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Official Paper of Yellowstone County
VOLUME 43-NO. 22
LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1950
FIVE CENTS
Expect To Reoccupy Greatlyi
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Enlarged Structure At
Service Sunday
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After five months of being dis-,
placed persons, the congregation
of the Methodist church will re
turn Nov. 26 to their remodeled
and enlarged structure at the corn
er of Third avenue and Fourth
street for regular 11 o'clock Sun
day morning services, according to
Rev. C. G. Spellman, pastor of the
church.
Workmen have completed plas
tering the basement rooms, and
moved to the main floor this week.
The basement includes a kitchen,
dining room, choir room and sev
eral Sunday school class rooms.
During the months of construe
tion the regular Sunday services
were held in the Masonic temple
and Sunday school was temporar
ily suspended.
hope to resume regular church j
Sunday school classes by Dec. 3.
Among conveniences to be enjoy-1
ed in the new structure will be a |
greatly enlarged auditorium, a la-j
dies' parlor on the main floor, and
individual Sunday school class
The Methodists
rooms.
■«IS SELLERS OF
APPLES DEHONSIRATEIkobejn
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Kiwanians
their meeting Wednesday evening
of last week very clearly showed
Demonstrating
refused to buy a red silk tie bear
ing words and a picture about ap
pies, cut off the necktie he is
wearing—using very sharp scissors j
carried specially for the purpose_
regardless of it being one that
some of his womenfolk gave him
for his last birthday.
Even the songs at the Kiwanis
n etting were about apples, sup
planting such an old favorite as
the one concerning the daughter of
a forty-niner whose delicate little
tootsies were encased in herring
boxes. The apples, the Kiwanians
how to overcome sales resistance,
should any develop in their apple
selling campaign. Just don't take
no for an answer. Also, should it
be that a member has failed or
explained to uninitiates, were being
sold to raise money for the under - 1
privileged children's fund.
Dr. R. J. Rosselot, chairman of
the club's agriculture committee,
reported concerning the hog project
that was begun a few years ago
for agriculturally inclined young j
people of the community. The j
project was started with one bred
Berkshire sow; since then there
has been a satisfactory increase,
The club's share for '49 was five
weaner pigs, sows, four of which
farrowed. From the first three, 10
sows were obtained; the fourth has
now farrowed, giving three sows;
and the fifth has not been bred,
Of the first three litters, eight of
the 10 sows have been placed and
two sold.
Dr. H. H. McLane of the boys
and girls committee reported that
at present the committee is insti
tuting safety measures and in-1
structions applicable to school
playgrounds, travel to and from
home, and at home. Some signs
have been ordered for posting. One
of the measures is to restrict the
of school zones for parking;
making traffic cops of some of the
children is another.
Sec. Walter Menello, at the re
quest of Pres. H. Lee Hamlett, pre
siding, spoke briefly concerning
make-up of attendance. The mem
bers have all the remainddb of
November and the first six days of
December in which to correct their
misses. He said he would read the
rules at the next meeting.
James Whitson, chairman of the
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apple sellers, said he would call
all salesmen Friday for their pre
Thanksgiving reports. Bill Barnett,
with Allie Dolven as the first vie
tim to lose his necktie, began dem- (
onstrating with scissors how to
bring recalcitrant prospects into
line for sales of ties and apples,
Additional cash income was the
result.
Elroy Gilles, singing and Charles
Brohaugh, playing a guitar, com
pleted the program with a series
of numbers.
After the meeting a card party
was held by the ladies of the Ki
wanians, who had attended the din
and program as guests, to
swell the club's cash for various
of its community projects.
H. C. Wheeler of Lakeside was a
guest of J. Willard Baldwin. Also
guests were Mr. and Mrs. James'Wyo.,
ner
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Allen Vargas, 11, Master;
Victor At Billings Event,
Others Awarded Honors
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Allen Vargas, an 11-year-old boyj
from Laurel, won master victory!
over all talent, and star of voice i
over all singing and reading con-|
testants in a Kiddie Karnival j
sponsored by the American Legion j
in Billings at the junior high;
school auditorium Nov. 17.
