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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1952)
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The late Mrs. Beck, whose maiden name was Rose Wright, was born at Ft. Dodge, la., on July 31, 1576, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Wright. She moved with her parents to Boyd county in 1879. On March 10, 1898, she married James Beck at the Boyd county home of her parents. Survivors include: Widower; sons—Richard Earl of Phoenix, Ariz.; George Henry of Atkin son; Roy Roger of Lebanon, Mo.; Clarence of Chester, Cal.; daugh ter—Mrs. Amanda Day of Ne vada, Mo.; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; sisters —Miss Cloe Wright and Mis. Sarah Green, both of Naper; brother—Richard Wright of At kinson. One son, James, died at the age of 7-months-old. Boy, 6, Tumbles from Moving Car Mr. and Mrs. John DeWitt were returning from Norfolk about 4 p.m. Sunday after spending the day visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sobotka. Their sons, Bobby, and John, 6, were scuffling in the rear seat of the car. The family was about five miles west of Norfolk, trav eling about 50 mph when Bobby fell backward against the door handle, apparently pushing it down enough to open the doer. He fell headlong into the middle of the pavement into the path of a passing car. The force of the fall flung him completely across the highway. The passing car swerved and avoided by inches hitting the small boy. Both cars immediately stoDoed The occupants rushed "to Bobby to find him unconscious The slide across the highway had burned the hair completely from the back of his head. ^ Because the motorists from Valentine, the occupants of the other machine, had a newer car, they rushed Bobby and the De Witts to Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Norfolk. An immedi ats X-ray showed no broken bones. Bobby was unconscious until 12 o’clock that night. He was unable to eat ^nd could not walk. He was kept under observation until 11:30 a.m. Monday when he was allowed to be taken home. Big Audience Sees ‘Teen Time’ A near capacity audience ga-ht ered in the O’Neill public school auditorium Tuesday, October 14, to see “Teen Time,” an all-high school variety show presented by a cast of over 60 O’Neill high students. The show, using all types of talent to be found among O’ Neill high students and faculty, was based on a series of skits, each inspired by comic strip characters. Represented were Harold Teen, Little Iodine, Ter ry and the Pirates, Henry, Dick Tracy, Blondie, Gasoline Alley, Aggie Mack and Joe Palooka. The skits were planned by James Bastian, O’Neill high chor al music director, who also wrote the dialogue. Production was handled by a staff of both facul ty and nearly 50 students under the direction of Mr. Bastian and Miss Viola E. Haynes, director of dramatics. All proceeds from the show will be used to purchase lighting equipment, especially flood or spotlights to enable all groups presenting dramatic productions in the future to do a more ade quate and professional job. County Officials Invited Here — O’Neill will be host to the Northeast Nebraska County Of ficials’ association in the spring, 1953, meeting. The invitation was extended through the Cham ber of Commerce at the fall meeting held last week in Wayne. Frank Cronk of Page, veteran Holt supervisor, currently is president of the Northeast group. Holt Teachers in Initial Meeting— The Holt County Teachers’ as „ sociation met Wednesday evening in O’Neill. A dinner preceded the session. The business meeting was held at the O’Neill public school. Supt. D. E. Nelson is president ' of the group. Mrs. Esther Harris spent the weekend in Lincoln and Omaha visiting her son, Guy, and daughter, Mrs. Deraid May, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schmit and two sons visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Schmit and fam ily at Nenzel. The champion Holt county 4-H club stocker-feeder calf in the annual show and sale held here Wednesday was shown by Glen Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ro land Miller of Middlebranch. His entry was an Angus steer. The reserve champion of the show, also an Angus steer, was shown by James Corkle, jr., of O’Neill. The Miller entry won top blue honors in the Angus steer divis ion and the Corkle entry was second blue in the same division. First blue in each class com peting for the grand champion ship honors, in addition to the Miller an<J Corkle blues, were: Darlene Grimes of Chambers, Hereford steer. Benton Miller of Atkinson, Hereford steer. Janet Krugman of O’Neill Hereford heifer. Dean Garwood of Amelia, An gus heifer. The showmanship honors went to Darlene Grimes. She was presented a show halter, brush and comb by President William W. McIntosh of the Chamber of Commerce. De wayne Shermer of Amelia was second and Benton Mellor of Atkinson ranked third. The Miller calf sold for $60.50 per cwt., the highest figure in the