The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, April 05, 1962, Section Two, Image 10
Inman News By Mrs. Jiunm McMahan Bernice Col man, Omaha, spen the weekend visiting her parents Mr and Mrs, George L. Colmat and Kandy. Mrs. May Fraka returned Fri day from Oak where she spen the winter months with her son in-law and daughter, Mr. ant Mrs. Merlin Luben and family Mr. Luben brought Mrs. Fraki lo her home. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Watson went to Norfolk Friday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Stuart llartigan. The llartigans were in the flood area at Norfolk. The water didn't get into the first floor but there was about five feet of water in the basement. Joe Peters, Norfolk, spent 2 few days last week visiting hit family. Harry McGraw returned Fridaj from 9t. Anthony’s iio^iital where he was a patient. Mr. and Mrs Boyd Boelter km family have moved into the pro perty that they recently purcbas ed from Albert Anthony. The Boelters are formerly from O' Neill. Mr and Mrs. Don Kelley and family, Norilsk, spent the week end visiting Mr Kelley's parents, Mr and Mrs. W E. Kelley and girls. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Renners went to Sioux City, la, Friday to bring their daughter, Carolyn, home to spend the weekend Car olyn is a student nurse at St. Vincent’s hospital. Mr and Mrs. Milo Gorgen and sons have moved from Lynch to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dana Lines. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anthony and family were Thursday eve ning supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Matschullat at Page. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kell and family have moved from Merrill, la., to the rental pro perty of Tom Kngelhaupt In the east part of town. Mrs. Faye Pmkerman and Vel deen Pinkerman visited Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reynolds and family Friday evening and also attend ed the junior class play. Mrs. Mary Tomlinson, O’Neill, visited Mr. and Mrs. James Cov a "IT'S NATIONAL SAFETY PIN WEEK!" That's why I'm happy! And I'm even happier ;o know that my Mother buys my baby needs at Devoy's Rexall Drug. They carry a complete line. DEVOYf-psm | p r u g ^_I entry Friday evening and attend ed the junior class play. ~ Merlin Luben, Oak, visited his mother, Mrs. Charles Luben, Fri day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Abney spent the weekend at their home here. Mr. Abney is receiving medical treatment in Omaha. Margaret Pruss, Clearwater, spent the weekend visiting her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Henry Pruss. Royal News By Mrs. R. J. Berta* The school event of the week that is attracting attention and keeping interest in school affairs at top notch is the banquet to be given Friday night by the Pep club in compliment to the Athletic club. The mothers of the boys of the first team are to prepare the food; Mmes. Elwm Rundquist, Vernon Rader, Lincoln Henry, Roy Frahm, Clayton Meisner and Herbert Williby. The Pep club will serve as waitresses, Barbara Holm, Sandra Rundquist, Cecilia Walmer and Janet Miehaelson. Julia Streeter, principal, is in charge of the affair. Ronnie Francis, sophomore, who cracked an ankle bone in a cast on his leg and getting to school on crutches. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Hering have been advised that their son, Joe, Beatrice, was seriously ill last week and under the care of a specialist. Mr. and Mrs. William Keck, Pender and Mr. and Mrs. Max Morrill, Creighton, were Sunday guests of Postmaster and Mrs. Stanley Montgomery. Mrs. Ollie McCintock, who has been employed for several months assisting in the care of Alfred Ziegenbein during his ill ROGER’S JEWELRY j 413 E. Douglas O'Neill, Nebraska ness, went Thursday to Sioux City where she will b* employed. Mr* zSla Hering, Who has em ployed for about eight years in the Royal pustoffice. resigned Friday to be employed elsewhere. Mrs. Hermg served as clerk two years before Harry Hagedorn re tired and was then appointed act ing postmaster which position she held for two years when her place was taken by Stanley Mont gomery, a veteran, when she again served as clerk. The bowling team consisting of men from the Royal and Orchard areas under the name of the Mitteis Construction company, en tered the tairnament at Neligb Sunday and won the champion ship. The five members are Har old Mitchell, Frank Schwager. Duard Dempster, Lyle Schleuse ner anti William Mitteis. Mr. and Mrs. Duard Dempster and Mr. and Mrs. William Mitteis and Mr, and Mrs. William Mit teis, Kreg and Connie were Sioux City visitors Wednesday when Kreg received a medical check up. Curt, Kelly, Kreg and Con nie Mitteis spent the weekend with their grandparents in Ver digre while their parents were in Lincoln. Celia News Mr*. Merrill Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Milton McKath nie and family were dinner guests Sunday of Milton’s mother, Mrs. Emma McKathnie, in observance of her 8Gth birthday. Other din ner guests were Lloyd Evans, Gary and Ruth and Lloyd’s sis ter, Charlotte Evans. Blanche Rouse and Miss Mildred Keyes, Inman, called in the afternoon. Mrs. Victor Frickel is serving on the jury panel at O’Neill this week. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Hoffman, Gary and Roger were Sunday dinner and Sapper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Mommsen. Jolene Beck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Berl Beck, spent Sat urday with her aunt, Mrs. Le Roy Hoffman and family. The pupils of the Celia school arranged a birthday party Thurs day for their teacher, Larry Hayes. Mrs. LeRoy Hoffman bak ed and decorated the birthday cake. Each family presented Lar ry with a gift. