Sports Attire in Style Review Wows ’Em
This si>orts attire wowed the standing-room-only crowd at the
Ash Grove hall Sunday evening where an estimated four hundred
[M'isons witnessed an all-male hometalent production, which includ
ed a style show. The "lassie” with the white tennis “get-up" is
Charles Thelander. Marvin Roach is the husky “gal" at right —The
Frontier Photo by Larry Frisch.
Eskimo Boy Enrolls
at O’Neill High
/Ov
Veteran of Korean
Conflict Succumbs
Conrad C. Maben, 32,
Long 111
E WING Funeral services |
were held Tuesday afternoon.
February 11, at the Methodist j
church here for Conrad C. Ma
hen, 32. Rev. E. L Rrigdcn offi
riated.
Hymns were sung by Eben
Grafft and Ed Hoag with Mrs.
Wilbur Spangler the accompan
ist. There were many floral of
ferings.
Palboarcrs were: Clifford Hahl
beck. Arthur Kropp, Andrew
Spangler, Walter Spangler, La
Vei*ne Finley, Jerald Snyder.
Burial was made at Neligh.
Conrad C. Maben, son of Ches
ter P. and Hallie G. Maben, was
txim August 5, 1925, at Ewing.
He died at the Veterans hospital
at Grand Island, Saturday, Feb
ruary 8.
lb- was baptized at the age of
five at the Ewing Methodist
church.
He attended grade and high
school at Ewing and at the age
of 18 joined the navy. He took
“hoot training" for navy service
and then returned to Ewing for
graduation from high school in
May, 1943.
He then returned to service for
three years, was discharged and.
after a short time re-enlisted
again. Sometime later he receiv
ed his second discharge. Then he
reonlisted again and went with
the navy to the Korean war thea
tre where he was engaged in
major battles of the conflict. He
was at Wonson and active in
evacuation activities.
He received an honorable dis
charge in June, 1951, and had
been with his mother at Ewing
since
Afflicted with a serious liver
aiconso be had been in and out
of the Veteran's hospital in
Grand Island on numerous occa
sions
His father preceded him in
death in 1937.
Survivors include; Mother —
Mrs. Hallie Maben; grandmother
_Mrs. John Knierim of Council
Bluffs. Ia.; aunts Mrs. Jessie
Wunner of Council Bluffs, la.;
Gussie McDonald of Wisner; Mrs.
Elmer Kemerling of Omaha;
Mrs. Katherine Downs of Den
ver. Colo.; Mrs. Avis Tiffany of
Phoenix, Ariz.. and Mrs. Earl
Housh of San Diego. Calif.
gets one year
Robert Ollendiek of Billings.
Mont.. Saturday was sentenced
to one year in the men's refor
matory at Lincoln. He admitted
forging the name of Frank B.
Ot>erle on checks cashed at the
New Outlaw store ($7.50) and al
Sumrnerland Ballroom near Ew
ing for a similar amount. He
had also passed a forged check
at Shelhamer's Jack & Jill foi
$4.50.
Attends Eastern Meeting—
EWING- Mrs Kenneth LaRut
of Ewing, a member of the Beth
any P"osbyterian church, is ont
of 300 church delegates attending
an interdenominational seminal
hi Washington. D. C., sponsorec
by the social action agencies ol
major Protestant denominations.
WEATHER SI MMARY
hhi lo pr
February 6 .. 24 6 .01
February 7 _ 18 -10
February 8 _ 12 -1
February 9 _ 10 -4
February 10 18 -2 .03
February 11 _ 11 -8
February 12 ..._ 15 -8
(Photo below).
An 18-year-old Eskimo boy,
whose home is in the Arctic cir
cle in the land of igloos and dog
sleds, last Thursday arrived in
O'Neill. He is Percy Ipalook
who is making his home with
Mayor D. C Schaffer and Mrs.
Schaffer while he finishes his sen
ior year of schooling at O’Neill
high school.
