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Volume 80—Number 8 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, June 16, 1960 Seven Cents
Parade Friday to Open Big Rodeo Weekend in O'Neill
Area School Meetings
Held During Past Week
Chambers .. .
The result of the voting on the
school redistricting proposition,
held Wednesday, June 8 in Cham
bers was as follows. From the
rural area 152 favored the issue,
75 were opposed In the town of
Chambers 194 voted for it and four
against The county school super
intendent, Alice French, appointed
a board from the districts involved
to serve until next year’s election.
Appointed were: G E. Winter
niole, president; I >1111111 Kruse,
treasurer; Stanley l-uiib.rt, Sam
Young, Elwyn Robertson and E.
It. Baker.
Mrs. H. W. Hubbard was hired as
secretary.
The new hoard took over their
duties Friday. The present plans
are to honor the business trans
actions made prior to the appoint
ing of the new board. The annual
school meeting will be Monday eve
ning at the Cham tiers school at 8
p.m.
Ewing . . .
The 1960-61 budget for the Ewing
public school was set at $67,507 by
the board of education when they
met Monday evening at the school
house. $34,519.09 of this will lie
raised by taxes.
IjiMt year's budget wax $61,317
with $38,477.10 raised by taxes.
The increase this year is due to
the raise in teachers' salaries and
the higher cost of operation.
The Ixiard was organized with i
thi* same officials holding their of- i
fice: Alfred Napier, president; R. j
S. Brion, treasurer and Charles
uotnernam, secretary. All mem
bers were present for the June
meeting,
Verdigre . . .
The annual school meeting of
District 88, was held Monday in the
Verdigre h.gh school auditorium.
Alfred Marshall presided as
chairman of the meeting and
Adolpli Kotruus, secretary of the
board of education wus secretary.
Russell Woodard, treasurer of the
hoard of education road his re
l»ot't for the past year.
Receipts were $85,965.63 ivml
the expenses for the past year
were $82,768.06. The Meeting
adopted the budget for the com
ing year at $72,560 of which
$86,105 is to be rained by taxa
tion.
Robert Sheckler will serve us
superint talent, Mrs. I>ella Best,
science and biology, William J.
Harder, principal, will teach com
mercial subjects and serve as as
sistant coach, and Ted D. Ward
will teach vocational agriculture.
Grade schixil teachers are: Phillis
Rudloff. seventh and eighth grades;
Mable Bruce, fifth and sixth; De
lores Belka, third and fourth; Mrs.
Clara Drobny, first and second and
Mrs. Enid Schreier, kindergarten.
Hereford Association
Plans Annual Sale
Holt County Hereford association
met Tuesday evening in O'Neill to
discuss plans for the annual Select!
Hereford Feeder sale October 17
at the O'Neill Livestock market.
Associate members present v\ere
Frank Stedry of Norfolk. Dale j
French and Verne Reynoldson of
O'Neill. _I
Golf Tournament
Opens Saturday
At Country Club
One hundred and thirty entries
are expected for the thirty-ninth
annual dad's day open golf tourney
at the O’Neill Country eluh Satur-1
day through Monday.
The course hIU be tougher this
year, according to Duke Kcrsen
brock, chairman, because of new
roughs In the number one and
number eight fairways. Bill
Fox of Albion Is (tic defending
champion.
Entries for all flights must be
posted by 6 p.m. Saturday, June
18.
First round play will get under
way at 8 am. Sunday. Trophys
will lie awarded in all flights.
Ladies bridge is scheduled Sat
urday afternoon at the club house
and a Calcutta and Dutch lunch
will lie held in the evening. A ladies
luncheon will be held Sunday af
ternoon followed by bridge and a
dance in the evening.
Charles Langston
Pleads Guilty
To Hog Stealing
Charles Langston of Atkinson
pleaded guilty to hog stealing in
Holt County Court Wednesday
morning He was hound over to
District Court and his bond was set
at $600 Langston has not made
bond so he is in the Holt County
jail.
Duane Hock, Atkinson, discovered
sixteen shoats valued at $208 were
m'ssing from his farm Tuesday
morning and notified authorities.
Sheriff Leo Tomjack found tire
tracks at the scene. He has been
milking a check of the markets in
the area and last Friday Charles
Langston sold twenty hogs on the
market at Ainsworth. Four hogs
I elonged to Langston.
A check of the tires of Langs
ton’s pickup showed his tracks
matched those found at the Beck
farm. Sheriff Tomjack arrested
I-angston Sunday morning at his
home in Atkinson.
A complaint was filed against
IKingston by county attorney Wil
liam W Griffin.
