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so^ r *, N Ä ' n \ H*6f° v \ ■ HÊ-* s <v «■„•Sr ■*/, OF LAUREL OUTLOOK > N M A v? v <? v<? ❖ S \> C> ^ Officia ! Paper of Yellowstone County VOLUME 41—NO. 30 LAUREL, MONTANA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950 FIVE CENTS Award Is Made By Council To Stickelberger For Hot Water Unit The city council at its meeting Tuesday evening this week let a contract to Stickelbeiger Service' rf Laurel for a heatiug ptot for : the enlarged public library. Two bids were submitted, one by C. H. 1 Horen of Billings and the other by! Stickelberger, who included an alternate bid. The contract award j was the principal piece of business ; coming before the council. Attend-1 ing were Mayor Peter Thomson j and Aldermen Feuerbacher, Romee, j Tubman, McCormick, Freebury and ! McManus. ' Harold C. Haines of the Colo- j rado Fuel & Iron Co. was present, and quoted prices and discounts on fencing needed to enclose the city's j new swimming pool. The library report for December and the health ! officer's report for January were presented. When the bids were opened for the heating plant it was found that Horen's was $1,625 for a forced aii heating unit, complete. Stickel bergeFs was $2,085.20 for a hot water system, installed. An alter nate bid by Stickelberger was $2, 216.73 for a boiler unit to supply j 750 square feet of radiation in ad- j dition to 1,300 square feet for the library building, and providing! tees for later take-off. The alter- i 1 I nate bid for supplying the larger boiler was accepted. SENT TO DICKINSON The remains of Mrs. Anna Kohl,. wife of Anton Kohl, who died Jan., 12 in a Billings hospital following the birth of a daughter, was sent j to Dickinson, N. D., Thursday j night for funeral services and J burial. Mrs. Kohl was bom in Dickin- j son, Nov. 10, 1905, the daughter j of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Gartner. Survivors include the widow'er, three daughters, Mrs. Ferdinand Strickler of Silesia, Mary Ann Kohl and infant daughter, and two ! sons, Frank and Tony. Paul Wold Addresses , Womans Hub On Our rvx ri r' _ij.Wieber Llty, ItS vfOVeminent j The Laurel Woman's club, meet-j ing Monday at the home of Mrs. 1 Joe Marcure, heard Paul Wold, a'a member of the Laurel city council speak on "Our City and Its Gov ernment." Mrs. R. W. Bates and I Mrs. Hugh Dickson were co-host- j egees> The speaker in his introductory : remarks outlined the causes for 1 and the practice of self-govem-, ment as a whole in America and ! then gave a detailed description of j local government, its i structure and functions. "The de- j sire for self-government and the nted of the individual to worship as he pleased can be traced to the j Pilgrims who landed in 1620, ■ hoping to fulfill those desires which had been denied them Europe. They sowed the seeds l that grew into the great tree of j self-government. It took 150 years after the Pilgrims landed for their j plant to bear. American democracy j grew out of the hardships of the | Revolution, the forming of our | Constitution and the Bill of Rights | in which we now place our securi-j ty. The Bill of Rights is the an- ; | chor stone to our way of life," j \ W old said. "City government as we know it in Montana is the government or the people within the corporate! limits in an incorporated city," he continued, going then into a com prehensive description. The of ficers are a mayor, eight aider men. a treasurer and a justice of the peace, all elected by the peo ple. In addition to these there are appointed bodies and individuals who serve the public and material ly aid the functioning of the local government. The city council like other governing bodies delegates at least part of its work to com mittees composed of council mem bers who are responsible to the mayor and the council collectively. The committees and appointed as sistants were described in detail, well as the work they perform in solving the problems confront ing the city and its people. Wold thanked the members of the Woman's dub for their partici pation in the dty beautification (Continued on Page Eight) Laurels own i a.' KliAfANIS BIRTHDAY I I J. Hugh Jackson, California edu cator and president of Kiwanis In-1 ternational. submitted a five-point i community program to the Kiwanis jning. The message was read ; H. Lee Hamlett, Laurel club presi dent, aided by Allie M. Dolven, A 1 Schaffer and Gene Miller. Thev erraoged the program. with Wes i ey Freeberg presiding, as a radio broadcast observing the thirty-1 fifth birthday of Kiwanis Interna fjonal i * , I dac ' vSC ' n s message appealed to ad Tnem t )ers to demand efficiency aild econo!T| y in the conduct of our RV'enmient, whether at national, or '°cal level. Jackson is 1 j e , • an °*, Ç radu T ate . school °* , Slae f® at Stanford University, ao J saJd , at leaders in large cities a " small towns must constantly d e vo fe their persona! services to strengthening human and spiritual ' al ; ie ^.. Hls ^e-point program! te< ared ' club at its meeting Wednesday eve 1 We must continue to serve j cur youth, the future citizens of j ou * ' aad ; , 2 ' ' We must work to strength , e , n aad ^ aka more efficient the cl,urch ' the home and the schooL j j ^ , . atanding and * reate f r cooperation between management and labor, that our enterprise system may be strengthened. 