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Volume 76. Number 8. ill inty, Nebraska, Thursday, June 21, lc)56. Seven Cents
Airman Hess Tells
Incredible Story
Henry Albrecht, 58,
Dies in Hospital
Atkinson Rancher
Born in Russia
ATKINSON Henry Albrecht,
68, Atkinson rancher residing 8
miles north and 7 miles east of
here, died Tuesday evening, June
19, in Atkinson Memorial hos
pital. Mr, Albrecht had entered
the hospital Saturday, June 16.
He had been hospitalized here
previously and suffered a heart
ailment.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at 2 p m., Friday, June
22. Burial will be in Woodlawn
cemetery. Other funeral ar
rangements had mil been com
fdeted late Wednesday.
The late Mr Albrecht was born
September 19, 1887, at Odessa,
Russia. He rame to America as a
small child with his parewts.
Oottlieb Albrecht and Eva Eliz
abeth Zeeb Albrecht
He had lived in the Atkinson
mminuniy 54 years and owned
his rancK
He married Amelia Bork at
Lincoln on January 4, 1921
Survivors include: Widow —
Amelia; sons—Harold of Kearney,
Edward, John and Bernard, all
of Atkinson; daughters—Mrs. Ray
(Dorothy) Gaylord of Portland,
Ore., Mrs. Fred (Mena) Lam
rnerb of Spokane, Wash., Martha
and Hilda, both of Lincoln; 10
\Tandchi ldren, brother—Joe Al
brecht of Atkinson; sister—Mrs.
George (Carolyn) Ohde of Atkin
son.
He was preceded in death by
one daughter Albena, who died
in 1925
Women to Make
Housing lour
Home extension club members
plan to hold a housing tour in
O'Neill Monday, June 25, accord
ing to Catherine Indra, home ex
tension agent. Club members
have been interested in various
types of construction and are
tiilung this opportunity to learn
more about them.
Four homes will be visited and
discussions will hi led by Mrs.
Clara Leopold, home manage
ment specialist from the Univer
sity of Nebraska Residences in
cluded in the tour will be those
of George Collins, Gale Dier
berger. Glint Miller and George
Janciusck Builders Howard Man
son, Francis Gilg and Harry Res
sel will be on hand to discuss the
construction of the homes.
The day’s activities will start
with a general meeting at the
courthouse at 10 a.m., the tour
of homes, and dose with another
general session in the afternoon
about 3 o’clock, the home agent
explained.
Attorneys to Argue
Amelia School Case
Robert Barlow of the Lincoln
law firm. Davis, Heallv, Davies
& Wilson, representing the Am
elia school patrons, and Mr.
Hoagland, assistant attorney -
general, an1 scheduled to argue
the cqso for the Amelia two-grade
high School before Judge Paul
W. White in Lancaster county
district court on Monday.
The Amelia patrons are seek
ing an injunction against Free
man B. Decker, state commission
er of education, and the state
board of education. The attorney
general’s office is defending the
state officers.
No decision is expected for sev
eral weeks.
Observers predict the suit will
be taken to the state supreme
court regardless of the district
court decision.
Equalization Board
Sets Final Meeting
Holt County Clerk Kenned
Waring said Wednesday the coun
ty equalization board will eon- j
vene Friday, June 22, for the fi
nal session of the year.
It will be an all-day meeting,
starting at 10 a.m.
FRACTURES HAND
PAGE—Norman Rokahr frac
tured his right hand recently and
wears a cast.
Miss Pamela Blake of Burke,
SD., is visiting Patty Wilson for
about a week.
Joe Hess, an air force enlist
ed man assigned to Operation
Prairie Grass here, returned to
O’Neill Saturday. He had been
on temporary duty here during
the summer of 1953 in connec
tion with the original wind test.
He will finish his air force ca
teer on this new project just
getting underway.
Much has happened during
Joe’s 24 years in this world.
Something very special occur
red just a year ago.
