Meal-Serving Enables $100 WSCS Profit PAGE Reports were heard on the midwinter Methodist youth fel lowslup institute and the school of missions Thursday, January 15, when memliers of the Women's Soce'y for Christian Service met in an all-day session which includ ed noon refreshments. Mrs Merwyn French reported on the institute. A profit erf one taundred-dollars was realized from the meals served by the mothers and WSCS members. Mrs. J. W. Finch, jr., told of the school of missions in progress Sun day evenings during January. Sunday's topic was "Alaska ”, Mrs W. Ir! Todd told of highlights of the years she spent with her fam ily in Alaska. The study will con clude Sunday, January 25, with "Hawaii" as the topic. Mrs. Norman Saltz led the les sons on religions Islam, Hindu ism and Buddhism. Mrs. William Ragland spoke on the status of women Mrs. Elmer Trowbridge told of matters [lending in the 83d congress. Purchase of new dishes was discussed. Extension dub la All Day Meeting — PAGE Members of the Page Extension club entertained their husbands in an all-day meeting at the home of Mrs. !L S. Harper Tuesday. A no-host dinner was served at noon. The men attended the township election in town after dinner anil the ladies held their January meeting. Roll call was answered with a story or an article they had read. A lively discussion followed some of the thought - provoking ar ticles. A donation was voted for the march of dimes drive now in progress. Mrs. Raymond Heiss will be the hostess for the meet rig February 17. Hereford & Polled Hereford SHOW & SALE SHOW: 9 A.M. SALE: 12:30 P.M. Monday, Jan, 26 NORFOIJt, NEBR. 49 — Head — 49 Bulls and Heifers CHALMER T. WILKERSON Sale Manager Coleridge, Nebr. CHARLES COKKLE. Auctioneer Herd Bulls - Farm Bull - Ranch Bulls O'Neill Market Is Nationally Credited Receiving an appropriate cer tificate this week denoting it a "nationally certified livestock aue- j tion market" was O'Neill Live- 1 stock Market. "Nationally Certified" designa tion is awarded qualifying live- | stock auction markets by the Na tional Association of livestock ; Auction Markets on the basis of | operations and services conducted ; according to the national code of j business standards. The code is j the industry's own standards of j market services and operations as j public livestock markets. The certificate as issued carries the name of the market and a cer tification by the chairman of the Association's livestock market council that the market has been found to meet the standards set forth in 17 operating principles condensed from the code. It is al so signed by the market owner. As such it constitutes a mutual pledge to the livestock public, con signors and buyers alike, of con tinuing high standards of market services and responsibility. The National Association of Live stock Auction Markets is the na tional business trade association of the livestock auction markets industry, composed of more than 2,300 independent auction markets in 48 states. Its administrative of fices are in Kansas City, Mo. All livestock markets in inter state commerce are now subject to the registration, bonding and fair trade practice provisions of the federal Packers & Stockyards Act as amended by congress last Sep tember. Vem and Leigh Reynoldson are owners-managers. O’Neill News Mrs. Rosa Bowers spent from Thursday, January 15, until Sat urday at the Marion Woidneek home at Midway. Saturday dinner guests of Mrs. Rosa Bowers were Mrs. Howard Miller and two sons and daughter of Spencer and Mrs. Marion Woid neck and two daughters of Mid way. Afternoon guests were Mrs. Jerome Prokop and daughter, Car ol, of Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Chris McGinn had as Sunday dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Albert McDonald and Kath leen and Miss Jan Micanek, all of Lynch. Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Minnie Higgins were Mrs. Dorothy Anderson, Mrs. Mina Evans, Mrs. Hazel Martin and Mrs. Tom Bro derson, all of Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kaiser drove to Norfolk Sunday to meet their son, Ivan, who had received his discharge from service at Ft. Lewis, Wash., and returned home. Ivan plans to enter Wayne state teacher’s college Monday. 