Percy spent most of his life in
the hinterland between Point
na.’W and Kotzebue in the land
of the midnight sun. His father,
a full-blooded Eskimo, now is
employed by a school at Kotze
bue (pop. 1,500).
Percy has been attending Shel
don Jackson Presbyterian school
at Sitka, which is in the southern
most part of Alaska. There he
met up with the Schaffer’s daugh
ter, Mss Elizabeth t’Tbs”), who
negotiated an arrangement with
her parents to enable Percy to
finish in the United States.
Percy left Sitka one morning
and was in Omaha the following
evening, met by the Schaffers.
His schooling interests are in
mathematics, science and ’’gym”.
He likes basketball but won’t be
eligible to participate on the var
sity team.
Percy is dark-haired and dark
skinned. His mother is part
French or English He has six
brothers and four sisters (Percy
is the third child) and none are
married.
His education is well-grounded,
the Schaffers say, and Percy has
"settled right down to work.”
"lbs”, they said, "has told
us he was a boy with a great fu
ture and enlisted our help.”
Percy and the Schaffers were
interviewed on Saturday’s “Voice
of The Frontier” program
iWJAG, 780 kc. 9:30 a.m.). Ken
Werner of Chambers, in The
Frontier office listening to the
tape-recorded interview, quipped:
"Didn’t know the proposed new
K-12 school district at O'Neill
reached as far north as the Arctic
circle!”
THREE MORE FII.E
Three incumbant Holt county
officers Friday filed for nomina
tion for reelection. They are: Kcn
I neth Waring of O'Neill, republi
can, for county clerk; J. Ed
Hancock of O’Neill, republican,
for countv treasurer; Miss Alice
French of O’Neill, for county
superintendent of public instruc
i tion.
Mr. and Mrs. James Klughers
! of 5’an Francisco, Calif., have
1 been visting Mr. and Mrs. Don
McKamy and other relatives i:i
I this vicinity.
Percy and the Schaffers . . . Igloos and d«g sleds In the youth’s
homeland.—The Frontier Photo.
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North-Central Nebraska’s B1GGES1 Newspaper
Volume 77._Number 42. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, February 13, 1958. Seven Cent*
Hole in Heart Mended—
Kay Romps and Plays Now
Little Miss Kay Held on Valen
: line’s day, 1958, will be romping
I and playing with her schodlmates
at Chambers like any other nor
i mol child
It was different last year and
| he year before.
Seven-years-old now, she is en
joying a happy and fun-filled life.
Turning back the calendar
exactly one year, Kay was suffer
ing a very rare and most serious
Ik art condition. Doctors said sur
gery was needed else She pro
oubly would not live beyond her
early teens.
She went to Omaha one week
before surgery was scheduled. At
tendants came to her room at 10
O'clock one morning and she was
wheeled into the surgery' room. It
was seven hours later she return
ed to her room.
Surgeons had spent those hours
closing a hole in the inside of her
heart. The hole was described as
; the size of a 50-cent piece. Sur
1 gcry necessiated stoppage of the
heart for six minutes and the
j heart was opened up.
She spent the month of March
! in the hospital. Her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William ("Bill”) Held,
stayed near her most of the time.
Today she has a normal heart, j
The condition that permitted too |
much blood going into her lungs
has been clarified and Kay romps i
and plays with the rest of her ,
friends at the Chambers public |
; school.
Until recently; such surgery j
was believed impossible. Feb
: ruary is heart month and most of
; the proceeds in the heart fund
1 drive go to research.
Heart fund kick off banquet
was held Wednesday, February
5, at the Town House. Plans were
made for the drive to lie held in
the rural areas and cities of Holt
county. This is the first year an
attempt has been made to contact
all the rural homes.
Mrs. John L. Baker, Holt coun
tv chairman, presided at the
meeting. Those attending were:
Atkinson Mrs Roy Ries and Mrs.
