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The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
Wheat Pest
Identified;
HeSSiarl Fly

A destructive insect found in
wheat on the south bench neaI
Glasgow has been identified as the
Hessian fly, it was stated this week
by County Agent James K. Nc
Gibney. who sent specimens TO the
State college at Bozeman for identi-
fication. An outbreak also is re-
ported near Sidney. These are be-
lieved to be the first instances of
the fly this far west.
Among fields where the insect is
reported are those of Robert and
Sidney Cotton, Iver Harebo and l..
WeSen
Where the insect has attacked
wheat, the growth is stunted, the
plant has a deep green hue, lr-
regular spots like mildew are evld-
ent and wheat is brittle and dry Ike
grass. The insects are found in the
sheathe near the base OF a plant.
The Hessian fly saps the juice
from the plant. 1t is now approach
ing the FLAX seed" stage where 1t
develops a hard, brown shell. The
county agent said an extension en-
tomologist will visit the county soon
to make inspections and suggest
control measures.
Close observation also is being
kept of sawfly infestations in
northern Valley county, the county
agent said. Some of the flies. now
in larvae stage, are dead, but a
larger percent is alive. Attempts are
being made to determine if the late
season may interfere with the life
cycle of the pest, but there is no
definite information on this point
he stated.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
War Prisoners
Meet Tasks
lin Beet Labor

Most German war prisoners work.
ing in the Glasgow area are meet
ing individual tasks" set up for
them. it was reported this week by
County Agent James K. McGibney.
The farmer, army, sugar beet
field man and extension service
representative confer to set up the
task" for crews. These vary from
3 to 5 of an acre daily for each
individual thinning sugar beetS.
Variance is because Of the differ
ence in conditions in fields.
Prisoner crews are required to
complete tasks before they return
TO camp at the Glasgow airbase. The
total labor assignment for the prl-
Soners is 1,733 acres of thinning
within a 25-mile radius of the camp.
About 700 acres remain to be
thinned.
William Drabbs or HinsGale Is
now labor placement representative
for the extension service in the
field.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
Members Of 163rd
Get Discharges;
Are Now at Homes

Discharges reported at the selec-
tive service office and recorded at
! the clerk and recorders office show
that four members of Montana
Own" 163rd regiment are back home
in Valley county, along with an
other soldier with long service in
Europe.
Members of the l63rd, who began
their army service here with Com
pany G in 1910, are Pfc. Edward P.
Funk of Fort Peck and Technical
Serg. Melvin T. Flynn. Pfc. Peter
Matthews and Pfc. Wallace -Four
star of Frazer. All received honor
able discharges at the separation
center in Fort Douglas, Utah.
Their service records have other
similaritieS. All won the combat in
fantryman's badge and are entitled
to wear the presidential unit cita-
ton. All served three years and two
months overseas. And all took part
in the New Guinea and Papuan and
Philippines liberation campaigns
Also recorded is an honorable dis
charge for Willard N. Lee, received
at Ashburn CHI, Mckinney, Texas,
June 18. He was inducted into the
army at Butte, Sept. 3, 1912 and
participated in campaigns of
Naples Foggia, Rome-Arno and
southern France. He returned to his
home here. Mrs. Lee is the former
Shirley BretZke.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
BY Courier Correspondent