5. "We must as good citizens jdemand efficiency and economy in the conduct of our government, whether at national, state or lo cal level." Jackson declared that Kiwanis International's 1950 administrative 3. We must emphasize to our people throughout our nations their rights and responsibilities as citi zens of the United States and Can ada. "We must work for under theme, "Aggressive Citizenship, Safeguard of Freedom," offered an outstanding challenge to all Ki v/anians . H e emphasized that econ om ic and political freedom, individ ua j initiative and personal integ must prevail "over all sinister an j clever proposals of those ide ologies which are foreign to our Canadian and American way of life. The simulated broadcast traced the history of Kiwanis Intemation a ] since its foundation 35 years ! ago j n Detroit, The organization now embraces more than 3,000 i clubs and 200,000 members in the United States, Canada, Alaska, j Hawaii and the Yukon Territory. Earlier in the meeting, Gene of the Gas Co-Op station j a nd Bob Bateman of the Ben Franklin store were introduced as guests. J. G. MacDonald announc 1 eJ that members interested in such a'a project were invited to form a singing group. Sec. Walter Men ello read a letter from radio sta I tion KGHL concerning a safe driv j mg program for young people-. (Hugh Sweeney reported the Laurel : collection for USO amounted to 1 more than $60 and had been for warded to the county chairman, Laurel Kiwanians contributed about $10 last week, which evoked Sweeney's thanks. Dr. W. A. Mc Cormick described a radio program °- station KBMY for kids on Sai urday mornings which may be brought to the Royal theater in Laurel and for which the Laurel club has been invited to provide in'prizes. President Hamlett an nounced that meetings of Kiwanis directors will he held the first (Monday evening of each month at the Laurel Trading Post and that a special meeting of the board will next Monday evening. A list members with perfect attend an ce records last year was read, ; | \ I I I i I I m y''\' •S-r- • . i sis i . QUEEN OF HEARTS . . . Miss Mary Collins has been chosen by New York photo editors as "queen of hearts" to reign over first radio and television dinner. Proceeds were set aside tor the New York heart campaign. Life Scout Dolechek Is Entered As Local ! Candidate For Tri i> t As investiture ceremony last Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church inducted four Boy Scouts New Ex 1 * nto the Explorer troop. I plor ^ , S ^° uts ' wh ° j reached their fourteenth birthday jto be eligible, are Ted Dolechek, by;Kenneth Leuthold, Danny Hafer and Rex Sommers. Ted Dolechek, who has 29 merit ^ &d & es and holds tBe rank of Life candidate" fc^petiSou Sc? j ja representative of Ne-Pet-Si dis trict for a trip to Washington, D- C., and New York. The boy | <dl0sen will give an official Scout ! report to President Truman. The j second place winner will go to Helena to make a state report to Governor Bonner. The Laurel Boy Scouts are finish jng disposing of the paper they have had on hand for some months, following their last waste paper drive. Funds derived from its sale will be used by the local Scout must have group. YEAR'S OFFICERS OF ODD FELLOWS SEATED Officers to serve Laurel lodge of Odd Fellows through the coming year were installed Monday eve ning by L. L. Smith of Laurel, dis trict deputy grand master. He was assisted by Rolla Johnson and Thomas Everett. L. W. Arm strong as noble grand will be the lodge's presiding officer for the year. Others installed Monday were Clyde Decker, vice grand; Harry T. White, recording secretary; For est Thayer, financial secretary; Forest Go mon, warden; Celester Gomon, conductor; L. L. Smith, right supporter to the noble grand; T. L. Wilkins, left supporter to the noble grand; O. C. Cooper, chap lain; John Stahley, right support er to the vice grand; LaMar Orn dorff left supporter to the vice grand; Tom Everett, inside guard; F. E. Jacobson, right scene sup porter; William W'ilson, left scene supporter, and Harry T. White, treasurer. Niece Of Mrs. Kline Is Hurt In Accident Killing Husband, Son Park City, Jan. 18.