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Volume XXlIi.
School Term To
Begin Sept. 8;
More To Enroll
The Browning Public School bell,
well rested after its long summer
vacation, will announce the open
.ng of school at 8:30 a. m. on Tues
day, September Bth, 1953.
Contrary to a host of conflicting
rumors, school will not start aany
earlier. Tuesday after Labor Day
has long been the tradidional day
for the beginning of school, and the
additional days of vacation will al
low for the completion of repair and
renovation of the school building.
Ten class rooms wil be painted
and considerable repair and remod
elling of of various rooms will add
to the attractiveness of the school.
It is to be hoped that enough of
the new building will be completed
so that the High School can "be
housed in its own building. Work
has not progressed as rapidly as
first anticipated ,and it will be some
time before the entire building will
be utilized.
Five class rooms in the element
ary grade will be equipped with new
desks at a cost of SI2OO per room.
Additional new texts and visual* aid
equipment wil add to the effective
ness of instruction.
Indications are that enrollment
will be increased over last year’s
record high. With few excep
tions all positions on the faculty
have been filled.
Kindergarten will again follow the
the half-day sessions, and parents
having a preference for morning or
afternoon instruction may make
their wishes known.
Drivers who can meet the quali
fications as established by the State
Department of Public Instruction
for the operation of school buses
may send their applications to the
Board of Trustees, School District
No. 9, Browning, Montana. In ad
dition to certain physical require
ments, successfful applicants must
furnish before the end of 1953 a
First Aid certificate. Applications
should be sent to the Board of Trus
tees before September 1, 1953.
Miss Mary Merchant
Bride of John C. Welch
The marriage of Miss Mary Mer
chant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Merchant, to John Carl
Welch was solemnized at a nuptial
mass at the Church of the Little
Flower in Browning on Tuesday,
August 4th, at 9:00 A. M.,the Rev.
Fr. A. M. D. Gillen officiating.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. Attendants were
Miss Thelma/sister of the bride, as
bridesmaid, and Rolland Kennerly
as best man.
Vocal solos, “Ave Maria” and“On
Fhis Day, O Beautiful Mother,”
were sung by Miss Genevieve Mar
quez, with Mrs. James Leadbetter
as organist.
The bride wore a blue traveling
suit, with pocket trimmings of blue
and white check. Her corsage was
red roses. She carried a white
Bible. .
Following the ceremony a recep
tion was was given at the home of
the groom’s grandmother, Mrs.
Clara Schmidt. Later that day the
newlyweds left on a week’s wedding
trip through various parts of Mon
tana. They are now at home in the
Desßosier apartments.
The bride and groom are both
graduates of the Browning high
school, being members of this year’s
graduating class. The groom is a
dental assistant at the Blackfeet
Hospital, following eventually fol
lowing miliary service to take up
the study of dentistry.
CATTLE POOL BIDS TO BE
OPENED MONDAY, AUGUST 17
Bids will be openedd on Monday,
August 17, 1953, at 2:00 o’clock P. M.
on 6,301 head of cattle listed in the
Annual Blackfeet Cattle Pool. In
cluded in the listing are 3190 head
of steer calves, 1838 head of heifer
calves, 828 yearling steers, and 445
head of yearling heifers.
All operators listing cattle are
urged to attend the opening of the
bids at the Agency barracks build
ing, as the final contracts will be
drown up and the date of delivery
will be set at that time.
For what avail, the plow or sail, or land or life, if Freedom fail.”
LIGHTNING STRIKES
Just as the Bill Goss family were
comfortably seated in their living
room of their apartment home in
the Hagerty Hotel last Sunday af
ternoon. a bolt of lightning struck
the chimney and found a ground in
the cement floor in the center of the
room. .
At the very moment, Bill was en
gaged with a magazine story cover
ing a sensational feature as to Rus
sia’s possession of the H-bomb.
The lightning apparently con
tacted two iron rods suspended for
some distance down the chimney,
after the fashion of the old electric
storm rods that used to adorn homes
of by-gone years.
Coming down the chimney, the
bolt knocked the stove-pipe to the
floor and hit the electric light drop,
from there shooting downward to
the cement floor. The floor cover
ing included a layer of newspapers
over which was spread two layers of
linoleum. In its freakish actions,
the bolt laid bare a spot in the ce
ment fully three feet square, the
linoleum standing up like a rim
about the cement.
