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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Lincoln County Farm
Income Figured at
SASS, 429 for 1912

The treasury department has es-
timated the income of Montana
farmers as a basis for expected
sale of war bonds 1t estimated
Lincoln county's farm income for
September at $87328; for October
S9l,7 November S64,2l4; Decem-
Der $32,767. Total for l94l, 1884,
328; for 1912, $455, 429.
Farm income for the entire state
of Montana was estimated at $780,
514,271 for September; $38323, BAT
in October; $26,820,22 in Novem-
Der; $14,256,587 in December; $780,
$4,000 in 194l and $187,419,150 in
1912. Approximately so per cent of
the states farm income is received
in the last four months of the year.
To properly allocate state, county
and individual quotas, even on the
basis of agricultural income, would
be most difficult. Factors which
would have to be taken into con-
sideration would be the Individual
financial situation of the farmer or
stockmen, whether he is the own
er, tenant, or shares his crop, the
size of his farm and operations,
mortgage requirements, etc.
However, in any program 1t IS
obvious that the farmers and stock
mans income is seasonal and all of
us can do real service to them by
arousing discussion. Not only can
a service be given the Individual
but a real service to the country.
The War Bond investments help fl
nance the war effort, help provide
the materials for our armed forces
and help prevent the insidious en-
envy Of initiation from causing havoc.
On the other hand, the money the
farmer saves will help him to re-
place worn out machinery, repair
or replace buildings and other
equipment, send his children to col
lege and provide cushion for the
future
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Junk Collected Here
Totals 100000 Lbs.
Eureka Leads with $1,000 LBS. and
Libby Is Second with 50,230 Lbs.
Troy Students Gather About IS Tons.

According to report filed by Ira
lC. Peterson, WPA superintendent
in charge of junk collection in Lin
coin county, WPA crews have col
lected a total of l65, 434 pounds OF
junk up to Wednesday night. OF
this total, Eureka is at the head oil
the list with $500 pounds, Libby
has turned in 5la30 pounds ana
Troy 1895 pounds. The grand
total covering all scrap collected
from all sources within the county
will aggregate 6O9,00 pounds, said
Mr.. Peterson.
Special mention should 60 to the
students of the Troy schools who
have been instrumental in bringing
into that community about SIS tons
of junk, said Peterson. Large
amounts have also been collected by
the Libby students, probably 10 or
IL tons. These amounts are not in
cluded in the totals submitted by
the WPA.
I'VE are only just getting started, y
said Mr.. Peterson. There are still
large amounts of junk to be gath
cred in from more or less inaccessi-
BILE places but we are going after
it and will have all of it picked up
in time.
A. McTaggart of Butte, of the
War Production Board, was in Lib
by this week checking with Mr.
Peterson in the WPA collecting OF
junk. He is also investigating a
few instances where owners of
rather large amounts of scrap are
somewhat disinclined to turn it in.
1t is said the government will take
steps to secure the scrap if it be-
comes necessary to do so.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Red Cross Anxious To Aid
Through Home Service

Mrs. Sherman Noel returned dur
ing the week from attending a Red
Cross meeting at Great Falls. Mrs.
Noel is home service chairman for
the local chapter, and it was stressed
at the Great Falls conference that
such chairmen should be sure to
impress on the public that they are
ready at all times to perform any
helpful service in connection with
the armed forces that it is possible
for them to do. This especially APP
plies to extending help to parents
in getting in touch with their sons,
and in giving assistance in securing
claims to which dependents may be
entitled. That is some of the work
home service chairmen are sup
posed to do and the organization is
anxious to have the people avail
themselves of this accommodation
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Troy Defeats
Thompson Falls, 26-6

