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25 YEARS AGO TODAY
Quoted and oaraphrased items
of news from the 25 years ago
Laurel Outlook.
August 12, 1925
Laurel was beat, 13 to 4, by
the visiting N. P. team of St. Paul
in a game here Friday afternoon.
Laurel got two hits to St. Paul's
17, and the errors were Laurel
two, St. Paul three. Scores were
made for Laurel by Parker, Kelly,
Hodges and Crawford.
G. F. Avery and family and Mrs.
T. J. Harrison spent Sunday camp
ing on the Stillwater.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Perry, Miss
Ella Fritz and John Tubman made
an automobile trip to Pompeys
Pillar and other points last Sun
day. Mr. Tubman states he climbed
to the top of the butte named in
honor of the pioneer explorer and
carved his initials in letters that
will remain through the storm of
many years.
Edward Foley and family who
have been visiting here with his
brother, D. G. Foley, and his sis
ter, Mrs. Tim Reardon, left Tues
day morning for their home at
Merna, Neb. They had been tour
ing and visiting relatives here and
other parts of the west for two
months.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Thompson
and three children, Thelma, Gor
don and Virgil, of Eagle Grove,
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and family. Mrs. Thompson is a !
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lonne.
Harold C. Lonne is also here from
Pasadena, Calif., visiting his par
ents and brother.
Mrs. F. J. Wild, accompanied J
by her daughter, Miss Gwendolyn
Wild, of Pullman, Wash., arrived
Monday for a visit with her broth
er, Jos. Gehrett and family. Before
returning to their home they will
make a trip to White Sulphur
Springs. Miss Wild has charge of
the extension department work of
the Washington State college and 1
is enjoying her vacation.
An automobile party of about 16
drove to Joliet last Wednesday
evening for an outing and enjoyed
a picnic supper in the grove of the
Joliet tourist park. The party in
cluded Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hage
ter, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Schrapps,
Mr. and Mrs. William Jacobs, Mr.
and Mrs. H. W. Michaelis, Joseph
Cranwell, Barney Bertrand, George
Deryckre, Billy Hageter, Guy Jac
obs, Frank Mark and Mrs. Nary.
Mrs. George McCullah and Mrs.j
Edward Gaffner, mother and sis
ter of Mrs. Roy Carter, and Mrs.
George Roger, sister of Mr. Car
ter, all of Greenville, Ill., arrived
last Thursday evening for a visit
at the Carter home.
Mrs. Evenson, son Merrill, daugh
ter Carol and Carl Hiner, and his
mother from Reed Point left Mon
day for a tour through Yellow
stone park.
son spent the week end on the
Boulder, about 35 miles from Big
Timber, fishing. One day they
caught something like 40, but the
second day was not so good.
Curtis Wright and Harry Soren -
Births for the week as reported
to the Outlook are Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Branstetter, Aug. 10, a son;
Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Hall, Aug. 11,
a son; Mr. and Mrs. Alex Estrich,
Aug. 6, a daughter, all of Laurel.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Schessler, Jr.,
Aug. 3, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Con
rad Mehling, Aug. 9, a son; Mr.
and Mrs. William Kober, Aug. 12,
a son, all of Park City.
Mr. and Mrs. George Roth have
as their house guest Mrs. Roth's
sister, Miss Betty Spoomer of Lin
coln, Neb. Miss Spoomer is de
lighted with Montana and will
spend three weeks here with her
sister.
In making out a quarterly re
port, E. L. Fenton, clerk of the
Laurel school district, discovered
that the boys and girls in Laurel
up to the age of 21 years are
equal in number. From 6 to 21
years, the school age, there are
454 boys and 452 girls. Below six
years of age the number is 182
boys and 184 girls.
An automobile party returning
from Billings one evening last week
told of a Carbon county farmer
being forced to run his car into
the big irrigation ditch at the
white bridge east of Mossmain in
order to avoid a crazy speeder,
who never stopped to see what
harm had befallen his fellow trav
eler. It would seem there should be
regulation that crazy speed-'
ers would not be allowed the usej
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of the public highway. It cost
the farmer $25 to get his car out
journey. It is said the water was
so deep as to almost cover the car.