Joe's story:
His father was a livestock
dealer in the town market place
at Fulda, Germany The nazis
rose to power. Joe, gt*. and his
older sister. Ilsa. were evacuat
ed from Germany to England
by British relatives.
His father, mother and
grandmother, all Jewish, were
whisked away by the nazis and
placed in concentration camps.
The grandmother was put to
death in a gas chamber at one
of the infamous camps.
His father. Max, and his
mother were forcibly separat
ed but, by coincidence, they
had a chance meeting in one of
the camps as late as 1944
“They couldn’t nod, wink or
Joe Hess ... a child evacuee
from nazi Germany.
acknowledge each other in any
u*v. It would have been dis
asterous for both,’’ Joe explains.
Joe and his sister lost track
of their parents. Afte.r World
Wai II the brother and sister
managed to get to the United
States, befriended by Tolatives.
Several years later they made
a return trip to Germany and
endeavored to trace their par
ents. Joe was satisfied by rec
ords and interviews that his
mxither, too, had died ill one of
the camps—either by disease
or by brutality. It was hopeless
attempting to trace his father.
Time passed. Joe entered
Rutgers university, New Bruns
wttk. N.J. His sister married
Morris Resnick of Millville,
NJ. Joe dropped out of college
to enter the air force and to
become a citizen. The initial
O’Neill job came early in his
air force career.
One night he returned to his
quarters at the Air Force-Cam
bridge research center, Cam
bridge, Mass., and found a note.
The note advised him he was
being flown next day to Frank
furt. Germany. When his plane
touched down at the big air
base, a swarm of correspond
ents greeted him They drove
him to Fulda—the old home
town. There he was reunited
with lus father, who had been
among the first German ferreed
laborer;; returned by the So
viets.
Joe’s dad had been worked
to the bone in Siberia, Mon
golia and Outer Mongolia for
10 years. His health broken, he
was returned to Germany.
When Joe quits O’Neill—and
the air force—at the end of
the wind test, he hopes to get
acquainted all over again with
his dad—in Millville, N.J.!
Royal Farm Woman
Fatally Injured
ROYAL—Mrs. Donald Schwa
ger. 25, Royal farm woman, died
in Antelope Memorial hospital at
Neligh Sunday afternoon. Mrs.
Schwager was fatally injured in
a two-car collision at the crest
of a hill on an Antelope county
road two miles south of Royal.
Her husband and two Schwa
ger children were injured. Also
injured were Mr. and Mrs. Myrle
Filkins and their two sons. Both
the Schwager and Filkins fami
lies farm near Royal.
Mrs. Schw-ager’s maiden name
was Helen Marie Rouse, daugh
ter cf Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Rouse of Royal.
Range Meet
Draws 100
Entrants
Prairie Wranglers Are
First Among Teams;
Fick Adult Winner
One hundred 4- H club mem
4x>rs, FFA students, ranchers,
turmers and technical personel
from the extension service and
soil conservation service attend
ed Nebraska’s first range evalua
tion contest held in O’Neill on
Tuesday, June 19 There werj*
! contestants from nine north
I central Nebraska counties rang
I ing from Valentine on the west
j to Plainview on the east and
from Burwell and Spalding on
' the south *o the Nebraska -
j Dakota line
The contest was sponsored
jointly by the Nebraska seotion
of the American Society of
Range Management and the ex
tension service. Soil Conserva
tion Service technicians were the
official judges and scorers. En
tered in the contest were 44 in
! dividuais in the junior division
(from age 12 through high
i school). 26 individual adult en
j tries and 11 teams of four mem
] bers each.
Winners in the junior division
were: Lyle Mullins, FFA student
from Plainview. He also held the
high score for the entire contest.
Donald Swanson of the Prairie
Wranglers 4-11 club of Chambers
I was second, and Jerry Homolka,
of the same club ranked third.
