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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1954)
. * c o • . v * • ;.£ ' O t . ' • '■ * . O '"Voice of The Frontier" pll TWELVE ; • • Mon. — Wed. — Sal. 9:45 A.M. — 780 k.c. * *1. * B o o i * . . ■ \ O Volume 73.—Number 49. ONeill, Nebraska, Thursday, April 8, 1934. ° Seven Cents ... ■■■ - ..—. ..—___ _ O 0 O ® ® o Q U° ° ' 9 Jo g 0 Linville Elected Mayor -'l Q _ _ _ _ of Atkinson as Write-In ; O 0 Q © • W .. . .. - ATKINSON—Willard Linville becomes Atkinson’s new mayor. c succeeding Francis D. Lee, who was not a candidate for reelection. Linville won the honors in Tuesday’s municipal election via the 9 write-in route, the mayoralty office a blank on the municipal bal ° lots. He defeated Ervin Parsons and George Randol, who collected 37 and 26 votes, respectively. o ° o Gonderinger was elected city clerk without opposition. He re ® cently was appointed to fill a vacancy. o n Other incumbents5 were restored to office, virtually without opposition. Around 350 ballots were cast, unofficially. o Or ° 03 ° 1st 2nd 3d * Tot. For mayor— ° Willard Linville;* < 0. 106 # 58 115 — 279 Ervin Parsons* ;__6 12 19 — 37 George Randol* . . 14 8 4 — 2G 's o For city clerk— 0 Gerry Gonderinger . ...135 73 12^ — 330 For city treasurer—^ ® ? ^ * I. R.0Dickerson 146 76 122 — 344 0 0For police magistrate oQ Frank 0Determan 139 73 112 _ 324 For city council—o 0 ' R'oy Griffin ° a 0 0— _ ... 118 . — no A-J- Frost 77 M _ 77 0Leo Seger . , 145 _ H5 For board of education— r °0 Walter Pucketf .—-*--o—« —114 71 104 —* 289 Lawrence0 Storjohann . ..._J12 61 125 — 293 .0*Write-in. „o _ on 0 0 O CO “■ n ' "" *" >_ Former ° Resident 3 ° °n. ° ° 1 , Dies in Colorado o ° o 0 Mrs.0° Charles Baker 1 o ° | Borii Here , °Mrs. Charles Baker, 70, a na* t’ve0 of the O'Neill community, diegl Tuesday, March 30, at her o “home in Botilderp Colo., a victim of cancer. o oo - o Funeral services were con ed ucted Friday, April 2, from Sa cred Heart cCatholic? church ;nc °°0 Boulder with burial there. Rev r erend^Pheifeij0 officiated. The late Mrs. Baker, whose maiden ham^ was Maty MuHen, o was born March 16, 1884, north of O’Neill on tlje family home stead? Her parents were the late Mr. can^ Mrs. J? P. Mullen. She attended schooj at? O’Neill and O°on July 21;' 1904, she married 0Mr. Baker at Atkinson. The couple resided^ Qn a farm foi- many ^years, leaving Holt county inG1939 to go to Colorado v. here he worked0 in the tur key0 hatchery business. For the past five years0 he has been re tired? °° ° ' c Mrs. Baker became ill Decem 0 ber 7 and herohealth declined rapidly. 0 A sister, Miss Katie ‘■^Mullen of O’Neill, was called to Bouldero “ and0 helped care for Mrs. Balce^ until she died. Survivorso include: Widower; Qsons —o Wilbur ofo Janesville, Wise., Qand Harold of Boulder; gnine grandchildren; brother >— o °WiJlianf Mullen of jCmmet; sis ters — Mrs. James Regal, Mrs5. Jennie Shorthill, Katie Mullen o and LMrs. LIrene Jurgensiqeier, j.ll of O’Neill. oMiss K^tie Mullen returned to o O’Neill late Mond,ay,> ‘o “o “ -— 14 Sales Listed on : ° Frontier Calendar p ° o . O O o _ T u ■> t There are four public auctions listed on The Frontiers sale cal ° endar. ^Thesa include: o Friday,0 April 9: Mar n \V. Breyer of Neligh, formerly of Naper, will offej0 his improved o °o320 -cacre Boyd county Jstocx farm, on -premises, four miies: west arid cme mile south of Na °per; Gabelman & Chambers, Ne b. ligh. brokers; Col. Ed -Thorin, O’Neill, auctioneer; Bill Bowker, O’Neill, cclerk-broker. ' c° Saturday, April 10: Consign ment furniture auction, 2‘,4 blocks south of traffic signal; o o John McCft?llan,° rrfgr.; Col. Ed Thorin, auctioneer; Bill Bowker, o clerk. ° (Se% advertisement on page 8.) o0 o ?o : Wednesday, April 14: Kenneth Oetter,u who fives 23 miles south of O’Neill, one mile west 3 and one .