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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1957)
The Frontier SPORTS Sport Night Swells Page Polio Fund PAGE—Mrs Lloyd Cork was in charge of the arrangements for the sports event staged at the :*ho*i! auditorium on Thursday evening, January l'«. The Page and Orchard grade .school basketball trams started •off the evening. The game was fast and Page came out the vic tors 57-19. The faculty matched skill with the "old timers" There •was more aiming at the basket torn making them and the final wrore was 14-12 in an overtime jafcay with the "oldtimers” the winners. Criticism likely will not he too pointed toward the grade hoys until all hands forget how toe oldsters couldn’t make ’em either, even with their superior know-how. No doubt, all will be ’-nady tor another match, another vrar The Page town team was •downed by the Orchard team, 57 >& in a well matched effort. Door receipts were $80.65 and the "Shell Out for Polio" peanut mir added $12.75 toward the polio fond Inman Tigen Blast Naper INMAN — The Inman Tigers ■Journeyed to Naper Tuesday night, January 15, where they de feated the Boars, 71-41. Ned Kel ley and Gary Butterfield were high scorers for Inman. The In man seconds won their game 48 28. Harold Solxitka and Tom Cun ningham scored 10 points each. Friday night the Tigers defeat •ed the Ewing boys 48-44. Ned Kelley was high man for Inman with a total of 14 points. Roland Hansen followed with 12. Ewing •defeated the Inman reserves 33 25 Jim Sawyer led with 12. METHODIST (O’Neill-Einmet) Rev. Glenn Kermicott, pastor O’NEILL— Thursday, January 24 Prayer 'Circle at the Claude Bates home* 10 am; membership training tcla.s* at the church, 8 p.m. Friday, January 25: Dorcas at iht church, 2 p.m. Sunday, January 27: Junior choir i 15 Sunday-school, 9:45; morn nj w a.ship, 11 a.m.; Sunday eve ning fellowship supper, 6:15 o' clock evening service, 7:15 o’ ^iOCK Monday, January 28: Worship omn ion at the church, 4:30 pji ; intermediate MYF, 7 p.m. Wednesday, January 30: Choir pr. tjee, 7 p.m.; senior MYF, 8 VBl EMMET— Sunday, January 27: Children’s 'Sunday-school and morning wor ship, 9:30 a.m.; adult Sunday isrhool, 10:30 a.m. RCXK FALLS—Jimmy Widt feldt was out of school until Fri . Jay. He had been 111 with asthma and Stomach flu. ROYAL THEATER — O’NEILL — Tkirs. Jan- 2< Victor Mature in THE SIIARKFIGIITERS Cinemascope, technicolor. Co -4arring Karen Steele and In troducing James Olson. One knife against a thousand knifed teeth Jan 2®‘r® Guy Madison and Patricia Medina in TI1E BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN And introducing the new Regi *Seope process. From a lost world a horror beyond belief. . . breathing hate, death and des truction! Cinemascope, ‘5u.-Mon -Turs. Jan. 27-28-29 June Allyson and Jack Lem moo in YOU CAN’T RUN AWAY FROM IT CinomaScope, technicolor. Co vstarring Charles Bickford, Jaul ‘Gilbert, Jim Backus, with Stubby Kaye. Allyn Joslyn and Henry Youngman. You can go Dutch, and you can go native, you can go hroke and you can go craiy, '•but win, lose or draw, You Can’t Run Away from It, neither can Jtane Allyson and Jack Lemmon, Hft-Thur*. Jan. 30-31 BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT Starring Dana Andrews, Joan Ybutaine and featuring Sidney Racmer, Philip Boumeuf, Shep Ihtrd Strudwick, Arthur Franz. KiObm Saturday A Sunday 2:30 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and ribi and Saturday admlaalau— Adult* 50c: Children under 12, 9K Free If aeeouapaaled by par uM. Wedn. and Thun. Family atle.. Family admitted far two Adult tickets. Eagles Win One Despite Rhubarb Down Bloomfield i n Wierd Finish Coach Bill Edwards* O’Neill 1 high Eagles won a basketball game Friday nifdit. They de feated the visiting Bloomfield I Bees, 80-59, in a wild finish. O’Neill led every second until near the finish But Bob Young’s fielder to the accompaniment of the final buzzer gave the Eagles the win. The verdict wasn’t of ficial until the Nebraska School Activities association’s secretary jsaid so Bloomfield scorekeepers eon