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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1953)
o -VOICE [OF THE FRONTIER- 28 PAGES Section 2 — Pages 1-16 Section 1 — Pages 1-12 9:45 A.M. — 780 k.c. m, I# tte.. o . Volume 73.—Number 16. O’Neill, Nebr., Thursday, August 20, 1953. Seven Cents Mary Minnick of Stuart goes on stage with pajamas and housecoat, which she made herself and modeled in the achieve ment day style show. She also made her own "scuffies" (footwear). 850 Exhibits Here in 4-H Achievemet Day John H. Burke, 98, Succumbs Here Rears Family of 10 in Nebraska John H. Burke, 98, one of O’ Neill’s oldest residents, died about 3 o’clock Saturday morn ing, August 15, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edna Coyne. He had been ill about five weeks. Funeral services were conduct ed at 9 o’clock Monday morning, August 17, from St. Patrick’s Catholic church with Rev. Ken neth Carl officiating. Burial was in Calvary cemetery under the direction of Biglin Brothers and the following were pallbearers: G. C. DeBacker, J. Leo Moore, M. M. Langan, Frank Clements, P. C. Donohoe and Richard Min ton. The late Mr. Burke was bom March 10. 1855. in Gage coun ty. Iowa. He married Bridget Duffin on August 29. 1882 in Duel county, Nebraska. They became the par ents of 10 children, all of whom were born in Nebraska. The fam ily resided for several years at Oshkosh and Burwell and for Mr. Burke . . . born in Iowa. many years in the Greeley vi cinity. His wife and two sons, William and Martin, preceded him in death. Between the time of his mar riage and 1912, the late Mr. Burke made his home in Nebraska. In ’12 he moved to near Waubay, S.D., where he resided on a farm until the death of Mrs. Burke on July 16, 1943. Since then he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Coyne. Survivors include: Daughters— Mrs. C. G. (Etta) Jensen of Lil ly, S.D.; Mrs. Lawrence (Blanche) O'Malley of Chambers: Mrs. Nellie Maloney of Webster, S.D.; Mrs. Edna Coyne of O’Neill; Mrs. John (Bessie) Becking of Web ster, S.D.; Mrs. Dale (Emma) Winjum of Watertown, S.D.; sons —Thomas Burke of Summit, S.D.; John F. Burke of Ft. Pierre, S.D. AH were present at the funeral except John F. Other survivors include 29 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. Among out-of-town relatives and friends attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Jensen of Lilly, S.D.; Mrs. Lawrence O’ Malley and sons, Jerry and Leo, of Chambers; Mrs. Nellie Malon ey of Webster, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. John Becking of Webster, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burke and sons, Ronnie and Phil ip, of Summit, S.D.; Mrs. Dale Winjum of Watertown, S.D.'; Mr and Mrs. Joseph Burke and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Burke, all of Oshkosh; Mrs. Leo Dowd of Schuyler; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O’Mallev of Los Angeles, Calif.; Sr. Mary Faith and Sr. Mary Funie, both of Spalding: Sr. Miriam Patricia and Sr. Marga ret Rita, both of Cedar Rapids; John Kennedy of Omaha; Mrs. Stella Coyne and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Coyne, all of Spalding. The Saddle club will hold a rehearsal on the club grounds on Friday evening. The club has an engagement at Page August 31. j I Three hundred fifty 4-H club members, leaders, parents and other interested persons viewed 850 exhibits and 40 demonstra tions in the annual achievement day program held here Friday. Most exhibits were shown at the American Legion auditorium and some of the demonstrations were presented at the Holt coun ty courthouse assembly room. Among the top exhibits were Lois Puckett’s blue denim sport dress, Carolyn Moseman’s plaid gingham school dress, Shirley DeHart’s tailored suit, and Mary Ellen Gillette’s heavenly blue nylon seersucker “dress - up” dress. Lois and Carolyn were select ed as Holt county’s representa tives to the state fair style review with Shirley and Mary Ellen as alternates. Other activities of the day in cluded demonstrations