M k ; /• °A. > A z' , VQ.( - # & J' t è .4 & s LAUREL OUTLOOK % V* ->x. V. Official Paper of Yellowstone County LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1945 FIVE CENTS VOLUME 36—NO. 49 GOAL IS HEAR; o Rural Laurel Chalks Up 91%; Duck Creek Area Is Way Over Top n , Beaa 0 ^drowned Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at a Laurel at the close of business Tuesday, the last business day be fore the Laurel Outlook was pub lished, lacked only 13.8 per cent of reaching its quota for the Sev enth war loan. Sales were $150, 661.25 or 86.2 per cent of the $174, 820 goal. Rural Laurel had even a better showing and was within 8.7 per cent of its quota. Sales credited to the rural district totaled $39,125.25, or 91.3 per cent, leaving only $3, 714.75 to raise before attaining the $42,840 set for it. Duck creek was way out in front with 134.7 per cent, or more than a third in excess of its quota of $7,650. Sales in that area were $10,307.50. Members of the Laurel war fi nance committee predicted the quota here would be reached and probably exceeded in the coming few days. The hope had been to wind up the job by Decoration day, and was nearly realized. All sales figures are for cash paid in. » I '1 Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cusick were notified Wednesday morning of the death of their grandson, Blackorby, 14, who was city park in Yakima, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Van Blackorby, former Laurel residents.! Mrs. Blackorby is a daughter of; Mr. and Mrs. Cussick. The boy was born here. In a telephone conversation t he Cussicks learned the body had not been recovered at that time. The Blackorby family has lived in Yakima, where Mr. Blackorby is city freight and passenger agent for the Northern Pacific, the past, year and a half. Mr. and Mrs. Cussick will leave for Yakima. understood the Thursday morning They said they funeral and burial will be there. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fish of 12 avenue have received Wyoming . word that their son, Marine F.M. 1-c Gordon Fish, was wounded in both legs by enemy machine gun fire May 5 on Okinawa and is now in a base hospital on Saipan. Private Fish was an employee of the Ryan Fruit company in Livn ingston before his enlistment March 1, 1944, and with his wife and three children has visited his parents here His family on numerous occasions, now resides in Beach, N. D., the former home of Mrs. Fish. A small daughter, Darlene, is a patient in the Shrine hospital at St. Paul, having suffered an attack of infantile paralysis about a year ago. Private Fish has been overseas since August 1944. Rotana's Principal Officers Confer At Meeting In Bozeman Miss Rosella Fritz, national Ro tana president. Miss Stellavee Woot Mrs. Ina Adeline ere, national secretary, Eshom and Miss Mary Cook, national board member, and Miss Lois Thompson, both of Bil lings, were guests at a recent meet ing of the Bozeman Rotana club. The meeting was at the Baxter hotel. Installation of officers was a feature of the business session and motion pictures of China, with accompanying explanations, was en tertainment. Mrs W. W. Shoop was hostess ati a dinner Sunday honoring her son, Paul Shoop who is stationed at the air field in Great Falls. Guests were Mr and Mrs. Wayne Shoop and family of Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Van Nice. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Shav and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shoop and their families and Mrs. Ethel Shav and son, Dick. Robert Elliot of Roundup was guest last week end of his mother, Mrs. A. G. Elliot a Large Numbers Attend Memorial Ceremonies At Park City, Laurel Customary Memorial day cere-lrel monies were conducted Wednesday __•_ . , n .. , T . morning at Park City and Laurel cemetenes under auspices of two Laurel veterans' organization, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Unusually large numbers of people attended the Park City and Laurel ceremonies. George S. Smith, Billings attor ney, delivered the orations at the two of fired volleys saluting the dead, and graves were decorated with flowers. Wreaths were placed in honor of the Unknown Soldier of the Span ish-American war, and World wars I and II. This year's Memorial day was bright and pleasantly warm, many flowers displayed on the graves at the two cemeteries, and in the Lau . u - j - - u - - - ' • wwl,fc ' bii _ T> 1 nff: • I m I, Popular Official To