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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1960)
STM : !I»T 3 V - liut Kay Nlsson and I tennis Kemper were crowned king and qin-en of sports at the Page sports banquet held last Wednesday night. Also pictured are Ronald Parks and Ionise Iaiehcke. Frontier photo by ltennls Iekes. Dennis Kemper; Kay Nissen Are King, Queen of Page Sports Banquet Dennis Kemper and Kay Nissen were crowned King and Queen of Sports Wednesday evening at the athletic banquet which was held at Fellowship hall in the Page Methodist church and was served by the WSCS. Superintendent Vernon Linnaus acted as toastmaster. Dennis Kemper, King of Sports, gave a brief review of the year's athletic prowess, a season of 18 wins and five losses in the basket ball division with first place tro phies at the Sandhills Gateway tournament, the Sandhills Gateway conference and the District tourna ment. They placed second in the Holt County tournament. Kay Nissen, t|ueen of Sport*, reported a fairly successful year In Girl's volleyball with more wins than losses. They entered two tournaments. A game with Chambers, lost by seven points, and Clearwater, a one point loss, were the most exciting games of the year, said Miss Nissen. Linaus introduced Coach Ron Park who, in turn, presented Ralph Brostrom, a former superintendent of the Page school, who spoke to | the group. Mr. Brostrom rernin _ 41. ..4 a nnitn in his profession and told them he had signed a contract as principal of the Jefferson Elementary School in Grand Island a goal he had sot for himself. Mr. Park, a former member of Brostrom’s ball team at Page, and his boys have held a special interest for him with a memory of a lost game played with St. Mary’s because of over-confidence anti a few careless plays and he shared their moment of triumph when Park’s team upset St. Mary’s in a surprise retaliation match. Congratulating them on their year he remarked that the world is not interested in the storms you en Page Banquet— (Continued on page 4.) John Baker Named Creighton Top Student John Baker, son of Mrs. Henry Lohaus, was named as one of the top 18 students at Creighton Uni versity in Omaha this past week, according to Rev. Carl M. Rein ert, S. J. Baker is a freshman student at Creighton. Teachers Meeting Held The Holt County rural teachers met at the Town House Tuesday evening for their annual banquet. Fifty five teachers were in atten dance. The Sandhill Ramblers furnished musical numbers. A short business session was held with Larry Sawyer, presiding. Knox Officials Set Repair Bill at $100,000 Knox County roads suffered much damage during the spring thaw that caused Holt County's estimated $71,638 flood damage. Knox puts the snow removal cost at $33,000 above the normal ex pense and expenditures of $100,000 in repairs and damage. A $40,000 bridge and approach loss is a ma jor portion of the repair bill. Guard Will Drill Sunday National Guardsmen of Company D will assemble at O'Neill early Sunday morning. The protestant men will meet at the Armory where Rev. John Hart will be in charge of the 8 a m. service. The catholic men will attend mass at St. Patrick's Catholic church. A three hour drill on Land Mine Warfare will follow the church services. The afternoon drill will feature a four hour Rifle Platoon in attack of fortified installation and a com bat formation. All 4xainimY mill Ka rviif^tfvlArrc The public is invited to view the simulated warfare. Legion to Buy Parking Facilities The American Legion post voted Tuesday night to purchase the lots west of the club house for a park ing lot. No indication was given as to when the post will take over the lots, now consisting of a used car ; lot. Simonson post has also been awarded a certificate for Ameri j canism and community welfare for the years 1958-1959. The post was 1 commended for its participation in the Highway 281 dedication activi ties. A stag party set for tonight (Thursday) will be held to raise funds for the