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LAUREL OUTLOOK
Officiai Paper of Yellowstone County
LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1947
VOLUME 38— NO. 52
FIVE CENTS
CITY ACCEPTS LAND
FOR BALL PARK AND
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Offer Is Made By Committee
From Commercial Club—City j
The city accepted 7.8 acres of land
offered by the Laurel Commercial
To Direct Improvements
club as a combination football and.
baseball field and municipal play
ground when it met Tuesday even-!
ing. The offer of the land was
made by a committee from the Com
mercial club, headed by Paul Wil
son. The suggestion was adopted
that the tract, purchased during the
past year by the club, be trans
ferred to the city to facilitate mak
ing improvements under the city's
supervision. The committee inform
ed the council that the land and
night-lighting equipment had been
paid for and that the lights are
now here for installation. The club
requested the services of the city
engineer for making a plat of the
land.
The council ordered an investiga
tion of the origin of a fire on Jun
iper avenue last week, with a re
port to be made at the next meet
mg.
Mayor Peter D. Thomson presided
at the session, attended by Aldermen
Freebury, Parker, Corner, Feuer
bacher. Tubman, Smith, Rodgers and
Wold.
T. W. Schessler appeared before
the council regarding bringing a
subdivision, east of Colorado avenue
and extending north of the city
limits, into the city,
was taken.
The council ordered that leases on
properties in Riverside park be re
drawn. They are to contain clauses
stipulating disposal of garbage, with
expiration dates at uniform inter
vals.
No action
A check from Foote Sign com
pany, representing yearly rental of
space on West Main was accepted.
Ordinance No. 396 was finally pass
ed and adopted. May reports were
presented from the city clerk and
the city treasurer. A letter from
the Commercial club, recommending
parallel parking was filed. A list
of delinquent licenses was pre
sented and read. An easement from
J. C. Gruhlke for right-of-way for
a water line to the cemetery was
approved.
An application for a permit by
Robert Metzger to build a 24 by 20
frame garage on lot 5, block 6,
Park subdivision at a cost of $40
was granted.
Other applications granted were:
Daniel E. Sharp, 30 by 50 com
bination shop and residence on lots
19 and 20, block 6, Young's Sec
ond subdivision, at a cost of $6,500.
Fred Vogel, Jr., 22 by 24 frame
house, lots 3 and 4, 10,
lowstone subdivision, $3,000.
Laurel Co-op association, 90 by
70 station of tile and brick with
three underground gas storage tanks,
on lot 1, block 28, Allard subdivision,
$32,000.
John Chyle, moving a 12 by 14
frame building from Billings to
lots 17 and 18, block 7, Laurel
Heights, $200.
Jake Kautz, 20 by 20 addition,
lots 6 and 7, Yellowstone subdivis
ion, $650.
Edward Martian, 18 by 28 frame
garage, lot 18, block 30, Allard sub
division, $600.
B. A. Sherrow, 60 by 100 ware
house, railroad right-of-way, West
Main, $4,500.
An application by Christ Gjefle
to build a temporary frame build
ing, 28 by 30 on lots 29 and 30,
block 13, Nutting Subdivision, at a
cost of $500 was referred to the
aldermen of that ward, with auth
ority to act.
Phillip Ostwalt was given permis
sion to raise a house and install
a concrete foundation o n lots 4 and
5. block 3, Yellowstone subdivision,
at a cost of $400.
A permit was renewed for Herman
Michael to move two buildings to
lot 8, block 18, Yellowstone subdi
vision. A renewal was also given
Harlan Russell for a tourist motel,
The park committee was auth
orized to act in the matter of plac
ing lights on the north side of tjie
dance hall at Riverside park.
A study of the contract for pump
ing water for the Northern Pacific
was referred to the water and
finance committees, who were given
authority to negotiate a rate of
charges with the Northern Pacific.
SOME STRAWBERRIES
One of the most beautiful
boxes of strawberries we have
seen came from the rich soil
of the garden of Mr. and Mrs.
R. J. Harris at Park City re
cently. The largest berry meas
ured 5Vz inches in circumference,
and the average was 4% inches.
Eigheen berries filled a pint box.