Robert Wells Hurt
In Freak Accident
PAGE Robert Wayne Wells,
three year old son of Mr, and Mrs.
Robert Wells of Page fell over the
door sill of the garage where he
and his mother were going for a
shovel to dig worms in preparation
to go fishing. He was carrying a
coffee can in his hands. In the
fall he knocked off the nm of the
can, cutting tioth hands.
He was rushed to Lynch where
five stitches were required to close
th" wound in his left hand and two
were needed for the rigiu nund.
Workmen have finished the installation of a new fire alarm system
In St. Mary’s Academy. Automatic alarm systems are mandatory
under state law for the first time this year. Over 4,000 feet of wire
and 88 thermostats were used in the project. Six bells, eight Inches In
diameter are positioned throughout the building and a large bell was i
placed outside for night use. Jimmy Bcha, St. Mary’s seventh grader
is shown here with the master control panel which features an auxili
ary power supply In ease of power failure. A similar system will be
Installed at the Page high school according to Matt Bcha, who in
stalled the system.
Marty Schuchman, 13 month old Min of Mr. and Mrs. Hay Srhuch
man was undoubtedly the youngest mhi present at the Presbyteriun
ehureh’s annual father-son banquet held Tuesday evening. He Is shown
here receiving his Indian head dress from guest speaker Will Spindler
of Gordon. Approximately 100 dads and lads attended the banquet.
Spindler is the author of five books on Indian lore and recently was
honored with a citation for commendable service for his 30 years
service with the IT. 8. Bureau of Indian affairs.
Cal Stewart Departs
On European Journey
Wtii Mill iVydi ' oi v xv cxii cunui-jiutr
lisher of The Frontier for 13 years |.
departed Saturday from O'Neill for
various points in Europe to com- i
plete research on a non-fiction his
torical book, "Black Sunday," I (
which is scheduled to be published, |
next year.
Stewart and his family have been j
residing here while he has done ex- |
tensive traveling to interview sur
vivors of the U. S. Air Force’s ;
famous low-level B-24 heavy ]
bomber mission to Ploesti. Ru- |
mania. The Libyan-based four
engine bombers attacked Ger- ,
many’s major source of oil and gas (
on August 1, 1943. , |
Co-Author of the forthcoming
hook is James Dugan, who has 1
written •‘The Great Iron Ship,”
"Man I'mler the Sen,” and
"Fndersea Explorer,” all by i
Harper & Brothers, and the l».V7 I
Academy Award documentary
film, "The Silent World.” by
Columbia pictures* j
Stewart three times delayed his <
trip to Europe while endeavoring, '
through correspondence, to locate :
Germans who were defenders of the ‘
vital enemy oil installations. He 1
says “Black Sunday” needs human
interest testimony from the former I
enemy to work in with intimate tes- ]
timony of the Americans who flew <
the treetop mission. "It’s a needle 1
in a haystack proposition,” Stew
art said Saturday as he prepared to
leave. Two former Lilftwaffe
generals (one was chief of staff of
the Ploesti defense sector) have
agreed to turn over diaries and
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one former Luftwaffe fighter
pilot, who shot down several of the j
Liberators, have invited Stewart
into their homos to reconstruct the
mission from the defense side
"They have offered to lead me to 1
other German anti-aircraft and <
fighter pilot survivors,” The O’Neill 1J
man said. *
Many of the Rumanian and Ger
man defenders of Ploesti were cap- .
tured 14 months after the mission 1
when the Russian armies moved in !
and haven’t been heard from since <
“The work load suid time con- ,
sumed are twice what I’d esti
mated.” Stewart explained. ^
“Cooperation has been grand In
all quarters. And. strange as It
may seem, testimony Is largely j j
corraborative even though much •
of it comes almost 17 years af
ter the deed.”
Fifty-four U. S. bombers were s
shot down in a few minutes of high i
action over the refinery complexes j
that were transformed into an in- (
femo. Over 1,800 Americans, mostly
volunteers, undertook the mission {
that was intended to shorten the (
war one year. Many of the gas- j
laden bombers (It was a 2.400-mile
roundtrip requiring extra fuel) J
were enveloped in flames; gas stor
age tanks exploded and spun into ^
the air like tops; anti-aircraft bat
teries fired broadside into the ,
bombers; some planes flew into
explosions of delayed-action bombs; ^
one bomber crash-landed In a ^
woman’s prison barracks and ere- (
meated 68 women as well as the 10- ^
man crew. Over four-hundred ]
Americans were killed on the mis
sion, many of whom Stewart and i
Dugan knew personality.
