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LAUREL OUTLOOK
Official Paper of Yellowstone County
LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1946
VOLUME 38—NO. 9
FIVE CENTS
Opens Sept. 22 For Two To Six
Days—Yellowstone, Carbon,
Stillwater Not Included
The Montana fish and game com
mission has announced that sharp
tailed grouse, known also as pin
tail grouse or prairie chickens, may
be shot during a six-day open sea
son in 20 Montana counties and
during a two-day season in six oth
er counties. Yellowstone, Stillwater
and Carbon counties are not includ
ed in the open areas.
For Big Horn, Blaine, Carter,
Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon,
Garfield, Hill, McCone, Phillips,
Powder River, Prairie,
Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Treas
ure, Valley and Wibaux counties the
season is from Sept. 22 to 26, both
dates inclusive. The bag limit is
three birds per day and the posses
Richland,
sion limit is six after the first day.
In Fergus, Golden Valley, Judith
Basin, Musselshell, Petroleum coun
ties the open season is Sept. 22 to
23, inclusive, with the bag limit set
at three birds the first day and
the possession limit six birds after
the first day.
Under the heading of blue grouse,
ruffed grouse and Franklin's grouse
the commission said the open season
will be two days, Sept. 22 and 23,
in Flathead, Granite, Lincoln, Min
eral, Missoula, Powell, Ravalli and
Sanders counties. Bag limit, three;
possession, six.
The hunting of upland game birds
on a state or federal preserve or
refuge is prohibited.
The fish and game commission
has adopted the federal plug-in-gun
regulation for migratory waterfowl,
which is as follows:
"Upland gams birds shall not be
taken with or by means of anv
automatic-loading or hand operated
repeating shotgun capable of hold
ing more than three shells, the mag
azine of which has not been cut
off or plugged with a one-piece
metal or wooden filler incapable
of removal through the loading end
thereof, so as to reduce the capacity
of said gun to not more than three
shells at one time in the magazine
and chamber combined."
Consignment Of 19,000
Trout Is Planted In
Yellowstone Tuesday
Continuing the program for re
stocking the Yellowstone river with
trout, the fish and game commission
with the assistance of the Laurel
Rod and Gun club planted 19,000
No. 2 size loch lavens west of
Laurel Tuesday, states C. P. Law
less, secretary of the Rod and Gun
club.
In recent years, since inaugura
tion of restocking, the catches have
become better for anglers. In early
days the Yellowstone teemed with
trout, virtually all being the native
variety.
Sgt. Schmidt In Tokyo
Talks To Parents By
Phone Tuesday Night
Mr. and Mrs. Casper Schmidt re
ceived a telephone call Tuesday
night at 10:15 from their son, Sgt.
Robert M. Schmidt of headquarters
signal service battalion in Tokyo.
The conversation was very distinct
and lasted six minutes.
Sergeant Schmidt has been in the
service three years and said he ex
pected to be discharged in Octo
ber. He told his father to have
his hunting and fishing equipment
ready for use when he arrives home.
During the conversation Mrs.
George Fahy and daughter ex
changed "Hellos" with Sergeant
Schmidt.
Foley Family Has Reunion
Arranged by Mrs. D. G. Foley, a
family reunion and picnic Sunday
at Riverside park honored a num
ber of guests of Mr. and Mrs. Foley
who were here from a distance.
They were Mrs. Joseph Corrigan
of Newton, Mass., Mrs. Mary Jane
Adt of Springfield, Mass., Mr, and
Mrs. Ed Foley of Meraa, Neb., and
Miss Rose Foley of Los Angeles.
Those present at the event were
the honor guests and Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Foley, Mr. and Mrs. Clark
Lockwood, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Hirschfelt, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Ku
cera, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Foley and
their families, and Tim Reardon.
Mustard and Fanweed
Seed Good In Ground
Feed Of Milch Cows
Bozeman, Aug. 21.—How wild
yellow mustard seed and fanweed
seed may be used as concentrate
feeds for milking cows without
harming the quality of the milk is
described in a new bulletin just re
leased by the Montana agricultural
experiment station. The bulletin,
"Wild Yellow' Mustard Seed and
Fanwed Seed as Concentrate Feeds
of Milking Cows," w r as written
by J. O. Tretsven and J. A. Nelson
of the dairy industry department
of Montana. State college.