OPHEIM-When Lieut.. Oliver
Larson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Olaf
Larson of Opheim, was pitched out
of the spinning shot-up Flying Fort
ress, My Blonde Baby" over Ger
man territory last Aug. Is, it wasn't
a properly attached parachute that
saved his lifel
In fact, if he had had the chute
attached to both his shoulders, as it
should have been, very likely the
pilot wouldn't be back home this
week after a session in German
prison camps of 8l2 months Here's
his story:
His own plane, THE Fuss" wasn't
in operation, so he piloted MY
Blonde Baby" on his 18th mission.
1t was about noon. 20 minutes from
the target on the return trip. when
a Focke-W Wulfe 100 made a pass, hit
the tail turret and top turret and
shot off almost a third CT a wing,
leaving the ship in flames. 1t went
into a spin, tail first, at 1880 feet.
The interphone was out of COM
mission and Lieutenant LarSonS
supply of oxygen failed. He tried to
make the pilot-navigatcr under
stand that he was out of oxygen,
but the message could not be passed
because of the interphone failure.
The automatic pilot was not func-
tioning so Lieutenant Larson himself
leveled off the plane When an eX-
plosion occurred on the right wing,
all crew members bailed out except
Larson.
Groggy and almost too weak to
move from lack of oxygen, the spin
threw him out a hole He had had
time to fasten only one shoulder
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
State Hospital
Survey Meet
Here July 18th

The Montana hospital survey
committee will hold public meet
ing in the courthouse in Glasgow at
7:3O the night of July l3. according
to a letter received from Edwin
Grafton of Helena. state chairman
II. O. Morgan of Glasgow who Is
a member of the committee. VIII
preside at the Glasgow meeting
which is one of seven to be held
i'm Montana cities in July.
Speakers will be DR.. Carl F..
Kraenzel, associate professor in the
department of economies at the
state college in BoZeman, and DR..
L. B. Byington of Denver, senior
surgeon in the United States public
health service.
LEGISLATION is now before con-
gress that is expected to provide
federal funds for construction OF
hospitals and health centers and
for additions to existing hospitals
Mr. Morgan said today. The pur-
pose of the meeting here Will be TO
explain the general plan for the
Montana survey Of hospital neeuS
and the part the Montana COM.
mittee will play in securing money.
Mr.. Morgan stressed that the
meeting is open to the public ana
urged all who are interested TO at
tend. The survey is being conducted
with the cooperation of the federal
public health service. the state
hoard of health and the state COL
Iege. After the survey has been
and when congress has
passed the necessary legislation.
the committee will be called to-
gether for consultation and action;
The state committee was appointed
bv Gov. Sam c. Ford.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
Local Agent
Leaving G. N.
After 8 Years

George Lane, Great Northern
agent here, announced Monday that
he is taking indefinite leave from
the railroad and that he and Mrs.
Lane will leave about July Is for
California. They will visit their
daughter, Lucille, at Long Beach.
The Lane home at TAI Fifth
avenue south has been sold to D. j.
Meyer
Mr.. Lane has had 33 years of SER
vice with the Great Northern. He
began work in the general office
in st. Paul as messenger in the
telegraph department, later working
as a timekeeper on the Mesabi
range He was sent to Mondak in 1915
for station experience, as ware
houseman. and that fall appointed
station agent at Madoc, on the
branch branch from Bainville. He
was appointed agent at Flaxville
in 1920, then came to Glasgow as
agent in 1927. He and Mrs. Lane,
the former Lydia DEM OF Arlington,
Mimi, were married in st. Paul,
June 30, 1917.
Mr.. Lane has been active in
Masonry, becoming a member in
Scobey in 1920. He RENTED to
North Star lodge here in 1928 and
was master in 1886. He has served
as secretary since 1941.
The Lanes have two sons IN the
navy. George, fire controlman first
class. in the Pacific, and Melvin,
radarman second class, on Atlantic
duty.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
Briggs Named
by Ford TO
Aerial Board

