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kW' ' y\\* O' o? WESTERN NEWS HliloricaJ Ubrw, TOT.ÜÎVA:. * Wont. With which is consolidated THE LIBBY TIMES and THE TROY TRIBUNE Libby, Lincoln County, Montana. Thursday, September 14, 1933 VOLUME XXXIII Number 15 V, $36,000.00 *T v www w * __ Tl A A AJfT A m r. Aaé WlÊri HI || T ww A vl jh a VI7 4 I mju rill F XI WW III H " w* wwV T» Vllli Large Sum Allocated for ° . Improvements m mi- f, J. HIS UlSLlTCl. LOCAL MEN TO BE EMPLOYED That an additional sum of $36,000 has been made available for work in the Kooteqai forest was announceb yester Kootenai forest was announced yester Webb received word yesterday after noon to that effect. This money must be spent in improv ing ranger stations, lookout houses, towers, telephone lines and on similar improvements. It comes from Nira funds—in other words, from the Na tional Industrial Recovery Adminis tration. Accordir(j to regulations. Employ ment must be given out through the director of the national re-employment offices in Helena. Up to the present, the director has not set up any organ ization in this section but Mr. Webb stated that he would write him at once asking that arrangements be immedi ately made so that Mr. Webb can se lect his men from approved lists and proceed at once with the work. While he has not yet received notice of any such action, Mr. Webb says he is confident he will later receive ad- j ditional money for forest roads and trails. MINING MEN LOOKIN G INTO PROPERTIES HERE A party of mining men were in Libby Sunday and in company with J. W. Barrett examined some properties in the Snowshoe district. In the group were W. V. Stanton of Spokane, R. E. Rudd of Greenacres, Wash., Samuel B. Holbert of Troy, and Messrs. Vauk of Orient, Wash., and Palmer of San Fan cisco, Calif. Mr. Barrett states they were quite interested in the properties shown them but that nothing in the way of a deal has yet been made. GOLF TOURNAMENT NEXT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Arrangements are all completed for Libby's first golf tournament, to held next Saturday and Sunday on the Kootenai Golf course, on the E. N. Al ley ranch, fhere will be contests to determine championships in both men's and women's classes, and prizes will be given to the winners. Only the regu lar fees will be charged. Capt. Sanders . 7 t iL T ... An interesting meeting of the Libby Woman's club was held in the club; room Tuesday afternoon, with the ncwly elected president, Mrs. L. J, 01 son, in the chair. An interesting report on international relations was given by Mrs. W. N, Curtis Cubas present situation being the subject, Mrs. R. W. Orr told of the erection of a memorial to Benjamin Frankhn in Philadelphia. Mrs. J. M. Blackford. Sr, read a well written article on Citizenship. Mrs. M. D. Rowland, chairman of the education committee, made a report on that work. Mrs. C. S. Christensen, in charge of the program, had enlisted Captain A. R. Sanders of the C.C.C. camp at Troy, for a talk on army life. Captain San ders' talk was very interesting and in struclive. With Captain Sanders were six young men from his camp who fa vored the meeting with vocal and in strumental selections. Members of the executive board served a dainty lunch at the close of the meeting. The next meeting will be a field meeting. Further announcements will be made later. The district meeting is to be held in Libby in October and Libby members are looking forward to it with pleasant anticipation. 's Clot) Meeting Talks On Army Life to Large Gathering—Newly Elected President Presides. Mrs. Clough Entertains. Circle A of the Presbyterian church was entertained at the home of Mrs. A. A. Clough on Friday, the 8th, A large number of members and visitors were present to enjoy a very interest-1 ing missionary program, the topic be-! ing "Alaska." Mrs. G. W. Rouse brought two beautiful reindeer skins and several native made baskets which her son had sent her. During the bus iness meeting it was planned to have a 35c dinner September 27. After a delicious lunch, served by the hostess assisted by Mrs. Griep, the gathering adjourned to meet in two weeks at the home of Mrs. Mary Pet erson. Bowling fans are beginning to wake up again and talk their favorite sport and teams are in process of being forrped. It is said the alley will be opened next month. MANAGER DR1EAR HAS WATER RESERVOIR WELL CLEANED j E. J. Driear, local manager of the! I Mountain States Power company, states that he has had a crew of men at work cleaning out the company's reservoir that supplies