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Volume 80—Number 39 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, January 19, 1961 Seven Cents
County's Bank Deposits
Top $14,000,000 in'60
Holt county band deposits totaled $14,005,403.97 at the close of busi
ness December 31, I960, a slight decrease from 1959 and an increase of
$536,911.08 over five years ago.
According to banking officials, deposits are down slightly from a
year ago because of the January 1 assessment date. Some depositors
withdraw money late in December to invest in non-taxable bonds prior
to assessment time.
Loans totaled $4,123,831.78 at the close of 1960, showing a slight
increase over 1959 and an increase of $2,029,092.73 since 1955. Total
loans were listed as $2,094,739.05 as of December 31, 1955. Capital ac
counts in the coui^Jy banks totaled $1,658,696.51 as of December 31, 1960.
The six Hoft county banks are listed below with their deposits,
loans and capital accounts.
Capital
Rank Deposits "Loans Accounts
O’Neill Nat’l Bank .. $ 3,869,028.57 $ 995,538.70 $ 436,080.35
First Nat’l Bank, O’Neill __ 3,278,938.14 519,724.20 443,330.28
First Nat’l Bank, Atkinson 3,213,149.54 1,009,042.28 403,970.26
Tri-County Bank, Stuart_ 1,533,869.78 637,351.46 147,956.70
Farmers State Bank, Ewing 1,136,111.03 505,551.21 133,631.53
Chambers State Bank _ 974,306.91 456,623.93 93.727.39
TOTALS __ $14,005,403.97 $4,123,831.78 $1,658,696.51
Mothers March
For Polio Fund
In O'Neill Tonite
There will he a Mothers March
foi* the Polio fund Thursday eve
ning in O’Neill and captains have
been named by the O’Neill chair
man, Mrs. Verne Reynoldson.
The captains are Mmes. Al
len Van Vleck, Joe Stntz, Do
minick Bohn, Reed Herley and
Larry Schaffer. These captains
are in charge of town sections
and have named women to
handle each block in O’Neill.
Residents are requested to co
operate with the workers by
leaving their porch lights on to
indicate that they are at home.
Anyone unable to be at home dur
ing the drive will be left an
envelope and the residents are
urged to mail these envelopes
with their contributions as soon
as possible to Mrs. Vem Reynold
son.
Rites Held at Lynch
For Mrs. N. Bjornsen
LYNCH—Funeral services were
held here Saturday for Mrs. Na
ta Bjornsen, 73, who died sud
denly of a heart attack January
11 at her home in Lynch.
Mrs. Bjornsen’s parents were
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fredrick
sen of Gross. She was raised in
the Gross vicinity and lived on
a farm north of Gross with her
husband, Albert Bjornsen. After
his death in 1939, she moved to
Lynch to make her home.
The couple had 13 children, 12
of whom are living. One son
died when struck by lightning
about two years ago.
She is survived by her 12
children—three sisters and one
brother.
Oscar Spitzenberger
Named Insurance Agent
Oscar Spitzenberger of the
Spitzenberger agency, 429 North
Third street, has been appointed
as agent for the Plains Insurance
company, a midwestem stock
company of Cimarron, Kans.
Odd '8' Identifies
Father's Figures on
75-year-old Lumber
An unusual way of writing the
numeral eight caused Charles
Cole to recognize handwriting
made 75 years ago by his father,
the late E. E. Cole.
The discovery was made at the I
old Charles Downey homestead I
where Charles is tearing down a
house built in 1885. On one of the
boards, he spotted figures and 1
upon studying them, immediately
realized that his father had writ- *
tern them while figuring the cost
of lumber for the house.
E. E. Cole was employed at
the Mineola Lumber yard which
was located near Dorsey at that
time.
Charles out out the piece of
board containing the figures and
is keeping it as a momento.
O'Neill Players Named
To All-Star Honor Squad
Two O'Neill public high school
seniors, John Kurtz and Larry
Donlin, have been placed on the
1960 National High School All
American Football honor squad.
Sixteen Nebraska seniors re
ceived this honor. One Nebraska
player, Kent McCloughan of
Broken Bow, made the All
American second team. Only
seniors are eligible for considera
tion.
The All Star “Prep” game will
be played in the third week of
August.
Rites Held at Stuart
For Stephen Thurlow
S T U A R T—Funeral services
were held Thursday for Sephen
Michael, eight-month-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Thurlow,
who died January' 10 at the Atkin
son hospital following a brief il
lness.
