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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1959)
•lauernlg . . . and new engine Stuart Adds Diesel; Up Electrical Power STUART Stops have been taken tjy city fathers here to solve the potential shortage of electrical power with the addition of a new die sel engine. ine council put its OK on a plan to buy and ship a used engine from Walnut. Ia., to add to their city owned generating plant. The engine will be installed in a few days. Amio jauernig. superintendent of the city's utilities said the 6 cylinder engine will increase po tential electrical power in the city by .100 killowatts. The capacity of the plant at present is 500 killo watts Jauernie said the installation of the $4,500 piece of equipment would not raise the cost of elec trical power to residents. At the prerent t me, with di counts, com mercial power costs the residents 6 cents per killowatt/hour. At the present time the plant employes 5 men and is self suit porting. Jauernig explained that the city owned utility serves the city in two ways: "The cost of shipping [tow er into the city would he too high and the income from the utility has been put to use improving civic projects." he said. Here are just two of the bene fits Stuart citizens have exper ienced because of the city owned light plant: The financing of the new au ditorium; . The rebuilding of all electrical lines in the city. Jauernig said Stuart was now only one of 40 towns in the state that manufacture power and that they are still in a position to ben efit’ despite the fact that the num ber is becoming fewer and fewer. “You get your power in O'Neill cheaper, of course," he said, "but when you realize that a large pow er company would have to charge us much more than we can make it ourselves and then add the other benefits to a smaller town, you can see why we did it.” AT CONVENTION Holt County Judge I^iuis VV. Reimer is in Omaha for the coun tv judge's convention. The Nebraska State Bar As sociation is holding its annual meeting in conjunction with the convention j. D. Cronin and Judge D. R. Mounts, district judge, are also attending. ___ Holt Employees Step Right Quick Two young Indian boys lived up to their names Tuesday and half the Holt county courthouse staff can attest to it. The two txiys, Paul Fasthorse, 15, and his brother, Arlington, 12, were apprehended by police chief Chris McGinn earlier in the week when he found the boys with a stolen au!o belonging to William C. Oakes of Winner, S. D. Sheriff Tomjack put the boys in Holt county jail until their parents arrived to take them back home. Then the chase started. When the boys got out on the street with their parents, both of the boys ran ns fast as they could away from them. The alarm was sounded in the courthouse and just about every one was a “sheriff" for the next 20 minutes. Young Terry Tomjack, the sheriff's son, caught one of the lads by the foot just outside of town and the other was captured in Corkle's chicken coop. The boys are back in county jail again Winner authorities will be here for them in the next few days this time with hand cuffs, Sheriff Tomjack said. $100 Fine Levied For Drunk Driving Jerry O'Connell, Atkinson, was fined $100 and costs Monday in Holt county court on charges oi drunk driving. In addition, Judge Reimer suspended his license for 6 months. O'Connell was unable to pay the fine and was remanded to the Holt county jail. The complaint was filed by Raymond C. Lewis. \tkinson police officer._ ♦ ••Will" Splndlei and ii i s wile, left, have devot ed their lives t< the education ol Indian children. They will b« dearly missed or the I’ine Ridge Reservation. PairielancTs Colorful 'Will' Spindler Ends 30 Years as Indian Teacher One of Prairicland's most color ful figures Will Spindler of Wounded Knee. S. D.,, will retire next month • from the United States Indian Service He and his wife have devoted the last .10 years teaching in'he Indian dav schools on the I int Ridge Indian reservation _ B h are natives <>, v ••Will" as he is known best, was Kirn and reared at the n m ' the Sandhills.” in the Atkinson- - O'Neill area near the Niobraia River, and bis wife, the ■onnci Lulu Coon, northwest i . uram The couple's la t 9 years of teaching in the small, one-teacher and housekeeper day schools were at W( un.iel Knee, the site of the last armed conflict between the Sioux Indians and the I niLd States cavalry. They have a so taught at Medicine Bow. Potato Creek and Manderson. They have purchased a home at 330 Main ir Gordon, where they will live up on retirement. He is the author of five West err Irooks: “Comrades of the Lont Star" published in' 1921 (when h< was 21 years of age). "Lure ol the Hills. 