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STAie. nui L1N-0LN, NE3ft* XXX f • ' • the heather Twelve Pages The 5-day weather report calls for partly cloudy skies in the Sandhills and cooler tempera- £ tures. Night time temperatures will continue to hover near the freezing point. |n T|,js |ssoe "The Voice of the Beef Empire" Volume 79—Number 25 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, October 15, 1959 Seven Cents Kt. Rev. Timothy O’Sullivan, pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic church in O'Neill, will now be called Monsignor. The new title Is in recognition of his new rank, a domestic prelate. O’Neill Photo Co., photo. The Frontier engraving. Msgr. I. J. O'Sullivan Honored by Pope John Right Reverend Monsignor Timothy O’Sullivan has been raised in the rank of the Catholic Church's heirarchy to the position of domestic prelate by order of His Holiness, Pope John XXIII. The announcement came last week by Most Rev. Gerald T. Bergen, Archbishop of Omaha. Monsignor O’Sullivan was one of 19 priests of the Omaha Archdiocese to bo honored in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the establish ment of Catholicism in this area. According to researchers of the | staff of the True Voice, a Cath olic weekly, the domestic prelate is In the second grade of honorary ■ prelacies In early medieval times the domestic prelate was one of 1 the immediate assistants to the Holy Father. In addition to being pastor here at St. Patrick's, a |mri*h of 2,500 member*. >lsgr. O’Sul _ llvan is also the spiritual loader of all Catholics in Ihe O’Neill deanery. The proper way of addressing the pastor is now with the title j Monsignor since the formal rais ing in rank was complete at the time of the direction of thp Holy Father. The formal method of ad dressing the pastor in writing is with the use of the words, Right Reverend. The everyday garb of Monsig nor O’Sullivan will change just slightly. A small amount of pur ple will lie visible just below the i Roman collar. A slight change will be seen on his cassock. The buttons will lx' purple and also a part of the headpiece worn in church ceremonies. Investiture ceremonies will be held for the 19 priests including Monsignor O’Sullivan sometime in December at St. Cecelia’s ca thedral in Omaha. Msgr. O’Sullivan was born in Ireland. He received his theolog ical training at Thurles seminary, County Tipperary, and at Inns bruck, Austria. Hb was ordained at Thurles cathedral. He came to the United States at the age of 27 with a contingent of Irish-born, newly-ordained priests, landing in New York City in 1915. Because of crerman U-boat ac tivities, the group was delayed in crossing the north Atlantic. The priests were scheduled to leave several times, but each time the awaited ship was torpedoed en route to England. Finally, after a long wait, the nriests sailed. On the return trip the vessel was sunk. Msgr. O’Sullivan's first as signment was as nn assistant of St. Cecelia's cathedral In Oma ha. Later he served the North Bend parish on a supply basis. He was assigned to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel at Tilden where he spent 17 years. He was then trans ferred to Jackson and later to O’Neill upon the death of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. C.. McNamara. He was appointed pastor of the church here December 19, 1949 and has been here since. Mrs. Eppenbach Rites Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Jen nie Irene Eppenbach. 75, of O' Neill, wore held Wednesday at 10 a m at Biglin's chapel, the Rev. R. Granger officiating. Bur ial was at Prospect Hill ceme tery. Mrs. Eppenbach died Monday at St. Anthony's hospital in O' Neill. She was born June 25, 1884, at Agee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs James H. and Mary McAl lister. She was married to Julius Ep penbach August 2, 1908 Mr. Ep penbach preceded her in death in 1942. j She is survived by five daugh ters. Ruth Morgan. Pauline Leise, Faye Bailey and Lois Knoell, all of O'Neill and Doris Storjohann of Burwell; five sons. Ernest, Vern, Lyle, Earl, all of O'Neill and Dale of Kennedy, Nebr. Two children, Hazel McClanahan and Milo Ep penbach, are deceased. Pallbearers were Bennie and Melvin Johring. Hairy Lansworth. Lloyd Whaley. Joseph Grutsch and Milton Suiter. Grenier Home Burns Thursday Morning A serious fire broke out in the Max Grenier home in southwest O'Neill last Thursday. Insurance investigators were called in to make a determina tion of cause. The entire north wall of the home was badly burn ed including the roof on the north side O’Neill firemen were on the scene to put the blaze out. Mr and Mrs. Grenier were :n Wvoming at the time of the firo. Max Hanson Dies CLEARWATER Max Hanson, one of Clearwater’s most prom inent businessmen died at Ante lope Memorial hospital at Neligh last Sunday. Mr. Hanson. 