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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-20
New Planes

The Air Force has prepared
buying orders for 2,727 new war
planes, actual letting of the con-
tracts awaiting only conference
committee action and President
Truman's signal to start building
a 70-group peacetime armada.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-20
+LAYTONSVILLE4
Mrs. J. Thomas Hoa0es
GGithersburg sS57J-6

chistened May 8 at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
King. The service was performed
by the Rev. William P. Cover of
Gaithersburg. Faith Virginia wore
a white embroidered dress, white
socks, shoes, and blue hair-ribbon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Butts of
Rockville were godparents. Mr.. and
Mrs, King later served buffet
supper for Mr.. and Mrs. James D.
King of Germantown, Mrs. Vir7
ginia Plummer Of Washington, the
Rev. and Mrs. Cover and Mr.. and
Mrs. Butts.
Mrs. Seth Warfield is a patient
at Sibley Hospital where she un-
derwent a major operation. Mr..
and Mrs. Warfield spent the win
ter with her children and have not
yet opened their home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mansfield Daniels
of Dickerson and Miss LaVerna
Miller of Bethesda spent the week.
end at the home of Mrs. Margaret
White.
Mrs. John Root of New York
spent the weekend with her par
ents, DR.. and Mrs. Harold Mitchell.
Mrs. Mitchell's sister, Mrs. Benja-
min Hitz of Indianapolis is expect
ed to visit her from Thursday I'M
til Saturday. Mrs. Hitz is a men,
Der of the Mount Vernon Ladies
Association. She is now at Mount
Vernon.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Howes are
spending the week with their
daughter, Mrs. Wilton Stevens of
Arlington.
Samuel Ayton has sold his farm
to L. E. Brashear and will make
his home with Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Ayton.
Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Bogley
and sons, Tommy and Allen, Mr..
and Mrs. David Pope, Miss Vir-
GINA Grab and Frank Pope were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Pope.
The All Girls are very pleased
with the returns from their game
and card party held Saturday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merhle Haines
was guests of the Maryland Fox
hunters Association for supper at
Tridelphia Dam Saturday evening
and later enjoyed a night fox-hunt
with them among the hills of How
ward County.
Miss Leola Nichols of Washing
ton, visited at the home of Mrs.
Annie Higgins over the weekend.
Ria Stanley has sold his farm
near Etchison and his personal
property and will make his future
home in Florida. His son, Charles
Stanley, is living with his aunt,
Mrs. Cora S. Howard.
The bulletin, of st. Paul's Church
was sponsored last week by Mrs.
N. E. Hawkins in memory of her
husband, Joseph Clagett Hawkins.
The W.S.C.S. Study Group will
meet at the parsonage at 1:30 on
Tuesday, May 25.
Jesse Ayton, Jr., young son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Ayton, made
his first communion on Sunday in
st. Peters Church, Olney. The
Rev. j. Gregory Echle who deliver
ed the sermon gave Jesse a gift
as did many others including his
Sunday School teacher, Mrs. R. W.
Janney and George Tydings, who
is not much older than Jesse him
self. Attending the services were
the boys grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. VIM. Ayton, Mrs. Elmer
Ayton and her three sons, Samuel
Ayton, who is now making his
home with Jesse's parents, and
Mrs. Charlotte Childs, Jesse's god
mother. Jesse, who was 7 on May
9, is a pupil of the Laytonsville
School. He enjoyed belated birth
1 IL. O....In
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-20

College Park-Campaign work
ers assembled at the Varsity Grill,
College Park, last week to discuss
plans for raising 100000 for the
Boys Clubs of Prince Georges
County. There are now 20 units in
the county and more than $500
boys participating in the activities.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-20

Crisfeld-The week of May oath
has been set for the annual clean
up campaign, sponsored by the
Women's Civic Improvement Club
of Crisfeld. A survey of the city
shows that there has been some
improvement in the cleanliness Of
Crisfield in recent years. The mere
fact that cleanup campaign is
in progress always provides an
added incentive for a certain per-
centage of the population to exert
additional efforts.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-05-20

