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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1957)
Community Club Give* S10 to Polio INMAN—The Inman Commu nity club met Monday evening at the assembly room at the high school for their January meet ing. Albert Anthony, vice-president, was in charge of the meeting, j Following the business session, Neil Dawes, county agent shcw Ui slides of his collection of wild flowers found in Holt county and in Nebraska. The club also voted $10 to the march of dimes. A no-host lunch was served following the meeting. Mr. and Mrs Karl Keyes and Mr. and Mrs Harry T. McGraw wore coffee hosts Several visiters were present and they are al ways most welcome. Other Inman News Norma and Larry Kopejtka spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs Frank Kopejtka. Norma and Larry both attend school here. Additional Sunday dinner guests in the Kopejttca home included Mr. and Mrs. John Alder and boys and char lie Wiseman of Page. Mr and Mrs. Louie Bartos and family of O’Neill were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anthony and family. Twelve ladies from this vi cinity have enrolled in the first aid course presented by Miss Claire Engdahl at the assembly room in the courthouse each Monday evening for the next nine weeks. They are Mrs. James Banks, Mrs. Mary Tom linson, Mrs. James Sobotka, Mrs. Karl Keyes, Miss Mildred Keyes, Mrs. Melvin Lorenz, Mrs. Walter Ubben, Mrs. Livelle Butterfield, Mrs. L F. Kopecky, Mrs. Vaden Kivett, Mrs. Woodrow Gaugh enbaugh and Mrs. Albert Rey nolds. The Inman WSCS met Thurs day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ira L. Watson. The meeting was conducted by Mrs. Woodrow Gau ghenbaugh, president. Mrs. Karl Keyes and Mrs. L. F. Kopecky are bazaar chairmen for the year. A covered dish luncheon was enjoy ed by the group. The X-ray unit was in Inman Friday with 210 persons availing themselves of the opportunity to get a free chest X-ray. This in cluded children from the sixth grade through high school. Mrs. E. L. Watson served as hostess and Mrs. James Coventry and Mrs. H. E. Smith did the clerical work. The bake sale sponsored by the Inman Worker’s Project club held Friday afternoon at An thony’s Market netted $26.50. The box of groceries donated by Mr. and Mrs. Anthony brought $11.66 making a total of $38.16 raised for the march of dimes fund. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins took Mr. Tompkin’s brother, Leslie of Kelso, Wash., to Albion Saturday, where he will visit for a few days. Leslie formerly had lived at Albion. He had spent the past week visiting in the Tomp kins home. Mr. and Mrs. Max Mossman and children of Norfolk spent the weekend in the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Led P. Mossman and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brunkhorst. Mrs. James Bartak and chil dren are visiting relatives in Page a few days this week. O’Neill Man Sell* Purebred Cattle— Carl Lorenz of O’Neill recently sold six registered Aberdeen - Angus cows to Leo T Adams of Atkinson. UNDER SURGERY PAGE — Monday morning Ed ward Cernousek submitted to sur gery at Our Lady of Lourdes hos pital in Norfolk. DISMISSED AT NORFOLK CHAMBERS Mrs. Zane Rowse was dismissed from the Lutheran Community hospital in Norfolk. I Cardinals Raked in Lynch Overtime LYNCH The Lynch high Eagles upset the St. Mary’s aca demy Cardinals in an overtime cage thriller Tuesday night, 49-46. The Cards, fresh from their vic torious stand in the Holt county tourney, were pregame favorites. Tne Cardinals moved to an easy lead and enjoyed a 27-20 half time lead despite the fact they were unable to deploy with their usual patterns because of the small arena. Lynch was fairly well bottled up and relied on free throws to stay in the game. Lynch moved up as fouls sidelined Jim Becker and Gary Holly. Big Jim FroeUch, who had been confined at home with the flu, was used sparingly by Coach Don Templemeyer. Holly and Becker paced the Cards with 15 and 12 points, re spectively, before being hustled to the showers in the third via the toul route. St.Mary’s outscored the foe from the field, 21-12, but Lynch was red hot at the free throw lane, dunking 25 compared to the Cards’ four. Twenty-six fouls were assessed against the parochial quintet compared to nine for Lynch. Count was 44-all at the end of regular playing time. St. Mary’s will play the Spen cer Pirates at Spencer