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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1962)
MBRASKA STAT HITTOMCM 30CTTTT Lincoln, Nnontuka STATE HIST SOC Yowr LINCOLN. NEBR. Farm Sale Newspaper xxx in North Central Nebraska "The Voice of the Beef Empire"-North-Central Nebraska's BIGGEST Newspaper _Volume 82—Number 33_O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, December 6, 1962 c#n|# Turkey Day Winners Fourty four homes in this area will be enjoying euting free tur keys, compliments of the O’Neill Chamber of Commerce Annual turkey day was held on Saturday and listed below are the winners wh > participated, by guessing the number who regis tered in business places that day. Apparel shop, Viola Streeter; Ben Franklin, Mrs. Louis Hav ranek, Atkinson; Devoy Drug, Laura Wright; Coyne Hardware, Vivian Steinberg, Page; Coast To Coast, Mrs. John Schultz; Gam bles, Bill Jensen; Western Auto, Mrs. Joe Gokie; First National Bank, Mrs. Duane Summers; O’ Neill National Bank, K. V. Crum ly. Page, Holt County Indepen dent, Elroy Lieb; The Frontier, Mrs. Albert Kallhoff; Phillip's 60, Jerry Kopejtka, Page. McCarvilles, Harry Lansworth; Johnson Drug, Mrs. Ted Kyster; McDonalds, Mrs Don Kokrda; Lee Store, Faye Wulner; McIn tosh Jewelry, Mrs. Bill Stahleck er; O’Neill Style Shop, Kay Saw yer; J. C. Penney, Harold Sum mers; Eby Conoco, Larry Dun lin; Shelhamer Jack and Jill, Mrs. Don Cleveland; Shelhamer Equipment, Henry Dorr, Inman; A & M Shoe Store, Mrs. Jim Luft, New Deal Oil, Vern Ep penbaugh; Harry Smith, Imp, Kenneth Backhaus; Dick’s Bar, Norb Uhl; Janzing King Koin, Mrs. Joe Kamold; Midwest Fur niture. Bill Schaas, Lynch; Big lias, Tom Murray; O Neill Pho to, Mrs. Stanley Peters. S & S Farm Supply, Mrs. Rus sell Miner; O’Neill Drug, Mrs. Mike Troshynski; Virg Laursen, Mrs Albert Dennis; Standard Station, Roy Johnson; Kansas Nebr. Gas, Ray Rcvell; O’Neill Cleaners, Mrs. Lyle Eppenbach; Holt County Co-Op, John Natch man; Lexington Mill & Elev. Mrs. Tom Zakrzewski; New Out law Store, Lena Harkins, Ewing; Safeway, Mildred Keyes, Inman; Stannard Grocery, Mrs. Henry Vequist, Krotters; Mrs. Morris Cavanaugh, jr., O'Neill Feeder Supply, Dick Clark and Dank erts, Mae Pruden. Salvation Army To Sell Annual Christmas Issue Announcement was made today that representatives of the Sal vation Army. Grand Island would visit Holt county between now and December 12 to offer for sale the special Christmas issue of the War Cry. This traditional Christmas Publication has been universally distributed by the Sal vation Army for many years and carries a widely accepted and meaningful message. Major D. Kemp, Service Ex tension Director of the Salvation Army and the local Service Unit committee both emphasize that the sale of the special Christmas number is not a fund raising ef fort. It is offered for sale and hundreds of thousands of Army friends across America would miss it tremendously if it were withdrawn from Service Unit Towns, and should not be mis interpreted as taking the place of the Salvation Army Annual Appeal. Members of the Salvation Army local service unit are. Chairman. George Hammond; treasurer, W. D. Melena; welfare secretary. Chris McGinn and William L. Petsehe. Thieves Net $30 In Bar Break-In Thieves netted about >30 in a break m at Joe Langan's Tavern Monday night according to O' Neill police. Entrance was made through a restroom window. The door to the restroom was tlien forced open The money was taken from 9 drawer where the day's receipt! had been locked The thieves also t-iok two butch er knives which it is believed have been used to force open the drawer. Services Held Thursday for Mary Heiser Funeral services for Mary Al ford Heiser, 82, were held Thurs day, Nov. 29 at the First Metho dist church, Lynch, with the Rev. Anna Nelson, former pastor of the church, officiating. Burial was in the Alford cemetery. Pallbearers were grandsons, Gail, Harlan and Kenny Heiser, Harold and Robert Haun and Ro bert Koll. Mary Alford Heiser, daughter, of William and Elinor Alford, was born on January 18, 1880 at 9im coe, Canada