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Volume 80—Number 18 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, August 25, 1960 Seven Cents
Schools Announce Opening Dates;
Faculty Complete in Most Towns
The school bell at the O'Neill
public school will ring at 9 a.m.
August 31 All students will regi
ster Wednesday. The freshmen
students will return at 1 p m. to
take special tests for grade and
section placement.
(■rude scIiimiI students will
be dismissed at 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. I. All high
school classes will be shortened
Thursday hut the entire sched
ule will be covered. The full
schedule will he completed on
Friday for both high school and
grades. No school on Monday,
Kept. 3, l.ahor Day.
Milton J. Baack, superinten
dent, announced the faculty for
the ceming year today. Grade
school teachers include Mrs.
Harry (Grace) Petersen and Mrs.
Gerald Langemeier, kindergar
ten; Mrs. Al (Catherine i Fritton,
first grade; Mrs. John (Florence)
Kersenbrock, second grade; Mrs.
Willis (Nuyla) Sanders, first and
second grade combination; Mrs.
Wayne (Lorine) Smith and Mrs.
Robert (Lois) Carroll, third
grade; Mrs. Dean (Edna) Jef
frey, morning fourth grade; Mrs.
Clara Harley, afternoon fourth
grade; Mrs. Fred (Theresa)
Ernst and Mrs. Wayne (Eliza
beth) Spelts, fifth grade; Mrs.
Leona Shoemaker, sixth grade;
Mrs. LeRoy (Ruby) Holcomb,
Mrs. Dean (Nona) Beckwith, Miss
Helen Martens and Mr James
Luft, seventh and eighth grades.
The high school faculty: Ver
non Carpenter, vocational agri
culture anti guidance; IJonaltl
Larson, commercial; Stanley
Williamson, science and mathe
matics; Duane miller. Instru
mental music and library;
Gerald Hawley, mathematics,
football and track.
Miss Alvara Ramm. vocal
music; Donald Knkrda, biology,
social studies and assistant for
football, basketball and track;
Mrs. Harold (Eileen) Seger,
English 9 and 10 and home eco
nomics; Mrs. Harvey (Lois)
Tompkins, English 11 and 12 and
French; Edwin Rech, mathema
tics, science and German;
Charles Smith, social studies,
basketball, assistant football and
track.
St. Mary's . . .
Classes will begin Thursday,
Sept. 1 at St. Mary's Academy.
Registration for the freshmen
and sophomore classes will be
held Monday, Aug. 29 and juniors
and seniors will register Wednes
day
The school year will begin
Thursday, Sept. 1 with a special
mass at 9 a.m. The sch'jol pro
gram will continue as in past
years until the new convent and
high school are ready for oc
cupancy.
Clearwater . . .
Clearwater public schools will
open for the 1960-61 lorm Wed
nesday, Aug 31. This announce
ment was made by Supt. Casper
A. Englehaupt and the board of
education. All classes wall regi
Schools —
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Correction . . .
ATKINSON Mrs. Robert Clif
ford of Atkinson is chairman of
the publicity committee of the
Nebraska Beef Council and it not
the chairman of the council as
was stated last week. Bill Schaf
fert of Dalton is chairman of the
Beef Council.
Thieves Steal Number
Of Antique Firearms
ROYAL Thieves entered the
farm home of Ernest Johnson
sometime over the weekend and
made off with a number of guns
from his antique gun collection.
Johnson, a collector of antiques
and guns, could not immediately
place a value on the loss.
Sister Carmela
Enters Order of
Saint Francis
Sister Carmela, OSF, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coufal of
Stuart, took her perpetual vows
into the Order of St. Francis of
Penance and Christian Charity at
Marycrest Convent in Denver,
Colo., on the feast of the Assump
tion, August 15.
Bister ('nrmein attended St.
Boniface grade school In Stuart
and graduated from St. Mary’s
Academy in O’Neill. She has
been attending Regis College In
Denver and has taught one
year at 8t- Elizabeth’s school
in Denver. She will return this
fall to the St. Francis Mission
in St. Francis, S. D., for her
third year of teaching there.
