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I • . I'WELVE PAGES * This Issue North-Central Nebraska’* BIGGEST Newspaper Volume 76.—Number 38. O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, January 17, 1937. Seven C * ’ , S * * \ .. **••••* * . • • . . ** .. 1 .*,-*■ STATE HIST SOC at • * ' • ' ' . • i Tucson Boys’ Chorus and authentic Southwestern stage set tings . . . varied program designed to please everybody. (Details in column 1.) Compulsory School Redistricting Rapped Mildred L. Foreman, III 3 Years, Dies Funeral Monday for Emmet Woman EMMET — Mrs. Mildred L. Foreman, 53, Emmet housewife, diet! at 2 a m., Thursday, Janu ary 10, in Atkinson Memorial hospital. She had been ill three years. Funeral services were conduct ed at 10 a m., Monday, January 14, at the Methodist church in O’Neill with Rev. Glenn Kenni cott, church pastor, officiating. Pallbearers were John Conard, Robert Cole. Edward Winkler, Mrs. Foreman . . . dies fol lowing three-year illness.— The Frontier Photo. Harry Werner, Leon Beckwith and Oliver Maring, all of the Emmet community. Burial was ir Prospect Hill cemetery at O’Neill under the direction of Biglin’s. The late Mrs. Foreman was born March 18, 1903, a daughter of James Bailey and Jeanie Bill Bailey, at Plattsmouth. She came to Holt county in 1919 from Centerville, la., with her parents. On June 12. 1923, at O’Neill she married Frank E. Foreman. She spent all her married life in the Emmet locality. Survivors include: Widower— Frank; sons—James E. of Battle Creek and Merle L. of Emmet; daughters—Mrs. Norma L. Har ington of Omaha and Miss Jeanie K of Emmet; two grandchildren: brothers—Charles Bailey of Dutch Mills, Ark.; John Bailey of O’Neill and Claude Bailey of Amarillo, Tex.; sisters — Mrs. Grace Sparks, Miss Louise Bail ey and Mrs. Ruth Slopeth, all of Amarillo, Tex. Famed Boys’ Chorus to Present Concert in City Tonight The internationally-famous Tuc son (Ariz.) Boys’ Chorus will present a concert in authentic Southwestern settings tonight (Thursday) at the O’Neill public school auditorium. The concert will be the second in the 1956-’57 series under the sponsorship of the O’Neill Com munity Concert association. Program will be offered in four groupings; Religious, songs of the masters, cowboy songs and fa mous American show tunes. Eduardo Caso is the director of the 30-voice unit, which is noted for its varied program designed to please everybody. Concert starts at 8:15 o’clock and admission is by membership card only. U of N Team Places Third at Denver ATKINSON—A University of Nebraska livestock judging team placed third at the 55th National Western stock show at Denver. Colo., and an Atkinson man, Lawrence Engler, is a member of that team. An Oklahoma team placed first. Try Frontier want ads!. * ' .* t • • • ♦ * • V *• - • . • . An overflow crowd, represent ing virtually every district in Holt county, gathered Saturday for the 16tti annual meeting of me Holt county Rural School Hoard association. Meeting was held in the district courtroom at me courthouse. _ Cnxei reason iur the large at tendance: opposition to compul sory school redistricting. n was the largest crowd in msiory to a itend an association meeting. Anson Closson, president, con ducted the meeting. Other offi cers are Ld Houska, district 213, vice-president; Mrs. Lloyd Wha ley, district bz, treasurer. Closson is from district 15. Mrs. Albert Carson acted as secretary in the absence ot Miss Alice t renen, Holi county super intendent. 