Stewart had originally planned to
go to the locale of the battle but
Rumanian Princess Catherine
Caradja. refugee, discouraged
him. The princess visited O'Neill
in April. One American bomber
landed in her garden and she
buried the dead.
Germany summarily cut off
Italy’s oil and gas supplies and
Italy was out of the war 27 days
later.
Stewart says no adequate or ac
curate account of the mission has
ever been published although it
has been the subject of countless
short stories, articles, one non
fiction book and two fictional books.
’•It’s the biggest story I’ve ever
attempted to cover and we’re en
deavoring to do it right,” says the
former pilot of the Frontier.
Stewart was elected alternate de
legate-at-large to the Republican
national convention in the primary
election balloting. He finished
fourth in a field of 27 candidates in
statewide balloting, receiving over
42,000 votes. The top 10 will have
seats on the convention floor.
He says he cannot say how long
his European stay will be but he
plans to be back to go to the
Chicago, 111., GOP convention July
24-28.
Two Injured
As Cars Hit In
Three Car Mishap
A two car accident was in
vestigated by the State patrol Tues
day afternoon when cars driven
by Mrs. Myra L. Staffer of O’Neill
and Eugene B. Jostes, Eugene,
Ore., collided.
The Jostes auto was struck as
it attempted to pass the Staffer car
at the intersection one mile east
of O’Neill near the Lloyd Gibson
place. Both cars were traveling
east at the time.
Patrolman Eugene Hastreiter i
was the investigating officer.
A three car accident was reported
at the junction of highways 275 and
20 Monday afternoon. Willis H.
Marshall of Boonville, Ind., was
traveling east and missed the
junction. When the Marshall auto
stopped a 1958 Bauxhall driven by
Luella O. Winter of Minneapolis.
Kan., stopped behind the Marshall
car.
A car driven by Frank Kobold of
Gregory, S. D., then collided with
the rear of the Winter car pushing
it into the Marshall auto.
About $350 damage was done to
the rear of the Marshall vehicle,
an estimated $600 damage to the
Winter car (hit both front and
rear) and $300 damage was done to j
the Kobold vehicle.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Heldstab of
Beloit, Kan., passengers in the
Winter car, received minor lacera
tion and bruises. They were hos
pitalized at a Neligh hospital and
later released.
Patrolman R L. Gude was the
investigating officer.
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Farm and Home Section
New Frontier Feature
Includtst with this weeks Issue
ot The Frontier you will find en
closed a special “Farm and
Home" section devoh-d to farm
to|dcs, household hints and other
topics of general interest. This
is an exclusive feature found only
in The Frontier and will he in
cluded in the paper once each
month.
Concert Group
Elects Officers
At a meeting of the O'Neill Com
munity Concert Association Iasi
Sunday evening held at the court
house annex new officers were
elected for the 1960-61 season.
Elected were: Grant Peacock
president; Nute Mullendore, vice
president ; Mrs. Kenneth Van Voor
his, city drive chairman; Mrs
Howard Mason, out of town drive
chairman; lien Grady, treasurer;
Mrs Ira Moss, secretary; Mrs
Winnie Harger. dinner chairman;
and John H. McCarville, publicit.v
rhairman.
Plans were made for the Itttiti
(it membership drive to be held
either the first or second week
of October.
. Mrs. Pauline Walston, repre
sentative of Columbia Artists M;ui
agement presented the group with
a list of new attraction to be con
sidered for the new concert season.
Security Agent
Slates Visit
Gail H. Hobart, field representa
tive of the Norfolk social security
office will be in the assembly room
of the courthouse in O'Neill from
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Students Place
In H S Rodeo
At Harrison
The Nebraska High School Rodeo
was held Saturday, June 4 at Har
rison A number of contestants
from the O'Neill area participated
in the contests.
Those who placed in the contests
include:
Barrel race: Danni Whitaker, 16.
Chambers, third.
Pole bending: Danni Whitaker of
Chambers, first and Zoo Ann Huff
man, 15, Ewing, fourth.
Breakaway roping: Danni Whi
taker.
Girls cutting: Zoe Ann Huffman.
Bare back bronc: Bobby Lord,
j 14, Valentine, fourth.
Saddle bronc: Hex Ridginan, IS,
Keyston, former Bartlett student;
| Bob Murphy, 16, O’Neill and Lowell
Ferrel, 15, Lamar tied for fourth.
Bull riding: Bobby Lord, second
and Jack Johnston, fourth.
Calf roping: Bobby lord, first;
Jim Johnston, third and Bob Mulli
j gan, fourth.