TROY, Oct. l4.-The Trojans
met the six-man football team from
Thompson on the home gridiron
iron last Friday to defeat them
200.
Half-back jim McCracken started
out the scoring for the Trojans in
the first quarter, and the conversion
was made good by Paul McCrack-
en-. Jim was removed from play
shortly afterwards, because of an
injury to his foot.
Troy scored again when Paul Nc
Cracker went over the line, but
failed to make the conversion good.
Jesse Egan scored another touch
down on a long pass from Kensler.
Egan was injured and removed from
the game.
In the last quarter, Bob Grippe
caught pass in the backfield and
raced SIS yards for the most thrill
if,S touchdown OF the game.
Ynompson Falls, which Coach
Ernest F. Bivins had predicted
would provide the fans with the
best game of the season, played a
hard-fought game, but went down
before the continued onslaught of
the Troy team, The game, although
rough, displayed some beautiful
playing on the part of both teams,
and fulfilled the expectations of all
the fans.
Thompson Falls scored but once
during the game, and had several
players removed because of in
iurles.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Ship Spruce Logs
I Laboratory For
Experimenting

Two spruce logs of the finest
quality this district can produce are
being shipped this week from Libby
to the Forest Products Laboratory
at Madison, Wis. The logs are be-
ing gotten out and prepared by the
J. Neils Lumber Co. with the CO.
operation of c. X. Spaulding of the
forest service.
Z The logs are being shipped on re-
quest of the Madison laboratory,
which wishes them to conduct ex-
periments in the manufacture OF
plywood. The specifications for the
logs are quite exact. They must be
four and half feet in length or
multiples thereof, cut from Is to "a
feet up the tree, out of trees from
% to % inches in diameter four
and a half feet from the ground
The Libby logs will be nine feet
long.
Two logs are going from Libby
two from Kalispell and two from
St. Maries, Idaho.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Stote Grange
Meeting at Whitefish
This Week

Montana State Grange opens to-
day in Whitefish at 1890
Master Sutherland will give his
annual address at 200 p. m.
At 800 o'clock there will be g
discussion Of price control legis-
lation.
Ira E. Shea, state lecturer OF
Washington will be the master OF
ceremonies at the banquet which
will be at TOO p m This will be
followed by the lecturers mixer
and awards.
Friday morning, the 10th, will
start with the home economics
breakfast, Vivine Irvine, chairman
Dr.. E. o. Melby, president of the
Montana University, will speak on
New Horizons for Rural Life" at
$50 a. m.
AT 100 the exemplification of de-
gree work will begin. Juvenile and
the first four degrees will be given
during the afternoon. The fifth de
gree, the memorial service and the
sixth degree will be given during
the evening in the high school gym
lldSlufit Lit lAoSS oiiii WILL DI
new feature of the sixth degree
Eighteen young ladies in old fash
toned gowns will take part. under
the direction of Mildred Christian
sen, state Flora.
Saturday will be taken up with
routine reports. At 800 o'clock the
spelling contest will be held.
Saturday evenings session will be
open to the public. The finals in
the quartet contest will be held
followed by the installation of the
newly elected member of the ex-
ecutive committee. The session will
close with a dance in honor of the
Rose drill team.
Convention headquarters are in
the Cadillac Hotel.
Lincoln County Pomona degree
team will give the fifth degree and
the Tobacco Valley team the third
degree.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Libby Schools Make
Fine Record in
Scrap Drive

The, pupils of the Libby schools
including everyone from the first
grade to the principal of the high
school, have been trying to gather
their weight in scrap to beat the
Axis. The pile of junk on the
school yard has continually grown
and has now reached consider
able size and contains an estimated
10 tons of scrap.
Mr. Woods physics class took last
Thursday off and went in two
groups after scrap metal They gath
cred around five tons. Friday morn
ing all the pupils of Libby gathered
in front of the scrap pile while the
band played several selections, and
then everyone gave the flag salute
AS a reward for their enterprise in
collecting scrap, Friday afternoon
was made half holiday.
AS an aid to the junk drive, the
schools are also collecting old keys
that are made with a good proper
ton of old nickel. So far several
hundred have been collected and
more are still coming in. Let's ev-
erybody really get in there and
pitch for Uncle Sam. Get that
scrap in the fight! Now!
Nickle is now at premium anc
is much needed in certain branches
Of the defense industry. Ordinary
house keys contain large proper
ton Of nickfe and copper. Wren fhffr
Pohlman suggested this to his pu.
pills in the sixth grade, they re.
sponded with keys from every
source. Keys to open the lock or
the dog collar, keys to the bach
door, old car keys; the ornamental
type that may have been the key
to some city; key dated 1874 anc
just keys. The other building.
quickly took up the idea and the
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
; Students
Injured In
Junk Drive
Injuries Consist of
Broken Leg, Fractured
Collarbone, Head Cuts.
GATHER SCRAP WHEN
ACCIDENTS HAPPENED

