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L. ■ - Largest Circulation Newspaper Between Twelve Pages the weather South Sioux City |n This Issue 1>at*‘ hl i , March 9 34 4 ana Plus Farm Section March i« 45 24 Casper, Wyoming JJS 12 » 8 March 13 44 19 "The Voice of the Beef Empire"-North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper March \i 54 30 * r r March 15 41 33 Volume 80—Number 47 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, March 16, 1961 Seven Ce^s Mrs. Shoemaker Services Held Here Monday Funeral services were held Monday for Mrs. John A Shoe maker, 67, who died in her sleep early Friday morning. She had not been ill previous to her death. The Rt. Rev. Timothy O’Sulli van offered the requiem high muss at St. Patrick's church in O’Neill Monday morning. Burial was in Calvary cemetery at O' Neill. Rosary was recited by the Catholic Daughters of America Sunday afternoon and by parish members that evening at Big lin’s chapel. Hattie Marie Pribil was born March 12, 1894 to Frank and Mary Chinmock Pribil at O’Neill. She was graduated from St. Mary's academy and taught in rural schools before her mar riage to John A. Shoemaker October 12, 1920 at St. Patrick’s church in O'Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker be ... came the parents of two sons, Robert of O’Neill and John F. of Omaha. They resided on a ranch south of O’Neill until their semi retirement in 1950 and since that time have lived in O’Neill. Mrs. Shoemaker has been an active member and past officer of St. Patrick’s Altar society, St. Mary’s Alumni and St. Anthony’s Hospital auxiliary. She is survived by her hus band, John; two sons, Robert and John; five granddaughters; three grandsons; two sisters, Mrs. Josephine Stewart of O’Neill and Mrs. Frances Erychleb of Den ver, and one brother, Casper Pribil of O’Neill. Honorary pallbearers were D. J. McCarthy, Andy Clark, James Cavanaugh, Hurley Jones, Gerald E. Miles and P. V. Hickey, all of O’Neill. Active pallbearers were Fran cis J. Pribil, J. Frelent Pribil, Harry Peter, Louis Vitt, Harold Weier and Raymond A. Stowell, all of O’Neill. Plan Blacktop For Highway 18 Fishing and boating en thusiasts in this area can look forward to a pleasant drive to Ft. Randall in the future, as the nine mile stretch of gravel north of Spencer is slated to have a blacktop surface in the 1961-63 highway program. The Nebraska Department of Roads included the nine miles on highway 18, cost $240,000, as well as five and two-tenths miles of second stage blacktop surfacing on U. S. 20 west of Stuart, $100,000, and seven and four tenths miles on highway 12 west of Lynch. $280,000. Also included in the program wall be the construction of a bridge and grading on U. S. 20 between O’Neill and Orchard in Holt county. SHOWN ABO\E IS PART of the estimated 800 persons who visited AlBronze Metal Products com pany’s open bouse Saturday and Sunday. Owners Walter and Richard Saimen are shown at left behind the table displaying sample of the foundry’s work. AlBronze is a new industry recently opened in O’Neill manufacturing bronze and aluminum name plates, b ronze grave markers and supplying non-ferrous castings for industrial uses. Richard Saimen said he poured more than 1,000 cups of coffee during the open house. ST. MAItY’S GRADE SCHOOL eagers copped first, place in the grade school tourney played Tuesday night in O'Neill, as they downed Chambers 38-31. The Chambers crew held a 21-14 lead at the half hut the Junior Cardinals found the range in the final stanzas to overcome the Coyotes lead. Members of the St. Mary’s squad (left to right) are: Joe Yantzi, Jack Kelly, Owen Shoemaker, Joe (iilg, Mike McManus, Dan Saunto and Bob McKay. Back row: Jim Troshynski, Wayne Sindelar, Robert Devoy, Jerry Donohoe, Bruce Appleby and Dan Wolfe. Fred Appleby is the coach for the junior team. Methodists Hold Layman Meeting Here Sunday Thirteen Methodist churches of the O’Neill Subdistrict were re presented Sunday at a Layman’s meeting which was held in the O’Neill Methodist church. The program began at 2:30 p.m. with a songfest led by Grant. Peacock of O’Neill, accompanied by Archie Bowen of O’Neill at the organ. Harvey Tompkins of Inman gave the keynote address on ‘’Christian Stewardship