About 475 children between the
ages of 6 months to 5 years were
entered in the beauty contest and
75 competed in the talent contest.
the Midland Empire,
won the title of queen over all 3
to 5 year-olds and beauty in the
4 to 5-year group,
Deborah Kirkwood won the
group. Danny Frickle took third
place in the 6-month to 1-year
boys class. Thomas Winters was
third among 2 to 3 year old boys,
Patty Lee Cors placed third out
of 457 children for beauty,
Children were entered from over
Terra Lou Groshelle, 4 year old
queen title in the 2 to 3-year
In the talent division, Larry
Horning took second place in mu
sic. Terra Lou Groshelle, Karen
Groshelle, Jerry Quinn and Jim
my Quinn all received honorable
mention.
C. J. Carroll, chairman of the|
RED CROSS
SETS SI00,000 GRAM
Yellowstone county chapter, Amer-,
lean,Red Cross^ announces the/ ol ~|
lowing, which he has just received
from area office. j
"A $100,000 grant to help the:
Korean Red Cross in its work with j
war refugees was announced by j
Frank T. Cleverley, administrator J
of American Red Cross foreign i
operations just returned from a.
six-week inspection trip to the Far
East. The American organization«^
.s also sending a three-man team
to Korea to assist m the reorgam
zation ot the Korean society vir
tually wrecked by the war; similar
the Korean Rea
was given
Gross after W orld war II
Mr. Cleverley said he was
"greatly impressed" by American
Red Cross services to the armed
forces in the Korean war. "Our
field staff reached the war area
(quickly, and worked hard to give
some measure of comfort to the
fighting troops " he stated. "In
Japan hundreds of volunteers
helped the Red Cross provide a
well-rounded program of service to
the wounded and their families.
The work will continue as long as
it is needed, he added
Of the Korean grant $5 000 m
cash is going directly to the Ko
hos
rean society its
pital work. The remainder has
been used to purchase textiles in
Japan for the production of gar
ments by American and Japanese
volunteers. The clothing will be
turned over to the Korean Red |
Cross for distributions.
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Laramie, Wyo., Nov. 22.—The
Thanksgiving holiday is something
new to the foreign students who
are attending the University of
Wyoming. For many of them it
will be the first visit to an Ameri
C an home. Four German students :
at the university and three others
rom Austria, England and Neth
erlands West Indies, will visit the
homes of classmates during the
holiday week end. A student from
Venezuela and one from Hawaii
will attend the Wyoming-Denver U |
ga me in Denver. j
Rita Becker from Siegen, Ger- j
many, will visit Ann Cronin at her |
home in Wheatland, Wyo., Inge
borg Best, Wiesbaden, Germany«
and Elisabeth Schwering, Salach,
Germany, will both go to Fort !
Bridger, Wyo., with Beatrice Tay- (
lor for the Thanksgiving week end. |
Edgar Dietz, Kandern Baden, j
Germany, will go to Laurel, Mont.,
with Ted Neville. They will be (
guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. O.
Roysdon of 512 Third avenue.
Erika Fritsch, Vienna, Austria.
will visit in Cheyenne with Mary f
Lauritson. Patricia Scott, Aruba,
Netherlands West Indies, will
spend the week end in Casper,
with Jane 1 <-C T -"' e' '„
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NATIONAL HONORS came to
Wayne Hageman of Laurel, oper
ator of Hageman Transport com
pany, Saturday night in Great
Falls. At the annual convention of
the Montana Transport association
he was given the American Truck
ing association's cup for safety in
the 500,00!) to 1,000,000-mile divi
sion.
The trophy was given at the
banquet of the state association
and was presented by Herber Hale
of Salt Lake City, representing the
national association. It was the
first time a Montana operator had
won a first place in the trucking
industry's nation-wide safety cam
paign.
