Tile Sehueths . . . lie in confined to bed.
Schueths Celebrate
Mrs. Ernest Harris,
III 6 Months, Dies
Emmet Farm Woman
Expires at Genoa
Mrs. Ernest Harris, 59, died
Thursday, October 10, at a Genoa
rest home after a six months ill
ness She had been hospitalized
at St. Anthony’s hospital and also
in Omaha before going to Genoa.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 2 p.m., Saturday, October
12, with Rev. Glenn Kennicott,
minister, officiating. Burial was
in Prospect Hill cemetery under
the direction of Biglin's.
Mrs. R. R. Herley at the organ,
Mrs. Harris . . . taken.
accompanied Mrs. Clay Johnson,
jr., and Mrs. Frank Eppenbaeh,
who sang “Whispering Hope’’
and "The Way of the Cross Leads
Home".
Pallbearers were Otto Lorenz,
Clarence Ernst, William Sch
mohr, Homer Ernst, Maurice
Graham and Floyd Hitts.
She was born at Bladen Sep
tember 21, 1898, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe (Ada Tan
gardt Stahly. Her father was a
native of Switzerland. Her moth
er came from Illinois. In 1914
she moved to Holt county near
Emmet where she resided until
her marriage at O'Neill to Ernest
Harris of Atkinson on January 14,
1920, Two daughters were born
to them.
After their marriage, Mr. anti
Mrs. Harris lived for a number of
years near Atkinson on a farm
and then for a short time in At
kinson. From 1926 until 1952 they
made their home in O'Neill. Since
then they made their home south
of Emmet.
During their early years in O'
Neill. Mrs. Harris united with
the Methodist church and contin
ued her membership. She was a
member of the Royal Neighbors
and an active church member.
She was preceded in death by
her father.
Survivors include: Widower—
Ernest of Emmet; daughters—
Mrs. Kenneth (Beatrice Isabelle)
Bates of Fairbanks, la., Mrs.
William (Marie) O’Brien of Page;
mother Mrs. Ada Spangler of
O'Neill sisters- Mrs. Carl (Josie)
Ivorenz of O'Neill, Mrs. Orville
(Edith) White of Sioux City, and
Mrs. Clarence (Velma) Wilkin
son of Fullerton. Calif.; brother—
Lavern Stahly of Fowler. Colo.;
nine grandchildren.
General Rainfall
Received in Area
General rains fell over most of
Nebraska and southern South Da
kota this week.
Page received about three
inches late Monday and early
Tuesday ; Amelia, 1.25.
Chambers has received .80 thus
far in October.
Weather summary:
hi lo pr.
Octolier 10 49 39 01
Octolier 11 50 42
October 12 54 47 .01
Octolier 13 66 50
Octolier 14 59 48 .28
Octolier 15 64 47 .85
Octoher 16 59 42
Totals 115
GOING OVERSEAS
Sfc. James R. Lyons, army re
cruiter here several years, is be
ing transferred to Europe. His
family expects to follow later.
This will be Sergeant Lyons first
overseas assignment.
EWING — Theodore Sohueth,
76, and his wife, Mary, celebra
ted their golden wedding an
niversary quietly.
It was an intimate family affair
with a few friends dropping in.
Mr. Schueth who suffers from
diabetis, is confined to his bed
because of a leg ailment.
The ol>servance was a surprise
and Mrs. Schueth’s sister, Mrs.
George Walter of Clearwater,
handled the arrangements. The
callers brought gifts, cards and
flowers.
Mr. Sehueth was born in 1881
on the Dodge-Cuming county line
(Continued on page 10.)
Hip Fracture Fatal
to Louis Kaiser
AMELIA Funeral services
were conducted Friday afternoon,
October 11, at the Methodist
church here for Louis Kaiser, 51,
who suffered a broken hip, which
resulted in his death.
Mr. Kaiser, the son of Richard
Kaiser, had been in a Beatrice
home the past three years and it
is not known how the accident
occured. Rev, Harold Bonath,
pastor, conducted the services.
Interment was in the Chambers
cemetery.
Pallln irers were cousins; Carl
Schade. Stanley Thompson, Ron
ald Watson, Ira Lierman and M.
H. Madsen. Mrs. Floyd Adams,
Miss Florence Lindsey, Lloyd
Waldo and Reverend Bonath, ac
companied by Mrs. Clyde Wid
man, sang “In The Garden”,
“Old Rugged Cross” and “When
the Roll Is Called Up Yonder”.
