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LAUREL OUTLOOK
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Official Paper of Yellowstone County
FIVE CENTS
VOLUME 38—NO. 32
LAUREL, MONTANA, WED NESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1947
DIESELS REPLACING
NORIH COAST STEAM
Six Go Into Service This Week
Between St. Paul and Seat
tle On Nos. 1 and 2
Diesel-Electric locomotives are re
placing steam power on Northern
Pacific railway's transcontintental
North Coast limited, president C.
E. Denny announced Tuesday.
Beginning that morning out of
St. Paul and Jan 30. out of Seattle,
all North Coast limiteds will be
powered by a fleet of six giant
4500-horsepower diesels just receiv
ed from Electro-Motive division of
General Motors corporation, Denney
said.
He also announced delivery of the
first of five 6,000-horsepower
freight diesels which will be put in
service between Mandan, N. D., and
Glendive. Two 5,400-horse-power
diesejs now in service between those
terminals will be transferred to the
Tacoma division where nine freight
locomotives of that type are in serv
ice.
The new passenger diesels con
sist of three units, each equipped
with one 16-cylinder V-type, two
cycle General Motors diesel engine.
The locomotives are 151 feet, four
inches long, weigh 690,000 pounds
fully loaded and have a top speed
of 85 miles. They will power the
new streamlined North Coast limit
eds when they go into service early
next summer.
WITH FORSYTH CLUB
Shooting 1,411 of a possible 1,500,
Laurel Rifle club won a postal
match Wednesday in competition
with the Forsyth Rifle club which
had 1,328. The difference was 83
points.
In postal matches two competing
clubs fire on their home ranges and
exchange certified copies of the
scores by mail. The teams are us
ually composed of 10 men, with
the five highest scorers of each
team being counted.
Results of the match Wednesday
were:
Laurel—
Peterson
Kucera
Gunter
Boyles
Anderson
Prone Sit. Std. Total
100 100 94 294
100 100 87 287
98 97 83 278
100 94 84 278
84 274
91
99
1,411
Forsyth—
Campbell
Wilson
Meredith
Smith
Jenkins
83 279
83 274
82 272
69 260
59 243
96
100
94
97
92
98
94
97
96 88
1,328
Outstanding Teen-Ager
Is Sought For Award
As one means for determining an
outstanding 'teen-ager who express
es in his or her daily living the
ideals of community service and co
operation with others and whose
moral code indicates character
growth and exemplary citizenship,
Mrs. P. A. Johnston conferred Tues
day with Laurel school officials on
an essay writing contest carrying
a $25 bond as a prize. Mrs. John
ston represented Zidonian chapter
No. 50, O. E. S., one of 116 Eastern
Star chapters in Montana to make
such awards in May.
Mrs. Olive May Flachsenhar of
Forsyth, chairman of the grand
chapter committee, said in a com
munication authorizing the award
that delegates attending the 1946
session adopted a resolution to
merge the 1944 "Live Neighborly,
the 1945 "Golden Rule" and the
1946 "Dimes for Similes" projects.
Added to this combined sum of ap
proximately $1,500 was additional
money to purchase a bond for award
for each of the subordinate chap
ters to award.
A penel of judges in each com
munity is to select the winner with
out regard for race, creed or color.
Judging rules and a tentative pro
gram are to be later sent to the
chapters.
In addition to Mrs. Flachsenhar,
other members of the grand chap
ter committee are Mrs. Nellie Yale
Hauberg, Mrs. Mildred Graeter, T.
E. Smalley and Dr. I. W. Stam.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coil and
daughter Mary Lee, spent the week
end in Billings with Mrs. Coil's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allison.
mis or PRODUCTION,
After man had for a long time
worn skins of animals as clothing
he probably found he could twist
the hair of some animals and maka
it into a kind of cloth with which
to cover himself.
While humans
were still on the border line be
tween savagery and civilization they
began to prize sheep, which in time
became a very valuable possession.
As a result woolen fabrics have fig
ured in the lives of people for many
centuries. This was disclosed Tues
day at the weekly meeting of the
Laurel Rotary club when W. C.
Hartpence of Billings, manager for
Wilkins & Co., Ltd., wool buyers,
spoke on the subject of wool.
When the speaker was introduced
by O. K. Chapman, Chapman ex
plained that although Hartpence
was a native bom American his
parents took him to Australia when
he was an infant and that he did
not return to the United States
until he was near his majority. It
was in Australia that he had his
first knowledge of sheep and wool
and began a career that has since
occupied his attention.
After giving several minutes of
general history he turned to produc
tion, including in which were the
different outstanding breeds,
industry had its greatest develop
ment in Europe and as a conse
quence some of the principal breeds
still bear names of French origin.
