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XXX PONTTFR WEATHER 1\V/1 1 X XXlfXV Partly cloudy today, todays high ■— near 48 • * i In This Issue 'The Voice of the Beef Empire" Volume 79—Number 31 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, November 26, 1959 Seven Cents Legion Post 115 Boxing Card Pleases Crowd Stuart's pre-golden glove boxing card Saturday night proved to he plenty exciting as two men won on TKO’s. A tair. erased viewed the matches which got better as the evening progressed. The results of the fights which were sponsored by Legion Post 115 of Stuart are as follows: Darrell "Skeet" Cobb, Grand Island. 114, lost to Warren Leseh insky, Palmer, 116. Jerry Smith. Hastings. 10.1. de cisioned Hon Juett Grand Island, 110, in a free-swinging contest. Larry Cooper, Grand Island, 129. decisioned Larry Schwensen, Pal mer, 112, in a dose fight. Eli Gonzales, Grand Island, 141. lost a close decision to Leon Ma this, St Libory, 116, in a crowd pleaser. Gem* Gamer, Grand Island. 119 lost to Dick Martin, Hastings, 141 (close contest). Terry Cobb, Grand Island, 117, scored a TKO over Gary Hacker, Hastings, lift's, when fight was stopped after one round because of eut above Hacker's eye. Dean Pofahl, Ewing, 155, de cisioned Honnie Hawthorne. St. Libory, 151. in Iroxer vs. slugger, respectively. > LeRoy (Butch) Pofahl. Ewing. 155. lost to Eugene Ironshcll, Hast ings, 149, in a rousing contest. Leland Steffen, Sf. Libory, 171, won by a TKO over Roger Craichy, Burwell, 167. in first round. Roger Pofahl, Norfolk, 179, de cisioned Don Kindschuh, Wisner, 17614, after flooring Kindschuh for an eight count in the 3rd round. Darrell Cobb won the Most Pro mising Boxer trophy, and Roger j Pofahl. Norfolk, won the Sports manship trophy. The fighters from Grand Island represented the Heinzman and Son team, and the Pofahl Broth ers are on the O’Neill Legion team O ijBBWWKVHMHKar -a «* ' -” *f!3 '4 ty*#*>*r * , t «MF\<wMMR«tiP .a Workmen start work on the storm sewer project on South Second street. The paving in O’Neill Is not completed but workmen on that project ha ve halted paving because ot bad weather. At Second and Douglas workmen found a box type sewer ju I beneath the surface of the road and it will have to be replaced with the big tile seen in the buckg round here.—The Frontier photo and engraving Jeannette Frickie Wins $20 In Items Contest Jeannette Frieke won $20.00 as first prize winner in the Chamber of Commerce unrelated item con test Friday Other winners were Mrs. Hay Eby, $15.00, Clara Pea cock. $10.00 and Mrs. Laurence Haynes, $5 00. Merchants participating in the contest unveiled their Christmas windows featuring Christmas mer chandise Friday night. Each win dow had one item unrelated to their business. None of the winners picked all the items correctly. The first place winner picked all but three, the second and third place win ners picked all but five and the fourth place winners had six wrong. The items in each window are as follows: Helens Flower Shop, clothes pin clip; M and M Bakery, tooth pick on string; Coyne’s Hardware, cigarette in ash tray; Apparel Shop, red paper bow; Johnsons Drug Store, partial plate; Consumer’s Public Power, j Mirromatic pressure pan; West ern Auto Store, peanut; O'Neill Style Shop, bobby pin; A and M Shoe Store, spool of thread; Ben Franklin Store, pig. Others were McIntosh Jewelry, wood plane; Devoy Drug Store, false teeth; Biglin's, wood stain; I^ee Store, coffee; Laursen Insur ance Agency, cigar; J. C. Penney Store, onion necklace; McCar vllle's Clothing, pretzel in boot; Johnson Jew-elry Store, candy; J. M McDonald’s store, bottle open er; Coast-To-Coast store, paper towel in holder; Saunto s Clothing store, wire connector; Gamble Store, tire valve and apples; O' Neill Drug Store, wish bone and fish bobber; and Shelhamer Oil, button on toy tractor wheel. Extension Board Holds Luncheon Next Tuesday Agricultural Extension board members from Holt and surround ing counties will hold a luncheon meeting in O’Neill Tuesday. Guests will include E. W. Jamke, associate director of extension and Ethel Saxton and Denzil Clegg, district supervisors, all from the University of Nebraska. County Agents, and husbands and wives of all personnel have been invited to attend. The meeting, to be at 12:30 p m. at the Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, will be to discuss methods of education and problems in the agricultural extension program. Counties represented will be Cherry. Keya Paha. Boyd. Brown, Rock. Grant. Hooker. Thomas, Blaine. Loup. Garfield, Wheeler, McPherson, Logan and Holt._ Sale Dates Claimed SATURDAY, November 28- Re gistered Hereford sale of Joe J. Jelinek and sons at the Creighton Livestock pavilion. Selling 65 head of Herefords—45 bulls and 20 fe males. Starts at 1 p.m. Tom Liddy Is Seal Chairman; $1,810 Goal Set Tom Liddy. 