Centreville = Three members of
the Maryland Employment Secur-
ity Board and one employee of the
board were indicted for misconduct
in office by the Grand Jury of
Queen Anne's County last week.
The jury returned three indict-
ments against the board and three
against the claims referee of the
Chestertown office. Charges grew
out of the recent three-month in
vestigation into the administration
Of the local office by States Attor-
ney Edward Turner. The results
of the investigation were turned
over to the Grand Jury, which
conducted a five-day probe and in
terviewed more than thirty wit
nesses.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-11

disease, insects and grazing
damage. How to measure and
grade logs and how to cruise and
estimate the volume of standing
timber. How to cut the timber
crop, including tools required,
telling, bucking Cor cutting the
tree into logs, skidding and load
ing, and the care and seasoning
of forest products, How to sell
forest products to best advant-
age, including the finding of mar
kets and the making of sales
contracts.
Emphasizing the fact that only
when he has measured his tim
Der and knows what he has to
sell, both in amount and kind,
can the forest owner sell intelll-
gently, the booklet cites several
instances where owners, with the
help of farm foresters, found in
1916 that sit pays to market
measured timber"
One of the authors of the bull
letin is Milton M. Bryan of the
u. S. Forest Service, who has
helped direct the cooperative farm
forestry program in the South
from 1910 to 1914. 1t will make no
one a trained forester, but its
authors believe it will enable
readers to practice a measure of
good forestry and to know when
to call in the farm forester, Just
as he calls in the doctor when
first aid does not suffice. Among
those to whom the owner can APP
peal for advice, the bulletin lists
soil conservation district super
visors, state and extension for
esters, county agricultural agents
and members of the Forest Ser
vice of Soil Conservation Ser
vice.
Prepared comparatively by the
Forest Service, Soil Conservation
Service and Extension Service of
the Department of Agriculture,
copies of the bulletin may be OBJ
tanned free from Inspector John
K. Cross, P. o. Box q, Virgins,
Mississippi.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-11
FIREMAN. SPARE THAT FIRE

Rock Island, III.-AP-Ihe
Rock Island Fire Department IS
a little too efficient to suit the
Dalkoff Iron and Metal Co. The
firm was burning an old auto.
A passerby summoned firemen
who extinguished the blaze be
fore Dalkoff officials could tell
them they wanted TO burn the
car.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-11
Forest Service
Bulletins Help
To Small Owners

The South's 10000 0 farmers
and other owners of small wood
lots, most of which average
around rs acres, can learn much
about how to manage their for
est properties both for current
cash and future profits from
Farmers Bulletin No. 1889, MAN
aging the Small Forest" publica-
ton of which was announced re-
Gently by the Forest Service, u.
S. Department of Agriculture.
The bulletin reports that tim
Der is scarce almost everywhere
in the world" that forest prod
ucts are bringing high prices, and
says, There never was a better
time to make a small forest pay
Yet in 1945. it goes on to say,
al percent of the small owners
cut their trees in such a way that
the eut-over land had almost
no timber values left and either
could not grow a new forest at ali
or could do so only with difficult
ty" while only four percent cut
wisely, leaving their forests able
not only to grow but to improve
1t is written in non-technical
easily read style, and illustrated
with well chosen pictures and
charts. Beginning with a brief de
scription of what a healthy, pro-
pucing small forest should be
like, the booklet takes up the
business of forest management
from the culture of trees al
ready on the land, or the plant
ing of new forests, to the selling
of the logs. poles. piling. pulp
wood, mine timbers and other
products.
Covers All Phases
The six sections into which it:
material is divided discuss one
after the other the following
topics: Helping the forest to grow
through the removal of weec
trees. thinning, pruning, etc, am
tho harvesting of crops afteq
marking for selective cutting
What tees and when to plant
with detailed description of meth
DDS, procedures, and tools. Pro
lection of the forest from fire
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-06-11