Mr. and Mrs. Goss for several
minutes were stunned, the interior
of the room being darkened by the
stove soot. Mr. Goss also said there
was an odor of sulpur in the room.
‘‘That was bad enough,” said Bill.
‘ That H-bomb must be hell.”
SENATOR MANSFIELD MAY
VISIT BROWNING NEXT WEEK
Senator Mike Mansfield returned
to Montana soon after the adjourn
ment of Congress last week, and is
making a tour of the state, contact
ing his constituents, and has been
invited to stop in Browning .
While direct word from the sen
ator had not been received here at
the time of going to press, it felt
that he is almost certain to make a
stop here, as he is scheduled to
speak at a meeting in Kalispell next
week, and will be passing through
Browning on his way to that city.
The following press dispatch was
run in the daily papers concerning
Manssfield’s return to the state:
Butte—Sen. Mike Mansfielda ar
rived here Saturday from Washing
ton, D. C., and said he plans an ex
tensive tour of the state to find out
what Montanans are thinking about.
Montana’s junior senator said he
would talk to the Anaconda Smel
termen’s Union during a celebra
tion in that city. Monday he will
be in Billings for speaking engage
ments, and then he will tour the
eastern and northern sections of the
date.
The senator will address the Mon
tana Bar Association in Great Falls
August 14, and will speak to the
Montana State Federation of Labor
convention in Kalispell on Aug. 18.
SENATOR MURRAY URGES
VETO OF INDIAN BILL
Washington—Sen. James E. Mur
ray (D.-Mont) Wednesday urged
President Eisenhower to veto a bill
that would give states discretion
ary power to assert jurisdiction over
criminal and civil cases on Indian
reservations.
Murray telegraphed Eisenhower
at his Denver vacation headquarters
that Indians in Montana\arc “unan
imous” in opposition to the measure
passed during the final days of the
congressional session. He said the
federal government would be remiss
if it allows the transfer of jurisdic
tion to the states “withhold consent
>f the Indian tribes affected.”
As originally drafted, the bill ap
plied to specific tribes that favored
the transfer of jurisdiction to cer
tain slates. As finally approved the
bill would allow all states to claim
jurisdiction.
PADDY IS DOING ALL RIGHT
Visitors at the Great Falls fair
from Browning last week report
laving seen Paddy, the sponsor
and promoter of the “collosal” In
dian celebration hero a few weeks
igo. and who landed in jail for a
brief stay, operating a concession
on the Midway, and apparently do
ing a thriving business.
When he was released from the
jail in Cut Bank, Paddy made sol
emn promises that he would do his
best to locate his partner who mys
teriously disappeared with the cash
on the night of the last day of the
celebration, and pay up several hun
dred dollars of debts contracted
locally. So far, the creditors have
had no direct word from Paddy, but
it may be of some comfort to learn
that he is stll operating, and is pre
sumably more or less a going con
cern.
Browning, Glacier County, Montana Friday, August 14, 1953
Browning Jr. Fair Opened Yesterday
LOCALJFA WINNERS
Several members of the Brown
ing Chapter of Future Farmers of
America have returned from two
succesful trips to fairs.
They first went to the Marias fair
at Shelby, and immediately after
wards to the Noreh Montana fair at
Great Falls.
At both these fairs they displayed
the model farmstead that they had
built, to show the proper wiring for
the farm home and buildings. This
rather elaborate model and its ac
companying display boards was
worked out by a large number of
boys in the Chapter, including the
Corkins brothers, Ken nd Gary, Don
Dubray, Leland Thomas, Mitchell
Runningcrane. This display took
first prize at both fairs as a booth
exhibit.
In addition the Chapter showed
usual variety of farm shop projects.
They also received several blue and
red ribbons on forage samples taken
from the Chapter test plot.
At the Marias fair they also dis
played their new and rather out
standing collection of various grain,
forage, noxious weeds and range
grass samples. While this type of
display is not new, the Chapter’s
present collection is outstanding
and somewhat unusual in that it is
all shown in special glass covered
boxes known as Ricker mounts.
This type of mount permits the
samples to be handled for study pur
poses without injury, loss of color,
or other injury.
At the Great Falls fair the Chap
ter was surprised and delighted to
finish fourth in the Livestock judg
ing contest. This spring the Chap
ter graduated its entire livestock
judging team, and therefore enter
ed this contest with a “green” soph
more group, and then due to haying
two of this team ccould not attend.