1 500-700 Cattle Expected t - --r~B«Sr7- zammmssama We are planning for 500 to 700 head of feeder cattle todaj (Thursday) provided weather conditions do not cause a worsen ing of road condition*. There’ll be 44 head of yearlng steers from O’Neill; 4fi Here ford cows, heavy sprngers, some with calves at side; 35 head of steer calves; SO head of black and black-whiteface yearling cattle from Bristow; *2 roan heifer calves; 22 mixed yearlings from Atkinson; and numerous other consignments ranging from five to 25 head. Buyers will find a lot of good steer and heifer calves on this sale. Hog sale starts at 12 noon. O’NEILL LIVESTOCK MARKET phonf: s Vern * Leigh Reynoldson HERE’S a 1959 foramU for fun.f During those seemingly end lees winter months invite the new 'neighbors into your home for a '/‘get acquainted'' evening. Part of your fun will come from good food part from casual conversation around the fireplace. Keep supper simple so yon have Brae to “visit”. Individual frozen moat pies . .. piping hot from the oven . . . can be carried to the table In their own aluminum con tainers. With a choice of beef. Chicken, or turkey ... all baked at the same oven temperature for 40 minutes . . . each guest is free to make his favorite Rejection. ^The first forkful will reveal mething different in flavor be ,u«e there’s a “surprise In the r®le” . . . burgundy in the beef, sherry in the chicken and turkey plea. The method Is this: Party Meat Pies About 10 minutes before baking time is up, remove pies from oven. With sharp knife cut a hole In pastry about 114 inches in diame ter. Remove pastry. To each beef pie. add 1 teaspoon burgundy. To each chicken or turkey pie. add 1 teaspoon sherry If necessary, push aside some of the filling so wine will seep through. Replace pastry. Return to oven; continue baking 10 minutes or until crust around opening is browned. Plan the rest of the menu on the same simple theme. Most peo ple enjoy salad or something crunchy to nibble on . . . like celery, carrot sticks, or other vegetable relishes. For dessert try this easy colorful recipe: Minted Apricots Chill 1 can (1 pound IS ounces) unpeeled apricot halves. Spoon into serving dishes. Partially whip cup heavy cream. Add 2 table spoons mint jelly; continue whip ping until soft peaks form. Top apricots with cream. Makes 4 or i 5 servings. Page Pulls\Upset of Year on St. Mary's O'Neill, Page, Inman and Ewing are semifinalists in the 22d annual Holt county basketball tournament in progress here this week. Semifinals will be played tonight (Thursday > with Inman Tigers facing Ewing Tigers at 7 o’clock, and O’Neill high Eagles attempting to subdue the upset-minded Page Eagles at 8:30. Finals will tie played Friday night with third place playoff at 7 All games are being played at the O'Neill high rink. Monday’s Games Ewing 12: Chambers 24 Coach Tom Hutton’s Ewing Tig ers turned in a surprising show of strength in Monday night’s Holt county cage tourney opener, de feating Coach Wayne Geserich’s Chambers Coyotes, 42-24 Ewing clamped a tight defense on the Coyotes who were haying | miserable luck from the field. Chambers hit only five fielders in a bushel of tries. Ewing led all the way. Chambers hit 14 of 27 free throws and Ewing cashed only 16 out of 35. Boxscore: Chambers (24) fg ft pf pts Klabenes 2 7 1 11 Lisewald__10 4 2 Swanson 0 4 4 4 Cavanaugh _ 0 0 10 Grimes 0 0 4 0 Adams 0 2 2 2 Elkins 2 0 14 Fleck 0 0 2 0 Wintermote _ 0 0 0 0 Garter 0 1 2 1 j TOTALS _ 5 14 21 24' Ewing (42) fg ft pf pts Bill Bauer_ 0 0 0 0 Ron Brion__ 0 0 3 0 Parks ___12 5 4 Hahlbeck 3 0 4 6 Cloyd 0 0 0 0 Rotherham 5 8 4 18 J. Hal beck 0 0 0 0 Larson 0 0 0 0 j Tams 0 0 1 0| Eacker ___ 2 12 5 Thoendel 0212 Wright _ 0 0 1 0i TOTALS _. _ 13 16 24 42 Page 43; St. Mary’s 39 It was a David-and-Goliath act in Monday’s almost incredible nightcap which saw the smaller, thinly-ranked Page Eagles rise to new heights and polish off the pre toumey favorites—the St. Mary’s academy Cardinals. Page won 45 