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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1961)
Cardinals Down Springview 69-54 In Class C Tourney at Atkinson The Class “C” district tourna ment at Atkinson saw the St. Mary’s Cardinals take a 69-54 win over a surprisingly stubborn Springview quintet. Norman Mud . lpff led St. Mary’s in scoring with 18 points, he received fine sup port from Gokie, Donohoe, Pet er, and Spitzenberger who collect 14, 12, 12 and 11 points respec tively. St. Mary’s led all the way but was pressed by the all around play of Rodney Billings, who ga thered 32 points. St. Mary’s led at the end of the first quarter 21-13 as all five of the starters hit the nets. St. Mary’s streng thened their lead by outscoring the Indians 20 to 11 to take a 41-24 lead at the half. The second half was a repetition of the first as the Cards had to hustle but al ways kept a good lead. In the last quarter Coach Templemyer cleared the bench. St. Mary's Cards Drop Page 56-48 Tint St. Mary’s Cardinals, play ing one of their best games of the season upset the highly re spected Page Eagles by the score of 56-48. In a game played Thurs day. The hot shooting of Dono hoe and Spitzenberger combined with the hustle of Mudloff, Gokie and Peter brought a well deserv ed victory. Jerry Gokie, besides his 12 points, blocked numerous shots in a well played game. Donohoe poured through 6 points to lead •the first period scoring. Donohoe and Spitzenberger got most of their 15 points in the first half. St. Mary’s enjoyed a 27-19 half time lead. At one time in the third period the Cards held a 16 point lead in a determined effort to grab the victory. Spitzenberger fouled out late in the third quarter but St. Mary’s still held a comfortable 45 32 lead as the third period ended. The fourth quarter showed Page coming up a little but a full court press failed to stop the Cardinal victory. The only bright spot for the visiting Eagles was the 15 points each of Harvey and Cronk. Eagles Tromp Bassett 86-58 O’Neill High Coach Chuck Smith juggled his starting line up Friday night and made good his show of bench strength as the Eagles downed Bassett here 86-58. Bill Nelson and Larry Go del, two seniors starting for the first time this season, turned in fine performances along with the rest of the OHS squad. Jerry Dexter It'd the agressive Eagles under the boards during the open ing quarter and racked up 15 points to lead all scorers the first half. The visiting Tigers were appar ently hotter than usual during the first quarter as they kept up with Dexter and company. The first period ended with O’Neill leading 19-18. Freshman Bob Van Norman and sophomore Jim Gonnick both had 6 points in the opening stanza to lead the Tiger men. In the second quarter the visitors were unable to keep up with the Eagles and they drop ped behind at half time 45-30. After being recharged with vigor during the half time break, O’Neill continued pulling away from their opponents behind the even scoring of six Eagles. The reserve squad went into the final quarter leading 69-43 and hiked the final score to 86-58. Dexter's 20 points led the Eagles' even scoring. John Kurtz followed with 18 and Rich Hill contributed 13 to the winning cause. Senior Darold Ermer turn ed in a fine second half perfor mance for the Eagles as he hit for 9 i>oints after the half way break. Connick led the Tigermen with 20 points and Clark Anderson had 16. O’Neill’s record now stands at 16 wins, 2 losses. They will play host to St. Paul Friday to wrap up play before the district tourn ament at Ord. RESERVES Harvey Colfack paced the win ning reserves with 11 points. The final score was O’Neill 50, Bassett 25. THE ST. MARY’S CARDINALS, in one of their best games of the season, upset the Page Eagles 56-48 in a game played here Thursday. St. Mary’s enjoyed a 27-19 lead. Donohoe and Spitzenberger led the Cards with 15 points each and Harvey and Cronk led the Page crew with 15 points each. ATKINSON CLIPPED EWING 62-53 in their game in class C com petition at Atkinson. Cliff Juraeek, (30) of Ewing and Herman Gro the (40) Atkinson are shown here as they grab for a rebound. Also shown are Dick Galyen (14) Ken Claussen (52) and Charles Braun (42) of Atkinson. JACK McGINN OF O'NEILL will pack up his gloves ami head for Chicago Thursday to