HELENA - Gov. Sam c. Ford
Saturday appointed members of the
Montana aeronauticS commission as
authorized by a l945 session law.
The commission is to have
authority over all phases of intra-
state air commerce and private and
commercial flying from fixed bases.
The commission is supported by a
l-cent-per-gallon tax an aviation
gasoline.
Appointed for four years were
DR.. Herbert Hayward of Hamilton
to represent the Montana Pilots
association, w. G.. Ferguson of Hell
ena to represent Montanans, Inc,
Mayor Fritz Norby of Great Falls
to represent the Montana Municipal
league, Nels c. Briggs of Glasgow
to represent the Montana County
Commissioners association, and H
/ L. Cummings of Northwest AirlineS
Billings, to represent the interstate
commercial airlines.
Two-year members are DR.. H
Chatland of Missoula to represent
aviation education and r. j. Tiger of
Glendive to represent active fixed
base operators.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
Northwest Would Bring Parks
Near Nation; Glasgow on Route

postwar VacatlOnerS, from New
York to Seattle, will be only a few
hours away from two of the nations
principal Fairgrounds, Glacier ano
Yellowstone national parks, il
Northwest Airlines' bids for new all
routes to the park gateways are
granted.
/ This was brought out when the
company announced it has filed a
brief with the civil areonautics board
examiners underscoring the need
for additional routes between Chi
cago and the Pacific northwest.
One such route applied for would
run through Glasgow, having as its
terminals Fargo, N. D., and Spokane.
Wash, via Grand Forks, Devils
Lake, Minot and Williston, in North
Dakota, and Glasgow, Havre, Great
Falls, Cut Bank-Shelby and Kali
spell in Montana.
Routes being sought by Northwest
would lead both to Bozeman, at the
entrance to Yellowstone and Kali
spell. Cut nk-Shelby. entrance to
Glacier park. With the company's
new line into Detroit and New York,
they would enable vacationerS to
reach the parks in u to Is hours.
The new routes, the company
spokesman estimated, would bring
air service to several million people
now without such convenience.
The applications which the brief
supports call for routes that would
increase to AZ the number of cities
served by Northwest Airlines in the
northern tier of states.
Now being sought are routes from
Chicago to the Twin Cities. via
Rockford, Ill, and Dubuque, Iowa,
Beloit-Janesyille and Lacrosse, Wis,
the Twin Cities to Billings, via Aber-
deem; Milwaukee to Spokane, via
Green Bay, Wis, Duluth-Superior,
Fargo and Minot, N. D., and Great
Falls and the Fargo to Spokane
flight.
Under Northwest's proposed plan,
at least two states, Montana ana
Wisconsin. would be served by state
wide air networks, with routes run
ming across the top of the states,
through the central part and across
the lower half. Northwest planes
would stop daily at nine cities in
Wisconsin and 10 in Montana. one
eastbound transcontinental flight
would run north from Billings to
Spokane and Seattle, and another
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
Memorial Service
For Serg. Brown
Held i'm HinSdale
BY Courier Correspondent

HINSDALE - Memorial service!
were held Sunday afternoon at al
the Legion hall for Serg. Raymond
W Brown. who was killed in actor
Nav 10. on Luzon island in the
Philippines. The services were helc
under the auspices of the loca
American Legion post, assisted by
the Legion Auxiliary and Legion
naires from Saco and Glasgow.
Maj. Fred King of Saco, a vet
eTan of the first world war. was
chairman and gave a stirring tri-
butte to Sergeant Brown. Mrs. Hugo
Hansen. Auxiliary president, eX-
planned the symbolism OF the shrine
used in the services.
Chaplain John Amestoy of the
LEGION gave the opening prayer
Mrs. John Rosendahl. Mrs. Ted
Laneemo and Mrs. H. F.. Tuttle
sang. accompanied by Mrs. August
Enseleit. The audience stood for one
minute in silent tribute to the de-
parted. Major King read Sergeant
Browns obituary. The program
closed with the pledge to the flag
and retiring of the colors.
Sergeant Brown, former rancher
of the Meharry community north
west of Hinsdale. had been in the
service since March, 1912. He went
overseas late in 1912 and took part
in the New Guinea, Admiralty Is
lands. Leyte and Luzon campaigns.
Born January %. 1911 at Oak
dale. N. D., Raymond Brown came
TO Montana in 1916 with his parents
and attended a country school in
the MeharTy community. He took
over his fathers ranch several
years before the war.
He is survived by his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Brown of Hinsdale,
four brothers and five sisters.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28

