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Volume 79—Number 40 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, January 28, 1960 Seven Cents
Billie Marcellos Wins *20,000 Today
Sageser, Maker
Of Harnesses,
Succumbs at 84
CHAMBERS E. V Sageser, si
best-known in this area as "Dode"
died early Thursday morning,
Jan. 21, at his home here He had
suffered se\eral short illnesses in
recent years.
Funeral services were conducted
at 2 pm, Saturday, Jan 23. at the
Methodist ehurrh in Chandlers
with the Rev. Charles Cox, church
pastor, officiating Music was pro
vided by a quartette which includ
ed E R Baker, Hay Hoffman.
Mrs Ernest Durre and Mrs Stan
ley Elkins, all of this locality. They
sang "In the Garden", "Does He
Care?" and "Rock of Ages" Mrs.
Elwyn Robertson was organist.
Pallbearers were Arnie Mace.
William Rrtterbush, Eric Dankert.
Duane Carson, C. V. Robertson
and Rulien Pelt/er Flowers were
arranged by Mrs Pelt/er and Mrs.
Ritterbush. Burial was in the
Chambers cemetery under direc
tion of Biglin's.
The late Eldoris Vernon Sageser.
youngest child of James W and
Mary Sageser, was torn in Afton.
Ia., Septemiier 21, 1873. He came
to Holt county with his parents in
188 ti.
On September »0. 19611. lie was
united in marriage with Elsie
Mai* Thompson. The couple re
sldisl in Chambers about to
years during which time the lute
Mr. Sageser owin'd anil operated
a harness shop which featured
hand made harness.
Later the couple purchased a
farm 44 miles west of Chambers
where they resided until October
1343 when they moved to Seattle,
Wash. A short time later the Sng
esers moved to Seclro Woolley,
Wash where Mr. Sageser worked
as a carpenter and painter and vis
ited frequently with members of
^ I'licn ind
ino
*'Mr. Sageser was regarded as
an industrious worker and away*
kept busy, except when lured 1 >
his favorite hobby: fishing.
Following the death of his wife
in Sedro Woolley tshe was buried
at Chambers January 28. VKJ'K
"Dode" continued to make Scuio
Woolley his home until the summer
of 1955 when he sold his Washing
ton home and returned to Charn
bers to spend the remaining four
years of his life He kept house
himself here except for one year
during which he made his home
with Mr. and Mrs. Dunne Carson.
In spite of declining health In
recent years, he managed to
hunt ami fish frequently and en
joy.si daily visits with friends.
Survivors include: Sister Mrs.
F E Perrin of Seattle; brother
M L. (Link) of Chambers; niece
Mrs. A. J Fonts of Seattle; ne
phews Bower Sageser of Manhat
tan Kans . and Vern of Amelia;
other nieces and nephews residing
in Oklahoma; several cousins, in
cluding Dale Sageser of Seattle;
also numerous friends both here
and in Washington. , . ..
He was preceded vn death by his
parents; two brothers one dying
in infancy and the other. Avery,
in Oklahoma about a year ago.
Filly Wins
Bill Held returned Sunday eve
ning. Jan. 24 from Denver. Colo,
where he had spent the week at
the National Livestock show and
•ale. , , ..
Held had a filly entered in the
Appaloosa division. Alsoome, a
1959 filly, stood first in a class of
17 and went on to top the sale of
her age class. She was purchased
by a buyer from Stafford. N. Y.
Held is well-known among Appa
* loosa breeders. being one of the
first in the state.
Tom Schoberg, pictured above, has been named mainteiuince
su|M'iintendent at the O’Neill State highway deportment shed.—The
Frontier photo and eng rating
Rev. Hart to Moderate
Niobrara Presbytery
Rev. John Hart, O'Neill Presby
terian pastor, was elected modera
tor of the Niobrara Presbytery
last week at a meeting at Wayne
Rev. Hart wall preside at all reg
ular anil special meetings of the
Presbytery for the coming year.
