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UW*** n» LAUREL OUTLOOK CAL SOCIETY* MONTANA ELENA Officia ! Paper of Yellowstone County VOLUME 41—NO. 13 LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1949 FIVE CENTS COMPLETE STEP IN SOIL WATER STUDTI & u. S. Conservation Service Drills 35 Wells In Area South Of Laurel Some 35 test wells to determine the height of the water table of an area comprising 1,000 acres in, the Clarks Fork valley between Laurel and Silesia have been drill ed by the U. S. soil conservation service. The drilling was complet ed Friday, according to H. W. Riek and C. D. Thompson of the Billings office. Land owners of the Sile sia area supplied the casing and the S. C. S. drilled the test wells. The test wells wall be checked and the water level in each will be recorded for a year while a top ographical map is prepared for the area. When the study is complet ed the S. C. S. will submit its ree ommendations for draining and re claiming the acreage to land own ers. Of the 1,000 acres, about 700 are in need of relief from the existing high water table condition. Such conditions usually spoil the land by creating surface deposits of al kali. 1/ICllfC TU DCATC flC VltWu InnCnlu Ul fASCISM TO U S A I nVUIUIII IU Ui U.n. T1 , The Laurel Rotary club enter tained at a dinner Tuesday eve ning at the Masonic temple for members of the public school fac ulty and their husbands or wives, members of the school board and their wives, and the wives of the I Rotarians. The dinner and pro-1 gram preceded a regular meeting | of the club, with Pres. Wayne Hageman presiding at the business 1 session and extending a welcome j to the guests. About 150 attended, Dr. C. J. Manning of Rocky Moun-, » tain college, Billings, was the after dinner speaker. The program opened with Pres ident Hageman directing the in troduction of the teachers and the club members' Rotary Anns. Supt. Fred W. Graff of the Laurel school system, acting as toastmaster, in troduced three of the five board members and wives, Dr. and Mrs. I. N. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hartley and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Giblin. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Par ker and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Weiber! were unable to attend. Lee Newan, past president of the Rotary club at Pittsfield, 111., was introduced as a visiting Rotarian. He was accompanied by Warren Bloys, also of Pittsfield, and A. E. Birch of Billings. Miss Marlene Freeman and Miss Linda Johnston played a piano duet, followed by two vocal num bers by Miss Johnston with Miss Freeman as accompanist. Toastmaster Graff then intro duced the speaker, Dr. Manning,! ' who has had more than 50 years' experience in the teaching profes sion. He began his career in a small rural school in Iowa. Dur ing his long subsequent residence in Montana he has been prominent in the field of education, serving 1 for 29 years as superintendent of j grades in the Lewistown schools and for several years as principal | of the Fergus county high school. After this lengthy term in admin-! istrative capacities he has now re-1 turned to his first love, that of j teaching, at Rocky Mountain col-1 lege. He revealed in his address that | he sees serious challenges and dan-J gers pressing in to threaten dem- 1 ocracy throughout the world and its existence in America. He was j of the opinion that in the test the j question would be on whether dem ocracy can demonstrate its ability, to resist the encroachments, withj the test finally resolving itself into ! a test of the stalwartness of the public school system. The school system, he thought, is the most profound organization this nation has to depend upon. Although viewing communism as a threat, which will have to come ! from without, he was more alarm-1 ed about fascism, the program for | setting up a centralized autocratic | national regime with severely na tionalistic policies and exercising gimentation of industry, com merce and finance, rigid censorship and forcible suppression of opposi tion. He pointed to signs and his ■ personal observations and expen ences which to him indicated this ! country's rapid approach to the! fascist state. If America falls it ! * will fall as the victim af a statism th er than communism, the speaker opined ' On the other hand the schools of the land are the only places where of all creeds, class- ' i V re tm m < V % sgv? •rX'v \ -Vi ? ^**v ••• t S -v ■L r. ■M h; 0 ■ [ i jj X. urn •m ...v*. -, V V Ï f * l •j a ! - Xj'v 'M ! ■ r ¥ % . * û * ■■ , > ü ï SI * ; m ï ■ 7 A It » ; I ■ . •r-x i .