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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1961)
l: j . . .... q^C 8 ^8' Largest Circulation Newspaper Between Twelve Paget South Sioux City anc| In fhit Issue Casper, Wyoming "The Voice of the Beef Empire"-North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper jiAjA Volume 81— Number 33 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, December 7, 1961 Seven Cents Lester Pearson Killed in One Car Accident SPENCER lister E. Pear son. 50. Sjiencer auctioneer for aiiout the last 10 years, died in the wreck of his pickup truck about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29. His death occurred from in juries suffered when he ap parently lost control of the truck on a curve while driving into Spencer from the south on High way 12. Foggy weather was blamed for the cause of the acci dent The truck left the road and struck a tree on the lawn of the I i mi is Scheinost residence. Town Marshall Joe I/>ock heard the crash which happened about a block from the main street of Spencer. Pearson was still alive when l»ock reached the wreckage, hut died before he could Ik* taken to a hospital. Pearson formerly resided at Bristow. He is survived by his widow, Gladys; a son and daugh ter, Rodney and Twila, who are students at Nebraska Wesleyan university; his father. Swan Pearson, Bristow; a brother and four sisters. Funeral services were held Sat urday afternoon at the United Lutheran chureh in Spencer with the Rev. Robert Peterson of ficiating Burial was at Bristow. Early Mailing Asked By O'Neill Postmaster Early mailing of Christmas cards and packages are request ed at the O’Neill post office to help eliminate congested condi tions during the peak of holiday mail, and to assure delivery of all mail at distant points before Christmas. Postmaster Ira Moss reminds patrons that ordinary size Christ mas cards mailed with four cents postage will be forwarded, or re turned to sender if delivery can not he made. If the cards are mailed with three cents postage, they will not be forwarded or re turned. George Hammnod New Memorial Gifts Head George Hammond, O’Neill, has been appointed Holt County Mem orial Gifts chairman by Eugene O. Ingram, chairman of the board of trustees of the Nebraska Heart association. Anyone wishing to give a mem orial to the Heart Fund may mail it to Mr. Hammond and include the name of the person in whose memory the memorial is given, the name of the next-of-kin and the sender’s name and address. Board Postpones Area Air Service Hearing The Civil Aeronautics board has postponed the hearing on Hi Plains Airways’ proposed air ser vice to this area from December 5 to January 9. 1962. The hearing will be held in North Platte. The propsed routes will include two round trips daily between Denver and Omaha. Sale Dates Claimed DEC. 19 — BOYD BOELTER CLOSING OUT FARM SALE, in cluding 26 head of outstanding Holstein and Guernsey milk cows, lots of good machinery. 1 mile northeast of Gateway Motel in O’Neill, 2 north and 1 east. Ed Thorin Auctioneer. First National bank. O'Neill, clerk. See complete listing in this issue of the Frontier. Open House Planned for New Baptist Parsonage CHAMBERS — Hans are being made for an open house obser vance which will be Ik*Id at the New Baptist parsonage in Cham ixTS Saturday afternoon and eve ning. Members and guests are in vited to attend from 2 to 5 p m. and from 7 to 9 p m. Eight Students On Special Page Honor Roll PAGE Eight Page high school students were named to the honor roll “with distinction" for their work during the second six weeks. They are: Alvin Crumly and Aletha Rutherford, seniors; Giro line Max, Connie Nissen and Bonnie Reiss, juniors, and luiAnn Nissen, Linda Thompson and Donna Smith, freshmen. Honor roll students are; Ron Asher, senior; Diane Kemper, junior, and Andrea Wettlaufor, Roberta Asher, Randall Shaw. John Crumly and Carolyn Hall man, freshmen. Receiving honorable mention were Arnold Hall, Jim Melcher, Marilyn Park, Bruce Bowen, Charlene Fusselman, Peggy O' Brien, I^eonard Blain, Larry Wal ker, Sharon Ellsberry, Jean Fin ley. Joe Beelaert, Jim Crumly and Seal Luebcke. Rites Planned Saturday for L. Bergstrom EWING — A life-long resident of Holt county, Lester E. Berg strom, 53, Ewing farmer, dic'd Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 2:25 a.m. at his home. Funeral services will be con ducted Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter’s church at Ewing by the Rev. P. E. Burke Inter ment will be at St. Peter’s ceme tery. The body will lie in state from 3 to 9 p in. Friday and rosary will be recited at t! p m. Friday evening in Biglin’s chapel. Lester E. Bergstrom was born December 29, 1907 at Stafford to Nils Fredrick and Clemmie Sho be Bergstrom. He served with the armed forces during World War II and was a member of the American Legion. He was married to Mildred