and Social Concerns”. Five discussions groups were held with the following topics of discussion and with these leaders: "Time,” Robert Linder of Page and Bennett Gillespie of O’Neill; "Talents,” Woodrow El liott of Ewing, George Wrenholt of Clearwater and A. Wood of Ewing; "Prosessions,” Dean Fleming rof Atkinson and Oren Shippen of Atkinson; "Temper ance,” Vernon Whitaker and E. R. Carpenter, both of Chambers; “World Peace and Race Rela tions,” Ivan Hiatt of Bristow and Lester Spragg of Lynch. A general session was held during which time there were re ports from the groups and general discussions. A 5:30 p.m. dinner was served by Intermedi ate MYF members and their mothers. A film, “Stranger in the House,” closed the evening. Charles Peterson Buys Flynn and Larsen Farm ATKINSON — Charles R. Peterson, Atkinson rancher, has purchased the Flynn and Lar sen irrigated farm consisting of 1,120 acres located 18 miles northwest of Atkinson. Prior to its development as an irrigated place, the farm was owned by Frank Schnase and Lewis Vaughn of Atkinson. Protestant Churches Plan Training Session Preparation for vacation church schools to be held in Pro testant churches in this area will take place in a training institute for administrators and teachers which will be held in the Presby terian church in O’Neill March 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Loaders of the institutes will be Mrs. Donald Morseth of Plainview, Mrs. Kenneth Lux of Valentine, the Rev. C. H. Lemon of Lincoln, Mrs. Ray Kersting and Mrs. Charles Gates, bo+h of Atkinson. St. Mary's Students Take Merit Exams St. Mary’s academy students took the national merit scholar ship qualifying test this week. Following is a list of the stu dents participating: Robert Becker, Raymond Belina, Mar lene Benda, Rita Corkle, James Decker, Janet Devoy, Jean Devoy, Helen Dusatko, James Fredrickson, Lynn Gal lagher, Steve Higgins, Joseph Howard, Mary Lois Jansen, Kay Jeffers, Michael Kamp liaus, Lynn McCarthy. Ronald McDermott, John Mc Elvain, Patricia McKenzie, Mary Jane Muff, Cailan Peter, Rich ard Pongratz, Mary Richards, Gene Shoemaker, Jerome Spit zenberger, James Thomson, Carole Wabs, Kathie Weier, Tom Wanzer and Jerome Schmitz. Rural Teachers Hold Meeting; Plan Field Day A recent meeting of the Holt County Rural Teachers associa tion was held Thursday with 33 teachers present. Larry Sawyer, president, presided over the meeting. The Field Day and Science Fair which will be held March 25 was discussed. Over 364 pupils, from the fifth grade to the eighth grade have entered one of these contests: language, arithmetic, spelling or reading which is to be held in the morn ing. In the afternoon there will be a Science Fair at the exhibit building. The president brought up for discussion the raising of the dues for next year as prices have in creased for tests, ribbons, speakers, etc or the teachers would have to give up some of their activities. After the meeting the different groups of teachers put on a skit or game activity. Groups 4 and 5 served. The next meeting will be a dinner meeting which will be held April 4 at the Presbyterian church in O’Neill. After the din ner Mr. and Mrs. Watson of In man will give a travelogue and show slides taken on their trip to Europe. Small Blaze Reported O’Neill firemen responded to a call Friday morning to ex tinguish a minor fire at Robert son Motor company. The blaze was caused by gas leaking from a car. It was quickly controlled. Niobrara Development Holds Annual Meeting Rangeland Conference Names New Officers M. J. Baack, superintendent of O’Neill public school, was elected president, and Marvin Miller, principal of O’Neill schools, was elected secretary and treasurer of the Rangeland conference at a meeting held in Valentine Mon day. Administrators from O’Neill, Bassett, Ainsworth, Valentine, Rushville, Chadron, Gordon and Crawford adopted a con stitution for the Conference. There will be a playoff each year in football and basketball. Champions of east division will play champions of the west di vision. In football the playoff game will be at the host school of the west division champs in 1961 and of the east division champs in 1962. In basketball it will be re versed. The new conference