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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
CANDLES Purchases
Large Interest in
Auto Supply Group

MINNEAPOLIS-The acquisition
of a substantial interest in Western
Auto Supply company of Kansas
City by Gamble Stores, Inc, Min
neapolis, through a private purchase
of 100000 shares of stock from Don
A. Davis, retiring board chairman
of Western Auto, and the election
of B. c. Gamble to its board of
directors was announced simultan-
eouSly by Mr. Davis and by Mr..
Gamble and P. w. Skogmo, found
erS of Gamble Stores. AS a result
of this purchase and 1880 shares
previously acquired Gamble Stores
becomes the largest stakeholder of
Western Auto.
Lester Hutchings, will continue as
western Auto president. Mr.. Davis
retains a substantial stock interest
in Western Auto and will continue
as a member of the board of direc-
tors. No change in management is
presently contemplated.
Gamble Stores, Inc, founded in
1925 as a single retail automotive
supply store, today has interests in
some 1000 retail outlets operating
in the 48 states, four Canadian
provinces, and the territory of
Hawaii. Operating subsidiary COM
panies include Gamble Skogmo,
Inc, Western Auto Supply Com
pany of Los Angeles, and Macleod's,
Ltd. This subsidiary group controls
SIS company owned retail stores and
serves 1909 authorized dealer stores.
1914 sales of these subsidiary COM
panies exceeded S55, 900, 900 with
l945 sales running at the estimated
rate of $1,000, 900 for the year.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Bronze Star Goes to Former
Nashua Man Cor Okinawa Deeds

WITH THE 96TH DIVISION IN
THE PHILIPPINES-Pfc Donald j
Beecher, son Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
w. Beecher of Bremerton, Wash.
has been awarded the bronze stan
medal for heroic service in Okinawa
In making the award, Major Gen.
James L. Bradley, commanding the
Goth division cited Pfc. Beecher for
his heroism last May %.
The citation stated: when his
battalion was entrenched on a key
position 1000 yards east of Shuri,
intense enemy infiltration eX-
haused the forward companies sup
ply of grenades and Pfc. Beecher
with ten other men and with utter
disregard for his own personal
safety, in total darkness and under
the most adverse ground conditions
carried the necessary ammunition
800 yards forward while exposed to
heavy enemy fire. He then assisted
in the evacuation of three casualties
to the battalion aid station. This
heroic action enabled the rifle COM
panies to maintain their position
that night and undoubtedly saved
the lives of the wounded men,"
Pfc. Beecher served with the 382nd
infantry through the Okinawa cam
paign. In addition to the bronze star
medal, he holds the combat infan-
tryman badge.
Before entering the army, he was
employed as a riveter by Boeing Air
craft company of Seattle. Previously
he had attended Nashua high school,
graduating in 1910. He is married,
his wife now residing in Seattle.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27

The writer received his first education in the myriad uses
of the bulldozer during the construction of Fort Peck dam. As
one oldtime construction stiff put it, you can do almost anything
with a bulldozer but stir your coffee. and we have seen some
experts who, we believe would be capable of tackling that
delicate job.
But the bulldozer really came into its own during the war.
Some call it our biggest secret weapon" 1t built miles of roads
and airstrips at a peace that astonished our enemies. Armored
bulldozers buried Japs in pilboxes and paved the way for
advances, or burrowed passages through the bushy hedgerows
of Normandy on another front.
We have just read that the earliest bulldozer of record was
offered in a cataog issued by the Russell Grader Manufacture
ing company of Minneapolis in 1917 As accurately as can be
traced, the name seems to come from a heavy horizontal press
used in forge shops. 1t came into common use on the fronts
of tractors in the 2Os.
But, we learn, the bulldozer; was evolved from many earlier
inventions, dating from the scientifically curved moldboard that
President Thomas Jefferson devised for cutting the earth and
turning a clean furrow. Then along came such devices as the
crude horse drawn scraper of rs years ago and the wooden
Mormonboard pillow that graded roadbeds on many western rail
roads. The bulldozer did not become the powerful thing it is
today, however, until the development of crawler traction units
ancestory akin to our own modern tractor pillow.
The bulldozer is indeed versatile. Soon, we will be retiring
thousands of guns and combat planes from active duty. But the
bulldozer will keep pushing along, building peacetime roads
and dams just as effectively as it helped set the Jap back on his
launches. There is no reconversion problem here.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
MaS0n'S Work
Brings Award

