Cards Toss
Scare into
OHS Blues
Eagles Win, 35-29:
Atkinson, Chambers
Are Other Victors
Tuesday Night . . .
e Favorites survived Tuesdaj
night’s play in the 16th annua]
Mint county high school basket
hall tournament.
The Atkinson Balers eliminated
the Inman Tigers with ease, 53
23t; the Chambers Coyotes ousted
the Ewing Tigers, 43-24, and the
O’Neill Eagles squeezed past theii
a>rch intracity foe, the St. Mary’s
Cardinals, 35-29.
Atkinson 53; Inman 27
Center Kissinger and Forward
Withers were the big guns in the
Balers' onslaught against the out
classed Inman Tigers. Kissinger
connected for 19 points; With
ers; 11.
The Balers built an 8-6 first
quarter lead, moved ahead 23-15
stk halftime, and soared to a 30-19
advantage at the end of the third.
The Atkinson crew broke the
Tigers’ back in the fourth, swish
ing in 23 points.
Best Inman performer was
Don Kelly witn 12 points. He
exhibited the only offensive
spark for the losers.
Boxscore:
ATK. (53) fg ft pf pts
i Frickel, f-1 0 2 2
Withers, f _5 1 1 11
Karr, f_2 1 1 5
Huston, f_2 0 14
Kissinger, c_6 7 0 19
Spence, c _0 0 0 0
Puckett, g_12 0 4
Dierks, g_il 0 2 2
Ratliff, g_0 1 2 1
Dunn, g»_2 10 5
Totals_20 13 9 53
INMAN (27) fg ft pf pts
Beimers, f_3 0 2 6
L David f_0 0 0 0
D. David, f_2 0 5 4
Wolfe, f_0 0 0 0
Kelly, c-4 4 4 12
Butterfield, c_0 0 0 0
Couch, g_1 13 3
Bohn, g_0 0 0 0
Davis, g_1 0 3 2
Jackson, g_0 0 0 0
Totals_11 5 17 27
Chambers 43; Ewing 24
The Ewing Tigers were utter
ly unable to make a match for
the Chambers Coyotes, one of
the seeded teams in the ’53 tooir
;ney. The Coyotes exhibited more
class in every department.
Bemie dribble paced the vic
tors with three fielders and 10
f'reethrowK, totaling 16 points.
Forward D. Carl was best for
that losers with eight.
Chambers jumped to a 9-3
lead in the first stanza, went
ahead L3-6 at halftime and it
was obvious it was virtually no
contest. Coach Eckdahl substi
tuted liberally during the last
half.
Boxscore:
CHAM. (43) fg ft pf pis
D. Atkinson, f— 113 3
Gribble, f _3 10 2 16
Bowse, f _ 3 2 2 8
Tangeman, f _0 10 1
Strong, c_ 3 0 2 6
Farrier, c _ 0 0 3 0
Adams, g _ 0 5 3 5
Maas, g_10 2 2
M. Atkinson, g... 0 2 0 2
. Beed, g __ 0 0 0 0
Totals_11 21 17 43
EWING (24) fg .ft pf pts
Carl, f _ 3 2 2 8
Gibson, f __ 0 2 5 2
Williamson, f_1 1 5 3
Libby, f___ 0 0 0 0
Pruden, c_10 5 2
Rotherham, c _ 1113
Christon, g _ 0 0 4 .0
Welke, g _ 0 0 0 0
Thoendel, g_14 16
Spence, g _ 0 0 0 0
Totals ____ 7 10 23 24
O'Neill 35; Si. Mary's 29
Coach Paul Baker’s O’Neill
high Eagles owned only a 2
point lead with one minute 15
seconds remaining in Tuesday’s
nightcap. Until that point it had
been a wierd ball game with the
SL Mary’s Cardinals controlling
the ball most of the time and
deliberately upsetting the high
ly-favored Blues mentally.
Cardinal guards ioved with
the hall for several minutes ai
.a tune, obviously unanxious to
work it in and risk losing it.