Survivors include: Father —
Richard of Amelia; brothers—
Vein and Chester of Harding,
Mont., and Art of Amelia; sister
Mrs. Helen Whitcomb of Amel
ia.
Rlinoo, railroader here with Great Northern half-century ago,
studies photo of Methodist men’s group of 18»fi with Gillespie.—
The Frontier Photo.
- - V. VTO X
This group constituted most ot the male membership of the
Methodist church here in 1H90, Seated in foreground—Eighton
Shaw (with instrument) and Smith Merrell; seated second row—
George ( lark, Homer Newell (behind Shaw), Rev. E. E. Hossman
(with glasses, church pastor), Ernest Adams; standing—N'ed Euoie,
\V. J. Lowrie, Merritt Martin, Mr. Rlineo, Mr. Gillespie, Harvey
Bentley and John Newman.
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North-Central Nebraska’s BIGGEST Newspaper
Volume 77.—Number 25. O’Neill. Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, October 17, 1957. Seven Cents
Auto Tax
CaseGoesto
High Court
Atkinson Rancher Is
Winner in District
Court Decision Here
The state supreme court was
asked Monday to review a Holt
county district judge’s ruling that
Nebraska’s motor vehicle tax law
is unconstitutional.
Judge D. R. Mounts made the
finding of unconstitutionally at
O'Neill last month. Observers
said the case could have far
reaching effect.
The suit was brought by Char
ley \V. Peterson, well-known At
kinson rancher, against J. Ed
Hancock, Holt county treasurer;
William Wefso, county assessor,
and State Engineer L. N. Ross.
The action began after Peter
son was refused a license for a
1955 Cadillac he had acquired on
grounds he had not paid motor
vehicles taxes on the machine.
Peterson successfully contended
that a 1903 law, never repealed,
exempted him from paying prop
erty taxes on the car.
1W)3 1-iw
The 1903 law (section 77-1211 of
the 1943 issue revised statues of
Nebraska; described how and
when personal property brought
into the county after March 10,
and prior to July 1, should be list
ed for taxation that year. The act
made no differentiation between
motor vehicles and other types of
personal property. The law said,
among other things, that property
brought in after March 10 need
not be reported for taxation that
year if the property was received
in exchange for money or proper
ty already listed for taxation that
year.
Subsequenly, however, the le
gislature set up special statutes
covering motor vehicle taxation.
These later laws (section 77-1240
21) did not repeal section 77-1211
but were in conflict with it, Peter
son contended.
Peterson said he bought the
automobile involved July 28, 1955,
in exchange for money or prop
ery already listed for taxation.
By having to pay motor vehicle
taxes on the auto that year, he
was the victim of double taxa
tion, he contended.
Judge Mounts upheld Peterson
and ruled that the later motor
vehicle taxing law is unconstitut
ional and void. The law violates
both state and federal constitut
ional bans against depriving a
citizen or money or property
without due process of law, the
judge ruled.
Participating in Scouting finance seminar here: llatlgcr, Mounts, t.ainlA, la*hr tuul Miller.—The
Frontier Photo.
Heart Attack Fatal
to Mrs. F. A. Miles
Came to O’Neill to
Reside in 1936
Funeral services will be con
ducted at 2 p.m., Friday, Octo
ber 18, for Mrs. Fay Miles, 56.
A widow who lived alone at
her home here, she became ser
iously ill late Monday, was trans
ferred by ambuance to St. An
thony’s hospital where she died
about 6:30 a.m., Tuesday, Octo
ber 15.
Rites will be held at First Pres
byterian church and Rev. J. Olen
Kennell will offficiate.
Bolin’s will be in charge of
burial in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Pallbearers will bo G. C. De
Backer, Lewis Coker, Robert
Miles, Arlen Miles, Ray Bosn and
and Robert Lowery.
The late Emetine R. Hudson
was born April 17, 1901, at
Sparks, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas P. Hudson. She
was reared in western Nebraska
and taught school at Gordon.
On July 12, 1924, at Hot
Springs, S. D , she married F. A.
M les. They lived at Chadron
before moving to O'Neill in 1936.
Mr. Miles died January 21, 1956.
For many years he was copub
lisher of the Holt County Inde
pendent.
Site was also preceded in death
by her parents; one sister, Edna
Seldon, and one brother, Charles.
