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. oTVte HISTORICAL 50CILI i NEBRASKA ,. jr03to LinCOli*. * STATE HIST SOC 0 q LINCOLN. N E 3 R . ^ 1 XXX Largest Circulation Newspaper Between ixteen ages South Sioux City In Two Sections and . Section One Casper, Wyoming "The Voice of the Beef Empire"-North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper Volume 81—Number 1 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, April 27, 1961 Seven Cents Final Results of Dist.lll Music Contest Released Over 2,(XX) students and adults were in O’Neill Thursday and Friday for the District III Music Contest which was held in O’Neill public high school and St. Mary’s academy. Following is a list of the in strumental and vocal contestants and their ratings: (1 superior, 2 —excellent, 3— good and 4—fair). These are Class D schools: Clarinet solo 2, Bill Coventry of Inman, Connie Bowlby of Lynch and Charlotte Tuma of El ba. 3, Helen Snider of Clearwater. Trombone solo 2, Thomas Rundquist of Royal, Bemiece Coleman of Inman, Marilyn Si ders of Inman and Gail Grant of Meadow Grove. 3, Tom Melcher of Page, Connie Nissen of Page, Bill Heckert of Elgin and Lee Jackson of Elba. E alto saxophone—1, Marlin Barnes of Lynch and Kenneth Porter of Elba. 2, Caroline Max of Page, Janis Daniels of Mea dow Grove and Dennis Collins of Meadow Grove. 3, Peggy Crumly of Page and James Ras mussen of Elba. B tenor saxophone—2, Bonnie Heiss of Page, Carmen Givens of Stuart and Jane Harrocks of Meadow Grove. 3, Carolyn Hall man of Page. Comet solo—2, Alvin Crumly of Page, Garnett Gillogly of Inman and Jo Ella Rasmussen of Elba. 3, Doris Synowski of Elba and Carol Sucksdorf of Meadow' Grove. Violin solo—1, Kay Kelly of In man. Clarinet solo—3, Maureen Cou fal of Stuart. JLICll *J*CI -1, Berg. 2. Lorraine Butterfield of Inman. 3, Donna Sanne of Clear water. Trumpet solo 1. Jean Mulhair of Lynch. 2, Jim Melcher of Page and Dean Fauhel of Elgin. 3, Larry Walker of Page. Brass quartet—4, Elba. These are Class C schools: Clarinet solo—1, Helen Gokie of St. Mary’s. 2. Janice Sweet of Atkinson. Judy Spangler of Ew ing, Joan Spangler of Ewing and Mildred Ficenec of Spencer. 3. Marion Corkle of Tilden. Trombone solo—1, Kenneth Lis ka of Niobrara. 2, Carol Ander son of Spencer. E alto saxophone solo—2, Shar on Holmberg of Spencer and Smo key Spann of Keya Paha. B tenor saxophone solo—2 plus. Ken Miller of Spencer and Mary Welke of Keya Paha. E mellophone solo—2, Carol Cameron of Niobrara. Comet solo—1, Dale Anders of Niobrara. 2, Lonnie Gibson of Ke ya Paha. 3, Frances Becker of Spencer. Flute solo—1, Jean Soulier of Tilden and Janall Soulier. 2, Rosemarie Zaubik of Niobrara and Elinor Blair of Spencer. 3, LaRoyce Blunt of Ewing. Snare drum solo—2, John Sielar of Spencer. Wind bass solo—2, Dennis Roe ther of Butte. Bell lyra solo—2, Karen Lauts of Spencer. French horn solo—2, Neil Smith of Atkinson. Clarinet duet—1, Ewing. (Continued on page 4.) Elmer Devaiis Plan Ooen House Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Devall will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary Friday and in ob servance of the occasion will hold open house at their home Sun day, Apr. 30, from 2 to 5 p.m. The couple takes this means of notifying their friends and relatives and to invite them to attend. They request no gifts. Rites Held for Mrs. W. C. Smith At Ainsworth AINSWORTH -Mrs. William C Smith, wife of District Judge Wil liam C. Smith jr., died about 10 p.m. April 19 when stricken ap parently by a heart attack, while visiting friends in Valentine. Funeral services were held Sat urday in the Ainsworth Con gregational church. Burial was in the cemetery at Ainsworth. Mrs. Smith was the former Helen Virginia Lindberg of Lin coln. She was married to Mr. Smith in 1934 at Lincoln, shortly after he received his law degree at the University of Nebraska and smarted law practice in Long Pine. They moved to Ainsworth several years ago. She was active in the Woman’s Fellowship of the Congregational church. A member of the Order of Eastern Star for many years, she was a past worthy matron of Blanche Chapter, Long Pine. She was also a past guardian of Job’s Daughters. Survivors are her husband; a rlaiifrhfer. Mrs. Robert Oem of Sioux City, and a son, Bob, a freshman in Ainsworth high school. Mass Band Concert Planned at Royal ROYAL—May 5 is a big day for Royal and surrounding com munities as five bands, under the