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LAW EFFECTUE JULY I
On and after July 1, 1947, in ac
cordance with Chapter 208 of the
1947 Session Laws of Montana,
every applicant for a marriage li
cense in the state of Montana must
file with the clerk of court or any
P" 80 " authorized to issue marriage
j licenses, a certificate stating he or
; she has obtained a medical examin
I ation, including a serological blood
i f° r syphilis, from a physician
i ^ licens . ed , to practice medicine.
Ine examination and blood test
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T** ba made within twenty days
. the date of issuance of the mar
riage license,
Briefly, the precedure is: The ap
plicant for a marriage license con
sults a physician for an examination
and blood test. The physician sends
a specimen of the applicant's blood
to an approved laboratory desig
nating that it is for a premarital
test. The laboratory examines the
specimen and transmits a confident
ial report of the results to the phys
ician together with a certificate say
ing that such a test has been made
upon a given date. The results of
the test are not stated upon the cer
tificate.
According to the law, the phy
sician, after careful examination of
the applicant and the laboratry re
port then certifies upon the certif
icate that he has made such an ex
amination and has informed each
party to the proposed marriage con
tract of the results of the labor
atory report. He then the
certificate to the applicant, who after
signing it, may present it to the
county clerk who issues the mar
riage license.
Any duly licensed physician in any
state or territory may be consulted
Certificate forms provided by other
states having comparable laws will
be accepted for persons who have
been examined and who have
ceived blood tests for syphilis out
side of Montana provided that such
tests were made within the 20-day
period mentioned: Blood tests made
outside the state must be made in
an approved laboratry which includ
es only official laboratories main
re
tained by a state or territory labor
atories of the U. S. army, navy or
public health service.
FAGG HEADS STATE
CHINA DELIEE BODY
Declaring "American dollars will
be translated into the foundations
of a strong and friendly China,"
Mearl L. Fagg of Billings announced
the Montana executive committee for
the sixth annual united service to
China appeal. Fagg's announce
came following official confirmation
of his appointment as state drive di
rector by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.,
national chairman. Assisting Fagg
in the campaign to raise funds for
continuation of medical, education
al and welfare work among the
Chinese people is Robert M. Waters
of Billings, who will act as state
treasurer.
Other members of the executive
group include Tony Boyle, George
E. Snell, Charles Rogers and Frank
Young of Billings.
Old Horse Tent Stake
Recalls Contracting
A horse tent stake that was used
in 1906 by the late Jim Phillips,
rapping job on the Clarks Fork river
near Silesia came back to Laurel
this week. It is about two and a
half feet long and has an iron fer
rule around the top, driving end.
B. A. Sherrow, Sr., then a young
ster, worked for Phillips at the time
of the rip-rapping. The outfit used
horses for power, and required a
sizeable herd while it was camped
on the Guy Webber place. When
Phillips completed his work and
moved on, one of the long stakes
Job Of 41 Years Ago
Laurel contractor, while doing a rip
of the horse tent was left in the
ground.
Webber told Sherrow about finding
the stake still at the location of
the construction camp of 41 years
ago. This week he brought it to
town and presented it to Sherrow,
who may have been the person who
drove it into the ground in 1906.
Old-timers recognize what it is,
; but the moderns require an explan
ation of its use. The stake is dis
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played in the office of the Fenton
j Agency on First avenue.
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r Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoffer and
family returned from Dickinson, N.
D., Tuesday after spending ten
days visiting friends and relatives
there.
CHILD LOSES LIFE
Officials Investigate Origin Of
Blaze That Claimed Pa
mela Siegfried. 3
Fire in a two-room apartment in
the 600 block on Juniper avenue in
the east end of Laurel claimed the
life of a child, Pamela Siegfried,
3, about 10 p. m. Wednesday of
last week. Two others, Diana, 2, j
and Freddy, 5, brother and sister of i
Pamela and children of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Siegfried, were severely
burned.
The mother was also the victim
of lacerations and bums, as were
neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Kelley of an adjoining apartment,
and Tennis Milligan. Mrs. Siegfried
and the two surviving children were
rescued.