The Rev. Herbert Young of
ficiated at the services which
were held in the Stuart Com
munity church. Burial was in the
Stuart cemetery .
Survivors include his parents,
and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Thurlow of Stuart and Mrs.
Alice Carey of Punxsutawney. Pa.
James Currans Honored
On Golden Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. James Curran,
who reside 16 miles northwest of
O’Neill, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary January 11
and to mark the occasion, were
guests of honor at a dinner and
reception held Sunday at the
Town House.
Approximately 150 friends and
relatives were present for the
affair, planned by their child
ren, Francis, George, Ardell
and Dale of O’Neill and Joe
of Minneapolis and families.
James and Lulu Curran were
married January 11, 1911 in a
double wedding ceremony per
formed by Father Manning at
Burwell. The other couple wed
were} her brother, Miles Mina
han, and his sister, Gertie Cur
ran. Their attendants were Mike
and Claire Curran, brother and
sister of the bridegrooms.
Following the ceremony a wed
ding reception was held at the
home of the bride’s parents and
a wedding dance was held in a
nearby sod house.
James Curran was born De
cember 25, 1878 at Joliet, HI.,
to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curran.
The family moved to Platt coun
ty, Nebraska when James was
one year of age, and three years
later, they moved to Holt County
in 1908. They homesteaded on the
place northwest of O’Neill,
where James and his wife still
reside.
Dulu Curran was bora August
18, 1890 to Mr. and Mrs. John
Minahan at Oak. She accompan
ied her parents to Holt county
in 1899 in a covered wagon.
Presbyterians in O’Neill Sunday were busy with a finance campaign to raise funds for a new
sanctuary. Shown here Sunday afternoon checking out results of the drive are left to right: Rev. John
Hart, church pastor; Tom Liddy, drive chairman and member of the building committee; Rev. George
Senty, campaign director from the Board of National Missions of the church; Harry Clauson, L. F.
Beckenhauer and K. L. Van Voorhis, all members of the building committee, t an Voorhis is com
mittee chairman. For details on the drive see story below. Frontier photo
Presbyterian Fund Campaign Totals
$50,000 Sunday for New Sanctuary
A successful drive for funds
was held Sunday insuring First
Presbyterian church members of
a new church building.
Tom Liddy, general chair
man of the fund raising com
mittee, announced Monday that
$50,081 was collected by Sunday
evening, the result of a one
day, all-out drive. One hundred
and one house calls were made
by campaigners and there are
still 20 calls to be made.
A total of $10,491 was collected
in cash and the remainder of the
amount was pledged. Mr. Liddy
will remain at the church Sun
day following services to receive
any outstanding pledges remain
ing to be turned in by the cam
paigners.
Now that the fund raising has
been completed, the plans for the
new building will be discussed
by members of the building com
mittee, under the direction of K.
L. Van Voorhis.
The Rev. J. George Senty, Pres
byterian church stewardship
educator, assisted with the drive
and conducted training sessions
during the past week. He stated
Sunday that the O’Neill session
attendance surpassed any in his
10 years experience in fund rais
ing.
A kick-off luncheon was served
at the church Sunday noon to the
campaigners.
Ted Kyster was personnel
chairman and campaigners were
L. F. Beckenhauer, Lee Brady
jr., Harold Burge, Dr. L. A. Bur
gess, Harry Clauson, Durlin D.
DeBolt, Bill Derickson, Bob For
wood, Veldon Godel, Dwight Har
der, Ray Harmon, Arlo Hiatt,
Arthur Hibbs, Roy Humrich,
Bruce Johnson, Ted Kyster, Milo
Landreth, Tom Liddy, Elroy Lieb,
Bill MacKinlay, A. L. Patton,
Eddie Price, Bill Richardson,
Melvin Ruzicka, Dewey Schaffer,
Larry Schaffer, Ramon Schuch
man, Paul Shelhamer, Wayne
Speltz, Joe Tennis, K. L. Van
Voorhis, Alan Van Vleck and
Weston Whitwer.
Sportsmen Plan Meeting Friday;
Steen to Discuss Game Problems
Holt county farmers and sports- -
men are invited to attend a meet
ing in O’Neill Friday which will
be held in the K. C. hall at 8 p.m.
This meeting is an aftermath of
a recent meeting before the
County Board in O’Neill, at which
time approximately 100 farmers
and sportsmen expressed enthusi
asm for doing something on the
local level to restore the pheasant
and upland bird hunting in Holt
county.
