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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1959)
STATE HIST SOC LINCOLN. BESR. XXX Twelve Pages WEATMXX Generally fair and mild today , ♦ high today expected to reach 54 The week has been generally mikl with cold spells in the mornings. In This Issue "The Voice of the Beef Empire" Volume 79—Number 32 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, December 3, 1959_ _ Seven Cents Father Rinehart, R. J., president of Creighton I'nlverslty, speaks to members of the O’Neill ami Atkinson Creighton alumni group* at the meeting held Monday night In O’Neill. lectured from left are Monslgnor Timothy O’RulUvan, Dr. Ed Gleeson, president of the O’Neill group, Ilr. and Mrs. F. .1. Mnneuso. Atkinson, president and father Rinehart.—The Frontier photo and engraving City Council OK's Plan To Insure Employees The O'Neill city council met in j session Tuesday night and approv ed the city insurance plan, grant ed bingo licenses, heard a group of high school students and approv ed another paving estimate. In approving the city insurance plan which will effect nine city employees, the city now agrees to pay hospital and medical insur ance and to carry $1,000 life in surance on employees under age 60 and $500 on employees over 60. The cost of such an insurance program is approximately $450 per year. Bingo licenses were granted to the O'Neill legion club and the Knights of Columbus organization here. According to law, license holders must submit a financial record of each game held and give the city 10 percent of the gross receipts from the game. The city must give half of this to the state. Emerson Steele, Darrel Clyde, Harry Beilin and Gerald Reynold son appeared before the council as a part of their project in Ameri can Problems class taught hy Mrs. Lou Reimer. The students petitioned the city to declare that no U-tums be made on 4th street from Douglas to the city limits. The group also asked that a 4-way stop be constructed at the comer of 4th and Adams. Adams street is the street just ; north of the school gymnasium. In other action the council ap proved the third estimate submit ted concerning the paving and con struction in O’Neill. Albert Pospishil Services Held Funeral services for Albert Pos pishil. 62, were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the United Brethren church in Orchard. Burial was in the Grimton cemetery. Mr. Pospishil died suddenly Sun day evening about 7:30 p.m. He had not been ill. The Pospishils live at Oak View Park site. Survivors include his wife, Lela; son, Harold of Sioux City and two grandchildren; a brother, Rudolph, who is hospitalized at Creighton and two sisters, Misses Vlasta and Viola Pospishil. John L. Stenwall Services Held Tuesday At Concord Church Funeral services for John L. Stenwall. 9t). who died in a Lynch . hospital Sunday, were held Tues- j day afternoon at the Concord Lu theran Church. He was l>orn in Sweden. March 26, 1869, and was married to Sara Grandberg in Sweden December 17, 1893. They came to America in July, 1906 and made their home on farms near Oakland, Concord and Allen before retiring to move to Concord. Mrs. Stenwall died in 1940. Mr. Stenwail had made his home with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs. Darlles Sandberg of Spencer, the past four years. Mr. Stenwall is survived by two daughters. Mrs. Sandberg of Spen cer and Mrs. Joseph Nelson of Gresham, Ore.; one son, Lee, Al len; eight grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; four great great grandchildren, and one brother, Gust Stenwall. Oakland. Inman Methodists To Meet Sunday Inman Methodists will have the opportunity to view "Emerging Patterns", a report on the town and country conference held in Wichi ta, Kan., recently. Haney Tompkins, who attended the conference, will show the movie Sunday morning at 11 a m. The movie will start the meet ing which will be held Sunday to organize the official board, board trustees and commission of the Inman Methodist church. A covered dish dinner will be served at noon and new families as well as old families leaving the community will be the guests at! the fellowship. At 1:30 the all church con- j ference will be held. Rev. and Mrs. Robert Embree, district superintendent, will be present. Plans will also be made for com pletion of the Maxcy Memorial addition All members of the In man church are urged to attend the days activities. 50th Anniversary Is Celebrated In Minden, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thies of Minden. Ia., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary November 24. Open house was held at their home from 2 until 5 p.m. Mrs. Thies, the former Mary Storjohann, was united in marriage to Charley Thies of Avoca, Ia. November 24. 