Holdrege Daily Citizen from Holdrege, Nebraska • 1

1 V'r 1 IV it STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 5 Kj ml's -J -i 1 -i -i rt i A A Jf -fc 7 StV KHOL Beams on S' swept through A Union College dormitory last night and on Nations Hoads 1 Bqy sure glad I That was the way one little girl expressed it Tuesday as! she left The Salvation Army with- toys she lad 'chosen from the which was one of the principal Christmas projects! Toys of nearly every description covered the tables and I children from 'needy families in the area crowded the basement to make their choices from a wide assortment The basement hall at the Army Operated smoothly! to bring Christmas cheer and wide smiles to the faces of the youngsters 66 Kids Helped The I flrst youngitenv started fomingfv at' 2 30 o'clock Rafter a 6f Volunteer worker'' had thef toy The toy were ited by generous Holdrege area residents who lent their support to making Christmas a 'day of of one of sorrow Handling the toy shop operation wery Lt gjd Mrs Harlan Strand srt Burt: Mrs- (Theo A Mr A I Rauch and li BE ON Clifford Cattell AdrianMleh his auto trip with this hSge clock on his saraxedaor Catiel i thefntllitarian decoration powered by an electric something to dress sp the garage The to his plea! foe ly decoration wag no chore to designer New Station Brings Video tto Wide Area 1 i I 'I I TeWWon screen throughout the Holdrege area Friday Afternoon were attuned to KHOL-TV and Channel 13 1 as Nebraska's fifth television station near! Ax tell Depan its inaugural programs The first out-state rtatioh went on the air at 1:45 Christmas afternoon bringing i television to a wide area gpf the s' an' Northern Kansas The first telecast came jaftel months of planning and burner ous delays in getting the thousands of items of equipment into the station Test nattemj were beamed Thursday night anl FriHav morning before the station took to the air Manager I Duane Watte said today i I Visitor Impressed! I --Workmen Thursday finished the job of connecting the antenna to the transmitter i which wou: up the maze of planning' and search I I Victors at the 1 station Chris mas Day ganed through thejwinj dow into the transmitter room and watched live! programs from the studio Newscasts were handled by Jack Gilbert station program director while the weather forecasts were handled by Howard Morgan a newcomer to the TV scene Intimate fashion studio viewers watched the medium new to thje Holdrege scene! They! stood quietly and conversation Vs muted and conspiciouslv absent Telefilms Provide Shows i Other than local live telecast! telefilms were used to provid the audio-visual entertainment Telegrams and! messages jcame from and from televiewers Watt said- ere confident that our service in the TV field will continue to improve and permit us to keep our pledge of the finest programs he added I No account was kept of the number of visitors in the ara who make the drive to the station site to get a first-hand View of the telecasting operations REA Seeking New Lift es 'in Phelps County i Application has been filed by the Southern Nebraska Rural Public Power District of Grand Island for authority to construct 396 miles of new transmission lines nine counties including Phelps a Kearney The application was filed with the State Railway Commission ai-id a hearing will held at the cap-itol building in Lincoln January 13 Omdoff office manager the REA district In Holdrege sac this morning that figures were njot available on the -number of i mil of new line proposed in Phelps Kearney Counties I Grand Island officials could pot be reached today for a breakdown of the mileage in the various counties Lines will also be constructed in Nance Merrick Hamilton Hall Buffalo Clay and Adr ams Countiqs Plan $18 Million in Road Vork for State During '54 TRAFFIC' TOTEM This4on-Jjctlnt stretch 'of signs Is suppos-vea to help motorists fliid their way through Albany The traffic light Is an as most everyone slows to a stop to read the signs at the intersection which could be called crossroads of the nation 163 May Died in Bodiesj South in New Zealand Holiday Crash WELLINGTON Zl UR) Weary bands pf emergency workers combed the banks of the flood-swollen Wangehrii River today seeking the bodies of victims of the worst train wreck in New his ory Union College LINCOLN UK A tiiree-alrm fire badly damaged another irmitory causing total timated at nearly $1000000 The old dormitory plefely destroyed: building built aroiir one had three damaged by fire and water ami the subbasement first floor was ruined Police said one fireman was injured but not seriously The blaze started about 7:30 Most students atj the Seventh Day Adventist