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Official Paper of Yellowstone County
VOLUME 41—NO. 31
LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1950
FIVE CENTS
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Proposal To Enlarge Church
Is Approved Sunday—
To Begin In April
and enlarging their church build -1
ing at the comer of Third Avenue
and Fourth street. Plans for the
building and remodeling have been
drawn by Edwin G. Osness, a Bil
lings architect, and will be sub
mitted for bids.
The estimated cost will be about
$45,000, of which $15,000 was ;
Members of the Laurel Meth
odist church, at a meeting immed
iately following the regular Sun
day morning services, voted un
animously in favor of remodeling
raised several years ago when the
building program was first plan-1
ned. Weather permitting, the!
ground breaking will be in April
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While people of this community j
have long been accustomed to see- [
ing fine basketball, both in the
DONKEY BASKETBALL
SLATED FOR FRIDAY
season games and in the tourna
ments, Friday night something
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new awaits them: donkeys will i
demonstrate how the game should j
be played.
The donkeys will be momentar
ily handicapped by riders, but they
will not permit this to stand in
their w-ay of running up a big
score. While neither team has a
national reputation for a fast
break, yet both are highly skilled
in the quick stop. The four-foot
ed players will be equipped with
suitable rubber shoes. This, how
ever, will not be a handicap either
to speed or accuracy; they can
shoot both fore and aft.
The evening of fun will be at
the high school gymnasium Friday |
evening, Jan. 27, at 8 p. m. It
is being sponsored by the Laurel)
post of the American Legion, and
the proceeds will be used for de
fraying the costs of the ensuing
Junior Legion baseball program.
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Rainbow Advisers
Install Jan. 18
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Mariene Hafer, worthy adviser, |
installed members of the 1950
board when Rainbow girls
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the Masonic temple. Members of
the board are Mrs. Dora Bundy,|
Mrs. Inez Vaughn, Miss Vera An
aerson, Mrs. Emily Heebner, Mrs.
visory
held a meeting last Wednesday at
Alice Hamlett and Mrs. Eleanor
Greening, Charles Staiger and Mel
vin Williams.
Mrs. Heebner was re-elected
mother adviser and she was in
stalled also. Mrs. Inez Vaughn
will serve as chairman of the
board. Plans were made to have
a Valentine dance in February.
Joyce Hafer and Janet Morrison
were hostesses at the social hour
which followed the business meet
ing.
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Letter Explains Why Headstone ror Urave
t T»* Woo Plomd Tlinro
In Pioneer Cemetery Was IN ever X laced mere
A granddaughter of one of the
pco P . e buried i„ Pioneer
at Square butte has written the
Laurel Outlook and explained why
the headstone described in the Out- ;
look's edition of Jan. 11 was or- j
dered made in Billings but was \
placed in the cemetery. Even ;
33 years ago the memory of an
never
eye witness failed when it came
to finding the exact location of
the grave, and after fruitless ef- j
fort the marking of the grave was
abandoned.
Mrs. J. G. Parker of Custer j
That article on Pioneer |
told about Mrs. Hough, j
wrote
cemetery , ,
She was my grandmother, whom
I never knew, but 33 years ago,
her stepdaughter visited the cem- i
etery andtried to locate the grave, j
They dug up two graves, thinking |
they were hers because Mrs. Jack -1
son said she attended Mrs. Hough's j
funeral and was quite sure about
it but both the graves were men's
and hers was never located. She
had this monument made, hoping
day to find the right place
seme
to put it. ,
"There is a living daughter and
a stepdaughter and several grand
The step-daughter will
old in April 1950.
children,
be 87 years
Mrs. Parker's father was Joseph
E. Mason, who was a partner in |
ESCAPING WATER MAKES
FOG LIKE YELLOWSTONE
A break in a water main near St.
Anthony's Catholic church at about
6:15 Tuesday evening- interrupted
service in several residential blocks
while repairs »ere made during
the night and Wednesday. The es
caping water turned into ice about
an inch thick on the streets near
the intersection of Pennsylvania
avenue and East Fourth street.
