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iij | nn^ twelve Jm pages "VOICE OF THE FRONTIER" * T5 i.75 a“T Th‘9 *-ue North-Central Nebraskas BIGGEST Newspaper Volume 78.—Number 13. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, July 24, 1938. Seven Cents. \lr*. t'onnot . . . shp left her native Uechtenatoln at 21 In be half of her health.—The Frontier Photo. At 90, Mother of I 3 Speaks— Modern Women Are *.Sickly and Crabby * Snell . . . celebrated golden wedding anniversary last year. Raymond A. Snell Fatally Stricken Funeral at Page for Lifelong Resident PAGE Raymond Alfred Snell, 69. a Page farmer and insurance man, died unexpectedly of a heart attack about 1:30 p.m., Thursday, July 17, at his home near here. Funeral services were conduct ed at 2 p.m., Monday, July 21. at the Methodist church with Rev. Lisle Mewmaw, church pastor, of ficiating. Mrs. Merwyn French. Jr , sang "The Old Rugged Cross” and "One S w e e t ly Solemn Thought." Burial was in the Page ceme tery under direction of Biglin's. Mesdames Lorenz Riege and R. V. Crumly were in charge of flor al arrangements. Pallbearers were Pete Nissen. Lloyd Fussel man, Harold Banta, Harold Free myer, Gordon Harvey and George Wettlaufer. Members of the Ma sonic lodge were honorary pall bearers and were seated in a group at the services. The late Mr. Snell was born Oetolier 22, 1888, on a farm near Page, the fourth son of Alfred T. Snell and Grace Taylor Snell. Ray, as he was familiarly known. was reared on the home stead IMi miles northwest of Page, attended country school in the home district, and later at tended the Creighton university college of pharmacy at Omaha. He worked in drug stores in 1908 and 1909. He was married to Miss Leila Stevens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Stevens at Page on December 11, 1907. To this union two daughters were born. In 1915, Mr. Snell accepted a position with a building company in Minneapolis, Minn., working in the East. In 1918 he returned to Page to look after his father's farming interests. He continued to reside on the farm until his death. Mr. Snell was active in commu nity affairs, was a memlier of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Masonic lodge and Page Commer cial club. For the past 15 years, in addition to his farming, he represented several insurance companies in this area. In 1957 his health began to fail and he submitted to surgery. Af ter several montlis he apparently was making satisfactory recov ery. He was prccedtHl in death by his parents and three brothers— Dr. (diaries, Roy and Harry. The latter died in infancy. Survivors include: Widow Le ila; daughters Mrs. W. W. (Joyce) Waller of O’Neill and Mrs. Jack (Beverly) Passmore of San Diego, Calif.; three grand children-Garry and Rita Waller and /Mine Passmore, brother — Rollie, 86. of Page; sisters—Mrs David (Chloe) Pollock of Ewing and Mrs. Janies (Cora) Wilcox of Bloomington, lnd. • SPENCER Mr Lena Connot 90, a pioneer Boyd county woman : who became the mother of 13 | children, thinks modem women are ‘‘sickly’’ and all they do is j "push huttons and crab". She was joking somewhat but there was an undertone of honesty about the observation as she was surrounded by her 11 living child ren, 35 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchildren and was ob serving her 90th birthday anniver | sary. A family dinner was held al noon at her home in Spencer. Her maiden name was Magde line Ohri. She was bom July 20, 1868, in Liechtenstein, a tiny prin | cipalty in the Alps mountains on the Switzerland-Austria border, Her father was a farmer and I^ena, at age of 21, shook hands with every man, woman and child in her hometown of 620 people when she sat out for the United States, where two older brothers resided. She left Liechtenstein (Continued on page 6). Premium I.Kt Will Appear Next Week— The premium list for the 1958 Holt county fair will be publish ed and mailed next week. Tab loid size, the list will contain 24 pages with colored cover and is being published by The Frontier. Extra copies will be available through The Frontier, Fair Sec retary James Gibson at Cham bers or the county agent’s office. The premium list will be distri buted without charge. Dates for the 66th annual Holt fair to be held at Chambers are August 18-21. __ Tushln . . . native of Bohemia. NBC TV News Confirms It— Dexter Is in Lebanon On millions of television screens across the country Mon day evening the National Broad casting company's TV cameras focused on two marines in Bei rut, Lebanon. And the voices of one officer and one enlisted man