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N44KA5KA STATE Hioi'OulCAC liwwibiK Lincoln, Nebraska STATE HIST SOC \2 ^ LINCOLN, NEBR. XXlargest Circulation Newspaper Between _ . „ _ , South Sioux City Twe"'y Pa9eS T0daV an<^ In Three Sections Casper, Wyoming "The Voice of the Beef Empire"-North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper __ Volume 81—Number 3 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, May 11, 1961 Seven Cents Construction to Start Soon on Stuart School STUART Constucton of a new $111,584 grade school for St. Boniface Parish here will get underway immediately, accord ing to an announcement by the Rev. A. J. Paschang, pastor. The one-story structure will Include four classrooms, an activity room which can be divided into two classrooms if necessary, a small library and mifik room, an office, nuns’ lounge, first aid room, rest rooms and furnace room. Ultimate capacity will bo 200 pupds. Present enrollment at the parish school is 113 pupils. Classes are now being held in the church basement. Completion of the school is scheduled for November 15. The masonry-type building will have wide copper fascia (support moulding) around the perimeter. A colored glass window will be placed at the entry and cut stone panels will be placed below class room windows. Inside there will be a wall of glazed tile for a shrine in the main lobby. Interior partitions will be of steel and plaster with vinyl cov ering below chalkboards. A sky light will brighten the main cor ridor area. The Grecr-Melkus Construction company of Grand Island has been awarded the general con tract. Boyer, Biskup and Wids trom of Omaha is the architect firm which has designed the building. Two Escape Injury In Mishap at Butte State Highway Patrolman Ro bert Gude investigated a two car accident Sunday at 4 p.m. about two miles west of Spencer on Highway 281. No injuries were sustained by the two drivers involved. Floyd D. McNair jr., 17, Spencer, and Connie Honke, 16, Naper. According to Gude the accident occurred when Miss Honke slowed her car to return to Spen cer and McNair who was driving behind her auto, failed to notice that she was cutting speed. The right side of his car collided with the left rear of the Honke vehicle. Graduation, Festival Planned at Butte BUTTF. Boyd county rural eighth grade graduation and Music Festival will be held Fri day at 2 p.m. at the Butte high school gymnasium. All rural students take part in the Music Festival. Warning Issued On Roaming Dogs Conservation Officer Harry Spall this week served notice to dog owners that it is illegal for dogs to roam fields this time of year. State law prohibits dogs run ning loose during the nesting season of upland game birds. April 1-July 15. Spall also said he has had several complaints of dogs run ning livestock and added that any dogs found running loose will be destroyed. Auxiliary Plans Poppy Day Saturday American Legion Auxiliary and Junior Auxiliary members will observe Poppy Day Sat urday by selling from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. the small red flowers made by servicemen still hos pitalized. Proceeds from the sale of these emblems of remem brance for the war time sacri fices will go to disabled veter ans or members of their fami lies. •k - ••; i -4 . : . * ■ , ■ . -; r- *: s » ' " Wr *" xr *&> * «• «r& ijp. ? - «*'.**w r Architects drawing of the proposed $111,584 St. Boniface grade school at Stuart. A Whopper! Jeff, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. <hw>rg© Ham/noml, caught a “ dog fish” this week while, trying his luck at the river with a Dare Devel lure and casting rod. As he cast the lure out, his dog, ready for sport, jumped into the river and the lure be came caught in his tail. The, dog frantically tried to swiii away, and Jeff, just as frantic, reeled him in backwards. Jeff couldn’t free the lure so he cut the leader and his dog followed him home, trying to hite the lure loose. One observer remarked, “If he bad gotten his mouth caught, along with his tail, Jeff would have had to roll him home- like a hoop.” Lowell Grady Killed in Auto Mishap Lowell T. Grady, 46, Fremont, was killed Saturday evening when the sports car he was driving overturned on Linden Avenue in Fremont. His son, Jimmie, 17, was a pas senger in the car but was not in jured. Mr. Grady was bom August 16, 1914 at Spencer. He is a son of Mrs. Goldie Grady, now re siding in