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NEBRASKA STATE HI XiLIY STATE HIST SOC Lincoln, KubiutiAa LINCOLN, NEBR. xxx auh 1 H ^ Largest Circulation Twenty Pages Today Newspaper Between South Sioux City In Three Sections ' and Casper, Wyoming "The Voice of the Beef Empire"-North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper Volume 81—Number 17 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, August 17, 1961 Seven Cents Dedication Rites Planned for Page Church Bishop Kenneth VV. Copeland, resident bishop of tin- Methodisl church for the Nebraska area will he guest speaker at toth the ■morning and afternoon sessions Sunday, Aug. 20 when the re cently completed educational unit of the Page Methodist church will be dedicated. Dedication services for the. completed educational unit are being held in the fiftieth year that marks the completion of the present church, which has undergone complete renovation with the addition of the edu cational unit and the re-facing of the <dd edifice to match that ot the new addition. bishop Copeland The Sunday school classes will be dismissed early for the special dedication service at 10:30. Rev. Robert L. Embree, dis trict superintendent of the north east distinct will assist with the services and the Inman congrega tion will attend the service at Page. A basket dinner will he served at noon. The afternoon session will be gin at 2 p.m. News Omitted Hue to llic Tack of space it was necessary to omit many news items and pictures in this week’s issue of the Frontier. We regret diappointing our reiwlers and correspondents but this type of problem will hap pen when news is particularly heavy. Next week’s issue will carry the omitted items :uid pictures. C. W. Peterson Bound Over to Circuit Court ATKINSON — Rancher Charley W Peterson was hound over for trial in the September term ol Dewey County circuit court at a hearing held Wednesday, Aug. 9, in justice court at Timber Lake, S. D. Peterson is charged with ob structing justice in attempting to prevent government testing of his cattle near Timber Lake. lie claimed at. the hearing Wed nesday, that the cattle involved in the case were grazing on land which is not subject to South Da kota law. His attorney, Warren May, Pierre, S. D., argued that Peter son's spread of grassland in west central South Dakota was part of the Greater Sioux Reservation, that the offense was not a major crime and that there was no state jurisdiction. Dewey County' State's Attorney Andrew Aherle said the land was deeded to Mr. Peterson and lhat Mr. Peterson is not an Indian. Therefore, Mr. Aherle said. South Dakota does have authority. Mr. Petersou was released after g>os1ing bond. The case stems from Mr. Peter son’s refusal to have his South I >akofa herds tested for tuber culosis. (Atkinson Graphic! Social Security Man To Be at Butte Office James Hoffman, field repre sentative of the Norfolk Social Security office will be in the court room of the courthouse in Butte from X a m. to 1 p.m. August 24. PTf <H* - * * -< •• » - " - *, - M ' OIL DKILLI\(i EQUIPMENT was moved onto the William Froe lieh ranch near Emmet this week as the Time Petroleum Co. of W itehita, Kans., prepared to sink a wildcat test hole to determine if there may be another possible source of income for this part of Holt county. Robert R. Freeman, Time representative, said that about 50,000 acres now under oil lease agreement in this area. Mr. Free man said also that it was only through the cooperation of the land owners in the area that such a project was leasable. Present plans also call for a test well to be drilled on the Dewey Schaffer ranch south of O’Neill. Sandhills Scouts To Begin Trek Down Niobrara Boys in the Scouting program throughout the Sandhills Scout District will be following a real adventure trail starting Sunday. Aug. 20. Over 100 Scouts and Ex plorer? have registered for an overnight canoe trip which will take them from near Valentine to the Norden Bridge on the Nio brara River. Jerry Dempsey, Sandhills dis trict scout executive will be bringing canoes from the council camp near Fremont for use in the district. A 50 miler afoot or afloat award is available from the Boy Scouts of America and this trip will make hoys eligible. Some of the towns having scout troops in this adventure are O’ Neill. Inman. Stuart, Spring v iew. Bassett. Ainsworth and Valentine. Each troop is assigned a two day period during the week. Four separate river trips will le necessary to accommodate all the Scouts and Explorers. This will be an opportunity for Scouts to put into practice once again Iheir skill and self reliance so much a part of the program. Rsfes Heid for Arthur Strong Arthur William Strong, 84, died Monday at St. Anthony’s hospi tal in O’Neill. