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STATE HIST SOC LINCOLN. NEBR. ^— S^rion On® C I ) f WTl F D Sixteen Page, Page, 1 to 8 - J, AxVyl 1 X X JL/£\ In Two Section, §S -"w—— Monday 17 SI 35 ^ Tuesday IS -- ® ST "The Voice of the Beef Empire"-North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper _ Volume 80—Number 26 . O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, October 20, 1960 Seven Cents Rites Planned At Lynch For Ray Long, 76 Funeral services will be held ft 2 p.m. Friday at the First Methodist church in Lynch for Hay Long, 76. of Lynch Rev. Lester Spragg will officiate. In terment will he in the Pleasant View cemetery north of Lynch. Pallbearers will be Philip Ham mon, Edmund Rhode, Ernest Darnell, Leonard Havranek, El mer Dahl berg and W. E. Moffett. Mr. Long, the son of Zackary T. and Matilda Teyton Long, was born October 22, 1883 at Sac City, la., and dird October 17, 1960 at the Sacred Heart hospital in nch. - > was married to Kathrine Ruda at Pierce September 29, 1911. The couple became the par ents of three sons and four daughters. Survivors include: Wife—Kath rine; sons Ira of Oakes, N. D., Myron of Goldendale, Wash., Mel Jay of Bristow; daughters Mrs. Robert (Vada) Whetham of Spencer, Mrs. Harry (Helen) Sat tler of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Wil lard (Margaret! Ann) Landholm of Bristow, Mrs. Earl (Edna Faye) Moody of Wheaton, Minn.; 16 grandchildren; 18 great grand children. Three brothers, Ed of Cottage Grove, Ore., Floyd of O’Neill and Glen of Hillsboro, Ore., and a sister, Mrs. Bert Rocser of Caldwell, Ida., also survive. The txidy will lie in state at the Jones Funeral Home in Lynch from Wednesday afternoon Until the funeral hour. O'Neill High Names Pupils On Honor List Principal Marvin Miller lias announced the honor roll for the first six weeks: Seniors Marion Rosenkrans, 4 A’s; Sonita Wilson, 4 A’s, 1 B and Consie Anderson, 3 A’s, 2 B’s. Juniors Carolyn Fuhrer, Ruth Ann Walker, Iilene Nelson and Kay Lee Rees, 3 A’s, 1 B; Karen Petersen, 3 A’s, 2 B’s; Raymond Fax and Fred Rosenkrans, 2 A’s, 2 B’s; Mike Hnnd and Melvin Sanders, 2 A’s, 3 B’s. Sophomores—Ann Johnson, 4 A’s; Terry Kurtz, 3 A’s, 1 B and Keith Reynoldson, 2 A’s, 2 B’s. Freshmen— D i a n n e Gillespie and Christine Herley, 4 A’s; De lores Rosenkrans and Laurell Haynes, 3 A’s 1 B; Shirley Ennen, 3 A’s, 2 B’s and Diana George, 2 A’s, 2 B’s. SS Representative Slates O'Neill Visit Gail Robart, 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., Wednes day, Oct. 26. Architect* sketch of th * proposed new school O'Neill's Proposed New School Shown here is the proposed O' Neill high school in an architect’s drawing. The new building, ap proximately 300x200 feet, will have classrooms in the front wing administrative offices in the cen ter section and auditorium-gym nasrum in the raised portion at the rear. The building would be of fire proof construction throughout, us ing mostly concrete and steel. Ex terior walls are brick facing while interior walls would be painted concrete block. Corridors and toi let rooms would have glazed fac ing tile to reduce maintenance costs. Asphalt tile flooring will be used in corridors and class rooms, with ceramic tile In toilets and shower rooms. Ma ple wood would be used in the gymnasium floor. The new gymnasium would have a 50x84-ft. basketball court, shower and locker rooms and seating for approximately 1,500 persons. Plans include a stage on one side for musical and the atrical activities. Additional seat ing may be provided on the stage Special features of the build ing include: Allowance for expan sion of the classroom wing; clos ing off the auditorium gym from the rest of the school to permit use of the auditorium facilities by civic groups, ample parking for students, visitors and spec tators; public restroom facilities during athletic contests. Cost of the proposed building in c uding furnishings has been set at $465,000. When voters go to the rolls Nov. 8 they will vote on the bond issue necessary to raise the money. PTA Slates Meeting To Explain Bond Issue A special meeting of the O’ Neill PTA will be held Monday at the O’Neill Public School at 8 p.m. The meeting is open to the pub lic and information will be giver on the new school bond issue. All Bids Rejected On Guard Armory Announcement was made by Howard Strong and Associates of Norfolk Wednesday that all bids were rejected for the pro |M>sed National Guard Armory at O’Neill. Low bidder was