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'1/t f & ° h ÄNr * LAUREL OUTLOOK ja s> v Hç l 4> Officiai Paper of Yellowstone County VOLUME 40—NO. 52 LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1949 FIVE CENTS BEET THINNING IS NEAR COMPLETION Growth Is Said Slower Than Normal; Rains Help Grains, But Moisture Still Short Precipitation at the close of the week materially brightened crop prospects in Montana, al though in many areas the moist ure was too light to be of lasting benefit. Since there is very little subsoil moisture over the entire state, all dry land crops are dependent on rainfall during the remainder of the growing season. Irrigation water is used heavily throughout the state because of lack of moisture. The winter wheat crop has come through the drought better than spring grown crops and is heading rapidly. Spring wheat stands are rated as poor to fair in the eastern third bf the state, fair in the northern tier of counties and generally good in the central portion and in most of the territory west of the di vide. Very few local reports in dicate the stands as excellent. The crop is in the jointing and boot stage. In a few areas the spring wheat is beginning to head. The first crop of alfalfa is yielding poorly and more moist ure will be needed to assure a large second crop. Thinning of sugar beets is progressing and is practically completed in Car bon and Stillwater counties. The growth of the beets is a little slower than normal. Grasshoppers ' are hatching in large numbers in spotted areas throughout most of the state. While local control measures are under way, some farmers have been reluctant to go out in full force until moisture conditions Aerial baiting opera improve. tions will begin soon. Some farm ers also have curtailed the spray ing of weeds in grain fields for the same reason. The supply of range feed is short in most of the northern tier of counties, in the eastern third of the state and scattered counties in central and south central Montana. Elsewhere range feed is adequate for current needs. Stock water supplies are short in the north. Some ranch ers have marketed dry cows and steers because of short range. Most livestock are out on sum mer ranges. Range cattle are in good flesh despite short range grass. Sheep shearing op erations are in full swing and fleece weights to be heavy. reported are Auxiliary Of F.O.E. Entertains At Party The ladies' auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles en tertained at an anniversary party Tuesday evening this week, with Red Lodge members among the guests. The vice president, Mar garet Leis, presided at the busi ness meeting. The Red Lodge auxiliary's drill the by putting on an exhibition drill. Motion pictures were exhibited by Wayne Willis and lunch was served by the members. The committee on decorations consisted of Edna Sherrow, An gelina Hunter, Audrey Freund and Dolly Wood. Corsages were presented to past presidents, Clara Getz and Ollie Mae Gass, and to a mother, Mrs. C. P. Stadalman. Birthday Party Ends O.E.S. Season Members of Zidonian chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, clos ed their season's activities with a birthday party Thursday eve ning at the Masonic temple. Honored were members whose birth anniversaries occurred dur ing the first six months of the A brief business session followed by a program in year, was charge of Mrs. Ina Anderson. Games and contests were enter tainment. Yellow roses decorated the tables when lunch was serv ed by a committee comprising Miss Esther Pearson, Mrs. Ruth Ryder, Mrs. Hazel Wallace and Miss Winnifred Wilson. Regular meetings of the chap to be resumed early in ter are the fall. Each month an average of 80, 000 veterans of their dependents fail to receive their checks be cause no notice was given the Veterans Administration of mov ing to a new address. 