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Volume 76._Number 15. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, August 9, 1956. __Seven Cent!.
These three sisters, the former Harvey girls, were honored at
the annua] old settlers’ picnic. Left-to-right: Mrs. C harles Miller
of Bristow. Mrs. Lloyd Crawford of Portland, C>re„ who came the
longest distance, and Mary E. Crawford, 82, of Bristow, the oldest
lady present.—The Frontier Photo.
Delia Harrison, 78,
Rules Old Settlers
All in Readiness
for ’56 Holt Fair
Boosters Make Circuit
on Tuesday
CHAMBERS—In just a matter
of hours the gates will swing
open for the 64th annual Holt
county fair under the sponsorship
of the Holt County Agricultural
society.
Fair dates this year are Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, August 13, 14, 15 and
16. Monday has been designated
as entry day; Tuesday, judging
day; Wednesday and Thursday,
entertainment days.
Rodeo performances on Wed
nesday and Thursday evenings
will top the entertainment.
Respite periods of dryness
during the growing season, ag
ricultural exhibits w i 11 be
bountiful. Livestock exhibits
and school displays are expect
ed to break all records. A new
barn has been added for 4-H
livestock entries.
Fair officers spent Tuesday
touring all cities and towns in
Holt county boosting the fair,
and also visited Clearwater and
Neligh in Antelope county.
Secretary James Gibson said
Eddie Stan and his orchestra
have been signed for the Wed
nesday night dance under the
stars at the open air pavilion.
This booking had not been pre
viously announced.
Some of the nation’s cowboys
will be entertaining in the five
event RCA-approved rodeo un
der the lights, and Joe Cava
naugh, a native of Chambers who
is ranked as the nation’s second
best rodeo announcer, will be at
the “mike’’ both nights.
3 Runaway Boys
Found in Dakota
Three boys who left O’Neill by
ear about 3 a.m., Sunday with a
packed suitcase and without
knowledge and consent of their
parents were back home late
Tuesday, having been picked up
by the South Dakota state high
way patrol at Rapid City, S.D.
The boys were Sammy Strong,
13; Earl Reno, 13, and Leonard
Peterson, 11.
They had driven off in a car
belonging to Sammy’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Strong. The
Strongs went to Rapid City to
get the runaway boys, who had
been picked up Monday and were
held by authorities.
Cecil Baker Going
to Fullerton Post
Cecil Baker, who has been
manager of the O’Neill office for
the Kansas - Nebraska Natural
Gas company since the firm’s
establishment here three years
ago, is being transferred to Ful
lerton where he will head the
company’s office that administers
Fullerton, Central City and Ge
noa.
Mr. Baker and his wife, who
built a new home here over a
year ago, have four children:
Treva, 11; Lynn, 9; Cathy, 6, and
Robert, 1.
Baker’s successor here will be
Kenneth Kearns of Fullerton,
who spent Wednesday in O’Neill
Mr. Kearns is married and is the
father of a daughter, Linda, 9.
Minister Named for
Chambers - Amelia
CHAMBERS—Rev. Harry My
ers of Bloomfield has been nam
ed by Dr. J. LaVerne Jay of O’
Neill, northeast Nebraska district
superintendent of the Methodist
church, to serve the combined
Chambers-Amelia parish.
Reverend Myers, his wife and
their four small children are
moving to Chambers this week.
He will deliver his first sermon
here Sunday, August 19.
Bonnie Hansen
Runover by Stacker—
AMELIA — Bonnie Hansen,
youngest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Gene Hansen of Amelia, was
seriously injured Friday when
run over by a haystacker. It is
not known how the accident oc
curred.
Bonnie was in “critical” condi
tion the forepart of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Hiatt spent
Saturday in Grand Island visit
ing in the Earl Ralya home.
(Photo on page 8)
Mrs. Delia Goodsell Harrison
78, was crowned queen of the
56th annual Holt county old set
tlers’ picnic held Monday at the
Elmer Devall grove in the Meek
community.
An interview entitled, “This I;
Your Life," was arranged in her
honor by members of the Up
and-At-It 4-H club.
She was born March 21, 1878
at Austin. Minn., a daughter ol
Abraham and Lucinda Goodsell
She had three brothers and foul
sisters. She came to Holt county
at the age of 5—in 1883.