boomed through the loudspeakers. O'Neill instantaneously be came a-buzz when the enlisted man identified himself as “Sgt. Harold Dexter of O'Neill, Nev braska”. It was the first showing of American troops in the capital of the beleagured Middle East country. Dexter's mother, Olive Tom linson, was comfortably watch ing the channel 4 program in I her living room. After the in terviewer had finished with the lieutenant, the camera scanned to a sergeant seated at his post. "There's only one person in the world who sits like that." i she mused to herself, "and that's Harold.” "Sergeant Dexter of O'Neill, | Nebraska" came the familiar j voice. The dumbfound ed mother was speechless. Harold's wife, the former Kathryn Hoffman, is with relatives near Ewing, but she was not watching the program. Within seconds the phones be gan to jangle. When thrilled Dwarfed by the 47-ft. long Bomare IM-98 mlssle are these O'Neill youths (left-to-right): Casey Tomlinson, Dewayne Dennis, 12, and Robert Dennis, 18. The wingspan is 18 ft.. 2 Ins. but the wings were detached by segments for transporting.—The Frontier Photo. Mitchell Surgeon Coming to O’Neil! Two Others Consider Locating Here Dr. George Carstens of Mitchell, S. D.. a physician and surgeon who has been practicing about a year, has leased the office, equip ment and fixtures of Dr. J. P. Brown, well-known O’Neill physi cian and surgeon. Doctor Brown, who had been hospitalized several months, re turned to his home early in July for convalescence. Doctor Brown said Doctor Car stens, a gradurte of the Univer sity of Pittsburg, (Pa.) college of medicine, will he arriving in O’ Neill in about 10 days to establish a practice here. Doctor Carstens is married and is the father of a small daughter. Doctor Brown practiced at Stu art five years before coming to O’Neill about 30 years ago. When he came to O'Neill he took over the practice of the late Dr. J. P. Gilligan. Dr. M. L. Srcha, who has been associated with Dr. Rex Wilson in general practice here for the past two years, will be go ing to Schuyler August 1. Schuy ler is Doctor Sucha's hometown. Doctor Wilson said a replace ment for Doctor Sucha will ar rive about August 1. Meanwhile, two other physi cians and surgeons are consider ing locating here. With Doctor Sucha’s departure and before new talent arrives, O’ Neill will be having the services of only Doctor Wilson and Dr. W. F. Finley. Other doctors in the directory are Doctor Brown, Dr. L. A. Carter and Dr. O. W. French, all of whom are inactive for health reasons. Need for additional doctors here was publicly pointed up in an editorial in The Frontier May 15 entitled, "Our Town Needs Doctors”. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shierk Snu day visited Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Backeberg of Winner, S. D. friends couldn’t reach the moth er wife the “overflow” calls swamped The Fronter office. "I guess everybody in the country was watching the pro gram,” explained Mrs. Tomlin son. Harold fielded the interview er’s questions concerning C ra tions and what they contained. After being asked if he was making it a career. Dexter chirp ed: "It begins to look like it!” The Frontier published Har old’s picture last issue and spec ulated he was in the marine party that had landed at Leb anon. He is in the Sixth division. Monday morning’s “Voice of The Frontier” program further speculated Dexter was in the rebel-tom land where violence was being put down. Monday evening’s NBC news confirmed his presence there for every body in 48—pardon, 49—states. Neither the mother or wife has yet heard from Harold di rectly. The Harold Dexters have a daughter, Julie. Navy personnel off Beirut, as announced by the navy, includ ed Bruce A. Tucker son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Tucker of Rose, and Ivan F. Novak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Novak of Ver digre. Tucker and Novak are aboard the attack airrraft car rier USS Saratoga. Lethal-Looker— Bomarc Missile Attracts Throngs A Bomarc interceptor missile, weighing 15,000 pounds, was on impromptu display in O’Neill late Tuesday on an overnight stop on a transcontinental trip westward from Wright-Patterson field at Dayton, O. The missile is en route to Casper, Wyo., for an air exhibition. The IM-99 is capable of tracking an approaching enemy object up to 60,000 ft. in a range of 250 miles. Made by Boeing Aircraft, it is Peter C. Tushla, Atkinson, Expires Lost Two Sons in World War II ATKINSON — Funeral services were conducted at 9 a.m. Mon day, July 21, for Peter C. Tushla, 79. longtime resident