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SPELLMAN DELINEATES
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preserved custom in New Eng- j
land which at Thanksgiving time'in
recaIls the privations and near ex . !
termination b hardship of the Pil-.
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. ^ k ^ a Thankg .
addre3S T £ esd noon be .
« ore ^ Laure , Rot J dub b |
R Cla rence Spellman of the !
r hm-ch He had at one :
. served New England churches
ag d dist " nctl recalled
the custom of placing five grains t
f corn around P each Thanksglvi ng
. Th f _ a ; n g re "
resented the 'aooortionment of food '
~ .. . the P ^Piterims surviving
h * \ % v' nter in America had i
subsisted I
Having" visited Plymouth Rockl
bÏÏ struck by\
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barren ess of the bleak
surround ^ he could readily i
. . « * terri£ic difficu ities !
^ ^ Pilgrims must have had
surmount * to even
establish a footing. After burying
Qn e hil , near the first i
settlement some 60 per cent of thej
the first wint er, the!.
* th( f next ear> in 1621.Î
» , ghould return thanks to |
Q J d surviva , The speak er j
that the custom, still !
continued ig not in me mory of V
batt i e won from ene mies, nor of a
'conquest for riches- instead as'
now practiced by descendants it J
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(is a tribute to courage and of ad- 1
herence to an ideal.
Tbe speaker chose to giv^e each 1
the symbolic grains of corn a
me £ j rst be called beauty, j
with which America abounds; the |
second) pilgrims and the persons
Amer i ca has produced—Washing-j
ton> Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln
and ot hers; and the third, work—I
both a necessity and a healthful :
pleasure for mankind; the fourth, j
friends without whom life would be|
barren; and the fifth, God the givei :
of all good gjf ts> through whom '
luve came to t he world. I
The Rotary meeting had 100 at
tendance of members, Sec. R. B. ;
p ac kard announced through Pres,
D A Nottingham. Visiting Ro
tarians.were Dr. William D. Cope
an( j 0 f Rocky Mountain college,
Billings, and Howard Foster of
California. Guests were Fred Car
ver 0 f Billings, with C. A. Crom
we n ; Wayne Hageman, Jr., with'minor,
his f ather ; Tom Thompson, L. Dry
er and p red Cuter, with Herman j
Schessler. |
A letter from the Community i
Service association requested the
attendance 0 f a representative
rom the club at a meeting of
the association Friday evening at
7:30 at which plans will be made
or distributing Christmas boxes, j
A letter from Frank Connelly, Bil- ■
lings, referred to the inter-city (
meeting of last week when mem-i
'„ e rs of the Billings Rotary club'
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NATIONAL TRUCK
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presents
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BcW'ccit Axufust 1,
an<i in recognition
contribution to t4>«2
operation of tank truck
Vice President
Autemoftie Safety Pc a *4nr to*
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Bureau
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The cup is shown above at left,
To its right is a beautiful hand
dr awn and illuminated certificate
which accompanied it.
Joseph W. Fry of Bice Truck
Lines, another Laurel trucking con
cern, presided as president at the
Great Falls convention. John S.
Rice of Great Falls was elected
president for 1951; F. R. Meehan,
Billings, vice president; C. F. Rear
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^HOWS Peak DliNng September
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During the month of September,(
Montana experienced one of
highest periods of Easiness activity '
its history reports Bureau of j
Business and Economic Research j
°f Mont f na . S î ate , univ f 1rsit5 [-. I
ployment declined only slightly
from its high level of August Wee
Jnc power consumption continued
lts . Bt ®®* over f' "5""?« and
carloadings reached the highest
p ° intdl two > ears u . as a near-recowi
wheat cr « p was shlpped du " n « tbe
f he announcement of the ;
«institution of Regulation W gave
an impetus to general and depart
ment store sales > Particularly sales
of home a PP liances . an d brought I
" , a . , n + evv bigb /°r tbe vein . ;
Lank debits, which tend to follow
general store sales closely, also
"f 1 ' S ?Ä a !