<■! assis HIGH-FLYING HIGHNESS . . . Among recent emigres arriving in New York on the S. S. General Ballon was White Russian princess Tamara Ugrinow, who is displaying the spirit of her 21 years by performing a jete, ballet terminology for "hitting the ceiling." The princess, brought here by the Church World Service, hopes to dance at the Metropolitan. She WaS he,d pr,soner for three months *«* Yugoslavia. . . BRANCH DIRECTORS AI REBEKAHS OBSERVE I 98TH YEAR Of ORDER U,| HH llUUUUfimillllHU UUIII I Lilli Ul UIIULII - The September meeting of the The ninety-eighth year of Re board of directors of the Helena bekah was observed at a birthday branch of the Federal reserve hank meetin E of Evergreen Rebekah - .. . .,... lodge at the Odd Fellows hall Mon of Minnea P ohs was held m Bl11 ' day evening. Mrs. Ida Platz pre in S s at 3 o'clock Saturday after- sented a paper on the origin of the noon. Following the meeting the order. board viewed the enlarged and Plans were made for the degree modern quarters of the Security ■ s ^ ff ,. to present initiatory work at Trust & Savings bank and later f he district meeting of district 12 participated in a housewarming as 1 m Columbus Oct. 16. guests of the bank officers and i official visitation of the directors. ( A similar meeting was held in i Missoula in May at the time of 1 the housewarming of the First National bank, which had under gone extensive changes and addi-; I tions. In October the board will have a joint meeting with the Min-j neapolis board in Minneapolis. I Others at the meeting were Chairman Malcolm Holtz, agricul-' turalist at Great Falls; Directors b. M. Harris of the YellowstoneUp., banks of Laurel and Columbus, i Edward MacHaffie of the State Publishing company in Helena,: J Theodore Jacobs of the First Na tional bank of Missoula and Dr. 'James McCain, president of the University of Montana; Robert E. Towle, vice president, and Clarence \v. Groth, assistant vice president, both of Helena. - rr p „„i. pr „> RpCPlltioil 1 CaCHCFS KCCepilOll PlaiHied For PTA'S _ „ . FlFSt Fall Meeting - An inv itation to the public and t " . , " . JT . . . e oca sc . come better acquainted has been extended by the Parent-Teacher association, which will feature the introduction of the teaching staff at the association's first fall meet j ng Wednesday evening, Sept. 28, at g o'clock in the high school £ ymnasium. Mrs. J. G. McDonald, program c huiiman, has announced that at the conclusion of the meeting the J teachers attending will be segre g a t td according to schools an i g rades> to enable the parents to| )ecorne personally acquainted with their children's instiuctors. ] /H so to be featured will be re-, ports by Mrs. J. Melvin Williams [ ?nd Miss Betty Warden, county h ea ith nurse, on the results of the pre . sc hool clinic and innoculatioa program sponsored by the local ^>7^ u „i t t bis summer. Fred W. Graff, superintendent f schools, and J. G. MacDonald, L-gli school principal, will discuss!* tm , sc hool program for the coming 1 ycar< Group singing will be led by Mrs. Wynona Denny, music in structor 'f or ^e Laurel schools. Refreshments will be served at ■ the close of the meeting by a com- i jttee consisting of Mrs. Archie | ßirkland, Mrs. Neil Baker, Mrs. J. ! Childs, Mrs. Dave Frank, Mrs. Harold Leach and Mrs. John Klein, j !__ ~ . and religion can meet, mingle and, without consciously doing so, imbibe and embrace the principles of democracy for use throughout lle - The problem is to continue teach the principles to the chil dren. With this rightly done the nation need not fear. state officer, Ethel Krogness of | GIendive, will be Oct, 17. 