Fremont and the late Charlie Grady of Spencer. He was united in marriage to Eva Gathmiller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Guthmiller, O’ Neill, December 25, 1942 at Butte. They are the parents of four children. Funeral services will be held Thursday (today) at the Lawson Funeral Home at Fremont. Burial will be in the Memorial Cemetery there. Survivors include the wife, Eva; sons, Jimmie, 17, and Tommy, 14 months; daughters. Judy Kav, 15, and I tenise Marie, 3. Mr. Grady was a veteran of World War n and a member of VFW. He has lived 14 years in Fremont. Clarence Hansen Leases Tompkins Livestock INMAN —Harvey A. Tompkins, has leased his Tompkins Live stock headquarters to Clarence Hansen of Inman, effective August 1, and will serve as special rural agent for the Equit able Life Assurance Society of the United States beginning Sep tember 1. The Tompkins family will make their home in Waverly this win ter and Mr. Tompkins will spend several days each month in Holt county with his new position and looking after his other business interests. Mrs. Tompkins, who has been teaching in the O’Neill high school for the past four years will teach in the Waverly Con solidated schools. «S«R5a *MB« • ' a Will Spindler Adds Book to Growing List Will Spindler, retired U. S. Indian Service teacher and author of Gordon, has added another book to his list of five previously written, “Yesterday’s Trails,” true pioneer and Indian tales of western South Dakota and Nebraska. Bom on a ranch in the Atkin son-O’Neill area of north-central Nebraska, he has 38 years of school teaching to his credit. Of these, 8 years were in rural schools of Nebraska and 30 in Indian day schools on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota at the Potato Creek, Manderson, Wounded Knee, and Porcupine day schools. Mrs. Spindler, the former Lulu Coon, a native of the Gordon area, was also employed as cook during their 30 years of service, both being in the Federal Civil Service. His writing career began with "Comrades of the Lone Star” in 1921 at the age of 21. The others that followed were “Lure of the Hills” in 1937 “Rim of the Sandhills” in 1941; “Badlands Trails” in 1948; "Tragedy Strikes at Wounded Knee” in 1955, and his latest book just off the press. The new book also in cludes many of their personal experiences during their 30 years in the Indian service from 1929 to 1959. Spindler also authored over 100 feature stories on Indians and pioneers for newspapers and magazines. Copies of his new book may be secured directly from the author at Gordon or from book stores in Nebraska and South Da kota. Spindler is a son of the late George Sindler and a brother of Floyd Spindler of Atkinson. Child Loses Fingers In Accident with Ax Rebecca Wrede, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vem Wrede, was taken to a Sioux City hospital Saturday following ar. accident in which she suffered the loss of three fingers and damage of one on her left hand. The accident apparently oc curred when an axe she was using to crack nuts, slipped and struck her hand. Her grandmother, Mrs. Earl Stevens of Page reported that Rebecca is doing “remarkable well.” Six Initiated Into Thespian Troupe Six O’Neill high school stu dents were initiated into the Thespian Troupe No. 882 Thurs day evening. They are Susan Burney, Larry Godel, Nick Hammerlun, Leon ard Havranek, Rolland Johnson and Marion Rosenkrans. Mrs. Harvey A Tompkins is the spon sor of the O’Neill Troupe. Kindergarten Sign-Up To Be Held May 23 Supt. Milton Baack announced today that all students planning to enroll in school next year, will attend the pre-kindergarten regi stration May 23 at 1 p.m. in the O’Neill public kindergarten room. Parents unable to appear with their children that day for en rollment, should send the infor mation to the school so total coverage may be made. Events Slated At St. Mary's A calandar of events has been prepared for the coming week at St. Mary’s academy. May 11 there will be a registra tion of next year’s first grade, morning only; May 14, a piano recital will be presented by Mrs. Kubitschek’s pupils, and on May 14 there will be a senior program. May 15-17 final exams will be given and at 7:30 p.m. May 15 the May crowning ceremonies will be held; May 17 an 8 a.m. mass will be offered at the eighth grade graduation, and May 18 there will be high school graduation with seniors mass at 8 a.m. and awarding of diplomas