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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.