fight in the Golden Gloves. Jack, shown here as he decisioned BUI MUler of Sioux City, went on to whip Salvador Franco of Scottsbluff to win the flyweight title at the Omaha bouts. Jack, who won the toughest fight at Omaha, received a five minute ovation from the crowd of nearly 4,000 following his bout with Franco. Jack’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. McGinn and his sister Donna will go with him to Chicago. * THE O’NEILL HIGH EAGLES whipped Bassett 86-58 Friday eve ning in a game played here in O’Neill. Jerry Dexter led the Eagles with 20 points followed by John Kurtz with 18. O’Neill’s record now stands at 16 wins and 2 losses. They will meet St. Paul Friday in the last game before the district tourney at Ord. THE ST. MARY’S CARDS downed Springview Tuesday evening in the class C district tournament at Atkinson, 69-54. Jerry Gokie and Cal Peter are surrounded by Springview players as they go after a rebound. Gokie was high point man for the Cards with 14 points. 4-H Club Notes The Willowdale 4-H Club met at the Bill Hansen home Friday night. Glen Miller presided and Marsha Slattery called roll and read the minutes of the last meeting. Rodney Hibbs was ab sent with the flu. After the treasurer’s report, we decided to take a field trip to Boys Town on Sunday, March 5. After we adjourned Mrs. Hansen served lunch. Vicki Hansen, news reporter HAPPY HOMEMAKERS The HHH Cl'ub met at the home of Mrs. Vearl Tuttle Thursday with 12 members present. Meet ing was opened by Mrs. Louis Funk. Roll call was answered by each stating something about George Washington. Pennies for friendship were ta ken. Parliamentary Law skit was given by Mrs. Jerome Tuttle and Mrs. Donald Kurpqeweit. We received our bed table for any member of the club to use. Lunch was served by the hos Mrs. Donald Kurpgeweit. Weed Study Held A demonstration on “How to get rid of weeds and why’’ was presented by Terry R. Brown at the regular meeting of the Eager Beavers 4-H Weed club at district No 33 school, January 23. Every one present told what he thought was the most helpful weed. The next meeting will be held Febru ary 20. They have started their weed books by preparing the cov er and hope to have it completed by the next meeting. Terry R. Brown, reporter Inman News By Mrs. James McMahan Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins have received word of the death of Mr. Tompkins’ sister, Mrs. Edward (Ethel) Loucks of Long Beach, Calif. February *14. Mrs. Violet Sholes visited Mr. and Mrs. Dick Clark and family at O’Neill Wednesday. Dick Clark of O’Neill was a cal ler in the Rufus and Violet Sholes home Tuesday. Mrs. Gerald Snyder of O’Neill and Mrs. Marvin Hawk of Or chard were overnight guests of Mrs. Ray Siders and Marilyn Wednesday evening. Harry Moore returned Monday from St. Anthony’s hospital in O’ Neill where he had been a med ical patient for several days. George Conard returned Tues day from several weeks in Ore gon where he visited his brothers, Ed and Martin. The pupils of Willow Lake school district 111 entertained their mothers at a Valentine party and classroom exercises February 14. Presentations were given by several pupils. Valen tines were distributed, games were played, then a lunch was served by the pupils to all in attendance. Mrs. Majorie Kelley is the teacher. Earnest Trowbridge spent Tues day and Wednesday at Ewing vis iting his brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Sawyer and family of Atkinson visited Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Sawyer and Mick Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Tompkins spent Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kiltz at Chambers. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Engelhaupt attended funeral services for Mrs. Harvey at Chambers Sun day afternoon. John Gallagher returned to his home Friday afternoon from St. Anthony’s hospital in O’Neill where he was a patient tor a tew days. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Watson spent the weekend in Lincoln visiting their son, Sam, a Nebraska Wes leyan student, and their son-in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Largely and daughter. The Watsons attended homecoming at Wesleyan University over the weekend. Ivan Couch, who is employed at Geneva, spent the weekend with his family. Mrs. Gaines Rzeszotarski of At kinson visited Mr. and Mrs. James Banks and John Schrunk, Friday afternoon. James Sholes and Charles Young spent Tuesday in Sioux City on business. Joe Peters, who is employed at Norfolk, spent a couple of days last week with his family. Mrs. Albert Anthony entertain ed members of the TOPS club Wednesday afternoon at her home. Mr. an.l Mrs. Harvey Tomp kins attended homecoming at Ne braska Wesleyan over the week end. They also visited their daughter, Linelle, and son, Roger, who are students at Nebraska Wesleyan. Harold Sobotka left Saturday for Valentine where he will be employed with the radio station. Little Dean Buhlmann of Bart lett spent from Thursday eve ning until Sunday visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Banks, while his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Buhlmann, attended the Golden Glove fights in Omaha. The Zions Daughters of the RLDS church met Tuesday af ternoon with Mrs. Lloyd Smith for their lesson. Three guests, Mrs. Violet Stewart, Mrs. Don Robinson and Mrs. Melvin Michae lis, also attended. At the close of the afternoon the hostess served lunch. 'Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anthony and family were dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Matschullat at Page Sunday. Ot her guests were Mr. and Mrs. Dale Matschullat and family of Page. The occasion was the birthday anniversary of Dale Matschullat. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reynolds and family spent Sunday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hull at Red bird. The Inman Workers Project Club met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Lewis Ko pecky jr. The lesson, given by Mi's. Albert Anthony and Mrs. Leo Harte, was “Parents and Purse Strings.” Thirteen mem bers were present. Mrs. Kopecky served a delicious lunch at the close of the afternoon. Albert Anthony accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Otto Matschullat of Page to Norfolk Tuesday. Vern Wrede of O’Neill was an Inman visitor Tuesday afternoon. Bill DoLong, Lyle Gillogly and Robert Ruther, who attend busi ness college at Grand Island, spent the weekend visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merle De Long, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gillogly, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Rather. Mrs. Ray Siders received word Monday of the death of her mo ther, Mrs. Anna Taylor, 92, on Monday morning at Moscow, Ida. The Taylors were residents of the Minneola community from 1911 to 1940 when they moved to Colorado and later to Arizona. Mrs. Taylor has made her home at Moscow near a son, John, for several years. Eight children survive including Mrs Siders of Inman and Jack Taylor of O’ Neill. Mrs. Clarence Jurticek and Kim of Orchard visited Tuesday af ternoon with Mrs. Juracek’s mo ther, Mrs. Ray Siders. Mrs. Ray Siders visited Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tayloy at O’Neill on Tuesday morning. VERN SAGESER OF AMELIA is shown here with the Champion bull at the annual Hereford sale held here Tuesday. The Champion bull was sold for $710 and the reserve champion, shown by Harold Meleher brought $600. THE CHAMPION HEREFORD FEMALE at the sale Tuesday was shown by George Rowse. Second and third place honors went to Whitaker and Whitaker of Chambers. [ At Public Auction TUESDAY. FEB. 28.1961 Sale Time: 2 p.m. on Premises 104 Acres of Land Known as the Mary Kelly land located in the NWV6, Sec. 29, Twp. 29, Range 11. The land is located just east of the northeast edge of O'Neill. The land will be offered as a unit of 1 04 acres, more or less; or as an im proved unit of 4 acres, more or less, located in the O'Neill city limits; or as 100 acres of farm and pasture land, more or less. The land will be sold whichever way it brings the most most money, as a unit or in separate tracts. t i t Improvements on the 4 acres consist of a 7-room 2-story modern house, a garage and hog house. There is a barn on the 100 acres. Property will be sold to the highest bidder or bidders. Terms are cash. 25% down the day of the sale, balance due on delivery of good merchant able title and abstract. Possession will be given on March 1, 1961. St. Patrick's Church, O'Neill, Nebr. Owner Wally O'Connell, Auctioneer Ed Campbell, Broker
