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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1959)
STATE HIST SOS • * ,v , WEATHKB Twelve Paqes !»•** hi to pm*. Thurs., Aug. 27 _ 92 64 XXX FH-. Aug 28 93 61 In This Issue a*t. Aug 29 — 90 64 I ms issue Sun.. Aug. 30 81 65 Mon , Aug 31 80 56 . . TUes., Sept. L. .. 75 58 M "The Voice of the Beef Empire" * Wed - ^ 2 — 72 43 Volume 79-Number 19 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, September 3, 1959 _Seven Cents Sell 1,000 Is Planned Hereford Men Plan Big Sale The Holt County Hereford Bree ders Association took steps at their meeting Monday night to speed up interest in their "Select Hereford Feeders Sale," planned for Oct. 19. Over 1,000 head of cattle could well be sold. The first sale of its kind Cor the organization, only better qual ity stocker-feeders will be put on the block. Officers at the meeting re minded association members that attempts should be made to get eonsignors to sell a to tal in excess of 1,000 head of possible. Commitment cards were sent to prospective sellers in the Holt and surrounding area a.;d although no deadline was set, the association hoped to get most of the cards in by September 10. , The type of sale, as the name implies, will consist of the better Herefords so that consignors might attract quality buyers and receive premium prices. Consignors will draw for the placement of the cattle according to rules formulated at the meet ing. The only charge the associa tion will make to consignors will ut* ij wins per nt*au. Any prospective seller of these better quality animals should get in touch with Kieth* Abart of O’ Neill as soon as possible. In other business, the associa tion changed the proposed date of Oct. 31 for their fall purebred Hereford sale. The new date will In* Saturday, Nov. 7. Bob and Milan Wilke, local Here ford raisers, were voted into the association by members unani mously at the Monday night meet ing. __ Herefords Take Ak-Sar-Ben firsts A Hereford bull and cow took both the Ak-Sar-Ben grand cham pion honors and rosettes at the Holt county fair in Chambers. The hull was shown by H. A. Melcher of Page and the cow by Milan Welke of Ewing. The M and M Angus ri'iich of O'Neill took reserve champion honors and rosettes. The senior champion bull, first and second place honors, third place junior champion bull hon ors and second and third place honors for the senior champion cow also went to the M and M ranch. Vern Sageser of Amelia showed the second place junior champion bull. Veteran Physician Suffers Broken Hip Dr. W. F. Finley, local physi cian. suffered a broken hip in a fall at his home Saturday morn ing. He is in good condition at St. Anthony’s hospital here Dr. Finley, now’ in his early seventies, has practiced medicine in O’Neill since 1920. A lincoln specialist assisted Dr. Wilson in setting the fractur ed bone. Dr. Finley w-as reportedly sitting up yesterday (Wednesday) and is improving rapidly. McElhaney Girl Tells of Quake One O’Neill family and a local i college student were shaken by the violent earthquake in Montana that took at least nine lives and probably many more. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hurley were I in Sidney, Mont., a few miles from | Yellowstone park, in the immedi j ate vicinity of the “quake" and | Jeannie McEhaney, the daughter j of Mr. and Mrs. Ted McElhaney, | was working at Fishing Bridge in ! the park itself. Jeannie, working at the resort, was in the part of Yellowstone that was closed to tourists short ly after the violent earth heaving began. Jeannie said she was sleeping in the lower section of a double hunk when the tremors began. She said the girl sleeping above her was shaken out of the bed and on to the floor at the time. Hurleys were not in the park at the time of the “quake” but drove through on their way home when the roads had been cleared of the slide. They did feel the tre mors in Sidney however. Lions Sponsor Famed Leadership School The O’Neill Lions club will spon sor the famed Dale Carnegie course in leadership training. A nucleus of the class has al ready been formed by Lions mem bers and Donald A. Dahlberg of Omaha, the Nebraska sponsor. Interested persons may contact Hob Pappenheimer, Howard Man son, Joe Stutz or Kenneth Curren. Dahlberg said response to date has been excellent and that dates will be set for classes later. Watch your coming edition of The Frontier for more information. St. Mary's Injuries Will Hurt Cardinals The O’Neill St. Mary’s football squad will suffer a temporary loss of two experienced men dur ing the first of the season. Barnard Kamphaus, a 195 pound tackle has been sidelined with a cracked wrist received in a rodeo spill. Larry Mudloff, a Cardinal halfback, suffered a knee injury. The