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Volume 82-Number 2 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, May 3, 1962 Seven Cent*
Final Results of Annual
District III Music Contest
Over 2,000 young musicians
competed Thursday and Friday
in the annual district Class III
music contest held in O'Neill.
Following is a list of instru
mental and vocal contestants and
their ratings: 1, superior; 2, ex
cellent; 3, good and 4, fair.
liistriimentaJ Class I)—
Soprano clarinet solo: 2, Mau
reen Coufal, Stuart; Bill Coven
try, Inman, and Sandra James,
Meadow Grove.
Alto saxophone solo: 1, Judy
Beed, Chambers; 2, Caroline
Max, Page; 3, Peggy Crumly,
Page.
Soprano saxophone solo: 2,
Carolyn Hallman, Page.
Baritone saxophone solo: 2,
Sharon Michaelis, Inman.
Tenor saxophone solo: 1, Bon
nie Heiss, Page; 2, Carmen Giv
ens, Stuart, and Jane Horrocks,
Meadow Grove.
Cornet or trumpet solo: 1,
James Melcher, Page, and Char
les Krobot, Stuart; 2, Alvin
Crumly, Page; 3, Robert Pribil,
Inman.
Trombone solo: 1, Thomas
Rundquist, Royal; 2, Bill Heck
ert, Elgin; 3, Sandra Rundquist.
Royal; Gail Grant, Meadow
Grove; To mMelcher, Page; 4,
Thyra Lulow, Meadow Grove.
Baritone solo: 2, Ruth Ann
Hansen, Inman; Jeannie Hamley,
Meadow Grove, and Kent Stauf
fer, Page.
Wind bass solo: 2, Foggy u
Brien, Page.
Flute solo: 1, Carolyn Fick, In
man.
Violin solo: 1, Kay Kelley, In
man.
Miscellaneous instrumental en
semble: 1, Chambers: 2, Royal;
Inman, and Page; 3, Inman and
Meadow Grove.
Brass sextette: 3, Stuart.
Percussion ensemble: 1, Mea
dow Grove.
Cornet or trumpet trio: 2,
Stuart.
Flute trio: 1, Meadow Grove;
3, Stuart.
Clarinet quartette: 3, Stuart.
Saxophone quartette: 1, Stuart;
2. Chambers.
Mixed brass quartette: 2, Stu
art.
Instrumental Class C—
String bass solo: 2, Dennis
Spence, Atkinson.
Flute Solo: 1, Jean Soulier, Til
den; 2, Janell Soulier, Tilden;
Venita Knudsen, Niobrara.
Soprano clarinet solo: 1, Helen
Gokie, St. Mary's; 2, Judy Spang
ler, Ewing; Janice Kreycik, Nio
brara; Joan Spangler, Ewing.
Tenor saxophone solo: 1, Jolene
Kemnitz, Niobrara.
Cornet or trumpet solo: 1. Jean
Mulhair, Lynch; 2, Larry Skrdla,
Atkinson.
Trombone solo: 1, Kenneth
Liska. Niobrara; 2, Carol Ander
son, Spencer; 3. Doug Spence,
Atkkinson.
Baritone horn solo: 2, Judy Sul
livan, St. Mary's; Lorrie Werner,
St. Edward.
Snare drum solo: 1, John Sie
ler, Spencer; 2, Barbara Liska,
Verdigre.
Eb alto horn or mellophone
solo: 2, Carol Cameron, Nio
brara; Carol Frank, Verdigre.
MUSIC CONTEST . . .
(Continued on Page 1, Sec. 2)
Rites Planned
Here Friday for
Custer Johnson
Funeral services will be Friday
at 2 p m. at the Methodist church
in O’Neill for Custer E. John
son, 72, who died Tuesday at St.
Anthony's hospital.
The body will lie in state at
the church from 11 a.m. Friday
until the funeral hour. Burial will
be in Wood Lawn cemetery in
Atkinson. Rev. Glenn Kennicott
will officiate.