4 ICOUNGIL GRANTS LICENSES, PEWS Petitions and Reports On Agenda At Session Tuesday Evening The city council granted four building permits and two beer and liquor licenses, heard peti tions and reports and conducted other business at its session Tuesday. C. H. Royalty was granted a permit to build a 12 by 21-foot frame garage on the north half of lot 9 and lot 10, block 13, Laurel Heights, at an approxi mate cost of $300. An application for a permit by Clarence Adams to build an 8 by 14 frame addition on lots 13, 14 and 15, block 1 Young's subdi vision, at an approximate cost of $75 was granted. A permit to build a frame house 26 by 36 on lots 5 and 6, block 16, Laurel Heights, at an approximate cost of $2,500 was granted to Kenneth Olson. George H. Smith was granted a permit to build an addition on his garage in lots 2 and 3, block 3, Laurel Realty subdivision. The addition, to cost approxi mately $9,500, will be built of J. S. Gomon appeared before the council in regard to replacing a water main north of town. The matter was turned over to the Frank Jacobs was granted beer and liquor license for the year ending June 30, 1950. The Safeway store was granted wholesale beer license for the same period. In response to a petition for a sidewalk on the west side of West avenue, the council ordered that the city attorney be directed to prepare a resoultion creating a special improvement district, The resolution will be presented at the next meeting of the coun mayor and the water committee. cil. The council ordered that the mayor and city attorney be di rected to negotiate for land in the west of Laurel for flood con trol purposes. It also approved action to be taken in connection with the refinishing of the roofs of the library and city hall. Distribution of class room unit funds to counties in the state} was announced in the past week by Mary M. Condon, superintend ent of public instruction. The distribution of $897,330 was the last to be made under the class unit method of state fund Yellowstone Shares In Distribution Of Class Room Funds room distribution to schools as set up by 1935 law. In line with new school laws passed by the 1949 legislature, distribution hence forth will be in conformity with the equalization formula of the 1949 legislature. Yellowstone county, with 315 classroom units, received $66,150, a larger amount than any other county in the announced distri bution. I if i % ïÿwSfft ¥■ ; ii: M s' , 4 ill I pM 1 Æ • ; v. m ;î. Mss p •• ■ i g . V Ti |; V, -, ,'Æ i û TOPS IN TELEVISION . . . Lodged on the pinnacle of New York's sky scraping RCA building, like a translucent bubble in the metropolitan air, is the new NBC television plexiglass radome housing receiving equipment for television. It's all-weather proof—cool in summer, warm in winter —as vide« star Kyle MacDonnell can attest after inspecting the "dish" which serves as a receiving antenna. ] . Athletic Commission Eng-ages Instructor For Girls; Director Sets Bike Night For Thursday Miss Shirley Wilson has been I employed by the city recreation commission as an athletic structor, according to an an nouncement by Wilmont Wykoff, airector of the commission s sum mer program She has been at tending the Colorado State Teachers college in Greeley. Colo., and has been granted I teacher's certificate by the Mon tana state board of education. According to the present sched ule, Miss Wilson will give ath letic instruction in the morning to classes of girls up to and including 12 years of age, and ;n the afternoon to girls 13 and older. The classes Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will be devoted to tennis, and Tuesdays and Thursdays to soft those - SUGGEST CITY TAKE The board of directors of the Laurel Commercial club at aj meeting Monday went on record as recommending that the sum-1 program, of a steady increase in the size of the program, be taken over by the city. board stated that the wide inter-1 est in the program, evidenced by j the youth of the city, indicates ! the necessity of increasing the j scope to a point where organiza actions in Laurel will not be able j to meet its requirements. Be ! cause of this, the board felt that the city should be requested to I take over the summer recreation al program in 1950. The board also approved a Com mercial club dinner meeting, to be held in the I. O. O. F. hall at 6:30 p. m. June 30. Farmers in the Laurel trade area are invited The members of the to attend the meeting. LEGION TEAM DROPS 2 . WINS 3 ns EUR The American Legion ball team has dropped two and won three games so far. Livingston took the Laurel club 11 to 1 when they met here on June 6, and again beat the Laurel team in j Livingston June 7, 10 to 4. Since those two games the Laurel team has been doing bet ter. In two games with Lewis town here June 18 and 19, Lau rel won 8 to 5 and 20 to 11. Monday, June 20, the Laurel team, playing its third straight home game on its home field, beat Sidney with a score of 11 to 8. MINES SCHOOL IS MEMBER ENGINEERING RESEARCH Butte, June 22.