Academy squad, although heavy, is small in numbers. Coach Don Templemeyer said four or five Rophomores will be called upon for first string duties. Two more away games have been arranged for. Guardian Angels at West Point, Oct. 23 and Greeley Sacred Heart (8-man), Oct. 30. NEW ENGIJSII TEACHER Mrs. Hazel Park will be the new English teacher at the Page schools. She was moved up from the grade school where she had taught last year. Sale Dates Claimed SATURDAY, Sept. 5, household goods, 2^ blocks south of Wilson's Texaco station, 2 p.m., Earl and Nellie Bauld THURSDAY. Sept. 10. real es tate, Vz block east and 3 south of bowling alley on South 1st street, 1:30 p.m., Claude D. "Ace’’ Wicks. FRIDAY, Sept. 11, farm ma chinery and livestock, 7 miles east, 1 mile south and l1^ miles east of O’Neill sale bam, 1 p.m., Edgar and Alice Boyle. Conard 'Spanks' a Hole-!n-One, Perfect Golf Shot Hit Sunday The dream of many a golfer came to John Conard in O'Neill Sunday afternoon as he fired a hole-in-one at the country club here. The Emmet merchant is belie ved to be the second person in the history of the O'Neill club to make a hole-in-one on number 7 hole, a par 3, 135-yard hole. For you non-golfers, a golf shot is called a hole-in-one when the player drops the ball into the cup in one stroke from the tee box. Several years ago. a well-known golf professional said he believed the odds against making the shot from distances even less than 150 yards. and with pros playing, was about 5,000 to 1. Several old timers in the O Neill club believe that tradition has it that one other golfer made it on the 7 hole several years ago. hut no one could be certain who it was. , -T 1 Conard said he used a < iron on the difficult hole. Other golfers playing with Conard at the time included Vern Reynoldson Mar vin Johnson, Duke Kersenbrock, Tom Liddy anil •'Short" Hunt. With the help of several golfers here The Frontier made an at tempt to find out just who had made holes-in-one since the open ing of the present course in 1921. We wish to make it clear that this record is not official since none has been kept and if we have omitted any names or have in Photo and Engraving by The Frontier Ci.aruJ . . . and magic 7 iron luded any that should not have Most of the holes-in-one have been, it has been in good faith: been made on the 115-yard par John Conard. A1 Carroll, Pale 3 number 4 hole. Golfers pointed French, Hugh Coyne <2», Joe Me- out that the par 3, number 7 hole Carville, Homer Mullen. Ed Camp- is somewhat more difficult to bell, Father Richard Brick. Wil- make since the green is partially liam Biglin, Don Hill, Gib Milnitz, blind, trees obstruct ball travel T. V. Golden. and the distance is greater. Our Newest Industry O'Neill's Sweetest Commodity Gets Attention Not Only Bolls, hut a Bee Empire too We may live in an empire of beef cattle and cast our lot I with the prairie's precious com modity of steers, but there is I one little living creature that ! far outnumbers both we and our cattle. The not so humble honey bee is making news in O'Neill A honey processing plant is in operation here and a full car load of honey will soon be ready for breakfast tables in Chicago and points east. A subsidiary of the W. F. Straub Co. of Chicago has con structed a plant in the south eastern section of O’Neill. The organization gathering, buying and processing the honey here is called the Lake Shore Honey Farms, and with a summer crew of three men and one wo man is at present taking the first step in the preparation of the honey. The president of Lake Shore Honey Farms, John W. Straub of Chicago, succeeded R. F. King, the former president of Fairmont this year. A smaller, but also well equipped plant is located in Stuart managed by Ed G. Zol licker. The manager of the O' Neill plant is Hiram Blanken ship. Straub explained that the honey is gathered in Holt and surrounding counties and is put through the first stages of comb separation before it is shipped to the Chicago plant where the honey is settled and further pre pared for eastern tables. The president said the O'Neill and Holt county area was par . i EI-SIE KARR .. . Hay Days queen Atkinson Graphic Photo Miss Elsie Karr Hay Days Queen ATKINSON — Elsie Karr, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Karr of Atkinson, was crowned Hay Days queen at a colorful ceremony by Governor Ralph Brooks here Friday. Governor Brooks and those at hand at the Stuart-Atkinson air port to meet him and his wife are pictured on the inside pages. Governor Brooks gave a short address on modern progress, com paring different modes of trans portation particularly. Marjorie Ries, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ries of Atkinson was crowned Hay Days princess. The Frontier Photo and