'the resolutions committee, which included the officers and nine others, submitted seven re solutions, ail oi which were unanimously adopted. i>en. Frank Nelson, having completed the first two weeks ol the 1957 unicameral session, re ported on senooi legislation al ready on file and possibly other legislation affecting schools. Clyde Widman ot Amelia, ex plained the purpose of the Ne oraska Small Schools association. After the resolutions had been adopted, Mr. Widman said the views of the school board group “very nearly reflected the views of the Nebraska Small schools association.” Widman said the Small School movement is growing by “leaps and-bounds throughout the state '. ooth Nelson and Widman were applauded. Other members of the resolu tions committee: Cletus Muff, district 4b (chairman), Louis So botka, district 111; Chris B. Wor den, district 238; A. M. Beelaert, district 88: Lawrence Ziska, dis trict 168; Mrs. Albert Carson, district 32; Mrs. W. J. Meusch, district 10; Dick Clark, district 165; Harvey Krugman, district 60. Resolutions: "We favor the election of the state commissioner of education as was formerly done, rather than having him appointed by the state board.” "We favor reorganization of ru ral school districts if it is to a (Continued on Page 6.) Debt Paid, Spencer Celebrates Town School Heads Burn Mortgage in Monday Ceremony By a "Staff Writer SPENCER—The whole town 1 ;urned out Monday evening—rur al patrons, too—to witness the burning of the mortgage as mem bers of the Spencer town school board of education paid off all indebtedness on the school plant. “It’s been a long, hard pull,” declared Clyde Fisher, who has been a member of the board since 1C30. “I remember we owed 66 thousand-dollars at that time. We had dry years in those thir ties plus a depression. “Teachers were plentiful. We paid the grade teachers $40 a month and the high school teach ers $50. “I remember one chap who begged for a job to teach in our high school. The board was meet ing with him in the bank build ing. “We hired him. We still keep in touch with the man. who is now doing well in another pro fession. He was a cracking good teacher, too.” Open-house was held in con junction with the ceremonies. Patrons were escorted to the various rooms. Coffee and doughnuts were served. Supt. Leo Marx reviewed the curriculum changes during the past eight years and music was provided by the school band and by vocalists. The ceremony with fire took place in the basement as board members and Mr. Marx sur rounded an oversized metal ! wastebasket. The town of Spencer had been bankrupt at one time, getting deep into debt on paving, water and electric projects. The sad financial status of the j municipality made the job of 11 he school administrators even tougher. In 1934 the countryside was burned up by drouth. Com in the thirties got down to 12 cents per bushel. “Lots of these younger fellows don’t know what we went through Jin those days—going through successive drouths and ' depression at the same time,” Fisher explained. The board has earmarked mon ey regularly for maintaining and improving the school. One of the latest improvements is a fully equipped home economics room. Meanwhile, the town of Spen cer is inching its way out of debt, i Outstanding bonds recently were refinanced. “It’s been a good town and will always be a good town,” mused an oldtimer standing by for the fire works, “I’m glad the thing is paid off,” he muttered as he shuf fled outside into the snow and : cold ONE-THIRD ISSUED County Treasurer J. Ed Han cock said Wednesday that 2,710 i auto-truck licenses plates for 1957 have .been issued—approx imately one-third of the total to be issued. Holt Bank Deposits December 31, 1956 Assets Deposits Loans O’Neill Nat’l. Bk., O’N’l. $3,853,603.18 3,529,120.12 332,958.57 First Nat’l B’k., O'Neill 3,512,938.11 3,168.863.07 276,731.49 First Nat’l B’k., Atkinson 3,314,672.08 3,019,413.88 543,727.76 Tri-Cou’y. Bank, Stuart 1,427,774.99 1,317,438.07 399,013.62 Farmers State B’k., Ewing 1,075.395.24 971,696.89 220.490 96 Chambers St. B’k, Chbrs. 843,357.03 775,121.16 269.798.72 TOTALS $14,027,740.63 12,781.653.19 2,042,721.12 r inj .IPIPIII I I .Will"IM II ■ im i MMl'TO!! - ....I ■ Fireworks Monday night in the Spencer school building signaled the final payoff on the school's indebtedness. Left-to-rlght: Louis Kla^na, secretary of the board and member for 16 years; Charles Pecena, six years; Richard (Dick”) Jones, three years; Herbert Seiler, president of the board since 1948 (he burned the paper); Clyde Fisher, 27 years and senior member; AI Koenig, elected to the board two years ago; Supt. Leo Marx.