and died on Novem ber 26 at Spencer, Nebr. In the fall of 1890 she came to Boyd county with her parents, where they took up homestead ing southwest of Monowi. In 1898 she was united in mar riage to George Heiser and seven children were born to this union. After Mr. Heiser’s death in 1930 she continued to live at her farm home with her son, Frank. Survivors include sons, Herman and Frank. Monowi, daughters, Mrs. Herman (Evelyn) Koll, Win side, Mrs. Floyd (Florence) Haun, Spencer, Mrs. Marvin (Pearl) Schindler, Missoula, Mont., brother, William Alford, Lincoln, sisters, Mrs. Nellie Al len, Presho, S. D., Mrs. Eliza Cooper, Lynch, Mrs. Lulu Hor man, Omaha, Mrs. Phyllis Mc Meen, Lynch and Mrs. Ethel Haun, Spencer. Pageant Slated At Ainsworth Sandhills residents and citizens of this area were issued an in vitation by an Ainsworth commit tee this week to attend the first annual presentation of the Sand hills Christmas Pageant schedul ed for the court house park in Ainsworth on the evening of Sun day. Dec. 9, beginning at 7:30. The pageant, entitled "The Empty Manger" was written by Mi's. Elwood Hughes. Ainsworth. Life-sized replicas will provide a background scene and characters represented by groups from the en‘ire community will perform. Music will be provided by the Ainsworth men’s chorus and voices from choirs of all churches in the city. —■mmim■■^“■■■■■■■■■ Sale Dates Claimed DEC. 18 — MR AND MRS. GLENN GILLOGLV CLOSING OUT SALE. 75 head of hogs, 38 head of cattle and full line of farm machinery plus some house hold goods. 2 south, 1 west and 4 south of the southwest corner of Inman. See complete listing in this issue of the Frontier. Ed Thorin auction service, O’Neill. PRICES AND BITERS BOTH WERE UP at the O'Neill Livestock market sale last week. Thurs the largest under present management, grossed £289.000, owners Verne and Leigh Reynold sob said. Shown here at the peak of activity during the sale are Auctioneers Wally O'Connell Chock Mahony seeking bids while Verne moves the cattle around for examination by prospective buyers. * »iKEE HOLT COUNTY COUPLES receive I *•> ‘cial awards at the joint ('onvrvatittg District Chamber of Commerce Banquet Monday night. Hit ml here, frit to right, are Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jur aoek with Elmer's award for 10 year* of service a* a supervisor for the conservation district; Mr. and Mr*. Clarence Ern*t with picture award for fie outstanding farmer-rancher in the soil conserva tion district; and Mr. and Mr*. Merwyn French jr. with the tioodyear conservation award. The award w mi by Mr. and Mrs. Ernst was sponsored by the O'Neill Production credit association. 'l<>( \ t li\ CONSERVATION \\\ \RI) winn -:s ; ■ < > 111 Holt county arc pictured here .it a recog nition banquet held jointly with the O’Neill Chamber of Compierce Monday night. The couples, shown from left to right, are Mr. and Mrs. Raymond De .ter Mr. j>4 rs. Walter Kick and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jarman. Through the efforts of these eonse vationists, the dlstriet won the special $100 area award in competition with five other districts. Elevator Office Burns at Bristow SPENCER — Firemen answer ed a call about 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bristow where the office of the Bristow-Monowi Elevator Co. was on fire. The flames were being fanned by a strong west wind, which helped to keep the fire from spreading to ihe elevator proper. Rural fire departments from Lynch and Spencer were called. The fire was extinguished in less than 30 minutes. The fire is thought to have been caused by a defective oil heating stove in office. The con tents of the office, including the equipment, scale head, filing cabinets and all records, were a total loss. No damage to the elevator proper was reported. Two Car Mishap Is Reported Here Cars driven by Richard Laur sen and Lawrence Zakrzewski were damaged Friday when they collided at the intersection of Sec ond and John streets. Neither driver suffered any injury. Holt County Farmers Sign Wheat Program As of December 4, 1962. 