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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1960)
Trying to decide which to take, $>0,000 In cash or a thorough bred Kentucky champion race horse, is Itillic Marcellus, (center) owner of Marcellus Tractor of O’Neill. Marcellus wan named first place winner In a national sales contest s|>onsored by Ford Motor Company's Tractor and Implement Division. At left Is John J. Dzorni, manager of Tructor and Implement Division’s Kansas City regional sales office. At right is Dale Theobald, an official of O’Shea Kogers Tractor and Kqulpment Company of IJneoln, Nebraska, dis tributorship handling the territory in which Mr. Marcellus operates. The 26-year-old Marcellus received his Ford franchise only last April. Tlie “Dealer (irand National” contest was open to the company’s 2,500 dealers. Incidentally, Mr. Marcellus decided on the $20,000. Moon Services Held Tuesday At Stuart Funeral services were held Tues day, Jan. 26, at the Stuart Com munity Church for Wilbur Vaughn Moon, 12, who was found dead Jan uary 23 afternoon in the haymow of his father’s barn. Rev. Herbert C. Young conduct ed family services at 11 a.m. and public services at 2:00 p.m. Burial was at Stuart, Music was furnished by a quar tet composed of Robert Brayton, Mark Nelson, Ora Yarges and Mrs. Norris Coats. Mrs. Mark Nel son was organist. Pallbearers were Bob Green field and Raymond Johnson of Stuart, Richard Hovey of O’Neill and Howard Hovey of Herrick, S. D., Ronnie Boettcher of Omaha ; and Norman Boettcher of Con- ' cordia. Mo, j Last spring Vaughn won the | Group 1 District Arithmetic Con- j test sponsored by the Holt County Teacher's Association Vaughn Moon was born March 24. 1948 at Stuart. 11c is survived by his parents and maternal grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. John N. Johnson of Newport. The youth’s death was ruled ac cidental following an investigation by Sheriff Leo Tomjaek and County j Attorney William Griffin. The boy ' was found with a hay rope en tangled around his neck. It was assumed lie had a fainting spell while entangled with a rope tied with a slip knot. Honor Roll Is Given Thehonor roll for the O'Neill High School has been annuonced as follows: Seniors AAAAA. Paula Reed and Nancy Wray; AAAAB, Janet Krugman, AAAB, Richard F.rnst and Bonnoy Laurence; AABB, Con nie Johnson, Joyce Summers and Gerald Reynolds* in; BBAAA, Carol Harmon; BBA, Mike Spitzenberger. Juniors AAAAA, Marion Rosen krans; AABB, Bill Fricke. Sophomores AAAA, Kay I <ec Rees and Melvin Sanders; BBAAA, Joan Pease. Freshmen AAAA, Ann Johnson; AABB, Terry Kurtz and Keith ' Reynoldson. Four From Holt Receive Degrees Four Holt county students were among the 373 students to receive degrees Saturday morning at the University of Nebraska’s mid-year commencement exercises. They are: Donald W. Werkmeis ter of Ewing, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture; Lorraine E. He- i wett of O'Neill, Bachelor of Arts Francis A. Murray of O'Neill Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Frank J. Ha mik of Stuart, Bachelor of Scienci in Education. Werkmeister is a son of Mr. ant Mrs. Harold Werkmeister of Ewinj and is a graduate of the Wheelei county high school at Bartlett. Hi l>egan teaching vocational agricul ture at Scribner the second semes ter. Miss Hewett is the daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. Dayle Hewett of O Neill. She will continue her studj in church social work at McCor mick Theological Seminary, Chic ago. Francis Murray is a son of Mi ami Mrs. Frank Murray of O'Neill He is a graduate of the Neligh high school and commenced work Mon day at the Becton and Dickensen Medical and Supply Co., at Colum bus us assistant manager in the accounting department. Frank J. llamik is a son of Mr and Mrs. Frank J. llamik, sr., ol Stuart and is a graduate of the Stuart high school. Another Penney Man Retires Herman Janzing, a familiar fi gure in the Penny Store, retired