1909 at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Storjohann in the Phoenix com munity. The couple began house keeping in Iowa where they locat ed on a farm which Mr. Thies owned and operated. They lived there until 15 years ago when they retired and moved to Minden. The couple became the parents of six children. Five of whom are Mr. and Mn. Charles Thies living. A son, Melvin was killed in World War U. All of the chil dren were present for the occa sion. They are Elmer of Minden; John of Council Bluffs, la., Wilber of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Jessie Perkins and Mrs. Max Jensen, both of Denver, Colo, also 9 grand children. The couple recalled that the weather then was very cold and there was 30 inches of snow on the ground. Mrs. Thies’ sister, Mrs. Minnie Higgins and a brother, John Stor johann attended the celebration. Also present were Mrs. John Stor johann and Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Stewart and sons. A scene from the St. Mary’s Senior class play. “Once and for All”. Pictured are Don Bosn, Mardelle Vitt, Bill Putnam. Colleen Oirkle, and Edwanl Verxal. The play was given with two separ ate casts on Sunday and Monday nights.—The Frontier photo and engraving O'Neill Chamber Sets Turkey Days For Next Week O'Neill Chamber of Commerce representatives have announced the Christmas schedule of events to be held here in O'Neill. The Christmas season begins of ficially tonight as the O'Neill stores will be open until 9 p.m. to help Christmas shoppers. The stores will also be open Thursday nights, December 10 and 17. Next Friday and Saturday will lie Turkey days here in O'Neill. Member stores of the Chamber will each be giving turkeys to the customers who can determine the number of people who will enter the store to register during the two days. Only one turkey will be given to each family. Saturday. Dec. 19, Santa will make his official visit to O’Neill. Stores will close for Christmas eve and Christmas day. Vearl Tuttle Injured Sunday EWING—Vparl Tuttle received a severly mangled arm Sunday af ternoon when he was injured in a eompicker incident. He was taken to the Antelope Memorial hospital in Neligh where an effort is being made to save the injured arm. Mr. Tuttle lives miles south and east of Ewing. Conservation Confab To Be Held Friday Supervisors of the Holt soil and water conservation district will at tend a meeting covering North Central Nebraska Friday. The meeting will be held at the Armory in Broken Bow. In addition to the district super visors, the county ASC committee, the office manager, county ex tension agent, the soil and water conservation district clerk and the work unit conservationist will also attend the meeting. It ^ Raymond Donoho Monday Afternoo Firemen Fight Carpet Pad Fire O'Neill firemen were called out Tuesday afternoon to fight a fire caused when a carpet pad was placed over a floor furnace. The fire was at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Roberts. He is the new manager of the Lee store here. Both Mr. and Mrs. Roberts were at the store when the fire broke out. Mrs. Roberts had just pur chased a new carpet pad and or dered it delivered to her home. The pad was placed over the floor furnace covering and began burning some time later. Firemen rushed to the home, pulled out the pad and sprayed water on the wooden floor which had also start ed to burn. The pad was a total loss and two holes were charred into the floor. Karen Bowers Wins $400 4-H Scholarship Karen Bowers, 16-year-old Bris tow girl, has been awarded a $400 scholarship for 4-H work in Home Improvement. The award was given at the 4-H Congress held in Chicago this past week. The 4-H Congress brought to gether 1,300 members of 4-H clubs who were local prize winners for farm, home or community pro jects. CLOTHING COLLECTION Mrs. Doris Sanders has announc ed that the clothing collection sponsored by the St. Peter's church of Ewing will be held this week. Contact Mrs. Sanders for dona tions Mrs. Robert Martens Named March of Dimes Director Mrs. Robert Martens, Atkinson, j has been named the 1960 Nehras- j ka March of Dimes director for j Holt county, it was announced this week. Directing the campaign in Boyd county will be Mrs. Leroy Nyquist, Spencer. The 1960 March of Dimes is scheduled for January 2-31. The National Foundation has added arthritis and birth defects in addi tion to polio for scientific medical research and study. Ted Hughes, State March of Dimes chairman of Seward, noted that Nebraska has had four times as much polio this year as last and there were eight deaths due to the disease. None of these had re ceived their Salk shots. Dickerson Trial To Be Held December 14 District Judge Lyle Jackson, Ne ligh, has set December 14 for the murder trial of Mrs. Sadie Dick erson, charged in the June 21 slaying of her 21-year-old son, Frank Vanderlinde. The trial will he held at the Boyd county court house at Butte, Nebraska. O'Neill attorney J. D. Cronin, will assist Boyd county attorney William Wills in the prosecution of the woman. Another son, Nyal Franch is also charged with the slaying_ 1^1 jl Stephen Hicks is shown here at his desk surrounded by the many pictures of his family and friends. The old gentleman celebrated his 89th birthday Saturday.