Friday night in another Niobrara Valley loop contest. The Pirates have lost only to Center In Nebraska com petition. Motley Crews in Polio Benefit ATKINSON — There will be plenty of fun in store tonight (Thursday) in a triple-header polio benefit basketball card at the Atkinson school auditorium. The first game, 7 o’clock, the Atkinson first grade Hot Shots will go against their compatriots, Not So Hot Shots. In the second game, the St. Jo seph’s Hall sixtM, seventh and eighth graders will take on their cross-town counterparts from the public school. In the nightcap, which features no holds barred, the Atkinson •volunteer firemen with Joe Seger at the respirator will tackle the Chamber of Commerce with James E. Ramsey as attending physician. Wilsons Make Series of Stops— Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson and Jimmy went to Lincoln Wednes day, January 23, on business. They also visited Mary Lou, their daughter, a student of the Uni versity of Nebraska. They went on to Omaha on Friday and took Karolyn, their daughter, a college student, with them to Creston, la., to visit Mrs. Wilson's mother, Mrs. J. P. Daughton, and other rela tives. They also visited friends in DesMoines, la., their former home. They returned to O’Neill on Monday. Mother Honored on Anniversary— PAGE—Mrs. Glen Stewart en tertained Mr. and Mrs. Dick Copes, Mrs. Fannie Stewart and Mrs. Leo Neubauer at dinner on Wednesday in honor of her moth er, Mrs. Carrie Sterner, on her I birthday anniversary. Other Page News Mr and Mrs. Jerry Asher and children and Mrs. Frieda Asher | were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Asher. Sunday Guests— Sunday dinner guests of Mi ami Mrs. Joe Sivesind were Mr. and Mrs. John Schleusener and Merle of Orchard and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Schleusener of Plain view. Try Frontier want ads! -1 ATTENTION! Farmers — Ranchers — Fuel Oil Users I’VE GOT IT * THE BEST PRODUCT * THE RIGHT PRICE * THE BEST SERVICE . SEE YOUR STANDARD OIL MAN ANDY RAMOLD, O’Neill, Nebr. OR CALL 642 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH STAG PARTY American Legion Chib O’Neill, Nebraska Thurs., February 7 8:00 P. M. Free Lunch and Entertainment f Admission: $1.00 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll The 1957 Holt county cage champions—the St. Mary's Cardinals. Kneeling (left-to-right)— Gary Holly. Gale Stevens. Bill Craig, Jim McGinn; standing—Jerry McGinn. Larry Tom linson. Tom Schneider. Jim Becker and Jack Sullivan. Not present for photo: Jim Froelich. regular guard who was confined to his home Monday when this picture was taken. Gene O’ Neill and Ronnie Clark.—The Frontier Photo. Cardinals Dethrone Inman Tigers Semifinals . . . The St. Mary's academy Card inals gained the finals in the an nual Holt tourney by turning back the Stuart Broncos, 38-28, in Thursday night’s semifinal play. Earlier the Cards had downed the plucky Chambers Coyotes, 47-41. In the other half of the semi final billing, the Inman Tigers ousted the St. Joseph’s hall Blue jays of Atkinson, 53-43. Inman previously had put the skids on the Ewing Tigers, 52-43. St. Mary’s 38; Stuart 28 It was a nip-and-tuck ballgame until Coach Don Templemeyer’s Cards tightened the screws on the Broncos in the final period, holding the foe scoreless and pil ing in eight more points with two fielders and two freethrows. St. Mary’s posted an 18-11 first period lead and held a 24-21 ad vantage at the half. But the Bron cos, featuring a nifty forward in Dana Bigelow, were capable of turning on the steam at any mo ment. Strength of the Cards’ attack lay in the fact that all hands got into the scoring act with Larry Tomlinson showing the way with 10 points. The second half was tight in every sense. St. Mary’s collected six points in the third stanza, compared to Stuart’s seven, mak ing the count 30-28 at the start of the fourth with the parochial team clinging to the lead. A total of 15 freethrows were attempted during the long, drawnout, crucial fourth. Boxscore: SMA (38) fg ft pf pts Tomlinson. 3 4 3 10 Schneider . 3 2 4 3 i Becker .... 1 1 5 3 Froelich . 2 0 5 4 Holly 4 1 1 9 Craig • ...... 1 0 3 2 McGinn ...... 1 0 1 2 Totals. 15 8 22 38 STUART (28) fg ft pf pt M inning 2 4 1 8 Batenhorst 0 4 4 4 Bigelow 4 6 1 14 Schmaderer 0 1 3 1 D. Stracke . 0 1 3 1 B. Stracke . 0 0 0 0 Givens . 0 0 0 0 Totals . 