—The Montana School of Mines has been elected to active membership in the En gineering College Research Coun cil of the American Society for Engineerin Education. ( ball. Leagues will be formed j 'f enough girls participate in tb ® se . Wykoff has also announced tbat Thursday night this week wffl be .. Bike » nipht at the park A „ children with bicycles are u ed to attend . There wiU be races and prizes for the winners . A be hdd after the | races -1 J ! j j j j | j ! j I Homesteaded 40 Years A™ Mome>teaaea tears AK«» I ■ FISHEROIES ON VISIT TO IDAHO On Coombs Flat North west Of Laurel Elmer E. Fisher, for 40 years ; resident of the Coombs flat I ; area northeast of Laurel, died I of a heart attack Sunday at the ! age of 68. He was vacationing j at Coeur d'Alene, Ida., with his 1 wife at the time he died. a Fisher was born Aug. 21, 1880, j at Nappanee, Ind., the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher, and N. in 1904. He married Irene Catherine Kel 1er in St. Paul Dec. 20, 1907, Coombs flat. He is survived by his widow; a daughter, Mrs. Gerald LaGo, and a granddaughter, The body has been returned to Smith's Funeral home in Billings, where the funeral will be con ducted Thursday afternoon at 3:30. view cemetery, Billings. RotSfitHlS Air IVIciny SUDJCClS IFl F OrUITI . f T\J tj • i AnGIli IMCW i GrlOil and in 1909 he homesteaded on Burial will be in Mount The good of the order was the subject of an open forum at the Tuesday meeting of the Lau re! Rotary dub. Vice Pres. Wayne Hageman, presiding in the absence of Pres. Oliver Wold, called on the members of the group to present their views on any matter they felt to be of importance purpose of the forum was to assist incoming officers in lay ing plans for the groups activi !. . ties during the coming year. W * < ' on '' 1 !\. , sa î' r K ested that there be established some the club. The tu award to be given retiring presidents in recognition of their work. The matter was turned over to the board of directors for further consideration. Fred W. Graff spoke to the members regarding the objec tives of Rotary and suggested that in the future there be some programs presented which would restate these objectives. At the request of president-elect, Wayne Hageman, this matter was left to him to be handled during his tenure of office. The possibility of giving sup port to the Girl Scouts and to some boys' group was discussed action was taken. A. E. Brickman of Morehead, Minn., visited the Laurel club at this meeting. Guests were W. Vineyard, Great Falls, and Wor thington Smith, Billings. Service Station Is Leased By Hogenson Edwin Hogenson has taken a three year lease on the Union Oil sendee station located at 601 East Main street. The sta tion, formerly operated by Gene DeFrance, was turned over to Hogenson, Wednesday. Under the new management the station will be known as "Eddy's 76 Ser vice. Hogenson has been attending Eastern Montana College of Education in Billings and ma joring in mechanical engineering. At present he plans to return to school after his lease termi nates. Wegner. With Sixth Fleet, Visits Italy According to word receive;! from Ninth naval district, Her- j man R. Wegner, seaman appren tice, USN, has been on a 10-day i visit to Naples. Italv. Wegner, | son of Mrs. Philip Knaub, is a < crew member of the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea. The carrier is a part of the Sixth j n( r on training maneuvers in the task fleet which has been carrv Mediterranean. KALISPELL MAN SAN0L01HEAD Weingartner I s Appointed President Of Amateur Baseball Association » Battle Creek, Mich., June 22.