In the adult section, Walter
Fiek of Inman placed first; Guy
E. Blake of Chambers, second,
and Frank Beelaert of Page,
| third. In the team competition the
i prairie wranglers 4-n ciuo oi
| Chambers placed first. Members
j of the team were Larry Swan
son, Donald Swanson. Doug Jar
man amd Jerry Homolka.
Second place team was the
FFA class team from Plainview
| with Fred Goudge instructor.
Team members were Lyle Mul
: lins, Don Beltz, Duane Palmer
/Continued on page 6
‘Wild Bill’ Tucker
Fascinates Kids
(Photo below)
"Wild! Bill” Tucker (bis ical
name is John W. Tucker) of Seal
Rock. Ore., breezed into O’Neill
last Thursday evening in quest of
information on Doc Middleton, a
pioneer gunman who roamed
| these prairies in years gone by
“Wild Bill,” a carbon copy of
Nebraska's "Wild Bill Hickok. ’
has been on a winter and spring
tour ot the East. He enjoyed ex
tensive stage, television and ra
dio bookings in the metropolitan
New York area and carried the
; ater handbills to prove it.
Included in his display are
i 131 famous guns—shootin’ irons
used by gunmen and peace offi
I cers in the Old West. One was a
1 gold-plated Winchester 73, said
I to have been Hickok’s gun; an
i other was a famous Texas-made
I Double Colt with llti-inch bar
i rel.
But “Wild Bill’s” longest suit
was his vocal artistry. He ably
does the forlorn moan of a cow
on the prairie, bird calls, jungle
sounds, Tarzan yell, ducks—even
a locomotive and a hurricane.
For “Voice of The Frontier”
(WJAG, 780 kc) listeners he did
sound effects illustrating a mon
key fight, turkey, cow, hurricane,
train, Tarzan call.
“Wild Bill’s” reception commit
tee at O’Neill included two Gray
children (pictured above).
Tucker is a son of the late
James Tucker of Sidney, who was
a pioneer judge.
He has been on the vaudeville
stage for years and years ago was
with the Buffalo Bill show.
Leaving O’Neill he went to
Atkinson to call on Dr. N. P.
McKee.
CALLING ALL GOOD NEIGHBORS . . .
Leonard Lorenz Fund Started
Everyone knows the story of
Leonard Lorenz, the 35-year
old Middlebranch farmer who
la6t both arms in a hay baler
accident June 8.
Mr. Lorenz, a World War II
B-24 aircraft pilot who flew
lieavy bombardment - patrol
planes, is in Veterans hospital,
Otnaha.
He spent 3 V* hours in sur
gery. For days the doctors is
sued bulletins: Condition crit
ical.
The doctors, veterans of war
time combat experience, told
the injured man’s father, Fred
Lorenz of Inman, they had
never seen such courage and
determination and such a strong
will to live.
That rare combination of
faith, grit and stubborn deter
mination enabled Leonard Lor
enz to pull through. Skin graft
i ‘ as begun.
nard writes: “I’m feeling
completely normal ... I have
regained virtually all of my
strengtn . . . I’m okay.”
“Okay,” he says.
He doesn’t want folks to wor
ry about him. Okay, because
he’s a rare specimen of man
hood in many ways and be
cause, one way or another, he’ll
get along.
The O’Neill newspapers and
banks feel that Mr. Lorenz
regards as an incident what in
reality is an almost unprece
dented tragedy. These institu
tions have decided to raise a
fund to somehow make life
better for Leonard Lorenz and
his 9-year-old adopted son,
Larry, a bright-eyed, white
haired lad who has been living
with his dad for two years.
F. N. Cronin, president of
the O’Neill National bank, and
Edward M. Gallagher, presi
dent of the First National bank,
have been designated as Srus- j
tees for the Leonard Lorenz
Fund. Money will be collected,
contributions will be acknowl
edged each week in these col
umns, and these funds will be
turned over to Mr. Lorenz and
his little “buddy.” In this way
their friends, who are legion
in the O’Neill area, can help to
brighten a tragic situation, a
grim outlook.