parking purchase. Glen Packard Services Held Funeral services were conducted on Tuesday, April 12 at Petersberg for Glen Packard who died sudden ly on Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Survivors are his wife and twc children, a son, 18 and a daughter 15. Mr. Packard is a brother-in law of Mrs. Henry Fleck of Cham bers and Delbert Whiting of Ewing who with their families, attended the funeral services. ,a*V’'• * c. •* . •• «Pr- HLnawsL-.' . s ® lectured with relay trophies are the winners of the Holt county track meet KHO and mile relay teams. From left, front row, Leonard Havronek, Den ils Tomlinson, Bill Eby and Jerry kllcoin. Back row, Marv Miller, Darold Ermer, Bob Eby, Don Schaaf, Jerry Dexter am! Supt. Milton Baack. Frontier photo and engraving. THR WRATHRR ST, » S 5? Section One Friday 15 65 46 Saturday 16 . _ . 58 39 -44 Sunday 17 _ 52 32 T Monday 18 SB 37 , Tuesday 19 _ 77 43 Twelve Pages Wednesday 20 65 44 "The Voice of the Beef Empire" Volume 79 Number 52 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, April 21, 1960 _f_ Seven Cents O'Neill Invitational Track Meet Wednesday; Local Men Are Timet s A number of O'Neill Chamber of Commerce men have been flexing their trigger fingers during the past week in anticipation of the O'Neill Invitational track meet to be held here next Wednesday. The Chamber is sponsoring the meet and Chamber members will be acting as timers and starters. All men will be equipped with color ful beanies and stop watches, com pliments of the Bulova watch com pany and McIntosh Jewelry. The agenda for the meets calls for a couches meeting at 10:30 Wednesday morning to draw for positions. Eight class A teams and 10 class R teams have In dicated they will enter. The meet will he the first night track meet held at the new athletic field. All finals in the running events will be held at night. The field events will be held in the af ternoon Class A teams entering are Bur well, Plainview, Neligh, Ainsworth. Crofton, Albion, O'Neill and Valen tine. Class B teams consist of Atkinson St. Joseph, Spencer, Stuart, Elgin, Naper, Spalding Academy, Verdi gre, Ewing, Page. St. Ludger, St. Mary's, Bassett, Chambers, Atkin son, Butte, Clearwater, Springview, Bartlett and Tilden. Rock and Gem Show Tomorrow And Saturday A Rock and Gem show under the auspices of the Presbyterian Wo man's association will be held at Fellowship hall Friday and Satur day. Thirteen tables will hold the show ing and a sixteen foot transparency case will hold 150 slabs lighted from the bottom so every color and pattern in stone may be seen and appreciated. Specimens wili be mounted. Identified as to kind of stone and area where it is to be found. One table will hod tortilla bone, dinosaur bones, petrified palm root, a petrified mastadon tusk from Bassett and local petrified wood. There will be thunder egg epeci mens found in Oregon, formed in lava beds: as lava cooled bubbles formed and agate flowed up into the cavities; also very grotesque and unusual lava casts; limb sec tions where the entire limit has Ixten replaced by agate formation. Among the pre-historic speci : mens are mud waumps from Nevada and fern fossils found in Illinois and femwood from Knox ville, Ta., some very nice speci mens from Omaha. There is rock crystal from Arkansas, onyx from Old Mexico, quartz crystal with rutile from Brazil, banded amethy stine from Madagascar, other showings from India, the Canal Zone and nearly every state in the T Tninn A prize specimen is ammonite found on the Washechek home place in South Dakota which is said to have been formed one hundred million years ago, trellabite formed in coal mine areas, a pair of double flow black obsidon, imported carved onyx, carvings in ivory, pink, rose, lavender, black, white and green quartz. Tiger Eye (petrified asbes tos). A crystal weighing 30 lbs is in this collection. Lapidary equipment shown will include a mlnature tumbler in operation, drill, sunder and polish ing wheel, lap wheel and tumb ler