Above are shown the final steps in the conversion Of pulpwood
to Kraft paper. Al top left is shown a portion of the hu1e paper
machine. which is several hundred feet long. The bleached Kraft
pulp. which is mostly water at this stage. flows onto a wire and
is carried through a series of processes. Leroy Carter. machine
tender. watches the operation. The paper is then carried through
a series of driers which is shown at upper RIGHT. Reel OF paper
can be seen as if progresses through the driers. Lower left the
finished paper is being wound on a reel under the eye OF Russell
Mizell. while at lower right If is being cut into proper lengths.
The huge rolls are cut automatically to the core on which the
paper is wound. but final cutting of core is done with a hand
saw. Center panel shows James Coleman loading finished paper
on a box car ready for shipment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03

The third difference comes in the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03
NO JUSTIFICATION FOR ELATI0H OVER
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY

and Draper, get in their work. Now
lit must be remembered that the
wealth represented by this % billions
has been produced by American
workers and has been taken from
them by profits and interest. 1t is
being invested abroad because, they
can there, employ very cheap labor
and thereby reap higher profits, and
they expect to be protected by the
Armed Forces of the us. in doing
this
What chance is there to do any
thing on the domestic front so long
as we are spending so much money
on ornaments at home and abroad?
Where will the money come from for
education, highways, medical care
and housing?
War Preparation Causes Shortages
Shortages of basic materials such
as lumber, cement, steel and many
other articles are bound to continue
so long as we are putting them into
arms and building military bases in
all the out of the way places in the
world.
Also, as long as we draft men into
the army and employ them in them
in the production of military goods,
there will be labor shortage.
All this adds up to inflationary
pressure and prices and wages viii
continue to rise.
| fear that the Truman Admins
tration is going to lead those liberals,
who put their faith in the Democrat
ic party, into blind alley. They will
have to become apologists for the
drive for war and increased militar-
ization.
Because of the demands of the
military for money and supplies,
they will be unable to accomplish
anything in domestic affairs. They
will became discouraged and dis
organized.
The PROGRESSIVE PARTY must
continue. There never has been a
time that called for Independent pol
itical action, more than now!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03
By JOHN McGUFFEY, Roman

By JOHN McGUFFEY, Roman
| hardly see the justification for
the elation over the election of Pres
ident Truman and the Democratic
victory at the recent election. In
my judgment, it means only that the
American people disliked the 80th
Congress more than they did Truman.
1t should be recalled that Truman
had fired all liberals and New Dealers
in the Administration before the
|80th Congress was elected. He had
put militarists and Wall Street bank
ers in control of the State depart
ment and the Defense organization.
Under this leadership the Admins
tration now seems definitely commit
ted to European Military Alliance
and to furnishing arms to the Euro
pean countries.
Isn't there every indication that
President Truman and Cong. Mike
Mansfield are going to support this
program?
Militarists Understand Force Only
Is it possible to expect any kind
of a peaceful solution with the mill
tary in charge? Remember, we have
General Marshall in charge of the
State department; General Smith is
our ambassador to Moscow, and Gen
eral Clay has charge of negotiations
in Berlin. Putting a military man
in charge of peace negotiations is
about as sensible as sending a valu
able watch to the blacksmith for re-
pairs. A military man doesn't ne
gotiate. He gives orders, and then
resorts to force to carry out these
orders.
Then it should be remembered
that the driving force behind our
foreign policy is the protection of
American Investments abroad. Re-
Gently it was reported that Ameri-
can bankers and industrialists had
invested some twenty-eight bill
lions of dollars in foreign coun-
tries.
This is where the Wall Street
bankers, such as Forresthal, Lovett
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03