sale. The reserve champion was not entered in the sale. The Grimes steer brought $45 and the Mellor steer went for $43. Eighty-seven head of calves in the 4-H division were sold and 104 were shown, according to A. Neil Dawes and Lyle Dierks, who were comanagers of the event. Fifty-seven head of commercial calves were sold. The average price was run be tween 32- and 34-cents, they re ported after a preliminary tab ulation. The market generally reflected a downward trend com pared to previous years. There were many repeat buyers in the stands. The Miller calf was pur chased by Louis Clements of Keosla. Ia.; the Grimes calf by Tom Beady of Clay county. The top pen of five in the com mercial division went to Kenneth Waring of Middlebranch with his Hereford steers. Oswald Druecke of O’Neill was second. Commer cial single honors went to Dick Clark of O’Neill with a Hereford steer entry; Judy Juracek of O’ Neill placed second with an An gus steer; and Alfred Meyer of O’Neill ranked third with an FFA project, an Angus heifer. Top commercial price was 46 cents on a Hereford steer; 41 cents on a Hereford heifer. Judge of the cattle was K. C. Fouts of the University of Ne braska college of agriculture. ~ 1 1 Application for Rate Hike Is Dismissed The state railway commission Tuesday tossed out the latest rate increase application of the North western Bell Telephone company. Cimmissioners Harold A. Palm er and Richard Larson signed a dismissal order which notes that Northwestern Bell filed the ap plication August 13, only six months after the commission’s February 10 order granting a rate increase. “It is necessary that such or ] ders remain in effect a reasonable : period of time,” the commission I ers held. “Neither the applicant nor the commission has had sufficient time within which to judge the impact of the increase granted in an order on February 10,” the commission declared. The third commissioner, Joseph J. Brown, did not participate in Tuesday’s dismissal order. Brown has been traveling with the re publican caravan. Objections to the increase were filed by the Omaha Grain Exchange and the Nebraska Grain and Feed Deal ers’ association. “The commission’s dismissal of the company’s application with out an opportunity to have the facts heard comes as a surprise and great disappointment,” Ne braska General Manager L. O. Arstad said. He called the action “short-sighted.” The phone company expects to take legal action to get a “fair consideration” in its application. Police Put Patrol Car Into Service The O’Neill police department late Wednesday put a police cruiser car into use. Police Chief Walter Calkins will designate the use of the ve hicle. Lettering on the trunk and doors identify the car: “Citv of O’Neill—Police Dept.” I ' Mr. ana Mrs. John R. Osen baugh visited the Mike Smith home at Tekemah Sunday, Oct. 5. SpencerHas Polio Scare; Close School Ardeth Loree Loock Dies in G.I. Hospital; Activities Cancelled (Special to The Frontier) SPENCER—The Spencer town school closed Tuesday night for two weeks because of an epidem ;c of polio that has claimed the life of one of the students, and two other victims, also students, are hospitalized at Grand Island. Miss Ardeth Lauree Loock, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Loock, died of polio about 5 p.m., last Thursday in St. Francis hos pital at Grand Island. She was the 15th polio victim to die this year at Grand Island and was Nebraska’s 79th recorded polio death. Two students, James Hambek, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Josepn Hambek, and Paul Nicholsen, 17, son of Mrs. Robert Hamilton, were taken by ambulance to Grand Island late Tuesday. According to Supt. Leo Marx, several other pupils are ill and several others are recovering from light attacks. Mr. Marx said the closing of the school was prompted by feel ing and anxiety in the commun ity rather than upon the advice of the Boyd county doctors and the state department of health. All activities at Spencer have been cancelled, including the re maining games on the high school football schedule. The Spencer six-man team is unbeat en. At least eight students are either suffering from polio or have recovered from light at tacks. Mr. Marx said classes would be resumed Monday, Oc tober 27. The late Miss Loock was a member of the high school pep club and was regarded as "a very popular student/' Mr. Marx said. Six members of her junior class were pallbearers. Rev. William Foster, pastor of St. Mary’s | Catholic church, officiated in burial rites Monday at 10 a.m , at St. Mary’s church. Burial was in the church cemetery. Miss Loock had not been feel ing well for several days, was taken to Grand Island on October 5 and died on October 9. Emmet Victim 'Improves Slowly'— EMMET — Miss Maureen Schaaf, 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Schaaf, is “slowly improving” after an attack of in fantile paralysis. She was strick en Friday, October 3. She had been receiving treat ment at the home of her grand