1937. "Rim of the Sand hills. 1941, “Badlands Trails" 1948. and "Tragedy Strikes & Wounded Knot ". 1955. Of these only “Tragedy Strikes at Wound ed Knee” is still in print and mar lie purchased at hook stores e: or '.ci t'd by mail directly from thi author, Will Spindler, Gordon, Ne brrska. at S1.00 per copy post * Spindler i\ a son of the lat< | Geo-'’ II Sr.lndler an 1 a broth.” , of Floyd Spindler of Atkinson. * e the weather • Sixteen Pages Thursday Oct. 1 .-45 32 .26 Friday .-_43 37 .17 Saturday__ 63 27 — * Sunday _ 68 36 — Monday ..—. 69 39 — Tuesday ——- 73 36 — i Tkic Iccti* Wednesday 71 47 - ,n ,ms ,ssue "The Voice of the Beef Empire" Volume 79—Number 24 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, October, 8, 1959 Seven Cents Missouri Valley Gets Sewer Job Bid $19,668 The city council approved the storm sewer bid of the Missouri Valley Construction Co., Tuesday night at $19,668. The bid was the only one recei ved hy the council and after de liberation with the city’s archi tect, went on record favoring the bid. In other council action partial payments on the work completed in paving was approved. Both Missouri Valley Construction Co. representatives and the city’s ar chitect believed paving work will be completed from two to three weeks. The council was advised that during fall weather it would be advisable to curtail traffic on the newly paved portions of the city. In other council action, warrants were approved and the OK to build a rhombic antenna for channel 10, Lincoln, was approved. The cost to the city will be only about $100. The city also made arrange ments to pave several city drive ways including the one leading from the fire station to the street. Horse Stealing Case in Boyd BUTTE. Ronald Beezley, a Boyd j county man, appeared in county I court here on a charge of horse I stealing. The complaint was signed by Mrs. Ruth Thompson of the White I Horse Ranch near Naper. Beezley waived preliminary, hearing before Judge J. P. Clas j son and pleaded guilty. He was bound over to district court for trial and was placed in the county jail in custody of Sher ; iff Claude Collins. Froelich Appointment As Census Crew Leader Frank Froelich of O’Neill re ceived appointment as crew lead- J er for the 1959 Census of Agri- I culture from the regional office in Kansas City. Mr. Froelich is in North Platte j this week for training including recruiting, training and canvass ing methods. The crew, which he will recruit, will canvass all farms in northern Holt county and Boyd county be ginning October 28.__ I South Dakota Flip Flop The bulls were mean In O’Neill over the weekenl. Dick Wolf, a Fairfax, S. I)., cowboy found it out at the Nebraska South Dakota championship rodeo. Pilots might eall that a one-point landing; and aero bats might eall it a flip. No one could tell just what Dick called it when he finally hit the ground, but he was mumbling something. Orville Galibin, of Valentine, Is in the foreground baiting the bull for Dick. The Frontier photo and engraving. Annual Sunday School Lutheran Rally Day The annual Sunday school ra]l\ day service will be held at Christ Lutheran church, Seventh and Clay, at 9 a.m. Sunday. A special order of service will be used to include the Scripture letsons for the parents, children and church school workers. William Fricke, Sunday School superintendent, announced that 108 children will participate. Tlie Rev. A. S. Gedwillo, church pastor, said the enrollment and attendance of Sunday School has nearly doubled in the past two years. TOWN TEACHERS MEET A meeting cf the Holt county town teachers will be held Octo ber 13 in O'Neill. The business meeting will follow a dinner. Of ficers will be elected and dele gates chosen to the delegate as sembly Dec. 11 and 12 in Lin coln. O'Neill Concert Interest Increasing; Promoter Says O'Neill Is One of Best Interest in O'Neill’s communi ty concert is on Hie rise accord ing to