Mel Steen, Director of the
Game Commission, and mem
bers of his department will be
on hand to discuss and advise
on the problems involved, as
well as other matters of current
interest to sportsmen.
Measures under discussion will
include the possibility of institut
ing effective methods to reduce
and control the number of preda
tor animals, such as coon, op
posum, skunks, crows, owls, etc.,
which prey upon nests and young
birds. Also for discussion will be
the possibility of forming an
organization of farmers and
sportsmen to carry out a program
of raising and restocking birds
locally.
Many local sportemen believe
that something worthwhile can
be accomplished if the hunters
and farmers will get together and
attack the problem on a local
level.
The meeting promises to be of
interest, and it is hoped that
many will attend. Sportsmen and
farmers from other counties will
be welcomed.
Services Planned
At Spencer for
Mrs. Jan Zidko
SPENCER—Mrs. Jan Zidko of
Spencer, 98 years of age, died
Wednesday at Sacred Heart hos
pital in Lynch.
Funeral services were held
Saturday at 9 a.m. at St. Mary’s
Catholic church with the Rev.
Robert Steinhausen officiating.
Burial was in WBFA cemetery
at Spencer. Rosary was recited
Friday evening at the church.
Service arrangements were made
by the Jones Funeral home.
Frances Zidko was born De
cember 13, 1862 in Czechoslova
kia. She came to this country in
1901.
Her husband, Jan Zidko, pre
ceded her in death.
Survivors are six children, Tho
mas of Gregory, S. D., Mrs.
Mary Jerman of Verdigre, James
of Minneapolis, Charles, Frank
and Mrs. Bessie Panacek, all of
Spencer; nine grandchildren and
ten great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were M. W. Jacoby,
Joe Jamber, Frank Nemec, Dr.
J. M. Pucelik, Ted Lauts and
James Klasna.
Nominations Asked for
U. S. Merchant Marine
Requests for nominations as
candidates for the U. S. Merchant
Marine academy are being ac
cepted by Congressman Dave
Martin.
A candidate must be single, in
excellent health, must have
reached his 17th but not his 22nd
birthday by July 1, 1961, and be a
high school graduate or now in
his senior year.
Monty Taylor Named
To Minority Council
PAGE—Monty Taylor of Oma
ha, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Tay
lor of Page, has been named by
Senator Roman Hruska to be mi
nority counsel of the judiciary
committee subcommittee on im
provements in the judicial ma
chinery.
Mr. Taylor, 29 a member of the
law firm of Hotz, Hotz and Tay
lor, will go to Washington Febru
ary 1 to begin his duties. He will
take over the post that Henry
Grether held until last fall when
he returned to his duties as a
law professor at the University
of Nebraska.
Taylor is a graduate of the
Creighton Law school. He is
married and the father of three
children.
J. Sullivan Honored
On 88th Birthday
John Sullivan, a long-time resi
dent of Holt county, celebrated
his eighty-eighth birthday Tues
day at his home in O’Neill. Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Sullivan and Mrs.
Loretta Hynes helped him to have
a happy birthday. He received
cards and gifts from his' sons
and daughters who live out of
town.
Rites Planned Today
For Mrs. B. Cooper
EWING—Mrs. Benjamin Coo
per, 90, died Monday at Butte at
the home of Mrs. H. Hensley.
Funeral services will be held
at Elgin Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
Mrs. Cooper was the mother of
Mrs. Leslie Cary of Bloomfield,
a former resident of Ewing. She
spent sometime with the Cary
family when they resided in this
community.
Tomjacks Receive
Invitation to
Inauguration
When a large envelope, 8 by
11 inches in size, arrived at the
home of Sheriff and Mrs. Leo
Tomjack it didn’t cause too
much interest.
However, it was a thrill to
both of them to find an invita
tion inside—requesting their
presence at the inauguaration
ceremonies for President-elect
Kennedy.
It would have been a plea
sure for both of them to attend
but their son, Terry, lias been
under the weather due to ef
fects of influenza and is at St.
Anthony’s hospital for medical
care.
Services at Neligh
For Mrs. B. McDonald
DELOIT—Mrs. Bertha McDon
ald, 87, former resident of this
community, died about 10 a.m.
Saturday in the Antelope Memor
ial hospital in Neligh.
She has been a resident of the
Brunswick rest heme for some
time.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon in the Neligh
Methodist church.
Mrs. McDonald was the mo
ther of Charles and Watson Mc
Donald of Deloit.