Betty Stewart and Mrs John
Mohr; Chambers—Mrs. II. Wal
ters; Emmet-Mrs. Bud Cole;
Page- Mrs. Don Nissen; Stuart
Mrs. Lawrence Ziska; F.wing
Mrs. Robert Van Horn; Amelia—;
Mrs. Nancy Forbes; O’Neill- M's.
William Kelly. Mrs. Larry Schaf
fer is in charge of the rural
areas of Holt county.
Channel 4 Chiefs
Laud Booster Here
Dietrich Dierks, part-owner
and general manager of KT1V,
channel 4. Sioux City, and A1
Smith, KTTV's chief engineer,
Saturday inspected O'Neill’s TV
booster installation and said they
were "greatly impressed”.
They met with Ken Werner
of diambers, project engineer
and contractor, at The Frontier
office and went to the booster
site Channel 4 is rebroadcast
locally on the apparatus on chan
nel 13. .
Werner told the Chamber of
Commerce at February's month
ly meeting Monday: "There still
are a few bugs to be removed
from the channel 13 viewing.”
He said he will have the re
broadcast of KLON-TV. channel
10, Lincoln, available on channel
2 with arrival of a few days of I
warm weather for tower work. |
Smith said "the area is dotted
with dozens of flimsy booster
setups but this is A-l all the way.
Harry E. Itessel reported March
6 is the date for the C of C far
mer-rancher evening of enter
tainment.
Grassland Day
Planned at Stuart
The annual grassland livestock
day will be held in Stuart Wednes- |
day, February 19, in the city aud- j
itorium. A coffee hour will start j
at 9 a.m, given by the Community |
club.
Oustanding speakers in dairy,
forestry, soil conservation, wild
life and foods will present inform
ation to the people of this area,
i There will be a special women s
program in the afternoon in the
I Stuart theater.
I
Kay Hold of Chambers . . . thanks to raro surgery her heart
has returned to normal.—The Frontier Photo.
Dickerson, 63,
Dies Unexpectedly
Heart Ailment Is
Cause •
ATKINSON- Zane Elmo Dick
erson, 63, who had a been a sales
man for a number of years for
the Minnesota Woolen Mills, died
unexpectedly about 8 o’clock
Tuesday evening, February 11, in
Atkinson Memorial hospital.
Death was caused by a heart
ailment. He became ill about 6
o’clock that evening, was trans
ferred to the hospital and died
two hours later.
Funeral services will be conduc
ted at 2 p.m., Friday, February
14, at the Seger funeral home.
Rev. Charles Gates will officiate.
Burial will be in Woodlawn ceme
tery and graveside military rites
wilj be conducted by Farley-Tushla
post 86 of the American Legion
of which the late Mr. Dickerson
was a charter memebr.
Pallbearers will be J. J. Car
roll, Harry Miller, Elmer Spence,
J. J. Krska, E. A. Robertson and
Fred Mack.
He was bom November 2, 1894
at Atkinson, a son of William Al
mond Dickerson and Eva Katie
Davis Dickerson. He was reared
here and entered the navy during
Warld War I, serving as an elect
rician third-class.
He was married to Violet
Sterns.
Mr. Dickerson’s brother, Ivan,
died about a year and a half ago.
Survivors include: Widow—Vio
let; brothers—Warren Ray Dick
erson of Butte and Harold Dick
erson of Sheridan, Wyo.; sisters—
Mrs. Ralph (Vernicel Kelley of
Atkinson; Mrs. Hazel Purtzer of
Atkinson; Mrs. D. B. (Clara)
Raymer of Butte, and Mrs. J. A.
(Winnie) Ramge of Long Beach,
Calif.
All of the members of the im
mediate Dickerson family will be
present for the funeral except
Mrs. Ramge.
State’s 2d Largest
Rodeo Is Objective
Backed by many prominent
and civic-minded ranchrrs and
vi tfM-ans of the original O’Neill
Saddle club, a new rodeo asso
ciation has been formed. It will
be known as the O’Neill Rodeo
association.
