The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, March 01, 1962, Image 1

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    NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETT
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Volume 81-Number 45 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, March 1, 1962____ . . . _ S®v#n C*n,t
Come Out, Leprechauns,
Win Money in a Contest
11 will lx a big day for the
children Irish or otherwise
when youngsters of the O'Neill
trade area line up for the best
dressed leprechaun contest March
17 St. Patrick’s day.
The leprechaun contest will lie
only one of the events planned
for the day when everyone be
comes Irish in O'Neill.
Other events scheduled for
llie day will include a moon
shot planned to |mt an Irish
man In orbit. This skit will hike
place near the traffic lights
on Fourth street.
The contest for leprechauns is
open to all youngsters under 13
years of age . . . mostly because
leprechauns are the “little
people” of Irish legend. Cash
prizes will be awarded for best
costumes ... so, mothers, help
your youngsters locate a picture
of a leprechaun or use your
imagination to deck the kids out
as you think a leprechaun should
look. Free treats will be given
to every contestant.
Many events of the day will be
sponsored by the O’Neill Cham
ber of Commerce, including the
leprechaun contest, but other
privately planned activities bid
fair to make the day one of fun
and laughter for everyone.
More details of the day will
follow next week. Chairman of
the event for the Chamber of
Commerce is Joe McLxish.
O'Neill Scouts
To Distribute
Good Turn Bags
This Saturday Cuhmasters,
Harry Spall and Frank Shefl,
will have their Cub Scouts dis
tributing "Good Turn Bags,”
with the help of the Den Mothers
who will take the Cubs to dif
ferent parts of O’Neill.
The Scouts urge the local citi
zens to fill these bags and extra
boxes with materials of repair
able condition that the handicap
ped workers at the Goodwill In
dustries can mend. Their only in
come is derived from the sale of
the renovated articles.
These “Good Turn Bags” will
be picked up the following Satur
day by the Boy Scouts.
Superintendent at
Clearwater Resigns
ClEARWATER — Casper P.
Englehaupt, superintendent of the
Clearwater public schools, has in
formed the District 6 school
hoard that he will not renew his
contract next year.
Englehaupt has been at Clear
water the past two years. He has
not announced his future plans
and no replacement has been
found at the present time.
Sale Dates
Claiired
MAR. 14 — ALVIN & ALICE
JOHNSON CLOSING OUT SALE
7 mileii south and 2 east of
Chambers or 3 west and 1 north
of Hoerle’s station. Complete line
of machinery, 20 head of dairy
cattle and some buildings. Mer
lin Grossnicklaus. auctioneer
Chambers State Bank, clerk
MAR. 19 — REFEREES
SALE. 400 ACRES LAND. 2Vi
miles west and 2 miles north ol
Chambers. Sale at 2 p.m. at the
courthouse in O’Neill. John R
Gallagher, referee. Wm. W. Grif
fin, attorney. See ad for com
plete details.
Inman Student Vieing
For Old Grouch Title
INMAN Sam Watson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Watson, In
man, is one of four men vieing
for the title of "Old Grouch" to
be awarded to the most popular
senior affiliated man at the an
nual Big Snob-Old Grouch dance
to l>e held at Nebraska Wesleyan
university in lincoln March 2.
Watson is the Phi Kappa Tau
candidate for the honor.
Rites Held for
Mrs. W. Grutsch
Here Saturday
Funeral services were held at
St. Patrick’s Catholic church Sat
urday for Mrs. William Grutsch,
78, who died Thursday, Feb. 22,
at St. Anthony’s hospital after an
illness of eight months.
The Rev. Robert Duffy of
ficiated at the services, assisted
by the Rev. Ralph O’Donnell,
Emmet. Burial was in Calvary
cemetery. Rosary was recited at
Biglins chapel at 8 p.m. Friday.
Bridget Cecelia Morris was
born at Stratford, Ontario,
Canada May 19, 187.1, the daugh
ter of Anthony and Bridget Mor
ris.