Pauline Walston, a New York promoter of the series in O'Neill. "I believe that O'Neill is one of the finest towns for concert in terest I have ever been in,” she said. ‘‘O’Neill is one of the smal lest too, but has great potential.” The concert series is organized on an audience participation plan the more of an audience that is guaranteed, the better the show, she said. The lady promoter said she hoped O'Neill would be able to have four concerts this year. The Headquarters for the con cert association has been set up in the Golden Hotel, telephone 102. "Anyone wishing to buy associa tion memberships can contact us at that number,” she said. Pauline Walston explained that the costs to get an artist or ar tists here range from $200 to j $3,000, depending upon how much in demand they are, how far they | have to travel and how many will appear. The campaign closes Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Twenty workers out I side of O’Neill in surrounding towns also have tickets to sell in addition to the 100 workers here in O’Neill. THANKS MR. READY A special thanks should go to Ira Ready, Publisher of the Stuart Advocate this week. Marvin ,Zisku, the Frontier’s linotype operator, cut his fin ger badly last week at the plant and Ira helped put this 1(» page paper out. Because of a tremendous amount of city legels and last minute advertising, much news still had to be left out despite the extra pages. Besides, there’s just so much a one-handed lino-type operator can do. Elderly West German Couple Visits O'Neill; Tell of Present Conditions in Split Germany By Special Staff Writer The household of Mr. and Mrs. i Helmut Arnold in O'Neill was buzzing with activity early this week when Mr. Arnold’s parents, ,he Rev. and Mrs. Ma* Arnold, arrived from Germany. This is the second time the re tired Methodist minister and his wife have visited prairieland m the past 6 years. . . To give Frontier readers a first hand report of conditions in west Germany at the present and to give them a bettor understand ing of economic conditions, we in terviewed the family in an in formal session in their living room. The Rev. Arnold, 70, has been u minister in Germany for 50 years. He and his wife live in Rrpman, an industrial site anil harbor citv with shipyards. I The elderly couple remember the bombings of the allies during the war and explained that the citv had been 66 percent des troyed. Their son, Manfred, ul Baltimore, Md„ sister, Mrs. Dor othea Persson of Braunschweig were also present and. helped their parents when English was spoken too quickly. Many subjects were 'gone over once lightly” in the interview and here are a few of the reactions: O’Neill and Prairieland "We were very surprised to see. the vast spaces here and the size of the Iowa cornfields.” Manfred ! said. "We notice that so many homes are built of wood instead of stone and brick.” Mrs. Arnold replied. "The people are quite re ligious here,” the Rev Arnold | said. "It is not always so in Breman." World War II The Arnolds were required to flee to Stettin when the allied bombings became furious. They explained that the l S. Arm> Air Force was primarilyv interest ed in hitting the industrial sites by day. and the British, interest ed in intensified residential and business bombings by night in an attempt to demoralize, the Ger mans. Reconstruction "Give Germania a horse, ami she'll ride it herself," elderly Mrs. Arnold said. "That’s an old saving in Germany. Gcrmmia stanch for Germany, of course, and the horse was the Marshall plan " Roth, she and her hus band explained that without Care packages, the Marshall plan and • help from fellow Methodists in t h e United States, conditions The Arnolds. The Rev. and .Mrs. Arnold are shown a the top of the steps with their daughter-in law, Mrs. Helmut Arnold, of O’Neill. Manfred, a so i. from Baltimore, Md., and a sister, Mrs. Dor thea Persson, of Braunschweig, Germany, are on the second step. .Mr. Helmut Arnold stands with two of his children on the ground. The Frontier photo and engraving. would have been much worse "The city of Breman is complete ly rebuilt now and looks boauti ful," Mrs. Arnold said. East West Split "I have f >ur widowed sisters living in Communist contr .11 ’ '•si Germany niw,” the Rev. Arnold explained. "We s nd them packages and help them all