Officers are: Clair McVay,
president; James Donohoe, vice
president; Virgil Laursen, trea
surer, and Bill Murray, secre
tary’. Directors are D. C. Schaf
fer, L. D. Putnam, J. J. Berigan,
Leigh Reynoldson, Roger Bowen,
Bernard Allen, John Turner.
Vern Reynoldson, and Dale Wil
son.
Dates for the 1958 rodeo are
June 21-22. Purses will be doub
led, new attractions added and
Hallenbeck Bros, of Long Pine
have been signed to provide rodeo
stock
■‘O'Neill can have a large,
well-attended rodeo each year,”
a spokesman explained. "All it
needs to succeed and become
Nebraska's second largest is pub
lic acceptance at the gate and
cooperation of O’Neillites in pub
licizing the rodeo and the other
activities.
Memberships are invited.
The long - established Burwell
rodeo is the state’s biggest.
Youth, 14, with
Stolen Money Sees
‘Ten Commandments’
A 14-year-old O’Neill youth
is being held in the Holt coun
fy^ail for the Wednesday noon
li our theft of $35 from the O’
Neill Grain company. ,
Sheriff Leo Tomjack found
the hoy at the Royal theater at
tending a matinee performance
of "The Ten Commandments."
The boy restored all of the
money except the price of the
theater ticket and a sack of
popcorn.
Tomjack said it was the
youths first offense and the
name would not be made public
at this time. Staff members at
the grain firm gave Tomjack
the “lead”. The lock had l>een
broken.
Patrick L. Barrett,
O’Neill Native, Dies
Funeral services for Patrick L.
Barrett, 69, a native O’Neillite,
will be held at 9 a.m., Friday,
February 14, at Holy Family
church at Council Bluffs, la. Bur
ial will be in Calvery cemetery
in Fremont.
Mr. Barrett died Sunday, Feb
ruary 9, at 11:30 pm., at Sanford.
Fla., where he and his wife had
spent the last three winters. He
had been in failing health about
three years.
A son of the late Lawrence and
Mary Cragin Barrett, he was born
at O’Neill June 14, 1888. His par
ents were homesteaders with the
early settlers. He grew to man
hood in O’Neill and left here in
1913.
He was reared on the farm
known as the Vorce place.
He was united in marriage in
May, 1917 to Miss Marble Morrow
at Fremont. They became the
parents of two daughters.
The late Mr. Barrett was a
fourth degree Knight of Colum
bus. Retired, he had lived in
Council Bluffs for about 33 years.
For a time he worked for
Sears, Roenuck & Company and
for many years successfully op
erated antique furniture store in
Council Bluffs.
Surviviors include: wife- Mar
ble of Council Bluffs: daughters
Mrs. Jack (Mary Catherine) Bro
belite of Sioux Falls, SD.; Mrs.
Paul (Betty) Whipple of Virginia,
where her husband is stationed
in the service; sisters- Mrs. Pat
(Annai Sullivan of O’Neill and
Mrs. James (Ella) Morrow of
Fremont: brothers-Larry of St.
Paul, Minn., and Henry J. of
Council Bluffs, la., two grand
children.
Mrs. Sullivan will leave today
(Thursday) for Council Bluffs and
will remain for a few days after
the funeral.
MILLER JOINS FORCE
Orville ("Stub”) Miller has been
appointed a member of the O’
Neill police department, it was
announced Wednesday by Mayor
D. C. Schaffer. Miller succeeds
Gerald Wetlaufer, who resigned
effective February 15. Wetlaufer
will reenter the trucking field.
M’KEE RESIGNS
ATKINSON—Dr. N. P. McKee,
! member of the board of educa
tion here for 24 years, last week
tiled his resignation with other
I members of the board.
