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Mr. and Mrs. William C. Kelley . . . cutting: the cake on their HOth wedding anniversary.—The Frontier Photo. Kelley Mark Their 60th Wedding Anniversary Mrs. Susanna Gathje, Canada Native, Dies One of 14 Children in Pioneer Family ATKINSON— Mrs. Susanna Gathje, 77. died at 7:50 p. in.,! Friday, November 9, in Atkinson Memorial hospital. She had been a hospital patient two weeks. j Funeral services were con-j ducted at 2 p. m., Monday, Nov-1 ember 12, at the Seger funeral1 chapel with Rev. Sallach offic iating. Burial was in Woodlawn ceme tery. Pallbearers were John Schmidt, David Carr, Clarence G i 1 g,' George Albrecht, Blaine Gar wood and Albert Frehouf. The late Mrs. Gathje was born July 11, 1879, at Neustadt, Ont., Can., a daughter of the late Jac ob and Christine Walter. She was the ninth child in a family of 14 children. She came to the United States in June, 1897. and made her home with her parents in Holt county. On February 1, 1900, she mar ried Christian Gathje at Atkin son. They became the parents of four children. The late Mrs. Gathje was a lifelong member of the Lutheran church, having received her ear ly Christian training in the pa rochial schools of Canada. She was a charter member of Em manuel Lutheran church in At kinson. bne joined that church when it had a handful of persons for a congregation and services were held at Holt Creek, 12 miles south of Atkinson. She was an honorary member of the Lutheran Women’s Mis sionary league. Mr. Gathje died June 7, 1949. She wa» aLo preceeded in death by her parents and nine brothers and sitters. Survivors include: son—Henry, of Seneca; daughters—Minnie of Atkinson; Mrs. Emil (Marie) j Johnson of Atkinson, Mrs. Alvo (Clara) Crawford of Seneca; brothers—John Walter and Al fred Walter, sr., both of Chamb ers; William Walter of Atkinson and Otto Walter of Omaha; four grandchildren—Carol Sue and Sharon Elaine Crawford, both of Seneca; I la Mae Johnson Engler of O’Neill; Daryl D. Johnson ACC, stationed at Adak, Adak, Alaska, with the navy; five great-grandchildren — Carol, Gregory, Burnette, Christian and Mark Engler, all of O’Neill. Goes to Cherokee to Attend Funeral Mrs. William Biglin and sister, Mrs. Margaret Boler, .left Sunday, November 4, for Cherokee, la., to attend the funeral Monday of Mrs. Frank Waters. Mrs. Biglin went on to Denver, Colo., to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Car roll, and family and will also go to Sterling, Colo., to visit anoth er son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Don Berg and chil dren. Mrs. Boler is in Omaha. HONORED AT IP Ten sophomores at the Uni versity of Nebraska, including j Keith E. Anspach of O’Neill, were honored recently for high scholarship in the college of business administration. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blinn and ; family of Norfolk spent the weekend with his sister and fam ily, Mrs. John Stiefbergen. INMAN—Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam C. Kelley quietly observed heir bOtii wedding anniversary Sunday, November 11 at their home in Inman. Five of their seven children and their families were in atten dance. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kelley of Fair bury; Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kelley and family of Omaha; Lyle Ruth Jackson of St. Paul, Minn.; Bill and Jim Kelley and families of Inman. One son, Charles of St. Paul, Minn., and one daughter Mrs. Walter (Creola) Nelson of Lansing, Mich., were unable to be present. Many friends called during the afternoon and evening to extend congratulations. Mr. Kelley is 83 and Mrs. Kelley is 7i. They were married November 11, 1896 by the late Judge McClutchen of O’Neill at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Brumbaugh. Maysie Brumbaugh was born at Couch, Ind., September 23, 1873. The Kelleys have made their home in Inman 59 years. The first year of their married life was spent on the Brumbaugh farm. For many years Mr. Kelley was in bridge construction work. One of his prize building feats was superintendent of a multi span bridge 10 miles from Yank ton, S.D. The Kelleys are avowed demo crats but Bill said he jumped mica itvvvvn 10 » iw* President Eisenhower. “1 don't care much for that fellow from Illinois,” he explain ed. Regarding the “e” before the "y” in the family name, Mr. Kel ley emphasized: "You can’t be j an Irishman without that ‘e’!” Both enjoy "excellent” health, j although Mrs. Kelley’s illness 10! years ago precluded a celebration of their golden wedding anniver sary. However, in 1951, they celebrated their 55th with an open-house affair at the Odd Fellows hall. Bill and Jim Kelley now reside on the original Brumbaugh place. The Kelleys have 19 grand children and three great grandchildren. The Kelleys have one son and one daughter deceased. Willard McNaughton