1 Minn ! e A 7 hoi ^ son ' 'y n b'ess and Mrs. Mary Bell Wig pns were hostesses and serv-ed lunc b fr0 ™ tabIe3 decorated witn e? rde . n fl ° wers and individual blrthda y cakes - , Board Awards Water, t. _._ri ^_i Main Contract, Sets r j nn - Anothpr | «ednilg T OF AnOiner I ^ -7 . . Yellowstone county commission j ers , le t a construction contract last i %veek to tbe Blacktop Construction company for a six-mch water main j »' the Van Bramer subdivision of The Proposal by the Blacktop company was $d,io4.20. A b ' d by Barry 0 Leary was for $5,864.50. , Tbt : ™ am feet Wl11 connect with the Billings water system at Long VleW avenue and Avenue L, will run east on E to Tenth street and whence south. The county commissioners has| set 0ct ' 3 as the f ate ^ a hear-, *»g on a proposal to establish a ; rural improvement district, No. ; 114, for installation of a six-inch water main in the Cloverdale sub division of Billings. The estimât«! S£ st 01 the improvement is $11,593. l he proposed mains would be m ^he area between Central and Dun bam ay enues and Seventh street . . ... Three hundred feet would be on Central avenue with additional hne3 ° n Seventh street and Bill {boulevard between Central and Du nham avenues, and between J ^venth street and Billings boule- j va £r . . Th ® f aun ' y c ° mn 'V sslon , er ! ( ac " J ted tae bld M ° nday of Barry 0 L ear y tor furnishing supplies and constnicting rural improve ment district 10o, a 440-foot water m» in to serve a rural area in the immediate vicinity of Billings. . The O Leary proposal was for six-inch cast iron pipe at $3.50 per f° ot ; six-inch double gate valve, 100 ! blowout valve, $135; six P° un d cast iron valve box, $35; three-inch cast valve box, $35, and special fittings at 57'/2 cents per pound. Hearings were held to creat » P^ ia l improvement districts 112 and . 113, both for water mains, against which no protests were en t£red - î' ,77, 1 Miss Tilhe Hohendorff left Mon day of last week for New York City to spend her vacation from duties as city clerk. While sight seeing in the east she will visit several former Wacs with whom he served in the Pacific during the mg city clerk during Miss Hohen ,dorff's absence. Mrs. Gail Gunter is act war. !; com ESI« Off .BOZEMS, Mi Laurel high school's football team, under the direction of its new coach, Pierre Roberts, played its second game of the season when it went to Bozeman Sept. 16. With a score of 12 to 6 the Loco motives downed the Gallatin Hawks. Halfback Don Miller dashed 90 yards on a kickoff return to the winning touchdown just as the third quarter ended. Gallatin had tied the game at 6 to 6 just j onds before Miller's long run down ; the middle of the field. The speed ing Laurel back also scored his team's first touchdown early in the third period from the one-yard line. ï score sec Although outgained in the air and on the ground, Laurel's de fense tightened when necessary. A game is scheduled between Laurel and Lewistown Friday night at Laurel Athletic park at 3 o'clock. EltUAIES KEY CLUB MOVEMENT Jesse G. Ragsdale, principal of the Billings high school and speak Ty meeting of the Laurel Kiwanis club, analytically examined Key c!u t b ; ra r * aer ~ with all that Kiwanis Internation a ' sa 'd on the subject, and ap proved with provisos the Key club movement a s one worth while for participating high school students and the school. His school was one of the first to have such an organization in this state, which gave him more than ordinary ad vantage in experience. The Key organization began in California, had indifferent success there because hifth schools already possessed an adequate supply of organization who were rendering somewhat similar services, Sf uprht on later in a bi « wa y Florida and the deep south where there was a dearth of school clubs devoted to the service of the stu dent bodies. Ragsdale wiped away the glam our . slightly criticised Interna tl0 . nal for beln fc r starry-eyed, and ^ a i<l that at no time