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VOLUME XXVI, No. 40
CROW COUNCIL REJECTS
CERTAIN GRAZING BIDS
Favors Readvertising Tracts Not
Bid On — To Advertise
Mining Leases
Crow Agency, Oct. 4—(Special.)
—"Hie regular monthly meeting of
the Crow tribal council was held
at Crow Agency, Wednesday, with
President Hartford Bear Claw
presiding and Jim Carpenter, SCC
retary, recording the proceedings.
The matter of the grazing leas
es auctioned off Monday at the
agency was taken up. It was vot
ed that the lease bid on by the
Snyder Sheep Co. on the land
now held by Harry T. Mann, be
not approved.
The area known as the Snyder
lease, in the East Pryor mountains
BOURQUIN TO SPEAK
NEXT MONDAY NIGHT
In Republican Rally at Harriet
Theatre—Free Moving
Picture Show.
Hon. George M. Bourquin, Re
publican nominee for the six-year
term for United States senator,
will be the principal speaker at a
Republican rally to be held at
the Harriet theatre next Monday
evening.
Judge Bourquin, who recently
was retired as United States dis
trict judge for Montana, after
having served with unusual dis
tinction for 22 years, is attract
ing large and interested audiences
wherever he speaks.
It is many years since a man
of Judge Bourquin’s forcefulness
and ability has been a candi
date for office In Montana, and
the people of this commonwealth
are traveling miles to hear him
whenever opportunity presents. He
Is thoroughly conversant with
national issues and discusses them
intelligently, using language that
all can understand.
Chief Justice Lew L. Callaway
who, for the past twelve years
has presided so ably over the
highest tribunal in Montana and
is a candidate on the Republican
ticket to succeed himself, will
also be present and make a brief
address. Judge Callaway has re
sided in Montana since early
childhood—63 of his 65 years—
knows Montana conditions, under
stands the needs of her people,
and is keenly sympathetic with
their problems. He is in the
prime of intellectual vigor, liberal
in thought and practice, forward
looking, independent and cour
ageous. He decides lawsuits on
their merits, not on technicalities;
he follows the law, not his per
sonal notions. His record of ex
perience, achievement and fidelity
to trust needs no promise to
support it.
The Hardin School Band will
be in attendance and render
several numbers during the even
ing. There will be a free picture
show from 7 to 8, before the
speaking.
SIO,OOO PAID THIS WEEK
BIG HORN HOG GROWERS
Representing: First Payment Under
Reduction Program. $17,000
Yet to Come.
Approximately SIO,OOO has been
distributed to Big Horn county
corn-hog contract signers during
the past week. This represents
the first adjustment payment
under the reduction program and
is $2 per head on 75% of the av
erage production for 1932-33. The
total administrative payment is
$5 per head and 30< per bushel
on com, less administrative costs,
or a total of approximately $27,000
for the county. The balance will
be paid after inspection of the
Corn-Hog contract farms.
This inspection started this
week and will be completed in
ten days or two weeks.
A. B. Kamp and Hubert Black
are doing the Inspection work for
the association in Big Horn county
FLYERS HERE
Paul Mlinar, a pilot with the
Three Hawks, nationally known
fliers, landed at the Hardin air
port, Tuesday night, with his
four-passenger Stinson monoplane.
He was joined by Paul Quinn,
veteran pilot, Mrs. Quinn and Leo
Kudma .the northwest’s most ex
perienced parachute jumper, in
a beautiful six-passenger cabin
plane. They did a thriving busi
ness, Thursday, taking passengers
up into the sky at 75 cents per.
THE HARDIN TRIBUNE HERALD
and on the low lands north of the
mountains to be re-advertised.
The lease offerings on the
present E. L. Dana Livestock Co.,
range for which no bids were of
fered, to be re-advertised.
The mountain lease in the Gar
vin Basin region, formerly held
by Woodson Moss, and bid on
Monday by the Antler Sheep Co.,
was disapproved by the council
and it was recommended that the
range known as the Flatiron, be
tween the two rivers, now held
by the Antler Sheep Co., and on
which no bid was offered, be re
advertised.
None of the other leases bid
on at Monday’s offerings were
objected to by the tribal council,
among which are the bids of
Faddis-Kennedy Cattle Co., Har
vey W. Wilcutt, and Spear-Mor
gan Livestock Co., Junior Spear,
Phil Spear, Harvey Cort, and
others.