at 10 a.m. Clearwater Man Injured in Freak Mishap CLEARWATER — Relatives here have received word that Raymond Luben, son of Mrs. Grace Luben of Inman, received serious injury while at work in Fremont with a construction crew. He was draining oil from a caterpillar and the oil started to spray. Several hundred pounds of pressure escaped striking him in the face, causing injury to his entire body. His face was badly cut, and his eyes injured. It is believed the sight of one eye is entirely gone and the extent of injury to the other is not yet determined. Luben is in the Clarkson hos pital in Omaha. Johnson Drive-In Plans Grand Opening Monday Gordon Johnson, owner of the new Johnson Drive-In has an nounced that they will hold their grand opening Monday, May 15. As a means of greeting their friends and new customers they will give away free ice cream cones, free Dr. Pepper and free pizzas at various times through out the day. The new drive-in, located on the west edge of O’Neill, features the latest in modern equipment to better serve its customers. Plans also call for the addition of equipment to enable them to serve a complete line of pizzas in the very near future. Six Injured In Accident At Clearwater EWING—Six persons out of seven involved in a two-cAr acci dent were hospitalized at Ante lope Memorial hospital in Neligh Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred about 3 Vi miles east of Clearwater at approximately 3:30 p.m. In volved were the autos of Ed ward Laborde, 69, Plain view, :md Donald Halil beck, 17, Ew ing. The Laborde vehicle was traveling west at the time of the accident and had started to tom south across the highway when the car collided with the I.ahlbeck auto which was headed east. t ccording to the attending physician, Hahlbeck suffered £ce’p and facial lacerations, a i er(bral concussion and neck spilin. His passengers, also from Ewing, were Charles Roberts, 18, and Kenneth Brion, 16. About 60 stitches were requied to treat the scalp and facial lacerations on Roberts, who was thrown through the windshield. He also sustained a cerebral concussion and excessive blood lost. Brion (s eated with a fractured left Laborde was not hospitalized following examination but his wife, Maida, 67, remained in the hospital until Monday. Also pas sengers in the Laborde car were Clinton Snodgrass, 69, Neligh, and his wife, Alta, 64. Mrs. Snod grass still remains in the hos pital and Mr. Snodgrass was taken to an Omaha hospital Mon day afternoon for further treat ment. All suffered cuts and bruises. Investigating officer was Trooper Donald Matejka of the Nebraska Safety patrol. Margie Gilg Wins First in Ortaory Contest The 4-H Public Speaking con test was held in the Courthouse annex Saturday with 17 4-H mem bers taking part. Winner of the senior division was Margie Gilg, Atkinson, a member of the Clover 4-H club. Margie’s title of her speech was “Bend the Twig.” Winner of the junior division was Susan Taylor of Ewing and she is a member of the Happy Hollow 4-H clhb. The title of her speech was “Try ing To Have Better Health In My Community.” Ribbon placings in the junior division were as follows: Blue—Susan Taylor, Ewing; Jo Ann Scripter, Atkinson, Clover 4-H club and Janice Vequist, O’ Neil], Eagle Creek 4-H club. Red—Doraellen Ferris Atkin son, Clover 4-H club; Linda Bonenberger, Atkinson, Clover 4-H club; VaReane Gray, O’ Neill, Sugar and Spice 4-H club; Patsy Davidson, O’Neill, Happy Helpers 4-H club; Dennis Hoerle, Chambers, Silver Star 4-H club, -j n: _ a i.i • /-o vjrx-Lg, n.iiYiiX2*Jii, L/XUVCX 4-H club. White—Jean Crabb, O’Neill, Willing Workers 4-H club; Patty Straka, Atkinson, Celia 4-H club; Vickie Frickel, Atkinson, Celia 4-H club, and Gary Ferris, At kinson, Clover 4-H club Ribbon placings in the senior division were as follows: Blue—Margie Gilg, Atkinson, and Patty Bonenberger, Atkin son, Clover 4-H club. Red—Rita Vequist, O’Neill, Eagle Creek 4-H club. White—Dorothy Poessnecker, Atkinson, Celia 4-H club. Margie Gilg will represent Holt county at the district contest which will be held June 1 in Bassett in connection with Junior Leader conference. Judges were Mrs. Edgar Stauffer, Page; Mrs. Arthur Mann, O’Neill; Rynold Cimfel, O’Neill; Elmer Vogel, Stuart, and Gil Poese, O’Neill. Day of Recollection Held at Spencer SPENCER — Seventy-five youths were in attendance at the Day of Recollection held at St. Mary’s Catholic church Sunday. The