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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1957)
jur =■ MON. - WED. - SAT. 9.30 to 9:55 A M. lllis Issue North-Central Nebraska’* BIGGEST Newspaper \/0] 77_Number 34. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, 1 hursday, December 19, 1937. Seven C ents The ('lathle llaiu neks . . . 50th wedding anniversary to in* ob served Christmas day. Claude Hancock, Wife Soon Wed 50 Years >1 iss Arbuthnot . . . one of nation's highest ranking senior students.—O’Neill Photo C<*. SM A Senior Gains Semifinals in Merit Competition Mother M. Agnesine. principal of St. Mary's academy last Thurs day announced to the smdent body that Miss Cecila Ann Ar buthnot. a senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Arbuthnot, had tv-cn named a semifinalist in the national scholarship compet ition. Muss Arbuthnot is listed among the 7,500 high scorers on the scho larship qualifying test. These semfinalists outs cored 300,000 fellow seniors in the nation and thus moved a step closer to meiii scholarships Merit scholarships are sponsored by over Go business and industrial fii ms. as well as by professions, societies, foundations and individuals The semffinalists now face a rigorous three-hour college board examination to .be given in test ing centers throughout the coun try on January 11. Miss Arnuthno will go to Omaha to take this ex amination U she survivs this second hurdle, she will become •aie of about 7.000 finalists In this mIi.isc of the competition, the high school grades, extra-curricu lar attainments, and the leader ship and character of the rom ‘.venters will be evaluated. Abou Ntay 1 the top 800 will be named the merit scholars of 1938. M,ss Arbuthnot has attended St Mary's academy for 1- years. Besides, keeping her rating as an ■•A student, she takes part in all extra-curricular activities. The honor is the same as won W M.J-1 u*l». «» « and Mrs Thomas Ltddy. He is an O'Neill high senior and his high rating was announced in last week s issue of The Frontier. Next Week’s Issue to Press Monday Next week's issue of The Frontier December 26 issue will go to press 18 hours ahead of schedule because of the Christmas holiday falling on Wednesday. ._ The early publication will enable all subscribers to re ceive their papers in die area ahead of the holiday and will enable staff members to spend Christmas eve and Christmas dav with their families. Next week's issue will f< a ture season's greetings from business and professional firms as well as general advertising. Correspondents and news con tributors are urged to keep the unusually early puWicationdate in mind Bulk of the general Inews should be in the hands of the editors on Saturday. A heavy volume of advertis ing in this issue necessitated some nevvsm alter omissions ° which will appear >n the next "short-week" issue. * qq 0q o o ° o° o o 0 n o Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Han-: rock. 1929 Claudins ave., I-os: Angeles, Calif., former O'Neill residents, on Christmas day will be observing their 50th wedding anniversary. A family dinner will be held at i the home of their son, Charles, !)71 Arrowhead, San Hernadino. Calif. The Hancocks left O'Neill about *0 years ago. He was cashier of I the O'Neill National bank. Mrs. Hancock is the former \ Stella Smith, daughter o£ Mr. and Vlrs. Charles Smith of Inman dr. Hancock was a son of Mr. and i Vlrs. Jonathan P. Hancock, also >f Inman. The Smith-Hancock nupitals | ook place December 25, 1907, at nman at the Methodist church. Mr. Hancock taught school in he Inman and Chambers lOcalit es Itefore entering banking. Since rawing to California, he has been employed in the Lockheed air ’raft factory. Their sons myl daughters in clude: Ed til O'Neill. Charles H of San Hernadino, Mrs. Loyal (Grace) Hull of O’Neill. Mrs. Vance (Helen) Kline of West Cov ina. Calif., Robert of San Fran cisco, Calif.. Wayne of Berkeley. Calif., and Marlin of I-os Angeles. Mrs. Myrtle S. Bell . . . bur ial at Chambers. (Story oil page 7.) Prominent Area Medic Dead at 65 Kriz Rites at Lynch Attended by 8 00; Gave Pool to Town LYNCH—Dr. R. E. Kriz, 65. prominent physician and surgeon here since 1921. died about noon Friday, December 13, in Clarkson Memorial hospital at Omaha. He had been hospitalized at Sacred Heart hospital in Lynch before lining transferred last month to the Omaha hospital. L.ast week it was reported his con dition “improved” but he de clined rapidly the day of his death. Funeral services were conduc ted at 2 p.m., Tuesday, December 17, attended by an estimated eight hundred persons The rites were held at the Lynch ballroom. Rev. Hugh O. Dowler of Spen cer officiated. Burial was in Pleas ant Hill cemetery at Lynch. Mas onic and graveside rites were