I tended the game was over be 1 fore the winning basket because the timekeepers failed to start the clock when the ball was ! legally tapped during a jump ball with only a few seconds re maining C. C. Thompson, association secretary, wrote Bloomfield School Superintendent E. L Stroh that the timekeeper "prob ably had been making the same error all evening and it would be impossible to make a time adjustment for every held ball that had occurred.” Young led the Eagles with 20 points with Bill Skrivan, off spring of a Bloomfield score keeper, registered 18 for the losers. It was a big night for the Blues, who hadn’ tasted victory in eight earlier starts. The Blues are a young, inexperlenc j i d ball club but are making s’eadv progress. O’Neill led 13-12 at the first period, 30-27 at intermission, and .i0-43 at the end of the third STUART WINS STUART—The Stuart Broncos defeated Springview, 49-37, Fri day night. Springview was ahead, 21-19, at the half. Stuart reserves won, 60-10, and the Stuart girls’ volleyball team annexed, 32-26, over the Springview gals. CLEARWATER WINS CLEARWATER—It was a thri ler all the way with Clearwater coming from behind in the fin al period to defeat Oakdale, 46 44, Friday night at Clearwater. long pine wins LONG PINE—The Long Pine high cagers bested Kilgore, 41 34, Friday night at Kilgore. O’Neill News Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Contois re turned Friday from Denver, Colo., where they had taken his aunt, Mrs. Catherine Holland, who had suffered a stroke while visiting thi*m. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cole arrived in Phoenix, Ariz., Saturday for a vacation. They are expected home this weekend. Mrs. Vernon Gorgen and two cildren and her mother, Mrs. Ab bie Coker, went to Stuart Sunday afternion to visit another daugh ter of Mrs. Coker’s, Mrs. Bob Greenfield. Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Beckwith and boys visited the F. S. Brittels and Mrs. Dickie Fernau and Joyce. Mrs. Ronald E. Borg and chil dren went to Stuart to visit her parents, Mr and Mrs August Kramer. Page School Starts Driver Course— PAGE — A course in driver’s training is being offered this se mester at the Page high school with Leigh Cull of Oakland in charge. Seventeen juniors and seniors are enrolled and members of the sophomore class will be ac cepted this coming year. A dual-control Ford has been purchased from the Lohaus Motor Co., of O’Neill, with the privilege of returning it for purchase price on a new one for next year’s work. Legion, Auxiliary Meet Here— The Holt County American Legion posts and auxiliary units Monday evening held a joint meeting at the Legion club here. Atkinson, Chambers, Ewing, O’Neill, Page and Stuart were represented A1 Sommer of Norfolk, district II service officer, and Neal Has selbach, St. Edward, district II commander, addressed the group -- -- 400-450 Cattle Here Today * There will be a good sale today (Thursday) with around 400-450 cattle. There la one consignment of 4i head of choloe steer calves, weighing around 500 lbs., from the Chambers locality; there will be 44 head of steer calves from the Tr*•**•» community (these will weigh around 400 Iha.); then win be 30 heifer calves, dehorned and vac cinated. from O’Neill and they’n already in the yards; ) then wlU he 20 head of steer and heifer calves from | W4 an expecting around 50 head of mixed yearling cattle with the balance cows, odd calves and butcher cattle. Probably 150 feeder pigs will be on the market today in connection with our hog sale. Thursday, January 31, we will sell three registered Hereford bnUs. two-years-old. O’Neill Livestock Market Phone 2, O’Neill Here are two action shots of the St. Mary's-Chambers game, won by the Cardinals. 47-41, and carrying them into the semifinals. Larry Tom’inson aims for this under basket try while Jim Froelieh (23) is ready to rebound. Chambers defenders are D Mikkelson (34), left, and K. Thompson (24). In the right panel, Lonnie Tag gert tries a pushup for Chambers while Dick Grimes (21) studies foe. Gale Stevens (22), SMA guard, tries to get into the act.