Rev. Mr. NcNally of Nio brara conducted the Day of Re collection. The Boyd County Knights of Columbus served a lunch, followed by a social hour, to close the day’s activities. AN ESTIMATED 750 PERSONS attended the mass band con cert Friday evening at Royal when combined bands from Cfe-arwater, Inman, Page, Meadow Grove and Royal performed under the dir ection of L- H. Sawyer, There were 154 musicians from the second grade through high school in the bands. Visitors from 15 towns were present for the event. Before the close of the program, five students, one from each of the five bands appeard on the platform and pre sented a gift to Mr. Sawyer. The Royal Band Mothers club provided refreshments. Y ' J ' r‘ >- • ■ . - Tractor Accident Claims Life Of 14 Year Old Bristow Lad Dr. Meierhenry To Speak at Graduation The Rev. Don Olmsted of the Wesleyan Methodist church will present the sermon at the bacca laureate services which will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday in the O' Neill high school auditorium. Invocation and benediction will be given by the Rev. Ivan Chris tofferson of the Assembly of God church. Miss Alvara Ramm and Mrs. Harold Seger will provide processional and recessional mus ic and the mixed chorus and eighth grade girls will present vo cal selections. Commencement exercises will be held Wednsday at 8 p.m., also in the high school auditorium, and the main address will be given Dr. W. C. Meierhenry by Dr. W. C. Meierhenry of the University of Nebraska. Dr. Meierhenry, assistant to the dean of Teachers college and director of the Advanced Pro fessional Division, Teachers col lege, received his bachelor of science degree at Midland col lege in Fremont, his masters and doctor of philosphy degrees at the University of Nebraska. He was a teacher and superintendent of schools at Republican City from 1936 to 1943. Dr. Meierhenry has been extremely active in Audio Visual association work and has held many positions in connec tion with this field as well as " writing and giving book reviews. Dr. Rex Wilson, vice president of the Board of Education, will present the diplomas to the grad uating class of 1961, and Supt. M. J. Baack will present the eighth grade diplomas. Presenta tion of scholarships will be by Principal Marvin Miller. What A Race! Bobby and Becky Hendricks from the Celia community are pretty good at scaring up wild game for their father, Robert Hendricks. The family went looking for hollow stumps Sunday to be used as a planter in their yard. Bobby found one that wasn’t hollow—it was occupied by the familiar black and white “cat.” It was up to father to get the skunk out of the stump, which he did, and then the race was on. Dad thought he was good at foot racing but the competitor won. few " William Schaffert Named President of Nebr. Beef Council William T. Schaffert of Dalton, Nebraska rancher, was elected to his second term as president of the Nebraska Beef Council at the annual meeting held in Grand Is land last week. Elected to the vice presidency of the council was M. J. Hankins, Stanton, Nebraska cattle feeder Robert Howard of Alliance was named secretary and treasurer. The council adapted articles of incorporation and by laws, and according to Schaffert, is now do ing business as a non-profit cor poration. Cattle Testing Deadline Nears At least 9,000 cattle must be tested in Holt county before June 1, in order that this county may requalify for accreditation as a modified tuberculosis-free area. Emmet and Sheridan precincts have been designated as test areas to obtain the required number of cattle. Farmers and ranchers in Emmet precinct re ceived notice last fail that their herds were due for test. Dr. G. R. Cook has tested as many herds as his schedule would per mit. Doctors Frank H. Christ and J. N. Gruber with the Department of Agriculture are completing the testing, which started April 4. Tuberculosis has been nearly eradicated from cattle in this area uiruugu orgoiiueu ueiu test ing throughout the country. Com plete eradication of the disease is, however, the goal. Each six years every county must re qualify for accreditation. In most herds all breeding cattle over six months must be tested. On large ranches all the dairy cattle, all of the herd kept at home, all of the purebred cattle and a cross section of range cattle must be tested. The test itself dot's not take long, but the cattle must be con fined so that a proper