—The Frontier photo and engraving Stephen Hicks Celebrates Birthday; Says 1884 Indian Scare Is Hoax Stephen Hicks, an 80 year resi dent of Holt county, quietly cele brated his 89th birthday Saturday at his home in West O’Neill. The old gentleman, who many will remember for the gardening and hedge work that he did for many years here in town, lives alone on West Fremont surround ?d by the many pictures and mo mentos that accumulate during ■19 active years. Mr. Hicks came to the area in 1878 at the age of eight. His father was employed as the government auteher at Ft. Randall at the time and he lived there with his hroth ?r and sister. In 1879 he and his mother came :o Holt county and picked out a site for homesteading. They liked he land along the Redbird creek and in 1880 the family moved onto :hc place. The cabin which the Hicks built an Redbird Creek is the only re maining cabin in the area to tell af that bygone era of homestead ng. The cabin sets by Redbird creek and is located 514 miles east and 1 mile south of Midway gar age. Mr. Hicks was 17 when the great blizzard of 1888 hit the community. He recalls being stranded in a house there with very little to eat and being in charge of 17 girls at the house. He says that the blizzard was the worst ever seen in these parts aryl said that it “dam near wiped out many of the people located in that area.” Mr. Hicks knew many of the Indians who frequented the area during the early days but has this to say about the big Indian scare of 1884. "It wasn’t a scare at all. It was just those soldiers at Ft. Randall having target practice. There wasn’t any scare around Redbird anyway.” Mr. Hirks married Gertrude Hubby in 1892 and farmed at the home place until 1925 when he moved to O'Neill. Three children were born to the union and two of them, both daughters, are still living. A son, Clarence, died in 1953 and Mr. Hicks' wife died in 1950. The daughters are Mrs. Ed j (Julia* Hubby of Hastings and Mrs. (Adeline) Sporn of Glendale, Calif. After he moved to O'Neill, Mr. Hicks was active in the community doing carpentry and masonry work for many years. After that he started doing hedge and yard work and at one time took care of 36 yards here in O'Neill. His son, Clarence, was also doing this work, having worked for Wm. J. Froe lich and caring for that lawn for 16 years. Mr. Hicks now spends his days reminiscing and smoking at his home. He has quite a collection of old match boxes and says some of the neighbor kids come around often and blay with the boxes ilis wrinkled face, white mus tache and flowing hair show his age, but the twinkle in his eye lets everyone know that he has enjoyed every minute of his life. e Electrocuted n Near Center Congressman, Senator Join Frontier Fight Senator Carl Curtis and Con gressman Larry Brock entered Nebraska s fight this week to re tain the Frontier Airline service in Nebraska. Senator Curtis announced Tues day that he has requested a hear ing before the Civil Aeronautics Board. Senator Curtis wrote to CAB chairman James R. Durfee protesting the discontinuance of six Frontier flights and requested an early conference between the 1 oarri and representatives of the State Aeronautics Commission. Before a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Norfolk, Congressman Brock expressed his disapproval of Frontier actions and has ask ed his staff to gather information on Frontier service to northern route patrons. Frontier Airlines intends to stop operations on six flights January 1. This will include the one North Nebraska roundtrip daily flight. Earlier in the week it was re vealed that Clarence Davis, Lin coln attorney and former Solicitor General of the United States, and William C. Burt, Washington, 1). C. attorney, have been retained as special counsel to assist with the case before the CAB, Meanwhile, the North Nebraska Travel Association is continuing its fight by entering protests with the CAB, the State Aeronautics Commission and the State Rail way Commission. The NTTA was represented last week at "Save the Planes" meet ings in Chadron and Alliance and will continue to attend protest meetings against Frontier Airlines action. Area Farmers Cited for Trees University of Nebraska exten sion office announced this week that four area farmers are among the men named certified “tree farmers” by the organization. E. J, Revell. O’Neill, Ernest Billstein, Amelia, Joe Koenig and Harry Frauen, both of Bassett, were the honored farmers. The men received the awards for demonstrating outstanding ability in growing and managing trees. E. J. Revell has 160 acres plant ed to trees for farmstead and field protection and for game habitat. The original windbreak was start ed in 1932 for farmstead protect tion. Revell lives 26 miles north east of O'Neill. Ernest Billstein has 200 acres of trees to furnish protection for livestock. Billstein hoped to har vest fence posts for the first time , this year. ! GILLIGAN ADVANCES IN ROTC Tim Gilligan, son of Mr. and . Mrs. Ben Gilligan, has