Jim Becker Pulls
Game Out of Fire
Gets 5 Points in Final
30 Seconds
BUTTE—Jim Becker bailed his
St. Marys’ academy teammates
® out of the fire Thursday night
with five points in the final 30
seconds. St. Mary’s won, 49-47,
over Butte, their Niobrara Valley
conference opponents.
Becker potted a jump shot to
move the Cards to within one
point of the Boyd countyans. With
12 seconds remaining, he drew a
foul and made good his first try,
tying the count at 47-all. The
° second gratis try rebounded off
the side, a Butte player fumbled
the ball out of bounds, Becker
took a long pass and drove for
the basket. He was fouled and
proceeded to sink both free shots
and that was the game.
St. Mary’s led, 30-23, at the
half. Tom Head bonged his
noggin on the floor in the third
and left the game.
The lead changed hands with
each basket during the frantic
fourth. Butte was in front 47-44
when Becker got hot. He tallied
20 points during the evening.
Frosh Larry Tomlinson, starting
his first varsity game, collected 10
points. Butte’s Bunnny Quick ac
counted for 18.
The Card reserves won, 40-18,
with Bruce Weier hitting eight
points. Seven SMA seconds got
into the scoring column.
Meanwhile, in other Niobrara
Valley conference games, the
Spencer Pirate* continued un
beaten by a Nebraska opponent
by sinking Center, 52-44, at Cen
ter.
The Pirates were in front,
23-18, at halftime. Big Jim
McGill collected 20 points for
the losers.
Butte defeated the Lynch entry
in the league, 47-43, Friday night.
The countyseat crew, paced by
Hoffman and Quick with 13
points each, needed a second-half
surge to win.
Neligh Too Good
for Atkinson, 58-40
ATKINSON — The Atkinson
Balers went down to defeat, 40
58, in a cage game Friday night
against the undefeated Neligh
Warriors. The game was played
' at Neligh.
Jerry Taylor led the winners
with 24 points. Phil Davis ac
counted for 14 for tNp losers.
Atkinson reserves won the pre
liminary, 36-31.
VERDIGRE TRIUMPHS
ORCHARD — The Verdigre
Hawks blasted the Orchard Ori
oles in the second half Friday
night to win, 75-59. LeRoy John
son gathered 33 points for the
victors; Mitchell tallied 26 for Or
chard and it was an individual
scoring duel that pleased the cus
• toners.
NIOBRARA WINS
• NIOBRARA — The Niobrara
high cagers swept past the Bruns
wick team, 67-42, here Friday
night. Niobrara scored 41 points
in the final two periods.
CLEARWATER LOSES
CLEARWATER— Battle Creek
fashioned a 65-44 victory over the
Clearwater Cardinals in a Corn
belt cage game Tuesday night at
Battle Creek.
“OLD RELIABLE”
MARKET REPORT
Tuesday, Jan. 17
Auction
Cattle receipts totaled 2,042
head. The market was prac
tically the same story as a
week ago, all classes selling
higher with an even broader
demand. Buyers came from
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Missouri,
South Dagota as well as east
ern Nebraska. Steer calves
from 18.50 to 21.25. Heifers
made 16.50 to 17.75. Plainer
kinds 1.00 to 3.00 per cwt. un
der yearling steers from 16.00
to 18.00. Two carloads of year
ling heifers went at 15.50 with
packages up to 16.40 cwt.
The large offering of breed
ing cows, principally Angus,
sold from $120 to $149 per
head with the bulk of the cows
from $140 to $150. Sale aver
age on the Angus bulls was
$260 per head. Butcher cattle
market fully .50 per cwt.
higher with beef cows from
9.15 to 9.25. Canners and cut
ters 7.00 to 8.50.
Next Auction:
TUESDAY, JAN. 24
V7e can use loads of cattle.
Why not offer your next
consignment to the Old Re
liable? Selling cattle exclusive
ly.
Atkinson Livestock
Market
Phone 5141
Atkinson, Nebr.