Hugo Johnson had to pick up two
other boys who had had no compet
itive experience. These two Future
Farmers were Ed Miles and Leon
ard Fontaine.
All in all the Chapter came out of
these two fairs with a large number
of place ribbons and about $l5O in
prize money. Because of the dis
tances involved, the Chapter made
no attempt to enter any livestock
at either fair. All this prize-win
ning material, as well as some prize
winning livestock, will be on display
at the Browning Junior Fair this
week.
BIG OIL DEAL PENDING
Rumors of a big oil deal, which
is expected to result in the devel
opment of a large acreage of Moun
tain front leases, has been in circu
lation this week. More details may
be available next week.
No Early Tax Reduction Now Expected
Washington—Treasury and con
gressional leaders say: Don’t look
look for any appreciable cut in gov
ernment spending this year as a re
sult of the Korean truce.
The picture could be different in
the second half of 1954. If there is
peace then, even a shaky peace, con
gress can be expected to trim de
fense spending below present levels
How much is any body’s guess.
But the reduction won’t carry the
defense budget back to where it was
before the Korean war.
Assistant Defense Secretary Wil
son J. McNeil predicts that the de
fense spending can be cut only sl,-
000.000,000 in the next 12 months
even if things settle down and the
truce is firm.
This would drop defense spending
to about $42,200,000,000 in the fiscal
year.
But even the anticipated defense
spending cut may be absorbed in
the next 12 or 18 months by costs
of rehabilitating Korea and building
up the Republic of Korea’s army.
The administration has already
been given authority to spend $2,000
000,000 out of defense funds on re
habilitation.
Treasury Secretary George M.
Humphrey, who vainly sought from
Congress an increase in the national
debt limit, promises that the gov
ernment will cut expenses “every
day, every week, and every month
during the year.” But it hasn’t
got much leeway in what Congress
ordered spent.
The outlook for fiscal 1955 de
pends on what kind of a “peace”
is achieved in Korea. Chairman
John Taber (R-N.Y.) of the house
appropriations committee, leader of
MOVIE FIRM COMPLETES
WORK ON PARK PICTURE
West Glacier.—Two weeks of pic
ture making by RKO studios in
Glacier Park was completed this
week with most of the cast leaving
from Cut Bank by air Sunday.
Stars on location in Glacier from
July 20 through August 2 were Vic
tor Mature, William Bendix, Piper
Laurie, Vincent Price and Betta St.
John with Steve Darrell, Walter
Reed and Nat Dennis in major sup
porting roles.
Three additional weeks of in
terior scenes are scheduled in Cali
fornia for the production that is
scheduled to cost more than SI,OOO
-to produce. It is being filmed in
technicolor, 3D and for wide screen
projection.
There is a detective story plot
along with what has been termed
as the first attempt by Hollywood
to tell a story of a National Park
Service ranger.
Producer is Irwin Allen, with
Louis King as director.
Called the “Glacier Story” here,
release name of the production has
also been referred to as “Stranger
in Paradise.”
The Los Angeles Times July 28 in
“That was bad enough,” said Bill,
the Edwin Schallert drama column
called the picture “Rangers of the
North.” Schallert also told of Mrs.
Victor Mature and their son, Mike.
12. having bit parts in the produc
tion. The trip to Glacier was a
promised vacation for them.
SECRETARY MONTANA PRESS
ASSOCIATION VISITS HERE
Miss Dorothy Johnson, secretary
of the Montana Press Association,
was a Browning visitor Thursday
afternoon, and welcome caller at
The Chief office. She was on her
way to East Glacier to make final
arrangements for holding the state
annual meeting of the Association
at the big hotel over the Labor Day
week-end.
Miss Johnson took over the work
of secretary of the Press Association
some time ago. and is rendering an
outstanding service to the news
papers of the state. She is a writer
and author of national fame, hav
ing edited several women’s maga
zines in the east, and is currently
completing a new book, which will
be published early in the new year.
She also writes an interesting col
umn each Sunday in the “Montana
Parade” section of the Great Falls
Tribune..
The annual meeting of the Press
Association at East Glacier will be
largely attended by newspaper men
from qjl parts of Montana, and is
one of many big conventions being
held in the park this year.
the economy bloc in the house,
forecasts defense cuts running into
several billions if we are still at
peace. Rep. Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.),
a key figure on military matters,
agrees there will be cuts, but gives
no flat estimate.