Become popular county official, Georpe SS Z\sit r t e . co top m f s s tata|o manager of Insured Titles, Inc., at Helena. Osten submitted his resig nation Tuesday to the board of county commissioners, to become ef-; fective June 15. His successor, who, will be appointed by the board of commissioners, has not been an nounced - He came to Yellowstone county in 1910 from Carroll, Iowa, to home stead a tract of land north of Cus ter. He taught school two years at Greycliff, went to Billings in 1913 to be emp i oye d in the advertising department of the Billings Gazette OSTEN RESIGNS AS State Manager Of Insured Titles, Inc., At Helena an ^ was so e mploved when he enter d the arme d services in 1917. After and balf overseas he re tU rned to Billings in June 1919. j 0sten beC ame a deputy in the of 1 f i ce of Joseph S. Simineo, countv I treasurer in 1919 and later served |S. Nutt i jj e en t e red the abstract business !j th A Bohlander in 1926 and i conso ii da ted three companies into j onp wb ; pb was (mpra \ e( \ until 1930 wb g„ it was sold. He was elected county treasurer in the fall of 1930 and wag elected clerk and recorder j n 2934 an 0 ffj ce he has since con tinuously occupied. He will assume his new duties July 1 at Helena. AIR MEDAL; PACIFIC Fifth Air Force. Philippines— First Lieut. Donald L. Nave, former pilot and flight leader with 312th Bombardment group, an A-20 bomb er unit of Fifth air force at a for ward base in the Philippines, has been awarded the Air medal. Lieut. Nave, who is enroute to the United States, is the husband of Mrs. Ruth A. Nave of Laurel. Recently promoted to his present rank, Lieutenant Nave had served overseas 11 months and was credit ed with 57 combat missions in this theater. He participated in many major air strikes. Though Strangers, Liberated Cpt. Lamb And CpLRomee Meet Of the many odd events and co incidences being recorded in con nection with the end of the war in Europe a strange one concerns Laurel people. Capt. Robert Lamb, husband of the former Evangeline Budge, was shot down over Germany in August 1944, was reported missing in ac tion and later was reported a pris oner. It was believed here at the first of the year he might have been killed during the Christmas break-through while being moved farther into Germany. Recently his wife had a letter from him say ing he was alive and well. Cpl. Larry Romee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Romee and nephew of Mis. Lamb, was with American forces going into Germany in the final stages of the war. Captain Lamb was at Merseburg, Germany, where he was liberated. Lamb and Romee did not know each other, had never met. but they identified themselves and had a re union. A letter from Captain Lamb was received here Friday telling of the meeting. business district flags fluttered throughout the day. The veterans' organizations were assisted by their K respect ive aux iliaries and the Hoy Scouts. TO EIGHTH GRADE Fifty-eight eigth grade pupils were given certificates of gradua tion Friday morning at a program ■sa: stSTÄTSy- oîenS'Ti.'by'&eSÂ' kÆ welcome, by Dorothy Stroh; a mus ical reading by Janie Lockwood and « Ghacles Rosselot, with six other characters taking part. Concluding ithe program the seventh grade gave tw 2 \ oca l s 5 Ie «, lon ^ « » i Supt. Fred W Gr^f presented j diplomas to Billidou BErtlGL KEtn* O.Jo™», Wayne HaKeman, Virpnja a St, « a %h ,•^ es ' e ea , . 0 „ P 1 a n ,i * , ' N t • ' Iani ' e f™™ EmelTa MiSlis d£ f k M o,m. Eleanor Mossman,' Rich . N „, ' j 0 hn Orndorff William p , A , p itt Tim Phil r uln plmv tvpr v RirW rS i p , ? r ' ® plfth T ' arle s itossei°t. oeoritotn, L.or Tim Scribner Veda £ ad JL wibiam Sorg Richard Soar h Snarite Estîmr Sta ">• Fred Erhard DoÄ Stroh u' , Tinm>s Mert Tinnes AI« (F*? Adda Weber Jimmv Wnson Wllson Fifty - Eight Receive Certifi cates Friday At Program and Ceremony Y n TlVo Yeager ana ieager. _ T/ll/C MDC D/lTTCDCflA C I fl|\r f f|U. ifl I LlluUll U 1 m i wiwwn w nrilHiftlO Tfl 1/HIIOItO HhMIl NS KilNSAS IILIlmlllU IU linilUnU _ _ Mrs. Mary Susanna Patterson, 73, who had spent the last year with j her daughter, Mrs. O. L. Paronto, died Sunday at a Billings hospital; after an illness of several months, , Mr. and Mrs. Paronto accompan- ! ied the body to Lawrence, Kans.. the former home of Mrs. Patterson, j for burial by the side of her hus band. I Program_Miss Stellavee Woot ere, Miss Grace Stadalman and Mrs. Helen Ball Pr-mect;_-Mi«!