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LAUREL OUTLOOK
Official Paper of Yellowstone County
LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1946
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VOLUME 37—NO. 49
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On some far distant shore, I sleep, that tyranny shall rule no more.
Guard well your trust, and keep America free, forevermore!
SINGERS PRESENT
RECITAL PON CLUBS
Unity Club Entertains Park
City, Laurel Garden Clubs
At Luncheon, Program
The Unity Garden club entertain
ed at the Methodist church Thursday
at a 1:30 luncheon when the guests
were Mrs. P. T. Baker of Billings,
president of the Montana Federa
tion of Garden clubs, and members
of the Park City and the Laurel
Garden clubs.
Following the luncheon about 100
persons were in attendance at the
"All Montana" program presented
by the Laurel choral society group.
With Mrs. J. H. Albertus, accomp
anist, the group comprises Mrs. F.
M. Braswell, Mrs. G. C. Paisley,
Mrs. R. C.* Brown, Mrs. J. H. Moran,
Mrs. M. J. Wilcox, Mrs. L. W.
Hageman and Mrs. P. A. Johnston.
A history of each of the songs on
the program was given in a com
mentary by Mrs. Johnston. The
choral group plans to present the
same program at the Montana bi
ennial convention of Woman's clubs
to be held in Great Falls.
The program opened with the
singing of
L'Ensemble" by H. S.
McCartney.
"Mountain State," by Frank L. and
Minnie Kern, solo parts by Mrs.
Paisley and Mrs. Braswell with last
verse sung by the entire group;
"We Love Our Own Montana," by
Nona Alice Weiser, sung as a duet
by Mrs. Hageman and Mrs. Brown,
with the chorus by the group; "Be
neath Montana Skies," by Mel
Nokes with Mrs. D. J. Hoppel, so
loist, and chorus; "In the Bitter
root Valley," by H. S. Johnson,
solo by Mrs. Albertus, with Mrs.
Hageman as accompanist; "Have
You Ever Seen Montana," Mrs.
Paisley, soloist and with chorus;
"God's Cathedral," by Elmer Fiock,
sung by Mrs. Braswell; Montana
State song by the entire assembly.
As the concluding number, Mrs. Al
bertus and a group sang "Montana
Wonderland," composed by Mrs.
Carl Rollwitz of Billings, formerly
of Laurel.
The members were:
II
Mrs. James Speare was hostess
last week to her card club anl
Mrs. E. R. Bradford, a guest. Priz
es at five hundred during the eve
ning went to Mrs. H. A. Edgmond, (
first, Mrs. F. N. Barney, second, and
Mrs. Anthonv Freed, the travel
prize.
ed with a guest prize.
Mrs. Bradford was present
Memorial Service
For Michaelis Is
Set For Thursday
Memorial services will be con
ducted Thursday by Rev. Theodore
C. Strobel at the German Congre
gational church for Pfc. Alexander
He had
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ALEXANDER MICHAELIS
Michaelis who died May 16 in Ger
many of injuries sustained in an
automobile accident.
Private Michaelis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Michaelis, had been in
the army 17 months,
served 15 months mil
She
itary policeman, and had been
awarded three battle stars, the com
bat badge, the good conduct medal.
He ws bom April 23, 1926, at
Wakeeney, Kan.
Funeral For Carbon
Matron Is Conducted
Mrs. Shirley Penninger attended
funeral services in Red Lodge Wed
nesday for Mrs. C. E. Hudson, 67,
of Roberts.
Mrs. Hudson had been a resident
of Carbon county 32 years,
came to Montana from Iowa when
21 years of age and taught at Gebo,
a mining camp.
She married Claude E. Hudson of
Joliet at Wayne, Neb., in 1908.
Since last December she had been
living in Billings with her daugh
ter, Mrs. Fred Beckert. In addition
to her daughter, she is survived by
a brother, D. H. Cunningham of
Sioux City, Iowa.