In accordance with a new policy
suggested by Supt. Robert Yellow
tail, the council held an election
to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Thomas Medicine
Horse as chief of Indian police
on the Crow reservation. Eight
candidates were voted upon. Har
vey Youngswallow being chosen
on the first ballot.
The council by vote recom
mended the dismissal of two wom
en employes of the Crow Agency
hospital staff because of lack of
courtesy shown by them towards
their superiors and to the hospi
tal inmates generally.
The council recommended to
Supt. Robert Yellowtail that he
advertise for bids for leases on
gold mining claims in the Big
Horn canyon.
“SUPPRESSED DESIRES” AT
HI SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
By “The Thespians,” Recently
Organized High School
Dramatic Club.
The Thespians, recently organ
ized dramatic club of .the Hardin
high school, will at the first ev
ening’s entertainment of the year,
this Friday evening at eight
o’clock in the high school audi
torium, present “Suppressed De
sires” and “The Valiant,” two one
act plays.
The orchestra under the direc
tion of Paul Enevoldsen will also
make its initial appearance at this
program in the following num
bers: “Poet and Peasant Over
ture,” “Flag of Truce March,”
“Sabre las Olas,” and “Dancing
Dolls.” Mr. Enevoldson will’ also
present students in several en
semble numbers.
David Brewer will sing “Deep
River” and “I’ll Take You Home
Again, Kathleen,” and Bcb Ko
priva, John Smith, Milderd Row
land and James Anderson will
present a sketch, ‘The Man on
the Flying Trapeze,” with the
band.
“The Valiant,” a gripping drama
built around a prisoner’s refusal
to divulge his identity, and a
sister’s determination to find her
brother who had left home ten
years before, will be presented by
Stuart Wolcott, Edmund Kelley,
Zelda Alice McKittrick and Gil
bert Thompson.
“Suppressed Desires,” replete
with clever conversation and rol
licking humor, has as its plot
the attempt of Henrietta Brewster
to convert her sister Mable, to
psychoanalysis, and to find her
suppressed desire. The suppressed
desire, when found, complicates
lives—and the plot. Esther Ko
priva, Alberta Ewing and Earl
Conver will present the play.
This will be an opportunity for
patrons to see what is being done
in extra-curricular activity in
the Hardin schools, and at the
same time to be entertained.
Senator B. K. Wheeler, Demo
cratic nominee to succeed himself
in the U. S. senate, will speak at
Hardin, Monday evening, Oct. 22.
Further particulars will be an
nounced next week.
The Baptist Ladies’ Birthday
club met Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. E.- Boggess when
five of their members whose birth
days came in Semtember—Mrs
J. A. Perry, Mrs. Kenneth A. Lew
is, Mrs. O. A. Gustafson, Mrs. Glen
Gustafson and Mrs. Boggess, were
the guests of honor. After an
hour or so of social intercourse
each lady was presented with a
suitable gift and a no-host lunch
was served.
CONTINUING THE HARDIN TRIBUNE AND TUR HARDIN HERALD
HARDIN, BIG HORN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1934
HOME DEMONSTRATION
COUNCIL TO MEET OCT. 11
A meeting of the County Home
Demonstration council will be
held in Hardin on Thursday, Oct.
11.
Miss Blanch L. Lee, home dem
onstration agent leader from
Bozeman, will meet with the coun -
cil and together they will work
out the program of work to be
covered for the year.
The council consists of the
presidents and secretaries of the
Home Demonstration clubs organ
ized in the county during the past
year.
Frances Smith, nutrition spec
ialist, is to meet with the proj
ect leaders on Thursday, Oct. 18,
to demonstrate “The All Year
Round Food Supply.”
OUTLINES PROGRAM TO
ADVANCE BEET PRICES
Will Add $15,000,000 to Income
of Sugar Beet Growers
This Year.
The national farm administrator,
Chester C. Davis, on Tuesday an
nounced from Washington, D. C.,
a sugar beet program guaranteed
to bring prices to growers up to
the parity level.
The plan, announcement of
which precedes actual submission
of the crop adjustment contract
to producers for signature by a
few days, will add approximately
$15,000,000 to the income of beet
growers this year and bring their
total income to within $3,000,000
of the record of $58,600,000 re
ceived last year, Davis declared.
“This is the best plan of crop
income insurance for the drought
stricken beet areas we have been
able to devise under the law,” he
said.
