• . • C SIXTEEN PAGES In This Issue "VOICE OF THE FRONTIER” mon. • wed. • sat. • Pages I -8 9:30 to 9:55 A. M North-Central Nebraska’s B-I-G-G-E-S-T Newspaper Volume 78 —Number 34. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebrasl i, Thursday, December 18, 1958. _Seven Cents RevelVs Arm Lost in Cornpicker Accident Mrs. lli‘rs!iiser . . . Kiiccumfos, Genevieve Hershiser Expires in Hospital Came to Holt from Dewitt in ’06 Funeral services for Mrs. Gen evieve (Jennie) Hershiser, 60, were conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 16, at First Presbyter ian church here. Rev. John Hart officiated. Burial was in Prospect Hill cem etery under the direction of Big lin's. Pallbearers were I). C. Schaffer, Walter Puckett, Robert Gartner, Clarence Ernst, Andy Clark and L. B. Price. The remains lay in state at Big lin's chapel from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and from 7 until 9 p.m., Tuesday, and at the church preceding the funeral hour. Mrs. Hershiser died early Sat urday, Deceml>er 13. in St. Anth ony's hospital, where she had been a patient for a day. She had submitted to surgery October 1 at a Sioux City hospital and had never regained her health. Hor mainen numr was u^h view Edna Ethel Wayman. hut she was known as Jennie. She was born October 21. 1897. at Dewitt, the daughter of Henry and Alvina Klepper Wayman. She came tc Holt county in 19015 from Dewitt. On March 4, 1922, she married Clyde Hershiser at O'Neill. Then became the parents of three chil dron. Mr. Hershiser and a brother, Ec of O’Neill, preceded her in death Mr. Hershiser died September 22 19-11. The late Mrs. Hershiser was £ member of First Presbyteriar church and Eden Rebekah Hxlge Survivors include; Daughters Mrs. Bennett (Irene > Heriford O'Neill: sons Floyd and Francis both of O'Neill: sisters Mrs. Eliz alieth Nickel. Mrs. Alma Schmohr Mrs Annie Ellingson and Hindi Wayman all of O'Neill; brothers Ben Roy. Harvey and Harry Way man all of O'Neill and Clarenc. of Boulder. Colo., and five grand ChAmong relatives from a distant attending the funeral were: Mr and Mrs. Clarence Wayman o Boulder. Colo.; Mrs. Reba Anfer son of Nora Springs. la., Waite Klepper, sr . Elmer Klepper an. Wralter Klepper. jr.. all of OaK dale Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weg man’ of Page and Mrs. Ann, Spence of Atkinson. State Position— Howard Manson was electe vice-president of the state assoc ation of the clerks of the distru held last week m Omaha, in past year he has served as seen tary-treasurer. VVhv not consider a gift sut section for THAT family th. Christmas? STAR Dale Revell, 38, well known northeastern Holt county farmer and Angus livestock breed er, entered a cornfield about 10:30 a m. Friday making an effort to clean up only 25 acres of dryland com yet to be picked. He began the round of a small field but encountered repeated dif liculty with the mechanical picker clogging up. He had not finished the first round when the machine jammed. Revell put his left foot on the clutch and turned around. With his right hand he attempted to clear the machine. The clutch pedal was covered with snow and ice. His foot slipped off the pedal and his hand went into the ma chine. He was trapped. When Revell failed to return to the house at noon for lunch, Mrs. Revell went to the field. She found him conscious and, mirac ulously, he had not lost much blood. * Revell directed his wife to the proper tools and told her how to losen off the mechanism to free him. . ,, She slopped off at A 1 b e r t Deriekson's for help and hurried her husband to St. Anthony's hos pital. In emergency surgery the arm was amputated midway be tween the wrist and elbow. Revell, the father of two sons 16- and eight-years-old, could smile when The Frontier photo grapher called. Revell said, It could have been worse”. Mr. Revell is still hospitalized but is recovering satisfactorily. The dryland corn is yielding 4. bushels per acre Revell said "better than last year". Loren Jons, 25, of Butte los ! part of his right arm in a similai accident October 18. His amputa j tion was also performed at St. An | thony’s hospital. Joseph M. Sladek Rites at Verdign VERDIGRE Funeral service : for Joseph M. Sladek, 85, Kno: county pioneer who died at hi; farm home seven miles south west of Verdigre Monday, Decern ber 15, were held at 2 o clocl Wednesday afternoon, Decembe 17, at the Sandoz chapel here. Rev. Charles J. Oborny, pusto of St. Wenceslaus Catholic church ! officiated. , Mr. Sladek is survived by on I daughter, Miss Mary Sladek c J Verdigre, and three sons, Jo$ep : and Thomas of Verdigre and Her ry of Norfolk. Biglin, 32, Submits to Eye Surger Joe Biglin. 