39. St. Mary’s, having lost only one game this season (to Spalding) was ticketed to go the route and add the 1959 Holt cage crown to its state eight-man grid championship. But the Eagles from down Page way, pepped by a large and loyal following, took a different view. Early the game see-sawed and the Eagles finally got the idea the Cards were not invincible Page led 26-20 at halftime and 31-27 at the end of the third. The Cards couldn’t do much correctly although Larry Tomlinson mesh ed 18. Clair Parks potted 19 for Page: Dennis Kemper, 14. Redheaded Ralph Simmons, a transfer from California eligible for varsity play for the first time, aided Page. Boxscore: SMA (39) fg ft pf pts Belina 12 3 4 Kamphaus 0 0 0 0 Donohoe _ 0 0 2 0 Mudloff _ 3 4 2 9 Gokie ___ 0 0 0 0 Tomlinson 5 8 4 18 Cleary ,_0 15 0 Stevens . 0 15 0 Holly 0 15 1 Schneider _ 3 13 7 Hynes 0 0 0 0 Spitzenberger 0 0 0 0 TOTALS _ 12 33 24 39 Page (43) fg ft pf pts Kemper _ 6 2 5 14 Cork 10 0 2 Cronk ..0 4 14 Nissen 0 3 2 3 Simmons . 0 14 1 C. Parks _ 4 11 4 19 R. Parks..... 0 2 3 2 TOTALS _ 10 23 19 45 O Neill 54; Stuart 47 It was a mild sort of an upset in Monday’s second game as the O’Neill high Eagles ousted the strong Stuart Broncos, 54-47. Stu art started strong and finished strong but in-between the Blues built a 14-point lead. Stuart led 12-9 at the first quar ter and O’Neill moved ahead 22-19 at halftime. O’Neill owned a 43-29 bulge at the end of the third. Jim Larson, Larry Oetter and Larry Donlin collaborated for 42 points for O'Neill. The Eagles an nexed 14 of 23 gratis tries; Stuart had a better percentage—19 for 29. Boxscore; O’Neill (54) fg ft pf pts Bill Eby_0 10 0 Larson _10 5 2 Bob Eby __ 8 0 2 16 Ermer 0 111 Otter ____ 4 6 4 14 Donlin _ 5 2 4 12 Kurtz*_13 2 5 Smith_12 14 TOTALS .. 20 14 19 54 Stuart (47) fg ft pf pts Bauman ___ 2 7 5 11 | Clements_ 0 2 0 5 I Heyne _ 4 4 4 15 I Bigelow _3 2 1 f Taylor _ _ 10 3 5 Schmaderer __ 4 4 4 15 _ TOTALS _ 14 19 17 4’ Tuesday’s Games Inman 57; Atkinson 48 Coach Bill Miller’s Inman higl Tigers made it 15 wins comparec | to only two losses thus far this sea son as they bounced the Atkinsoi Balers, 57-48, in Tuesday’s curtain raiser. It was a sweet ballhawk name< Dick Appleby who paced the wii for the Tigers. Appleby hooked 1 points and setup plenty of other with outstanding floor play. Ken Prussa, Atkinson long fel i low, tallied 15 for the losers. Th .'i>unt was knotted 11-ail at the end : jf the first and Inman moved ahead i 15-25, at intermission. Inman ap peared safely in front, 47-31, at the end of the third. The Tigers have been in over time situations five times this sea son and each occasion pulled out a win. The Tigers' clutch play might factor in Thursday and Fri day hurdles Boxscore: Inman (57) fg ft pf P*« Appleby -6 4 1 16 Cunningham -.- 10 2 2 Ruther - 4 5 3 13 Gaugenbnugh-10 4 2 Smith 3 2 18 Sobotka -8 0 1 16 TOTALS_ 23 11 12 57 Atldnson (48) fg ft pf pts Dobias 2 3 3 7 Funk f 4 212 Winnings-1- 5 0 5 10 Prussa _6 *3 1 15 Andrus -10 4 2 Metcalf --... 10 0 2 TOTALS_19 10 15 48 Ewing 43: St. Joe 34 Coach Mick McKay's St. Joe Bluejays of Atkinson, one of the seeded teams, fell by the wayside in their first showing of the 1959 classic. They were hit, 43-34, by the Ewing Tigers, who were mak ing their second victorious appear ance (the only team to play on two successive nights). Til now the Tigers are the sur prise team of the meet. Harold Parks, w'ho learned his fundamen tals at O’Neill and transferred to Ewing last year, racked up 22 points for Hutton’s crew. Tom Schaaf, Josie mainstay, potted 15. The Jays wilted in the final per iod when Mr. Parks was meshing * ’em. The score was deadlocked, 7-7, at the quarter; Ewing led 21 19 at halftime and stayed in front. 30-29, at the end of the third Sta tistics were about even—except for pesky Mr. Parks. Boxscore: Ewing (43) rg it pi pis Parks _;_ 7 8 4 22 Hahli>eck _ 2 4 3 8 Cloyd _.. 