TWELVE PAGES * I his Issue Vol. 77_Number 35. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, December 26, 1957. Seven Cent* The Gene Terrill family . . . the mother, Mary Arlene, SH, and daughter, Diane, fi, died in Sunday rraeh. The father and the son, Da\ id, 4, are ho*|titali7.ed, The father’s condition is ’‘critical”. TV Tower, Booster Equipment Enroute Business Brisk During Past Week Postal Receipts are Like 1956 Christman shopping, off to a slow' start chiefly because of mild, Indian-summer-like w’cath er, gained momentum during the past week and will windup with a flourish. Most O'Neill stores reported whopping crowds the past few days. Because of mild weather, far mers and ranchers kept busy in late Noveml>er and early Decem l>er with seasonal work which hod l>een deferred earlier because of wetness and cold. Shopping sales won't establish many records except in a few instances. Postmaster Ira H. Moss said the postal receipts, usually a ba rometer of retail spending, will run about the same as 1956. By week's end the postal volume had diminish'd considerably, suggest ing the mail rush was over. Week's weather summary: hi lo December 19 44 24 December 20 51 17 December 21 53 25 December 22 53 33 December 23 47 26 Infant Twin Dies Result of Pneumonia DELOIT Jerry Clarence Funk, five-months-old twin son of Mr. and Mrs Clarence Funk died at 4 am., Saturday, December 21, after being hospitalized several days because of pneumonia. Survivors include: Parents; three sisters and his twin broth er; maternal grandfather Jo seph Thramer; paternal grand parents Mr. and Mrs. I^eo Funk. 8 Stitches Needed to Close Wound PAGE Mrs. Emmet Tbom{> son of Page had the misfortune to be attacked by a boar Sun day evening as she was watering their hogs She received a gash in the leg that required eight stitches to close and she is under the doc tor’s care. BENEFIT HFJJJ ATKINSON Advance ticket sales were “wonderful” for the swimming pool benefit dance held Monday night, a siwkesman here declared. The Mullen fam ily orchestra furnished the mu sic. Funds are being raised in various ways for tin' proposed pool. which twice during 1957 was was rejected by voters in bond issue elections. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shoe maker received word that the in fant daughter of their son and daughter-in-law, A/lc and Mrs. Raymond Gail Shoemaker, had died The baby was horn Tues day, December 17 The Shoe makers are located at Bryan, Tex. Auction Calendar Friday, January 3: Quarter section of Holt county land, ape half mile east of Emmet and six miles north, known as A. V. Fors berg estate land; Col. Ed Thorin of O’Neill, auctioneer-broker. Tuesday, January 28: Mr, and Mrs. Gerald Hansen will hold a farm closeout; Col Wallace O’Connell, auctioneer. O'Neill's community television fund Monday larked $23 of at taining its five-thousand-dollar quota. John C. Watson, secretary treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce television committee, said the fund has reached $4,977 Meanwhile, a part-shipment of equipment, including amplifiers, arrived Friday, according to Ken Werner of Chambers, who holds the contract for installation of the community antennae-twin Iiooster equipment fianced by vol untary contributions. Werner said as far as he knew the antennae towers, manufact ured in Indiana, and the heavy duty receiver-transmission equip ment. manufactured in Canada, are minute by freight Towers ; and equipment will tie installed in the Fora Knight meadow at the northeast edge of the city. Television viewers will be" enab led to see KTIV (Sioux City, chan nel 4( on channel 13, and KOLN ; TV (Lincoln, channel 10) on channel 2. Signals from Ixith stations will be amplified, and filtered Donors whose names were not previously announced: Charles Fox, Earl Dalton. Con-! sumers Power. J. B. Ryan Hay Co., Ray E. Clifton. Harold Hum rich, Harrison Bridge, M. L. Sucha, Stella Wallen, Herbert Gydesen, John E. Donohoe, Lulu M Quig, Gertrude Coni', C. E. Lundgren. Francis Holz, Rev, Francis Price, Robert V Kurtz, William G. Kraft, Mrs. Lillian Simonson. Rev. A. S. Gedwillo, Loretta Hynes, Mrs. Emma Lawrence, W. S. Kirkland, Otto W Sprague, DhjLs Znstrow, A. J. O’Donnell. Luther E. Schulz, Don J. Cleve land, George D. Hansen, George M McCarthy, J. J. Harrington, sr . Ideal Cleaners, William D. Claussen, Marvin P. Clouse, R. F. Strube, Marie