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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1959)
STATS HIST SOS LIHSOLH, HE)?. XXX wrvrHrR Twelve Pages hi lo precip. Thurs.. Aug. 13 . 91 60 .01 Fri., Aug 14 .... 87 64 .34 |p JhlS Issue Sat.. Aug. 15 .... 82 47 Sun.. Aug. 16 .. 89 66 Mon.. Aug. 17 .. 94 51 * Tues., Aug. 18 .. 99 69 Wed.. Aug. 19 .. 93 70 Volume 79—Number 17 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, August 20, 1959 Seven Cents_ ^ >J>. • .1 J Brutus II, a nine-month-old purebred Angus bull, made an unannounced arrival at the W. J. Froelich farm here last week, having made the trip from Pennsylvania in a late model unmarked truck. Accompanying the “surprise package” were two Pennsyl vania herdsmen. Brutus is a highly-bred and well cared for fellow. Fnderstanduble. He came from the Gettysburg farm owned by George Allen, whose place ad joins President Elsenhower's farm. Ike and Allen conduct joint livestock operations. Allen has been a member of the White House inner circle through the successive terms of Roosevelt, Truman and Elsenhower, and is a longtime friend of l>lr. Froelich. Allen consigned Brutus to the new home. Admiring the newcomer are neighbor children: Mary Berigan, Kittle Berigan, Scott Stewart, Ituth Ann Watson and Nancy Watson. WINS TICKETS Miss Marilyn Perry won two tickets to the "Holiday on Ice" show in Sioux City for her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Perry, last week. Her winning sentence, en tered in the Cartoon Time contest at KTIV in Sioux City, was dic tated to an older sister and was selected from other entries throughout the KTIV area. Mr. and Mrs. Perry attended the ice show Thursday evening. 4.*»0 SEE PLAY Approximately 450 people attend ed the O’Neill Players first pre sentation, "The Tender Trap” Saturday and Sunday. Members of the cast as well as the audience were happy with the results of their first community-wide efforts. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nejedly and son, Frank, of Creighton were guests Monday evening at the Stanley Holly home. Haying Bee For Stanley Chmiel Farmers and ranchers from a wide area gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Chmiel early this week to cut hay. The haying bee got underway when it was learned that Mr. Chmiel, 75. was suffering from a blood disease and would not he able to care for his crop. The men cut and stacked over 400 acres in one day. Those who took part in the neigh borlv deed were Mr, and Mrs. Ed and Joe Kaczor Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chmiei, the couple's son and daughter-in-law, Fritz and August Schwager, Erwin, Lanny, Danny and Gary LaRue, Walter Woeppel and George Neckolite. Several neighlior ladies helped prepare food for the men. Amy Kersenbrock Is Winner Amy Ker sen brock walked away with championship honors in the Ladies City Golf Tournament last week for the third time in the 5 year history of the tournament. Dorothy Yantzi was runner-up in the championship flight and Chickie Artus won the consolation final match in that night. Tourna ment finals were played Sunday at the O'Neill golf course. Other trophy winners were as follows: First flight: Winner, Helen Gil dersleeve; runner-up, Millie Wer ner, and consolation, Mary Pet sche. Second flight: Winner. Sheila Wanser; runner-up, Betty Strake; consolation, Lorraine Becker. Third Flight: Winner, Mary Reynoldson; runner-up, Ruth Wil son; consolation, to be played be tween Betty Watson and Alice Earley. Fourth Flight; Winner, Eliza beth Gallagher; runner-up, Car Icon Carstens: consolation, Elea nor Pruss. Fifth Flight: Winner to be play ed between Pat Cleveland and Clara Carroll; consolation, Mary Ann Wichman. Second in a Series Over 3,000 Miles of County Roads Monumental Maintenance Problem By JERRY PETSCHE EDITOR If there is such a thing as a universal concern among farmers and ranchers outside that of favor able crops and weather, it would be the roads they must travel in his day to day work. Needless to say, Holt county farmers and ranch ers are no exception. Whether they are moving machinery from one spot to another or just out to get the mail, the condition of the roads at the moment is high on the list of concerns that he has. Hut before we go any further, let us take a look at a monumental problem a problem that the board of supervisors wrestle with just about every time they meet with road problems in mind. There are well over 3,000 miles of Holt county maintained roads. This is far more than the aver age county has. Some are in very good condition, some of them are in not so good condition. They will all be improved in due time. Each of the supervisors is responsible for his own area and therefore becomes the individual’s greatest concern when he thinks a road adjacent to