| tee for an MVA. About 440, 000,-
| 600 tons of the explored deposits are
| in Montana near the headwaters of
the Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson
rivers. This rock, says the report,
is generally equal in value to that in
the Tennessee Valley and Florida,
only other sources of the mineral in
the nation. Commercial develop
ment of the phosphate in this region
now only awaits abundant, cheap
power.
All Of the farm fertilizer coming
to the Northwest, which includes
Montana, is now controlled by a fer
tilizer trust which generally turns
out a low grade product. Electric
furnace processes such as used in
the Tennessee Valley would permit
the manufacture of a super phos-
phate. 1t is possible, in the opinion
of MVA engineers, that the total
fertilizer business that could be de-
veloped in the four states surround
ing Yellowstone National Park would
very well in size with the
present copper mining and smelling
in Montana,
Since the entire nation is using
more fertilizer production every
year, it does not require much mag
nation to see the tremendous value
of early development of phosphate
deposits in the upper Missouri valley.
Montana Farmers Union News.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03

Editors Note: AS means Of
furthering the discussion of the
school crisis in Montana, and what
is to be done about it, the Voice
recently extended an invitation to
Mr.. G. R. Anderson, Research and
Public Relations Director for the
MEA, to present the MEAS posi-
ton on legislation proposed by the
Montana Citizens Committee on
Education, as we'll as other peril
nent information on our schools.
While we are not necessarily in
agreement with Mr.. Anderson,
particularly over the controver-
sial Reorganization" proposal,
the Voice feels that every inter
ested party should give the MEAS
position study, as a means of clar-
flying the issues. Likewise, we
advise other groups and individ-
uals to make use of Voice col
umns, that the citizenry and the
legislature may readily have
comprehensive picture of the
MANIFOLD school problems that
must be given consideration.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03
KAISER, Steel TRUST,
STILL AT ODDS

The fight between Henry j. Kaiser
and Republic Steel is still going on.
In brief filed last week with At
torney General Tom Clark, Mr..
Kaiser branded as absurd the charge
that his leasing the government
owned steel plant at Cleveland, Ohio
would violate the antitrust laws.
This plant, which has been operated
by Republic Steel for several years,
was leased to Kaiser by the govern
ment several weeks ago. However,
the government leased the plant to
Kaiser in preference to Republic
Steel, because Republic did not make
nearly as good an offer as Kaiser,
and indicated repeatedly that it did
MT want to operate the plant any
way.-NFU in Washington.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03

makes adequate
deposits to bal
ance the checks he
writes.
Certain miner
ais are absolutely
essential to growth
of nutritious and
health givin g
plants. The two
most important of
those minerals are
phosphate a n d
potash.
Livestock grown
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03
By c. R. ANDERSON
Director of Research and Public
Relations, MEA

The Montana Education Associa-
ton is an organization of some 1000
Montana teachers and by affiliation
are associated with another $4,000
educators through the National Edu-
cation Association of the United
States, whose sole purpose is better
public schools for our boys and girls.
Right along with this we are con-
stantly working for better conditions
for our teachers, and for the recruit
ment of the best of our youth into
teaching. These two detectives go
hand in hand Better financing of
our schools, more efficient admins
tration and organization, make for
better teaching conditions, better
quality teachers, better schools; all
these make for better education for
Montana boys and girls.
MEA History of Progress
The Montana Education Associa-
ton has stood for these principles
since 1882, and if anyone is interest
ed in its record, they will find it one
that will stand out as landmark in
the advancement of our educational
system.
The MEA is bound to no other or
ganization. 1t has no ties with any
other groups, but is always willing to
cooperate with any group working
for better educational opportunity.
Anyone interested in this problem
will realize that schools exist for the
boys and girls of Montana, not for
the teachers, not for the school
boards, not for the school districts,
not for the clerk or any political or
social groups. They exist for all the
boys and girls of all the people of
Montana.
No group that is worth its salt will
be willing to compromise on princi-
ples-the principles involved here
being the best educational opportun-
ity for every boy and girl in Mon
tana, no matter where he resides; |
equalized educational burden as to
finance; and as far as possible, non !
political administration of curl
schools.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03
HUGE PHOSPHATE BEDS AWAIT development