—The Frontier Photo. W. L. Noring, 47, Dies at Orchard Rites Held Tuesday at Inman INMAN — Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, January 15, at the Methodist ; church for William Lester Nor ' ing, 47. Rev. Lisle Mewmaw, church j pastor, officiated. Music was furnished by Mi ; and Mrs. Harvey Tompkins, ac | eompanied by Mrs. Linelle j Tompkins at the piano. Pallbearers were Ryan and i Chris Reimers, Joseph Bittner. Floyd DeLong. El win Smith and David Morsbach. Burial was in the Inman cem ! etery. The late William Lester Nor | ing was born at Inman, February 9. 1909. He died at the home of his ! sister, Mrs. Theodore Meyers, j at Orchard on Friday, January 11, and had been ill with influ enza. He was the youngest son of the late Gilbert and Eva Fal coner Noring. He spent his early life at In man, later moving to O’Neill where he pursued the carpenter trade. Mr. Noring was single. For the past seven years he was employed by the Gilg Construc tion compan at O’Neill. He was preceded in death by i his parents, a sister, Mrs. Anna Stewart; also one brother, Sam I uel G. Survivors include: sisters—Mrs. Bertha Craig and Mrs. Roy (Edith) Grubbs, both of Page, and Mrs. Theodore (Carrie) Mey (er of Orchard; brother—Gilbert Noring of Pocatello, Ida. PETTY LARCENY Darrel Farewell of Chambers is in Halt county jail in lieu of pay ing a $50 fine. He was charged with petty larceny on complaint of Harry Kestenholtz of Inman. Kestenholtz said Farewell had sold horse-drawn machinery to a junk dealer in Atkinson. The ma chinery, which Kestenholtz iden tified for Sheriff Leo Tom jack, had been removed without Kes tenholtz’s authorization from a farm. Farewell was found guilty Monday in Holt county court. • Senator Nelson addresses rural school officers who overflowed the district courtroom. Seat ed_Mr*. Albert Carson, Anson t'losson and Mrs. Lloyd Whaley.—The Frontier Photo. . * • • * .* The Plaits . . . hold open-house R. K. Platt, Wife Married 50 Years 140 Guests Attend Affair CHAMBERS — Open-house honoring the 50th wedding an niversary of Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Platt was held from 2 until 5'p.m., Sunday, January 13, a1 the home of the Platts’ son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs James Platt. One hundred and forty guests came to congratu late the couple. , Mrs. Clayton Wood, the : Platts’ daughter, came a few ! days early from Los Angeles, ; ! Calif. Others from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Griffis and daughter of Lincoln; Mrs. C. C. McElvain. her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Mnnsford Cotner and son, Doug las, of Waco and daughter, Mrs Dean Welch and Marilyn, of Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hutton, jr., and family of Cres ton; Mr .and Mrs. Tom Hutton, sr., of Inman; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McElvain and son, John Lee, of O’Neill; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Funk, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Good, all of Ewing. Mr. Platt’s only sister, Mrs. Snodgrass of Lincoln, was ill and unable to attend. A niece, Mrs. John Leibken of Craw ford, called them as her son was ill and she could not be present. Friends at Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. William Shindler, also phoned to offer their congratu lations. Mr. and Mrs. Platt were mar ried at Adams. Ralph McElvain of O’Neill and Mrs. C. C. McEl vain of Waco were the only ones present at the wedding, who al so attended the 50th anniver sary celebration A beautiful four - tier cake graced the tea table which Mrs. Bruce Grimes served cake and Mrs. C. V. Robertson poured. The cake was baked by Mrs. Leonard Peterson and decorated by Mrs. Ralph Reese of Amelia. Serving the ice cream were Mrs. Darrel Gillette, Mrs. T. E. Newhouse, Mrs. A. B. Hubbard and Mrs. .John Honeywell. Members of the Platt fami lies enjoyed a family dinner at the home of Mrs. James Platt’s I parents, Mr. and Mrs. W A Smith, in the evening. Try Frontier want adsl . ' • * * • . . • • • • • • * . * * * X-Ray