mother in Atkinson but was re moved to the home of her parents on Sunday. Plainview Senior Is Polio Victim— NELIGH — Lloyd Rakow, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ra kow of Neligh, died at a Sioux City hospital Tuesday of polio. He was a senior at the Plainview high school. It was the 139th polio death to occur in Iowa this year. Ewing Infant to Childrens Hospital— EWING —1 Lee Beem, 2-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry/ Beem of Ewing, has been ad mitted to Childrens hospital, Omaha, for polio treatment. In Omaha health authorities indicate that the disease appar ently is on the wane. Municipal Band to Norfolk Today The O’Neill Municipal band will leave here about 9 p.m., to day (Thursday) by private cars to go to Norfolk Under the direction of Charles B. Houser, the group will march in a Norfolk avenue parade at 11 a.m., and in the afternoon the school musicians will listen to a concert by the U. S. navy band. The service band will also pre sent an evening concert at the Norfolk auditorium. Try Frontier want ads! This is the derailment scene two miles east of Inman as viewed from U.S. highways 20-275. First freight car was a double-deck load of sheep. Next three cars were empties. — The Frontier Photo. t POLIO FATALITY . . . Mrs. Marlin Wichman, 27 (above;, wife of an O’Neill businessman and mother of two small chil dren, died Friday, October 3, in a Grand Island hospital—Holt county’s first infantile paraly sis fatality. The Wichmans came from Norfolk to O’Neill in August, 1951. Burial was at Norfolk. 6 Stuart Youths Are Volunteers Choose October 22 as Induction Date Six Stuart youths have volun teered for induction with the Holt county selective service of fice, it was announced Wednes day by Mrs. W. H. Harty, chief clerk of the Holt board. They had the option of fixing their own date—Wednesday, October 22. The volunteers are: Alfred E. Stracke, James M. Batenhorst, Jerome E. Weber, Roland L. Shald, Ival L. Shald and James R. Chaney. Meanwhile, selective service registrants ordered to report for duty Monday, October 20, are: James F. Sicheneder of Atkinson, Daryl M. Beckwith of Emmet, Norman K. Trowbridge of Page, John N. Kamphaus of Amelia and Donald H. DeGroff of Am elia. The volunteering of the six Stuart youths brings to mor< i than two hundred the number of inductions credited to the selec tive service. Draft call for Nebraskans in December will be 301, Brig.-Gen. Guy N. Henninger, director of selective service, said Tuesday. It is based on a national call of 47,000 men. Restrictions on the call, Hen ninger said, are: “No men will be inducted unless they are 20 years old on the induction date or are volunteers or delinquents.” Holt has not been assigned its November or December quota. Mrs. Harty said. — Lawrence A. Fuller Funeral Today Funeral services will be con ducted at 10 a.m. today (Thurs day) from St. John’s Catholic church, south of Ewing, for Law rence A. Fuller, 37, who died Saturday in St. Anthony’s hos pital here. His was the first death in the new hospital. Mr. Fuller came to O’Neill Friday for medical attention and died the following day. Fuller had been a resident of Fremont. A rosary was offered Wednes day evening at 8 o’clock at Big lin Brothers funeral chapel. Pallbearers for the funeral rites will be Howard Mansor of O’Neill, Ivan Briggs of Bartlett, Robert Harrell of Clearwater, Lawrence Scholl of Ewing, Don Camell of Comfrey, Minn., and Leonard Scholl of Petersberg. Burial will be in Fairview ceme tery in Antelope county. Survivors include the widow. The late Lawrence Amos FuK ler was born February 6, 1915, at Elgin, a son of William A. and Edna Tuttle Fuller. On January 31, 1939, he married Marie Scholl at Lincoln. Wal'ing Feted — The Consumers Public Power district employees held a party in honor of L. C. Walling who is retiring at the end of the year. The Town House was reserved for the 78 guests who were present from all the towns in the 13 county district. A turkey din ner was served. Jury Hears Lone Case; Ups Value Coolidges Win Over Jungman in Cross Petition Suit Here A Holt county district court jury in deliberation only 25 min utes Tuesday found in favor of Elmer Coolidge and the estate of the late Harry Coolidge in a disputed value of school land im provements. Last April, Edgar Jungman of Amelia outbid the Coolidges on a parcel of school land described as section 16, township 26, range 14, near Amelia. The Holt county board fixed the appraised value of the improvements—which in cluded fences, cross-fences, wells, windmills, feed rack and 50 acres of alfalfa—at $2,996. The Coolidges offered to accept the valuation figure but Jungman, the Coolidges claimed, made no offer to settle, claiming the fig ure was too high. Jungman took the matter to court with Francis D. Lee, Al k.nson, as his attorney. The Coolidges filed a cross-petition with Julius D. Cronin, O'Neill, as their attorney. Nebraska law states that when a school land lease changes hands the successful bidder