Boys sportsmanship: Bernard
| M’chael of Valentine,
Bull dogging: Jack Johnston, 15,
I Valentine, first; Larrv Hollenbeck,
117, Long Pine, second; Bob Mulli
j gan. 17, Ainsworth, third; Jim
i Johnston, fourth.
Hardluck cowgirl: Judy Hollen
I beck of Long Pine.
Other contestants from this area
were Bob Hanna, Valentine; Bern
ard Kamphaus, O’Neill; Gary
Schmidt, Chambers; Gale Stevens,
O’Neill and Sharon Mignery, Bart
lett.
Jim Johnston of Valentine was
it cted president of the Nebraska
High School Rodeo association Fri
day. He will represent Nebraska
j at the National Association meet
ing in Hot Springs, S. D., in August
in conjunction with the National
High School Rodeo.
St. Anthony’s hospital in O’Neill this week received a new Micro
Capillary hematocrit The machine makes it possible for hospital
technicians to perform blood counts using only a minute amount of
blood. Before the purchase of the machine a large (inanity of blood
was needed for the test. The instrument was purchased with money
donated by the hospital auxiliary, raised from their dance review,
and from a memorial donated by friends of Lynette llclmricks. Mrs.
Maxine McManus, hospital technician is shown here with the hemato
crit.
Bobbie Krutz Loses
Leg in Mower Mishap
ORCHARD Bobby Krntz. five
| year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferd
! Krutz lost bis left leg above the
knee Wednesday when a tractor
; powered mower dri\ on by his
lather struck him while he was
playing in the weeds in the farm
! yard.
Bobby and his sister, Linda 7,1
were playing and biding in the high
j weeds in a ditch w hich were being
| mowed in the Krutz farm yard
| three miles southeast of Orchard
I on tiie Gurney Drayton farm
Mr. Krutz took Bobby to the
Tilden hospital where he is re
covering from loss of blood and
shock. The Krutzs have five other
children, Julie, Lila, Patty, Betty
and Miles. Linda was slightly in
jured at the same time.
Holt County
4-H Leaders
Named Friday
The ten newly elected members
of the board of directors of the
4-H Leaders Council met Friday
evening at the county extension of
fice to appoint members of ten
committees to serve the remain
| der of thin year
i The newly termed Lenders
t'ouneil is composed • >1 the overall
leader of each club. A constitu
tion has been written, revised
and accepted.
Tile board of directors elected
were Harold Mekher, president;
Leo Wabs, vice-president; Mrs.
A. T. Crunvly, secretary and Hel
en Martens, news reporter..
The appointed committees are:
Awards—Mrs. A. T. Crumly,
Mrs. I^Roy DobrovoLny, Mrs. Byrl
Beck, Mrs. Bob Sununercr, Mrs.
Harold VanVleck, Pres, of Exten
Slilll r IUU SAMMUCU,. -4-11 JWprt'NtMl
tative from the Extension Club
Council and a past 4 H Member
of Leader. Walt Kick, Stan Lam
bert, Frank Shefl, Elmer Allyn, |
Robert Young and Milton MeKwth
ine.
Pre-fair day—Mrs. Wayne Smith,
Ramona Wayman, Mrs. John Mohr,
Mrs. Albert Widfeldt and Mrs.
Boyd Boelter.
Camp committee—Helen Martens,
Mrs. Albert Reynolds and Mrs.
Lawrence Dobrovolny.
Fair com mi tie—Mrs. Loyd Gleed,
Beverley Platt, Mrs. Milton Clem
ens, Harold Melcher, Elwin Ro
bertson, Laurence Skrdla, Mrs. Al
vin Rloppenberg and Mrs. Carol
Marcellas.
4-H building committee—Harold
Melcher, Leo Wabs, Mrs. Albert
Carson and Mrs. Keith Shellhase.
Fun night commit tee-nMrs. Lau
erence Kaup, Mrs. Bob Greenfield
and Mrs. Frank Svoboda.
Judging Activities Committee- ,
Leo Wabs, Milton McKathine, Joe
Weibel, Mrs. Lionel Gunter, Mrs.
Gerald Snyder and Mrs. Elmer
Schaaf.
Demonstration Day Activities— <
Mrs. A. T. Crumly, Mrs. Dale
Barnes and Mrs. Lloyd Gleed.
Junior Leadership Committee—
George McCarthy, Tom Slattery,
Benny Johring, Mrs. Marvin Rich
ter and Mrs. Harold Mlinar.