Attending the religious profession
were her parents, sisters, Con
nie and Maureen, brother, Joe,
and Mary Coufal, all of Stuart,
Mrs. Effie Kubart, Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Kramer of Atkinson, Rev.
Francis Kubart of Clearwater.
Bob Prange and Marion Jensen of
Denver, and Mr. and Mrs. Har
vey Thompson and Larry of Bas
sett.
During the same ceremony,
Sister M. Mark, M Sheita, and
M. Louise also pronounced their
perpetual vows after having com
pleted a probationary period of
six years.
Security Agent Slates
O'Neill Visit Wednesday
Gail H. Robart, fields repre
sentative of the Norfolk social
security office will be in the as
sembly room of the courthouse
in O'Neill, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00
p m. Wednesday. Aug. 31.
Severely disabled people under
65 who have had at least five re
cent years under social security
should inquire.
Lynch Church Plans
Dedication Rites
Dedication ceremonies will be
held Tuesday, at Lynch for the
new Assumption BVM Catholic
church. The rites will begin at
10:30 a m. followed by a dinner
at 12:30. Rev. Charles Kamber is
the church pastor.
Services Set
Saturday For
M.Cavanaugh
Funeral services for Maurice
Cavanaugh, 62, will be conducted
Saturday, Aug 27 at 10 a.m. at SL
Patrick's Catholic church.
Father Robert Duffy will offici
ate at the requiem mass. Burial
will be made in Calvary cemetery.
A Rosary will be recited 8 p.m.
Friday at Biglins.
Maurice, son of Maurice and
Mary Kegley Cavanaugh, was bom
at Falls City, May 14, 1898 and
died August 24 at Falls City.
He was united in marriage with
Edna Tweedy, January 4, 1922.
The couple had eight children.
Mr. Cavanaugh was raised on a
farm 12 miles south of O'Neill.
Since marriage the family lived
most of the time in O'Neill moving
to Falls City five years ago where
Mrs. Cavanaugh died in May, 1959.
He had been in ill health since
1946.
Survivors include: Daughters—
Richard Perry of Fremont: Made
line Houser of Peshastin, Wash-;
Mrs. Henry Kuhfahl of O'Neill and
Mrs. Carl Lech of Atkinson. Sons
- Maurice Cavanaugh jr., of O'
eill; Quentin and Marvin Cavan
augh, both of Falln City and Duane
Cavanaugh of Lincoln. Two brot
hers, Charles of Chambers and
James of O’Neill and a sister, Mrs.
Margaret Hatton of Oakland, Calif.,
also survive.
Services Held
At Amelia For
Richard Kaiser
Richard Kaiser, 82, longtime
Chambers resident, died Tues
day, Aug. 16 at Burwell. Mr.
Kaiser, the son of Herman and
Augusta Kaiser, was born in Ger
many September 27, 1877.
On Decemner 24, 1903, he was
married to Myrtle Mae Thomp
son at Amelia. They moved to
their homestead near Swan Lake
where they lived until a few
years ago when ill health forced
them to move to Burwell.
They became the parents of six
children. His wife. Myrtle and
two sons, Lloyd and Louis pre
ceded him in death.
Survivors include: Sons, Ches
ter, Vem and Arthur, all of Har
din, Mont.; daughter, Mrs. Helen
Whitcomb of Amelia, 15 grand
children and nine great-grand
children.
Funeral services were held Fri
day, Aug 19 at the Amelia Metho
dist church with Rev. Charles
Cox officiating.
Mrs. Orland Fryrear and
Florence Lindsey accompanied
by Marcia Widman sang, “Sweet
Hour of Prayer,” and "The Old
Rugged Cross.”
Pallbearers were Claude Lier
man, Asa Watson, Carl Schade,
Stanley Thompson, Lawrence
Thompson and Leon Thompson.
Interment was in the Chambers
cemetery.
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These happy baseball players are the O’Neill White Sox. The reason they're happy? They are the
champions of the T-Shirt league. Pictured here (left to right) are Tom Wolfe, Clyde Neal, David Dawes,
Jackie Riley, Randy Schmiechel, Ronnie Schmlt an I Jerry Wolfe. Back row (left to right) are David
Winkler, Don Johnson, Gene Winkler, Marvin Dawes, Tom Schmlt and Terry Erington. Jim McCarthy,
also a member of the team was absent when the picture was taken.