Survivors include one sister,
Mrs. L. J. Conklin of Altadena,
Calif., who is expected to arrive
here today (Thursday) with her
husband.
Son of Pioneer
Gunsmith Makes
Return Visit Here
Albert Blinco, 83, who came to
O'Neill in 1880 when the town
consisted of a handful of build
ings, is enroute to his Pinecrest,
Fla., winter home after a brief
visit here to the scenes of his
childhood.
Blinco, a retired Great Northern
railroad brakeman makes his
home in Willmar, Minn. His par
ents are buried here. He was en
tained by L. G. Gillespie an ac
quaintance of many years ago.
Mr. Blinco brought along a pho
and Gillespie being in the group,
taken here in 1896, both Blinco
and Gillespie being in the groop.
Mr. Blinco’s father, George,
was a gunsmith, and operated a
store two blocks east of the Gold
en hotel. When the Pacific Short
line built into O'Neill from Sioux
City, Mr. Blinco found a job.
When the Great Northern sold to
Burlington, Blinco’s work took
him to Willmar. He was a passen
ger brakeman between Willmar
and Sioux City for many years.
He was born in Canada and
came to O’Neill at the age of six.
nmgnts of Columbus
Hold Initiation—
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
council 701 of the Knights of Col
umbus exemplified the major de
grees at the KC hall in O’Neill
Sunday, October 13, staring at
1 p.m.
The day began with corporate
communion at the 7:30 mass in
St. Patrick's church and ended
with a banquet in St. Mary’s
academy gymnasium that eve
ning.
The following candidates were
initiated: David J. Burk and Leo
J. Hawk, both of Ewing, Leo R.
Welchman of Stuart, Thomas J.
Blake, Edward J. Boyle, Richard
J. Boyle, Donald W. Borg, Rev.
Robert B. Duffy, Lawrence E.
Minton, Dr. Merlin L. Sucha and
Ivan T. Van Dyke, of O’Neill.
Friday Is Harvest
Day in City—
O'Neill stores will be jam
packed with special bargains Fri
day, October 18—designated as
harvest day.
The trade event is sponsored
by the retail committee of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Smokey and a companion, Milton Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Johnson of York, formerly of O’Neill. Photo was taken
about five years ago.—The Frontier Photo.
Smokey Calls It Quits
Dakotan Dies of
Crash Injuries
SPENCER Martin J. McCloud,
55, of Martin, S. D., died
Monday night in a Lynch hospi
tal of injuries suffered at 1 a.
m. Saturday in a one-car acci
dent on mile northwest of Spen
cer on U. S. highway 281 at the
Leo Marx corner.
McCloud suffered head injuries,
brain concussion, jaw fracture
and other injuries.
He lost control of the car
which broke a guard rail and tra
veled about 100 feet in a ditch
and overturned.
Dean Havranek and Merle Jan
sen, both of Spencer, first to
reach the scene of the accident,
called Marshall Joe Loock. The
injured man was taken in an
ambulance to the hospital.
This is Boyd county’s third fa
tality this year.
Mounts Illness
Delays Jury Trial
District Judge D. R. Mounts
suffered two heart attacks Sat
urday and the following day was
admitted to St. Anthony’s hospi
tal where attendants say he is
“resting comfortably”.
His illness caused postpone
ment of the William Held vs. Her
man Cooke jury trial, which was
scheduled to begin at 9 am.,
Monday. Held is seeking 50-thou
sand-dollars damages from Cooke,
alleging Cooke caused Held to be
falsely arrested.
A new date for the trial will
be set.
Last Thursday Judge Mounts
sentenced Walter C. Gibb of
Kentucky to one year in the men’s
reformatory at Lincoln. Gibbs
had admitted grand larceny at
the L D. Putnam ranch.
LEGION STAG TONIGHT
Simonson post 93 of the Amer
ican Legion will hold a stag
party tonight i Thursday) at the
club rooms. Men of the area are
invited. Commander George Jan
ousek said.
Frontier for printing!
Smokey, a ponderous big St.
Bernard female, who was the de
light of O’Neill youngsters for
nearly 13 years, died late Tuesday
at the home of her mistress, Mrs.
P. B. Harty.
Smokey was an oddity ambling
about town oftimes with one
or more children aboard. She
compelled attention because of
her magnitude. Ilandsdown she
was the biggest dog in town and
in her better days she played the
role.