The air temperature at the time
'was well below zero while that
jof the water was probably 33 or
.more degrees above zero. The dif
ference in temperatures created a
fog. Car drivers avoided the ter
ritory, which they said resembled
hot springs areas in Yellowstone
park,
Kenneth Hageman took innum
erable color pictures of Alaska
during the years he was living in
the territory, a part of which he
showed by projection Wednesday
evening for the Kiwanians at their
weekly dinner meeting. His work
was such that he went everywhere
in Alaska and saw everything from
the southeastern tip to the Arctic
ocean.
Beautiful wild flowers, he found,
(grew in profusion and a riot of
color in the summers, fisheries
flourished and there was a great
variety of human activities. The
g*aciers crept relentlessly down
v, ard to the Pacific from their
source in the high mountains,
^ ben "inter came he kept on tak
pictures, sometimes ^pf the
scenes he had caught in summer,
bu i- what a change they showed!
the Kiwamans and their guests
14 seemed like a truly rugged,
unconquerable region.
Hageman and the program he
provided were presented by W esley
1-iceberg, vice president of the
c î ub f™* its program chairman, as
s * s ^; d by B. B. Hageman, father j
°- Kenneth,
Two new members, Robert Bate- j
of the Ben Franklin store and i
man
Myron Erb of the Smith Super
Service with which he is associ
ated, were welcomed by J. Willard
Baldwin, immediate past president
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munity service to which the inter
national organization is dedicated.
| Bateman had been received byj.
ad-'election and Erb by transfer from
j Livingston. For the formal re
•? Y 5 b A^°'n f d n
(introduced by Allie Dolven, chair-L
| man of the education committee. J
John G. MacDonald reported;'
that a singing organization Had |
been formed, known as the Ki
wanis Kids or the Faces on the )
Bar Room Floor. He said thej'-J.
group would meet Friday evening!
at his home and that anyone in |
the club who was interested in I
singing was invited to attend.
Walter Menello presented Neil
Baker with an award for his record
in bowling.
Guests at the meeting were Eth
elbert Coombs and son Jack, Dan
Sharp and Postmaster Wayne Wil
lis.
the operation of the Spear-Mason}
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(f£rm he came to Laurel and was J
in the coal business.
The cemetery, now named Pio-1
neer, was in use in 1882 or earlier
and served the area of the Yellow
stone valley in which the Park
[City and Laurel communities are
now located. With the passage of
the years the old burying place
was forgotten by the public, except
the remaining early resident. To
leave it from extinction it was
recently deeded to the Park City
Cemetery association by the state
of Montana.
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F. R. Brown, one of those re
sponsible for its preservation, re
ported early this week that he was
already the recipient of contribu
tions to a fund for erecting a
marker on the historic site.
and Ralph Story, Bert Mitchell,
[John Corwin and J. L. Keefer of
Park City were aided by B. L.
(Price and G. W. Fenton of Laurel
in securing transfer of title to the
land, surveying, enclosing and
seeding the tract. Any individual or
organization wishing to make con
tributions may contact any of the
interested men. The amount need
ed is $200 and probably will be
the last expense connected with the
project.
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BAILED OUT . . , Former Polish
Countess Fogclnest-Adrlan, whose I
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alleged war contacts with Nazis
caused her to be impounded at El
lis Island, chats with her husband
at East Orange, N. J., home after
release on S5.000 bail.
Some of the 16 Million Vets
Have Already Receiv
ed Their Checks
The veterans administration re
cently started mailing out G.I. in
surance dividend checks to World
war II veterans, following one of
the greatest business machine op
erations in history. Many veter
ans of the 16 million eligibles have
already received their share of the
$2,8OO,0OO,OOO dividend fund.
Checks began going out Jan.