Burial was in the Roberts ceme
tcry.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwab
were guests this week of Mr.
Schwab's mother, Mrs. John Schwab
and family.
SEEK TO HALT ABUSES
IN SURPLUS PROPERTY
SALES TO VETERANS
Five leading veterans' organiza
tions have announced they will sup
port efforts of the war assets ad
ministration to wipe out abuses of
certification to buy surplus proper
ty. The announcement followed a
meeting of the veterans policy com
mittee of the war assets administra
Montana distribution by the Helena
regional office of WAA.
The veterans policy committee de
dared a benefit which comrress bad
ciareu a oenem wnicn congress nau
conferred upon veterans as a group
was being jeopardized by unscrup
ulous persons who were perverting
the provisions of the surplus prop
erty act and the procedures of the
WAA to acquire goods which should
go to veterans seeking legitimately
to avail themselves of their right
to purchase them.
• Members of veterans' organiza
tions who are approached with pro
posais for misuse of their certifi
cates to buy will be urged to re
port such proposals to Joseph F.
Carroll, director, compliance en
forcement division, WAA, Railroad
Retirement building, Washington, D.
C., it announced.
tion, consisting of representatives
of the irganizations, with WAA of
ficials, and has been released for
The veterans group also will as- j
sist the WAA in combating viola- j
tions of the law r in surplus disposal,
which involves abuse of the priority;
or preference of any other group j
under the surplus property act.
Carroll told the committee that
representatives of his division had
uncovered indications that a small j
minority of veterans had acquired j
surplus property for others after
certifying that the property was for |
their owm use. He pointed out that j.
such veterans laid themselves open :
to prosecution for violation of the j
U. S. criminal code and the sur
P* us property act, wdiich call for
D6IGSfäl6S To Powell
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Fourteen members of the Walther
League of St. John's Lutheran
church went to Powell, Wyo., last
week to attend a rally of Walther i
League representatives of the dis- j
Present at the session were
revere penalties for obtaining gov
eminent property on false repre
sentations.
Walther LeagTlG Sends
trict.
119 delegates.
The main features of the session
were Bible study and the quest for
talent.
COMMENCEMENT IS
ATTENDED BK 600
Dr. Seiko. Chancellor Of Uni
versity, Speaks On Citizen
ship In Times Of Crisis
Approximately 600 relatives and
friends of the graduating seniors of
school
! Laurel high
] school's
attended the
thirty-seventh
I ment Friday at the gymnasium and
; heard Dr. George A. Selke, chancel- !
lor of the University of Montana, in !
one of his first addresses since j
commence
coming to the state.
In caps and gowns the 37 grad- j
uates occupied the platform and re- j
ceived their diplomas from C. A. j
Cromwell, president of the board j
of education, after being presented
by Supt. Fred W. Graff.
Dr. Selke's address was on j
"Christianship in Times of Crisis." I
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Eerie Stillness Prevades Laurel
Railroad Yards During 2-Day Strike
The two-day nation-wide strike of
railroad trainmen and engineers
which officially began last Thurs
day at 4 p. m. and ended late
Saturday afternoon, produced an
eerie quietness in Laurel railroad
yards, the like of which had never
before been experienced.
Instead
SOFTBALL SEASON
TO OPEN MONOM
First Game Is Between Refin
ery, Shops—Schedule For
Week Is Announced
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Using a diamond east of the high
school football field, teams sponsor
ed by the refinery and railroad
shops will open the Laurel softball
league
Monday evening,
season
June 3. Announcement of the first
game and the schedule for the first
week was made Tuesday by Rob
ert Freund of the V. F. W., the
organization promoting the league
as part of a general plan for com
munity entertainment and activity.
The week's schedule follows:
Monday, June 3, Refinery and
Railroad Shops.
Tuesday, June 4, Tubman Food
Mart and O. M. Wold Co.
Wednesday, June 6, Board of
Trade and Gas Co-Op.
Thursday, June 6, Cheerio and
Palace Bar.
