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Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
SOIL CONSERVATION
SCHEME PERFECTED
FOR ENTIRE COUNTY
Working Body For Program AP
proved May 20 Is Created
AT Meeting Saturday

Yellowstone county farmers at g
meeting of representatives Saturday
evening in Worden organized {
countrywide soil conservation district
and adopted a program of practices
for cultivated land, water develop
ment, tree planting and pasture man
agement. The proposal for creating
such a district was voted on and
approved last May 90.
At the meeting Saturday evening
Worden was chosen as the location
for the general office of the county
wide district. Of the board of five
supervisors, Leo Kamp of the Laurel
community represents the west end.
Facilities for soil conservation are
made available at the option of the
landowners and operators. Techni-
cal assistance is free, but actual
work done is to be paid for by
owners. Attending the Worden meet
ing were five contractors who were
interested in construction work COW
cred by the general program.
For cultivated land the soil con
servation district provides flood irri-
cation, contour strips, erased water
ways, crop residue management, land
leveling, grass seeding, clearing
brush and trees, soil surveys and
drainage.
Under the heading of water de-
velopment are water spreading,
bitches, stock water dams or dug
outs, spring development and well
development. Trees may be planted
for farmstead or field windbreaks.
Pasture management provides for
contour burrows, ~reseeding pastures,
irrigated pasture and range manage
ment. Ponds may be stocked with
fish.
Farmers interested in any of these
practices may make application to
the supervisors for information or
for technical assistance. Construc-
ton expenses are another matter
and are to be borne by the land
operators affected.
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COUNCIL SAYS TREE
LIMBS MUST CLEAR
SIDEWALKS 8 FEET

Tree branches must be trimmed
to clear the sidewalk by at least
eight feet, the weeds must not be
allowed to grow in front of or ex-
tend along side of premises, the
city council decreed at it's meeting
Tuesday evening. The council de-
cided to enforce an existing ordi-
rance relating to such conditions.
The ordinance says that it shall
be unlawful for the owner or occu-
pant of any premises within the
city to permit branches OF boughs
Of trees, bushes or shrubbery to
project over sidewalks and streets
at a height less than eight
feet, or to permit weeds to grow in
front of or alongside the premises
far as the curb line. The pen
atty provided for violation is a fine
of not more than S25.
A little more than a month is
being given in which to comply with
the ordinance. The time limit is
Oct. 1. The city will haul away
limbs that are piled at the curb
line.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
LOCAL 4.H CLUBS WIN
HONORS At ME- FAIR

A number of Laurel All club
members won prizes at the Midland
Empire fair last week. Yum Yum
Breakfast club members, each of
whom received prizes for their en-
tries of baking powder biscuits, plain
mullins and whole grain mullins,
were Dorothy Gabel, Geraldine Sorg,
Bonnie Boylan, Darlene Frank, Dor
othy Conner, Pearl Brester and Mary
Alice Zoos.
In the Merry Stitchers Sewing
club, winners were Betty Boylan,
Shirley Gremmer, Helen Whitaker,
Jessie Boylan, Betty Frickel, Patsy
Ostwald, Donna Jean Riddle and
Rosemary Smith, who exhibited
dresses, slips, headscarfs and darn
ing. Saturday evening, dresses were
modelled at the Al style revue by
Betty and Jessie Boylan and Helen
Whitaker. Rosemary Smith and
Shirley Gremmer were a judging
team in the All cooking class.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
Production Of House
Furnishings Becoming
Greater, Market Shows

Several lines of merchandise in
house furnishings are apparently be-
coming more plentiful, Mrs. M. o.
Roysdon and son Glen of the Roys-
don furniture store, said this week,
following their return from the 1947
Northwest Furniture market week in
Seattle. Many manufacturers had
displays from which furniture store
operators of Washington, Oregon,
Montana, Idaho and Alaska made
selections Aug. II, Is and ID.
Although furniture, lamps, bedding
and other similar lines that ordi-
narily make up the stocks carried by
furniture stores appeared to be
.'1oosening," carpeting and rugs
seemed to be still eight" There
were scant showings of floor cover
ings.
The Roysdons made purchases for
future delivery. Arrivals should be
in September, October and November,
according to present production
Mrs. Roysdon and Glen Roysdon
made the trip to and from Seattle
by air. They stopped to visit rel
in Spokane and vicinity.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20

