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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1953)
Carl Belzer (above) works on an O'Neill street to keep up World-Herald Photo. with last Thursday's snowfall . . . had to give up. — Omaha Snow, Wind in Winter’s First Blast (Continued from page 1.) contact Norfolk by Saturday morning. Ham radio operators in the Chambers vicinity, principally Ken Werner and Eugene Baker passed s number of messages, including a press dispatch for the Omaha World-Herald’s Har old Cowan, who was strand here. Wind velocity was estimated at 40- to 45-miles-per-hour. At the storm's peak, visibility in O’ Neill was restricted to about 150 feet; in the open country to less than that. Thursday’s westbound main line passenger-mail train reach ed O’Neill 15 minutes behind schedule, and proceeded on to Atkinson where it was held for several hours. The eastbound train that night was annulled. Neither Hie mainline North „ Western or branch line Burling ton railroads were snowbound, but trains were running behind schedule. Thursday's busses in and out of the city were annulled and finally, got back into service on Friday. Major highways in the area were never completely blocked, although a number of motor is*s and truckers abandoned their vehicles and sought refuge in farm homes. The Frontier received no i re ports of human or livestock suf fering—attributed to a lack of intense cold. Lowest temperature during the ordeal was 20. Three inches of fresh snow fell Saturday morning and some wind whipped the snow through Saturday. The. herculean job of digging out was begun early Friday. O’Neill merchants were obliged to postpone one week their tur key day event, which will be held Saturday, December 12, at 4:30 p.m. The storm was a blow to merchants in the area whose stores are packed with yule merchandise. -- Last week’s whopping issue of The Frontier ran into delivery snafus because of the storm. The “Voice of The Frontier” lost its “loop” with radio station WJAQ’s (780 kc) control room because of the ice and was oblig ed to use telephonic recording durin" the storm (until the phone lines buckled), telegraphic dispatches for its regular Satur day morning program, and nor mal programming was not re I sumed until Monday. There was a wholesale cancel j lation of activities on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Many farmers report t h e ground is not frozen and is lit erally soft under the snow. They point out that if the res due lingers until spring the moisture will go into the ground instead of run off. A considerable amount of snow melted during the aftcr nons of Sunday, Monday, Tues day and Wednesday. Week’s weather summary, based on 24-hour periods ending at 6 p.m., follows: Hi Lo Prec. December 3 30 20 .89 December 4 31 14 December 5 ... 26 17 .16 December 6 _ 37 4 December 7 39 27 December 8 _-32 21 .01 December 9 —_21 1 Total ..._ .... 1.06 | Stuart Digs Out from Under Blanket— STUART—Stuart and the sur rounding community Saturday i continued the task of “blasting" j | out from under a ponderous snow I blanket. The snowfall here was estim ated at 16 to 18 inches. Streets are choked and so was ! highway 20 through here. By Friday noon snowplows had broken paths through which per mitted one - way traffic, with chains. Several cars and trucks went into ditches beside highway 20. I The freak snowfall began here at 3:45 p.m., but two miles south of town, three miles east and 13 miles north there was not, a flake of snow until after 8 p.m. By that time there was 3 to 4 inches of snow in Stuart. This is the second snowstorm of the season to give this area generous and welcome moisture. Baled hay movement may be curtailed somewhat by soft mead ows because the ground isn’t fro zen. Production of blue grass seed, an important by-product in this territory, is making a strong comeback. Fall and winter mois ture are essential for good seed crops. Star Locality Gets 15 Inches of Snow— STAR—Elmer Juracek, farmer residing in this community, Mon day estimated 15 inches of snow —or more—had fallen in last Thursday’s storm, plus several additional inches on Saturday. Thawing and soft ground un der the snow helped in the dig ging out process, making some roads passable to a degree. Bassett Gets 12 Inches— Basse IT — Last Thursday’s snowstorm saw 12 incnes of snow dumped on Bassett. Rain in eastern Nebraska spread to the west. Valentine received only five inches of snow Chadron’s snowfall was negligible. Bristow Getting Back to Normal— EKISTuW — This commun ity was back to norma* Monday after several days of blockaded side roads following last Thurs day’s heavy snowstorm. School was closed here Thurs day and Friday and only a few farm residents were able to get through to church services Sun day. More than a foot of snow fell here, and strong winds caused much drifting. School Dismissed— PAGE — The Page public school was dismissed last Thurs