in agri culture and home economics, judging contests in livestock, dairy, clothing, foods, homemak ing and crops, music contest, and the style review. Winners of various events were: Over 12 years—clothing judg ing contests: Lois Puckett, Clover club, Atkinson, and Karen Gar wbod, Sand Hill Billies club, Am elia, with Jo Ann Determan, Clo ver club, Atkinson, and Alice Al lyn, Cleveland club, Stuart, alter nates. Food judging contest: DeMarus Wefso and Carol Schultz, both of the Clover club, Atkinson, first; with Melba Dobrovolny, Up-and At-It club, O’Neill, and Kay Cov entry, Victory Boys and Girls, Inman, alternates. Dairy judging contest: First four places — LeRoy Hull, Red bird Lucky Clover, Redbird; Paul Gunter, Happy Hollow, Ewing; Ronald Chipps, Martha club, Chambers; Dennis Scheer, Happy Hollow. Ewing. Crops judging: First three places—Pat Gokie, Curly Q’s, O’ Neill; Gale and Gary Hilcomb, 212 South Fork club. Chambers. Livestock judging: Nancy Cu att, Sandhill Billies, Amelia, first; Eddie Krugman, Steel Creek, Star, second; Bobbie Beelaert, Eagle Hustlers, Page; Kenneth Hoerle, South Fork Community club, Chambers, and Leon Urban, Martha club. Chambers, three way tie for third. (Plans are be ing' made for another contest so these three boys can work off their tie.) Music: In small group music contest, the group from the Sand hill Billies, Amelia, Mrs. Blaine Garwood, leader, won. The large group winner was the Up-and At-It club from O’Neill, Mrs. C. M. Pierson, leader. The music identification con test was won by Karen Garwood, Sandhill Billies club, Amelia. Demonstrations: Food winners: Jennie Halsey and Marlene Ermer with their “Cookie Decorating,” first; Car olyn Wintermote and Anna Mae Gartner, with their demonstra tion on “Making Drop Cookies,” and Caroline Skopec with her “Freezing of Foods.” Homemaking demonstrations on “Making a 4-H Lamp” by Kar en Garwood was a blue ribbon demonstration. A good clothing demonstration was given by Bon nie Burival on “Assembling a Dress.” The REA demonstrations were “excellent.” One by Gary Hol comb, 212 South Fork club, Chambers, on an electrically heated chicken waterer, and one by Ronnie Hickman, Clover club, Atkinson, on installing a wall plug, were well received. Other very good demonstra tions were given by Pat Mullen and Ellen Havranek from the Hoosier Hot Shot club on pre paring poultry for freezing and by Brenda Beelaert and Linda Cronk, Nifty Needlers club, Page, on farm windbreak planting. SAILOR TO BE HEARD INMAN — A transcription re corded on board a ship off the coast of Korea by Tom W. Clark, Qm/3c, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Clark of Inman, will be broadcast over WJAG at 10:35 a.m., Friday on the “Voice of the News” program. ’53 Fair Dates Are Nearing • Final Preparations Are Being Completed for 61st Annual Show CHAMBERS—This south-Holt county town is bustling with ac tivity as final preparations are being made for the 61st annual Holt county fair. Dates for the four-day exposition are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day, September 1, 2, 3 and 4. Additional bleachers have been added onto the grandstand, swelling by several hundred per sons the capacity of the stands. Considerable repair and ren ovation has taken place in the exhibit halls and barns. The baseball diamond has been pul in top shape, according to President Vern Sageser of Am elia, head of the organization which sponsors the fair — the Holt County Agricultural soci ety. Featured entertainment this year will rival all other arrays of talent ever brought into the county, explained Secretary Ed Wink. “We’re very proud to have contracted, several months ago, a reputable auto pushball organ ization. This will be something completely new in festival enter tainment in this part of the coun try. The crowds will be pleased, we’re sure.” Also carded are V-Roy and company, a magician with live rabbits and ducks and an elabor ate stage setting; Lew Fine and Jeanie, comedy “emcee” with music and dancing; Mary Jane Truax, champion baton twirler