1959 Christmas Seal chairman, announced this week hat the Holt county goal for this /ear’s sales is $1,810. Most of the money will go to the local committee to sponsor s-ray trucks. The amount given to the national association will be jsed in medical research to stamp >ut tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, still the nation's number one communicable dis ease. hospitalizes the average pa tient for 222 days. One person dies from the disease every 45 minutes and every 6 minutes someone has contacted the disease. The sales campaign began No vember 16 and Liddy has asked that anyone not receiving seals to please contact him by writing Tom Liddy, O’Neill, Nebraska. Help Fight TB Use Christmas Seals Rail Express Service Stops Yesterday marked the last day for express freight to come to O' Neill by train. From now on all express will come by truck. Both Burlington and Chicago and Northwestern railroads carried the express but area trucking firms will now do the hauling. No schedule had been set for ex press deliveries and spokesmen could not say whether the new method of transportation would speed express shipments. Inman Juniors Hold Three Act Play A good crowd attended the junior class play at the Inman high school recently. The three-act play entitled “Lights Out” was held at the high school. Students acting in the play were Marilyn'-. Siders, Karon Brown, 1 Gene Bi tterfield, Mary Morsbach, Bernice Colman. Philip Breiner Conda Couch, Gary Fick, Keith Kivett, Georgia Herold and James May. Ruth Ann Hansen was prompt er and Kay Kelley presented a violin solo. Kathy Fick, Barbara Keil and Sharon Michaelis sang be tween acts. McKENNA ELECTED Hugh MccKenna, Omaha, has been elected to the office of state vice president of the Scottish Rite Masonic bodies He is the son ol Mrs Mabel McKenna from O’ Neill. Announce Court Terms Terms of the fifteenth judicial district court were announced this week from the office of Judge D. R. Mounts. / Holt county jury terms are March 14 and October 3. Sessions will be held each Monday after noon for motions, demurrers and ex-parte matters. Chmeil's Win Prizes In Oregon Contest Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Chmeil of Coquille, Ore., were winners of $600 free gifts from merchants who participated in the Chamber of Commerce retail trade promotion there. The Chmeils guessed the mer chandise displayed in the 26 win dows to total a value of $614.33. The correct value was $621.07. Mr. Chmeil is a son of Mrs. Stanley Chmeil and the late Mr. Chmeil. They are the parents of four children, Sharol 17, Sue 16, John 12 and Douglas 4. St. Mary's Academy Boosts Sport Prices St. Miry’s Academy has an munced a new price scale for I heir home hnskcTnll anti foot lad names. The new prices are as follows: Si. Mary s grade and h'h sciool students. 2;'>o; other school grade and hi<rh school stu dents, 50c; adults, 75c. St Mary’s season tickets will not he good for adm^ion to this year's St. Mtfl'y's O'Neill I gh g’m< as O'Neill high is the host school. Airport Authority f,\-*ets Here Monday The O’Neill Airport Authority committee met Monday morning to take preliminary steps to se cure a U.S. weather station at the airport here in O'Neill. The group also discussed the uses which money allocated by the federal government for airport im provement might be spent. Mark Harkins Has 61 Years As Lumber Yard Manager; 26 in Inman By Sarah Mlchaelis Special Correspondent Sixty-one years is a long time to be in business, but Mark Harkins, Inman, has done just that. Mr. Harkins has been in the lumber business 61 years- the last 26 at the Finkbine lumber com pany in Inman. If someone was to tell you that nails are selling for 3 cents a pound, lathe, two bundles for 25 cents, and dimension lumber for $15 a thousand foot, everyone would be building new homes. Mr. Harkins can remember when sup plies were selling for just those amounts. Mr. Harkins began work in the ■ lumber business in 1898 at the Ful lerton lumber company in Gris wold. Ia. He became associated with the Finkbine lumber company in 1904 at Duncombe, Ia. He has j worked continuously for that com- | pany until the present time and received