TROY, Oct. 14-All students in
the Troy school were released from
school Tuesday, for the purpose of
loading and bringing into town the
scrap metal which had been spot
ted The date-the 13th-seemed to
hold its usual quota of bad luck,
resulting in several accidents. Mar
jorie Carr, sophomore, was in
jured when she fell off a truck
load of scrap, some of the metal
landing on top of her. Rushing for
a stretcher for Marjorie, Pat Bart
lett, a junior, fell off a truck and
was knocked out. Both were taken
to the Libby hospital, where it was
found that Marjorie had suffered
broken collar bone and Pat slight
head injuries. Both returned home
in the evening.
More serious was the injury re-
ceived by Pat Savage, junior. He
was with group of scrap-drivers
who were loading a car-frame on
their truck at Savage lake. Thinking
the frame was put on the truck
securely, they all let 60 of it, and
it slid off the truck, hitting Pat
and breaking his leg. He was taken
to the Libby hospital, where it was
found that the break is quite seri-
GUS. He will be in the hospital for
several days.
Despite the injuries received in
getting it, the Troy students expect
their scrap to reach the quota mark
soon.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Hamel Cabins Suffered
Heavy Damages From Blast

Al Hamel hardly agrees with the
statement made in this newspaper
last week that two of his cabins
were somewhat damaged as a result
of the blowing up of the bridge at
Libby by army engineers. He said
his place was almost wrecked AL
most all of the doors and windows
were blown out of the cabins, as
were also window frames. In some
instances gables were blown out,
covers to the flush boxes in the
toilets smashed. and some of the
buildings were badly Wracked He
estimates his damage in fnc hun
dreds of dollars. Hamel was stand
ing in a doorway when the blast
went off and was knocked flat he
saws
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
High School
Boys Help Out
In Forest Work

Victory Corps in its relation to
the Libby and Troy schools is not
merely the name of another organ
ization; 1t is the symbol for work
being actually done by high school
students to help fill the urgent need
for labor at this time when there
is such scarcity of that need.
The truth of this assertion was
brought to mind this week when c.
X. Spaulding of the forest service
reported that from Is to Is Libby
high school boys and 10 boys from
the Troy school were employed Sat
urday piling brush on Rabbit creek
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Assures School
Buses Will Operate
This Winter

The boys and girls of the West
who must ride school buses are
assured by Asa j. Merrill, regional
director of the Office of Defense
Transportation, that they will con-
tinue to get to their classes this
winter
But the continuance of essential
school transportation service de-
Ponds, Mr.. Merrill said, on the strict
and immediate application of ODT
conservation policies to bus equip
ment by state and local-school au-
thoritieS.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Orders Trimming of Low
Hanging Tree Branches

In view of the restricted use Of
automobiles, which will cause con-
siderable more use of sidewalks in
the residential sections of the city,
the city council has authorized L.
S. Dalton, in charge of city parks,
to trim all low branches of trees
extending over walks. This will
apply to trees on private property
the branches of which extend over
the walk and which are now an OBJ
struction, as we'll as to trees in
the boulevards.
In view of the excellent work Mr..
Dalton has done on the city parks,
property owners can rest assured he
will do job that none can find
fault with.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15

1t is next to impossible to obtain
men for the work, SO the forest men
fell back onto school boys. Mr..
Spaulding says there is a lot OF
brush piling to be done and that
the boys can be kept busy every
Saturday and Sunday until snow
flies. They are paid 10 cents an
hour, which gives the boys some
welcome money and lot Of good
exercise out in the fresh air.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Gets Commission in Army

George Duvendack, who has
been assistant supervisor with the
Kootenai national forest in Libby,
has received commission as first
lieutenant in the army, and will
leave next Monday for Fort Law
ton, Seattle. Mrs. Duvendack and
the children will go to California
where they have relatives. Their
many Libby friends will regret to
miss this estimable couple.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15

display in the window OF the Noun
tain States Power Company is a
part Of Mr.. Pohlraan's collection.
G.. (.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-10-15
Makes Comparison