the city with water, and i also repairing the dam. A 1600-foot flume was built ta carry the flow of I Flower creek, directly into the main I pipe line to the city, and the reservoir was then drained. After draining, all I the silt, pieces of bark and muck were ! washed out of the reservoir through the ! old ' unused p*pe line - Mr - Driear states that in some places the silt was from \ four to five feet deep, He had quite a I crew of men at work. Driear says the cost ran to about $1,200. CAPTAIN HARDY IN RIFLE SHOOT NEXT SUNDAY AFTERNOON Captain A. H. Hardy, veteran rifle expert, will stage an exhibition of trick and fancy shooting at Shevlin park Sunday afternoon, September 17, at 2 o'clock, through arrangements complet ed by W. N. Curtis. The exhibition will be free to the public and a big crowd of rifle fans and shooters are expect ed to be on hand for the novel enter tainment feature# the coast star will present Captain Hardy is one of the best known riflemen in the United States and has toured the country frequently with his exhibitions of large and small bore rifles. From 80 to 90 employees of the local „„„ . H r I hall Saturday 3 night (a! the pur^sl of iiorL Randail Teepie was chosen tem- ; porary chairman and Claire Sugden temporary secretary of the meeting. "I wish it understood/' said Chair man Teepie in opening the meeting. "that our desire is to organize under the provisions .of the NRA and to cooperate fully with the President" That seemed to be the sentiment of the meeting. Some'were in favor of organising under the American Federation of La brir and 'others were opposed to such action. The opposition favored an or ganization similar to that which is be ing formed in some localities through Lumber Workers Are Considering Labor Organization Meet Last Saturday and Name Com mitee to Look Into Matter. out the northwest. One speaker remark "I do not know what the objection is to the A. F. of L. and I wish t^ose who are opposed to it would state their objections." Whereupon the objecter stated that he was convinced the A. F. of L. had thrown in a scab orgaruza tinn to break a strike that was in prog ress in a western city. Some at the meeting felt the timber workers or ganization that « being formed in some western localities partakes too strongly of the I. W. W. and the sentiment was expressed that the local men didn't . . , , . , ... to " ave anything to do with anyi ri: "• ou j.' , ., , .j After some discussion, it was decid e< * *° elect a committee to get in cor respondence with western orgamza Rouis, gather information regarding! them and the A,. F. oi L. and report at another meeting to be called by thu committee later. An election by ballot was held resulting in the choice of Howard Bigelow. Valmour LeFebvre ar | d E - M - Bitterman as said committee with Bigelow chairman. Eighty-two votes were cast in the election. When this committee has secured what in formation it can, it will call another meeting, A hat was passed for a col lection to defray expenses and $4.96 was contributed. At the first of the K meeting an ex soldier expressed himself as vigorously opposed to anything that might smack. of opposition to the United States. He said, in effect, "I have fought in three! wars and I stand for the flag and for the U. S. A, What is this NRA anyway; I am opposed to anything but the good old U. S. A." In speaking of use of the Legion hall, Gus Adamson remarked that the Legion was glad to have the men use the hall so long as their In tention was to cooperate with the gov emment. There were a few men present other than mill workers. Among them was the Western News reporter, who had been invited by the chairman to at tend. After the meeting Chairman Teepie said, "We want the fullest pub licitÿ regarding the meeting." AUXILIARY NEWS. The American Legion Auxiliary had its first meeting this fall at the home of Mrs. Feenan. Business consisted of the ? ork for tha co f min B V ear - Aux iliary is ready for community service and asks for your confidence and co operation. President Ora Rasmussen has ap pointed all her unit chairmen. The first big effort will be the membership drive. Women eligible for the Auxiliary must be mother, sister or wife of an ex-service man who is a Legion her. mem Next meeting will be a joint meeting of the Legion and Auxiliary. Meet at the Legion hall at 8 o'clock sharp and bring your car. All eligible to Legion or Auxiliary are invited. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Gehrke and Mrs, T. EL O'Connor of Spokane motored to Lbby and spent Saturday and Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Forrest De IRosia and other relatives. Mrs. O'Con nor is a sister of Mr. DeRosia and Mr, and Mrs. Gehrke are his uncle and aunt. 525 Hours Allocated For Three Months Lumber Code Cives That Time to Sawmills in Western District. ONE CREW OFF AT LOCAL MILL Because of lumber code stipulations and also because of lessened business, operations at the J. Neils Lumber company sawmill have been reduced to the equivalent of one crew. The lumber code authority has decreed that sawmills operate only 525 hours dur ing September, October and November. Consequently the local mill is work ing its men in two crews, one crew working three days and the other two days per week, with the crews re el the following week. Th sawmill runs on a 40-hour basis. The planing mill is operating on a 48-hour basis as business requires it. The Western Pine association, which has the administration of the lumber code, sends out the following informa tion from Portland: Portland,—The production control clause of the Lumber Code officially became effective September 1st in the Western Pine Division upon the an nouncement by David T. Mason, man ager of the Western Pine Association that the association's board of directors have allocated to each concern who wishes to operate a maximum of 525 hours of sawmill operation for Septem J* r ' 0ctol *T and November. This ac b° n was taken following allocation to th ' d ™" b > r , the ,. Lllmb î r , <-X> c • j « • . _ c. . * , . ^ ' od b^n.ng September 1st, This allotment of hours is equiva lent , to approximately 40 hours for 13 weeks; however, in this allotment of total hours there is no limitation upon any concern as to the attribution of its plant operation dur *" ree month period so long as the 525 hours is not exceeded; but it should be fully understood that this allotment of sawmill hours in no W0 y affects the rules relating to max mmm hours for employees, sa ' d ' verse per M-ison Notification will be given, if a change is made bv the Code authority or if it becomes evident later that the total hours may be safely increased or that a decrease is necessary," according to the announcement ^ - TWENTY-ONE LIBBY MOOSE ATTEND BONNERS FERRY MEET Twenty . one memb ers of the Libby Moose lodge t^Jed to Bonners Ferry Sunday t0 attend a dLstrict meetinR of the Moose order. In the "group was the Libby drill team and the Moose band. While at Bonners Ferry, Pauf Schikora was initiated into the first degree and Valmour LcFebvrc into the second. The Libby men report a fine time and a r0 yal welcome Al j, ' Sartori of Spokane, supreme dictator of the order, was present and . spoke . Among other things he spoke j on the work of the Moose order in the : rehabilitation of children and the aged, as reported in the Kootenai Valley Sen tinel. He said that last June 128 child ren were graduated from Moosehcart, w ith the equivalent of a high school education land with vocational and re licious training Fortv of these nunik went to higher^ institutions ofTeaming The salvation of these children from the pits of Jovertv has bee? brought about by a revolving fund furnished by the Moose order The Libby lodge is planning a dis trict meeting to be held here on Sundav October ^ when akmt a hundred Moose will probably be present MISS LAURA RILEY HOSTESS AT CARD PARTY Miss Laura Riley was a delightful hostess to a group of young ladies al her home Saturday night. to gather the group together before many of them left for college. The evening was devoted to cards, three tables being in play. Miss Jean Kienitz captured high score prize and Miss Margaret Fennessy the consolation. Dainty re freshments were served with tahk fa vors for each guest. Guests present were the Misses Carol and Winogene Wood, Isabel and Tf*an Kienitz, Genevieve Veldman, Catherine Orr, Margaret Fennessy, Marcaret Rouse, Frances Keller, Jane LaMunyan, Jeanette Olson, Jean Switzer and Edna Karnes. GIVES LUNCHEON TO HONOR GIRLS LEAVING FOR SCHOOL Miss Catherine Orr Was hostess Tues day noon at a luncheon given for eight young ladies who are to leave soon to resume their studies at various col leges. The table was prettily decorated, with a center piece consisting of a football and with purple and white ribbons extending from it to each plate. Place cards were made of the colors of the different schools to which the girls are about to depart. The affair proved a very pleasant one. Judge J. E. Rockwood of Kalisoell is in Libby today holding court. With him is his reporter, "Sandy" MacDonald. Attorney