Laurel firemen, summoned to the
scene, arrived soon after 10 o'clock
and found the apartment in flames. |
They succeeded in preventing the I
blaze from spreading to other
apartments.
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Diana, most severely burned of the
two surviving children, was taken to
a Billings hospital while Mrs. Sieg
fried and son Freddy were treated
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried expect to
leave Thursday for Aberdeen, Ida.,
where the funeral for Pamela will
be held Sunday at the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Diana, who is in St. Vincent's hos
pital in Billings, is expected to have
recovered sufficiently by the end of
next week to permit her being taken
to a Pocatello, Ida., hospital. Mr.
Siegfried, who was employed here
as a truck driver and was away
from home when the fire occurred,
indicated Wednesday of this week
that he would seek employment in
Idaho. The family has been staying
with the Milligans since the fire.
Investigations of the origin of the:
fire are being conducted by the Lau
rel fire department, and county
authorities said last week that the
state fire marshal's office would be
asked to investigate.
PANEL DISCUSSION IS
A panel discussion provided by
members of the Billings Kiwanis
club constituted the program
Wednesday evening for the third
dinner meeting of the newly organ
ized Laurel Kiwanis club. The ses
sion was in the new dining room of
the Board of Trade cafe, with Pres
ident W. A. Ziegler presiding.
Ziegler opened the meeting by in
troducing Peter Yegen, Jr., presi
dent of the Billings Kiwanis club.
Yegen read a letter from O. E.
Peterson, secretary of Kiwanis In
ternational, expressing the organiza
tion's sorrow over the death of J.
N. Emerson, president of Kwanis
International, who suffered a heart
attack while riding in a car near
Rosalia, Wash., last Thursday.
Guests attending the meeting
were Don Eyre of Billings, who was
introduced by Harlan Russell, and
Harold Cartee, manager of the Home
bakery in Laurel, who was intro
duced by C. A. Biffle.
Wilbur P. Foote, secretary-treas
urer of the Laurel club, introduced
the Billings Kiwanians, Clair Bow
man, Melvin Webb, C. L. Griffith,
Kenneth L. Cook and Aaron Johnson.
Bowmàn said that the purpose of
the Billings group's visit was to ac
quaint the Laurel club with two
methods of presenting the history,
organization, and principles of Ki
wanis International to new members
of the organization. One of the
ways was illustrated through a
pamphlet written by J. E. Moore
of the Billings club, which was dis
tributed to Laurel members,
other method consisted of panels
prepared by Chandler Cohagen of
the Bilings club and read by the
other visiting Billings members and
Merwin Price of the Laurel club.
The first panel, presented by Mel
vin Webb, reviewed the history and
objectives of Kiwanis. Kenneth Cook
then spoke about the organizational
progress of Kiwanis International
which T contains 178,000 members
The
in more than 2,500 clubs. Aaron
Johnson discussed the organization
of Montana Kiwanis into districts,
Merwin Price spoke about the role
of the individual Kiwanis clubs, and
C. L. Griffith stressed the import
ance of the individual in his club.
Clair Bowman closed the discussion
by emphasizing the various commit
tees' part in Kiwanis activities after
which he quoted the Kiwanis pledge.
Willard Baldwin, program chair
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ARMY'S FOOTBALL GREATS . . . The backfield stars of Army's
great 1946 football team arc shown as they paraded at the United
States Military Academy at West Point to receive top athletic awards.
Left to right are Glenn Davis, Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and Arnold
Tucker—halfback, fullback and quarterback, respectively. They are
now ready for duty as second lieutenants.
TWO LAUREL WOMEN
ELECTED ID STATE
OFFICES AT BOZEMAN
Two Laurel women were elected
to state offices at the ninth annual
16-18.
convention of the Montana Feder
ated Garden clubs held at Bozeman
Mrs. R. O. Steele of
the Laurel Garden club was elected
first vice president, and Mrs. Ed
Sommers of the Unity Garden club
was elected treasurer,
ers elected were Mrs. M. A. Sterl
Other offic
ton, third vice president; Mrs. S. H.