M iss Lillian Brohaugh arrived
last week from San Francisco for
a visit with her mother, Mrs. Julia
Brohaugh and other relatives.
Threshing is in full blast in Molt
and if the weather remains good,
another two weeks will see every
thing cleaned up. There are a
number of combines running, so
the threshing will not amount to
much. Robert Thomson is threshing
his fine crop and reports it turn
ing out well.
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Makes Big News Now
ASHOKAN, N. Y.
For over
40 years Virgil C. Gordon has car
ried on at the same job and no
one paid much attention to his
daily reports.
In those 40 years Gordon has
gone down every day into the
"still box" beneath the surface of
Ashokan reservoir that supplies
New York with water and made
his readings.
Now, when he makes a reading,
every newspaper in New York
city wants to know about it. For
on those readings depend the fu
ture of the city that has suffered a
serious water shortage.
He telephones his reports:
"Ashokan down eight hundredths
of an inch", or "up six hundredths
of an inch". The small fractions
are vital.
"The newspapers print my re
ports every day now," he said.
"And I'm enjoying getting some
attention for a change. I didn't
think
my job
important.
But more and more I get the feel
ing that it is. It's fine."
Gordon says the official New
York rainmaker is helping the
situation. Many of the city offi
was
cials, however, hesitate to express
an opinion.
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U. S. Rejects Soviet Union Move
To Seat China in United Nations;
Marines Start Offensive in Korea
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No Communist Deals
SECURITY COUNCIL:
"So long as men are dying on
the battlefield in defense of the
United Nations this council will
not wish to cheapen their suffer
ing or sully their heroism by
seeming to engage in the consider
ation of deals."
With these words, Warren Aus
tin, the American chief delegate to
the United Nations, rejected the
Russian move to link the question
of Red China's entrance in the U. N.
with the Korean war.
It was a bitter exchange of words
between Austin and Soviet dele
gate Jakob A. Malik, who became
president of the security council
Aug. 1.
Malik wanted the question of
admitting Red China to the U. N.
the first order of business on the
agenda, with the Korean situation
second. The Russians were defeat
ed by a vote of eight to one.
No one believed the Russians had
any formula for peace that was
acceptable to the western powers
when they ended their boycott of
the security council. It soon be
came evident the Russians were
interested in seating Red China
and nothing else.
Some believed Malik's maneu
vers were only delaying tactics in
the belief the North Koreans would
quickly shove United
troops off Korea and thus open the I
way for any demands the Soviet |
Union desired to make.
Nation's I
That belief became wide-spread I
when the Russians demanded |
American troops be withdrawn
from Korea, under threat of use of |
the veto, and seat the North Ko
reans in security council délibéra- |
tions.
On the other hand, it was just |
as evident that the United States
would not agree to such a situa
tion. The only outcome could be a
deadlock, with the Russians resort
Ing to the vote to kill any action |
the majority might sanction.
TRANSPORTATION:
Truck Fleets Increase
A for hire fleet of 1,000,000 trucks |
—part of the 8,000,000 which roll
America's highways—is available I
for transport of military supplies in
case of a grave national emergency,
the American Trucking association |
The figure was the chief finding I
of an industry-wide survey con- |
ducted by the transportation organ
ization as the first step in prepar- I
ing for a possible all-out mobiUza
tion. The for hire vehicles would be
the first to be mobilized and would, (
has estimated.
the association said, carry the brunt
of the military ton-mile load.
But an additional 4,500,000 pri
vately operated trucks, 2,200,000 I
farm trucks and 335,000 trucks un
der public ownership, could ulti- |
mately be made available.
Taken as a whole, the associa
tion's survey revealed the trucking |
industry could provide 171,369,000 I
inter-city ton-miles of transport
facilities during the next 12 months,
In 1941—the year before Pearl Har- |
bor—the industry clocked up 57,
123,000 ton miles.
That difference—114,246,000 ton
miles per year—represents the in
creased load of guns, food, ammu
nition or other military supplies
which American civilian trucking I
firms are able and ready to handle
without relying on any other form
of transportation and with the full
advantage of point-to-point ship- |
ment without rehandling.