school were on their Chris teas vacation Officials said about 20 were staying in the dormitory during the holiday period Chief maintenance man Donald Smith discovered the fire only minutes before it raged out of control Firemen had to wet down roofs of other buildings to protect against flying sparks i The new L-shaped dbrrti threatened during the entire blaze had many windows broken: by the heat i 1 Officials said insurance covered both structures Democrats Blast Dulles for Warning Don't Like Aid as Club Held over Head of Allies WASHINGTON UR)The Democrats stepped up their Attack today on the so-called campaign toiyrin quick approval of the' long-stalled European army plan Sen Guy Gillette '(Ei-Ia) assailed Secretary of State 'John Foster Dulles for bluntly warding Europe that the United States will reappraise its foreign policy if the project is not ratified soon see no justification he said using the promise or threat of increasing or withholding foreign aid as a club held over the heads of our Allies to compel approval of an Li- Sparkman Speaks Up Earlier this weekJanother ranking Democrat Sen John Sparkman (Ala) sharply criticized the administration for tending to put all its chips on the' European Defense Community plan when other alternatives might be workable Both Sparkman and Gillette are influential members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and important voices in party decisions on foreign affairs Part of Deliberate Attacks Observers believe 'their statements were not: merely isolated comments but part of a deliberate attack on shock tactics and a reminder that toe administration lad better not count on Democra-ic support on all the foreign pol-cy issues coming up in Congress The Democrats have' been smarting over the fact that the President chose to exclude them when he invited GOP leaders to the White House to discuss the forthcoming legislative 'program Dulles fired his warning about a possible policy shift at the recent meeting of the JSIorth Atlantic Council He reinforced it this week with a hint that reappraisal might include the withdrawal of troops from West Germany LINCOLN UR) State Engineer If- Bess said today he hoped to get a record $18000000 in road work under contract ini 1954 to bring aboiit the most-needed improvements on Nebraska high-W3VB I i 1 Tile total wonld be about $i- 200000 above the next largest amount of construction work ever put funded contract in file state during-a year and more than $7- 500000 above the estimated 1953 total But Ress predicted glooiin- never be caiight ads inted out that file hlway totaled $157000000 and that even include some needed in Nebraska cities Never Bo Caught Up never I be caught up either here in Nebraska pr aziy- either here Nebraska I or any- where inhe Bess said been in the net farther behind now than when more! than 30 years ain? I I Highway Toll Is Continuing Upward Climb By UNITED FRES8 Traffic deaths claimed an average of seven Tlives an hour today and safety experts warned "the nations first peaceful Christmas in four years (may become bloodiest in A United-Press survey since 6 Thursday showed 376 persons had been killed on the highways 31 by fires and 31 in 'miscellaneous mishaps toy a total of 338 'll The National Safety -Council had predicted traffic accidents would claim 510 lives between 6 pm Thursday and pddnight Sunday Ramerri However Safety Council expert said early fatalities indicated! a might taking place ji -j Ned Deayborne Safety Council president said they put on the brakes) this could well be the bloodiest Christmas-in traffic I Two storm centers meanwhile moved towards the mid? section threatening to increase driving hazards I One storm center rolling to-j wards thesouthern tip of Lake Huron promised light show i orj snow flurries over parts bf Minne-j sota Wisconsin and Michigan The other was expected to Northern North Dakota by tonight and by Sunday night bring light snow to parts of Iowa Illinois ln-1 diana Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin Fhir Skies Mild Temps Most of the nation enjoyed faiij skies and knild temperatures Christmas Day except for light snow in North Dakota and raid over the Southeastern states hnc Northwest Washington Despite the holiday tragedies was the happiest Christmas i to years toy many American families who were celebrating with' and daughters returned from the Korean War theater Traffic accidents did not cause the only holiday tragedies 7 At Gilman Colo Kay- Smith1 64 described as go lucky? shot and' killed his stepson critU cally wounded his wife and step) daughter an suicide Christmas Eve i A young father Ross Hurst 27 stood helpless only a few feet away as flames