a fifty year certificate from the Nebraska Lumber Mer chants Association in 1953 in re cognition of his long service. The men who work with the 85 year old gentleman say that he iooks as if he were 65 — and | when he starts to work, he works I as if he were 45. He enjoys recalling those days ! when prices were quite different than they are today. When Mr. Harkins started in the lumber busi ness. cement was imported from England in barrels. In 1900 they started using lime for plastering. In the early part of this career with Finkbines they were getting white pine and hemlock from Min nesoa and Wisconsin. Then in 1915 i I Finkbines had a lumber mill in ; Mississippi and yellow pine was | shipped north to their yards. : Around 1920 fir lumber started coming from the west. With the many years as a lum ber yard manager, Mr. Harkins has enjoyed several hobbies, namely baseball and gardening. Mr. Harkins recalls the no hit, no run game he pitched as a young fellow for a Webster City, Ia.. team. This particular incident hap pened when they played the pro I fessionals of Webster City. I Mr. Harkins has always spent Mark Harkins, Inman, still on the job after 61 years in the lumber business. His friends say he works like a man of 43.—The Frontier photo and engraving his off duty hours in his garden in the summer time. He raises enough for his family and still has some to sell. On June 4. 1959. Mr and Mrs. Harkins celebrated their fifty-sev enth wedding anniversary. The Finkbine hardware has long been a gathering place for the men of this community. Mr. Har kins has always been able to add his bit to these many gatherings, i Community Services Set for 8 p.m. Here Thanksgiving Day A community Thanksgiving serv er has I een planned by ttie O’ Neill Ministerial Assn, at 8 pm Thanksgiving Day at the First Presbyterian Church here. The Rev. lXm Olmsted, pastor of no Wesleyan Church will give the Thanksgiving message He will la assisted hy the Rev. John Hart of tne Presbyterian Church and the Rev. C. P. Turner of the Center Union Church. An otfermg will be taken for the -id of ihe Ministerial Association. Tins fund is used to assist needy persons. There will also bo special music, Lutherans Schedule Thanksgiving Services Wednesday Night Thanksgiving Eve worship will ho he’d ibis Wednesday at S p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church, O’ Neill. The Rev. A. S Gedvvillo ' sinr, wdl deliver the sermon "Giving Thanks for Our Daily Bread,” The congregation voted to hold Thanks.; ving Eve services to make it possible for those to nt end vviKt will tie going out of town too I illovving day. A special of fering will ho received for the nus n work of the local congrega tion, its District, and Synod. Gene Schneider Earns Wayne State Letter Gene Schneider, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Schneider, was awarded a letter at Wayne State college for foothall, it was announced last week. Schneider, a freshman, was a standout on the St. Mary’s team last year and was chosen as an all-Hftlt county player. Only three freshmen received letters at tin school. Another freshman winner was Jack O'Brien of Valentine. Upperclassmen from the area vho received letters are: Merlin Mitteis, Creighton, Elmer Mahler, Neligh, and Tom Billeter, Valen tine. Edward Myers Funeral Held In St. Paul, Friday .| < orvioos for Edward A Myers, a former resident of the Chambers community, were held November 20 at the First Metho Ust church 'n St. Paul. Mr. Myers l ed Nov. 17 at the Lutheran hospi i! in Grand Island Edward A. Myers was born Octoiler 13, 1885 at Seward. The lv mo' ej to Chambers in 1934 - ' ’ farmed northeast of town until 1944 when they moved to St. Paul. He was preceded in death by his wife and two sons. Survivors are: Sons .Tesse La Moyne of Baltimore, Md., and Edward A. of Grand Island: Seven grandchildren and a brother. r5 dlhearers were Dan Schenck, Everett Caudell, Ralph Sutton, Russel Waterman. Edward Cau dell and Marion Myers._ N-N-T-A instructs Attorney To File Official Protests Holt Team Next Week The All llolt county football team will be announced in next week's issue of The Frontier. A delay in receiving pictures pre vented The Frontier from an nouncing the county’s best this issue. Telephone Directory Will Feature Numbers From 11 Communities Next summer's telephone direc tory will include a yellow page classified section and the telephone exchanges of at least 11 commun ities in this area. Harry Peterson, manager, announced this week. The new directory is