Friday, June 7, V & R and Green
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in B tarage.
Saturday, June 8, Chapman Phar
^acy and Rilroad Roundhouse.
Freund said that those wishing to
play in the softball league are urg
team managers as soon as possime.
A schedule of play will be publish
ed each week.
As there is but one field at pres
en t, each team will play one game
a "eek, Monday through Saturday,
at 5 p. m.
As softball equipment has arrived,
team managers have onlj to furnish
jerseys and caps. Players are to,
provide their own glo\es, except
ca tcher and first baseman.
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Kotailcl ClUD Ends
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Marking the close of activities
for ^ g J ason tbe Rotana club met
. ' ,
tor a P'cmc dinner ami program
Monday evening at Riverside park.
Fifteen members of the Billings Ro
tana were guests of the club.
Miss Helen Daniels, president of
the Billings club, entertained with
piano selections. Games occupied
the remainder of the evening.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements comprised Miss Grace
Stadalman, chairman, Miss Rosella
Fritz and Mrs. Lois Deuse.
The club's regular sessions will '
be resumed in the fall.
Mrs. Duncan Goes To New York
Mrs. Ada Duncan of Livingston
who had been visiting her son and
daughter-in-law*, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Duncan, left Monday night
for New York, accompanied by her
daughter, Mrs. E. J. Thompson of
Malverne, Long Island, N. Y., with !
whom Mrs. Ada Duncan will spend
Mrs. Thomp- i
part of the summer,
son recently visited her sister, Mrs. I
George Olmstead, in Livingston.
Veterans March In
Annual Observance
Of Decoration Day
Service Men's Organizations Join In Arranging
Details Of Ceremony At Laurel Cemetery—
Rev. C. 0. Anderson Is Speaker
Between two and three hundred
veterans arc expected to march
Thursday in Laurel's observance of
Decoration day, the first since thej
close of the war. All veterans' or-1
ganizations and auxiliaries arc to
participate.
Veterans, the high school band,
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and others
are to assemble at Laurel high
school at 9:30 and proceed south
of the day and night bustle of
activity prevailing there constant
ly since the yards were built some
40 years ago, not a wheel turned;
cars stood as they had been left
when the strike began.
Breaking the profound silence, a
trainload of soldiers pulled into the
yard late Thursday afternoon from
off the Burlington's Denver
and passed on to Billings,
the empty passenger equipment
went west over the Great Northern.
but
line
Later!
First-class mail moved,
the Laurel postoffice like others
throughout the nation refused sec
ond-class matter intended for out
side distribution. As a result, news
papers depending on the mails for
delivery were delayed two three
days before beginning their journey
to distant points.
The strike ended Saturday after
noon while President Harry Truman
was reading a message to congress,
asking for special legislation. A
note was handed him while he was
addressing the house and senate.
He hesitated a few seconds while
examining it and then read it aloud
over the radio. It said the strike
had been settled according to the
president's terms.
A little later the workers were
notified by their union heads and
at once returned to their jobs. Be
fore the night ended the familiar
whistle of locomotives was heard
and rail traffic was again moving.
... .
To remove uncertainty concerning
giam price ceilings between now
and June 30, 1947, and to encourage
movement of grain for shipment
abroad as we)] as for human con .
sumption in this country and es
f
sential livestock feeding, a govern -
ment price policy has been an-1
nounce( j jointly by the office
econorn ic stabilization, department
0 f agriculture and OPA. Grain
price ceiling increases effective May
were announced, and increases
- n f ee d prices to a normal
relationship with the new grain
prices. The announced price sched
u j e can be expected to continue,
-without change, until June 30, 1947,
the agencies stated.
department of agriculture an
nounced the 30-cent bonus corn pur
chase program terminated at close
of business Mayll. Payment of
the 30-cent bonus on wheat deliver
ed to the government on or before
2 5 ; w ju be made as originally
announce d.