Mrs. Harrison started school
in a log schoolhouse. Some of
her schoolmates still living are
Emma Karel, Will Devall, Roy
Spindler and Mrs. Jessie Kac
zor.
At the age of 17—on May 15
1895—she married Orville Har
rison. They became the parent'
of six daughters. Mr. Harrisor
died in 1938. A daughter, Mary
died in 1951, and another daugh
ter, Mrs. Clarence (Pearl) Hicks
died last month.
Mrs. Harrison’s living daugh
ters are: Mrs. Ed (Nellie) Thom
as of O’Neill, Mrs. Orville (Myr
tle) Peterson of O’Neill, Mrs.
William (Lillian) Hoban of North
Platte and Mrs Elmer* (Dorothy)
Devall.
Mrs. Harrison has 29 grand
children and 10 great-grandchil
dren.
Mrs. Harrison exhibited some
heirlooms at the picnic—some
two hundred years old.
Also honored were Mrs. Lloyd
Crawford of Portland, Ore., for
coming the greatest distance; her
sister, Mrs. Mary E. Crawford
82, of Bristow, for being the old
est woman present.
Honorees were presented cor
sages.
The Crawfords are the former
Harvey girls, daughters of the
late Mr. and Mrs. John Harvey,
who were homesteaders.
The day was marked with vis
iting and reminiscing. There was
a ball game in the afternoon and
a program of songs and readings
presented by young people.
EX-PRISONER WRITES ABOUT ... '
‘Ride to Panmunjom’
Navy Chief Duane Thorin, 36,;
the former Chambers and Neligh
man and brother of O’Neill’s Ed ,
Thorin, has had time to do some j
reflecting since those horrible ^
days spent in a Red China prison
camp.
Thorin, a helicopter pilot who
v/on fame for daring rescue op
erations during the Korean war, I
now “flies” a desk in the Penta
gon building in the nation’s cap
ital.
Living peacefully near the
banks of the Potomac in Arling
ton, Va., Chief Thorin has pieced
together a story that has attract
ed a Chicago, 111., publishing
firm—Henry Regnery Co. And
the publishers have scheduled re
lease of Thorin’s book in October.
“Regarding the nature of
this book, although it deals
mainly with circumstances of
POW’s in Korea, it is not my
Chief Thorin . . . “past important only as it can serve the fu
ture.”
personal ‘war story',” he ;
writes. “1 had not even con- i
sidered writing: a book until .
several months after my return
to freedom, when the need for ]
an objective presentation of (
certain facts in this matter be- ,
came apparent. (
“The majority of articles and
stories on the subject to-date
have been distorted in one direc
tion or another. Some of these
distortions have given rise to
several popular misconceptions;
among them the idea that “the ;
communists have devised an ir
resistible means of compulsion’ ;
and/or ‘every man has his break- !
ing point.’ Such conclusions ig- i
nore the fact that many men did c
not break, and promote a defeat
ist attitude among many of the j
uninformed. The objective of my (
writing is to portray the factors ]
which enabled some men to re
sist and endure, in contrast to
those factors which caused others
to fail. Among other things, this
may serve to dispel the myth of
communist invincibility.
“To do this, I have selected ,
from the experiences and obser- ‘
vations of several persons, in
cluding myself, the actual inci
dents which seem best to illus
trate those factors. Because it is
not my purpose to portray actual
individuals, either to commend
or condemn, these stories have
been fictionalized as necessary
to conceal identities and to work
them into novel form providing
a degree of continuity.
“The past is important only as
it can serve the future. So I
strive in my writing to apply the
lessons learned by a few individ
uals in the extreme circumstance
of a communist POW camp to the
problems of all mankind in the
continuing struggle to attain or
retain individual and collective
freedom in the face of totalitari
an threats,” he adds.
Tentatively, the title of the
book is “Ride to Panmunjom.”
The price is $4 per copy.
Because there may be a lim
ited number of first edition
books, Chief Thorin will have set
aside by the publisher a quantity
of these books which will be
available to Holt and Antelope
county friends.
His address: Box 2085, South
Station, Arlington 4, Va.