of Min neapolis, Minn., a friend, also came from a distance. Cronin Heads Drive for Creighton ‘U’ Julius I). Cronin, O’Neill at torney, has been named state chairman of a one-million-dol lar fund drive in behalf of a new : library for Creighton university, Omaha. He has been attending area j meetings at West Point. Norfolk, Albion and O'Neill during which '• the plans are being told to com mittees composed of alumni and triends of the university. Rev. Carl J. Reinhart, 3. J., Creighton president, spoke at Monday night’s O’Neill meeting :.t the Golden hotel. Represent atives were present from Holt, Rock, Keya Paha, Boyd, Knox rnd Antelope counties. Thomas G. Slattery of Atkin son, class of 1926, is chapman >f the drives at the O’Neill cen ter. The library drive is the sec ond Step in the university’s 10 y e a r development program. Funds are being raised on a na tionwide basis. Creighton is the only Jesuit university between the Missouri river and the West coast. Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Cronin were in Sioux City Sunday and Monday visiting Sr. M. Eugene and Miss Genevieve Biglin and Miss Nora McAuliffe. “Vtkt of The Frontier" I 9:30-10 AM. - 780 k.c. SECTION ONE Pages I -8 * 16 PAGES Mon. — Wed. — Sat. North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper \ olume 76. Number 29. O Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, I hursday, November 15, 1956. Seven Cents. Education Board Gets Criticism 3 0 0 Attend Meeting of Small Schools Group At BurwelJ HURJWELL—T h r e e hundred persons from 26 Nebraska coun ties converged at Burwell Wed nesday afternoon for a meeting of the Nebraska Small School: association. Representation wa< largely members of various boards of education and othei interested persons. The small schools group was organized this summer to op pose certain trends in the state department of education. These trends, association officials ex plain, would sound the “death knell” for most of the small two- and four-grade high schools in the state. President Lloyd Waldo of Amelia said all sections of the state were represented at Mon day’s conference held in the American Legion auditorium. County chairmen were ap pointed and Clyde Widman of Amelia will head the Holt group. U*iu uiia llllTWhgo Will be scheduled soon, President Waldo explained. The association was born out of Amelia’s attempt to retain its two-grade high school, which has been declared inoperative by the state education commis sion. Amelia and Westerville (Custer county) took cases into the district court, seeking to restrain the state board of ed ucation and the education com missioner, F. B. Decker, in their efforts to close the schools. Currently, the Amelia dis trict—228—has an appeal in the hands of the state supreme court. The Small School association has fixed membership at $1 per legal voter per district with a maximum of one hundred dol lars. “We are going to bring a good many rural schools into our movement,” 'President Waldo declared. Leo Clinch of Burwell is sec retary-treasurer. Also discussed at Wednes day’s meeting was possible leg islation that might be forth coming in the next session of the unicameral legislature. The association decided, tentative ly, to press for some legislation counter to the move to close down the small schools. The law which made the state education commission appointive (instead of elective) came under some criticism. When the state board of education was estab lished two years ago, the same law pruvicieu iui me ucaviuu wj. an education commissioner to replace the state superintendent of public instruction, which pre viously was on the ballot. The state board of education is elected by districts on a stag gered basis and, as one spokes man put it at the Burwell meet ing, “If you don’t like the way they’re handling you and run ning things, it’d take 10 years to do anything about it” Nonagenarian Dies At Farm Home Mrs. Ida Noble in 111 Health a Year Mrs. Ida Noble, 92, who had been in ill health about a year, died Wednesday, November 7, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Orton Young, where she had been un der care for some time. Funeral services were con oucted Thursday, November 8, at First Presbyterian church with Rev. J. Olen Kennell, church pastor, officiating. Burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery under the direction of Biglin’s. Pallbearers were neighbors from the Star community: Phil lip Lee, Orton Young, Walter Young, Ben Miller, Bob Tomlin son and Charles Cole. The late Mrs. Noble was born January 5, 1865 at Rander, O., a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David N. Jones. She lived at Julian before coming to Holt county. She married Josiah Star Noble at Missouri Valley, la., on Octo ber 6, 1877. Her husband died in December 1946. Survivors include: Son—Ray of Star; sisters — Mrs. Blanche Bize and Amelia Schuster, both of Brock; brother — Will Jones of Brock. She was proceeded in death by two children. Visits in Lincoln— Mr. and Mrs. George Van Every and George Fuller visited in Lincoln over the weekend with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Johnson. They stopped on way home in Norfolk to visit with their son, and family, Mr. and Mrs. Mar vin VanEvery and daughter, Mrs. Carl Miller, and family. ' ' ...