Growers who sign contracts will
receive an advance payment of
$1 a ton on their normal yield
times their acres planted this
year and a final payment of not
less than 25 cents a ton. In ad
dition a tax refund estimated at
$2,600,000 is to be paid on that
portion of each farmer’s 1933
beet production unsold as sugar
on June 8, 1934.
Charles M. Learney, president of
the National Beet Growers asso
ciation, voiced approval of the
program.
“One of the salient features of
the sugar beet production adjust
ment contract is the provision
that provides cash payments to
eligible growers who sign an acre
age adjustment contract with the
secretary of agriculture,” he said.
“This contract will add more
than $10,000,000 to beet producers’
incomes from the 1934 crop. Grow
ers will also receive refund pay
ments based on the production
and income from the 1933 crop
because of the processing and
floor stock tax which went into
effect June 8, 1934.
“While we had hoped for a
larger advance cash payment, un
questionably the distress of our
farmers and laborers will be ma
terially relieved.
“With the co-operation of our
growers and a friendly adminis
tration of the Jones-Costigan
amendment and of this contract,
I am confident that beet fanners
and the industry will receive
further substantial benefits,” he
added.
The contract sign-up campaign
will begin with a series of regional
meetings in beet areas to be con
ducted by John E. Dalton, chief
of the AAA sugar section, begin
ning not later than Oct. 20. First
benefit payment checks totaling
about $10,000,000 will go to grow
ers not later than Dec. 1. the
administration promised.
States primarily affected by the
beet program are: Colorado, Cali
fornia, Michigan, Nebraska, Utah,
Idaho, Montana. Wyoming, Ohio,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
lowa, North Dakota, South Da
kota. Kansas and Washington.
To facilitate administration the
program is based on the factory
district as a unit with acreage al
lotments for each grower to be
worked out as each individual’s
share of the total figure on his
average past production. Produc
tion control associations will ad
minister details immediately af
fecting producers.
The beet sugar plan is part of
the general program under the
Jones-Costigan act designed to
limit production of sugar In con
tinental United States and island
possessions and territories and
importations from Cuba to ap
proximately the level of domestic
consumption. Beet growers were
given a quota of 1,550,000 tons,
Reseeding surmarginat
land is NEW FERA PROJECT
Choteau, Sept. 29.—Nine hun
dred pounds of native blue joint
and buffalo grass seed from Teton
county will help to reseed burned
out areas in the state, if it is
Possible to complete a seed gather
ing project which was instituted
here late in August.
This work is under the FERA
rural rehabilitation program, and
affords employment for relief
labor, in addition to securing a
large quantity of these seeds.
E- W. Nelson, director of a
state-wide range survey project
which embraces the gathering
and reseeding of areas, was here
recently in connection with the
work, which should be completed
soon.
or approximately 24 per cent of
the total.
Under the act, the program may
be continued through 1936 at the
discretion of the secretary of ag
riculture. The present contract
provides for 1935 and 1936 de
ficiency payments as partial crop
insurance on that portion of a
grower’s acreage abandoned be
cause of storm, drought, frost, or
similar natural calamity.
The contract prohibits employ
ment of children for work in the
fields under 14 years of age. and
limits labor of employed children
between 14 and 16 years of age to
eight hours a day. These pro
visions do not apply to children
of growers.
Minimum wages for 1935 and
1936 may be prescribed by the
secretary in districts where such
action is deemed necessary. Due
notice and opportunity for hear
ing will be given all producers and
laborers before such wages are es
tablished. Prior to receiving the
final 1934 payment, the producer
must indicate that he has met
all bona fide claims for wages
arising from the 1934 beet crop.
The secretary is also authorized
to adjudicate labor disputes.
The total national marketing
allotment for beet sugar of 1,550,-
000 short tons has been distributed
among the 27 beet sugar produc
ing companies in the United
States. These marketing allot
ments, which are expressed in
terms of bags of refined sugar,
then are translated after adjust
ments into terms of acreage al
lotments for each beet district.
Finally this acreage is divided
equitably among the growers m
each district.
Under the contract, each co
operating grower agrees, in con
sideration of the benefit pay
ments, to plant only his pro rata
share of the acreage which has
been allotted to the district in
which he grows beets. For each
district this total acreage is
limited to a figure between 90
and 100 per cent of the 1933 acre
age. In the case of individual
allotments, however, variations
from 1933 may exceed 10 per cent.
