North-Central Nebraska’s B-I-G-G-E-S-T Newspaper Volume 78._Number 38. O’Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, January 15, 1959. Seven Cents ft Flying Wrench Could Have Been Lethal Richard Burtwistle, jr., 33, returned Monday to his home south east of Chambers Pictured with his 18-months-old son, Richard III, he exhibits the forehead gash that sent him to a Sioux City hospital for eight days. Burtwistle was hurt when a wrench, which he was using in cranking a tractor on a subzero morning, flew through the air, striking him and cutting deeply into his forehead. He lost considerable blood. Fear was held his vision might be Impaired and his brain damaged. But he made a miraculous re covery. A disc will be placed in the opening at a later date. Mr. Burtwistle and his wife also have three daughters. Frontier Photo. Cronk Again Heads Holt Supervisors Sanford Born in j Original Colony Lifelong Resident Dies at 83 Eugene E. Sanford, 83, a life long resident of Holt county, died at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 13, at the rest home in Genoa. He was taken there a week prior to his death, having been living at the Fox hotel in O'Neill. Funeral services will be con ducted at 2 p.m. Friday, January 16, at the Methodist church in O' Neill with Rev. Glenn Kennicott officiating. Burial will be in Pros pect Hill cemetery under the di rection of Biglin’s. The remains will lie in state at Biglin’s funeral chapel from 7 un til 9 o’clock tonight (Thursday) and at the church from 11 a.m. Friday until the funeral hour. The late Mr. Sanford was born June 26. 1875, at O’Neill, the son of Eli and Catherine Bittney San ford He was a retired carpenter and had farmed for a few years before moving to town. On March 4. 1897, he was united in marriage to Abbie Riley at O’ Neill They became the parents of three children. He was preceded in death by his wife, who died June 9, 1943, four sisters and two bro thers. Survivors include: Daughter Mrs. Sylvia Jean Jones of Lin coln; sons Wesley E. of stock ton, Mo., and Melvin L. of Sac remento. Calif. Mr. Sanford was the last of sev en children. He was a member of the first colony of settlers who lo cated in the Elkhorn river valley several miles downstream from the present site of O’Neill. He may have been the oldest native-born son of this commun ity Auction Calendar The Frontier's auction calendar is the market place for north-cen tral Nebraska and south-central South Dakota. Monday, January 26: Money raising auction jointly sponsored by Storjohann Equipment Co. of Bunvell and Mayberry Motors of Bunvell: 35 near-new and used automobiles, 15 trucks, 32 new and used tractors, big line of farm and ranch machinery; sale to bo ; held at Bunvell; Ernie Weller and Dean Fleming, both of Atkinson, auctioneers. „ , Wednesday. January 28: Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fleming, who reside 1% miles north of O'Neill on U.S. high way 281, will sell livestock, ma chinery and feed at public auction; Col. Wallace O'Connell of O’Neill, auctioneer; Ed Murphy of O’Neill, clerk (Details in subsequent is sues), Wednesday, February 4: Frank Searles, now residing in Denver, Colo., will hold a public sale at his Holt county farm, located 234 miles west of O’Neill cemetery, or 1V4 miles west of Municipal airport; selling livestock, mach inery, feed; Col. Wallace 0 Con nell'of O'Neill, auctioneer. (De tails in subsequent issues). Saturday, February 7: Holt Countv Angus Breeders' associa tion sale. O'Neill Livestock Mar ket. „ _ . Saturday. February 28: Thirty eight registered Hereford bulls at auction, North-Central Nebraska Hereford association, annual spring sale; Col. Tug Phillips, Bassett, secretary-manager. Use Frontier WTant Ads! Frank Cronk of Page, veteran republican supervisor from .the Fourth district, Tuesday was elec ted chairman of the Holt board for for 1959. He succeeds Alex Frickel pf Atkinson, Seventh district re publican who was not a candidate for