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OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY OF RED LODGE
CARBON COUNTY NEWS
VOL. XVIII. No. 24
RED LODGE DAILY NEWS
VOL. 5, NO. 42.
RED LODGE, CARBON COUNTY, MONTANA,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1941
We Sorta Had a Sneaking Suspicion
RED LODGE IS HEAVEN!
I Sally Rand Says So; It Must Be True
We've always suspected it!
And now we know!
This is heaven!
On no less an authority than
Sally Rand, internationally famous
fan and bubble dancer appearing at
the Midland Empire Fair at Bil
lings this week, the mountainous
Red Lodge country is "simply
heaven!"
And coming from Sally, this
statement may be accepted as the
bare facts.
interview over KGHL
Wednesday evening, Miss Rand
changed the fan-dancing topic by
breathing soulfully;
"I've just returned from Heav
In an
en!
She then went on to tell how she
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
was a
Greenough and family about six.
miles south of here the night be
fore, was entranced by the beau
tiful mountain scenery. "I've never
seen anything so lovely," she ex
claimed.
Adding to the celestial atmos
phere, she said, was a heavenly
country breakfast concocted by
Mrs. Greenough Wednesday morn
ing. She then expanded for the
next five minutes or so about the
majestic scenery, and the peace
and quiet it engendered.
So don your white robes, citizens,
and act the role.
There no longer can be any
question about it.
This is Heaven!
Sally, who looks like an angel,
should know!
Fromberg Woman
Succumbs Friday
Mrs. Oda R. Russell, 41, of
Fromberg succumbed at a Billings
hospital Friday after an illness of
two months.
Bom at Osakis, Minn., on March
30, 1900, Mrs. Russell lived at Bis
marck, N. D., before moving to
Montana in 1935.
She is survived by the widower,
Norman J. Russell, a son by a
former marriage, Joseph A. La
Mere of Billings, her mother, Mrs.
Carrie Clarno of Minneapolis, three
sisters and two brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Kuyala of
Boyd are parents of a six and
three-quarters pound son bom at
Joliet Thursday morning.
COMMISSIONERS FIX NEW FISCAL
YEAR LEVY SAME AS LAST YEAR
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The same county levy last year
—33.30 mills— has been approved
in the board of commissioners bud
get for the year ending June 30,
1942, and were placed on the tax
books Monday it was announced
Friday by George McDonald,
county clerk and recorder.
While the general fund in the
budget was reduced from $84,058
to $80,689, the total budget is ap
proximately $15,000 more this year
due largely to poor debt reduction
of $13,639.08 not on last year's
estimate. Budget for the poor
fund was increased from $37,997
to $44,618.
In order to secure state grants
and aid for the poor fund the com
missioners voted a one mill levy
to pay off the floating poor indebt
edness.
The total budget is $279,751.58
as compared to $264,331.75 last
year. This year's budget is divided
as follows, the amount and mill
levy:
General fund $80,689, 7.80 mills;
Road fund $51,734, 5 mills; Bridge
fund $13,475, 2 mills; Poor fund
$44,618, 6 mills; Interest & Sink
ing fund $34,571.50, 5 mills; Nox
ious weed fund $11,775, 1.50 mills;
Emergency relief $29,250, 5 mills,
and Poor debt reduction $13,639.08,
1 mill.
LAST WEEKS WEATHER
Through courtesy of the Mon
tana Power Company we will
print each week the daily high
and law temperature readings
of the preceding week.
DATE
Aug. 3 ...
Aug. 4 ...
Aug. 5 ...
Aug. 6 ...
Aug. 7 ....
Aug. 8 ....
Aug. 9 _.
HIGH LOW
.90
52
.92
50
.93
65
.87
53
.87 57
..87
50
.86
50
GREENOUGHS CAPTURE
BRONC HONORS AT
GREAT FALLS FAIR
Proud as a Peacock and just
ly so is Ben (Packsaddle Ben)
Greenough, whose famous rid
ing children stole the show at
the North Montana State fair
rodeo at Great Falls last week.
Compet ing against the
world's best cowpokes. Blazin'
Bill copped top honors by mast
ering every horse he rode dur
ing the week, thus lending em
phasis to the belief general
hereabouts that Bill is just
about the last word in bronc
handling. To further stamp the
Greenough name indelibly in
the minds of rodeo fans, Turk,
Bill's older brother, took second
honors for the week, while the
ridin' Greenough sisters, Alice
and Margie, won plaudits with
their exhibition riding.