The bulletin may be obtained
from county agents or by writing
the experiment station.
In reaching their conclusions
Tretsven and Nelson conducted
feeding trials during the winters of
1942-43, 1943-44 and 1944-45. For
the first two tests the ground seeds
of the two weeds found annually in
Montana wheat and other crops
were fed to Jersey and Holstein
cows as supplements to the grain
ration. Results were then checked
against those obtained from feed
ing soybean oil meal as a supple
mentary feed. »
In the third test a ration of 10
per cent ground wild yellow mus
tard seed as a supplement was used
and checked against a ration in
which 10 per cent extra barley
replaced the mustard seed.
Among the conclusions reached
were that cows will eat a concen
trate readily when it contains from
eight to 16 per cent of ground yel
low mustard seed; that cows will
produce 100 pounds of milk on less
concentrate and gam slightly more
m weight when 10 per cent of
ground wild yellow mustard seed is
used the that the
seeds will cause no bad effects on
flavor of milk, cream or butter, and
that the seeds have a high percent
age of other extract.
Tretsven emphasized that the
mustard seed can be fed in relative
's','"*» a 7""» 3 t»'™ " d •«"
milking without giving any bad
flavor to the milk, cream or but-1
ter, but that fanweed seed can be
fed only after milking.
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ERNEST WILSON IS
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Funeral services will be held at |
the Church of .he Na.areue Thure*
day afternoon for George Ernest
Wilson, 73, a resident of this com
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GLAIMEO Bf DEATH
Resident Of Community Since
1903 Succumbs Sunday
At Home Of Son
munity since 1903. Mr. Wilson,
who had been in ill halth since Jan
uary, died Sunday at the home of
his son, Harold Wilson.
For the last 12 years he had been
a ditch tender in charge of the
White Horse ditch,
had homesteaded
Previously he
for about nine
years, worked 10 years for the
Northern Pacific railway company,
was janitor of the Laurel school for
four years and served on the police
force for one year. He was born
March 29, 1873.
Besides the son here, survivors
include another son, Carl Wilson,
and a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Pat
terson, both of Los Vegas, Nev,,
and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted
by Rev. James H. Haueter, and
burial will be in the Laurel ceme
tery.
Department Extends
Time For Appointment
Correctional Officer
James P. Cooley, director of the
Eleventh civil service region, an
nounced that the closing date for
the receipt of applications for the
correctional officer examination for
the bureau of prisons, McNeil Is
land, Washington, will be extended
to Sept. 3, 1946, because of insuffi
cient applications. This examina
tion is for permanent appointments
and is restricted to persons entitled
to military preference. Qualified
veterans are urged to file immed
iately.
Further information and applica
tion form may be secured from the
secretary, board of U. S. civil ser
vice examiners, at any first or sec
ond-class post office.
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Visits In Mississippi
Mrs. A. A. Moser and daughter
Loretta left by plane Wednesday
for Jackson, Miss., to visit friends
and relatives.
FARM UNION TEAM
LEADS W: LEAGUE
Victory Over Legion Gives
Laurel Team Five Straight In
League, 11 For Season
The Laurel Farmers Union base
ball team downed the Yellowstone
Post team of Billings in a spark
ling contest, 6 to 3, Tuesday night.
With C. Hoffman, Laurel slab art
ist, turning in a classy three-hit
performance, the local sluggers
scored four times in the first inning
and were never headed. This is the
fifth straight
league play, against no defeats.
Led by slugging Frank Cerno
win for Laurel in
havek, who had two triples, the
Laurel team smashed out nine hits
off the combined hurling of two
Billings pitchers.
The performance Tuesday night
w'as the eleventh straight win this
season for the local team, including
four victories in winning the state
semi-pro title in Roundup last
month. Except for a brief Yellow
stone Post rally in the fifth inning,
when they scored three runs, C.
Hoffman kept the Billings team well
in check.
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Yellowstone Post
Farmers Union
Batteries : Y e 11 o w s t one Post—
Grieves, Rogers and Burke. Farm
ers Union—C. Hoffman and Burns.
ROMANS HEAR TALKS
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Fellow* of Rininor* voter
J- Fellows *f Bilhave
se J™«®««« *>r this district.
spoke Tuesday at a meeting of the
Rotary club and described training
availab e to and being carried on
for veterans who avail themselves
G I e Mlî° Z I mSSS Lrf' S'*
<*. }■ "11. He differentiated the
easier disabled veterans measure.