killed' his wifs and four small children Christmas morning 'at Flat Rock Mich At Long Beach Calif deputies searched for six crazy? hoodlums who beat and -robbed a legless Korean War veteran fresh from the hospital Found It Expensive to Use His Head NEW ORLEANS' La KJUR) Bertram A Jackson was struck on the head last August by a life boat which broke loose from its moorings on an Army tugboat He reeeivga a bill from the Army Wednesday for $14636 to cover damage to the life boat 1 WEATHER mmmamwmmwmmmmM i LOCAL FORECAST: Fair and warmer tonight with low near 25 Sunday Increasing cloudiness1 end turning cold-' er with high of about 45 11 a temperature 29 High Thursday 43 Low Thursday High Friday Low Friday 1953 to date 2363 1952 to date 21182 TEMPERATURE RANGES Ixingtqn 44-18 Burwell 42-19 Chadron 44-19 Grand Island 45-23 Imperial 45-19L Norfolk 46-24 North Platte 50-1 d' Omaha 54-29 Scottsbluff 48-13 Sidney 49-16 Valentine 48-20 I IN 2 Nebraskans Are Victims I By United Stress Two persons were killed Christmas traffic hiking to 335 the nu Nebraska: roads so this year Mrs Anna Choutka 65 Madison died St Joseph's Hospital in Osmond Friday qight of injuries suffered in a four-car mishap near Osmond She was a nasseneer in an auto driven by William Kofcel 40 Madison which crashed into one driven by Allen Prescott 28 Dixon The four car mishap started when a car stopped to (make a turn off Highway 20 into Highway 128 Three cars including the Kozel and Prescott autos trashed into each 'other I 4 Qther Injured Four others injured in the crah Tim Nicholson about 32 Palisade was killed early Friday morning after he cheered up an old Christmas Nicholson whq had a wife and three (-year-old daughter was visiting With' his family at the home of Mrs parents Mr and Mrs Linnemeyer Thursday night Nicholson decided to return! to Palisade 37 milest and bring1 a basket of groceries to an elderly couple who faced a bleak Christinas Gone to Sleep Frontier Cnuntv Sheriff Pedersen said must have gone to sleep coming The fichplson car plunged over a embankment jukt one quarter of a mile short of his Curtis destination A Thursday accident near Wa-100 claimed the life of Mrs Esther eone Cummings 55jDes Moines owai and caused injuries to her parents Mr and Mrs John Allen Saunders Coiinty Sheriff' Joe Divis said Mrs' Cummings car eft the pavement anjd went onto shoulder 10 miles -West of Wa-Hoo on Highway 92-30A 3ivis said when she pulled the car back onto the Toad it hit a spillway on the opposite side of the pavement land rolled over hree times landing jon its top Christinas Tre Blazes in Church OMAHA (UR) altar boy accidentally ignited aj branch of evergreen at the- start of a mid- night Christmas Mass at a crowded Catholic church here But the blaze: was quickly extinguished by at priest and members of the congregation The blaze occurred as a large crowd awaited (the start of the services at Holy Name Church Several persons (climbed onto the altar and tore down burning evergreen i Firemen were! called and checked the smoldering branches before services resumed Most of the congregation sat or stood quietly while the fire was put but 1 I Predict Temperature ToiDip Again Sunday By United Press The sunny mil4 Christmas weather Nebraska enjoyed prevailed again today but sharply colder temperatures! were predicted for Sunday night and Mon- Weather Bureau said a few snow flurries might fall during the waning days of this year Christmas Day was one of the mildest in recent years in most parts of the state Only those areas which still had snow left over 'from previous storms had anything resembling a white Christmas Temperatures dopped Fridav night to the mid 20s in the east ana between 16 and 20 west for $18006000 represents' a sub- stantial gain: With the increased funds avail able work will go forward in 1954 to make classes of im- on highways which ave the lowest on the highway report card system for determining condition of a road The $157000000' is needed -to improve all sections of I roads which score below 70 on the ratr ing and to provide dustless surface for gravel roads which carry more than 300 yehicles a day on the average Lightning Offensive Splits Indochina in Two sAlGON Indochina lOJR) Communist Viet Minh rebels split Inddchina in two: today ih a Souvannah Phouma 61 about $10300000 so the hoped- stantial gam construct as Cattell is a clock Ress said the auto industry was about 10 years ahead of highways in the nation with no signs of a slackening pace: In Nebraska the problem grave because small population and a large area according to the engineer But Ress praised the 1953 Leg islature which authorized a gas tax boost and Higher license fees to