EUROPE:
Steps Up Defense
The democratic nations of Europe
with Communist aggression in Asia
uppermost in mind formed plans
for increased defense measures
against invasion by Russia.
The United States and its North
Atlantic allies mapped a three-year
$20 billion campaign of defense.
Britain offered to adopt a three
year $9 Ms billion defense budget, a
heavy load for the already hard
pressed British government, if the
U.S. foots part of the bill.
Other members of the group
agreed to recommend that all mem
ber governments take immediate
steps to increase effective military
forces for common defense.
France meanwhile asked that
more American and British troops
be sent to Europe and pledged to
start a $5.7 billion three-year re
armament program. The new pro
gram would be in addition to the
1950 military budget of $1.2 billion.
H-BOMB:
Work Continues
The United States has stepped
up its work toward production of
the hydrogen bomb. The govern
ment has assigned a major seg
ment of the job to the du Pont
company, already experts in mak
ing the plutonium which goes into
the present atomic weapons.
The A. E. C. appointed the du
Pont company to design, construct,
and operate some new plants of
advanced design.
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The pent-up indignation felt
by all who had heard Jac
ob Malik's scathing attack on
the United States in the U. N.
security council is registered
and voiced by chief U. S. Dele
gate Warren Austin. Austin's
usual cool, collected tempera
ment has been put by the
boards as he replied to Malik's
statements. This cioseup shows
Austin fiercely rebuking the
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KOREA:
A Limited Offensive
The Korean military picture ap
peared a little brighter for United
the U.S. since the Korean war be- j
gan, rolled slowly forward on the
southern front.
ly completely aware that an attack
The North Korean troops, evident
coming, advantage j
every spot of cover and battled I
U.S. marines for every foot of
ground,
In the central sector the Com
munists established one bridge
head across the Naktong river be
hind which United Nations forces
had established new defense posi
tions. Military authorities reported
immediate danger points were in
the south and center sectors. In
the center the Reds had three divi
sions and four of their finest in the
south.
south, U.S. B-29's pounded military
targets in North Korea, dropping
as many as 540 tons of bombs in
one day. One mass flight dropped
460 tons on railroad yards at Pyong
yang, North Korea capital, with
"excellent results."
U.S. carriers bombed scattered tar- j
gets over southwestern Korea and
gave close support to attacking
troops in the southern sector,
While U.N. forces attacked in the
Air groups from two 27,000-ton
Military authorities warned that
the southern action was a "limited
offensive" and not a "general of
fensive." It evidently was designed
to block the Communist strategy
of:
off the U.N. port of entry and the |
(2) smash !
(1) Drive down the southern
coastal plain, capture Pusan, seal j
only escape hatch;
through to Taegu in the Naktong j
valley, encircle the defenders and I
cut them up.
Whether or not the Communists
can execute this strategy hinges on
the question: Have we the men and
the materials to stop them? Until
BRIDGES:
shore labor leader, had gone to
Harry Bridges, turbulent long- |
recently the outlook was grim.
Jailed at Last
jail at last.
Federal Judge George B. Harris
revoked the $25,000 bail under
which Bridges had been at liberty
since his conviction last April on
charges of perjury and conspiracy
in connection with his 1945 natural!- 1 j
zation, and ordered him jailed.
In delivering his opinion, Judge 1
Harris assailed the C. I. O. labor
leader as "an agent dedicated to
the execution of the Communist
program nationally and interna
tionally," and a menace to United
States security.
"This is not the time for divided
loyalty," Judge Harris said. "This
is not the time for Communist
double talk."
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The move to revoke Bridges'
bail was started by F. Joseph
Donohue, special assistant to the
U. S. attorney general. Donohue
argued that remarks by the labor j
leader at union meetings, to the
effect that he opposed resolutions
supporting American intervention
in the Korean war, were against
the best interest of the country. j
Plane Crash
Nineteen persons were killed and
60 injured when a bomb laden B-29
crashed, burned and exploded neai
the Fairfield-Suisun air base in
California.
