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Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
Dr. UREY, GRAD OF
N. S. J., H0NORED
Is Declared One OF 10 Lead
ing Scientists In Physi-
cal Chemistry

Missoula, Nov. 26.-Dr. Harold c.
Urey, 1917 graduate of Montans
State university, is regarded one
of the nations 10 leading scientists
in physical chemistry, the Chemical
Bulletin, published in the Chicago
section of the American Chemical
society, announced in its November
issue after a poll of chemists and
chemical engineers.
Urey, now with the Institute Of
Nuclear Studies at the University of
Chicago, is generally known for his
of "heavy water" and his
part in the unlocking of atomic
energy.
The science publication said ed
torially it hoped to bring more pub
ic recognition of outstanding scien-
,ific work, declaring that each year
'entire forests have to be cut down
or newsprint needed to tell about
people who can hit a baseball
slightly harder than others" while /
'nly a Handful" of scientists are
IGNORED by medals or Nobel prizes.
Montana State university confer
ed an honorary doctorate upon DR..
Trey at commencement exercises in
GAG in recognition of his work.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
Unusual Amount OF Entertaining
Is Indicated For Thankseiving
Relatives, In-Laws, Friends To Gather Thursday
At Estimated $50 Family Dinners In Laurel,
Costing More Than $1,000 For Food

each dinner, with the total standing
at $1,000, probably more.
All the figures quoted are con-
servative. They are guesses based
on volume Of sales and experience
in business. Those making them
were shrewed guessers, who invari-
ably felt that the figures of quaint
ties and costs were below the act
ual figures.
All were agreed that this is the
biggest Thanksgiving Laurel has
had for several years and that there
will be an unusually large amount
of entertaining.
The storekeepers predicted sales
would be small Friday with gains
noted Saturday, but the Saturday
business is expected to be smaller
than usual. A good many people
will be eating the left-overs from
Thursday, and some will so continue
through Sunday.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
K|WAN|ANS To HEAR
THANKSGIVING TALK

The meeting of the Laurel XII
wants club this evening will be ad-
dressed by Rev. James H. Haueter,
pastor of the Church of the Naz-
arene, who will deliver a Thanks
giving message to the Kiwanians
during their after dinner program
period. The speaker will be intro
duced by J. Willard Baldwin, pro-
gram chairman, and Vice President
W. A. Mccormick will preside in
the absence of President William
Ziegler.
Rev. Haueter spoke this morning
at an assembly of high school stu
dents and will participate with his
this evening in the
union Thanksgiving service at the
First Congregational church on Dur
land avenue.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26

characCeis were SNAPPED IN the mold
of necessity"
The stories in this new volume
range from desperate Rattlesnake
Jake to Lucy Darling, Montana's
first schoolmarm; from the Curry
gang feudin' and fightin' in the
Little Rockies to the two Cheyenne
Indian boys riding like the heroes
of Balaklava to certain death as
they charged whole company of
U. S. cavalry at Lame Deer; from
Pierre Wibaux eating Christmas
dinner with his New York bride, in
a sod shack, faultlessly attired in
dinner clothes, to Joe Howard, a
New York vaudeville actor writing
the official song of Montana.
Masterson studied art in the
Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, and
the Chicago Art Institute. His
cartoons have appeared in the Chi
cago Daily News, King Features,
The Milwaukee Sentinel, Portland
Journal of Commerce, The Montana
Standard, and the Miles City Star.
In 1929 he drew cartoons in "Who's
Who" in the state Legislature. AT
one time he was a contributor to
the Laurel Outlook, which carried
his drawings on its first page for
more than two years. The feature
was discontinued only because he
quit drawing the series and went |
into war work.
Like the Missourian who stopped
to water his horses and stayed 40
years, he came to Montana for a
and forgot to go back.
He has had an unusual oppor-
tunity to know what Montanans
are like and what they like, having
run the gamut from drv land home
steader to member Of the state leg
islature, from sheepherder to roam
ing over ID counties collecting in
ternal revenue.
The new book is at the Laurel
Outlook office where it retails at
81 per copy. 1t makes an unusual
and acceptable Christmas gift. j
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
CLOTHES
TO SHIP OVERSEAS
Mrs. Roysdon, Chairman, Says
A Continuous Flow Is Wanted;
Need Is Really Urgent