Beckenhnuer Brothers with $140,000 for the buil.ling plus an additional $26,900 for paving and land landsc-ip'ng around the build* around the building that the city of O’Neill was to assume. The low bid was $50,000 over the estimated $90,000 cost of the armory. The architects are in the pro cess of re-drawing the plans and the projeet will probably be re-bid in three or four weeks. O'Neill High Juniors Plan Annual Play Rehearsals for the O'Neill high school junior play. "I'm a Fami ly Crisis," are now in full swing. The play will be presented Thursday evening, Nov. 10 in the O’Neill high school auditorium. The cast is a follows: Ruth Ann Walker, Larry Dawes, M e r n a Butterfield, L o n n a Haynes, Ilene Nelson, Joan Pease, Holland Johnson, Ray mond Fox, Kay Rees, Bonnie Reige, Connie Brockman and Mike Hand. Mike Fletcher and Karen Bates are the prompters. Vicky Ged willo is the student director; Melvin Sanders is the stage man ager. Mrs. Harvey A Tompkins is the director of the play. Rev. W. Stackhouse To Address Church The Rev. William R Stack house will speak at 8 p.m. Mon day, Oct. 24 at the First Pres byterian church in O'Neill. Ewing Locker Plant Sold to Page Man EWING—The Ewing Licker Plant was recently sold by Ebben Grafft to Curtis Roberts of Page who with his brother Charles operate the Page locker. The firm operates under the name Ideal Lockers. Mr. Roberts has had eight years experience in the meat cut ting business. Mr. Grafft will con tinue to assist at the Ewing plant. He has operated the business since it was founded in 1942 except for a period from 1950 to 1958. The new owner is married and has four children. St. Mary's Academy To Hold Homecoming The St. Mary's Cardinals will hold their homecoming festivities tonight (Thursday) beginning with a bonfire rally at 7:30. The Cardinals will meet the Westpoint Guardian Angels in the football game beginning at 8. St. Mary's has a 3-2 season record while the Guardian Angels have won five games and tied one. The evening's festivities will be climaxed with a dance following the game. Rites Held For Charles Abart, Emmet Rancher Funeral services for Charles Franklin Abart. 73. Emmet . rancher, were held Monday at Biglin's Chapel in O’Neill with the Rev. Glenn Kennicott officiat ing. Burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery at O’Neill. The pall bearers were Homer Maring, Oliver Maring, John Abart, Elvon Schultz, Ervin Schultz and Art Strashiem. They are nephews. Charles F. Abart was bom December 29, 1886 at Schuyler, the son of Frank and Jennie Abart. He died October 14 at the Atkinson Memorial hospital. He came to the Emmet community in 1901 with his parents and there he grew to manhood. He married Florence J. Mc Creath at Atkinson March 25, 1914. They became the parents of fcur children. The couple made their home in Emmet for two years. They then moved to the present ranch home. He is survived by his wife, Florence; a daughter, Mrs. Al fred Hennagin of Portland, Ore.; three sons, Keith of O’Neill; Dercy of Emmet and Gailaird of Omaha; two half-brothers, Wil liam Crawford of Pomona, Calif., and Carl Crawford of Norfolk; one half-sister, Mabel Crawford of Hastings; eleven grandchild ren and other relatives. He was preceded in death by four brothers and one sister. St. Elizabeth's To Hold Open House St. Elizabeth School of Nursing at Lincoln is sponsoring an open house for girls interested in nurs ing Thursday and Friday, Octo ber 27-28. Parents are also in vited to attend. Sale Dates Claiired SATURDAY, OCT. 22—Joe Je linek and Sons registered Here ford sale. 35 bulls, 20 females. Creighton Livestock pavilion, 1 p.m. Charles Corkle, auctioneer. TUESDAY. OCT. 25—H. A. & R. E. Van Horn registered Here ford bull sale. Sale starts at 1 p.m. (CST) at the ranch located 16 miles southeast of O’Neill to sign and 2*6 miles southeast . . . OR 8 miles we t of Orchard tc sign and 2!£ miles southeast. 