Chii^-of Kalispell Ls also present. BARKER BUYS TWO PURE-BRED FOXHOUNDS Bob Bakker received this week from ! Lexington, Ky., kennels two purebred foxhound pups, a male and a female. The pups are from two fine strains of hounds and their pedigrees have some j of the best blood known to dog fanciers. I A letter from the kennel proprietor to I Senator J, N. Camden, of Versailles Ky., who had a hand in selecting the j puns for Bakker, says: 1 "Flying Heels,the sire of the dog pup, ! is the leading sire in America both ■ on the bench and in the field. Ken ! Run, the sire of the gyp pup, I sold j for one of the greatest prices I have j shipped a hound for years." Bakker I pects to train the pups for cougar hunt i ing. ex NUGGET PLACER MINE PLANS LARGER OPERATIONS W. H. Logan, who is in charge of op erations at the Nugget Placer mine on Libby creek, states that the plant has been improved during the past weeks, Under present plans it is expected that about 500 yards of gravel will be taken out daily for the next month or two. Albert Re thrum, formerly gravel man for A. R. Douglas, contractor of Kal ispell, has been employed to assist in the work. It is said that lifting of the embargo on gold, which is expected to account for 35 to 50 cents a ton more on the ore, was responsible for reopen ing the project That the Libby Lions club will again give the footbal team of the Libby I high school whole-hearted support was j brought out at the meeting of the club j held Tuesday night at Turner Tavern, j This was the first meeting of the club | since the summer recess and Lion : Welch presided as president for the j first time following the annual election | last fall, and performed all the duties j of the office in his usual able manner. Libby lions Club Reets Again After Summer Recess Will Support High School Football Team As Usual— Interesting Talks Given By Several. - Following the serving of dinner, Carlton Joughin proposed that the club again get back of the football team as it had done in the past. This «opened the question to discussion and Lion j Turner suggested that the club not' only support the regular team but that it take on as a project the equipping ! of the younger boys in the grades with j football material and see that they be given coaching so that they could Icam the fundamentals of football before en-i tering the high school. A number of guests were present, one of whom was Joe Hazen, the new high school coach, who was called on for remarks. Mr. Hazen expressed his appreciation of the hearty support promised the team and said it was not only a very fine but a necessary thing if the bes. work is to be gotten out of the team. In closing he said he had been i n fo otball 11 yea rs, that he had had framing under some of the ouf standing coaches and in that experience had come m contact with high school teams in several of the western slates, "In all that time," said Mr. Hazen, "I have never met a finer hunch of young fellows than we have here in Libbv, They are unusually courteous, are will ing workers and are fine young people." Another guest. Arthur DeSonia, of the eshool faculty, was also called on. He stressed the need of early training if a high class football team is to be developed and promised to help in any way that he could. Paul*Church ex pressed appreciation at being a guest of the club and concurred in the n«"d of early training and of support of the team by the men of the community. County Treasurer Bessey, who pro vided cornet accompaniment for club singingf?), said that when he was playing basketball in high school no thing was appreciated quite so much as hearty support by the town. He thought it a fine thing for the Lions to lend their support to the football squad. E. J. Driear, another guest, said he had traveled around with Libby teams for the past ten years, had greatly enjoyed it, had always found them a fine bunch of boys, and bespoke hearty support for the present, team. Captain DeMer ritt was another guest speaker. "In the army we do not devote all our time to fighting," said Captair* DeMerritt. "We have found it is time very well spent to keep men interested in athletics. Therefore we devote a lot of thought and planning not only to football but to nearly all forms of athletic campeti tion. We have found that the men are much less apt to get into troublesome scrapes if they are interested either in football, basketball, baseball, boxing or some similar sport." The same thing will prove true in the cities and the smaller towns, said the captain. Keep the young men occupied