Irvine, Stevensville, recording secre
ing, Ronan, president; Mrs. Bert
Griffin, Bozeman, second vice pres
ident: Mrs. Harry Shyrock, Hamil
tary; Mrs. Iver Brandjor, Ronan,
corresponding secretary; and Mrs.
Baxter, Great Falls, historian.
Convention headquarters were
Montana State college, and the con
vention was presided over by Mrs.
Sterling. Distinguished guests pres -1
ent at the meeting were Mrs. F. S. i
Mattocks, Rocky Mountain regional I
director; Mrs. Daniel J. Mooney,
Butte, third national vice president;
and Dorothy Biddle, New York au
thor and lecturer. Miss Biddle pro
vided an interesting program on
flower show practices, flower dem
onstration and flower arrangement.
Professor F. M. Harrington of the
state college delivered an inform
ative lecture on horticulture.
The following resolutions were
adopted by the convention:
1. That the ponderosa pine be
adopted as the state tree.
2. That auto routes 191, 93 and
10 be chosen for the national blue
star memorial drive.
3. That the bill forbidding the
shipment of bulbs from Holland to
the United States be opposed.
4. To endeavor to abolish bill
boards from the highways.
5. To support senate bill
which provides for the protection of
wild flowers, shrubs and trees with
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in 500 feet of the center of a high
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way.
6. To accept the invitation from
the Florence hotel, Missoula, to hold
the 1948 convention there,
year's gathering will be held in
connection with the rose show which
will be held there July 8.
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A delegation of Rainbow Girls of
Rainbow Girls Win
State Recognition
the Laurel assembly and members
of Zidonian chapter, Order of East
lings,
session
em Star, attended the annual state
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assembly of the Order of Rainbow
.Girls Monday and Tuesday in Bi.
At the Monday afternoon
at the school auditorium,
Lois Crawford took part in the mu
sical program.
The corps of grand officers elect
ed Tuesday included Barbee Ander
son, Laurel, grand treasurer.
Among the guests who were hon
ored during the session were Adel
pha Vaught and Pat Johnson, mem
bers of the Nellie Lovell educational
loan fund committee.
BILLINGS GIRL DIES
OF HIGHWAY ACCIDENI
MONDAY NEAR LAUREL
One died of injuries and three
others were injured early Monday
evening in an automobile accident
a mile east of Laurel on the Bil
lings road. Miss Martha Seaman,
about 20, who sustained multiple
fractures of the ribs on her right
side, and a fractured left thigh,
died late Monday night at a Billings
hospital.
pulmonary hemorrhage. She resid
ed at 1109 North Twenty-sixth
street, Billings.
The others sustaining injuries
also residents of Billings.
George Wetstein, 20, of 2808 Third
She suffered extensive
avenue south, was reported as hav
ing suffered multiple compound
fractures of the right forearm, lac
atjerations and loss of blood.
Miss Marie Jacobs, 18, of 709
North Twenty-sixth street, suffered
cuts and bruises of the head and
scalp, lacerations and other injuries.
Andreas Reich, 18, of 317 South
Twenty-eighth street, suffered lacer
ations and contusions and a disturb
ance of a fractured wrist which she
had sustained the previous Saturday,
The injured were hospitalized,
Rebekah, Odd Fellow
Lodges Pay Respects
To Deceased Members
A joint meeting of Evergreen Re
bekah and Odd Fellow lodges held
Monday evening at the parish hall
was preceded by a pot-luck supper
at 6:30.
The main feature of the meeting
was a memorial service at 8 o'clock
with members of both lodges par
ticipating. The setting for the cere
monies was a flower garden arrang
ed by a committee comprising Mrs.
Mary Belle Wiggins, Mrs. Bessie
Crow and Mrs. Doris Armstrong.
Those taking part were Mrs. Ida
Platz, Mrs. Margaret Leis, Mrs.
Armstrong, Mrs. Ardeth Webb, Mrs.
Louise VanNice, Mrs. Edna Colson,
Ted Webb, C. H. Anderson, Ralph
Lumsdon. Mrs. Leta Hiner was
pianist for the ceremony and also
accompanied Victor Kurk and Har
old VanN.ee who sang a duet
During the business session of the
Rehekahs members voted to serve
I "Coeleans, members voted to sene
a dinner for the newly organized
Kiwanis club at their charter meet
mg in July.