in Operation Till 9 Tonight The state-owned mobile X-ray unit will be in operation from 7 until 9 o’clock tonight (Thurs day) at the O’Neill Youth Cen ter. Clothes need not be remov ed and it requires only one min ute for a person to take advant age of the free chest X-ray ser vice, provided by the state de partment of health in coopern ation with the Holt County Tu berculosis association. Daily hours are 9 a.m., until noon and 1 until 6 p.m. How ever, the X-ray machine will close down at 5 o’clock on Fr i day. By 9 o’clock Wednesday night 837 persons had availed themselves of the use of the ma chine. Last time the X-ray ma chine was at O’Neill 1,312 per sons were handled. Volunteers from O’Neill exten sion clubs, headed by Mrs. Rob ert Kurtz, are performing cler ical duties at the Center during the machine’s stay. The machine will be at Cham bers, January 22-23; Inman, January 25; Page, January 29; Ewing,, January 31 and Febru ary 1. Man Admits Taking Money from Bed; Larceny Charged Lester Marks, 32, Stuart ad mitted guilt in connection with grand larceny charges in Holt county court Wednesday morn- I ing and was bound over to district court. Marks was charged with the theft of one hundred dollars from the late Amos Thurlow at Stuart several days before Mr. Thiuiow’s death. Marks had stopped in for a visit, he told authorities. Money was taken from a bed. County Attorney William W. Griffin said the charges would have been petty larcency had the theft been under one hun dred dollars. Library Gets Boost; Road to Be Opened ■ Room Packed for Grattan Meeting Members of the Grattan town ship board were Confronted with a full house Tuesday afternoon at ] the board’s annual meeting at the | township library. P. V. Hickey was appointed to | preside. The library board, headed by Mrs. P. B. Harty, asked that the library’s funds for 1957 not be re duced from the $3,000 budget provided a year ago, pointing to expense in installing a new heat ing plant completed last summer. The library board, operating on .56 of a mill township levy, stated that any increase in funds during the new year could be used for repair and maintenance on the building itself. Built in 1914 at th(> rust of Kt-thmnand-dollar■», thr build in* now needs ‘‘pointing" of the hrirkt and work done on the entrance ‘both inside and out. Two officers of the Chamber of Commerce, Robert LaRue, presi dent, and John Harrington, secre ! tary, and M. J. Baack, superin tendent of the city schools, were principal spokesmen for a large j delegation pressing for a substan I tial increase in tax money to be used for library purposes. The Chamber, LaRue said, re commended a two-mill levy for the library. Other groups repre sented were St. Mary’s academy, Simonson post 93, Junior Cham ber of Commerce, Parent j Teachers’ association and several | churches. Those present voted 25 - 10 to j provide the library $5,000 for the new year—an increase of $2,000 ; over last year. A number of per ! sons present did not vote. This means approximately a one-mill ! levy (maximum fixed by law is j two mills). A delegation of farmers and ! ranchers from southwest of O’ Neill renewed their efforts to have a north-south road opened and brought to specifications for a rural mail route. The proposed road is located five miles west of U.S. highway 281 and runs parel lel with the highway. Presently the families must travel up to five miles to their mail boxes. The township board agreed to pay for one-half the graveling ind claying costs if the county would pay for the grading and the other half of the graveling and claying. Harold Burge was spokesman l for the ranchers. Burge and the delegation, also township officers, met Wednes day with the county board, which : agreed to bear the grading costs and one-half the graveling and claying costs. The road, four miles in length, will be designated as a county road. Township officers are: Otto Lorenz, clerk; Albert Miller, treasurer; John Dick, justice of the peace. Bernard Pongratz is retiring treasurer. Township valuation last year (Grattan and city of O’Neill) $5, 152,960. Budget for the township gener al fund will be $5,000—the same : as last year. Gerald E. Kaczor, 16, O’Neill high school student, gets free chest X-ray at Youth Center. Technician Bernard Cook of Lincoln assists.