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Bill Young (left), Chambers center, and Dorrence Hobbs, Ewing pivot man, soar for the ball in
the tip-off that launched the 1956 Holt county basketball tournament. Ewing handily defeated Cham -
bers, 52-32.—The Frontier Photo.
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St Mary’s, Ewing
Gain Holt Semifinals
The Ewing high Tigers and the
St. Mary’s academy Cardinals
triumphed Wednesday night to
gain the semifinals in the 1955
Holt county high school basket
ball tournament in progress here.
St. Mary’s avenged an early
season loss to O’Neill high by
winning, 46-44; Ewing ousted the
Stuart Broncos, 37-25.
Semifinals will be played to
night (Thursday) with the At
kinson Balers clashing with the
favored Inman Tigers at 7 p.m.,
and the St. Mary’s Cardinals go
ing against Ewing at 8:30.
Finals will be played Friday
night.
Tuesday Night . . .
Ewing 52; Chambers 32
Dominating play from start-to
Einish, the Ewing Tigers put the
skids under the Chambers Coy
ates Tuesday evening in the first
Same of the 1956 Holt county
aasketball tourney.
Ewing led 26-11 at halftime
and finished in front, 52-32. Deb
Carl led Swing with 10 points.
Bill Young garnered 15 for Cham
bers. Boxscore.
EWING (52) fg ft pfpts
Hobbs, D.2 5-3 1 7
Koenig, Bob ... 2 2- 2 0 6
Carl, Delbert .. 4 4- 2 3 10
Sisson, Jack .... 2 4- 2 2 6
Rotherham, Ron 2 6- 3 0 7
Koenig, Gene ..04-3 1 3
Potter, Virgil .. 2 6- 4 3 8
Spence, Lyle .. 0 0- 0 2 0
Tams, Bob . 1 0-0 1 2
Woeppel, R. ... 0 5- 3 0 3
Totals .15 36-22 33 52
CHAM. (32) fg ft pfpts
Brown . 0 1-0 1 0
Chijpps . 0 6- 4 2 4
Young . 4 11- 7 5 15
Edwards . 1 0-0 1 2
Taggert . 0 1-0 2 0
Strong . 0 1-0 1 0
Thomson . 0 0- 0 2 0
Woods . 1 0-0 4 2
Elkins . 4 1-1 1 9
Totals .10 21-12 22 32
Inman 61; Page 60 ,
It was anybody’s ball game un
til the final whistle as the two
ancient rivals, the Inman Tigers
and the Page Eagles, squared off
in game number two of the Holt
tourney. Inman won, 61-60.
Inman, the pre-tourney favor
ite to cop the championship, had
whipped Page, 76-53, in an early
season game. The Eagles, spark
ed by Hugh Troshynski’s 19
points, provided discomfort all
evening, trailing 31-35 at the
half . Gene Couch tallied 25
points for Inman.
Coach Bob Loomer’s Inman
crew thus remains undefeated,
but their 10th win—over Page—
came the hard way after the lead
changed several times during the
second half. Boxscore:
INMAN (61) fg ft pfpts
Couch . 9 9- 2 0 25
Reimers . 0 7-4 4 22
Butterfield. C. . 4 4-1 0 9
Kelly, Ned . 1 2-1 0 3
Watson . 1 0-0 0 2
Coventry .0 0-0 1 0
Totals .24 22- 8 5 61
PAGE (60) fg ft pfpts
Troshynski _9 2-1 5 19
Roach . 1 2-1 5 3
Heiss 2 2-2 1 6
Parks, L. A. ... 6 0- 0 0 12
Parks, L. O. ... 2 0- 0 0 4
White . 8 0- 0 0 16
Totals 28 6- 4 11 60
Atkinson 45; St. Joe 40
It was 40-all with a half-minute
remaining in Tuesday’s nightcap
tourney game between the Atkin
son Balers and the St. Joseph’s
hall Bluejays. The Balers made
hay during those final seconds to
scoot ahead and nail it down.
