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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1953)
"'" PAGES f ■ ★ |i5 i4.,,,,,., .., „v ,. ,,»,, j:> #|1| ^|]', ' PAGES 9:45 A M. — 780 k.c. 1 TO 12 North-Central Nebraska’s BIG Newspaper J Volume 73.—Number 20. O’Neill, Nebr., Thursday, Sept. 17, 1933 Seven Cents —. - .... . .--A . .—--- --. ... *. - "-= I STATE HIST SOC jf <zx Gonzalez machine . . . body five feet away.—The Frontier Pftoto. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Airman Dies When * 3 Auto Rolls Over • n * Concrete Pouring Begins at Pool Cement Will Arrive Monday for Streets Construction on two major municipal improvement projects moved into a new phase this week. Pouring of concrete was be gun on the footings of the new swimming pool, being built in the center of Ford’s park, and forms are being readied on Ever ett street, between third and Fourth, for initial pouring of concrete on the new eight-block paving project. Art Summers, superintendent of the pool project for the Dob son Brothers Construction com pany of Lincoln, said the pool job would consume about a car load of cement. Meanwhile, C. W. Acklin, su perintendent of the paving job for the same contractor firm, estimated the eight lineal blocks of paving would require about 11 carloads. The first carload is expected to reach O'Neill on Monday with other deliveries scheduled in quick succession. Gravel is being shipped in for both jobs from Atkinson. Ackjin’s paving crew includes ! 18 men. Their equipment in- f eludes a cat with loader, five ; trucks, a motor patrol and a pickup. A separate staff mans ! the concrete mixer, now working ! at the pool site. Acklin said pouring Concrete on the streets | wiH begin Monday if cement de liveries are on schedule. The' eight-block project, legc - •ly described as curb, gutter nr.d paving in improvement districts 7 and 8, includes pavement from ‘ 55 to 57 feet wide a half block north and south of Douglas on Third, and'Fifth streets. At the alleys the paving narrows to 40 f feet in width. The half - block from the Spells-Ray Lumber company * 1 *. corner to the alley east on Ev erett will be 55 feet wide; the balance of the block 40 feet. Meanwhile, no documents have been filed with City Clerk O. D. French although petitions seeking 14 blocks of paving in proposed new districts are in * circulation. Frank Clements and Melvin Klingler, who have been seeking signers, said Wednesday they are hoping for “several more names” of property owners The Clements-Klingler petition simply asks the council to con sider haTdsurfacing without spe cifying type. . A counter petition also is be ing circulated but the opponents to the Clements-Klingler move offer no comment on the success or lack of it todate. The paving bug apparently is spreading because The Fi or tier learned from a reliable source that A petition will be out :oday (Thursday) seeking signers tor a proposed district extending on Fourth street one block north to the Adams street intersection, thence running three blocks east cn Adams. Lightning Strikes Church Chimney STUART — The chimney on St. Boniface Catholic church was demolished Tuesday night, September 8, when it was struck bv lightning during a severe electrical storm. The town black ed-out for a short time during the storm when a fuse blew out. Pasture Fire Brings Firemen— CELIA—The rural fire depart ment fire equipment was called from Atkinson to put out a fire in a pasture one mde south and a half mile west of the Clarence 'Focken home last Thursday af ternoon. It is thought the fire was caused by a tractor which Mr. Focken was using to move a haystacker which he planned to use in helping his brother, Mar vin Focken, put up his hay. Neighbors and men working on- a county road by the Duane Beck home helped put out the fire. Little wind was blowing which also aided in stopping the • blaze. &t Osenbaugh Home— Mrs. Velma Morgan and Mre. ; Zelma Megrue were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Osenbaugh Wednesday, Septem ber 9. -. A 22-year-old airman, who had been on duty here only 10 days, died at 2:45 a.m., Sunday at the junction of U.S. highways 20 and 281, IV2 miles northwest of O’Neill, in a one-car accident. When the late-model east bound car driven by S/Sgt. An tonio Gonzalez overturned and came to a stop, the driver’s life less body was picked up about five feet from the wrecked ma chine. The airman’s civilian compan ion, William Brewton, said he “blacked out” during the roll over, but he pulled