—Mrs. Al bert Kline was informed Saturday of the serious condition of her neice, Mrs. Russell Barta, 23, and Mrs. Barta's six-months' old daughter, both of whom were in jured in a three-car highway wreck Jan. 13 east of East Helena. The husband and father of the family, Russell Barta, 29, and his two-year-old son were killed. The Bartes were residents of Colum bus. Another of the nine people in the accident died Friday night at a Helena hospital. He was Bill Johnson of Helena, a youth of 15. Mrs. Barta's injuries were a skull fracture and a mangled leg, while her little daughter sustained a skull fracture. Hurt also were Arnold Huppert of Livingston, J. M. Ashmore of Livingston, James D. Johnson of Helena and Peter J. Welsh of Post Falls, Ida. prise," was inaugurated. It con sisted of a delightful skit that was put on by the hostess. Mrs. Meta, IHees o! Rosebud and Mrs. Walter Hoffman were guests. Mrs. E. L. Sommers will be host ess at the next meeting. Roll call will be "My Favorite Month and j The topic will be Blue Care Of House Plants Told Unity Gardeners Mrs. Levvin Hergett and Mrs. J. J. Cassidy were hostesses when the Unity Garden club met at the Hergett home Jan. 12. Mrs. Her gett presided as president. Roll call answers were "What I Intend;for To Do For My Club This Year."! The club voted to continue its care of a city park and to landscape the P Mrs. Hergett's topic on the pro House Plants," which gram was included care for best résulta, j Evidence of the success of her j methods was a display of African j violets, begonias, geraniums and other plants. A new' project. 'Hostess Sur Why. Star Memorial Highway. Mrs. Duane Maxson entertained Tuesday evening for her bridge club. Mrs. Jack Mayes was a guest, and Mrs. Charles Shelton, Mrs. Mayo Lawrenz and Mrs. Neil Baker were prize winners. iSMS PARTIES SHOUIO JOIN TO SAVE 0, S. j engineer for Montana Power com ' P an >'> told the Laurel Rotary club 'Tuesday that last year the average American family paid more than $700 hidden taxes when buying the simple necessities every' family has to have. Contrary to general belief among wage earners, the witholdings from their pay checks are a dribble compared to the other Robert F. Cooke of Billing's, an taxes they pay. And again contrary to general belief, loading the taxes onto the corporations is not an escape from Paying them, for the only tiling the corporations can do is to pass the taxes on to the public. Soak * n îT the millionaires isn't the swer either; there are not many millionaires to soak. an Nearly all the population of the United States is made of what Europeans call They live as families of husband, wife and two or even three chil dren and derive their money from their husband and father working in a store, garage, factory, filling station or on a farm, or in a busi- j ness he started or bought with his savings. Yet these same people have more automobiles, telephones, candy, beds, food, clothing, motion pictures and vitamins than any other group of 150 million people in the world. little people. If more people knew the tax structure and how it operates, they would turn against it. Instead of working for themselves and their dependents, as they fancy they are doing, they are in reality working a good part of the time to pay taxes for government to spend. Cooke quoted figures from the December Reader's Digest. The magazine's one-page feature was titled "Is This the Time to Spend Billions More ? believe the figures until he had checked them with the govern ment's own reports and the En cyclopedia Britannia. They were that 32 presidents in 156 years, beginning with Washington, spent $179 billion; one president in less than five years has spent $191 bil lion, not including the cost of World war II. The budget is not balanced and deficiency spending continues, with more billions being asked for to spend on new and un tried projects. Cooke said it was time to forget being Democrats Cooke did not t a " d sa re P ÄmeriS * was high time r . B ?T ore Cooka ®p oke - Fred w Graff expressed his views on Ro tary membership. Pres. Wayne Hageman reported that O. K. Chapman was again ill and that J. W. Fry had returned home from a hospital. Sam Brown of Worchester, Mass., and Vint Johnston of Ranchester, Wyo., were visitors. Round table discussion and show of hands following church services next Sunday morning at the Meth odist church will render, it is said, the decision on a proposal to re model and enlarge the church build ing at the corner of Third avenue and Fourth street. The proposal has been under consideration. , Architect's plans have been sub- ; milted and posted on the church'to bulletin board for the inspection of i the congregation. It is expected j that all who are interested will be I present for the final decision next 1 Sunday morning. If an addition to ; the present building is to be made, i work will be begun