John Moore Appointed
To General Services
John Moore, vice president of
the University of Pennsylvania,
has been named administrator of
the General Services administra
tion in the incoming John F. Ken
nery administration.
Leo Moore of O’Neill, brother
of the new appointee, first had
word of John’s appointment
when he heard it announced on
his car radio while driving to
Grand Island.
John Moore is 57, a native of
Greeley, He is a graduate of
Villanova college in Philadelphia
and has had about 10 years
government experience as a
regional official of the War Pro
duction Board, the War Assets
administration and GSA before
joining the University of. Pennsyl
vania administrative staff in 1954.
Former Chambers Man
Dies at Holbrook
CHAMBERS—Word has been
received of the sudden death of
Ray Disney,' of Holbrook Satur
day, due to the effects of a heart
attack.
He is a former resident of
Chambers, having lived southeast
of here.
He is survived by his wife and
three children.
Holt ASC Loons, Payments
Total $1,000,000 in 1960
Two Youths Questioned
In Atkinson Burglary
ATKINSON—Two youths, 14 and
15 years of age, were apprehended
Tuesday on charges of burglary
in two Atkinson stores, Monday
evening.
One store, Gambles, was en
tered at 10 p.m. by removing a
rear screen and raising the win
dow. Three cartons of rifle
shells, two boxes of shot gun
shells, hunting knives, pencils,
liens and a pair of furlined
chopper mittens were were
:imong the items taken from the
store.
At midnight the Atkinson
creamery was entered by break
ing down a rear door. About $3
in dimes were removed from a
pop machine. A key to the ma
chine was taken from the cash
drawer to open the machine. Au
thorities reported the key miss
ing when checking the premises.
Holt County Sheriff Leo Tom
jack and Atkinson Marshal Ole
Wewel investigated the breakins
and questioned the youths believ
ed to be involved.
Sheriff Tomjack stated Wednes
day that he did not believe the
five breakins which happened in
Atkinson about a month ago were
connected with the two Monday
night. Tomjack will go to Bassett
for questioning concerning a bur
glary in Bassett.
Rites Held For
Oliver Hill, 84
At Orchard
Oliver Hill, 84, of O'Neill died
Monday at the Brunswick Rest
Home following a lingering il
lness.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at the
Hamilton Funeral Home in Orch
ard. Burial will be in the Page
cemetery.
Oliver C. Hill was born in
Adams county, Iowa October 31,
1876. He came to Holt county 52
years ago, working here as a
farmer and carpenter until retire
ment age.
He was married to Fidelia Spen
cer June 7, 1899 at Orchard and
to this couple were born four
children. He was preceded in
death by his wife, two sons and
one daughter; also four brothers
and two sisters.
Survivors are one daughter,
Mrs. Mabel Nelson of Laramie,
Wyo.; 5 grandchildren; 11 great
grandchildren and one brother,
Leonard Hill of Ewing.
Pallbearers were Alan Hill, Ray
Hill, Delbert Hill, Marvin Lichty,
Merle Ellsbery and Donald Hill.
The Holt County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation of
fice was a busy place during the
calendar year of 1960. The office
is maintained in the county to
locally administer various govern
mental farm programs, price sui>
pcyt operations, agricultural con
servation program, wheat allot
ments and loans on farm storage
structures and mobile dryers.
I.<h-u1 administration of the
agricultural programs involve
applications for participation,
maintenance of records related
to participating farms, execu
tion of loan agreements and
paying off loans, determination
of individual farm allotments,
measuring crop acreages, in
specting grain and storage
structures and many other mat
ters.
The largest program in volume
of business concerns price sup
ports. During the year loans
were extended from Commodity
Credit Corporation funds on
571.822 bushels of various com
modities with a value of
$596,173.87. In addition to loans
made, additional payments were
made at delivery time where the
commodities delivered exceeded
the amount under loan. These
payments amounted to $49,757.65.
McGinn, Pofahl
To Fight in
Golden Gloves
Jack McGinn of O’Neill anti
Butch Pofahl of Ewing have won
berths in the Norfolk Golden
Gloves competition January 24
and 25 by virtue of their wins
January 11 at the pre-Golden
Glove tournament in O’Neill.
McGinn, featherweight, provided
a top-notch battle in his decision
over Bill Miller, South Sioux City
star at the O’Neill arena. Their
fight was claimed as one of the
best fights in the history of the
O’Neill tournments.
Pofahl wop his second fight of
the year by defeating young Bill
Taibut, Norfolk high football line
man.