we can." he said "Far more people are getting out of East | Germany than West Germans go ing back to the eastern sector oung Manfred said. The couple explained that i communist propaganda is being | used to try and get some of the i better educate i rao— highly teehnlcaUv trained peopl" bark tr> East Germany. "Economic condition’ are wrn dorful in West Germ my now," Mrs. Arno! 1 raid. "Wo can huy good quality clothes, plenty of food now,” she said The couple pointed out that one of the most surprising developments in West Germany was the suddenness of .he return to a good, stable econ r,rny. "We all thought that con ditions would still be bad today.” Manfred explained that one of the most influential factors in ercr.ting ; e enterprise interest 'in th. East German section was this sudden return of a stable . economy. Future Blockades Mrs Arnold said she believed ! that the German neople in th .An; leas. > octor of Ber'in did not particularly fear another block .... "As far a. I know they are tot :t >ring food an 1 coal at the same rate they did many months ago." Eisenhower Both the Rev. and Mrs. Arnold were visably pleased with our ] president. Rev. Arnold, in particu lar, believes that Ike's approach to the divided Germany and the U S.S.R. has been good. German Reunification “Sure, it would be wonderful to be unified again,” Mrs. Ar nold explained. She said that if it meant that the East Ger mans would take cvitrpl, how ever, it had hotter remain split. Whoa asked whether the Ger ! mans feel that their country v. M i»e reunited in tin* next few years, both of the elderly Ar sol . \\ r<* skeptical hut were | nevertheless hopefull. The Rev. and Mrs. Arnold will I he leaving for Germany again in j approximately G months. They | will visit iheir daughter in Lin ked n for two weeks, their on in | Baltimore for two weeks and will h0rc. jn O'Neill fo" approxi I mutely that period of tim'1. Dak ita Wins Twin R< de \ 1 Point Difference South Dakota cowboys clung tightly to their broncs in O'Neill mmt the weekend as they won first place in the first Nebraska-South Mote championship rodeo. The top 5 amateurs in each event in each state competed for tt.dK prize money awarded by the O'Neill Rodeo Association. The St Kith Eta* kota boys defeated Nebraska's best amateurs by 1 point, k Sewage Rid System For Orchard Soon ORCHARD^ The city council is taking steps to construct a sew age disposal system at a cost of $95,000 to $115,000. After a straw vote of the com munity which showed ap over whelming support for the project, the council passed a resolution of necessity to speed up work. Orchard has never had a sewer system. Their wastes have been eliminated either through cess poo 1 s, outhouses or septic tanks. Kirkham and Michales of Om aha will draw plans for an evap oration pond type of system ac cording to a company spokesman. This will include the regular pipe system to all homes, lift sta tions, evaporation ponds and other necessary equipment. The compa ny spokesman said the project would take several weeks to com plete. Cards Win Third; Bishop Ryan Downed 27-7 OMAHA—St. Mary’s Cardinals won their third game of the sea son Wednesday afternoon in a 27 to 7 tilt against Bishop Ryan high school here. The Cards’ turned 13 first downs into a victory early in the game. Bishop Ryan received 9 first downs. The Cardinals’ ground out 341 yards compared with 201 for the Omaha school. Here are the highlights: First Quarter Shoemaker, still eating up the yards where he left off last week 1 see sport's page second section) plunged from the three and Ste vens added the extra. This touch down came on St. Mary’s longest sustained drive of the year, 98 yards. St. Mary’s got the ball again late in the first quarter and scored in two plays the touchdown com ing on a 4-yard ramble by Shoe maker. Hynes added the extra point to give the Cards’ a 14-0 advantage. Second Quarter Both squads knuckled down to tough line play, and neither could score. Third Quarter Hynes went 33 yards to set up the touchdown plunge by Stevens Shoemaker then added the point after. Spitzenberger then scored again 10 plays later after St. Ma ry’s recovered the kick-off fum ble. , Fourth Quarter Bishop Ryan ran their only touchdown in this period on a 58 yard run. They successfully con verted. Score by Quarters SMA 14 0 