A continuous flow of clothing,
donated for use of unfortunates in
Europe and Asia, is earnestly de-
sired, states Mrs. M. o. Roysdon
who heads a committee to assist
Church World Service in making
the collection. No date has been
set for the collection to end, and
the need for the clothing is really
urgent, Mrs. Roysdon said.
She added that the collection has
been simplified this year by the
use of duffle bags, which may be
had at the Roysdon store on West
Main for filling. When full they
should be returned to either the
Methodist church on Third avenue
or to the Commercial club building
on East Main. Contributors work
through their respective churches
and pastors, and their gifts are dis
tributed by Church World Service.
This organization channels Prot
estant church relief through nine
shipping centers in this country to
worthy consignees in Europe and
Asia where it is distributed through
church and missionary personnel on
the basis of greatest need. All
articles are re-sorted, baled and
shipped overseas within a month !
after they are received at any of |
the warehouses.
Church World Service says that
hundreds of grateful letters have
been received in this country and |
nat more are arriving daily.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
HELD FOR
MRS. CORA A. PRICE
Laurel Druggists 7S-Year-Old
Mother Dies Saturday.
Lived Here Two Years

Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at the Settergren
chapel in Billings for Mrs. Cora
Alameda Price, 78, mother of Mer-
win ]. Price, Laurel druggist. She
died Saturday, Nov. %, at a Bill
lings hospital. She suffered a short
illness in September which weaken
ed her, and in October she fell and
fractured a hip. She was taken to
the hospital Oct. a and underwent
an operation a week later. She
rallied for a few days, but sue
cumbed to age and a gradual decline
in health of the past few years.
Mrs. Price was born and reared
on a farm at Wauconda, ILL.,, near
June II, 1869, a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Brooks /
who had a family of six daughters
and two sons.
She married Jay C. Price in Wau-
3onda, in 1898 and lived in Wau-
,onda, Chicago and st. Paul before
,cming to Montana in 1910 to re-
side on the Huntley Project. Due
% i'll health Mr.. Price sold his
in 1920 and moved to San
Diego, Calf. Two years after the
leath of her husband in 1889 Mrs.
Price returned to Illinois, lived for
while in New York City and came
O Laurel two years ago.
In addition to her son in Laurel
he is survived by another son, Ell
IS D. Price, commercial photograph
+ in New York City; brother Will
lam Brooks of Wauconda, ILL.,, and
granddaughter, Mrs. Allan Olson
f Billings.
Mrs. Prices husband, Jay c. !
rice, was a veteran of the Spanish
lmerican war and Philippine insur-
ection of 1898-99 and participated
1 the first capture of Manila, Aug.
8, 1898.
The funeral services Monday in !
filings were conducted by Rev. A.
/. Cation, pastor of the Billings
irst Methodist church. "Sweet q
our of Prayer" and "God Will +
axe Care of You" were sung by b
RS. G. M. Herbstruth, accompanied
Y Mrs. Gustave Simmons. o
The body was taken to Great "
alls for cremation. .
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
NEW T.B SEALS ARE
DISTRIBUTED BY MAIL

A pair of oxen pulling a sled
loaded with Christmas trees is feat
ured on the 1917 Christmas seals,
which are being distributed here
this week by mail.
Reminiscent Of the scene in rural
America in bygone years, this years
seal symbolizes the pioneer spirit
which enabled Americans to con-
quer a wilderness and which enables
them to fight a relentless battle
against a disease which kills $4,000
Americans a year.
The seal was designated by Ray
mond H. Lufkin of Tenafly, N. j.,
known free-lance artist
and typographer, who began his
career at the age of 9 when the
Boston Herald published his pen and
ink sketch, "All's Quiet on the Po-
tomac." Since then he has done
work in advertising and
book illustration. Interested in the
American scene, he is the
illustrator and author of a Life of
George Washington.
The forty-first annual Christmas
Seal Sale will be conducted through
,ut the nation until Christmas. Of
he money raised in this state, 95
,er cent will be used within the
tate for local and statewide tuber-
ulosis control projects, and the
'ther five per cent will be forward
d to the National tuberculosis as
ociation to support research and
ther services on national scale.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
MEETING TO DISCUSS
INDUSTRIES FOR STATE