Mr. Johnson moved to O’Neill
from Lancaster county two years
ago. He was married to Ethel
M. Hickman February 18, 1914,
in O’Neill. They lived in Lan
caster county 35 years.
He is survived by his wife,
two brothers, Sewell of Atkin
son and Lowell of O’Neill; three
sisters, Mrs. Alatie Weller, At
kinson, Mrs. Agnes Osborn, Mis
sion, S. D. and Mrs. Frank
(Phania) Searles, Arvada, Colo.
He was preceded in death by
his parents, two daughters and
two sisters.
Pallbearers will be Grant Pea
cock, Bruce Johnson, Carl Lor
enz, George Hartford, Kenny
Ruggless and Clarence Ernst.
Stary Gange
To Address
Stock Growers
Stary Gange, Visalia, Calif.,
will be the banquet speaker at
the 73rd annual convention of the
Nebraska Stock Growers Associa
tion to be held at North Platte,
June 14-16.
In making the announcement,
Chester Paxton, Thedford, presi
dent of the Stock Growers, said
that Mr. Gange has made a
hobby of talking on Americanism
over the country. The topic of
his banquet address the night
of June 15 will be “The Future is
Always Young”.
Stock Grower convention ses
sions open at 2:00 p.m. June 14
at the Fox Theatre in North
Platte. Business meetings close
on June 16 when officers are
elected and the 1963 convention
site is selected.
High School
Rodeo Slated
At Valentine
The Sandhills National High
School Rodeo will be held in Val
entine this year. The dates have
been set for August 15 through
19 at the Cherry County fair
grounds. The National Rodeo is
held in a different state each
year, with local personnel pro
moting the event.
400 to 600 high school students,
both boys and girls, will com
pete in the annual affair. The
youths compete in all the events
in which a professional rodeo star
takes part.
FISH ARE BUSTIN' OUT ALL OVER! Reports have been com
ing into the Frontier office of many good fish lately. This lunker
largemouth bass fell to a silver minnow cast by Lynn Briggs. Omaha,
who was fishing in a lake south of O'Neill. The 20-inch lunker will
soon grace the wall of Briggs’ home. Ed Thorin, fishing Sunday
with Joe Tennis, landed a northern pike that tipped the scales at a
little more than nine pounds. Bluegills are starting to hit flies now
that the sun has warmed the water and strings of crappies are
in .evidence,
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JIM WILSON, St. Mary’s Academy student demonstrates a chemistry experiment to part of the
crowd which attended the science fair held Monday evening at St- Mary’s. Students from the seventh
grade through high school prepared the exhibits and explained them to the visiting parents and guests.
Ewing Girl Wins
Trip to Club Week
EWING—Faye Scheer, Ewing,
a member of the Happy Hollow
4-H club has been awarded a
prize trip to Club Week in Lin
coln and Omaha June 12 to 15.
The award is given by the
Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben to one 4-H
member in the County for serv
ice in 4-H junior leadership.
Faye is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Scheer, Ewing.
Annual T.B.
Meeting Held
Here Tuesday
The annual business meeting of
the Holt County Tuberculosis
committee was held Tuesday in
the Town House, under the direc
tion of Mrs. James Gallagher,
general chairman.
Officers reappointed were:
Mrs. Janies Gallagher, general
chairman; Mrs. John Watson,
treasurer; Mrs. Robert Devoy,
representative director; Dr.
Finley, chairman, case finding,
and Mrs. Robert Clements,
Christmas seal chairman. New
chairmen: Mrs. Ed Gleeson,
health and education and Ro
bert Clements, publicity.
Pauline Kelly, tield representa
tive of the Nebraska Tuberculosis
association uras present.
Dr. Finley reported there were
no new cases of T.B. in Holt
county in the past year, however,
our neighboring Boyd county re
ported two new cases.