61. was rushed to the hospital the day before when it was feared that he had suffer- | ed a heart attack. . | Mr. Hanson was very active in j community affairs and had lived in the community for 25 years. He was the owner of the Chevro-, let garage. VERTEBRA CRUSHED Douglas Jarman of Chambers, a high school football player re- > ceived a crushed vertebra while playing football October 6. He was , taken to St. Anthony’s hospital in O’Neill. jKNHm CLARENCE SCHMISER . . . the winner Ewing Farmer Is State Champ Corn Picker EWING All Ewing is talking about the Clarence Schmiser fam ily here this week. The farm family near here has had the hand of fortune touch them twice. —Just last week Coralee, a Ewing b'.gh school senior was elected queen of homecoming by the student body. (See picture on sports page.) — Last Monday her father, Clar ence. brought fame to himself on a one row compicker. Clarence was judged winner of the Nebraska State corn picking contest in Neligh. In single-row competition, he rolled up a score of 90.75 to dethrone Elvin Den man of Grand Island, who fin ished seeond with 86 80. The Schmisers are on their way to Straughn, Ind where Mr. Schmiser will compete in the na tional finals. Former Antelope County Woman Dies Tuesday The funeral of Mrs. Dorothy Jauneita Closson, 55. will be held 2 p.m. Friday at the Wesleyan Methodist church, the Rev. M. Grosonbach officiating. Mrs. Closson died Tuesday, Oct. 13 at St. Anthony's hospital in O'Neill. She was born July 19, 1904 at Clearwater, the daughter of Aaron D. and Molly Wyman. She came to Holt county from Ante lope county in 1923. April 11, 1923 she was married to Earl R. Closson. Survivors include: daughter, Mrs. James Finley of Bronson, la.; sons. Raymond of San Diego, Calif, and Clifford of Arlington, Nebr.; brothers, Dale Wyman, Winona, Kans , Clifford of Fre mont; sisters, Zella Suiter of Nor folk, Orpha Switzer of O'Neill and Eva Engdahl of Indianapolis, Ind. Pallbearers will be Robert and Don Strong, Stan Longnecker, Harry Page, Bill Brewster and Lloyd Whaley. Mrs. Ernst, 62, Dies Monday of Heart Ailment The funeral of Mrs. William Bertha Ernst, 62. who died sud denly in O’Neill Monday morning, Oct. 12, was held Wednesday at the Presbyterian church in O’ Neill with 'the Rev. John Hart of ficiating. Burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery. Mrs. Ernst died as the result of a heart attack at her home. She was torn January 20, 1897 at St. Paul, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred and Fredricka Lorenz. She arrived in Holt coun ty with her parents in 1909 from Hamilton county. Nine years later, in 1918, she was married to William Ernst in O’Neill. Mr. Ernst preceded her in death in 1956. Survivors include: daughter, Evelyn of O'Neill; brothers, Fred, Carl and Otto Lorenz of O’Neill and Elmer torenz of Seattle, Wash., sister, Marie Ernst of O’ Neill. A brother. Bill, preceded .■or in death, also two brothers died in infancy. Edward Jauernig Dies Saturday; Funeral Today STUART The funeral of Ed ward Julius Jauernig, 59, a farm laborer, will be held this morn ing (Thursday) 10 a.m. at the Seger chapel, the Rev. Herbert C. Young officiating. Mr. Jauernig died at the Atkin son Memorial hospital October 10 after an illness of several months. , He was born April 7, 1900 in Holt county, the son of John and Frances (Siegel) Jauernig. He never married. He is survived by brothers, John and Frank of Stuart, and ,T >C of Wilbur, Wash., a sister, Mrs. Gilbert (Anna) Campbell of Atkinson Burial was in the Stuart ceme tery. Pallbearers were Art Kopp, Joe, Fritz, and Ed Deseive ar>d Frank and Walter Johnson. Jazz, Classics To Be Featured For Concert Goers A boys’ choir, a jazz pianist and a violinist will appear before con cert goers in O'Neill according to a spokesman for the Commun ity Concert Association. The membership committee re ports the drive successful with membership approximately that of last year. The Boys’ Town choir