himself out of the wreckage and walked away from the accident, suffer ing only from shock and minor cuts and bruises. Brewton, who was separat ed from the air force only a few days before, was here to visit Gonzalez, who had been sent to O'Neill to act as first sergeant in the dismantling of the O'Neill wind test site. Brewton told State Patrolman Gude the two had been visiting friends at Emmet and were re turning to O’Neill. The Gonzalez machine clipped a highway sign in the intersec tion’s island, knocked off two posts, rolled over and landed in a reverse position in the ditch at the east side of the intersec tion. Gonzalez’ body was thrown from the car and was found lying in the grass. Marks on the road indicated brakes had been applied more than one hundred feet, suggest ing considerable speed. The cor ner is marked as a 35-mile-per hour maximum speed corner. Maj. Oscar Tibbetts, command- j ing officer of the wind test air force personnel here, said Gon zalez was single. The dead man’s heme is at San Antonio, Tex. The body was removed from the Biglin Brothers funeral home to an Omaha mortuary pending completion of funeral arrange ments. Gonzalez was assigned to an Offutt air base squadron. On July 30 six wind lest per sonnel were killed in a heli copter accident before the tests got underway. Gonzalez' death on the highway came af ter the tests were over and the personnel were leaving. It was Holt county’s second auto fatality of the year. The first occurred August 24 on the same intersection, known as the drive-in theater corner (formerly Danceland), when Aaron Cohn, O’Neill grocer, was killed in stantly in a car-truck crash. Mrs. Guy Cook Rites Today, Venus VENUS—Funeral services will be h*ld today (Thursday) at 2 o'clock at the Venus church for Mrs. Guy Cock, 69, who died Monday. Mrs. Cook’s husband and four of her nine children preceded her in death. Surviv ors include four daughters and one son. Family Together First Time in 15 Years— LYNCH—Mrs. Josephine Bos ka was surprised when all her children simultaneously came home on Sunday, September 6. It was the first time they were together at the same time in 15 years. Those present were Joe Boska of Lynch, Mrs. Richard (Anna) Minerts and husband of Council Bluffs, la., Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Boska and son. Emden, of Mis souri, Mrs. Deloss (Mary) Mal colm and family of Bristow and Frank Boska of Bristow. Liable Back from Far East, Separated— ATKINSON—Relatives receiv ed a phone call Wednesday from Cpl. Leo Liable of Atkinson, stating he is in Colorado Springs, Colo., and was discharged from I the army. He had served 1 Vz jears in Japan and docked Sep tember 8 on the West coast. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Liable of Atkinson and the brother of Mrs. Glenn Gettert of O’Neill. 20 CATTLE DIE Gene Mudloff of the Page community early Wednesday re ported the loss of 20 head of cat tle found dead. They had been pastured in alfalfa. A veterinar ian worked all morning on other cattle in the herd of 85. BORG ARRIVES Sgt. Dwayne Borg, son of Mr. and' Mrs. Axel Borg of O’Neill, arrived Monday at Seattle, Wash., aboard the navy trans Dort. Gen. M. M. Pattnck. Borg has been in the Far East. Rouse Dies in Omaha , Hospital Funeral Rites Held! Monday at Inman; Lifelong Resid e n t ! INMAN—Herbert R. Rouse, 63, i a lifelong resident of Holt coun j ty, died about 11 p.m., Thursday, September 10, in the Methodist | hospital at Omaha where he had been a patient only two days. He had been ill, though not seriously, about a month. Funeral services were con ducted at 2 p.m., Monday, Sep tember 14, from the Methodist church at Inman with Rev. J. LaVerne Jay, O’Neill district superintendent for the Metho dist church, officiating. He was assisted by Rev. L. E. Mewmaw of Inman. Burial was in the Inman cem etery under the direction of Biglin Brothers. Pallbearers were Casper Prib d, Glen Burge, Harlan Moore, Otto Retke, Lewis Kopecky, jr, and Calvin Geary, all of the Inman community. The lafe Herbert Raymond Rouse was born October 27, 1889, in the Blackbird com munity north of O'Neill, a son of Alphonzo and Mary Griffith Rouse, a norih-Holt pioneer couple. He was reared and educated in that community. Rouse . . . well-known. For more than 35 years he farmed four miles southwest of Inman, where he was prominent in community affairs. He was a member of the Methodist church and the Inman chapter of the Odd Fellows lodge. On December 29, 1915, he mar ried Blanche Eva Keyes at In