ern Pacific shops here in Laurel they
blow the railroad whistle to alert
its fire-fighting crew. So over there
when fire or disaster strikes, the
mine whistle blows. People stop in
their tracks and listen, silently and
gravely. Fear grips their hearts, for
every family has suffered and sor-
rowed from those treacherous mines.
My Dad abhorred the mines and
eventually left them. He made up
his mind that his sons should never
go down in them if he could help
it. l remember his talking it over
with my mother and we older boys,
trying to make up his mind where
to go. The first World war post
poned his plans, but shortly there
after he sold at auction all our fam
lily possessions, and with a few boxes
and suitcases sailed for the United
States with his family of six chill
dren, ranging in age from 6 to Is.
When asked why he took on such a
task, he would say 81
Just didn't want any of my boys
down in those Mines"
So, today, my heart goes out to
those poor people. Knowing what
they have suffered in the past, |
what they are suffering today.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
RADIO HISTORY TOLD
At K|WAN|S MEETING

Franz Robischon, associated with
radio station KBMY in Billings, was
the guest speaker at the Wednesday
evening meeting of the Laurel XII
wants club. In the absence of j. w.
Baldwin, program chairman, he was
introduced by w. A. Ziegler, presi-
dent of the group. His subject was,
"Twenty-six Years of Radio"
He said that radio has just COM
pleted 26 years of activity as it is
now known. In August 1921 it was
first realized that the stations then
operating could have an income from
selling time for advertising. The
first business to advertise by radio
was a real estate concern in Long
Island, N. Y, and at that time paid
a little more than 500 for time on
the air.
Manufacturers of radio sets were
the first to set up stations with the
double purpose of selling sets and
the public something to listen
to. 1t was not uncommon to operate
for al hour, then go off the air for
or even for no apparent rea-
son at all.
Chambers of we're also
responsible for the establishment of
many radio stations.
In 1927 a bill passed by congress
set up the federal communications
commission which, with the excep-
ton of a few technical changes in
the original legislation, still operates
Continued. on Page Ten)
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MORAN TO INACCURATE
FIRST DRIVEN THEATER
Of STATE NEXT SPRING

Initial materials for the first drive
in theater in Montana arrived We'd
nesday at a location recently pur-
chased by j. H. Moran, proprietor
and manager of the Royal theater in
Laurel. The site is on 10 acres of
land II miles west of Billings, pur-
chased from Martin Luise of the
Elmo club. The open-air theater will
be ready to open early next spring
as soon as weather is favorable, Nor
an said.
Outdoor theaters, exhibiting NOV
ing pictures accompanied by sound,
are relatively new. On July Is there
were 230 in operation in 33 states.
Park-in theaters are patented and
copyrighted by w. w. Smith Park
In Theaters of New Jersey, Moran
said when announcing the new feat
ure of entertainment. He has been
granted the sole franchise for the
Billings territory.
Moran is also interested in another
outdoor theater, located in Idaho
Falls, Ida, which is to open about
Oct. l. Hugo d. Jorgensen of Rigby,
Ida, a theater owner will be Moran's
partner in the Idaho business.
AS implied by the name, patrons
will drive their automobiles into the
theater, parking on semi-circular
ramps spaced SO feet apart. A check
of such theaters now in use reveals
that each a averages four peo-
pie. AS each car arrives at the
entrance it is guided to its parking
space by IN usher, and an individual
is placed within it. The
sound volume of each speaker is
comfortable. The ramps are to be
at successfully higher elevations,
the patrons an unobstructed
view of the go by 52-foot screen,
which is to be 20 feet off the
and slightly tilted. The pro-
jected picture is 80 feet by so feet.
The first installation will be ~
amps which will accommodate $50
,ars or about 1900 people. Space
extending the theater to
accommodate 900 cars or about g.
800 people.
The op%en-air theater season is ex-
'ected to run from about the middle
# April until mid October.
Moran said the parking area is to
re covered with black-top material
that the remainder of the tract
will be handicapped.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
ROTAR|ANS GET CLOSE
VIEW OF GOOD FISHING

Laurel Rotarians, regardless of
their respective abilities as fisher
men, had a good look Tuesday at
a greater number of Montana trout
and other game fish. Paul Wilson
and R. B. Packard cooperated in ex-
hibiting two reels of motion pictures
which showed fishermen in action
and invariably landing everything
they hooked. The films were loaned
by the Montana fish and game COM
mission and other agencies cooper
ating in their production.
The state has II fish hatcheries
located at convenient spots to ear
young trout and release them in
streams and lakes. Parts of the
films showed operations at stations
where the larger fish are stripped
Of their eggs and milt for Matching
and rearing in watts. Successive
stages were portrayed ending with
the final planting.
Quite a footage was devoted to
the skill of anglers. They were
casting into Montana's rushing
waters or placid lakes. Some of
the fish were very large.
An instructive section showed the
various kinds of trout, the rare
Montana grayling and some other
species of game fish.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
REVISED ESTIMATE IS
66, 100000 BUSHELS
WHEAT IN MONTANA

