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Volume 82—Number 3 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, May 10, 1962 Seven Cent*
Many Contests Tuesday
For Holt County Offices
voters will go to the polls Tues
day to select candidates for the
fall election in a primary that has
more competition for county of
fices than any or many years.
Contests are evident in the Re
publican races for clerk of district
court, county treasurer, county
sheriif, county assessor and for
supervisor of the lirst district.
In the clerk’s race Kieth A
Aoart is opposing incumbent Ho
ward D. Manson for nomination.
No one filed for the office on the
Democratic ballot.
J. Ed Hancock, incumbent
county treasurer, is opposed by
Arthur W. Kopp.
Three- men are bidding for
Republican nomination for sher
iff. Chris McGinn, O’Neill
Police chief, Earl C. Billings,
Ewing, and Lloyd Tliurlow, Stu
art, are seeking to oppose the
incumb. ut. Democrat Leo Tom
jack. No one, is bidding for the
Democratic nomination against
Tom jack.
Charles R. Fox, Inman, is try
ing to unseat incumbent William
F. Wefso, Atkinson, for the post
of county assessor.
In the first district supervisor’s
race Arlo A. Hiatt and Ralph H.
Walker are seeking the Republi
can nominaticn. The winner will
oppose incumbent Democrat Ed
Flood in November.
No oiher races are shaping
up in the primaries lor super
visor, but each party has a
candidate for each supervisor
post in which a term expires
except the seventh.
In the third district Republican
Clarence Ernst, incumbent, will
be opposed in the general elec
tion this fall by Democrat Ray A.
Bosn.
Republican Harlan Dierking, in
cumbent, will be running against
Democrat Lawrence Pribil.
The seventh district has only
one candidate, incumbent Eli Mc
Connell, who is seeking rt-nomi
nation cn the Republican ballot'.
In the county attorney’s contest,
each party has one candidate.
Incumbent William Griffin is on
the Republican ballot while John
R. Gallagher is running cn the
Democratic slate.
On the state level candidates
are more numerous. Each party
has three candidates for gover
nor.
On the Democratic ticket for
governor the Democrats have the
incumbent Frank B. Morriscn,
Mrs. Ralph G. Brooks and Tony
Mangiamelli, while the Ropubli
ans list Fred A. Seaton, George
A. Clarke and Louis H. Hectcy.
Two candidates are listed by
each party for lieutenant gover
nor. They are Democrats Rudolph
Andersen and Robert A. Dison and
Republicans Dwight W. Burney
and Lester H. Anderson.
On the non-political ballots
Frank Nelson is running for
re-election for member of the
legislature for the twenty-eighth
district. He is unopposed.
Three candidates are seeking
nomination for chief justice of
the supreme court. They are Her
bert A. Ronin, Paul White and
Clarence S. iBeck.
For university regent three
candidates are offered. Roy E.
Blixt, Jack G. Elliott and Max
Brown are seeking the office.
County Judge Frank Cronk and
County Superintendent Alice L.
French are unopposed.
Polls in O’Neill will be open
as follows: First ward, cc'uit
house basement; second ward.
KC hall; third ward, police sta
tion; fourth ward. City hall.
Page Junior Class to
Present Play Friday
PAGE — The junior class of the
Page high school will present
their play, “No Bride for the
Groom’’ Friday night at the Page
auditorium.
The cast of characters for the
three act comedy include Connie
Nissen, Bruce Bowen, Diane
Kemper, Caroline Max, Dick Lind
er, Bonnie Heiss, Randy Stauffer,
Peggy Orjmly, Juanita Ragland,
Larry Summers, Karen Harris,
and Sandra Alberts.
Between the first and second
acts the kindergarten and first
grades will entertain with their
rhythm band.
Funeral Services
Field Monday for
Mrs. W. McIntosh
Mrs. William McIntosh, 39,
passed away Friday morning,
May 4, in St. Anthony’s hospital,
following a lingering illness.
Funeral services were held
Monday in the Methodist church
in O’Neiil with the Rev. Glen
Kennicott in charge. Burial was
in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Pall
bearers were: R. E. Evans, John
Watson, Ben Grady, Dr. George
Carstens, Melvin Marcellas,
L d; Wikon and Hugh Kruse.
Violet Willamae Beatty was
born April 10, 1923 in Madison,
the daughter of George and Ma
bel Beatty. She spent her child
ho d in Madison where she grad
d from high school in 1940.