Rev. Hart will also l>e chairman
. of the Presbytery Council, winch
codln ts the affairs of the Presby
tery.
Weston Whittwer, another O’Neill
resident, was elected to the coun
cil a for three year term Ton
Lambert, Chambers, was named
alternate representative for the
Presbytery National meeting it
Cleveland, Ohio, in May. Princi
ple delegate to that meeting i>
Charles Mulford. Stuart, who is a
past moderator ot the Presbytery.
85 Present At
Irrigation Meet
Tuesday Night
Some 85 ranchers and landhold
ers met Tuesday night in the Holt
court house assemly room to hear
irrigation authorities give more in
formation on the possibilities ot
‘the Atkinson-O’Neill irrigation pro
| ject*
1 Larry Donegan, who is with the
Portland cement association, and
Vnl Kuska, retired Burlington rail
way representative who is well-in
formed on irrigation problems.
The two men opened the meeting
by giving the land owners rea
sons why irrigation pays.
Following this, Gordon Wendler.
Gib Johnson and Ed Sevcik. re*
clamation Bureau men imm /\ms
worth, again presented the facts of
the Atkinson-O’Ncill project t»y
showing graphs and charts on the
project.
After this presentation the meet
ing was opened to questions and
answers.
Last week’s Frontier earned
questions and answers which were
again asked at Tuesday s meeting.
J. Hayes To Serve
Year in Penitentiary
James C. Hayes, Stuart, was
sentenced to one year in the State
Penitentiary at Lincoln by Judgi
Lyle Jackson in District Court Sat
urday after he pleaded guilty to
no-fund check charges.
Haves was held in Holt county
jail on $ UK) t»ond after he had
written a no-fund check for $111
on the Tri-County Bank to the IGA
Grocery at Stuart.
Ambrose Biglin
Funeral Friday
Funeral serivees will be held Fri
day at 10 a.m. at St. Patricks Cath
olic church for Ambrose K- Big
lin. Rosary will he tonight (Thurs
day) at Biglin’s chapel at 8 p.m
The body will lay in state from
3 to 9 p.m. today.
Father Robert Duffy will conduct
the services. Burial will lie in Cal
van cemetery.
Mr, Biglin died early Wednesday
morning at the Atkinson Memoria
hospital at the age of t>6.
Ambrose Eugene Biglin was borr
April 13, 1893, in O'Neill, the sor
t Owen K an I Margaret McCanr
Biglin. He was a hanker in Casper
ur- Iiefore his retirement to O’
Neill.
Suriviors include two children
Margaret A Shomey and Eugem
Biglin, both . f Casper; four sisters
Genevieve. Sioux City ; Sister M
Eugene Sioux City. Sister M. Cal
ixta, Omaha, and Mrs. F. N. Cm
nin. O'Neill.
The Frontier To
Publish Poems
By Mrs. Eby
Beginning with today's Frontier,
the jMx'rns gathered hy Mrs. lK'lla
Eby will be published in the Fron
tier. Each week this newspaper
will print one of the poems.
This week Mrs. Eby has sub
mitted a p«>em written by Edgar
A. Guest enlitbsi "A Father Talks
to his Boy".
A Father Talks to his B<»\
Said a father one day to his
; marvelous son
Though its true that but little
fame I have won.
Did it ever occur to you, look
, ing at me
Now just what I am, I have hap
pened to lie?
You get your opinions from
young minds I know
And youth always thinks that
i old folks are slow.
But your mother and I were once
youthful and gay.
Now how do you fancy we lived
in our day.
There were cocktails to drink
and if drinking was smart
Don't you fancy your dad could
have followed the art?
Do you think for one minute that
you would be here
If your mother had chosen a
sporty career?
If you know what is clever just
open your eyes
I.ook over the world, you can
pick out the wise.
The men who are doing things
day after day
Aren't the sports which you see
in some lighted cafe.
Now I’m fond of pleasure, your
mother is too
But you must have seen that
some things we don’t do.
Did it occur to you what home
would he
If you had no pride in your
I mother and me?