— Larry Weingartner, well known amateur baseball official of Kal ispell, has been appointed presi dent pro tern of the recently authorized Montana amateur baseball association by Brown, president of the Ameri can baseball congress. Wein gartner will begin immediately the actual organization of the new state sandlot bodv to insure Montana participation in the 1949 amateur world series of the American baseball congress. A state tournament will de 'termine Montana's representative the western division . of the amateur world series at Water-1 town, S. D., Sept. 17-22. The western champion then moves east for a five-game series with the eastern title holder at Battle Creek, Mich, Sept. 24, 25 and 26. The present champion of the world's largest amateur body which produced such major league stars as Feller, Keltner, Reese, c. o. in Niarhos, Keller, Trucks, Kokos and many others is the Birming ham, Ala., Stockham Value and Fitting team whose catcher, Frank House, was signed by the Detroit Tigers for a reputed $85, 000 bonus. Basic eligibility rules prohibit paying of players, require that all players be residents of the community they represent and limit each team to three rein stated players of former profes sional experience. Players who have had an unsuccessful trial in professional ball are not count ed in the three "classman" limi tation. Until this year the American baseball congress has not been organized in the Rock Mountain states. A western division of the amateur world series established at Watertown, S. D., this year will provide for Montana, Wash ington, Oregon, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota champions. Billinffs Garden Club Honors State Officers A luncheon at Rock's restaur ant in Billings, sponsored by the Billings Garden club, honored Mrs. R. O. Steele of Laurel, state president, and Mrs. E. L. Sommers, state treasurer. Mrs. H. J. Cook was also a guest. The affair preceded the annual flower show of the Bil spring lings club in the Eastern Mon tana College of Education gym There were 57 exhib nasium. itors in the cultural class and 59 in arrangement. A large number of out-of-town guests were at the show, many of whom were from distant points. Piano Recital To Be Given At Auditorium The students of Mrs. Inez Sim mons will give a piano recital at the high school auditorium at 8 p. m., June 27. Participating in the recital will be Carole Wal ton, Connie Pewitt, Barbara Go mon, Keith Gomon, Joel Harris, Don Mobley, Eva and Joyce Mar sher, Duane and Jerry Tinnes, Janie Kamp, Wayne Hedges, Edna Mae Southworth and Lau retta Tubman. i V . : ; i £ « i -, 1 * MAIL AND FEMALE ... This lass is Barbara Ann Grosshreuz who. at 22 is the youngest postmaster in New Jersey and possibly in the nation. She has been nominated ier the job at Crosswicks. N. J.. but has served in the position on « !Ur.r, basi5 pas. ' : . L'% J Gene Coombs of Laurel, who has just completed his sopho more year at Montana State college, has been appointed to the committee in charge of planning the 1949 homecoming celebration at the State college, Coombs is majoring in agricul j tural economics, I I I Il4tf.ll SLATE AREA RALLY Local Ministerial Associa tion Host To Midland Body For Continu Sunday Sponsored by the Laurel Min isterial association and conducted by the Midland Empire Sunday School association, a Sunday school rally for the area will be held here Sunday afternoon and The afternoon session evening. will be at the Methodist church and the evening session at the First Congregational church. The program for the afternoon is scheduled to begin at 2:30 with a 30-minute praise and prayer service conducted by Rev. H. C. Haemmelmann of Laurel. At 3 o'clock Rev. A. E. Pederson of Billings will speak on "Teach ing, the Finest of Fine Arts," followed by announcements and business. The evening session is to be opened at 7:30 with praise and prayer by Rev. James H. Hau eter, followed at 8 by Rev. A. Furman Harris, Billings, speak ing on "Sunday School Teaching, a Holy Call." In addition to the delegates and visitors from out of town, all local people interested in Sun day school work may attend the two sessions of the rally. Worden Rebekahs Visit Lodffe Here; Delegates Report Thirty-six members of the Re bekah lodge of Worden were guests of the Evergreen Rebek ahs at a meeting Monday eve ning in Odd Fellows hall. Dur ing the meeting, the visiting members exemplified initatory ceremonies and degree work. Reports were given by dele gates to the Montana Rebekah assembly at Missoula, Mrs. Effie Gerard and Mrs. Ida Platz, who returned Friday from attending the sessions. They reported that state of ficers elected were Mrs. Ethel \r is t j- . V. KrogT.es« of