The Montana federal agricultural
statistical service at Helena released
a report last week which said that
production of all wheat in this state
is now indicated at 66,705, 900 BUSH
els, a drop of 5,050,000 bushels from
the July 1 forecast. Nevertheless
the revised estimate is still greater
than the total harvested last year
and beats the average of the pre-
vious 10 years.
Last year 62,395, 900 bushels were
harvested. The average for the pre-
ceding decade was 54,564,000 BUSH
els.
The report indicates that rainfall
in July was about half of normal
and that temperatures during the
month were two degrees higher than
normal, probably accounting for the
100000 decline from the earlier
estimate.
Montana's winter wheat is placed
by the report at 24,62O,0O0 bushels,
an average of 1875 per acre.
Last year the yield was 32,18O,0OO,
average of 20 bushels per acre.
Spring wheat is forecast at 49,
" 5000 bushels, with the average
yield predicted at 1875 bushels per
acre.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
SERVICES HELD FOR
D. A. KAMP SUNDAY
Former Laurel Farm Owner
Died Aug. II OF a Heart At
tack At Home In Hardin

David Arie Kamp, a former Lau
rel resident, died at his home il
Hardin Aug. IA of a heart attack
He was born Sept. 20, 1872, the
son of Jacob and Lucretia Kamp.
When he was a young man he
came to Montana where he owned
and operated a farm near Bozeman
until 1899 when he came to Laurel
and bought a farm three miles east
of Laurel.
In 1909 he moved to Big Horn
county ear Hardin where he farm
ed for a number of years. While
a resident of that county he served
as county commissioner for more
than six years.
He was married at Billings in 1889
to Mrs. Jennie Fly of Bozeman. The
three children born to them have all
died, Edith at age 7, Edna her twin
sister, at age II, and Arie B. at
age As years.
Funeral services were held Sun
day, Aug. II, at the Baptist church
at Hardin with Rev. Bently of
Crow Agency, a close personal friend
of MI. Kamp, conducting the SER
vices. Burial was in the Laurel
cemetery.
Beside the widow living at Hardin,
he is survived by four grandchildren.
Kenneth, Donald, Lee and Mary Lou
of Harrison, Ida.; five step
children, Robert Fly of Big Horn,
William Fly of Billings, Earl Fly
of st. Maries, Ida, Lee Fly of Fly
Inn and Mrs. Ahua Kifer of Hardin.
There are II step-grandchildren;
two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Walker of
Huntley, and Mrs. Rhoda Fly of
Billings.
Among relatives attending the
services from distant points were
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis Fly of Fort
Peck, Mrs. Louise Kamp and daugh-
Ter Mary Lou of Harrison, Ida, and
Earl Fly of st. Maries, Ida.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
Californian Injured
Near Here Tuesday

Elmer Lee Gebo, So, of Oakland,
Calf, was badly injured at 4:30
Tuesday when he ran into the abut-
ment of the bridge over the Yellow
stone south of Laurel. He was en-
route from Red Lodge to Billings.
Gebo suffered a fractured left
thigh, fractured right arm, dislocated
right thigh, possible broken ribs and
cuts on the face, neck and body.
Harold Price, deputy sheriff who
was soon at the scene, said the
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
LAUREL SCHOOLS TO
OPEN S00N DATE OF
REGISTRATIONS SET
Officials Urge Prospective High
School Students To Enroll
Aug. % To 30

All prospective Laurel high school
students are requested to appear at
the high school office some time
during the week of Aug. % to 80,
between the hours of 1 and 4 p. m.
for advance registration, Principal
John G. Macdonald has announced.
Both Superintendent F. w. Graft
and Mr.. Macdonald will be available
at these hours for careful study of
and advice on the individual pupils
needs and program for the coming
year. The advance registration has
been called with that end in view, it
being felt that proper counselling
and choice of subjects cannot be ac-
complished when registration is
crowded into One-half day.
Students whose last name initials
are in the A to M group are urged
to come on Monday, Tuesday or
Wednesday. Those with names be-
ginning N to 2 are requested to
come Thursday, Friday or Saturday,
if possible.
Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, will
be taken up with last minute regis
trations, locker assignments and per-
haps a shortened class program.
Tuesday afternoon will be devoted
a faculty meeting of high school
teachers, and regular classes will be-
gin Wednesday, Sept. 8.
Mr.. Graft reports that all high
school teaching positions have been
Tiled, and plans are progressing
nicely for the opening of school.
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Commercial Club
Will Meet Aug. 2S