A series of meetings to discuss
the progress of Montana's indus
trial development will be held Dec.
and 9 in Helena, it was announced
today by r. E. Towle, Helena, chair
man of the industrial development
division of the Montana Chamber
of Commerce.
Two forums and a general indus
trial development meeting are on
the schedule. The forums will con-
sist Of discussions of forest indus
tries and wool Industrial de selop-
ment. The general meeting will
take up the fundamental approach
to industrial development, COM
munity work programs, and the
Greater University of Montana as
sistance to industrial development.
Representative present at the
series will be drawn from the u. S.
and Montana forest services, lumber
mills, the Greater University of
Montana, Rocky Mountain Pole as
sociatiOn, Montana railroads, the
National and Montana Woolgrowers'
association, state welfare board, and
Interested Businessmen and members
Df the industrial development di-
vision.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
CHURCH GROUPS TO
JOIN TONIGHT FOR.
UNION THANKSGIVING.
First Congregational Is Again
Host Church-Offering Goes
For European Relief

Continuing the American custom
of observing a day of Thanksgiving,
marked both by feasts and religious
service, at least four Laurel church.
es and their friends will conduct
a union service this evening at
the First Congregational church, 301
Durland avenue. Rev. H. G. Haem-
melmann, host pastor, said Thurs
day that all arrangements had been
completed for the event, which will
begin at 1880.
The custom which began in early
colonial days and was re-established
from time to time by presidential pro-
clamation is now a generally ac-
cepted holiday, with many churches
of the land participating in its OBJ
Servance.
Actively participating here will
be the pastors of Our Savior's Lu-
theran church, Methodist church,
Church of the Nazarene and First
Congregational church, their congre-
cations and choirs. Union services
were begun in the last year of the
late war and have continued since.
They have always been largely at
tended, invariably filling the First
Congregational auditorium, the larg-
est in town, with seating capacity
of more than 600.
This years Thanksgiving offer
ing will be donated to European
relief through the World Council |
of Churches.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26

In point of number of get-togeth-
er dinners and amount of food to
be consumed, Thanksgiving this year
will be the biggest Laurel has had
for several years. The holiday,
for food alone, will cost more than
$1,000. This and other figures
were arrived at from a survey con-
Quoted Tuesday among operators of
grocery stores and meat markets.
Sales of certain items indicating
preparations for Thanksgiving be-
gan as long as two weeks ago.
Since then the volume has steadily
increased on each succeeding bust
ness day.
Adding up the figures and opin-
ions of store and market operators,
over 600 turkeys large and small
will grace Laurel tables Thursday.
Also, there will be more than 1000
pounds, probably 1850, of cram
berries appearing in the form of
sauce. AS more than a pound of
sugar is used for each pound of
the berries, the sugar consumption
in sauce will be about 1900 pounds.
That does not include other uses of
sugar, including pies, of which the
large majority will be pumpkin.
A few years ago the sale of
was at a low ebb. There
we're few to be had and sugar
rationing was still in effect. Now
he situation is reversed-there are
plentiful supplies of both.
Abundance of sugar and fats in
is reflected in other di-
'ections. For instance, sales of
prepared mix for fruit cake has
lropped this year while sales have
in fruit peels, suet and |
,ther ingredients going into fruit !
.akes, which means that nearly all |
he cooks have made their own
axes. Further, the sale of sweet
ned breads from bakeries has de-
lined, but the cooks are buying
he materials with which to do their
wn baking.
This year there is plenty of candy
nd the buying has been much
reater than formerly when sugar /
ationing reduced candy to a trickle. ,
-uts also have sold we'll this year. :
Although there will be 600 or ,
.ore turkeys for the 1947 Thanks !
wing dinner in Laurel, people as r
sual are not of identical opinions y
nd inclinations: some will have
,ast pork or roast beef. A few I
I'VE bought ducks, despite the wild
lck season having closed only Mon
~ of this week. Nothing was said
? the dealers about geese.
While the dealers undoubtedly
Id most of the turkeys, quite a
was bought from farm
s. Sometimes the growers had
ly a few, three or four, and in V
her cases there were growers with "
0 birds. II
some pumpkins are T:
own in this locality, sales at the u
)res indicate Laurel housewives o
efer the convenience of pump II
rs in cans. a
Fresh vegetables have been pop
lr on the Thanksgiving lists this el
ar, with sales greater than a ol
ar ago. The boost in sales of y
foods is indicated in several r
ections, and the total for Thanks nj
ing is Enthusiastically greater. II b!
lowed noticeable decline in Oct u
:, with the recovery beginning IN
out two weeks ago. M
It is estimated that there will be hi
least $50 family get-together din
IS, with in-laws and friends in re
ed too. 1t is believed the cost lis
! average not less than SIS for lit
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-26
Smith Flies To Convention