^mife 0seuth, will sell ■j personal property including 30 head of dairy cSttle, farm ma chinery gndo equipment (See ad o'vertisement on page 4() 0 J ° Friday, April 23: Mrs. Ellen Welch ofo the Dorsey communi tv will offer her highly-imprcv cd l,000-acre°Holt county ranch, livestock and .other personal property; Col. Ed Thorin, 0’ Neill, auctioner - broker; q Bill Bowker, O’Neill, “clerk-broker. (See full description in°next is sue.) o° °,P on0 -s-*-" Social Security 0 0 Rep Coming— ' o ° Martin cGundlaeh, field repre sentative of the Omaha office of the social security administra tion, will be at O’Neill in the courthouse, Wednesday, Apiil 14, betweeft the hours of 9 a.m. 0 and dl a.m. ° ° Q He will assist Retired individ uals who0 wish to0 file claims for 0 old-age insurance benefits, as well as those who wish to file claims for survivoics insurance obenefits. „ o *o o ° o Q-o Mrs. Maring Feted on Anniversary— f An anniversary dirftier was held at the Aflo Hiatt home Sun day honoring Mrs. Emma Mar ing, 85, whose birthday was Sat urday? April 3. Relatives present were: °her brother, J. S. Hoffman of Chanf-o bers, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hoffman", Mr] and Mrs. Ralph Hoffman cand = Carol, Jeanette Klabenes, all of Chambers, and Oliver and Homer Maring of Emmet. o;o o ° O O , o ,1 TO Captain Baker . . . veteran of Korean war.—USAF Photo. (Story at right) Elizabeth Cullen Funeral at Page Lifelong Resident of Nebraska ■j o PAGE— Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth L. Cullen, 79, were conducted in the Page Methodist church Monday after noon, April 5, with Rev. Lisle Mewmaw, church pastor, and Rev. Harry Johnson, pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist church, in charge. Mrs. Cullen died Fri day, April 2, at the home of her son, Harvey, at Page. Favorite songs of the family were sung by Mrs. ISTeven Ickes, jr., Mr. and Mrs. Dale Stauffer and Marvin Stauffer with Mrs. Harold Kelly playing the accom paniment, Burial was in the family lor in the Page cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were eight grandsons — Dale and Gene Cullen. Donald Heiss, Leon Bergstrom, Floyd Cullen, Charles Sorensen, Ross Fink and William Kuk. The floral offerings were in charge of Mrs. Ed Sterner and Mrs. Ernest West. Biglin’s were in charge of arrangements. Elizabeth Bobbitt was born July 14, 1874, at Stella. On January 25, 1893, she was married to Ferd M. Cullen. To this union 10 children were born, three dying in infancy. Her hus band preceded her in death on March 19, 1948. She was baptized in the Bap tist church at Chenney in 1915. She was active in the work of the Ladies Aid at Page until her eyesight forced her to give up. the work. Seven children who survive were present for the funeral. Survivors include: Sons—Har vey of Page and Harry of Pow ell, Wyo.; daughters—Mrs. Ray mond Heiss and Mrs. Harold Heiss, both of Page; Mrs. Dale Stukey of Norfolk; Mrs. Ross Taylor of Troy, O., and Mrs. Lloyd Bergstrom of Newcastle, Wyo.; 24 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; two broth ers and two sisters. She came to Holt county from Tecumseh in 1914. ★ ★ ★ ! o Mrs. Cullen . . . born al Stella. ° o o ® # 3*0 O 0 o o , * Bails Out with Plane in Flames Capt. John L. Baker Suffers Sprained Knees and Ankles Capt. John Lee Baker, 25, vet eran of 102 jet combat missions during the late Korean war, was forced to bail out of his flaming aircraft over mountainous ter rain in Arizona on Wednesday, March 31. He was on a routine training flight in an F-84G when the engine caught afire. The O’Neill airman discover ed he was