The plane crashed near a trailei
camp where 200 service families
slept. The flaming explosion of the
10 or 12 500-pound demolition
bombs the plane carried shattered
more than half of 50 automobiles
and trailers parked in the area.
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FORMOSA:
The Big Question
In the minds of many interna
tional observers. Formosa had be
come the big question in the battle
against communism. And it pre
sented the first split in policy
among the western powers.
With the President's order to the
U. S. seventh fleet to defend the
island from Communist invasion,
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the split in policy first appeared.
The split, or Russian trap as some
are inclined to believe, became
serious with the visit of General
MacArthur to the island and the
arrival of jet planes immediately
after he returned to Japan.
Many observers point out that
U. S. policy is now clear: defend
Formosa and the Nationalist gov
ernment. This, they believe, may
involve the United States in a con
flict with Red China, a fight which
would almost be impossible for
America to win.
At the same time, the British
government has already recognized
the Communist
government of
China. Several other westerp pow
ers have been reported on the
verge of recognition. This leaves
the U. S. out on a limb and could
involve the nation in a full fledged
Asiatic war.
That,
world situation
what the Soviet Union desires. If
such a thing should happen Russia
would, of course, materially aid
the Chinese.
students of the present
say, is exactly
It has been pointed out that the
American decision to defend For
mosa is a direct act of aggression
against Red China. It is a perfect
excuse for the Reds to rush sev
eral divisions to the aid of the
Koreans. Some observers believe
such a move is already underway.
Within hours after MacArthur
returned to Japan, American jets
landed on Formosa—vanguard of
air units assigned to defend the
Island.
A comment heard frequently aft
er they landed was: "MacArthur
certainly works fast."
That may be, observers pointed
out, but it could also mean that
MacArthur has fallen into the
Russian trap. It was a serious sit
uation that the United States now
had to face.
ECONOMY:
Control Bill Likely
The senate banking committee ap
proved a home-front mobilization
bill which would give full discretion
to invoke wage-price-rationing con
trols to President Truman.
Last month President Truman
asked for limited economic controls.
The bill approved by the commit
tee, however, goes much further
than Mr. Truman asked.
Those less-sweeping curbs in
cluded authority to:
1. Allocate scarce industrial ma
terials.
2. Assign priorities to put defense
production work at the head of any
factory job sheet.
3. Let the government take over
privately owned plants, if neces
sary.
4. Curb consumer credit and real
estate construction credit,
5. Grant $2,000,000,000 in govern
ment loans and loan guarantees to
control and rationing anytime he
decided such a step was warranted.
spur defense production.
The measure gives the President
the right to invoke general price
He could invoke general wage con
trois at the same time.
The only apparent restriction is
a provision saying the President
would be compelled to put wage
curbs in effect if price ceilings pre
viously had been established "on
materials, services, and property
comprising a substantial part of all
sales at retail and materially af
fecting the cost of living."
The house was expected to agree
on some bill patterned principally
after the senate committee's meas
ure.
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Selective service officials at
national headquarters in Wash
ington get down to work on
army's call for 100,000 men
during September and October.
Left to right: Col. Daniel O.
Omer, general council; Selec
tive Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey, and Col. Bernard T.
Franck, legislative officer.
ROBESON:
Passport Voided
department to surrender his
Paul Robeson, native-born Negro
singer and a leader in left-wing
movements, was asked by the state
pass- I
port. He refused and the govern- I
ment voided the passport and ord- |
ered officials to stop him if he
tried to leave the country.
Too state department said any
trip abroad that Robeson would
make would not be in the interest
of the United States.
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How Will
Your Beeis
Be Harvested?
How will the war situation affect farm labor
and the supply of farm machines? How scarce will
beet labor be? Will harvesting machines be hard
to get?
These questions are of vital concern—not only
for this year's beet crop but future crops as well.
Growers who do not own harvesting machines
should contact their dealers immediately. It is cer
tain that all available machines in the United States
will be sold and it is only a question of who will
get them.
Machines now owned by farmers should be
put in working shape immediately. If parts are
needed, order them now. Repairs should be made
promptly.
The machines can and will do a wonderful job
this year. It will require foresight, neighborly
cooperation and determination to work every ma
chine to fullest capacity.
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