of the At kinson community. He died at 3:45 a.m. Friday, July 18, in At kinson Memorial hospital. He had been a patient at the hospital since July 1. Rev. R. J. Parr, church pastor, officiated at the requiem high mass. Burial was in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Public rosary service was held at 8 o’clock Sunday evening at the Seger funeral home followed at 8:30 o’clock by the rosary offered by members of the Knights of Columbus. Pallliearers were Peter Gonder inger, Charles Dvorak, Joseph Judge, Joseph Kramer, Joseph Matousek and Hans Bogue. The late Mr. Tushla was bom August 1, 1878, in Bohemia (now Chechoslovakia). His parents were Joseph Tushla and Mary Odstrcil Tushla. A t _ C ___ l_ __ * * l C. veil lit LU1IIC with his parents to the United States, and and they settled near Atkinson. On June 6, 1905, at St. Joseph’s church he was united in marriage with Susanna Steskal. The couple farmed three miles east of town many years and rear ed their family there. One son died in infancy. They retired about 15 years ago. The Tushlas celebrated their gold en wedding anniversary formally three years ago. One son, Louis, was killed De-1 cember 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. | Another son, 1/Lt. Harold, a nav igator on a four-engine B-24 bomber, died in the Mediterran ean sea when his aircraft failed to return February 15, 1943, from a bombing attack on the port at Naples, Italy. His air force unit was stationed in North Africa. Farley-Tushla post of the American Legion here is named in part for the two sons. Survivors include: Widow—Su sanna; sons—Dr. Francis M. of Auburn, and Donald of San Ber nardino, Calif.; daughters — Mrs. Arthur (Margaret) Regal of At kinson; Mrs. Edward (Helen) Binder of Englewood, Calif.; Mrs. Joseph (Kathleen) Deermer of1 San Bernardino, Calif.; 10 grand children; brother—Sylvester of At kinson; sisters — Mrs. Frank 1 Anna i Keating of Atknson and Mrs. Alary Gilg of Atkinson. Death of Relative— Mrs. William O’Connor received word of the death of a relative, Charles Rusch of Russell, Kans., last Monday. Camping Trip— Mr. and Mrs. Dale Wilson and daughters daparted Sunday for a camping trip which was to take ! them to Chadron state park. painted air force blue with yel ■ low trim. The warhead is alum l inum. Hundreds of sightseers were at tracted to the parking lot north of the Gateway Motel. The “Voice of The Frontier” heralded the ar rival of the unusual visitor on VVJAG, 780 kc, at 5:45 p m. Within minutes scores of vistors were on the scene, some coming from as far as Osmond, Tilden and Nor folk. The missile belongs to air de fense command. Two non-com missioned air force officers were in charge of the truck-trailer out fit transporting the huge war instrument. The truck-trailer with its expensive cargo weigh 45,000 {KXinds. In charge of transporting the ground-to-air pilotless craft were Al/c Robert Pierce of Welisburg, W. Va., and A2/c James Conrey of Colorado Springs, Colo. The warhead is capable of car rying high explosive or nuclear materials. The EM-99 has rocket takeoff and ram jet cruising. The missile's speed is undisclosed but is termed supersonic. The missle is fired by push button and is powered by liquid fuel. The interceptor missile is moun Lewis Kopecky, 75, Dies Unexpectedly Suffers Heart Attack at His Home INMAN — Lewis Kopecky, 75, who had been a resident of the In man community since 1918, died Monday evening, July 21, at his home. He was fatally stricken with a heart attack after his eve ning meal at his home while in the presence of his wife. On July 2 he submitted to sur gery in an Omaha hospital and returned home one week later. He seemed to be making satisfactory recovery relatives said. Funeral services were conduc ted at 2 p.m., Wednesday, July 23 at the Methodist church here with Rev. Lisle Mewmaw, church pas tor, officiating. Music was pro vided by members of the youth choir of the church: Sam Watson, Ned Kelley, Roland Hansen Roger Tompkins, Brenda Col man Linelle Tompkins, Marilyn Sidcrs and Karen Brown, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Harvey Tompkins. Pallbearers were Kenneth Cov entry, Frelent Pribil, Elwin Smith, Frank Sobotka, Ryan Rei mers and Harvey Tompkins. The late Mr. Kopecky was bom May 15, 1883 at Omaha, the son of Frank and Anna Kopecky. When a young man he mov ed with his parents to Weston and later to Newman Grove, where he grew to manhood. On August 11, 1909, he was mar ried to Josephine Holub in South Omaha. They became the parents of two sons, Lewis Frank and Jerry John. In 1918 the family moved