Sanders May 27, 1947 at Ewing. Eight children were born to this couple, one daughter preceding him in death in infancy. Surviving are his wife; child ren, Francis, Carolyn, Mary Theresa, Ann, Brenda, Dennis and Kevin, at home; two sisters, Mrs. Jessie Bishop, Plainview, and Mrs. Hazel Munn, Ewing, and seven brothers, Floyd, New castle. Wyo., Clarence, Nils and Elmer, Ewing, Stanley, Hastings, Claude, Salem, Ore. and Sherman, Omaha. Russell Returned To Holt Co. Jail Floyd Russell, former Scotia used car dealer, was returned to O'Neill last week and is now in the Holt county jail pending posting of a $2,000 bond Russell, who was tried during the fall term of District Court and found guilty of issuing a no fund check to Galyen Motor Co. at Atkinson, was sentenced by District Judge William C. Smith jr., to three years in the state penitentiary. Russell's bond was set at $2,000 pending determination of appeal to the supreme court. Nor man M. Krivosha is Russell’s at torney. Larry Donohoe Dies Thursday A well-known O'Neill youth, A 3/c Lawrence P. Donohoe, 20. died Thursday, Nov. 30, of cancer at the Veterans hospital in Omaha. Young Donohoe entered a mili tary hospital September 23 and was transferred to the Omaha hospital by plane November 27. Funeral services were con ducted by the Rev. Robert Duffy Saturday at 10 am. in St. Patrick's church in O'Neill. In terment was in Calvary cemetery where military graveside rites were held by the American Le gion. Rosary was recited Friday at 4, 4:30 and 8 p in. in Biglins chapel. 1-aw re nee P. Donohoe was bom May 16, 1941 to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Donohoe at O'Neill. He attended St. Mary’s academy and after graduation, entered the U. S. Air Force in September, 1959. He spent 13 months at Osau, Korea where he worked on the Big M. Project. In April 1961 Donohoe was stationed at Lang lay Field, Va. He was preceded in death hy one brother, Raymond, who was killed in an accident November 30, 1959. Survivors are his parents; three sisters, Mrs. Jerry Rother ham, Ewine, Mrs. Bud Cloyd, and Margaret -Donohoe. both of Omaha; four brothers, Edward James and Wayne V., both of Glendora, Calif., Donald V., Portland, Ore., and Jerry, O’ Neill. Pallbearers were Larry Tom linson. Paul Ziska, Lambert Be lina, Ronald Clark, Donald Tem plemeyer, Larry Wanser, Gene Jilg and Charles Mahony. Grandparents Awarded Custody of Children Temporary custody of the Danny Nekolite children was granted to the paternal grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nekolite, Bassett, by District Judge William C. Smith jr., at a hearing held Monday. The children have been under the care of the matemial grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Strong. The child support which was being paid by their father to the mother was ordered suspended. Their mother, Sharon Neikolite, has disappeared. Coon Hunting Popular In Celia Community C'EI.IA — Coon hunting con tinues to be a popular sport in this part of the country. Eleven coons have been added to the number recently caught by Ray Gotschall and his coon dogs. Gotschall, as sisted by several sportsmen in the community, now has caught a total of 19 coons in the last 10 days. THESE FOl'RTH GRADERS are learning all about nutrition as they have been studying "Foods” in their class work with the teacher. Mrs. Gorine Smith at O'Neill public school. Wednesday afternoon the class presented a "Food Fair.” displaying posters they had made and examples of different cate gories of food, including several the youngsters cooked themselves. The students are: (back row, L to r.'i Mary Jo Hollenbeck, Patty Jackson. Grant Granger. Ronnie Harshfield. Bruce Wecker. Robert Eckhcff and Susan Jeffers; (middle) Peggy Parks. Weston Grunke. Marsha McCoy. Janice Bright. Sandra Paul son. Miriam Rae Anderson. Sheryl Vorce and Connie Nelson: (front) Carol Ford. Diane Ertx, Pam Horn by and Diana Tibbett. a _ ■ ALL OFFICERS WERE RE-ELECTED at the a-intial meeting of the llolt Comity Hereford Breeder* association Monday night at the Town House. Show.i aliove sc a tint left to rig lit: Secretary-Treasurer Kieth Abort, President Harold Meleher and Vice-President C. V. Robertson. Standing left to right are Directors Henry Wood. Troxell (ireen, Vem Sages -r and Vern Whitaker. Sagescr mid tireen were hold-fiver director*. THREE HOLT OOI'NTY 4-H’ERS received awards Monday night for prize cattle they exhibited at the Holt County Fair this year. The awards were given by the Holt County Hereford Breeders associa tion. Shown left lo right are Joyce Watson with trophy for champion baby beef, Tom Melcher with champion Hereford breeding heifer trophy and Loren Blake with champion Hereford cow and ealf trophy. At right making the presentation is Harold Meleher, association president. The ceremony took place during the annual meeting of the association at the Town House. Christmas