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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03
Libby Lions Give
Initiation Rites
To Four Members
@

Pres. w. J. Erickson had occasion
Monday evening to compliment the
Lions attendance committee for
securing the best attendance of the
year.
During the clubs business meet
ing it was decided to turn the spon-
sorship of the Boy Scout organi-
cation over to the Central Trades
and Labor Council in case that BODY
desired to serve as the sponsoring
organization for the Scouts.
Following discussion of the COM
Ladies Night Dance, the meeting
was turned over to the initiation
committee consisting of Lions Paul
Church, Joe Fennessy and Paul
Seifert. The committee initiated
four new members as follows: W. H.
Kennedy, John Horn, Frank J. Mel
son and Jerry Lincoln.
In the brief lecture on the history
and past projects of the local club,
Paul Church stated the club re-
ceived its charter in July, 1881.
He mentioned among other projects
of the organization, the new CITY
Hall, the present Court House, the
swimming pool, the park, the Great
Depot, and more recent
" the Auditorium-Gymnasium and
grade school building projects.
Two violin solos were presented
to the club by George Bowring,
music instructor from L. H. S., ac-
companied by Mrs. H. Jenkins at
the piano. Percy Lemon, architect
in charge of the school improve
nent plans was present as a guest |
IF Lion Gillespie.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03
FOR SALE

For Sale:-Building with three g.
room apartments, concrete founda-
ton, individually heated, bath in
each apartment. Income netting
over or better than $115.00 per
month, close in, 100000 will handle
balance like rent.-E. A. STROUT
REALTY, John F. Bowen, Local
Strout Agent. Office phone 260
Box 295, Residence 66-M. 1c
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03

For Sale:-Alfalfa Hay. Call Hal
stead Remp, Phone 205-M, Libby.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03
FORGETFULNESS COSTLY

Boston WD-Forgetting a brief
case proved expensive for Pan
American Anyways. Shortly after a
plane took off for Lisbon, officials
discovered the packet containing
foreign custom clearance documents
and ordered the ship to return for
them. To tighten the plane for the
landing, it was necessary to dump
700 gallons of gasoline. costing
more than 30 cents gallon, into
the Atlantic Ocean.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03
THREE FOUR BRIDGE CLUB
ENTERTAINED

Mrs. Dick Powell entertained the
Three Four Bridge club at her
home Monday evening Mrs. Mile
Measner won high, Mrs. Leonard
Sleizer second high, Mrs. Ed Kemp
low and Mrs. Andy Sauer travel
ing.
Mrs. Everett Dunn was a guest.
Lunch was served.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03

Two thousand years is the time
required to spend a billion dollars,
says the World Book Encyclopedia
Il you spend it at the rate of one
dollar a minute. 0
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03

For Sale:-General Electric Wash
ing Machine. Used one year. Re
duced $4,000 from original price.
Phone 140-R. Al Uithof apo
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03
HOSPITAL NOTES

Births: Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Orr.
February Is, a girl; Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Rambo, February q, a
girl; Mr.. and Mrs. James johnson,
March 2, boy.
Released: Mrs. Frank Wood and
baby, and Mrs. Orville Nelson and
baby March /; Mrs. Dexter Will
lianms and son, March 2; Mrs. Err
nest Wunderlick, February 26;
Kathleen Mccain, February Is.
Admitted as medical patients:-
Mrs. Franklin Sweet, February 90:
Mrs. Helmer Hansen, Troy, March
2.
Mrs. Josephine Enders suffered
a fractured hip Monday. Marvin
Flatt was given first aid for a frac-
tured leg, Sunday evening.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03

For Sale:-Used hospital bed in
good shape, $500. Allen Van
Horn, phone 1T3.W. TX
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03

at least 13O,OOO,OOO tons of low
grade copper ore will be developed
and mined through thd coming
years.
Only decreases in metz mining
were in gold production, ehich de-
clined 10 per cent.
Silver Bow County again was
the leading metal producing county
with almost 80 per cent of the total
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03
output to its credit.