May 15, 1907 she was married .
to William Grutsch at Stratford,
Canada. In March, 1909 they
came to Holt count” and lived
in the Rock Falls community,
north of O’Neill, for many years.
Mr. Grutsch preceded her in
death May 9, 1951. In August of
that year. Mrs. Grutsch pur
chased a home on West Benton
street where she spent the re
mainder of her life.
She is survived by two sons.
John, North Platte, and Joe, O’
Neill; four daughters, Mrs.
James McNulty, Mrs. Harry
Lansworth, Mrs. Lyle Vequist and
Mrs. Bernard Pongratz, all of O’
Neill; 20 grandchidren, and two
brothers, Michael and James
Morris, Stratford, Ontario.
Pallbearers were Francis Cur
ran, Walt Grosse, Ardel Curran,
Francis Murphy. John Cleary and
Bill Murray.
Trailer at Naper
Damaged by Fire
NAPER — Considerable smoke
damage resulted to the trailer
home of Ray Vaughn Wednes
day. Feb. 21, when a fire started
near an oil burner and began to
1 smolder.
Mrs. Vaughn discovered the
fire when she smelled smoke and
found an addition to the trailer
filled with smoke. She took her
two small daughters to a neigh
bor and telephoned for assist
ance.
CLASS “C” DISTRICT CHAMPIONS — the Spencer Pirates. A 61-52 win over the O’Neill Eagles
Saturday night at Lynch gave the Spencer players t le championship in this district. If they win over
Verdigre Wednesday night at Pierce, the Pirates will make a return trip to the State Class “C’ tourney.
DR. GEORGE CARSTEN8 was guest speaker Wednesday noon at an Area Cancer Crusade and
luncheon held at the Town House. The Crusade covered the North Central division but due to the in
clement weather, several area chairman were unable to attend. Shown here are (1. to r.) Mines. Dana
Bigelow, Stuart; Carl Max, Page; Ken Werner, and Dona Carson, Chambers, and Betty (Xirlstensen ami
Betty Stolcpart, Newport. At the table (L to r.) Mrs. E. E. Cleveland jr., O’Neill; Mrs. Jay Blair,
Newport; Mrs. John Oonard, Emmet; Dr. Carstens and the Rev. Glenn Kennlcott, both of O’Neill; Mrs.
Leo Dye, Bassett, County Chairman Mrs. Mike Trupp, O’Neill, and Mrs. Elizabeth Wagner, Creighton.
District representative for this area, P. Bryan Cope, Hastings, and state crusade and publicity dir
ector, Jim Guest, were also present. x
Parks Fund
Totals $271
At Page
PAGE — A total of $271.75 has
been donated to the Harry Parks
fund by the first of the week to
be used toward the purchase of
an artificial hand far Mr. Parks,
who lost his hand in a cornpicker
accident last November.
The Page Legion auxiliary is
sponsoring the drive and anyone
wishing to contribute, may leave
their donations at the Page bank.
Following is the list of contri
butors: American Legion auxili
ary and Salvation Army, $25;
Carl R. Max, William Neubauer,
Frank Beelaert, Dan Mudloff,
American Legion Post 315, Page
I OOF1 lodge, H. A. Melcher and
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wood, Lin
'ccln, $10.
Lyman Park, Robert Harvey,
Hal Farnsworth, Mrs. James Kel
ly, Inman, George Wettlaufer,
Tony Mudloff, Mr. and Mrs. John
Steinberg, Mr. and Mrs. Law- I
rence Smith, Frank Cronk, C. E.
Walker, Jesse Kelly, Otto Terrill,
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Summers
and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pussel
man, $5.
Calvin Harvey, Duane Gray,
Arnold Tikalsky, O T. Kemper
and Jerry Lamason, $3; Anton
Nissen, $2.50; William Buxton,
$1.25; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haynes,
Lincoln, Elbert Chichester, Lura
Grass, Norman Trowbridge, Mrs.
William Kelly, Inman, Gaylard
Albright, Loran Libby, Jerome
Allen, Effie Stevens, Harold Ash
er, Ivan Heiss, Hellice and Cas
sie Stevens, Neighborhood club,
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Braddock,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Halstead,
Don Nissen, Art and Doris Miller,
Harry Tegeler. and Get-to gether
club, $2.