and acrobat, and the Cut-Ups, a small but colorful musical organ ization. There will be lots of baseball, band music, midway entertain ment and—most important—hun dreds of wonderful livestock, larm produce and handiwork ex hibits. CRONIN TO BOSTON Julius D. Cronin, O’Neill attor ney and only nominee for presi dent of the Nebraska Bar associa tion, departed Sunday for Boston, Mass., to attend the annual meet ing of the American Bar associa tion. He stopped several days in Chicago, 111., enroute to Boston and plans to visit New York City and Washington, D.C., before re turning the first week in Sep tember. PREMIUM LIST The official Holt county fair premium list plus full details concerning the fair entertain ment may be found in the 16 page supplement to this issue of The Frontier. Additional copies of the premium list are available through Fair Secre tary Edwin Wink of Chambers, The Frontier office or the coun ty agent’s office in O’Neill. Over 3,600 copies were publish ed and distribution has been arranged for most rural postof fice patrons in the county. O Neill Welcomes Natural Gas Several hundred O’Neillites were on hand last Thursday evening when City Council Chair man Emmett Crabb opened the valve that lighted a giant flare erected on North Fourth street in front of the Holt county courthouse. Mr. Crabb substituted for Mayor J. E. Davis, who was out of the city. Frank Soldan of Hastings, sales man ager for Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas company, was principal speaker and distributed prizes. Soldan told the audience the big flame was con suming enough gas to heat 350 average - size 'homes. The ceremony formally marked the ar rival of natural gas here. O’Neill is the largest of 14 northeast Nebraska cities and towns being reached with natural gas by an expansion of the Kansas-Nebra^ka system.—The Frontier Photo. Lucky 4-H’er to Get Top Calf BUTTE—Some lucky 4-H club boy or girl will get a prize calf— a gift of the Niobrara Valley Hereford Breeders’ association. The calf will be exhibited next Wednesday at the Boyd county fair in Spencer. The boy or girl must be a res ident of Boyd, Knox, Holt, Ante lope, Rock, Brown, Keya Paha, Gregory or Charles Mix counties. County agents will assist in the selection of the winning youth. CARHART DIES Charles E. Carhart, 78, a prom inent northeast Nebraska lumber man and Wayne civic leader, died in a Wayne hospital about 4 a.m., Wednesday. Mr. Carhart was owner and part-owner of a chain of eight lumberyards in Wayne, O’Neill, Hartington, Ran dolph, Bloomfield, Pierce, Plain view and Neligh. The O’Neill yard is the Moore-Noble Lbr. Co. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Stearns . . . soon to be wed half-cen tury.—O'Neill Photo Co. Holt Couple Feted in Park (Photo below) A family picnic dinner was held Sunday at Ford’s park in honor of the forthcoming 50th wedding anniversary of Archie L. Stearns and Nina Katherine Pelmulder Stearns, who will have been married a half-century on November 20. The observance was held prematurely because their daughter, Mrs. Earl Goree of Grants Pass, Ore., was able to attend now and would be unable to come at the time of their an niversary. At the dinner, the cen terpiece was a four-tier cake dec orated with gold frosting and yel low roses. About 50 friends and relatives attended. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Stearns were married November 20, 1903, in the Methodist parsonage at Hurley, S.D., by Rev. Gordon L. Granger. The witnesses were Miss Matilda Christianson of Hurley, S.D., and Clarence Fay of Spen cer. After their marriage they lived near Gregory, S.D., and Spencer. They also homesteaded in Stanley county, South Dakota. A few years later they moved to a place near Eagle creek where Mr. Sterans carried the mail from O’Neill to Ankahr for many years. About 1930 they moved to O’Neill, due to the failing health of Mr. Stearns, and they have lived here since that time. They became the parents of eight children. They are: Mrs. Forrest (Carmen) Smith of Grand Island; Richard