6 16 13 28 Inman 53; St. Joe 43 Ned Kelley, an Inman junior who rated as one of the outstand ing individual performers in the tourney, rolled up 22 points in Thursday night’s semifinal go (•against the St. Joe Bluejays, won by Inman, 53-43. But Ray Schaf fer, a Jay junior, pressed closely | for scoring honors, pumping in 21 for the losers. The Josies led 15-12 at the end of the first period of play with Schaffer accounting for eight points. Coach Bob Loomer’s In man Tigers defending champs, clamped down on the Jays during the second period, restricting the Atkinson parochial quintet to a lone field goal and two freethrows out of three tries. Meanwhile, the Tigers tallied 14 with Ned Kelley, Neal Kelley and Roland Hansen doing the firing. Inman led, 26-19, at the half-way mark. Inman continued to roll in the third, mounting 15 points com pared to the Josies’ nine, provid ing a 41-28 margin at the end of the third. The Josies worked hard to outscore Inman in the final period but couldn’t overcome the earlier deficit. Boxscore: INMAN (53) fg ft pf pts N*1 Kelley . 3 3 2 9 Appleby 4 5 2 13 N’d Kelley . 6 10 3 22 Butterfield t.. 0 2 4 2 Hansen 15 1 7 Totals 14 25 12 53 ST. JOE (43) fg ft pf pts Schaffer .93421 Schaaf 1 3 5 5 Slattery . 5 1 4 11 R. Reis.1 0 4 2 Wagman 0 2 2 2 Bonertz .0 0 1 0 J. Rios ,10 0 2 Totals 17 9 20 43 Finals . . . St. Mary's 41; Inman 37 An incredible first-half scoring exhibition by Inman’s Roland Hansen and a bottling up of Mr. Hansen and his mates in the fi nal stanzas featured Friday night’s title game in the 20th annual Holt county prep cage tourney. The St. Mary’s academy Card inals, trailing until late in the game, controlled the ball and both boards during the final period and knocked off the de fending champions. 41-37. A full house looked on as the Tigers built an 11-1 lead in the opening minutes. They appear ed enroute to their third conse cutive Holt crown. Mr. Hansen was hotter’n the proverbial red wagon. In the first half he fired four field ers—long ones—and seven free throws. Inman led 16-8 at the first quarter mark and owned a 25-16 halftime lead. Inman relied ball control and Mr. Hansen’s sharp eve during the first half. Loomcr was supposed to have been hurt by graduation last vcnr, but* having gained the fin als and built an impressive lead over the other finalist, there were few in the house that nvosboned but what the Tigers again were on the glory trail. The Tigers outscored the f'rtrds from the field in the third, but St. Mary’s grabbed five points at the freethrow line. Going into the decisive fourth, Inman still led, 31-27. St Mary's was leading 36-33 with two minutes remaining. Bi^ Tom Schneider, with no place to go except for the basket, drove in to make it 38-33—and that one appeared to break the Tigers with 1 minutes left. T>m McGinn stopped abruptly and was fouled by Ned Kelley. He sank both tries and made it 40-33 with 60 seconds left. Dick Coventry drove for Inman and laid it in, rftaking it 40-35. Schneider, Jim Froelich and Jim Becker were towers under the Inman basket in the crucial fourth. Frequently the Tigers had nobody following shots—es pecially after Hansen was chas ed early in the fourth. Neal Kelly drew three rapid fouls desperately trying to steal the ball in the final moments. The difference between the clubs was in bench strength, where Coach Don Tomplemeyer’s Scar lets had a hefty advantage. Ned ended the scoring with a fielder and 15 seconds on the clock. Becker’s 14 points led the SMA although four mates got into the act with a well-balanced attack. Larry Tomlinson’s floorwork sparkled. Hansen’s 15 points led the Tigers, with Ned Kelley pressing closely with 14. Boxscore: SMA (41) fg ft pf pts Tomlinson . 3 1 2 7 Schneider . 2 1 3 5 Becker . 4 6 4 14 Froelich . ...0 1 1 1 Holly . 3 1 1 7 Craig 0 0 0 0 Jim McGinn . 2 3 0 7 Sullivan .0 0 0 0 j Stevens ...... 0 0 0 0 Denohoe . 0000 Totals 14 13 11 41 INMAN (37) fg ft pf pts N’l Kelley. 0 0 5 0 Appleby ..201 4 Ned Kelley 6 2 2 14 i sen. 4 7 5 1 i L. Butterfield . . . 0 0 0 C G. Butterfield .... 0 0 0 C Coventry . 1 0 1 < Dorr . 0 0 0 ( Totals . 14 9 17 37 Stuart 50; St. Joe 36 (Third Place) Bill Slattery’s 17 points lookec good for the Josies but his St Joseph’s hall mates couldn’t copt with the well balanced Stuari Broncos’ attack in a battle foi I third place honors. Stuart won 50-36, in the prelim to the SMA Inman title match. Del Stracke, Dana Bigelow Don Minnig and M. Batenhorsl -hared the Stuart load. They buill a 14-6 first period lead and made it 25-16 at the half. The Bronco' were in front. 