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«i V»'* O* * f LAUREL OUTLOOK Official Paper of Yellowstone County FIVE CENTS LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947 VOLUME 38—NO. 37 \ Two Building Permits Are Is sued, Taxi Ordinance Passes, O'Leary Given Advance Two ordinances repealing the lim it on the number of beer and liquor licenses were adopted on final read ing Tuesday night at a meeting of the city council. The previous limit, six in Laurel's case, was invalidated by legislative enactment. A résolu ,, , . , .. , . tmn of intention to create a special lighting improvement district on East Main street was adopted. The council session was attended by Aldermen Parker, Wilson, Smith, Feuerbaucher and Thomson presided. Harlan Russell, operator of a new motel on East Main, was given per mission to erect a temporary sign, to be later replaced by a neon sign, between the sidewalk and curb on the 700 block. Frank Andrews was given per mission for a drain to empty into the city drain at the western ex tremity of Sixth street. The report of the finance com mittee on charges and rates for the sewage disposal plant was pre sented. On motion a further study was ordered. The report provides for water users to pay an extra or surcharge. Letters asking for information about Laurel, from people and con cerns in and out of the state, were referred to the Commercial club. An outdoor sign company was granted permission to erect a sign on West Main for the Chamber of Commerce at Red Lodge, subject to the A let city engineer's ter was read from the Northern Pacific regarding power for the sewage disposal plant. An application for beer and liquor licenses from Joe Marcure was granted. A building permit was issued to Henry Klockhammer to remodel five sheds into a 12 by 24-foot struc ture on lots 1 and 2, block 15, Yel lowstone subdivision. A permit was also granted Merwin Price to move a garage to adjoin his house and to construct a 6 by 12-foot addition lots 4 and 5, block 10, East on Laurel. 391, repealing 363 Ordinance which limited the number of beer licenses, was presented for final passage and was adopted. Ordin ance 392, repealing the limitation on liquor licenses as contained in provisionally passed and adopted. Another ordinance, 393, for regu lation, approval and issuing of per mits to drivers or operators of automobiles for hire, was declared provissionally passed and adopted. Reports from the water depart ment treasurer, library, police judge and police department were read and filed. Collateral in the Yellow'stone bank, guaranteeing city funds and consisting of city, school district 7 and U. S. bonds in the amount of $95,800, was reapproved. Resolution 646, declaring intention to create a special lighting district, No. 1-A, was read. It is for in stallation of lights on Main street, extending a block east of Pennsyl vania avenue to Wyoming avenue and a few posts farther east to light the Bice Truck Lines garage. The district was requested by the property owners affected, men present voted the resolution's passage and adoption. An advance to Barry O'Leary of $346 to pay for advanced costs of labor and materials for installing a sanitary sewer on Sixth avenue was approved. Small purchases or materials and equipment for departments were referred to committees and officers. A delegation of Royal Neighbors, headed by Mrs. Tony Freed, ap peared in regard to rental of a building suitable for a convention to be held here in June. Bills ap proved by the finance committee were ordered paid. Alder Celebrate Birthday OfGowen Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Rowlison were hosts at a dinner Wednesday evening honoring the birth anniver Out of sary of Charles Gowen. town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rolison of Hastings, Neb., parents of Mr. Rowlison and brother-in-law and sister of Mr. Gowen. guests were Mr. and Mrs. Gowen and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Platz. Other h ■ ) ;:W ■ * I*" ? ||i 1 ■ N f \ TINIEST RADIO - TELEPHONE ..... Dr, Cledo Brünett, U. S. bu reau of standards engineer, with V ; vest-pocket personal short wave radio-telephone displayed in right hand. The transmitter is housed In lipstick tube. People To Again Vote On Bonds For Constructing Swimming Pool Because of a Montana statute of 1945 prohibiting municipal bond is sues for construction of swimming pools, golf courses and similar amusement facilities, which has just been changed by the 1947 legis lature, Laurel will have to start from scratch and again vote on a $25,000 bond issue for its proposed swimming pool. The people at a special election last year approved the proposal, but attorneys for the purchaser of the bonds later found the 1945 statute stood in the way, thus invalidating the issue. The