“Next year.” Vinson said, “if there
is no new outbreak of fighting, there
wil be some reduction in the defense
budget.”
Foreign aid is a field where a cut
back might be expected next year,
assuming there is so-called peace in
the world.
The congress gave administration
foreign aid officials $4,532,000,000
in new money to spend in this fiscal
year which ends next June 30. In
addition to the foreign aid program
may use another $2,000,000,000 from
previously appropriated funds.
The new money represented a cut
of more than $600,000,000 from what
President Eisenhower asked, and
more than $3,000,000,000 from the
former president’s original request.
The congress can be expected to
tighten up about $53,540,000,000 this
year as compared with Mr. Tru
man’s request f0r566.289.000.000 and
289,000,000’ Mr. Eisenhower’s revis
ed budget of $57,028,000,000.
Should there be no hot war, con
gress is certain to cut below its ap
propriations of this year. It will
have to in order to help Mr. Eisen
hower achieve a balanced budget.
The government’s revenue will go
down beginning in January. The
excess profits tax on corporations,
which was extended at Mr. Eisen
hower’s request for six months, ex
pires December 31. And a sched
uled cut in individuual income taxes
goes into effect Jan. 1.
GLACIERS RECEDE
West Glacier.—ln terms of snow.
Grinnell Glacier in Glacier Park
during the past 12 months had about
100 feet, according to M. E. Beatty,
the park’s chief naturalist, and if
was the driest 12 months since 1949.
Precipitation total for the glacier
from August 1 last year was 107
inches. The greater part comes as
snow.
The U. S. Weather Bureau and
Park Service maintains a precipita
tion gauge near the foot of Grinell
Glacier. For 12 months in 1949-50
there was 125 inches of precipitation
recorded; 1950-51 had 117 inches;
1951-52, 108 inches.
Making the measurements were
R. A. Dightman, Helena, U. S.
Weather Bureau head for Montana,
and his assistant, Wallace Irgens.
along with Glacier’s naturalists.
Beatty and Don Robinson.
The last 2 months started with a
dry fall and winter,followed by an
extremely wet spring and then dry
summer.
However, the season seems to
have favored the park’s glaciers.
Crevasses are just starting to show,
and snow in the glacier’s basins re
semble mid-July conditions rather
than early August.
Beatty commented that glacier
measurements this summer will in
elude a trip to Jackson Glacier
about Labor Dey. Sperry is the
park's largest glacier. It covered
840 acres in 1900, and was down to
300 acres, or the equivalent of 70
city blocks in 1950. The last few
years have seen the glaciers prac
tically hold their own and even
grow slightly.
PARK TRAVEL MAY EXCEED
RECORD YEAR OF 1952
West Glacier — Indications are
increasing that Glacier Park 1953
travel figures will equal or even ex
ceed totals set in 1952 when a rec
ord 630,949 visitors entered the
park.
July travel totalled 243,478 during
1953 compared to 220,725 for the
same month in 1952, an increase of
10 per cent. This July was believed
to be the record travel month in
park history.
The heavy mid-season travel is
narrowing the effects of the late
cool spring and reduced May and
June travel. June 20 found the
park travel figures 34 per cent be
low the previous year. Now the per
centage has narrowed to 8 per cent.
Seasonal travel through Aug. 4
is 354.702 compared to 383.742 a year
ago. Last Sunday there were 9.298
entries with daily travel averaging
more than 7.000.
INDIANS CHEER ACTION
ON LIQUOR LAW CHANGE
New York.—The Association of
American Indian Affairs said pass
age by Congress of a bill to repeal
the century-old Indian liquor law
marks the beginning of the end of
discriminatory legislation against
American Indian citizens.
Congressional action on the Dill
is complete and the measure is now
awaiting action by President Eisen
hower. It repeals all federal laws
affecting sale of liquor to Indians
outside of reservations and option
of forbidding or permitting leaves
to individual tribes the sale of
liquor on their own lands, Oliver
Farge, president of tlie association
said.
BROWNING VACATION BIBLE
SCHOOL TO BE NEXT WEEK
Next week will be Vacation Bible
School time at the Methodist church
in Browning. The school will start
Monday. August 17th. and run thru
Friday, August 21st. Sessions will
start at 9:30 a. m. and last until
11:30 a. m.
All children, ages 4 to 14. are wel
come.