will open the series November 5 at the O' Neill high school auditorium. The two remaining concerts will be "RedCamp” the Jazz artist and Zvi Zeitlin, one of the foremost violinists in the United States. Dates for the latter two concerts will be announced. Concert leaders chose the three varied groups in an effort to give the members of the association a balanced program. NEEDS ENUMERATORS Gwendolyn Cronk has been ap pointed crew leader of the south ern part of Holt county. Wheeler and Greeley counties as a crew leader in the 5-year agricultural census. She will now take applications for enumerators in those areas. Her telephone number is 3500 in Page. INSTITUTE The Nebraska Council of Churches is conducting an inter denominational institute on Plan ning for Peace ad Christian Com munity- Action this Sunday after noon and evening in O’Neill. The meeting is to begin at 2:30 in the Presbyterian Church. Supper will be served at 6:00 o’clock. HENRY KEI TER . . . retired farmer Henry Keuter; Retired Farmer; Dies at Age 78 The funeral of Henry Keuter, 78, a retired farmer of Stuart for the past 25 years, was held at St. Boniface church Tuesday, Oct. 13, the Rev. A. J. Paschang of ficiating. Mr. Keuter died October 10 at the Atkinson Memorial hospital following an illness of 7 days after suffering a broken hip. Mr. Keuter was a loved and re spected member of the Stuart community and left 23 grandchil dren and 41 great-grandchildren to mourn. Burial was in the Stuart ceme tery and a rosary was held at the Seger funeral home. He was born October 19, 1871 in Luxenburg, la., the son of Barney and Anna (Schneider) Keuter. He was married to Susie Ottele in January of 1899 In Luxenburg and to this union 7 children were born. Six are living. He is survived by sons, Barney and Joe of Emmet, Idaho, John of Hayden Lake, Idaho, daughters, Mrs. John Kramer (Margaret) of Stuart, Mrs. Herman Bremmer '(Olivia) of Boise, Idaho, and Mrs. Joe Sehaaf (Elanore) of Boise, Idaho, brother, George of Boise, Idaho and a sister, Mrs. Pete Engler of Stuart. Pallbearers were Sylvester, Herman, Paul and John Kramer all grandsons, and Ben and Ed win Engler, both nephews. All are of Stuart. Good Results To Date In Safety Contest O'Neill's bicycle safety cam paign got underway with a flour ish during the past few days ac- [ cording to committee leaders. To date 142 bicycle safety post ers have been made by children | of both schools. | Patrolman Shorney, Police Chief j Chris McGinn and William Her- ; man have checked 95 bikes and j 60 of these have received safety stickers either on the first inspec tion or after they have been re paired. Anyone having a bike that was repaired and did not receive a sticker may get one from Mrs. Verlin Peterson. Eighty-six essays were turned in to be judged and there were 38 entries in the slogan contest. A total of 51 boys and girls were given riding tests and 77 children took and passed the written quiz on bicycle safety rules. For the parade the following honors will be awarded: 1st and 2nd for prettiest bikes as well as the funniest bike and for the boys or girls not riding bikes who best show or represent some phase of bicycle safety. The parade will begin 4:30 p m. Thursday at the school and will end at the Safe way parking lot. ANNIVERSARY LYNCH—Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hull of Niobrara will have their 60th wedding anniversary Sunday, Nov. 1 at the Legion hall in Lynch. SI'DDEN DEATH CHAMBERS — Mrs. Cordia Smith received word of the sud den death of her sister, Mrs. Ruth Mehuron of Eugene, Ore. Sunday, Oct. 11. Mrs. Mehuron suffered a heart attack. She was 73 years old and is survived by her two sisters, Mrs. Smith of Chambers and Mrs. Ruby Martin of Los An geles, Calif. Bob Roberts, left, tecelves the keys of O’Neill’s Lee store. The new manager replaces Stewart Paacoe, right, who will be leaving for Great Falls, Mont. Monday. Bob Is married and has two chil dren. He has been associated with the Hested store at Auburn. The Frontier photo and engraving For nearly four hours Tuesday morning, Nebraska members of the State School Lands Board met with officials of the Bureau of Reclamation over the proposed long range plan to provide ditch irrigation facilities north of O' Neill and Atkinson. Toe men representing the state's school lands were present at the meeting to see just how the pro posed reclamation plan would af fect the 