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Architect’s sketch of the new convent (far left) and high school at 8t. Mary’s parish.
Dugan, Stewart Meet
to Confer on New Book
A noted American freelance
writer whose subjects are varied
and whose travels have taken
him into the depths of the Seven
Seas, is an O’Neill visitor this
week. James Dugan of Philadelp
hia, Pa., is a guest in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Stewart.
Mr. Dugan and Mr. Stewart
are co-authors of the forthcom
ing book, BLACK SUNDAY,
which will be completed late
this year. Stewart, editor-pub
lisher of THE FRONTIER for
IS years, recently returned
from a research trip to Europe.
Dugan and Stewart became
friends during World War II and
maintained contact through the
years with a view towards writ
ing a full detail account of the
crucial American B-24 Liberator
bomber mission from the Libyan
Desert to the Ploesti (Rumania)
oil refineries. The one and only
four-engined bomber low level
mission took place August 1,
1943. American losses were
severe.
Dugan’s late father was an iron
moulder for the Pennsylvania
railroad at Altoona, Pa. Dugan’s
post-war writing consisted largely
of articles in THE NEW
YORKER, SATURDAY EVE
NING POST. COLLIER’S etc.
In 1954 his first book, THE
GREAT IRON SHIP, enjoyed pre
publication in both the
READERS DIGEST and THE
NEW YORKER The book, avail
able at Grattan Township Li
brary, sold well on both sides of
the Atlantic. In 1956 Dugan wrote
Captain Jacques Cousteau's story,
MAN UNDER THE SEA (which
appears in seven languages). In
1957 Dugan wrote the document
ary feature film, THE SILENT
WORLD, Columbia Pictures.
This film was winner of the Can
nes (France) Film Festival
grand price and the American
Academy Award for documenta
tion.
In March of this year Dugan
wrote a cover story for TIME
magazine; in April his diving
saucer story was featured in
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC; in
July his article, Smithsonian In
stitute, appeared in HOLIDAY.
Through the years Dugan has
been ship’s author for the
CALYPSO, French underwater
scientific ship, and his CALYP
SO writing appear regularly in
the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
Although frequently working
1.500 miles apart, the BLACK
SUNDAY book is in the final
stages in which testimony Stew
art obtained from German and
Rumanian defenders of the re
fineries is being worked in with
American testimony. BLACK
SUNDAY will be historical, non
fiction.
REA Authorizes $490,000 Loan To
Boyd County Telephone Company
Approval was granted this
week for a $490,000 rural tele
phone loan for the Boyd county
Telephone Company of Lynch.
This loan will permit the installa
tion of dial service for 550 sub
scribers located in Brown, Keya
Paha and Cherry counties.
.John Davis, president of the
Boyd county Telephone Cor
poration says present plans in
clude purchase of two small
companies and five switch
lines which are to be converted
to dial system.
The two dial offices will be
located in Springview and Johns
town.
Construction will also be begun
on 336 miles of new line.
This is the second such loan
for the north Niobrara area. The
first loan released in 1957 per
mitted dial service to be installed
for 450 subscribers from three
dial offices. At that time a loan
was granted for $446,000.
Holt Soil Conservation District
Plans Range Judging Day Friday
The Holt county range judging
day will be held Friday, Aug 26
at 1 p.m. at the Holt county
courthouse annex in O’Neill.
This day will be an oppor
tunity to learn how to evaluate
range and pasture conditions,
learn kinds of grasses and
what can be done to Improve
production from ranges.
Any person may come and take
part. Actual sites will be exaluat
ed and discussed There will be
4-H, adult and FFA divisions.
This event is sponsored by the
Holt Soil Conservation district,
Extension service and the Vo
cational Agrculture departments.
An area contest involving some
eight or nine counties will be held
in O'Neill September 17.
