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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-05-27

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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
Landing Strip Grasses
IL Types Found Suitable for Montana
By LOUIS G. TRUE, Secretary, Montana Flying Farmers
and Ranchers Association

THROUGH research work with
4 various grasses the flying farm
er landing strips of the future may
have a nearly solid cushioning cover
that will stand the wear and tear
of frequent landings and need little
care, provided the strip is started
properly, according to agronomists
at Montana State college and the
Civil Aeronautics administration.
Since the start is SO important the
first recommendation of the agron-
omists is to grade the strip to a
crown. The grading should start on
the outside of the strip with the
dirt moved toward the center. On
a landing strip 200 feet wide the
crown should be 1 to 2 feet higher
than the edges or a grade of l to 2
percent. Careful smoothing will pre-
vent bird baths" or depressions.
Plow the strip if necessary, then
disk, harrow and pack before seed
ing, to obtain a firm, moist seeded.
Then apply about 100 pounds of
ammonium sulphate or rs pounds
of ammonium nitrate per acre or it's
equivalent to provide sufficient nj
trogen. Work this into the soil two
or three inches just before planting.
Method of Seeding
The best method of seeding is with
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
Entertainment Plus Farm Service
Assured KMON Listeners

ENTERTAINMENT for all plus the best rm-service features
II assured listeners TO KMON. the Montana Farmer Stockman radio
station. The new 5000-watt station will be o the air some time in
May at $50 klocYcles o n Montana radio dials.
Outstanding Mutual Broadcasing system features for the whole
family include Information Please" Kate Smith, ParkYakarkas. John
Nesbitts' Passing Parade" Erskine johnson in Hollywood. the Happy
Gang" variety show. Queen for a Day" and the Chicago Theater of
the Air. Children will be interested in such features as the Tom
Nib" show. A large number of these programs Ar available to listen
es through local sponsors under a cooperative programming
system pioneered by the Mutual network.
News lovers will appreciate such commentators as Fulton Lewis.
Cedric Foster. Cecil Brown. Bill Cunningham. Frank Hemingway and
Bill Brandt-available through the Mutual or Intermountain networks.
An exclusive Associated Press radio wire plus other special news
gathering facilities will keep listeners well informed o n farm. state.
national and international affairs.
league games of the Great Falls "Electrcs" as well as the World Series
baseball classic and many other sports events. Mystery thrillers in
clude Nick Carter" Charlie Chan" and True Detective"
A daily program of definite farm interest will be broadcast at the
best noon-tme farm listening hour by Montana Farmer Stockman.
The Mutual systems farm radio program. RID America" will also
be an early feature. A complete story n KMON facilities. staff per-
sonnet and programs will appear in a later issue of Montana Farmer
Stockman. -s e-r
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

ing the summerfallow period, we
set countless numbers of bacteria to
work tearing apart the old plant
residues in the soil. Eventually we
must exhaust this resource, but we
are prepared to meet the situation.
Our factories car take nitrogen from
the inexhaustible reservoir, the
atmosphere, which we can add to the
soil to produce the much needed
proteins in our food supply. 1t is
now time to learn more about this
process and to begin the practice in
the fields of Montana.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

Typical dark layer of top soil as seen
fertilizer (5.74 bu.) at 81 per bushel
would be worth SLAB. The 100
pounds of complete fertilizer used on
the land cost $3.35, making a profit
of $8.49 per acre from the use of the
fertilizer.
The increase from the phosphate
(3.18 bu.) at So per bushel will bring
$685.. Forty pounds of phosphate
per acre were used, costing $1.14 and
making a profit of 1922.
Protein and Fertilizers
Protein is composed essentially of
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitro
gen. The limiting factor in produc-
ing protein is nitrogen. AS previ-
ously stated, one of the main pur-
poses of summerfallow is to accumu-
late nitrogen for the next crop. In
an acre of land there is thus only so
much nitrogen on any given year
out of which protein can be manu-
featured in the wheat crop. If the
crop season is dry, and the yield is
low, all the nitrogen in an acre of
soil goes into the crop giving it a
high percentage of protein.
In contrast, if there is much mois-
ture and a large yield, the same
amount of nitrogen in an acre goes
into the crop, but produces a low
percentage protein in the wheat. In
each case there is the same amount
of nitrogen which goes to make pro-
tein in an acre of wheat. There would
be about the same number of pounds
of protein on an acre in each case.
In the dry year the protein is in
a lesser number of bushels making
a higher percentage. In the wet year
the protein is in a larger number
of bushels with a lower percentage.
ALL Available Nitrate Used
There is one process that always
takes place, and that is, the crop
uses up the last trace of available
nitrate in the soil to make protein
The wheat crop is very hungry fol-
nitrogen. The lack of it shows very
pronounced symptoms in the grow.
ing crop. A light yellowish greer
color of the crop means a shortage
of nitrogen, whereas, a dark greer
foliage is evidence of sufficient nj
trogen. The practical farmer know.
when his crop is doing well from it
appearance.
Mineral fertilizers can supplement
the nitrates in the soil. The practic,
of using commercial nitrogen to in
crease yield and protein content ha
not come up to expectations, bu
eventually we will learn to use thes
forms of nitrogen to increase pro
teins for Jul food supply.
Protein Will Decline
A decline in the protein conten
of wheat on our dry lands over
period of 20 to 80 years must TAX
place. Every year we are using u
u natural supply of nitrogen. Dun
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