’ jPnif. Joe George’s strategy
paid off and tossed a scare, first
class, into the Blues, who were
frustrated and never got into
■ high gear—unless it might be
said they were their natural
selves during the final 75 sec
. ends when they picked up five
yrital points.
jBob Carroll and Don Hollen
beck \’*>ked best for the victors
. 23trf the high-scoring Gary Buck
uasfci fizzled at the post, getting
« t«n$y Stwto fielders. Davey Eby,
^normally a nifty floor man, was
bewildered on the rebounding in
which he usually excells.
Terry Wanser, the comer art
ist, collected seven points for
St. Mary’s and three others hit
six each.
The nightcap pleased the
crowd, which had sat through
two listless earlier games. Some
of the partisans were clamoring
for action, however, and dis
i approved of the stall game.
) It was a moral victory for the
Cards, but the Eagles, who hold
a 45-22 decision over the Scarlet
, in regular season play, earned
' a ticket to the semis by ousting
their arch intracity foe.
Boxscore:
O'NEILL (35) ig ft pfpts
Hollenbeck, f__.2 5 19
Dexter, f_0 0 0 0
Chace, f_2 2 3 6
Seger, f _0 0 0 0
Buckmaster, c _2 2 2 6
Miner, c_0 0 0 0
Eby, g_0 3 2 3
Booth, g_0 0 10
Carroll, g_3 4 0 10
Kilcoin, g _0 10 1
TOTALS_9 17 9 35
SMA (29) fg ft pfpts
Graham, f_1 0 0 2
T. Wanser, f_3 1 1 7
Bazelman, f _0 2 4 2
Cuddy, f_0 0 0 0
J. Wanser, c_2 2 5 6
Weier, c _2 2 3 6
W. Donohoe, g _.3 0 3 6
Tomlinson, g_0 0 0 0
London, g _0 0 0 0
R. Donohoe, g 0 0 0 0
TOTALS_11 7 18 29
Wednesday Night . . .
St. Joe 66; Atkinson 39
The St. Joe Bluejays walloped
the Atkinson Balers Wednesday
night on the second night of the
annual Holt prep basketball
tourney.
The Josies trailed, 9-11, at the
end of the first quarter. At half
time the score was 26-19 in fa
vor of the Josies. By the end of
the third the Balers were trail
ing, 30-37.
There were so many double
fouls the timekeepers arranged
for 1 hour and 32 minutes of
basketball for a 32-minute regu
lation game. Sixty fouls were
called.
The Josies started s^ow and
breezed ahead after the second
period got underway.
Page 64; Stuarl 32
It was Page all the way with
Park, Leist and Heiss collaborat
ing for 47 of the Eagles’ points as
the Stuart Broncos were com
pletely outclassed.
Hytrek, Bronc center, collected
nine points to lead the losers.
Page built 23 points during the
first period compared to 5 for
Stuart. Page led, 39-14, at half
time.
Tonight’s Games . . .
In the semifinal play tonight,
St. Joe will go against Page at
7 o’clock and Chambers will be
pitted against OWeill high. The
second game is scheduled to get
underway at 8:30.
BOWLING NEWS
Many bowlers wanted the offi
cial standings of the teams at the
end of the half. They are as fol
lows:
W Li
Phillips 66 _16 12
M&M Cafe _16 12
Knight Bowling Alley _15 13
Coast to Coast _15 13
New Outlaw _14 14
Gambles _13 15
Wm. Krotter Co._11 17
McIntosh Jewelry _11 17
At the starting of the second
half, Shelhamer’s organized and
replaced the Coast to Coast
team. In order to keep the Coast
to Coast team in the league, it
combined with the Knight Bowl
ing Alley team and the combina
tion of the two teams will be
called the Coast to Coast team.
(Week of January 12-15)
W L
Coast to Coast_10 6
Phillips 66_13 3
Wm. Krotter Co..11 5
New Outlaw_ 9 7
Gambles_9 7
M&M Cafe _ 7 9
McIntosh Jewelry _ 3 13
! Shelhamer’s _ 2 14
Harold Calkins and Lyle Green
tied for the high single game.