con ducted at the graveside. A quartette from Rosedale Covenant church of Bristow sang and Mrs. D>e Brady of O’Neill sang a solo. Members of the Holt-Northwest Medical group were honorary pallbearers. Hundreds View Remains Hundreds of persons paid res pects as the remains lay in state at the Jones funeral home here. Pallbearers were Harvey Kriz, Robert Kriz, Dr. Gene Gross, Guy Anderson and Donald White, all nephews, and Rudy A. Classen, a grandson The late Rudolph Edmund Kriz . /~v , i_ o -toon ~c T wan uui11 v/v.iuiA.i u, gepole, a son of Anton and Anna Hladjek Kriz. He was educated at Weston high school where he was graduated in 1910. He attend ed Fremont Normal where he re ceived a bachelor of science de gree in 1913. He attended med ical school at Creighton university and the University of Nebraska college of medicine, Omaha, vyhere he received his doctor of medicine degree in 1917. He married Rose Chase March *23, at Wahoo. During 1917-'20 he served as navy medical officer at the Mare Island base hospital, and later as a navy lieutenant (medical of ficer! at Guantanamo, Cuba. Separated from the service, he practiced medicine during 1920 '21 at Norfolk, and established a practice at Lynch in 1921. He was (Continued on page 6.1 Farmer Killed in Tree-Cutting Mishap CREIGHTON — Merwin Zepf, 47, farmer living southeast of Creighton, was killed Tuesday in a wood-cutting accident. His Ixxly was crushed between the rear of the tractor and a large tree. The accident took place on highway 59 about four miles southeast of Creighton. O’Neill Minister Goes to Indiana Rex James, pastor of the Church of Christ since March. 1956. has accepted a call from a church in Indiana. He iind his wife and their four children left O’Neill Monday for i heir future home. Mrs. James was hospitalized recently. Give THE FRONTIER for Christmas! Bowling Alley to Open Saturday Ono of eight automatic pin-setting devices is being lowered into position by a boom as O'Neill’s new bowling alley prepares for Saturday’s open ing The firm will te known as Ten Pin Alley Technicians today will be putting the finishing I O o o 0 o ° n ° O <6 o 0co O ° 8 O o 0 ° 0 ° » 0 <0 a O °« 0 - ° O ° O _ _ _ n P, touches on the elaborate equipment. The new bowling headquarters, 'finest in north-Nebraska, reportedly represnts an 80-thousand-dollar invest ment The Frontier Photo. O ° °0 0° o O o 00 0 i>o O O O o O qO °o 00 o o o ° o O O ° ° 0 0 n o o O ° „ n ° ° O _° O O _ Boyd county last week lost two prominent citizens: I»r. R. E. Kriz (left), Lynch physician and surgeon, and L. W. Gibson, Bristow hunker. Stories in columns 1 and 5. (Kriz. photo courtesy O’Neill Photo t'o.) Studying the petitions at the meeting of leaders of the Nebraska School Improvement association here arc (left-to-right): Seated—Frank Pierce of Verdigre (Knox county suprvisor), Mrs. Barbara McDonald of Blue Springs, State Sen. Frank Nelson of O’Neill, Vic Mares of Schuyler, S'. H. Bruner of Stuart; standing—Floyd Kelley of Bristow, Leland Chaffin of Burwell, President Clyde Widman of Amelia, Jerry Spencer of Brewster, Woodrow Packard of Taylor, Ford (iarwood of Bassett, Clar ence I,anz of Newport.—The Frontier Photo. School Meets Here— Statewide Petition Drive Underway The task of soliciting 57,000 valid signatures on petitions to be circulated statewide dominated the discussion Monday evening at the Town House when 70 mem bers of the Nebraska School Im provement association convened Ik re. Present were officers, dir ectors, county chairman, assis tant county chairmen and other leaders of the organization. The association seeks to submit to the voters at the next general election -November 4, 1958 — a proposal to make the office of ommissioner of education an ! elective post. At present the chief administrative officer for educa tion in Nebraska is the appointive office of commissioner of educa tion (a position now held by Free man B. Decker). A constitutional change four years ago established a state board of education (with mem bers elected by districts on a stag gered basis). That change elim inated the state superintendent's office and. at the same time, created a state commissioner of education (Decker i appointed by the elected board. President Clyde Widman of Amelia told the group the goal of signatures would be one hundred thousand, allowing margin of er ror for any signatures that might be found invalid. Proposed amendment of article VII, section 16, constitution of Nebraska, would read: ■‘ . . . the commissioner of ed ucation shall be elected in Novem ber, I960, and every four years thereafter and his term of office shall be four years ... the com missioner shall be the executive officer of the state board of ed ucation and the administrative head of the state department; . ■ . the board shall appoint all em ployees of the state department on the recommendation of the commissioner; the salary of the commissioner shall be fixed by the legislature.” Widman pointed out Decker s salary virtually has doubled in the few years since he was elected state superintendent of public instruction. Widman reported the associa tion has 25.000 members through out the state and active county organizations in 44 counties. State Sen Frank Nelson of O - Neill said: *'I believe the closer you can keep government to the people the better government you will have. Critics of this association call the object of this petition movement a ‘backward step’. I say it was a backward step when the choice of chief administrative officer in education in Nebraska was removed from the ballot, lar gely under the auspices of the i professional teacher group. •'The result is an elected board ; of education. If the people of Ne braska do note like the policies of the appothted commissioner and ° 0 ° S O 0 O o o „ °o o o o o 0 0 0 « n °°0« 00 °0 ° o of the l>oard, it will take years to change the composition of the i>oard because the members are elected on a staggered hasis, “Our forefathers in this land conceived many possibilities when the government was formed. Certain elements of self-rule were reserved for local subdivisions of government, and the chief of these was conduct of the schools “Whenever a high state official d ies not want to face the people at the polls . . . whenever you loose the right to chose . . . you have lost and a backward step has been taken ” Safeway Manager Thomas Cronin (above), Safe way manager at Neligh 5% years, has been named man ager of the new O'Neill Safe way store now in final construc tion changes. Opening is sched uled in about a month. Mr. Cronin went from Council Bluffs, la., to Neligh. He is married and is the father of four children. He will termi nate at Neligh January 4 and assume duties at O'Neill Jan uary 11. His family will fol low when living arrangements are completed. At Neligh Mr. Cronin was president of the Lions club and Chamber of Commerce director. He was in charge of the Antelope county eye hank program.—The Fron tier Photo. Oq QO gJoo o . „ O 0°o O _ O O (r>_ °o O ° ° 0 O’Neill Wind Study Now in Book Form Dr. Heniz H. Lettau, World War II chief weather officer for the German high command and director of the 1953 O'Neill wind test, sponsored by the air force, has advised Hie Frontier a New York City publishing firm now has a lxx>k off the press relative to the 1953 test. The lxx>k is entitled. "Explor ing the Atmosphere's First Mile" Publishing firm is Pergeman Prun, Inc. The O'Neill project, a low-level minute study of wind turbulence, is considered a milestone in met eorology I-ettau is now a scientist with the U.S. air force research center at Boston, Mass. Heart Attack Is Fatal to Artist Steele Shipwrecked During War A heart attack and complica tions following pneumonia claim ed ihc life of Shorty Lx*e Steele, 44, well-known O'Neill artist-sign painter and head of a neon light ing firm. He died at 2 a m., Monday, l'>ecember 16, in the Vet erans hospital at Grand Island following a two month’s illness. He entered St. Anthony’s hos pital shortly before Thanksgiving and was transferred to Grand Island where he was hospitalized two weeks. Funeral services were con ducted at 2 p.m., Wednesday, De cember 18, at the Methodist church in Valentine with Rev. James Irwin, church pastor, of ficiating. Burial was in Mt. ilope cemetery at Valentine. Pall bearers were Junior Cleveland and James Holsclaw of O'Neill, Richard Mulm of Norfolk, Clif ford Belleville, Curtis Young and Lester Dooley, all of Valentine. The late Mr. Steele was horn mmmmmmmmmm mm mmm Steele . . . created most neon signs in North-Nebraska. December 1, 1913, at Guadeloupe, Mexico. He was reared by fos ter parents, both of whom are deceased. Hi' studied art in a Chicago, 111., institute. In July, 1940, he married Norma Steele at Valentine. They became the parents of four chil dren one of whom was bom at O'Neill. He entered the navy during World War II and, in the months immediately after hostilities end ed, was aboard a minesweeper clearing shipping lanes off the Aleutian islands. The vessel struck a mine, causing the ship to explode. Mr. Steele was crit ically injured in the shipwreck and suffered amnesia for several months. Surgeons mended his injuries and inserted a steel plate in his head. Hart Christmas Kve The shipwreck in which he was hurt tiK)k place on Christmas eve, 1945. Regaining his health he return ed to Valentine and resumed his profession. Eleven years ago the family moved to O’Neill after living briefly at Cody. Mr. Steele belonged to the small fraternity of glass blowers who create colored