Mrs. Clements reported the
Christmas seal campaign totaled
51496.
The 1962 budget was establish
ed and the meeting adjourned.
No One Injured in
Two Car Crash Sunday
No one was injured when cars
driven by Larry Femau and Wil
liam Orsborn collided at the in
tersection of seventh and Clay
streets Sunday morning. The Fer
nau car was traveling south and
the Orsborn car was traveling
east at the time of the collision.
There was about 5400 damages
on the Fernau car and only minor
damages to the Orsborn auto.
Page Resident
Honored on
90th Birthday
PAGE—Rollie Snell, oldest resi
dent of Page, celebrated his 90th
birthday Monday, Apr. 23. He
was the honored guest at a birth
day party that afternoon in the
William Neubauer home. Twelve
guests were present: Mmes.
Alma Tegeler, Anna Bowen, Hat
tie Carson, the Rev. Miner Smith,
Icie Snyder, Maude Martin, Don
na Smith, Art Frahm, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Stewart and Roy Wil
son, friends and neighbors.
Rollie was born at Galva, 111.,
and came to Holt County from
Johnson County where the fam
ily lived for a short time. He
was among the early settlers of
this section and saw the hard
ships, peculiar to a new county,
drouth, grasshopper plague and
changeable weather.
Shortly after his marriage to
Kate Julius May 30, 1895, he took
a homestead about five miles
northwest of Page where they
lived until they retired to the
village.
Rollie has recalled that he and
Kate went alone to O'Neill driv
ing a team hitched to his new
lumber wagon. They felt as proud
of their newly acquired transpor
tation as anyone could with the
latest in car or plane.
Mrs. Snell is dead and Rollie
lives in their home alone.
He still has a garden for shar
ing with his friends and likes
being out in it in the early morn
ing hours as has been his life
long custom.
The Snell family of three
daughters are: Mrs. Harvey
(Mabel) Cullen, Edgar, Mrs. Roy
(Hazel) Stewart, Page, and Mrs.
Dale (Alma) Asher, Logan, la.
There are eight grandchildren,
16 great grandchildren and four
great-great grandchildren.
Presbyterian Manse
Dedication Planned
An informal dedication of the
Presbyterian manse will be
held Sunday, May 6, from 3 to
9 p.m. Formal services for the
dedication will be at 3 p.m.
'Ploesti' Receives Praise
From Book Reviewers
Reviewers have been universal
ly lavish in their praises of the
historical non-fiction book PLO
ESTI, by authors James Dugan
and Carroll (Cal) Stewart, in the
3^ weeks that have elapsed since
Random House made the release.
PLOESTI is a full detail account
of the low level bombing mis
sion to the Romanian oil center
August 1, 1943 when four-engine
B-24 Liberator bombers, based in
the Libyan desert, undertook to
destroy Hitler's principal source
of high octane gasoline and oil.
NEWSWEEK magazine: First
rate battle log. . .the authors
generate an almost excruciat
ing dramatic tension even be
fore the onset of the fiery 27
minute battle.’’
TIME Magazine: . .taut and
gripping tale of a disastrous yet
heroic snafu pieced together from
letters, diaries, interviews and
correspondence with U- S., Ger
man and Romanian survivors.”
AMERICA (Jesuit) Magazine:
”... the best non-fiction work
so far in World War n literature.
. .historians a century hence will
be using it while official histories
remain under layers of dust.”
PITTSBURGH PRESS: . .
Monumental account of one of
the most crucial battles of World
War H. If research alone were
the sole critrion then this comes
close to being among the finest
of its kind. But there’s more. .
NEW YORK HERALD TRI
BUNE: “. . .Monumental job of
digging and it is obviously a la
bor of love by Dugan and Ste
wart, rankwise inconspicuous air
men. Writing is nowhere pad
ded. .
EL PASO TIMES: . . . “Unbe
lievable detail. . .each bullet fired
has been traced right into the
pages of the book.”