" >c s i operates, and the later,
Roth nVov.'He tra ; n : ntr ti, r ♦ 1
ianJ the P sec^nd ÎS % ;
finding to tho votor g T . e r J ° T 1
d t
biU ak 0 nrovfdes for « h
bill also provides for schooling, but j
Uceshtns^hT a " d appren ' j
of eOnr-aHon to f b th fonT1 f
of education the veteran must
c ioo s e \\ ne e \m ta e.
!thp pmninvpr L™ app ^ ntl f ship i
I™ ®P art of the ;
IcorHinrr tl L the wages ac-jto
ti Æ • ? adopted at tbe j
pmmpiît^ training begins. The gov-,
iff thp 1 «.v. up dlffe,<ence i
„ J 1 ®, p 1 , her ® the employer,
fig—
in such instances the plant must
first be certified as acceptable to
the veterans administration. The
i training period varies, depending
the nature of the trade and the
length of time the veteran
the service.
In academic training a veteran
is given a year, plus as
months as he was in the service.
For many this amounts to a four
year course in college or univer
The government's intent is
give its youthful ex-soldiers
school or job training they select.
Part of Fellows' work is advis
ing G. Ls and their dependents. He
mentioned the
on
was in
manv
sity.
to
many his office
handles.
Fellows was introduced by P. A.
Johnston of the August program
committee.
Also appearing on the program
were Chairman C. E. Wicks of the
county board of commissioners and
G. W. Fenton, a member from this
district.
of the proposed new courthouse and
told why a new building is needed
by the county government. All they
ask, Fenton said, was an opportuni
ty for the taxpayers to say whether
they favored a new structure
would retain the old.
They presented the
cas
or
Charles B. Sande, Laurel attorney,
was the spokesman for the commis
sioners and went into a number of
details in connection with the court
house proposal.
Minister Enjoys Vacation
Rev. M. J. Wilcox, pastor of the
Laurel Methodist church, who with
his family is visiting in the east,
wrote Aug. 17 that they would
leave Kalamazoo, Mich., Sunday for
Detroit and that while there they,
would attend a baseball game be
tween the Tigers and St.
Browns.
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Louis
The weather has been
rather warm and
muggy, "but I
have seen it worse,
wrote. "I preached last Sunday at
my home church. At our family
reunion there were 30 at dinner.
The kids are enjoying swimming in
Lake Michigan and
lakes.
the minister
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the smaller
'Application Forms For Terminal Pay
A vailable; V eterans Get $2.7Billion
PETITIONS CIRCULATE
FOR BONO ISSUE FOR
Petitions asking for an election
on a bond issue for construction of
a new county courthouse to replace
the structure that has been in use
the past 43 years are being circulat
ed here this week for the signatures
of Laurel taxpaying residents who i
are qualified to vote.
The proposal is the outgrowth of
j
a survey of opinion that was con
ducted in the year when officials
told of the increasing crowded con
dition existing in the courthouse and
the need for more room in which ;
to carry on the functions of countv
'
government. Opinion seemed to fa
j
vor a new building, with the result :
that the bond issue proposal will |
be submitted to a vote when the
space.
The present building was adequate
in 1903 when it was constructed,
but since then the population of
the county has continuously increas
60 and the demands for service
necessary number of signatures arc
placed on the petitions.
Danger of loss of records by
fire is one of the arguments ad
vanced in favor of a new court
house, and another of almost equal
importance is the need for office
grown in proportion. All
available space is now in use> in -l
eluding basement rooms that were
original , y intended for storage and
hea ting.
The vault in the office of the
"""'S' ' le ' k «"<1 to the
only one re sting on a foundation in
the earth. The otherSj inc luding(
the county treasurer's office, are
suspended ai,d ar * without direct
earth support. In case of a fire
tbe y and their contents would fall
be destroyed. Many of the i
records are not replaceable. Num
erous old papers and books are now
stored on shelves constructed in the
att i c under the clock. !
As county-operated departments
were added from time to time dur- j
the years it became necessary j
take over other buildings, includ- j
ing school structures in Billings, for
offices and unprotected storage. !