day noon because of the blizzard. No school was held Friday. Classroom Shifts Planned, Atkinsoi. ATKINSON — At the regular meeting of Atkinson’s board of education Monday night, plans were studied for additional hous ing for the elementary grades in the public school. The old grade building, al though in good condition, has only five rooms. The doubled en ollment in the lower grades pro hibits continuing the present sys tem of assigning two grades to a room and the board members found that seven rooms will be necessary for the next school year, a spokesman explained. The board plans to convert the large high school assembly into classrooms and move one addi tional upper elementary grade to the high school building. The sev enth and eighth grades are al ready housed in the high school. “Before we think of new build ings, we should make full use of the space we already have,” Board President Wayne Galyen, explained. Plans call for discontinuing the high school assembly-study hall and assigning the high school stu dents to the home rooms. V'-’*or Her®— Richard Golden of Ft. Dodge, la., spent the weekend visiting relatives here. He is the son of Mrs. J. Parnell Golden and the late Mr. Golden, who died Tues day, November 24, in San Diego, Calif. Wc:ds Speaks at F-U Meeting, Lynch Officers for Next Year Named LYNCH—The annual meeting of the Farmers Union cooperative stockholders was held in the American Legion hall on De cember 9, at 1 p.m., for the pur pose of electing officers an$ oth er business. W. W. Woods of the Farmers Union state exchange was speak— er at the program. Hot coffee, buns and roast ham were served at noon. Other Lynch News Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hav ranek returned home Sunday, November 29, from a visit at; Sidney with the Herbert Ross meier family. Earl Rosicky and Roger Woolf were business visitors in Minne sota last week. They returned home on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kirwin of Ft. Randall, S.D., visited at Theo dore Norwood’s last week. Pauline Mulhair was a Spencer visitor Saturday. J. C. Scott of Lake Andes, S.D., was a business visitor in Lynch Sunday, December 6. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kalkowski I visited relatives in Lake Andes, j S.D., Wednesday, December 2. n Mr. and Mrs. James Maly vis ited at the Eldon Sedivy home near Scottville recently. Mr. and Mrs. William Teadtke and family of Bristow visited at the Jerry Sixta home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Devall called at the L. Huber home Sat urday. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Klasna of Spencer were business visitors in Lynch Tuesday, December 1. Robert Conklin is spending his furlough with his parents, the Earl Conklins, at Spencer. On Tuesday, December 1, he visited his grandparents, the Cal Conk 'lins, at Lynch. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Haselhorst spent Wednesday evening, De cember 2, at the Beryl Moody home. Mrs. Joe Nemic of Spencer spent several days here last week with her daughter, Mrs. Martin Jehorek, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Mulhair and family visited at the Jonas John son home in Spencer Wednesday, December 2. Back From Omaha— BUTTE — Mr. and Mrs. Max Davis returned to their home in Omaha Sunday after spending about two weeks here due to the illness of his father, Alvin Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wakefield returned to Omaha with them. BRISTOW NEWS Mrs. Andrew Shelander return ed to her home at Winner, S. D., Sunday after visiting a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Anderson here. Mrs. Larry Bowers entertained relatives and friends Friday after noon in honor of the third birth day aniversary of her daughter, Pamela. Lunch was served and the child received many gifts. Mr. and Mrs. A1 Sofar of Omaha were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Pratt here Sunday and Mon day. Mrs. A. W. Peterson left Sun day for her home at Floodwood, Minn., after a visit of more than two weeks here with her son-in law and daughter, the Rev. and Mrs. Donald E. Johnson. Mrs. Mary Fusch of Lynch is now staying at the Gottfnd Dan ielson home to help care for Mrs. Danielson, who has been bedfast since suffering a stroke last sum mer. ArHvo from Germany— BUTTE—Mrs. Charles Tribby and daughter. Cindy Sue, arrived here during the weekend and are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. | G. W. Tienken. Mrs. Tribby and daughter landed in New York December 1, coming from Perma sens, Germany, where they spent the past 14 months with her hus band, Cpl. Tribby, who was sta tioned there. He is expected here in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bauld of Omaha spent the weekend here visiting Mrs. Bauld’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Enright, and other relatives. NEBRASKA SAVINGS ... 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