Rail Commission in
Unexpected Verdict
Henry G. Luth. 81,
Expires at Norfolk
Formerly of Butte,
Emmet Localities
EMMET Henry G. Luth, 8L
who was engaged in farming anti
ranching in the Butte and Emmet
localities from 1930 until his health
falied several years ago, died
about 10:30 p.nv, Wednesday.
February 5, at Norfolk.
Funeral services were conduc
ted at 2 p in., Saturday, February
8, at Hillview chapel in Norfolk
with Rev. Peter Krey officiating.
Burial was in Rose Hill cemetery
at Norfolk.
Pallbearers were John Conard.
Alvin Kloppenborg, Robert Cole,
Harry Werner, Wayne Fox and
George Cole, all of Emmet.
The late Mr. Luth was born De
cember 14, 1876, in Iowa, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Luth, sr
As a child he was confirmed in
the Lutheran church at Wakefield,
having moved there with his par
ents who were among the early
settlers in that part of Dixon coun
ty. Ho remained in that area and
grew to manhood.
In 1901 he was married to Al
vena Bartling and they became
the parents of five children.
The family resided in Emerson
where he worked in the plumbing
business until 1921 when he and
bis family moved to Butte.
He remained in the Butte local
ity until 1930 when his wife died.
He then moved to Emmet where
he remained until his health fail
ed.
He made his home with his
children until 1954 and after that
date he resided in a nursing home.
Survivors include: Sons--Rex of
White Salmon. Wash., and Joe of
Grand Island; daughters- Mrs.
Helen Barbara O’Connell of Nor
folk; Mrs. Minnie Louise Jensen
of Taopi, Minn.; and Mrs. Viola
Marguerite Carr of Atkinson; 24
grand children; 15 great-grand
children; brothers — Harry and
Emil, both of Butte, and Charles
of Grand Island.
Ho was preceded in death by
his parents, two sisters and one
brother.
World War 11
Australian Sortie
Turns Embarassing
The scene was the sitting
lnom of an O'Neill homo late
one evening last week. For
several hours the room had
been filled with "hi-fi” classi
cal music on record.
In the group was a famous
Negro baritone who had sung
a concert in O’Neill. The bari
tone was internationally fa
mous for his role in "Porgy
and Bess ".
Talk turned to Australia,
which the artist had visited on
several occasions. One of the
locals in the group promptly
announced he know Australia
from his navy days of World
War II.
Talk turned to hostelerios In
Australia. W here u p o n, the
O’Neill man launched into a
discussion of a memorahle
evening at one of the spots,
"We got all ‘niggered’ up,”
exclaimed the O'Neill man, who
was expansive at the very late
hour in telling some of the ex
periences.
The famous baritone smiled.
The vocal hometown story
teller quickly filed out of the
room by way of the crack un
der the door!
Soil Retirement
Scheme Blows Up
Two hundred fifty-eight Holt
county farmers who had their bids
in the proposed soil retirement
bank on a test basis in Nebraska,
Friday heard the word the feder
al government’s plan to rent land
on five- and 10-year contracts
had blown up.
The agricultural department
abandoned tin* "pilot plan” in
Nebraska, North Dakota and
Tennessee. Seven Holt farmers
whose lads had been entered
earlier had withdrawn.
The ag department said the
bids were “too high” on a per
acre basis.
Mrs. Robertson Entertains—
Alpha club met Wednesday
evening with Mrs. Fred Robert
son.
Win District H A l aurels
These are O’Neill Future Farmers of America who won top
blue ribbons in district competition Saturday at Norfolk. Top panel:
Standing Merle Pease, Edward Pierson, Gerald Kac/or and Gene
Schneider; kneeling—Instructor Vernon Carpenter, George Fuller
and Russell Breiner. They formed the parliamentary procedure
team and will compete in the state contest. Lower panel shows
Nickey Hammerlun, Merle Pease, Edward Pierson and Russell
Breiner. Hammerlun’s award was for creed speaking, blue; Pease,
record book, blue; Pierson, public speaking, red; Breiner, terasur
er’s book, blue.- -The Frontier Photo.
