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M twelve pages SECTION 1 Pages 1 to 12 C 0 North-Central Nebraska’s BIG Newspaper e o 0 = Volume 72.—Number 47. 0 O’Neill, Nebr., Thursday, March 26, 1953. Seven Cents. _ L _ ‘ _ o Mr. Harding . . . born in Iowa. ★ ★ o Thomas W. Harding, „ Retired Farmer, Dies Funeral Held H^e r e Wednesday Thomas W. Harding, ^5-year old O’Neill resident and a re tired farmer, died Saturday, March 21, at noon at his home here in O’Neill. He had been ill for three weeks with a heart ail 0 cment and with complications ac companying his advanced age. Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday, March 25, at 2 p.m., from Wesleyan Methodist church with Rev. M. ft. Grosen bach, church pastor, officiating. Burial was in Prospect Hill cem etery under the direction of Big lin Brothers, o The O'Neill resident was born October 12. 1867, at Mace donia. Ia., a son of John and Louisa Trotman Harding. Both of his parents were natives of England. n The late Thomas W. Harding resided in Cedar county before coming to Holt in 1921. He had been residing on the east edge eft O’Neill. I He was married on January 1, » 1886, at Macedonia to Rosa May Denton. They became the parents of 11 children. They farmed in Iowa until 1901 when they moved to Ne braska and settled near Dixon. In 1913 they moved to Harting ton where they farmed for seven years before coming to the O’ Neill vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Harding celebrat ed their 57th wedding anniversa ry on new year’s day this year. Four of their children and their families were present. Survivors include: Widow: sons—Vernon of O’Neill; Thom as of Petersberg, Clifford of O’ 0 Neill, James of Loves Par}$, 111.; daughters — Mrs. Frank (Ina) Nelson of Hartington, Mrs. Edna Huebert of O’Neill, Mrs. L. A. (Mildred) Hobbs of Ewing, Mrs. Lois Hartman of O’Neill and Mrs. Lorin (Wilma) Havens of Rock ton, 111. Pallbearers were grandsons: DonSld and Gerald Harding, Mi j o o chael and Dwayne Hobbs, and Ronald and Harold Huebert. o $100 Per Unit Reduction Told The Chrysler corporation Wed nesday announced a price reduc tion of one hundred dollars per unit on all DeSoto, Plymouth and other cars in the Chrysler ° o ° line, according to Paul Shierk, manageroof the Smith Motor Co., DeSoto and Plymouth dealers here. o Janzing Completes Basic Training— Army Pvt. Bernard Janzing of Camp Roberts, Calif., graduated with fellow' members of his com pany as they completed basic infantry training last week. Janzing was a member of com pany B, 77th armored infantry battalion, of the Seventh arm ored division. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman J. Janzing, who reside at O’Neill. During the 16-week course, the o soldier learned the duties of an o infantryman in combat. The use of basic infantry weapons was particularly stressed. oP r i v a t e Janzing also went through train ing maneuvers involving actual small arms and overhead artil o lery. ANOTHER SIGN OF SPRING ° Michael Hammond, 6-year-old son o* Mr. and Mrs. George Ham mond, and Timothy French, 3 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. French, Sunday discovered a 45-pound beaver ambling about the northeast residential section of the city. The game warden was called to take custody of the ° o animal. °o o Visit Young Home— Carol and Bob Summers of Chambers were Sunday evening callers in the home of Mrs. Guy Young. o O I V' f ATE RTST soc m O O O • Cain to Conduct ! 500-Voice Chorus I I ATKINSON — A*nationally 'prominent choral conductor, Dr. Noble Cain, will direct a massed chorus of five hundred voices as -the climax to the North-Central Nebraska conference’s fifth an nual choral music festival. The event will be held Friday in the Atkinson high school auditorium. The massed concert will start at 8 p.m., and will be a public affair. Participating schools are Ainsworth, Atkinson, Bassett, Valentine, Long Pine, O’Neill, Springview, Stuart and Wood Lake. Each school will be represent ed in the chorus by members from its own glee clubs and choruses. Mr. Cain, a well-known con ductor, composer and music educator, will direct an all-day clinic. The chorus in the evening will perform three of Mr. Cain’s or iginal compositions as well as spirituals and miscellaneous choral music. Thirteen selections will be presented. James Bastiab, head of the choral department of O’Neill