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Fin The Batter s Box i I ■ *. with Terry Kurtz Town Team i V Alvin Carson’s Town Team split their two games this past week. At Clearwater Thursday O’Neill collected 15 hits and defeated the Clearwater nine 10-6 in a 14-ilin ing battle. Lloyd Hilligas and A1 Carson shared the mound duties for the winners, Beringer and Boelter pitched for Clearwater. The extra-inning loss halted Cle;irwater’s hopes of a North Central Nebraska League cham pionship, the losers were unable to take advantage of their 13 hits. O’Neill vs. Clearwater ab h Belina 6 3 Fauqueir 4 1 Carson 4 3 Hilligas 3 1 Kennedy 4 1 Smith 0 0 Graham 6 2 Dunlin 3 0 Tomjack 6 3 Couch 0 0 Tomlinson 5 1 Box Score: O’Neill 200 030 001 000 04 10 Clearwater 212 loo 000 000 00 6 Oakdale snapped the O’Neill Town Team’s five garni? winning streak Sunday night when they handed the local North Central Nebraska Leaguers a 5-3 loss at Oakdale. Lambert Belina register ed two of O’Neill’s four hits and boosted his average to .425 to lead O’Neill hitters in the depart ment. Appearing on the mound for the winners were Ericson and Beach, Couch took the loss for O’Neill while going the distance on the hill. Larry Tomlinson and Ted Tom jack were the only other O’Neill sluggers that could manage hits in the loss, the victory was Oak dale’s 8th of the year compared to two losses. O’Neill will play host to the league-leading Orchard outfit this evening (Thursday), weather per mitting, and then they’ll travel to Clearwater this Sunday. We urge local baseball fans to turn out for the Town Team games as the much improved squad promises top notch action for your enter tainment. Junior Legion O’Neill’s Junior Legion won one game and lost one this week. Sun day afternoon Valentine handed O’Neill a 5-3 loss in a game play1 ed at Carney Park. The game was tied 2-2 going into the sixth frame but the visitors took ad vantage of tiwo errors while col lecting three hits and drove in three more tallies that proved to be the winning margin. O’ Neill came back with one run in the bottom of the sixth and then i loaded the bases in the seventh but they were unable to drive across any more runs in the con fused final frame. Legion manager Joe Ollendick pat the game on protest following a bases loaded groundball that struck runner Rudy Classen with one down. The ball bounded on into the outfield and two O’Neill runners scored, but they were called back because of the sup posedly dead ball. The runs would have tied the score and set the stage for Norm Wettlauffer with one on and two out. Results of the protest will be announced as soon as word is received. Wettlauffer was the losing hur ler for the home town nine, Mul lin went the distance for Valen tine and was given the victory. BOX SCORE Valentine 100 013 0 5 9 2 O’Neill 001 1(M) 13 4 3 Here in O'Neill Monday night, the local Legion outscored Ains worth 4-2 as Keith Reynoldson tossed a five-hitter in the seven inning contest. The little south paw gave up only one run in he first six innings, but began to wear down in the seventh when Ainsworth came out with a dou ble and then loaded the bases. With one across he retired the side by forcing the final hitter to ground out to second. Gary Brewster regained his early-season hitting form with three hits in three plate appear ances. Lyie Stewart collected a double and a single in the win ning cause. Gene Hamilton open ed the final frame with a dou ble, Ainsworth’s only extra-base blow. George Whitney worked the first four frames on the mound for the losers and was handed the loss, he was relieved by Bar tholomew. Reynoldson struck out seven and walked two in winning his third game of the season. O’Neill will play Plainview here this Friday evening in the second game of a Midget-Legion doubleheader under the lights at Carney Park. Then They’ll hit the road next week, playing at Spalding Wednesday night and at Ainsworth Thursday. BOX SCORE: Ainsworth 100 000 1 2 5 0 O’Neill 020 002 x 4 7 1 The O’Neill Junior Legion Mid gets traveled to Greeley last week and handed their hosts a 6-4 loss in an error-laden battle. Jerry Donahue and pitcher Joe Shoemaker led local hitters with two hits each, Rich Hill blasted a line drive homer with none on to open O’Neill’s fifth frame. Shoemaker fanned four and didn’t give up any walks while being tagged for six singles. Lam mers was the losing moundsman for Greeley. The Midgets will play here Friday evening against Plain view, and then they go to Niobrara next Tuesday. O’NEILL Hammond, ss 3 0 1 Peterson, c 3 0 0 Oetter, lb 4 11 Tom jack, If 2 0 0 Hill, 3b 3 12 Donahue, of 3 2 1 Stewart, 2b 3 10 Godel, 2b 10 0 Wells, rf 2 10 Kelly, rf 10 0 Shoemaker, p 3 2 1 28 8 6 GREELEY Johnson, ss 4 11 Dugan, 2b 4 10 Thompson, 3b 4 0 0 Lammers, p 4 10 O’Gorman, c 4 0 1 Warner, lb 3 11 McFadden, If 2 0 0 Ryan, If 10 0 Ryan, cf 3 10 Marco, rf 3 11 32 6 4 Box Score O’Neill 003 020 1 6 8 4 Greeley 020 000 2 4 6 3 Elkhorn Valley Lefty Randy Nickeson