A Strulnx O'Neill Motor Parts. O’Neill Grain Co. It ASTI I,E is EMPTY The Holt county jail apparently will be empty Christmas morn ing, it was predicted late Mon- | day by Sheriff Leo Tomjack. “No boarders were on hand during the j weekend and right now there are no prospects,’’ the sheriff said. Car Hits Train; Woman Is Killed OAKDALE Mrs. Kllen Pricket, 57, of Oakdale was killed when her car was struck by a North | Western railway freight train at a crossing here, Friday night. Charles Rouse, Oakdale town marshal, said Mrs. Pricket was ; alone in the car when it was in I ! in collision with the freight train. | tx)un»l from Norfolk to Long Pine. | She was enroute to Npligh at the 1 time of the crash. Mrs. Pricket's husband died j about a year ago. Survivors in | elude six children, two of whom are at home. • 4 Mother and Daughter Are Killed Tragedy Ends Yule Trip for Members of Terrill Family PAGE The wife of a former Page resident and the couple's six-year-old daughter were killed Sunday afternoon in a three-ve hicle accident on U. S. highway 30, about 1 Vz miles south of Woodbine, la. Dead aitt: MARY ARLENE TERRILL, 28, of Laurens, la., wife of Gene Ter rill and daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Terrill of Page. DIANE TERRILL, 6, daughter of the Gene Terrills. DUANE McHUGH, 24, of Dun lap, la., driver of one of the ve hicles. The Otto Terrills left Page im mediately upon receipt of the news and went to GKinc.il Bluffs, la., where their son, Gene 29, and Gene’s son, David, 4, were hos pitalized. Gene suffered head and inter nal injuries and his condition late Monday was listed as “critical”, The little boy, hospital attendants said, would recover. Investigating officers said the northbound McHugh car started to pass a pickup truck and col lided with the southbound Terrill machine. The Terrills were enroute to Prairie Home, near Lincoln, to spent the holidays with relatives Three other young i>eople in the McHugh car were injured, all taken to Council Bluffs hospitals. The pickup went off the road Its occupants. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Edmonds of Little Sioux, la., were J only shaken. Mrs. Terrill’s parents live at Prairie Home. Her maiden name was Mary Arlene Hall. Mr. Terrill, who was bom and reared at Page, met his wife while both attended the Univer sity of Nebraska. The Terrills regularly visited Page and in tended to spend Christmas near Lincoln, arriving at Page Thurs day to spend the day with his people. Gene’s grandmother is Mrs. Anna Tegeler.He is state agent for a hybrid seed com company. Authorities said an inquest would be held. Jury Again Called for Held-Cooke A new jury will be impanelled at 9 a.m. Monday, December 30, to hear the William Held vs. Herman Cooke 50-thousand-dollar damage suit. Held charges Cooke with false arrest. Ijast month the plaintiff’s at torneys, Elmer Rakow of Neligh and Arthur Auserod of Bartlett, asked the court’s permission to amend the petition after admis sion of certain evidence W'as pro tested by the defendant's counsel, Julius D. Cronin of O’Neill. Per mission was granted by District Judge Lyle Jackson of Neligh and the action was continued un til the new date. Pricket car . . . after hit by train. * View of rail crossing at Oakdale where woman was killed.—The Frontier Photos. The Pierces . . . Christmas their golden wedding day.—The Frontier Photo. mmmmr- wiiijjpiiii ?m?mm\..w 1 '.111 ■.hi.nit m*mmmm mmwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Homemade Nativity Scene at Chambers Members of the senior youth fellowship and young adult classes of the Methodist church at Chambers prepared this homemade nativity scene, which is illuminated nightly. Individuals worked nearly two months on the project, Rev. Harold Bonath. church pastor said. Gleason Grimes was in charge of erection, waring and installation of musical background. The scene has been lighted since Sunday, December 15.