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VOLUME 41—NO. 12
LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1949
FIVE CENTS
PAYMENT OF
FEDERAL TAXES
Collector Of Internal Revenue
Says Instructions From
Washington Are Final
"A great deal is heard these
days regarding government spend
ing, and the possibility of expendi
tures exceeding income," Tom Rob
inson of Helena, collector of in
ternal revenue for the district of
Montana, has said. "The possibil
ity of a deficit occurring would be
greatly lessened if we could con
vince taxpayers who are indebted
to the government that we cannot
operate on promises, but that when
a tax is due, it must be paid.
"There are some 1,015,000 tax
payers in the United States today
who are not paying federal taxes
as promptly as they are required
to do under law, and we have our
share of them in the state of
Montana.
This condition has
brought about a situation which
has made it necessary for the com
missioner of internal revenue at
Washington to issue drastic in
structions to all collectors of in
ternal revenue relative to out
standing taxes. Starting immedi
ately we are proceeding to carry
out the bureau's instructions, and
have put into operation in the dis
trict of Montana a definite plan of
procedure looking to the collection
of all warrants for distraint now
in the hands of our field deputies.
"So many taxpayers seem to be
lieve that the government should
be paid last, and that all other
demands upon their incomes should
be met before the payment of tax
es. Under the law, exactly the re
verse is true. Federal taxes are a
preferred claim against the assets
of any individual or company in
debted to the United States gov
ernment for taxes.
"It i^ the plan to discontinue
permitting taxpayers to make par
tial payments on delinquent taxes,
or on deficiencies in taxes. Any
leniency that we have accorded in
the past for the payment of taxes
will have to be discontinued to a
considerable extent, and all ac
counts when due must be paid in.
full within a reasonable time, or |
it will be necessary to distrain I
upon and seize property to satisfv j
the government's claims, and I
shall have no alternative other
than to proceed in that manner,
The taxpaying public can be of
great service to its government,
and to this office, if it will coop-1
crate and meet its federal tax ob
ligations without necessity of legal
force by this office.
"I dislike very much having to
proceed in the manner outlined,
but it is my duty as a servant of
the people to carry out the in
structions of my superiors in
Washington and to perform my
duty as collector of this district,
and in justice to the thousands of
taxpayers who do pay their taxes
promptly and without protest, we
believe it is only fair that every
effort be made to collect all unpaid
and overdue accounts."
This year for the first time, a
four-year course in
engineering will be offered
Montana State college, Bozeman,!
and upon completion of the course
the student is eligible to receive a
bachelor of science degree with a
major in agricultural engineering.
The course is designed to train
students to operate and maintain
machinery used on farms and
ranches, to work in the service
field for farm machinery dealers
and manufacturers or to serve as
extension specialists in agricultur
al engineering.
Students interested in taking
the course will find detailed infor
mation in the 1949-50 Montana
State college catalogue which
may be obtained by writing the
Registrar, Montana State college,
Bozeman. Autumn quarter begins
with freshman week Sept. 26 and
formal classroom work will begin
Oct. 3.
New Course Offered
At State College
agricultural
at
O. E. S. HEAD TO VISIT
Mrs. J. W. Long, Mrs. O. K.
Chapman and Mrs. Walter Chap- :
man w r ere hostesses Wednesday
afternoon to the Past Matrons club
at the Masonic temple. Following
a 1 o'clock dessert, the afternoon
was devoted to sewing. Plans were
made for entertaining the worthy
grand matron when she makes her
official visit to Zidonian chapter
No. 50, O. E. S.. Oct. 6.
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PROMOTED . . . F. Van Iderstine,
former division advertising and
sales promotion manager of Carter
Oil company's Billings division,
has just been promoted to adver
tising and sales promotion mana
ger for the company's entire oper
ations. The formal announcement
was made from Denver by E. R.
Smith, assistant general sales
manager. Van Iderstine is a na
tive Montanan, received a B. A.
in journalism at M. S. U., was edi
tor and advertising manager of
the Fergus County Argus at Lew
istown, and was with Yale Oil cor
poration 12 years before entering
Carter service. His headquarters
will continue in Billings.
NOT NEW TO INDIA
Mahatma Gandhi, the late Hindu
nationalist leader in India, achiev
ed his position of prominence be
cause he maintained a close and
sympathetic contact with his peo
ple and because he adopted the
principles of Christianity to his
political program, according to
Rev. Benjamin Balaram. Balaram,
who is a native of India, an or
dained Methodist minister and a
dressed the Rotary club Tuesday,
racy in India,
India has been well prepared to
receive democracy by such demo
high school instructor in Bombay,
who has been doing graduate work
at schools in the eastern United
States.