legislature's action in this year's Session is not retroactive. Miss Tillie Hohendorf, city clerk, said the council hopes to have the Park City Legion To Exhibit Picture Of Complete ETO Story W. F. Adams, adjutant post No. 100 of the American Legion at Park City announced this week that the post will show a motion picture with sound recording at the Park City gymnasium Monday night, March 10. It is titled "The True Glory and is a complete resume of the ETO from before D day to E-E day. The picture was released by the war department in 1945. Projection equipment for the showing at Park City will be fur nished by the army recruiting ser vice in Billings. The public is invit ed, admission free. Webbs Going To Columbus To Reside; Friends Entertain Mr. and Mrs. Ted Webb were honor guests at a social evening and farewell party when the Adult Bible Fellowship entertained in the parlors of the Methodist church. A pot luck supper preceded the evening of games and contests. Mr. and Mrs. Webb were presented with a gift from the group. The next meeting, which is also to be at the church, will have Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Everett as hosts. M ; : m 1 ate I I I I ' É II; Î1 ■ M... KINGS OF THE BAT . . . Babe Ruth, slowly recovering from his recent operation, is shown revealing the secret, heretofore told only to Lou Gehrig, that earned for him the title as king of swat. When Hank Greenberg, right, visited Ruth, he revealed the secret: "The little finger of right hand extends down below the main surface of the handle and butt. It makes the grip break at the right moment and throws the whole weight of the bat into the ball. »» i COLLECTION BEGINS Federated Club Appoints Offi cers, Team For Canvass ✓ —Woman's Club Aids Collection of Laurel's contribution ! for 1947 to the American Red Cross j was begun last week by the Feder I ated Woman's club. The quota this year is $1,100, markedly less than during the war years. Already col lected is $300, P. W. Wilson, county vice chairman, states. The Federated club appointed Mrs. ! A. J. Gatewood, chairman; Mrs. i Stanley Barrow, treasurer, and 30 others to serve on the soliciting committee. The teams are: Business district, Mrs. C. G. Scott and Mrs. C. A. Duncan. Team 1, Mrs. Herman Frickel and Mrs. Herman Miller. (Continued on Page Twelve) bond issue preliminaries done in time to allow the people to vote at the general municipal election April 7. Preliminaries include circulation of petitions and compiling and checking of lists of those entiled to vote—voters who pay taxes on real or personal property. The election April 7 is for naming city officers for the ensuing term: mayor, treasurer, police judge and two councilmen from each of the four wards. Nominating petitions must be filed not earlier than a 1 month and not later than 10/ days before election. Some petitions are 1 now being circulated. | By combining the special with the ! general election the cost for the i ! special is reduced. Giblin, Vogelphol Buy Main Street Lots For Drive-In Restaurant purchased and that a drive-in restaurant will be built there this spring, pending permission of CPA. The new business will be a part nership operation by two veterans, Giblin and his brother-in-law, Ernest Vogelphol. The Dutch Mill will con tinue in its present location and will make ice cream for the new business as well as for itself. Charles Giblin of the Dutch Mill recently announced that comer lots east of Karl George's Tower service station on Main street have been — Theta Rho Visitation _ Rebekahs Arrange For At the business meeting of Evergreen Rebekah lodge Monday evening at the L. L. club plans were discussed for a Theta Rho Girls club dinner to be held in April. The event will be in honor of a ! member of the Theta Rho board of j control on her official visitation to the club. The refreshment comfnit tee comprised chairman, Mr. Lumsdon. „ and M Mrs. Ralph ! I Announcement was made that a j class of candidates will be initiated ; at the next meeting, which will be, held at the L. L. club March beginning at 7:30. Refreshments will be served by a committee. IS MADE TO DON RUN The medal of honor has been posthumously presented by Presi dent Harry S. Truman to Pfc. Don ald J. Ruhl, United States marine corps reserve, for conspicious ser vice in the Pacific. For about a year in 1942 Ruhl was an employee of the Farmers Union oil refinery m n -*") J A / . I' t ■ « \\ PFC. DONALD J. RUHL ear ly in the fall of '42 to en * er the service, . ^lis parents resided at the time * n the vicinity of Joliet where he graduated from high school before coming to Laurel to work at the refinery. The parents are now liv ' n £ * n the Greybull, Wyo., munity. After protracted exhibition of he here and was a member of the re finery's baseball team as catcher. corn rn he sacrificed himself in action r to save a companion. The citation says: J "For conspicious gallantry and in j trepidity at the risk of his life i above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a rifleman in an assault platoon of company E, twenty-eighth marines, fifth marine division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Vol cano islands, from Feb. 19 to 21, ! 