IL PAGES -- l SECTIONS North-Nebraska 9 Fastest-Growing Newspaper VOLUME 71.—NUMBER 47.__O'NEILL. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. MARCH 27. 1952. PRICE: 7 CENTS. Highway Group Favors 1c Tax Penney a Gallon on Gas Urgent for Road Needs Seventy-five men were guests of the Spencer Commercial club at the banquet and annual meet ing of the Nebraska Highway 281 association Friday evening. Delegations were present from Red Cloud, O’Neill, Spencer, Butte, Bristow and Lynch. The storm prevented the attendance of delegations from a number of other towns. Present from O’Neill were: Sen ator Frank Nelson, Judge D. R. Mounts, Mayor J. E. Davis, J. D. Cronin, Edward M. Gallagher, J. Leo Moore, Earl J. Rodman, H. J. Lohaus, J. B. Grady, P. B. Harty, Norbert Uhl, Axel Borg and James W. Rooney. Officers elected were: Earl W. Carpenter, of Red Cloud, presi dent; J. D. Cronin, of O’Neill, vice-president; Earl J. Rodman, of O’iNeill, secretary-treasurer. Elected as directors from this area were John Krotter and C. H. Fisher, of Spencer; D. B. Ray mer and Clem Dophiede, of Butte; L. W. Gibson and Lester Pearson, of Bristow; John Walt ers and M. F. Gribble, of Cham bers; Art Apserod and John W. Nichols, of Bartlett; Judge D. R. Mounts and Axel Borg, of O’ Neill. Resolutions adopted were: (1) That highway 281 be com pleted and hard surfaced from ONeill to the South Dakota state line; that it is a main traffic outlet for mail, freight and pas sengers from South Dakota and points north, and, if not improv ed traffic will move east through South Dakota and avoid Nebras ka; (2) That US highway 281 be hard surfaced and completed a cross Nebraska; that it is an in ternational highway, about 1,800 miles long in the United States, I, 435 miles is hard surfaced; ov er half of the unsurfaced portion of said highway is in Nebraska. (3) Since the national Highway 281 association, at the national meeting in Waynoka, Okla., sug gested that finances be raised through the sale of $3 member ships, $1 of which is to go to the national association and the bal ance to the state association; bg it resolved that the Nebraska as sociation secure its finances through this method. President Carpenter introduced State engineer Harold Aitken. Mr. Aitxen said tnat there are 1,500 mnes of concrete paving, 3.000 nines of bituminous sur facing, and 5,o00 miles of roads suriaceu with gravel, sand and dirt in Nebraska. Half of the last 5.000 miles needs rebuilding and the estimated cost of tnis work is $100,ouu,00u. Requests to the state hignway department during Jan- * uary and February of 19o2, lor repair or construction of 1,725 mUes of roads, was estimated to cost $46,000,u0Q. IN me million is ! available in Nebraska for the re pair and construction of roads during 1952. Mr. Aitken said that if the people of Nebraska wanted roads that they must furnish the mon ey to build them. Mr. Aitken said that $21,000,o00 in federal funds is available to Nebraska for matching purposes in build ing roads. He said that Nebras ka had not had sufficient funds for this purpose for the past three or lour years. He said that an extra one cent of gasoline tax would bring $4,000,000 in funds, but that under the present laws all of this money was not avail able to the highway department. A portion of it goes to the coun ties, cities and villages for road purposes. Mr. Aitken had a series of slides which dealt with the high way system in Nebraska, types of roads, repair and mainten ance,, amount of money needed and available, amount of money spent in neighboring states and number of miles in the neighbor ing states. Mr. Aitken said that it would be his policy to build roads where the engineering is most feasible and to serve the most traffic. In response to a direct ques tion, Mr. Aitken said that if highway 281 is to be completed it must be built on a direct route and to modern engineering speci fications. A vote was taken as to sentiment in favor of an extra cent of gasoline tax for road purposes ,and only three persons voted against this method. Murder Reward Roosted $500 The Holt county board of su pervisors Wednesday decided to post a $500 reward for the per son contributing the information needed to identify th« slayer of O’Neill’s Police Chief Chet Calk ins. On March 7—the day of the murder—Mayor J. E. Davis said the city would reward the in formant with $500. The county’s offer boosts the total to $1,000. A number of in dividuals have privately said they would contribute to the fund if an informant delivers the vital information. MAN. 77. DIES ATKINSON—Conrad Clinton, 77, died late Tuesday, March 25, at Atkinson Memorial hospital. Funeral services will be conduct ed Friday. Mrs. Slaight and daughter . . . tragedy. MRS. SLAIGHT, 44, ACCIDENT VICTIM O’Neill Farm Woman Dies in Lynch Hospital from Gunshot Wounds Mrs. Emmett Slaight, 44, O’ Neill farm woman, died about 6:30 a.m., Friday, March 21, in Sacred Heart hospital, Lynch, from accidental gunshot wounds. The accident occurred at the Slaight home, 16 miles north east of O’Neill, about 6:30 o’clock the night before. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday, March 26, at St. Pat rick’s Catholic church with Very rtev. Timoiny U’ouihvan, church pastor, uiiiciating. Huriai was in ^aivary cemetery. Paiioeaiers were State Sen. Frank weison, F. N. Cronin, iiarry Lansworth, James Mcmii i.y, John scomitz, John Pinker man, Ralph Pinkerman and Al oert Carson. Agnes Merna Hughes Slaight. daughter of Hughes William Hughes and the late Christina Wagner nugnes, was horn September 17, 1907, at Ran dolph. She came to Holt county in it)x,t from iianuoipn. bne was umieu in marriage Peoruary io, ism, to Lmmeit a rancis biaignt at U iNeui. io ..us union were born two chil dren, a aaugnter, Gloria, and a oon, Goraon a rancis. ourvivors include: Widower; uaugnter — bister Agnes iviarie lUiona biaignt;, oi Denver, Colo.; son — Gordon trancis, at name; lamer—n. W. nugnes, of Bioomiieiu; brothers — Clifford f JacK ) nugnes, oi Dorsey; irv W. nughes, oi Kanaolpn; naipn ing fnuu ) nugnes, oi augene, Ure.; Lnswortn v. rete ) nugiies, oi Kioomiieiu; sisters—Mrs. Car rie Kuaa, or husk, wyo.; Mrs. mllian nraach, oi JSlortn Plane; Mis. Kicnaid (.nehna; Grilfitn, oi Miami, Pla. She was preceded in death by her mother and two sisters, nulh and Alice. All of the survivors were pres ent at the funeral except her brothers, Irving and nnswortn. and her brotner-m-iaw, Kichard Griffith. i a rosary was offered Monday evening at Biglin Brothers fu neral home. Among out-of-town relatives attending the large funeral were: Mrs. Lyuia Chingway and Ber nice, of Walthiil; Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Kay nansen, oi Bioomlieia; Mrs. Millie btigiii, of Lusk, Wyo.; and Mrs. bue Buchanan and Kog er, of Kandolph. Burial Delayed Due to Blizzard ATKINSON—Funeral services were conducted Saturday, March 25, for Edwin Keeb, 71, who died Wednesday afternoon, March 19, in Atkinson memorial hospital The rites were held in St. Jo seph’s Catholic church, but the committment at the cemetery was delayed for several hours be cause of inclement weather. Survivors include: Widow — Agnes; daughters — Mrs. John Babl, of O’Neill; Mrs. Joe Pon gratz, of Emmet; Mrs. Ed Cava naugh, of Chambers; six grand children; brother—Joseph. The late Mr. Heeb was born December 3, 1880, and was a life long resident of Holt county. Ranger Visits— Mr. and Mrs. Archie Van Cleave, of Baker, Ore., arrived Monday for a visit with the Har ry Kestenholtz family at Inman, the Don Bursell family near bpencer, and M; is Tillie Kesten holtz at O’NeilJ. They were to have departed Wednesday. Mr. Van Cleave is a forest ranger. Gels Promoted— Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sum mers that their son, Dale L. Summers, has been promoted to corporal. Corporal Summers has been in North Korea with the first marine division for the past year. I QUIET PRIMARY ELECTION SEEN Taft, ‘Ike’ Names Not on Nebraska GOP Ballot (See editorial on page 2) Based on primary election tab ulations of other years, tne April 1 primary election next Tuesday is expected to be a quiet aifair. The big names in both repub lican and democrat parties are conspicuous by their absence. The Holt county—and Nebras ka—republicans, who have gone all-out for Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft in other years, wiH not find his name on the ballot. To vot for the Ohioan tney will be obliged to use a sharp pencil. Same for Gen. Dwight Eisen hower, who has established some sort of history with write-in suc cess in other state primaries this month. Nebraskans can endorse Gen. Douglas MacArthur by voting for Mary Kenny, a Lincoln housewife who is an avowed MacArthur supporter. Only other name in the presidential slot on the GOP ballot will be the perennial Harold E. Slas sen. former governor of Min nesota. Democrats are in a similar predicament. The titular head of the demo party, Pres. Harry S. Truman, is not entered in the Nebraska primary. They have a choice between Tennessee’s Estes Kefauver and Oklahoma’s Rob ert S. Kerr, who a fortnight ago included O’Neill on his nation wide stumping tour. Chief race drawing interest in tthese parts is the bid of Gov. Val Peterson to unseat the vet eran Sen. Hugh Butler, a matter for the republicans to settle. Holt countyans are watching the