He is now traveling
through the United States on a
speaking tour and made his first
appearance in Laurel when he ad
The major point of Balaram's
address was the future of democ
It was his view that
as village
I councils, which have been the
j source of local government since
! the inception of the caste system
j * r * that country. The people of
Ir.dia, he said, are eager to achieve
a complete democracy and are
| bending their efforts to the task,
He cited the example of high
i caste men trained in the best Eu
1 ropean and American universities
who on their return to their na
land have given up great
wealth and power to adopt the
habit of the peasants and to work
for the independence of India's
millions.
_ People in the United States are
in error, Balaram said, when they
assume that their greatness in
Asia is attributable to the atom
bomb or powerful armed services.
"My people are not impressed by
death," he stated, "for you cannot
invent a weapon that will take
greater toll than the disease and
poverty in which they live. You
are considered great by those peo
pie not as a result of powerful
weapons, but as a result of your
gifts of life and freedom from
suffering."
At one point Balaram defended
the caste system as it existed
when originally introduced m in
dia: a system designed to bring
security and organization to the
vast Population of India, but a sys
tern which degenerated to the
abuses of class distinction and in
The annual reunion of the 163rd
infantry, Montana's own, is to be
.held in Helena Sept. 16, 17 and 18. i
Advance registration for the re- i
union promises that this will be.
the top get-together since the régi- 1
ment was inactivated at Kure-j
Hiroshima Dec. 31, 1945. Last
year's reunion was in Billings. Of-1
ficers of the organization forecast j
that as the years go by these occa
sions will become more and more
popular. Members of the organi
zation are scattered all over the
United States.
tolerance.
Restating his stand on the fu
ture of democracy in India, Bal
aram said "good leadership and
the heritage of democracy from
the villagè council make India the
center of strength of democracy in
Asia."
Irw'ing Buckland, San Francisco,
was a guest at the meeting.
MONTANA REGIMENT IS
PLANNING 1949 REUNION
6EH. MIHll
EXPLAINS RULES
ERR REGISTRATION
Calling attention to the fact
that failure to register is a viola
tion of the law and makes the de
linquent liable to penalty, Briga
dier General S. H. Mitchell, Mon
tana State Director of Selective
Service, has outlined registration
requirements under the Selective
Service act of 1948, which he be
lieved were not thoroughly under
stood by all of the general public.
"The obligation to register,
General Mitchell said, "is a con
tinuing obligation and must be
fulfilled regardless of whether men
are being inducted into the armed
forces under the selective service
act. The obligation to register is
imposed by the act on every male
citizen or resident in the United
States between the ages of 18 and
26, with the general exception of
members of the armed forces on
active duty and certain aliens.
The young man of Yellowstone
county who becomes 18 is required
to register within five days of the
date of his eighteenth birthday,
which may be done at the office of
the local board at Billings, General
Mitchell explained, but if he hap
pens to be away from home he
need not return; he may register
at the nearest local board conveni
tt
ent to him, even though it is in
another state. After he registers,
it is mandatory that a registrant
keep his local board informed of
any change in his address or any
change in his status, the state di
rector pointed out. This applies
after he becomes 26 as well as be
fore. Information of this nature,
or a request for a duplicate certi
ficate in case of loss, should be di
rected to, The Stete Director, Se
lective Service System, Helena,
Montana.
"With the resumption of school
again this fall," General Mitchell
stated, "it will not be necessary
for student registrants with a 1-A
classification to apply for a post
ponement of induction. When in
duction for the armed forces is
again started, sufficient time will
be allowed for these young men to
establish their status as a student,
with the local board giving the
same consideration that has been
granted in the past.
Questioned concerning the men
who did not register during the
designated period — August 30,
1948, to September 18, 1948—be
cause he was then on active duty
in the armed forces, General
Mitchell explained that he is re
quired to register within 30 days
of the time he was separated from
the armed forces.
"Any person who changes from
a status that did not require his
registration to a status which does
require it, must register promptly
to be within the law," General
Mitchell said, adding that those
who were out of the country on
the registration days must register
within five days following the date
they re-enter the United States,
which includes Alaska, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands.
JAMES BYRD DIES
AT HOME IN EDGAR
F\meral sendees for James A.