THE NATIONAL OBSERVER:
. . . “Profusely illustrated with
maps and photographs, the book
is drawing genre al praise from
the critics.”
SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY
CHRONICLE: . . .“The greatest
air battle erf all time—largely
neglected in the chronicles of
war. The story has been told with
suspence, poetic feeling and even
humor. . .massive research.”
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONI
TOR: . . . “The book describes
and discusses the event from as
many agles as even the most avid
history “birff” could wish. . .grip
ping and moving reading because,
in the main, the authors let the
men do their own talking.”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: . . . “Un
forgettable chapters. . .in no other
document has this reader found
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Extension Women Plan
Smorgasbord Today
Mem'iers of Holt County Home
Extension Clubs are extending
an invitation to all women to
attend their annual observance
:i{ Home Demonstration Week. A
smorgasbord of desserts will be
served at 1 p.m. today in the
Legion Hall in O’Neill.
This will be followed by a talk
on smorgasbords by Ethel Died
ricksen, food specialist at the
University of Nebraska. Also on
the program will be Ethel Sax
ton from the Extension Staff at
the University of Nebraska.
Group singing will be led by
Mrs. Blaine Garwood of Amelia.
Tibbetts Services
Held Wednesday
At Chambers
Funeral services were held
Wednesday, May 2 at Chambers
for Mrs. Hattie R. Tibbetts, 76,
who died Sunday at St. Anthony’s
hospital. Services were held at
the Methodist church at Cham
bers with the Rev. Charles Cox
officiating. Burial was in the
Chambers cemetery.
Hattie Ray Cooper was bom
Mayr 19. 1885 at Kankakee, 111.
She came to Chambers with her
parents when she was three
years old. As a young woman
she joined the Methodist church
and remained a faithful member
until her death.
She was united in marriage to
Clarence E. Tibbetts of Cham
bers December 23, 1908. The
couple lived on a farm west of
Chambers for several years and
then moved to Chambers where
they purchased the Ford garage.
Mr. Tibbetts died in December
of 1952.
Survivors include four broth
ers, W. D. Cooper, Riverton,
Wyo., Harry C. Cooper, Winner,
S. D., Lyle V. Cooper, Chambers,
and James F. Cooper, Yakima,
Wash.; two sisters, Genevieve
Bell, Fort Collins, Colo., and
Glennie V. Ward, Los Angeles,
Calif.
Pallbearers were Glen Taylor,
Willard Thompson, Gauis Winter
mote. Louis Harley, Melvin Bell
and Ray Hoffman.
Inman Senior Class
To Present Play
INMAN—Seniors of the Inman
high school will present their
play, “Mountain Gal” (tonight)
Thursday at 8 p.m. in the school
gym.
Members of the cast are Ruth
Ann Hansen, Bob Morrow, Kay
Kelley. Barbara Keil, Kathy
Fick, Garnett Gillogly, Sharon
Michaelis and Bob Pribil.
Two juniors, Warren Hansen
and Bill Coventry will also assist
with the play.
McCarville Named as
K of C Delegate |
John McCarv ille was named as
one of seven delegates to attend
the national convention of the
Knights of Columbus to be held >
at Boston, Mass., in August at
the state meeting held in Omaha
Monday.
Attending the meeting from O'
Neill were Mr. and Mrs. George
Janousek, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cle
ments, Mr. and Mrs. George Mc
Carthy and Mr. and Mrs. John
McCarville.
Three Re-elected
To REA Board
The 15th annual meeting of the
Niobrara Valley Electric Mem
bership Corporation was held
Tuesday in the Legion club in
O'Neill.
The following directors were re
elected: Carl Schmidt, Spencer,
Emil Micanek, Lynch, Carroll
O'Neill, O’Neill and Charles Mul
ford, Stuart.
Reports of the operation for
the past year were given and
future construction plans were
discussed.