high school, said Wednesday he expects 79 O’Neill high students to come under Mr. Cain’s instruc tion, and many of them will have an opportunity to sing while Mr. Cain conducts. Miss Leona Kilmurry, Atkinson high music instructor, iS in charge of arrangements. Doctor Cain earned early fame as a high school choral director in Chicago, 111. He joined the National Broadcasting company in 1932 as producer and director of all choral activities in NBC’s central division. He has present ed over two thousand broadcasts. The famous conductor is cred ited with developing new micro phone techniques in connection with choral broadcasting. He quit NBC to become a music educator and has traveled extensively to lecture and guest-conduct at sim ilar clinics. He has written music especially adapted to these situ ations. His “Seven T’s” of choral music — tone, te$t, technique, taste, test, teach and truth—are universally accepted. All told he has written over six hundred musical works that have been published, including cantataS, oratorios, folk music and novelty numbers. Among the best known and most i widely sung are "Ode to Am erica" and "Music of Life." 0 Mr. Cain’s father was a band master turned minister. His mu sical training began early. At the age of 12 he was a fair student of Greek. He attended a Quaker academy and learned Latin and j mathematics. The thr^e subjects are credited with a profound in fluence on his creative back ground. During World War I he served in the aviation division of the navy and w’as commissioned an ensign. He retains aviation as a hobby. Doctor Cain’s book, “Choral Music and Its Practice,” is used as a reference and text through out the world. Entire Teaching Staff Reelected The entire teaching and cus todial staff of the O’Neill public school has been reelected for the 1953-’54 school year. The personnel will have until April 15 to accept or reject the contracts that have been offered. Last month Supt. D. E. Nelson, who is finishing his second year here, was signed for a new three-year contract at $5,500 per year. Salary increases were voted for the teachers ranging from $45 to $108 per year. Enroute to Hospital, Hurt in Accident INMAN—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Luben and son, Raymond, and grandson, Floyd Boies, and Law rence Stevens left early Sunday morning for Omaha where Mr. Luben was to enter the Univer sity hospital on Monday for ma jor surgery. Near Hooper the party ran in to rain and slippery pavement when the car skidded, left the road and overturned. Raymond was driving. They were taken to the Dodge county hospital in Fremont. Mr. Luben received a gash on the head requiring two stitches. Mrs. Luben’s face was cut by her eye glasses which were broken. The grandson and Raymond received only minor scratches and bruises. Lawrence Stevens suffered a. slight con cussion and loss of memory. All were treated and dismissed from the hospital but Stevens. The others went on to Omaha. Mrs. Livelle Butterfield, Clyde Ross and Mr. and Mrs. Dave An son* when informed of the acci dent, drove to Fremont to see Lawrence. They returned Sunday night and reported his condition to be “slightly improved” and that he would be released as soon as his memory improved. Mrs. Butterfield and Mrs. An son are sisters of Lawrence. NEBRASKA POPULATION UP Thirty-eight states, including Nebraska, and the nation’s capi tal increased their population be tween the April, 1950, census and last July, the census bureau has reported. Nine states, mostly southern, showed population de creases. Nebraska’s gain was 3.5 percent, o Mr. and Mrs. Bob Nesbit of Sioux City were Sunday, March 15, guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Marcellus. 1 Orators Will Compete in Atkinson To Select Champion for Nebraska in Monday’s Contest ATKINSON—The state finals in the American Legion-sponsor ed oratorical contest based on the constitution of the United States will be held at Atkinson on Monday, March 30. Preliminaries will be in the morning and the finals will be in the afternoon. All sessions will be at the Atkinson high school. District winners who will com pete afe: District 1—Glen Barth of Rushville; district 2— Craig Swoboda of Norfolk; district 3— Donna Lage of Wafyne; district 4 Barbara Rystrom of Bayard; dis trict 5—Barbara Warren of Suth erland; district 6—Loretta Lee of Kearney; district 7 — Bruce