in difficulty at about 200 feet altitude, having com pleted a diving attack on a gun nery range target. He pointed the nose skyward, loosed the last surge of power remaining, and at 3,000 feet hit the button that ejects the pilot in seated position. Baker parachuted down and landed on rough terrain near Ago, Ariz., along the Mexico border. The area is inaccessible to cars or ambulances. He spread out his parachute to attract at tention of search parties and was rescued by a helicopter crew. The young flyer who spent 19 months in the Far East suffeied sprained knees and ankles. His plane was afire when he aban doned it. The aircraft was a complete loss. Baker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Lohaus of O’Neil). Most of his combat missions in volved strafing and bombing North Korean and Chinese reds. A graduate of St. Mary’s acad emy here, he joined the air force in October, 1948, and in November, 1949, he went over seas. At the outbreak of hostili ties in Korea his unit moved to Jajian from Okinawa and took up the fight against the com munists. Since his return to the states in May, 1951, Baker was pro moted from lieutenant to cap tain and has been instructing younger pilots. Musical Contest Is in Progress The annual district music con test got underway Wednesday at O’Neill under the sponsorship of the Nebraska School Activi ties association. Two thousand high school musicians will have visited O’ Neill by the time the three-day event draws to a close Friday night. Piano solos were heard Wednesday. Class C and D com petition will be carried out to day (Thursday) and class B competition will be heard Fri day. - Harry Anderson Expires at Denver Funeral services were held in Denver, Colo., Saturday, April 3, for Harry Anderson, 70, who died at St. Luke’s hospital, Den ver, Wednesday, March, 31. Rev. John Futh of the Lutheran church officated. Burial followed at the Crown Hill cemetery, there. Mr. Anderson was born June 1, 18&4 at Concord. Before moving to Denver 10 years ago he re sided at Wakefield and Omaha, j At his death he was employed as i as engineer with the Conoco Oil Co., in Denver. Survivors included: widow— the former Elsie Robertson of O’Neill; daughters—Mrs. Ray 1 (Gladys) Cote of Van Nuys, Calif., and Mrs. Donald (Harriet) Ewing of Decatur, Ga., son— Robert Anderson of Denver. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Rcib ertson of O’Neill attended their brother-in-law’s funeral. -r ----- " Incumbents Are Re-Elected £ • © j O • ©9 O ., Hytrek car . . . three Stuart young people survived this crash.—Frontier Photo. --- A A A (i-. Snelsons Mark 64th Anniversary Former Holt Couple Weds in 1890 LONG PINE—Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Snelson of Long Pine, who are 87- and 80-years-old, re spectively, Wednesday celebrat ed their 64th wedding anniver sary. Both enjoy good healto considering their advanced ages. Thefe was a family dinner at noon attended by 14 relatives. A more elaborate anniversary was planned by their children in 1950 when the Snelsons ob servd their 60th wedding date. Mr. Snelson was born at Oska loosa, la., November 8, 1366 Mrs. Snelson was born at Kirk wood, 111., January 16, 1874. At Ihe age of 10 she came with her parents to Genoa, where the couple met. They were married April 7, 1890, at Albion and shortly thereafter filed on a Wheeler county homestead, 16 miles from the southern Holt county line. During the first two years cn j the homestead, prairie f i r e s I threatened their sodhouse on several occasions, but all were successfully fought off. Mr. Snel son had a reputation as a fiddler at square dances in the Bartlett and Ericson communities. The couple spent 17 years on ihe homestead and then moved