make some progress possible increased revenues will advance the date when the lessen-tial needs of the state can be he said -a limit to the amount that-people can afford to pay for Increased Funds If the Legislature acted the 1954 road work put Undfer contract would have been onty about $5500000 Ress estimated The aswuw aumuea ine rk tracted fot -caine: to If Pcq went back to work this morning Junior will have his first chance at playing with his brand new electric train: But you can bet Pop will be doing the railroading again tomorrow A fellow who received a new suit -of clothes from his wife Christmas Eve had to be dissuaded Iran calling thej shop and asking them to fit the garment on the holiday! 1 What was really needed in most homes Christmas Day was a club for beating the high cost of living Now that Christmas letters are due if the choice were between writing a dreary noto and doing! toe dinner dishes wen bet most1 women would take on the dishes maybe twice! Wonder how many! readers of this column will celebrate birthdays cornel New Day? If your birthday A ion January 1 why not drop the Slanter A line? We'd like to know too toe per-l who i frho will be celebra greatest number of anniversaries tihgtbe birthday Only 103 )f the' 267 persons aboard the nine-car train are known to hays survived when the locomotive and first five cars crashed through a washed-out trestle 160 miles north of here on Eve Early today the bodies of 80 of the 164 victims had been recovered Prime Minister Sidney Holland who rated to- the scene as soon as he heard of- the crash said he saw hope of any more victims being found alive Cscch Crash Kills 100 The New Zealand crash was one of three that killed nearly 300 ly-separated 1 points -around the Jy-sepaarted 1 points around the world 'Early Thursday two passenger trains collided south of Brno in Red Czechoslovakia' Czech officials reached by telephone from Vienna said today that persons were killed or injured in the wreck but no more precise figures could be obtained immediately In the Andes mountains of Peru four railwaymen were killed when a freight train jumped the track between Chosica and the big Pacific port of El Callao Way to Sm Queen of those aboard the New ic por On Way to See Queen iy Man falter Allmand i mi(ko the toy shop closed down hildren had received of all kinds about 60 children does to 200 toys shapes and sizes the toy shop the saw a motion picture it Is and received a bag kf candy and a big apple jForty Christmas Baskets Lt and Mrs Harland Strand Thursday expressed their appreciation to file many persons who helped make the projest a surcess It Was splendid the way people responded to our call and our thanks go to said Lt Strahd Besides the many individuals who sent toys for the shop Lt Strahd said these organizations and firms helped put the project over the top: Baptist Church of Cambridge Noble Drug Company Home 'Decorating Shop i Go-Get' ting Gals 4-H Club and Cub Pack 216 fThe Cub Scouts likewise helped by contributing food stuffs for Christmas baskets The Christmas diqner Wednesday was attendee by many persons over fifty years of age who were to be alone on Christmas Day as well as by those who were unable to have a bountiful Christinas because pf straitened circumstances The dinner was in addition to toe Christmas basket Whkh sent basket hf to aoTneedy families: Suits Against Watson Brothers Total $222951 R) Three kui al of $222950 OMAHA UR) questing a total uits re-50 were Court bn file today in District here against Watson Brothers Transportation Co Omaha The suits were filed by the estates of three women who died in the collision and resulting explosion Oct 9 of an ammunition truck operated by Watson and a private car The petitions charge the truck was moving at excessive speed that the driver failed to maintain the proper lookout and did not have control of the vehicle The accident occurred near Boys Town The estate of Theo May Mc-Claskey 72 Geneva 111 asked $59800 the estate of Ha2el Paige 65 Omaha asked $67750 and that of Laura McClaskey 67 Geneva $95400 Crash Victims Left on Glacier REYKJAVIK Iceland! (UR) IL Air Force offiicals said- today the bodies of eight men killed in a Navy Crash on Myradasjokull Glacier tnay remain in the frozen wreckage un til next spring: A helicopter lift was abandoned Friday after only ohe body had been recovered Howling snow storms made1 further operation -impossible The American Neptune bomber crashed on the glacier nine days ago while the nine crewmen were: returning from a routine training flight i tion and service i Crowded but 'by our busy routine- so Often we neglect God we may well look upon! every illness or an (accident