Many months service in combat
under critical conditions brought
Serg. Clarence L.. (Swede) Mason
of Frazer the bronze star, accord
ing to information received by his
father, w. w. Mason. In addition,
Sergeant Mason has twice been
wounded and wear the Purple
Heart with oak leaf cluster.
A citation issued from Seventh
armored division headquarters COM
mends the Frazer soldier for per-
Torrance of his duties as section
leaders tank driver and as platoon
sergeant with ability and distinc-
ton. He readily assumed RESPONSE
bility and carried out all duties with
skill and aggressiveness. His fear
leSsness and initiative in critical
situations gained him the respect of
both officers and enlisted men,"
The period covered in Belgium and
Germany is from Nov. 8, 1914, to
May 8, 1945, during which he dis
played sound leadership, courageous
action and outstanding devotion to
duty"
The 750th tank battalion, of
which he was a member, destroyed
enemy equipment, equivalent to the
size of a panzer division in its cam
paigns from Normandy to the Roer,
through the battle of the bulge and
from the Rhine to the Elbe. Serg-
cant Mason is now serving in the
occupation army in Germany.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
GOOD IN WAR, GOOD IN PEACE

The public has been told, and told again, that we cannot ex
pect typewriters, refrigerators, radios and such equipment t.
roll off the production lines a few months after VI day. We
have been told of the immense problems OF reconverslon and
change-over that cannot be solved overnight.
And it is more than a matter of reconversion. Some firms
because of their outstanding war records have been held longer
on war contracts than some others. We should be patient and
fair with such companies, not only for their achievements in
helping defeat our enemies, but for other more realistic motives.
A clue to this is given in a recent editorial in the American
Banker, referring particularly to office machine companies. 1t
says:
"The instruments of war which these office machine COM
panies have been producing have been vastly more refined and
more precision-fnished than the pre-war office machines they
manufactured. The concerns that have been held the longest on
war contracts are those that have done the best jobs for the
armed forces. They may also be expected to do the best jobs
when they finally can reconvert and get to producing office
machines; and the best postwar job in producing such equipment
is going to be a vastly better job than anything which was turned
out pre-war. The finer machining and precision work at which
these manufacturers and workmen became superskiled in their
war production work will mean finer office machines when they
get into peacetime production"
Consumers probably will have opportunity to purchase
"off-brand" and unknown types of equipment and merchandise.
They will penalize themselves by SO doing. A little more prac-
tce, just a little longer wait, will make available to them the i'm
proved models of the standard and reliable firms.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Valley County
Outdoors Notes
BY MARK WATSON

We missed our fishing and hunt
ing stories last week because WI
hoped to announce that there would
be a meeting of the Sportsman's
association for discussion of rec
reation facilities at Fort Peck. The
date is still not established.
Grouse hunting was varied;
many hunters never fired a
shot, other got their limit.
Generally speaking, with the
limited number in the country,
many hunters r pressing for
a closed season on these birds
another year.
Fishing seems to be going better
than ever Catches have been good
IN both perch and pike above the
dam with a number of Rainbows
being caught. Heinie Morgan had a
"a inch pike to his credit, Mrs. Rus
sell Henning had a bucket full of
cleaned pike and perch. The weather
has been cold but the fish are bit
ing.
The best story of the week: Les
Hanson sat his pole down for a
minute, came back and it was gone.
He got a grapple hook and started
dragging for the pole, hooked it and
with the help of his power boat
with the va motor was able to
land pole and pike.
The best grouse story: Eddie Oh
son asked Cliff Tiegen about his
luck. Cliff answered, Good" Eddie
wanted to know where and how and
Cliff said as he was combining, the
grouse flew up on the grain tank of
the combine and he hit them on the
head with a hammer.
Garth Mag was hunting
grouse Sunday and bagged a so
Pound bobcat that will be on
display at STAINS bar Just as
soon IS Stan gets it mounted.
1t was killed in the Vandalia
rea
We are sorry to report that hunt
.rS, so-called sportsmen, took down
three fences on the south bench and
drove across land that was posted.
Fellows, if u farmer friends are to
permit is to hunt the birds that
they feed all summer, surely we can
let their fences alone, drive the roads
and walk the fields. If a farm is
at least seek permission from
The owner or tenant before taking
over. After all we haven't bought
The farm yet and if he doesn't want
is to hunt there, Montana is a big
and Valley county has lots of
yacant acres.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
SELECT EDITORIAL
PLEASURE RESORT AND RECREATION AT FORT PECK