Folbwing graduation she was
employed in Madison and Om
aha.
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She married William W. McIn
tosh in Madison, May 5, 1944.
To this union two sons were born,
William Dean, 14, and Richard
Ray, 10.
She and her husband moved
to O'Neill in September, 1946,
where they lived and operated
the McIntosh Jewelry. Violet was
a member of the First Metho
dist church, Wesleyan Service
Guild, Symphony chapter 316, Or
uer of the Eastern Star and the
.American Legion Auxiliary.
Besides her husband and sons
she is survived by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Beatty,
Madison and one brother, Rich
ard, also of Madison. She was
preceded in death by a sister,
w o tied in infancy.
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NEW CUBMASTER BiU Ware takes over from retiring cubmaster
Harry Spall at the meeting held Tuesday evening. Mr. Spall was
awarded a plaque in honor of his service to scouting.
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CRAZY DAYS crazy costumes winners went all out to make Friday’s promotion a success. The
winners (left to ri«ht) are: Gary Stowell, Penney store, first; Emerson Steele, Gambles, second, and
Marie Smith, Lee Stores, third.
Expect Nearly
400 Tracksters
Here Friday
iA total of 389 athletes from 34
schools will compete in the Class
C and D district track meet in
O'Neill Friday.
Leaders in the Class C events
are: 120 yd high hurdles, Lar
son, O’Neill, 15.7; 180 low hur
dles, Larson, O’Neill, 21.5; 440
dash, Farnek, Verdigre, 53.4; 100
yd. dash, Kilcoin, O’Neill and Kli
ment, Wausa, 10; 22o dash, Kil
coin, 22. 3; 880 run, Darrel Steck
elberg, Osmond; mile run, Kumm,
Osmond, 4:52; 880 relay, O’Neill,
1:35.8; mile relay, Verdigre, 3:43
.3; broad jump, Kilcoin, 21 2%”;
high jump, Timmerman, Verdi
gre, 5’ 9”; pole vault, McGinn,
10’ 11”; discus, Hill, 136; shot
put, Liska, Niobrara, 48’ 7”.
Tops in class D are: 120 high
hurdles, Lanman, Lynch, 15.6;
180 low hurdles, Lanman, Lynch,
21.7; 440 dash, Reicks, Spalding,
54.2; 880 run, Crumly, Page, 2:18
7; mile relay, Stuart, 3:51; broad
jump, Reicks, Primrose, 19 9%”;
discus, Jones, Hartington, 134’ 11;
100 dash, Micanek, Lynch, 10.5;
220 dash, Reicks, Primrose, 23.4;
mile, Demuth, Creighton, 4:49.5;
880 relay, Cedar Rapids, 1:38.6;
high jump, Lanman, Lynch, 5’
11”; shot put, Mulhair, Lynch,
50’; pole vault, Payne, Bartlett,
10’ 9”.
Womans Club Elects
Officers for Year
New officers were named for
the coming year by the O'Neill
Womans club at their meeting
held Monday evening.
The officers are: Mrs. John
Osenbaugh, president; Mrs. Gil
Poese, vice president, and Mrs.
L. A. Burgess, secretary-treasur
er.
Mrs. H. J. Birmingham show
ed slides and gave a talk on her
travels.
HOLT COUNTY 4-H Timely Topics speech winners in O’Neill
were (left to right): Walter Fick jr., Susan Taylor, Janice Vequist,
Margie Gilg, John Mathis and Billy Gilg.
Scouts Honor
Harry Spall for
Cubmaster Work
Cub scouts of O'Neill Pack 210
held their pack meeting at the
American Legion Tuesday, 7:30
p.m. The retiring cubmaster,
Harry Spall, was presented a
plaque in appreciation for his
-work the past year.
The new cubmaster and com
mittee members were introduced
by retiring committee chairman,
Roy Humrich.
The committee members are
Vem Reynoldson, Harry Spall,
Dr. Harry Gildersleeve, chair
man, Sam Dierckson, member
ship chairman, Lee Jackson,
treasurer, Jean Jackson, secre
tary, cubmaster, William Ware
and assistant cubmaster, V. K.
Peterson.
The following boys received
awards: Russel Derickson, Jim
Farrier, Billy Ware, Donnie Klus
man, Bruce Wecker and Richard
Gallagher.