4be state with the added impact ol ;
th c culmination of the gram har- 1
^ est ' h i& h ernploymcHb, and a ten
^ t0 ; vard hlgh f u wages. M.n- !
precariously°" tbe otber hand >
decllned dunng September, with
th c exception of increases in zinc
and g0 J d ' . , f . ,
Casb rece 'P 4s fram far market
1 "« 3 u nng Augast continued to
close the gap between total re
f e,p4s " 195d and 1949 > a f both
llvesto ? k , and crop receipts in
"eased, leaving total receipts for
tha year about 10 - G per cent beIow !
1949, ,
Employment
Although the upward trend in
(nonagncultural employment in I
Montana, in process since last |
March, was halted in September,
estimates indicate that the decline
from the August figure amounted !
tc only 0.1 per cent above Septem - 1
ber 1949, and well above the same
month in all prior years.
Outstanding in the labor picture
this September as compared to last
are the higher levels of employ
ment in construction, 36.7 per cent
above last year; in metal mining,
26.9 per cent higher; and in him-(by
her and timber products manufac- j
luring, 11.1 per cent above last
September. A trend toward higher '
earnings is also evident, particu
larly in metal mining as a result!
of the extention of the work week:
to six days. ;
Changes from August to Sep-!
tember in numbers employed inj
the various industry groups were
with slight increases in
manufacturing, mining, finance,;
and government and small declines ■
in construction, including highway, J
dam and building projects, and re- ;
tail and wholesale trade. The j
small decrease that took place inlast
total nonagricultural employment
from August to September was ap
parently due to a lack of workers j
rather than a shortage of jobs. The j
usual seasonal pattern appears to l
be an increase in employment in |
September over August. During
September of this year, however,
as college and high school stu-j
msn te
SAFETY CONTEST
llational
Carriers
Inc.
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of Bov met made n valuable
advancement of safety in tf>e
and tank trailer equipment -
JUDGES
' f Atef, Trlnf'Shoferntton Pfmtrfmrnt
Leland James, president of tlv
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ten opotfetu
rt Stdcr farrtrr.t
fcmmtree flrimtssten-'
don, Billings, secretary and man
ager; Hageman, Laurel, treasurer;
Jack Evans, Billings, secretary. •
Butte was selected for the conven-,
tion next year,
American Trucking association,
stated in an address that in war
"victory and survival are depend
ent upon the maintenance of trans
porta tion.
dents withdrew from the labor
the'force, the number of migratory
workers available appeared to be
fewer than in past years. Employ
ment officials also began to see
indi( f tion f ° f a to arioa -
ment centers where steady winter
work is offered on the part of some
groups of workers The late bar
vest this year maintained a heavier
than normal demand for agncul
tural workers during September
tbus keeping some workers out• of I
the nonagncultural labor market, j
Electric Power Consumption
Electric power consumption by j
commercial and industrial users in
Montana increased during Septem- ;
bei- t ° a figure exceeded only by
February of this year. The average
Irate of consumption per hour was
8 * 3 cent above September 1343
and 1.7 per cent higher than Au
gust 19o0.
Carload.ngs
A substantial increase m car
loads of / r f lgh4 loaded a Montana
points took place in September
with an increase of 19.5 per cent
over August and 14 5 per cent oyer
September 1949. The September
1950 figure was the highest since
October 1948 as a result of in
f ea f es in «bipments of agncul
tural commodities (wheat cattle
and sheep) over August 1950 ana
of copper and ore and logs aad
lumber products over
1949.
General Store Salts
and
Department general
experienced a new upswing in sales
during September. After a 4 per
(cent decline in August from thej
high level of July, sales increased
14.9 per cent during September,
reaching a new high tor the year,
and standing - per cent above
September 1J4A
Bank I
Bank debits in 16 Montana com
mumties gave further evidence of
the high level of business activity
setting a new record for the
state. The steady increase which
(began in June continued as bep- ,
tember debits were 11.8 per cent
higher than August, 10.6 per cent
above September 1949, and o.2 per
cent above September U48, previ
ously the highest point on record.