lelection. Eli McConnell, Atkinson, repub lican, was seated the only new member of the hoard. He suc ceeds Frickel as a board member. Cronk has been on the board 10 ^ears and has served six years as hairman. Composition of the 1959 board 'oltows; First district Edward N. Flood (D» of O'Neill; Second M. if. Landreth (I)> of Page; Third - Clarence Ernst (R) of O'Neill; Fourth Cronk; Fifth Harlan Cronk . . . again called upon. Dierking (R) of Amelia; Sixth Walter (Skip* Smith (R) of Stu art; Seventh Eli McConnell t R) of Atkinson. Cronk appointed Ernst as high way commissioner and Ernst, in turn, appointed each supervisor as commissioner for his own district. The Frontier and the Atkinson Graphic were designated to pub lish supervisors' proceedings; the Holt County Independent will pub lish legal notices. Lyle McKim of O'Neill was re hired as elegrader operator on the same wage base $1-50 per hour as paid in 1958. John L. Blair of O'Neill was rehired as janitor at the courthouse annex at $225 per month. Anton Weichman was again signed as bridge foreman at $1.30 per hour same rate as last year. Floyd Gettert of O'Neill was en gaged at $1.75 per hour, plus driv ing time one way. and $1.50 per day as timekeeper for trucks for the new year. Floyd Frahm was an unsuccessful applicant. Wage scale adopted is unchang ed except as indicated; Common bridge labor; $1.10 per hour: fore man of bridge workers, $1.30 per hour; truck drivers, tractor and grader operators, $1 to $1.10 per hour (previously 95 cents to $1.10); experienced operator or mechanic, $1.25 per hour for min imum wage of $200 per month dur ing December, January and Feb ruary'; tractor and operator. $3 per hour; tractor loader, $4 per hour; experienced drag line oper ator. $1.75 per hour; truck and driver. $3.50 per hour. The clerk was instructed to ad vertise for liability insurance on county-owned equipent. Bids will be opened February 27. Committees appointed: Welfare —Flood, chairman; courthouse Flood, Ernst, Landreth; finance— Dierking, Smith, Landreth: print ing Dierking. Smith. McConnell; bridge—McConnell. Landreth, Er nst; road- Dierking, Smith, Mc Connel; settlement of county of ficers Flood and entire board; claims—Dierking and entire board insurance — Landreth, Ernst. Flood; tax — Flood. Landreth, Ernst: bonds — Dierking, Smith. McConnell. Driver Dies as Pickup Hits Train ‘Bert’ Urban Is Killed Instantly Monday on Curve Near Bonestel Funeral services for Herbert Eugene Urban. 58, longtime Holt countyan who was killed late Mon ; day, January 12, in a pickup truck 1 train accident outside Bones tool, j S.D., will be conducted today j t Thursday l at 2 p.m. at Bethany Presbyterian church southeast of Chambers. Rev. John Hurt of O'Neill will officiate. Burial will be in Trussed cemetery under the direction of Biglin's. Pallbearers will be Omer Mc Clenahan, George Ruby, Leon Her 1 tel, Mark Gribble, Kenneth LaRue and Erwin LaRue. Herbert Eugene Urban, who had been employed by Dewey C. Schaf fer many years, had left a Bone steel restaurant Monday evening about 6 o’clock. Persons at the cafe said after he had eaten he visited briefly with others and announced he was going home. The road to the ranch is east of Bonesteel. A few minutes later about 6:45 p m a woman came into the cafe and said a train had struck a pick up. . Urban s vemcie nau smucnt-u into the side of a moving west bound Chicago & North Western freight train on a curve a half mile east of Bonesteel. The wreck age was carried about 30 feet. It was theorized lights of an other car might have blinded Ur ban, who had been living at the South Dakota ranch since 1956. The door of the pickup flew open and Urban was crushed by the door. He died instantly. He was born December 21, 1900, at Ewing, the son of Francis C. and Martha Porter Urban. Urban operated the first tractor owned by Schaffer, having been 1 in Schaffer’s employ intermittent ly for 35 years. He was married in 1933. His wife, the former