45-40.
A fortnight ago the Balers had
trailed the Jays most of the eve
ning in an intracity clash at At
kinson, but the Balers won, 53
51.
In the interval each team lost
a mainstay via the bone fracture
route. The Josies are without the
services of Raymond Schaffer,
who sustained a fractured leg in
the Holy Trinity (Harting+on)
game, and Atkinson high is with
out Ronnie Frickel, who suffer
ed a broken arm in a clash with
Stuart.
By the time half the townspeo
ple of Atkinson had migrated
here for the Baler-Josie c’ash
there was something less than
standing room only.
Jim Seger led Atkinson with
13 points whlie Jim Slattery col
lected 16 for the Jays. Atkinson
was in front, 26-25, at the half.
Boxscore:
ST. JOE (40) fg ft pfpts
Schaaf, D.6 1-0 1 12
Slattery, Jim .. 4 11- 8 5 16
Slattery, Bill .. 4 9- 2 2 10
Schaaf, Mike ... 0 0- 0 3 0
Cleary, B.1 0-0 2 2
Ries, B. ..._ 0 0-0 1 0
Totals .15 21-10 14'40
ATK. (45) fg ft pfpts
Purtzer . 4 8- 3 2 ’ i
Seger . 6 2-1 3 13
Roberts . 1 1-1 3 3
Davis . 2 6- 4 3 8
Tooker . 4 2- 0 3 8
Zaruba . 0 2- 2 0 2
Totals .17 21-11 14 45
Wednesday Night . . .
Ewing 37; Stuart 25
This was a rough-and-tumble
affair writh neither club showing
much finesse. The Ewing Tigers
won, 37-25.
St Mary’s 46; O’Neill 41
Lanky Dave Schaffer led the
way for the Cardinals in downing
their intracity foe—O’Neill high
—in the first tourney showing for
both teams. SMA won, 46-44, af
ter being in front, 21-19, at the
half.
The game was a thriller and
was played before a packed house
—result of the intense rivalry.
With 20 seconds remaining, the
Cardinals owned a 46-40 advant
age. O’Neill high got two quick
buckets to narrow the count to
two points. With six seconds on
the clock, Tom Head got the tip
from a held ball and froze while
the clock ran out.
Jug Johnson led O’Neill high
with 14 points.
Neither team exhibited flashy
shooting nor excellent floor play,
although the Eagles did well from
the field, hitting 51 percent of
their tries.
Tourney Officials
City School Supt. M. J. Baack
of O’Neill is tournament director
Game officials are Berle Groe^k
el and Bill Tender, both of Nor
folk.
St. Mary’s sepior class will
sponsor a bake sale at Shelhnm
er*s Market Saturday, January
21, at 10 o’clock. 38c
Frontier for printing.
Boyd Tourney
Opens at Naper
NAPER — The handsome new
town auditorium will he the
scene of the 1956 Boyd county
high school basketball tourna
ment, which starts tonight
(Thursday) and closes Friday
night.
Spencer will defend its title by
going against Lynch tonight at
7:30 in the tourney opener. Naper
and Butte will clash at 9 p.m.
Finals will be played Friday
night with third-place playoff
scheduled for 7:30.
The busy Naper auditorium has
been in use less than six months.
C. S. Dalton
NIOBRARA—Charles S. Dal
ton, 67, owner and operator of the
OK ranch, died Thursday, Jan
uary 12, in a Creighton hospital
following a heart attack, the
same day he was to have appear
ed on a television program for
having won $1,000 in cash and a
television set in a football fore
casts contest. Survivors include
several nieces and nephews
MEETS HUSBAND
Mrs. Robert Berigan departed
last Thursday by rail for Seattle,
Wash., where she expected to
meet her husband, Air Force Lt.
Robert J. Berigan, who is re
turning from Far East duty. Ke
was scheduled to dock Wednes
day.