40 farms in Holt County, had been signed up to take part in the 1963 Wheat Stabilization Program, Floyd Butterfield. Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, announced today. The signed ap lications call for the diversion of 513.5 acres, about 40.2 per cent of the 1277.7 acres of allotments or small farm bases on farms sign ed to date. Nationally, as of Nov. 1, 43,507 wheat-producing farms had thus far been signed up to divert 370, 456 acres to conserving uses under the special voluntary 1963 wheat program. For farms signed up in Holt County, possible advance pay ments under provisions permit ting about half of the payments to be made this fall during the signup period came to about $4,928.34. Of this amount, $2,799 .07 in cashable sight drafts had been issued to participating farm ers. Tour Members Hold Reunion, Show Pictures Members of the tour to the United Nations and Washington, D. C„ sponsored by the Christian Social Concerns Commission of the Nebraska Conference of the Methodist church early in No vember, held a reunion at the Page Methodist church Thursday. Twenty-four of the thirty-one tour members were present for the dinner at noon and the social time during the afternoon, when slides which were taken on the trip by various tour members were shown. Rev. Harold Camp, tour director, announced plans for a similar trip to Europe in July of next year. Those who attended the re union were: Rev. Harold Massie, Eustis, Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Morse and Linda, Edison, Mrs Luella Dennis, Grand Island, Rev. Harold Camp, Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. R. Stanley Torpin and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Brandis, Central City, Mrs. Joyce Krause. Shickley, Rev. and Mrs. Curtis Norlin. Springview, Mrs. Joe E. Meyers and Mrs. Tilda D. Kerr, Gothenburg. Rev. and Mrs. O. A. Fortune, Genoa, Mrs. James Kumpost and James jr., Hold rege. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hiatt, Bristow. Rev. and Mrs. Robert L. Embree, O’Neill, Mrs. Fern Carpenter. Arapahoe, Rev. Bob Call and Mrs. Edgar Cox, Mr. and M's. Edgar Stauffer, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Stauffer and Marsha and Rev and Mrs. Robert Linder, all of Page. Honor Students Listed At O'Neill High School Honor roll students for the sec ond six weeks have been an nounced by Principal Marvin Miller. They are freshmen, Wan da Hallgrimson, 3A's, IB; Sheryl Jackson, 2A's, 2B’s; sophomores, Joan Drayton, 3A‘s, IB; Bill Enke. 4A’s; Ivan Hurley, 2A's, 2B's; and Pam Hammerlun. 2A’s, 2B’s. Juniors, Dianne Gillespie, 5A's; Delores Rosenkrans, 5A's; JoAnn Maschi, 4A’s, IB; Christine Her ley, 4A's, IB; Laurell Haynes. 4A's, IB; Duane Skopec, 4A's; Joan Riffey, 3A’s. IB; Mary Jo Walker, 3A’s, IB; Karen Perry. 3A's, IB, and Norma Walters, 2A’s, 2B’s. Seniors. Ann Johnson, 2A's, 2B’s. Rodeo Association To Elect Officers The O’Neill Rodeo Association will hold their annual election of officers Friday evening at Virgil Laursen's office. All interested members of the association are inviied to attend. All members are also invited to attend the annual free supper and dance Sunday evening at the Legion club. Serving begins at 6:30 pm. Members may make reservations by calling Bill Mur ray. The dance following the supper is open to the public. - ' .ISM £ •- -1 Mill i ' ■ - ni Floor Plan for the New Six-Year O'Neill Public School Absentee Ballots Available Now rbose «h.» «uh to apply lor obtrulrr or disabled voter* ballots for l hr special school bond election. are to ap ply to the Secretary of thr Board of MuriUo* of the O' NciU Public School District No. 7 at the Office of thr Suprrin tetulrnt of Schools before Dec. 12. All-Sports Night Draws Crowd; Ten Initiated The O'Neill High School "O' club received a hue turnout of local enthusiasts on Monday when they sponsored an All-Sporta Night at the high school auditor ium. A junior high busketbaU game between members of couch Jim Luft’s squad opened the pris gram with a lopsided 39-ID inter squad battle. Next the wrestlers took over, and in lour