diamond saw blades. A 20 inch saw, running in dia mond oil, is used for big jobs in his shop. The blade is a steel blade impregnated with industrial dia monds and is sharpened with a brick. The Washecheks have become authorities in a field of five million rock hounds and he has been cited i as a top example of rehabilitation. Language Contest Winners Announced Eleven group language contests for the Holt County Rural Schools were held during the last part of March and the first part of April. The county contest was held Sat urday. April 16 for the winners of the contest groups. The first five winners in each group were: Grade T 1st. Gary Stauffer, Dist. 55; 2nd. I,arry Seger, Dist. 155; 3rd, Mary l^xt Kaup, Dist. 168; and Linda Whtaker, Dist. 107; 4th. Jerry Gotschall, Dist. 210; 5th, Marilyn Zakrezewski. Dist. 60. Grade 4 1st, Jody Diane Siebert Dist. 155; 2nd, Fred Johring, Dist. 92; and Darla Pickering, Dist. 4; 3rd, Arlyss Peter, Dist. 65; 4th Diane Kaup, Dist. 58; Cynthia Dierking. Dist. 228; and Barbara McVay, Dist. IK; 5th, Sandra Kaye Funk, Dist. 46; and Cindy Jones, Dist. 210. Grade 5- 1st, Marcia Ziska, Dist. 168; 2nd, Gwenda Ra Schultz, Dist 33; 3rd, Debhie Waldo. Dist. 228; 4th, Harold Morgan, Dist. 69: and Jim New'ton, Dist. 20; 5th, Gloria Schindler, Dist. 46. Grade 6—1st, Donna Stamp, Dist 46; 2nd, Jane Wabs, Dist. 14; 3rd Dorothy G. Newman, Dist. 86 4th, Jerry Brockman, Dist. 141 5th, Del mar Pinkermnn. Dist. 38 and Roger Hoffman, Dist. 74. Grade 7 1st, David Frickel, Dist. 74; 2nd, Lorraine Sandall, Dist. 136; 3rd, Judy Syfie, Dist. 53; 4th, Kathryn Thiele, Dist. 131; 5th Linda Thompson, Dist. 23; one Sharon Winings, Dist. 206. Grade 8--1st, Shirley Skrdla, Dist 169; 2nd, Delores Ros»nkrans Dist. 4; 3rd, Joan Riffey, Dist. 8; 4th, Debbie Eisenhauer, Dist. 156; and Darla Waldo, Dist. 228; 5th Curtis Miller, Dist. 170. Gallaghers Hold 48th Anniversary Sunday Evening Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gallagher of Inman observed their 48th wed ding anniversary Sunday evening at the home of their son-in-law anr daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Hamik Other guests were Mr. and Mrs George Winkler and family and Mr and Mrs. Jim Gallagher of O’Neil and Mrs. Frances May and child j ren of Inman, A three-tier anniversary cakt j was baked and decorated by Mrs Matt Beha and -was served with icf I cream and coffee. Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher have lived their entire married life ot the ranch southeast of Inman when ' 1hey went to live as newly weds A new house was built when theii older children were small. The Gallaghers are the parent; of six children: Mrs. Elwin (Leona Cronk of San Bernardino, Calif. Mrs. Frances May. Inman: Mien ael, Inman: Pat, Ontario, Calif, and Mrs. A1 (Betty) Hamik of O' Neill. One son Jack, died oversea: during World War n. There are 1! grandchildren. Mr. Gallagher has two brothers Joe of Inman and Jim of O’Neill and five sisters: Mrs. Charle: (Helen) Gilligan of Sioux City, Mis Neil (Anna) Chase of Sheldon, la. Mrs. Marne Harte and Miss Be; Gallagher, both of Inman and Mrs Frances Kemp of Pamona, Calif. Mrs. Gallagher has two sister; living: Mrs. Alice Halley, Seattle Wash., and Mrs. Olive Warner o Omaha. Wedding Reprinted i From the files of the April 25tl 1912 issue of the Frontier we an reprinting the wedding of Mr. an; Mrs. Gallagher. Please note th< small ways in which the 48 yea ; old write-up differs with that o today and the many ways in whicl the styling has not changed will the years. On Thursday morning, April 18 1912 there occurred a very prett; ] wedding in the Catholic church a aiaiioru cti which unit* xvu. uum Gallagher and Miss Genie Craij were joined in the bonds of hoi; wedlock by Rev. W. J. O'Sullivan The ceremony was witnessed b; a large group of relatives am friends of the contracting parties The bride was attired in a hand some wedding gown of white sill net over satin messaline witl wreath and veil and was assisted b; the groom’s