will be in operation beginning of the 1961 school year. Page Legion To Sponsor Egg Hunt PAGE — Members of the American Legion auxiliary met Monday evening to plan for the Easter egg hunt, annually spon sored by the Auxiliary, which will be held March 25 at the Park. - All children 10 years of age. and under are eligible to par ticipate in the hunt. Prizes will be given. Other business at Monday's meeting included final arrange ments for the Legion birthday dinner March 19 at 6:30 p.m.: the announcement that the county meeting will be March 20 at 6:30 p.m. at Atkinson, and the announcement that $50 was col lected for the heart fund. Hos tesses were Mrs. Harrison Hall man and Mrs. Ben Asher. Weed Dist. to Elect Two Supervisors Two district supervisors, each for a term of three years, will be elected Thursday at the Holt County Noxious Weed District annual meeting which will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the court house annex. Supervisors whose terms ex pire this year are Robert Mil ler of O’Neill, chairman, and E. A. Bouska of Atkinson, who operates the district’s seed cleaner and weed spraying equipment. Bouska has served on the district board of super visors since 1948 when Holt county was designated as a weed district. He served as chairman four years and treasurer, four years. Other board members are Emil Colfack of Atkinson, secretary; Ralph Hoffman of Chambers, treasurer, and Elmer Trowbridge of Page. Business to be discussed at Thursday’s meeting will include setting the district’s mill levy and the newest procedures in the use of chemicals for weed con trol. A representative from the Noxious Weed Division in Lin coln will answer questions about weed problems. This meeting is open to the public. Gil Poese of O’Neill was elected president-elect of the Nio brara Development association al the annual meeting held in Ains worth Thursday, attended by 175 persons. Others from Holt county named to offices include: K. L. Van Voorhis, director at large for three-year-term; Alfred Drayton, Bon Shonka and Mr. Poese, directors. The Association supports all programs in the Niobrara valley for the full length of the basin, including the O’Neill unit. The Association * is supported by membership and tickets ol membership will be sold in the near future at O’Neill. Paul Harley, project manager, of Grand Island, reported on the different units in the Niobrara Riveg basin at Thursday’s meet ing and among them was a re port on the O’Neill unit. Mr. Harley stated the O’Neill unit investigation work is rapidly drawing to a conclusion. Farmers and ranchers in the O’Neill area are urged to get their land signed up for or against the local project im mediately as this investigation work may be completed. The O’Neill unit consists of 8,000 acres, in the vicinity of Springview and 69,000 acres in the Stuart, Atkinson and O’Neill areas. Water will be supplied from a reservoir north of Johns town which will have a capacity of 542, 500 acre-feet. Normal surface area of the lake formed by this dam will be 6,300 acres extending 19 miles up stream from the dam. Attending the meeting from O’ Neill were Dale Wilson, John Watson, Bill McIntosh, Allan Van Vleck, K. L. Van Voorhis and Vir gil Laursen. N. Mullendore Named Prexy Of O'Neill PTA Newt Mullendore has been elected president of the O’Neill public school PTA. Other officers elected at the Monthly meeting which was held Monday evening, are M/Sgt. William Cousins, vice president; Mrs. Clay Johnson jr., secretary, and Mrs. Frank Eppenbach, treasurer. A panel discussion on the rela tion of publications, movies, tele vision and music to juvenile de linquency was presented by the Rev. Glenn Kennicott, Grant Peacock. Mrs. Donald Younie and John Enke, with the Rev. John Hart as moderator. The group voted to have the secretary write a letter to Congressman Dave Martin to support house resolution 1826 which would ban the sale of ob scene literature. Mrs. James Newman of Stuart, the District Director of PTA Dis trict 14 was a guest. The fifth grade mothers served the lunch. Tip Kurtz Injured In Mishap Thursday Mrs. Fred Harvey of 6114 Del mar, Mission, Kans., informs The Frontier that her brother. Tip Kurtz, a Kansas City, Kans., contractor, has had the