of Wood River; Mrs. Earl (Keva) Goree of Grants Pass, Ore.; Dale C. of Hastings, who was not present; Mrs. Lau rence (Doris) Tenborg of O’Neill, and Mrs. Cecil (Cora) Spry of O’ Neill. Two children, Harold Quentin and Lema Lillian, died in infancy. Lema Lillian was a twin sister of Mrs. Goree. They have 22 grandchildren, five of whom were not present, and seven great-grandchildren, of whom all were present. Archie Stearns was bom at Freeborne, Minn., and came to Spencer with his parents and grandparents at the age of 11. Mrs. Stearns was bom near Cen terville, S.D., later moving to Hurley, S.D., with her parents where she lived until her mar riage. On December 1, both will celebrate their 75th and 82d birthday anniversaries, respec tively. CONDITION "GOOD" EMMET—William Grothe, sr., who recently fell down the base ment stairs at his home and broke a vertebrae in his neck, is in the General hospital at Lincoln. He has been placed in a cast and his condition is “good.” Return from East— Rev. and Mrs. Wallace B. Smith and family returned last Thurs day evening from an extended trip of the East coast. They were in Washington, D.C., at the time of U.S. Sen. Robert Taft’s funer al. They visited New York City and Philadelphia, Pa., among many other points. Wind Research Is on Schedule; Sunday Open-House The famous air force wind test project, officially known as the “Great Plains Turbulence Field Project,” is being carried out on schedule, according 10 Ben Da vidson, coordinator for the pro ject. The military and university science staff here has been at full force for three weeks and operations have been carried out on three different nights. South erly winds are required for night time testing. Open-house will be observed at the site on Sunday, August 23, between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m. The public is invited and guides will escort small groups of people to the various huts and explain in lay language the gen eral functions and procedures. Maj. Oscar Tibbetts, commander of the military establishment here, is organizing the tour. Ordinary civilians will be awed when they find pingpong balls sliced in half spinning in the wind and exciting thousands of dollars worth of elaborate elec tric relays, amplifiers and count ing machines. Visitors will be advised that most of the testing equipment on the site has been custom-built or especially assembled for the O’Neill project. North-Central Playoffs Begin The season’s-end playoffs will get underway Sunday among the top four teams in the North-Cen tral Nebraska baseball circuit. Bassett, Atkinson, O’Neill and Springview finsihed the season in that order. In the playoffs, to determine the tourney championship, O’ Neill will face Atkinson under the lights at Atkinson on Sunday, August 23. The second game in the best-two-out-of-three series will be played at O’Neill Thurs day night, August 27. The third game — if necessary — will be played on date and grounds not yet decided. Springview will go to Bassett in the first of the two-out-of three series with the league champions. This game will be played on Sunday night, August 23. Plans have not yet been an nounced for succeeding games in the Springview-Bassett series. Standings at the end of the regular playing season: W L Bassett_11 1 Atkinson _ 9 3 O’Neill . 8 4 Springview _7 5 Stuart ___4 8 Chambers _8 8 Ainsworth_0 12 5 Generations Represented This five-generation group posed for the photographer on Sunday, August 16, during a reunion at the Omer Povnts home at Atkinson. The infant is one-year-old Little Miss Tegri Martin, seated on the lap of her mother, Mrs. Richard Martin, 20, of Con cord, Calif. The child’s grandmother, Mrs. C. G. House, 38, also of Concord (extreme left), is seated beside her daughter. Stand ing in rear is Mrs..Omer Poynts, 53, of Atkinson, Little Tegri’s ; great-grandmother, and seated in the foreground is Mrs. Poynts’ : mother, Mrs. J. R. Jarvis, 82, of Boulder, Colo., formerly of At kinson. Mrs. Jarvis is Little Tegri’s great-great-grandmother. Mrs. Alice Peabody and three sons of Dallas, S.D., also were visitors that day at the Poynts home. The Californians have begun their j homeward trip.