32. well-known O Neill resident, submitted to ey surgery last Thursday in Clai 1 son hospital in Omaha. A tin ,1 muscle was removed from his le and fitted in the eye mechanisn • The muscle will enable Biglin left eye, closed for many yean I ! to be open. Surgery on the left eye was ne< ■ essitated because vision in th ■ right eye had deterioriated to on! - a fraction of normalcy. Santa Looking for Small Fry Saturda j St. Nick will be paying his ai nual Chamber of Commerce spoi sored visit to O'Neill Saturda: , | December 20. ... He will be flying into Mumcip ! airport directly from the Nori Pole. Gifts of goodies will be tran ferred from his jet plane into e I O'Neill fire truck. Santa expec ” to pull up at the O'Neill publ i school auditorium shortly after ? p.m. and hopes to greet hundra II of his young admirers;. Country C’lub Cancels— „ The O'Neill Counthy Club’s Ne s Year‘6 Eve party has been canc< led. » * 400 Attend 4-H Family Fun Night Young Gives Report of Belgium; Gillespie Tells of Conclave Miss Alice Young of O'Neill, for mer 4-H club member and 1958 in temational farm youth exchange I student, thrilled 410 4-H mmibers,; leaders, parents and friends with j her wonderful report of Belgum Monday evening at the annual 4-H fun night She showed colored slides that she had taken during her five months stay. She shared j in the work and pleasures of the farm families in whose homes she lived. Miss Young stated that she felt the youth exchange program “can do much to promote understandng and help prevent wars.” Following the pictures, Gary Gillespie gave a report of the ac tivities he enjoyed at national club congress in Chicago. 111., last week > as state electric champion. Awards were presented by the awards committee. Holt county was outstanding this year in elec tric. having a state champion - Gary state champion leared. Boh Martens; and state champon elec tric club, Willing Workers of O Nel! Bennett Gillespie is the club leader The club was presented a plaque by the Nebraska electric farmer and Boh Martens received an electric drill. The evening also included com munity singing led hy Mrs. Grant Peacock of O'Neill and Mrs. Fred Roberts of Atkinson. The Holt county rural youth group gave candy treats to all present. The following is a list of awards Achievement — Bob Beelaert, Eagle Hustlers: Gary' Flc|b Vlc" torv Boys and Girls; Larry Dawes, ; Willing Workers; James Mellor, Clover Club. , Beautification of home grounds I —Kathrvn Thiele. Pleasant Brook; Janet Funk. Pleasant Brook; Don * na Wright, Pleasant Brook. Boy’s agriculture — Perry Daw es, Willing Workers; Gary Fick_ Victory Boys and Girls Vanen Hansen. Victory Boys and Girls. Clothing—Marlene Beck. CHov er Club: Faye Scheer, Happy Hol low; Doris Smith, Cleveland. Dairv achievement — Jimoug, Clover Club; Margie Gilg, Clover Club; Kent Stauffer, Eagle Hust lers, Randall Stauffer, Eagle Hus t^Dairy foods- Karen Farrier, Sil ver Star Sisters. „ . Food preparation -Sharon Moel ler Clover Club; Margie Gilg, Clover Club; Dianne Gillespie, Willing Workers; Mildred Schmitz, UPForedshtyI-Gary Fick, Victory 1,1 Garden ^ick Hammerlun, Up and At It; Vincent Ernst. Eagle Creek; Larry Judge. Clover Club. Meat animal — Marlene Beck, j C1p• The American Legion is holding s its annual Christmas party, start ing at 7 p.m.. Friday, December 19. at the Legion auditorium, for '• Legionaires and their children. 0 Each boy is to bring a 25 cent >' gift for a boy and each girl is to bring a 25 cent gift for a girl. Santa Claus will be present with treats. . , ... A movie will be shown and gifts y will be exchanged. RETl'RN TO (X>I/ORADO Mrs. Paul S. Elam and Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. Halva and daugh ters, Kathleen and Karen, left re i) cent’ly for their home at Denver, h Colo., after spending some time in =. O'Neill attending the funeral ol n Mrs. Elam and Fred Halvas s father, Victor Halva, Monday, De c cember 8. 