—O’Neill Photo Co. ■pRgnppBMHMHHi’' mar j ■■■■■ Happiness reigned in the Stuart cheering section Tuesday night following the Broncos’ 48-4S win over the Page Eagles, enabling Stuart to reach the Holt tourney finals.—The Frontier Photo Favore dB a le rs Bow to St. Joe Tourney Scoreboard FIRST ROUND Monday Night Page 56 O’Neill 42 Inman 52 Ewing 43 St Joe 47 Atkinson 44 Tuesday Night St. Mary's 47 Chambers 41 Stuart 48 Page 43 SEMIFINALS Tonight (Thursday) St. Joe vs Inman, 7 p.m. St. Mary’s vs. Stuart, 8 pm. FINALS Friday Night Third place game— 7 pm. Title Game—8:30 pm. T irst Round . . . The Atkinson high Balers, the “on-paper” strong team in the county, were bounced out of the running the opening night of the annual Holt cage carnival here by their cross-town rivals, the St. Joseph’s hall Bluejays, 44-47. In the tourney opener, the Page Eagles banished any O’Neill high tourney hopes, 56-4*2, and the In man Tigers turned back the Ew ing Tigers, 52-43. Tuesday night the Stuart Bron _* a i r i.. ^in in n » .1 OU'' V.UIIUI1UUU A U^V, Il/| U**U St. Mary’s academy Cardinals eliminated the plucky Chambers Coyotes, 47-41. In the semifinals tonight (Thursday), it’ll be Inman vs. St. Joe at 7 o’clock and Stuart vs. St. Mary’s at 8:30. Finals will be played Friday night at 8:30 with third place contenders going to the mat at 7 o’clock. Page 56; O’Neill 42 The Page Eagles relied on 14 points in each period to breeze past the O’Neill high Eagles in Monday’s tourney opener. The Page crew led 14-7 at the first period, 28-20 at the half, and 42-28 at the end of the third. Jerry White rolled in 18 points — including eight fielders — during the first half for the win ners. Larry Oetter, frosh performer, led O’Neill high with 16 points. Skip McKenny was chased with five personals. Boxscore: PAGE (56) fg ft pf pts Parks 5 2 3 12 White . 11 4 2 26 Heiss . 0 0 3 0 Sojka . 3 2 1 8 Cork . 0 2 1 2 Mudloff . 1 2 0 4 Bowen . 1 0 0 2 Heese . 0 2 0 2 Totals . 21 14 10 56 O’NEILL (42) fg ft pf pts Young . 2 4 3 8 McKenny . 4 0 5 8 Oetter . 7 2 1 16 Petersen . 2 1 1 5 F. Eby.. 0 1 1 1 Parks 2 0 1 4 Totals 17 8 12 42 Inman 52; Ewing 43 Ned Kelley whooped in eight fielders and eight freethrows as the Inman Tigers showed their heels to the Ewing Tigers in the opening night’s second game, 52 43. Roland Hansen produced 14 points for the winners—10 of them on freethrows. The Kelley Hansen combine bested Ewing’s offering, although Jack Sisson came through with 13 for the losers. Inman owned a 12-11 first per iod lead and enjoyed a four-point margin—28-24—a t intermission. During the third Inman, defend ing tourney champs, made it 38 33 and wrent on to win it in the stretch. Boxscore: INMAN (52) fg ft pfpts N'l Kelley . 1 0 4 2 Appleby . 2 0 3 4 N’d Kelley 8 8 1 24 Butterfield ... 4 0 5 8 Hansen . 2 10 2 14 Coventry . 0 0 2 0 Totals . 17 18 17 52 EWING (43) fg ft pf pts Scheer. 5 0 2 10 Carl 2 4 5 8 Turner . 0 1 5 1 Sisson . 4 5 2 7 Rotherham 3 1 2 7 Potter . 2 0 3 4 Totals 16 11 19 43 St. Joe 47; Atkinson 44 The Josies led all the way ex cept for a few minutes in the third period as the Bluejays oust ed the Atkinson Balers, 47-44. The Balers used a press all the way, but the Josies were ready for the situation. Atkinson enter ed the fray with a record of eight wins and two losses. Both losses came in early season. Recent wins had been over Valentine and Neligh. Jim Purtzer hit a nifty 21 points for Atkinson, cashing in on 13 out of 18 gratis tries. Ray Schaf fer was best for the Jays with 18. St. Joe led 12-7 at the end of the initial period; 26-23 at the half, and 34-33 at the end of the third. The Jays used a fast break effectively. ST. JOE (47) fg ft pf pts Schaffer . 6 6 6 18 Schaff . 4 2 2 10 Slattery . 5 4 5 14 R. Ries . 0 0 3 0 Wagman 2 1 3 5 Bonertz . 0 0 2 0 Ries . 0 0 2 0 Totals . 17 13 22 47 ATKIN. (44) fg ft pf pts Frickel . 4 1 2 9 Humphrey . 2 2 4 6 Purtzer . 4 13 2 21 Seger . 1 5 4 7 O’Conner . 0 1 3 1 Totals . 