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hendricks and family had dinner Sunday with Robert’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hendricks and Arlin. Bill Focken, Hastings, came Sunday evening to spend a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Focken. The Celia 4-H Club met Fri day rTrain* at the Milton Mc Katkolr hwor *rkij a goud M tMducr. Prvjeet boukl arm paanrd mn and leaden diaru** <d fstarr plans with lix-ir groups. Mrs. LeRoy Huffman led la group singing. Mrs. John Schwindt, club lead er, named a committee to fill out the club year bouka. Chosen were Mrs LeRoy Hoffman, Pat ty Straka, Mary Catherine KU murry and Roger Hoffman. The club will meet April 13 at the home of Mr. and Mrs John Schwindt. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hendricks and Arhn, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hendricks and family and Mr. and Mrs. Connie Frickel and Kurt were guests Monday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nelson and Paul Arden. The evening was spent enjoying colored slides Paul Arden had taken while in Ja pan. He majored in photography while in training and served in this capacity while in the army. He plans to continue with this type of work. Ploesti . . . Continued from Page I despite warnings that half might not return. Flying lower than the refineries’ smokestacks, they attacked through flames and ex plosions which often engulfed the 60,000-pound bombers, for Ploesti possessed the heaviest anti-air craft concentration in Europe p)os scores of frontline Axis fighters. The big bombers which came through were blackened by oil smoke. Crippled ships were en gaged in three major aid battles trying to fight their way home to desert bases in Libya. The book is based on hundreds of interviews with U. S. and Axis survivors. The autnors consulted unpublished diaries and exhaused official reference sources in Washington, London and Bonn. Secrets of the German defenses and events hitherto unknown are revealed by Dugan and Stewart, who tracked down survivors on both sides of the Atlantic. The Random House offering benefits from the highest percentage of participant testimony to date in the field of historical non-fiction war reporting. PLOESTI is a full detail story of what combatants went through in the contagion of heroism that was Ploesti, told in terms of the people involved. The authors de scribe unparalleled acts of hero ism, from the story of 10 “com bat virgins’’ who flew five miles enveloped in flame to crash their target, the Romanian prin cess who saved a downed air crew, and a queen who protected a fallen Texan, to the German arnameot specialists wtai went in to the danger-fraught target ar ea to disarm scores of urn xplod ed delayed-action bombs. PLOE-ST1 ty illustrated by more than one hundred drama tic photographs, plus many charts and diagrams and detailed roas ters. Dugan is author of THE GREAT IRON SHIP, a Book-of the-Month Club selection, and MAN UNDER THE SEA. now a standard history of underwater exploration. He lives in Philadel phia.. Stewart today publishes tour weekly SUN newspapers in, Lincoln. Pre-war he was “boy editor1 of the BELDEN PRO GRESS and the CEDAR COUNTY NEWS, Hartington. After the war he published THE FRONTIER a: O’Neill 13 years. As wartime friends they con ceived the book on the day of the historic mission. Richard C. Crippen, who farms near Atkinson, flew the Ploesti mission and lent assistance to the authors in reconstruction of the battle. Marcus DeCamp, Clearwater, now living in Rapid City, S. D„ was another Survivor.> Vivid testimony in the book is at tnbuted to Russell D. Long neck- i er, Broken Bow, who, sitting in the first pilot’s seat for the first time, took off in his overburden ed bus for Romania. Other Nebraskans on the nils sion included John Irwin, Albion. w1m> was to die nj battle a month later. Haiold Tushlu, Atkinson, belonged to one of the groups, lived with Walt Stewart, Hugh Roper, Jack Jones, Packy Roche and others who stand out in the book. Toshla (the American Le gion post at Atkihson bears his j name) would have flown Ploesti ] except that he was killed earlier. ( Sister M. Adeltrude of St. Mary’s Academy and Mrs. Mel mut Arnold of O’Neill (native of Bremen) assisted the authors with translations and are credited in the book. A number of the principals vis ited O’Neill during the book’s preparation: Peg-legged John Palm, El Paso, Tex., a pilot; Ben Kuroki, Hershcy, now a Micigan publisher; Romanian Princess Caradja, now of Balti more, Md.; Robert O’Reilly, St. Louis, Mo., a pilot. Cal sold THE FRONTIER in Jalunary, 1959, to devote full time to the book, which required two and a half years including a sum mer spent in Europe tracking down Axis survivors. He purchased THE FRONTIER from the late D. H. Cronin in May, 1946, and launched the four SUNpapers in November, 1961. 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O'Neill- Authors' auto graphed first printing copies un available through Strwsrt't home address. B*« 631. O Neill. Cal's wife. Peggy, and three children sUlt reside in O'Neill Their child ren are Suianrir, 15; Scott, 11, and Salty. 10 THE OMAHA WORLD-HER ALD was among the Itrat new* jiiipem to review PI/)C3TI ®n<1 termed it "a notable b-aifc equal ling or aurtNUMing Cornel lua Ryan* THE UJNCMCST DAY, long a heat teller." Ryan • book, an mutual* account of the Nor mandy Invasion. Is being made into a movie. _ " I Elect LLOYD THURLOW V ' Republican for SHERIFF OF HOLT COUNTY 1 have been a lifelong resident of Holt County and have taken an active part in county and community affairs ★ City Marshal and Constable for six years it Treasurer of Schtxil District No. 58 for 30 years it Memt»er of Stuart Volunteer Fin-men for 10 year* ★ Memlier of Stuart Community Club for 10 years it Seed laiyer in this area since 1*V17 Your Vote is Appreciated ----= UnriMiMaHHiMUi "Suddenly It’s sg^ EASTER" I (J/n\ EASTER BASKETS 10c to $^15 Th® Easter Bunny's been hard at work making these fancy baskets sure to de ight the kids. Filled with tasty candy and fancy toys. nawwt “ ““ I For Those Who Want To Make Their Own Easter Baskets, We e colorM *901 Have A Complete Se- te fill with lection Of Baskets, pri«o«. Easter Grass, Mechan ical, Musical, And EASTER Plush Easter Toys, »*Rrit« And A Wonderful Se lection Of Tasty East- 19S er Candies For The Sweet Tooth Set. 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