man. They became the parents of three sons and two daughters. One son, Merwyn Sydney, died November 19, 1917, as an infant. Survivors include: Widow — Blanche; sons — Walter H. of Grand Island and Marvin E. of O’Neill; daughters—Mrs. Gerald (Lelia M.) Risor of O’Neill and Mrs. Milton (Marjorie E.) Mc Kathnie of Atkinson; brother — Howard of O’Neill; sisters—Miss Maude of O’Neill; Mrs. Edith Young of O’Neill; Mrs. Bertha Hayden of Wiggins, Colo., and Mrs. Henry (Mildred) Walters of O’Neill. FIREMEN CALLED O’Neill firemen answered an alarm at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday at the alley entrance on Third street, between Douglas and Ev erett. Gas crewmen were cutting a main. The balloon used for re taining gas for the cut broke and a big flame developed. Gas crewr employees extinguished the flames before firemen arrived. Tommy . . . sicull fracture ★ ★ ★ Soy Fails From Speeding Car Thomas Wanser, 9, son of Mr. ;nd Mrs. Max Wanser of Inman, is in “fair” condition at St. An thony’s hospital here, suffering a ccmpound skull fracture. The boy, a fourth grade pupil in the Ewing public school, was hitch hiking to Ewing about 10:45 o’ clock Sunday morning on U.S. highway 275, expecting to join his father there. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Coven try and son, also of Inman, stop ped to pick up Thomas, better known as “Tommy.” The jour ney was resumed but the rear door through which Tommy en tered was not securely latched. Tommy attempted to fully close the door while the car was speeding along between 50 and j60 miles per hour. In the Wanser family car this can be safely done, but the door on the Coventry machine opens into the wind and Tommy was hurl ed onto the pavement at a point about lv2 miles east of the junc tion of U.S. highways 20 and 275. The Coventrys picked up the Wanser boy and rushed him to his father at Ewing. Mr. Wanser , promptly took the boy to St. An- j thony’s. The split is on the right side of- the head. The boy was never completely unconscious. Boy’s Leg Hurt in Tractor Mishap The condition of Bobby How ard, 11-year-old son of Mrs. Elizabeth Howard of O’Neill, is reported as “good” in the Uni versity hospital at Omaha. The boy, who is a pupil in rural school district 5, taught by Miss Marie Schneider, Friday was visiting at the Nick Bonenberger place near Atkinson. While helping around a trac tor, his foot slipped in a winch at the rear of the machine being operated by a cousin, who was bringing in some hay. Bobby was taken to the Oma ha hospital where surgery was performed Friday evening. His mother is near him and advises relatives here there will not be additional surgery at least for several days. Saddle Clubbers Eye Roundup— The O’Neill Saddle club will hold a meeting Sunday after non at 1 o’clock. Plans are being made for the second annual roundup which will be held October 11 at the club grounds, followed by a dance in the evening. Last year the following clubs participated: Antelope county, Sand Hill Billies of Atkinson, Stuart, Spencer and Butte. It is expected those clubs will all take part again this year and possibly clubs from Wagner, S.D., and Page, also will attend. Methodists Get Charter j.nc newiy-organizea mens ciUD oi the Methodist church received a charter at the r Sunday morning worship service at, the church when Kenneth Eyer of Rojral (right) made a formal charter presentation to George Peter son (center). The church pastor. Rev. Wallace B. Smith, is pictured with them.—The Fron tier Photo, I Europeans Visit Chambers Farms miee vcung men irom Germany, one trom Switzerland and one from Austria stopped overnight Saturday at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd 'Whitaker, northwest of Cham bers. The Europeans were admitted to the U.S. for a year to study industrial techniques and were assigned to the Davenport-Rock Is land-Moline area where one of them became acquainted with Ranald Whitaker, who works Hi alaboratorv in Moline. He routed the Euro peans by car through Holt county and insist ed they visit his parents. Mr. Whitaker took his guests on a sidetrip to the C. V. Robertson place where they are shown (above) drinking from a flowing well. Left-to-right: Dietrich Schweicharet of Tuttlingen, Wurtemberg, Ger many; Otto Brechbuehl of Thun, Berne, Swit zerland; Philip Emerich of Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany; Fritz Meyer of Cologne, Germany; Frank Koeppel of Graz, Austria. Looking on (at right) arc Elwyn Robertson and his son, Jerry. The tourists left early Sunday for the Black Hills and will continue by auto on to the Pacific coast. They have been in this coun try Six months. Several of them have served in European armies.