By rd , 78, who died Sept. 10 at his
home in Edgar, were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
gd gar high school gymna
sj with H G 0 Hver of Great
and c H Richter as speak .
ers Interment was in Rockva le
C ^sic^et the gymnasium was
ided by a sextet composed of
£ c Schrumpf, Mrs. Walter
Schenck, Mrs. John Robinson, Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Stephens and Miss
Dorothy Shelden. with M. G. Eng
elhardt as pianist. They sang
"He Is the One" and "Only Re-io
scrric^thêy sang^'Calîed^Horne'to
Reg £ »
Pallbearers were Rodney Sim,
Charles McPherson, Claude Mes
sic, C. R. Boquette, J. E. Patter
son and Stanley Collins.
Mr. Byrd was born Nov. 21,
1870, in Tennessee, the son of Mr.
nd Mrs. Lewis Byrd. He and Ida
Akin w ere married June 7, 1899,
t Thornfield, Mo. They had been
residents of Edgar 33 years at the
time of Mr. Byrd's death.
He is survived by his widow; a
brother, John Byrd; five sons, j
Hugh, Otis, Russell, Lawrence and |
Jack Byrd; five daughters, Mrs. '
Bertha Rippee, Mrs. Galvesta Tay-'
Jor, Mrs. Ruby Roberts, Mrs. W.
B. Turman and Mrs. A. C. Krug;
24 grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
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A REALLY BIG ONE , . . The prize-winning fish pictured here was caught by Edward Butler on the low
er Stillwater, Sept. 8; Butler used a minnow and a telescoping steel pole. The fish measured 26 inches
in length and 14 inches in girth. At the time it was caught it weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces, dressed out at
7 pounds, and weighed in at the Stockman at 6^ pounds to take the prize for the week ending Sept. 10,
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Reports concerning the Kiwanis
convention held in Great Falls the
latter part of August occupied the
majority of the program when the
Laurel Kiwanis club met Wednes- j
day evening at the parish hall. Dr. j
W. A. McCormick led off on the
convention report by describing
some of the functions of the con
vention organization and the work
accomplished by that organization.
He described the meeting as "out
standing." Among the other fea
tures of the convention, he was
much impressed with the fact that
it was set up on a strict time
was closely fol
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schedule which
lowed.
H. Lo® Hamlett followed on the
program schedule and filled in on
points he thought had been over
looked by Dr. McCormick. Ham
lett spoke of the new park that
was given to the city of Great
Falls on the first day of the con
vention by the Kiwanis club there.
Developing from this point, Ham
lett spoke of the stress placed on
youth programs by Kiwanis. He
closed on the note 'hat though rec
reation programs should be given
a high place in Kiwanis activities,
children should be taught to work
as well as to play.
Pres. J. Willard Baldwin also
made a short address on the sub
ject of the conventon.
When he arrived at the meeting,
Dr. E. C. Hall was given a spon
taneous ovation by the club mem
bers in consideration of his attend
ance record.
J. R. Pratt of Minneapolis, man-1
ager of the northwestern division.
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the United States will speak on
"Federal Aid to Education" at a
general meeting of the Laurel
Commercial club the evening of
Monday, Sept. 26. The session,
preceded by a dinner at 6:30, will
be at the Odd Fellows hall on West
SLATE OFFICER Of
U.S.C.C. TO SPEAR
Pratt has degrees in liberal arts
and law from the University of
Minnesota. Before coming to the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States he was associated,
with the Duluth Chamber of Com-'
merce for 16 years, five of which
was as assistant executive secre
tary and 11 as executive secretary. ;
He was a director of the National |
Association of Commercial Organ-)
ization Secretaries during 1937,'38 i
and '39 and for several years was j
of the board of the !
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of the Chamber of Commerce of
Main street.
Pratt's speaking engagement here
was made this week by Hugh
Sweeney, secretary of the Com
mercial club.
Announcement of
its president. j
Sin ce August, 1943, he has been
manager of the northwestern divi
sion of he Chamber of Commerce ;
f . the Umted *> tates > which covers
North and South Dakota and Wyo-1
ming. I
F , RM rn\ f vnniTY
?K££ANA■ FARM < COMMOD1TJ
™ICES CONTINUE DECLINE
Lower prices Aug. 15 for grains
and some classes of meat animals
were largely responsible for an- ;
other 4-point drop in the Montana.
farm products index. The all-corn
modity index of 241 per cent of
the 1909-14 average was_4 points
lower than on July 15 and 40
points lower than a year earlier.
The all-grains index slipped 12
points during the month and the
meat animal index 5 points. Ex
ceptions were a 4-point increase in
the dairy products index, a 7 point
increase'in the chickens and eggs
index and a 10-point increase in
the miscellaneous group.
a member
Minnesota Association of Commer
cial Secretaries. He also served as
Montana, Nebraska,
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Vicinity Of City
.