16, at the rate of 200,000 a day,
but even so it will be some time
before all veterans receive their
Payments may be corn
money,
pleted by the end of June.
their div j dend checks are advised
to no t become anxious. If they
have rece i ved a c k n o w 1 e dgment
cards> wb ich show their dividend
a p p ii cat ions have been received in
gQod order> tbe i r checks will fol
j ow soon
Veterans who have not received
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sta ^ f ^ Royal theater in Lau
iel S ^ ur ^ y
SteTmanajement°h a s announc
pd The gh free for aU chfld .
1«°- "'ill start at 10-30, with the
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b " lf ' hour broadcast from 11 to U -
* ^ Laurel talent will be used
Sweetheart Bread is tj ie spo nsor. '
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Ra«ir Striirtlirf*
Renewal of the obligation was
the theme in a candlelight cere
mony presented by the officers of
Zidonian chapter No. 50, O. E. S.,
at a meeting in the Masonic tern
pie Thursday evening. Vocal num
bers by a trio composed of Mrs.
'Mildred Woodard, Mrs. Eleanor
[Crawford and Miss Marjone Rob
jerts were accompanied by Mrs.
(Dorothy Bundy.
Herman Schessler was installed
as worthy patron by the worthy
matron, Mrs. Lois Schessler. She
"'as assisted by Mrs. Florence
Ä'Ä'U Mrs. .„a An*
aerson, Mrs. Geneva Jolley, Mrs.
I Winifred MacDonald and Mrs.
Ruth Bailey were hostesses. Thej
served lunch from a table covered
m dark blue crepe paper and high
lighted with sparkling snow flakes.
la the center was a snow-covered
b >B w *t b miniature skiers sliding
and falling down the incline. The
birthdays of Mrs- Eleanor Green
ing and L. D. Scribner were noted,
The next meeting will be Feb.
2 at the Masonic temple.
Junior Society To
Have Card Party
Planning for a public card party
tc be held Tuesday evening, Feb.
7. at the parish hall was the main
order of business when the mem
bers of the junior alter society'
of St. Anthony's Catholic church*
had a business and social meeting
Thursday evening. Mrs. Cal Feuer
bacher wall be general chairman
of the event. Bingo provided en
tertainment.
and lunch was served by a
mittee composed of Mrs. Bernice
Dobson, Mrs. Rita Foley and Mrs.
Mary Heald. The next meeting
will be Feb. 16.
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BUSINESS PUCES
Take Over $250 Worth Gar
ments From Cleaners, Gun
From Cooperative
Burglars robbed two Laurel busi
ness placés Tuesday night
(Wednesday morning by breaking
out a window at each place to
(gain entrance. One was Scott's
Dry Cleaners & Laundry, 206 First
av enue, and the other was the
Laurel Cooperative association's
service station and store, 800 East
Main street.
A first survey indicated that 18
men's wool shirts, six pairs of
trousers and possibly some other
items had been taken from the
dry cleaning plant and laundry.
C. G. Scott, proprietor, said
or
Wednesday. The loss was estimat
ed at $250 or more.
After breaking a window in the
L'.voratory and entering, the burg
lars carefully chose the garments
they wanted. They took only those
that were in best condition and
were not interested in the ones
showing wear. They failed to find
unbanked cash and checks, but
did find a large number of coin
wrappers, about half a drawer full,
all of which they took. They left
a back door open when they left,
which froze sections of the plumb
ing. Their car appeared to have
been parked in a nearby street.
At the Cooperative association's
station the same or other burglars
broke out a window on the north
side of the building and entered.
They took about 50 pennies, also
a shotgun worth $87 that belonged
to Harry Smart, manager. Other*
items, probably small, may have
been included, Smart said Wednes
day, for a pair of sun glasses was
found in the alley back of the
building where the robbers had
their car.
Charles Wood, acting chief of
police, said footprints found in the
snow at both places seemed to be
the same. Evidently two men were
operating together.
SEI KOBER FUNERAL
FOR SATURDAY, JAN. 29
died ^™ day J l K the J°" e ® f n . hi8
son, William Kober of I ark City.