form, drill one-half the seed one
half inch deep in one direction and
the other at a right or AS degree
angle to the first direction. The
recommended seeding rate is 20
pounds per acre to insure a thick
stand. After seeding pack with a
cultipacker or roller.
The best time to seed is as early
as possible in the spring. The next
best time is from Oct. 10 to freeze
up. If seeding is done in the fall,
the soil should be moist.
These recommendations are for
dry land areas, where blowing is
not too severe. In blow areas spring
wheat or spring rye should be seeded
as outlined for landing strip grasses.
This crop should be clipped short
enough. not to interfere with flying.
Clipping will cause the crop to
spread and give a tighter and
smoother surface.
In the fall seed the landing strip
grass in the stubble without further
seedbed preparation.
Prevent Blowing
If small blow areas develop in a
strip, cover with straw at the rate
of about two tons per acre. Run
over the straw with a heavy disk
set so it will not cut. This will force
the straw into the ground.
During the first year of a newly
seeded landing strip, clip often
enough to keep weeds from flower
ing and setting seed.
Other practices that will keep the
strip in condition are as follows:
Keep stubble from 4 to 6 inches
high. Apply spring application of
rs pounds ammonium sulphate or
so pounds ammonium nitrate or
equivalent nitrogen carrying ferti-
lizers. Roll in early spring when
ground is fairly moist to press plants
into soil and to smooth rutted sur
face. Keep prairie dogs, moles and
gophers poisoned or trapped.
Inspection Service
These recommendations were pre-
pared by Orlie w. Smith, CAA air.
port agronomist, and DR.. r. E. Stitt,
agronomist for the Montana Agri-
cultural experiment station. Smith
will be willing to inspect and advise
with seeding and management of
turfed landing strips. These visits
al be arranged by contracting the
District Airport Engineer, CAA,
Montana Building, Helena, or the
Secretary, Montana Flying Farmers
and Ranchers association, at Mon
tana State college, Bozeman.
There are II different grasses
which seem suitable for Montana
landing strips, the agronomists say.
No single grass is suitable for all
sections of the state because of the
wide variation in climatic and soil
conditions here. Also, the demand
has exceeded the supply, but every
effort is being made to build up the
supply.
The II different grasses which are
recommended are Fairway Crested
wheatgrass, standard Crested wheat.
grass, smooth bromegrass, Russian
wildrye, western wheatgrass, blue
gramagrass, alta fescue, Idaho fes
cue, sheep fescue, chewing fescut
and creeping red fescue. Full detail:
as to the suitability of each gras
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

Growing animals make the best
use of feed. 1t pays to keep live
stock and poultry growing.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
,Agamemnon' Second Offering
OF G. w. y. Players Season
By Joy Cormodv

Aeschyls Agamemnon" translated by Hamilton nenshes
the classical of the Washington Univer-
s this The play second production
last night at Lsn Auditorium will repeated tonight
notable chiefly for bringing the college
University Players Natalie White
Evening star., 1948-03-13