cine Miles City Starr
In considering new scenic attractions for tourists. Montanans are given
on opportunity to present the lake behind he Fort Peck dam as an area
possessed of special attractions for tourists.
With the release given to pentup feelings surging through the minds
and hearts of Americans during the dreadful war years there is bound To
follow a decided increase in tourist travel.
Millions CT people will be looking for spots where they can spend their
vacations. What we do in Montana with what we have will depend the
volume Of tourist travel we will witness in the future.
Oter states are taking inventories of their scenic attractions.
Congressman John R. Murdoch CT Arizona has a dream along this
me' lie would create a new lake on the Colorado river between Boulder
Dam and the Grand Canyon. He deems it is feasible. This would come
through the construction of a 75O-fodhigh dam, already completed by
the United States Reclamation Bureau.
IL would bring within tourist range the southern end of the Grand
canyon 10 unknown by the average sghtseer. But not the least interest
I'M spectacle would be the life of the Havasupai Indians who live en- a
shHI OF me canyon and raise crops on irrigated fields on the canyon floor
linen take Lake Mead, the product of Boulder Dam! This body
of water bids fair to transform the life of the adjoining parts of Nevada
and Arizona. Undoubtedly the new lakes created in the Tennessee rive
VIII d. the same as time passes.
In practically all of these places provisions have been made to set
up 1aclites FOL camping, fishing and other pursuits of leisure.
montana, OF course, has many natural scenic spots Most of them n
IN the mountainous portion of the state.
IN balance this situation to some extent by inaugurating a
moVemeM 10 make a pleasure resort and a magnificent recreation spot
for Jul visiting tourists?
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Native Kids Like School, WAC
Finds I'm Southwest Pacific

thus located for protection from
other raiding headhunterS.
The Glasgow WAC found foul
families living in n hut, each with
a separate room and fireplace.
IF you think they don't have
manners, you're crazy" she adds
THE man of the house brought
around a boXlike affair. supposedly
a chair, for pretty Mary that's
me. They always call a wife Mary.
I guess because I was with someone
they thought I was a Mary too"
"They have a beautiful hut for a
school, where a Javanese instructor
teaches them reading, writing and
arithmetic. Believe it or not, but
the children really like to 60. to
school. In fact, the day 1 was there,
there were some studying for all
they were worth"
Her letter adds that She does not
know how long she will be at her
present station, but she anticipates
being moved to Manila, or even
farther.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Questions and Answers

Q.-Can the mother of al ilIegiti
mate child file an application for
family allowance, if a soldier is the
father?
Ayes, the mother may file ap-
plication for the child, but she must
either have a court order declaring
the soldier to be the child's father,
or she must have a statement from
the soldier admitting parenthood.
She must also have a certified copy
Of the child's birth record. The
mother herself is not entitled to fam
lily allowance.
Q.-Can a dishonorable discharge
be changed to an honorable one?
"A former officer or enlisted
man or woman may request a re-
hearing or a review Of his case be-
fore a five-member board in the war
and navy departments. The dis
charge may be corrected in accord
ance with the facts. However, these
boards may not change the sentence
Of a court martial.
els there an artificial hand
available that looks like a hand,
and different from the ordinary
"hooks'' which are most common?
Ayes, the navy has developed
an artificial hand, made of plastic,
that looks like a hand and elimi-
mates the necessity of wearing
gloves. 1t has the consistency of
pure rubber and is tinted to match
the individual skin. It is operated
by a one-pound cam mechanism hid
den inside the hand, spring con-
trolled and made of duralumin and
permits natural movement of the
fingers. Mechanism is operated by
a tiny cord running up the arm and
around the shoulders, controlled by
action Of the shoulder muscles.
Q.-I vas in the regular army be-
fore the war and was discharged
due TO injury in December, 1910. 1
have since been working in a war
plant and l have a pretty good
business opportunity. Do / come
under the Gil. Bill of Rights or have
l waited too long after my discharge
to apply for benefits?
A.-As long as some Of your serv-
ice was after September 16, 1910,
you r eligible for G.I. benefits. As
Stunning you had other than a dis
honorable discharge, you may still
apply for benefits, since the law re-
quires they must be claimed and
secured within two years after dis
charge, or the end of the war, which
ever is later.
Q.-When a soldiers wife receives
maternity care under the EMIC gov-
eminent plan. must the application
be filed with the Soldiers Relief for
payment from the wal department?
A.-No, the application should be
lied with the state health depart
nent. through the personal physi-
ian or the hospital.
Q.-May a young man marry
while he is a cadet in the u. S. Coast
Guard Academy?
A.-The navy department says
hat cadets are not permitted 70
marry until they have graduated
rom the coast guard academy.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Dead Wood
By GEORGE S. BENSON
President of Harding College
SeorcyA Arkansas