him should lie improved. The supervisor is an elected official for just that reason. Chances are very good that the road adjacent to the average rancher and farmer is not even a county road there are very many more township maintained roads than county roads and these roads, with the exception of mail routes, can not be maintained by the county. Add this to his problem: A road, for example, that must tie built through sand and run over a hill can cost the county as much as $6,000 per mile. The average, of course, will bo less, but it wouldn t take many of these to break the back of the county treasury. Some of the supervisors have problems inci dental to their own area. Strips of surface sand across the county make some districts so difficult to maintain that the average crew of two men, costing the county from $5,000 to $7,000 in salary (with nearly the same amount of equipment as the more fortunate districts) creates a problem that is all that the best of supervisor can do to just keep at a minimum. In the past two years the state has turned back 46 miles of what was formerly state improved roads to be kept up by the county. And here’s another rub: There are 93 counties in this state and yet Holt county was forced to take back 10 percent of all miles of roads turned back to counties during that period. The supervisors themselves, as well as several other farmers this writer has spoken to, believe that the county is maintaining these roads better than the state did. But we pay dearly for the state's move since it is just one more unexpected burden. How would it work to turn all township roads over to the county — say let there be only one agency, only one road tax here, only one super visory body to administrate the roads? The concensus of the supervisors shows that, if, in addition to mail route roads, other township roads were taken in by the county wholesale, the immediate result would be that of dissatisfaction. ‘‘Of course everyone you ask might have a dif ferent answer for that,” one supervisor said. “But what would probably happen would be Continued on page 10, column 3 O'Neill Women's Club Schedules Flute Recital And Teacher Reception The O'Neill Women’s Club has announced that their first program this fall will be a combination pub lic reception for O’Neill teachers and a flute recital by Marty John son. daughter of Mrs. Robert Evans, Norfolk. The recital is scheduled for September 3 at the O’Neill high schtiol auditorium The program will be free of charge with the public invited to attend. A tea will follow the recital by Miss Johnson and a silver offering will be taken to be contributed to the library fund, a project of Women’s Club. Miss Johnson graduated from O’ Neill high school and attended Ob erlin Music School in Oborlin, O.. j for one year. She is presently attending the Eastman School of I I Music, in Rochester, N.Y., pre I paring for a career as a concert flutist. Miss Johnson also attend ed the Interlochen music camp in Interlochcn, Mich., for three sum mers. Spencer Farmer Has Hard Luck SPENCER — William Connot, farmer living a few miles west of Spencer, was scheduled to under go a major operation Monday, hut he postponed it. He had his reasons. Everything else had already happened to him. Mr. Connot and his family have been victims of a series of seri ous misfortunes in the last month or so. To begin it all, last July 14 Mr. Connot lost a billfold containing more than $1,000 in cash. The severe hailstorm of Aug. 9 in this vicinity wiped out his crops, | the estimated loss being $10,000. Last week the Connots’ son, Ron nie, was hospitalized for treatment after an appendicitis attack. Friday, Aug. 14, Mrs. Connot was injured in an automobile ac cident near here. She was cross ing a county bridge which was slippery, and when she applied the brakes the car skidded. It went over the edge of the I bridge, dropping about 20 feet in , to a mudhole, which had about three feet of water and mud in it. The car landed on its top, but Mrs. Connot managed to kick open the door and crawl out. Mrs. Connot was later hospital ized and treated for shock and bruises. Mr. Connot decided his opera tion could wait a little longer. If whoever finds Mr. Connot's billfold will return the $1,000, the money will come in handy. Tomlinson Will Play End On All-Star Team Special to the Frontier FREMONT — Larry Tomlinson, former St. Mary’s football star, will play both offensive and de fensive end at the annual Shrine All-Star game in Omaha. The game will begin at 8 p.m. | August 22 at the Omaha Municipal ' stadium where the northern Ne braska high school all stars will take on the best the southern! schools put together. Larry, since the beginning of| workouts here at Midland college, has lost 10 pounds and is down to 183 pounds. He has been