injection of tuberculin can be made in the fold of skin under the tail. Ranches with alleys and chutes have little trouble, but some preparation has to be made in other cases. Penning the herd in a barn, shed or corral is the first step. Some method is provided to stop the cattle from milling around and to provide safety for the veterinarian. The injection site is observed three days later, again requiring that the cattle be properly restrained. Frontier Being Sent To All Homes in Area Today’s Frontier is going in to 7,000 homes in the vast Frontierland area. This doubl ing of our regular circulation is done to bring to more people in the area the benefits of shopping in O’Neill and sub scribing to the Frontier. Many merchants of O’Neill have made a special effort to bring to new readers of the Frontier bigger-than-ever bar gains in timely merchandise. Read their ads in this issue of the Frontier . . . then come to O’Neill and see the many bargains waiting for you. A subscription to the Frontier will keep you posted on what is news in the area along with important, money-saving values for the shopper. Use the coupon on page 5 and subscribe today. BRISTOW A 14-year-old youth. Clayton Edward Tunender, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Tunender, was killed Momlay when his trac tor overturned on the Bristow Main Street, pining him beneath the machine. The young toy had driven the tractor into town and was turning the machine into the Lumlier yard when it skidded on gravel throwing him from the machine The tractor flipped over, landing on the youngster and killing him instantly. Several persons witnessed the accident and rushed over to free his body from beneath the trac tor. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. in St. Mary's church at Spencer. The Rev. Ro bert Steinhausen will officiate. Burial will be in St. Mary’s ceme tery at Spencer with the Jones Funeral Home in charge. The Tunender family has lived in Bristow since 1955. Clayton was torn at Atkinson October 18, 1946. Survivors are his parents; two brothers, Jim and Leo jr., Oma ha, two sisters, Shirley at home and Mrs. James Betz, Walters. Okla., and grandmother, Mrs. Emma Campbell, Atkinson. Terry Kurtz To Receive Scholarship Terry Kurtz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kurtz, has been awarded an all-expense trip and scholarship by the Eagle Band Parents to Chadron State college for his scholastic and musical ac complishments. Ken Franklin, who plays the baritone horn, has been named as alternate. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Franklin. Kurtz was awarded a superior rating for his snare drum solo presented during the District IH music contest held recently in O'Neill. Judges gave him one of the finest cirticisms ever received by an O’Neill high instrumentalist. He was credited with the follow ing reviews by the judges: “Fine technique—this young man re flects fine teaching and train ing;” "couldn’t find any weak points” and finally, “drummers of this calibre are hard to find— excellent dynamic control!” His music instructor is Duane Miller. All students receiving superior rating durin" the contest were presented tuition scholarships by the Nebraska State college at Chadron to attend the Summer Music Festival May 28 to June 4. Burney, Larson Named Royalty O’Neill high school auditorium was transformed into an Oriental Garden Saturday evening, com plete with cherry blossoms, lan terns and Oriental costumed servers, to provide a setting for the junior and senior banquet and piom. Rolland Johnson, president of the junior class, welcomed the seniors, and Sonita Wilson, presi dent of the senior class, re sponded. Others on the program were Marvin Miller, Carolyn Fuhrer and Supt. M. J. Baack Servers were Richard Hill. Denny Drayton, Gary Brewster. Dick Marcellus, Rick Devall, Gary Plessel, Karen Ermer. Esther Young, Sharon Velder. Dianne Graves, Judy Smith and Betty Morrow. Following the banquet, a dance was held and during the corona tion ceremonies, Susan Burney and Dean Larson were crowned as queen and king. Attendants were Sonita Wilson, Joyce Krogh, Larry Godel and Bill Fricke. FOOt-H SPEECH CONTEST WINNERS^Jo Ann Scripter, Janice Vequist, Susan Taylor junior division, Margie Gilg and Patty Bonenberger, senior division, took top honors in the 4 H Public Sneak mg contest held in the courthouse annex Saturday. For other winners see story elsewhere ^