34-22, at the end ol the third. Receiving the runnerup award in behalf of the Inman Tigers at the conclusion of the 20th annual Holt tourney were G. Butter field. Dick Coventry and L. Butterfield. Trophy was presented by M. J. Baack.—The Frontier Photo. Tourney Scoreboard FIRST ROUND Monday. January 21 Page 56 O’Neill 42 Inman 52 Ewing 43 St Joe 47 Atkinson 44 SECOND ROUND Tuesday. January 22 St, Mary’s 47 Chambers 41 Stuart 48 Page 43 SEMIFINALS • Thursday. January 24 St. Mary’s 38 Stuart 28 Inman 53 ... St. Joe 43 FINALS Friday. January 25 St. Mary’s 41 Inman 37 Stuart 50 (3rd place) St. Joe 36 Tourney Grosses $1,921.70 Tourney Director M. J. Baack said Wednesday the 20th annual Holt cage carnival grossed $1,921 .70. Expense items included 5 per cent gross to the Holt Atheltic as sociation, $96.09; trophy, $20; basketball rental, $5; timers. $15; scorers $10; officials, $180; tickets, $5; additional custodial service, $20; 10 percent uff gross to host school, $192.17; team travel ex penses, $81.60. The expenses totaled $624.86. Balance was pro-rated among participating teams. Championship trophy was pre sented by the Holt association; runneiaip trophy by the Chamber of Commerce; third place trophy by Junior Chamber, and fourth piace trophy by Simonson post 93, American Legion. Paid admissions totaled 3,146, an average of 786.5 per night. Oberg Elected PCA President Two hundred fifty-five mem bers and guests registered for the 23d annual meeting of the O’Neill Production Credit asso ciation held in O’Neill January 24th at the Royal theater. Following a dinner Thursday, the business meeting was held with D. C. Schaffer presiding Ott Oberg of Ericson present ed a report on the activities and business transacted by the board ,f directors and executive com mittee during 1956. The «mual rc port revealed the O Neill Pt A ended the year with 389 mem Urs and $1,051,000 in loans out standing. The members elected Albert Lommer of Atkinson and Frank Clark of Burwell to serve on the board of directors for three | rears terms. Other directors in clude Otto Krupicka of sPon^‘1’ Ray Siders of Inman and Mr. Oberg. At a meeting of the board Mr. Oberg was elected president to succeed Schaffer. Oberg has been a member of the board since 1938 and is a member of the executive committee. The association serves Boyd, Holt, Garfield, and Wheeler counties. Youth Rally Set at Chambers Church I PAGE—Members ol' the MYF will go to Chambers Sunday af ternoon to participate in a youth rally. Registration will begin at 2:30 p m. A. Neil Dawes, county agent, I will be the guest speaker. A film, “Far from Alone”, will be shown. The members of the MYF had charge of the devotions Sunday evening when the school of mis sions concluded its study, “High Hours of Methodism”. Mrs. Mer wyn French, sr., has been the leader. Due to the delay in receiv ing the material, the children be gan their mission study Sunday during the worship service with Mrs. Melvin Smith in charge. __- . To Orchard— Miss Mary Holliday visited over the weekend in Orchard with her brothers, Mr. and Mrs John Holliday and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Holliday. Visitors Here— Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Walter of Chambers visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Preston Jones, Fri day afternoon. d " "—i Market Report Monday. January 28 Eighty five consignors plac ed their confidence in our market today. Some traveled as far as 65 to 70 miles. Our market was not the ball of fire that it was a week ago, but hogs sold well in line with the prevailing markets. We did have a top of $19.40, however the bulk of the No. 1 hogs sold from $19.10 to $19.25. The majority of the butchers sold from $18.75 to $18.90. Quality was not nearly so predominant and we had considerably more heavy hogs. Very few sows in the of fering' Light butchers on feeder account sold from $18.25 to $19.50. Shoats sold tip to $20.90. ; When you have cattle or hogs ready for market, why not try your next consign ment in Verdigre. We appre ciate our patronage. Re member the hog sale starts at 11a. m. Sale every MONDAY. Verdigre Livestock Market Phone 86 Don Jensen, Mgr. Margaret Waechter Rites at Lynch LYNCH Funeral services for i Margaret Waechter were con ducted at Christ Lutheran church Wednesday, January 23, at 2 