o Ewing from where Mr. Snel son carried mail to and from tie Bliss and Martha postoffices. In 1926 they moved to Long Pine, later lived at St. Edward, farmed tv/o years north of Stu art, and then moved to Amelia where they resided until 1941. Between 1941 and 1945 they di vided their time between Am elia and the state of Washing ton, and for the past few years have been living at Long Pine. The Snelsons' nine children range in age from 60 to 38. They have 21 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. Their children—from the old est to the youngest — are Mrs. Edna Jones of Medford, Ore.; Emel of Long Pine; Mrs. George (lazel) Cutler of Rockford, Wash.; Mrs. Ira (Elsie) Goodwin cf Long Pine; Mrs. Albert (Eth el) Sanford of Red Bluffs, Calif; Mrs. George (Opal) Vargason of Long Pine; Mrs. Deloert (Irma) Edwards of Amelia; Mrs. Clif ! ford (Thelma) Green of Vtneta, Calif., and Mrs. Don (Velma) Huston of Sedro Woolley, Wash. Mr. Snelson spends most of his time in a wheel chair but is able to get about the house. Mrs. Snelson has managed to siay quite active with housework and gardening. 4-H Family Fun Here Saturday— The 4-H family fun night will be held in the O’Neill high school auditorium on Saturday, April 10. The program will start promp tly at 7:45 p. m., with the doors open at 7 o’clock. Clubs from over the county are presenting skits, acts and musical numbers. The awards for 1953 will be presented. There is no admission charge for this. Everyone is invited. TRAIL RIDE The O’Neill Saddle club has scheduled a trail ride Sunday. April 11. © ® Kaup Transferred to Vet Hospital Three Stuart young people survived a crash that virtually demolished the auto in which struck loose gravel on U.S. high way 281 north of O’Neill. The car careened through a ditch and came to a stop against a tree. Injured were: Freddie Kaup, 21, Korean war veteran who suffered a fractured right leg and knee cap; Miss Theo Weichman, Stuart rural school teacher, who sus ta .ied a broken back and fraq tured ankle, and Miss Delores Hamik, who received a dislocat ed hip, fractured pelvis and fractured ankle. Miss Weichman is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Weichman of Stuart; Miss Hamik, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ham ik. The accident occurred about 1 A.M., last Thursday. The injur ed were taken to St. Anthony's hospital by ambulance. La'e Friday, Kaup was removed to the Veterans hospital at Omaha. The car, a 1953 model, is own ed by Richard Hytrek of Stuart. It was towed to O’Neill. It is said there was no insurance or the car. Miss Weichman, who will be hospitalized for some time, will oe unable to finish her term of school. Already the nine rural pupils at the Head school have been absorbed in other schools. The two young ladies’ physi cian, Dr. J. P. Brown, said Wed nesday the accident victims are “doing well.” Visit Mrs. Hopkins— Mrs. Ralph Barnes and chil dren of Amelia Were Monday guests of her mother, Mrs. Iva Hopkins. Red Cross Fund ° Drive Lags, Closes O’Neill Contributions Amount to $1,009 Holt county’s 1954 American Red Cross membership and fund raising drive came to a close Wednesday, March 31 ac cording to Mrs. Elgin Ray of O’ Neill, chairman of the c.'unty wide drive. Mrs. Ray stated that rural contributions in all areas of the county have been “behind that cf last year” and ip genera! con tributions “have been slow in coming in.” Mrs. William White of O'Neill, who was in charge of solicitation in O’Neill, made the following, report for the city: Northwest residential section, Mrs. Laurence Haynes, $88.66. Northeast residential section, Mrs. William McIntosh, $93 17. Southwest residential section, Mrs. Lionel Siefken, $86:65. The residential solicitation