2 --— [s Hold Christmas Party Saturday Night— The Kansas-Nebraska Gas com pany had its airistmas party Sat urday night with dinner at the w Town House. They went to the 1- home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Curran for cards afterwards. Four H’ers and leaders . . . they won honors at Monday's fun night event.—The Frontier Photo. Clark, Jllg, Wanser . . . new jackets for St. Mary’s boys’ trio to be heard tonight (Thursday). Story below.—The Frontier Photo by Sharon Hancock. ‘Singing Jackets’ to Be Shown 1 onite A toys’ trio sporting new "sing- j ing jackets” will be featured to- | night (Thursday) in Christmas on- ! tertainment planned at St. Mary’s - academy. The program will begin at 7:2(i p.m. Members of the trio nre Ronald Clark, Gene Jilg, and Larry Wan-j ser. The program will include selec- ; tions by the girls' glee club, boys' l choir, mixed chorus and a nurn- ! her of smaller ensembles. Climax will be the presentation of a one act play entitled, "Bright Star". The public is invited. Winkler Taken to I Lynch Hospital EMMET—Edward Winkler, tav ern owner here, was admitted to Sacred Heart hospital at Lynch at 2 a.m. Wednesday. He was riding in a pickup truck that figured in an accident six miles north of Lynch. Winkler was taken to the hospital by am bulance. He suffered mainly from I bruises and was not serious 1 \ I hurt. James Earley of O’Neill, one of a party of hunlers, summoned the j ambulance. The group had been , to the Missouri river. Louis Beran, 82, Dies at Verdigre VERDIGRE Louis Beran, 82, who was bom at Verdigre. died Wednesday morning, December 10 in a rest home at Coleridge 'where he had lived two^years. Mr. Beran is survived by his wife Louise; one daughter, Miss Rose Beran of Chicago, 111., gind one son, Paul, of Sioux City. Funeral services were held at St. Wenceslaus Catholic church here. ... . . Rev. Charles J. Obomy officiat ed. Mrs. Bright Honored by Coffee Club— The Wednesday morning Coffee club met Wednesday at the Archie Bright home honoring Mrs. Bright on her birthday anniversary. A Christmas gift exchange followed the coffee hour. Mrs. Bright was also presented a birthday gift. Guests beside the club members included Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Hovey, Mrs. Lizzie Driscoll, all of Stuart, Mrs. Louis Niles, Mrs. Ar dell Bright, Timmy and Tommy of Orchard, and Mrs. Darel Bright and Janice of Atkinson. Why not consider a gift sub scription for THAT family this Christmas? * » * . » , Junior Stock Growers Meet at Alliance— Jerry Adamson of Nenzel, pres ident of the Nebraska Junior Stock Growers, has announced the date of the annual Giristmas vacation get-together Saturday, December 20. Junior stockmen will gather at the Nebraska Stock Growers building in Alliance at 1:30 p.m. An importent item on the schedule of business will be a discussion of attendance at the National Junior Cattlemen's convention at Omaha January 15-17. Omitting Intangibles Costly to Firm BUTTE The Anoka-Butte Lum ber company of Anoka, a corpor ation, has been found guilty of omitting intangible class “A” pro perty from its assessment sched ules for the past four years. Official notice of the findings ol the state tax commissioner and the order for local officials to lisl the shortages with penalty Mon day was in the hand of Boyd coun ty officials. The firm must pay a penalty ol 511,152.78. The MN Bridge club met wit! Mrs. Harold Lindberg Tuesday night at her home for the ex changing of gifts following e Christmas dinner at the Towr House. Former Resident of Ewing Expires Ira Napier Veteran of World War I EWING Ira Napier of Tilden died at the Veterans hospital in Grand Island Monday, December 15, of a heart attack. He was a veteran of World War I, having served in the First division which participated in heavy fighting. Mr. Napier was a former resident of Ewing. Funeral services will be held Monday, December 22, at 2 p.m.. at First Methodist church in Ew ing. Dr. William H. Ross, pastor of United Presbyterian