Plan Observance On
Golden Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jungman,
parents of Mrs. Milton Clemens
of Amelia will observe their
fiftieth anniversary with open
house from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday,
Aug. 28. at the home of their son,
Leonard Jungman of Atkinson
Tom Ressel Buys
Milford Newspaper
Tom Ressel, former Frontier
employee, has purchased the Mil
ford Times from H. C. King. Res
sel has been employed by the
Clay County News at Sutton and
has been the editor-manager of
the Edgar Sun and Fairfield Aux
iliary. The Ressels are moving
from Henderson where Mr. Res
sel has been an employee of the
Henderson News. He will take
over his new duties immediately.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Ressel of O’Neill.
Mr. Ressell is married to the
former Norma Cullen of Page.
They have three children, Ricky,
six, Vincent, five, and Ramona,
two.
Blizzard Club to Meet
The January 12, 1888 Blizzard
club will meet in joint session
with the Elkhom Valley Historical
Society at Norfolk Saturday for a
noon luncheon at the parish hail
of the Trinity Episcopal church.
One Auto Accident
Reported to Police
One traffic accident was re
ported to the O’Neill Police De
partment during the past week.
A collision between cars driven
by Richard Pongratz, 16, and
Wayne Wiley, 20, of Merriman
accured at the intersection of
south Harrison and west Fre
mont.
Damage to the Pongratz car
was confined to the left rear side
while the Wiley auto was dam
aged in front.
National Guard
Awards Uhlir
Expense Trip
Cpl. Arden Uhlir, 20, of Verdi
gre won the Ak-Sar-Ben outstand
ing soldier award for grades E-l
through E^4 of the first battle
group 1.14th Infantry of the
National Guard. Fourteen awards
were made in ceremonies Friday
at Camp Ripley, Minn.
Cpl. Uhlir and his wife will
receive an all-expense paid trip
to Ak-Sar-Ben. He has been a
member of the O’Neill National
Guard unit since September 1957
and has spent six months on
active duty.
The Ak-Sar-Ben awards are
based on the following qualifica
tions: MOS qualified, attended
over 95'c of guard drills in the
past year, sharpshooter or better
in individual weapon and
character and efficiency rating
excellent with no disciplinary
action. The candidate also ap
peared before a board of officers
who judged their appearance and
activities at Camp Ripley.
Twenty-Third Annual
Grimton Reunion Held
The twenty third Annual Grim
ton reunion was held Sunday with
one teacher, 28 pupils and 41 vis
itors present. The only teacher
present was Mrs. Leonard Rising
er of Orchard. The oldest pupil
present was Mrs. Lizzie Grim of
Ewing. Oldest person attending
was Mrs. Rebecca Butterfield of
O’Neill and the youngest was the
10 month old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Volquadsen. He is the
great grandson of Lizzie Grim
and Rebecca Butterfield.
Those from the greatest distance
were Mr. and Mrs. Norman Loo
mis of Sioux City and Mrs. Lu
la Sessions of Santa Monica,
Calif.
Rites Held For
Guy Alderson,
At Tilden
CHAMBERS—Guy Alderson, a
former resident of the Chambers
community died August 12 in the
Tilden hospital.
The late Mr. Alderson was horn
September 9, 1886, a son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Alderson, a pio
neer family in Chambers Valley.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, Aug. 16 in the Marshall
Mortuary at Tilden. Burial was
in Stuart beside the grave of his
wife.
Survivors are: Sons-Robert of
Santa Ana, Calif., and Thomas
Ross of San Martin, Calif.;
daughters—Mrs. Robert (Adriene)
Williams of Denver, Colo., and
Mrs. Harold (Virginia) Leavitt of
Greybull, Wyo.; five grandchild
ren. He is also survived by four
brothers and two sisters. One
brother, T. E. Alderson lives at
Chambers.
Rites Scheduled
Today For
Nellie Sparks
Nellie G. Sparks, 78, a lifelong
resident of O’Neill died Tuesday
morning in a Norfolk hospital after
an illness of three and a half
years. Funeral services will be
held Thursday (today) at 10 a m.
at St. Patrick’s Catholic church.
Msgr Timothy O’Sullivan will of
ficiate. Burial will be Calvary
cemetery.
A rosary was recited Wednes
day evening at 7:30 p.m. at the
Biglin Funeral home.
Pallbearers will toe Larry Con
arro, James Sheets, Gary Els
bury, Gale Stevens, Dennis Cav
anaugh.