4,300 acres of school land involved. The Bureau of Reclamation has gone on record erplaining that ap proximately 71,000 acres of land north of O'Neill and Atkinson is irrigable. Although the school land men did not comment officially on their position, memners of the Bureau of Reclamation present felt that the meeting had defin itely achieved its purpose and said they were happy with the results Carl Dieteipeyer, chairman of the Nebraska board, said a defin ite comment and any action on the part of the board would have to wait until the plan was fully explained to local farmers and Congress when the final plan is complete. Earlier. Joseph Barrett, area development engineer for the Bureau, said the final parts of the report will be complete and on the desks of Congressmen by 1961. The school lands men, although not surprised at the possibilities here, said this was the first they had known of this particular pro ject. It all began several years ago when the first report of this pro ject was made known to local farmers and businessmen At that time information was limited and many questions on the part of farmers affected could not be sat isfactorily answered At the present time, Bureau of Reclamation men feel that their j information is far more complete and should receive hearing of The grand champion stocker-feeder of the ann la! 4 H district sale was shown by I>avid Garwood, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Garwood of Amei a He receives his ribbon from Joe Stutz, Cham ber of Commerce president, right. Howard Mans 1, secretary of the Chamber, awarded the reserve ribbon to Gaylen Warden, the son of Mr. and Mrs. ( aris Warden of Amelia. Both hoys are in the Swan leakers 4-H club. The Frontier photo and engraving. Sale Dates Claimed i SATURDAY, Oct. 17-4-H club sale in O'Neill, proceeds to Halsey State 4-H camp. MONDAY, Oct. 19, Select Here ford Feeder Sale, at O’Neill Live stock market. Holt County Here ford Breeders Association. FRIDAY, Oct. 23 Livestock, furniture, machinery, Mrs. Stan ley Chmeil, 16 miles south of O’ Neill on highway 281 and 5‘/2 miles east; 12:30 p.m. Col. Ed Thorin and Col. A1 (Pug) Horn, auctioneers. SATURDAY, Oct. 24- Land auc tion, 320 acres, Nicholas Ries, ad ministrator, 4 miles north of O’ Neill Drive-In theater on highway 281 and 1 mile west; 1:30 p.m., Col. Wallace O’Connell, auc tioneer. TUESDAY, Oct. 27-Registered Hereford Bulls, H. A. and R. E. Van Horn, 16 miles southeast of O'Neill on highway 20 to sign and 2xk miles southeast; 1 p.m. Char les Corkle, auctioneer. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28-90 head of Herefords, hay and feed, ma chinery, furniture, Fred Lornez, lVt miles southeast of Inman along highway 275 on south side of railroad, 12 noon sharp; Ed Thorin and George Coleman, auc tioneers. LASSO ARTIST CHAMBERS—A good horseman and cowboy can still do it! While tending cattle 20 miles southwest of here Saturday, Dewey Brittell lassoed a coyote. Bounce, the little terrlor of Mr. anti Mrs. Ed. Cunningham of Page, never did like cats. He has all the reason in the world to mistrust them now, dead or alive. Mrs. Cunnigham, with the dead bobcat tells the story below. The Frontier photo and engraving. Page's Little Bounce Got the Bounce But Has Last Laugh at Kitty Now PAGE The heat is off Bounce, the little terrior pup at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Cun ningham near thjs community. And Bounce knows it too. It’s too bad he couldn’t talk however. He could have saved himself a few lickings and harsh words. But now they’ve caught the cul prit—or at least one of them Here’s how Bounce got on the hot seat in the first place: It 1 seems that a great number of young chickens were killed at the Cunningham farm recently. Mrs. Cunningham explained that about half their young brood had been killed over the past few months. The first suspect? Yep, it was Bounce alright. Mrs. Cunningham said the little terrior began to run for cover and got quite sensative about it all. Then a couple of days ago Ed Cunningham shot the young bob cat shown in the picture above. The general feeling around the farm home now is that Bounce didn’t have anything to do with the dead chickens in the first place. Now Ed Is keeping a sharp eye out for momma bobcat and the rest of the litter. So far, none have shown up. How is Bounce taking it all i now? “He still is a bit sensative,” | Mrs. Cunningham