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    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.