Lights Decorate Courthouse Employees at the courthouse read The Frontier’s editorial in last week’s issue and decided to offer their contributions toward the Christmas decorations in this city. They pooled their resources and have added strings of colorful lights around the front door and will soon add a large star above the door. For the benefit of those who did not read the editorial, The Frontier suggested the start of a county fund to be used for lights on the exterior of the court house building at Christmas time. Test Oil Well Reaches Depth of 2,700 Feet ATKINSON — The wildcat oil well drilled at the Byrl Beck ranch has reached a depth of 2,700 feet, according to reports received Tuesday. The Hunt Oil company, Wichi ta, Kan., is making the test. Former Atkinson Resident Dies at Bassett Nov. 25 ATKINSON — A former resi dent of this community, William C. “Bill” Amholt, 79, died un expectedly Saturday, Nov. 25, at his home in Bassett following an illness of over a year. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the Bassett Methodist church with the Rev. Robert Peterson and the Rev. Melvin Blobaum in charge. William C. Amholt was bom August 10, 1882 at Loudonville. O., and while still a small child accompanied his parents to Ne braska. He was married to Lil lian Feezer at Atkinson in 1905 and they resided here until 1933. He is survived by his wife, Lil lian; three children. Fred, Thed ford; Bill, and Mrs. Dale Has zard. both of Bassett six grand children, and two brothers, Har ry. Bassett, and Dr. Milton, Lin coln. Emmet Crabb Submits To Major Surgery Emmet Crabb is reported to be "improving satisfactorily” fol lowing major surgery November 28 in the Methodist hospital in Omaha. November 30 was Mr. and Mrs. Crabb’s 50th wedding anni versary. His wife has been stay ing in Omaha while he is in the hospital, and is a guest at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jim Adams. Open House Planned for ASCS Building Dec. 13 Open house will be held at the new ASCS building in Spencer, Wednesday, Dec. 13, from 2 to 4 p.m., at which time the public is invited to tour the building. ASCS employees, county and community committeemen from Boyd county and surrounding counties will attend a banquet at the Spencer Community hall at 7 p.m. the same day. State and dis trict employees will also attend. O'Neill High Plans Wrestling Team; To Open Season with Neligh Dec. 19 O Neill high school is attempt ing to form its first wrestling team with 17 boys working out for the first meet at Neligh De cember 19. Although handicapped by the lack of equipment, the partici pants are showing great en thusiasm so far for the ap proaching season. Greatly need ed in the way of equipment are tights, mats and a mat cover. Coach Jake Hawley states: “Wrestling is a fine activity as this sport gives boys erf all sizes a chance to compete against op ponents of the same weight, which differs from football and basketball.’’ The weight divisions and boys participating are as follows: 95. 105 and 112 pounds, none; 120. Mick Miller and Steve Reynold son; 127, Greg Deriekson and Jack McGinn; 133. Lonnie Me Kim and Galien Young; 138, Bri an Richter, 145, Larry Dobrovo; ny, Curt Larson. Clint Miller. Mike Hand and Don Havranek: 154. Ken Franklin and Rick De vall; 165, Ron Knoell, Don Lin quist and Steve Peterson; 180, over 180 and heavyweight, none. A return meet with Neligh is planned here the first week in January. As more teams are formed in the area, wrestling j interest will pick i^> and be a j great help to the high school | program. Wayne, Pierce, Valentine. Ord. Ainsworth, along with the fine program at Neligh. should give O'Neill a full schedule by next year. An intra squad meet will be held during half time of the re serve and varsity basketball game December 12 when Ord meets O’Neill here. ■ Board Buys New Desks; Takes Tour of Building Santa Claus Letters Youngster* wishing to write to So it la CUuio may wild their letters to The FnutUer where they will be printed In the p*firr so the g<MMl SI. Meliolax may rand them. The letters will lie printed Just as the children ha\e writ ten them. Three Accidents Reported Here Three auto accidents have l**en reported to the O'Neill police department during the past week All were minor mishaps and n<> one was injured in any of the accidents. Saturday a ear driven by Francis Musi) backed into a pick up truck owned by Vernon Sterns south of the intersection of Third and Ixxiglas. Sunday a pickup truck driven by John Nelson collided with a car driven hy Hans Sass. No damage was done to Uw* pickup but the left rear fender of the car was damaged An auto driven liy James W. Corkle suffered minor damage Sunday nftcrrKion when it collided with a parked car owned by Wm G. Kurzenlierger, Spring view. Officer John Havelka was the investigating officer in all three mishaps. Special NSIA Meeting to Be December 11 