Daisy Strong, died in a fire in 1937 when their son, Leon, was less than a ' year old. The fire topk place in the south part of O'Neill where the Urbans resided in a trailer house. The late Mr. Urban was affec tionately known as “Bert" and as “Gabby". For a time during the thirties he did painting and plast ering work at O’Neill. Survivors include: Sons Leon, who had been working near Mo bridge. S.D., and Arthur of Den ver, Colo.; sisters-Mrs. Frances Teske of Emmet, Mrs. Ida Lee of Redondo, Calif., and Miss Maude of Ewing; brothers- Frank (Bus ter) and Wilbur, both of Ewing. Founder of Butte Market Succumbs A. C. Hansen Suffers Long Illness BUTTE Andros Crist Hansen, 55, founder and operator of the Butte Livestock Market, died Fri day, January 9, in Sacred Heart hospital in Lynch. He had suffer ed an extended illness. Funeral services were conduct ed Monday, January 12, at 2 p.m. at Butte Community church by Rev. George Muzzey. Mrs. C. J. Tomek accompanied Mr. and Mrs Jack Roberts, who sang. The late Mr. Hansen was a mem ber of Gilead lodge 223, AF&AM, and was an active member of the Community club. Masonic rites were held at the Butte cemetery Burial was under the direction of the Raymer Mortuary in Butte. The late Mr. Hansen was born November 20, 1903, at Plainview, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Godber Hansen. His family moved to Na per in 1909 and then to Butte in 1919. where Mr. Hansen was grad uated from high school in 1923. On February 6, 1924, he was united in marriage to Leona Sieler of Butte at Council Bluffs, la.. They became the parents of four ennui t?ii. At one time Mr. Hansen was in the mercantile business with his father and later operated a meal market at Butte. In 1933 he found ed the Butte Livestock Market and | operated it until his death. He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters, one bro ther and one grandson. Survivors include: Widow Le ona; daughter—Mrs. William Kim ball of Fremont and Mrs. William Boswell of Omaha; sons -James and William of Butte; sisters— i Mrs. A. P. Andersen and Mrs. J j M. Abbenhaus, both of Butte, and 13 grandchildren. 150 Banquet Ducats Are Already Sold More than, 150 tickets already ! have been sold for the Frank Leahy homecoming banquet to be held Monday, January 26. The banquet is under the joint auspices of The Frontier and radio station KBRX. Tickets at $1.75 per person can be obtained by contacting either of the firms. This is tin* wreckage in which "Bert” Urban was killed Monday evening outside Bonesteel. His pickup truck crashed into the side of a moving freight train. The body had not been removed when this picture was taken.—Photo courtesy The Bonesteel Enterprise. Sanders, 141, grimaces after Butch Pofahl connected with KO punch. It W'as the briefest match on Monday night’s card here.— Details on page 4.—The Frontier Photo. Miss Kurtz . . . character, ac- ! adcniic promise, competitive.— O’Neill Photo Co. M iss Konnie Kurtz Regents’ Winner Miss Konnie Kurtz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kurtz, has been named regents’ scholarship winner at O’Neill high school. Alternates are Gerald Kaczor, Miss Elaine Krugman and Miss Betty Rodman. Regents’ scholarships are award ed in Nebraska high schools to sen ior students who rank in the upper one-fourth of their class, according to Principal Willard H. Solfermos er. Recipients must be of good character and academic promise and must attain high scores in competitive examinations. Winners are the high-ranking students—one from each school— ranked in descending order accord ing to their scores. O'Neill high was allowed a max imum of three alternates and three students earned alternates. Whenever a winner anywhere in the state notifies the University of Nebraska that he or she does not plan to use the award, the scholarship is given to the highest alternate in the state, Solfermoser explained. Father Who Knew Tragedies Dies Robert D. Kersch, 72, Rites Friday