Oh! I wouldn’t hinder one hour
of your fun
Or hamper your youth, for too
quickly it’s done.
But I ask when you are tempted,
that you will reflect
On the manner of men whom
the neighbors respect.
Edgar A. Guest
Val Kuska, retired Burlington railway man, tells farmers and ranchers about irrigation Tuesday
night at the courthouse. Pictured from the left are <iih Johnson, Gordon Wendler and Val Kuska.
The Frontier photo and engraving
Betts Speaker At
Angus Banquet
Merle E. Betts, director of in
formation and research for the
Farm Credit Banks of Omaha, will
be the guest speaker at the Holt
County Angus Breeders Associa
tion Banquet Thursday, Feb. 4
The banquet will be at 6:30 at
the Christ But he ran church.
Betts is also editor of the Farm
: Credit News and edits the Land
| Bank Association Reporter. He is
j a graduate of Iowa State Univer
| sity, receiving his Ph.D. in 1953
in Agriculture and Journalism. He
has written numerous free-lance
articles for farm magazines in the
area.
Auxiliary Meets
The annual Ash Grove auxiliary
meeting, which has been postponed
| a number of times due to storms,
will be held Tuesday. Feb. 2, at
11:30 p.m. at the Ash Grove hall.
Tom Schoberg
Is New Highway
Chief at O'Neill
Tom Schoberg has lieen appoint
ed maintenance superintendent of
the Nebraska State Highway crews
at O'Neill. Schoberg replaces the
late John Osenbaugh who had been
resident engineer.
He began work for the highway
department in 1945 at Spencer and
has been foreman of the mainten
ance crews for some time. He
came to O'Neill in 1951.
There are 34 maintenance men
and two mechanics in the area
which includes all of Holt and Boyd
counties and parts of Rock and
Keya Paha counties.
3-Car Accident
Causes Damage
A three-car collision Friday af
ternoon two miles west of Page
caused aproximately $400 damage
according to investigating officer
E. M. Hastreiter.
The accident was due to the icy
roads and traffic being routed
through one-way spots in snow
drifts.
Mrs. Lillian Ragland of Page was
approaching a hill where there was
one-way traffic. She came over the
hill and collided with Helice Ste
vens of Page who was backing
down through the one-way cut.
The Stevens car then slammed
into a car driven by Catherine
Stevens which was stopped on
the highway.
Some front damage was done to
the Ragland car; the Helice Ste
vens car had damage amounting
to about $350 in both the front and
I rear and the car driven by Cath
erine Stevens had some frontal
! damage. Helice and Catherine are
| sisters.
Frontier Has Problems
The Frontier is rather small this
week but not without .justification.
Jim Jankiewicz, who we report
ed as Jreing in the hospital last
week with appendicitis, has not re
turned to work and so we have
been operating with only one lino
type operator.
John Binkerd, who has been our
pressman and compositor, left the
Frontier Friday to work in Suther
land for Irl Todd, who also used
to work at the Frontier.
Consequently, this has been a
two man operation for the past
week and we have discovered that
there just aren’t enough hours in
the day to do everything.
Gus DeBacker
Retires; John
Enke Is Manager
Gus C. DeBacker announced this
I week that he is retiring as man
| ager of the O'Neill Penney store
j effective February 1. He will be
replaced by John Enke, now at
iTekamah. who will he here Friday.
Mr. DeBacker has been associat
ed with Penney stores for the past
!35 years—20 years here in O'Neill.
1 He managed a store in South Da
kota for 10 years.
DeBacker was active in O'Neill
business during the 20 years he
spent in O'Neill. He served on the
O'Neill city council, is a past presi
dent of the O’Neill Chamber of
Commerce and has been active on
the retail sales committee.
Mr. and Mrs. DeBacker have
four children. They are Father
Thomas of Omaha; Daniel, who
works for a Penney store at Col
umbus; James, who is with the
route division of the Rio Grande
railroad at Denver; and Mrs, Ken
neth (DiAnni Hendrix, who works
for the Colorado highway depart
ment.