sister. Miss Helei Gallagher. The groom was assistec by his brother Mr. D. P. Gallagher After the ceremony at the churcl the wedding party went to the horm of the groom’s parents where ai elaborate wedding breakfast wa: served. The bride is the youngest daugh | ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Crai) j and is a lady of many fine qualifier The groom is a son of Mr. am Mrs. M. Gallagher, one of the mos respected and prosp°rous familie of the community and is a youm ; man of worth and industriou habits. The happy couple start out 01 life’s journey under the most prc mising circumstances and wil I commence housekeeping at one on a farm owned by the groom’ father south of Inman. Car-Calf Fight; Die Raymond Hurtig, Orchard, wa i driving peacefully Monday aftei noon near the weigh station when black angus calf belonging t Sammy Regan decided to pick fight with his 1958 Edsel. Both teams lost. $500 damage was done to tl Hurtig auto and the calf was kille< Officer Hastreiter said that M Hurtig was not injured. Romanian Princess Caradja Tells j O'Neill Students 'Beware of Russia' Rosenkrans' Race Stork; Lose 12 Miles from Town While Easter morning found 1 most people attending church in I new Easter bonnets, Mr, and Mrs. | Roger Rosenkrans of Dorsey found I themselves in the midst >f a race | with the stork and the Rosenkrans were the losers. A 6 lb., 4 oz., baby hoy, Lynn , Roger, w’as born at the Van Gmnet i corner, 4 and miles north ot Page at 5:45 a m. Sunday. Mr. end I Mrs. Rosenkrans had left home at 5 a.m. that morning hopefully ex | pectant and fully expecting to ar rive at St. Anthony's hospital in O’ j Neill in time for a normal hospital birth. Saturday's rains had made roads heavy and rough and the new' par ents were 12 miles from O'Neill 'when the baby arrived. Both mo ther and son are doing we!' and expect to return heme Friday. The Rosen k i a ns have four chil dren at home, Marion, 16, Fred. 15, Dolores, 14, and Jerry, 11 Dolores had won second place in the 8th grade language contest orly I Saturday nignt but now fee's she I is second place priv winner of the w'eek following the early morning Easter event. Mrs. Rosenkrans is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lindberg of the Meek community while little Lynn’s paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Rosenkrans of Redbird. Atkinson Youth Wins Straight "A" Honors Duane Humphrey, Atkinson, was named to the dean’s honor list at Hastings college with a straight "A” average. Humphrey is a Hast ings sophomore and one of 13 stu dents with straight A records. Also on the dean’s list were j Jane Peterson of O’Neill and Con j nie Hitchcock, Stuart. It was visiting day in O’Neill for this group from rural school 16 iuul they stopped at The Frontier to watch the work. Pictured arc, f Danny Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hansen, Karla and 1 Sharon Anson, daughters, of Mr. and Mrs. Dewayne Anson, Sandra ! and Bonnie Johnson, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Johnson, Diane Dcvall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Devall, Marilyn Risor, r daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kisor, Norma Walters, daughter of f Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walters, and the teacher, Mrs. Lawrence John 1 , son. Eiitrict M mk Contest Brings 2,000 to O'Neill O’Neill will again be playing host i to the B, C and D classes of the 1 District III Music Contest held i yesterday , today and tomorrow, i The program follows. Wednesday—2.30 p.m at St. Mar - y’s Auditorium. Piano entries in ; solo, duo, and quartette arrange . merits. 