SPENCER Funeral services for Robert Daniel Kersch, 72. a long time resident, will lx? conducted al j 10 a m. Friday, January 16, at St. Mary’s Catholic church. Rev. Robert Steinhauser will of j ficiate. Burial will be in St. Mary’s j cemetery under the direction of the Jones funeral home. A rosary will be said tonight j (Thursday* at 8 o’clock at the ; church. Mr. Kersch died Wednes- J day, January 14, at his home fol- j lowing a long illness. The late Mr. Kersch was born June 5, 1886, at Milwaukee, Wise., the son of Jacob and Emma Gram ling Kersch. He lived at Madison from 1915 until 1919 and then mov- j ed to Spencer. On November 29, 1928, he was married to Maude S. Allen at Spencer. He has resided in Spenc er since. He was a painter and in terior decorator until four years ago when ill health forced him to retire. . . His oldest son, Danny, died in an auto accident four years ago. His youngest son, Robert, was crushed to death in a loader acci- i dent two years ago. Survivors include: Widow Maude; son-Rolland of Spencer; daughter Mrs. Walter (Loryaine* Houseman of Pickstown, S.D.; three brothers, four sisters and four grandchildren. House Numbering Now in Progress City employees are busily re numbering certain houses and bus iness places that have teen im- j properly numbered in the past and are extending numbers to ad dresses not previously tagged. Odd numbers are employed on the south and east frontals; even numbers on the north and west. Mayor D. C. Schaffer said with in a few weeks the city’s resi- I dences and business buildings will be completely numbered and ex tensive use of street addresses can be used in directories and mail ings. . The city council Tuesday night unanimously ordered the fire de- | partment to enable The Frontier and radio station KBRX to have direct access to fire information at the time the alarm is sounded. Heretofore that information has not teen given to these agencies by the telephone operators by vir tue of a fire department restric tion. The council also took another step towards retiring paving bonds in paving district 16. Leaving for Kansas— DORSEY — Mr. and Mrs. Lie Brady expect to leave Thursday | (today) to visit her sister at Ot- | tawa, Kans. ---- Calling Good Neighbors On the night of January 3 Alden Breiner and his four sons lost most of their personal ef fects in a devastating fire that destroyed the two-story dwelling in which they were living. Page and O’Neill rural fire men battled the stubborn blaze several hours in temperatures 16 to 20 degrees below zero. Some light furniture was car ried to safety from the first floor, but all of the contents of the three upstairs bedrooms were destroyed, also all of the appliances. The Breiners live 10 miles east of O’Neill and two miles north, or seven miles northwest of Page. The family consists of the father and four sons—Rus sell, 19; Phillip, 17; Lonnie, 16; and Leslie, 14. The Breiners’ neighbors have decided neighborliness is in or der (the family moved onto the 1 place last spring, having pre viously lived in Rock Falls township, north of O’Neill). A fund-drive is underway to help rehabilitate the family. No insurance was carried on the personal effects. Andrew Wettlaufer ot O’Neill has arranged for cash contribu tions for the Breiner family fund to he left at the O’Neill National Bank and First National Bank in O’Neill, and at the Page Co-op erative Credit association in Page. The Frontier, north-central Nebraska’s biggest newspaper, and Radio Station KBRX have been asked to pass the word. Be a good neighbor . . . help the Breiners! ' All contributions will be ac knowledged in subsequent issues of The Frontier and by KRRX. Saicf1 VVettlaufer: "Mr. Brein er raised his four sons alone . . . and he’s the kind of a fel low who doesn’t expect aid. His neighbors, however, have pretty definite ideas otherwise and want to help." New Conoco Station Slated for Ewing EWING — A fine new Conoco super service station will be erec ted