Ordination
Sunday for
New Cleric
Norman Walter Rite
Set at Chambers;
Going to Formosa
CHAMBERS—Norman Eugene
Walter, who was graduated from
Chambers high school in 1948,
will be ordained as a minister of
the Lutheran church, Missouri
synod, at St. Paul’s Lutheran
church here Sunday, August 12.
The ordination rite at 3 p.m., will
include a sermon by Rev. L. A.
Dale of Pratt, Kans., former pas
j tor of St. Paul’s.
Candidate Walter was enrolled
in the synod’s preparatory school.
| St. John’s college, Winfield,
I Knns. Graduating from there in
Candidate Walter . . . train
ing to culminate with foreign
assignment.
1951, he enrolled in Concordia
seminary, St. Louis, Mo., where
ht was awarded a bachelor of
arts degree in 1953.
From 1954 until 1955 he serv
ed the southeastern district mis
' sion board at Seaford, Dela., re
| turning to St. Louis last Septem
I ber to complete his ministerial
t Timing and was graduated June
5.
On June 17, this year, he was
married to Miss Donna Lee King
of Hoisington, Kans., and since
that time has been attending mis
sion school at Concordia. The
couple will leave in September
for Formosa.
Rev. E. G. Smith of O’Neill is
vacancy pastor at St. Paul’s.
Minnesotan Here—
Mrs. Rose Jennlng of Blue
Earth, Minn., who has been vis
iting on the West coast, arrived
, here Sunday to spend an extend
| ed visit with her sisters, Mrs.
Emma Lawrence and Mrs. Fan
' nie Ernst.
3 Children Thrown
from Station Wagon
Only One Hurt in
Norfolk Crash
(Photo at right)
Ten persons, three adults and
seven children, escaped serious
injury early Tuesday afternoon
when a station wagon driven by
Mrs. William Artus, 31, of O'
Neill overturned 1.9 miles west
of Norfolk on US. highway 275.
Wheels on one side of the east
bound car went off the side of*
the pavement as Mrs. Artus was
driving her four children and
five guests to Norfolk where they
were to attend the Shrine circus.
“The car swerved back-and
forth across the road about
three times,” explained the
driver, “finally rolled over
twice and came to a stop on the
wrong side of the road headed
in the opposite direction.”
Mrs. Artus said the doors re
mained closed but the “end gate”
came open and three of the chil
dren were thrown out the rear.
Her daughter Ellen, 9. was hurtl
ed through the air about 20 or 30
feet across a fence and was bad
ly shaken.
The child was taken to Our
Lady of Lourdes hospital at Nor
folk and kept overnight. Also ad
mitted for observation was Pam
ela Winnick, 5, who was kept ov- '■
ernight.
All 10 persons were taken to
the hospital for examination and ]
eight were immediately released.
Occupants besides Mrs. Artus,
Ellen Artus and Pamela Winnick
were: Billy Artus, 7; Nancy Art
us, 5; Charles Artus, 4; Mrs. Lou j
Winnick of New- York City, Mrs.
Vincent Ginannetto of New York
City and her two children, Chris
topher and Ruth Ann.
Mrs. Winnick and Mrs. Gin
annetto arc sisters-in-law of
Mrs. Artus.
The occupants were taken to
the hospital by passing motorists.
Damage to the car was estimated
at $400. Safety belts in the front
seat were not employed, accord
ing to Patrolman Scheel.
Unmindful of how narrow had
been their escape, the children
were unhappy because they did
not get to see the circus. ,
O’Neillites Going to
Demo Convention
L. D. Putnam of O’Neill and
Carrie Peppel of Butte have been
named by State Democratic
Chairman Willard Townsend of
Lincoln as members of the state,
demo central committee.
Mr. Putnam and two sons, Dan- j
ny, 17, and William, 14, will
leave by car early today (Thurs
day) to attend the convention.
M r. Putnam predicts Averill
Harriman, governor of New York,
will be nominated by the demos
over Adlai Stevenson.
Frontier for printing! j
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Overturned Artus station wagon . . . three adults and seven children escaped serious injury.
State Trooper Carl Scheel investigated.—Photo courtesy Norfolk Daily News.