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Funeral services will be conduct
ed Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at St. Paul's Lutheran church in
Lark City for Solomon Kober, who
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and burial will be in the Park City
cemetery with the Laurel Funeral
bom e in charge of arrangements.
Death was due to a heart ailment
for which he had been under a
doctor's care.
was Born in Russia, Dec. 6,
1874 - In 1895 be married Doro
thea Roth and they came to the
United States in 1905, settling first
j n Ohio. In 1908 they came to
Montana. His wife preceded him
: n death in 1922.
Survivors include two brothers,
Ed Kober, Fred Kober, and one
s j st er; seven sons, Alexander, Carl
and David, all of California, John
and Ernest of Idaho, William of
p ar k City and Reinholdt of Bil
i Jrgs . five daughters, Mrs. Wil
i iam Lehman of umings, Mrs. con
Stuckert of Buffalo, Wyo., Mrs.
Arthur Fleming of Michigan Mrs.
g am B i ock an d Mrs. Dave Hard
j ng 0 f Idaho.
Mrs. Setterlund, Once
Local Resident, Dies
At Home In Hardin
Laurel friends received news
Friday of last week of the death
of Mrs. Gertrude Blaylock «Setter
lund, wife of Victor E. Setterlund
of Hardin. Mr. and Mrs. Setterlund
lived in Laurel 20 years ago when
Mr. Setterlund operated a barber
shop here.
Mrs. Setterlund is survived by
her widower, three daughters, three
grandsons and two brothers. Bur
ial services were conducted at
Rockvale cemetery, Carbon county.
Friends from Laurel attending the
services were G. W. Fenton, Mrs.
Frank Jacobs and Mr. and Mrs.
S. S. Bliss,
MISS GUNTER IS R. N.
Miss Beverly Gunter, who com
pleted nurses training in Roches
ter, Minn., in December, is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Chester Herbert.
She received word last week that
she had passed her examinations
and has become a registered nurse.
Her mother is Mrs. Christine Gun
ter.
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TRUMAN'S RIGHT HAND . . .
Charles S. Murphy, administrative
assistant, will succeed Clark M.
Clifford as the President's spceial
counsel on February 1.
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Contributors Are Asked To
Give More This Year
Than Ever Before
Laurel Rotana club is again
sponsoring the annual March of
Dimes campaign. Requests for
contributions were mailed tin's
week to Laurel residents.
Mrs. Helen Toombs, speaking for
the club, said Wednesday that
those responding to the request
should mail their contributions to
Pearl Davis Franzen, box 274, Lau
el. She added:
"The National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis urges that we
give more than ever before. Yel
lowstone county alone has had to
borrow thousands of dollars from
the National Foundation to take
care of chronic cases. Help fight
this crippling disease by sending
contributions now.''
OWNER FOR FEB. IB
Billy IVice post No. 3177, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, will have
its second annual turkey banquet
Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7 p. m. at
the Odd Fellows hall, with ladies
of the post's auxiliary as guests
of honor. The annual affair was
begun in February 1949 when
Stanley Barrow was post com
mander.
At that time 124 members and
guests enjoyed a surprise banquet
and an evening of entertainment,
including music and dancing,
is the intention of the post to
continue the affair as an annual
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event. Admission will be by paid-up
1950 membership cards of members
of the post or auxiliary, entitling
the bearers, husbands, wives or es
corts to an evening of dining, danc
ing and other pleasures.
The committee in charge of the
affair expects to have state of
ficers present to speaiv on the aims,
purposes and accomplishments of
the V. F. W. and its auxiliary.
The committee has asked members
to remember the date, time and
place and to plan to be in at
tendance.
Tea Raises Money
A silver tea sponsored by the
Vr omen s Society of Christian Ser
vice at the home of Mrs. H.
Barney, Wednesday afternoon, was
attended by about I >■ Mrs. Edward
Coombs and Mrs. «L E. Galusha
planned the event, which was
raising money to buy ^ be ®
the junior choir of the Methodist
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accenting pink and aqua in its
theme and centered by an aqua
bowl of- white mums and pink
Mrs. G. V VSiggins,
For Choir's Robes
church.