0 0 4 0 Rotherham_ 0 2 4 2 J. Hahlbeck __ 112 3 Eacker 3218 TOTALS _ 13 17 18 43 St. Joe (34) fg ft pf pts Faust _ 3 0 5 6 Henning 4 13 9 Humpal 1 1 2W3 Penry _ 0 1 "1 Schaaf _ 4 7 2 15 TOTALS 12 10 17 34 Brade Warnemunde and Bob Dit man, both of Winside, are tourney officials. Chambers Downs Page in Thriller CHAMBERS—Coach Wayne Ge siriech’s Chambers high Coyotes eked out a 41-40 win over the visit ing Page Eagles here Friday night. Jim Cavanaugh paced the Coy otes with 10 points -registered four fielders and two gratis flips. Den nis Cork was best for Page with 16—four fielders and eight free throws. Chambers led 32-22 at halftime. The Eagles’ second-half assault was cut short by the final gun. The Coyotes, having won one (over Page) and lost six will trav el to Inman next Tuesday night. Geserich concedes he’ll have to build a lx>nfire to stay in the game with Bill Miller's Tigers. Ainsworth in Seeded Spot in NCNC Meet, AINSWORTH—Top-seeded team in the North Central Nebraska tournament here starting February 2 is Ainsworth, the league leader. Ainsworth will meet the Long Pine-Wood Lake winner on the second day. Another first-day game sends Bassett against At kinson. The Springview-Stuart clash rounds out opening pairings. Combelt Tourney Starts Next Week In basketball play next week: Tuesday—O’Neill high travels to Ainsworth: Atkinson will entertain Bassett: Chambers goes to Inman; Butte will host Fairfax. Clearwater, Ewing and Meadow Grove will be involved in Combelt conference tourney play January 26-30 at Madison. Dick Appleby (33) tries a pushshot for Inman in Tuesday night play against Atkinson high. Appleby turned in a great performance and Inman won, 57-48, gaining the semifinals. --————— 1 Ewing’s Gary Eaoker (23) competes wth Bob Henning of At kinson St. Joe. Three Josies bring up rear in this Tuesday night clash, won by Ewing, 43-34. lit lo prec. Jan. 15 29 3 Jan. 16 _ 17 -7 Jan 17 _ 29 1 Jan. 18 _ 50 8 T Jan. 19 38 16 Jan. 20 . 3 -1 * Jan. 21 _ 5 -13 *6M: inches of snow on ground. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bazelman entertained the following guests in their home over the weekend: Fri day evening Sam Edwards of Te kamah, Saturday Miss Eunice Van Horn from Mt. Marty college at Yankton, S.D., and dinner guests Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Reed of Orchard. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Roth ] child of Atkinson visited their dau ghter, Mrs. Dick ^Tomlinson last I Thursday. Shorty II Encounters Tough Competition PAGE—Bob Beelaert’s Shorty II, grand champion baby beew at the 1958 Holt county fair and a high ranker in the Ak-Sar-Ben live stock show in Omaha, placed 13th in a fast class of 70 entries at the National Western Livestock show this week at Denver, Colo. Out of the same class came the grand champion over all breeds and the grand champion Angus. Beelaert expects to send Shorty II to the auction block Friday at Denver. EWING—Robert (Bob) Pruden was dismissed Friday [raJn, s'; Anthony’s hospital. He had been :- n CONDENSED BUTTERMILK QUALITY - MADE BY HARDINGS ! ... is a natural food for HOGS, POULTRY, TURKEYS! Available for immediate delivery in 5-gal. containers and 400 Lb. Drums Made from pure creamery buttermilk with nothing removed but the moisture. Ex perienced hog and poultry raisers knowr there is no supplement that can provide the high quality protein and other food elements that nature has put in butt* rtnilk. Here is a feed that is unrivaled in economy and in RESULTS ! Manufactured by — HARDING CREAM O’NEIILL—PHONE 84 Available at our O’Neill plant and at our dealers 5 throughout the area! 4 O’Neill Boxers in Norfolk Tourney Four O’Neill boxers head the early entry list for the northeast Nebraska golden gloves tourney at Norfolk Wednesday, January 28, a one-night affair. Only the first four entries in each class can l>e accepted, according to Director Dave Lesser of Norfolk. The O'Neill entries, sponsored by Simonson post 93 of the Amer ican Legion, are Roland Claussen. 118 pounds; Butch Pofahl, 126; Dean Pofahl, 135; and Larry Cleary, 147. Meanwhile, Legion club mana ger Bill White has a block of seats assigned to O'Neill fans. These ducats are on sale at O - Neili's Legion club, St. Mary’s Spills Butte Club, 62 - 55 The St. MarySs academy Card inals Friday night turned back the Butte Wildcats. 