Mineral I reduction
After increases in July and Au
gust, copper production declined,'
(during September despite higher j
prices and ani assured large demand
as a result of the defense program.
Daily average copper output for
the first nine months of 19o0 is
6.1 per cent below the same period
year. However, recent develop
ments seem to point to an increase
in the future. Employees of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at
Butte and Anaconda changed fr° m
a 5 to a 6-day work week on Sep- j f
tember 11. i
Cash Receipts from Farm
Contrary to the national picture,
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La urel s Thanksgiving
Celebration In Groove
Though A Tiny Bit Less Elaborate It Will
Abound With Turkeys Costing Less—
Total Runs Into Big Sum
The Laurel Outlook, making an
inquiry of Laurel people's inten
tions for Thanksgiving, found the |
dinners will not be quite as elabo- i
rate this year as last, but will 1
closely correspond with the aver -1
age, and the average, by world
standards, has been elaborate.
Dealers in foods reported this
Governor Proclaims
Thanksgiving Day
Gov. John W. Bonner has pro
claimed Nov. 23 as Thanksgiv
ing day and urged "Montanans
to reaffirm their faith in Amer
ica by attending the churches
and synagogues of their choice
as a family."
He stated: "America still
stands after 300 years, a united
nation, mighty in her materia!
resources and mightier still in
her faith in one to Whom, since
the landing of the Pilgrims, this
nation has been dedicated."
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week that the sale of turkeys has
been about as usual. Ihe price is
a little lower this year, but the
people s taxes are greater and
other living costs are up too, so
the turkey price has not reduced
the of th T e d '!T r - The
amount of money Laurel has spent
ishiug run.fing into several thou
sand dollars .
trivinir of 1050 will be strict!v in
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.. intn -ho „l-im of some famU
jj, g tint cert ain of the m /nbei-.s I
^iî/tvore heie^as^ year aiiTnow 1
fa) . in t , arm ed services i
The religious aspect of the occa- 1
^ wi ,U be oh £ rvcd by three j
chuicheg _ Methodistf Co "
tiona , and Church of the Naza
rene _ in a union serv i C e Wednes
. : f tl : k at ..
CoIlffre|fationa , church 0 „ Durlami !
avenue . others will bo governed
in this b their inclinutioiis. It
ted that aK customary the 1
service will hav a | ar ,, e atten d- ;
ance perhaps 500 ni ' ore
Th ' e jdea of havin „ national'
thanks&ivin perio(Js is ^i ot ne %s in
the anna i s humanity but h-iv
■ official offering'of thanks
ontlmortSi 2me date
each j the Americans proud
ly claim, strictly American. It was
begun by the Pilgrims, but the
int B ernlittently recurring observa
tjong durin the Revolutionary
wa and later were not for a long
time focused strictly on the har .
vest season of the year . Before ;
tha( . it had been a custom t0 re J
t um thanks for any stroke of good i
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fortune oc . currin} , at any time. [
Viewed from this station in time
|t wou|d seem th at the surviving,
Pilgrinl3) were in 162 1 actually re- 1
turning thanks for being alive. !
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A visitwr at the L B Conrad
home Saturday waa Mrs . Conrad's
sjster . in . !aw> iÿi rs Ra i ph Patterson '
of Rock Springs, Wyo. Mrs. Patter-'
son wh(} ig Wyoming . state presi .
dent of the American Legion aux
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njarv wag en route to p mve li,
w * ' tQ attrnd a conference
Re t urning . t0 Hillings Sunday
nj hfc she wag a guest of j Ir . and
Mrg A i len Conrad and family. She
eft M, )nday for Indianapolis to at
tend a natiwnaI mee ting.