Results of other fights on the
card:
Featherweight: Jim Dunn of Sf
Libory won a split decision from
Bill Koenig of Bassett.
Middleweight: Keith Steffan of
Crofton scored a first round TKO
over Stan Nelson of St. Libory.
i Welterweight: Henry Stephens
of South Sioux City scored a
second round TKO over Warren
Leshenshy of St. Libory; Hughes
of South Sioux City and Kreit
man of Bassett fought a three
round draw.
Lightheavy: Jerry Reeves of
Battle Creek scored a first round
TKO over Jack Balaris of St.
Libory; Dale Hixon of Ewing
decisioned Bob McCabe of Crof
ton.
Leightweight: Walter Rogers of
South Sioux City decisioned Bob
Liebeig of Columbus.
Heavyweight: Roger Curry of
Ponca won a split decision from
Milo Hejenk of Columbus.
The O’Neill American Legion
sponsored the fights, an annual
sports event here.
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. Sadie Muller
NAPER— Mrs. Sadie Muller,
72, died January 11 at her home
southwest of Naper.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at the First
Congregational church.
She is survived by a son, Hay
ward, and four grandchildren.
There are presently stored in
government bins in the county
62,500 bushels of wheat, 82,728
bushels of corn, 3,123 bushels of
rye and 9,733 ewt. of grain sor
ghums.
Another major program i*
til© maintenance of the Conner
vatlon reserve or “Soil Bank”
as it Is sometimes called.
Karly in itMHt, 45 farmers volun
tarily signed OR contractu to
take 5,792.1 acres of crop land
out of production and devote
that land to grass, or uses
beneficial to wildlife.
There are now 241 contracts
covering a total of 29,325.6 acres
of cropland in force. The annual
rental payments amounted to
$319,008.35 and were made to 288
individuals. In addition we as
sisted in the establishment of
permanent grass seedings for 77
individuals in the amount of
$25,740.60. Two-hundred and
twenty one farmers participated
in the Agricultural Conservation
Program. On these farms
$60,295.73 was spent in sharing the
costs of establishing needed con
servation practices. There were a
wide variety of practices per
formed : Livestock and erosion
dams, sheltenbelts, grass seeding,
livestock wells, terraces, sod
waterways and many others.
Almost every farmer or
rancher in the county would he
able to correct one or more con
servation problems oh their units
if they would just decide what
needed to he done and then come
in and talk with the office staff.
The farm storage facility loan
program was quite active during
the year with 10 new loans on
iconci KnuUolc nf etornee heiriv
disbursed totaling $24,461.39.
Forty-four old loans covering an
additional 256,818 bushels of
storage were serviced during the
period.
New loans were' made on 2
mobile dryers totaling $5,422.49.
All of these loans are repaid by
the borrowers with interest com
puted at 4%. None of these loans
are delinquent on the installment
payments.
Another program handled is
the Wool payment incentive. Pay
ments were made to 85 payees
amounting to $5,950.92 for shorn
wool sold. Fifty-four payees
received $1,529.50 for the value of
wool sold on unshorn lambs for
slaughter.
Wheat allotments were estab
lished on 230 farms in the county
dividing the county wheat allot
ment of 6,276 acres. This program
required that visits be made to
measure the planted wheat acre
age, and the issuance of wheat
marketing cards to eligible wheat
producers so that they can sell
their harvested wheat.
Clarence Whaley
Dies in Omaha
Word has been received here of
the death of Clarence Whaley of
O’Neill Wednesday at Omaha.
No farther information was
available at press time.
Sale Dates
Claimed
MONDAY, JAN. 30—GEORGE
KUBIK FARM SALE. About 29
miles northeast of O’Neill or 12
west, 3 north, 3 west and %
north of Verdigre. Rudloff
brothers, auctioneers. First
National bank, O’Neill, clerk.
Watch for complete listing in
next issue of The Frontier.
— S' ' 1MTKF -
Members of the junior class and the production crew were initiated in ceremonies of the O’Neill
Troupe No. 882 of the National Thespian society Thor sday evening in the OHS band room. Initiated were
Connie Brockman, Mema Butterfield, Larry Dawes, Vicky Gedwillo, Ilene Nelson, Joan Pease, Melvin
Sanders and Ruth Ann Walker. Serving as hosts at the meeting were Consie Andersen, Sonita Wilson.
Roy Bridge, John Harder, Bill Fricke and John Kurtz. Mrs. Harvey A. Tompkins is sponsor of the O’
Neill troupe.