onto a farm three miles south of Inman where Mr. Kopecky was a hay dealer and a gardener. In 1939 he and his wife moved into town where Mr. Kopecky resided until his death. He suffered a heart attack in 1951 and had been in failing health since. His son, Jerry, died in 1931. Survivors include: Widow Josephine; son—Lewis; Inman; ont grandson, one sister, one brother and numerous nieces and nep hews. ted for exhibition purposes. Late Wednesday night visitors were continuing to congregate and examine the lethal-looking flat-car type bullet. The intercep tor is guided to its foe by means of radar. The two attendants said the Bomarc’s big brother, an X-17 ballistics missile, capable of enter ing outer space, will be arriving today (Thursday), also enroute to Casper. $3,000 Payments to Two Cooperators Storjohann, B u r i v a 1 Recipients Checks have been mailed or soon will be mailed to scores of Holt county farmers participating in the acreage reserve phase of the 1958 soil bank program, in cluding two maximum acreage reserve payments of three-thous and-dollars. Recipients of the maximum amounts are William Storjohann and Frank Burival-Buriva! Bros. The Burivals will share the max mum amount. Other high amounts are Tony Asimus, $2,982 and Elmer Devall, $2,641. Scores of other farmers are sharing in the 254-thousand-dol lar acreage reserve payments. To be eligible farmers had to place com or wheat land in the acreage reserve. Yet to be issued in other phases of the government's agriculture program in Holt including ACP. farm storage facility and other payments will be checks total ing 300-thousand-dollars. The new' government ag pro gram will go into effect Septem ber 1. The acreage reserve fea ture will be supplanted by a con servation bid plan. Storjohann. Burivals, Asimus and Devall are farmers in the O' Neill locality. Payments to other cooperators are in lesser amounts dependent upon how' much land was idled. Visit Here— Air Force Capt. Herbert Bren nan, his wife and their two sons, Tim and Mike, spent the weekend with Captain Brennan s aunt, Miss Bernadette Brennan. The family is residing at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans. BUDGET PUBLISHED The proposed budget for 1958 for Holt county government and comparisons with last year ap pear on page 9. Kopeeky . . . retired hay dealer. (Story at left.) Hurt Woman Is Rescued Mrs. M. B. Huffman Taken from Lofty Mountain Spot in Basket PINKPALE. W\0 (Special to The Frontier) At 9 pm. Wed nesday tO'Neill lime), the injured Mrs. M. R. Huffman was brougl* into 1’inedale after a hazardous anti precarious rescue from a lofty porch near the continental divide. A 12-man rescue party set out on foot at noon tO'Neill time). The party traveled 13 miles over rugged terrain to reach her. They re moved Mrs. Huffman in a basket susj>ended by ropes. The basket was passed man-to-man until mountain trails were reached. Pr. rhomas Jansen, jr., of Pinedale said Mrs. Huffman, injured 1 uesditv when a horse fell on her, was in fair condition and withstood ihe ordeal better than could be expected. She was immediately flows, by air ambulance to Denver, Colo George Nelson, head of the Wyo ming civil air patrol, was pilot. Her husband accompanied the ambuk lanee. Mrs. Huffman . . . rescued by 12 men on foot after helicopter try fails.—The Frontier Photo. Called Back to Navy— Carroll Grenier, SK/2 of the U. S. navy, arrived home on leave last Thursday evening and was called back to duty Friday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank j Grenier and is serving with the Sixth fleet on the U.S. Salem flag ship. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Grady and family left Saturdy for a two weeks vacation at Lake Okoboji. j Stroke Is Fatal to Allan Pollock — Lifelong Resident of Ewing EWING- Allan R. Pollock, 64, who was born on a homestead five miles southeast of Ewing, died at 5 p.m., Wednesday, July 16. in St. Anthony's hospital at O'Neill. Members of the family said death was caused by an ap oplectic stroke. Funeral services were conduct ed at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at the Methodist church here with Rev. Lee Brigden, church pastor, officiating. The Snider funeral home was in charge of burial in l he Ewing cemetery. Pallbearers were Loyd Angus, Kermt Jeffries, Floyd Black, Arthur Ruroede, Clifford Hahl back and Roy Rotherham. Sing ers were Ed Hoag and Mr. and Mrs. Eben Grafft with Mrs. Wil bur Spangler, organist. Mrs. Ralnh Eacker and Mrs. Dewitt Hoke had charge of the [lowers. Mrs, Jessie Angus was in charge of the register. The youngest son