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\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!) 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.