to taled $333.27. O’Neill rural con tributions amounted to $138.26, and business district contribu tions amounted to $538.25—a to tal for the O’Neill community of $1,009.78. Meanwhile, Mrs. Ray said the Emmet community raised $111 and the Page community report ed $138.39. ARC finances are used for services to the armed forces and veterans, the blood program, disaster services, safety services (which O’Neill will be taking advantage of during the summer n connection with teaching of swimming and lifesaving), nurs ery services, Junior Red Cress, international relations and ser vice groups. I Martha Pupils Visit The Frontier Pupils of Martha school district 134 near Chambers toured The Frontier newspaper and commercial printing plant and the “Voice of The Frontier” radio studios during a field trip spent at O’Neill. Other points of interest visited were the Tri-State plant, Harding Creamery Co., and airport. Miss Ada DeHart is teacher. In the photo (left-to-right) are: Front row—Gary Hertel, Kathy Farrier, Virgil Lorenz and Susan LaRue; second row—James Kruse, Carole Hoffman, Betty Hertel, Linda Chipps, Jeanette Klabenes; back row—Bonnie Schmidt, Sheila Hertel, Roberta Klabenes, Karen Kruse, Robert Klabenes and Lyle Chipps. One pupiL„Elaine Whiting, was ab- 1 sent Drivers were Mrs. Kenneth LaRue and Mrs. Loran Kruse.—The Frontier Photo. ' ■m c’ i ~ 0 « o o'- y , ° © o »' — 1 •■ Balloting Spirited for Page Posts— j PAGE — There was spirited ] voting at Page Tuesday for the J annual municipal election. In a lively bid for board of ] education posts, C. E. Walker with 94 votes defeated Otto Ter rell, whose three-year term ex- . pired. Mr. Terrill received 81 votes. . Lorenz Riege defeated L. C. ; Ballantyne, incumbent, 90-79, * three-year term. For the one-year term, Carl Max received 91 votes, defeating Owen Park, incumbent, who collected 74. Park had been ap pointed earlier to fill a vacancy. Three out of five candidates were successful in bids for vil lage board positions. Edd Stewart received 85 votes; Carl Max, 83, and William Neu bauer, 81. Stewart and Max had been appointed earlier to fill vacancies and Neubauer be comes a new member. iwen Park received 73 votes and Melvin Roach 59 as unsuc cessful candidates for the town board. Pribil Defeats Butterfield— INMAN—In the only contest in Tuesday’s municipal election, Frelent Pribil defeated Livelle Butterfield, 36-13, for a board of education position—a two-year term to fill a vacancy. Fifty-two votes were cast in the school election. J. R. Coventry and Wilbur Brown, unopposed, received 49 and 39 votes, respectively for three-year terms each. Thirty-ttwo votes were cast in the village election with L|i velle Butterfield getting 27 votes and I. L. Watson 26. There were two positions voted on for the village board of trustees, eacn two-year terms. Krotter, Henderson Win Positions— STUART—Things were rath er quiet in the municipal elec tion Tuesday at Stuart. Donald Krotter with 94 votes and Dale Henderson with 67 votes were successful board of education candidates. Unsuccess ful school candidates were' Glen Cobb with 62 votes and Ira M. Ready with 42. Successful village board of trustees candidates were A. Max Karo0 with 104 votes and R. A. Mueller with 64. Walter Smith, a write-in candidate far the town board, was unsuccessful by a narrow margin. PRAIRE BURNS AINSWORTH — Fire burned over two miles of prairie on the Sid Salzman ranch near here Tuesday before it was stepped by Ainsworth volunteer fireman in a stack yard. Twenty stacks of hay were lost. The burned area was a mile wide and two miles long. It was extremely dry due to lack of winter moisture. O’Neill voters turned out in urprising numbers Tuesday for i unique municipal