62-55, in a Nio brara Valley conference game played at Butte. Gale Stevens tallied 18 points for the winners with Larry Tom linson pressing with 16. l^arry Mudloff registered 14 and Ronnie Holly connected for 10. Russell Luth was best for the losei-s with 15. Butte led 16-14 at the first quarter and SMA moved ahead and kept a 10-point spread for the distance. Butte reserves won'the prelim inary, 32-29. Inman Downs Ewing in 47 - 44 Thriller EWING Inman high downed Ewing Friday night, 47-44, in one extra period of play. The game was played at Ewing before a big crowd. High point man was In man’s Bob Ruther with 18 points. Larry Rotherham connected with 14 jKiints for Ewing; I -eon Halil back had 13 points for the losers. Ewing was without the services of Jerry Halhback, who hurt his ankle in the Orchard game. Inman was in front 28-20 at half time. Inman annexted three freethrows in the overtime all the points scored in the extra inning. Inman’s second team lost to Ew ing, 41-39 It was the first defeat for the inman reserves in two sea sons. BRONCOS TRIUMPH STUART -Tlie Stuart high Bron cos Friday night defeated the Keya Paha county Indians (Spring view), 69-57. Stuart led at one stage by 18 points. BUTTE WALLOPS NAPER BUTTE — The visiting Naper high cagers were no match for the Butte Wildcats here Tuesday night. Butte won, 74-59. KELLEY HOT INMAN—Ned Kelley, former Inman high cage ace, tossed 16 points to help Norfolk Junior col lege defeat Doane, 75-53. CLEARWATER WINS CLEARWATER- The Clearwater Cardinals Friday night posted a 43-41 cage win over Oakdale. Open Thursday Nights Instead of Saturday Nights ! 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North of Burlington Depot Phone 771 Jack Bailey, Mgr. .1 -- Spencer Wins Boyd Crown Hard Way Downs Favored Butte, Lynch for Crown SPENCER The Spencer high Pirates downed Butte, 67-51, in the first round of the Boyd county tourney last week Spencer, the underdoe of the meet, jumped to a 20-10 first quar ter lead. Butte came back strong in the second quarter, led by T Freed, to cut the score to 34-30 nt half time. Spencer increased'the lead. 42-35. at the end of the third. In the fourth, Spencer hit 13 of IS free throws to win. 67-51. In the Butte-Spencer game, Johnson and R. Kopecky had 18 points, followed closely by L Ko peeky with 15. For Butte, IAith led with 17. In the second game of the night, a good Lynch ball club led by three big seniors Soulek, Sextn and Pickering had little trouble disposing of Naper, 66-49. Soulek hit 27 for Lynch followed by Pickering with 12. For Naper Katzer had 18 and Saltier had 11. The Pirates were obliged to down tx>th favorites, Lynch and Butte, two night in a row to win the Boyd county cage tournament. Spencer with its under classmen had to win the hard way, after blowing a 10-point lead at half time. t.ynch, with five starting seniors, trailed at the end of the first quar ter. 11-7. At half tme, Spencer led 29-19, but in the second half it was all Lynch, as a smaller Spencer ball club, having played three games in five nights, began to tire and Lynch was able to control both hoards. Lynch was able to outscore the Pirates 22-17 in the third quarter to cut the lead down to 4(W1 In the fourth quarter, Lynch went ahead, 49-48, with less than a min ute left. Little 5-6 freshman Ronnie Ko pecky hit the winning basket to make the score 50-49. The leading scorer for Spencer was Ixenard Kopeeky with 22, Johnson with 15. For Lynch, all the scoring was done by the bg three Soulek with 21, Pickering with 17, Sexta had 1.1. In the consolation game, a red hot Butte team downed Naper, 71 45 Butte was led by Terry Fried, who bad 16, followed by Lyle Luth with 11. Katzer had 18 for Naper. SPENOER WINS SPENCER — The Spencer high j Pirates fashioned a 54-44 win over j Lynch Tuesday night in Niobrara j Valley conference cage play. RIVERSIDE A letter received | from Mrs. Verl Gunter told that j Verbs doctor permitted him to re j turn to his classes Monday, Jan uary 19. POLIO BENEFIT DANCE Dukes o f Rhythm Popular Bohemian Music BUTTE LEGION BALLROOM Saturday, Jan. 24 Admission: $1