in athletics and there will be fewer of them gath ering in street corner gangs to cause trouble, he said. H. A. Hough spoke briefly but in an interesting way of his visit to the old home in Illinois and a few days at the Chicago fair. The program was closed by a short but able address bv Wil liam Herbert on the NRA. Mr. Herbert said that a peaceful revolution is in progress in the United States, that our form of government has been drasti cally changed for the present at least by consent of the people, and that wholly new methods ip the industrial life of the nation arc being tried out by President Roosevelt. Mr. Herbert bespoke hearty support of the Pres ident "I've been a .life-long republic an," s£id Mr. Herbert "but he has al most made a democrat of me. All of us wish him the greatest success In his i $160,000 of Forestry Money Goes To Yaak Hill Highway A telegram received this morning by E. E. Jacqueth, president of the Libby Commercial club, from Helena states that engineers of the forestry and bureau of public roads in joint conference with the state highway commission have recommended that $160,000 of forestry highway money al lotted to Libby-Troy project be ex pended on the Yaak hill. service on survey THE Tamarack LIBBY SCHOOL NEWS TOLD IN AN INTERESTING MANNER Edited by the JOURNALISM CLASS Ehttnrial I wonder if you parents remember how long and unending seemed your summer vacations, and in comparison, do you realize how quickly now the pages of the calendar are turned. School days are at hand again. To us ,the students, it seems but last week that we were dismissed from our stud ies and homage was paid to the grad uates. Lazy days, with just the proper amount of work thrown in, have made it a long, happy summer; but as lengthy as it has seemed, it has ended all too soon for many of us. Taller, heavier, browner—back we come. A grade higher in elementary ed ucation, we will be one step further toward that highest goal, graduation, Some will come for the first time, un der careful guidance of mothers, older brothers or sisters. They are barely out of the lisping age, yet they are wide eyed and eager to invest world, which is to be their open. The months like years stretch before us, but like the years and months here te this :ster to - ,— ,— t --—, . , , R" ore > ea , W1 pass more quickly than the last. This year the high school library, which b rapidly becoming a moat ira - portant factor in class research, is un der student control, SENIOR HIGH ITEMS Charles Woodworth, a Senior, is in charge and he is being assisted by Mel vin Knutsen,. a Junior. These boys are very competent and ready to assist the students in their studies, FIREMAN—SAVE MY CHILD, The Senior high firemen have organ j zed f or {he com i n g year anc j have made their selections of new members, to re p| ace those lost hv graduation, Veldman, Harry Karnes, Hamil ton Houeh, Archie Minde, and Paul Gehr ke ha vg .been... selected. for mera in the orf?anization . They will talu , chßrfre of the fire drin in the high , . of u nc Y P eo P[ e storing Libby High. Our -"-hool can be a happy place in which do ou " 7° rk ' lf everyone does his share and follows the rules and tra ditions. We know each and every one of you will be glad to do this. So here's to you. school building. WELCOME FRESHMAN CLASS! We are glad to see such a fine group re Raymond Kujawa, IMPORTANT MEN WORKING TO PROTECT LOAN STOCKHOLDERS THE KEYHOLE REPORTER. the erstwhile model husband, amazed the reporter, in chemistry leb., by exhibiting a super human strength in "man-handling glassware." Margaret Weller has taken up knit ting since Cliff Brown has joined the C. C. C, Mrs. Deissner embarrassedly repeating (Continued on page 5) W. G. Seims returned Monday from a visit lo Salt Lake City where he con ferred with officers of the Western Loan and Building company regarding its possible reorganization, after having been taken over by the Utah banking department. Mr. Seims states that a number of important and powerful men have organized a stockholders' committee ana are watching carefully that the interests of all stockholders are protected in whatever plan of organization is worked out. Some of these men have as high as $100,000 to $150,000 n the company. Mr. Seims says there is no hint of anything dishonest in the past management of the com pany, that every dollar can be legally accounted for, and that the present con dition of the company is simply due to the depression. Wednesday papers had an item stat ing that John A. Malia, Utah bank commissioner, has