spun a one hitter over Monday evening and East O’Neill defeated their opponents 10-1. The young south paw whiffed five batters while walking four in his sparkling mound stint. Joe Yantzi and Rick Cradit led the winners with three hits each, Cradit had two doubles and Yantzi slammed one. Also collecting two-baggers were Cas ey Tomlinson, Tim French, and Dave Cradit. Sidak was credited with Em mett’s only hit, a double in the first inning. Kent Cole was the losing pitcher for the visitors. Also in the pitching spotlite this past week was Randy Schmeichel of Jerry Schmidt’s West O’Neill Little Leaguers. Schmeichel pitch ed the first four and two-thirds innings of the West O’Neill-Or chard game and gave up two runs on only one hit as his team mates romped to a 15-2 victory. The righthander had relief assis tance from Ronnie Riley in the regulation 6-inning game. Bruce Spitler pounded out his third homer of the year, and Jim Booth slammed his seventh cir cuit smash for the winners. Booth now leads O’Neill Little Leaguers in the home run department. This Friday East O’Neill will play at Ewing and West O’Neill will host Atkinson. Pony League June 28 the O’Neill Colts col lected 9 runs, 11 hits and three errors to defeat Chambers with 1 run, 1 hit and 6 errors. Ivan Hurley pitched a 1 hitter and struck out 14 at bat. Dick Larson had two doubles in three times at bat. Owen Schumacher and Jerry Nickeson both had two for three. The only hit Chambers had was was a double by Gillette. In Pony League competition last Wednesday evening, Ivan Hurley pitched the Colts to a 9-1 victory over the Chambers Pony League. Cody was the los ing hurler. Big Ivan pitched bril liant ball, allowing only one hit in the seven inning contest. The Braves defeated the Cardi nals 9-6, Bob Riley pitched the victory. The losing moundsman for the Cardinals was Rick Cra dit. T-Shirt League In games played in the “T” Shirt League last Thursday eve ning the Dodgers beat the Sena tors 32-9. Tom Stevens was the winning pitcher, Jim Forwood was the loser. The winners dis played top notch hitting and fine pitching. Jim Grady and Mark Tarnish also pitched for the Dod gers. Bill McKay, Jim Davidson, and Tom Anderson made mound appearances for the losers along with Forwood. Louie Coker’s Tigers outslugged the White Sox 13-11 in a tight game down to the finish. Craig Hesson was the winning pitcher, Jed Wolfe took the loss. The Yankees and the Giants played to a 10-10 tie when the game was called because of dark ness. The extra-inning contest will be played off at a later date. This evening the White Sox will play the Senators, the Dodgers will take on the Giants, and the Yankees will battle it out with the Tigers. Chambers News By Mrs. E. K. Carpenter Carolyn Wintermote was honor ed at prenuptial shower at the Methodist church parlors Satur day evening. Edith Grimes of Lin coln was in charge of the pro gram which consisted of contest games and readings. Those par ticipating besides Miss Grimef were Mrs. Ralph Adams and Mrs. John Lee Farrier. In charge of the guest bock was Mrs. Dick Read, Lincoln. Miss Wintermote’s mother, Mrs. Gaius Wintermote, »and a class mate, Mrs. Jerry Cuddy, assist ed with the opening and record ing of her gifts. Mrs. Lela Grubb and Mrs. John Wintermote, grandmothers of the guest of hon or were seated at the gift table. Miss Wintermote’s marriage to Eldon Wilke, Omaha, will take place July 8 in Omaha. Weekend guests in the Art Mil ler home were Anna Marie Gil more and Phyllis Wadlow, Lin coln, and Glen Miller and Jim Hospodke, Omaha. The Martha Community held a Fourth of July picnic at the school house. The program start ed with a children’s parade us ing the theme “Early Pioneers". There was a potluck picnic din ner followed by races, contests and a ball game. The affair end ed in time for all to do chores and get to the Fair Grounds at Chambers for the pancake feed, entertainment and evening fire works put on by the Chambers Volunteer Fire Department. “Another World” was the name of the slides shown at the Bap tist church Sunday evening. The slides were accompanied by a tape recording and showed the growth of a Christian raido sta tion in Korea. There was also Special music by a group from Kansas City Bible college and a gospel message. ' Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Avard and Patty, Lincoln, came Friday and spent the weekend with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Med calf. Evan “Duffy” Grubb ac companied them to help at the Gauis Wintermote home during haying. Mr. and Mrs. Lieswald and children of Lincoln were week end guests- of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Farrier and fam ily. Sunday guests in the Farrier home were Mr. and Mrs. Darold Wedge wood and family, Fairmont. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Herstedt, North Platte, were overnight guests of Mrs. Paul Roth Friday. The Herstedt’s were enorute to Wisconsin. Jack Beierle, Columbus, came Sunday and took Mrs. Beierle and children home after they had spent several weeks here with her mother, Mrs. Paul Roth. Jacque Rpif»rlf> rpmuinoH hprp hnr grandmother. Ladies of the Bethany Presby terian church have planned a shower for Mrs. Wayne Hoffman of O’Neill Thursday evening at the church. The Chambers business men are sponsoring a free show every Saturday night at the Golden Gate Theatre in Chambers. The shows started June 1 and will continue throughout the summer months. Mr. and Mrs. Zane Rowse and family accompanied by Mrs. Clarence Lodgeman, Brunswick, left early Saturday on a trip to Riverton, Wyo. A new air conditioner system was installed in the Thomson Cafe last week. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Stewart, Page, were Sunday supper guests of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Art Miller. Leanne and Marjorie Lewis, Spencer, are spending the week with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crawford and family. Carla Rae Crawford is spending the week in the Lewis home. A dinner honoring Mrs. Frank Porter was held Sunday at her home. Present besides Mr. and Mrs. Porter were Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Rowse and family, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Smith, Mrs. Cordea Smith, Mrs. Letha Cooke, Dick Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Clemens and family and Jerry Reninger. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Howe and children, Fremont, came Sunday and spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood and Dale. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rening er and family, Columbus, 0., ar rived the first of the week to spend their vacation with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ren inger and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Porter. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Christiansen, Afton, la., and Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Christiansen and daugh ters, Debra and Alice Marie, Ft. Worth, Tex., were weekend guests of Mrs. Celia Christian sen and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hubei and family, Ewing. A family ga thering was held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chris tiansen and family. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hubei and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schindler and family, Ewing, Mr. and Mrs. Lenny Charf and family, Omaha, the Carl and Kenneth Christiansens, and Mrs. Celia Christiansen, Chambers. Mr. and Mrs. Ray McNair, Meadow Grove, came Saturday night and spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Mik kelson. Admitted to membership in the r»hliY*r»Vi Qnn/^air ntoro Mrs. Leon Hertel and Mrs. Dellie Fauquier. Both were admitted by transfer from other churches. Mrs. Kenneth Werner returned home Tuesday from St. Anthony’s hospital where she had under gone surgery. Melvin Bell reburned home Thursday from 9t. Anthony’s hos pital where he had Submitted to surgery Monday. Jimmie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ollendick cut his foot Thurs day when he fell and a broken dish fell on his foot Five stitches were required to close the wound. St. -Paul’s Lutheran Church William E. Roten, Pastor Thursday, July 6: Church coun cil, 8 pun. Friday, July 7: Teacher train ing, 8 p.m. Sunday, July 9: Sunday school, 9 a.m.; worship, 10 a.m.; instal lation, 8 p.m. at Butte, 3 p. m. at Fairfax. Baptised Sunday, June 25, Ter ri Annette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lierman. 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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nielsen, Rodney and Bradley of Omaha visited over the 4th of July vaca tion with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Burge. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Forbes went to Minnesota Saturday to visit her mother, Mrs. Hazel Baab, and to bring their daughter, Don na, home after visiting her grand mother. Mrs. Gene Thompson went to St. Paul to meet her husband and bring him home for the 4th of July vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnston, Mark and Kay went to Sargent 1 Sunday to visit Mrs. Peterson’s brothers. Jake Pfund, Norfolk was fish ing at Whipple Lake Sunday. Mr. Pfund lived in this community several years ago. Tom Murray and daughters, Cleta and Demaris visited at the Floyd Adams home. Mr. and Mrs. James Curran and Ardell brought Mrs. Delia Ernst home Sunday after a week’s visit with friends and rela tives near O’Neill. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rees while here. "" 1 ■■ Meek News By Mrs. Fred IJndberg —————— - ■ f A charivari treat was given by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hoyne at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nelson Wednesday night. A large crowd attended. The newlyweds received many nice gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Searles of Arvada, Colo., were supper and overnight guests Monday at the Axel Borg home. They also at tended the charivari party at the Nelson home Monday eve ning and got to see many of their old neighbors and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Loran Libby and Ronnie were Friday visitors at Fred Lindberg's. Mary Peterson and Emmett Slaight were also callers. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Robertson met Sandra. Linda and Annette Long of Colton, Calif., in Grand Island last week. Larry Dobrovolny and Jerry Schmitz met Mrs. John Hall in Sioux City Saturday. She was re turning home from an extended visit with friends and relatives at Blue Earth, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Rouse and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lau rence Rouse and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Anderson and girls were Sunday dinner guests at Howard Rouses. Norma Walters was an over night guest Thursday of Sandra and Linda Long at the Sam Rob ertson home. Mrs. Loyal Hull entertained a group of 13 ladies Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Mitchell and family were supper guests Satur day evening at Elmer Devalls. Bankerslifeman — Ernie Brinkman IN ATKINSON About Insur ing Your Right to Buy Additional Insurance Later . . . Regardless of Your Future Health OMPANY 3U MOlMn. tow* Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Perry and family. Canton, Ohio have been to California visiting relatives. They stopped 9unday night at Delbert Rouses. Arthur Roberts and Leon Sar gent were Tuesday visitors at the Fred Lindberg home. Due to the lack of interest no-; thing definite was decided upon at the old settlers picnic meeting held at the Midway school house Friday. 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Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gehlsen and girls, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Graham, Marlyn and Leslie, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Ray W’il son, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Barta and Evelyn, Lynch, Mr. and Mrs. August Eiler and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sheldon and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Crawford, Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Miller and family, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Mil ler and Mike, Oliver Ross and Mary, Neta Conard, Martha Ross and Clarence, O’Neill. Mrs. George Mellor plans to take a group of the 4-H members to Niobrara park for camp Wed nesday. Mrs. Marion Woidneck plans to bring the group home Friday. Those planning to attend are Georgia Mellor, Kathy De vall, Diane Devall, Larry Nelson and Linda Woidneck. Galen Hull, Primgar, la., spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Loyal Hull. Wayne Hancock, Pamela and Tim, Pleasant Hill, Calif., plan to spend the fourth of July at Loyal Hull’s. A picnic supper was given at the Atkinson park Tuesday eve mng in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Olson (Nellie Bucklin) of Seattle, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. El mer Devall attended. The women were classmates and had not seen each other for 31 vears. Mr. and Mrs. Don Rich and family, Homer, visited at the Al len Walters and Delbert Rouse homes Monday and Tuesday. The boys were buddies in the service. Grandma Hull and Bill have moved to town temporily and are staying with Mr. and Mrs. Leon Mellor. Mrs. Walter Devall and Mrs. Gerald Risor were home from Blair where they have been at tending school for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Risor and grandson and Art and Edith Risor spent the weekend at their home in Meadow Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walters and Norma were Saturday dinner guests at (lie Allen Wallers home. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Walters and sons called at the Merlin Ander son and Henry Walters home Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kaczor and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rouse and sons were Thursday visitors at the Virgil Hubby home. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence' Freburg and family left Friday for their Isime in West Covina, Calif. Dwayne and Russell Borg, 9t. Paul, Minn., came Friday. Their wives and families had arrived earlier to have a longer visit with friends and relatives. They plan to return July 9. OAR1) OF TIIANK8 WK WISH TO THANK our friends, relatives and neighbors for their kind expressions of sympathy, the memorials, floral offerings, gifts of food and all other acts of kind ness shown us at the time of the sickness and death of our loving husband and father. Also thanks to Ralph Gray who sang at the service. Mrs. Harry Moore and daughters lip 1 I Subscription Blank * THE FRONTIER ! 114 No. 4th O'Neill. Nebraska ) Please enter my subscription to The Frontier for one year, to P be delivered by mail. I enclose: $2 50 (in Nebraska), $300 (out- k side Nebraska). Name . . . P I Address . . .