Bermel of Humphrey; district 10 —Charles McManigal of Hast ings; district 11—Douglas York of Wilber; district 12—Jere Mc Gaffey of Nebraska City; district 14—John Morfin of Omaha. The 15th district contest will be held at Lincoln today (Thurs day). Charles E. Chace of Farley Tushla post is state chairman for the oratorical contest, which is sponsored by the Nebraska de partment of the Aemrican Le gion. Marine Officer Dies in Korea Marine 2/Lt. Henry Schleuter, who had been overseas only a few weeks, has been killed in action in Korea, according to word received late Wednesday by relatives here. Lieutenant schleuter was the husband of the former Mary Jewell Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walker of Aruba, a Dutch colony in the West In dies. Mrs. Walker is the former Julia O’Neill of this community. Mrs. Schleuter and her 2 year-old son recently returned from California where they had bade their husband and father goodbye at the port of embarka tion. Mrs. Schleuter and son then came to O’Neill and visited here during February. Later they went to Miami, Fla., and when last heard from were enroute to join her parents in the West In dies. Lieutenant Schleuter was reared at Abie, near Lincoln. He met his wife, who graduated from St. Mary’s academy here in 1944, while both -were attend ing school at the University of Nebraska. Widow Recovers from Back Burns - i Mrs. Melvin Steskal, 23, is recovering in St. Anthony’s hos pital here from severe burns on the back which she suffered on Wednesday, March 18, in the farm home fire in which her hus band was fatally burned. Hospital attendants Wednesday said her condition is “very much improved.” The two Steskal chil dren, Donna, 2, and Marvin, 1, were dismissed from the hospital a few hours after being admit ted. Mr. Steskal, a 24-year-old In man farmer, died four hours af ter the explosion of a tractor fuel can iti the farm home. A fire swept through the house and de stroyed all the contents. Funeral services were conduct ed Saturday at St. John’s Luth eran church in Atkinson. Rev. R. W. Olson of O’Neill officiated. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Steskal of Inman. Strong Winds for Mid-March Weather Strong winds have characteriz ed the weather during the past week. Summary: Hi Lo Prec. March 19_60 22 March 20_ 63 40 March 21_ 58 35 March 22 _55 29 .03 March 23 _45 2P March 24_33 16 .01 March 25_47 18 Boyd Farmer Buys Tom White Place— J. W. Rihanek of Monowi, a Boyd county farmer, last week purchased the 320-acre northeast Holt county farm belonging to the estate of the late Thomas White. He paid $25 per acre—or $8,000. The place and personal prop erty were sold at public auction by William J. White, adminis trator. Col. Wallace O'Connell was auctioneer; John R. Galla ikher, attorney. Now in Louisiana Pvt. Freddie S. Bollwitt c (above), son of Mrs. Nellie Ur ban. of Ewin», has been assign ed to the 37xh infantry division in training at Camp Polk, La. He is in C Btry, 134th F.A. Bn. He was drafted from Holt county January 20, 1953, re ceiving his §ight-week basic training at Camp Polk and is waiting now for schooling. His address: Pvt. Freddie S. Boll witt US 55327060, B Btry, 134th F.A. Bn., 37th infantry div., Camp Polk, La. Good Friday Rite in New Church Candlelight Ceremony at Bethany The Bethany Presbyterian church will hold its first service in the new sanctuary on the eve ning of Good Friday, April 3. The candlelight service, whieh will include the sacrament of the Lord’s supper, will begin at 8 P-m- o The new church is located two miles south and two miles east of the Chambers corner on U.S. highway 281. , the church construction, which was begun last May, is now nearly completed. For the past several months services have been held in the basement while work was being completed in the auditorium. A dedication ser vice will be held later in the spring. Harry Baker Arrives at San Diego— LYNCH—Destroyer division 152 arrived home from Korea last Thursday from its second tour of combat duty. Serving aboard the destroyer USS Kidd is Harry L. Baker, machinist’s mate third class, USN, son of Mrs. Amy L. Baker of Lynch. Since leaving San Diego in August, 1952, the ships have op erated with the fast carrier task force and the Formosa patrol as well as undergoing intensive an ti-submarine training. Bombardment of communist supply routes on the east coast of Korea and support of ROK infantry units at the battlefront have also been assignments drawn by units of tile division. The four ships also took part in the mock invasion of Kojo. RECOLLECTION SUNDAY Charles Carroll of Carrollton council of the Knights of Colum bus observed recollection Sunday on March 22. Rev. John Flanni gan of Creighton university, Om aha, presided at four sessions, beginning with 9 a.m., mass. Oth er sessions were at 2, 3 and 7:30 pm. Try Frontier want advs. for quick results! o o - This twisted wreckage is the car in which William H. Kallhoff was fatally injured.