—The Frontier Photo by Elwood Brady. , Hereford Tourists Arrive Group, 150 Strong, Feted by Chamber i n Buffet Dinner A group of about 150 Ne braska Hereford cattle breeders, feeders and persons closely re lated to the industry converged on O’Neill in the final phase cs£ the annual state Hereford tour The delegation assembled Mon day at Ord where a barbecue was served in the city park. Next came stops at Loup City, Ansley and Broken Bow, where the tour ists spent Monday night. On Tuesday visits were made at Sar gent, Taylor, Burwell and Bas sett, remaining overnight in Bas sett. Setting out from Bassett at ► 7:30 a.m., Wednesday, the tour wended its way to the William Ripley, F. E. Titus and F. E. Wentworth ranches near Spring view, inspecting and admiring purebred and commercial cattle on their way. They also visited the Kaup Bros, ranch inside South Dakota, near Gregory-; L. J. Lechtenberg ranch near Butte; and Clyde Fisher ranch at Spen cer. Lunch was served at Spen cer. Wednesday afternoon stops were made at the C. C. Nelson ranch near Spencer, also the Walt Sire and S. R. Robertson ranches in Holt county. The tourists were feted Wed nesday evening in a buffet din ner at the Country club by the Chamber of Commerce. The Hereford men, many of them accompanied by their wives, were entertained Wedne? day night in private O’Neill homes, also in the hotels and mo tels. A critical housing situation prompted the Chamber to appeal to Simonson unit of the Amer ican Legion auxiliary for assist ance in finding rooming accom modations in private homes. Early stops today (Thursday) will be made at the Harold Mel cher and H. A. and R. E. Van Horn ranches south of Page. Later, they will visit the George Rowse and Whitaker & Whitaker herds near Chambers. Lunch will be served by the Methodist women of Chambers. Afternoon visits will be made at the C. V. Robertson place west of Chambers, V e r n Sageser ranch at Amelia, and the tour will be climaxed at the C Bar M Hereford ranch, five miles south of O’Neill. J. B. Grady and John C. Wat son headed the Chamber com mittee in charge of Wednesday’s? buffet dinner. W. W. (“Bill”) Derrick, animal husbandryman from the Univer sity of Nebraska college of agri culture, annually organizes and heads the statewide Hereford tour, now in its seventh year. Robert Thompson Dies in Wahsingtore Funeral services were held ora Wednesday, July 29, for Robert Thompson, 39, of Seattle, Wash.,. formerly of O’Neill, in the Si. Thomas Catholic church at Se attle. Burial was in the Green wood cemetery at Renton, Wash. Robert Thompson was born on. December 23, 1914, at Creightor.'. and died on July 24, 1953, at Se attle, Wash., of a heart condition. He had been employed at the Montgomery hardware store for several years before going to Se attle. Survivors include: Widow: three young sons; mother—Mrs Carrie Thompson of Creighton. Move to Ogallala— Mr. and Mrs. Dale Nissen left Saturday morning for Ogallalai where they will make their home. Mr. Nissen has been transferred, there by the Consumers Public Power district. R. D. Landis has been placed in the position for merly held by Mr. Nissen. Her man Renze of Hartington will read the meters, a post previous ly held by Mr. Landis. Thomas Liddy of Columbus, who is replacing Harold Peterson as the district accountant, and his family have moved into the house previously occupied by Mr. andi Mrs. Dale Nissen. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Wells of Axtell came Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wells and ather friends and relatives. CHOW LEFT-OVER Because considerable buffet food was left-over Wednesday evening at the Hereford dinner. Chamber of Commerce officials have decided to organize a "left-over” dinner tonight (Thursday), starting at 6:30* p.m. Chamber members and their wives are invited. "There will be enough food for today’s party to feed 150 people,” Mr. Grady said.