C&NW Is
Given OK
on 13-14
S-T-A Will Appeal
Passenger Train
Matter to Court
In a surprise announcement to
the press at 10 a m. Tuesday, the
Nebraska state railway commis
sion in a 2-1 decision gave Chi
cago & North Western Railway
company permission to remove
trains 13 and 14 the last two
remaining passenger-m a i 1 - e x -
press trains serving most of
north-Nebraska.
Effective date is March 15.
Commissioners Wayne Swanson
and Joseph Brown voted for the
railroad; Commissioner Richard
Larsen, longtime member, voted
to deny C&NW's application.
Save-the-Trains association of
ficials had no immediate com
ment, according to Secretary Ira
Watson of Inman. Watson said
the officers and directors would
withhold comment until they had
an opportunity to study the opin
ions handed down by the com
mission.
Einar Viren of Omaha, attor
ney for S-T-A was n Chicago,
111., Tuesday on federal court
business and informally served
notice at the C&NW general
headquarters there would be an
immediate appeal to the Nehrns
ka supreme court.
In August, 1954, C&NW ser
ved notice it was considering tak
ing the necessary steps to re
move the trains. The S-T-A was
formed and pepiwxi passenger
find express business along the
iriO-mil<> nmahji-TTuntron main
line. The (ranis servo 44 cities
and (owns including Norfolk, Ne
ligh, Clearwater, Ewing, O’Neill.
Emmet, Atkinson, Stuart, New
port, lx>ng Pine and Bassett.
In August, 1956, C&NW filed
formal application for discontin
uance, citing a 200-thousand-dol
lar annual loss. (Two years ear
lier the railroad said the loss
was 60-thousand-dollars and S-T
A worked actively for legislation
which eliminated the flagman
and saved the railroad 28-thou
sand dollars annually. Passen
ger business was substantially
increased.)
Hearing Held
In a week-long hearing at Val
entine in July and August
last year, most observers felt the
S-T-A had made a good showing.
The railroad’s own figures show
ed 21 ,(XX) passengers had ridden
trains 13 and 14 during 1956; an
other set of C&NW figures, filed
with interstate commerce com
mission, showed closer to 30,000
passengers. These figures show
ed considerably more passenger
patronage than some of the sys
tem’s other trains in other
states.
S-T-A made extensive efforts
to restore mail to trains 13 and
14 with proposals to ixjstal trans
portation officials. C&NW aid
ed none, failed to revise sched
ules, and kept insisting publicly
it wanted the passenger trains
off.
The trains normally operate
with a sleeping car (alternate
days), modem day coach, two
mai lcars an dtwo baggage-ex
press cars. They ply daily be
tween Omaha-Chadron and Chad
ron-Omaha on an overnight
schedule.
Not infrequently there has been
standing-room only in the day
coach. One night in January
. 1- __ 17 Dnllmnn nncVAtl*
gers.
Watson said: "The S-T-A some
time ago raised funds to fight
the discontinuance all the way.”
At the system level C&NW is
doing badly in the nine states.
In the past two years its common
stock had nearly trebled in value
under new management—reach
ing $34 per share and Tuesday's
quotation was $13.50. S-T-A offi
cials have felt all along the road
ultimately would l)e absorbed
by another railroad and the
trains under good management,
could !>e operated at a break
even point or at a profit.
No Bus Service
The freight Inisiness on the
Omaha-Chadron line is consider
ed lucrative and 150-car freight
trains frequently roll across Holt
county.
There is no bus service between
Gordon and Valentine (92 miles)
and any substitute air service
on the entire stretch would have
to be highly subsidized by build
ing new airports.
P re-Lenten Dance
Scheduled—
Friends of St. Mary’s have
scheduled a pre-lenten dance,
Sunday, February 16, at the
American Legion ballroom Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Gallagher will
be sponsors. Bobby Lane and
his orchestra will furnish music.