OAKDALE NICKS
OAKDALE — Dick Timm sank
a freethrow with just a few sec
onds remaining Friday night to
give Oakdale a skinny, 58-57, vic
tory over the visiting Clearwater
team. Oakdale was in front, 33
27, at the half.
Miss Mary Louise Birmingham
left Wednesday, January 11, by
plane for visits in Chicago, 111.,
Philadelphia, Pa., Charleston,
S.C., Atlanta, Ga., Dallas and
Ft. Worth, Tex. She is visiting
former school friends and her
former American Red Cross
„une Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. John Clear/ of
O’Neill announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss
Barbara Kay (above), to Rich
ard Loock, son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. W. Loock of Spencer. A June
wedding is planned.
were served. Present were the
Misses Hazel Ruby and Elsie j
Chase, Mrs. William Spence and!
Mrs. Ralph Eacker.
Mrs. Alice Crellin arrived Sat
urday from the Nebraska Ma
sonic home at Plattsmouth to
spend part of her vacation visit
ing old friends and neighbors in
Ewing. She was a guest Monday
at the-home of Mr. and Mrs.
Neva Bergstrom.
The village board met Tuesday
evening, January 10, for a regu
lar session with Richard Edwards
presiding. All members were
present.
On Saturday guests at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Will Conner
were Mr. and Mrs. Loren Jef
feries of Clearwater.
Weekend guests at the home
of M. and Mrs. Lloyd Angus were
their son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Angus of
Milford. They also visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Watson
McDonald.
Miss Ina Bennett was the hon
ored guest at a 6 o’clock dinner
last Thursday evening at the
horns of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pru
den. The occasion marked her
birthday anniversary.
On Friday evening self-invited
guests arrived at the home of
Miss Ina Bennett and served a 6
o’clock dinner, honoring the
birthday anniversary of Miss
Bennett, which was January 12.
Present were Mr. and Mrs. .Wil
bur Bennett and Roger, Mrs
Flora Young and James Bennett
of Orchard, Jackie and Bruce
Morrow of O’Neill, Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Shrader of Ewing.
D. Harold Lobaugh of Kansas
will be the guest minister at the
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Unietd Presbyterian church on
Sunday, January 26. Sunday
school Will be held at 10 a.m.,
followed by the worship hour
and communion.
Mrs. Viola Maupin of North
Platte is a guest at the home of
her father, M. H. Dierks. While
here, Mrs. Alice Crellin was a
guest of Mrs. Maupin at the
Dierks home.
Raymond Saiser of Omaha was
a weekend guest at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry
Saiser.
Mrs. Ernest Norwood, accom
panied by Mrs. James Pollock
left for California to visit rela
tives for a few weeks. Mr. Nor
wood took them to Grand Island
where they continued on their
way by train.
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REGIONAL DEATHS
Jerome Gragert
CREIGHTON — Jerome Gra
gert, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Har
old Gragert of Creighton, died
Tuesday morning in a Creighton
hospital. Jerome had been ill for
more than a year, suffering from
cancer. Funeral services will be
today (Thursday) at St. Ludger’s
Catholic church in Creighton.
Survivors include his parents,
five brothers and sisters.
MASONS INSTALLED
EWING—At the Installation of
ofifcers of the Pythagoras lodge
156, AF&AM, held at Page Fri
day evening, the following offi
cers were installed: Elmer Berg
strom, worshipful master; James
Pruden, jr., senior deacon; Wil
bur Bennett, tyler, and Loyd
West, treasurer.
Rihanek Again
Heads Boyd Board
BUTTE — Joe W. Rihanek of
Monowi was reelected chairman
of the Boyd county board at the
organization meeting at the court
house here Tuesday, January 10."
Chairman Rihanek made the
following committee appoint
ments for 1956:
Claims—Herman J. Windmeyer
of Naper; courthouse — R. W.
Dickerson of Butte, and John F.
Ludemann of Spencer; printing—
Ludemann and C. H. Fisher of
Spencer; roads and bridges—en
tire board; road equipment —
Ludemann; refunds—Clarence A.