The soil is mans bank. Every
thing he has is in that bank. Man
cannot go on making Withdrawals
without going into the red unless he
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03

on fodder that has too little of phos-
phate and potash does not mature
properly, remain healthy, nor breed
normally. Human beings who live
on meat products of animals and
plants starved in that manner also
suffer. Almost anyone who has been
through the fifth grade knows that
certain minerals are essential to
growth of bones and teeth and main
tenance of health.
Cropping and erosion both take
phosphate and potash out of the soil.
When their supply is sufficiently
diminished, crop yields are not only
low but become inferior in quality.
1t has been estimated that every
time a farmer harvests an acre of
wheat. his land loses sixteen pounds
of phosphate, seven pounds of lime
and twenty-three pounds of pot
ash.
Less Than One-Tenth Being
Replaced
Phosphate depletion In Montana
by cropping and grazing is now about
100000 tons year. This does not
include losses through erosion. Re-
placement by fertilizers is only about
5000 tons a year. In many local.
ties the effects of this loss are be-
ginning to show. If such losses con-
tinue more and more land will be
weakened in it's crop bearing quail
tiles.
Sixty percent of national supply
of phosphate rock lies in southwest
ern Montana, southeastern Idaho,
western Wyoming and northeastern
Utah according to AN ENGINEER
ING STUDY OF MISSOURI VAL
LEY DEVELOPMENT, a compre-
hensive report prepared under direc-
ton of Col. Jerome G. Locke, chief |
engineer, for the Regional Commit
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03

Mental hospitals throughout the
country are overcrowded by 1850
of their capacity, the U. S. Public
Health Service reports.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03
Compromise Through VIII
of Majority

1t is, however, in the matter of
methods in attaining these detectives
that we have our disagreements. We
realize that there are usually several
ways in which a thing can be accom-
plished We do not maintain our way
is always right. That is why we can
back the Citizens Committee to the
limit. We agree with them on the
general principles they have set up.
We can compromise on many of the
details in working them out. That
is an inherent principle in our Amer
lean Democracy We all put forth
our ideas,-with the compromise
being the will of the majority. This
is difficult at times, however, because
we have certain individuals and
groups who are constantly destruc-
tive of every matter proposed, but
never come forth with constructive
advice. Ordinarily, one can ques-
ton the motives of such people.
For several months a citizens COM
mittee has been working to bring out
legislation to improve our school sit
uation. The MEA was instrumental
in organizing that committee, and al
though, officially, we are not part
of that committee, we are behind
them 1907 / say we are not part
of the committee officially because
we do have the right as any other
citizen to take part in the discussions
in our various county committees. |
Both our council, several months |
ago, and more recently our delegate |
assembly, have taken action to back |
the work of the citizens committee.
Some eight bills have been propos-
ed to date, plus a constitutional
amendment which would guarantee
the states share of the total cost of
education in Montana. This article
will deal with only three of the bills,
as the others have very little of new
material in them. We agree whole
heartedly with the principles of the
Finance Bill:
FINANCE
1. Fifty per cent of the total cost
of education in Montana to be paid
from state sources.
2. A foundation program guaran-
teed by the state for every boy and
girl in Montana.
8. This foundation program to be
by countrywide levy and
state funds.
4. The district to be allowed to go
above this foundation program to a
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-12-03

Our present system of finance is
inequitable, making taxpayers in a
poorer section of a county, or the
state, pay several times as much to
educate their children as in another.
1t is inequitable because this makes
for a poorer grade of educational of
fering to some pupils. This is shown
in poorer school buildings, lack of
equipment, poor grade of teachers,
and in limited educational offering.
Our present system is also inequit-
able because it is so dependent upon
the property taxa tax which is
out-dated and does not necessarily
reflect an ability to pay taxes.
The citizens committee bill will
eliminate these inequalities. Fifty
per cent state aid and local financ-
ing on a countrywide basis, will tend
to equalize the financial educational
burden.