Henry \V. Tomlinson and his wife, Lucy ... on their 60th wedding anniversary. (Cake was
baked by their daughter, Mrs. James Coventry of of Inman, and was decorated by Willard Thom
son of Chambers, husband of a granddaughter.)—The Frontier Photo.
Tomlinsons Note 60th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Tom
inson of O’Neill Sunday were
tcnored by over one hundred
riends and relatives at a picnic
iinner held in Ford’s park. The
iccasion was the Tomlinsons’
iOth wedding anniversary.
Both Mr. Tomlinson, 81, and
iis wife, 78, enjoy “quite good”
lealth despite their advanced
iges.
In the late afternoon ice cream
ind cake were served to mem
>ers of the immediate family and
everal close friends.
The Tomlinsons’ great-niece,
drs. Guy Hull, and her husband
if Redbird, celebrated their 31st
vedding anniversary simultane
tusly with the Tomlinsons’ 60th.
Mr. Tomlinson Is regarded as
one of the few' remaining au
thorities on pioneer Holt coun
ty life.
Mr. Tomlinson, who was born
t Gratoin, Wise., on February 20,
874, came to Holt county at the
ige of 6 with his parents. His
ather was killed in a well cave
n shortly after coming to Holt
ounty.
The Tomlinsons were married
n O’Neill by Reverend George
m August 6, 1896, at the C. L.
Jright home.
His parents were the late
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tomlin
son.
Mrs. Tomlinson, the former
.Ajcy LaVinia France, was born
it Keswick, la., on July 8, 1879,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ho
sa France. She came to Holt
county in 1883.
The Tomlinsons first resided
on a farm near Mineola in Holt
county. In 1916 they moved to
O'Neill where they have since
made their home. Mr. Tomlinson
has served as justice of the peace
for the past 20 years. He was also
township assessor for a number
of years.
Their three sons and three
daughters and most of the mem
bers of their families were pres
ent for Sunday’s gathering.
Their sons are: Glen of Spen
cer, Arthur of Inman, Ralph of
West Point. Another son, Rodney,
is deceased. Daughters: Mrs. Wil
liam (Alice) Turner of Cham
bers, Mrs. Henry (Isabelle)
Bruhn of North Platte, Mrs.
James (Mildred) Coventry of In
man. There are 11 grandchildren
and 10 great-grandchildren.
The Tomlinsons held a formal
PASTOR INSTALLED
ORCHARD — Rev. Walter H.
Seefeldt, formerly of Norton,
St. Peter’s English Lutheran
Kans., was installed as pastor of
church at Orchard Sunday eve
ning. More than three hundred
persons were in attendance. Rev.
Phillip Janz of Plainview, va
cancy pastor, conducted the in
stallation.
Nancy Jean Longenecker has
spent the past week in the Austin
Searles home.
observance of their golden wed
ding in 1946.
(A tape - recorded interview
with the Tomlinsons, conducted
by Bruce Rehberg, was heard or
Monday’s “Voice of The Fron
tier’’ program, WJAG, 780 kc.)
Three Virginians
Hurt in Wreck
Three Virginians were injured
at 11:50 a.m., Wednesday in a
two-car accident on U.S. high
way 275 at a point 3>£ miles wesl
of Inman.
Hospitalized here are Benja
min Dickson, 57, and his wife, 50
also Mrs. Dickson’s daughter
Miss Julie Novak, 17, all of Ar
lington, Va.
Deputy Holt Sheriff James
Mullen, who investigated, said
the Dickson car and a machine
driven by Mrs. Eugene Goldfuss
of O’Neill hooked bumpers. Both
cars were traveling westward.
The Goldfuss machine was pass
ing the Dickson car. The real
bumper of the Goldfuss car was
hooked with the front bumper ol
the Virginia auto.
The Dickson car went into the
ditch and upset, apparently roll
ing several times, Mullen said
and came to a rest on the north
east side of the road facing
southeast.
The Goldfuss car came to a
stop about 12 feet away. Neither
Mrs. Goldfuss nor her husband
(they are newlyweds) or a third
occupant in their car was hurt.
This wreckage (above) Wednesday sent three tourists from Arlington, Va„ to the hospital.