Tea was served from a table
carnations. Mrs. G. V VSiggins,
Mrs. J. W. Long, Mrs. R. V«. Hates.
Mrs. Vinton Shay, Mrs. C. A.
Cromwell and Mrs. Gordon Allan
poured during the afternoon
Enough money was raised to
buy all of the material needed for
the robes and the women of the
church will make them. The com
mittee expressed a desire to thank
all of those who made the project
a success.
FELLOWSHIP MEETS
* Members of the adult Bible Fel
lowship met Tuesday evening at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold
VanNice. The lesson study was
conducted by Wesley Freeberg.
Officers were elected and will be
installed at a later date.
No Immediate Relief
From Cold Spell Seen
City Maintains Vigilance Over Water Supply;
Highway Traffic Reduced, Rail Movements
Slowed; Frost Line About Four Feet Down
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Bad as it has been the weather's
sharp edge was dulled a little the
past two weeks for Laurel people.
Favored as thev were, compared
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(dont like it The weather has
as news as
Russian nuisance. It slowed the
traffic in Laurel stores, made trav- '
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created a lot of business for gar- j
ages willing to start cold-locked
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Union Central Exchange. Inc., has|
combatted the Yellowstone river)
automobiles and trucks,
many family cars out of commis
sion, taxicabs have been in demand
for taking children to school and
adults to and from work.
The city's water department, as
sisted by the Northern Pacific and
more two weeks. A week ago
s.ush ice m the water flowing past
the pumping station's concrete in
take structure in mid-stream was
s " against t le '"take
screens. If the screen had not been'
kept clear the water supply would
have been shut off or greatly re
duced. This would have involved
the railroad« plants and the refin
ery as well as the city.
Crews from the railroad worked
three shifts every 24 hours for a
week to keep the intake clear.
The slush removed from within the
structure and cleared away from
outside was piled on the solid
oemg
sheet of ice extending from shore !
to shore and was shoved away by
a bulldozer. The ice sheet was
strong enough to support the
machine and its operator and is
now about 18 inches thick over the
main channel.
The larger amount of moving
slush may have resulted from a
temporary warm spell of a day
or two. Though the moving slush
has somewhat subsided, it is still
enough of a threat to warrant two
crews of two men each for keeping
the intake screens clear. The
round-the-clock work of a week
ago had crews of eight or nine
men each.
There «are now three layers of
ice in the river, separated by flow
ing water. Cold weather forming
each layer until the third was
followed by pleasant periods in
Don Brohaugh Is
Awarded Scholarship
By Montana College
News has been received that
Donald Brohaugh, freshman at
Montana State college, Bozeman,
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bro
haugh, has been awarded a $10Ujj
scholarship by the college as aj
result of his attaining superior
grades in electrical engineering the
first quarter. He qualified for the
award on the basis of the results
of a college aptitude test he took
last spring when ho represents
Laurel high school at Montana
high school week, an annual com-1
petition of ranking students from
over the state.
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New officers for 1950 were in
stalleti by Rev. H. C. Haemmel- j
Officers Of Dorcas
niann wben Dorcas Society
met Wednesday evening in the
basement of the Congregational
burch. Mrs. Margaret Robertus
wi jj serve as president; Mrs. Ruth
acej v j ce pressent; Mrs. Virgin
ia Meyers, secretary, and Lydia j
p rank> treasurer. ;
Mrs. Edward Bender and Mrs. :
Jack Shield were accepted for !
membership. Lunch was served by )
Mrs. Augusta Batt and Mrs. Al- •
vina Bebm .
The next mee ti np will be Feb.
8 w j tb Mrs. Marie Heizer and; Mrs.
Bcr tha Benner as hostesses. Plans 1
w jjj ^ e made for a Valentine party, j
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HERE FROM HONOLULU |
L t. and Mrs. Walter G. Chap
n , an are visiting Lieutenant Chap- )
man's parents. Mr. and Mrs. W.
y. d. Chapman, and his brother ;
and f am ji y> Mr. and Mrs. O. K. !