George H. Smith left last Thurs
day morning by plane for San Fran
cisco where he attended a regional
convention of Hudson motor car
dealers. He returned home Sunday.
The trips to and from the city of
the Golden Gate were made in
specially chartered plane for the
benefit of the car dealers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06

40 feet long. The baskets are fill
ed with flaming pine knots and are
r%eplenished frequently to provide
a great ball of flame which is re-
Elected on the water.
When the boats are in position,
the cormorant masters, barefoot,
with tight black silk turbans, black
shirts, and grass skirts much like
those of an hawaiian hula dancer,
take their positions and remove the
hunting birds from wicker cages.
Each bird has a brass ring
around his neck at the bottom of
his enormous gullet, which is cap
able of holding a quart or more
The birds are controlled by strings
which the fisherman holds in his
right hand and manipulates to
keep the birds working under water
as the fishing progresses. Most
fishermen can handle not more than
four or five cormorants.
Drum Beating
At a signal, the boats are re-
leased and start a mad rush down
stream with a tremendous beating
of wooden drums, which aid N
attracting the fish. The cormo-
rants are released directly under
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06

$40, DOC, 900 'key money" to get the
key to the place. He borrowed the
money and pays 10 per cent inter
est. That makes his rent $500. O0O
a month and he still owes the
$40, O00, 900.
Only $500, 900 a Month
His salary a. assistant director
of the Shanghai office of the min
istry of information is $500, 900 a
month. His wife works for a U. S.
government office. She gets ST.
600, 900 a month. That's how they
get by.
II should quit the government
SERVICE" he said, but If We all
quit, who would work for the
government" He's loyal and poor
when l was in Boone Univer-
sity in Hankow," he said, II had
three dollars a week. I had three
meals a day, including chicken. I
lived very well.
That was in 1899.
Then l taught in the Central
Political Institute. I got $40 a
month. I still lived well. I even had
a horse. By 1914, l was making
$31, 900 a month, and I was paying
$50, 900 a month rent, but that was
war. We just try to hold on.
Somebody must"
Coolies Better Off
Yuan's case is typical of the
white collar man. The coolie, who
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06

who himself is a CHAMPION, Kanji
Yamashita. head of a family which
for II generations has belonged tc
the Niagara village guild of cor
morant fishermen. former purvey-
ors to Japan's imperial household
Handles IL At Once
Yamashita is "a. He is the only
man in the world who can handle
IL trained cormorants at a time
and likes to recall how he demon
strated his skill at the San Fran
cisco Fair in 1885.
Cormorant fishing is a chief
tourist attraction of the town OF
Gifu, which sprawls along both
banks Of the swift-running Niagara
River.
This first postwar exhibition at
tracted thousands Of guests, in
Guiding many American soldiers,
who stood on concrete parapets
along both sides of the river rapids
or sat in households along the
river.
Fishing is done only in the dark
of the noon and conditions were
ideal this night, since the sky was
overcast and there we're occasional
rain showers. AS soon as it was
dark, boatmen at the head OF the
rapids began releasing hundreds
If tiny wooden candle boats which
.obbed down the current in the
center of the river and formed a
moving series of lights like giant
fireflies extending as far as one
could see. simultaneously, fire
works displays yer started.
Flares Lighted
Half an hour later the six cor
morant fishing boats moved into
position at the head of the rapids
and boatmen lighted their flares,
are used to attract the small
brook trout called "ayu." The
flares are large iron baskets at the
end of a pole extending at right
from the bow Of the boat -
a narrow. pirogue-like canoe some
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06

the torches and Immediately start
scooping up the trout.
A we'll trained bird will keep
swallowing trout until his gullet
is full and the tail of the last fish
is %protruding from the cormorant's
mouth. The birds seize the fish at
right angles and then quickly
jubble them in their serrated bills
and swallow them head first.
A trout caught by a cormorant
is supposed to be of vastly superior
flavor to one caught in a net or
trap, because the fish is killed the
moment the cormorant seizes him.
Instant death is supposed to cause
the superior flavor.
Hykomaru caught more than so
trout during a single run down the
rapids. The catch weighed about
eighty pounds and was valued at
1,500 yen or about $50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06

may get his rice with his work, is
better off.
The boy who carries my bags
downstairs I tipped $4,000. The
little old woman at the door Of
fered me a bag of peanuts for
1880.
A friend of mine strolling on the
bund, had his pocket picked of
$500, 600.
A cafe offered us. a bottle of
whisky. Price $500, 900.
You take your bundled money
around in sacks, if you're planning
to do the town. You throw it into
a drawer when you get home,
stacked in half-millions.
Nobody wants the Chinese ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06
DORMANT FISHING
ON DARK OF MOON
Post War Sport OF Han
ding Birds Now Being
Revived In Japan
BY MILES W. VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent

GIFU, Japan, -U.H- Hykomaru,
worlds champion fishing cormo-
rant, popped from the depths OF the
Niagara river into the light pat
tern of a giant torch Of flaming
pine knots and disgorged a full IL
ounces of assorted brook trout from
his capacious gullet into a wick
er basket on the bottom OF our
Sampan.
It was a good catch and Hyko-
maru, who is just getting back into
stride after years Of wartime semi
idleness, turned to his master, with
a smirk of self-approval, and pre-
pared to be put back into the water.
The occasion was a revival, after
five years of war, Of one of the
worlds Oldest sports - cormorant
fishing, which ranks with falconry
n an exhibition of mans ability to
train a wild creature to do his
hunting for him.
Hykomaru, 81 years old and In
the prime of life, belongs to a man
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06
CAPE FEAR
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the job. Most Of them were North
Carolinians. During that period
they won virtually every award
that is offered by Uncle Sans
Maritime commission for meritor-
ious service.
This story Of accomplishment at
the Cape Fear shipyard Will I'M
fold in future issues Of Along the
Cape Fear"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06
$4,000 COCKTAILS
IN HARRIED CHINA
Money Comes In Bundles
OF Thousand Dollar
Bills
BY WILLIAM C. Payette
United Press Staff Correspondent

SHANGHAI U.H-This is infla-
ton:
Your money comes in bundles Of
thousand-dollar bills about eight
inches long. That's $500, 900. No
body bothers to count it.
Your morning paper is $4,000,
your cup of coffee another $4,000.
Breakfast is $24, 900, a taxi-ride to
the office $36, 0C0.
Lunch is $50 900, a pack of Gig
arettes $4,000, and a cocktail $685.
900.
We had a dinner party. The
check was over a million dollars,
without champaign, slippers or
chorus girls.
My friend Yuan Ming Chin pays
500, 900 a month for his three
room apartment. He had to pay
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06
WIDESPREAD SEARCH
NOW UNDERWAY FOR
TEXTILE M IL MAN

GREENSBORO, June S - P-
Law enforcement officers in
Greensville and Kernersville, with
aid of State Highway patrolmen,
county sheriffs deputies and police
throughout the state, continued
their search tonight for Walter L.
Holt, 50. Greensboro, textile exc
cutive, who has been missing since
Tuesday night.
Holt was last seen about $40
p. m. Tuesday when he left the
office Of Vance Knitting company,
Of which he is secretary-treasurer,
in Kernersville, according to po-
lice. He Was re. ,orted wearing q
gray suit and travelling in a blue
1916 Ford coupe, bearing license
117-173.
Hollis wife stated he had appear
ed nervous lately and that she
feared he was a victim OF am
neSia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06

The English town of Bideford, in
Devonshire, dates from before the
Norman Conquest. In the 18th cen
tury it was a serious rival Of Lon
don and Exeter as a center OF
trade. The town was the birth
place Of Sir r. Grenvile, n of
the founders Of Virginia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-06

tx tlo'al currency. Tomorrow
r RE worth o3 tt half r1t as much. 50 5 It my a
tion' You Can't bsiny IN. more jaas,
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1900 to one. '''''aI rate d,
More than 17,ooo.oo
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-04
KEY WEST PARENTS

The Scale Model Railway which
runs through my garden has
been raided and important
parts taken. including block
signals on small concrete bases,
which were upr0oted. Dur
ing the past II years ! have
enjoyed exhibiting this ninis-
ture InteTurban Railway OUT
doors I'm New York, New Jer-
sey and Florida. This is the
first time anyone has ever I'M.
posed upon the cordial wei
come extended to all interested
persons. Parents w h G
youngsters have toy electric
trains are urgently requested
to observe any recently ac-
quired accessories of custom
built origin that answer the
above description, and to pre-
vail upon their young railroad
magnates to return the equip
ment to 900 Flagler Avenue,
corner of Reynolds Street. Tel.
1145-J. No questions will be
asked, no action will be taken
if these parts are promptly re-
turned. E. J. QUINBY.
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