Bill toted home with him Sun
day prize money totaling about
$200, a $150 saddle and a nice
wrist watch to compensate him
for his sensational riding.
1942 AAA SETUP
TO BE SIMPLIFIED
Insuring next year's wheat
crop and paying premiums under
the Federal Crop Insurance corp
oration's 1942 program will be
much less complicated than form
erly," Chairman Roy E. Reams of
the Carbon county Agricultural
Conservation association announc
ed today.
Chairman Reams, Oneita B.
Vaught, and Lillian McCready last
week attended a meeting at Col
umbus where Ed Coates of the
Montana Triple-A office at Boze
man explained four major changes
in this year's insurance. Repre
sentatives from Stillwater also at
tended the meeting.
' "The principal change under the
1942 program," Chairman Reams
states, "is provision for a com
modity note plan for payment of
premiums. Other changes are that
owners and operators who insure
one farm in a county must insure
all their farms in that county, and
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! John Tunnicliff
Furnishes Stock
At Shelby Show
John Tunnicliff, prominent Car
bon county rancher who furnished
livestock for the excellent Red
Lodge rodeo this year, is rodeo
contractor and arena director for
the Greater Marias Fair and Rodeo
at Shelby, Aug. 22-23-24, accord
ing to an announcement made here
this week.
The Shelby rodeo is one of the
outstanding rodeos in the North
west and the selection of Mr. Tun
nicliff's stock bears testimonial to
his prominence in rodeo affairs.
The Shelby show includes, be
sides the daily rodeo, a nightly re
vue, fireworks, carnival, attend
ance awards, pet and doll parade
and educational exhibits.
Butte. They were aceo m p.uied as
far as Butte by Mrs. Lizzie John
Bridger Man's
Mother is Dead
Word has been received here of
the death in a Lubbock, Texas,
hospital August 4 of Mrs. Laura C.
Harrison, 91, mother of H. H. Har
rison of Bridger and once a resi
dent of that city. Death followed a
fall at her home, as the result of
which she sustained a broken hip,
fractured leg, and other injuries.
Besides the son at Bridger, another
son and a daughter survive.
After a visit with relatives and
friends here, Mr. and Mrs. Toivi
Teini and daughter, Helen, left
Tuesday morning for their home
at Oakland, Cal., with stops en
route at Great Falls, Helena and
son. .
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THE LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD
In the August 6 issue of the Meagher County News
hred J. Ward, a member of the Liquor Control Board,
writes his version of the brokerage system in Montana en
titled "The Brokers May Stay Broke.
The only trouble with Fred's explanation is that he
doesn't tell all the story.
True, there has been a lot of gossip about the broker
age business, but Mr. Ward fails to tell in his editorial
that the Montana Liquor Board is not buying its whiskey
any cheaper direct from the distilleries than they would
if they bought it through a brokerage house or represent
ative.
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It is estimated,
good authority, that the brokerage
tees on Montana purchases would amount to about $300,
000 a year if we had a brokerage system . . . and that
does not mean that it has to be a dishonest system; it can
be just as legitimate as a grocery brokerage handling can
ned peas, beans, etc., if the Montana Liquor Board is com
petent to select brokerage houses or representatives as
honest as Mr. Ward
Liquor Board are.
on
says the members of the present
So that the people may understand that this $300,000
does not come out of the patrons of the Liquor Stores
the State of Montana, all the big distilleries have a basic
price, which includes the selling cost, and in the selling
cost is a brokerage fee. When Montana does not have a
brokerage system, this money either stays in the hands of
the distillery or is paid out to some other system, as you
cannot buy a bottle of whiskey cheaper in Kentucky than
you can in Montana, except as to the difference in the
freight rate.
or
Undoubtedly, there were a lot of people who made
application for brokerage who should not have been con
sidered, and undoubtedly, there were others who should
have been considered. The Liquor Board ought to be cap
able of sifting the wheat from the chaff.