Chapman. They are en route tJ 1
New York where Lieutenant Chap-;
nan will be a pharmacist at Ma
rine Base hospital on Staten'Pie
Island. They have just returned
from three years' service in Hon
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was medical inspector of foreign
ships and planes in the port of
Honolulu.
olulu where Lieutenant Chapman
| which snow water flowed over the
i ce surface. Then another cold
!' vave "ould strike and a new
layer of :ce would be formed.
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As a total consequence the level
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I ot the river is higher than it was
_ water that shou b Id have gone on
^ stream is staying gere as
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Northern Pacific's
Nos. 1 and 3 westbound passenger
trains, delayed by blizzards in
North Dakota, came through Lau
Ire! Wednesday as one train. It
was carrying the mail and stopping
jat all stations.
I Crews of the Montana Power
I company have found that the frost
level here is now about four feet
j b( . neath the surface not far f ronl
vvater ji nes
The sub-zero temperature of
| about 2o (1 s below Tuesday
Lj ht and early Wednesday mom
ing rose to a high of about zero
Wednesday noon and th en started
downward again. Forecasts for the
indicate no immediate change.
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TANSIL TELLS CLUB
There's a great contrast between
the P e °P le of England and the
P eo Pl® °t b ranee, and between the
sl: PPl* es °t food in the two coun
tries, too, John B. Tansil of Bil
found out last spring and
sumrne r when he and Mrs. Tansil
back-tracked on their ancestry,
The ailment of which he suffered
OF TRIP TO EUROPE
cou ld be cured best by an ocean
trip, the family doctor advised,
which brought on the vacation in
Europe for the local U. S. district
attorney. Tuesday the Laurel Ro
tarians heard what Tansil had seen
an J thought while abroad and how
things over there stack up with
those here,
He eschewed the route of the
statesman going from America to
Europe to study conditions. So
[nstead of making directly for Par
**". where everyone is of course
happy, and to Monte Carlo and the
Riviera, where everyone is of
course well-to-do, he chose to take
his American car of the low-price
range and make a first-hand study
ot people earning their living, rais
ing their families and carrying on
natural lives as much as their cir
cumstances and surroundings per
mit.
Thus it was he traveled the by
ways as well as the highways»
stopping at the pubs and the inns
j n England and their equivalents
a France. Along the way were
t h e things of history, of art, and
() f people having lived a long time
j n one pj^e, a ll to be studied and
enjoyed along with the pleasures
one might derive from casual so
cia l contacts with the inhabitants,
The English, he found, were coM
and standoffish; the French were
cord i a l and friendly,
Food was
scarce, not very good and high
priced in England, but plentiful
delicious and cheap in France,
^ime had in both countries richly
[mellowed the beauty of the cà-
thedrals and the grand paintings
[from the centuries since long past.
The statesman having investi
gated and reported on things at
(the casino and in the night clubs
of both high and low caste, Tansil
felt no urge to pursue those sub
jects farther. There was, he found.
a difference between a cafe (the e
marked by an accent acute) and
a restaurant in France. The first
was for liquid refreshment only,
while the latter provided both food
and drink. It was recommended
in France that visitors drink wine
in lieu of water, for many of the
[municipal water systems had been
[damaged during the war and the
[danger of typhoid and other water
borne diseases was still prevalent
Six glasses of a very lie-ht wîru»
jeost about 30 cents in money E-U
The trip went on into Switzer
land, nearly into Germany includ
ed a tour of Wales where thev
have outlandish ways of snellino
names, and near the last a defen-J t
visit to Paris.
Charles Harmon read
from radio station KGHL
(campaign for safe driving by
15 to 24 years of age
club requested 25 cards for
ents and children to sign.
a letter
on a
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Harold Isachsen of the January
program committee introduced
Fred W. Graff who introduced
Tansil the speaker.