Hester Edmisten, Otto Wahletz.
Nels Linquist, Jr. Sorenson, W'ill
iam Sorenson, W. B. Lamb, Will
iam Melenke, Arnold Stewart.
Frieda Asher, Jerry Asher, Emil
and Marie Johnson, C. J. Dob
bins. Mrs. Emma Dorr. Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Retke, Mrs. Ethel
Park and Dennis Ickes. $1
Former O'Neill Couple
Honored on Anniversary
An O'Neill couple, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward F. Quinn sr., were
honored at an open house ob
servance of their golden wedding
anniversary February 18 at the
home of their son and daughter
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Quinn jr., in San Diego, Calif.
The special day opened with
mass at 8 a.m. in the Im
maculata Chapel of the San
Diego university, attended by
Mr. and Mrs. Quinn, members
of their family and close friends.
After the mass, Mr. and Mrs.
Quinn received the papal bless
ing from His Excellency, the
Most Rev. Charles Buddy, bishop
of the San Diego docese, who
presented to each of them a
rosary and prayer book.
In the afternoon guests called
at the open house to offer their
congratulations to the honored
couple. Bouquets of yellow roses
decorated the living room, and
above the dining table was a
large wedding bell with gold
streamers. Attached to each
streamer were white and gold
bells. The dining table was
centered with a three-tier cake
surrounded by fern and gold
roses for a base. Gold candles
were placed at each side of the
cake.
Cheryl Quinn was in charge of
the guest book, and Mrs. Gerald
Versal served.
Mr. and Mrs. Quinn were mar
ried at St. Patrick’s church in
O’Neill February 20, 1912. They
have resided in O’Neill since that
time- The couple has four grand
children. Gerald Verzal, Gary,
Cheryl and Maureen Quinn, and
two great grandchildren, Richard
and Timothy Verzal, all of whom
were present for the occasion.
Out-of-town guests included Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Martin, Med
ford, Ore., parents of Mrs. Quinn
jr., who celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary a year ago
February 19; Mr. and Mire. Wil
liam Moore, Whittier, Calif.; Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Price, Santa
Ana, Calif.; Mrs. Myrtle Ruggles
and Mr. and Mrs. Orson Ruggles,
Escondido, Calif., and Mrs. Edith
Rutledge, Norfolk.
Village Caucus
Held at Ewing
EWING — Approximately 50
persons were present for the vil
lage and school board caucus
held in the schoolhouse Tuesday
evening.
Nominated for two-year terms
on the village board, three to be
elected, were Bob Eppenbach.
Waldo Davis, Weldon Alexander,
Veldon Hamilton. Curtis Roberts
and Merlyn Meyer. Jerry Rother
ham, mayor, Gene Zimmerman
and Elvin Hamilton are the re
tiring officials.
Beard of education nominees
are Alfred Napier and Archie
Tuttle, incumbents, Willis Rockey
and Merlin Meyer. Two will be
elected for three-year terms.
Jerry Hamilton was chairman
and Stanley Davis, secretary, for
the village board caucus.
Former Naper Man
Placed on Parole
NAPER — In circuit court in
Gregory. S. D., this weekend,
Roger Cline, extradited from
California, was placed on three
year probation by Judge D. G.
Grieves.
Cline, originally from Naper.
was charged with third degree
burglary.
Coach Jerry Hueser
Resigns at Spencer
SPENCER — Coach Jerry Hue
ser, who successfully steered his
basketball players to the
championship of the District
Class “C” tournament, has re
signed from the Spencer high
school faculty, effective the end
of the school year.
Besides coaching in football
and basketball, Hueser has serv
ed as mathematics instructor.
World Day of Prayer
Planned at Spencer
LYNCH — World Day of Prayer
will be held at the Wesleyan
Methodist church March 9 at 2
p.m.
Music will be presented by the
high school chorus, and there will
be special talks dealing with cur
rent events and the spiritual ap
plication. The public is invited to
attend this service.