The late Ellen Gertrude Sparks
was born November 12, 1881 at
Sheffield, 111. Her parents were
Maurice and Mary Kegley Cava
naugh. She came to Holt county
in 1884 with her parents. The
family settled south of O’Neill
near Chambers.
On Jane 30, 1908 she was united
in marriage to Warren J. Sparks
of O’Neill and to them six child
ren were bom Her husband and
two sons, Cecil and James Leo
preceded her in death.
Survivors are: Daughters—Mrs.
Elmer Strong, Mrs. Lester Sheets,
Mrs. Don ELsbury and Mrs. Joe
Conarro, all of O’Neill.
Mrs. Sparks is also survived by
a sister—Mrs. Margaret Hatton
of Oakland, Calif , two brothers—
Charles Cavanaugh of Chambers
and James Cavanaugh of O’Neill,
13 grandchildren and great grand
children. Amrther brother, Mau
rice died Wednesday at Falls City.
Education News
Pre-opening meeting of all
rural Holt county teachers will
be held Saturday, at 9 a.m. at the
assembly room of the courthouse.
Fred Gakle, (left) O’Neill newcomer, defeated Tom Liddy In the
championship flight in O’Neill’s golf tourney Sunday to win top
honors. Gakle and Liddy are shown here with their championship and
runner-up trophies.
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«n .hums mawing aiui con
struction plans for the convent
and high school for St. Mary's
parish have lx'on released by lit.
Rev, Msgr. Timothy O'Sullivan,
VF, pastor of St Patrick's parish.
The construction will cost in
excess of $500,000 when com
pleted. initiations and pledges ex
ceeding $300,000 have already
been turned in.
Preliminary plans fur the
buildings have been completed
by tbe ari'liltivtniU Or in o[
I toy or, Itiskup and Weinstein of
Omaha. The Itrin Is proceeding
with the detailed pliuts and
NjH clficallona. Itbls will be let
(Ids fall.
The classroom section of the
high school will he two stories
tall and will contain six
rooms to accommodate some 200
students. A study hall, library,
three science laboratories, fac
ulty offices and a lounge are also
included in the plans.
The gymnasium will he at
tached to the classroom section
with the main entrance of the
school lobby also serving as the
main entrance to the gym
The gym’s playing floor will
be of maple wood with a court
sire of H4 by 50 feet. It will seat
some ®80 persons. A 24 by 48
foot stage will extend across
one end of the gym. la add!
lion to ust' as a stage It will
serve as a band practice area
and for overflow seating at
basketball games. l,oeker
rooms are provided In a base
ment below the stage.
A largo parish hall below the
gym will accommodate about 500
persons seated at dining tables.
The proposed convent, also a
two-story structure, will house 22
Franciscan nuns who staff St.
Mary’s grade and high schools.
It will contain offices, com
munity rooms, a kitchen and a
chapel.
A meditation garden enclosed
by a brick wall will adjoin the
cast wall of the chapel.
The new buildings will be con
structed of reinforced concrete
with steel beams. The exterior
surfaces will he of brick to match
the existing parish structures
and the buildings will be com
pletely fireproof.
F. Gakle Downs
Tom Liddy For
Top Golf Spot
Fred Gakle a newcomer to O’
Neill defeated Tom Liddy Sun
day at the O’Neill Country Club
to become O'Neill's champion
golfer. Gakle downed Mike Bur
ney, Liddy and Junior Cleveland.
Liddy upset Allen Jiaszkowiafc, last
years champ, in the second
round.
In first flight competition
Bob Carroll defeated Karl Hunt
to win the top berth. Carroll
defeated Ivan Kaiser and Hunt
eased past John DeWitt.
In the other flights Jim Cliflon
defeated Rev. John Hart to win
the second flight; Max Golden
over John Conard in the third
flight; Arlan Miles downed Law
rence Haynes in the fourth and
Ken Werner of Chambers won the
fifth flight, over John Brady from
Ainsworth.
In the sixth flight competition
John McCarville defeated A1 Gas
kill. I>r. F. I. Mancuso defeated
Don Martin in the seventh flight
and Herb Kaiser defeated Lloyd
Waldo in the eighth flight. Ed
Hancock downed Dale Wilson in
the ninth flight.