must pur chase the improvements — the valuation to be determined by the county board. The jury fixed the value at $3.500—the figure sought by the Coolidges. Members of the jury were: Waldo Davies of Ewing; Eli Mc Connell of Atkinson; Mrs. Leon Beckwith of Emmet; Frank Stan ek of Atkinson; Clarence Ernst of O’Neill; Joseph Kaup of Stu art; Fred Moon of Stuart; R. G. Gray of Page; Herman Schrader of Atkinson; Dercy Abart of Em met; Ewald Spahn of Ewing; Mrs. Frank Clements of O’Neill. The appraisement matter was the only civil suit brought before the jury. The jury convened Mon day morning at 1G o’clock and went into deliberation at 5:15 l\jm. Tuesday. The jury was dis missed that evening. None of the other suits on the docket are ready for trial. Catholic Women Wi!! Meet, Omaha O’Neill Deanery Will Be Represented Solemn high mass in St. Ce celia’s Cathedral sung by Arch bishop Gerald T. Bergan of Oma ha will inaugurate the 28th an nual convention of the Omaha j^chdiocesan Council of Catho lic Women. The opening ses sion will take place in the Hotel Fontenelle ballroom at Omaha on Wednesday, October 22, at 10 a.m. Mrs. D. E. Mitchell of Jackson, archdiocesan council president, will preside, and the opening prayer will be by Msgr. John S. Juricek of Omaha, council mod erator. The address of welcome will be delivered by deanery council president, Mrs. John Mc Govern of Omaha. Rev. Timothy O’Sullivan, dean of the O’Neill deanery, will give the invocation at the convention. Mrs. J. J. Berigan of Atkinson, will present the president’s re port for the O’Neill deanery. Serving on the nominations com mittee will be Mrs. A. J. O’Don nell of O’Neill. During the 1 o’clock luncheon, Mrs. A. L. Burbridge, president of the Creighton deanery, will preside. Archbishop Bergan will address the group. Miss Margaret Mealey of Washington, D.C., na tional secretary, will feature the afternoon meeting, n her ad dress, iMSss Mealey will develop he convention’s theme, which this year is taken from St. Matthew’s, “Christian Living is a Quiet Thing.” Highlight for delegates and guests on Wednesday afternoon will be the showing at 3:30 p.m. of the movie, “My Son John” St. Margaret Mary church on West Dodge will be the scene of the evening meeting at 8 o’clock Wednesday, which will follow supper in the parish guild, room. The general session on Thurs day morning in the Fontenelle iballroom will hear reports from deanery presidents and a dis cusion of the national conven tion, followed by a panel on “Youth and Christian Living,” conducted by young women from Duchesne and St. Mary’s colleges ■and from Creighton university. An address on the “Accomplish ment of Christian Living,” will be delivered by Rev. Edward Mc Caslin, Omaha diocesan vice chancellor. The luncheon meeting on Thursday will conclude the con vention activities. Mrs. Emil Hruza of Central City will pre side at the closing session at 1. A meeting of the O’Neill dean ery was held Tuesday at the Church of the Epiphany in Em met. One hundred and fifty per sons were present. Guest speak er was Mrs. Mitchell of Jackson, the archdiocesan president. I View of the wreckage from alop an upright freight car . . . slow speed of freight on upgrade prevented possible loss of life and considerably more damage.—The Frontier Photo. Mainline C&NW traffic was tied up for 17 hours. Wrecker is shown clearing rightofway. Accident cost railroad about five thou sand dollars.—The Frontier Photo. Make Oil Try Near Bartlett Wolf Brothers of Albion and the Wheeler County Resources Development company of Bart lett have announced the forma tion of a new Nebraska limited partnership, The Central Nebras ka Oil syndicate, with offices at Bartlett. The new partnership will en gage in oil development activity in the central Nebraska basin. A contract has been let by the new partnership with the Gen eral Drilling company of Crete for the drilling of a test well for oil and gas on a location approx imately five miles west and three miles south of Bartlett. The contract calls for the drill ing to 3,350 feet or granite, and drilling commenced on Friday, October 10. Frontier for printing! Charles Bartak IV to Live on Ranch DELOIT — A son, Charles Phillip, weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces, was bom Friday to Mr. and Mrs. Charles (“Bud”) Bar tak of the Deloit community. The little fellow will be the fourth Charles Bartak in direct line to reside on the Charles Bartak ranch. His great - grndfather, Karl Charles Bartak, settled there in the late 1880’s, followed by Charles Bartak, a late resident of Ewing. The infant’s father presently resides on the ranch. The mother of the new baby is the former Phyllis Savage. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Livings and daughter of Sioux City spent the weekend with Mrs. Livings’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kee. j Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schollmeyer attended the funeral of Frank Vandersnick at Ewing. Mainline C&NW Rail Traffic Held Up Sunday 17 Hours The derailment of the loco motive’s tender and four straight -ars on a westbound freight train about 1:30 a, m., Sunday blocked Chicago & North West ern railroad mainline traffic for about 17 hours. The 90-car freight, nundber 117, was proceeding upgrade at. about 22 mph two miles east of Inman when the accident oc cured. Cause of the derailment was * blamed on a broken front axle on the engine tender. The axle was ruptured in approximately the middle, caused by oxidization or “metal fatigue”, as the rail roaders term it. One wheel and one-half the axle rolled to the side of the roadway. The other wheel and the other half of the axle formed a prop in the middle of the track and proceeded to derail each oncoming car. A livestock car loaded vytli sheep and an empty boxcar fell over on their sides. The double deck carload of sheep was im mediately behind the tender. No one was hurt. One sheep suffered a broken neck and another presumably suffocated. The train crew re leased the sheep from tho top deck before others suffocated. The engineer, W. B. Wheeler of Norfolk, told The Frontier that if the speed had been greater there would have been consider ably more damage and possibly loss of life. Division Supt. V. A. Ericson of Norfolk, who supervised the sal vage operations, > estimated the derailment cost the C&NW “about five thousand dollars.” He said it was the second acci dent of its kind he had known about in 35 years of railroading. About three hundred rail road ties were damaged as the wheels on the heavy boxcars clobbered to a stbp. The eastbound passenger-maii train, due in O’Neill at 12:05 a.m., was running about two hours late that night and reached here at 2:05 a.m. The train stood in the station here un til about 8:30 a.m., and then pro teeded on to Inman. The westbound passenger-mail' train, due in O’Neill at 6:30 a.m., was held at Ewing. Passengers aboard neither train knew of the derailment un til the prolonged stops. Passengers, mail and express were shuttled between the two standing trains with a bus and I trucks. The diesel locomotives went to the opposite ends of their respective trains and pulled away. A wrecker arrived about 10 a.m., and began clearing the rails. Section hands were called: out from several nearby stations to help replace the damaged ties. Hundreds of persons gather ed at the wreckage scene (Iho railroad parallels U.S. high ways 20 and 275) to watch the wrecker work. Frank Patterson of Norfolk was the conductor; W. R. Dlt trick of Norfolk, fireman. The ill-fated westbound freight finally passed through O’Neill at 6:10 p.m. PURCHASE PA SYSTEM The Saddle Club has pur chased a public address system with proceeds from the Saddle club roundup which was held Sunday, September 21. It is ex pected to be here in a week. Visit at Harrison— Mr. and Mrs. Marion D. Brew ster of Ewing and Mr. and Mo. Bill Brewster and Gary spent the weekend visiting relatives at Harrison, I Attacks Government Controls “Americanism” was the theme of an address delivered Wednes day evening in O’Neill’s Ameri can Legion auditorium by S. A. Liddell of 6maha. Several score of listeners heard Mr. Liddell pose the problem of encroaching socialism and the projected des- J tination on the road of increasing government controls. “This is our problem,” the speaker said, “where are we go ing on this road?” Calling on precedent, Mr. Lid dell said, “History records many great civilizations which started as democratic forms of govern ment that have fallen as a result of socialism—Greece and Rome are good examples. Today Eng land, too, is deteriorating.” He urged that since virtually every newspaper today is full of news concerned with price con trols, socialized medicine, public housing, government control, etc., it is necessary to reawaken Am ericans to their priceless heritage and alert them to the danger of already progressing socialism The Wednesday night informal, nonpolitical, nonsectarian meet ing was under the auspices of the John Deere Plow company and Mr. Liddell was a guest of Harry R. Smith, John Deere dealer here. “The important thing to re member,” Liddell asserted, “is that never in the history of the world has any civilization, once it officially sr.arted down the road to socialism with any officially constituted socialistic govern ment, ever successfully turned back and restored its democratic form of government. Instead it has finally ceased to exist as a major power. I do not mean that socialism in the U.S. has gone that far—but it is later than you think!” Chambers-Amelia Line Under Construction — CHAMBERS—Work is pro gressing on a new telephone line from Chambers west to the M. L. Sageser comer, where it joins the line built from Amelia. When completed the new line will improve service between the two towns. Service heretofore has been considered “very poor.7* The business firms of Chambers have contributed to the construc tion. Kenneth Werner is in charge and local men are furnishing the labor.