—The "Frontier Photo. • ** . * * • • •• • * • t ft • • » • • • • . „ • • • • * t' • ' , "**'.*,■ 0'' New Route for Hiway 20 West O’Neill - Emmet Link to Follow C&NW Railroad Tracks. Rerouting U S. highway 20 be tween ONelll and Emmet appear* certain. The route won hi extend woat - ward from the West O'Neill uimrr, and from a point 1I4 miles weak, of the city, parallel the Chicago & North Western railroad traoka, for approximately three nak*. then veer northwesterly throe rrules to connect with a new sec tion of highway 20 at the north, edge of Emmet. Owen J. Boyles, ronmiu^iaa secretary, has advised Holt C'oun ty Clerk Kenneth Waring the re routing is now in the planum*, stage. Under public law 027, 84U» congress, any federal-aid high way project involving the by passing of or going through a city or village, is subject to a hear ing. Boyle* has informed Waring that any request* for a pub lit hearing on the matter, prote*t ing “economic effects”, must be made in writing before on *r before January 28. The plan to reroute highway 2r between O’Neill and Emmet date* back to the decision to wider. Douglas street to create the lie*, corner in West O’Neill. Presently,. U. S. Highways 20 and 281 turns north at the West O’Neill corner for 1.5 miles. Highway 20 turn*, west at that point and 281 con tinues northward. The new route proposes to through farms owned by Denier Hitts, Ben Wayman, Edwin Way man, Fred Fritton, J. B. Ryan es tate, Clarence Ernst, John Dick . additional Ryan property, Charles Abart and Guy Cole. The route would veer north westerly at the district 67 school (no longer parelleling the track*). The highway commissionV. plans have not been surveyed Lifelong At'±::j Resident Expires ATKINSON—Funeral service*; for Mrs. Agnes Slaymaker, 68 an Atkinson resident, were con ducted Friday afternoon, January 11. at the Methodist church. She died Wednesday, January 9, u? Atkinson Memorial hospital Rev. E. G. Hughes offic.atea at the funeral rites and burial was in Woodlawn cemetery. Pall bearers were Charles Dvorak Harry Mlinar, Clede Trobaugb Rudolph Kubik, Car] L Smith, sr.. and Lawrence Pacha. Soger’s were in charge. In May, 1956, Mrs. Slaymaker submitted to a leg amputation ir an Omaha hospital. Since that time she had been conn tied lo a wheelchair. The late Mrs Slaymaker was born at Atkinson, January '.1 1888—the day of Nebra nn’t most famous blizzard—a daugh ter of Joseph and Johanna Brun ner Neibauer. She married John J. Slaymak er, a Spanish-Amcrican War veteran, April 16, 1918. They made their home on a ranch 1?. miles southwest of Atkinson Mr. Slaymaker died June 16, 1915. Mrs. Slaymaker continued to reside on a ranch for sever al years, moving into Atkinson to make her home with a son., John. Survivors include: Sons—John G. and Robert O., both of At kinson; Ray G. of Stuart; Walt er of Lexington; daughter—Mrs Carl (Edith) Smith, jr., of Grano Island; 11 grandchildren; broth ers—Fred Neibauer of Stuart and John Neibauer of Norfolk sister—Mrs. Anna Mark of Nor - folk. Rural Phone Group Gets $477,000 Loan The Northeast REA Telephone company of Nebraska, with head quarters at Hubbard, has been granted a 477 - thousand - dollar government loan, according to Rep. A. L. Miller (R) of Nebras ka's Fourth district. Some of the money will be used to build 159 miles of new ru ral telephone line In Holt and Wheeler counties. There will a)sc. be money spent for constructing »i dial system phone center at Bart lett, countyseat of Wheeler coun ty. _ Celia Locality Snow Piled in CELIA—Mrs. O. A. Hammer berg, the Celia correspondent, reports “not much news the past week; weather too cold for any activities that weren’t necessary.’* The themometer has hovered neat zero and got as low as 16 below Wednesday night, January 9 Eight inches of snowfall wa* reported in the community. • , , • * •