should the tail attempt to wag the dog. Fr ° m the positive Position, jSaw Key clubs as i mpürtant b {cause they bring young men into ; contact with a community's older j men of leadership. The youths, al ; ready possessing the necessary ^ qualities for accomplishment and i service, are stimulated in their C oncepts of universality. The club ; , s a means for development. . So also is a Key club interna-j tional convention, like the one the Laurel and Billings boys attended in the past year at Washington, i D. C. The advantage there was | j n bringing together the young nien 0 f similar ideas for exchange 0 f thought and enjoyment of fel icAvship. The schools, though, are being questioned by accrediting as soc i a tions about the loss of class r0 om time. One of the primary purposes of a Key club is cooperation with sc hool authorities. Another is to encourage and develop enlightened ^up act ion. With these accom p H s hed, the Key club movement proves its worth. j Willard Baldwin, president of t he Laurel Kiwanis club, presided at the session Wednesday evening. At his reqU est, Wesley Freeberg introduced visiting Key club mem b erS; Carmen De Carlo, Don 'Schessler, Man-in Sheldon and Neil Roberts. Hugh Sweeney, local attorney, was introduced as a member-elect. Dick Shotwell announced that he aP< j j,j s w jf e i rene had been oper atj n g ^e Owl cafe exactly a and i nv |ted the club members to ca j] at t j, e ca f e that evening for ca k e a nd coffee. Kiwanians from Billings were E. L . Collins, Curt Nabler, Lincoln j ud hins and the speaker, Theta Rho Changes Alppfiîlîr ITS ineeung uaie» - A hay ride was planned for Oct. 1 when the Theta Rho club met at the I. O. O. F. hall Thursday eve-1 ning. June Visser, vice president, presided in the absence of the president. It was voted to change the meet ing nights to the first and third Thursdays of each month at 7 o'clock, with the next meeting Several announcements were made from the chair and from the floor. SI* LETTER MAIL boxes INSTALLED Locations Chosen .In Resi dence. Business Areas To Aid Post Office Patrons Six letter boxes were installed in residential and business districts last week for the convenience of patrons, Postmaster Wayne Willis has announced. The schedule of pick-up hours has not been deter-1 mined, but will be posted in the near future on each of the boxes, which will be for first-class mail only. The locations are at the inter section of East Main street and Alder avenue, near Tubman's Food Mart; East Main street and Colo rado avenue, the New Yellowstone hotel corner; West Main street and second avenue, Sherrow service station corner; Frank's store Durland avenue in South Laurel, and Fourth avenue and Fifth street west, Joye's Cottage gro cery corner. on of thJ M°ntana highway pateol has announced dates on which ap b „ e Stillwater, Carbon and Yellowstone counties during October, Novem ber and December. The hours and lo ^ ions are also listed. t . The Sti Iwater county examina . llons wdl be conducted at the court hoa ® e c in Columbus from 9 a. m. antd 5 „ p - m - 0ct - 19 > Nov - 21 and De ^: 12 ' T . h ° se fo ^.' Carl300 co^V ™ Bb e a at tb e court house in Red Lodge . 5 " c }? ck 9, ct ' 2 ,°',^ ov> 14 and 15, and Dec. 19 and 20. a } n } ® C -° U Y y the ^ EAST QUARTER EXAMS , * J * 9 ή eac J? day . but 9Q n B 'i^bngs «ty hall on Oct 24 in or -"„j ^ , N °on 2 n and ., 2 l i ' an "®' and " 8 to ,i0 ' Dec ' - 1 to " 4 and to ,!I - stu- The d . at , es . do " 0t ,nC,Ude Sun d.ys an d holidays. ^ n IIAPI _ , P D II fl C I 1/[ f) ICC and (J, [j, JlULL. IT, UlLU the ._ I JDAPV PAIIC he ^1 I finU I . Uni I. e- » W " - A former Laurel resident, G. al- Noel, 75, died Friday, Sent. 16. Tracy, Calif., of a heart ailment and complications. Funeral serv ic es and interment were conducted! in Tracy the following Monday, Sept. 19. ' Mr. Noel was born in Davis county, Iowa, in 1874 the son Philip A. and Cynthia M Noel He came here from* Wisconsin in 1913 and homesteaded south of town moving in 1940 to California where he had since resided He and Mrs. Clara Kimbell