Each rolled a score of 2)1. Har
old Calkins took the high single
series with 545. Phillips 66 cap
tured the high team game with
805 and the high team series
with 2278.
Tonight’s bowling (Thursday)
has been cancelled on account of
the basketball tournament. Bowl
ing will resume on Monday Jan
uary 26.
Favorite Sports
Used in Roll Call—
\ The Eager Beavers held a meet
ing at school district 159, January
9.
4 The meeting was called to or
der by the president, Edward
Mullen. Roll call was answered
by 10 members stating their fa
vorite sports. There were a few
book reports as follows:
Marty Mullen: Hopalong Cas
sidy and The Little Cowboys.
Ellen Havranek: Silver Wings
for Vicki.
Dolores Tunender: Dutch
Twins.
Eddie Mullen: Hi Cowboys.
On motion the meeting was ad
journed.—By Dolores Tunender,
news reporter.
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C&NW Pays $22,709
in Holt Taxes
A total of more than $346,000
is being paid by the Chicago and
North Western railway company
as 1952 taxes on its operating
property in 28 counties in Ne
braska, according to Paul E.
Feucht, president of the railway
company. Almost half of this
amount constitutes school taxes.
Holt county’s share, second
highest in the list of counties,
will be $22,709.08. Of this amount
$12,281.20 will go to school dis
tricts: $1,820.02 to townships; $1,
391.04 to cities and villages; $2,
124.44 to the county; $5,056.78 to
the state; $35.50 to airports.
Feucht said that the actual
amount of the taxes was $346,
755.35 as compared with $333,
172.25 for 1951, an increase of
4.08 percent over 1951 taxes, ad
justed to include taxes returned
because of a blanket school tax
refund during the past year.
Taxes for the state in 1952 in
creased by 10.46 percent; school
district taxes by 2.81 percent;
township taxes by 10.17 percent;
and city and village taxes by
1.79 percent.
County taxes decreased by
2.08 percent and airport taxes
by t5.31 percent.
In general, the 1952 taxes re
present an increase of more
than 46.72 percent over taxes
paid by the railroad in 1946.
The 1952 tax was distributed
as follows: school taxes, $158,
758.60; state taxes, $83,838.43;
city or village taxes, $44,387.47;
county taxes, $43,375.21; town
ship, sanitary, road, cemetery,
and fire protection district taxes,
$16,092.93; and airport taxes,
$302.71.
Feucht pointed out that ap
proximately half of the total ’52
taxes paid by the North Western
in the state of Nebraska goes to
the various school districts
through which the railroad oper
ates.
Figures compiled by F. J.
Klein, land and tax commission
er of the railway company,
shows tax totals by counties to
be as follows:
Antelope, $19,011.66; Boone,
$9,685.22; Boyd, $13,784.50;
Brown, $10,427.32; Butler, $9,
279.06; Cherry, $35,077.76; Col
fax, $7,454.68; Cuming, $9,347.92;
Dawes, $19,372.98; Dodge, $18,
800.04: Douglas, $9,680.66; City
of Omaha, $11,943.84;
Fillmore, $10,406.36; Holt $22,
709.08; Knox, $16,889.94; Lan
caster, $4,561.11; City of Lincoln,
$1,696.42; Madison, $13,925.60;
Nuckolls, $8,322.78; Pierce, $8,
882.12; Platte, $7,524.74; Rock,
$7,300.89; Saunders, $14,600.36;
Seward, $11,034.34;
Sheridan, $15,655.88; Sioux,
$9,178.06; Stanton, $7,314.85;
Thayer, $1,428.72; Washington,
$11,366.46; York, $92.00.
GETS TRAINING
Holt County Agent A. Neil
Dawes is among 25 extension
agents in the state taking ad
vanced training at the Univer
sity of Nebraska college of agri
culture, Lincoln, this month.
Phone your news to 51!