Glendive dent; Mrs. Martha Malmo of Butte, vice president; Mrs. Ma bel Flaten of Havre, warden; Mrs. May me Henderson of Mis-1 soula, secretary ; Mrs. Gladys Fisher of Kalispel, treasurer: Mrs. Ardis Dixon of Billings and Mrs. Randa Zachary of Helena, j home board; Mrs. Alice Dodge of Lewistown, delegate to the in temational meeting of the Asso ciation of Rebekah Assemblies, land Mrs. Ann McBride of Ana j service of the Rebekah assembly I and the grand lodge of the Inde ' pendent Order of Odd Fellows. Kalispell was chosen for the 1950 convention. I conda, alternate delegate. convention at Missoula with a joint memorial The closed * The Monday evening meeting of the Rebekahs was concluded with refreshments served by a hostess committee. Rev. Gauer Resigns Laurel Pastorate __ „ ur T> . .. p aUC /' ? ast T ° r ^i Methodist churches >n Laurel, h f jounced JTf. \'T u f" d ll 't! , ° tak f e a char&e f w IK f W, " ons ' n conference of SMS SIS,971,000 } IN RECOVERY PLAN EGA Total Nears $5 Billion For U.S.—State Chamber Montana Pays 0.32% Montana will pay an estimated $15,971,000 as its share of the cost of ECA and other foreign aid programs now awaiting con gressional approval, according to figures made public this week by the Montana Chamber of Com merce, Helena, of which G J. Skibbins is manager. A study showed that Montana pays 0.32 per cent of the nation's total federal taxes and that for eign aid programs on the basis of the present requests will re quire appropriations totaling $4, 990,900,000 for and during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950. Montana's 0.32 per cent would be $15,971,000, almost twice as much as the total appropriations made by the 1949 Montana legislature to support all units of the Great er University system for the next two The state Chamber said the $4,990,900,000 U. S. figure for ECA has been approved by the congressional house of represen tatives to the extent of $3,568, 470,000, intended to finance the European Recovery program for 10 and a half months rather than After 10 months ECA can ask for an additional appropria tion to complete the year. 12. MEN OFTHE MOOSE OFFICERS ARE SEATED Highlighting the meeting of the Women of the Moose last Wednesday evening at Moose hall was the visit of 14 members of the Red Lodge chapter, con sisting of their officers and de gree team escorts. With Viola Kent, senior gent, heading the group, the visi tors put on the initiatory work for three candidates who were in ducted into the Laurel chapter. Afterward, the recently elected officers of the Laurel chapter were installed in ceremonies con ducted by the Red Lodge chapter, with Margaret Marshall as stalling regent; Velma Elberta, installing guide; Anna Yelich, installing chaplain, and Frances Landers, installing musician. Laurel officers seated were: Edythe Teeters, Birdie Milligan, Alice Fisher, Julia Phillips, chaplain; Hattie Foust, recorder; Mildred Armour, treasurer; Ruby Devine, guide; Lura Reynolds, assistant guide; Clara Getz, sentinel, Alma Claus, argus, and Janice Kober, musi re m senior regent; junior regent; graduate regent; cian. Following the ceremony, talks were given by the three initi ates, the graduate regent, Alice Edythe Teeters, senior regent, who received the gavel and conducted a brief busi ness session. I 1 ' .. e / . e . re ~ fresnment committee of the hos cba pten j _ I ». ' JvlCyCFS RClUmS To _ t„ /ni» _ I DUtlCS III Okinawa j j With the Army of Occupation i In the Ryukyus, June 22.—CpI. | John B. Meyers, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Meyers, has returned to Okinawa .week's temporary duty Philippine Islands. Meyers, who arrived in Okinawa last September for a tour of overseas duty in the Far East, is assigned to the 524th military police service company ations clerk. was a after a in the Corporal as oper A graduate of Laurel high school, Corporal Meyers enlisted in the army in February 1948. Prior to assignment in Okinawa he was stationed at Camp Lee Va. In civilian life he was an employee of the Northern Paci fic rai,wa > ference June 10 of this year. He came to Laurel from a charge in 111 *" 018 ^ March 1948. Commenting on his stay here, Rev. Gauer described it as hav '*** ■ T* SUCCessful > refer T* apec,aI1 V to the increase in church membership and the im-