«» Ro' Foos ' died Saturda -V a t a Bil ] inprs hospital where she had been a Patient since May 12 », Sh ? wa f b ® rn L 0ct 1 2' }. 894 ' *2 : Russ,a - the daughter of Mr. and i GeorRe 1 Fox L In , 1907 , the 'T S to Nebraska, and to LaU ,^' "A 909 : wa 5 married , . to Heniy Foos in 1922 at Laurel. , Mrs Foos 1S sur%nve d by her wid-1 lower; her mother, Mrs. Katherine 1 Fox; three sons> Clarence Foos, l Henr " A Kautz and Herman Kautz: itwo stepsons, Henry Foos, Jr., and John Foos; three stepdaughters. iwrs - So^mon Harding. Mrs. Ray mond Kramer and Mrs. George Feuerbacher: one brother, George :Fox; one sister, Mrs. Conrad Ost Iwald, and 20 grandchildren. All the survivors except Mrs. Harding !and Mrs. Kramer live in Laurel. Mrs. Harding resides in Park City and Mrs. Kramer in Billings. Funeral services will be held at \2 p. m. Thursday at the German Congregational church and burial will be in the Laurel cemetery, - j At State Meeting Of -n ® j P.E.O., Havre, JlinC 1,2 7 Mrs. Laurel will MRS. HENRY'S BROTHER IS REPORTED KILLED Mrs A , ex H re that her broth Pvt John Lofj was ki „. ed jn ^. tion to word re (:e j ved f rom the war department, was serv j nf r w jth the infantry in Luzon and was killed May 2. He had b overseas about two mon t bs Private Lofing's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Lofing, reside at Co i nm v llc . Mrs. Laird To Preside Preside this week as president of ' "?■'' V 'J ■«, T -J £ . j i fe i ; * ' - ta* W* I j * .. *r-C Of ?■, , •'3^% ■■ iwJB > ■ .V * s: UK'-' i u * : A ■ 1 <■ 5k J* a to ! - A *9? - ■ ri MRS. C. W. LAIRD # _ . . * he state chapter of P. E. O. sister which will convene June 1 at Havre for a two-day business ses sion. Mrs I. N. Smith, president of the Laurel chapter will attend the Havre meeting as a delegate. - u Larry Smith Coming June 6 To Head Big 7th Rally As Speaker Audiences In Western Montana Flock To See and Hear Famous Foreign Correspondent and Commentator As He Begins Tour Of State Larry Smith, foreign correspond ent and radio commentator, will be headliner at Laun , rs Mitrhtv , , Seventh war bond rally and the - r atiaii APPH NT F FRT M Hl I U 111 I LLLU U l Iiinccc ni UUUuLU, ULLIllu) - .. _ _ _ Special Flection June .) To Name Renrocenfative Pa«« IName '«'Présentante, lass On Debenture Measure _ «*« âp1totat"ïfd ^"dilSon £ ! i5S t „S ve biir lhe Bropo " d "*■ Laurel precinct numbers and names, polling places and the judges i appointed to serve in each afe list ed below: No. 5 * east Laurel > hl ^ h school building, Olive M. Cook, Ibbie J. Price, Eleanor Crawford. Tim Rear don and Nels Vordahl. No . 9 . wes t laurel, L. L. club 'building. Rosa Kilnatrick. Viola Braswell. Harriet Bliss, Coralynn Albertus and Margaret Lackman. I No. 20. Indeppendo.it, cty hall, V. E. Shay, E. W. Coombs and Ruby Winters. • ' I - . j Unnilllin RIllAnnm : I I Hllnlulluli ûlnlüHlIrli Lli fllinillllU nKinnULU nnn ..^ r nT#n rnn mn Dp|H /L L I A14 L f IU Li L r| Il 111 ■ / I il pfl |l ! ll Mill UIIUIILL UIRN I Ull UIU OmillOr III Hfl OIMIWI S r H U 1111 IIM nil IlMIIVI ULIlVIUL ill ULLUIUIII / With the Ninth Armored Division across_ the Rhine—First Lieut. Wil-1 lis E. Horning of the 811 Tank De : stroyer battalion, Ninth division, has been awarded Bronze star. Armored the A. E. He is the son of Mrs. Homing of Laurel, Mont. The Ninth Armored division was the first Allied force across the Rhine. The Ninth made the spec tacular seizure of the bridge at Remagen, Germany, March 7, after, a lightening dash from the Roer. Earlier the Ninth Armored distin guished itself in the Battle of the Bulge. The division is command ed by Maj. Gen. John W. Leonard, The citation for the award reads as follows: * . . for meritorious service in Belgium during the period Dec. 17, 1944 to Feb. 22, 1945, in connection with military operations against an emey of the United States. During this period First Lieutenant Horn ing distinguished himself in per forming his duties in a superior manner. Under his courageous, in spiring leadership as a platoon leader and later as a company com •mander, inspired his men to exert I their utmost energy to successfully complete various assignments given them. He readily exposed himself to intense enemy fire in order to and personally reconnoitered enemy in 1 fester! territory, completely disre igarding his own safety. During ! the recent counter-offensive when j the situation seemed hopeless and i,,n< l'' r heart breaking circumstances he accomplished assignments that ! would ordinarily he given up as hopeless. The bravery, resourceful ''? ss . and jd^ere devotion to duty (displayed by First Lieutenant Hm-n ,n * are m with the finest traditions of the United States army. Entered military sendee from Montana. Pvt. Pickens, IwoJima Veteran, Visits Here Pvt. Burnett Albert Pickins, N. C., left last week for Bremerton, Wash., after spending a part of his sick leave here with his wife, Mrs. Elma Pickens, and their two chil dren. Prva * e Pick f a f r !5, b "LL y r ,f!