church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Ewing cemetery. The body will lie in state at the church from 11 a.m. Monday until the funeral hour. Survivors include: Wife; two daughters and a son. jM rs. Carl 7 ienken Heads Boyd Council jBUTTE New officers of the Boyd county home extension club council had charge of the meeting Wednesday afternoon, December 10, at the courthouse. They are: Mrs, Carl Tienken of 1 Naper, president; Mrs. Harold Micanek of Lynch, vice-president; Mrs. B. Johnson of Bristow, secre tary; Mrs. Vernon Johnson of Bris tow, treasurer, and Mrs. Leland j Moody of Lynch, past chairman. Tentative dates were set for ihe j spring, summer, fall and winter meeting in 1959. Goals for next year also were established. County Agent Ronald Gustafson I met with the council, which is I composed of all club presidents in I the county and the officers. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Kruse spent I Saturday in Norfolk. They brought | home Miss Rita Waller, who spent the weekend with her parents, the W. W. Wallers, and Miss Pat Hal beck of Ewing. Mr. and Mrs Kruse will leave Saturday foi Perry, la., where they will visit their daughter and family, Mr and Mrs. “Ike” Van Every anc 'sons. They will spend Christmas at Swea City, la., with Mrs Kruse's mother and other rela fives. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Patrick o! Fruit land, Ida., visited from Tues day to Thursday, December 9-11 with Mr. and Mrs. Lyle McKim Mr. Patrick is Mrs. McKim': uncle. Merry Mix held its annua Christmas party Wedesday after noon at the home of Mrs. H. L Lindberg. Lancer L necked But Voice Lost Harlow Schwisow returned last week from an Omaha hospital where he had submitted to surg ery for removal of a throat can cer. The surgery was a success and the cancer was arrested. However, Schwisow, who lives near O'Neill, has lost his voice \VK VTIIKK SUMMARY December 11 — — 29 12 .05 December 12 10 -5 December 13 20 -10 December 14 _ 15 -13 December 15 — 38 0 December 16 49 26 Decemlier 17 51 21 hi lo pr. ‘Firm Date’ for Leahy Banquet Tickets Go on Sale at Frontier, KBRX An attack of laryngitis, moving front Indiana to Colorado, holiday hub-hub and the malter of doing the color portion of the North South football game at Miami. Fla., coming up December 26, have caused Frank Leahy to post pone "his O'Neill homecoming. The visit by the former Notre Dame football coaching great had been tentatively scheduled for Thursday, December 18. While househunting Friday in Denver, preparatory to moving his wife, their eight children and his office from Michigan City, Ind., Leahy worked out a new date for the d'Neill visit by telephone with The Frontier and radio station KllRX, jointly sponsoring the Leahy homecoming banquet. The new date is Monday, Jan uary 26. The banquet will be serv ed in the American Legion audi torium. Leahy promised that Jan uary 26 is a "firm date”. He will spend several days here. Tickets are now on sale at The Frontier office or at KBRX stu dios. Cash, check or money order for $1.75 per person may be for warded and tickets will lie mailed. Checks may be made payable to the "Leahy Banquet”. Leahy is regarded as one of sportsdom’s all-time greats. He is a fine public speaker, personable and many O'Neillites remember the Leahy family. Frank left here when he was a lad. He was horn at the corner of Third and Clay sts., in a dwelling now occupied by Herbert Kaiser. Hard Luck Plagues Laursen Youth Shotgun Blast Sends Him to Hospital Richard (Dick) Laursen, 16, ,! son of Mr. and Mrs, Virgil L. Laursen, was the victim of a gun shot accident Sunday while hunt ing in the vacinity of the Missouri | river. The accidental discharge of a 16 j gauge shotgun penetrated his left 1 hand. His father and companions, who , were with him, rushed him to , Sacred Heart hospital in Lynch | for emergency treatment. Mr. laursen had applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. An hour was spent removing the shot from two fingers and the thumb of his hand. He was transferred to St. Vin cent’s hospital in Sioux City, where he underwent surgery Tues day to sew the muscles together. it is expected the injured two fingers and thumb will be saved - His