1 Thursday—8 a m. at St. Mary’s t Auditoriam. Class D instrumental * solos. Thursday—8 a.m. ai St. Mary’s ; Recreation Room. Class C instru mental solos, trios and miscellan l j eous. Thursday—8 a.m. at O’Neill 1 High School Auditorium. Class C ' and D Mixed Chorus and Glee ’ j Clubs. Thursday 1 p.m. at St. Mary’s Auditorium. Class C and I> in strumental duets, trios, quar •; teTes, sextettes, clarinet choir, boys low, medium and high voice a quartefje and boy’s octette, o mixed quartette and girl’s triple a trio, sextette and miscellaneous vocal. Thursday—1 p.m. at St. Mary’s e [• Music Contest— (Continued on page 5.) Poem by Daughter of Page Couple Selected The American College Poetry Society of Los Angeles, Calif., has announced! that Judy Simmons entry "An Ode To Life" will he included in their third semesterly Anthology to he published in May. Entries from colleges and uni versities from nearly every state and Canada province will appear in the publication. Miss Simmons is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Simmons of Page and a senior at Wayne State Teachers’ College. Page Boy Escapes Injury in Auto Wreck Ralph Simmons. 17 was involved in a one car accident Thursday about 2:30 a.m. 2 and 3/4 miles east of Page, near the Harry Parks farm home when his car went out of control, crossed the right ditch and hit the bank turning over end ways in the mud. This Is what Ralph Simmon’s Nash looked like Thursday morning after he rolled It Thursday night east of Page. Simmons was trapped In the ear but managed to push o|>en the back door and escape un injured. Frontier photo by Dennis Iekes. Six Are Honored For Scholarship Six youth from this area were among the 525 students honored for high scholarship at the University of Nebraska’s Honors convocation Tuesday in Lincoln. They were Francis A. Murray, O’Neill, junior; Leross G. Holcomb, Chambers, I .aura M. Prokop, Ver digre; Jerome J. Twibell and Michael R. Voorhies, Orchard, all sophomores; and Roland L. Han sen, Inman, and Sharon Ewanson, Amelia, freshman. Little Leaguers Ready for Play; 152 Register Jerry Schmidt, spokesman foi the O'Neill Little League, said this week that 152 names were reoelvet from interested kids for the O’Neil 1 Jttle league. Ten teams were formed from fh< list -4 major league teams and i minor league teams. The majoi league consists of (he Braves, Phil i lies, Indians and Cardinals. The minor league loams and theii coaches are Yankees. Junior Ander son, coach; White Sox, Johr Schmit, coach; Tigers, Louie Coker coach; Senators, Dwight Philbrick coach; Dodgers. Francis Holz coach; and the Giants, Elroy Liob coach. The minor league season starts May 16 and the major league is ex pected to get under way the 25 ol May. Elkhom Valley play will staid May 9. A trophy for first and second place major league finishers and a trophy for first place minor league team will he given. Mothers of little leaguers arc now soliciting funds for the league. Because of the great amount of advertising in iliis week’s issue of The Frontier a lot of news had to be saved for next week’s paper. A number of pictures will also be printer next week. Be sure to look elosely at the advertising in this week’s paper for many, many bar gains during the city-wide j clearance sale Thursday, Fri day and Saturday in O’Neill. Hovey Services Held at Stuart STUART Funeral services foi William Harrison Hovey, 71, were conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. a-1 the Stuart Community church wit! Rev. Herbert Young officiating Burial was in the Stuart cemetery Mrs. Harry Cowles, Mrs. Bot Brayton and Ora Yarges sang They were accompanied by Mrs Mark Nelson as organist. Pallbearers were: John and Robert Krotter, both of Spencer, Herbert Kaiser of O’Neill and Donald Krotter, T. E. McGuire and Keith King. The late Mr. Hovey wa3 l>on March 4, 1889 at Stuart, the son o Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hovey. On January 26, 1916 he was uniter in marriage to Rose Mary Moot at Lincoln. To this union six child ren were born. Mr. Hovey died Saturday fron a heart attack. He had been it failing health since last June, lh lived in Stuart his entire life wit! the exception of three years, 1917 1920, spent in Casper, Wyo. H< farmed for a time and was an em ployee of the William Krotter com pany at the time of his death. Hi was a member of the