Often she’d stomp her big paws
on other dogs and most of them
learned to ignore her.
A registered pooch, she would
have been 13-years-old in Decem
ber.
She came to the Harty house
hold from kennels in Ohio at the
innocent age of three-months-old.
She had been in good health until
the past year. Old-age simply
overtook her. Persons who know
say age wears more heavily on
big dogs.
Mrs. Harty took her to Norfolk
for care at a dog hospital while
the mistress was in Wisconsin
for several weeks. Smokey came
home, whined and cried for a
while and laid down and died.
Smokey lived up the attention
lavished upon her by children.
But up until the end dogs that
had felt Ihe punch of the big paw
carefully avoided Smokey’s do
main. During the past year, how
ever, she never was equal to give
chase to the smart young upstart
canines of the neighborhood.
Two Choices of
‘Sputnik Special’
An O’Neill bartender current
ently is featuring a ‘‘Sputnik
special” which he also refers
to as a satellite surprise”—a
bit of the l'^hter side to emerge
from Russia’s historic launch
of an earth satellite.
Reports say the customer at
the refreshment counter is of
fered two choices:
1. A trip to the moon.
2. A roundtrip to the moon.
Junior Chamber of Commerce
meeting Tuesday, October 29, at
7:30 p.m., at the Legion club. AH
members are urged to attend.
Several good films are planned
with a dutch lunch to follow.
Scouting Finance
Seminar l leld I iere
(Photo at left.)
The Sandhills Boy Scout dis
trict finance seuninar was held
here Friday o\ cning. Purpose
was to acquaint community cam
paign personnel with the council
budget, need for funds and use of
campaign materials.
Lloyd K. Gandy of Bassett,
district campaign manager, pre
sided, Bus Lohr of Columbus,
inemiH'r of the council's cam
paign steering committee, show
ed film strips and explained im
portance, of recruiting "night men
for the job”.
D. G. Badger of Omaha, admin
istrative assistant executive, ex
planned the 1958 budget. Larry
Martin of Bassett, Sandhills ex
ecutive, told of successes of the
kickoff breakfast programs.
District Judge D. R. Mounts of
O'Neill closed the seminar, urg
ing communities to "do their
best".
The council territory includes
27 counties in northeast Nebras
ka. Dale French is O'Neill comm
unity finance chairman.
Holt Farm Woman
Expires in Hospital
Mrs. Kretchman, 67,
Long Ailing
ATKINSON Mrs. W i 11 i a m
Kretchman, about 67, longtime
resident of this community, died
about 1 pm., Wednesday, Octo
ber 16, in Methodist hospital at
Omaha.
She had suffered a lingering
illness and had been hospitalized
in Atkinson several weeks before
being transferred to the Omaha
! hospital, where she had been
! treated alxmt three weeks.
Seger’s funeral home will tie
I in charge of burial arrangements.
Mrs. Kretchman’s maiden name
name was Daphine Ringer, dau
ghter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Ringer of Davenport. She
was reared at Davenport, south
of Lincoln.
She and her husband farmed
six m les southeast of here. They
had lived in the community about
40 years, and owned and oper
ated their own farm.
She was a member of the Pres
byterian church.
Survivors include: W'idower —
William, who was near his wife
at the time of her death; broth
er Ray Ringer of California,
who also was in Omaha; sisters
Mrs. Edgar Hates of Oregon and
Mrs. Hill Nelson of Milford. Two
cousins, Mrs. Lewis Dickau and
Mrs. Bill Tasler, live in Atkin
son.
Retired English
Teacher Expires
CLEARWATER Mrs. Alice
Hyde Hupp, 71, retired Univer
sity of Nebraska and Nebraska
Wesleyan university English
teacher, died Saturday in Lin
coln.
She was born at Clearwater.
Funeral services were held at
I Lincoln and burial was made at
Woodbine, la.
Survivors include: Son—Wesley
j Shelton Hupp of Denver, Colo.;
i brothers Charles Hyde of La
! moni, la ; Roy Derry and Al
bert Derry, both of Cambridge,
| Minn.
—
iVlrs. Grimes Heads
Hospital Auxiliary
Officers of St. Anthony’s Hos
j pital Auxiliary for 1957-58 are
| Mrs. G. II Grimes of Chambers,
president; Mrs. Robert Miles,
vice-president; Mrs. Edwin Sev
cik, secretary, and Mrs. Joe
Tennis, treasurer.