—The Frontier Photo. Dean Prewitt in Narrow Escape AMELIA—Mrs. Alice Prewitt received word from her son. Dean, who is in Korea, stating -hat he was nearly electrocuted while working on some lines. The power was accidentally turned on without warning to the linemen. In some manner he was able to kick loose from the wires. He was in the hospital at the time he wrote, but said he was “well, only a little stiff.” O'Neill Story on G.I. Station Friday— Ted Haas of radio stations KMMJ, Grand Island, and KXXX, Colby, Kans., Friday visited O’Neill and recorded a 15-minute program on Douglas street. The program enittled “Hel lo-o-o-o There,” will be broad cast at 11:15 a.m., Friday, Sep tember 18, by KMMJ. Appear ing on the impromptu program are Mayor J. E. Davis, James W. Rooney, School Supt. D. E. Nel son, Rev. Kenneth Carl, Mrs. Virgil Laursen, Mrs. J. Leo Moore, Cal Stewart. Mrs. Clay Johnson, jr., and others. A similar program will be heard today (Thursday) at 11:15 a.m., recorded last week at Ew ing. Mrs. Louis Brown and Cindy, and Mrs. Floyd Johnson and Lin da visited at Bill Murray’s Fri day. Mary Jarvis, 82, Dies in Hospital Succumbs Following Flight ATKINSON—Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Jarvis, 82, will be conducted at 2 p.m., today (Thursday) from the Methodist church in Atkinson. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery with Rev. E. G. Hughes officiating. The late Mrs. Jarvis had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Staley, at Watford City, N.D., and became ill about two weeks ago. Tuesday she was flown to Atkinson by air ambulance, ar riving about 11 a.m. About 4 o’ clock that afternoon she died in Atkinson Memorial hospital. The late Mrs. Jarvis, whose maiden name was Mary West fall, was born at Griswold, la., September 16, 1871. She came to Atkinson with her family 55 years ago. She was married April 15, 1888, to the late John R. Jarvis at Anita, la. Survivors niclude: Daughters —Mrs. Lloyd (Zela) McDowell of Atkinson; Mrs. Ralph (Ethel) Lary of Northfield, Minn.; Mrs. Clyde (Myrl) Staley of Watford City, N.D.; sons—Merna of San Rruno, Calif., and Ralton of Boulder, Colo. Cards Schedule Coyote Scrimmage Coach Bob Berigan’s St. Ma ry’s academy Cardinals will meet the Chambers Coyotes in a prac tice scrimmage next Monday at Chambers. It will be a breather j for both six-man grid teams. There are six lettermen on the squad: Capt. George Tomlin son, Mike London, Dick Graham, j Ray Donohoe, Jim Schmitz and j Duane Weier. Running in the backfield in early rehearsals are Tomlinson, Graham, Donohoe, all veterans, and Tommy Head and Terry Wanser, non-veterans. Other promising candidate? are Jerry Cuddy, John Connot, Terry Donlin, Matt Hynes, Lar ry Johnson. Ronnie Murphy, Gene O’Neill, Jim Becker and Jim Froelcih. Tentative schedule: Sept. 25—Spencer, there. Oct. 2—Sacred Heart (Gree ley), here. Oct. 9—Marty Mission, S.D., there. Oct. 16—Lynch, here. Oct. 23—Sacred Heart (Nor folk), here. Nov. 11—St. Edward, here. [ Star Entertains Guests from Afar O’Neill, Orchard, Stuart and Atkinson chapters of the Order of the Eastern Star entertained the grand officers at a district meeting in O’Neill on Wednes day, September 9, with a 6:30 p.m., dinner and an informal meeting later with about one hundred members present. Grand officers attending were Mrs. Velma Morgan, worthy grand matron; Mrs. Zelma Me grue, associate grand matron; Martin O. Trindal, associate grand patron; Mrs. Hazel Erick son, grand chaplain; N. W. Lall man, grand marshall; Mrs. M. Trindal, grand representative of Arkansas; Mrs. N. W. Lallman, grand representative of British Columbia. After the program everyone enjoyed the talks by the grand officers. Plainview Holds Eaeles in Deadlock w The O’Neill Eagles had an in auspicious opening Friday night on the Plainview grid. They out downed, outyarded and out charged the Pirates at every turn yet the game ended in a scoreless deadlock. Coach Marv Miller’s kids muffed three golden scoring op portunities. One fumble early in the game on the enemy 7 spoiled the threat. In the second stanza, j the O'Neill crew fumbled on the 10 while knocking on the Pirates’ door and in the final period the Blues intercepted a pass on the Plainview 5 but still couldn’t punch across a score. Plainview threatened in the final minutes of the game