Ralph Foreman, manager of
G and T at Columbus was the
speaker.
Stamm to Speak
Here at Annual
Irrigation Meet
AINSWORTH — Dr. Leo R.
Beattie of Ainsworth, president of
the Niobrara River Basin De
velopment Association, had indi
cated that G. G. Stamm, chief
of the division of irrigation land
use with the Bureau of Reclama
tion in Washington, will be one
of the dignataries to speak at the
association’s annual meeting in
O’Neill.
The meeting May 14 will fea
ture many other government
and local officials in summing
up progress in the basin and in
planning future development.
The Ainsworth Chamber of
Commerce has gone on record
to assist basin officers and direc
tors here in securing association
memberships and urging mem
bers to attend the annual meet
ing.
Vem Lindholm, Ainsworth, a
director of the association, said
that it is important that Ains
worth residents maintain mem
bership in the association for sev
eral reasons.
There is a need for funds in
order to meet expenses of unfore
seen problems that may arise
in the continuation of the Ains
worth project. There is a need
for membership here to show con
tinued interest in the O'Neill pro
ject and assist that work as a
matter of returning the assistance
O’Neill has given the Ainsworth
project.
Two from Area
Earn Honors at
Creighton Univ.
John L. Bakker and Morris B.
Pongratz are among 49 Creigh
ton University students to be
honored Saturday for achieving
their primary goal while at the
University.
These students will be cited
for academic excellence at the
Honors Banquet to be held at
the Creighton student center.
VFW District
Meeting Held
At Long Pine
The VFW district n meeting
was held in Long Pine Sunday.
Those attending from this area
were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tucker,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Revell, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Staffer, Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Sprague, Herbert Un
derwood and Anna Brown.
An election of officers was held
and the following were elected:
Luella Klingphil, Valentine, dist
rict president; Frances Rude
nick, sr., vice president; Goldie
Tucker, jr., vice president; Pat
Thomas, treasurer; Myra Staf
fer, chaplain; Dorthy Darnell,
conductress; Anna Brown, guard;
Darlene Burge, Barbara Sprague
and Mary Ann Revell, trustees.
City Council Votes
fo Annex 19 Acres
Page High Names
Honor Roll Students
The following students wore
named to the Page high school
honor roll: Alvin Crumly, Aletha
Rutherford, seniors; Caroline
Max, Connie Nissen, Charlene
Fusselman and Dick Linder, jun
iors; Linda Thompson, LuAnn
Nissen, Donna Smith, Roberta
Asher, Randy Shaw, Carolyn
Hallman, John Crumly, Jim
Crumly and Jean Crumly, fresh
men.
Fire Detection
System Gets
Board Attention
Scholastic recognition, teacher
positions and fire detection sys
tems occupied the O'Neill board
of public education Tuesday night.
Supt. H. L. McCoy suggested
a banquet similar to the athletic
banquet as an annual event to
recognize scholastic achiev meat.
He said details would have to
be worked out, but he felt such
a dinner could have a good effect
on grades.
First, second and sixth grade
teachers still are needed to fill
out the elementary staff and vac
ancies exist in high school in
football and math.
Quite a bit of time was occu
pied in discussing the fire detec
tion system being installed in the
school.
Services Planned
Saturday for
Richard F. Strube
Funeral services will be held
- at 10 a m. Saturday, May 5 at the
Biglins chapel for Richard
Francis Paul Strube, who died
Tuesday at St. Anthony's hospital
in O'Neill.
Burial will be in the Mount
Hope cemetery at West Point.
Pallbearers will be Bennett Gil
lespie, Clay Johnson jr., Jim
Sessions, Bill Hinrichsen, Wayne
Spelts and Dwight Harder.
Richard Strube was born May
19, 1921 at O’Neill. He was mar
ried November 19, 1946 to Ellen
Marie Martin at Yuma, Ariz.