4-H Public Speaking
Contest Held in O'Neill
Six 4-H club members partici
pated in the Holt county 4-H
Timely Topics Speaking Contest
in O’Neill.
Margie Gilg, Atkinson, the only
contestant in the senior division,
receved a purple ribbon on her
talk “4-H In the Space Age”.
Margie will compete in the dis
trict contest at the Nebraska
State 4-H Camp at Halsey on
May 31.
Contestants in the junior divi
sion, the title of their talk, and
the ribbon they received are as
follows: Susan Taylor, Ewing,
“The Education 4-H Has Given
To Me” blue; Billy Gilg, Atkin
son, “The 4-H Star”, blue; Jan
ice Vequist, O’Neill, “Do You
Know How to study?”, blue;
Walter Fick jr., Inman, “My 4
H Story”, red, and John Mathis,
Atkinson, “Leaders Push”, white.
Judges for the contest were
Mrs. Edgar Stauffer, Page and
Mr. James Rooney, O’Neill.
Holt SWCD Sets
Soil Program
For Monday
The Holt Soil & Water Conser
vation District Supervisors will
hold their pre-Soil Stewardship
day for the clergy of the county
on Monday, May 14, according tc
Merwyn French, sr., chairman oi
the Soil Stewardship committee
The Program will begin at
10:30 a.m. in the assembly
room of the Court House An
nex with a film and discussion
of conservation work in the
county. Bulletins and other ma
terials for use of the churches
for Soil Stewardship week will
also be available at this time.
The group will attend a ooor
luncheon at the Tropical Gardens
The afternoon will be spent on
a field trip. They will visit the
Harvey Krugman farm where
they will see such practices a=
conventional terraces, parallel
terraces, waterways, dams, di
virsion and grass seeding. They
will also view a grass seeding or
the George Calkins place.
They will travel from there tc
the Robert Witberwax place
where they will see a new irri
gation dam plus terraces, native
grass seeding, blowout control
and other related conservation
practices.
To Nursing School
Susan Burney, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Mike Burney has beer
accepted for the Clarkson Mem
orial School of Nursing in Omaha.
She will enroll in die Septem
ber class. Miss Burney is a 1961
O’Neill high graduate.
OHS '62 Commencement
May 16 for 37 Seniors
Thirty seven O’Neill high
school seniors will receive di
plomas at commencement exer
cises to be held Wednesday eve
ning in the O’Neill high school
auditorium.
Baccalaureate services are
scheduled Sunday evening in the
auditorium with the Rev. A. S.
Gedwillo delivering the sermon.
Featured speaker at the com
mencement exercise will be Dr.
Dale K. Hayes, chairman of the
department of school adminis
tration and administrator of the
community education project
at the Fniversity of Nebraska.
Rev. John Hart will give the
invocation.
Seniors receiving degrees are
Karen L. Bates, Richard D. Bei
lin. Connie J. Brockman, Merna
F. Butterfield, James L. Carr,
Harvey L. Colfack, Mary Jo Cur
ran. Mike H. Fletcher, Raymond
A. Fax, Helen M. Frerichs, Caro
lyn J. Fuhrer, Victoria M. Ged
willo, Michael Hand, Lonna L.
Haynes. Rolland C. Johnson, Gail
L. Joining, Jerry Kilcoin.
Ronald Knoell, Robert W. Kra
mer. Norma J. Kotrous, Curtis
B. Larson, John M. McGinn,
Judy K. Morrow. Ilene F. Nelson.
Joan C. Pease, Eileen Pribil, Kay
Lee Rees, Starlyn Robinson. Fred
B. Rosenkrans, Melvin F. San
ders.
Stanley Schmeichel, David J.
Schon, Donald P. Skopec, Ronald
D. Snowardt, Ruth Ann Walker,
Larry G. Walton and Norma J.
Widtfeldt.
Forty four eighth graders will
also receive their diplomas.
They are:
Edmund R. Bright, Jolene K.
Cleveland. Don L. Clyde, Rich
ard L. Clyde, Lynda R. Coats,
Richard E. Cradit, Vivian L. Dix
son, Carol S. Donlin, Cheryl L.
Donlin, Jurgen C. Eckhoff. Fran
ces E. Eppenbach, Kathleen M.
Farrier, Jerome J. Ford. Dorothy
M. Gorgen, Francis G. Grenier,
Patty L. Hand.