Selection and breeding have contrib
uted greatly to quality and quan
tity of wool production. One of the
yardsticks of quality is length of
the curly hairs.
A characteristic of wool is that
although it will stretch it will al
ways return to its original length,
even when wet and stretched slow
ly. The hairs, comparable to fibers
in some other materials, consist of
three divisions: the outer covering
of scales forming an armour; a
soft inside layer, and a tubular cent
er. This last accounts for the ease
with which wool is uyed.
After shearing and packing into
huge bales the pelts are storted and
The
So good are the experts who do
this work they often make perfect
scores when their decisions are
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checked by chemical tests, and when
they miss it is by a trifling per
centage. To become an expert re
quires much experience as well as
natural ability.
Along the line towards cloth pro
duction there are other sortings, the
selecting of the choicest parts of.
the pelts. Black wool, which is
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gant gowns after being dyed beauti
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fore weaving is scrubbing, in which
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grease comes from the bodies of
healthy sheep, when it is absent it
indicates the animals are not well.
The dirt varies in quantity accord
ding to the locality, some areas and
states producing wool with more
dirt than others, noticeable par
ticularly where there are sandy soil
and winds. Cleansing also includes
removal of woody particles such as
weed stems, which is done chemi
cally.
Hartpence described the entire
washing process and the care exer
cised as to water temperature in
the different steps.
Weaving has experienced some
changes. One mentioned was that
many weavers* do not make the
yarn they use. That is often done
by concerns who convert the wool
into yarns for the weavers to thin,
spin and make into cloth.
The speaker brought with him
several samples of wool, used at
times to illustrate his lecture. Near
the close he said that although pro
duction of wool began in America
in the eastern states and progress
ed later to some of the middle
states, western states are now ma
jor producers, including Montana.
The wool grown here is unusually
strong.
Robins Choose To
Spend Winter Here
of the
Indicating the mildness
present winter is another report of
a robin in Laurel in January
and Mrs. James Durham and Mrs.
Hilmar Waage report having seen
a redbreast frolicking in their back
yards Tuesday.
Another robin was reported as
having been observed here Jan. 11
on Third avenue.
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Last Are Delivered Wednesday
To Postoffice—Other Parts
Of Campaign Proceed
Mailing of March of Dimes cards
and envelopes to Laurel people was
to be completed Wednesday after
noon by a group of volunteer as
sistants, Mrs. R. P. Palmer an
nounced. She is chairman of the
women's division of the Yellowstone
county chapter of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
and is also Laurel chairman. Con
tributions may be mailed to her
direct at 201 East Fifth street,
Laurel.
Those wishing to contribute and
who for some reason do not receive
cards and return envelopes may
also mail their contributions to Mrs.
Palmer.
J. Lee Hamlett, chairman of col
lections from school children, has
completed distribution of cards to
students.
Misses Vera Anderson
and Elizabeth Cook of the public
school faculty have charge of Girl
Scouts who are participating in
theater w r eek by assisting Manager
J, H. Moran in making March of
Dimes collections at the Royal
theater.
Feb. 1.
voluntary on the part of Moran; al
though the theater owners associ
ation did not agree to that part
of the program this year, Moran
decided to follow the precedent of
other years.
This will continue until
The theater collections are
EMPIRE BUILDERS 10
CLIP TRAVELING TIME
Two sleek, streamlined trains—
one rolling westward out of Chicago
and the other eastward out of Seat
tle—on Feb. 23 will inaugurate the
daily 45-hour service of Great
Northern railway's $7,000,000 fleet
of Empire Builders, President F. J.
Gavin anounced in St. Paul.
By the end of the third day all
five trains of the bright orange and
green fleet will be speeding be
tween Lake Michigan and Puget
Sound terminals, clipping 13 % hours
from the preS ent schedules of pas
senger trains over northern lines be
tween these points .
The first complete Empire Builder
off the production line on Feb. 7
wi „ 8tart at 13 - day public exhibition
tour embracing six states and Brit
j sb Columbia,
Stops will be at St.
. Paul, Mineapolis and Duluth, Min.;
1 Buperior, Wis.; Fargo and Minot,
N D . Great Falls and Whitefish,
IMont.; Portland, Ore.; Spokane, Ta
I coma ' Seattle > Everett - Wenatchee
and Bellingham, Wash., and Van
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couver, ti. t*.
The i uxur j 0 us new trains, each
with 12 cars and P owered a
two-unit 4,000-horsepower diesel lo
como ti ve , are America's first post
war fleet of transcontinental
streamliners - They offer many in
novati ons in modern rail travel.