explained. “He doesn’t know for sure what you’re , going to do or say when he sees | you now.” local men The Chamber of Continmw la O'Neill has formally WIM both the ar<-a development rw glneer and the regional dWeto of the Bureau of Ib'clnrautW' to their next regularly wMU ed meeting the first Monday at November. Farmers will, as usual, be in vited to the meeting .i&hnugh plans will be made later tn tmw an extensive meeting of inteitig* <*d farmers and ranchers wifi* 1hr Bureau of Reclamation i>eoptr Despite the time that the tang meeting had taken, Bureau re presentatives including fUm.it and William W. Fager of Ainu worth were only able to give m brief description of the pmjeeS which could ditch irrigate TfjBBK acres in the area north of 0"NeiB and Atkinson. The Frontier gave a brief firs* cription of the project several weeks ago anti in future < tit mas a complete explanation of the pro posed project will be made avail able to the farmers and rancher* in this area. Many of the questions directed at the Bureau men were asked to determine just how the irriga tion of school lands would affect the leases of property holders am the 4,300 acres. Although no de finite action was taken, the ;<tract1 lands men will look into tie mat ter and will formulate a general policy at a later date. A representative of the O'Neill Chamber of Commerce was par ticularly interested in how the Bureau men felt local money lending agencies would fed and how far they would extend credit when the increased operating costs would necessarily go up (■encr&lly the Bureau mca to lie veil that credit 111 the O'X f IIT urea would be good tor “good manager” and tlud Uw. farmer who is successful to Ids present dryland farming wn«M also become a good irrigatioa farmer. School lands men as well as the representative of the OTfeiH Chamber of Commerce were par ticularly impressed with I h e amount of research and tiding that had been completed to date. This was particularly true ~m the economic aspects of the pm posed irrigation and reclamation districts. General geographical material had been available bet fore although costs and estimated incomes and farm budgets are now available for inspection by local businessmen and farmers and are more up to date. _ Soil testing results, engineering data, as well as economic esti mates where the individual farm er is involved has been made and will be on review at thp next Chamber meeting. Although a complete rundowx of the method whereby O'Neill’s local citizens as well as the farmers directly affected as help get the project underway cannot be Included in this ilsij. These methods will to- to n series of articles on the adxxn® ages as well as the dlsadrznl ages as the project proguiM “This is certainly no overnight project," Fager said. ‘‘It will be years before all of the land is under irrigation even if farmer* and businessmen decided to all out in promoting the project-" It is anticipated that a good deal of political push will be retired which will necessitate the forma tion of a Reclamation District prior to an Irrigation District. The Bureau men explained that the “ball" would have to be “pushed” locally if farmers were to realize the project. The Recla mation District would have a limited ability to assess ax ad valorum tax to form an orgmto tion that could effectively pnrsert its case to Congress. _ At the present time Bureau me* are completing the study and. are getting it ready for review by the western states, our own re gional officials as well as Cmb gress. . Here is a brief geographical and mechanical description rf the project A more compftetr ex planation will be forthcoming • future editions of The Frontier Bureau of ReclamaCOm neers have found that the hd site for the dam and the river voir It at Norden, some 80 rsHea west of us on the Niobrara rHer. They explain that because si flow conditions and became. H is the only site suitable ter a reservoir, Norden has berv se lected. The O’Neill district w» be the only one being served by that reservoir. Part of the ditch from the re servoir to O’Neill and Atkinsoa would be earth lined (comprrteei earth) and approximately tefl1 of it concrete lined. This would be paid for by the Bureau as well as all laterals and sub-canals in. to the northern areas. 7b e Bureau would also be re quired to bridge the canal ap proximately every mile along Che route. Ranchers and farmers continued on page 12