1945. j ter eight Japanese had been driven from a blockhouse on D-day, Pri vate First Class Ruhl singlehand edly attacked the group, killing one of the enemy with his bayonet and another by rifle fire in his deter Quick to press the advantage af mined attempt to annihilate the es caping troops. "Cool and undaunted as the fury (of hostile resistance steadily in creased throughout the night, he (Continued on Page Twelve) RIFLEMEN WIN IN Only 44 points, in favor of Laurel, separate the Hardin RifIe c,ub and the Laurel Rifle club in a postal Two match that was fired Feb. 19. individuals, Rogers of Hardin and Gunter of Laurel, shot perfect IT,}scores, 500 each. Hardin's total for its five highest riflemen was 2,448, while Laurel's was 2,492. Totals for individuals shooting from prone, stilting and standing positions were: i Hardin—Rodgers, 500; Thompson, 497; MacDonald, 488; Munn, 484; and Miller, 479. j Laurel—Gunter, 500; Peterson, 499; Monahan, 498; Kucera, 498, and Boyles, 497. Officers For Coming Year Named By P.E.O. j Officers for the ensuing year were elected at the meeting of chapter B, P. E. O., held at the home of Mrs. C. W. Laird Wednesday afternoon. Those elected were Mrs. Lassara Long, president; Mrs. Inez Marsh, vice president; Mrs. Mildred Foote, recording secretary; Mrs. Helen Cromwell, corresponding secretary; | Mrs. Edna Chapman, treasurer; Mrs. Margaret MacDonald, guard, and Mrs. Gertrude Smith, chaplain. Dele gates to the state convention which will meet in June at Sidney are Mrs. Long and Mrs. Marsh. A luncheon was served by the hostess committee, Mrs. Laird, Mrs D. H. McCauley, Mrs. Cromwell and Mrs. B. B. Hageman, at 1:30. Extension Chief Tells Of Agriculture's Place In Past, Future Position Tootell, Speaker At Commercial Club Farm Meet ing, Opines Americans Are Smart Enough To Find Way To Insure Abundant Production A number of fanners of the com-1 half would have no difficulty in off munity were guests last Thursday ; setting the entire output of the poor , t i ry _. , half. It adds up that as progress evening of the Laurel Commercial ... r ■ _> evening i IS niade fewer farmers are required club at a dinner and program at national the Masonic temple, with Robert B. Tootell of Bozeman, director of istic is the differential in birth rate. Montana extension service, as prin Tootell delineated economy. Another less observed character Cities are consumers of population, and 45 per cent of farm children go to the cities to maintain the cities' population by working at factory and other jobs. These reared and educat cipal speaker. "The Place of Agriculture in Our Economy" and presented a picture of the change that has taken place in agriculture as a whole during recent generations, a condition that has marked other forms of human activity. The club's new president, John Laird, presided at the brief business session proceeding the program, was the first meeting since the an nual election, and President Laird announced standing committees for the coming year as follows: Roads— B. L. Price, chairman, C. W. Laird, B. B. Hageman, H. R. Russell and C. L. Morris. Cemetery— C. W. Laird, chairman, and Peter Thomson. Programs— B. L. Price, chairman, Clyde Cromwell and Oliver Wold. Baseball— B. B. Hageman, chair man, Jackson Parker, John Tubman and Wayne Hageman. Dinners— C. H. Barney, chairman, j C. W. Laird and Charles Giblin. Commercial club building— R. B. Packard. Business hours—Stuart Johnson, chairman, R. H. Sterrett and P. A. Johnston. It Irrigation and drainage—J. W. Corwin, chairman. New industries P. H. Wilsor, chairman. Advertising — Campbell Calvert, chairman. Airport— L. W. Hageman, chair man. A general discussion was conduct ed for several minutes regarding closing hours of stores, with mem bers of the club and farmer guests participating. Oliver Wold, a friend of several years standing of the speaker, in troduced Tootell, who in about 30 minutes gave a resume of the agri cultural situation locally and over the nation, with excursions into the world conditions that affect Ameri can farmers. He began by saying that funda mental characteristics place agricul ture, an occupation almost as old hunting, in a unique position. It has operated for ages and will con tinue as long as production of food from the soil is necessary to main tain human life. As to economy as a whole, it grows more complicated each de cade because the majority