Each train wil , have a mai] . bafî .
gage car> a 60-seat coach, three 48
S€at CO aches, a coffee shop-lounge
c a diner, f our sleepers and an
observati on-lounge.
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SAVES SISTER . . . Running out of her home in Orange, N. J., when
she heard her mother scream, "Fire," Margaret Boccino, 7, realized
that her sister, Angelina, 14 months, was still inside. Margaret
rushed back to the first floor, where the flames w'ere spreading, saved
the baby. She is demonstrating here how she saved her sister—who
apparently does not appreciate either the demonstration or the pho
tographer.
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ANGEL OF BELSEN . . . Mrs.
Sucher Frydrych, the former Luba
Tryszynska, who won the title of
"Angel of Belsen,'' when she
nursed 65 Dutch children back to
health after they had been strick
en with typhus at Nazi concentra
tion camp, shown on arrival in the
United States. The heroic girl was
decorated by the Netherlands gov
ernment and others.
STALEY FUNERAL IS
SET FOR THURSDAY
Laurel Resident Dies Of Heart
Attack Monday While
Shoveling Snow
t
Funeral services will be conducted
Thursday afternoon at the German
Congregational church for Henry
Staley, 57, who died of a heart
AfiÄtk Monday while shoveling
gravel at the stock pens in the
Northern Pacific railroad yards.
He had been injured when hit
the chest by an ice tong in the
latter part of 1945 and had sub
sequently been a patient at the
Northern Pacific hospital at Glen
dive for about a month.
Mr, Staley was bom May 29,
1889, in Russia. He came to Laurel
in 1913 and the same year married
Elizabeth Rink in Billings. For the
last 23 years he had been employed
by the Northern Pacific.
Surviving are the widow; eight
children, Henrv Stalev, Herman
Staley, Mrs. Rav Hartung, Miss
1 Lydia Staley, all of Billings; Mrs.
Pauline Fischbach, Miss Esther
Staley, Miss Amelia Staley and
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Reynold Staley, all of Laurel; two
sisters, Mrs. William Steffen of
Edgar and Mrs. Pete Schriner of
Laurel, and seven grandchildren,
The Rev. H. G. Pfeiff of the
First German Congregational church
0 f Billings will officiate and burial
will be in Laurel cemeterv
Mrs. Dwight Rowlison is a patient
; at the Deaconess hosppital in Bil
i lings where she underwent a surgi
j cal operation Saturdav.
Laird 1$ Elected Head
Of Commercial Club
Succeeds Roysdon As President, Continues All
Committee Chief—Annual and Special Re
ports Are Heard At Meeting Wednesday
In a rapidly moving election Wed-,
nesday evening at the L. L. club
the members of the Laurel Gommer
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cial club chose John Laird for presi
dent; Stewart Johnson, vice presi
dent, and Merritt Williams, secre
tary-treasurer. The new president
announced that all committee chair
men serving last year will be re
tained for 1947, with authority to
name members of their committees,
Laird succeeds Glen Roysdon as
president. Like his predecessor he
is a veteran of World War II and
is the operator of the Laird radio
and electric shop on First avenue,
Johnson, vice president, is Laurel
manager for J. C. Penney company,
Williams succeeds R. B. Packard as
ASK SCIENCE CLUB
The Science club of Laurel high
school has been invited by the
Thomas A. Edison centennial com
mittee of New York City to parti
cipate in observing the one hun
dredth anniversary
birth by constructing duplicates of
five or more of his inventions. Miss
Marguerite Roscoe, a faculty mem
ber of the high school, is the club's
advisor.
The centennial committee is com
posed of Edison's old friends and
public-spirited citizens. More than
10,000 members of Science clubs of
America have been invited to share
in the centennial event.
of Edison's
The electro-motograph, a non
magnetic loudspeaker created —for
telephone and telegraph use.
The telespecan, or "speaking tele
graph," an invention that improved
the quality of the spoken word
the telephone.
The five inventions to be made
in laboratories and workshops
the clubs are:
The phonograph, which the clubs
are asked to make out of card
board, wood and odd parts.
The ore separator, a little known
invention of Edison's which utilized
a magnet to separate ore from for
eign materials.
The Edison fuse, one of the ap
pliances he was forced to develop
when he installed electric light ser
vice.
Laurel Girl's Family
Makes Tradition Of
Attending: At Dillon
Miss Lois Crawford who is at
tending Montana State Normal col
lege at Dillon was the subject of
an unusual feature story appearing
ing in a recent edition of the college
paper. Attending at Dillon is a
tradition of Miss Crawford's moth
er's family,, according to the paper,
which said:
"The enrollment of Lois Craw
ford, Laurel, at MS.N.C. has creat
ed a record of some distinction as
she is the third generation of her
family to attend our college.