IN MY early eos | had frequent
dealings with a small but old and
reputable manufacturing corpo-
ration. One day I lunched with
a gray-haired employee, the su-
perintendent, who was quite I'M
happy. They had lost their big
gest contract. The lost customer
was a young and thrifty retail
firm whose needs had finally
grown too large for the old
manufacturer to supply.
Price had been a consideration,
OF course. My companion ad-
mitted that several competitors
could quote a lower price and
make a profit when his plant
could not. 1t was on account of
the modern. high-speed equip
ment which the competitors used.
Naturally | asked why the old
house couldn't install better ma
chinery. The superintendent SIM
ply wagged his head and said,
dead wood"
Unused OUR bug boss is the
Hands chairman" he explain
ed. His brother is
president of the company Each
of them has a son who is a vice
president. The secretary and the
treasurer are both sons-in-law
] don't see any of them twice a
year but they all draw salaries as
big as mine. We can't buy new
equipment. Sometimes we are
hard put to pay for current ma
terials promptly"
This was rs years ago when a
lot of ranting mot altogether un-
justified) was heard about the
"idle rich" But the tables have
turned. Americas threat now is
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Employment of Handicapped

Both as an inducement for indus
try to hire handicapped veterans
and a protection to both industry and
the veteran, % state legislatures
! have now enacted second-injury-
fund statutes which, in general, re-
quire employers to pay workmen's
compensation only for specific Sec
ond injuries.
The fund pays the additional costs
Of permanent total disability result
ing from the loss Of a hand, arm,
foot, leg or eye, following a previ-
GUS loss of one of these members or
organs. The fund is usually financed
by payments of fixed amounts by
ar employer or his insurance COM
pany in the case Of death Of an
employee having no dependents.
Freed from the fear of heavy per-
manent total disability charges in
these cases, employers r much
more willing to employ handicapped
workers.
According to records submitted by
the department of labor, the cost Of
maintaining second injury funds is
small, for recent studies show han
dicapped workers are actually more
careful than normal employees and
have a lower accident frequency.
Employers had been reluctant to
hire these handicapped veterans lest
they suffer second injuries, become
permanently and totally disabled
and cost employers increased work.
mems compensation charges.
States which have established
these second injury funds include
Arkansas, Idaho. Illinois, Maine,
Massachusetts, Michigan. Mime
sofa, Missouri, New Jersey. New
York, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah,
Arizona, Colorado, Iowa. Kansas,
Maryland, Oregon, Tennessee,
Washington and Wyoming. Wiscon-
sin, North Dakota, Ohio and West
Virginia have equivalent arrange
ments while California, Connecticut
and Pennsylvania have such legisla-
ton pending.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27