The members voted to apply
$100 on a baby incubator. Mi’s.
' Henry Walters and Mrs. Grimes,
both of Chambers, served re
freshments.
Reports to Seattle
Francis E. Havranek, YNSA,
departed Wednesday, October
9, after completing a 28-day
leave here with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Hava
ranek. His new assignment
will be pier 91, Seattle, Wash.,
where he will serve with the
military sea transportation ser
vice.
TV Booster
Talked At
CofC Meet
Special Committee to
Make Study of Two
Types of Apparatus
Sixty |K'rsons Monday c\ oning
attended llie October meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce. The
big interest was in a television
Ixxvster station possibility for O'
Neill.
Km Werner, owner of the
Chambers telephone exc range
and a student of radio and tele
vision as a hobby, conducted a
quest ion-and-answer session.
C of C President C. E. Jones
will appoint a committee within
(he next day or two and that com
mittee will study a modest boost
er station, which will receive and
rebroadcast signals withki ttie
radius of the city; and also will
study an ultra high frequency
station, which could cost in the
neighborhood of 10-thousand-dol
lars and serve a 15- to 20-mile
radius.
Stuart and Atkinson recently
installed the socalled modest type
boosters with good success. That
type installation costs about
$1,200, but docs not rave the bles
sings of the federal com muni
rations system.
The 10-thousand-dollar trans
lator type would be licensed but
conventional sets (channels 2-13)
would have to be imxlified ($25
$30i to receive the ultra high
signal
Neither type, Werner said,
would assure over 00 percent ef
ficiency. Both would simply re
broadcast signals from one of
the established stutions, first
picking up the signal with an
elaborate antennae.
James W. Rooney reported the
preliminary survey for the O’
Neill reclamation unit is virtual
ly competed. Gravity irriga
tion in the Niobrara basin has
been slowed by congressional ec
onomies. State Sen. Frank Nel
son of O’Neill discussed the re
cent session of the Nebraska leg
islature.
I
Broom Sales to Aid
in Eye Transplants
The Lions club will l>e conduct
ing a "bnoomerama” in the city
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Brooms will be sold door-to-door
and proceeds will be used for an
eye bank.
Lions in Nebraska and Iowa
are cooperating in the movement
to transplant eyes of deceased per
sons to living persons handicap
ped by lack of vision. The trans
fer must Ik* made by doctors im
mediately after the person who
is relinquishing the eye expires.
One O'Neill man already is in
line to receive a "transplant” at
Omaha.
Zahradnicek Land
Grosses $38,500
Th(> Zahradnicek estate land,
■180 acres of farmland and pas
ture, was sold at referee’s sale
here Tuesday.
Charles Dvorak of Atkinson
; paid $100.50 per acre for one
quarter; $78 75 for another quar
ter, and Mildred Zahradnicek
paid $60 for the third quarter.
The sale grossed $38,500, ac
cording to the referee, John R.
Gallagher of O'Neill.
Worth Drive from
Coast to See Corn
ROCK FALLS- Mr. and Mrs.
John Claussen of Lawndale,
Calif., former O’Neill farmers,
have been visiting relativef
here for two weeks.
Mr. Claussen has been so
busy helping harvest com ho
has l>een in town only once.
"Never saw so much com in
my life,” he exclaimed. "Was
worth the drive back here just
to see the fields.”
Report Mercury at
118 in Mexico—
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Pribil
returned Tuesday evening from a
three-weeks trip through the
southwestern states and Mexico.
They visited relatives in Arizona,
Oklahoma and Missouri, includ
ing Grand Canyon and the Bould
er dam.
Mr. Pribil said the tempera*
ture was 118 degrees one day
while in Mexico.
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TO VOTE AGAIN
ATKINSON—Voters here will
, have another chance to vote for
or against a municipal swimming
pool bond issue proposal. The
city council has approved reso
lutions calling for a special elec
tion November 5. Earlier this
year the proposal failed to get
voter approval by a small mar
gin.
ERECTED PRESIDENT
George M. McCarthy and Andy
Goeden drove to Omaha Monday.
Mr. McCarthy attended a meet
ing of the Nebraska Fraternal
congress Tuesday. They returned
to O’Neill Tuesday night. Mr. Mc
Carthy was elected to the office
of president at the meeting.