Laurel students returning this
week to colleges of their choice are
Paul Wold, Campbell Calvert,
Gwen Dyer, Jack Mitchell, Wayne
wmic i„i,„ win;..™
Will.s, John Smith, William
Speare, Richard Moran, Stanley
Ronnie, Joel Roth, Donald Graff
and George Fox to Montana State
university at Missoula.
lames Sherrow, Gerald Early,
George Lantz, Stanley Olson, Jer- |
ry Dull, Jesse Long, Paul Dull and 1
Delbert Teeters are going to Mon- 1
tana State college at Bozeman. I
Bonnie Barr, Marilyn Albertus, i
Walter Victor Frank and !
Laurel Rod and Gun club liber
ated 300 ring-neck pheasants in
the vicinity of Laurel last Thurs
day. Some were placed in terri
tory about three miles west of
Laurel, others on the flat south of
town and a number in the lower
Clarks Fork valley. They will help
replenish the stock of game birds
in this locality.
C. G. Scott, secretary of the
Laurel club, said that although the
birds were but six or seven weeks
old they were large and well col
ored. They were hatched at the
state's game bird farm east of
Billings.
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COLLEGE STUDENTS
TO RESUME STUDIES
Walter Hall, Victor Frank and
Melvin Lackman will attend East
ern Montana College of Education
at Billings.
Vernon Allwin will go to Kansas
! City Art Institute, Leo Fink
Rocky Mountain college in Billings,
Donald Smith to Spokane Telegra
pher's school, Pat Johnston to Car
V'K* 6 Institute of Technology
I Pittsburgh, Pa., Dorothy Hilgert
! to the University of Wyoming
! Laramie and Keith Brown to the
University 0 f Southern California,
The Laurel football squad,
strong, travels to Bozeman Friday
afternoon to play the Hawks at
m ^ a t night
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1 Laurcl fana are a bit skeptica
° ver * f "i >ea A ye
ory * a ' .., , qu
"' ei [ ®,nu-edT stronv ^nninv
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12 yards from scrimmage.
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a K amh . oua e 1 ,
they might be able to hold Boze
man to a low score.
'1 his is a non-conference game.
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Locomotives Going
To Bozeman Friday
To Meet Hawks 11
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Whitehall 4-H Club
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Bozeman, Sept. 14.—Because of
its com P lete P ro 8 Tam of activities
^ ^ the Whlteha ll whizz
of Jefferson count has been
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named state winner of the > 4 ''
u ee ! n -® s U < r ^ 'ru, mnson
""""cement is by T. \. .^Th' jm P s
steteclub lelader at .lontana S at
co . . . rece i v i n „ v, on .
otner ciuds rece
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ecu' 1 > > ,a a /...i... 'o t „r f .i n h'|
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Deer Lodge county, ana uimeia
Opportunists club, t oole cou nty.
The leader, the president and the
Wins State Honors
For Best Meetings
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With enrollment for the school
year practically completed, there is
a substantial gain shown over last
year's figures.
North school has the largest
number of pupils, with an enroll
ment of 402 in grades 1 to 6 indu
sive. South school is second with
152 pupils in the first six grades.
East school is a close second to
South school with a total of 133.
Byam has 30 pupils in the first
eight grades. This shows a total
of 717 children in the elementary
grades, an increase of 81 over last
year's number.
Junior high school students this
year number 192, which is an in
crease of 23 over last year's 169.
In the senior high school,
8 t U( jents are listed, an increase of
nine over last year's 255.
Thanks For Flowers
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0n behalf <> f entire person-1
ne , of the sc hool system,
Supt. Fred W. Graff said this
week that the staff wishes to ex
press their appreciation for the
lovely bouquets of garden flowers
which were placed in every school
room and office on the opening
day of school by the members ol
the Laurel Woman's club.
"This is an annual custom of
the Woman's club am^ one that
welcome from
Nearly Complete Figures
Show Increase Of 113
Over Last Year
! expresses a warm welcome from
! the community to the members
j the education department," Graff
to [FIRST GRADE TRANSFERS
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said.
WOULD BE APPRECIATED
Due to unexpected large enroll
ment in the first grade depart
ment, Supt. F'red W. Graff has an
nounced that he will appreciate
voluntary transfers to either East
or South schools, especially if the
added distance means only a block
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Rotaiia OpCllS ItS
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Dinner Meeting
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. A dinner meeting of the Rotana
club was held Monda y evening at
^7 o'clock at the Moose hall, with
a Miss Grace Stedalman and Mrs.
, na Eschom as hotsesses. Mrs.