p.m, ' with Rev. A, G. Deko of Norfolk | officiating. Mrs. Marian Isaacson of Nor ; folk, soloist, sang "Asleep In ! Jesus" and ‘‘Lead Thou Me On" j Mrs. Walt Wesehe was organist. ! Burial was in the Alford ceme ! tcry. The late Margaret Waechter j was born in Monowi in 1906 and 1 spent the first 30 years of her life in Boyd county. For 20 years sIh* was employed in Norfolk. She was hospitalized in a Norfolk, hos pital the past four months where she died. Survivors include: Brothers — Julius of Verdigre; William of Verdel; Carl of Verdel; Gustave of Meadowr Grove; Henry of Stu art; sisters- IXma Marquardt of Pierce; Mary Zaeh of Lynch; Le na Hibbs of Lexington; Ella Mul hair of I urn'll; Clara Passieux of O’Neill; Matilda Unkel of Meadow Grove; Florence Prauner of Battle Creek; and Elda Purviance of Morrill. One brother, Carl of Verdel, who was ill, and one sister, Elda Purviance of Morrill, were un able to attend the funeral. Out-of-town people attending were from Madison; Hoskins; Butte, Stuart; Norfolk; Monowi; O’Neill; Lexington; Meadow' Grove; Battle Creek; Verdel and Verdigre. Rebekah L,eader Installed at Inman INMAN — Arbutus Rebekah lodge met Wednesday night, Jan uary 23, at the IOOF hall. Miss Til lie Kestenholtz of O’Neill was installed noble grand by Mrs. G r a c e Luben, district deputy president, and Hazel Lorenz, deputy marshall. The lodge voted a donation of $5 be given to the march of dimes. Mr.s. James McMahan was in charge of a short program honor ing the birthday anniversary of Thomas Wildey, founder of Odd j Fellowship in America. Lunch was served by Mi's. John H. Mattson and Mrs. James M. McMahan. Dorsey News Mr. and Mr.s. Ray Sibbel and family of Butte visited Tuesday evening with Mrs. Sibble’s folks, the R. B. Marstons. Harry Carson of Lincoln was calling on relatives and friends in the community several days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brady were in Omaha this week. They called on Mrs. Dean VanEvery while there. Miss Beverly Carson, who has been attending school at Lincoln, arrived home Sunday evening to spend a week visiting homefolks before returning to Lincoln, where she has employment. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Appleby attended the golden gloves tour nament Wednesday. Emmet News — The Golden Rod Garden club | members from Atkinson, Em I me: and O’Neill met at the home of Mi's. Clinton Shellhu. t in O’ | Neill on Thursday. January 24 for a covered dish luncheon. A letter was read which had been sent to I the state legislature protesting j the killing of mourning doves : Annual dues were paid and a les I son on planting of rose bushes was presented. Afternoon coffee and cake were served by the hos tess on the "snack sets” sent her by her daughter, Doruia, who is stationed in an army hospital in Japan. Donna is a nurse The card party Sunday evening in St. Michael’s hall was well at , tended. First prize in pinochle was won by George Bongratz; ; second high score by Len Ulrich, First prize in pitch was won by William Mullen; second high by | Mi's. Mike Troeahynaki. and the door prize was won by Mrs. Wil liam Mullen. The hail has been | ivewly decorated with tiling on the floor and ceiling and walls | painted. The kitchen is partially j done. Mr. and Mrs. James Foreman and sons of Rattle Creek visited over the weekend with his fattier, Frank Foreman. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Troshynski came from Omaha to spend the weekend with homefolka, Mr and Mrs. August Trash ynski of Atkin son and Mr. and Mrs. John Con ard of Emmet. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martens of Atkinson, whose daughter, Helen, teaches in the Emmet school, de parted by train for a trip to New j Mexico, California, Colorado and Wyoming. Mrs. G. McGinnis visited Mrs j Alex McConnell at the Walter Bucket home in Atkinson Sunday J afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ruggles? and son, Ronnie, visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Beck with on Wednesday, January 23. Mr. and Mrs. George Ramold and children of E w i n g were guests of his mother, Mrs. Anna Ramold, on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Conard en tertained their Bridge club at f their home Sunday evening for dinner with cards following. Mrs. John O’Connell and sons, Jack and Joe went to Council Bluffs, la., the past week. 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