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Biglins chapel with the Rev. Glenn Ken nicott officiating. Interment was in Prospect Hill cemetery. Arthur William Strong was horn July 14. 1877 at Dunlap, la., to Ilarim and Mary Etta Strong. Hi* came to Nebraska at the age of nine years. On May 15, 1907 he was mar ried to Martha Schlote at Pierce. Nine children were born to this couple. A son, Earl H., and a daughter, Daisy Urban, pre ceded him in death. He is survived by his wife; six daughters. Mrs. Merle Conley, Midwest, Wyo., Lettic Calkins, Mrs. Albert Dennis, and Mrs. William Perry. O’Neill, Mrs. Joseph Prohop, Omaha, and Mrs. Harold Parks. Ewing; one son, William A. Strong, O’Neill; 28 grandchildren; 21 great grand children; two brothers, Clar ence. O’Neill, and Thomas. Elm Wood, a one sister, Mrs. Oivai Leu, Tilden. Pallbearers were his grand sons, Earl H. Strong jr., Arthur Urban. Leon Urban. Pfc. Robert Dennis and Raymond Calkins, all of O’Neill, and Harold Parks, Ewing. Plane Crash !s Fatal To Lake Andes Man Roy Patocka. 37, Lake Andes, was fatally injured Sunday af ternoon when the private plane he was flying stalled and crashed on the Fort Randall north shore. The accident was witnessed by three O’Neill men. Jack Everitt, Mike Bumey and Joe Langan, who were fishing on Everitt’s houseboat with Bill Amholt, Bas sett. They assisted in freeing Patocka from the wrecked plane. Patocka died shortly after he was removed from the plane. Football Practice to Begin on Monday Jake Hawley, O’Neill high school football coach, has an nounced that football practice for the fall season will begin on Mon day, Aug. 21, at 8:30 a.m. All candidates are to report to the high school at this time. Physical examinations will be given Saturday, Aug. 39. All boys who have not had their ex aminations are to report to the High school auditorium at 8:30. Equipment will also be checked out on Saturday. .-ST. -'5-jr y,*.~r . TOP RIBBON WINNERS at the annual 4-H Style Revue held Thursday evening are shown here receiving their sewing books from Mrs. A. T. Crum v, chairman of the Holt county Home Extension Council. Receiving the books were Becky Miller, Ewing, Joan Drayton, O’Neill, Kathryn Devall, O’Neill, Diane Olbertling, Stuart. Joan Miller. Ewing, Joan Pease, Emmet and Lynn McCarthy, O’Neill. Stuart Couple to Hold Open House Observance STUART — Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Marcellas wish to take this op portunity of inviting their friends and relatives to an open house observance Sunday at tire Stuart auditorium in honor of their gol den wedding anniversary. The affair will be held from 2:.'!(! to 5 p.m. Farmers Warned To Comply with ASC Contracts Farmers who have Conserva tion Reserve Contracts were cautioned by Floyd Butterfield, chairman, Ilolt county ASC com mittee, about compliance with those contracts during the cur rent ci’opping and grazing season. The contracts definitely call for no grazing or harvesting on the designated acreage and for planting within the permitted acreage of Soil Bank base crops on the farm. A farm with a Conservation Re serve contract has a designated acreage of land that has been taken out of production and is now devoted to conservation uses. The conservation uses include trees, grasses and legumes, water storage, and plantings beneficial to wildlife. In return for annual payments, the de signated land is kept entirely out of production. Before the planting season started, each farmer with a Con servation Reserve contract was sent, a notice of his permitted acreage of Soil Bank base crops. All small grains, oil seed crops, and most row crops are con sidered Soil Bank base crops under the Conservation Reserve program. Mr. Butterfield said failure to comply with one of these three contract obligations is the most frequent cause of loss of the annual Conservation Reserve payment. Services Held Wednesday for Mrs* Sammons AMELIA — Funeral services were held Wednesday, Aug. 9, at die Methodist church in Amelia for Mrs. Marjorie Sammons, 51, who died August 6 at a Sioux City hospital aiiei a dii.es^. A former resident of Chambers and Amelia, Mrs. Sammons had been serving as deputy clerk of the municipal court in Sioux City. The Rev. Charles F. Cox of ficiated at the rites. Burial was in the Chambers cemetery, Eva Marjorie Alderson was bom May 6, 1910 at Chambers to Thomas E. and Anna Kiltz Aider son. She was married to Lee Roy Sammons July 28, 1926 at Lake Andes. S. D. They farmed near Amelia until his death there September 5. 