misfor tune to lose his left eye in an ac cident which occurred while trying to repair a breakdown on the job Thursday morning. Tip, and his sister, are well known in O’Neill, having spent their childhood years living on farms north of O’Neill with their parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kurtz. According to Mrs. Harvey, Tip is getting along as well as can be expected at Providence hospital. Kansas City, Kans. His home ad dress is 8507 Parallel St. Kansas City, Kans. Morrison to Speak April 4 At Annual Awards Banquet Services Held In O'Neill for Arthur Putnam Funeral rites were conducted Friday in O’Neill for Aithur A. Putnam. 86, who died at Cham bers March 8. The services were held in Biglin’s chapel. Burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery at O' Neill. Arthur Putnam was born November 6, 1874 to Mr. and Mrs Aaron Putnam of Pontiac, 111. He was a farmer and came to Holt county from Martin, S. D. Mr. Putnam is survived by one son, Melvin of Fort Collins, Colo.; three daughters, Mrs. Mae Poet ter of Medford. Ore., Ruby Put nam of Medford, Ore., and Mrs. Emma Stewart of Chambers; three sisters, Mrs. Laura Dean of Rochester, N. Y., Noma Put nam and Flora Putnam, and one brother, Charles. Grays Observe 65th Anniversary At Page Friday PAGE — Mr. and Mrs. John I Gray observed their 65th wedding anniversary Friday with a family dinner at noon, attended by their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gray. Many friends called during the afternoon and evening to con gratulate the couple, who also received many congratulatory cards. Mr. and Mrs. Gray were mar ried March 10, 1896 at the home of his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gray. The Rev. Bartley Blain officiated at the wedding. a short time the Grays resided on the Gray homestead then he went into business with his father and his uncle, George Hunter, in a general store. Ownership of the store passed in to the hands of John and his son, Willard, at the death of his father and uncle. They are the parents of a daughter, Mrs. Zella Soukup of Lafayette, Calif., and two sons, Willard of Lodi, Calif., and Ro bert. Mr. Gray was hospitalized with a broken hip on their 63rd anni versary but his health has im proved this past winter. Mrs. Gray has very good health and busies herself with fancy work during sparetime. March 10 is a popular date for the Gray family. It was the birth day anniversary of the late Ro bert Gray, the wedding date of the John Grays and the birthday anniversary of their grandchild ren, Dorothy and Jerry of Lodi, Calif. Former Orchard Man Dies in Kilgore ORCHARD — Mrs. Marion Shipman received word of the death of her brother, Ed Hill at Valentine hospital March 7. Mr. Hill was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hill. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Kilgore Friday. Petitions Approved For Reorganization Two petition proposals for re districting in Holt county have been approved by the State Com mittee for Reorganization ol School Districts, and one petition in this county was granted qualified approval. The two approved petitions al low for the following action: the attaching of a portion of District 174 (east of O'Neill) to District 7 (O'Neill); the dissolving of 108 (west of Ewing) and attaching to 29 (Ewing). Qualified approval includes the plan to dissolve 222 and attach to 238. Services Planned At Atkinson for Mrs. S. Hoppe ATKINSON—Mrs. Sophia Hop pe, 93, well known Holt county farm woman, died at her home Tuesday at 10 p.m. following a three-day illness. Funeral services will be held at 1:45 p.m. Friday in the Seger Funeral home and at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran church in At kinson. The Rev. Emil Kuehn will officiate at the services and at burial which will be in Pros pect Hill cemetery at O’Neill. Mrs. Hoppe, whose maiden name was Sophia Paulsen, was born September 16, 1867 in Schles wig-Holstein (now a part of Ger • ■ many). Her parents died when she was 10 years old. She came to America at the age of 16 years on a vessel which required two weeks to cross the Atlantic. Her cousin was a seaman on that ship. She was married to August Hoppe September 22, 1887 in Om aha in the home of her