demonstration mat ches, Lonnie McKun and Don Havranek tied in total points, Mick Miller outpointed Dick Me Kim, Greg Denckson beat Brian Richter on points and Larry Ueb won over Jerry Nickeaon on {joints. Coach Boyd Blomenkamp explained the fundamentals of high school wrestling between the first and second matches. The highlight of the eve ning followed when the n««w "O” club member* were Initial ed by playing a knock-down drag-out simile to a basketball game in boxing glove*. Team members being Initiated lnclud ed John Baker, Greg Derick ickson, Brian lUchter, l.aiten Young, Dan Schaaf, Larry Dbst, Denni* Wells, Dewey Newton. Dennis Spangler and Don Kund qui*t. The *core ended in a 2-2 tie. Then the volleyball girls stag ed an inter-squad match under the direction of coach Dean Hou fek. In the evening’s finale, the Eagles basketball squad sptlt up into two teams — ‘‘heighth” and ’’hustle” — with the outside shooters coming out on top. Ter ry Kurtz netted 21 points to lead the blue team with Rich Frost scoring 13 and Gary Plesaell con tributing 12 fMuata~to the winning cause. Tall boys Rich Hill and Ivan Hurley dumped in 18 and 15 points, respectively, for the white squad. The All-Sports Night, the first sponsored by the local ”0” club, was a financial success with the proceeds being split up between the scoreboard fund for the the new football clock and the "O” Club treasury. Page Students On Honor Roll — Students on the Page public school honor roll for the second six weeks include: freshmen — Marlyn Max, Connie Sorensen, Dale Miller and Jean Nissen. Honorable mention — Virginia Sojka and Valjean Parks. Sophomores- Donna Smith. Lu Ann Nissen, Linda Thompson. John Crumly, Jean Finley, Seal Luebcke, Roberta Asher, Andrea Wettlaufer and Carolyn Hallman. Honorable mention—Randy Shaw, Jim Crumly, Janet Anson, Linda Alberts and Sharon Ellsbury Juniors — Tom Melcher and Becky Beelaert. Honorable men tion — I^arry Walker, Lloyd and Floyd Sorensen. Senior -Connie Nissen, Caroline Max, Bonnie Heiss, Bruce Bowen and Sandy Alberts. Honorable mention — Diane Kemper, Dick Linder and Peggy Crumly. Junior high school: Seventh grade honorable mention—John Hallman, Vicki Fusselman and Ellen McCabe. Eighth grade—Holland Smith. Citizens Group Endorses Plans For New School The Ciluen s Committee and the Board of Education of the O' Neill Public School me! tn a *pec nil session on Friday, Nov 30, at the O’Neill Public School Plans were viewed ami discussed fur Ihe proposed am year junior senior high school that la to be voted on at the *i>eeial bond elec lion on Friday, Dec It The Ctt uen’a Committee gave the Board of Educatron an unanimous vote <d approval and support on the basic plan and structure of the pro|iosed school building This plan is the result of considerable research, study and recommen dations on the part of the cm sen a committee Facts to be considered tn - v«dve the whole srhool system of Uie O'Neill Public School Lynch Youngster Seriously Hurt in Tractor Mishap Neal Classen, 11 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Classen, who live on half mile west of Lynch, was seriously I njured Monday evening while helping grind corn at their farm home Neal was sitting on the tractor when he reached down and buck U> pick up an ear of com that had fallen aside He was sud denly entangled in the power take off. His father and brother were there at the time to free him. Both arms were broken and hia lower lip and jaw were bad !y torn and below on him neck He was rushed to the Lynch hot pital and from there Hr. David accompanied him in the ambu lance to Neligh where he under went surgery. Services Held At Lynch for William Stauffer LYNCH Funeral service* were held at the Wesleyan Methodist church at Lynch Tuesday for William Henry Stauffer, 75, who died at his home in Lynch De cember 7, with the Rev. John I. Neil officiating. Burial was in the Highland cemetery at Lynch. Pallbearers were Kenneth Mc Meen. Edward Johns, Martin Johorek, Ludwig Placek, Richard Ducker and Joe Halva. Mr. Stauffer had been a resi dent of the community since 