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Blizzards Hurt
Cattle Raisers—
Last week’s blizzard and sud
den drop in temperatures hurt
Nebraska cattle raisers, accord
ing to a report Tuesday by the
state-federal agricultural statis
tics office.
Since range and pasture land
had been closed down for some
time because of the snow cover,
and because of large shipments
of hay out of the state, there
was some apprehension if the
feed supply would be adequate.
However, grain feed supply was
reported as ample to surplus
throughout the state.
The snow was ideal for winter
wheat, though, and prospects
there are reported considerably
improved since the dry spell last
fall. *
Statistician A. E. Anderson re
ported seed potato production
for the state at 888,000 bushels,
slightly above last year and also
more than the 1941 - 1950 ten
year average.
Farm machinery prices were
reported down slightly and land
prices continue high. Anderson
reported that 1(10 acres of land
in Scotts Bluff county that could
be bought for $17,000 in 1941 is
now priced at $50,0^0.
STUART NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Berlin Mitchell
attended funeral rites in Atkin
son Friday, January 16, for Joan
Evalene Garwood, infant daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Gar
wood.
Miss Joan Burhans has accepted
a civil service position in Wash
ington, D. C., and will leave for
that city Friday, January 23.
Mrs. Frances Roberts of Valen
tine visited here with friends on
Sunday and Monday, January 18
and 19.
Word has been received by
Mrs. Lloyd Thurlow that her
brother, Florien Gesiriech, of Los
Angeles, Calif., is engaged to
Miss Jean Crowell of Los An
geles.
Mrs. Hattie K. Fox and Bob
Gilg of Newport, Mrs. Wilfred
Seger and Lowell spent Sunday
afternoon at the Leonard Bazel
man home in O’Neil.
Mrs. Violet Gilg of Bassett
spent Friday evening, January 16,
at the W. L. Seger home.
Mr. and Mrs. Rosco Sill, Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver Gilg and Mrs.
Hattie Fox of Newport visited at
the W. L. Seger home Saturday
evening, January 17.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Mitchell
of Atkinson visited at the Berlin
Mitchell home Wednesday, Jan
uary 14.
ACCOUNT BOOKS
Additional help to farmers
and homemakers can be received
from the county agent’s office,
which now has the farm and
home account books. These will
be considerable help to farmers
and homemakers. A new buletin,
“Farmer’s 1952 Income Tax,” i$
also available at the county
agent’s office. It is free.
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(Editors note: The Frontier
is grateful to Clarence H. John
son of Chambers, a longtime
subscriber to this newspaper,
for a brief story about the fa
mous blizzard of January 12,
1888—the 66th anniversary of
which was commemorated last
week. Mr. Johnson has been a
Holt resident since 1883. His
father, J. P. Johnson, was a
homesteader.)
By CLARENCE H. JOHNSON
John Schneider was teacher in
school district 121, located IVfe
miles north of the Holt-Wheeler
county line.
When the big storm of January
12, 1888 struck, Mr. Schneider
dismissed the pupils.
Mr. Schneider and George and
Fred Herzog started to go home.
The storm became so severe that
their direction was shifted to the
southeast and they wound up at
the Smith home. The Smiths
were a negro family. They had
refuge there until the next morn
ing.
The storm was so severe that
none of the group would risk go
ing out to the haystack. (Pioneers
burned hay in those days). The
occupants of the little house and
their guests proceeded to tear up
the wood floor of the sodhouse
and use it for fuel.
Homer Gibson and his step
sister started out horseback,
two riding the same horse,
hey became strand in a
snowbank on what was then
called the Cline place, located
2 miles east and three-fourths
of a mile north from the school.
This is the place now occupied
by Philip and Edwin Hoerle.
They bedded down for the
night with the saddle blanket, but
Homer Gibson froze to death. The
girl was still alive the next
morning.
Mr. Cline saw them, quickly
went and got the girl, and being
somewhat skilled in family doc
toring he placed her in a tub of
snow in a cold room and managed
to draw the frost out of her body.
The man who died was an
uncle of Lloyd and James Gib
son.