that' puts' us to bed as an optor-tunity for meditation and for that closer fellowshio with God our supreme -60JI00 Churches The meditation is condudec withi a prayer and thought for a day: I Because of -the wide readership and -j potmlarity bf The Upper Roonv it is -considered a high honor to have- a i meditation selected and- published in the most widely used devotional The publication is parti of -the ministry qf 6000( churphes in the United States and Canada These churches represent every Protestant denomination In other language editions the Rev Mr work Will be published in 'Arabic? Italian Armenian Hindu Japanese: Thai I Korean Greek Spanish SwedishJ Persian Urdu Portugese Tagalog Boca nOrTtleugu and Norwegiah (Continued on page six) lighting to Premier the Indochina state qf Lads across which the rebel knifed hi one of their biggest attacks of the eight- Sar war cabled A protest to the nifed Nations I Thailand declared- a State of emergency in nine of ito frontier provinces and rushed troop reinforcements to them fearing that thousands of Indochinese refugees on the Thailand side of file "border might raise a fifth column ill aid of the rebels It was believed in reliable circles here that Thailand also might cable a protest tp jthe UJ The French High Command! in communique admitted toe driven righ aerpss from the coastal state of am and captured the strate-important town of Thak-it across the Mekong Biver fron er from Thailand Chnstmas Mail i Season 'Smooth wJary: Holdrejje postal' I workers kas Day got a respite from vy Yuletide mail ikeleton crew however was to deliver Christmas pack I special delivery Christ-and make regular holi-il (collections Bokholders at toe post office ccivd the same service as on a nomial business I day Both Postmaster Tom Morris and Assistant postmaster Paul Nelson fre- for holiday duty I is commented that the 1953 was perhips thp smoothest rd He it wis a job done by and added that ireather and the co-operation trons had leveled the-peaks the Christma mail Nertheleflss postal (workers the Yuletide sea-end and' enjoy a glad to see me to an to normal times 111 Baby Flown Hospital in i Lincoln LINCOLN UR) Tinyil 3 6-day-old Larry Forgy was floisvn here rpluie Thursday for emerg-treatment 'after he beccgne ere lileihis parents were! drivi ng to mas1 biby became criticrily ill near) Norton Kan and rushed to a physician there was found to havq a temperature of 1064 have Bwaf S' i The Forgys located a airplane end rushed their riiUd to Tinnnln Twin Sons Just Miss Beincf Double Christinas Present A double paickagearrivedjuif about five noun too late to be unwrapped as: a for Mr and Mrs: Willard Jack of Eustis The double package i was set of twin boys who were bom early this morning to the coup at Brewster HospitaL I There were no other Chris mas Day deliveries by the bird with the long bill at the tWo Holdrege hospitals i I in had television would have had a of competition believe thef traffic have stood" j1 coiuld Former Holdrege Minister Authors Meditation! in January 'Upper Room' A former Holdreve minister is the' author of sl meditation TV Entertainment Far Gry from Medidne Show of Old i 1 1 I I By JACK VAUGHN and some attempted warbling hu The arrival of television Christmas Day in the Holdrege area 'caused one old-timer to remark entertainment has come a long way since I was a young Back in the 'early days Dad and Mom put the children in the back seat of the surrey hoisteL themselves into the front seat and drove over to a vacant lot in downtown Holdrege then a struggling yil-lage They went to see Professor Fernando Dempster and his medicine show Home Present day parent put their children in the front row of the room chairs establish them- Vmves in a back ttfw davenport and the evening television program unfolds before them With no more bother or preparation than walking in from the dinner table and turning the kndb on the TV i set If the kids get sleepy they can 'be put to bed and no baby sitter fees are required No baby sitter was necessary in the old days either The children went along their- parents and if they grdw sleepy Were bedded down in whatever conveyance bad brought them Social Event medicine show was quite a social affair in the days too Friends and neighbors greeted each other with prmality ignoring conversations of a few hours back The men! wore their collars fastened and the women had on their Sun- and attempted warbling hie tunes i I One of the favorite songs concerned a bumpkin and his roman-: tic experience and ended wth tjhe words now got a mother-in-law by sucking cider through a i I i I The humor' -was considered priceless in its day It put eveTy- one in stitches singer