aunt. They came to Holt county Jan uary 12, 1888, the day of the fa mous blizzard. The Hoppes were marooned in O’Neill three days, having arrived by train. They hired a livery team that took them to the home place where Mrs. Hoppe resided at the time of her death. Three children were born to this couple. Mr. Hoppe preced ed her in death February 17, 1939. She is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. Sophia Guse of Long mont, Colo., and Mrs. Augusta Cording of Caldwell, Ida.; one son, Carl, at home; and several grandchildren, great grandchild ren and great great grandchild ren. Elmer .luracek, secretary <>( the Holt Soil and Water Con servation district reported today that tickets went on sale tins week for the Soil and Water Con servation District’s Awards Ban quet. Governor Frank B. Mor rison will be the speaker. The banquet will be held at the American Legion hall April 4. Tickets will he sold prior to that dab* and none will be available at the door. The num ber will he limited h> the capacity of the hall and sales are expected h> he good. This program is being co-spon soreil by the O'Neill Chamber of Commerce. Tickets are available at the following Holt county business firms: McCarville’s Clothing, O'Neill National Bank. Coyne Hardware, O’Neill in surance Co., Coast to Coast, First Nat i o n a 1 Bank, McIntosh Jewelry, Biglin’s Floor Covering, and also from Howard Manson, Clerk of the District. Court, all in O’Neill; Page Co-op Bank and West Lumber Co., both at Page, and the Farmers State Bank in Ewing. Additional listings will be made next week. Tickets may also be obtained at the Holt Soil & Witter Conservation office in O’Neill. Mr. Juraeek says, "Although the program will honor conserva tion award winners of 1960, every one iswe leome to attend whether or not they are district coopera tors. ” Dale Wilson, vice presi dent ol the Chamber of. Com merce, states, "Governor Mor rison will appear at this function on a purely non-partisan basis He is an ardent believer in con servation and is greatly in terested in expanding the indus trial development of our state.” Teachers Return Signed Contracts At O'Neill High Twenty-three contracts for the coming school term have been received from teachers at O’ Neill public school by the board of education. Following are the names ot teachers planning to return: Secondary, Marvin Miller, Duane Miller, Gerald Hawley, Charles Smith, Stanley Williamson, Ver non Carpenter, Eileen Seger. Alvara Ramm, Don Larson and Donald Kokrda. Elementary teachers return ing are: Grace Petersen, Mary Langemeier, Nyeulah Sanders, Florence Kersenbrock, Lorine Smith, Elizabeth Spelts, Mrs. Theresa Ernst, Edna Jeffrey, Clara Harley, Cleta Murray, Mona Beckwith, Helen Martens and Ruby Holcomb. Edwin Rech and James Luff have not yet returned their con tracts as their plans are still in definite. Two Car Mishap Occurs Tuesday Extensive damages resulted to two automobiles in a collision Friday at the intersection of Douglas and Second Streets. Driver of one of the cars, Ray Eby’s taxi, was Fred A. Eby, 20, and James Ollendick, 22, was dri ver of the other car, owned by Thomas Zakrzewski. No injuries were sustained. Chief of Police Chris McGinn in vestigated the accident. NEAR-PERFECT WEATHER, many items and a large crowd combined to make the Walter Egger farm sale Monday one of the largest in the area this season. Auctioneer Col. Ed Thorin said Wednesday that a check of the clerking list showed they made 775 separate sales in 6 hours . . . better than two sales per minute for the sale from start to finish. An overflow crowd jammed the yard and road with over 250 cars and trucks. More than 125 cars were parked on the road alone. Shown above is part of the crowd buying small items of tools and parts from a tool shed at the beginning of the sale. One buyer found a high perch on root of shed at top of photo. This sale, postponed because of a blizzard a week earlier, was termed the largest crowd of the season by many observers. Owner WTalt Egger. who plans to leave Saturday with his brother John for Montana, said he was “well pleased with the sale.” This was another highly successful farm K»*e advertised through The Frontier’s one-stop weather-insured farm sale service.