18 0 B. Ryan 0007 Pascoes Are Feted; Family Will Move Employees of the local Lee lore entertained at a farewell dinner party for their former manager, Stewart Pascoe, who will leave October 15 to manage a new Lee store at Great Falls, Mont. After the dinner, employees and their husbands were invited to the Pascoe home. A new manager has not yet been named to replace Mr. Pad f'OC. The family will leave later in October after Mr. Pascoe has found housing in Great Falls. Juracek Gets High Conservation Office Elmer Juracek, an O’Neill far mer and rancher, was elected to a high office in the Nebraska As sociation of Soil and Water con servation districts. Juracek was elected vice-pres I ident of Nebraska’s 87 districts at the group’s annual meeting. Ik' is a former area director here. Several interesting facts came . to light at the meeting. There are now 25.000 irrigation wells in the state. From 500 to 700 new ones were drilled this year according to a spokesman. A mtutgre rnimi »lu* im mmm Saturday afternoon for tht AM day but attendance Mhg, with Governor Brooks |m ■ M was much better. Spokesmen for both (lie cmflc Dakota and Nebraska assocormna believed it was one of the fmemt rodeos they had seen this year. Particular credit should m « the producers of the stock The bulls and bareback brones «ctp some of the finest and rcugHMt O’Neill rodeo goers have «sm for some time. Hollenbeck Op* thers of Longpine and W M, QT Connor and Sons of Elsie wen? the producers. Although it would he difflaA to point to any one partkndap event to explain Nebraska* Im (lie lack of cowgirls parftrlpM lug in the barrel race hurt, pew baps, more than anything. AM one Nebraska girl placed hi Dm money. Here is a listing of first, '•ccan* and third places in all events Sat urday and Sunday: Hull Hiding Saturday—Sterling Bowers, a* well, 1st; Gary Hebbert, Ashby. 2nd; Dick Wolf, Fairfax, .3rfl Sun day—Byron Johnson, Burwell. 1st i Warren Melvin, Reliance. JAfc Sterling Bowers, 3rd. Saddle Brone Hiding Saturday—Bud Day, Faith. 1st; Gene Maynard, Dupree, 2nd; Ho ward Parker, Gordon, 3rtt 3u» diiy—Howard Parker, Gordon, 1st; Veldon Morgan, Ellsworth. 2nd; Don Little, Pine Ridge, 3rd Calf Hoping Saturday Larry Trenary, Ar thur, 1st; Smokey Jensen, White j River, 2nd; Elver Lord, Vale* tine, 3rd. Sunday—Larry Tnawgy Arthur, 1st; Wayne Cornish. Val entine, 2nd; Randy Johnston. Her Heights, 3rd. Steer Wrestling Saturday-Buzz DeNaeycr. Val entine, 1st; Wayne Cornish. VaV entine, 2nd; Smokey Jensen, While River, 3rd. Sunday Max CornMg Valentine, 1st, Buzz DeNaryey, Valentine, 2nd; Smokey Jrnseit White River 3rd. Bareback Brone Biding Saturday—Tony Svoboda, FUirwel 1st; Sterling Bowers, Burwell, 2nd; and a tie for third, Jim Svobafe, Burwell and Bud Day, Faith. Su* day—Jim Svoboda, Burwell 1M; Dick Wolfe, Fairfax, 2nd; Hop Werdel, Highmore, 3rd. Ladies Barrel Baer Saturday—Carol Lehman, Ft Pierre, 1st; Phyllis Schlemme. Ft Pierre, 2nd; Sharon Johnston. He* Heights, 3rd. Sunday — SSiartm Johnston, Ree Heights, 1st, I»mi» Badger, Ft. Pierre, 2nd, PhyBk Schlemme, 3rd. _ Sale Dates Claimed WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14- 23 annua* Holt district stocker-feeder sale m O’Neill at sale bam. SATURDAY, Oct. 17-4-H sale in O’Neill, proceeds to lMkmjf State 4-H camp. MONDAY, Oct. 19, Select Here ford Feeder Sale, at O’NeiB Live stock market. Holt County Here ford Breeders Association MONDAY, Oct. 26— Persriaf property and livestock, Fred Ow en/, 2 miles southeast ot Inman Ed Thorin, auctioneer. Local Businesses Buv Ak-Sar-Ben 4-H Calves Several local concerns purchas ed 4-H calves at the Ak-Sar-fVs show in Omaha. They included the O'Neil) Xstom al bank, First National bank. Fir# National hank of Atkinson; Cham hers State Bank, Chamt>ers; Far mers State bank of Ewing; I Production Credit Association .nr the Lumtx’r and Grain companj at i Elgin. A number of calves purc'ri&frt. at O’Neill Stoclcer-Feeder Cat ; Show and sale last year roadr t I good record at Ak-Sar-Ben. Ak-Sar-Ben Results Final results of the Ak-Sar-Be* i livestock show are as follows: Marcene Sehmiser, Ewing bhjr | for steer; Dennis Funk, Clearwa ter, red for steer; Donald Oe mens, Amelia, 2 reds fur sw*** Gary* Gillespie, O’Neill red 'mr steer; Perry and Marvin T>awes, O’Neill, red for steer and lanj Dawes, red for steer.