been nam-1 ed a private first class in Com pany D in the Reserve Officers Training Corps at the Kemper Military Academy, Boonville, Mo. Gilligan. a sophomore, is active' in football and indoor track. Mr. Gilligan was a Kemper cadet of 1925-28. I John G. Cleveland Funeral Services Held Saturday at Orchard Funeral services were conducted 1 Saturday for John G. Cleveland at the Orchard Evangelical United Brethren church with the Rev. Duane VV. Lentz officiating. Burial was in the Orchard Ceme tery and pallbearers were Leo, Don and Vern Cleveland, all of Orchard, Bob Cleveland, Neligh, Keith Jewell, Albion and Earl Me-1 Clanahan, Ewing all nephews. Mr. Cleveland died last Wednes day at the age of 75 at St. An thony's hospital in O'Neill. John George Cleveland was born June 15, 1884, near Moorhead, la. He spent his early life in Iowa,1 later moving with his family to near Blair and then to Pierce Clounty. He had been a resident of the Orchard community for 45 years. He was married to Gertrude Odren September 23, 1917 They 'armed in the Page and Orchard communities until 1942 when they moved to Orchard. He is survived by his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Donna rhompson, Plainview, Mrs. Helen Wilson, Waterloo, and Mrs. Fran cos Dalton, Naperville, HI.; four sons, Archie, Ewing, Kenneth, Vutly, N. J., James, Oceanside Ualif., and Virgil, Spokane, Wash.; >ne step-son Esadore Odren. O’ Neill; 17 grandchildren; four gre ‘ grandchildren; four sisters and 'our brothers. EWING JUNIORS HAVE PLAY The Ewing high school juniors save scheduled iheir class play for i his evening at the Ewing high i school. A young O'Neill man, Raymond J. Donohoe, was electrocuted Mon day afternoon near Center when he came in contact with an UFA power line carrying 7,200 volts of electricity. Donohoe, wtw drives a bread truck route out of O'Neill, was re turning to O'Neill on the route when his truck slipped off the shoulder of the road and struck, the power line iKile The truck smashed the pole and the power line fell to the ground starting a meadow fire Donohoe stopped Mrs. Ernest Foster of Center and asked her to go for help in fighting the fire. Mrs. Foster said that as she drove off she saw Donohoe in her rear view mirror as he was fighting the fire. She said that suddenly he fell and that when she returned he was laying near the wire. Funeral services for Ray Dono hoe will be held this morning from St Patrick's Catholic church, the Rev. Father lktffy officiating. Buria will be in Calvary cemetery. He was born December 25. 1937 at O'Neill, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Donohoe. lie was graduated ■ I RAYMOND DONOHOE from St. Mary's Academy in 1956. He then attended Norfolk Junior college for one year before en tering the service. Donohoe entered the service in 1957 and was stationed in Germany for one year. He had been work ing for the bread company only six weeks. Catholic Daughters held rosary services for Donohoe at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon and another rosary was said Wednesday night at Biglins Funeral Chapel. Pallbearers at the funeral were Terry Wanser, Max Bohn, Jerry Cuddy, Eddie Cuddy, Tom Head and J. J. Hoffman. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Donohoe, three sisters, Mrs. Jerry (KarenI Rotherham, Ewing, Margaret Don ohoe, O'Neill and Mrs. Bud (Dor othy) Cloyd, Sidney, la. Five brothers, Edward James of O' Neill, Ixwiald E. of Portland, Ore., Wayne V. of Glendora, Calif., A-B Lawrence P. in the service at Amarillo, Tex., and Jerry of O'Neill. Cardinals Beat Atkinson, 50-43 at. Mary s v,armnais jumped otr to a big victory Tuesday night as they won their season's opener over Atkinson high school, 50-43 at Atkinson. The game proved a close one until the final quarter. The Card inals led 11-9 at the end of the first quarter, hut trailed 21-24 at halftime and 33-35 at the three quarter mark. Gale Stevens picked up his fourth foul early in the second period and played cautious ball until he erupted in the fourth quar ter on three quick drive-in shots. He continued his deadly accuracy in the final period as he piled up 6 field goals and a pair of Charity tosses in the stanza. Stevens led the scoring with 23 points followed by Gokie who canned 12. G. T. Medcalf of Atkin son dropped 16 points to lead the losers. Neither team had too much luck finding the basket in the opener. St. Mary’s hit on 30 percent of their shots and Atkinson had only 28 percent find the mark. The O’Neill reserves had easy going in a 36 to 14 victory. The young Cardinals held Atkinson to inly 2 points in the second half after trailing 9-12 at halftime. Box Score O’Neill SMA fg ft tp Kamphaus 10-12 jokie 5 2-4 12 Holly 3 0-2 6 Spitzenberger 2 1-5 5 Stevens 10 3-10 23 'bjdloff 2-3 2 Atkinson fg ft tp lobias - 6 0-1 12 f^nk 3 2-5 8 '"’ilven __ o_2 Med-p If 7 2-4 16 Br.u.n 3 M 7 Gail t, field represcnta :ive of the >rfolk Social Security afficc will h< in th Assembly room >f the ' f I ,1 ie Decemt>er 9 ’rom 9:30 - in. to 3:30 p.m.