1952. Mrs. Sammons lived at Amelia until four years ago when she moved to Sioux City to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Andrew Robak. Surviving her are a daughter, Mrs. Robak, now of Homer; one son, William D., Amelia; six grandchildren: her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Alderson Cham bers; three brothers, Col. Donald M. Alderson, U. S. Air Force in Spain. Cleo Alderson. Timber Lake, S. D., and John Alderson, Phoenix, Ariz.; four sisters, Mrs. Weaver Brotherton and Mrs. Lawrence Barnett, both of Gree ley, Colo., Mrs. Kenneth D. Stahley, Milford, and Mrs. Rosa lie Mulford, Ontario, Canada. Pallbearers were Lee and Har old Gilman, Elmer Oetter, Paul Hiatt, Peter Frahm and Dick Doolittle. Mr. and Mrs. Hartford Plan 50th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. George Hartford will observe their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday, Aug. 27, with open house from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Fellowship hall of the First Presbyterian church. They take this means of invit ing their friends and relatives to attend. They request no gifts. Patricia Davidson Wins Set of Encyclopedia Patricia Davidson, 12, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. David son. won a set of encyclopedia for her “Ask Andy” question in the World Herald prize awards Thursday. Her question was “Can there be plant life on Jupiter?” Patricia is an eighth-grader this fall at St. Mary’s academy. O'Neill Public Schools Will Open on August 30 Superintendent H. L. McCoy has announced that O’Neill public schools will open Wednesday, Aug. 30, with high school and grade registration at 9 a.m. The schools offer a full cur riculum in college preparatory, commercial, home economics, general course, athletics, fine arts and library. A complete teaching staff is now in effect with the recent hiring of a seventh and eighth grade teacher, Mrs. A1 Van Nice. Joyce Watson Shows Top Baby Beef; Beelaert, Clemens Exhibit Next Best TOP IIAISY BEEF HONOBS at the Holt county fair went to a Hereford steer exhibited by Joyce Watson of the Swan Lakers 4-H club of Amelia as she showed the Grand Champion over all breeds. Also competing for the top honor were Janette Clemens oi the Pine Grove Hustlers of Amelia who showed the champion Shorthorn steer and Becky Beelaert of th * Eagle Hustlers of Page who displayed the purple ribbon Angus. Farmers to Vote Friday for ASC Committeemen; Polling Places Set i- armers wno are participating in one or more of the national farm programs administered locally by Agicultural Stabiliza tion and Conservation farmer committeemen were reminded to day that community election will soon be taking place. Such participation is required in order to be eligible to cast a l.'.Snt for the men a farmer wants to represent him on the committee. Eligible voters must also (1) have an interest in a farm as owner, tenant, or sharecropper if they are of legal voting age, or (2) be in charge of the supervision and conduct of the farming operations on an entire farm if they are not of legal voting age. Programs administered by the ASC county and community com mittees include acreage allot ments, marketing quotas, com modity loans, the feed grain pro gram, the Sugar Act program, the National Wool program, the Agricultural Conservation Pro gram, the Conservation Reserve Program, farm storage facility loans, and others as assigned by the Secretary of Agriculture. Throughout Holt county, local election will be held on August 18, 1961 at 8 p.m. at the fol lowing locations: Atkinson, Atkinson City Hall; Stuart Youth Struck by Car STUART — A 13-year-old youth, Duane Silvers, Stuart, suffered a broken left wrist and