The Frontier and the Holt
County Independent have post
ed $25 each as a starter for the
Leonard Lorenz Fund. Clarence
Ernst of O’Neill, uncle of the
injured man, has presented a
check for $100.
Other checks have been
pledged.
(Make checks payable to the
Leonard Lorenz Fund, O’Neill,
Nebr., and mail them to or
leave them with Mr. Cronin or
Mr. Gallagher at either O’Neill
bank.)
Golden Annexes Fifth 1 itle
M. J. (“Max”) Golden, O’Neill hotej man, Monday captured
his iifth championship of the O'Neill open golf tourney at the
Country club. He is receiving congratulations from the champion
ship flight runnerup, A. P. (“Scovie”) Jaszkowiak. Pictured below
are Eill Miller of Atkinson (left), winner of the fourth flight,
and Robert Scoville ot Hartington, champion of the foist flight.
“Wild BUI" and Nola Gray, 5, and her sister, VUia, 9. daugh
ters of Mr. and Mrs. Duane Gray.—The Frontier Photo,
Nellie Conner. 82,
Burial al Ewing
Former Teacher an
Early Graduate
. EWING—Funeral services were
conducted at 10 am., here Satur
day, June 16, for Mrs. Nellie
Conner. 82. who died Wednes
day. June 13 She had been in
poor health for several months.
The rites were held at United
Presbyterian church. Dr. William
H. Ross, church pastor, officiated.
The late Mrs. Conner, whose
maiden name was Nellie Hoh
man. was born at Naper Farms,
Ashton. 111., April 24, 1874.
At the age of ft she moved with
her parents to a location north of
Neligh. where they resided for a
short period of time before mov
ing to their homestead north of
Ewing.
Mrs. Conner received her edu
cation in the Ewing public school
v here she was graduated with the
class of 1893. She taught in
neighborhood rural districts and
in the Ewing public school. Ed
ucation was her hobby and for
many years she was the oldest
member present at the annual
alumni banquet.
On February 9, 1889, she bc
j came a member of (he United
Presbyterian church of Ewing.
She was united in marriage to
I Oliver Conner on September 29,
1897. To this union one daughter
v as born. Mr. Conner died Mav
21, 1922.
Surviviors include: Daughter_
Mrs. S. S. (Amber Bernaldine)
Schlotman of Ewing: sisters _
Miss Sarah Hohman of Ewing
and Miss Dora Hohman of Ques
nel, B.C., Can.: brothers—George
Hohman of Cottage Grove, Ia ,
and Arba Hohman of Greenfield
Ia.
This Is Fateful
Year for Coopers
ORCHARD Thu has been a
fateful year at the Pete Coop
1 er farm near Orchard,
In March, Mrs. Cooper be
came ill. While she was being
taken to a Sioux City hospital
the family car was sideswiped
by a hit-and-run driver at
Jackson. Damage t® the Cooper
machine was $700.
In May, Mrs. Cooper was
forced to return to the hospital
for more treatment.
Last week their hired man,
Vernon Stewart, was fatally
injured when a .410 shotgun
accidently discharged. M r.
Stewart was hunting coons
which had been ravaging the
chickens.
On Wednesday. June 13, Mr.
Cooper became suddenly ill and
was taken by ambulance to Our
Lady of Lourdes hospital at
Norfolk for surgery. Mean
while, Mrs. James Cooper, who
lives near Ewing, was reelased
from a hospital, following an
operation, and her father,
Charles Fred Morsett of Royal
suffered a heart attack and
died.
Leaves on Combination
Vacation-Business Trip—
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mack and
daughter departed Sunday for a
week’s vacation in the Denver,
Colo., region. From Denver they
will go to Minneapolis, Minn.,
where Mr. Mack will spend a
week purchasing fall and winter
merchandise for Gambles soft
lines department. Mr. Mack is
manager of that department in
the company-owned O’Neill store.
