1954: Burney wins re-election, despite losing Cedar County

Nov. 4, 1954

HARTINGTON - Hartington High School junior Jim Olsen, and Holy Trinity High School junior Anita Feilmeier were selected king and queen of the annual Chamber of Commerce Halloween party in the City Auditorium Sunday night.

Nov. 4, 1954

HARTINGTON —Cedar County voted like the rest of Nebraska Tuesday by favoring Republican candidates for state and national office, but in local races the voters crossed party lines to re-elect both Republicans and Democrats.

In the only county-wide office for a local office, Democrat Cecillia Walz, ran about 1,000 votes ahead of her Republican foe, Herbert Pick, for the clerk of District Court. Miss Walz received 2,517 votes to 1,577 for Pick. Voters in the First Commissioner District returned another Democrat to office, Joe H. Promes, who is a veteran county commissioner. Promes polled 688 votes, in the seven precinct district, while his Republican opponent, Louis W. Stevens, received 504. In the only other county contest, Bernard Schager, Republican commissioner, defeated his Democratic foe Hugo Wuebben in the third district. The vote was 859 to 568.

State Sen. Dwight W. Burney was re-elected to the Neb. Legislature by a narrow margin. Although defeated in his home county, Cedar, Sen.

Burney was given a sufficient majority in Knox County, the home of his opponnent, Reuben E. Anderson, to win re-election.

Sen. Burney polled 1,900 votes in Cedar County to Anderson’s 1,963. In Knox County, with one small precinct still to report, Burney received 4,298 votes to Anderson’s 4,067.

The voting in the two counties gave Burney a margin of 168 votes.

The missing precinct had a total of about 80 voters, so the tabulation of those ballots would have no affect on the outcome.

Seven officials were re-elected to county office without opposition.

They are: County Clerk Edward Stevens, Treasurer Louis Riibe, Sheriff Ralph Clements, Attorney Max W.

Goetz, Surveyor Leonard Leise, Assessor Deward Erickson, Supt. of Schools Velna Weir.

Nov. 4, 1954

HARTINGTON — Pvt. Ralph A. Noecker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Noecker, has been assigned to division headquarters company of the 11th Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Pvt. Noecker received his basic training at Fort Leonard Wood Mo. and plans to attend airborne jump school in the