Necessity for using more grain
for direct consumption, and less for
feeding, means that next year there
■will be less pork, poultry and eggs,
and less top grade beef. The total
supply of these foods, however, is
expected to be above prewar levels,
It is planned to make no price ceil
j n g increases on these products dur
ing the year ahead, except as re
quired by changes in parity, as
provided by law r . Because of neces
sity for maintaining milk produc-
tion, consideration will be given to
increased feed costs in any further
adjustment in returns to dairy
farmers. The aim in dairy produc
tion will be to maintain output as
close as possible to the record levels
of the past two years.
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Mr. and Mrs. James Morris spent
last week end in Huntley, the guests
SET GRAIN CEILINGS
of Mrs. Morris' brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ruland.
on Colorado avenue to Main street.
Arriving at Main street the pro
cession will turn west and march
j
() f town,
From the L. L. club the veterans
| and others will go in cars at 10
I o'clock tq the cemetery north of
j Laurel for the ceremonies appropri
| ate to Memorial day. I'aul Shively
is to offer the invocation, a firing
squad from the Veterns of Foreign.
Wars will salute the dead and the
! to the L. L. club at the west side
.
will place flowers and Dags on the
graves of deceased veterans of all
wars. Taps will be blown by a Boy
Scout bugler.
The speaker for the occasion will
be Rev. C. O. Anderson, pastor of
Our Savior's Lutheran church who
j
| years the Laurel veterans will not
' go to Dark City cemetery for Mem
has just returned from five years
of service in the army as chaplain.
Fred W. Graff will be in charge
of the program. Selections will be
played by the whole band.
Organizations cooperating in this
year's observance are American Le
gion, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
I their respective auxiliaries, Amvets,
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
For the first time in several
(, rial day ceremonies, as a recently
formed I'ark City post of the Le
f»i°n will have charge of the ob
servance there.
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RIES, ROTARY SPEAKER
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DESCRIBES PRINCIPLES
OF SALESMANSHIP ART
The art of salesmanship was de
scribed Tuesday at a meeting of
the Rotary club by Ronald Ries of
Billings, vice president and sales
manager of the Billings Implement
company and member of the Bill
ings Rotary club. He was introduc
ed by Allen Gatewood, a program
committeeman.
Like recruiting officers of the
army, sales managers enlist
cruits, Ries said. A screening then
takes place to select those best
fitted to do the work, for the em
ploying concern has an investment
of $5,000 or more a year for each
salesman's travel expense and sal
ary. Some well experienced author
ities consider 90 per cent work and
10 per cent intelligently directed
effort as necessary for a salesman's
measurable success.
A third step is to correct offend
in P manerisms if any exist, and
equip the firms representative with
■ f ac t U a! information on the goods he
sells and their worth to the buyer.
ofiln an aside Ries said that the
deal must represent true value, else
it is not a sale but a swindle,
Selling technique involves right
approach, recital of a convincing
array of facts, and if the prospect
ive buyer actually needs the goods
on services offered the final action
is conclusion of the sale, or sign
ing on the dotted line,
The speaker went to some length
in describing the selection of sales
men, and compared present and
earlier methods.
Which during the war was an ex
tensive school and laboratory in as
ccrtaining the working of the hu
man mind, the science of psychology
is now r extensively used. The effort
is to prevent the unsuccessful plac
ing of round pegs in square holes,
alike displeasing to the employer
and prospective salesman. Ries
quoted an authority who some years
ago said he believed the greatest
advances of the then unfolding fur
tore would be in the fields of ma
re
As in the army,
tcrial science and the human mind.
Ries said he believed the authori
ties prediction had been proved
correct in late years.
Going from the selling of goods
and services to the selling of ideas,
the speaker said that for both
goods and ideas it is necessary by
facts and persuading argument to
create desire in the mind of the
buyer.
When concluding his address, Ries
said he believed the greatest sales
man of all times was Jesus Christ
who
sold
"
an idea that has not
only survived but has grown im
measurably in nearly 2,000 years.