The Babb vacation school is in
session this week, and will close on
August 14th.
Vacation Church schools of the
Methodist Church at Blackfeet Mis
sion have been held at East Glacier,
Blackfoot and Babb under the di
rection of Miss Ary Shough, dea
coness. Assisting at East Glacier
were Mrs. Charles Tobin and Miss
Boggy Long, employees of the Gla
cier Park Hotel, and Mrs. Bernice
Jackson, of Newport, R. I.
Mrs. Frank LaSorte and Mrs. Jos
eph LaSorte, of Blackfoot, assisted
at the Blackfoot school.
Everything is in readiness for the
opening of the tenth annual Junior
Fair in Browning on Thursday
of this week at the Browning fair
grounds.
The Junior Fair, one of the most
important public events of the year,
is sponsored by the 4-H clubs, the
Future Farmers of America, the
various branches of the Extension
department of both the state and
federal government, and financial
ly supported by public contribution
of the business men, farmers and
ranchers of the county.
No admission is charged for the
various events, and the prize monies
come from the funds donated.
W’ni. E. Corkins. agricultural ex
tension agent for the Blackfeet In
dian Agency, is general manager of
the fair, and is ably assisted by
officials of the \arious youth or
ganizations and Extension workers
in the eeounty.
The Fair will formally open on
Thursday morning of this week.
August 13th. and will close with the
livestock parade and Rodeo Sunday
afternoon. The rodeo will start at
2:30 p. m.. and the participants will
be young people from the different
communities of the county.
In a formal statement issued in
the Fair program, the following
objectives of the event are enumer
ated:
“It is with pleasure that we an
nounce this Tenth Annual Junior
Fair, it is dedicated to the F. F. A.
and 4-11 Club members of Glacier
County and is made possible by the
cooperation and financial assistance
of' individual"', business men and
organizations throughout the coun
ty.
Its purpose is educational. Its
aim is to develop a spirit of friend
liness. cooperation and sportsman
ship among our boys and girls; to
give them a greater interest in their
4-11 and vocational agriculture work
and to provide an opportunity for
the general public to observe the
work being done by the 4 II mem
bers and school -indents.”
Through the Board ol Directors
each year, improvements to the
grounds are being added. This
year, lights are being installed in
the Poultry barn, livestock barn,
and the 411 Club building. This
will enable patrons of the Fair to
view exhibits in the evening and
will cut down on lire danger.
Heads of Departments
Following are the heads of the
various departments:
4-H Clubs—Robert 11. Roush, Gla
cier County Extension agent: Bonita
Olney. Home Demonstration aagent.
F. F. A.—R. W. Harris. Browning
Vo-Ag. instructor.
Entertainment — Ray Demin g .
Wilford Ashton. R. W Harris.
Superintendents — Ray Doming,
beef and dairy cattle: Wilford J.
Ashton, sheep, swine, poultry and
rabbits.
Jerry Kitson—Crops and gardens.
Mrs. Dodd Meade. Foods
Mrs. Grace Kuka. Clothing.
Board of Directors—O. A. Telli
fero Robert Starr. Joseph L Sher
burne. Harold llannoman. Edward
Marion. Leo M Konnerley. John
Sharp.
Clothing and Poods Prizes —
Frieda Schrocder. Heme Demon
stration Agent at < beteau
Secretary-Manned—Win E. Cor
kins. Agricult had Extension Agent.
Blackfeet Indian \e.cncy.
Three Day Fair Program
Thursday. Vagus! 13
8:00 \ M—Entry Day.
8:00 P M.- Entries close.
Friday. August 14
900 A M—bulging in all depart
ments.
Saturday. August 15
8:00 A M.—Viewing exhibits
9:00 A. M.—Demonstration Con
tests at American Legion Hall
9:00 A M -Judging Contests.
10:30 A M—Dress Rev lie at the
American Legion Halt.
2:30 P M—4 11 Events.
Sundax. August 16
8:00 A. M —\ iewing Exhibits.
1:30 P. M.—Livestock Parade.
2:30 P. M —F. E. A. Rodeo.
INDIAN IN TROUBLE
Great Falls—A Heart Butte In
dian, William Comes At Night, is
in the county jail here under a fed
eral charge of assault with a deadly
weapon. His bond has been set at
$2,500. He was arrested at Brown
ing by Deputy Marshal Dean O.
Wood.
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