February 1 after an eight and one half year employment record with the local Penney Store. Janzing expects to take it easy and will divert his interest to farm ing, livestock raising and private business. Mr. and Mrs. Janzing are the parents of one daughter, Joyce Ann and four sons, Ronald, John, Bern ard and Eugene. Joyce Ann and Ronald are at home. John is employed by the Seger Oil Company; Bernard is parts man with the Mack Motor Trucks at Wichita, Kan., and Eu gene is with a construction com pany with headquarters at Lincoln. Janzing has lieen active in com munity affairs the past ten years and will continue his interest in local affairs. Cardinals Beat Spencer; Now Ranked Seventh St. Mary's Cardinals vaulted in to the News Top Ten ratings at the number 7 slot last week after defeating Spencer Friday night. BO-55, but are expected to lose their position after losing Tuesday evening to an unrated Spalding team. St. Mary’s opened the game with an early 14-6 lead, with Spencer cutting the lead at halftime to : 30-27. In the second half Spencer took their only lead of 41-39 with ■ the Cardinals quickly tying the score. Dick Cleary hit a long shot to end the third quarter at 43-41 The Cardinals built up a seven, point margin in the final quarter1 and controlled the ball in the clos ing moments. Gale Stevens was high man with 20 points. Bernard Kamphaus did a fine job of offen sive rebounding in addition to add ing 17 points to the score. The reserves chalked up victory number eight, winning over Spen cer reserves, 50-41. After a 38-19 halftime lead they turned the game over to third and fourth units who held out for the victory. Score by Quarters SMA '15 15 13 17—60 Spencer 13 14 14 14—55 j Eagles Win In First NCNC Round by 75-45 O'Neill High took an easy 75-45 victory over Wood Lake Monday night in the first round of the North Central Nebraska Conference Tour nament at Ainsworth. The win ad vanced the Eagles to the semi final round where they will meet Valentine at 7 p.m. Thursday (to night). John Kurtz led the Eagles with eight field goals and four free at tempts made good for a total of 20. Wood Lake took advantage of j charity tosses, hitting for 21, but , couldn't get the needed field goals. I scoring only 12. O’Neill took an early lead and the halftime score was 33-23. They i continued in the third quarter with 15 more points and the fourth quar ter spurted far in the lead with 27 added to the score. Second string I players saw plenty of action. Score bv Quarters O'Neill ' 17 16 15 27—75 Wood Lake 8 15 9 13 45 Other first round tournament re-! suits were Springview, 62 Long Pine, 42; Valentine, 62 Atkinson, ' j 43; Bassett, 61 Stuart, 30; and Ainsworth, 73 Springview, 43. — Inman Wins Three After Poor Holt Showing After the poor showing in the j Holt County Tourney the Inman Tigers have picked up three wins. Last Tuesday Bert Smith, Roger Tompkins and Keith Kivett led the visiting Tigers to a 56-38 win over Chambers by scoring 16, 15, and 13 points respectively. D. El kins led the losers with 9 points. Friday the 29th was the same story when St. Boniface of Elgin felt the scoring punch of Tomp kins (18) and Bert Smith (15) points in a 53-47 win for the Tigers. C. Stradwitter led St. Boniface with 17 points. The air was filled with basket balls Tuesday night, February 2, with a total of 66 field goals being scored. Inman hit 36 fielders to the Elgin High School’s 30. In the second SPECIAL CATTLE SALE THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 11 1000 TO 1500 HEAD This sale will feature 600 head of the Dewey and Larry Schaffer cattle 225 3 year old first calf Hereford heifers 75 Good age Hereford cows 325 Choice Hereford yearling steers Also many other good cattle including 85 choice Hereford calves from | Louis and Stanley Sojka. For this sale we will sell hogs at 10:30 and will start selling cattle at 1:00 o'clock. O’NEILL LIVESTOCK MARKET PHONE 2 Verne and Leigh Reynoldson, Mgrs. quarter the Tigers hit 15 basket: to gain a lead that was needed b; the end of the game which ende< 79-77 Inman. Keith Kivett. Roger Tompkins 1 and Bob Pribil led the Tigers wit! .’3. 