a Joint pro ject of the Northwestern Bell and other telephone companies in this area. It is a Result of requests from telephone users and a study of the directory needs. The yellow classified section will list business and professional people under the classified head ings. The town where the business is located will also be listed. The Northwestern Bell exchanges w'hich will he included ate Ains worth. Atkinson, Bristow, Butte, Cody, Crookston, Long Pine, O' Neill, Spencer, Stuart and Valen tine, said Peterson. Other ex changes included will he announc ed at a later date. These exchtinges will he arrang ed in alphabetical order. There will he no change in arrangements for calling lie tween communities, Pe terson added. This will bo the second regional type directory established in Ne braska. The first is the Mid-Ne I raska directory serving 18 ex changes around Grand Island. Creighton Alums Hear University President Here The Creighton University alumni dinner party will be held Monday night at the Town House with the university president. Very Rev. Carl M. Reinert, S. J., as special guest. Alumni, wives and husbands, and parents of Creighton students will attend the dinner. Father Rei nert will tell alumni about recent changes in the Omaha campus and explain Creighton’s future plans. Several other university staff members will be on hand, said Dr. Edward Gleeson, president of the O'Neill Creighton club. About 75 are expected to attend the dinner, which will begin at 7 p.m. O'Neill Fellowship Has Turkey Dinner A turkey dinner was held Sunday evening at the O’Neill Methodist Church by the Adult Fellowship About 60 were present. Singing, scripture lesson and a film, “The Ten Lepers,” followed the dinner. The next meeting will be a Christmas party December 13. The unveiling of the creche scene will also be held then. Senator Nelson Files For Term Senator Frank Nelson thinks work at home on the farm is much more dangerous than the battles of the last Nebraska legislative session. He sprained a foot in brush with a hog in a loading chute and then bruised himself while on a tower mending a windmill. Senator Nelson, dean of the Legislature, payed his filing fee last Tuesday and will try for his seventh term. He spent last Fri day conferring with officials of the North-Nebraska Transportation As sociation successor to the Save the-Trains Association. Irvin Van Cleave Rolls Truck Hauling Gravel Irvin Van Cleave, Stuart who was hauline gravel for the county near the Niobrara river rolled his dump truck about 1 p m. Monday. He was not hurt. Van Cleave said that he met a car on a blind curve and got too far over to the edge of the road. The truck rolled over and stopped on its top in the ditch. Van Cleave drove the truck back to Atkinson. THESPIANS TO GIVE PI^AYR Troupe 882 of the National Thes pian Society met November 18 here in O'Neill. Plans for two one act Christmas plays were discuss ed and material for these plays has been ordered. Peter T. Nelson, 84, of Stuart Dies Saturday STUART Funeral services for Peter T. Nelson, age 8-1, were con ducted Tuesday at 1 p m. from the Stuart Community church with Rev. Herbert Young officiating. Burial was m the IOOF cemetery at Gregory, S. I). Peter T. Nelson was Uirn April 10, 1875 in Kristianstad, Sweden, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frued Nelson. March .'10, 1S'>!) at Wayne he was united in marriage to Sophia PETER V. Nhi.SON Schanneman. They became the parents of six children. The fam ily moved to Holt county in 19-12. Mr. Nelson died Saturday eve ning at the Atkinson Memorial hospital after suffering a heart attack. He had not been ill. His wife preceded him in death. He is survived by a daughter Mrs. Esther Zimmerman of Col ome, S. D. and five sons Clifford and August, both of Stuart; Oliver of Great Bend, Kans. ;Ben of Ida Grove, la. and Leonard of Crooks ton. Luanne Fritton Is Nurses Queen Luanne Fritton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Fritton, was honored in Omaha Friday night when she was crowned the new queen of the Nebraska State Student Nurses Association. She received the honor during the association’s annual Fall For mal at Peony Park. Miss Fritton represented St. Catherine’s Hos pital in Omaha where she is a senior. Other schools represented were Immanuel, Methodist, St. Joseph’s and University hospitals. STUART The attomej or the North Nebraska Transportation As sociation, successor to the Save tin Trains Association, Frida> was ordered to file official pmtests iv gnrding