52 bulls including 32 coming two year-olds and 20 senior bull calves. Charles Corkle, auction eer; Edward M. Gallagher, First National Bank. O’Neill, clerk. SATURDAY. OCT. 20-Dorscy Presbyterian church fund raising sale. Lloyd Brady residence in Dorsey. Dad Follows Son In Winning FB Contest “Like father, like son” so goes the old saying. Only in this ease It Is just reversed. Dr. liarry Gildersleeve Is fol lowing |n the footsteps of his six year old son by winning this week's Frontier football contest. And just to prove that the whole family are experts on football, Kathy Gtldersleeve sent In the second place entry. Dr. Gildcrsleeve missed picking the winner In only one game to win this week's eon test. Jury Finds For Putnams In Overload Case A jury trial was held in llolt County court Thursday after noon. The case charged William Putnam and L. D. Putnam of O’Neill with overload on axle. The six-man jury found that the state did not prove a shift of load and found the defend ants not guilty. The jurors were Dayle Hewett, Kay Dendinger, Hurley Jones, Kalph Young, Emmett Crabb and L. M. Mer rinian, all of O’Neill. Roger A. Hansen, portable scale officer, had filed the com plaint. Holt county attorney, Wil liam W. Griffin was the attorney for the state. The defendants acted as their own attorneys. Mrs. Jerry Ryan Dies In Sioux City Hospital Mrs. Jerry Ryan of South Sioux City died Wednesday afternoon in St. Joseph's hospital in Sioux City. No funeral arrangements have been made. Mrs. George Hammond, a daughter has been with her mot her. Holt County Teachers Association To Sponsor Scholarship in County The Holt County Teachers As sociation met Thursday evening at the L & R Cafe in O’Neill. The members passed a resolution op posing the proposed amendment to abolish the state board of education. The group voted to sponsor a $100 scholarship to a senior in Holt County to further his or her education to become a teacher. The selection of the winner will be made by the executive committee. Three Minor Mishaps Reported To Police Here During Past Week Three auto accidents in the city cloud the police records this week. An accident was reported Thursday at the intersection of Douglas and Tenth street when cars driven by Gene Alloway, 18 and Harry Page of O'Neill col lided. The right side of the All oway auto and the left front of the Page car were damaged. Autos driven by Jules J. Murer of Lincoln and John E. Donohoe of O'Neill were involved in an Extension Clubs To Gather At O'Neill Tuesday Citizenship around the World is the theme for the annual Home Extension Clubs Achievement Day this year. The program will be held Tuesday. Oct. 25 at the Legion Hall in O’Neill. The afternoon’s program opens with a covered dish lunch at noon, followed by group singing and installation of new officers. The speaker will be Ethel Saxton, Home Agent Supervisor. She will show slides and tell of her trip to the Netherlands during the past summer. Skits will be presented by each of the six centers in the county. Posters and booths relative to citizenship will be prepared by the centers in addition to the skit. The committee in charge of ar rangements includes: Mrs. Louis Siebert, Atkinson; Mrs. Lester Miles, Chambers; Mrs Harold Van Vleck, Clearwater; MrSs George Hansen, O’Neill; Mrs. George Mellor, Spencer, and Mrs. Frank Murphy, Stuart. Business Notes Receives Award Allan P. Jaszkowiak, owner of the Western Auto Associate Store here has been named the recipi ent of a plaque recognizing 20 years of service to his communi ty. Wins Free Trip Roy Shelhamer, local Inter national Harvester dealer is the winner of a five day expense free trip to New Orleans through the company’s ’’See-Sell-Go” campaign. Mr. Shelhamer and his wife will also attend the National Retail Farm Equipment Associa tion convention. accident Sunday. Damage was don? to the Murer car on the left front and to the right side of the Donohoe auto. A minor accident was reported Monday when a pick-up truck belonging to Herbert C. Timm and a car owned by Ben Hanlon were in collision. All three accidents were in vestigated by Police Chief Chris McGinn. Ewing High School Plans Homecoming EWING—Ewing high school will hold their annual homecom ing Friday. A parade will be staged in the afternoon through main street. Floats will be en tered hy the various classes. The Tigers will meet Tilden on the gridiron in the evening and the homecoming king and queen will be crowned at half-tim? cere monies. A dance will follow the game. Free Tuition Explained Ed. Note: l< ollowlng a story in the Frontier hist week concern ing the proposed bond issue for a new school building In O'Neill, the question was asked several times, “Just wliat is free high school tuition”? Here Is the answer as it comes to us: tiee high school tuition is a tax levied on all tangible property in rural school districts (or districts whch have no high schools) in the slate to provide high school tuition for students of the district. The amount of the levy is detennlned by each county and is based