Nominating Committee—.Joe Wei
bel, Mrs. Art O’Neill, George Me ,
Carthy, Mrs. Milton Clemens, and ]
Laurence Skrdla.
Gillespie Home Sold
To C. L. Brady Sr.
The family home of the late L. 1
G. Gillespie and the furnishings
were disposed of at public auction
Saturday afternoon.
Ownership of the home was
transferred to C. L. Brady sr., of
the Dorsey community.
The home of the late Mr. and ]
Mrs. Gillespie was the home of Mr. i
and Mrs. Romaine Saunders from i
1808 to 1910. i
O Neill will begin its big rodeo
weekend Friday evening ns it Maris
oil the tvui 1 iilt'il weeuenu wuh a
parade ai 6 p. in.
Tile O'NeiU Lions club will spon
sor llie parade aim! are oitermg
$200 in prizes to the top live boats j
entered oy non-priMit organizations.
llie lirsi prize boat will win n
$7b prize, second place, ».>(.», and
each irf the older three w inners will
receive >20.
live Mayor and the association,
president Leigh Key no Id soil, will
lead Uie parade louowed by tlie
Legion colors, tlie O Neill band,
rodeo riders and the Army re
cruiters officers.
Entries in Uie parade as at
Weanrsduy includetl: Keil Bird
I.ueky Clover 4-11 club. Cub
Seoul*. Sl.uulard Stalin 11, lawn
House, Rcxuil Drug Store, M ,v M
Cole, McIntosh Jewelry, <• ambles,
REA, Happy Helpers t-ll elub,
Piiikt'inuiu TV, O’Neill Cleaners,
Boat Club, bralbin 4-11 elub, 4-11
Kiders ol Bartlett, lieu l-ninklln,
Coast to Coast, J. M. Miikm
alds, Kansu*-Nebraska tins Co.,
Celia 4-H elub and the lions Club
A traveling trophy wiLl be award
ed Uie top business float.
Rodeo performances are sehedul
ed for 8 p. m. Friday and Saturday
ami an afternoon program will l»
presented Sunday afternoon at 2
p. m.
^A $715 purse plus entry fees will
go to the top cowhands as tliey
compete for prizes 111 saddle bronc
riding, bareback bronc riding, calf
roping, steer wrestling, brahma bull
riduig and the ladies barrel race.
Cutting horse contest* will he
held Friday and Saturday. All n>
diui entries must be in by Friday.
They unay be mailed or phoned to
Virgil Laursen, O'Neill
A novice juckpot will be held
Sunday open to any contestant.
Deadline for registering for the im
vice contest is Sunday noon.
American Legion
Elects Officers
American Legion Simonson Post
No. Tt held election of officers
Tuesduy evening at the Legion
club.
Virgil Tomlinson was elected
commander. Wayne Fox is the vice
commander; Roman Filips, chap
lam, ami James Earley, sergeant
at arms. Executive Uiard members
include Fritz JIolz, Harold Mllnar,
Ed Young, (,’harles Fox, jr , ami
Wayne Spelts.
Finns were made foi the rodeo
parade ami Relative plans were
made for pancake days in July.
Plan 4-H Program
At Lynch Sunday
A 4-H program will be held at
the Lynch football feild, Sunday at
S p.m.
The welcome and 4 leaf clover
symbol of 4-H will be given by
Sandra Rihanek, Diane Spencer,
David Lloyd, Alpha Grim and Jerry
Christenden.
Fredrirk Holz will give the
flag pledge and 4-H pledge;
Rev. lister Spragg will give the
invocation.
Rev, Willard Lloyd will speak on
‘Service in Home and Community ’’
Rev, Kamber’s topic will be "Youth
and National Democracy," Rev.
Spragg has chosen “Youth Re
sponsibilities in Modem America.”
Those assisting with the candle
lighting ceremony will be Velma
Rihanek, Mable Hlack, Hill Hlack,
Eva Davey, Harold Hansen, Ger
aldine Spencer, Alfred Davey,
Gladys Spencer, Neil Bjornsen and
Bertie Seiler.
Attends Institute
Mrs. James W. Rooney, medical
record librarian at St. Anthony’s
hospital is in Rapid City, S. D.,
(his week attending the basic in
stitute for medical record librari
ans.
As part of the youth program begun this year by the Spencer
residents, some 140 Spencer young people are learning to swim. This
group, some 140 in all, took their first lesson at the O’Neill pool Tues
day. Two tracks were used to bring the group to O’Neill. Jerry Hue
1
ser, Spencer coach, Is In charge of the summer activities for the
group. Jerry also coaches several Spencer ball teams and plays on
the town team.
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