There is no
excuse whatsoever for buying whiskey
that will not sell or that is not of a good quality if the
Board or the Administrator is competent to handle the
business of the Board as intended under law. Every order
given to a distillery should have a clause compelling the
distillery to reimburse the state or take up any whiskey,
wine, gin, etc. that does not sell. So-called "Bargain Sales''
are inexcusable.
.1 do not agree with the Board that they and the Ad
ministrator are the only honest people in Montana.
I do not agree that to have a brokerage astern will
create a liquor ring, nor do I agree that everyone who
made an application as a broker or a representative is
dishonest.
Since when did it become a crime for anyone to try
secure a position or make money legitimately?
Since when did it become a crime for anyone living
Montana to represent a distillery when it costs the
people of Montana or the State of Montana nothing?
As explained before, the distilleries selling liquors,
etc. to monopoly states have a set price in which is in
cluded an advertising and brokerage or selling cost.
What has become of the so-called "advertising cam
paign in Montana? I suppose the next thing we hear will
that that would be a graft. At any rate, the newspapers,
are getting any of this busi
ness to speak of, notwithstanding the fact that they were
promised that the brokerage money would be spent in
advertising.
Ihis editorial is not intended as a controversial mat
ter, but is only written to present the other side of the
question, which Mr. Ward failed to do.
CONFUSING THE ISSUE
Blinded by the avid belief that the president can do
wrong, Senator James E. Murray's inability to see the
real danger confronting America—the imminence of war
under administration guidance—was viciously displayed
in a speech he made at Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday night.
Murray's talk—packed full of hate and vituperation
—came close to highly unwarranted libel when he accused
the non-interventionists of defense obstruction. It
strange that Murray, a member of the senate these
no
seems
many
years, should have such a puny knowledge of the real
facts.
Such paucity of knowledge can only be attributed to
love for the administration above that for the welfare of
his country, which would be gravely menaced in the event
of actual participation in a foreign war, or by a hate for
Wheeler and his colleagues of such intensity as to warp his
better judgment.
Never once have any of the non-interventionists sug
gested that we grow lax on defense. In fact, the opposite
is true. All of those opposed to intervention have been
making repeated pleas these last several years to redouble
defense efforts FOR AMERICA. They do not want us to
arm FOR AGGRESSION, which has been the dangerous
policy of the administration. If Mr. Murray means that
the non-interventionist is against sending soldiers and
sailors to China or any other foreign land to perpetuate
a war of greed, he is eminently correct. But if that is what
he meant he should have said so and not confused the
issue by charging defense obstruction.
In our opinion if we would stop sending vital war
materials to Russia so that our own soldiers could train
with guns instead of sticks, our defense situation would be
materially enhanced.
Mr. Murray knows as well as the next man that this
nation is in no danger of attack as long as we concentrate
™ defense at home. The big danger would be going to
war m Europe or Asia with the subsequent aftermath of
chaos, disillusion and economic breakdown at home.
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SUN-TANNED LIQUOR
BOARD RETURNS HOME
According to an A. P. dis
patch, the Montana Liquor Con ;
trol Board has safely returned
from Sun Valley.
We are glad, and hope the
boys enjoyed themselves. A nice
vacation and sun-tan at some
body's expense.
While nothing tangible
reported gained, the meeting
afforded at least one of Mon
tana's delegation some publi.
city, with the election of Ray L.
Wahl as executive secretary of
the western group of liquor
control boards and administra
tors.
Nothing was said about
complishing anything on trans
portation costs or cutting down
the Federal tax on whiskey.
Maybe the boards decided they
couldn't do much about them.
Just what this meeting
accomplish for the benefit of
Montana taxpayers has not been
explained.
was
ac
can
ASK PEOPLE TO
REGISTER NOW
Mr. Montana Citizen, what did
you do while working your way
through school or college ? What is
your hobby ? Besides the work you
are doing for a living at this time,
are you a pretty good radio me
chanic, automobile mechanic, tele
type operator, cat driver?
These are some of the questions
that will be put to every farmer,
professional man, city, county state
and federal employee in Montana
during the first week of Septem
ber.
Or, if you are Mrs. Montana and
you have been a registered nurse
and were missed in the survey
conducted last January by the
Montana Nursing board, you are
requested to also fill out a blank.