22, and 15 points respectively. Bert Smith the rebounding cen i ter for the Tigers, left the gam< via the foul route early in tin game His position was taken ovc by Bill Coventry, a 6' 4" fresh man who dumped in 7 points an< controlled both banghoards. Dean Faubel of Elgin was thi standout player of the evening ■ hitting 35 points. Coach Miller sail [that this junior boy is the greates little ball player that he has seei all vear. G. Busteed, a freshmai center, gave Faubel and Oompaty help by pushing through 17 innnts j Inman travels to Meadow Gro\ ; Friday night. O'Neill Eagles Lose To Pierce In Real Thriller The O'Neill Eagles lost th ground they gained with las week’s Ainsworth victory, whe they went down to Fierce Frida; night, 37-36 in a game played a Pierce. The O'Neill team experience one of their coldest nights thi season, hitting tmly 15ro the firs half. With a 12-7 score at the firs quarter’s end, O'Neill had ndde only 6 more points by halftone t make it 23-13. The Eagles rallied slightly in th third quarter adding 15 to com within two points by the quarter’ end. hut failed to add the essentia two points to win in the last perioc Don Schaaf hit five field goal to lead the scoring with Bob Eb scoring four field goals. The O’Neill reserves lost thei game by just one point too. 33-31 Richard Hill was high with 1 points for the reserve team. Score bv Quarters O'Neill 7 6 15 &-3 Pierce 12 11 7 7—3 O'Neill Locals A-2c Fred A. Frerichs is homi on a 30-day furlough after heini stationed for IS months in Libya Africa. He will return to Dover i Delaware, I Str> Out oil McKay was Wed 1 n< sd* s hostess for an afternoon t.uW’ ii coffee in Ixwwr of Mrs Bob Lernek A group of friends i Were gill -ts, The family left h'l'i day tor Sieux Qty where Mr l^m.'k will be a representative ' for the Keystone Readers Book ’ Concern They will l*e at home at 2325 Williams Ave . Sioux City A group of friends were guests I of Mrs. Joe Olletuiiek Tuesday af ternoon in a surprise gesture hon ! oring her on her birthday. Pake and coffee were servid. 1 Mrs. Mike Smith entertained a t group of friends at two tables of ' bridge at the Town House Tuos ' day evening. Mary Elizabeth Gatz. daughter of Mr and Mrs C. J Gatz, Miss Edith Gallagher, daughter of Mr and Mrs, James Gallagher and Ellen Izihaus, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Lohaus returned to Omaha Tuesday after spending the semester break with their t families. They are students at St t Mary's College Mr and Mrs Cliarles Meiena were Sunday guests in the home of her nephew. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kti veik it Niobrara Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jewell of; ' j Dallas. S D. were Saturday guests m the home of their niece and ’ nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mor ' row. Mr and Mrs Charles Bauer I and son. Bill of Ewing and Mrs , Myrtle Jewell were also Saturday ’ | guests there. '! Sunday dinner and afternoon J i guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin ! | Ziska and family were his pnr ' ents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ziska of Stuart. Mrs. Victor Halva observed her birthday January 14 with only one guest present for the occasion, i A1 J. Sauser left January 25 for 1 I/is Angeles, Calif. where he will visit his sister and brother-in-law, ' Mr. and Mrs. Willis Gay and his ’ nephew, S-Sgt. Donald C. Sauser and family, who lives at Orcutt. r Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dexter and family and John Auserod, 2 Burwell, were Sunday guests at the Dick Tomlinson home. Mrs. K. L. Van Voorhis is in j 5 Scottsbluff this week visiting her j j mother who is ill. Mrs. James Kelly left Tuesday j for Omaha front w'here she de parted Thursday for Beaufort, S. C. She will spend the winter there with her son and his