signs. Much of the signwork in north-Nebras k;i was his craft manship. He was recognized as the best sign artist in north-Nebraska. His artwork annually highlight ed the O'Neill public school kin dergarten productions. Survivors include: Widow — Norma; sons Emerson, 16, and Evan, 10; daughters- Yvonne, 14, and Rita 8; foster brother—Ar thur Johnson of Foley, Minn.; foster sister Mrs. Calvin Stolts of Foley. Physicians at the hospital were given permission to perform an autopsy. ■jk Remtor . . . born In Gormany; tb Boyd in 1K»0. (Storj at ri<ht.) °oo0 6 . ° 00° O O q O OO OO Gibson, 54, Head of 2 Banks, Dies President of Bristow, Lynch Institutions Stricken in Lincoln BRISTOW L. W Gibson, 54. bead of the Nebraska State Bank at Bristow and Nebraska State j Bank at Lyndh, suffered n ! fatal heart attack about 3:30 pm, Thursday, December 12. while in I Lincoln. He had gone to Lincoln to at ' tend a tax school of Instruction. Outside the University of Ne braska classroom at a break near the end of the day. he told friends he was suffering a severe “sinus headache ' Moments later he slumped to the floor and was dead. Mr. Gibson had been in good health and his death was unexpec ted. Funeral services were conduc ted at 2 pm, Monday, December 16, at Trinity Lutheran church here. Burial was in the Bristow ceme tery with Rev. Iicnard Nelson of ficiating Pallbearers were Ronald Roush, Harold Holmberg, Ellsworth Wenke and Herman Landholm, all of Bristow; Thomas Courtney, jr., of Lynch and Glen Adams of Chambers. Bo in in Nebraska The late Launce W Gibson was Ixirn July 21, 1902, in Hamilton county, a son of Peter H. and Myrtle Warner Gibson ile was educated at Blair where lie was graduated from the high school in 1919. He attended the University of Nebraska during 1920-’21. Mr. Gibson spent a short time with the Nebraska State Hank at Norfolk. Between 1921 and 1926 he was an employee of the Farm ers State Bank of Newport. In 1926 he joined the Bristow bank as cashier, ultimately rising to the head of the institution here and the twin bank at Lynch. The lute Mr. Gibson was a member of AF&AM lodge 261 at Spencer; Odd Fellows encamp ment 255. at Lvnch. Trinity Luth cran hero. He married Julia Sutherland of Rock county January 4, 1924, at Glen wood, la. They liecame the parents of one daughter. Well Known in Area The late Mr. Gibson was well known in north-Nebraska bank ing cireles. He was active in Hoyd republican affairs, served on the village board and school l)oard. Survivors include: Widow Jul ia; daughter Mrs. Jarold (Jan) Dennis; granddaughter — Denise Dennis; brothers Verne of New York City; Dallas of Washington, D. C.; sisters Mrs. Mary War rick of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Mae Gaffney of Williston, N. D., and Mrs. Karen Glosser of Wil liams air force base. Among out-of-town relatives here for the funeral were: Mr. ■uid Mrs. Oscar Krohn and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Malzacher, all of Neligh; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Suth erland of North Platte; Mr and Mrs. Anthony Zelanka of Omaha; Robert and Nancy Morton, loth of Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mumm of Omaha; Mrs. Parma Williams of Pueblo, Colo.; Stan ley Kalina of Omaha, and the late Mr. Gibson's brothers and sisters. Kemter, 87, Dies; Boyd Homesteader BRSITOW Gustav E. Remter, 87, a retired farmer in the Bris I tow community, died at 2:15 a.m., Friday, December 13, in Sacred Heart hospital at Lynch. Funeral services were conduc ted at 2 p.m., Sunday, December 15, at Trinity Lutheran church here. Rev. Benard Nelson, church pastor, officiated. Pall bearers were Delwin Ruda, Ro bert Johnson, Elvin Allen, John Kocian, Edward Hood and Harold Swanson. Biglin's were in charge of funeral arrangements at the Bristow cemetery. The lae Mr. Remter was born in Schiefelbaen, Germany, March 5, 1870, a son of William and Cardona Schueneman Remter. He lived at Lincoln briefly be fore coming to Boyd county as a young man, homesteading here in 1890. He married Johanna Marquar dt June 1, 1900, at Spencer. His wife died in 1956. Survivors include: Daughter— Mrs Rudolph Ruda of Bristow; sons Arthur of O’Neill, Lawrence of Bristow and Ronald of Spen cer sister—Mrs. Anna Dutton ol Denver, Colo.; brothers — Robert of Lincoln, Emil of Gregory, S.D., and Otto of Denver, Colo. WARING TO WAIJSA Holt County Clerk Kenneth War ing Tuesday attended a state highway advisory commission hearing at Wausa relative to an improved portion of highway 59, which the state wants to drop from its system Highway 59 is a projected O’Neill-Creighton - Cole ridge-Sioux City route. Waring s was the first witness heard. (See 5 editoral on page 2, "Wanna Buy °o i a Bridger"). 0 0° ° o o°° o_ ° O "O O y° O O ° ° O OO