on the number of high school students from rural districts attending public schools. More free high tuition is levied if the number of high school students in the district increases. Students in districts levying free high school tuition may attend any public high school in the state and the district must pay their tuition. Once a rural district becomes a part of another district having a high school the free high levy is dropped in that district. I uit.on is set by ihe state. The present rate is $15 per week or major fraction thereof for each student. Free high school tuition levy in Holt county this year is 5.88 mills; in 1959 it was 5.54 mills and in 1958 it was 7.34 mills. The levy may vary from year to year within a county and may vary from county to county in the same year. The O’Neill community concerts association he'd their kick-off membership drive supper at the L and R Cafe Monday evening. Nearly 40 workers we o present to disc uss plans for the membership drive which last through Saturday. Tickets to the series of concerts will not be available after that date Shown here discussing the drive are: Mrs. James Weigand of Clearwater, Mrs. Bernard Kaceor of Spencer, Mrs. K. L. Van Voorhis of O’Neill, (Drive Chairman for O’Neill), Grant .Peacock, (President of the O’Neill association), Mrs. Merwyn French, Jr., of Page, Mrs. Thomas Bowers of Bristow and Mrs. Howard Man son of O’Neill, out of town chairman. t. '>ii i » o v ft) f .j. «.r ■ 4 ' * . fa Mill Election of two officers was hold. G. Ryan of Ewing was elected vice-president and Gary Tiessmer of Ewing is the new treasurer. Two officers were held over from last year. They are Kenneth Weller, president, and Wayne Gesiriech, secretary, both of Chambers. Supt. Stevens of Atkinson was named as delegate to the NSEA Assembly in Lincoln. Supt. Carr of Stuart is the alternate. Boy Scouts Planning Fund Raising Drive _ _ _ _. — - - - — TWn HUil fittiil fi»r thi' Uiiv Extension Clubs Hold Workshop For Presidents Fifty Home Extension Club presidents from Holt. Boyd, and the Loup-Garf eld, Wheeler dis trict rec ently attended a workshop on human relations. The mooting was held in O’Neill Thursday under the sponsorship of the Holt County Home Extension Council. This project was the result of a workshop held in January at the University of Nri raska. Four Individuals from the county attended that workshop and assisted witli the planning for this workshop. Those in cluded were, Mr. and Mrs. El mer Vogel of Stuart, ('athrlnc Indra, Home Agent and Neil Dawes, County Agent. Assisting with the workshop in the county were additional staff members from the University of Nebraska Agnes Arthaud, State Home Extension Leader; Ethel Saxton, Home Agent Supervisor; Kenneth Schmidt, Associate State 4-H Club Leader, and A. J. Sny der, Farm and Home Develop ment Agent. Problems confronting group action, facts related to these problems, and possible solutions were discussed during the day. The individuals role as a leader and participating member were pointed out. The success or failure of a group and the individual re sponsibility to the group were em phasized. Everett Gorgen Hurt As Truck Hits Grader Everett Gorgen, ONeill truck cr, was injured Wednesday alter noon when the tru.k he was driv ing collided with the rear end of a road maintainer six miles east of Sioux City, la. Mr. Gorgen was taken to a Sioux City hospital. He was un ci nseious f r some time following the accident but was able to ta'k to h s wife over the telephone shortly after 6 p.m. Autos Collide At Clearwater; Two Injured CLEARWATER A two car mishap at the north edge of Clearwater about noon Sunday re sulted in injuries which sent two persons to the hospital. Injured in the accident were Joyce Clink-rale* of O’Neill and Mrs. Fred Maben of Cle&r water. Neither were reported in serious condition. The accident occured when autos driven by Fred Maben and Mrs. Clinkseales collided at the intersection of mainsfreet and highway 275. One of the autos then struck another car and care ened into a gas pump. Also riding in the Maben auto were the Maben’s daughter, Mrs. Jack Jones and infant. They es caped injury. Antelope County Sheriff, Law rence Rittscher investigated the accident. Hancock Tells Errors In Delinquent Tax List Seven properties were er roneously advertised in the de linquent tax list recently, County Treasurer J. Ed Huncock said Monday. Tax on the properties was paid before the advertising was prepared, but through