Engraving. It’s the sweetest business in town. These employees of the Lake Shore Honey Farms are tail ing the first steps in the processing of honey gathered in Holt and Wheeler counties. They are, from left, Sam Gilder, Mrs. Sally Blankenship, Leroy Lyons and Roland Casbura, assistant manager of ' the O’Neill plant. ticularly well adapted to the keeping of bees because of the clover and alfalfa in this area. He explained that the process ing was seasonal but that two full time men would remain in the O’Neill area during the win ter months. Straub said the local men would soon begin making pre parations for wintering about 40 percent of the bees in Holt and Wheeler counties. Some hives will be removed to the southern section of the United States but will be replaced each spring. The operation of the plant, briefly, is as follows: After the honey combs have been gathered, they are shipped to the Stuart and O’Neill plants where the first step is the re moval of the honey from the wax comb. This is done by centrifugal force and drainage. The honey is then placed in largo tanks and later shiphoned I into 55-gallon drums to be ship ped to Chicago. In addition to the manager, mentioned above, those present ly employed at the O'Neill plant are Mrs. Sally Blankenship, Sam Gilder, Roland Casbum, assistant manager and Leroy Lyons. Jim Renze Wins Frontier Sponsored Scholarship Locally-Now to State Jim Henze, 17, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Renze, was the local winner of the Ford Motor Company and Frontier sponsored scholarship contest. His story on the teenager's use of the fam ily ear will be sent to Lincoln where it will be entered in the stab* contest. By Jim Renze I am a teenager. I am one of Almost six million teenagers who drive a car. I am part of the 7.2 percent of all drivers known as “crazy kids with cars." Whether you are a teenager, a teenager’s parent , or just a citizen of Holt county, there is a problem you must face. Teenagers comprise 7.2 percent of all drivers in 1957, but they accounted for 11.5 percent of all accidents. In Nebraska in 1958, there were 22,808 drivers invol ved in acidents; better than 17 percent of these were teenagers. Teenagers were driving 9.3 per cent of all the fatal accident cars. Holt county’s 877 drivers be tween the ages of 16 and 20 were not ’I ivolved in a traffic fatality last year. They also had very few accidents in cars although this does not indicate that O’ Neills’ teenagers are perfect dri vers. Better than 25 teenagers have been in county court for traffic violations since January, not to mention the numerous cases in city court. This situation should be alarming. Our police try to talk to our teenagers after the first two or three violations rather than take them to court. Our lo cal teenagers are no different than others, but it appears they just have to know who has the fastest car in town, even if they have to race down main street to find out. A teenager isn’t one of the gang unless he can peel a cou ple of dollars worth of rubber off the tires from a standing start. What is the solution to this pro blem? Father Duffy of St. Pat rick’s believes parents should have more control over the car. Officer Eugene Hastreiter thinks a hot rod club is the answer. He also feels drivers’ education should be mandatory. Sheriff Leo Tomjack feels parental control would help. Police (lilfl Chris McGinn be lieves we have a good group of teenagers but they feel he is "just out to catch them.” Chris would be willing to take time out each week to just talk to the teenagers about their problems and give them his side of the story. Whatever the right solution to, the problem is, it is finally up to the citizens of O’Neill and Holt county to help teenage drivers. Meanwhile here’s something Bis hop John K. Mussio of Ohio said for all adults and teenagers alike to think about: "Keep in your mind your obligation to drive not like the proverbial bat out of hell, but rather like the zealous keeper of the things that are of God’.’ Local High School Grads Ready For Midwest Colleges, Schools Many O’Neill young people are now completing plans to enter colleges and training schools dur ing September. These graduates of O’Neill high school and St. Mary’s Academy will begin studies soon. Enrolling next week at the Col lege of St. Mary’s in Omaha are Patrcia Cunningham, Renae Hoff man and Ellen Lohaus. Planning to attend Wayne State Teachers College in Wayne this fall are Ronnie Smith, Allen Reynoldson, Gene Schneider, Lembert Belina and Ronald Clark. Larry Frisch and George Fuller plan to enter the University of South Dakota at Vermillion. Also going out of state will be Ed Gallagher and Larry Wan aer who will attend Regis Col lege In Denver. Connie Heelan will enroll