were'mar ried in Billings Oct. 16, 1924. Two brothers and a sister died some years ago. ' He is survived by the widow of Mrs. Clara A. Noel of Tracy, Calif.; three sons, Philip E. Noel' to 0 f Silesia, Harry E. Noel of Mis sou la and Ashley B. Noel of Laur e l; two daughters, Mrs. Celista Ep 1er of Saint Maries, Ind., and Mrs. Dorothy Birkland of Silesia; a stepson, Harrv W. Kimbell of: Greybull, Wyo.; a stepdaughter/» Mrs! Marie X. VanNice of Laurel 2 4 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. He is also survived by four s is ters, Mrs. Nina Dauring of Mar shalltown, Iowa; Mrs. Dora Ritz Floris, Iowa; Mrs. Ollie Humph revs 0 'f RIoomfield, Iowa, and Mrs. Elva Price of Douds, Iowa, and a brother, V. C. Noel of Denver. year,-i riiQnnoll Cnn a urUco T'/-k rjjrpaf Fill I s * Xo SCFVe West ChllFCh r. tt it* ,, t Rev. H E Chappell former pas ; tor of the Laurel and Park City : Methodist churches, has been ap pointed pastor of the West Side i Great I alls Methodist church, ef 1 Tectiive aflrer Sept. 11»- He succe.sds, Rev. Bert A. Powell, who had been serving the Great Falls church and has been transferred to Richfield j and Shoshone, Ida. Rev. Chappell was recently re appointed to the Sunburst parish in northern Montana for the third consecutive year. The Great Falls church he will*now sene is a spe-, cial missionary project of the Mon tana conference and the general I Methodist mission board of New I i I Pi f j j [ j | | j I : I >1 : H ■ COMMERCIAL CLUB SPEAKER . . . J. R. Pratt, above, of Minne apolis, will speak here Monday evening. Sept. 26, at a meeting of the Laurel Commercial club. His topic will be "Federal Aid to Edu cation. meeting of the club, will begin with a dinner at 6:30 at the Odd Fellows hall on West Main street. Since August 1943 he has been manager of the northwestern divi sion of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, a territory which embraces Montana and five other states. The session, a monthly c * ty council at a meeting Tuesday evening authorized the purchase of a radio transmitter for the city's police car, together with necessary e(|U i pment and a heavv duty generator. The subject had been brought up for consideration t the council's first meetingin September. The sewer committee brought in report concerning a sewer for the Trace tracts RADIO TRANSMITTER FOR USE Of POLICE west of the city, as it had been in slructe d by Mayor Peter Thomson at th e Sept. 6 meeting. The re port recommended that the countv put in the sewer and connect with -|the citv's sewer on West Fourth street, with the city to have the j right to allow property owners within the city to connect with the ! iine - The city would collect serv-' ice fees from its residents using! : the sewer. Rlsie Fr cc z c asked the city to ijoin in a group health insurance!" ! plan for employees by paying one-, ' fourth of the cost. No action was I taken. I Several construction permits : "ere granted: Neil Baker fro a sidewalk in { front of his home. | O. N. Vadnais for extension on a ferrage on the north half of lot 4 . block 9, Laurel Heights; $250. Herman Schessler for replace nient of a sidewalk in front of a house on lots 12 and 13, block 3, Laurel Realty subdivision; $300. A,ex Ostwalt for construction of|° a 16 by 20-foot garage on lot 9, bl °ck 12, Laurel Realty subdivi-; 3 *on; $300. John Allwin for moving and re-. modeling a garage, the garage to be moved 60 feet south and en larged from 12 by 18 to 16 by 221 feet > $ 100 - c - A - Berry for construction of| a fram e garage on lots 10 and 11,, bIock 9 > Laurel Realty subdivision; W«0. Karl Fuller for construction of double garage, 26 by 22 feet, on ; ;\'<** n a " d l 2 - block 10, Laurel Heights; $250. I Chester Scott for a 10 by 14 add 'ti°n to his residence on lots 2, and 3 > block 9, Laurel Heights; 1 - 000 - Henry Fox for construction of a I r> by 15-foot sidewalk at 117 Fourth avenue; $30. An application to connect a trailer house with sewer and water services was denieii. j : I I Restaurant Blaze I j -n- T , , , .. . j The Laurel volunteer fire de- ! partment was