output to its credit.
Virtually all of the increase in
silver, lead and zinc came from
the Butte Hill mine and dumps, the
Emma mine in Butte, the Mike
Horse mine at Flesher, the Jack
Waite mine in Sanders County, the
Poulin mines and the Stag dumps
at the American Smelling and Re-
filming Company at East Helena.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03
OUT FOR BUSINESS

According to a survey, many re-
tail stores are increasing their pro-
motional efforts this year That
simply means that still more effort
will be devoted to seeking the
good will and patronage of the buy
ing public
In all but few fields. the buyers
market IS back and shortages are
thing of the past. The easy
money" spending spree has lost
most of its momentum, and people
want full value for what they
spend. This has led to more ag-
gresslve competition among stores
OF all sizes and types, and to an
even greater realization on the part
of merchants that their future de-
lpends on how well consumers are
lserVed.
A situation such as this can exist
only in a free market, where no
one has a monopoly on the bust
ness, where anyone can go into
retail trade if he chooses, and
where every consumer if free to
take his trade where he will. The
results are seen on every hand
IN voluntary reductions in profits
by retailers, in better physical co.
uipment in stores, in higher stan
dards of service and courtesy. in
the wide range of stocks that a.
wait the shoppers selection.
Here too is one of the best argu-
mentS against such devices at ra-
tioning, ALLEGATIONS and price con
trolls. These restrictions are in
herently injurious to competition.
Everyone. must sell at the same
price, and everyone must carry a
bout the same goods. A static
economy results. And the con-
sumner IS one of the big losers.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03

For Sale:-Baby Chicks, N. H. Reds,
R. l. Reds, w. Rocks, Leghorns;
$500 per 100-$2.O0 per 100 de-
posit u S. approved and Pullor-
UNI Controlled. Bitney's Poultry,
Kalispell 37-tfc
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-03
CLASSIFIED

Classified advertising running in
this column is charged for at the
rate of &c per word per issue with
minimum charge Of SOC for the ad.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
Plane Record

Commercial planes were darling
about the world faster and faster.
Latest speed record for commercial
planes was claimed by Pan Ameri-
can lines which reported its strato-
cruiser Westward Ho landed at
London in 9 hours and u minutes
after leaving New York.
Capt. Robert D. Fordyce, Jackson
Heights, N. Y, commander of the
Westward Ho, did it with the aid of
tail wind which at times reached
a speed of rs miles an hour.
The plane travelled the Great
Circle route and its average speed
was about 1856 miles an hour. The
plane carried 81 passengers and a
crew of 10.
Only day before, a Pan Amer
lean plane flew from New York to
London in 9 hours, 81 minutes,
which had bettered the existing
mark by 20 minutes.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
ATOMIC PACT:
Asked by Two

France and Canada Joined at
Lake Success in asking that all
nations do everything in their pow
sr to ban use Of atomic bombs and
control atomic energy.
THE APPEAL was directed to
an-and especially the Soviet union
to forget traditional ideas of the
sovereignty of nations and join an
atomic pact that would promote
security and peace.
It was a sincere gesture, but
about all that could be said of any
results that might ensue was that
It was mice try"
The proposal did have the sup
port of the others in the majoriy
group of he 59-nation political
committee Of the U.N. general as
sembly, but Soviet Russia was still
to be heard from on the suggestion.
The French-Canadian resolution
actually meant the majority pow
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
BLARNEY:
A Sham Rock?

Most folks know better than to
get into an argument with an Irish
man-particularly about anything
that is peculiarly Irish, such as the
blarney stone.
BUT IN CALIFORNIA, as in
Brooklyn, anything can happen. so
it wasn't too surprising to find a
row over Ireland's famed barney
stone breaking out there.
1t all happened when a 15-pound
stone, believed by San Franciscans
to be a chunk of the real barney
stone, was stolen from a church
bazaar. Jim Cummins, custodian
of the San Francisco stone chunk,
declared he had documentary
proof my stone is authentic"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02