— ——whl ——h r————Mi 1 > • W* Mrs. Erdmann. Michael and Mrs. Arnolt . . . getting acquainted. —The Frontier Photo ‘Grandma’ Arrives from Germany Mrs. Elizabeth Erdmann reach ed O’Neill about 5 p.m., Monday (—having arrived from Olden ; burg, Germany, a town near i Bremen in the British sector. She is on a six-months visit | or’s visa, but hopes to stretch it a bit, mostly because she is get ting acquainted with her grand son, nine months-old Michael Arnolt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hel mut Arnolt. Mrs. Erdmann’s coming to the United States is a long story. Mr. Arnolt had been an en gineer—and a fine arts student— ill Germany. Six years ago he rame to the U.S. About two years ago he sent for his child hood sweetheart, Mrs. Erd mann’s daughter. They hat! met as children in Pomerania (now a Polish state) when his father was a Methodist minister there. His sweetheart grew up and became a registered nurse in Germany. They were married at Oak land, Md., where Helmut’s brother is studying for a doctor ate at Johns Hopkins university. Ftor a time the couple lived m I/ucoln and now Helmut is an assistant engineer with the Ne braska department ot roads and irrigation. 'hey moved to O’Neill about a year ago and Mr. Arnolt is with the highway department. Other members ot the family also have come to the U S. The Arnolts went to New York City, via Wisconsin, where they visited relatives (whom they had never seen) to greet Mrs. Hdrnann when she stepped from the steamship Berlin. James J. Murphy, 78, Expires in Hospital Longtime Resident of Stuart Locality James J. Murphy, 78, pioneer Holt county resident and ranch er who lived in this vicinity nearly all of his life, died at 2 p.m. Wednesday, November 7, at St. Anthony’s hospital in O’Neill. Funeral services were con ducted at St. Boniface Catholic church in Stuart at 11 a.m., Sat urday, November 10. Burial was in St. Boniface cemetery. Nephews of the late Mr. Mur phy acted as pallbearers: Lloyd James, Alfred James, Frank Murphy, Cornelius Murphy, James Murphy and Francis Torpy. James Joseph Murphy, son of Jeremiah and Bridget O’Neill Murphy, was born July 21, 1878, at Dubuque, la. He came to Holt county with his parents when he was three-years-old. The family homesteaded on a place three miles south of Stu nrt Tt is now owni'd hv .T P. Murphy. The late Mr. Murphy owned and operated a ranch adjoining and including part of the family homestead for many years. He retired from ranching and sold the place about four years ago to his nephew, Frank Murphy. Since then he made his home in Stuart and, in recent months, at O’Neill. Survivors include: sisters — Mrs. H. L. (Mary) James of At kinson and Mrs. T. P. Edmonds of Englewood, Fla.; brother—. J. P. Murphy of Stuart; numer ous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and by one sister, Mrs. William (Abbie) Torpy of Atkinson. Burned Fatally in Gas Explosion BURWELL— Floyd T. Lantis, 26, was fatally burned Saturday evening in a gasoline tank ex plosion. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m., Monday at the Metho dist church. Burial was in the Rose rural cemetery. Survivors include: Widow, who came from Wyoming; par ents—Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lan tis of Rose. CANVASSING BOARD MEETS The Holt county canvassing board was in session Wednes day and will windup the final izing of the November 6 gener al election voting in a meeting on Friday. County Clerk Ken neth Waring said about 150 out of the 175 mail ballots that had been requested were tabulated. Weekes Guest Is 82— Mr. and Mrs. Keith Shelhase of Atkinson spent Monday eve ning in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Shelhase, celebrat ing the 82d birthday anniver sary of Keith’s grandmother, Mrs Minnie Schnitker. I Mrs. William Beha Cited by Paper for Her Activity Mrs. William ("Midge”) Beha [ was featured in an article in j the Black Mountain, (N. C.) I News, a weekly newspaper, pub lished in the county where she lives with Mr. Beha and their four children. Their town is Swannanon. They former liv ed in O’Neill. It cited her civic responsibil ities in many phases of youth work including school safety patrol, PTA, driver education j and training, sanitary safety j and Girl Scouting. She also j serves as president of the Altar j society, is a registered nurse and has hobbies. She does au togrupn collecting and lias sig natures of three presidents and many other interesting people. She writes poetry and helps her husband with his hobby of cop per enameling costume jewelry by contributing ideas for color and design. Her petite ness belies the en j thusiasm and thoroughness that J this little person projects once she’s on a nroiect. Mrs. Beha was active in ! O’Neill, especially in Girl Scout j ing, nur.