The board of county commissioners
charged with protecting the inter-1
I" W " K
opinion
has expressed the
its members would
be ,
neglectful were they to fail to in
form the citizens of the county of
the need and the hazards and to
give the voters an opportunity to
say whether a new courthouse is
to be constructed. For that purpose
C. E. Wicks, chairman, and G. W.
Fenton, a member of the board,
were here Tuesday to present the,
case to Laurel citizens.
The amount of the contemplated
bond issue is $820,000, according to
the petitions which recommend "de
molishing and removing the old,
courthouse and for building a new
courthouse large enough to house all
county offices, including probation
office, agricultural extension serv-|
ice, department of public welfare,
weed control, city-county health
unit, county jail, Midland Empire
fair office and Montana State Beet
Growers association office, and to
fumish and supply the same with
office furniture and fixtures.
Return From Rainbow Meeting
Rotiimi nn . Ufti
whprf>nttpnHod flip errand
emfa v of 1 Sr o/ LT i
for Girls Mrs PA Johnston
mother advisor of * the Laurel as- '
_ ta- _i
gerv Lmf Hartley and Mrs 'm F '
Crawford, reported a good ' attend
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ance at the two-day sessions, bev
eral honors were received by the
Laurel assembly members inc i uding
the appearance on the Tuesday
w-ncr-ow, „4; »» t .
KTaycd
ection, and Gwen Dyer, who was
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chosen to serve on the assembly
auditing committee.
Schaff's Brother Dies
Requiem mass was celebrated at
St. Patrick's Catholic church in Bil
lings Wednesday morning for Mich
ael Victor Schaff, 64, brother of
Harr' Schaff, who died in a Billings
hospital Monday. He was a ranch
er and farmer at Belmont where he
had resided since 1927. Burial was
in the Mount view cemetery at Bil
lings.
Law Is First Basic Change In 70 Years; Allows
Officers and Enlisted Personnel Identical
Leave—Forms Are At Postoffice
Forms on which veterans and
those still in active service are to
file claims for terminal leave pay,
as provided by recent congression
al legislation, were received Wed
nesday morning at the Laurel post
office, Wayne Willis, acting post
master, announced. All service per
sonnel coming under provisions of
the act are invited to procure the
forms at the postoffice.
Mrs. Jean Kabrick, executive sec
retary of Yellowstone chapter of
the Red Cross at Billings, also an
nounced that the county chapter will
furnish assistance when desired in j
filling out the application forms. |
An announcement from
Sixth I
army headquarters in San Francisco
said the act - wbich equalizes the
leave benefits of officers and en
listed personnel now on active duty,
will bring an estimated $2,700,000,
noo i
in cash and interest-bearing
five-year bonds into the pockets of
about 15,000,000 former army, navy,
marine corps and coast guard mem
bers. The act, signed into law Aug.
9 by President Truman, is the first
major revision of armed force leave
policies in 70 years,
law respecting army and navy of
ficers' leaves dated from 1874 and
The basic
was last amended in 1876.
The new law gives officers and
i ceS identical leave rights and lim
its the amount of leave which anv
individual may accrue to 60 days,
instead of the maximum of 120 davs
f or officers as heretofore Instead
of accumuTat.ng a large amount of
feavJ a Tindividuals ^iH be per .
fitted to take a« much leave as
ls consistent with the milita"
duties> averaging 30 days a vear.
Men still in active service who
have accumulated from 60 to 120
davs leave as of Sept. 1, 1946, will
enlisted men and women of all serv
be reimbursed in cash and bonds
for the balance over 60 davs, and
on Sept. 1 will have to their credit
60 davs leave. As more leave
time accrues to these persons they
must take their leave or lose credit
f or it.
Persons who have left the service
will be paid in cash and bonds for
accumulated leave not taken up t
120 days between Sept. 8, 1939, and
and Sept. 1, 1946. The following
are the steps for veterans to take
i n applying for this payment:
i. Obtain from any postoffice in
'
o
U "' ted
and the instruction
If assistance
or possessions a
form entitled "Claim' for Settlement
Unused Leave
sheet which goes with it.
the instruction sheet,
j s desired it may be obtained at
any of the more than 3,000 veterans
community information or advisory
centers throughout the nation, or at
the office of any state or county
veterans service officer,
ments made in the form before a
notary public or other civil officer
authorized
2. Fill out the form, following
3. Swear or affirm the state
to administer oaths.