the beautiful Helen and how, upon
his return home, his indigant queen,
Clytemnestra, stabbed him to death.
In itself, this is a lively thing. In
the cadenced speech Of Aeschylus,
musically translated by Miss Ham
iton, it becomes slow and rather
hazy at least to contemporary eyes
and ears.
The truth about "Agamemnon"
always has been that it is one of
the most poetic, Intellectually mag
nificent, Of the Greek plays. It has
almost no movement. It is a play
of waiting. AS it opens, a herald
waits upon the walls of Argos pal
ace for the signal fires that will
proclaim Agamemnon's victory.
After the signal is given, the
people Of Argos, including the
Queen, wait the return of Aga
memnon. The next wait is for him
to tell his story, and the one after
that is concerned with the accuracy
Of Cassandra's prophecies that she
and the victorious King will be
killed shortly after she enters the
palace.
A few minutes before the final
curtain, Agamemnon cries out from
behind the royal doors that he is
being stabbed. The doors. open
and 1t turns out that he has been
hacked to death by the frenzied
Clytemnestra. The final wait is
Evening star., 1948-03-13

make too much sense, because sing
ing is the. thing she does best.
+ k+x
Wayne Morris is starting his third
picture in six weeks. This sounds
something like the good old days"
when they polished off movie in
three days. Wayne started the ball
rolling with 'The Big Punch" then
came John Loves Mary" with Rom
aid Reagan, and now Kiss in the
Dark" with Jane Wyman.
John Payne is shifting the blues
on the set of '"The Saxon Charm -
IT have flu, but if I give in and go
home, I'll get really SICK" he tells
me as I try to back out of range.
Ann Blyth has been ordered to
rest for three months by her doctor.
So, on her first week Of vacation,
Ann posed for some pictures in the
ice-cold water at Laguna to pub
licize her movie, ''Mr. Peabody and
the Mermaid" No wonder Annie
is so popular with the publicity
boys at her studio. But she should
be resting. The tail of the mermaid
costume she wore in the movie
was weighted down with SO pounds
of buckshot to keep her under
water-and the kids exhausted.
Wallace Beery gets started off
on a new career as a refined comic
in ga T0afa with Indy -
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
Catholic University-"Portion of
Foxes; $3.50 pm.
National - 1.-THE Chocolate SOL
dier";; 230 and $3.50 pm.
Es4. scr.ar Rt~-E's g.
Ambassador-"Sa Saigon; los, 3:15,
$40, 7:30 and $40 pm.
Capitol-'Tenth Avenue Angel;
10:40 am, l, 1928, 5:45, 8:15, 1926
pm. and l am. Stage shows: IL,
2:25, 4:45, tbs, $40, and IL pm.
Columbia-"Song Of Bernadette";; !;
10:30 am, 1:15, 3:55. $40 and 9:2O
pm.
Hippodrome-"That Hamilton Wo-
man; 2:15, 4:40, 7 and $3.50 pm.
Keith's "The Bishops Wife;
1870 am, 1885, 3:45, $50, 8, 10:05
pm. and 1915 am.
Little-"The Barber of Seville;
11:15 am, 1:25, 1928, 5:25. 7:30 and
9:35 pm.
Metropolitan-"Panhandle";; 11:20
am, 1:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and 9:45
pm.
Palace-"Sleep My Love-; 10:45
am, 1855, sos, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 and
11:45 pm.
Pix-"Comedy Carnival; las,
3:35, $50, sos, 1918 pm. and 1890
am.
Trans Lux-News and shorts.
Continuous from 1918 am.
Warner-"Saigon":: II am, 1:10,
3:20, $50, 7:45, 9:55 pm. and 1905
am.
Evening star., 1948-03-13

devoted to Clytemnestra's explana.
ton that she committed the murder
to avenge Iphigenia, the daughter
who was sacrificed by Agamemnor
before he left for the Trojan war.
~ **
Miss Whites word-perfect cas-
gives what seems more a reading
than an acting of "Agamemnon.
It never falters on a syllable o1
Miss Hamilton's majestically rhyth.
mic translation. This concern fol
the text of the play reduces 1t fol
long periods to almost complete i'm
mobility and imbues it but rarely
with the sense of murderous life ir
ancient Greece. It's fire, whatever
1t was originally, has become almost
purely verbal.
The effect is to reduce it to the
level of a classroom exercise rather
than to make it a dramatic exhibit
"Agamemnon," for all its title
is Clytemnestra's play. She is the
fountain of whatever energy 1t
possesses, while he is merely the
character the play is about.
Properly enough, the production
comes up with it's best performer in
Dorothy Ohliger as the avenging
and adulterous queen. She Is nc
Judith Anderson in catching the
poisonous revengeful spirit of an
outraged mother, but then no one
expected her to be. She contrives
a reasonable representation of the
queens furies in her reading Of the
coldly cunning and angry lines
which might merely have engulfed
her.
In major support, the cast offers
its best in the old man played by
George McGinnis; the distraught
Cassandra of Valeska Griffin; and
the brief spoken Agamemnon
played by Henry Danilowicz.
The settings for the University
Players "Agamemnon" are the eff
fectively simple work of Donald C.
Kline and Nelson Wurz. The cos
tunes by Marcia Hopman and Mary
Jane Summers are admirable. .
" II slst--
Saturday summary: Productions
Inc. will offer Ibsen's "Hedda Cab
ler" as its third play Of the season
at the King-Smith School theater
Previous offerings of the group
have been Sartre's mo Exit" and
Garcia Lorca's IF Five Years Pass.
Sidwen Friends School glee
club will present "The Pirates OF
Penzance" in three performances
at American University auditorium
afternoon and evening Of March 10
and the evening of March 20
Frederic E. Delzell is directing :.
Arlington Civic Federation will
sponsor a performance of "The
Hasty Heart" by Barter theater
players at Washington-Lee High
School on March Is Tickets
are available in Washington at the
Willard Hotel agency.
Evening star., 1948-03-13
Hollywood:
Good Acting
Is Fostered
By yLaughton
By SheiIoh Grohom