With this picture in mind, Mr..
Rankin asked his listeners to view
the ALLEGATION of funds to Various
Western states until July, 1912:
Montana received $39,957 900; Ne
vada, smaller state, 100000, 900;
Arizona, $l75,000,000; Colorado,
$427 ,000,000 and Utah, $431 900, 900.
The speaker said we should have
rubber plants in our state. Con-
Continued on page 81
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
Pork Chops Galore

Bringing home the bacon is more
than catchy phrase to pair Of
fiiers at the Aero Technical school
at Augusta, Ga. They did it. Rob-
ert Manning, a civilian flying in
structor, took off one day on prac-
tice flight with Aviation Cadet Rich
ard Mcmillan. Immediately after
leaving the field the engine of their
plane started to sputter. At 500
feet, while they were trying desper-
ately to get back to the field, the
engine conked out completely. Too
low to bail out, Aviator Manning
headed for a plowed field to make
an emergency landing. It was a
perfect three-point landing, except
that the plane kept rolling toward
the edge of the field, where ditch
and fence were apparent. All at
once the plane jerked to a stop
and threatened to nose over. They
had run into bunch of pigs,
roaming loose in the field. Four OF
the porkers are now in the Happy
Roofing Ground, or wherever good
little pigs 60, but Manning and Nc
MILAN are safe and sound back at
their home field.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
Food VS.. GRAY Hair

Adequate food seems to have quite
bit to do with the gray hair
problem, according to nutrition re-
search workers. They have made
black-haired rats turn gray while
their brothers kept sleek black
coats. The difference traces to the
diet fed the animals.
While research workers the coun-
try over as yet have not isolated
any one factor which can forestall
or cure grazing of hair, there are
a number of factors which are close
to the answer. One is pantothenic
acid, which is a member of the vita
min B family.
"Pantothenic acid" said nutrition
lists from the University of Illinois
college of agriculture, twill prevent
black hair from turning gray, as
well as cure grazing, but only to
the salt-and-pepper stage. Because
pantothenic acid does not prevent
the salt-and-pepper effect, black rats
develop a reddish-brown coat of
hair as they grow Older" Panto-
thenic-acid-rich foods INCLUDE liver,
eggs, molasses, peanuts and whole
grain cereals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
Pound Of Pansy Seeds
Will Set You Back $65

The pansy, the seeds of which are
so small that they are worth sos a
pound, is violet from Europe which
for ages past has been cultivated in
gardens. In heaten days it was
known as Jove's flower. The early
Christians called it the flower of
st. Valentine or heartsease. Pansy
is only our way of pronouncing it's
ancient French name, pensee, mean
ing a thought. In old English po-
etry this was spelled in various
ways, as panses or pawnces Other
odd names for it are birds eye,
pink-of-my-J ohm and kiss-me-at-the-
garden-gate.
All members of the violet family
have five unequal petals, the lower
with sac or spur, writes Mrs.
James A. Common in "The Water
town Times" In the pansy this spur
is so short and blunt as to escape
notice.
Pansies have stems, leafy ana
branching; leaves, roundish and Ell
Their oval or heart shaped, and seeds
borne in sac and SO small and
fine that they command a high price.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
Find Back Bays First
Goldfish Aristocrats

ANDOVER, MASS.-Discovery Of
the "Boylston Street Fishweir" in
Boston's Back Bay section provid-
ed evidence of "the most ancient
existence of man" that has appeared
in eastern North America, scientists
reported.
The antiquity of the fishweir has
been established as about $500
years, thus dating from approx
mately 100 B. c., according to a
report by Frederick johnson of the
Robert S. Peabody foundation for
archaeology of Phillips academy,
and II collaborating scientists.
GA fishweir is dam or ''fence"
on stakes set in a stream to trap
fsh.) & IS s
The fishweir was found in August,
1899, as a 40-foot excavation was
being dug for a life insurance build
ing on the site of a Boston univer-
sity building.
Hand-sharpened stakes, averaging
four to five feet in length, were
found upright with their points inn
bedded in a stratum of hard blue
clay, 80 feet below street level, and
covered by IA feet Of silt and peat
and Is feet of fill.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02