Nancy E. Harsh field, Terry
A. Hesse, James L. Humrich.
Cheryl J. Jackson, Linda L
Jenkins, Carry D. K ragman.
Douglas S. MacKinlay. Michael
L. McCoy, William D. McIn
tosh, Ellen L. McKay, Richard
D. McKim, Joseph M. McLeish.
Jerry W. Nickeson, Shirley A.
Park, Virginia M. Perry, Marilyn
K. Petersen, Celia K. Peterson.
Sandra K. Philbrick, Mary C.
Pribil, Cheryl D. Redlinger,
Judith M. Riley. John R. Sive
sind, Stanley E. Spangler, Walter
J. Trant. Virginia L. Walker,
Linda S. Walton, Paul W. Younie.
Names of the valedictorian and
salutatorian and scholarship win
ners will be announced later.
Set Fund Drive for Friday to
Buy Senior Citizen Home Site
Claire Hickey
Is Named To
State CDA Post
Agnes Claire Hickey, O’Neill,
was named state monitor at the
20th biennial state convention of
the Nebraska Catholic Daughters
of America held Saturday at North
Platte.
Other state officers named fur
the 1962-64 term were; Mrs.
Emil Janssen, Croffon, state
regent; Kegina Siren, Hastings,
state vice regent; lmetda No
lan, Omaha, state secretary,
and Mrs. Adam Dubas, Grand
Island, state treasurer.
Approximately 150 members
were present for the two day
convention. Attending from the
local court were Agnes Hickey,
Carolyn Neiers and Kathleen War
nke.
The convention was keynoted by
the presence of the supreme re
gent, Margaret Buckley, Chevy
Chase, Md., who gave the princi
pal address Saturday evening.
State regent, Mrs. B. J. Mc
Shane, North Platte, conducted
the convention.
Rites Planned
Here Today for
Mrs. B. Conway
Mrs. Bertha Conway, 85, died
Wednesday morning in St. Antho
ny’s hospital. Rosary services
were held at 8 p.m. Wednesday
in Biglins Chapel. Funeral ser
vices are today in St. Patrick’s
church at 10 a.m. with the Rev.
Robert Duffy officiating. Burial
will be in Calvary cemetery. Pall
bearers are Harry Donohoe, Leo
Burival, Clarence Gokie, John
Jansen, Jim Earley sr. and John
Cleary.
Bertha McAllister Conway was
born September 1, 1876 in Dunlap,
la., the daughter of Bernard and
Catherine McAllister. She was
united in marriage to Martin Con
way October 10, 1900, in Pana
ma, la. Nine children were born
to this union.
In March, 1914, they moved to
a farm north of O’Neill where she
has since made her home.
She was preceded in death by
her husband in December, 1939
and one son, Bernard, who died
at the age of eight years.
Mrs. Conway is sjrvived by
five sons, William, Fred M.,
James F., Raymond J., and
John P., all of O’Neill and four
daughters, Sister M. Quentin,
Kansas City, Kan., Sister M. Hor
tense, Antonito, Colo., Mrs. Char
les Thompson and Clare Conway,
O’Neill, one sister, Mrs. Ida Sul
livan, Woodbine, la. and 12 grand
children.
Hospital Auxiliary
Contributes $550
A check for $550 was presented
to Mother Francis toward the
purchase of a binocular micro
scope by the St. Anthony’s hos
pital auxiliary at their meeting
Monday evening.
As their next project, Mother
Francis suggested the purchase
of a Gonco stomach suction ma
chine.
The auxiliary also voted to
again sponsor the O’Neill dance
revue to be held May 24.
Following the meeting a tour of
the hospital was made.
Sr. Boniface School
To Dedicate Building
Dedication services for the
new St. Boniface school at Stu
art will be held today (Thurs
day) at 3:30 p.m. Officiating at
Ihe ceremony will be the most
Reverend John L. Puschang,
Grand Island.
Confirmation will is* held fol
lowing the dedication with Arch
bishop Gerald T. Bergan offici
ating.
The new school building was
started in May of 1961 and was
first put into use in January of
this year. Cost « ihe complete
ly equipped structure was $124,
000. Approximately 125 students
now attend St. Boniface school.