-ing and school activities. Snow, Cold Move in N >rth-Nebraska At midnight Wednesday night the temperature had dropped to 21 degrees—the low for the sea son— and a layer of snow cover ed the ground. Up to six inches of snow is forecast today, (Thursday). Hi Lo November 8 48 17 November 9 59 26 November 10 72 30 November 11 60 39 November 12 50 25 November 13 67 38 November 14 51 31 Mrs. S. i. Weekes 1 Succumbs at Omaha _ Burial Will Be Made At O’Neill Mr-. Stephen John Weekeg | died in Omaha at the Black stone hotel, where she had re sided since the death of her husband in 1941. Her maiden name wag Emma Dickinson. She was found dead in her sleep. She married the late Mr. Weekes on June 12, 1901 at Te kainah. They came to O’Neill shortly after and lived here un til his death. She leaves a nephew, Law i' nre of Omaha. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon in Omaha. Burial will be Saturday after noon, November 17 in Prospect 'ill cemetery near the grave of her husband Her husband was prominent m north-Nebraska banking cir •'"s for many years. Mrs. j Wcokes was a member of the O’Neill National bank board of, lirectors at the time of her j death. Christian Mothers Discuss Bazaar— EWING- The Christian Moth-, < of St. Peter’s Catholic church net Tuesday evening, November! Mr Allan Pollock, president was in charge. A discussion and plans for their annual bazaar to He held November 21 at St. Dominic hall was the main bus-' n ss of the session. Go To Chambers— Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Porter and Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Kruse at tended the smorgasbord at the Legion hall in Chambers Mon day evening. Grand Opening for Western Auto A. P. (“Seevie”) Jaszkowiak poses in the new, enlarged Wes-., tern auto store on the eve of the grand opening. (See advertise ment on page lD-r-The Frontier Photo. . •’ * • * - * * . Thieves Get Loot at Inman Store INMAN— Thieves forced the ; rear door at the Finkbine Bros, lumber and hardware firm here in the early Monday morning hours, and made off with a var ied loot Holt County Sheriff Leo Tom jack said the following was re ported stolen: Four dozen leather gloves, a Remington automatic 20-gauge shotgun, a 12-gauge Ithiea pump gun, 75 boxes of shotgun shells, •10 boxes of .22-calibre long shells, six boxes of shells for large rifles and $18 in cash tak en from the money drawer. Only evidence found was an empty carton bearing an Omaha • i /-v i ouju vnuima police are cheeking the address. Mrs. Tony Lech, 50, Burial at Atkinson Funeral Rites Held Tuesday ATKIN SON—M rs. Tony Lech, 50, died late Sunday, November 11, in a Norfolk hospital. Funeral services were conduct ed at 2 p. m., Tuesday, November 13, at the Methodist church in Atkinson with Rev. Curtis Bar nett officiating. Burial was in Wood Lawn cemetery. Pallbearers were Gene Hic kock, Carroll Raymer, Conrad Prickel, Franklin Hickman, R. J. Kelley and Rex Beckwith. The late Mrs. Lech, whose maiden name was Calella John son, was born March 10, 1906, at LeMars, la., a daughter of An drew and Sereldia Bixler John, son. At the age of 3 she moved with her parents onto a ranch west of Emmet, where she grew to womanhood. She was a graduate of Atkin son high school and taught for several years in a number of Holt county rural schools. She married Mr. Leech April 8, 1928, at Emmet. They be came the parents of three chil dren. Her husband was a veteran of World War I. He spent two years in Veterans hospitals be fore his death July 8, 1948. The late Mrs. Lech resided in and around Atkinson, also at Omaha, returning to Atkinson in 1932. Her health began to fail about that time and she enter ed the state hospital at Norfolk, where she was a patient 22 years. She submitted to surgery about a year ago, and her con dition was delicate after that time. Last spring she was permit ted to spend short periods of time at the home of her broth er, Lowell. However, due to her most recent illness, it was considered inadvisable for her to be away from her physicians. Survivors include: son—Gary of Atkinson; Mrs. Dick (Carol) Osborn and Mrs. Russell (Glor ia) Everetts, jr., both of Atkin son; six grandchildren; sisters— Mrs. Mattie Weller of Atkinson; and Mrs. Frank (Agnes) Os borne of Mission, S.D.; and Mrs. Frank (Phania) Searles of O’Neill; brothers—Sewell John son of Atkinson; Custer John son of Waverely; Ijowell John son of O'Neill. One sister, Mrs. Frank (Fran ces) Searles, died in May, 1948. She also was preceded in death by three other sisters