Survivors include the widow;
four sons, Larry Richard, 14,
Steven Drew, 11, Robert Lance,
8, and William Keith, 3; broth
ers, Eddie, Los Angeles, Calif.,
and Al, O’Neill; sisters, Alta,
Boulder, Colo., Laura, Los An
geles, Calif., and Violet, Brawley,
Calif.
The body will lie in state at
Biglin’s Chapel Friday from 3
p.m. to 9.
Country Club Plans
Clean-up Day Sunday
Clean-up day at the O’Neill
Country Club will be held Sunday
beginning at 10 a m. All mem
bers are urged to help with this
project.
A potluck supper is planned in
the evening.
Tho O’Neill City Council voted
Tuesday evening to approve a
resolution asking for annexation
ot approximately 19 acres in the
new Hippie and Cleveland addi
tion.
The traet of land, located Just
north of the H|ielts addition In
north O’Neill, is designated as
a nsddentlaJ area only. The
area Contain* 57 building lots.
The council also approved the
purchase of a new city police car.
Low b.d lor the police car was
$12X7 and the old car, submitted
by Robertson Motor Company.
Irrigation equipment to water
the new city ball parks was pur
chased from the Marcellus Imple
ment Co.
Also appearing at the council
meeting was Sgt. Bill Cousins
who inquired about existing laws
pertaining to door-to-door sales
men.
Salesmen are now required to
obtain clearance from either tho
chief of police or the Holt county
sheriff.
Two Autos Stolen
Here This Week;
One Recovered
Two cars were reported stolen In
O’Neill this week An auto lie
longing to Eli McConnell. Atkin
son, was stolen from in front of
the court house in O'Neill at
about 10 a m. Monday.
Soon after the car was report
ed stolen Wilmer McConnell spot
ted the car speeding west on
highway 20. The car was found
later in the day near Valentine
and two jiersons were taken into
custody. The couple arrested
gave their names as Jerry An
derson and Maria Hall but later
gave the names as Ellen Ncrden
and John Pekrum. The girl is
16 and the boy is 20. Both are
from Milwaukee.
The couple had left a 1959 Olds
mobile in O'Neill parked in front
of the courthouse when they
switched cars.
Tuesday evening a 1954 Mer
cury belonging to Frank Eppen
bach was stolen from in front of
the Met.iodist cborch between the
hours of 7:30 and 10 p.m.
No trace has been found of the
Eppenbach vehicle.
Strong Winds Hit
Atkinson Area
A violent wind and rain storm
struck the Celia community late
Thursday causing some damage.
Some hail was also reported.
The storm reportedly uprooted
some large cottonwood trees near
the house at the Robert Hend
ricks ranch 14 miles north of At
kinson. A metal roof on a stock
barn at the Mark Hendricks farm
was torn off.
Several stacks of hay were
swept away at the Emil Colfack
ranch.
Violent winds were also report
ed between Atkinson and Emmet
Thursday night when a new air
plane hanger belonging to Leo
Monahan was swept from its
foundation.
Farther south in Holt county
near Amelia the Vernon Thomp
son, Vernon Berry, B. Black
more and Steve Sladek homes
were damaged and several win
dows were reported broken.
Owen Moses reported that a
roof was tom from a shed.
Sale Dates
Claimed
THURSDAY, MAY 10 — G. H.
Jones personal property sale, at
his home a bolck west of Hard
ing creamery in O’Neill. Also is
a combination sale. See ad in
this issue of The Frontier for full
details. Ed Thorin auction ser
vice.
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THIS 130x70-FOOT BUILDING soon will bouse the new Chevrolet
Oldsmobile agency of Oscar Spitzenberger. The building will contain
showroom and shop for the auto agency as well as a service station
and cafe. Spitzenberger’s sons -Jim and Mike plan to join their
father in the agency. A. L. Wood will run the cafe. The building is
located east of O'Neill on highways 20-275.