—The Frontier Photo. i'ormer Secret Service Agent— Burney to Parleys with FDR Meet Mike Burney. He's not yet a full-fledged O’ Neill citizen yet he's frequently seen on the streets. Mike has settled down to the relatively dull chores of selling stocks, bonds and securities and his territory is big for Investor’s Diversified Services, Inc. Behind the two hundred pounds of native Nebraskan, who appears to have been a gem of a fullback on somebody's football team a few years ago, there’s material for a good book. Mike Burney, who orginated at McCook, is now a resident of Nel igh (pending the find of suitable housing facilities in O'Neill). He was a charter member of! the Nebraska safety patrol (1937). In March, 1939, he joined up with the U.S. secret service and was appointed to the white house de- j tail keeping vigil on President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Six-footer Mike was on duty the night Ambassador William C. Bul lit called FDR from Paris with the news Hitler had marched into Poland, signaling the start of World War n. "The evening Bullitt called,’’ Burney remembers, “FDR tried to locate the globe-trotting Elea nor to relay the news from Eur ope. Next day I found a memo to the switchboard operator on the floor near the president’s desk with this notation: ‘Call Eleanor— Los Angeles? Denver? Seattle?’ ” When Burney was stationed at the executive mansion the secret service detail consisted of 28 men, working approximate eight-hour shifts around the clock. Even more are maintained now’. Burney did some globe-trotting of his own, accompanying the FDR to several summit confer ences with Churchill and Stai n and went to Potsdam with Pres:- ! dent Harry S. Truman. "Our detail was badly outnum bered by the Russian counter parts,” Mike recalls. The Russ usually had a full military com pany about 150 men. They wore civilian clothes and full military dress alternately. Very confusing. Sometimes I thonght Uncle Joe had brought along the whole red army! "The way Joe ended up I’ve sometimes thought he needed re inforcements.” At the various conferences thi Russ counterparts were always in the market for clothes, watch es, suitcases and jewery—provid ed the label was American. "I had an opportunity to make Ivan pay through the nose in e couple of transactions. Dark-haired Mike, father ol two young teenage daughters realized later the source of Amer ican money available to Uncle Joe’s crew explained the libera use of greenbacks. "They made their own from plates made in America and with the same type of paper used b> our own treasury department. "Source of the plates and paper never has been disclosed to the American public, as far as ] know, although some of. our owr secert service agents, got to the bottom of it.” Luminaries met during the sev en-year stretch at the white house varied in eating and drinking habits, recalls Mr. Burney. Mike Burney . . . vestibule view of important white house conferences. — The Frontier Photo. "Churchill loved—and still does his Scotch and water. Seldom did I see Winnie without a glass in one hand and a buck-sized Corona Corona, a he-man cigar, in the other. ‘‘H a r r y Hopkins introduced Winnie to the hot dog. I saw many lunches carried to Churchill consis ting of bottles of Scotch and a couple of hot dogs. "Stalin loved his vodka, of course, and caviar. But he was no different than the other Rus sians. "The reds couldn’t handle American bourbon and soon the word of declination got around: ‘Nyet" Burney is quite convinced the Russians love a good party and contends that the latest series of top dogs at the Kremlin support the theory. Mr. Burney saw a lot of social life at the white house, particulary at diplomatic parties. Among the observations: “The top-drawer French are great wine-drinkers and prefer grapejuice to water in most instances. "Faye Emerson, then married to one of the Roosevelt sons, put on a couple of good shows in the white house corridors, i "Lovely daughters of South American diplomats, normally chaperoned, could shed the trail ing matron at a first-class diplo matic party and could have a whee of a time. “Winnie Churchill once tumbled backwards intx> a hedge and a navy medic and I spent a couple of hours pulling needles out of his rear end. The chap is short and round and we had some difficulty keeping him on the ‘operating table’." Mr. Burney’s vestibule view of white house life understandably does not reflect all that went on in the official business, Usual ly he did not have access to the conferences. His job was to man the door at the president’s office or bedroom and insure his safety. Leaving the white house detail, Mr. Burney was assigned to the Detriot. Mich., area. On one oc casion he and another operative were ordered to participate in a Continued on page 7.) Contractors Near Finish on Safeway