in the spring when weather is favorable. | The present church, built ini 1911, is said to be inadequate for j j j Methodists To Vote On Church Addition Next Sunday, Jan. 22 the regular attendance. More room 1 Sunday school classes are, needed. ert Sprecher, 15, son of Jacobi Sprecher, who died following an operation for brain tumor in Denver hospital Tuesday, Jan. 10. | Mrs . Anderson sang "Flee As a I the Mountain" and "Myjthe Jraus As Thou wilt/ . Pallbearers were Louis Andrews, ; Kenneth Ellingson, Donald Lud wig> Alex Metzger, Floyd Metz ger and Melvin Metzger. Burial was j n t j, e Laurel cemetery, with the Laurel Funeral home in Sprecher Funeral Is Held Saturday Hev. C. O. Anderson conducted f uner al services at Our Saviour's Lutheran church Saturday for Rob charge. Survivors are the father, Jacob [j. Sprecher; two brothers, John of Laurel and Otto of Warm Springs, and a sister, Mrs. Ida Eisenbraun. His mother died when he was a year and a half old. .Wflx ,t>V ' ; y's i ■ j. "i: N m \4 W m > W ,, - < v i , II v m pm. ■8* J jy| I . 'S m mmu aid $ ■ 5 V m r ^ T r pt T; . (M ' flPI ■ ; I p. 1 i f , f i ' : Six': ■ . $ : if I N W, A PUMPKIN FOR HIS MAJESTY . . . Although he Is only 15 years «W, Per Persson Is a boy who believes in reciprocation if at all possible. When he came to Drottningbolm castle, royal headquarters, to receive his prize as winner of the Swedish youths' national contest for civil maintenance. Per brought along a present for the aged king. It is a king-size pumpkin from Per's own garden, raised by the boy himself as a present for royalty. METHODISTS ADOPT Laurel Methodists, like other of, their Denver area, have chosen the as their particular sphere in the field of foreign missions in a three-year j nation-wide program known as : "The Advance for Christ and His I Church." Specific projects for the j area, a word the Methodists use ! instead of diocese, include aid for I agricultural and village centers in j the Lucknow conference, homes for j Christian workers, roofs for 20 village churches. Lucknow conference in India motor convey- ( ances for missionaries, student aid, j the establishment of a hospital, j literacy campaigns and audio-1 visual aids equipment. j C. A. Cromwell, lay leader for the Montana Methodist conference, said this week that a group in the Laurel church had decided to pay for one of the primary scholar ships and that other groups contributing to the area's pledged obligations. The Montana confer-j ence, one of four under supervision of the bishop in Denver, has sub seribed one-half of the financial support for a new missionary and his family in Sirnri for four years at a cost of $9,200. Other items: Allahabad institute, $500 per year for four years; Buxar hospital, one-half cost of $500 per year for four years, totaling $2,000; liter acy teacher, $250 per year for four years, $1,000; five native workers at $150 per year for four years, $3,000; one new house for teach-' er or pastor, $500; nine primary scholarships at $50, total $1,800; the high school scholarships nt j *100 for four years, $2,000; two!;™ church extension units at $300,1 total $600. . ; Cromwell said that in addition these the conference has al so. i adopted what it calls its general j specials, adding up to $36,750. The! I break-down: Foreign division spec- ! 1 ial . 60 P er cent or $22,050; home | ; division special, 30 per cent or j i $11.025; overseas relief, 10 perl cent or $3,675. The Montana church | extension specials represent $36,-1 *50. The grand total as listed is j §73,500. The Laurel church's share of the $73,500 in four years is approxi-j mately $1,500. The church's share is a 33V4 per cent increase in gen ierai world service, represented by a gain of about $114 per year. j 1 TT - Honors r oundcr - A program honoring Thomas j Wildey, founder of the Independ a,ent Order of Odd bellows, to which was added the Rebekah degree for women in 1851, was featured at I meeting Tuesday night of ! Ever*™, Keb.kah lodfe. Ne» officers filled their stations fori the first time at the meeting in the Odd Fellows hall. Mr. and Mrs. George Mason of Zelda Rebekah lodge No. 14 of Bil- j lings were guests. It was an -1 nounoed that the Jolley Workers, will serve a merchants' lunch Sat-1 ""'iVr 28, from 11130 to at the hall. During the social hour, lunch was served by Louis Arm strong, Luella Bchm and Isabelle t Rebekah Program ■ Bray. iOUSSELL HEW HEAD Harlan Russell was named vice , , , , president of district 6 of the Mon r ... r. . ... j tana Motor Court association in a j meeting at the Commercial club j building in Billings Saturday night, j Other officers named were Joe : Caulk of Silvergate, president, and Mrs. George Baker of Billings, sec retary-treasurer. Glen Nolle of Billings, state sec retary was the feature speaker. He