Eagles Cop Intracity Cage Title Overflow Crowd Sees Wirephoto Finish; Schaffer Gets 21 The O’Neill Eagles continued to ®etgn as the intracity basketball crihampions by defeating the St. IMarys Cardinals, 55-52, in their uanmal clash Friday night Before a packed house the two ttearos battled to the wire with She Eagles holding *a slight edge aHaer the first few minutes. The 59b£s, using a well-balanced scor ms;E' attack, held an 11-point ad vantage at one time during the aanond period but settled with a 25?-22 halftime score. Coach Elmer Murman had moaned earlier that he feared his kids wouldn’t have suffi cient hustle. Murman’s worries were un founded. They showed plenty of go. Going into the final minute of play, the Eagles still had a five point lead only to see it cut to one point with 10 seconds remain ing. Jim Johnson hit two free throws to put the Eagles on top, 55-52, when the game ended as the Cardinals failed to get anoth er shot. Four Eagles scored over 10 points with Larry Conarro lead ing the scorers with 16, as well as being top rebounder. Cardinal Dave Schaffer was the evening’s top scorer with 21. He received able assistance from Jim Becker, who scored 14 points besides playing a good floor game. Jim Foelich was third high for SMA with a score of 10, Coach Don Templemeyer was without the services of Tom Head, who was on the shelf with a bad leg. Head is regard ed as a stabilizer for his mates both on the court and on the grid. It was the seventh straight year the Eagles have gained pos session of the intracity crown. The O’Neill reserves won the opener from the St. Mary’s sec ond string, 27-25. Merle Jones paced the Eagle seronds with 12 points, while Tom Schneider got eight for St. Mary’s. The O’Neill high team travels to Ainsworth Friday while the Cardinals entertain Stuart. Boxscore of main event: O’NEILL (55) fg ft pfpts Young . 5 2-7 1 12 Johnson . 5 2-3 1 12 Fetrow . 5 3- 5 3 13 Conarro . 5 6-9 116 Porter . 1 0-0 4 2 Lawrence . 0 0- 0 0 0 Totals .21 13-24 10 55 SMA (52) fg ft pfpts Schmidt . 1 0-0 3 2 Holly . 0 0-0 1 0 Schaffer . 8 5-6 1 21 Froelich . 5 0-1 3 10 Bohn . 0 0- 0 2 0 Hynes . 1 0-0 3 2 Becker . 6 2- 4 4 14 Schneider . 0 3- 4 0 3 Totals .21 10-15 17 52 Alex Forsythe Is Showered with Gifts CELIA — About 40 persons of Celia community attended a sur prise party for Alex Forsythe on his birthday anniversary Monday evening, November 28, at his home 10 miles north of Atkinson. Celia Homemakers club pre sented him an electric clock, also some shaving accessories. They also presented him a shower of canned goods. Cake, sandwiches and coffee were served. Other Celia News Emil Colfack and son, Denton, and Billy Milner were Wednes day, November 30, dinner guests at the Charles Dobias home. Celia Homemakers club met or Wednesday, November 30, at the home of Mrs. Milton McKathnie with 17 members and two visitors present. Mrs. John Sichenedei and Mrs. Leon Hendricks were visitors. An 8-year-old boy is the club’s shut-in for December. A ladies’ lounge in the new city hall in Atkinson was discussed .A Christmas party with mystery sister and grab bag gifts will be held at the Duane Beck home or Thursday, December 15. Several from this community attended the Jake Siegler farm sale Friday. Billy Milner spent Tuesday night, November 29, with Roger and Gary Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Focken were Friday evening visitors at the Donald Focken home. Miss Alice French, Holt county superintendent of schools, visited the Hendricks school Tuesday, November 22. Mrs. Emil Colfack is teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rouse and son, Wayne, of O’Neill were Friday dinner guests at the Leon Hendricks home. Emil Colfack and Frank Kil murry were Saturday visitors al the Duane Beck home. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Focken were Wednesday, November 30, visitors at the Eugene Poessneck er home. Yule Program Staged by Grade School Ewing Band Takes Part in Event EWING — The Ewing grade school and the school band com bined in presenting a program Thursday evening before a capa city house in the school audi torium. The band under the direc tion of Eugene Kresl, presented a half-hour concert, featuring Christmas numbers. Masters of ceremonies for the grade school program were John nie Wanser and Lynn Hahlbeck. The first number was “The Zoo Train” by the kindergarten. The first and second grades sang the welcome song, “Cock-a-Doodle Doo,” in costume, followed by a play, “The Kittens Find Their Mittens”, and a song, “The Bible Tells Me So”. The third and fourth grades presented a two-act play, “A Christmas Calamity”. Clever cos tumes were featured. A duet, “Bicycle Built for Two” was sung by Donnie Hahlbeck and Larry Noffke with Mary Huffman as accompanist. “Fraidy Cat” was a duet sung by Betty Wright and Tommy Wanser. The boys from the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades sang “Davy Crockett” with Pat ricia Hobbs at the piano. The fifth and sixth grades pre sented “The Whole Year Round”, which represented the new year. Virtus Lee wes “old father time” and Ronnie Tuttle was the “new year”, each wearing the appro priate costume. The seventh grade presented a one-act play, “A Bunch of Keys”. rm 2?: _ 1 ws n-fiTi X uv xxxxcxx tion of the English classics, “A Stone in the Road”, was given by the eighth grade. The grade teachers are: Mrs. Beulah Black, seventh and eighth; Miss Margaret Catron, fifth and sixth: Mrs. Grace Thomsen, third and fourth; Mrs. Dona Carson, first and second; Mrs. Helen Grim, kindergarten. Celia Community Reports 12-Inch Snow— CELIA— Mark Hendricks was snowed in at the farm and unable to return home Saturday evening. Celia had at least 12 inches of snow on the level, according to reports received by the corre spondent. There was no school at Celia Monday as the teacher, Miss Lois Adams of Spencer, was unable to return on account of so much snow. Mr. and Mrs. George Beck went to the Duane Beck home Satur day morning and when they tried