. Eevi y county defense commis
sion i,n Montana is getting the
decks ( cleared off so they will be
able tb complete the work on this
registration during the week of
September 1 to 6. If you live in a
town or city other than the county
seat, you can volunteer to help)auto
with this work in your locality by
contacting your county defense
commission. pl
The registration blanks will be
in the hands of the county com
missions within the next few days
along with instructions sheets that
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Speed Plans for
Show at Broadus
Preparations for Tom Gilmore's
Wild West show that will be stag
ed in Broadus on Saturday and
Sunday, August 23 and 24, are go
ing forward at top speed and
erything will be in readiness for
the big show when the gates swing
open on Saturday morning. Tom
plans to have his numerous events
go off in clock like order and the
8 chutes will be a hive of activity.
The entry fees paid by the per
formers in the wild west show will
again be added to the purses of
fered by Tom Gilmore to make this
show one of the most profitable in
the country for the contestants,
Last year the total prize and purse
money paid out by Tom Gilmore
to those who competed in the var
ious events was $1,366.50 which
made this one of the high purse,
shows of the whole country.
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Ventura, Calif,, Newspaper Columnist
Describes Majestic Red Lodge Road
Editor Note:—The following
column by Duncan Ellsworth
Clark appeared recently in the
Ventura (Cal.) Star Free Press
and was apparently written just
as Dr. Clark had traversed the
Red Lodge HIGHroad. It will
doubtedly be of interest to our
readers.
RED LODGE, Mont.—.Swinging
along in the early dawn through
this imperial state, dropping con
tinually to lower levels from the
majestic highlands to the west.
Successively, the higher ridges
subside into the foothills, which in
turn lose their ruggedness flatten
ing out in undulating swells. Pro
gressively, too, the lush greenness
of the elevated plateaus disappears
into the deepening aridity of the
vast plains to the eastward, where
earth and sky fuse into an indis
tinguishable horizon.
FROM THE HEIGHTS
By all odds, the climb up and
down over the Beartooth moun
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CURRENT CITY LEVY IS
UNCHANGED AT 30 MILLS
Aldermen Approve Resolution Establishing Same Assess
ment as Last Year; Dr. E. M. Adams Reports No
Contagious Diseases in City
Red Lodge's mill levy for the current fiscal year end
ing June 30th, 1942 remains unchanged as against the
previous year, with the city council Tuesday night approv
ing a resolution levying 30 mills.
Amount to be raised in the current budget approved
at the meeting is $44,700.
TWO KILLED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
Coroner Ross G. Martin stated
Monday an inquest will be held "as
soon as feasible" into the car ac
cident five miles north of here
Sunday afternoon which resulted
in the instantaneous death of
Charley Thayer, 43, of Billings and
in the death at a local hospital
Sunday night of Harry Douglas,
36, of Englewood, Col., a suburb
of Denver.
Four others riding in the open
coupe and rumble seat compart
ment were injured. They are Eddie
Britton of Englewood, who with
Douglas was visiting at the Thay
er home, Mrs. Thayer, Emma Web
ber and Shirley Gwynne, all of
Billings. Miss Webber sustained a
broken pelvis and the others sur
viving received severe contusions
and bruises, none critically.
The mishap occurred at about 4
p. m. when the party was return
ing home from a visit to Red
Lodge.
Both Thayer and Douglas sus
tained skull fractures and internal
injuries. Thayer was driver of the
car which was badly smashed as
skidded off the highway and
rolled over several times.
Occupants of the car said Mr.
and Mrs. Thayer and Britton were j
riding in the front seat and the
others in the rumble seat when the
struck a smooth stretch of
highway made slippery by rain.
Mr. Thayer was formerly em
oyed by * the Billings Laundry |
company. He was born May 6,
1898, in LaPas, Ind., and married
Miss Hilda Gottwig in Red Lodge
May 15, 1920. He had also worked
a miner in Butte.
Surviving, in addition to the
widow, are two sisters, Mrs. Ed
ward Harrison of Kansas City, Mo.,
Mrs. John Meyers of Dallas,
Texas.
Mr. Douglas went to Billings re
cently from Englewood. He was
employed by the O'Malley Lumber
Company. A daughter, 14, sur
vives.