election ^ive hundred thirty-one vote** rekked to the polls and were landed blank ballots. The citizens literally cast thetr rotes for every Tom, Dick ani larry—about a dozen persons ;etting into the mayor’s rams? ;ut only one of them had signa led a desire for the office Incumbent city and school ©f icers were reelected straigh/t icross the board, all via the vrite-in route. As expected, under the cir cumstances. some confusion, prevailed. A number of voters, wrote out the names of their favorite candidates and then neglected to mark the 'X" its the appropriate squares. In the First ward, one zea’ous voter simply marked an “X” if® ill the squares—and then neg lected to write - in anybody * name. Mayor J. E. Davis received 31s* votes out of the 531 that wen? cast. O. D. French, city clerk, was. reelected with 423 votes. John C. Watson, city treasur i:. was reelected with 411 bal uts cast in his favor. H. W. Tomlinson, veteran po lice judge, was reelected, un opposed, 252. Ira H. Moss and F. N. Cronin, were reelected to the board of education, virtually unopposed, with 376 and 340 votes, respec tively, three-year terms. L. M. Merriman received 10!* out of 172 First ward votes for city councilman, two-year term. Joe Stutz was given 94 out of 168 votes foT the city council. Second ward, two-year term. Emmett Crabb received 139» out of 191 votes for the city council, Third ward, two-year term. There was a mild flurry of votes for John Kersenbrock for mayor, a total of 72 distribulted. 1 among the three wards. R K Parker picked up about 42 write in votes for mayor. There were 59 different can didates in the First ward; 46 wr. the Second and 51 in the Third— a total of 156 different Toms., Dicks and Harrys. Pruden, Boies Are Losers— EWING — Two hundred and seventeen ballots were cast ini Tuesday’s municipal election here. Elected for the twi ■ year terms to fill village board va cancies were Richard Edwards* 138 votes; Allan Pollock, 107,: Lloyd West, 102. Retiring trus tees are Elmer Bergstrom, who has been chairman of the board (mayor), and R. G. Rockey. A village board incumbent who was defeated was Gail Boies. Elected to three-year terms on the Ewing school board were W. N. Spence, 109 votes, and Charles Rotherham, 120. In voting for the two-year school office, Wilbur L. Spang ler got 125 votes. Retiring from the Ewing school board are J. L. Pruden and Lionel Gunter — the latter having been an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. Retiring from a two-year term was Al fred Napier, who had been fill ing a vacancy. Mr. Napier was. 2 candidate for a three-year term but was defeated. Mr. Pruden was not a caucus candidate. Write-In Activity at Chambers— CHAMBERS—T. E. NewboM-* with 65 votes defeated Victor Harley, who collected 44 votes^ for a three-year board of educa tion term in municipal balloting Tuesday. Harley was the in cumbent and Nbwhouse becomes a new member of the board. Meanwhile, Eric Dankert, in cumbent, defeated Stanley Elk - ins, 69-36, for the other tliree year board of education teren. A write-in campaign develop ed for village board positions, but three incumbents were re turned to the board. Ed Smith received 77 votes; W. D. Renin ger, 107,' and F. M. Porter, 72 ft. total of 116 ballots were cast Les Lieswald was a write ire. 'andidate for the board of vil age trustees, receiving 31 and <en Werner received 34 write - n endorsements. The retiring police magistrate, lilas Farrier, was not a candi date for reelection. The office jjoes to T. E. Alderson w’th 73 /otes compared to 31 for Ernest rhorin. o ; Interest mounted during the* lay as news of the write-fixi novement spread. Mr., and Mrs. Ben Wetzler nsited Sunday in Gregory, S. D^, vitho relatives. o o .)