at I»retto Heights College, also in Denver. Bren ton Wabs will be attending St. John’s College In St Paul, Minn. Benedictine Heights Col lege In Tulsa, Okla. has been chosen by Douglas Walibaum. Enrolling at Omaha colleges this fall will be Carol Hoffman, at Duchesne, Paul Ziska, at Creighton, and Velda Ernst, at Grace Bible Institute. Larry Tomlinson and Sharon Marcellus will enter the University of Nebraska when classes begin in Lincoln this fall. Also in Lin coln at Nebraska Wesleyan Uni versity as freshmen students will be Betty Rodman and Perry Dawes. Konnie Kurtz will begin her studies as a freshman at Kearney State Teachers College, Kearney. At Rapid City, South Dakota, Clarence Longcor will enroll at Rapid City School of Mines and at Yankton, Mary Helen Benze and Mary Lou Connot will be stu dents at Mount Marty College. Three O’Neill graduates have already begun business courses at Commercial Extension School in Omaha. They are Nancy De vall, Ted Strong and Larry Anderson. Keith McKim, also IBM institute, doing out of state for business courses are DeAnna Dunn who is In a business col lege in Denver and Joan Booth, who is taking a business course in Rapid City, South Dakota. A career in nursing has at tracted five O’Neill students. They are: Nancy Fetrow who will attend Bryan Memorial School of Nursing in Lincoln; Elaine Krug man, Emanuel Nursing School in Omaha; Jo Ann Shoemaker, St. Joseph’s School of Nursing in Omaha; Carmen Meusch, St. Elizabeth’s School of Nursing in Lincoln, and Jacqueline Arbuth not, St Theresa’s School of Nurs ing in Winona. Minn. The Norfolk Beauty Academy has enrolled four local girls. They are Lois Nelson, Cherrian Knep per, Karen Hartronft and Elaine Miller. Ruby Passieux is enrolled at the Rapid City Beauty School. SCHOOL PROdRAM A meeting will be held Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the O’Neill Public School auditorium for parents and other persons interested in the public school program. SHIRLEY SCHULTZ . . . nurse’s training Certificate to Shiriey Schultz Shirley Schultz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kersenbrock of O’Neill, will receive a diploma from St. Francis school of nursing | in Grand Island at the 37th an- i nual graduation exercises to be | held on Sunday in St. Mary's Ca thedral. The first two semesters of Miss i Schultz’s nursing program were spent in Duchesne College, Omaha. She received her psychiatric nur sing experience in St. Joseph’s hospital, Omaha, and the remain der of her clinical exerience in St. Francis Hospital, Grand Island. Flanagan's Choir First Concert Father Flanagan's Boys Town Choir will present the first con-1 cert this fall sponsored by the O'Neill Community Concert Series, ■ it has been announced. Plans were made for the annual membership drive at a meeting of the concert series committee last week. The kick-off tea will be October 4 and during the fol lowing week, nine teams will con centrate efforts to sell member ships for the series. A minimum of three concerts will be scheduled for the season, and others will be added if the drive is a success. The famous Boys Town Choir is noted throughout the country for their singing ability. The 50 boys, under the direction of Father j Francis Schmidt, have traveled 60,000 miles and sung in major concert halls in Canada and the United States Their programs in clude religious, classical and mod ern works. The other concerts will be ar ranged for and announced follow ing the membership drive. Seating Problem at O'Neill Public School An unanticipated rise in attend ance at the O’Neill public school has created a seating problem ac cording to Milton Baack, super intendent. An increase of 29 students over last year (only 15 were expected) has resulted in the necessity of ordering more seats. Baack said the addition of an extra room at the school did not solve the space problem because of the increase this year. A total of 583 students have enrolled in the O’Neill schools, in contrast with 555 last year, he said. No Tough Cover It happened to a little 5-year old Inman boy: Seems that when he was younger, his parents used to leave him with friends In O' Neill when they went to church because he fussed so. When his parents began to instlst that he go, he fussed again. When asked why he didn’t want to go with them, i he came out with a classic : “But gee, I don’t want to wear out my church book,” he tald. Pump Is Connected To Municipal Supply O’Neill’s new water pump andj well are now connected into the main city system according to John Beilin, who maintains the municipal water supply. State Board of Health author ities gave the go-ahead signal to connect during the week, he said. The new pump is capable of driving 690 gallons per minute and will augment