would run west to Portland, via
Butte.
The additional service which
Northwest now proposes" the brief
declared, constitutes a program de-
signed to serve properly the i'm
portant postwar needs of the north
west area. Such service can only be
provided as part of an integrateC
system serving the entire area
Flights on these new routes would
connect with the company's So
called main line" flights. giving
every city access to Northwest's
coast-to-coast flights. The company
disclosed that it has projected a
postwar service pattern, calling for
more than 10 daily round trips
bridging the country, with a fleet of
40 airplanes. This is in addition to
flights over proposed routes to
Hawaii, Alaska, Japan, China, and
the Philippine Islands.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
ZIMMERMAN IS
REELECTED
T. u. LEADER
North Valley Unit Holds Its
Annual Meeting
in Opheim

OPHEIM - o. E. Hincrman of
Larslan was reelected chairman of
the North Valley Farmers Union at
its annual meeting Thursday. Many
members attended.
Ted Miller Jr. named vice
chairman of the unit and Alyce
Beck. was reelected secretary -trea-
Surer.
Plans for North Valley picnic
at the Knute Volden grove were
discussed. 1t will be July 10 and a
prominent Farmers Union speaker
is expected.
Hazel Hinerman gave report on
her trip through the state office
of the Farmers Union in James
town, N. d. oscar Nesvig spoke on
REA plans in this area. Alvin
Wangrud reported On plans for a
livestock van to be operated from
Opheim to st. Paul.
Dinner and supper were served by
the Opheim local.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
OpIGeiGn Pilot Owes His Life 60
Partially Fastened Parachute

strap on the chute. If it had been
fastened to both he might never
have cleared the plane. But the
chute caught. tore a panel and
other holes and eventually opened
of its own accord. It brought the
lieutenant to a hard landing but
alive. He suffered a sprained ankle
ali cracked ribs. Previously he had
been wounded by shrapnel.
Surviving crew members were
picked up by German soldiers. MY
Blonde Baby was downed but her
crew had accounted fer three Ger
man fighters that day.
Several days of solitary confine-
ment and scant rations followed.
Then they were confined at Sagan,
Stalag Luft 3, until Dec. 81, where
conditions were not too bad. On
Dec. 81, they we're marched from
Spremberg and from there were
taken by train to Moorsburg, near
Munich. The last camp he described
as a hell hole" Food was poor, nc
parcels were received from home
and he received only three letters
up to the time of liberation by Pat
toms Third army.
He and other prisoners were
flown to France, then had a l2-day
trip to New York City by army
transport. They were warmly well
coined. During his confinement,
Larson lost 20 pounds. but he was
back to normal weight when he ar
rived here Monday
After landing, he visited his
brother. Lieut.. Eldon Larson, in
Santa Monica, Calf. and in Texas
and New Mexico. There is no place
like these United States" he says.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
COUNTY ENDS
YEAR With
BIG. BALANCE
Weber Reports Cash Oh Hand
Is More Than a Year Ago
This Time