Methodis church having been baptized by hi; grandfather, Hariman, a minister in early childhood. He is survived by his wife, Rose sons Richard of O'Neill, Willian Harrison, jr.. of Onawa, la., How ard J. of Herrick, S. D., an< [ Dudley John of Pensacola, Fla who is in the navy; daugh'ers Mrs. Archie fRose Marie) Bright o O'Neill and Mrs Richard f Selem i Belie) Kazda of Winner, S. D., am 112 grandchildren. Fled Country When Attacked By Communists Princess Catherine Caradja u Romanian refugee told O'Neill stu dents Wednesday to "Head your papers, your editorials, listen to your commentators, and think and act to defend all the things we hold dear before it is too late ’ The princess who has lived be hind the Iron Curtain, spoke U'i< re a joint assembly of St, Mary's and O'Neill high school students yester day. She strike to students clw ifly of the communist threat to the world today. Enroute to the Nebraska press convention in Omaha this weekend. Princess Caradja is in O'Neill as a result of her association with Carroll (Cal) Stewart, former Frontier publisher. She is assisting Stewart in researching his Ixxik concerning the Ploesti bombings, “Black Sunday.” The dynamic speaker is in the United States with a special visa for a coast-tcvcoast speaking (<>ur. She was an overnight guest in the William Froelich home while in O’ Neill. Mrs. Caradja outlined her carlv Princess Catherine Onrodja life and the fall to Russia of the 10 middle European countries after World War II. She told them how her Romania fell by inva. ion from without by the USSR and how | Czechoslovakia fell from subver I sion within. "The soviets have no wish for war," the Princess told j her listeners. "No, they wish to capture us, and put us to weak for them on their conditions just to j take over and go on from there.” The Princess pleaded for Ameri cans to "Awaken to the threat that I the Reds are working both openly j and under-handedly and the infil ; tration is going on so gradually that one hy one the European states ; have fallen.” The loss has boon so gradual, | she stated, that America will some | day awaken to the fact that we are very small in comparison to the vast army of Reds against us and our way of life. The Princess was forced 1o flee Romania in 1916 when the country i fell to 1he Germans. After the war she went to Bucharest where she took over an orphange founded hy her mother. She added a foster homo section and continued thin work all through the German oc cupation and bombings of World War IT. The Russian invasion and succed ing Red government followed and finally in 1949, she was forced to stop her work there In 1952 the Princess escaped from behind the Iron Curtain and spent several years in England and France speaking about her experiences. Princess Caradja feels that the only way she can now he of real service to her country is to toll those in the free world about exist ing conditions behind the Inn Cur tain. She feels that Americana, in their good lives, have no compre hension of what Communis'um is really like. The Russians discipline families through their children, the Ro manian princess said. The knock on the door in the middle of the night goes on with relentless repitition. The head of the house is taken away, homes are invaded, the ! children may he sent to work in the ■ fields or mines and the husbands to Siberia. Because of this families work and comply with Russian 1 wishes for the sake of tneir chi'd 1 ren. The Princess eneo magod (lie stu dents to wake-up and read Jntelli 1 gently so that we can act now to 1 protect and defend our precious freedom. i _ Men Charged In Beer Party Raid i» , Ronald Hasenpflug and Matt lTvnos were charged in county l | court this week with procuring , liquor for minors The action grew . j out of a raid Friday night by I Sheriff I^eo Tomjack and Officer ! Gene Hastreiter. » The two men raided what was f to have been a “beer party’’ on i private property. No one was II caught drinking. I The hearing will be April 29.