on a j long pass that was completed with fleet Larry Chace coming ; from behind to haul down the ' Plainview receiver on the O’- ! Neill 10. Warren Seger snagged 7 out ' of 10 passes for the Blues and | Sanders grabbed 3. Standouts for j O’Neill were Seger, Chace, Du- j ane Booth and Duane DeVall. For Plainview, Fulback Ashburn j was the big gun. The Eagles will entertain Bas sett at Carney park Friday night. Miller thinks Bassett will be the toughest club on the Blues’ schedule, sporting an all veteran team. Last year O’Neill downed Bassett, 13-6. Guests at Gallaghers— Rev. Eugene F. Gallagher, S.J., of St. Louis, Mo., visited his brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. -Tohn R. Gallagher and children, Sunday. A Monday guest of the Gallaghers was Jack Frenking of Sidney. Regional Director Sends to Washington His ‘Final Report’ The federal bureau of recla mation has “recommended for early development’’ two more projects in the Niobrara river basin. The two — the O’Neill canal and irrigation project and the Mirage lake flats extension pro ject—would add almost 72,000. acres of irrigated land to Ne braska. Estimated cost is $85 mil lion for the O’Neill project and $7.6 million for the Mirage flats proposal. The recommendations were contained in a report which Av ery Batson of Denver, Colo., bureau of reclamation regional chief, termed the “final report’’ on the subject. „ Together with two projects previously recommended— the Ainsworth canal and the La vaca development — these would total an estimated $120 million in federal spending. The total irrigated land involv ed is about 144,400 acres. By federal law the proposal will have to be reviewed by state. officials concerned. Dan Jones chief of the state irrigation di vision, said he expected Secre tary of the Interior McKay would officially submit a copy to Gov. Robert Crosby for his for mal comments. The projects recommended for early develop ment include: The Ainsworth canal which will deliver water from the Mer ritt reservoir on the Snake river in Cherry county by waterway across Cherry and Brown coun ties into the Ainsworth area to irrigate about 44,800 acres. Cost $85 milion. This is by far the largest single package of irriga ble land in the basin. The Lavaca flats project on the Niobrara itself in Sheridan and Cherry counties, due south' of Gordon, to irrigate about 3,150 . acres. Cost about $970,000. The O’Neill project to take water from the Niobrara near Meadville across Rock and Holt counties to the O’Neill area to irrigate 66,000 acres. Cost about $85 million. The Mirage flats extension project, to extend the only ma jor irrigation project on the Nio brara at present to the eastward in Sheridan county. Cost about $7.6 million. Except for the two new recom mended areas, the report was much like its predecessors. Under discussion were 14 sep arate projects in the Niobrara basin. The report concurred with previous reports that only irri gation and not hydroelectric projects must be considered at present. In a formal hearing here last winter, no objections to the bu reau’s irrigation plan were heard. The Ainsworth project has brought strong objections by Cherry county ranchers who don’t want it cutting across their cattle land. They have protested to both Crosby and his predeces sor, former Gov. Val Peterson. One of their major arguments is dealt with briefly in the recla mation report. They protest that seepage from and into the canal may hurt their ranch land. Particularly where the randh ers have hayland they fear that* water may seep into the canal, leaving their fields dry, or that in other places it will seep out of the waterway, making their meadows too damp. Also in winter they fear that ’now will drift over the canal | fences and cattle will wander blindly into the open ditch. The report states, “Damage to* • land along the canal is unlikely as the canal wherever necessary will be lined to prevent seep age and checks and drops will be* constructed to prevent drainage of hay meadows adjacent to the*' canal. It is also stated that the canal will be fenced or other safeguards provided wherever hazards appear to exist.” This could mean lining with concrete or asphalt as much as. 21 miles of the 52-mile canal. Andy Wettlaufer Joins Police Force Andy Wettlaufer, retired farm er who is well-known in the O' Neill and Page communities*. Friday began his duties as a member of the police force cn the night shift. He succeeds Sam Banks. (See editorial, “Enough of Joe Wert”, on page 2.)