ed out of line.
’ —The Frontier Rncntvinit
On the job! Sully, a service assi: tani; Bev. just returning
from her 15-minute rest relieving Rita.
Kffik. w i€ < W*r&nBmd fcll iwl’iWB—
The life of Riley* Sure and it is for Burke, McCarthy, Sulli
van and O'Troshynski ... a foursome ol Holt county "number
please" gals who have been transplanted to Omaha. They're en
joying a "Sunday off" in their cosy backyard—Gertrude Sullivan,
Marguerite Burke, Rita Troshynski and Beverly McCarthy.
Serious business is settling with "kitty." At these sessions the
cookie jar is emptied of all household expense lists (each girl
signs a slip for whatever she buys).
Ministers Wife
Polio Victim
CHAMBERS—Mrs. C. D. Ank
ney, 33, wife of St. Paul’s Luth
ersan church pastor here, Wed
nesday was "a little improved”
in St. Francis hospital, Grand
Island, where she is a polio pa
tient.
Mis. Ankney had been ill a
bout a week when she was taken
to the Stuart Community hospi
tal. On Wednesday, October 17,
she was transferred from Stuart
to Grand Island where her case
was diagnosed as polio.
Relatives said the patient had
movement of her legs.
The Ankneys have 2 children,
Davey, 5, and Dianna, 2. They
came to Cliambers 11 months a
go.
O Neill Soldier
Wounded in Korea
An O’Neill soldier, Cpl. May
nard Morrow, serving in Korea,
has been wounded, according to
a message received this week by
his wife, the former Virginia j
Bennett, who lives at Ewing, and
his mother, Mrs. Walter Morrow, j
of O’Neill.
Corporal Morrow, according to
the defense department telegram,
was wounded on October 8. His
wife and mother, however, have
letters from him since, leading
them to believe the wounds are
not serious.
Corporal Morrow is the father
of an infant daughter, Jacque
line, whom he has not seen.
Brown Burial Rites
Held at Chambers—
CHAMBERS—Funeral services
for Mm. Anna Brown, 93, of
Chambers, were conducted at 2:30
p.m., Sunday afternoon, October
21, at St. Paul’s Lutheran church
in Chambers.
Rev. C. D. Ankney was in
charge. Music was furnished by
Mrs. Victor Harley, Mrs. Walter
Haake, Mrs. Duane McKay, Mrs.
L. O. Lenz. Delores Harley and
Vivian Harley, with Mrs. J. W.
Walter, pianist. Pall bearers were
6 grandsons: Henry Brown, Wal
ter Brown, Joe Serek, Lloyd
Jutte, Alvin Harley and Edward
Neimand.
Burial was in the Chambers
cemetery.
BASSETT HITS ATKINSON
ATKINSON — Rock county
high gridders fashioned a 37-13
victory over the Atkinson high
Balers Tuesday night, October
23, on the Atkinson grid.
Holt Soil Board
Wins Recognition
The Holt county soil conserva
tion district has won an Oimaha
World-Herald conservation for
the second time, it was announced
this week. The first award was
won in 1948 when Theo. Bau
meister, A Max and M. M. Karo
and L. R. and Harvey Tompkins
represented the district.
According to the rules of the
contest, after a district has one
the first ($500) award the district
is ineligible for competition of
the farmer-rancher representa
tion. The second award is made
on the basis of the activities of
the board of supervisors. Holt
district was one of 3 to win in a
field of 42.
The progress of the district
since it was organized in 1944 has
been outstanding.
A recognition dinner is planned
for the near future. More details
will be forthcoming in subsequent
issues of The Frontier.
me regular meeting oi tne
Holt soil conservation district
board of supervisors was held on
Wednesday, October 17, in the lo
cal offices with the followi ng
present Clarence Ernst, chairman,
R. L. Heiss, vice-president; Elmer
Allyn, secretary; F. E. Keyes, E.
J. Revell, F. S. Brittell, district
manager, D. L. Higgins, District
Conservationist C. R. Hill, W. D.
Whittwer and H. T. Young, both
of the Holt staff, and Don Engle,
assistant county agent.