Deloit Gets
Quarter Inch—
DELOIT—About n quarter inch
of rain was received at Deloit
Sunday following a week of near
100-degree temperatures.
Most of the alfalfa was put up
during the past week and the
crop was “very good.”
Mrs. Hull . . . she ami her
husband planned to retire this
year.
O’Neil! Slighted
by Jupitei Pluvius
O’Neill was slighted b.v Jupiter
Pluvius during the weekend.
Ainsworth received 2>'4 inches
of rain; Chambers, l *2 inches; the
Midway community, over 2 inch
es. But best that could be wrung
out of the O’Neill skies was .23.
A shower byre Saturday after
noon netted only .07; another
1 shower early Sunday morning
added 15, and a trace was re
corded early Monday.
The Kelley store neighborhood,
situated midway between Ain
j olio and Burwell, received a two
j inch deluge Saturday afternoon (
The Chambers locality record
ed a quarter of an inch on Satur
day afternoon, and 1 Vi inches
I Sunday morning.
Venus received a half-inch of)
rain during the weo«end.
The region between Norfolk
and Ewing received a good;
shower Monday morning while
| O’Neill sidewalks were Rarely j
being wetted.
A bolt extending from Norfolk
to Fremont received from .10 to
.70 of an inch Tuesday night.
Weather summary:
Hi Lo Free.
June 14 89 62
June 15 89 63
June 16 82 65 .07
June 17 83 62 .15
June 18 89 64 .01
June 19 95 65
June 20 ... 92 67
Inch Received
Sunday at Horsey—
DORSEY—Blessed rain fell in
the Dorsey community about 6:30
a.m., Sunday, and for some farm
ers it was the first moisture in
a long dry spell.
Farmers reported varying
amounts. Most of it averaged
about an inch.
Marvin Johnson of O’Neill
... captured second flight hon
ors. Golf tourney details on
page 3.—The Frontier Photo.
Mrs. Hull
Dies at 72;
Rites Today
O’Neill Farm Woman
111 Since May 20;
Native of Iowa
Funeral services for Mrs, Levi
Hull, 72, O’Neill farm woman,
will hi' conducted at 2 p.m,, to*
day (Thursday) at the Methodist
church here. Mrs. Mull died of a
heart attack early Monday, June
18, in Sacred Heart hospital.
She had suffered a stroke on
Monday, May 20, at her home
north of here and was taken to
the hospital the following day.
- Rev Glenn Kennicott, church
pastor, will officiate and burial
will bo in Paddock Union come
torq. The remains will lie in state
at Biglin’s chapel today until the
funeral hour.
Pallbearers will be Marion
Woidneck. Axel Borg, Orville
Thorson, Dave Moler, Fred Ernst
and Blake Benson, all neighbors.
The lale Mrs. Hull had been
a resident of llolt eounty 52
years.
Her maiden name was Carrii
Alice Manson, daughter of David
and Elizabeth Manson. She was
born August 17, 188-4. at Charter
Oak, la. Her father was born in
Ireland; her mother at Castana,
la.
She was baptised as a child
in the Methodist church and con
tinned in that faith until hoi
death.
The Manson family came to
Nebraska from Iowa in 1902,
spending two years at Clearwa
ter. In 1904 the family moved
into the Blackbird settlement, 22
miles northeast of O’Neill.
vm ivovemDcr /, isiuo, sue was
united in marriage with Mr. Hull,
son of a pioneer Holt family.
The marriage was performed in
the Baptist parsonage at Black
bird by Rev. Abe DeWitt.
The couple became the par
ents of two sons and continued
to reside In that locality. One
son. Bernard, died February 19,
1941.
Survivors include. Widower —■
Levi; son—Loyal of O’Neill; four
grandchildren; one great-grand
child; sisters— Mrs. John (Abi
gail Elizabeth) Chilton of Smith
land, la., and Mrs. Arch (Jessie
Melbina) Hull of Crookston; sev
eral nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death
by her parents, five brothers
and three sisters.