— Frontier Photo. O'Neill honors remains of Korean war veteran.—The Frontier Photo. Basin Plan to Congress Soon Rep. A. L. Miller, Nebraska’s Fourth district republican con gressman and chairman of the house irtterior committee, says he hopes congress will approp riate money to start work in the next fiscal year on the Niobrara basin irrigation plan. Miller said Avery Batson of Denver. Colo., regional reclam ation director, told him the re clamation bureau expects to re commend the Niobrara project— and others—for authorization by congress “within the next few months”. Miller revealed he has urged the reclamation bureau to cut down the number of field officers in western states, including Nebraska. He said he has talked with Batson about this. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lanman were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Mellor at Atkinson on Sunday Conoco Plans Super Service Station Here Russell Bonge of Ainsworth, district manager for Continental Oil company, announced this week that his firm plans to con struct a modern, new Conoco su per service station at the corner of Second and Douglas streets. Mr. Bonge said' a long-term lease has been signed with A. W. Tibbets, owner of the 70x70-foot site of a small Conoco station which has been in operation for several years. Extra space is be ing leased from United Motor Ways, F. L. Kirschbaum, owner. Construction plans will be pressed in the very near future, Mr. Bonge added. RETURNS FROM KOREA Sgt. Duane Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Sanders, return ed Saturday from Korea. Mr. and Mrs. Noal E. Long and family are now located at 14313 Carnell street, Whittier, Calif. They moved from O’Neill about a month ago. Compete in Ag Judging Twenty-four members of the O’Neill on-farm veterans agriculture class are pictured (above) following Saturday’s competition with seven other vet groups in judging. O’Neill and Atkin son vet classes shared top honors. Kneeling (left to-right)—Martin Langan, James Langan, Lyle Eppenbach, Marvin Rouse and Marion Woid neck; seated (second row)—James Rotherham, Hi Johnson, James McDonald, Albert Stauffer, In structor Pat Gallup, Marvin Snyder and Mick Gallagher; standing (third row)—Donald Cava naugh, Edward Hanley, Francis Matthews, Hugh Langan, Leonard Lorenz and Joe Gokie; stand ing (back row) — Ernest Kloppenborg, Joseph Grutsch, John Dougherty, James Finley, Ed Young (partially hidden), Ruben Redlinger and William Sorensen.—The Frontier Photo. X’ X X Record Throng at McKim Funeral Flags were flying at half-mast in O’Neill Monday as the body of O’Neill’s second fatality of the Korean war lay in state at Big lin Brothers funeral chapel. Funeral services for Army Cpl. Lyle C. (“Red”) McKim, 24, were conducted at 2 p.m., at the Meth odist church. An overflow crowd, one of the largest ever to attend a funeral in O’Neill, heard the sermon by the church pastor, Rev. W. B. Smith. Simonson post 93 of the Am erican Legion was in charge of the military burial rite. The young man was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle McKim, sr., of O'NeilL He was killed Jan uary 8 in a jeep accident a few weeks prior to his sched uled return home, Survivors include: Parents; brothers — Leslie, Kenneth and Keith; sisters — Mrs. John De George and Miss Hyldred, both of Omaha; Mrs. Howard Wales of Castro Valley, Calif.; Mrs. Dale Wales of Hayward, Calif., and Miss Wilma of O’Neill. All of the deceased soldier’s immediate relatives were present for the funeral. Others from a distance includ ed: Carl Hemenway and Charles Salsbury, both of Neligh- Mr. and Mrs. Ed Loewe of Bruns wick; Mrs. Forrest Storm of Ro>al; Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Ste vens and Mrs. George Hemen way, all of Clearwater; Frank