severe fracture of his left leg when he ran into the side of a moving auto Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. ap proximately two miles east of Stuart on Highway 20. Silvers and a friend, Walter Zahradnicek had been riding on a truck, prior to the accident, assisting the General Wholesale truck driver with the distribution of merchandise. The driver had driven them nearby their homes and had pulled to die side of the highway to let them out. Investigating officer, Patrol man Robert Gude, stated the boys got out of the truck and Silvers darted across the road, running into the auto driven by Mrs. Merle Conley, Midwest, Wyo., who was enroute to O’Neill to attend funeral services for her father. Arthur William Strong. County Judging Contest to Be Held August 24 The Holt County Range Judging contest will be held in O’Neill Thursday, Aug. 24. Walter Fick and Elmer Juracek, representing the Extension and the Soil and Water Conservation District boards, met with Bob Hill and Weston Whitwer of the Soil Con servation Service to make de finite plans for the contest. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. in the assembly room of the Courthouse annex. This will be followed by a discussion of the contest and general range man agement practices. Immediately after lunch the group will travel to the contest site. Following the contest refreshments will be served at the annex and awards will be made. Belle and Kock r alls, Kock 1? alls Township Hall; Conley, Haake School — District 87; Deloit, Dis trict 46; Ewing and Golden, Ew ing Library; Fariview and Wyom ing, Amelia Schoolhouse; Grat tan. Holt County Courthouse an nex: Holt Creek, Green Valley and Francis. Green Valley School; Inman, Inman High School; Iowa and Antelope, Bowen School — Dist. 55; Cole man and Saratoga, Phoenix School; Emmet and Pleasant View, Emmet School — Dist. 20. Lake and McClure, Martha School; Swan and Josie, Swan Lake School; Sand Creek, Celia School; Sheridan, School District 81; Shields, School District 9; Steel Creek, Dorsey School; Stuart, Stuart Town Hall; Verdi gris, Page Legion Hall; Willow dale, School District 60; Cleve land and Dustin, Cleveland Church Basement; Chambers and Shamrock. Chambers Town Hall; Paddock, Midway School; Scott, Scott Township Hall. The elections will choose three community committeemen and two alternates. The chairman and vice chairman of the elected ASC committee will also serve as delegate and alternate delegate to the county convention to be held soon thereafter, where the ASC county committee will be chosen. O'Neill Youngster Is Struck by Car Friday A four-year-old boy, Gary Kirk patrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Kirkpatrick, suffered a braised hip and the loss of a tooth when hit by a car while crossing Highway 20 about 11:30 a.m. Friday. Driver of the auto was Fred Risch, 61, Howells. The youngster was treated by an O'Neill doctor and then taken to his home. City Policeman John Halvelka was the investigating officer. Atkinson Boy Seriously Hurt By Hay Mower ATKINSON — Randy Jones, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Jones, was seriously injured in a tractor-mower accident Monday morning when he was stung by bumblebees and jumped from the tractor landing beneath the mower cutting bar. He suffered numerous severe cuts and also fractures of both his right arm and leg. Emer gency treatment was given the youth at the Atkinson hospital, and in the afternoon Ron Shonka transported him by plane to an Omaha hospital. All Rural Teachers To Meet August 26 Pre-opening meeting for all rural teachers of Holt county wall be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, in the Court House Assembly Room. Bowlers Will Meet Men’s Bowling association members will hold their annual meeting Sunday, Aug. 20, at Ten Pin Lane. The meeting will begin at 1 pm. NeSigh Superintendent Replaces D. F. Nelson Warren Peterson, formerly of Stuart, has resigned as superin tendent from the Neligh public schools and has contracted for that position in the Schuyler schools. He is replacing Delbert F. (Speck) Nelson, former O’Neill superintendent, who has ac cepted a similar position in the Nebraska City schools. Chambers School Registration Set For August 23 CHAMBERS — August 23 has been set for registration of all pupils enrolling