1916. Survivors include the widow, lottie; one niece, Mrs. George • Velma) Lee, and we nephew. Calvin Spencer; two brothers. Dan of Elm Creek, and Marshall of Van Nuys, Calif., and one sis ter. Mrs Mary Beed, Mitchell. S. D Helen Rudloff Dies After Sudden Illness Helen Rudloff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Rudloff. Ver digre, died suddenly last Thurs day. Helen came home from school Wednesday feeling fine, during the night she took ill. The next morning not feeling lietter her parents took her to the doctor, and from there rushed her to the Creighton hospital, where she died within a few hours. Funeral services were held Saturday at St. Wenceslaus Cath olic church with the Rev. Charles J. Obomy officiating at the Mass of the Angels. Interment was at the Parish cemetery. Helen would have been seven December 3. Iter krrsrnl !•<> whmii Mrwr lure* M ill Iwuw oil ef Iter r|r m«nUr> >lu<lrnU sUrHittei U.c O'Neill I'utellr v teimli Irani grades kinder garlr a ihruugk grade ala. The ktadergartoa -utd Iter first grndr a mil.) rati iinur In u%r Iter wnars build lag South of llir mala school »Uurturr and grades tss i ter(High gradrs di suuU as. Iter main school slim lurr al Iter prrarnt school stir. Oracles seven through grade twelve would use the proposed school structure designated as the »is year junior senior high achnol. Tills structure to he erected or, tile land that is owned by thr sclioot disti ut directly noit'i ol the present luotbsil lieki site .Special allaiiUun haa been giv en by both (he ( itiaen'a Comma tee and the Hoard of KduraUoti to utilization and efficiency of the prutMMed budding. The efftri ent type of construction allows for a complete educational pro. gram to be offered qt alt time*. For enmplet in the artenc# field, this building is designed and equipped to offer each year, physics, chemistry, bkilogy simI general science courses The commercial department ia de signed to offer a complete two gram with typing, Ixmkkrepmg, shorthand, truamesa law, office practice and secretarial practice. I'he physical educution auditori um is designed to serve all ato dent.1 in Uie field of physical ed ucation Fold it way bleachers to be installed to allow two classes of physical education to be taught at the same time. This allows maximum utilazation of the gym floor The fold away bleachers would allow the two clunaes to operate across the floor, rather than one class lengthwise Fur ther use of the stage and nudib/r ium will be made by both the vo cal and instrumental innate dr pwrmenu as well as public speaking, dramatics and oilier dr. partmenta of the school Further music facilities are provided under the stage IIksu facilities are designed for a con* plot* music program with natur al lighting obtained from the west side of the room .iff th» court yard. This music depart ment is designed to be complete ly sound proofed. AH noise far tivities of this scliool are located in the east part of this buikling away fr.jnn the academic or clue room areas. The library is also located directly in the center of the academic class rooms with ease of accessibility Tills library to be fully equipped with all ne cessary shelving, check rail coun ter*, study areas ami other ne cessary library lacillties. Natur al lighting is furnished on the west and east sides of the library and also by sky «lome lighting The classroom* in this grur turc arc ,usigned for multiple usage. This design allows lot many different course offerings to be offered In each room. The sh.g> class room may he ward or mathematics classes or other classes, the fCngllsh room* tor social studies, etc. If future expansion of this building ever proves necessary, this building is designed for pos sible addition at any of the four corners. , The special bond election to b« held on Friday, Dec. J4, will be held at the usual four ward vot ing places. First Ward — Court house; second ward — Knights of Columbus Hall; third ward, police station and the fourth ward, city Hall, with all qualified voters Irv ing outside the city limits voting at the first ward voting place.