Moody of Lynch; auditing and
materials—entire board.
Marion V. Jordan was rehired
as courthouse custodian.
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NOTE: Our store will be closed all day Monday, January 23rd,
to complete our renovation program and installation of new
fixtures. Thank you.
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Stuart Defeats
Springview, 50-28
STUART — The Stuart high
Broncos journeyed to Springview
Friday night to defeat the Keya
Paha county Indians, 50-28, in a
North-Central Nebraska confer
ence game.
Batenhorst tallied 22 points to
lead the Broncos.
In the preliminary, the Stuart
reserves won by a 34-28 margin.
The Springview volleyball girls
tossed 32 points compared to Stu
art’s 26.
Boxscore of the main event:
STUART (50) fg ft tp
Seger . 4 0 8
Brewster . 0 1 1
Batenhorst .10 2 22
Bigelow . 5 0 10
Stracke . 4 1 9
Totals .23 4 50
SPRING. (28) fg ft tp
Cook . 3 0 6
Wentworth . 4 1 9
Allshowse . 1 4 6
Williams, B.0 0 0
Ludeman, D. 1 0 2
Schoettger . 0 0 0
Forgey . 1 0 2
Patterson . 0 0 0
Clay . 1 1 3
Totals.11 6 28
Ewing News
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Tuttle
were Friday evening guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
wards and family.
Miss Darlene Bollwitt, who is
employed at Plainview, spent
Thursday and Friday at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Bollwitt.
Tom Christon, who is employed
at Kermit, Tex., was a weekend
guest at the home of his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Larson. He was accompanied by
Larry Williamson, who had visit
ed him at Kermit. Tom left Mon
day morning for West Point
where he met his cousin, Donald
Starr of Tarkio, Mo. From there
the boys will go to Denver, Colo.,
to spend some time with Tom’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chris
ton, and other relatives.
Mrs. Henry Reimer was an
overnight guest of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Larson, on
Sunday. On Monday morning
she accompanied Mrs. Owen
Parks of Page to Elgin where
both ladies are teachers in the
public school.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Edwards
and daughters went to Harlan,
la., on Saturday. Mrs. Edwards
and children remained for the
week with her mother, Mrs. Dora
Shipp. The grandmother of Mrs.
Edwards, Mrs. Margaret Clark, is
seriously ill in a hospital at Har
lan.
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oiA u uiuviv uiuua gucow at uic
home of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Da
vis on Friday evening were Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Grim and Mr.
and Mrs. Telford Grim. Karen
Tuttle was also an evening guest.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Conner
spent Friday visiting at the home
of her sister and family at Elgin.
Mrs. Waldo Davis and Marie
went to Orchard Tuesday after
noon after school to attend a
birthday anniversary party for
Linda Barton at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bar
ton.
Guests for Sunday dinner at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Vandersnick were Mr. and Mrs.
Lyle Mitties, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Vandersnick and Don Vander
snick.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Vandersnick
were afternoon callers on Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Baum, sr.
Attending the county American
Legion and auxiliary meeting at
O’Neill Monday evening were
Mrs. Clarence Hahlbeck, Mr and
Mrs. Wayne Shrader, Jay Butler,
James Boies, Ernest Pierson. The
American Legion and auxiliary
of Sanders post in Ewing will be
hosts at the next county meeting
to be held March 18, beginning
at 6:30 p.m.
Mrs. Max Graver of New
Windsor, 111., is a guest at the
heme of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dewitt Gunter this week.
Mrs. John Wunner spent the
weekend at Stanton with rela
tives and at Norfolk with Mr.
Wunner, who was “feeling bet
ter.” Mrs. Wunner returned home
Sunday.
On Wednesday evening, Janu
ary 11, Mrs. Gene Ruby enter
tained in honor of the birthday
anniversary of Mrs. Everett Ruby.
The hours were spent informally
and pictures were taken. Home
made ice cream, cake and coffee