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Rainfall
Aids Dry
Pastures
O’Neill Shorted but
Nearby Localities
Get Good Showers
Almost daily showers during
the past seven days have helped
to refresh pastures that had been
parched by hot, windy July days.
Precipitation during the past
seven days at O’Neill has aggre
gated 1 inch. But 20 miles north
east of here the rainfall has to
taled nearly 4 inches during that
period. Ten miles northeast of
O'Neill has received about 3
inches.
Chronological weather high
lights follow:
A general rain fell over much
of north-central Nebraska late
Wednesday night, August t, and
early Thursday morning.
At O’Neill the official amount
of precipitation was .58.
Elsewhere in the region in
creased amounts of rain were re
ported. Clyde Streeter, 10 mile#
north of O’Neill, reported 1 inch,
Joe Soukup, 1.50; the town of
Chambers received about .40.
The Lloyd Waldo place, south
of Amelia, reported 1.50, and the
locality northwest of Chambers
received between 1.25 and 1.35.
r,. it. ivmi, h im .1 inm
county ranch near the Niobrara
river south of Spencer, said
his locality received a Rood
general rain, totaling about a
half-inch.
Other reports: Bonesteel, S I),
1 inch; Winner, S.D., .70; Anoka,
1 40; Spencer, .70; Lynch, .70;
Creighton, .25.
Long Pine was drenched with a
two-inch storm; Bassett received
1.50; Inman, .45; Ewing, .10,
Clearwater, .08; Albion, .15; El
gin, .20.
Rain Monday morning at In
man was reported as .52 of an
inch, while O'Neill was receiv
ing .23.
Rain Monday and during the
week at Dcloii amounted to ap
proximately .30, according to The
j Frontier’s correspondent there.
Frank Shefl, who lives 4 mile*
southeast of O’Neill, reported
1.45 inches of moisture early on
: Monday morning; also a light
shower Wednesday morning.
Light rain early Wednesday
brought .20 of an inch to Atkin
son and Bassett, but only .04 fell
at O’Neill. Inman reported n
quarter of an inch, unofficially,
while Ewing and Neligh reported
light showers.
There were extensive electric
disturbances throughout the area
lat Tuesday and early Wednes
day. but only the Rosebud terri
tory derived any appreciable
moisture. Dallas, S.D., received
showers totaling .70; Winner,
S.D., .25; Burke, .60. On the Ne
braska side of the boundary, the
Spencer hydro dam and Lynch
reported high wind but little pre
cipitation. Spencer received .10;
Lynch, trace; Niobrara, .04—all
unofficial reports.
Orchard, Plainview, Osmond
and Allen reported sprinkle*.
Weather summary:
Hi Lo Prec
August 2 92 67 .57
August 3 95 69 .01
August 4 93 69 .08
August 5 95 59
August 6 87 64 .23
August 7 88 62 .07
August 8 92 61 .04
Total 1 00
Father of Page
Woman Is Killed
PAGE — Nick Schrum, 69, of
Manning, la., father of Mrs. Ice
land Knudsen of Page, died of
injuries received when a tornado
struck the barn in which he was
working Monday morning He
was buried under 40 tons of hay
and a cow when the building col
lapsed. He lived until 3:30 Mon
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Knudsen left for
Iowa upon receipt of the news
of Mr. Schrum's injury, but did
not arrive until after his death.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Schrum operated
a dairy on the outskirts of Man
ning. All except one of their herd
of 18 cows was killed in the barn
wreckage.
Lightning Strikes
Van Horn Bam
EWING—Lightning struck the
large stock barn on the Harry
Van Horn ranch near Ewing ear
ly Saturday morning during a
thunder shower. Mr. Van Horn
and son, Robert, were doing
chores in the building at the
time but they escaped injury.
Livestock, including a number
of purebred Hereford bulls, was
uninjured.
The Ewing fire department
was summoned but no fire broke
out. The roof of the barn was
damaged and the large hay door
splintered. The bam was filled
with baled straw.
Damage to the property was
icovered by insuarnce.
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Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Loreni
went to Kansas Saturday. Their
daughter, Patty, who had been
staying with her grandmother,
returned home with them.
The Alfred Straka family of
j Stuart were Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. John Schmit.