called to the Yellow- ( stone cafe Monday morning when | grease on the kitchen range, caught fire. ! ^Cheimeals were used to putoutiton the blaze. Damage was caused by smoke. • ----7 SILVER WEDDING j In observance of the silver wed-1 ding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. LaMotte of Billings, ! their daughters, Mrs. D. L. Gowen j of Laurel and Mrs. Wilson J. Perry! of Billings, were hostesses at open) house at the LaMotte home Sun day afternoon. About 40 relatives ' and friends were guests. | Firemen Put Out ■ RI6H RECORD IN EMPLOYMENT IS Final Figure For Last Month Expected To Exceed That Of October 1948 Employment levels in Montana continued their upward trend through the spring and summer months, and although the trend may have now spent its force, it is probable that when figures are available for the current month of I September they will be found to have remained at their high point. They probably will not be changed much until colder weather and other influences intervene. This general information regard ing employment in the state is contained in a recent release of statistics from the unemployment compensation commission of Mon tana, which constantly has a fin ger on the pulse of industry, pop ulation fluctuations and the shift ing of locations of industrial and business activities within the state. Adjusted figures—the realities o* actual records as compared with earlier estimates—show that six or seven weeks ago there were 143, 000 wage and salary workers in in dustries other than agriculture during July, and that in August the total was close to 144,000, an increase of six-tenths of one per cent. The report from the commission seems to indicate that the actual count for August had not been completed at the time the report was ,ssued > but that enough was 10 warrant the estimate at Aug ? ls J t would be the " re <; ord< ; d employment, exceed Îofgî® F«, 0 ^ 48 by nearly J. 000 - Earlier esti f u h 'f GVe t0 the employment, but more com dicrion fn fl^nrî #î»r thJf.vTt the ^ Î . h flgure for the flrst ° i €x P e " eace I u ♦ for September and Octo 1 ber cantl ! iae the high point I r ^ Ched mid-summer. withan i®ïf r uptrend in December. That u *2"°« ; îv ™. b i n Î [' Irnll U ,fod * * ° maybe r; 1 - • . ., . I . he pnn . c,pa facto . rs ,n tbe Au ' 1 * 1 trade .' h °, tels ' toUnst trade 1Le ' i railroa<1 f s ' government it ff '' an J; manu,ac t u nng. All of i thei " sh ' nVed an upwa ™. move : ! , '" m ? dS . a e ' . and I."", f n tr f „® 11Kt t0 °'e.fJ 1 '■ , n ° 2""** rJfw/Ä J ®ht ïm I.Ï ' d ,.* Ja > .' , .. , „wS^fnin^a^Dr JucHo^of I.., ? 1 and production of f '* ber pr,,ducts . employed slightly ^ P T T°. nS m Au f ust than / n Lurnber . emp oyrne " t de ' ' ? ed . f Ue "J. tw j bundred when ° r " ™ ad tles .' vvere can 2 * 7») ! ^O^^n^kint fj . J? 0 . . or L tal outfits who had a total employ aien ° * n| riKß in fho seas °mil rise n the August {en^ioyme i. .■ ' " f P C0I ^ pensa ~ * . , r „ a at f : eena 13 " , Cai ^ ' ^ S ^\ ar J.'J hair . i J' « "fth D^ayer and ta ' . „ {AJtimilS liOing" SOOIl T n x_ 1 ° vuIIljJClt in IFUCK Tn Tîncfnn lcais Mining employment is still slow because of the weakened price, structure in the metal markets, Another Montana occupation,, that of processing food and re lated products, underwent a nor Harold Altimus of Billings, son of William B. Altimus of Laurel, will go to Boston next month to compete in truck and semi-trailer national driving contests. He was winner of that divi3i on last July 30 in state heavy driving contests at a rodeo in Billings that sp 0nsored by the Montana Trans por t association. j. c. Moore of Butte who won n thp strain*.* tmri.- ri'oc of _ Billings meet, will also go to Bos to compete with winners in that class from th e other states H ugh D. Greenup of Great Falls s in Phoenix, Ariz., this week to represent Montana in competition Sept. 23 and 24 to de termine the nation's best truck and full trailer drive! 1_ jn HOSPITAL Mrs. Eddie Burke is in a Bill ings hospital where she was taken Monday evening suffering nnen monia V was national