Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-10-12
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IN cultoi U Lit DIIuSer LILIES, howard a. I1dTTlSOH,
wrote an editorial for his October 6 issue in which he
worried about 'who invited" the editor of The News to
attend the recent public hearing of the railroad and pub
lie service commission at Bridger in connection with the
application of the Northern Pacific to discontinue the
present rail and passenger express service and to estab-
hsh a nuisance bus service on the public highway. Hence
this explanation.
In the first place, the editor of The News does not need
an invitation to attend any public hearing wherein the in
terests OF the Carbon county taxpayers are involved. The
records OF the hearing will show that the editor of The
News stated that he represented the people of Red Lodge
and The Carbon County News. He attended the hearing
on an invitation which he believed to have come from
Bridger, which was true.
For Mr.. Harrison's information, the editor of The News
was invited by J. A. Dowdle in a conversation in Red
Lodge and by a long-distance telephone call a few nights
before the hearing. We don't think that Mr.. Dowdle will
object to our telling this, and it is our opinion that Mr..
Dowdle is one of the representative citizens Of the Clark's
Fork valley-in our opinion, more representative than
the editor Of The Times.
What We would like to know is. who inspired that edi-
torial, and how much did Mr.. Harrison get for it9 The ed
itor of The News did not and does not now intend to in
sinuate that the citizens of Bridger are not capable of
handling their own affairs. We talked to enough bust
ness men and citizens along the route affected by the an
ticipated change to know that the editor of The News
was not infringing or butting in where he was not well
come.
For the further information of The Bridger Times, we
will quote a paragraph in a letter we received from Brdg-
er, October ,: In regard to the train hearing, all
that | talked to seemed to be on your side of the question,
but from what | can hear none of them had the nerve, or
was too bashful, to say anything This is typical of the
conversation we had with people who were opposed to the
change in service.
The Carbon County News has general circulation over
Carbon county, and we are just as deeply interested in
the welfare of Bridger and the Clark's Fork valley as we
are In any other part of the county. We stand jready to
assist any part of the county at all times.
1t might be well to state in passing that The Bridger
Times was opposed to the Red Lodge-Cooke highway pro-
ject. We have never been able to understand why such
a stand was taken against this development.
The editor of The News has brought to Carbon county
IN the past two years nearly two million dollars for road
construction which is now being spent to relieve the un-
employment situation. When the Red Lodge-Cooke road
is completed, the Clark's Fork valley will enjoy as much
benefit from it as Red Lodge.
We have In mind the working out of a program so that
Yellowstone park tourists can be fed from the produce
of the Clark's Fork valley. With the cooperation of the
valleys people, foodstuffs from the valley can be on the
table of every hotel in Yellowstone park by noon each
day. netting to the people of the Clark's Fork valley
probably more than any town will receive from auto tour
list business. We stand ready to cooperate in this enter
prise.
We might point out to the citizens of Bridger an Incl
dent that recently happened in connection with the Bridg-
er-Belfry bus line. Last Friday a young lady school
teacher near Golden boarded the bus enroute to Bear
creek, where people from Red Lodge were to meet her
When the bus arrived at Belfry she was informed that
they were not going any further on account of bad roads
This necessitated her remaining all night in Belfry, com.
polling her to take the bus back to Bridger Saturday
morning, and the train from Bridger to Slesia and Red
Lodge. Incidents like this will be frequent if train SER