Eleanor Barnes
Dies Sunday In
Kansas Hospital
Eleanor Barnes, 21, Lynch,
died Sunday in St. Joseph's hos
pital. Concordia. Kan. She be
came ill with Diabetes Insipidus
May 1 and went into a coma May
3 from which she never recover
ed. Funeral services were held
in Miltonvale in the college
chapel, Tuesday at 11 a m. The
l ody lay in state in Lynch Wed
nesday. Services will he held
today at 2 p.m. in the Wesleyan
Methodist church, Lynch, with
the Rev. Glenn Dyer offic iating.
The Jones Funeral Home will be
in charge.
Burial will be in Pleasant View
cemetery, north of Lynch. J»ren
Mulhair, John Weeder, Thomas
Schrunk, Russel Moffett, Dwight
Micanek and Harold Dean Mi
canek are pallbearers.
Eleanor Lavern Barnes was
born May 23, 1940, the daughter
of Elmo an.l Ila Holz Barnes.
She attended grade school in a
rural school north of Lynch and
graduated from the Lynch high
school in 1958. Eleanor attended
Wayne State Teachers College
and taught school two years. At
the present time she was a junior
at Milton vale Wesleyan College
in Miltonvale. She became a
member of the Lynch Wesleyan
Methodist church in 1956.
She was a member of the a
cappella choir, student council
and housemother in Gathers Hill.
Eleanor is survived by her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Bar
nes, brothers Marlin and David,
grandfather, Guy A. Barnes,
Lynch, and grandmother, Mrs.
Anna Holz, Norfolk, and a num
1 er of aunts and uncles.
soiicnauoni win mum m a m.
Friday to raise $3,000 to purchase
a site for the Senior Citizens
home to l>e erected in O’Neill
this summer.
Laiul chost*n for tiie site is a
five-acre tract just north of the
seed yard on highway 2H1 at the
northwest comer of town. The
land will lie purchased from W.
I>. Kipple and E. E. Cleveland
jr.
Senior Citizens, Inc. plans to
erect a $400,000 home on the tract
designed to contain GO units.
The land will lie purchased by
funds acquired from solicitations.
Persons who feel thc> may not be
contacted in Friday's drive
should call either hunk to notify
them of their desire to contrib
ute and the amount of the dona
tion.
Names of all donors unless
otherwise specified, will l>c made
public.
Construction on the building is
expected to start uInhiI July 1,
Dr. Hex Wilson, chairman of the
fund drive, said.
Solicitations will, for the most
part, Ik* made in the business
district. The town will be divided
four ways at the traffic lights
with a team working each seg
ment of the town.
Working the northeast quarter
will he John Watson and Heed
Herley; northwest quarter. Vir
gil Daur.sen, Hob Pappenheimcr
and Dr. Wilson, southwest quar
ter. Gordon Johnson and Hay
Hby, southeast quarter, A. L.
Patton and Bill Richardson.
Clerk Warns On
Absentee Votes
The county clerk’* office will
remain open until noun Satur
day to receive application* and
deliver absentee voter'* ballot*,
Ken Waring said Wednesday.
Saturday is the last day for
absentee voters bullets.
Disabled voter* have until 1
p.m. .Monday to obtain their
ballots. Waring *aid.
Both types of ballot* must be
postmarked before midnight
Monday.
Elks Slate Meeting
All persons interested in join
ing the Elks lodge may attend a
meeting at 8 pm. Tuesday in
the Golden Hotel Don Becker an
nounced Wednesday. Speaker will
be Mike DeLay, Norfolk banker.
Last week, Orville Holt, a na
tional officer of the Elks and a
district director from York at
tended a meeting here.
Sale Dates
Claimed
THURSDAY, MAY 10 — G. H.
Jones personal property sale, at
his home a hoick west of Hard
ing creamery in O’Neill. Also it
a combination sale. Sec ad in
this issue of The Frontier for full
details. Ed Thorin auction ser
vice.
MAY 21 — MARIE LYBOLT
personal property sale two blocks
west of Dankert’s in Chambers.
Watch for complete listing in
next week's Frontier. Ed Thorin
auction service, O’Neill.
MAY 26 COMBINATION
SALE. Legion hall in Chambers.
Watch the Frontier for a com
plete listing. Merlin Grossnick
laus, auctioneer.
LABRATORY TECHNICIAN' Ron Partridge explains the various instruments in St. Anthony’s hos
pital labratory to members of the St- Mary’s gra 'e school as part of the program during National
Hospital Week. Guided tours of the hospital were marie available to school students during the past
week. As a climax to hospital week an employee of the week will be chosen from St. Anthony’s staff.