“Because complete past records
of production and acreage for all
the growers in each factory dis
trict already have been furnished
to the sugar section, it is expected
that the work of completing con
tracts will be ocmparatively rapid.”
Dalton explained.
From available records on his
past production, each grower will
be given his choice of one of
four options to determine what is
known as his base acreage. This
base acreage may be one of four
averages, as follows:
Five-year average—A ver ag e
planted acreage for 1930, 1931,
1932, 1933 and 1934, if beets were
planted in 1933 and'or 1934.
Four-year average—A ver tg e
planted acreage for 1931, 1932,
1933 and 1934, if beets were plant
ed in 1933 andlor 1934.
Three-year average—A ver ag e
planted acreage for 1932, 1933 and
1934. if beets were planted in 1933
and'or 1934.
Two-year average—A ver ag e
planted in 1933 and 1934.
After each farmer in a district
has selected the option which will
give him the most advantageous
base acreage, these acreages are
totaled and compared with the
acreage alloted to that district. If
the total is more or less than
the allotted district acreage, then
each grower agrees to a pro rata
adjustment of his acreage neces
sary to make the total allotment
for the district.
The advance benefit payments
can be made to growers before
this adjusted acreage is worked
out, as the advance payments
OLD AGE PENSIONS TOPIC
HARDIN WOMAN'S CLUB
At First Program of Club Year
Tuesday Evening at the
Public Library.
Over forty were present a t
the first program of the year for
the Hardin Woman’s Club, Tues
day evening at the public library
auditorium. Following a brief
business session Mrs. A. W. F.
Koch presented a very well
prepared paper on “Old Age Pen
sions,” in which she contrasted
living conditions to-day in apart
ments or small homes with the
large houses of former years,
where there was always room for
the beloved old people of the
family. The changed conditions
demands a new plan for providing
for the comforts and ease neces
sary for the aged. Special attention
was given the “Townsend Plan,’’
which is the most talked of plan
yet suggested.
Others who discussed the plans
for pensioning those over sixty
years of age, or who expressed
opinions about the proposals were
Rev. N. E. Hannant, D. L. Egnew,
H. B. Frailey, Mrs. Grace Garri
son, Mrs. W. A. Sawyer and Miss
Lucy Batty, with others asking
questions or making suggestions.
The discussion was a live one,
productive of real interest in a
question that demands some sort
of action by the next session of
congress.
Members and guests lingered
over a social cup of tea. served
by Miesdames John Bennett and
Guy Conver, and continued to chat
about the ideas proposed. It was
a fine meeting and was pre
sided over by the new president,
Mrs. Grace Garrison.
GRAZING PROJECT TO BE
OUTLINED MONDAY NIGHT
Meeting To Be Held in Hardin
at 8 O’clock and at Decker
in Afternoon.
The organization and setup of
grazing districts will be discussed
at a meeting in Hardin on Mon
day evening, October Bth.
Frank Rose, who is in charge
of this work in the eastern part
of the state, will be in charge of
the meeting and explain the plans
and setup, according to Geo. W.
Gustafson, county agent.
A large number of grazing dis
tricts have been organized in the
state during the past few months.
These districts are in answer to
controlled range and improvement
of the ranges.
E. W. Nelson, in charge of the
grazing district work of the rural
rehabilitation division of the Mon
tana Relief Commission, will at
tend this meeting, as will also
H. P. Griffiin, district supervisor
of rural rehabilitation.
The meeting will be held in the
court room at 8:00 p. m. All
stockmen interested in such graz
ing districts are urged to attend
this meeting.
These gentlemen will also hold
a meeting for the Kirby-Decker
district at the Bumbaca hall,
Decker, at 1:30, Monday after
noon.
*
Annual Harvest Dinner next
Tuesday. Oct. 9. from 5:30 p. m.
till all are served. Chicken, many
vegetables, pumpkin pie. Adults,
50c 1 ; children under high school,
25c. Come. Congregational Lad
ies’ Circle—at church. it
for 1934 are based on the actual
planted 1934 acreage and tne
"representative yield” of the pro
ducer. This representative yield
is to be the producer’s average
yield of a period of not less than
three years. For producers who
wish to enter into contracts
in 1935 and 1936 their base
acreage will be determined by
a method to be approved by
the secretary of agriculture. The
representative yield per acre, mul
tiplied by the acreage planted for
1934 results in the estimated pro
duction for 1934, upon which the
grower will receive benefit pay
ments. Final benefit payments
for 1934, to be made about July
1, 1935, are to be based upon beets
actually produced or upon planted
acres times “representative yield,”
whichever Is higher.