11 22 15 44 Staart 48; Page 43 The Stuart Broncos enjoyed a fat third period—thanks to four ' • fielders by Dana Bigelow and three fielders and one gratis shot by Don Sehmaderer — to pull away from the Page Eagles in Tuesday night’s opener. Stuart won, 48-43, after trailing 6-11 at the end of the opening stanza, and still behind, 18-21, at inter mission. But during the prosper ous third the Brones from the west moved ahead, 41-31. Bigelow’s 14 points were best on the court for either team. Lyle Heiss accounted for 10 for Page. Boxscore: STUART (48) fg ft pf pts Minnig . 0 0 3 0 Batenhorst . 5 1 2 11 Bigelow . 7 2 2 16 D. Strake . 1 6 1 8 Sehmaderer . 5 1 2 11 Cobb . 1 0 1 2 B. Strake . 0 0 0 0 Totals . 19 10 11 48 PAGE (43) fg ft pf pts Parks 4 0 2 8 White 4 1 4 9 Heiss . 4 2 3 10 Sojka . 1 1 1 3 Cork . 2 0 0 4 Mudloff . 0 1 0 1 Heese . 3 2 1 8 Totals . 18 7 11 43 St. Mary’s 47; Chambers 41 With only one senior on the squad, the Chambers high Coyotes sounded a warning for the forth coming Holt tourneys as they yielded to a smoother, more ex perienced band of St. Mary’s aca demy Cardinals in Tuesday’s nightcap, 47-41. Jim Becker fired in 13 points in the second half as the Cards pulled away after a ding-dong game. St. Mary’s was favored and started strong, building a 19 8 first period lead as Larry Tom linson, Becker, Jim Froelich and Gary Holly getting tallies. The SMA parochial team led, 25-17, at the half, and 37-27 going into the final. Four juniors and one soph ac counted for all of the Coyotes’ points and Bob Klabenes, a soph, is regarded as a real comer. He hit eight points. Becker’s 20 were best for SMA with Froelich tally ing 13. Bill Young scored 17 to lead Chambers. Chambers controlled the boards well despite a handicap in height and experience. SMA (47) fg ft pf pts Tomlinson . 1 2 4 4 Schneider . 1 0 1 2 Becker . 4 IE 4 20 Froelich . 6 1 2 13 Holly . 3 2 0 8 Craig . 0 0 1 0 Totals . 15 17 12 47 CHAM. (41) fg ft pf pte Thompson . 1 1 1 3 Taggart . 3 0 2 6 Young . 6 5 3 17 Elkins . 3 1 5 7 Klabenes . 2 4 4 8 Hoge . 0 0 1 0 Totals . 15 11 16 41 BALERS WIN ATKINSON — The Atkinson high Balers swept past the Ne ligh Warriors, 49-30, Friday night in a game played at At kinson. Frontier for printing! Hospital Staff Has Problem: Over Zealous Visitors Do Harm With the increase of patients at St. Anthony's hospital during the winter months, the sisters and the staff doctors find it nec essary to speak out again on the problem of hospital visitors The people "mean well” when they visit their sick friends, but it never occurs to them that of ten they may "do more harm than good,” a spokesman for the staff explained A sick person, especially one who is acutely ill or who has recentv had surgery, tires easi ly. The effort of trying to en>el tain visitors often leaves the patient exhausted and more ill than ever, especially when as many as 10 or 12 visitors crowd into a hospital room at one time and stay for extended lengths of time. The sisters and nurses at the hospital have no desire to go on police duty in the corridors, but such action may become neces ary for the sake of the patients if conditions do not improve. Thev ask that visitors be re minded to observe the following regulations: —Visiting hours are from 2 to 4 in the afternoon 7 to 8:30 in the evening. _Two visitors at a time are enough for one patient If sev eral people wish to come, they should arrange beforehand to di vide up the time so that there will not be too many present at one time. _When a doctor visits the pa tient, visitors are asked to leave the room. _Children under 12 may not visit patients in the hospital. Loud talking and laughter may not bother the person you are visiting, but can cause great dts comfort to one in the next bed or adjoining room. Visit quietly. When the end of visiting hours L announced, visitors are re quested to leave promptly end not wait until someone must ask them to depart “If these rules are followed, visiting hours will be more plea sant for all, and will benefit the patients rather than exhaust them and retard their recovery, the annoncement concluded. Sherman Brewster Succumbs at 89 _ Funeral Rites Held Sunday at Orchard ORCHARD—Sherman E Brew ster 89, former