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Mr and Mrg Q R Burdett re . !
tu ' ned vVedncsdav evening from a 1
vigit tQ the soldiers home near :
Co l um bia Falls, where Mrs. Bur- j
de£t attended a mee ting of the'
board T he roads were nearly free
of aR gnow on tbe return ' trip,!
but there wag eight i ncbes 0 f
snow on the streets of Helena. The
home, for the first time in several
years, raised a large crop of grain,
ru jts and vegetables which are be
ing used there. The kitchen has
been enlarged and fitted with elec
trie ranges, besides other improve
ments.
They would probably have been
amazed had they possessed second
sight and been permitted to see
what they were doing would sur
vive and how elaborate would be
its observance,
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December Deadliest Month Of
Extra Cure Can
Change Gloomy Fact
Year
"Death knows no holiday!"
It is this grim thought, Super
visor England said today, that has
resulted in Montana highway pa
troi s intensiv-j program of traffic
safety education this month.
It's against human nature,"
Supervisor England said, "to think
of the December holiday season ir
any other terms than of gaiety, joy
an( j devo tion. It is easy to forget
that December is also the deadliest
month of the year . A litt i e extra
care can c ] la nge this gloomy fact."
Supervisor England pointed out
that Nationa i Safety Council fig
ures show that last December's
traffic acci dent death toll, on a
g^ter'than ^ OctobeF?-the seTo^d
most deadly month—and 430
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month of heaviest highway traffic
in ternls of mlles driven -
"A lot of factors enter into a
traffic accident," he said, "but
^ eCem ^ er S unna4urïd death rec
ord is si ^ ,lifica, 't in that it coin
cides with the reduced visibUity
° f December weather, slick and icy
1oad8 , and the obscurément» of the
driver s vision because of ice, sleet
or ,f ? w . . .. , , M f
* 4 18 he * bel . ,ef °u the J Wontana
highway patrol, whose December
P ubli . c education program has holi
da >' ha f rds aa its theme, that the
P h .y«cal factors found m winter
dr,v,n *>' tend make 14 doubl - v
dangerous for the driver who re
fuses to acknowledge the need for
greater caution, less speed, and
™re defensive driving,
Excuses for traffic accidents
this time of year" Supervisor Eng
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t,tl0U u s sound: "I skidded V 'I didn t
f e t e b * m coming; and 'The snow
blinded me ' are examples of the
excuses the average traffic officer
hea " and .VT agal ";
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Supervisor England said. "It » ap
P arent 4hat r tbe real culprit m
nine out of 10 of these winter
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with all sorts of reckless and un
thinking driving during the rest of
the year, the physical factors in
herent in winter driving are fre
quently the stumbling blocks that
spel hls dow afall!
The Montana highway patrol
listed the following rules for safe
winter driving:
L double your caution. Drive
as though the unexpected were
about to happen at any time, for
accidents is the driver, and that
weather conditions are simply ac
cessories before the fact! So, while
a very lucky driver may get away
this ma y ver V well be the case,
2. Lower your speed. This al
111084 L r ° es without saying in view
of the dangers present in the form
of ic >' or snowy roads and the in
creased stopping distance arising
from such conditions,
3 - Use K ood G re chains. They
can reduce your stopping distance
b >' as much 38 40 40 50 per ccnt
on slick road surfaces.
4 ' Never drive after drinking,
About one out of every six drivers
nv °l vec l in a fatal accident in 1949.
'according to the National Safety
Council, had been drinking. In th«
holiday season this figure is very
apt to be even higher,
5 - Always maintain your brakes,
windshield wiper blades, and de
J rost ers in the bes 4 possible condi
4ion - About one out of five fatal
accidents in 1949 was attributed
40 801110 form of vision obscure
ment. Many of these were due to
snow or sleet on the wind
shields,
"Don't Let Death Take Your
Holiday," Supervisor England said,
"can be more than just a slogan—
it can be grim reality for the
drinking, careless, or speeding
driver!"