A special NSIA area meeting has been set for 1:30 p m Mon day in the Stuart auditorium to discuss recent developments in the move for a state wide vote to force all school districts in the state into K-12 units, or kinder garten through twelfth grade. Speakers will include S. H. Brauer jr., Stuart, Don Liene mann, Papiilion, and Victor Mares, Schyuler. The NSIA is opposing the move on the grounds it will eliminate all rural and village Class I dis tricts and force consolidation of high schools with fewer than an average of 25 pupils per class. Orchard Youth Dies Following Car Accident ORCHARD Lloyd A. Serck jr., 20, Denver, died Thursday, Nov. 30, from injuries sustained in an automobile accidenl three days earlier near American Falls, Ida. His companion, owner of the vehicle, was killed instantly. Ac cording to word received by rela tives, the young men were on their way to a new job at the time of the accident. Lloyd was the .son of Mrs. La vem Held. Orchard. He lived in the Orchard community until af ter his graduation from high school. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4. at Orch ard. Fallout Checked by Three Area Stations Three stations are located in this area for the primary pur pose of morutonng the intensity of fallout resulting from nuclear attack and determining the length of time personnel can work in an area without suffering permanent disability. The stations are at Ainsworth. St. Paul and Grand Island, and are on a stand-by basis as part of a nationwide preparedness pro gram. A wide variety of subject* <* cupird the O'Neill jaihlic nehnol Liard Tuesday nigh). ranging (rum a tour of ihe building to a decision to offer wrestling on a trial basis. During the tour Supt II I- Me Cby showed Liard members new furniture Lsight for the typing tx*tm, new desks and chair* In the fourth grade room ami new arm chair desks in the science lab. lit- also (Muiiled nut Hint the projection r«Mn now l* bring u*«-d tor i'IwmM seven lime* a day and during tile firs! Itv e |M-rlo(ls ol Ihe itav no eta** rooms are t-mply. In the eighth grade rooms 15 students have no desks at all ju*t arm chairs with no storage for Iwoks or notebooks Such equipment must tie stored In a cupLmrd Result* of a recent test to eiieek socialistic or communistic learnings of student* in the O' Neill school were re|sii led to the Liard Twenty loaded questions were mixed in wllh other ques tions In the test given to 37 stu dents Only 20 wrong answers were given to the loaded ques tion, McCoy said, giving the youngsters a good record of 20 errors out of a possible 740 'Hu- Liard also learned tlie market value of the concert grand piano being offered to the selx mi| by the now'defunct Gum munity Concerts association. A commercial music house pegged its value at $1,800 The piano has L-cn ottered to the school for a little over $200 In a discussion of graduating requirement* tor public school student* here, McCoy sui«l he would prefer to hjm-II out exact requirements iuiiI reesMiimend «-«t that there he four year* or eight semester* of Knglsh; two year* or lour semester* of mathematic*; three year* or *l» semesters of social studies and two years or lour semesters of sciences, all wlUi a high school ulleniliuiee of eight semester*. He said policy previously had not tiecn sharply defined. His re commendatlons were approved hy the Liard. In other action the board ap proved Wayne Reynold son's re quest to rent the auditorium Sat urday mgtits for the Church Basket hall league at a cost of $8 per night. McCoy pointed out to the Liard tiiat elections for the County Re organization committee comes up some time in February. Ail school Liard members in Ihe county are eligible to vote on committee members, McCoy said and urged that they attended the election. Problem* in class scheduling were also discussed, among them tile fact that three lab courses now are running on lew* than one-hour period*. The Laird felt that lab* should have a minimum of a full hour per period and Instructed McCoy to try to rearrange class schedule* to permit the longer classes. Wrestling will tie offered on a trial basis next semester with Jake Hawley as coach. After a short discussion of equipment needs, the Liard unanimously ap proved the action. Also approved was the pur chase of 18 desks to fill in rooms such as the eighth grade where a desk shortage now exists. Ap proval was given for a private phone line for the superinten dent's office. Spencer Farmer Loses Hand in Cornpicker SPENCER Cecil Maicom, who farms northeast of Spencer, lost his hand above the wrist when his hand became caught in a cornpicker while harvesting com Wednesday morning, Nov. 29. He received medical care at the Sacred Heart hospital in Lynch immediately following the accident. O’NEILL’S NEW WRESTLING TEAM—(Story at left) Turkey Day Saturday . . . Register at the Store with the Turkey on The Door * • •' j /