direction of L. H. Sawyer, will present a combined band concert in the new Royal audi torium. The Band Mothers club has been busy for months preparing for the coming event. The entire community is cooperating to make a success of the meeting. Baseball Mothers To Meet Sunday All mothers of Little League, Minor League and Pony League baseball players are urged to attend a meeting Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Legion hall at O’Neill, for the purpose of organizing a drive for funds for baseball equipment. There is a need of additional baseball equipment and supplies for the coming baseball season. There has been such great num bers of players turning out for the sport this year, that it is necessary to raise funds to meet expenses which will occur. Doug Drueke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Drueke of O’Neill is shown here as he made his first communion Sunday morning at St. Patrick’s Catholic church. Officiating at the rite was Father John Hynes, a distant relative of young Doug. Father Hynes stopped in O’Neill over the weekend on his way to Ireland after spending the past seven years in the Philippine Islands. He was a guest in the Matt Hynes home during his visit in O’Neill Lloyd Rubecks Honored On 50th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Rubeck celebrated their 50th wedding an niversary by holding open house at the Town House Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. Assisting them in the celebra tion were their children, Mrs. Ivan Johnson of Wakefield, Mrs. Milford Coats of O’Neill and El win Rubeck of Chambers; also their five grandchildren and other relatives and friends. Hazel Tidrick and Lloyd Ru beck were married at her par ents’ home near Wayne April 20, 1911. They moved to Granite Falls, Minn., where they resided for four years after which they returned to Wayne county and lived there until 1938. At this time they moved to Holt county where they ranched for 10 years. They sold their property and Mr. Ru beck managed the Standard Oil station until his semi-retirement in 1958. A three-tier cake trimmed in gold bells and flowers beauti fied the table at the open house Sunday, along with a floral ar rangement and candelabra. Mrs. Helen Honeywell cut and served the cake and Mrs. Viona Cuddy presided at the coffee service. Mrs. Cherri Schmidt assisted with serving and Miss Lynda Rae Coats, a granddaughter, served the punch. Miss Kathy Rubeck, another granddaughter, was in charge of the guest book and Miss Karen Ermer took care of the gifts. Guests from out-of-town, be sides Rubeck’s children and their families, were: Mr. and Mrs. Norman Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Walt Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Packer, all of Wakefield, and Mr. and Mrs. John Honey well of Chambers. Cal Thompson Hurt In Fall at Ranch ATKINSON — Cal Thompson was taken to the Clarkson hos pital in Omaha April 19 for treatment of a fractured verta brae in the upper part of his back, and other injuries, suf fered when he fell from the roof of a building at the White Horse Ranch April 15. He had been receiving medical attention at the Atkinson Mem orial hospital prior to his trans fer to Omaha. Wavruneks Observe 50th Anniversary VERDIGRE—Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wavrunek of Verdigre, long pioneer residents of Knox county, quietly observed their golden wedding anniversary Sunday at the home of their son, Leonard Wavrunek and family near Ver digre. Relatives attended a dinner given in honor of the couple. They have two children, Mrs. Bolton Randa and Leonard Wavrunek. both of Verdigre and six grand children. Two sons died several years ago. The couple entertained at a dance in the local ZCBJ hall that evening. Representative Here James Hoffman, field repre sentative of the Norfolk social security office, will be in the courtroom of the Butte courhouse from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 4. Saint Louis Trio To Present Concert The Saint Louis trio will ap pear in O’Neill May 3 at the OHS auditorium at 8:15 p.m. for the third and final O’Neill Communi ty Concerts association. Three distinguished St. Louis instrumentalists will provide five different kinds of instrumental music. They are Melvin Ritter, assistant concert master of the St. Louis Symphony, Olga Zil boorg, cellist of the St. Louis Symphony, and Jane Allen, pianist, winner of the Artist