told by his coach, Jerry Lee, that every one will play the same amount of time in the game. Larry will have at least two more workouts before the game. Name Knights' Officers; Mattern to Head Group The list of Knights of Columbus officers for O’Neill has been an nounced with William Mattern, the I Grand Knight. Other officers include George Janousek, Deputy Grand Knight; James J. Mullen, recorder; John McCarville, financial secretary; Patrick Gallagher, treasurer; Nor man Gonderinger, advocate; Stew art Pascoe, chancellor; Bob Clem lents, warden; Ben Bazelman, in side guard; Phil Haverkamp, out side guard, and the Very Rev. T. J. O’Sullivan, chaplain. Don Bunkers is again the general program chairman. Patrolman Investigates One Car Accident The state highway patrol was J called out early this week to in vestigate a one car accident that hospitalized briefly two Stuart men. Patrolman Robert Gude said a t car driven by Ivo Shald, 26. of Stuart went off highway 281 and rolled Sunday night. Two passengers, Jack and Bob Tielke, were taken with minor in juries to St. Anthony’s hospital in O'Neill. Neither the driver nor another passenger, Bob Weber, were hurt, Gude said. TO NATIONAL CONFERENCE Mary Elizabeth Gatz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gatz, is attending the national convention of the Catholic Theater Conference at Notre Dame, Ind., this week. She represents the College of St. Mary’s and the campus chapter of Alpha Gamma Omega at the national meeting ending Friday. TO MEET THURSDAY St. Patrick's Altar society will meet Thursday (tonight) at St. Mary’s gym. St. Elizabeth’s guild with Mrs. Robert Lowery as chair man will entertain. 0 Frontier Will Co-Sponsor Plan For Scholarship The Frontier is co-sponsoring a scholarship program in coopera tion with The Ford Motor Com pany and Nebraska Press Associ ation. Announcement was made by W. E. Buechlcr, Ogallala publisher and president of the As sociation. It is open to all high , school students in The Frontier I circulation area who arc interest ed in a newspaper and journalism career. Two young high school stu dents from the up|>cr part of their classes in O'Neill have al J ready applied for the scholar ships and will participate !n the contest, -lint Kenze the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kenze and Bill Shoemaker, the son of Mrs. Leona Shoemaker, will par l tieipate. Any high school student that has | shown writing talent and who is | in the upper part of his class schol astically is eligible to participate.. Contact Jerry Petsche, The Fron tier editor, for further information .before August 22. The Nebraska winner will re ceive an all-ex|iense air trip to Detroit, Mich., September 23-25 to preview the 1900 Ford auto mobile line and to partici|>ate in Ford’s Teen-Age Press Confer ence. While in Detroit, state winners will participate in various contests and 5 national winners will be named. The top 5 winners will be awarded college scholarships. The scholarships are worth: $8,000, first place; $2,500, second place; $1,500, third place; $1,000, fourth place; $800, fifth place. Superintendent Of Frontier Buys Paper The Frontier’s former plant sup erintendent, W. Irl Todd, 43, of Page, has announced the purchase of the Sutherland Courier, a week ly newspaper west of North Platte. He has been associated with The Frontier twice, once when formei editor-publisher Cal Stew art purchased the paper and again a year ago. Todd will move with his family j to Sutherland September 1. He will be joined in the publi cation of the newspaper by his son Gary, who with his family, will move to Sutherland after his release from the Navy Air Force the end of August. Todd, an experienced printer and machinist, got his start in news papering at the Neligh News, under the late E. S. Scofield. Since becoming a journeyman printer i he has worked on several weekly and daily papers in Nebraska as well as being machinist on the Wal la Walla, Wash., Daily Union-Bul ; letin for several years and assist ant mechanical superintendent of the Daily News-Miner in Fair banks, Alaska, for three years. During the war he was chief physical test engineer at the Glenn L. Martin Nebraska Company at Ft. Crook, near Omaha. Soldier of Month Award to Devall Bennett. Devall, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Devall of O’Neill was selected soldier of the month at Pirmasens, Germany. He was cited by his command ing officer for outstanding per formance of duty with the 7th 1 Army in Europe. The ‘‘Company Soldier of the Month" is awarded to the soldier displaying leadership potential and BENNETT DEVAIJ, . . . outstanding soldier who has shown skill in his job, military bearing as well, as a neat military appearance. The commanding officer wrote the parents: “These qualifications