John Laird, president of the Lau-
rel Commercial club, has announced
that the group will hold a meeting
at the Laurel Masonic Temple at
$50 p. m. Aug. %.
Laird said that current questions
and problems before the group will
be further discussed and whatever
appropriate action is deemed neces-
sary will be taken.
All members of the group have
been urged to be present at the ses-
sion. Dinner will be served at the
usual time.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
Rudy Phillips Serves
Aboard US. S. Boxer

The new center, ninth naval dis.
trict, Great Lakes, ILL.,, says that
Rudy L. Phillips, yeoman third class
son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Phillips
of Laurel, is serving aboard the
aircraft carrier U. S. S. Boxer, which
is operating off the west coast.
The Boxer, fifth man-of-war to
carry the name, was commissioned at
the Norfolk navy yard, Portsmouth,
Va, in April 1915. In September
1945 she was assigned to the Pacific
fleet and operated in and around the
Marianas islands after the surrender
of Japan.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20

engine of the auto was pushed back
and pinned Gebo in the car, necessi-
tating a half hour of work to re-
lease the man.
He was brought to Laurel for first
aid and was then taken by ambu-
lance to a Billings hospital for fur
Their treatment.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-20
DAVID KIEDROWSKI VISITS

Mr.. and Mrs. David Kiedrowski
arrived Sunday from Portland, Ore,
for a visit with Mr.. Kiedrowski's
parents. This is Mr.. Kiedrokski's
first visit to Laurel in more than
four years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
Negro Orphonage
To Get Donations

On Sunday. May 4, the North
c in mathematician
Ushers association under the pres
idency of L. E. Austin. editor of
the Carolina Times, Durham, will
present its fifth annual contribu-
ton to the Colored Orphanage of
North Carolina at Oxford, it was
learned yesterday.
Austin will address members OF
the group, which has contributed
$11, 579.74 to the o~rphanage since
1913, and special music will be
rendered by the orphanage glee
club. Members from all parts of
North Carolina are expected to
attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
Beat
Pickups
BY PHIL WRIGHT
State Editor

Had a cheering note from Mrs.
John Knox Ward (of Ward Fun
eral Home fame) thanking me FOR
my moral support to the N e w
Hanover Cancer Fund Drive. 1t
was a plea sure.
''Splendid cooperation it said
in the note, and she mentioned
something about getting In n o t
water" about not knowing where
she lived. l did not say that. She
is publicity c h a r m a n for the
North Carolina Sorosis Clubs can
ce fund campaign which ends TO-
day or tomorrow.
l. was her club house address
she did not know, but tlrat should
not have been embarrassing. No
bod, else seemed to know.
Il the note she bemoaned that
sh had to make an apology for
the incident to Mrs. Foy,' chair
man for the, campaign. Apologies
dc not come easily.
A.. other letter from a news
analyst" addressed MIR. Harry
Wright" Wrong party.
Mrs. Lester Simpson. Jackson
vile could not have known about
that one. She has two children
who are just on the road to re
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27

for the blind peanut cs,,
Wilkins at Front and tI'0Gs V,
street during their P'iacss'
luncheon periods. 'eSpech
This week John had in..
ed his stand anew, and Jus, s, 9a,,
was out of his offices t fnr Nsyl;H
hour. John wanted sor nls AaS
but he failed to hear s tba Ind
voice of Meyland djstin1'a nl
to anyone who ever heaFs3 0i'aa$,
Meyland asked tbs H.
broker in a changed voice. pe'as
ne would like for him to l. Fass.
while the latter grabbed Keep 81;
Wich. 'u d ~
John readily agreed. III,
told me that he crossed and NJ Aas
or the deal, Il knew ali t sp9lt
Meyland who seemed :,
lot of fun out of b~eIievir'I0 ge
gone through the routine IL d
the peanut vendor susneoa "!a,
helped him out, told frienG,' y
was real fun, and I'm S,,.. d
no newspaper renor sure gS
around to see what hsnn., "
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27