Sam Mohr, 56, Dies
in North Dakota
ATKINSON—Sam Mohr, 56, ;
former Holt eountyan, died Fri
day, June 8, at Williston, N.D
lie was a son of the late Mr. and
Mir. Alvin Mohr, who lived
north of O’Neill for many yfcan.
He never married.
Survivors include; Sisters -
Mrs. Nels (Pearl) Thorson of
Carpio, N.D., and Mrs, Joe (Min
nie; Stillfinger of Portland, Ore .
brothers—John, Frank and Wil
liam, all of Atkinson.
Ilotiscguests Here—
Mrs. Hans J. Egger and daugfl
ter, Sharon, of South Bend, Ind.
were houseguests over the week
end at the home of her brother,
Thomas Liddy, and family. Shar
on recently graduated from the
University of Nebraska. She at
tended a wedding of a sorority
sister in Atkinson on Monday.
Try The Frontier on your next
printing order!
RECORDING STAR COMES HOME . . .
Want to Meet Jeri Southern?
New item in last week's Fron
tier:
ROYAL—.Jeri Southern, na
tionally-known radio-record
ing star, will sing Friday
night at a meeting of the
Community club in her
hometown of Royal. Public
is welcome.
Jeri’s mother is Mrs. R. J.
Hering, The Frontier’s corre
spondent at Royal. It was hard
ly fair to ask the mother to shoot
a barrage of questions at her
daughter. So three O’Neill teen
agers were dispatched to “bring
back a story.”
This is the result of the ques
tion-and-answer period that en
sued over a Coke at the Hering
residence:
Q. What do you consider your
best recording?
A. “You Better Go Now.”
Q. Do you care to comment on
rock and roll?
A. I don’t like it and, aside
from the fact that it has no mu
sical content, it’s bad for teen
agers.
Q. Where do you reside while
working?
A. I live in Hollywood, but I
travel most of the time.
Q. How did you happen to
adopt your present singing style?
A. When 1 was in high school,
I studied voice and 1 sang so
prano, singing operatic arias
mostly. After high school I sang
at St. John’s in Omaha. When
I went to Chicago, I started sing
ing popular songs, not in my
natural voice. Now I sing the
lyric the way it is best express
ed.
Q. Who usually accompanies
you when you perform or do you
always accompany yourself?
A. I accompany myself most of
the time. I carry a bass player
and drummer and stand up for
two or three songs.
Q. What’s your newest release?
A. “I Won’t Be Around Any
more,” which I wrote.
Q. Where did you start singing
professionally?
A. I toured out of Omaha nine
years ago and went to Chicago
shortly afterward.
Q. Do you go on many per
sonal appearance tours or are
your appearances mostly night
club engagements?
A. Mostly night clubs but an
extra curricular thing once in a
while.
Q. In all your travels what
section of the country did you
find to be the friendliest?
A, Why, the midwest of course,
is the friendliest.
“We were rather apprehensive
about meeting such a great star,
but we found Miss Southern to
be extremely gracious and charm
ing. She made us feel very much
at home, showed a keen interest
in our schools and our activities
and, at times, we wondered who
was interviewing whom?
“We also had to compete with
a photo-writer team from Esquire
magazine, but that was fun, too.
“We feel the folks around here
should be very proud to have
such a personality as Miss Jcri
Southern call our own north
central Nebraska her home..”
O’Neill Rockets
Hit Atkinson, 10*4
The O’Neill Rockets posted
another win Sunday in North
Central Nebraska baseball league
play. The game was played at
O’Neill as the Rockets nicked At
kinson, 10-4.
R H E
Atkinson 000 100 030— 4 C 6
O’Neill 003 001 240—10 13 3
Batteries: Atkinson— C. Ever
etts and F. Schaaf; O’Neill —
Heiss, Adamson and McGinn;
winning pitcher — Heiss; losing
pitcher—Everetts.