Valley county will close the fiscal
year on June 80 in excellent fin
ancial shape. it was noted this week
by Stephen Weber, clerk and re-
corder.
AT the close of business on May
81, there was a total of S292,277 in
all county funds, compared with a
cash balance of S286,736 just a year
ago." he commented.
Trust and agency accounts, which
include all school funds, show a
cash balance of S287,537 as against
a balance of S311 1902 a year ago.
1T was expected that there would
be a substantial decrease in the
county'S cash. since no general fund
year" Mr.. Weber continued. "The
cash balance of year ago was large
enough so that, after setting side
all that was permitted by law as a
reserve. there was still sufficient
cash to operate the county for a
year without making any levy neces-
Sary."
However. instead of using up our
surplus cash. the extraordinary re-
ceipts from sale and rental Of
county property have been almost
sufficient to maintain our cash bal
ance at the same level in the gen.
eral fund. In such others as the
poor fund and bridge fund, 1t
actually increased cash balances, so
that the overall picture in all
county funds definitely shows an
increase.
ALSO contributing to this condi-
ton is that, while S225,52 was
budgeted and appropriated for eX-
penseS this year, actual eXpendl-
lures were only S155.720, leaving
a balance unspent of S70,804. The
largest saving was in the poor fund,
where the needs were the smallest
in years
Mr. Weber said the bridge fund
also has a large balance unspent.
This results from inability to obtain
priorities for bridge material and
equipment so that new construction
has been virtually halted.
The county has no bonded or
warrant indebtedness, while the
only school debt remaining in the
county is $4,000 in District l.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
Two Valley Men in
Liberator Group
Returning to u. S.

Announcements from the Fifteen
tn air force in italy brings news
that two men serving with the 454th
lLiberator bombardment group will
return to the United States soon.
They are Serg. Forrest E. Wesen OF
Glasgow. 10. a radio operator-gun-
ner. and Staff Serg. Lester ID. Rowe
of Nashua, %. an aerial camerman.
The veteran group will receive ad-
ditional training and equipment be-
fore embarkation for the Pacific
theatre. 1t has been in Italy for ID
months and flew 243 missions
against strategic targets.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
North Electric
Coop Reports
Grant by REA

OPHEIM - An ALLEGATION for the
Northern Electric Cooperative, Inc,
at Opheim has been approved by the
rural Decentralization administra-
ton at st. Louis, Martin Sauber
president. has been notified
The r. E. A. informed Sauber
that an additional allotment of
1895 900 has been allocated out of
1916 funds fer the complete r. E. A.
project in northern Valley county
and parts of Daniels and Roose-
welt counties.
Total allocations are $4,000 to
provide for construction of lines to
serve Opheim, Glentana, Peerless,
Richland, Four Buttes and approx
imately 400 farm homes in this
northland area.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28

Are PLANNING
9TH PICNICS
Opheim, Hinsdale, West Glas-
Cow Are Among Gatherings
Announced

ld-fashioned Fourth of July
celebrations, none on an elaborate
scale but giving opportunity for Wis
iting and relaxation, will be staged
by several communities next We'd
nesday.
The Opheim Commercial club an
nounced this week that it is spon-
soring a community picnic for the
Fourth, with festivities to begin at
l. Music by the school band and a
ball game will be highlights, along
with races, a horseshoe tournament
and a tug of war. Picnic parties
are asked to bring their own
lunches.
The Far and Wide Home Demon
Stration club is sponsoring a COM
munity picnic at l in the Gotten
grove miles west of Glasgow.
There will be potluck lunch at l,
with free coffee and ice cream on
the grounds. Softball contests and
races also are on the program and
everybody is welcome, the announce
ment states.
Hinsdale had previously an
AACNAANNO al OA0-blAAANAo JiIAllI dlAQ
celebration for the Fourth, spon-
sored by the American Legion, with
the assistance of the Hinsdale
Chamber Of Commerce. 1t will be
held at the city park near Milk
river, beginning at II a. m.
Prizes will be offered fer an after
noon program Of children's, novelty
and DOnv races. Later. Hinsdale and
Saco baseball teams will play, with
an evening dance in the Legion hall.
Members of the Glasgow Kiwanis
club and their families will have an
informal picnic at the Kiwanis
clubhouse on Fcrt Peck lake. Each
family will bring its food, while a
club committee will serve coffee, ice
cream and soft drinks. The meal
will be at 2, with no set program
planned for the afternoon.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
OLSEN WILL MOVE