Frontier Air lane s Intent to cancel one North Nebraska roundtnp daily flight and suspend another. Officers and directors of NNTA. conferring in special session, in truded Linar Viren. Omaha at torney. to enter protests with the State Railway Commission. State Aeronautics Commission and Civil Aeronautics Hoard. Viren also was instructed to en ter into oorrcsjxindenee with man agement of North Central Air Lines, Ozark Air Lines and Cen tral Air Lines, all classified as "feeder" carriers, lo determine if one of those carriers would he in terested in succeeding Frontier in Nehraska. NNTA President ,T G Brewster, Stuart hanker, said a committee would he appointed to represent the association at meetings and hearings. A savc-the-planes meet ing is scheduled Friday evening at Chadron. Meanwhile, NNTA is considering asking the Slate Railway Commis sion to order Chicago and North Western Railway company to re store Oniaha-Chndmn Omaha pas senger service if all efforts fail to keep at least one roundtrip plane schedule in force. When the group was known as the Save the-Trains Association, it battled four years to keep trains 15 and 11 on tht‘ 1450-mile line only to see rail pass enger service suspended July 7, 1958. Fay Hill of Gordon. NNTA vice president, said. "For many of the people in North Nebraska the pul> hc transportation picture is wor-e than it was for pioneers. The trains served 43 communities; the planes are serving six points, including Omaha and Chadron, on the north ern route. If we lose the planes there’ll ho nothing left to do hut walk." NNTA officers declared that O’ Neill and Gordon are important communications centers not served 1 y the planes. They agreed that until they are served the plane patronage may not he sufficient. The'1 further believe that eliminat ing Norfolk on the northern route and substituting Grand Island woo'd he more valuable to North Nebraska travelers. Most transcontinental passengers traveling in and out of the Sand hills area are destined to or en roofe from the West coast. At Grand Island thev could make rail, plane and bus connections without trave'in" as far east as Lincoln or Omaha. Making Omaha the pastern terminus, however, is logi cal. NNTA officers said. In the 12-months period under study at the Railway Commission hearing at Valentine relative to discontinuance of the last two trains, the C and NW figures showed 33,000 persons had used the Omaha-Chadron-Omnha trains. Only a fraction of rnis number used the air transport during the experimental use-it-or-lose-it per iod. The air service was author ized on an emergency basis in the fall of 1958 because of the demise of Ihc trains. Air enthusiasts used the ill-fated status of the trains to push the case for air "feeder" service. Pioneer Bertha Gillespie Dies At Her Home Here Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at the First Methodist Church for Mrs. IJoyd G. Gilles pie, a resident of Holt county since 1896. Rev. Glenn Kennicott officiated at 2 p m, service. Pallbearers were Clay Johnson. Jr., Neil Dawes, Norbert Clark, Emmet Crabb, Bob Kurtz and Ralph Young. Burial was at Pro spect Hill cemetery. Mrs. Gillespie died in her home Saturday, at the age of 81. She would have been 82 Sunday. Bertha Emma Fawkes was bom the eldest daughter of Wilbur and Ixrttie Jones Fawkes at Maroa, Macon county. 111, Nvember 2. 1877. She was reared and educated in Illinois and came to Holt County in 1896 with her parents, four hrothers and two sisters. The Fawkes family resided for a short time on a farm near O' Neill but moved to Sioux City following the death of a son. Bertha remained in O’Neill, how ever. On Nov. 30, 1902 she married Lloyd G. Gillespie, son of Mr. and i Mrs. B. S. Gillespie, at the Metho 1 dist Qiurch in O’Neill. Thre< children were born to this un’"' Mrs. Eldon R. (Marjorie) V San Gabriel, Calif., W. B- n t O’Neill, and Eleanor Charlotte who died in 1928. In 1952 the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house. Following their marriage the couple lived in several dwellings MRS. L. <i. UI1 J.KKPIK .n O’Neill until in 1917 when they purchased from Rnmaine Saunders their present home at 315 South First street. Mrs. Gilesp;e had been active 1 the Methodi't Church for over ! 3 years. She was a m mber of the I Eastern Star, Rebakah, WSCS and 1 Woodman Circle lodges. S’,---on 1 ides Mr. Gillespie daughter include - ■* ..Irs. M. I. Davies, Tula. < lif., and Mrs. John Esk Id - Oregon City, Ore- three grand1’ ” " a id a number of great , rr i children.