Applications were approved for
the following: W. D. Nelson, of
Walnut; J. A. Beck, of Atkinson;
Frank Sholes, of Middle Branch:
Raymond E. Bly, of Amelia; and
George Atkinson, of Chambers.
Tree prices were established for
the coming year. They will be es
sentially the same as Clarke-Mc
Nary. Early orders is the only
way of being sure of having a
large choice of variety of trees i
and shrubs.
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Air Officials
Plan Visit—
One or more aviation safety
agents representing the civil aero
nautics administration from Lin
coln will visit the municipal air
port here on November 8.
The purpose of the visit is to
serve the needs of persons in the
communities who are interested in
civil aviation.
Fremoniers Here—
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Fluckey of
Fremont, were weekend guests of
Mrs. Edna Huebert. Mrs. Fluckey
is Mrs. Hubert’s daughter.
IN_LEASE SUIT
Propst Hearing Scheduled
Monday Before
3 Judges
An answer in the school land
lease suit brought against the
board of educational lands and
funds which will be heard by a 2
judge Federal court in Omaha
Monday, October 29, was filed
Thursday by Att’y-Gen. C. S.
Beck.
The action was brought by
lease holder William Propst, of
Gr$nt, following a state supreme
court decision holding unconsti
tutional a law passed by the 1947
legislature providing for auto
matic renewal of leases without
competitive bidding.
The answer contends that 12
year leases issued subsequent to
1947 are invalid, holding that
the board was not vested with
power to issue such leases.
The answer shows that school
lands were granted the state by
congress in 1864 to be held in
trust for the benefit of common
schools.
The Holt County School Land
Leaseholders’ association is co
operating with Propst in the ac
tion.
Meanwhile, the state board has
Jecided to soften leaseholders
with direct-mail letters and try
ng to explain auctioning of the
eases.
Ventriloquist Known
Here Dies in Crash
Robert Evans, 36, of Belle
Plaine, 111,, a ventriloquist who
was bom here, was killed early
Inst Thursday when his auto
smashed into a safety island near
Belle Plaine.
The car knocked down a lamp
post. There were no witnesses.
Evans was a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wes Evans, pioneer hotel
proprietors here. He left O’Neill
as a small child.
Mr. Evans had a wide reputa- *
tinn as a ventriloquist, perform
ed with his dummy, “Jerry O’
Leary,” with the USO in France
and England during World War
II. recently appeared on TV, in a
movie and in night clubs. His
wife, Virginia, 31, is a former
dancer.
Evans performed at the Coun
try club here 3 years ago.
Balia gh Rancher
Hunting Victim
BURWELL — Allen Lewis, a
bout 38, a rancher in the Ballagh
community about 30 miles north
east of here, was hospitalized 4
days following a hunting acci
dent on the opening day of the
hunting season.
Lewis had started the hunting
expedition with several Oklaho
ma relatives and with a boy, who
had been working for him.
The boy’s .410-gauge shotgun
accidently discharged and struck
Lewis in the back, near the ba*e
of his ribs on the left side.
Lewis was released from the
hospital on Tuesday. Attendants
said that not all of the shot had
been recovered in the probing.
Visits Old Mexico—
Mr. and Mrs. George Janousek
went to North Platte on Sunday
to visit Mrs. Janousek’s sister
and her husband, Mr. and Mr*.
Joseph Beckwith, and to get Mrs.
Josephine Janousek, who has
been visiting the B^ckwEbs. Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Beckwith and
Mrs. Josephine Janousek had re
cently returned from a 10-day
sight-seeing trip in New and Old
Mexico.
GETS CHICAGO ASSIGNMENT
Edward Hynes, son of Mrs.
Loretta Hynes, of O’Neill, grad
uated Friday from the army’s
counter - intelligence training
school at Baltimore, Md. He is
being assigned to a Chicago, I1L,
army unit.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Richard Wayne Walton and
Miss Elsie Mae Rockford, both of
O’Neill, on October 19.
Kenneth Pollack, of Ewing,
and Phyllis Carlson, of Orchard,
on October 20.
WEEK'S WEATHER
Summary:
Date Hi Lo Prec.
October 17 .. 49 36
October 18 _ 42 33
October 19 _ 44 34
October 20_ 57 34
October 21_ 45 30
October 22 _ 42 22 .45
October 23 . 59 34
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