Pre sentation Award in St. Louis. Four File Petitions For Naturalization Four petitions for naturaliza tion were filed in the district court during the past week. Submitting applications for naturalization were Jill Gesiriech of Chambers, Rosa Walnofer of Atkinson, Margarete Dobrovolny of Atkinson and Elly Spahn of Ewing. Rites Held for Mrs. J. Nelson At Spencer SPENCER—Mrs. Janettie Nel __ on a on OVll< Ul | l md\J 111 U1V Sacred Heart hospital at Lynch. Funeral services were con ducted Saturday in the United Lutheran church at Spencer by the Rev. Hugh Dowler. Burial was in the Union cemetery under the direction of the Jones Funeral Home. Pallbearers were her grandsons. Janettie Brownfield Nelson was bom October 22, 1873 to Elias and Elizabeth Brownfield at Champaign, HI. She came to Shelby at an early age accompa nied by her parents. They moved to Boyd county in 1891 by covered wagon. She was married to Christian Nelson August 19. 1892 and they homesteaded on Ponca Creek, three miles east of Spencer. In 1946 she moved to Omaha where she lived until 1952 when she moved to Center and resided with her son, Alfred. Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Clara Anderson of Mission. S. D., Mrs. Elsie Schonebemer of Hollister, Calif., Mrs. Amelia Koehn of Niobrara and Mrs. Goldie Bryce of Bloomfield; four sons. Kari and Elmer of Duran go, Colo., Alfred of Center and Roy of Anchorage, Alaska; 24 grandchildren; 40 great grand children and one sister, Mrs. Charles Sinclair of Gendale. Calif. Mrs. Schaffer to Speak At District 14 PTA Mrs. D. C. Schaffer will be guest speaker Friday at 8 p.m. at School District 14 which is located about 19 miles north on highway 281 and four miles west. She will present a film of Alaska, taken when she visited her daughter when she taught school there. The program is sponsored by the PTA. All persons are wel come. Refreshments will be served. Oh Those Aching Feet! How do you think the young ladies spent their spending money when they were visiting our city last week during the Music Contest? First guess would be lipstick, or maybe hats or purses. If that's the way you guessed, you’re wrong! Gamble’s report a sell of 435 pairs of flat heel shoes by 5:30 p.m. the first day of the con test. They just couldn’t face that walk back up to the academy and schoolhouse in their high heels. Neighbors Help Extinguish Blaze VENUS—Neighbors assisted at ihe Ralph Brookhouser farm Sun ' day afternoon in extinguishing a fire which had started from burn ing leaves. The fire was quickly brought finder control. Those helping were Mr. and Mrs. Ora Caskey, Larry and Gary, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Finch, Mr. and Mrs. L. Hines and family, Mr. and Mrs. James Podony and Richard, Dennis Von Seggren and Donald Kinnison. Cattle Industry Film To Be Available Soon ATKINSON—Robert H. Clif ford, Atkinson rancher and presi dent of the Sandhills Cattle as sociation, announces the ordering of a 25 minute sound-color, edu cational movie regarding the range area’s cattle industry. Cameras of the producer, Max Howe of Rapid City, S. D., will become a familiar sight in the range country this summer. The film will be available for all organizations interested. Associa tion officials state that the film will be ready for distribution next spring. Judging Team Departs for Oklahoma City Six O’Neill business firms and organizations are again sponsor ing the Holt County Range Judg i,<g team which left Tuesday af ternoon for Oklahoma City where the members will participate in the National Judging contest Thursday and Friday. Sponsoring the team are The O’Neill Production Credit associa tion, Federal Land Bank associa tion of O’Neill, O’Neill National Bank, First National Bank of O’ Neill, O’Neill Livestock Market and the O’Neill Chamber of Com merce. Members of the team are Gary Fick of Inman, Keith Krugman and Richard and Charles Hill. They were ac companied by Walter Fick and Bob Hill. The group, although unable to compete as a team because they represented Ne braska at the national contest last year, totaled over 100 point above this year’s state winning team from Dundee county. Last year at the national con test J. Homolka of Chambers was a team member in the place of Charles Hill. The team tied for sixth place and Gary Fick placed seventh as an individual. Twenty two states and 18 foreign countries were represented at last year’s contest. This