Eleanor Greening, vice president,
conducted the business in the ab
' sence of the president, Mrs. Helen,
ÏOümbs
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I R ,nv,tat »on was issued to all
Rotana members to attend a pro
gram tea at the Y. W. C. A, in
Billings Sunday afternoon, Sept,
18, from 3 to 6 o'clock.
Christmas gift wrappings were
ordered and will be sold by mem
bers.
or two.
The two first grades at the
North school are not now nor will
be later divided on an ability ba
sis; consequently, transferees will
not be affected in going to a school
where there is but one room.
I Congratulations were extended
: to Miss Elizabeth Cooke on her
| election to the national board of
; directors of Rotana clubs,
; Mrs. Inez S.mmns presented pi
: ano numbers by Connie Pewitt,
who played "Climbing," and Carol
w ' bo played "Polywog.
>, Together they played a duet,
cycle Built for Two.
„,. The "® xt meeting will be Sept.
26 at the home of Mrs. Edythe
^ eeters ' ' v |th M rs Llizabeth Kais
er man and Mrs. Lois Russell
co ' hostesses -
secretary of the winning Jefferson
county club received scholarships
the Montana 4-H club congress
j that convened this week in Boze
man.
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SEISMIC PARTY OF
I20SETSUPT0MAP
(Juif Company Group Moves
Here From Wyoming For
Fact-Gathering Work
A seismic geophysical party of
the Gulf Oil company has set up
I an office in Laurel and is now pre
paring maps of the sub-surface
structure at various points in this
area. There have previously been
■ j some minor operations of this na
' I ture carried on in Montana by
I crews based in neighboring states;
however, this is the first time that
a party has been based in Montana
and extensive mapping operations
undertaken.
J. W. Rupert, party chief, states
that his grouj) consists of 20
For the past six and one-half
years, he said, they have been
working in Wyoming and were at
Riverton several years before
ing to Laurel. Of the 20 men in
the party, 17 have brought their
families with them. Ten trailer
houses which they brought along
and some houses in Laurel have
provided almost all the housing the
j party needs, but one house is still
needed,
Statistics are used to show that
the odds against a wildcat well be
ing a producing well are 100 to 1;
\ however, when using information
obtained by the seismic survey the
odds are reduced to 17 to 1.
In order to obtain information
I regarding sub-surface structure,
the seismic crews use instrumenta
that are extremely sensitive to
( earth vibrations. After placing
these instruments in their proper
! locations, the crew detonates a
j charge of dynamite in a shallow
264.well. The detonation of the dyna
! mite sends shock waves down
! through the earth and these waves
are re H ected kV various sub
surface strata. The instruments
which were set up before the dyna
mite was set off record the reflec
1 tion of these shock waves and
from the information thus obtain
e d it is possible to plot the deep
structures of the earth.
The party in Laurel is not look
j n g for oil, but it is merely map
ping the sub-surface structure.
After maps of this structure are
completed, the maps will be turned
over to the Gulf Oil company's
geological which will
men.
com
I geological department which will
j determine whether or not worth
j while oil structures exist in the
I area mapped.
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| Contracts totaling $8,976 for re
j p a j rs ant j improvements of the
j grandstand, bleachers and audito
rium at the Midland Empire fair
ground, Billings, were let Thurs
i day by the county commissioners.
Riedesel Construction company,
' whose bid was an even $5,000, was
j awarded the contract for bleacher
j improvement. The offer of a sec
ond bidder, Hitz Construction com
P an y. was $ 6 . 187 - The work in
volves extension of a mezzanine to
another to be constructed in
t he new gra ndstend. Except for
the paddock, a cement floor is to
be laid under the grandstand,
The plumbing section of the im
provements was awarded to Dreier
Plumbing & Heating Co., whose
bid was $1,403. Christensen
1 Plumbing & Heating Co. submitted
1 a bid of $1,717. This is for Tn
stellation of rest rooms in the
I bleacher section.
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The wiring contract went to Em
pire Electric company, $245. Other
bids were by Billings Electric com
pany, $359; Treasure State Elec
trie company, $290, and Yellow
stone Electric, $263.
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The wiring
will be done in the bleacher sec
tion.
J. C. Boespflug Construction
company was awarded the contract
for repairs to the roof of the audi
torium on a bid of $2,328, Empire
Cooling & Heating Co. bid $4,
894.20.
A portion of the dome
roofing is to be replaced, together
with work on flat sections of the
roof.
ADULT FELLOWSHIP MEETS
The Adult Bible Fellowship met
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold VanNice for
a pitch-in supper at 6:30, with
about 30 members present. Wes
ley Freeburg was appointed to
take charge of sending CARE
packages from the class this year.
Rev. Clarence Spellman will be
the teacher, and a new series in
Bible study was outlined.