Osborne of Mission, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. Dale Potts of Chambers. Vern Beckwith of Columbus; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Batenhorst, Mrs. Gene Batenhorst, Mrs. Har old Williamson and Mrs. Billy Marcellus, all of Atkinson; Mrs. Duane Patrick of Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Art Engelhaupt of Ger ing. Mf. and Mrs. Clinton McKim and family of Mason City, la.; Darel Bright of Atkinson; Mrs. Bessie Simpkins of Omaha. NEW BANQUET DATE ATKINSON — The annual 4-H club leaders’ recognition ban quet, which was postponed in February because of the blizzard, will be held on Wednesday, Ap ril 8. The Chamber of Commerce here will be hosts. A spokesman for the Chamber urged all per sons who planned to attend on the original date to make every effort to be present. o Retired Blacksmith at Deloit Suffers a 0 Skull Fracture, Dies CLEARWATER — William H. 0 Kallhoff, 60, a World War I vet eran and a retired blacksmith, was fatally injured about 8:45 p.m., Monday, March 23, in a car-truck crash at the east edge of Clearwater. The smash occur red on the east edge of the vil lage on U.S. highway 275. Mr. Kallhoff was rushed by ambulance to Antelope Memorial hospital, Neligh, where he died at 9:49 p.m. Funeral services will be con ducted today (Thursday) at St. John's Catholic church at De loit. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The rites will • begin at 10 a.m. A rosary was offered at 8 o’ clock Wednesday evening at the John Miller home in Ewing. Condition of Alfred H. Dag gett, 61, of Clearwater, who was riding with, Kallhoff in the car, is “fair,” according to Neligh hospital attendants. He is suffer ing a fractured hip and multiple rib fractures. Kallhoff’s machine ccollided with a semitrailer truck loaded with gravel driven by Raymond E. Gray of Albion. Lt. Harry Brt of the Nebraska safety patrol0 said Gray’s truck w a*3 uavcuug cciai. nv.xui uillg lv» Brt, Gray said he noticed a car approaching 'from tne south and said the driver seemed to hesi tate ana then drove in front of him. The truck struck the car broadside. Tne truck was loaded with 10 tons of gravel. Clearwater residents said KalL hoff and Daggett had visited a cafe there shortly before th^ ac cident. Kallhoff’s car was knocked into a ditch on the north side of the road and demolished. Dam age to Gray’s truck was about one thousand dollars. The late Mr. Kalihoff oper ated a blacksmith shop for many years south of St. John's church just inside Wheeler county. He had been retired for about 10 years and did not en joy good health. This is the second fatal high way accident at Clearwater. A man named Wright died in a crash about four years ago. The body was taken to Clear water while funeral arrange ments were completed. Survivors include: Mother — Mrs. Catherine Kalihoff of Ew ing; sisters— Mrs. John (Annal Miller, Mrs. Mary Rotherham o and Mrs. Martha Koenig, all of Ewing; Mrs. John (Hilda) Sehi of Clearwater, and Mrs. Lavina Kobalt of Sioux City; brothers— Garrett of Ewing; Joseph of El gin; John of Adair, la.; Carl of Raeville; Otto of Oakdale, and3 Bernard of Omaha. The late Mr. Kallhoffs father., ° William, sr., died in 1932. Pallbearers chosen are ne phews: Richard Miller, James Kalihoff, Richard Kalihoff, Carl ° Rotherham, Virtus Sehi and James Koenig. Work Begun on New Telephone System CHAMBERS — Kenneth Wer ner started Monday to dig trenches and lay cables for the new telephone system he is in stalling. O O The new switchboard was in stalled recently in the building 0 0 he has purchased for a telephone office. The building is the former Legion hall. Mr. Werner remod eled the building and replaced the windows with glass brick to make it more nearly dust proof. Firemen Learn j New Techniques EWING—The fire department held a regular meeting last Thurs day evening at the town halt 0 John Walker, fire chief, presid ed at the business session. After o the routine affairs were discussed and completed, Lee Fowler, a representative of a fire equip ment concern, presented new o ideas as well as equipment in handling fires. Twenty men were present. _ o To New Jersey— Ellwyn Benson took Mrs. Blake Benson to ' Omaha last Thursday from where she flew to Patter- °o son, N.J., where she will spend three weeks visiting her son-in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. PauRer, and family. o