on the site of the former Ew ing Co-Op. Creamery, is was an nounced this w-eek by Gail Bois, Conoco dealer here. The creamery building is being tom down and construction w-ill start soon. O’Neill National’s Surplus Increased Officers and directors of the O' Nt'ili National Bank in annual meeting Tuesday increased the surplus of the institution by 50 ihousand-dollars. Heretofore, the capital has been jO-thousand-dollars and the surplus 100-thousand-dollars, The new cap ital structure shows capital 50 ihousand-dollars (unchanged) and surplus 150-thousand-iioliars i in creased). Officers said; "The increased capital structure increases the maximum sum that the bank can loan any one borrower, thus im proving the bank's ability to take cure of the financial needs of the community". All officers and directors were reelected: F. N. Cronin, president; ,1. B. Grady, vice-president ; O I) French, cashier; Woodrow H. Melena, assistant cashier. Curtis Scolds FCC. on Booster Ruling Barrage of Protesting Letters Urged A barrage of letters is being forwarded to the federal commun ications commission and to mem bers of Nebraska's congressional delegation protesting the clamp down on TV boosters (or repeater) stations which have brought view ing to O'Neill, Atkinson, Ewing, Orchard, Spencer, Stuart, Bassett, Chambers, Neligh and other points. On December 31 the FCC ruled that boosters would have to fold. IT.S. Sen. Carl Curtis (R-Neb.) Tuesday filed a protest with FCC over the ruling outlawing the TV lxx>sters in the very high fre quency (standard) range. “This matter is of very grave concern,” Mr. Curtis said in a letter to FCC Chairman John C. Doorfer. “If your ruling stands it could mean the end of television for a great many people in Ne braska.” The FCC ruling is scheduled to take effect April 1. Mr. Curtis said his action was prompted by letters from Stuart, Neligh, Spencer, Wood Lake, Val entine and Ord. Meanwhile, Raymond Eby, pres ident of the Chamber of Com merce here, and J. F. Contois, chairman of the C of C TV com mittee. are urging O'Neillites to take pen in hand and scream. "The squeaking wheel gets the grease,’” Eby said. Meanwhile, the TV committee will investigate the application for a UHF license for a translator (or repeater) for a channel between 70 and 83 (most domestic receivers would need an adapter). At Neligh the Junior Chamber has closed down the VHF booster until the officials feel enough ad amant letters have been accumu lated for forwarding to Washing ton. When enough letters have been collected, the unauthorized booster will be turned back on. Logical persons to whom corres pondence should be directed: Sen. Carl Curtis or Sen. Roman Hruska, senate office building, Washing ton, D.C., or Rep. Donald MeGin ley, house office building, Wash ington, D.C., or simply the federal communications commission, Wash- ] ington, D.C. Plane Crash Fatal to Father of Five ATKINSON—An aircraft acci dent Tuesday claimed the life of Roger Huston of Clayton, Ind., son-in-law of Rev. and Mrs. Walt er Steinkamp of Atkinson. Huston was a pilot for a private firm and was flying the company owned plane at the time of his death. Details of the accident are not available here. Huston was the husband of the former Charlotte Steinkamp. He was the father of five children. The Steinkamps left immediate ly by car for Clayton. The Atkin son couple had spent the yuletide holidays with the Hustons and had returned to Atkinson Tuesday, Jan uary 6. The Hustons had moved recent ly from St. John, Mich., to Clay ton. Rev. W. B. Iximb of O’Neill will substitute at Wesleyan Meth odist church during Reverend Steinkamp's absence. Peterson . . . merchant here. Feed Store Owner Dies Sudd enly Heart Attack Fatal to George E. Peterson; Rites Held Moraiaj George E. Peterson, t*£», an O' Neill feed store operator, died al 7 a.m., Friday, January it, at hut home on Fast Douglas st. lie had suffered a heart attack prevjuun iy, I Kit had resumed working He