Hinsdale - The Rev. Andrew M.
Olsen. pastor of the Saco-Hinsdale
Methodist charge for the past four
years. has been assigned to the Dut-
ton Brady parish north of Great
Falls for the coming church year
by the Montana Methodist confer
ence held last week. The Saco-Hins-
dale charge is yet to be supplied,
according to reports from the con-
ference. Rev. Olsen will preach fare
wsll sermons in the Saco and Hins-
dale churches Sunday morning.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
BACK FROM OVERSEAS

Corp. Arthur Bretzke arrived
Monday from Fort Lewis, Wash,
to spend a 6O-day furlough with his
mother. Mrs. Anna Bretzke and
other relatives. He returned three
weeks ago from Europe where he
had served, and was wounded March
u
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
S0ftball Game at
Nashua Friday

softball contest IS ScntuuItu
at Nashua Friday night at z, when
the Montana Cafe team Of Glasgow
meets the Nashua club.
The Glasgow courier., 1945-06-28
USED FATS

2 Meat Points Given for
One Pound of Cooking
Fatsl
Evening star., 1945-12-06

with the lad that they urge him
to try psychiatry. The psychiatrist
in turn, tells the boy what he really
needs to try is romance. That
may sound oversimple, and as If the
script writer's were kidding the whole
science of curing mental maladies,
but it works out as anything but.
The hero meets the girl all right,
not too lmplausibly, but it turns out
that she is the unwilling front
(See CARMODY, Page A-21.J
Evening star., 1945-12-06

in such a plight into a yearning
to see him fall and end the pic
ture right there.
His employers conclusion that
Bracken is the Lloyd type is not
entirely incomprehensible. AS the
weakling with an irrepressible flair
for getting into impossible situa-
tions, he can cut a funny figure
when the plot supports him ade-
quately. The plot of Hold That
Blond" misses that specification
in spite of an occasional twist and
Evening star., 1945-12-06

MORE 'TYPECASTING-YUonn de Carlo pictured ph
end real rontier gal according to the aduice Which
accompanied this picture and her "secre ambition to be
rodeo STAR Just at-s secret about announced
to the Nations press the drama department oouldn
the announcement haze something the fact
that Miss De Carlo is starred film "Frontier GAL"
1t Is nert at Keith'S
Evening star., 1945-12-06

a swank hotel some so or more
floors above busy street. The
comedy of this situation has been
gathering dust for some time, but
it is dragged out hopefully here
The trouble is that it is dragged
out interminably, which changes the
first excitement of seeing Bracken
Evening star., 1945-12-06

some lnCermlttently good dialogue
which aspire clearly to save it from
hackneyed look.
u X
Having never come in contact with
Paul Armstrong; play on which the
Capitol's comedy is reputedly based,
we have no notion with what
fidelity it follows the original. Ger
tainly it departed from it in the
fiagpole hanging sequence, one fla
grantly beyond the scope of any
stage designer who may have served
Playwright Armstrong.
The tempo of Hold That Blond"
is perhaps best described as fran
tic.
In dealing with the affairs of
Bracken, it presents him first in the
act of robbing a bank He does
not need the money since he owns
the bank, but his right ear got to
twitching again and that always
sends him into a spell of taking
something he neither wants to take
nor has any use for. The most
furious reaction the banks officials
can work up is one of being so cross
Evening star., 1945-12-06

1unny as Paramount thinks and to
those who remember Harold Lloyd's
Safety Last" it will seem more
hoary than the producers intended.
The resemblance is forcefully evi-
dent in the pictures top sequence.
one which deals exhaustingly with
the hero's plight on the end of a
flag pole which leans outward from
Evening star., 1945-12-06
Hold That Blond Recalls
Lloyd's Comedy at Capitol
BY JAY CARMODY.

Most of the pychopathc with
recently are calculated to give the In Hold That
Blond which today
to give the customers repeve Its pychopath kepto
maniac lad whose qurk is treated joke
animated principally Veronica Lake not
Evening star., 1945-12-06
1900, 900 Protected

By 1943 hospital plans protected
II ,000, 900 people in more than 10
communities in the United States.