gave out the Heart Thou Between the the ballad Professor Dempster went through thej crowd selling his (famous elixir The elixir the professor i claimed had been made from a rare rpot found in an obscure iwaiQp and the formula was the deep secret known only to the professor and an aged recluse 'who had rev it to him on his death-bed! One year when the prof brought an Indian along with the elixir formula had beat divulged by an old Indian chief and the Indian yrith the show was this grandson wh6 had to be persuad ed to come along Opera House Shows The Indian despite tancy was pretty good salesman and passed out bottles right md left for a buck apiece The medicine show the only entertainment in (hose- days There were th shows ht the operg hoiise and circuses came once in a while to the small towns I I Chautauqua circuits flourished the summer there were itinerant musicians who played roaming stands i 'I'M said the old-fimer Movie Actress Ordered to Put on More Clotljes or Pull Out of Korea Turnpike Authority Meeting Next Week LINCOLN (UR) newly-created tumipike authority is slated to hold its first meetin-next week Governor! Crosby sail Wednesday i I i Crosby said he would meet with the three members of the group Tuesday Dec 29 at 10 The three-member! group was appointed recently by Governor Crosby under a bill passed by toe 1953 Legislature! The authority will have the! power to issue bonds and condemn land 'to build toll roads if' they are decided necessary I 1 (Authority members are Putney Lincoln: John Cook Scottsbluff and Raymond McGrath Omaha attorney Tax Conference Set for Jan 11 i LINCOLN UR) iThe! third annual tax conference sponsored by the Nebraska Citizens Council slated for Lincoln Jab 11 council executive director Robert Armstrong said today Armstrong said: virtually the entire program will be! geared to a discussion of the present tax situation Governed Crosby trill speak explaining how-he proposes to make work The afternoon session will be a public forum on how reaL estate and personal property' may be valued for tax purposes by and realistic methods' that would be fair to said Citizen classifieds bring resu't iTODAYTTBIBUEVERSE i Behold thou' desixest -jtruth in theinwardpartsPsalmJ if he was assured Miss Moore woulxi not wear the suit in future forma nces before troops in Korea Hollywood disk jockey Johnnv Grant manager of the show! said he had persuaded Murphy to: give Miss Moore another chance 3 got an: official Grant said will stay with the show but she will not appear in- the bathing! suit again? i (0 Grant said Murphy descriptions of 'Miss Moore's appearance and thought sh was doing a strip tease -i is all right now since she: was not doing a strip less slacks? I-- Grant said "But I -guess slack will prevent further miunj SEOUL' Korea UR) Disappointed artillerymen watched screen actress Terry Moore perform today in slacks and sweater instead herj controversial ermine bathing suit They went toj a show put on by a visiting Hollywood troupe expecting to see her pel down to a scanty costume! jiuft as she had done ml four previous perform 'ances before wolf-Whistling sol diers j- The artillerymen id not know starring in films -on ised to wear er to remain that Miss Moore two new cinema: Broadway' had more clothing in in KoreaT Screen actor George -Murphy president of a Hollywood committee coordinating the activities toldi Nuss Moore to leave Korea because of the con will be read by an estimated seven million Americans I The Rev Carl Bader who formerlvwm pastor: of the First Methodist1 Church here and now holds a pastorate at Ainsworth authored the meditation which is to be published in The K'Upper Room Tuelav Jan 26 The Upper Room a devotional guide has a circulation of more than two and! onehalf million copies 'in Enelish editions published at Nashville Tawny It is published in Braille and two other English editions as well as in 17 other languages Based on Matthew The Rev Mf Bader based-his medition on Matthew 12:50 which reads Shall do the will of my Father who is in Heaven he is mv brother and sister and The former Holdrege clergyman says jui part: interruption we have may be way of jogging us out of a rut into a -new experience opening vistas of fresh revela- recall when her erstandings? i In her performances Miss:) Moore appears in a Jong ermine cape She tosses it aside to re-i i' veal an ermine bathing suit' err mine gloves! and boots which shett said me look like a little Santa Clausi'lor at least' like snow bunny 7 V-fljtJ i T-i -i 1 day dresses Nearly everyone in town attended and for days afteg the quips and stories were retold troversyi stirredi up bathing uit lifted his ia -j -I i Vi -L i- hM.