Bennett recently fulfilled and in competition with four other can didates, before a board of his peers, he was selected as the most outstanding and hence ‘Soldier of the Month’.” Mrs. M. B. Marcellus and Lorna visited Sunday at the Noland De Losh home in Stuart. Paving Crew Breaks Ground on 2nd Street A long needed improvement got underway in O'Neill as workmen of the Missouri Valley Construc tion Company took the first "bite" of dirt Monday in preparations of paving 32 city blocks. Large concrete culverts are be ing layed, part of the network for a storm sewer that will drain a wide central section of the city. Company men on the scene at Second street believe the work is going faster than anticipated and that no serious trouble has been encountered in the past four days of work. A spokesman for the Missouri Valley Construction Company in Grand Island told a Frontier re porter that the 32 blocks of pav ing in O'Neill would be completed in 30 to 40 days. The spokesman said from 50 to 60 men would arrive in O’Neill within the next few days to liegin the actual paving. Most materials for the paving will lie txxight locally by the con tracting firm the gravel and filler from near Atkinson. ‘We will buy everything locally that we can,” the spokesman said. T. B. Gibson, the company sup erintendent in charge of the O’ Neift job will arrive with the large paving crew. Barring difficulties in weather, the men are exjH-cted to have the major portion of the roads covered within two to three weeks after they begin. City traffic is not expected to be badly impaired during the lay ing of concrete, although some sections of the city will require drivers to go several more blocks than normal. The pavement will not be ready for traffic immed iately upon completion, but should be open eight to 10 days after workmen are finished. Workmen lower large sections of concrete culvert on north Second street in preparation for the paving crew of 50 to GO men. The Frontier Photo and Engraving. Holt county fair’s grand champion baby beef was an Angus lielfer shown by Cora I,ec Schmlser, the daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Schmlser of Rwing. Her sister, Marcene, also did well. (See more pictures on inside pages). She showed the best of class in the Hereford breed. Cora Lee Schmiser Shows Angus; Top Holt County Fair Baby Beef CHAMBERS — A 17-year old Ewing girl will bring home grand champion baby beef honors at the Holt county fair. Cora Lee Schmiser, the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Schmiser won the coveted ribbon with an Angus heifer. Earlier in the contest her heifer was chosen as the best of breed among the Angus. Her sister, Marcene, also did well at the show and won the best of class in the Hereford breed and was also in competition for the all-around champion breed. The best of breed in Shorthorns was shown by Janette Clemens, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Milton Clemens of Amelia. (See more fair pictures on the inside pages.) In open class judging, the grand champion Hereford bull (over all breeds) in the junior division was won by Harold Melcher. E. L. Miner showed the reserve cham pion bull (an Angus). In the senior division, E. L. Miner showed the champion and reserve champion bulls. A Hereford cow shown by Milan Welke, was the champion over all breeds at the fair. Blue ribbons for beef cattle were won by the following youngsters. Their clubs’ precede their names: Swan Lakers- Gaylen Warden; St. John’s Purple Prospects Cora Lee Schmiser, Marcene Schmiser and Jack Pagel; Pine Grove Hustlers — Jackie Doolittle and Janette Clements; Eagle Hustlers - Becky Beelaert, Jimmy Melcher and Tommy Melcher; Dairy May Leubcke, Jerome Crumly and Thomas Scheinost; Martha Club— Jeanette Klabenes, Robert Kla benes, pebbie Eisenhower and Wayne Larson; Prairie Wranglers —Ruth Ann Blake; Happy Hollow —Bonnie Welke. Family Gathering Guests from St. Francis, Colome, Wewela, Dallas and Gregory, S.D.; New York state; Massachusetts and Spencer, Spalding, Columbus, Valentine and Omaha attended the London-Langan family annual pic nic held Sunday, Aug. 9, in Ford’s park. One hundred sixteen were present. New Policeman Roy Rotherham a former Ewing policeman, has been appointed by the city council as night policeman in O'Neill. He replaces Orville “Stub” Mil* ler who resigned several days ago. Rotherham is an experienced po liceman according to Police Chief Chris McGinn and is now on duty. OLMSTEAD REAPPOINTED Reverend and Mrs. Don V. 01 in stead are begining their third year with the local Wesleyan Methodist church. The reappointment was announced at the church’s annual conference near Atkinson last week. Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Cronin left Saturday for a week’s vacation at Lake Okoboji, la.