The farm administration es
timated 1934 benefit payments by
states as follows:
California. $1,765,004: Colorado,
$3,106,512: Idaho, $785,349; Michi
gan, $1,480,437; Montana. $1,033,-
965; Nebraska, $1,254,123; Ohio,
$639,292; Utah, $950,319; Wyoming,
$772,200; and “others,” $1,309,581.
VOLUME XVI, Ne. 19
The next meeting will be held
on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the man
ual training room in the high
school building, when, under the
supervision of Mrs. Pierce of Bill
ings, foot stools will be made.
Women who are interested are
asked to see the sample frame,
etc, for a footstool in the Eder
Hardware Co. store window.
♦
Mrs. Julia T. Hawken of Los
Angeles, Calif., this week visited
her friends, Grandpa A. C. Hen
derson, Mrs. A. H. Bowman and
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. McMoran.
She is returning from an Alaskan
trip, taking in Minnhadd Glacier,
Juno gild mint, and Skagway,
on a trip to Lake Bennett. She
reports Alaska a wonderful coun
try.
COUNTY FEDERATIONS OF
BIG HORNWOMEN’SCLUBS
Holds September Meeting a t
Pine Lodge, Saturday—New
Officers Elected.
Last Saturday morning at 10:30
the September meeting of the
County Federation of Women’s
Clubs was held at Pine Lodge.
Action was taken regarding pub
lic health work, supporting the
sanitarium at Galen, and main
tenance of the Girls’ Vocational
School at Helena.
Election of officers resulted as
follows: Mrs. N. E. Hannant,
president, reelected; Mrs. Fran
ces Cornwell, Lodge Grass, first
vice-president; Mrs. Ella Louk,
Crow Agency, second vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Anna Sloan, Crow
Agency, treasurer; Mrs. Grace
Garrison, recording secretary, and
Miss Annabelle Ross, correspond
ing secretary, both of Hardin.
Plans for entertaining the district
six federation convention in Oc
tober, 1935, will be stressed during
the year.
Thirty ladies partook of a de
licious noon luncheon at the
Savoy case, where pep songs en
livened the hour.
Re-assembling at Pine Lodge at
1:30 p. m„ Mrs. L. P. Strand sang
two solos, accompanied by Mrs.
Ola B. Maddox. Brief reports
were given by Mrs. Shaw and Mrs.
E. C. Woodley of the State Fed
eration meeting recently held at
Bozeman and Mrs. A. W. F. Koch
gave a more extended report of
the same meeting, all of the mes
sages being of much interest and
enlivened by anecdotes. Miss Har
riet O’Day gave an interesting talk
on “The Relief Program in Big
Hom County,” also telling possi
bilities of co-operation in all parts
of the county.
At the close of the program the
local County Federation committee
served tea during a social hour
before the guests departed. Mrs.
G. A. Baker and Mrs. E. E. Smith
poured. There were over forty
present.
Thursday morning Will C. Mor
ris brought to Hardin from the
Sarpy section, Frank Litton, wno
has not been feeling well lately
and who came in to consult a
doctor.
Hardin Circle No. 815, Neigh
bors of Woodcraft, met at Sulli
van hall. Wednesday evening. The
organization will hold its next
regular meeting Wednesday even
ing, Oct. 17, when a Hallowe’en
party will follow the business
session.
GRAZING LEASE UNITS
PRICES
Crow Indians Fare Better at
Auctioning Leases Than
By Old Method.
The policy inaugurated by Rob
ert Yellowtail, superintendent of
the Crow Indian reservation, at
Monday’s grazing lease letting
at public auction rather than by
sealed bids, proved quite success
ful, the bids in every instance
being considerably higher than
under the former method. Col.
“Slim” Ransier, the auctioneer, in
his usual convincing manner,
causing the bidders to raise their
antes.
A p proximately 300 stockmen
from Montana and Wyoming were
in attendance, and in the neigh
borhood of a million acres of
grazing land, In units of 2,000
acres up to 100,000 acres, were
offered, in many instances the
bids were double the bids of for
mer years.