"Her mother, Mrs. M. F. Craw
ford, the former Eleanor Woolver
ton, graduated in 1926 and she was
the 1,430th student to do so. As
we traced back through the years,
we found her grandmother, Mrs. E.
W. Woolverton, nee Valeria Van Os
dol, graduated with the class of
1903 and was the forty-sixth grad
uate in the history of M.S.N.C. In
1903 M.S.N.C. graduated its sixth
class.
Wayne Willis, who has been sen'
ing as acting postmaster, was noti
fied this week that his appointment
as postmaster had been confirmed
by the United States senate.
He had been acting postmaster
the past 16 months. j
"And that is not all. Lois's uncle,
Bill Woolverton, was a degree grad
uate in 1946 and her second cousin,
Lona Lee Woolverton, graduated in
1928.
"If you can top this, drop in
and let us know.
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Willis Confirmed As
Postmaster At Laurel
secretary-treasurer and is engaged
the real estate and insurance
b I u8 k in ?"; ♦*'" sc ™ Ury ° f the
club before entering the service.
After assuming the chair, Laird
expressed appreciation for the con
j fidence exhibited and pledged his
best efforts and leadership for corn
munity advancement,
At the beginning of the meeting
rel and Columbus
banks, was introduced as a speaker
by B. L. Price, program chairman,
Harris said his remarks covered the
span of life from the cradle to the
grave. In the few minutes he oc
cupied he said the five-day week
is now being considered in the east
and by a number of industries in
the west and that banks might
adopt the system, together with
governmental agencies. What, then,
shall be done with the two idle
days? the speaker asked. He recoin
mended sports, beginning with
swimming pools for tots and end
ing with golf courses for old folks.
In between were tennis, soft hall,
baseball, volley ball and football.
Price commented that farmers
have had no setback in the number
of hours they work. Here there ia
food; elsewhere there is want, and
the starving people abroad need dol
lars with which to buy the food.
The next meeting, he said, will be
a farmers' meeting with a speaker
from the state college as the pro
gram headliner.
Packard read the secretary-treas
urer's annual report, which showed
a balance of slightly more than
$ 1 , 000 .
A request for $35 from the Mon
tana Chamber of Commerce to de
fray costs of creating a library of
Montana photographs for publicity
purposes was granted. Other com
B. M. Harris, president of the Lau
Yellowstone
munications from the state body
were read.
Stewart Johnson, head of a com
mittee to arrange store closing
hours , reported the stores had
agreed to a schedule of 8:30 a. m.
to 5:30 p. m., with the time extend
ed to 8 p. m. Saturdays. John Tub
man called attention to the fact
that the grocerymen are consider
ing shortening the Saturday closing
hour to 7 p. m. Johnson was in
structed to continue his committee
until the next meeting.
At the request of President Roya
don, ç L Morris reported on a
Canada to Mexico highway conven
tion be and B L . !>„«; had attend
ed ] as t October in Grand Junction,
overi^jQ ^ as representatives of the Lau
re i Commercial club. More than 40
delegates were present, with Presi
dent Newton of Wyoming presiding.
I It was observed that Montana had
contributed more money to the pro
' ject than all the other affected
states. Arizona had finally over
come its internal squabbles and was
ready to pay money and agree on
a route. Still undecided was the
number for the north and south
of
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Morris said it appeared to
route.
him that the work of establishing
the highway, covering a period of
several years, was nearly finished.
The Laurel club also hoard a re
port on the purchase of land for
a baseball field, a major project of
the past year.
B. M. Harris again spoke and told
of the necessity for an enabling act
by the legislature so cities and
counties may construct and own
municipal improvements as golf
courses, swimming pools and air
strips by isuing bonds.
New Conffreffational
Pastor Coming Here
From Lincoln, Neb.
A church publication, Congrega
tional Montana, published by the
Montana Congregational conference,
in its January issue announced that
Rev. Herbert C. Haemmelmann has
been called to the pastorate of the
German Congregational church at
Laurel and will begin his work here
about the middle of February. Rev.
Mr. Haemmelmann is at present
pastor of the St. John's church at
Lincoln, Neb.
Mrs. Haemmelmann is a sister of
Rev. Harry G. Pfeiff, pastor of the
German Congregational church in
Billings.
The new pastor here is successor
to Rev. T. C. Strobel who left re
cently for Portland, Ore., after serv
ing the Laurel church several
years.