an error in his office, the properties were included in the published list, he explained. Following is a list of the pro perties merttioned: SWVi 18-30-13; SWVi 30-30-13; Ewing village lot 9 blk 24; EVi 15 and NViNEVi. SW Vi NE Vi 22-26-10; NEVi 2-28 9; SWVi 15-29-12; E% NEVi, SW'iNWVi, W Vi SWVi 12-31-9 Scouts Covered Wagon council will begin Friday, Oet. 21 with a 7 n.m. hreakfast meeting of the workers. The meeting will be held at the l< A K eafe in O'Neill and the worker* will receive train tni>: before starting their drive, according to Kenneth CHirrcn, eonununlty ehairman. \ district executive has been hired for the Sand Hills area. lie is Jerry Dempsey of Council Bluffs, la., who will move hi O' N ill on November l. This is the first full time scout employee for this area, Dennis Norman dis trict executive of the Covered Wagon council announced. O'Neill was chosen as the headquarters as they raised the largest quota of the area last year. Ijist year the Sand Hills district included six towns and raised $3,000, This your eleven towns will lie included in the campaign. Last year O’Neill raised over $1,100. The goal this year Is $1,000. Thieves Get Loot In Butte Break-in BUTTE The Hansen Imple ment of Butte was broken into sometime early Wednesday morn ing. The place was ransacked and a number of items taken in cluding: one Wright power blade, one Remington chain saw, one case of Zerez, four Sidles bat teries, seven Delco batteries, one battery charger, 35 punches and chisels and between $25 and $30 It was reported that a pinch bar was used to gain entrance. Chambers Firemen Quench Garage Blaze CHAMBERS The fire depart ment was called to the Wayne Peterson home in the west part of town Monday afternoon to ex tinguish a fire in the garage. The blaze was quickly brought under control hut could have !>een serious had the barrel of gas stored in the garage caught fire. District Court A partition case was filed In District Court Tuesday by O’Neill attorney William W. Griffin. Helen Ruth Wright, plantiff vs Earl Wright and Fern Wright; Ernest Wright and Leona Wright, et al, defendants. "... and there was the ho nestead of W. I). Matthews.” 'Prairieland Talk' Writer Returns By Bill Richardson Romaine Saunders—the grand old gentlemen of O'Neill news papering visited O Neill, Holt county and the Frontier last week. And he, with his remark able memory, took us on a tour of spots dear to him. His deep well of knowledge and recol lection gave us many a peek in to the history of the Frontier and the area it serves. Few persons approaching thei ninetieth birthday exhibit the energy and vitality of this e. homestead kid turned printer, turned cowboy, turned newspaper man. turned rancher. turned feature writer for the Prairie land Talk" column in the .!»■ °< J“ Saunders homeitead abou| H sa,sw.&'ns p™Err^ r si-j» founder of the Frontier and heard Mr. Saunders speak in reverent tones of the man who breathed life into the Frontier baek in .1880. On our return to O'Neill we found Matthews’ first home with in the city limits ... a large brick house at Seventh and Adams with a stone laid in the brick wall and still bearing the initials “WDM” carved deep into the stone. This home was the first brick house built in O’Neill, Mr. Saunders said. In the southwest corner of O’ Neill we visited the old Saunders home at 315 South First. There Mr. Saunders pointed out “the room where my father died.’’, “the room where my brother died,” and other tales of the early history of the house. We listened as he told of the house being moved from the W. D. Matthews Iwmestead to the Saunders homestead then later into town where in 1888 it be came the home of the Widow Saunders and her children follow ing the death of the elder Saun ders on the prairie. And next door, he said, had lived the girl he wooed and won for his bride. To the average person the house is just another home in O’Neill except the name “Saun ders” is impressed in the old* concrete sidewalk leading from the front door to the street. But to us it seemed to come to life as the old Prairieland Talker’s eloquent words wove a tale of hardship and hard work about the small boy whose father dropped a dentistry practice in Wisconsin to come far out on a treeless prairie in Holt county, Nebraska to make a new start in life. On the trip from Atkinson south to Amelia we stopped with the old tinier at the home of Mary Meals where we were introduced because “I want Prairieland Talker Continued on Page 8