Cornell Wilde, just back from the
East, tells me that his wife, Pat
knight, will stay with him in Holly
wood until they leave for New York
in the fall to do play. Meanwhile
Pat plans to do movie and Cornel
will do two, the first with Gene
Tierney in THAT Wonderful Urge,
the other his last for Columbia un-
der his present contract. Right now
they are both in, Palm Springs
whipping up a tan to replace their
New York pallor. Cornell adds, Eve
are blissfully happy"
Greer Garson's next picture, "The
Sanity Miss Peters," calls for a
character to be played by Cary
Grant-her studio is trying to hire
him-and a gambler to be played
by Zachary Scott. Greer is a school
teacher who picks horses by using
logic. Yes, it's q comedy.
Donna Reed, and not Ava Gard
ner, will play Mrs. Monty Stratton,
with Van johnson as the famous
ballplayer. Ava will be occupied
with "One Touch of Venus" and
in any case. the role is more suited
to Donna.
Charles Laughton is making a
good attempt to foster fine acting
in Hollywood. A few times a week
Laughton holds classes in Shake
spearean acting at the Coronet
Theater for the younger players
here. Shelley Winters and Jane
Wyatt are among those present
Laughton plans to form a sort OF
Old Vic Repertory Group in Holly
wood in the near future.
X *N.
Burt Lancaster explains his cur
rent situation with the Mark Hell
linger Estate. II have one movie
to make for the estate, which is
liquidating all its assets. I am to
receive $65 1000. But I have the right
to refuse to do it If I don't like the
story" Burt then tells me that he
hasn't $500 in the bank, but "for the
first time since 7 started paying
an income tax in Hollywood, I'm
solvent"
Evelyn Keyes' horse, Lady Bruce,
isn't talking to me. I was told by
Evelyn that Lady Bruce, co-owned
by Virginia Bruce, would win last
Saturday if 1t was a ix-furlong
race. 1t was a six-furlong affair and
the horse won! But I forgot to place
a bet!!
Lou Costello and Bud Abbott will
star for Universal international in
Three for the Money" Lou plays
three roles in this-lion tanner,
banker and poor orphan. He goes to
England in July with Bud, and they
will make a movie over there as
we'll as do personal appearances.
James Dunn stars in Hero Hill"
on Broadway in the fall. Jimmy
did fine piece of acting with
Mickey Rooney in killer Mccoy"
Edmond O'Brien joins Don Taylor
in Washington Girl" with Deanna
Durbin. Deanna will sing only two
or three songs, at most. That doesn't
Evening star., 1948-03-13

with the assistance of Miss Hamil-
ton, is strictly an obedient work. 1t
follows the classical tradition with
complete fidelity. 1t undertakes to
show how the drama was back in
its cradle days, nothing more. no.
thing less.
How the drama was then, of
course, was so unlike that of today
that the whole genetic process might
reasonably cause more than a few
raised eyebrows on the part of un-
scholarly moderns. It's language
was poetic and. its subject matter
was startlingly basic. The former
had tendency both to ennoble and
obscure the latter.
In the case of "Agamemnon," this
process of ennoblement and obscur-
ity may very well defeat the drama
in the eyes of theatergoing mod
erns. The play actually is blessed
with plot of considerable verve. It
relates how Agamemnon spent 10
years besieging Troy to recapture
Evening star., 1948-03-13
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Evening star., 1948-03-13
Confused Careers
BY the Assoeiofsd Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Among the confused careers in
Hollywood are those OF Richard
Whorf and Blake Edwards.
Whorf, under contract at Metro
Goldwyn-Maye as a director, re-
Gently completed three months on
the New York stage as an actor.
Now back in Hollywood, he wants
to act in pictures. In New York he
collaborated with Jose Ferrer as
actor director of a series of plays at
the Civic Theater. His Hollywood
directional projects include "It Hap
Evening star., 1948-03-13