Sun-kissed native children of the
southwest Pacific really like to
study the three RS and their par
ents show an inherent courtesy to
visitors, declares TVS Dorothy Turn
acliff, daughter of MI. and Mrs
j. B. Turnacliff of Glasgow, who is
now stationed at Hollandia, in New
Guinea. She has been overseas for
more than a year and was first at
Orc bay, south of Hollandia.
The Glasgow WAC punctures an
other conception about native wo-
men when she says, in her letter,
THE only time I've ever seer them
wear grass skirts was on special
occasions. You'll find that the wo-
men and most of the men wear
tapa cloth as skirts" 1t is made
from the bark of a tree and colored
with root dyes. But, since the army
and navy have arrived, the island
ers are partial to clothing from civ
ilization.
Her letter describes a recent trip
to a native village, with its huts
built over the water. Homes were
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
BEAVERTON
Marjorie j. Burchette

Mrs. James Smith, who spent sew
eral weeks on her farms in Canada,
arrived home Friday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. J.. Menge and
children, Vincent Barnard and John
Brooke were dinner guests at the
S. A. Brooke home Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. c. Accola were
callers in Malta Monday.
Lloyd and Vincent Barnard called
in Glasgow for their Mexican beet
help Saturday.
B. j. Menge was a business caller
in Malta Monday.
Patrick and Curtis Mcnamara.
Stanley and Ellen Barnard and
Marjorie Burchett accompanied
Leader John Brooke to the All
achievement day in Glasgow Satur-
Gay.
The Beaverton Home Demonstra-
ton club met at Lloyd Barnard's
Friday.
Every Saturday this fall is Farm
erS Day in Glasgow.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
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Looking
|K@Od

idle poor" They are more nu-
merous. Idle hands can ride any
business to the ground because
they retard production. lndiffer-
ent workers are no less guilty
than pampered payrollers.
Foes of I WAS much impress
Freedom ed by an article in the
Houston Press a few
weeks ago, written by a returned
service man. He had started to
work in an Office soon after he
was discharged and, six weeks
later, penned his contempt for
civilian workers, men and women.
They Systematically fritter away
500 of their working time, he
charged. They can do it because
of the scarcity of workers.
There is an imported, alien
doctrine that capitalists will make
too much profit for the good of
the public unless workers retard
production some way. The theory
is venomous. Americas unique
place among world powers, the
singularly high standard of living
among workers and farmers, our
national income and our national
safety, depend on efficient pro-
duction
The wide world soon will be a
market of millions of people in
poverty. If America fails to sup
ply it. cheap-labor countries will
take the business. Dead wood
can cheat Uncle Sam out of world
trade and leave us to stew again
in our own o~ver-supply, with low
wages and poor living conditions
we don't want and which
necessary.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Livestock Group
Urges Reduction
i'm Herd Numbers

BOzEMAN-With cattle market.
ing time at hand, the Montana agri-
cultural extension service calls at
tention to the recent report of the
state production adjustment COM
mittee in which it offers suggestions
on livestock production and use OF
cropland in 1916.
The committee points out that
cattle and calves on hand in Mon
tana on Jan. l were only Slightly
less than the all-time high OF
Jan. 1, 1914 when cattle numbers
totaled some 1,757,000 head. Be-
cause the states cattle population
is considered to be too high in re-
lation to average feed resources, the
committee suggests that producers
begin a reduction program that
would bring cattle numbers down
to about $780, 900 head by Jan. l.,
1947.
If the numbers remain at pres
ent levels, the committee reports,
severe repercuSsionS on the beef
cattle industry could result if a
drouth should occur In 1916 or
l947.
The committee points out that
grazing requirements for all live
stock expected to be on hand dur
ing 1916 exceed the average graz
ing capacity for the state. 1t has
been possible to maintain cattle
numbers at a high level in recent
the committee adds, because
weather conditions have been favor
able for increasing the summer
forage supply and for better utiliza-
ton of range feed during winter
months.
These favorable conditions have
operators to carry on the
'ange livestock numbers above what
S considered a safe limit.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-09-27
Sergeant johnson
Gets Discharge

Technical Serg. c. H. (Gayde)
Johnson arrived here Saturday from
Fort Douglas after receiving his
honorable discharge from the army
air forces. He has joined Mrs. John
son and their daughter and Is also
visiting his mother, Mrs. H. john
son. Sergeant Johnson enlisted in
June, 1912. and went overseas in
August. 1914, as a radio operator
gunner with a B-24 squadron. 1t was
based in England as part of the
Eighth air force. He COMPLETED IS
missions over enemy territory.