year the team has been working out nearly every week since the early part of January1 to better last year’s position. Little League Practice Slated Here Friday rirst pracuce iux juum cuiu Midget League baseball players will be held Friday at 6:15 p.m. at Carney Park, according to their coaches, Joe OUendick and Lambert Belina jr. Players in these leagues and their parents met Sunday after noon in the Legion hall for dis cussion of schedules and plans for the season. Only 16 members are allowed on each team for state play. There is still room for additional players on the Midget and Junior Leagues and anyone interested may appear for practice Friday evening. Practice will be held Monday. Wednesday and Friday of each week at 6:15 p.m. until school closes. Rural Students Plan Sioux City Excursion Rural eighth grade students will go to Sioux City Tuesday at 7 a.m. on the annual trip and tour, returning here about 7:30 p.m. Miss Alice French, county sup erintendent of schools, will ac company them. May 12 is the date for the eighth grade graduation exercises which will be held in the O’Neill high school auditorium. Students Present Sunday Service National College Day was ob served at the First Presbyterian church in O’Neill when students from Hastings college presented the services Sunday morning. Participating were Kathy Bra dy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Lee Brady jr. of O’Neill, Jan McCune, Brenda Hill, Marsha Frey and Lanny LaRue of Cham bers. The four girls were week end guests in the Brady home. Here's Your Chance to Tell How to Spend Tax Money O'Neill Youths Held on Charge at Columbus Platte County Sheriff Hermar Christiansen Tuesday took Sam my Strong of O’Neill into custody and is holding him in the county jail at Columbus on a warrant charging him with the debauch ing of a minor March 17. Sheriff Christiansen informed The Frontier Wednesday that he has asked the Omaha authorities to place a hold order on Gayle Boyle of O’Neill on the same charges. Boyle is in an Omaha hospital receiving medical care for injuries sustained in an auto mobile accident Tuesday evening in Omaha. Another O’Neill boy, Pat Mc Connell, was in Boyle’s car at the time of the accident but was not injured. Suiters Caught in Tornado in Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Red Suiter and two daughters are getting used to tornadoes, after coming through one safely Thursday in Iowa, their second experience with such storms. The Suiters were returning from Ft. Dodge when the tornado struck about two miles out from the city. They were bringing back a boat on a trailer, hooked to the back of the car. When hard rains and hail started pelting the car, Suiter pulled onto a country road. How ever, the winds began hitting them crosswise and he drove on to a farm lane. This, too, failed as the winds changed while they were parked there and a tornado struck tearing the boat and trai ler from the car and into a ditch. A half-block away from them, sign poles, as large as telephone poles, were snapped as though they were toopthpicks. None of the Suiters were hurt and the boat was only scratched by fence wires. Drivers passing by helped Suiter lift the boat and trailer back on the road. Iris Society Plans Annual Show June 3 ATKINSON—June 3 is the tentative date set for the Atkin son Iris Society’s 14th annual show to be held in the Atkinson high school auditorium. The theme will be “A Century in Iris.’’ Mike Smith Improved Following Amputation Mrs. Duane Miller of Emmet in forms The Frontier that her fa ther, Mike Smith, Spencer Hydro Chief operator, formerly of O’ Neill, is showing satisfactory im provement from surgery April 12 at Omaha where his right leg was amputated above the knee. It is hoped that he might be able to return to his home from Clarkson hospital the latter part of this week. Amputation became necessary when his leg failed to heal fol lowing an accident March 25, 1958 at the Spencer Dam. He was clearing an ice jam at the dam when he fell and was swept through the trash gate. A hugh chunk of ice struck him and crushed his leg against a rock. He has undergone surgery five different times since the acci dent and has been in the hospital on numerous occasions for com plications. Mrs.'Smith is with him in Om aha and Mrs. Miller returned home Sunday. A son, Ray of Og den, U., spent three days with him last week. Another son, Der ald, is with the air force, sta