and by her parents. Relatives from a distance at tending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. C. E Johnson of Waverly; Mr. and Mrs. Herb Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. William Phillips, all of Akron, la.; Charles John son of Vermillion, S.D.; Mrs. Percy Anderson and son, Randy, of Columbus. Turkeys Being Given Saturday (Details on page 16) The annual turkey day will be staged here Saturday, November 17, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce. Weight guessing will be the key to the proposition of winning a free turkey for that Thanks giving day table. A partial list of member firms cooperating includes: Ben Franklin, Gambles, John son Drugs, Johnson Jewelry, O’ Neill Drug, Osborne Shoe Store, J. C. Penney Co., Petersen Cloth ing, Coast-To-Coast, Gillespies Electric. Shelhamer Equipment Co., Eby’s Conoco Service, Dr. H. D. Gildersleeve, Biglin’s Furniture, Consumers Public Power, First National Bank, O’Neill Insurance Agency, O’Neill National Bank. O’Neill Cleaners, The Frontier, Holt County Independent, Ideal Cleaners, Farmers Produce, Western Auto, J. M. McDonald Co., McIntosh Jewelry. Frontier for printing . . . and prompt deliveries. Hearing on Trains Will Be Delayed Railroad ‘Refuses and Neglects’ to Furnish Revenue, Other Data The Nebraska state ruilvrav commission has postponed a hearing scheduled Monday, November lit, at Valentine. The hearing had been scheduled in connection with the Chicago & Nortii Western railroad's appli cation for permission to remove passenger-mail-express trains 13 and 14—the last two remaining passenger trains serving most of north-Nebraska. Counsel for the Save- the Trains association, Einer Viren of Omaha, had requested a con tinuance of the matter. The commission said the hear ing will be rescheduled later at a date to be determined. reQuesting the continuance, the Save-the-Trains counsel de clared that the Chicago & North Western had “refused and ne glected'’ to furnish certain in formation on revenue and ex penses, which the association had requested. Mr. Viren also told the com mission that the recent weather conditions in western Nebraska had hampered (he association in collecting certain information from livestock shippers residing considerable distances north and south from the main line—Oma ha-to-Chadron, a distance of 450 miles. The association counsel also in cluded in the request for con tinuance the fact that a new commissioner, elected last week, would be taking office after the first of the year. Mr. Viren, the S-T-A counsel, suggested it WUUIU uv an UlUulI UU1UU1 INI the newly elected member to start proceedings at this time. Diagonal Parking Restored in City Diagonal parking Saturday was restored to Douglas street and South Fourth street after an absence of more than a year. Parellel parking had been in augurated in connection with street-widening. City workmen late Friday be gan applying the new parking lines and early Saturday the re vived 30-degree parking came in to use. The change-back was wel comed by many motorists, some of whom experienced difficulty in parking parellel. State Highway Engineer L. N. Hess was advised of the change because highways 20, 275 and 281 traverse these streets. Mr. Ress agreed to the change-back provided the diagonal parking did not interfere with four-lane trav el. Providing four-lane travel was a stipulation in the street-widen ing contract between the city and the state and federal highway de partments. e7cea Two Cardinals Land Berths on Loop Team Jim McGinn and Gene O’Neill, St. Mary’s academy grid main stays, landed berths on the all Niobrara Valley conference my thical grid team. Selections: FIRST TEAM Ends—Carl Weeder of Lynch and Harry Stewart of Niobrara. Guards—Richard Volquardson of Niobrara and Dan Roberts of Spencer. Center.—Gene O’Neill of St. Mary’s. Backs—Larry Keeler of Butte, Jim McGinn of St. Mary’s and Rollo Kreycik of Niobrara. SECOND TEAM Ends—Leroy Johnson of Ver digre, Bruce Weier of St. Mary’s. Guards—Boyd Bloomenkamp of Butte and Jim Soulek of Lynch. Center—Kenny Rosen^ren of Spencer. Backs—Tom Schneider of St. Mary’s, Gary Tews of Niobrara, and Dennis Farnik of Verdigre. The loop trophy is to be ro tated on a three-month basis among the champions who tied for the title—St. Mary’s Spen cer and Niobrara. Hospital Starts Record Department Mother M. CoTonata, adminis trator of St. Anthony’s hospital, announced Wednesday that the hospital has established a sepa rate department for the handling of patient’s records. Sister M. Teresa, registered record librar ian, will head the new medical record department. Sister Teresa, a graduate of St. Mary’s academy prior to her new appointment was head of the medical record department at St. Joseph’s hospital, Alliance. Mrs. J. W. Rooney, who former ly handled these records for St. Anthony’s, will assist Sr. Teresa.