from illness. Hell son, 13
hao lust recuperated from scarlet
fever, a pretty bad case, she said,
wher she told me she thought he
taking the mumps.
The girls and boys in Jackson
vile became sort of married
minded" and during the week
took a jump on the approaching
June rush, and nine couples were
united in two days.
Marshall Realty company open
ed it's new "a : house subdivision,
formally named West Audubon"
during the era, and Bob Black, a
salesman said that a few were
still left for inspection. The
streets which he said will be
paved, have not been named yet.
l.. the building world again, and
Fred Willets announced his
better homes" program dream
coming true.
The project will include several
houses on fashionable Essex ave-
rue. like the ones which are now
fronting Windsor drive in Glen
Arden.
Essex avenue got it's name
from the English, but not or
Fred's side of the family.
Fred Jr., said the street wa:
named several years ago by Hugh
McRae.
A. L. (Gus) Meyland, HUSBAND
of a Wrightsville Beach tewr
clerks office employe was this
week back at his old benevolent
tricks.
For years Gus has pinch-hltted
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
Wagner Leaves Race
For GreenuiUe Mayor

GREENVILLE, April &c. -P)-
Mayor Jack H. Boyd, Jr.. today
was assured of no opposition in
the race for mayor of Greenville
with the surprising announcement
that Ty Wagner, former D u k e
athlete, had Withdrawn his nomi-
nation.
Wagner filed for the mayors
race a few minutes before the
deadline On e S d a y, Wagner
said, after pressure from friends
and supporters was asserted.
The primary is to be held on
on May 5. A large registration is
reported. A mayor and five alder
men are to be elected. However,
only only one contest for alderman
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
Mhwain Wins, Lo,,,

WAKE FOREST, N. c. AMI,
Bill McIlwain, Wilmingtoaa p,lI
man, was a winner ana I1 III
in the two run-otf electioo a L (
at Wake Forest this was, b; I;
beat Dougla S Elan, "y Wis. !
Salem junior, for the student n.-s''
azine representative on III. M ~
cations board but was detea,s s99
Harry Douglas, Raleigh frs,s'0.
for the position of secretary. aI'
urer of the sophomore cl.s, "e'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27

George See. chairman has an
nounced.
The representatives will be
either boys or girls. elected by
school children of the county. and
in turn Mrs. See and her COM
mittee will pick the two finalists,
it was said.
Mrs. Alan Gawthrop and Mrs.
Eric Gardner will attend the con-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
Students To Be Picked
For Red Cross Meeting

JACKSONVILLE, April 26-Two
school children will be selected
from Onslow county schools to
represent the county at the Junior
Red Cross convention to be held
in Cleveland, Ohio June 9. Mrs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27

SILER CITY, April 26 - up -
There will be two candidates for
mayor of Siler City in the May 5
elections-R. F. Hedrick and C. A.
Shelton. Mayor o. B. Reitzel and
7. Fleet Baldwin have Withdrawn
as candidates.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27

is expected with Herber Trip op-
posing Nathan c. Brooks, incum-
bent from the first ward.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27
SILER CITY ELECTIONS

vention as adult delegates of the
OnsloW chapter. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-27

Consumption of cabbage in
creased to 80 pounds per capita in
1915.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23

but they were only manatees and
dugongs, or sea COWS. All the
mermaids of our poems and sto-
ries are lovely in feature, but the
animals themselves are rather
hideous.
The great virtue of the mother
manatee or dugong is her love for
her little one. When she feeds it,
she raises herself in the water and
clasps the little one to her, hold
ing it with one flipper, while she
.swims with the other. Thus, At a
distance, a sailor might imagine
the pair to be a human mother
and her small baby in the open
water. The manatees and dugongs
live on seaweed, and no doubt OBJ
servers thought that this seaweed
was mermaid's hair. One kind o.
norman was called a sea bishop,
because it was supposed to have
a mitre-shaped head.
Copyright, 1916, By The Gro
her Society Inc. based upon The
Book of knowledge
distributed by United Feature
Syndicate. Inc.)
TOMORROW: Mountain Ranges
and the Earth's Core.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-23
Inter Party Cooperation

Once more we are offered a notable
example Of i~nter-party cooperation on
foreign policy in the message from
Secretary Of State Marshall to Senator
Vandenberg on the loan. to Greece and
Turkey.
Mr.. Marshall is a high executive in
the democratic administration. Mr..
V~andenberg; a republican, is presiding
officer of the Senate and opposition
leader in the upper branch Of Con-
sress.
Despite strictly party differences
Senator Vandenberg has been among
President Humans st%aunchest foreign
policy supporters and often enough has
had a hand in shaping them. Mr.. Tru-