weather and road conditions, which probably will be import ant factors in the unusually early primary. April 1 (all fool’s day) happens to be the ear liest possible date a primary can be conducted in Nebraska. County Clerk Ruth Hoffman said there is only one change in voting places in the county this year. In Wyoming town ship the election board will be sealed in the village of Amelia instead of in a rural school. O’Neill voting places are as follows: First ward ana Grattan township — Holt county court house basement; Second — A. Marcellus garage; Third — city hall. Here’s how the ballots will read: SAMPLE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BALLOT NATIONAL iiCKET For president (vote tor one): Harold E. btassen, Mary E. Ken ny. For delegates at large to na tional convention (vote for ten): Roy Sheaff, Dean Kratz, John B. Quinn, Charles S. Reed, Ernest M. Johnson, Paul S. Kruger, George J. Thomas, John P. Mc Knight, Einar Viren, Richard D. Marvel, Terry Carpenter, Arthur J. Weaver. Bernard R. Stone, Charles J. Warner, Julius D. Cronin, Harry S. Byrne, Herbert J. Hughes, Chris J. Abbott, Hal Lainson, J. O. Peck, J. LeRoy Welsh, Ted W. Medcalfe, Hugh Brown, Orin Cunningham, Char les Thone, Leonard L. Larson, L. E Ray, Adam McMullen, Barbara Kratz, Farley Young, William Swanson, Clifford Thoene. For alternate delegates at large to national convention (vote for ten): Virginia Reiler, John S. bamson, Kermit Wagner, William Lynch, Neola Johnson, Frank E. Landis, Ladd J. Hubka, Chauncey E. Barney, H. J. Amen, Pat Minier, Jonn it. Higgins, A. ihurman Hinds, James t . Hard ing. For delegates to national con (Continued on page 5) No Opposition on Muny Ballot There’s one interesting feature of the O’Neill city and school election this year: No opposition. O’Neill citizens will march to ‘iie polls to elect a mayor, city clerk, city treasurer, police mag istrate, three counci lmen, and two members of the board of ed ucation. The municipal posts are for two-year terms; the school jobs for three-year terms. J. E. Davis, incumbent, is un opposed for city clerk; John C. Watson is the lone candidate for city treasurer, picking up where he left off before he was recall ed by the army in October, 1950. L. M. Merriman, who was ap pointed to the council a year ago to fill a vacancy, is the lone candidate for the First ward city council post; Joe Stutz, for Sec ond; Emmett Crabb. for Third. H. L. Lindberg and Mrs. Lor etta Ilynes are petition candi dates for the board of education. If elected they will succeed Dr. H. L. Bennett and Miss Anna O’ Donnell, veteran board members who did not seek reelection. Nurse Returns to Old Stand — Hurt Mis. Frank Dineen, wife of O’Neill’s Highway Patrolman Frank Dineen, Saturday was ty hospital, Omaha, instead of back at her old stand at Coun reportmg lor uuty as mgnt su pervisor, trie post she held un til she was married last tall, sue reported as a patient. Mrs. Dineen, gjsiung m Om aha, was a patient on the wurd which she headed for several years. tme had been struck by a skiuuing car near 4uth and Dodge streets, and suiiered on ly oruises. Mrs. Dineen requested an Omaua World-Heraid reporter to keep the incident Out of the paper, lie uiu. it appeared Oi't tue front page! G. V. MOTT, 74, EXPIRES AT PAGE Rites Held Wednesday for Half-Century Holt Resident PAGE — Funeral services for Garrett V. Mott, 74, who died Saturday evening, March 22, at his home in Page, were conduct ed Wednesday, March 26, at the Riverside Free Methodist church at Ewing with the pastor, Rev. F. A. Hand, officiating, assisted by Rev. George Francis, of Page. Burial was made in the Ewing cemetery. Garrett Voorhus Mott, the son of John and Alletta Mott, was born February 5, 1879, at Coffee ville, Mo. , At the age of 22 he came to Nebraska and settled on a ranch near Redbird with his brother, Everett. In September, 1913, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Vas tina Mott. To this union was born one son. Mr. Mott was preceded in death by his mother, his father, his brother, Everett, his sister, Ella, and his former wife. On September 3, 1947, he was united in marri. ee to Maria | Belle Culver at Flandreau, S.D. ! they came to make their home east of Ewing where they lived one year. They then moved to Page where he was residing at me time of his death. Survivors include: Widow; son —Grant, of Ewing; two stepsons —Ernest, of Orchard, and Clif .oiu, of Sioux City; five grand children; five great - grandchil dren; niece—Mrs. Chester Mar shall, of Union Star, iVlo. rie became afiinated with the Free Metnodisi church in 1916. /v bnef funeral rite was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the