™ d from , pv0 , . Jl ÎL a . whe ^. ^ f as v-ounded last March. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.. Plato Pickens, former Huntley residents, now live » Bremerton. Upon the expiration of Jus leave he will return to Farragut, Idaho for treatment. celebration on June 6 of the first anniversary of D day in France. It will be a V ear since Allied forces went ashore at "Omaha" beach on the coast of Normandy V-E day came u mont h s later." but a gi gantic war is yet to be fought to d P oî: are" in unnrecldented numbere " converted ^?« fating frkqä«— ä L Smith « .nÿj . Monta*. war finance committees in speeding the arrival of V-J dav and will he the puest of Laure( ^ Wednesday June 6, for afternoon and evening ^peajdng eng-Jgm™™s The Laurel war finance committee and the Lau re! Commercial club have joined in makintr irninp'prTipnf Hîq pmIpt* ÄT•Ä^'Tusrsss« tto.~ hUr.Tn fee to ans?i&; sss?Är»s 75,000 in bonds. He spoke an how and a half, telling the people .of Butte some of the things he bdi^SuSTSiere* 1 W3r that is Being waged there. He is speak at the gymnasium of the Montana State college in Bozeman Friday. That evening he is scheduled to speak in Livingston under auspices of the Lions club, followed by a bond rally at the high school gymnaamm. He will be in Big Timber Saturday noon to ad dress the Lions club and a mass meeting at the high school athletic park in the evening. . M ? nd ay he will be at Billings, in Hardin and P'orsyth Tuesday, at Hed Lodge and Laurel Wednesday, B ''lmgs and Columbus Thursday, Roundup and Harlowton bnday and "'H attend the (To Western parade jn p |llinRg Saturday. B. M. Harris, cba > rm an of the seventh district. v J' i11 Join h . im at Ri * Timber Satur day of this we^k .and wall accom T»any him on the balance of the tour through seventh district coun ties. siastically Wherever he goes he is enthu received. Chambers of commerce and service clubs pre sent him ; thousands makes two to four or more public appearances ' daily. He will come to Laurel from Red with western gifts and come to hear him. He j Lodge on June 6, arriving here late in the afternoon. rally event here matinee for bond buyers and chil dren at 2:30 at the Royal theatre, with Smith speaking from the stage a t the close of the afternoon per formance. He will then be the guest of honor at a dinner at the Masonic temple at 6:30 under auspices of 'the Commercial club, and is to ap pear on the stage of the Royal theater twice during the evening, for the first and second shows which also are free for bond buyers, The free shows arc contributed by J. H. Moran, proprietor of the thea ter, to aid in promoting the Seventh war loan. A show ticket is given by the issuing agency with each bond purchased. The tickets are good for admittance to any of the theater appearances of Larry Smith. Moran has secured a technicolor musical, "Riding High," for the special event. It features Dorothy Lamour, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, Cass The first bond will be a free band. Bill Goodwin and Gil Lamb. The Park City band, directed by Miss Rosa Eisenman, is to give pub he com-erts, the first being early in the afternoon on First avenue m front of the theater. The band has about 30 members and is accom panied by a trio of majorettes. Vacation School Has Greater Registration The vacation church school being conductedby the Methodist church at the church parlor and the high school building has a total registra tion in the four departments of 120, which is a substantial increase over last year. There are 29 persons on the teaching staff. The school is conducted from 9 to 12 each day this week, excepting Wednesday, and will continue through the five days of next week. Diplomas will be granted those qualifying at the morning worship service on Sunday, June 10, at which time there will be a drama presented from the school under the direction of Mrs. W. T. Johnson and others. Some of the handicraft work will be on display.