Kovach Ininr#>rl
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In Car Mishap
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City police termed "unavoidable"
a car mishap here Sunday evening
which resulted in the injury of Rad
Kovach, Red Lodge. Kovach sus
tained skull lacerations and bruised
back when he was struck by a car
driven by Mrs. Sid Armitage of
Billings. The accident occurred at
7 p. m. on the corner of 15th Street
and Broadway where Kovach was
crossing the street. Kovach was
taken to his home where he is con
valescing.
tains where the comers of Wyom
mg and Montana meet, is the most
startling, breath-taking, pictur
esque and awe-inspiring trip we
have ever had. In the evening
calm the effect was thrilling, as
the declining sun nodded farewell
from behind prodigious peaks,
wrapped in purpled mists and
etched with clinging snow. No
where else have we seen such an
excellent high gear road for so
many enchanting miles through
such stupendous scenery. Comes
the affirmative answer to the
poet's question, "Have you gazed
on naked grandeur where there's
nothing else to gaze on?"
UNRIVALED
For 60 miles engineering skill
has piled curve on curve, switch
back on switchback. Such
monplace expressions as hairpin
curve, corkscrew turn and horse
shoe bend mean nothing on this
superb highway. The climb to the
com
• The levy is divided as follows:
general fund, 11 mills; street and
alley, three mills; fire funds, four
mills; library fund, two mills; gar
bage fund, one and one-half mills;
cemetery fund, one mill; sinking
fund for water bonds, three mills;
sinking funds for refunding bonds,
three mills, and interest for re
funding bonds, one and one-half
mills.
Dr. E. M. Adams, city health of
, Ucer, reported that there were no
I contagious diseases
There were 35 births in June as
compared with six deaths, and in
July there were 31 births as again
st eight deaths, he said.
reported.
CHURCH NOTES
ANNIVERSARY
Members of the St. John Evang
elical Lutheran congregation of
Belfry commemorated the 20th
niversary of the founding of the
church Sunday with special serv
ices throughout the day.
Tim congregation was organized
on Uec. 28, 1920 by the Rev. H. T.
Rauh of Billings. Charter members
^ ere David Hergenrider, Sr., Fred
H ei 'g e n™er, Daniel Nauman, Alex
. Heni 7 r Rutscher, Phillip
Schreiner, Karl Ungefug John
Ungefug Alex Wegner and Carl
Wmterholler. There are appreci
ma1 ^ lu D ^ w a £ d l al ? d ] n * b * he
£ hurch ' ^ he R . ev - Ludwi S has
bee A n P astor smee 1937
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Gesell of Parshall, N. D., officiated
\ tbe anniversary services assist
J b J * ev ' u Ladw f T and ^e Rev.
H ' f Vomh °f f of Laurel. Four
f rvi f s held throughout the
day, two ,n the morning, one m the
afternoon and one at night. A
featare of the da { s activities was
dinner served by ladies of the
^ re gation in the Belfry high
schocl ^"asium.
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NEW TEACHER IS
ELECTED HERE
H. B. Field, superintendent of
the city schools, Saturday announ
ced the board of district No. 1 has
hired Petronella Ferrando, daugh
ter of Mrs. Peter Ferrando of Red
Lodge, as instructor to replace
Miss Betty O'Connor, resigned.
Miss Ferrando will teach depart
mental English in grades 6-7-8 at
the Roosevelt school.
The new instructor is a graduate
of Red Lodge city schools and was
an honor graduate of Carbon Coun
ty high school and of St. Gather
ine's college at St. Paul, Minn. She^
took graduate work at the Univer
sity of Southern California and for
the past two and one-half years
has taught in the San Diego, Cal.,
schools.
summit of Beartooth pass, 11,000
feet, and the rapid descent is ' ac
complished smoothly with a grade
of never more than 5*4 percent,
Round and round the driver fol
* ows radial sweeps which, some
bow > are noyer disturbing but al
" a ys uplifting, like gentle dips
^ blcb rock ' a -bye the
ri er '
rear seat
PANORAMA
With such a highway the scenic
effects are doubly delightful, and
the Beartooth range is loaded with
scenery. Granite peak, 12,850 feet,
the highest point in Montana,
looms to the heavens, its
ly less imposing spurs throwing
the skyline into heights and depths.
Upthrust giants, glacier-gouged,
defiantly battling the storms of
ages. Gloom-buried canyons, sheer
sided and seemingly bottomless.
Impending cliffs where a single
touch, it appears, would topple
them into the echoing chasms.
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