in the Chambers school 1his fall. All six schools in the district will start August 30, however, football practice is scheduled to begin August 21. High school teachers include Kenneth Weller, superintendent; Duane Carson, principal; Coach McKeever; Assistant Coach Batenhorst; Mrs. Samuel Burt wistle, Mr. Miller and Mr. Chronopulos. Grade teachers are Mrs. Art Walter, Mrs. Emil Klabenes, Mrs. Kenneth Adams and William Schipman. Rural teachers in Dis trict 137 are Mrs. Marie Smith, Sharon Marcellus, Don Adams, Erleen Schrunk, Mrs. Joe Daas and Mrs. Letha Harley. Local Man Has 30-Day Leave from Hospital Joe Cavanaugh, w’ho has been in the Veterans hospital for the past two weeks in Grand Island following surgery for the cor rection of a fractured leg, was released Wednesday on a 30-day pass to announce rodeos in Wis consin and Chambers. Upon the termination of his pass, Cavanaugh will return to the hospital for further treat ment. Subscribe Now! ! P Subscription Blank 9 THE FRONTIER j 114 No. 4th O’Neill, Nebraska fe Please enter my subscription to The Frontier for one year, to be delivered by mail. I enclose: $2.5C (in Nebraska), S3.00 (out- * side Nebraska). f I Name . P . > Address . I . .. ... | Joyce Watson ul the Swan Like •HI club walked off with top honors in the baby Ireef division at the Holt eonnly fair Tuesday. Joyce’s Hereford was named grand champion over all breeds in the baby beef competition. Vying for the coveted honor were Janette Clemens of the Pine Grove Hustlers 1-H club, who exhibited the champion Shorthorn steer, and Becky Bee laort of the Eagle Hustlers vvh© showed tin' top purple ribbon Angus. Over 200 head of llolt county's prime cattle passed before tin; judges during the afternoon's judging and it was well past 5 p.m. before tlic final ribbons bad been awarded. Livestock Supcrinlondcnl Henry Wood praised the quality of the stock exhibited this year and many times the judges were forced to make decisions between calves of almost identical qualifications. Not only Ihe calves were on dis play hut tlie Ml youngsters as well. In showmanship competi tion Alvin Crumly of the Eagle Hustlers was named the top showman in the senior competi tion. Becky Bcelaert, Eagle Hust lers, Janette Clemens, Pine Grove Hustlers, and Jim Melc her, Eagle Hustlers were named next in that division. In the junior showmanship class Don Melcher, Eagle Hust lers, placed first followed by David Dawes, Willing Workers, Torn Gant, 1 lolly Workers and Larry Anderson, St. John's Purple Prospects. In the dairy showmanship divi sion Seal Luebcke. Eagle Hust lers, placed first in the senior division followed by John Crumly, Eagle Hustlers, and Randy Oil man, Victory Boys and Girls. In Ihe junior dairy division Gary Stauffer of the Eagle Hust lers won first followed by Doug Roberts, Up and At It, and Dickie Kopeeky. Victory Boys and Girls Iii other competition Becky Beelaert, Eagle Hustlers, showed the champion Angus purebred Angus breeding hei fer. Blue ribbons in that class went to Glen Miller, Willow Dale 4-H. and a red ribbon went lo David Dawes, Willing Workers. The champion Hereford breed ing heifer was shown by Tom Melcher, Eagle Hustlers. Showing calves in the purple ribbon group were Becky Beelaert, Bonnie Heiss, Eagle Hustlers, Glen Mil ler, Willow Dale 4-H, and Billy Doolittle, Pine Grove Hustlers. Loren Blake, Prairie Wrang lers, exhibited the champion and grand champion cow and calf under one year. Bonnie Welke showed the blue ribbon pair and Donald Swanson won a reb rib bon. Becky Beelaert showed the champion Angus steer baby beef. Blues in that class went to Lynn Grass and Glen Miller, Bi% Kuester, Mike Schmiser, St. John’s Purple Prospects, and Virginia Thompson, Swan Lakers won red ribbons and Har old Morgan, Grassland Guys and Gals, won a white ribbon. Janette Clemens exhibited the champion baby beef Shorthorn fe male. Blue ribbon winners in the Shorthorn steer competition were Janette Clemens, Phoe nix Livewares, and Donald Bauer, St. John’s Purple Pros pects. Red ribbons went to Bon nie Heiss, David Schrader and Tommy Kuester. Blue ribbon Hereford baby beef females were shown by Tom Melcher and Jim Melcher. Joyce Watson exhibited the grand champion Hereford baby (Continued on page 4.'» Back-fo-School Bargains Galore Advertised Inside. Do Your School Shopping In O'Neill