the old pump and well. City officials explain that the city’s stand-by tank will now re main nearly full most of the time during the hottest part of the summer and that pressure should be up at all times. Earlier in the summer, the city council declared a state of emer gency when a dangerously low supply of water was being exper ienced during the hot afternoon hours. PTA DRIVE ON The O’Neill Parent-Teachers as sociation has started a member ship drive under the direction of Bob Pappenheimer. The first meeting of the PTA will be 8 p.m Monday, Sept. 14 at the public school auditorium. See pic-1 ure on inside pages. Member Drive On Chamber Needs Cited Tuesday The O’Neill Chamber of Com merce annual membership ilnv* began this week as a commit*"* headed by Dale Wilson bega planning. Chamber memltors who attcnM the regular meeting Tuesday wert told that an effort would be mad* by committee members to m dude a greater representation is the Chamber by including boa* individual professional men well as businesses. Wilson said bus! in-ns people * O’Neill will bit getting a iaate inent soon for their share of stg porting the Chamber thin fiscal year. In reviewing the purpose of dm Chamber. Wilson said the groitp m formed for the purposes of liettrv ing the community os well as •* businesses in the community. “The most effective method at promoting our city is through mo tive participation in the Cham ber," he said. Commenting cm te size of dues, Wilson pointed Mi that many chambers in coramoM ties the same size and smaBrv than O’Neill set annual dues si twice or three times that whisfr the O’Neill Chamber will ask Ik In other Chamber activity, ft* report of the retail trade commit tee recomended the closing of boa inesses on Labor Day. A reminder was brought op at the regularly scheduled w» slon that O’Neill would do wtB to think seriously about the ram st ruction of a home for the Neil Dawes, county agent, ap peared at the session and tharikal the Chamber for their contrikK tion to the annual 4-H style re view and explained that tin Cham ber made it possible for two in dividuals and two song groups ta represent Holt county’s rural youth at the state fair. Presbyterians Will Celebrate O’Neill's First Presbyreria* church will celebrate its 76th an niversary and dedicate a new ed ucation unit, September 11 The anniversary ceremony wit be held in the morning, a pot luck dinner at noon, and the **• dication ceremony in the after noon. Morning service wi 1 be at lfl;* a.m. and a service at 3 p.m The Rev. Ralph W. Chamber lain will speak at the anniversary service. Rev. Chamberlain is the Presbyterian Sunday School nu» sionary for the Synod of Nebrao ka. The Rev. Robert J. Ware, pas tor of the Norfolk United Pres byterian church, will speak m the 3 p.m. dedication. Rev. Ware s past moderator of the Synod )f Nebraska, and was present af he ground-breaking ceremonies or the education unit. The child ren and Youth of the church wiB ake part in this ceremony. Thr primary and beginners will sir*, the junior and junior high depart ments are writing a litany hanks and dedication and the sen or high students will give their •esponse. Beautiful Yearling Stud Sweeps Second Appaloosa Show Honors I_I The Frontier Photo and Engraving. “Top of ’58” is shown here with one of his handlers, Merle Minings. The roll was foaled In 1!»58. He Is dark chocolate brown with a splash of pure speckled white over his rump and the tips of three feet. He has delicate forequarters and what appears will be powerful hindquarters when he reaches maturity. niivuioon—n gen no yeaning stud Appaloosa awed hundreds t# horse lovers here last week an* lived up to his name, "Top of "3f* when he won for his master the grand championship of the seconi annual Appaloosa horse show. He was exhibited by Charte* W. Peterson, a rancher 15 miln south of Atkinson. To most of the observers fhcnr was no question about the young colt. His beauty and breeding spoke for themselves. The reserve champion stall m». was “Mullins Little Sohn" Shown by Leland Sunderman of Lyon* Here are the results: Stallions, 1959 — First, Stork"* Navajo, Stork’s Apaloosa Farm, Herman; second, W. M’s Tamy Lad, W. M. Cattle Co., Platls moth; third, W. M.’s Frisky, W M. Cattle Co; fourth, Apparh* Lad, George J. Bryant, Spring field, III. Stallions, 1958 — First, Top <M ’58, Charley W. Peterson, Atkin son; second, Imboden Fine FI*. Bob Lmmick, Sioux City; third Galipal, Venzina Farms, St. Croix Falls, Wis.; fourth, Apache Boy, George J. Bryant. Stallions, 1957 — First Mulling Little Sohn, Leland G. Sunder man, Lyons; second, Wilcliffs Chs ppewa, Cheryl Johnson, Wayne third, General Custer, Charley W Peterson; fourth, Soap Suds, Frank Richards, Kimball, S. D. Continued on inside, page 3, col umn 1.