The meeting Monday was the last
for the two orders until they re- f
sume activities in the early fall.
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Special rlowers for Ciarden Ulub
The Thursday afternoon meeting
of the Laurel Garden club, held at
the home of Mrs. L. R. Shay, feat
ured as decoration a special flower
arrangement in keeping with a talk
given by the guest speaker, Mrs. P.
T. Baker of Bilings, past president
of Montana State Garden clubs. The
type of flower arrangement display
ed was in charge of the club's com
mittee. Several guests were in at
tendance.
FINDS OIL FLOW
Prepares To Begin Pumping
Kelley Well—Well On Price
Dome Going To Dakota
Amick Drilling comuany, operating
on Mosser dome south of Laurel,
have drilled 3M feet into the Dakota
sand on the Kelley lease where oil
in apparently commercial quantity
has been encountered. The Kelley
is Amick's second on the dome, the
first having developed water after
passing through the oil-producing
upper portion of the sand.
Casing has been set and cemented
and the operators are awaiting ar
rival of necessary supplies before
putting the well on pump. The
depth is 1007% feet.
Anton Kerver and Riley A. Gwynn
of Washington, D. C., drilling on
Price dome, a few miles distant from
Mosser dome, are setting 10-inch
casing to shut off a section of cav
ing material. The depth is 1,040
feet on the Helen Leach tract. The
operators are on the way to the
Lakota sand, about 200 feet lower.
MDS. LLOYD GOLDEN
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Matron Residing Three Miles
From Laurel Succumbs To
Heart Ailment Monday
Mrs. Ethel Marie Golden, 59, wife
of Lloyd Golden, Sr., who resides
three miles northeast of Laurel,
died at 8:45 a. m. Monday at a Bil
lings hospital of a heart ailment.
She had been in poor health the
preceding three months.
Mrs. Golden was bom Nov. 7,
1887, in Longmont, Colo., a daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Stiffler.
She was married July 13, 1905, in
Greeley, Col., to Lloyd Golden. The
couple moved to Laurel in 1907
from Loveland, Colo.
The deceased is survived by her
widower; two sons, George Harold
and Lloyd Melvin, Jr., of Laurel;
a daughter, Mrs. Howard R. Wink
ler of Forsyth; a sister, Mrs. Anna
Killgore of Oakland, Calif.; a bro
ther, Clyde Stiffler of California; a
half-brother, George L. Stiffler of
Oakland, and eight grandchildren.
The body is at Smith's funeral
home where the funeral will be con
ducted Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock. Entombment will be in the
Billings Community mausoleum.
ELECTRONICS' MAJOR
ROLE IN WAR IS TOLD
The present and immediately pre
ceding generations may be termed
by future historians as the intro
ducers of the electronic age. Spur
red by the necessity of war and
drawing on an accumulation of in
formation acquired in peace time,
scientists of allied and axis coun
tries did much with vacuum tubes
to carry the second World war to
completion. Most of the work was
performed by industrial engineers
and their staffs of researchers and
technicians in laboratories and pro
duction centers far from arenas of
battle where their material was used.
Some of this was described Tues
day by R. B. Sturtevant of the
Coast to Coast store, guest speaker
addressing the Rotary club on
"Electronics at Work." He was
presented by Merritt Williams of the
June program committee. Clyde
Cromwell, junior past president, pre
sided.
The aker , reduced the H .
cated technica , subject ordin £
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lan ? ua K e - and because of the my
nat j uses D f electronics he discussed
on] few ap pi ica tions. Before
going to the Honeywell concern dur
ing the war he had been with
Western E!ectrjc ha(J an
f Kooir^.^ri ; , ,
t iL • ec romes.
Ine top secrets m the field
so closely guarded that even two
more concerns attempting to
operate in certain items hesitated to
reveal their specific knowledge.
Sturtevant was concerned to quite
an extent with production of motors
that were used in Nordam bomb
sights and radar. Both were hush
hush during the war.
The speaker told of an important
development in another direction_
automatic pilots. They aided in
bringing in a number of badly shot
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