resident of the Orchard and Middlebraneh com munities, died at 6 p m., Thurs day, January 17, at his home in Harrison. Although he had been a semiinvalid the past few years, his death was unexpected, lie suffered a heart attack Funeral services were con ducted at 2 p.m., Sunday, Janu arv 20, at the Hamilton mortu ary at Orchard, with Rev. Walt er Millett in charge. Burial was in the Orchard cemetery Pallbearers were Ralph How ard, Leon Mitchell, Homer Bar. • on Wavne Lautenschlager, Jack Grubbs and John Harmon, all of Orchard. Mesdames Allen Hill, Williaea Robinson, Wilard Sherer and Homer Barton of Orchard were in charge of the flowers. Ed Hoag and Harvey Ho brook, jr„ accompanied by Mrs Harvey Holbrook, sr„ sang two selections. Mr Brewster was born May 4, 1867 in Scott county, lowa, and later moved with his par ents to a farm near Orchaid. where he resided until he gre to manhood He was united in marriage De cember 2, 1887, to una ^ Chalafant. To this union was born eight children one of whom died in infancy. Mrs Brewvy died May 5, 1952 . i T\ on ffVi t Pfs survivors. Mrs Mae Knapp of P™harti: Mrs. Harold (Lottie) McDowell of Crawford; Mrs Andrt_'^ (Nellie) Serres of a"f Mrs. Leslie (Beulah) f Harrison; sons - Edwin D. rf Cheyenne, Wyo.; Jess® f Medford, Ore.; and Milford C. of Harrison; 15 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 2 great great-grandchildren His parents and twin brother, Herman, preceded ,dn\ *n d* dJ Mr. Brewster was the grand of “Bill” Brewster and Mrs. Earl Smith, both of O’Neill Spanish War Vet at 84th Milestone Charles L. Harding, one of the three remaining Spanish-Amer ican war veterans in this region, Sunday celebrated his 84tli birthday anniversary. _ He was bom January 26, 1873, so the celebration was some what ahead but a niece, Mrs. John Rohde of Casper. Wyo., ordered a cake baked The cel -- brat ion resulted. It was baked by Bennett Hen ford and delivered by Mr. and Mrs. John Grutsch, sr. Open house was held from / to 5 o’clock and was a surprise to Mr. Harding Over 40 guests called during the period. Mrs. Bessie Burge, Miss Tillie Kestenholtz and Bob Ridell cut and served the cake. The other two remaining Spanish war veterans are Hen ry W. Grady and a Mr Prouty of Boyd county. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Manson were in North Loup Saturday and Sunday visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Briggs. • • • • • \ • " Mike Batenhorst missed this effort in spite of some f aria I contortions intended to net two points. Batenhorst and his Sin art mates won anyway. Page defenders are Jerry White (left) and Lyle Heiss.—The Frontier Photo. Hubert Dawson, Terry (iriinble, Joel Cohen . . . they starred with Tucson Boys Chorus. O’Neill News Mr. and Mrs. Brock Reynoldson and family ^pent Sunday in Platte Center visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Burrows. Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Ray and Mary visited Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Waite, in Ainsworth. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Osenbaugh spent Sunday in Burwell visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Osenbaugh and family. Mr. and Mrs. S. Zakrzewski were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Zakrzewski of Star and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Fox of Orchard were also dinner guests. Little Michael Arnoldt cele brated his first birthday anniver sary with two parties — one for children in the afternoon; the other in the evening neighbors and friends of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Helmuth Arnoldt. The Friendly Neighbors Exten sion club and the What-Not Ex tension club members attended a polio benefit breakfast at the home of Mrs. Charles Beilin on Monday, January 14. Winners at Martez club Tues day evening were Mrs. F. N. Cro nin and Mrs. P. B. Harty. Mrs. Mabel McKenna was hostess. Dinner was served at the M&M. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Finkel of Plainview were Friday evening dinner guests at the Harry A Ldinuu uuiuv. Visiting in Columbus Saturday afternoon and Sunday at the home of their son and his wife, Mr .and Mrs. G. Vincent Jones, were Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jones Last Th/ursday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Franklin and family visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grafton Franklin at Verdel. Mrs. Lillian Ogden of Brok en Bow was weekend guest of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs Gale W. Dierberger and family. Mrs. Dickie Fernau and Joyce of Valentine arrived by train last Thursday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Brittell. The Brit tells took them home Sunday. Winners at Chez a Mari held Monday were Mrs. John H. Mc Carville, Mrs. William Artus and Mrs. E. M. Gleeson. Mrs. W. D. Melena was hostess. Mrs. Larry Schaffer was a guest. Cubs Organized— An organizational meeting for the new den 2 of Cub Scouts was held Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Neil Dawes. The new cub scouts are David Jeffers, denner, John Sivesind, assistant denner, Marvin Dawes, Billy McIntosh, Douglas McKir. lay and Jim Humrich. scribe. ROCK FALLS NEWS Sunday evening, January 20, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Johnson in O’Neill was the scene of a combination birthday party. The evening was spent playing progressive carroms. Following a lunch, the honored guests opened their gifts. Birthday cakes were baked and decorated by Mrs. Rakes and Mrs. Floyd Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Druecke made a business trip to Omaha last week. Their children stayed at the Lou Brown home. 90 Persons See European Films , The Friends of St. Mary’s met Monday evening for a business session. Rev. Francis Price of Emmet showed films of his recent tour of Europe. Over 90 persons were present. The annual pre-lenten dance ve il! be held Sunday, March .1, WINS KEY HONORS A P. (“Seovie”) Jaskowiak left Saturday by train for Kan sas City, Mo., to attend the Western Auto company’s annual spring merchandise show. lie received recognition as the fourth-ranking dealer in the United States in the amount of he; sales. The Western Aut * sti re here sold 1 290 keys in 1956. There are 4,000 Western Auto stores in the nation Chambers News James Doyle, state of Nebraska fireman instructor, was in Cham ber Monday, where he conducted the first of a series of three schools. The IOOF lodge held a party Tuesday evening honoring one of their oldest members, Dick Por ter, who was 90 on Sunday, Janu ary 20. E. M. Jarman spent a few days last week in Denver, Colo., at tending the national livestock show and sale. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Jarman and Douglas spent last weekend with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ganser, and family at Wood Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Smith and his mother, Mrs. Cordia Smith, left last week for Homer City, Pa., for a visit with the latter's son and daughter-in-saw, Rev. and Mrs. Ward Smith, and fam ily. SPONSOR CARD PARTY EWING — On Thursday eve ning, January 17, the Christian Mothers of St. Peter’s Catholic church sponsored a polio benefit card party at St. Dominic’s hall. A good-sized crowd was in atten dance. Proceeds amounted to $45.05. The high score winners in pitch were Alvin Walnofer and Mrs. Ed Urban; in pinochle Mrs. Joe Tom jack won high score and Mrs. Frank Hawk, low. Mrs. John Bollwitt received the door prize. Lunch was served. Feted on Eve of Departure— Mr. and Mrs. Roy Parker en tertained at dinner Sunday in honor of their granddaughter, Mrs. Lester Walton, and daugh ter, Charlotte, who left that even ing for Germany to join her hus band, who is stationed there Other guests were Mrs. Wal ton’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Oetter, and Larry and Jerry. Guild in Session— Wesleyan Service Guild met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Harold Seger. Mrs. William McIntosh is president. Mrs. R. E. Evans presented the lesson. There is some good derived from these “zero evenings" At least TV has been “pretty good".