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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
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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.