dhnounced appoint ment of a commission, representative of all interests, to complete a plan for reorganization of the company. endeavors." C. S. Webb, Harold Miller and C. S. Christensen were who took part in the discussions. The club voted to send a framed picture of treed cougars to each of tw r o former enthusiastic officers of the club who had left the city this summer, R, N. Russell and Lloyd Williamson, as an aopreciation of the good work they had done. It was also voted to hold the regular dinners hereafter at others 6 o'clock, nearly completed. If this joint recom mendation is promptly approved, thé Yaak hill project can be advertised for letting in about a month. The meeting at Helena was held Tuesday and Wed nesday. From information received here, it is believed the Kootenai Falls project wll be taken care of later under plane that are being worked out. jSmokiog Ban lo Forests To Be Lifted Restriction Is Removed On and After Sep tember 15. 27 MAN CAUSED FIRES THIS YEAS Due to recent rains the forest serv ice will, on September 15, remove thm restrictions pertaining to smoking up on national forest land. C. S. Webb, local forest supervisor, states that it is the desire of the forest service to maintain unusual restrictions only for such time as seems most essential, and while there may be some rather dry weather this fall, it is felt the cooper ation of local people will be given in being careful with their smokes while in the forests. It may be interesting to know that for 1933 to date the local forest service haa handled 56 fires. Of the 56, there were 27 man caused and 29 caused by light ning. Of the 27 man caused, there were 18 caused by smokers. The oth er one-third were caused by lumbering', railroads and debris burning, there not being a single camp fire left burning this year. The fact that two-thirds o£ all man caused fires on the Kootenai forest this year were caused by smok ers indicates a need for regulation smoking in the woods during dry tiroes. Without any regulation the number might have been far greater. Mr. Webb over states that excellent operation in fire prevention has been given by the public and local people this season and it is greatly appreci ated by the forest service. It is also a pleasure to know we have incurred very few additional blackened co area* in this locality during the current season. Says Many Hoot Regulations Local Sportsmen Desire Open Seas««* On Birds, States E. M. Boyes. "There's a lot of kicking being done by the sportsmen of this section on the recent ruling by the state fish and game commission regarding the open and closed season on birds," said E, M. Boyes of Libby, member of the board of the State Sportmen's association. "They are, not at all satisfied with the ruling of the association as it affects Lincoln county and dozens of them are coming to me and kicking about it." "According to the ruling," continued Boyes, "Lincoln county is opened to Hungarian partridges of either sex but closed to Chinese and Mongolian pheasants. We have no Chinese or Mongolian pheasants so that does not apply here. There are a few Hungarians in the Northern part of the county. They are just getting nicely established there and I think it is verv foolish to open the season on them.^ They ought to be given more time to multiply. "Local sportsmen are mostly affect ed, however, by the season remaining closed on upland birds; that is, on blue grouse, native pheasants and fool hens, A lot of us feel that the season should have been opened on these birds. Un der a closed ruling, there is bound to be more or less illegal hunting and probably just as many birds will be killed as though the season had been opened. The man who hunts illegally places no limit on the number he gets and that,-of course, results in a greater slaughter of the birds. I feel that there should have been an open season in Lincoln county on upland birds." Appointed Guardian. The will of the late Vic Riley, re cently killed in an airplane crash, was filed for probate in Kalispell this week. The will names Jean Riley of Libby executor of the estate and guardian of the deceased's young son. The estate was appraised at $15,250, $4,250 was real estate. of which The Libby Woman's Club announces a rummage sale to be held on Septem her 27, from 8:30 to 5:30 o'clock. The Hub room will be open on September 26 from I to 6 p. m.. for the reception of donations. The club solicits anything one may have suitable for a rummage sale, whether or not one is a member of the club. Remember the dates. Will Hold Rummage Sale.