Strange as it may seem race
tracks play an important part in
rounding out the program of instruc-
ton for aviation cadets.
An important phase of the train
ing given cadets in their ground
school classes has to do with topog-
raphy. When flying they learn to
chart positions by landmarks, build
ings, railways, streams, etc. In or
der to furnish pictures for them in
their studies, Maj. A. Hoefle, of To
ledo, Ohio, director of the ground
school. conceived the idea of taking
aerial topography movies. They
have proven big help in the navi-
cation instruction at the school, and
so favorably has been the cadet re-
action, the practice will be contin-
ued as supplementary feature OF
their instruction.
Major Hoefie says "1'he air corps
likes race tracks not because of the
ponies but rather because they pro-
vide good ground features"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
Archeologist Completes Job

What psychologists might be do
ing some day-if Hitler should be
allowed to win-in the ashes of War
saw, Belgrade, Athens, London, per-
haps even Chicago, has just been
done by an archeologist in the ruins
of 1,0OO-year old culture in Ecua-
dor which was shattered by the con-
quering Incas about A. D. 1850. The
Incas used methods which are al
most identical with those Hitler en-
ploys today.
Donald Collier, museum curator
of South American ethnology and
archaeology, returned to his post after
five months of rummaging in the
ruins of a people known as the Ca
mari. They were conquered by the
Incas, who slew thousands of them,
looted the rest of their property,
and shifted the population from its
lands and oyer the mountains to b.
livia more than 1000 miles to the
south. The Incas then moved their
own people into the evacuated coun-
try.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
Midwest Building
Ships for Our Navy
Mines,veeper Fleet Is Coming
From Ways in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND. - Uncle Sam has
gone back to wooden ships to help
win the war.
Sliding off the ways here at rate
of one every two weeks comes a
welcome addition to the unsung
heroes of the fighting fleet-the
minesweepers.
The navy is getting Is wooden
minesweepers for salt water service
right from this midwestern metrop-
oils. The keels and hulls are hewed
out of sturdy oak timber grown with
in radius of go miles of Cleveland.
Each vessel has an overall length
of 1856 feet, a 241a foot beam and
an eight-foot draft. The power that
drives them on their hazardous mis-
sions comes from twin diesel motors
also built in Cleveland-and every
ship also is equipped with special
generators to explode mines and op-
crate equipment and lights.
The first two of the new mine
sweepers already are in commission
and six more are on the ways near
ing completion.
They're going into a service re-
plete with unpublished tradition.
The aircraft carriers, the big battle
wagons, the sleek cruisers, the swift
destroyers and the deadly subma-
rines get the headlines. The mine
sweepers get the dirty work.
England knows how valuable they
are. 1t was the minesweeper fleet
a battered, ancient collection of tug
boats and fishing boats-that kept
open the sea lanes around the Brit
ish ports to the planes and munitions
from the 'arsenal of democracy"
England knows how gallant they
are. 1t was the minesweeper fleet
motley and leaky-that helped Gre
ate the miracle of the Dunkirk
evacuation. They've fought every
thing from stukas to pocket battle
ships, and usually their armament
totaled nothing more than a small
caliber deck cannon or a machine
gun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
British Munitions Labor
TOGO Into Armed Forces

LONDON.-Even munition facto-
ries will have to give up skilled
male labor to the army, Ernest
Bevin, minister of labor and nation
al service, warned at a press con-
ference at which he advised indus
trialists to prepare now by grading
up older workers and employing
more women on both part-time and
full-time jobs.
With the exception of mining, he
said, all war industries in which a
large number of young men are en-
joying exemption from military
service will be combed for recruits.
eve have combed out virtually
all trades in the country apart from
the munition trade, and the next
big Gallup will have to come from
munition workers-young men," Mr..
Bevin said. eff arrangements do as
they have been in the habit of doing
and wait until the last minute they
will impede production. But if steps
are taken now by every known de-
vice to economize man power by
quickly grading up all men and en-
ploying women, this may be avoid
ed"
Mr.. Bevin declined to estimate
the number of men to be affected
but said that the Gallup would in
volve Every large numbers.