of peo ple are not self-employed, farmers are a group who continue to be self-employed, while the ma jority are dependent on the actions of others. However, both the major ity and the minority are inter dependent because —of the necessi ties of life. Mentioning some of the less ob vious characteristics, the speaker said that as time passes fewer citizens are engaged in agriculture. Once 75 per cent of the people were The so employed, but during the past 100 years the percentage has stead ily shrunken, and during the recent war only 17 per cent were on fartns. Contributing causes include mechanization. Fewer people do the work that once required many. In creased efficiency has spread to livestock raising, where improved breeds yield more meat per pound of feed. Manufacturing processes once seen on farms are now done in oil fields or in the factories of the cities. Housewives no longer spin, weave, dye and make clothing, most of these operations having been transferred to the cities. The number of people needed on farms, in terms of national economy, is governed to quite an extent by the productivity of the land. The soil of the world, if evenly spread, would be only about eight inches deep. How much, and the quality as well as the quantity, has largely to do with the productivity of agri cultural lands. More people are re quired on poor land while fewer people are needed on good land. The less productive half of the 6,100,000 farms in the United States con tributes less than 10 per cent of production. With increasing know ledge, the operators of the other j ed largely at the expense of the country, while the cities get them at the peak of their productive period without bearing much of the rearing and training costs. Of the four children in the aver , , , , . , age farm family, three go to the cities, but they all continue to have an inherited interest in the farm. The boy who remains pays mort gage payments to obtain the place for himself, which constitutes a draining away of wealth to the cities. The largest contributors to the cities are the least productive farms. The movement of youth to the cities (Continued on Page Eight) SENATE IS DESCRIBED With the state legislature coming to the end of another session, J. W. Corwin, a former member of the senate for several terms, spoke be fore the Rotary club Tuesday and described the mechanics of law-mak ing by the Montana assembly. O. M. Wold, who introduced him. said it was expected that later in the month a Yellowstone county member of the legislature would address the club on the accomplishments of the 1947 session, and that Corwin with his experience as a senator would pro vide the Rotarians with a working knowledge of legislative procedure. Corwin opened by recommending that Laurel be represented in future by at least one member of the Yel lowstone delegation, and called a list of Laurel men he thought would serve well. The state constitution provides for a legislature consisting of a senate and a house of representatives. Under an amendment of 1905 the people reserved to themselves the power to propose and enact laws, excepting laws relating to appropria tions of money or laws for submis sion of constitutional amendments, and also reserved the power to ap prove or reject enactments of the legislature, except laws necessary for immediate preservation of peace, health and safety. The first reservation of power is the initiative. Eight per cent of the voters may propose a measure by petition, provided two-fifths of the counties furnish eight per cent of their voters as signers. The petitions must be filed with the sec retary of state four months before the slection. The second reservation, the refer endum, is ordered either by petition or by the legislative assembly ftself. The presiding officer of the sen ate is the lieutenant governor, while the house is governecl by a speaker elected by the representatives from among themselves. The organiza tion of the house and senate are about the only place where party lines are closely drawn. The night before the opening, the two parties caucus separately, but only the caucus of the prevailing party is of importance. In the senate the chief interest is on nomination for presi dent pro tern; the majority party's floor leader, and the committee on committees which selects all other committees. In the house the prin cipal officers are the speaker, speak cr pro tern and the floor leader, On opening day the senate and house members take the oath of of At least a day before a bill is in (Continued on Page Twelve) fice and both bodies meet in joint session to hear the message of the Next in importance is governor. the naming of committees in the senate. trodueed, a member that he will make such introduction on a certain date and gives the title gives notice