Mr. John Enke, who will take
over as manager of the local store
February 1. is married and has
three children.
Hay Bales Burn
Monday Night
O'Neill firemen answered a call
Monday evening about 9 when
some 15 bales of hay caught fire
in an alley behind the American
Gear Co.
The cause of the fire has not
been determined. Damage wras lim
ited to the hay, except for a burn
ed rubber tire on a trailer parked
i in a parking lot next to the alley.
The I li I lit* Marcel Ins fst.mil>’. lit- will lx- given a check lor $20,0041
today at l.incoln for being the national grand champion in a contest
sponsored by the l ord Motor company. Marcellos doesn't know about
the prize and it will come as a complete surprise to him this noon.
The Frontier photographer tohl him that this paper was starting a
new feature column and this picture was taken Tuesday night. From
the left is pictured Candice, 3, Billie's wife, Betty, Cynthia, 2, Billie,
(■ary 10 months, and tiregg, 5.—The Frontier photo and engraving
Assessors Meet
The North Central District as
sessors meeting was held at Ord
Saturday. All counties, except
three, were represented.
State Tax Commissioner Forrest
Johnson was present. Holt county
assessor William F. Wefso and
Boyd county assessor Lee Mathre
attended the meeting.
Thespians To Initiate
Thespian Troupe 8X2 of the O’
Neill high school will hold initia
tion c emonies tonight for 15 jun
iors and seniors. The initiation
will begin at 8 in the bandroom.
Parents or present members and
initiates, faculty members and
their husbands or wives, and the
i board of education are invited.
Conservation Essay
Winners Announced
The judging of the Conservation
essays submitted by the rural
schools was completed tlifS week.
There were 80 entries submit
ted and the judging has narrowed
them down to the final six win
ners.
The winners are Delores Rosen
krans of District 4; teacher Lu
cille Pinkerman; Rita Murphy,
District 168, teacher Christine
Krysl; Keith Krugman of District
17, teacher Dorothy Curran; John
Wabs of District 14, teacher Gene-1
vieve O'Neill; Dwaine G. Skopec
of District 20, teacher Helen Mar
tens: and Edward Fluckey of
District 120, teacher Lucille La-1
Rue.
The winning essays will be print
ed in succeeding issues of The
Frontier. Awards will be made to
pupils and their schools at the
annual meeting of the Holt Soil and
Water Conservation District to be
held March 11, 19444) in O'Neill.
In the Conservation question
contest aired the third Thursday (
of each month, there have been
entries from two or three schools.
Unless more interest is displayed
in this contest during February, it
will be discontinued.
Winners in the January contest
were as follows: Gregory Tenborg
of Emmet, Norman George of O'
Neill and Dwaine Skopec of Em
met.
The deadline date for questions
to be used in February is the 9th.
Bassett Banker Dies
Funeral services for Harry Can
enburg, 75, will be today at the
Bassett Methodist church. Canen
burg was a longtime resident of
Bassett. He died Saturday at No
comis, Fla.
Mr. Canenburg retired as presi
dent of the Bassett Commercial
Bank in 1955 and was vacationing
in Florida with his wife at the
time of his death. The couple are
well known in this area.
Polio Benefit By
Grade School To
Be Sunday Night
Final plans have been made foi
the polio benefit Sunday evening
Mrs. M. B. Marcellos, city chair
man, said Wednesday. The bene
fit is to be given by grade school
children of the O'Neill public si hoo]
Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the schooi
auditorium.
Admission charges for the pro
gram will go to the O’Neill polk
drive. Participating w»ii lie grad<
school vocal and band students and
members of Mrs. W. 13, Melena's
dancing classes. Everyone is in
vited to attend.
Results of the polio drive events
to date were also gi\en by Mrs
MarcelJus and are as follows:
Mother's March, $588.81; Coffee
Day, $27.05; Sale barn collection
$22.36; and Hot County Tournament
collection, $35.75. Other results will
be announced next week.