of William and Catherine Pollock, Allan Rob inson Pollock was born on the Pollock family farm May 2S', 1894. He was reared in this lo cality. He was baptised in the United Presbyterian church and spent his entire lifetime in the Ewing community. On June 18, 1917, he was unit 'd in marriage with Anna Marie Anderson at Neligh. They became I he parents of two sons and four daughters Mr. Pollock farmed for a num ber of years but was forced to retire 25 years ago because of ill health. Survivors include: Widow — Anna; son—Donald of Neligh; daughters- Mrs. Melvin (Vivian) Gunter of Orchard; Mrs. Donald i (Deloris) Gassen of Anaheim, Calif.; Miss Eleanor of Omaha; Mrs. Donald (Dorothy) Kellner of O’Neill; six grandchildren; sisters Mrs. Amy Jacobsen of Ewing and Mrs. Rene Libby of Neligh; brother - David of Ew ing. He was preceded in death by his parents; one son, Thomas R., j who died in infancy, and by four brothers Edward, James, William and Ralph. Relatives and friends from Ne ligh, Clearwater, Orchard, Oma ha, O’Neill and Gordon attended the rites. Dinner and lunch were served to members of the family of the Women’s Society of Christian Ser vice. Pack Horse Falls on Woman Rider Mrs. M. B, Huffman, 38, the former Mary Brion of Ewing ant* tile wife of a Bassett baiifcej I uesday was seriously injured while on a pack horse trip near the continental divide in wester® Wyoming, high in the Rocky mountains. While making a steep incline at 9,500 ft, altitude at a point about -4 miles east of Pinedale, the anl mal and rider fell backwards. Th< horse landed on Mrs. Huffman and she may have suffered a crushed pelvis or broken hip. Also in the party were Mr. Huff man, Mi-, and Mrs. Richard Ed. wards of Ewing and two guide* from the Boulder Lake rancf where the couples were slaying Huffman traveled 13 miles U reach the ranch and telephoned for help. A Pinedale doctor late Tuesday went to the scene by pack horse to administer first a'i accompanied by Huffman. Huffman ordered a hclicoptei from Denver, Colo., to remove hit wife from the scene. The heli copter hovered over the injured woman at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning but the pilot, Hershey Young, said high winds and rough terrain made landing im possible. An air ambulance—a Cessna 310— was kept standing t>> at Pinedale to remove Mrs. Huff man to Denver for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards stayeo with Mrs. Huffman at the neat timberline mountain perch Tue# day night. The party had packer and equipped for an overnight trip. July temperatures at that altitude are cold. Huffman, in telephone conver sation with his brother, Stanley, a Ewing rancher, said an effort i* being made to “pack out" the in jured woman by litter with a dop^ tor at her side. Pinedale is about 160 miles west Mrs. Maude Brion and Richard Brion, mother and brother of the injured woman, were enroute tc Wyoming Wednesday night Mr. Huffman’s mother, Mrs, Zoe Huffman of Elgin, was a! Bassett with the Huffman’s two daughters. A 12-man litter party set oui from Pinedale at 11 o’clock We* nesday morning after the coptgr had given up attempts to land jg the vicinity of the stranded wom an. The litter party would bring her to the nearest point access ible to an auto ambulance. Efforts to drop medicine from planes were futile because of the terrain. Dr. Howard Smith of Pinedale also manages the airport and (Continued on page 6). William Dexter, 73, Dies at Amelia William Dexter, 73, a longtime resident of Holt county, died at his home south of Amelia We* nesday, July 16, following a loqf illness. Funeral services were held Sat urday, July 19, at the Method!* : hurch in Burwell with the pastor Rev. Hindman, officiating. “In the Garden” and *'Wher> the Roll Is Called Up Yonder'* was sung as a duet by Boniit Johnson and Marjorie Goff. Pallbearers were Freeman Row se, Lyle Worden, I>eonard Grave* Gordon Ballagh, Glen Taylor ajjd Glen White. Burial was in Bur well cemetery. William Dexter was born 7, 1885 at Clarks, and came to Hoi* county to homestead when t young man. He lived on the sauv farm near Amelia virtually all hi/ life. On June 20, 1918 he was united in marriage to Emma Burrell Four sons and three da ugh ten/ were born to this union. Mr. and Mrs. William Dexter celebrated their 40th wedding an niversary on June 29. He was preceded in death by one daughter. Survivors include: Widow — Emma; Sons — Raymond, Lee* ard, Roland and Donald; daugh ters - Mrs. Owen (Buelah) Moset of Amelia and Mrs. Robert (Opal) Kirkpatrick of Chadron; 15 gran* children; sisters — Buelah antf Jennie of Clarks.