Lots of livestock was lost in the
big storm. It was such a nice
morning that farmers had turned
out their stock — not knowing
what disaster lay ahead.
It was a horrible day and not
many persons remember it. It
still rates with me as the all
time worst storm in history.
FLU EPIDEMIC
A wave of influenza has struck
Holt county. Hundreds of fami
lies reported one or more sick
persons during the past fort
night. Only fatality reported in
the region blamed on virus infec
tion was that of Mrs. Everett
Denny, 44, Neligh housewife.
Her husband and two daughters
are hospitalized with the same
disease.
Remember the big auio show
. . . next Thursday and Friday
. . . Legion auditorium.
Becker . . . health.
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Ringler . . . soil
★ ★ ★
Coming to Stuart
Ringler . . . soils.
Three of the 10 extension
specialists who will be wiith
the Comhusker caravan of ’53
when it visits Stuart Wednes
day, February 11, are: Helen
Becker, health specialist; W.
W. (“Bill”) Derrick, animal
husbandman, and Wilber Ring
ler, soils specialist. — U of N
Photo.
LIONS WIN
The Lions basketball team de
feated the Chambers towners,
72-68, Sunday in a game played
at Chambers.
Eagles Point to
North-Central Meet
The O’Neill high Eagles along
with eight other teams in the
North-Central Nebraska basket
ball conference will participate
in the annual loop tourney at
Bassett February 2, 3, 5 and 6
In first round games, Long
Pine will play Stuart, Wood
Lake will face Basset, Spring
view will tackle Valentine and
Atkinson will go against O’Neill.
Ainsworth will challenge the
victor of the Stuart-Long Pine
fray. The winner of that match,
IHIIimr— I
probably will play the victor of
the Basaett-Wood Lake game.
This is expected to be Bassett.
Winners of the Atkinson-O’
Neill and Springview-Valentine
games will clash.
ON COMMITTEE
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Nebraska Real
Estate association, which was
held on January 14 at Lincoln,
Harold J. Grove of Omaha, pres
ident bf the Nebraska Real Es
tate association, announced that
Keith Abart of O’Neill has been
appointed to serve on the 1953
realtors Nebraska committee.
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Prices Effective Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun. Morning
SUNKIST—
ORANGES - Doz. 19c
TANGERINES __ Lb. 13c
CABBAGE _ _ Lb. 6c
I Per Lb.7Sc
.. Meat Dept..
U.S. GOOD BOILING
BEEF lb. 39c
U.S. GOOD CHUCK
ROASTS lb. 57c
U.S. GOOD
ROUND STEAK
Per Lb.79c
PORK
ROASTS, Lb. 43c '
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Sunshine—
CRACKERS_ 1-Lb. Box 23c
SUNKIST—
LEMONS_2 Lbs. 29c
GERBER'S—
BABY FOOD 6 Cans 49 c
CAMPBELL'S
TOMATO SOUP_2 Cans 23c
KRAFT’S DINNER 2~Pkgs729c
SUPER SUDS -Large Size Pkg. 27c
Plenly of Parking.We Buy Eggs
4th Street Market
It's Free! Plan Now to Attend
THE FIRST ANNUAL
1953 O’Neill Auto Show
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Thursday and Friday
January 29-30
American Legion Auditorium
(Please Use West Entrance)
2 Afternoons - 2 Evenings
IN COOPERATION with leading automobile dealers from throughout the O’Neill
region, admirers of fine cars will have an opportunity to fully inspect the
1953 cars in a colorful, entertaining show. The Legion auditorium will be open
from 1 :30 1p.m. until 9:30 p.m., both days.
FREE! Set of Plastic Seat Covers... Coffeemas ter...; Other Gifts
Special 45-Minute Broadcast from the Floor Featuring George Hammond
(“Voice of The Frontier — WJAG -— 3:45 to 4:30 P.M. — Thursday, Jan. 29)
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Sponsored by Leading Automobile Dealers in the Region in Cooperation with
Complete Details in Next Weeks Issue... on our M on. and Wed. ‘Voice of The Frontier’ Programs