The majority of the community in
formation or advisory centers will
provide this notarial service free
of charge.
4. Mail the completed form, to
gether with the discharge certificate
of service for each period of serv -1
ice covered in the claim, to the
appropriate army, navy, marine
corps or coast guard paying officer
listed on the reverse side of the
claim form. The discharge certi
ficate forwarded may be the or
ipinal certificate given the individu
al at the time of his separation, a 1
P b °tostatic copy of the certificate
or a copy certified to be a true
cop - v by a state or
' aut ' lor ' z ® d to make such certiflca
tions. If the original discharge
' has been lost or destroyed, a certi
£ cate *" lie ".°J the discharge should
be sent, which will be considered
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as , valld e y ,de " ce for payment °"
appl.ca ion to the appropriate one of
th * foll TV?* a f nc ' es:
The Adjutant Genera of the
4300 Go.df.no. Bird*. St.
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Chief of Naval Personnel, Navy
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HQ S'. £
Marine Corps, Washington 25, D.
Commandant of the Coast Guard, j
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Washington 25, D. C.
In the case, of former army per
sonnel a form on which to apply
for the certificate may be obtained
at any recruiting office. Army and
navy paying officers suggest that
before mailing the original dis
charge certificate, the veteran ar-1
range to have at least one photo
static copy made for his own files.
If the amount due the claimant
is less than $50, or if the claim
ant was last separated from active
service before Jan. 1, 1943, payment
in full will be made by treasury
check. For amounts of $50 and
above, payment will be made in
bonds in multiples of $25, with a
check for the balance. Exceptions
will be made in the cases of per
sons who have died since separa
tion, or have become insane or oth
erwise adjudged incompetent.
All payments will be at the rate
of pay in effect at the time of the
last separation as an enlisted per
son, in the case of veterans. Per
sons still on active duty will have
their enlisted leave compensated for
at the last enlisted grade or rat
ing held.
The Leave act placed a one-year
limit on the time for applying for
leave payments, but at the same
time made it possible for the claim
ant to wait the maximum time and
not lose on the maturity date of
the bonds. All claims to be con
sidered must be filed by Sept. 1,
1947.
The bonds are backed by the
United States government, but are
non-negotiable and non-transferable.
They may not be pledged as col
lateral or otherwise used in finan
cial operations of any type except
for payment of premiums, loans or
conversion of government or nat
ional service life insurance.
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General Ajrent At Capital Was
Former Station Agent Here
—Is Buried In Iowa
Neil Baird, who began his career
with the Northern Pacific railway
41 years ago in Montana, died
Aug. 16 in Washington, D. C., where
he had been general agent, passen
ger department, since 1940. He was
61 years old.
Beginning as a clerk in the Bil
lings freight office in 1905, Mr.
Baird was employed also in Butte
and Laurel before going east in
1926 as traveling passenger agent
at Milwaukee. While in Laurel he
was station agent. He subsequently
represented the company in Des
Moines and Kansas City before go
ing to Washington to head N. P.'s
newly created travel office. In the
national capital during the war
years he was able to serve many
of his old Montana friends who
went to Washington on business.
Mr. Baird is survived by Mrs,
Baird, two daughters and a son.
Burial was at Des Moines.
The growth of Laurel and the in
creased tempo of business activity
in this area is forcefully shown by
some telephone information released
today by R. B. Packard, Laurel
manager of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph company,
Company-wide information prove
similarly that business activity is at
» j all-time high in the entire Non*
tain Mates territory.
Although many people believed
that the end of
GROWTH OF'PHONE USE
war see
a definite leveling off, if not a de
cline, in demand for telephone ser
vice, the eleven months since V-J
day have witnessed unprecedented
new demands for service, as well as
record-breaking usage of telephones
by subscribers.
In Laurel, there were 647 tele
phones in service June 30, 1941. Al
though wartime demand for new
telephone sendee was very great,
material shortages held down the
gain in telephones, and in June, 1945,
this number had increased only to
a total of 810. At the present time,
with almost all orders filled, there
are 971 telephones in Laurel. Thus,
in one year, this exchange has gain
ed (almost as many telephones as)
in the four preceding years,
The same general trend is true
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