complained of "not feeling well** the day preceding the fatal at taik. Funeral services were conduc ted at 2 p.m. Monday, January 11 at First Methodist church in C Neill Rev. Glenn Kennicott -pan tor, and Rev. Robert Fnituee, district superintendent, officiated. Grant Peacock sang "The l-ord's Prayer", accompanied on the or gan by Mis. R. R. Herley. Burial was in Prospect llill cemetery us» der the direction of Biglin's. Pallbearers were A. Neil I»aw«t. D. A. Baker, William Mclntodg Leigh Reynoldson, John C. Wao son und Louis Reimer, jr. Horse ary pallliearers were Lloyd '^is* son, R. L. Van Voorhis, Ralpk Young, louis Reimer, sr., Harden Anspach, Joe Bazelman, all al O' Neill; and H. A Van Horn of Page, and Paul Gertsch of Mon roe. Burn at Monroe George Elvin Peterson was brier November 4, 1893, at Monroe, flat son of Peter and Betty Pearson Peterson, tx>th natives of Sweden He grew to manhood in Nebraska On July 6, 1917, he was married to Gladys Gibbon at Columbus. They became the parents of four chil dren. Eor 23 years the couple made their home on a farm near Colum bus. They moved to a farm near Correctionville ,1a., where 1 hep lived for eight years. They retinae from the farm and in the spring of 1950 moved to O’Neill when they had built a new home. The late Mr. Peterson was a member of First Methodist churdi and had served on the church boa rd as well as on various com mittees and commissions. Four Children Survivors include? Widow - Gladys; son—George E. jr., <£ Genoa; daughters Mrs. J. F (June) McCarthy of Louisville^ Ky.; Mrs. Paul (Gloria) Egg*■ mann of Sherman, Tex.; and Mrs Don (Barbara) lluser of Sioui City; brothers Richard of Hnptfc City, S.D.; and Robert of Duehit, Ida.; sisters Mrs. Carrie Carntf of Houston, Tex.; Mrs. Ethel Har ris of Reseda, Calif.; Mrs. Minnie Taylor of Council Bluffs, la.; Mrs. Edna Saas of Elgin; Mrs. Vi Cur tis of Phoenix, Ariz.; Mrs. Gladyi Smith of Seattle, Wash., and Mita Alice Peterson of Central City; li grandchildren. Among mose auenumg ine jup eral from out-of-town were Mr* J. F. McCarthy of Louisville, Ky.; George Peterson, jr., and family of Genoa; Mrs. P. B. Eggimann of Sherman, Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Huser of Sioux City; Bernard Pearson, Harold Pearson and Mr and Mrs. Paul Gertsch, all of Moo roe; Dick Pearson, Mr. arid Mr* Lawrence Pearson, Mrs. Ray John son, Mr*, and Mrs. Wes Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pearsoe and Fred Pearson, all of Geonag Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sadler and Mr, and Mrs. A. B. Lehr of Correction ville, la.; Mrs. Minnie Taylor d Council Bluffs, la.; Mr. and Mr* Richard Peterson of Rapid Ct*&, S. D.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Peter son of Buehl, Ida. ; Miss Alice Prt crson of Grand Island; Mr and Mrs. Dali Sass of Elgin; Mt- and Mrs. Bob Schomberg, Mr. and Mrs. William Watkins and Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Rundell, all of Colum bus; Clarence Grape of Boonr Mr. and Mrs. Henry Faltz tM Platte Center, and Dewey Nerneta of Blair. Ewing Church Is Being Rebuilt EWING — United Prcsbyteria* church parishoners met Monday night at First Methodist ehurrt with a good sized rrowd in attenb ance. Progress on the work of r/*b»;Jib ing the church was reported by the building committee. The roof of the main unit and In sulation of the ceiling is weTl un derway. After some discussion, a was decided to enlarge the pulpit area and choir loft. An addition will be added to the south, making the choir and pulpit area 11x27 ft The foundation was layed Tuesday by members of the congregation and workers, who came from the Bethany church southwest of Ew ing. The congregation also ma* plans to enlarge the annex by e* tending it several feet to the eair, I providing more space for tte kitchen and a needed store room WEATHER SUVfMARY Hi Lb Jan. 8_39 3 Jan. 9 _48 11 Jan. 10__ 44 2! Jan. 11 __51 15 Jan. 12 __ 51 2J Jan. 13 _51 3ft Jan. 14_i_41 2f