tioned in Hawaii. The doctors tell Mike it will be about three months before he can return to his work. Cards may be sent to him at Room 804, Clarkson Memorial Hospital, Om aiia, i\eurasKa. Excursion Boat Nears Gavin's Point Boating enthusiasts will soon be able to enjoy daily excursion trips on the Lewis and Clark Lake. A 230-passenger, double-deck excursion boat has traveled from Dubuque, la., and will soon reach Yankton where it will be moved by house movers over the top of the Gavin’s Point Dam. Names Omitted Five names were omitted from the O’Neill high school honor roll which was published in last week’s issue. Students earning honor roll recognition and not previously named are John Harder, Gary Jeffrey, Marion Rosenkrans and Sonita Wilson, seniors, and Eileen Pribil, junior. Cake Decorating Session Slated Quick and easy icings and de corations for holidays and special occasions will be shown by Catherine Indra, Home Extension agent, during the National Home Demonstration Week in Holt county. All persons, including non members, are invited to attend the series of meetings to he held May 2 through May 10. The de monstrations are for people who have little time and, by their own admission, little skill in cake decorating. The following meetings will he held, starting at 2 p.m.: May 2. Page Methodist church base ment; 3, Stuart auditorium; 4, O'Neil! assembly room in court house annex; 5 Ewing Presby terian church; 9 Atkinson in D o Kramer residence, and 10 Cham bers Methodist church. Would you like an opportunity to voice your opinion concerning foreign aid, federal spending or labor unions. If you have strong beliefs in certain government policies, Tin Frontier now offers you a chanc* to be heard. Congressman Dave Marlin prepared a questionnaire ask ing opinions on national at fairs. This questionnaire lias been printed below. <hit it out and fill in the spares with your answers. Then sign your name and address, and mail It to The Frontier. The Frontier will tabulate the results and will print them in next week’s issue and during the following weeks. No names will ho published. The clippings will be sent to Congressman Martin as he has requested the Frontier to assist him in finding out how the people in his district feel about the different jxilicies. Please return your question naire as soon as possible. mni Y«*» No Sure 1. Do you favor reducing the amount of money spent for foreign aid? _ _ _ 2. Should Communist China be admitted to the United Nations? _ __ _ 3. Do you favor a gradual reduction in farm price supports? _ _ _ 4. Are you in favor of giving the Secretary of Agri culture the power to sell on the open market Commodity Credit Corporation feed grains at less than the support price—as provided by the 1961 Feed Grains Program? __._ 5. Do you favor a government program that would work toward eventually eliminating all supports and all controls on agriculture? __ 6. Should we increase Social Security taxes to provide free medical care for pensioners—de spite the fact that many are not covered by Social Security? _ __._ 7. Do you favor more public works spending by the government as an “anti-recession” measure? _ _ _ ». iJo you ravor raising the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour and broadening coverage to in clude 4 million more employees? - - - 9. Should workers be forced to belong to unions to hold jobs? - --- - 10. Do you believe anti-trust laws should also ap ply to unions? - - - 11. Do you favor some sort of income tax allowance for education, rather than direct Federal aid to education? __ _ _ 12. Do you favor Federal aid to ALL schools public, private or parochial? - - - 13. Do you favor repayable Federal loans to college students, rather than outright grants of money? ---- 14. Do you feel that Federal aid to education will result in Federal control of education? - - - Please print your name and address and return your copy to The Frontier, O’Neill, Nebr. Please write "POLL” on your envelope to aid in sorting. Street or Name - Rural Route _ City______ _ II IIS T PLACE winners at Lions Club Talent contest Monday eve ning in OHS auditorium. Shown in front is Joan Farrier who placed first with her piano solo in the junior division. Helen (iokie’s piano solo won the top position in the Intermediate division and the Kurtz brothers, John (left) and Terry, won the first place In the senior division with their instrumental arrangements.