Rural residents, who were un
derstandably not included in tin
porch light ‘campaign, are urged
to leave contributions at the bank
in the county. All banks have beer
designated to receive contributions
in the the three-way new dimes
drive.
Guardsmen To Play
Harlem Chics Thursday
The New York Harlem Cities
the nation's top colored girl's bas
ketball team, will appear in O’Neil
Thursday night, Feb. 4, as thej
play the Sandhills Guardsmen in £
National Guard sponsored game.
The game will be at the higf
school gymnasium at 8 p.m.
The Harlem Chics tour this
country and Canada, playing ment
teams and using men’s rules. Th<
girls are known for the humor anr
gags worked into their play.
O’Neill firemen answered the call Tuesday night and are shown putting out a hay lire which
started in the alley behind American fJear company. Little damage was done.—The Frontier phop»
and engraving
Billie Marcellos won't know it
until noon today t Thursday i. hut
lie has iHH’ome a fairly rich man
oven m this dav and age
Tins men in Lincoln Billie Mar
cellos will !«• presented with a
check for $2(1,000 as natuvnal grand
champion in a contest sponsored
by the Ford Motor I’umpany The
announcement vv a s made hy
O Shea-Ungers Tractor and Kqu>|>
metit company, distributors of
Ford tractor equipment.
Marcellas actuidlv lias liis
Choice of prizes hot ween the
$‘?0,iHHt check or a thoroughbred
race horse ulrvudv trained mul
entered in the Kentuckv Derby.
If lie w ere to accept the race
horse and the horse should win.
Mareellus could win at least
$100, (WO.
In 195ft the winner of the race.
Tim Tam, won $110,100 1957 s
winner. Iron Liege, won $107.5150
anil the 1950 winner, Needles, won
$123,150
To enter the contest Mareellus
had to sell a certain number of
Ford tractors. Then, for every
tractor sold over this number, he
received another entry blank
During ibis sales contest, tin*
Ford company also held a nation
wide contest among farmers to
determine the most important fea
ture of their new Releeto-Matie
tractor attachment. According to
the company, there are 12 import
tint features to the attachment and
farmers were asked to rank them
in order of their importance.
Then all of the Ford tractor
dealers in America, some 2.0(H) of
them, were asked to estimate the
order of Importance of the 12
Selecto-Mutic features.
Marcellas was the only dealer
to pick the correct sci|uc«cc ol
features and became flic nation
al prize winner, lie works with
Ids father at the Marcellas Ini
piemen) Company here In O’
Neill.
The Marcellas’, along with his
parents, Mr and Mrs. M. R. Mar
cellas. left for Lincoln yesterday
afternoon to accept today’s pre
sentation.
The Frontier arranged with the
O’Shea-Rogers company to have
the Marcellas’ go to Lincoln on
Wednesday so that this paper could
make the announcement and not
have them know about the prize
until he received it this noon at a
luncheon in his honor at the Corn
husker Hotel there.
Both Marcellas and his wife.
Betty, are O’Neill natives Fol
lowing graduation from O'Neill
higli school, they were married
eight years ago and have lived in
O’Neill except for the time lx*
j spent in the service.
The couple lias four lively chil
dren Gregg. 5, Candice, 3, Cyn
thia, 2. and Gary. 10 months, Even
with their duties as busy parents,
both are active in community af
fairs. Last month he was selected
! associate patron of tin* Order oT
Eastern Star and she was solect
I ed associate conductress. Mareel
! lus is also a member of the Ma
sonic Order.
Roth are members of a regular
bowling team and enjoy dancing
and card playing. Tlx* Marc s
family belongs to iho Method t
l church.
lie is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. B. Marcel lus and Betty is i
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Williamson.
O'Neill PCA Loan
Total Increases
James Rooney, secretary-treas
urer of the O'Neill Production
Credit Association, said this week
that some $1,835,000 in loans were
outstanding through his organiza
tion at the close of business Janu
ary 1.
This is a better than $150,000 in
crease over the previous year of
195k. The O'Neill PCA is entirely
owned by farmer-borrowers in the
four-county area served by the
association.