pointed out that tourists left $60 million in Montana last year, and ■ that motel operators should be proud of being a part in the third largest industry in the state. Herb Buck, secretary-manager of the Billings Commercial club, outlined the program of road development in the state, Motor court operators from the seven counties in the district at tended the dinner meeting, werejrj^rr r A nnn j n f P( f ! dll IS Associate Editor Of ! ! University's Kaimin i „ • .. ■ . * j. ' 1 "• • ,. J ... . ..' j don*"«? Fre MV Cr' f f ^imfrinte •' two!;™ of 1 ^ W; Griff supe!nntem. , , . ' 1 * b ; ^ JE j „ t0F t : . , V: ^ ? T'* ;.. .. <;1 . . " " ..YU.'J ' " j a ' a a ' s ^ le raun K wni.e e - e- ecuon. Don Graff of Laurel has been appointed associate editor of the Montana Kaimin! campus newspa per published by Associated Stu dents of Montana State university, Missoula. Announcement of the ap pointment appeared in the Jan. 13 issue of the Kaimin. Editor George Remington was quoted as saying he would soon reorganize the staff i of the paper. _ ! _ . . | IVlOtZKO AS Warrant j OffirVnrluafoc Vllitcf vyiauUdieS - Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Jan. 18 —Donald H. Motzko, warrant of-! ficer of the U. S. army medical department, a son of A. J. Motzko 0 f Laurel, recently graduated from the medical department warrant officer preparatory and refresher course at Fort Sam Houston. This was the first class held to prepare non-commissioned officers for possible future assignments as 'warrant officers and to refresh warrant officers in their duties. !'lhe graduates have returned to duty stations in the army, alr force and navy ~ . Teachers DlSCUSS I r, . , D , ! SCflOOl I llblicity The Laurel unit of the Montana Education association met last (Wednesday at 4 p. m. at the high (school with Pres. J. G. MacDonald presiding. Business consisted of discussion of means of school pub Uclty and making plan, for the February meeting which will be 2|devotod to stud,- of sehool health procedure and w-ay 8 of improving. The National Education Associa tion Teachers' Code of Ethics was read and discussed item by item. ■ ' CTIOII : President, Four Directors To: Be Chosen At Meeting Thursday, Jan. 26. i The annual meeting of the Lau rel Commercial club has been set for Tuesday evening, Jan. 26, to oled a president and board of di rectors for 1950 and to hear mittee chairmen make reports of j their divisions' activities and oper ating costs in 1949. The meeting, beginning with a dinner at 6:15, will be at the Odd Fellows hall on West Main street. com Sec. Hugh Sweeney reported to the membership this week that" as provided by the by-laws, two candidates had been named by a • nominating committee for presi dent. They are J. Willard Bald-< win, a one-time member of the 1 board, and B. Meyer Harris. Harris later withdrew, leaving Baldwin as the unopposed candidate. Four new members of the board of directors are to be elected. The nominating committee has offered nine candidates: G. W. Fenton, Ar nold Bezdek, Hugh Porter, Charles Harmon, Oliver Wold, Bob Sturte vant, Marvlin Hoppel, Jim Whitson and John Tubman. They and the new president at a later reorgan ization meeting will elect the re maining officers—vice president, secretary and treasurer—and ap point four other members of the board. Dr. D. A. Nottingham, the president in 1949, will automati cally become a member of the board to serve one year. Of the four to be elected three will serve two years and the fourth will be for one year. Dr. Maier, Lutheran Radio Speaker, Dies Of Heart Ailment Dr. Walter A. Maier, 56, radio speaker for the Lutheran church denomination, died Wednesday, Jan. 11, at the Lutheran hospital % . ■ • / ^j * i V' f ,• coronary thrombosis Dec. 28. He was widely known as the speaker for the radio Lutheran hour, and was popular as a speak er at many large gatherings. As an author, one of his better known books is "For Better, Not For Worse '" a manual of marriage counsel for young people. For a number of years he was professor of Hebrew at Concordia seminary. St. Louis, and was still on leave during the period of broadcast ac tivity. Survivors are the widow, Mrs Uulda Maier, nee Eickhoff, and two s <ms, Walter Arthur, Jr., pas t° r «f a congregation in Elma, N. Y., and Paul Luther, a student at Harvard, in St. Louis. He had suffered a The January meeting of the laurel P T A ,..;n . Wednesdav at 8 i L S? ISsSl anditLmu 'rtT nÏ! „ committee is ram-incr P ♦ S to TÎSrioL, Livine ' thn arheni aœ „u.-m „„j adolescent and ^ill S~L the relationship of homr and .Jh-JI activities together Thpro win u ' on ,_, f„ r e ve%o„e to take discussions with 57^7^. children and those of \ i h Rch ™ s „ A i c „ ... " 7°; music by Don Srtmsslel Johnston. Workshop Planned For P.T.A. Meeting The discussion will be