Holt Residents Invest
$248,219 in Bonds
Holt county residents pur
chased $248,219 worth of E and
H savings bonds last month, ac
cording to Lyle P. Dierks, county
chairman.
Curriculum Report Presented
By Local Citizens Committee
Chambers Couple
Plan Open House
CHAMBERS Mr. and Mrs
Herman R. Holcomb will observe
their golden wedding anniversary
Saturday. Mar. 10, and in ob
servance of the occason will hold
open house that day from 2 to
4 p.m. at the Methodist church
in Chambers.
Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb have
lived the entire 50 years on the
farm where they now reside.
They have one son, LeRoy,
Chambers, and two grandsons,
Gary, a graduate student in
electrical engineering at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and Gale,
Chambers.
The couple requests no gifts.
Services Held
At Carleton for
James H. Bryant
CHAMBERS — Funeral servi
ces were held Monday at Carle
ton for James H. Bryant, 05,
resident of the Masonic Home at
Plattsmojth, who died Friday,
Feb. 23.
His son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Sexton, are
former residents of Chambers
when Mr Sexton was cashier at
the Chambers State bank. Mr.
and Mrs. Bryant resided with
the Sextons at that time.
Mr. Bryant was born in Mor
gan county, Indiana, and moved
to Filmore countv. Nebraska, at
the age of five years. He was a
member of the Masonic lodge at
Carleton for 64 years and was
secretary of that lodge 48 years.
He was past grand tyler of the
Grand Lodge of Nebraska.
Survivors are a son, Lyle, Lin
coln; two daughters, Mrs. Roma
Pierson, Lincoln, and Mrs. Keith
Sexton, Wauneta; four grand
children; four great grandchild
ren and four sisters.
Nell Harding
Takes Honors
As Top Bowler
The Women’s city bowling tour
nament was played recently ir
O’Neill and Nell Harding took tof
honors as all events winner wit!
a score of 1493. JoAnn Weckei
won second place in this divisior
with 1311, and Myrtle Miller
third, with 1305.
Mrs. Harding also won firsi
place in the singles. Her score
of 524 was followed by second anc
third place winners, Olive Tom
linson, 523, and Mary Anderson
518.
In doubles, Phyllis Waldo anc
Billie Thompson, berth of Cham
bers, won first place having a
score of 1032. Grace Borg anc
Myrtle Miller had 1019 for sec
ond, and Marie Graham anc
Olive Tomlinson had 1000 for
third.
The Caterpillars scored 2401 for
top positron in the team divisior
followed by Ten Pin Lanes with
2338, and First National Bank
team, 2307.
Carol Hoffman Named
To Dean's Honor Roll
CLEARWATER. — Carol Hoff
man, graduate of St. Mary’s
academy in O'Neill, was namec
on the Dean's list for the firsi
semester at Duchesne College ol
Sacred Heart at Omaha.
She is the daughter of Mr. anc
Mrs. Joe Hoffman, Clearwater
and is in her junior year.
Report* of the three sub-com- t
mittees of the Citizens committee «
on the O'Neill public schools have
been prompted to the committee i
as a whole. These reports will la* i
made available to the public. The
first report, on curriculum, is i
published today. <
K< |Mirt of the Curriculum
(Committee
This commiltee has made a
detailed study into the curriculum
offering of the O'Neill public
high school and has found the
following:
1. That the school is offering
a college preparatory course
which is meeting the standards of
the North Central Accreditation
association and college entrance
examinations.
Concerning this, we recognise
that these standards are tieing
met with a minimum offering. An
example of this minimum stand
ard is that only one language
course is offered from which the
students may choose.
It la difficult tit see how
standard* will continue tit to
met in science with Ihe limited
space and outdated equipment.
We can say that the courses are
being taught.
The library has good reference
encyclopedias but books in the
library for high school material
is wodfully inadequate. Grade
school reference books seem to
be a little better, but the com
mittee did not get to see them
as they were divided among he
rooms.