wife. ; Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. t John Wallen sr. were John Bacon , of Exeter, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Holm , gren and John Obert, all of Onta- ' iui and Rev. Kenneth Karl of ’ [jeigh. They were here to attend ' the wedding of the Wallen’s son John jr Atr and Airs Jen an* Allen and 1 wwi, Rick of Page and their da ugh- i ter, Ali-s Jenelle Allen of Sums City were Sunday brunch guests! m the home of Atr. Allen's mother 1 : Mrs Mary lXisntko Airs. Vern Tarr and son lkd- I >f Coiome. S. I' brought her laughter. Patricia to O'Neill where - she attends St. Alary’s Academy 1 and were Sunday overnight guests ' in the home of her parents, Mr md Atrs Alike London Mrs Cliff Flakus and brother David London of Spalding were Monday evening guests in the Alike London home. Mr and Mr- Alvin Nelson and -ons of Oakdale were Sunday . guests in the home of Air and Mrs Arme Mace and Mrs Kfta Brit tell Airs Fdwarrt Mnttem of Civigh ton sjont the past week with Alt | and Airs, William Mattern Mrs H. J. Birmingham returned | Tuesday evening from Omaha i w here she had visited her -on in- , law and daughter Air and Airs IJoyd Mareellu >1 Tieoriveria. Calif, arrived Wed nesday at the home of his brother and -i-t. i a ' :w. Ah', and Airs Melvin Mareellus They left I"ues day for their California home , While here they attended funeral , services for her brother. Raymond Femholt/ at Winner S, D. Mr and Mrs. D. B. Alareellus, who had been guests in tlteir son’s home at California accompanied them to their home at Stuart, Sharon Alareellus, daughter ot Alt- and Mrs Melvin Alareellus , was a Tuesday to Sunday guest in , her parent's home She is a student at the University of Nebraska at j Lincoln. Sunday evening guests in the home of Mr and Airs Harold ' Mlinar were Air and Mrs. Henry i Sehierlok of Norfolk, Air and Air Hill I/tfquest and family of Ewing and Mr. and Mrs, IX>n Larson of; O’Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Elders, Lin coln were weekend guests at the home of Mrs. Elders’ parents, Mr and Mrs. H. L. Lindberg. Air. and Mrs. H. G. Kruse were called to Algona, la., Sunday In cause of the death of Airs. Kruse's brother there. Mrs. Jerome Spinier, Boh Matt hew's and Mrs. Daryl Adamson ac companied Mrs. Alice Matthews and Mrs. Ina Wolf to Norfolk Tues day. From there the two ladies I cent to Window. Art*., where the\ cill visit a sister Mrs I.iwrenoe Rothchlld. Atkin ion. was a Thursday aftemaa i si tor at the home of her (laugh er and family Mr. and Mrs Pick fomhnson. Dr and Mrs. Rex. Wilson left Saturday to spend the «i'(k in diami, Fla They are expected tome Sunday. Mrs Myron Moomer. Randolph, (sited a few days tins week at lie home of her son. Mr. and Mrs till Petsehe .and family St. Mary's News Ust Tuesday. Jan 26 was the (unior-Senior Prom and it was ett oyed hy all Tlte juniors did a ery nice jo!' of getting it put on Hi.' theme was Stairway to tin* bars This Friday night the Cards will day Niobrara and it will lx* a ionic game. It should lv a real ;,>h1 game for Niobrara has only ost one game of the season and hat was to Spencer and as most if you probably know hy now that he Cards defeated Spencer last •'l’iday night hy a 00-a5 score. The seniors received their pic arcs th.s week and all are happy vith thetn. Monday afternoon at 2 !>> was g .,!lit> Reieption whith »my , \ . and Iris were received in. \fter the iveeption there was a lance and a lunch for them. lit It M. 4 «»» I’ll MKKT Holt County Rural Youth met lanuary 26 at the Courthouse All ies lie re for a regular business licet mg Plans wore discussed fur he Mid-Winter Institute at ngton, February 5 and 6. The group went on a tour to tollin’s where they witnessed a lenionstration on processing honey Morgan Ward Accountant & Auditor Tax Service Holden Bldg. O’Neill. Nchr. Plutne 414 , J clorox as_rs 59* NORTHERN AESi*00" 'S! 39* NORTHERN £' 20' WAXTEX SJS° _ _“Jt 23* CRISCO a 87* | FLUFFO ao.»funKa_ . r_ _* 83* I