parents are with him. Young Laursen was hurt a yeai and a half ago while high jumping at the practice field of O'Neil high school. He suffered a bad lef fracture. I Last summer an operation was performed on his other leg, de signed to make his legs the sam< length. Willing Workers, state champions in electrification (left to right): Gary Gillespie, Kenneth Pet cock, Larry Dawes, Perry Dawes, Bennett Gillespie (club leader) and Oounty Agent A. Nell Dawe Y ule Buying Sets Record High Here Most Stores Report Retail Sales Well Above Last Year With only six shopping days re tnaining before Christmas ami with 11 business days remaining in the year, many O’Neill stores are well above last year in sales. Crowds have surged the streets each day since early this month and retailers are reporting all time record yule buying. Most of the merchants amici pated the splurge and inventories are good. In one recent week, department store sales for Nebraska sho! up 18 percent over a year ago. ac cording to Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo., figures The unprecedented buying ac tivity is a reflection of the farm prosperity that has b e e n gath ering momentum in O’Neill’s trade territory in recent months. 1 >epartment of agriculture re ports show Nebraska farmers col lected LtX) million dollars more from crop and livestock sales in tlie first tiiree quarters of 1958 than 1957. This represents a 31 percent increase. Series of Accidents Blamed on Streets A series of minor accidents hap pened on the streets last weekend due, mainly to ice. On Thursday, December 11, cars driven by Floyd Belik of Page and Earl Kifer were in col lision between Douglas and Ever ett on Third st. A small amount of damage resulted. On Friday, December 12, at the corner of Sixth and Clay, street. Perry M. Dawes and Vera D. Wil cox of Mills collided with their ma chines. Only small damage re sulted. Cars driven by Norbert Puhal la of Sternauor and Dorothy Graves met at the intersection of Madison and Everett. Only minor damage resulted. Police Chief Chris McGinn in vestigated all accidents. Miesnor Killed by Highway Machine • Funeral services were held Tues day at Denver, Colo., for Eldon Miesnor, 27, of Denver, Colo. He was killed instantly Monday when a state maintainor w i t h snow plow rolled over a 75-foot embank ment neat Denver. He was crushed beneath it and it took members of the state crew I two hours to get him from under i it. He was a veteran of the Korean | war. Survivors include: Widow The I former Bernice Hansen, daughter ! of the late John Hansen of O’ Neill: and three children. Relatives here are Mrs Mies nor's stepmother, Mrs. Sarah Han sen, and several other relatives living in and around O'Neill Atkinson Postoffice Bids Remain Open ATKINSON Postmaster A. G. Miller said he has been advised by regional officials at Wichita. Kans., that the postoffice depart ment is still asking for bids to build and lease to the department the new postoffice for Atkinson. Notice for bids was posted No vember 5 and will remain open un til January 5, 1959. “This proposed new building will replace existing facilities and ’ will provide expanded postal ser vice for this growing, progressive community,” Miller said. Mrs. McKamy Is OES Worthy Matron Symphony chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star elected offic ers Thursday night, as follows^ Mrs. Donald McKamy, worthy matron; Larry Schaffer, worthy patron; Mrs. Gail Dierberger as sociate matron; Gail DierbergeT, associate patron; Mrs. A1 Carroll, conductress; Mrs. Georgia iHum bert, associate conductress; Mrs. John Osenbaugh, secretary, and Mrs. Carrie McMahon, treasurer. Lunch was served, with the Christmas theme used in table ap pointments. Give Brucellosis Program Views The Nebraska Stock Growers as sociation earlier this month clar ified and reaffirmed its position on the brucellosis program in Ne braska. According to Association Secre tary Robert Howard of Alliance, members of the organization’s ex ecutive council and advisory board voted to endorse and recommend official calfhood vaccination, to op pose compulsory bleeding, and to strive to acquire a certified range ■' area through official calfhood vao *• cination.