pened In Brooklyn" and 'aThe Sailor
Takes q Wife" ...
Edwards, "a, produced the picture,
Panhandle" with John Champion
as co-producer. Now Edwards has
an acting role-the second male
lead-in Winner Take Nothing" at
Columbia Studios. He plays a
prize fighter who learns there are
easier ways of making a living.
Evening star., 1948-03-13

DEBUTS TWICE-Peter Lind
Hayes is being "introduced" to
the film public Nth his per-
torrance in "The Senator
Was Indiscreep in spite OF
the fact that he Is a Ueteran
of some IL n1ouies. The the
Org is that with this picture
the comedian starts an en-
tirely ne,o career, hence, like
any other beginner rates a
formal Introduction. "The
Senator" opens Wednesday at
Keith's,
Evening star., 1948-08-12
After Dark
Round, Not Electronic, Actors
Are Preferred at the Shoreham
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

were gathered, with several dozen
more looking down from the Ver-
anda.
This may, of course, have nothing
to do with the eugenics of any pro-
posed union between vaudeville and
television. 1t may be an indication
only that the expected rift is begin
ming to mar the romance between
video and the bar-and-grill. A Brit
ish television expert was saying the
other day that the art had the same
sort of start in his country. 1t
first bloomed in the pubs, but that
only lasted couple of years.
1t may be that the serious drink
ers over here are getting ready to
elbow those intruders away from
the bar and tell Casey to take that
NOON pitcher radio home to the
wife and kids.
The Shoreham Terrace entertain
ment this week is well worth watch
ing, incidentally. 1t is entirely de-
voted to dancing, featuring Johnny
Mack and Galante and Leonardo
and pair of more smoothly pol
ished acts would be hard to find on
the same bill anywhere. Mr.. Mack
and If we've said this before about
him it still won't hurt to repeat it
is tap dancer who dances with his
feet, without athletics and arm
waving. He has no talent deficien-
cies that need to be hidden behind
acrobatics and it is great pleasure
to watch him work. 1t is a great
pleasure, also, to watch Galante
and Leonardo. Their dancing, in a
variety of tempos. is marked by a
smooth finish that most dance
teams hope some day to achieve
and set in mood that can only be
called passionate. The blond half
of the duo is one of the prettiest
girls in the dance team business
too.
The Midnight Merry Go Round:
do you know that woodpecker
song?" asks Basil Fomeen, the
Carlton Congo Room maestro, with
a challenging glare. DO you like
it?" The wisest thing a man can
do in the face of the fierce approach
is just Shrug. It's a moron song"
says Basil, taking care of that. =.
Evening star., 1948-08-12

The Casino Royals show features
one of the fresher ones among the
young dance teams, the Hovings.
Their musical comedy numbers are
light and sprightly and when they
turn to comedy they display, believe
it or not, the good sense not to
overdo it and actually are funny.
The major event in any Casino
show, of course, is the appearance
of Jack "Jive" Schafer, the trum-
pet-playing bandleader who has be-
come something of a fixture there.
He has some lyrics that would make
Martha Raye fan blush, but he's
very funny man if you're in the
mood for that sort of thing. A
brief pause in the doorway of the
Blue Mirror last Monday was
enough to convince that those peo-
pie who have been singing the
praises of the Stan Nelson Trio
knew what they were singing about.
A girl and two boys, they have a
wide variety of musical specialties
and perform with both skill and
gusto. They are. as the cats say,
gone. Pianist Sparty Donate,
one of the towns abler musicians,
is a specialist who is really special
izing these nights. He is in the en-
ploy of the Shoreham while Barnee
vacations. Every night he goes out
to the Terrace and conducts the
orchestra for the floor show. When
the floor show is over, he puts the
baton down and departs.
X X X X
Small World Department.: Barnee
is spending his vacation, or at least
part of it, at Ocean City. We know
because Johnny Robb, the Madril:-
Ions orchestra leader, was down
there for mis- vacation. just as he