Safeway Stores. Inc., has re leased the list of contractors par ticipating In the remodeling of the Lohaus building for the new Safeway store here. The project , is now in the final stages. Opening is planned in late Jan uary. General contractor: Beckenbau er Bros , Norfolk, Subcontractors: Northwest Eletv trie Motor Service of O'Neill, electrical; James Davidson & Sons of O'Neill, mechanical; IJn coln Steel Oorp., of Lincoln, structural steel and reinforcing steel; Philbrieo Sale's & Service Omaha, incinerator; Home-Craft ers Window & Glass Co., of Wis ner, glass, glazing and aluminum dtxvrs; Johnson Hardware of Omaha, finish hardware; Bostt I decorators of Norfolk, painting ;ind asphalt tile; IXinohoe C5ons struction Co., of O'Neill, excava tion; R. L. White Co., t>f Lincoln, fire door anti hollow metal door and frame; Staudenmaier Sheet Metal of Norfolk, sheet metal, exhausts and stainless steel. Jacob B. Lone at 90th lestone Jacob B. Long, who has made his home the past seven years with his nephew, Walter Young, in the Opportunity locality, Mon day celebrated his 90th birthday anniversary. He was born in Earlvillo, 111., December 23, 1867. In 1884 he came to Holt county from Hast ings, la,, bringing his parents here in a covered wagon. His father had claimed a homestead the year previous. The Long homestead was locat ed one mile south of Opportun ity ;md one mile west. Mr. Ixtng lived on the homestead until 12 years ago. Allhough Mr. Ixvng’s health has not been good the past 18 months, he is able to be "up and around" most of the time. This Week’s Issue 48 Hours Early This week’s issue of The Frontier went to press Monday night 48 hours ahead of sched ule to insure that all subscri bers in the O’Neill area would have their paper ahead of the yule holiday. Next week’s issue—the Janu ary 2 issue- will go to press ap proximately 30 hours ahead of the normal schedule. Kliment Home Scene of Gathering— Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kaiser and son, Pfc. Ivan Kaiser, who arrived Friday from Ft. Riley, Kans., and Mr, and Mrs. Warren Seger were dinner guests Sun day of Mrs. Kaiser’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kliment, sr. Others present were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Soucek and family of Verdigre; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kliment and family of Wausa; Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Kliment, and family, Mr. and Mrs. James Do bias and family, Ivan Kliment, Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Dobias and son, all of Atkinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dobias, and daughters of Stuart. LEAVES AIR FORCE James Ryan, son of Neil Ryan, was separated from the air force Friday, December 20, after serv ing an enlistment. He was sep arated at Parks air force base in California and arrived to spend the holidays here. He has not made future plans. TOYS OOIJ.EOTED Toys for needy families and cash contributions are being ac cepted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in order to cheer un derprivileged homes Christmas morn. President Duane McKay is in charge. The Pieree* ... on their wedding day—Oh ristman, 1907. Couple On Same Place 45 Years Frank Pierce, Wife Note 50th Wedding on December 2 5th AMELIA Mi' anil Mrs Franfc Pierce, who have s|>ent the past 15 years on their ranch, two small lakes anil a hay meadow noath of Amelia, Christmas day will be observing their 5©t* wedding anniversary. No formal observance is i>un» ned, hut their daughter, Mrs. Charles Hligh of Omaha, her hue hand and daughter, Miss Rnodre Wickham, will be present far gift opening ami a family dinner. The Pierce ranch, exactly a mile north of town, has liecn in the Pierce family 65 years The Pierces are retired tend a few chickens, a couple of milk cows, and "contract out” their pasture and hay. Both enjoy good health. Mr. Pierce, 79, was bom near Cherokee, la., a son of William and Laura Pierce. The famib . . ■ V ' ' • » l«f I IUH in the spring of 1883 when Mr Pierce was a lad of five Three younger brothers also made thi trip. highlighh'd by the crossir* of tin- Missouri river at Covii* ton (now South Sioux City). “It was nightfall when we reached the river,” Mr Pirre* recalled. "Mother insisted we wait until the following day to cross by ferry. We woundup to Inman. Mv father and h* brother, Carroll Pierce, went