2. For the most part, we think
the teachers and teaching loads
•mi u’oll #1 itriluitiFilch 1i»Jirh«*r
has one hour each day for plann
ing. Several teachers have five
solids per day, that is five classes
in which they have a preparation
Scholarship
Tests Planned
At O'Neill High
Twenty students at O’Neill
public school plan to take the
1962 National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying test, Vernon Carpen
ter, guidance director, announced
today.
The test will be administered
at the school at 9 a m. March 6.
All students who wish to lx* con
sidered for merit scholarships to
be awarded in 1963 must take the
test at that time.
A qualifying test is composed
of a three-hour examination of
educational development. Scores
of students who are examined in
March will be reported to their
schools by May 15. The scores
are used by class advisors in
many high schools to help stu
dents make decisions about col
lege attendance and field of
study.
» make and deliver, or lab* to
upervtse
(Music and goidam •• and
>liysteal education were hard to
letermine at this point. >
:t Also, most teachers are
curbing in tlielr field of major
>r minor All available space Wir>
itili/etl to the fullest extent *»t
the curriculum offering There
ire classrooms which are vacant
me hour of die day. I tut that
jsually is when Uie teacher has a
planning period, or there an*
alter curriculum conflicts
Mae classroom* arc lictn*
used for the high school, four
of which are not being uand for
their original purpose. tXr In
stance, ail typing and business
ruunus. hut one are no ad acted
In I he typing room. Hoehk rep
lug is taughl on I hr ounr desk
a s typewriting. English
classes are conducted In I be
sewing and home ccunomlen
room. One riuss Is In-lng taught
In the ok! laundry room. Shoo
clauses are definitely Is*
iMi«H|uately equipped. with
several of the \lses being
broken and no workbenches.
4 We find the elective* very
limited. In dial regard we would
like to sec added to the curricu
lum two years of speech instruc
tion. One semester of speech is
offered as part of the English
offerings This takes valuable
time away from Enlgish ami
gives the student u false idea
that he is equipped to make a
speech. (This fact is reported
from students now In college».
Added lo the speech instruction
could be another course for
Clean or oiivrcu «■ <ui u»u«
curricular activity on the same
Icasis as sports ami band, drama
tics ami debate. We feel such
activities better prepare the stu
dent* for their future and give
the town good publicity. We feet
it is good to have scholastic com
petition as well as competition
in sports.
Miner nut all students are col
lege material we feel Uiere
should be offerings In the cur
riculum to prepare them more
adequately for their future,
tti-ully, It is soinewtutt of a dis
crimination against tliem In put
ho much stress on college pre
paration when they will mil use
it. Therefore, we would like to
see an Industrial arts course
given, starting with the seventh
grade and giving at least two
years of such a course In high
school.
Since we are an agricultural
area. vocational agriculture
should be included on a three or
four year offering
Journalism is another elective
course that we feel stiould lie of
fered, at least on a two year
basis.
None of these can lx* offered
at the present time because of
limited facilities.
A Big Pay Raise
Frontier staff members have heard several comments since the
last issue of The Frontier regarding a paragraph in the school board
story. The paragraph said:
"Just before the meeting closed George Hammond moved to
double the salary of the school board for the l%2-€3 school year. The
motion was approved unanimously just before adjournment "
Comments have varied from the irate to jocose. Some person*
thought it was fine . . . others thought the board was playing fast and
loose with the tax money.
We had a two-fold purpose in mi ml when we printed the paragraph.
First, we wanted to call attention to the school board; second, we
wanted to see just how much people knew about the salaries paid to
the school board.
We found out that many persons apparently know little regarding
the workings of the group that spend the largest single chunk of die
tax dollar.
You see school board members draw no pay at all . . and two
times nothing is nothing!
(TTY BOWLING TOURNAMENT WINNERS are shown here with their trophies. Tiam winners axe
in the back row (L to r.) as loliows: Max Grenier, Cecil Grenier, Merle Schlensener, Don McKamy and
Dick Tomlinson. Chuck Hamik (L to r.) was singles winner; George Hammond took the all events,
and Fred Moore and Byron led in doubles.