A book-agent rang the front door
bell, and smiled when the middle
aged lady of the house appeared.
Can I see the lady of the house?"
We'll, yes, you can unless your
eyesight's bad" she snapped bel
igerently.
"Oh, beg. pardon, madaml Are
you the lady of the house?"
"Yes, l am. Who did you take
me for? Did you think I was the
gentleman of the house, or the next
door neighbor, or the cat, or the
dumb-waiter?"
II didn't know, madam, but you
might be the youngest daughter"
"Oh, did you? Well, that was
natural, too" she replied with a
smile. "What can I do for you,
sir?"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
GOLD HOARD:
Really There

T h o So skeptical, apprehensive
citizens whose dreams had begun
to be haunted by the awful spectre
of doubt that Uncle Sans purported
gold store at Fort Knox wasn't there
at all could all relax The gold was
there, all of it.
ASSURANCE me from a
source certainly qualified to know,
for that source was Leland Howard
assistant director of the US. bureau
of the mint. 1t is his duty to ex-
anime personally the gold hoard
at least once year.
There's more than $4,000 tons of
it (gold) at the FIT. Knox deposi-
tory" he reports. That's more than
half of the "a billion dollars worth
of the stuff which the government
keeps under lock and key.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
DIVIDENDS:
New High

Was it symbol, a portent of
the future? Did it indicate the
strength of the nations economic
situation, or was it as temporary
signboard at the mercy of any real
wind of economic recession?
WHATEVER it's real significance,
industrialists and economists took
cheer for it. 1t was a vote by Cen
eral Motors corporation of the
largest cash-dividend total in the
history of American industry. The
company, which recently reported
a record net profit of more than
500 million dollars from the first
nine months of this year, would
send checks totaling $3.50, 1885, 55 to
436, ZOOS holders of it's common and
preferred stock. The distribution
would represent year-end pay
ment of $4.25 share on the out
standing issue, raising to So share
the amount declared on the COM
mon stock this year.
GENERAL MOTORS was also ex-
pected to establish a record when
it retired out of its own corporate
funds its entire long-term debt of
lbs million dollars-17 to q years
before the notes are due.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
Gilt UP"

Two motorists, not quite as sober
as they should have been, were
driving along a highway that par
alleled railroad track. Suddenly
an express passenger train roared
past them in the opposite direc-
ton.
Say" said the driver after
moments reflection, did you no.
tlce how that village was all lit up?"
YEAH" said his companion,
land the first house was on fire y
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
BRITISH LABOR:
More for More

1t has been fairly well estab-
ished philosophy of trade unions
to frown on the "eager beaver" who
likes to demonstrate how fast he
can work or how much he can pro-
duce in a given time. In fact, some
unions prohibit members from en-
gaglng in any type of production
speed contest.
The philosophy is understandable,
if not popular. 1t is one which takes
care of the union member who
hasn't the ability, the skills or the
physical stamina to keep up with
the would-be speed demon. The
philosophy has been applied often
enough for critics to charge that it
has amounted, in many Instances,
to an actual work "slow down."
ALL THIS being a matter of
record, .England's labor govern
ment's move to allocate higher re-
wards for greater labor productiv-
ity came as a surprise to many
U. S. supporters of the Atlee re-
gime. They began to speculate
whether the prime minister was
laying up trouble for himself among
his labor adherents.
The British governments turning
away from this traditional phil
osophy of labor was explained on
the basis that it must be done to
meet growing demands for higher
wages to offset higher living costs.
Therefore, the ministry is advoca-
ting a system of tying wages to
the rate of production, rather than
the price index.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
RUSSIA:
Direct WARNING

Soviet Russia was doing bit of
Boosting and chest-thumping about
the atomic bomb for her arms
stockpile.
IN A SPEECH broadcast from
Moscow, Georgi N. Malenkov, a
member of the Soviet inner circle,
warned that with the atomic bomb
in Russian hands third World
War would wipe out capitalism"
His was the main speech in celebra-
ton of the 32nd anniversary of the
Bolshevist revolution.
eff the imperialists unleash a
third world war;" he said. this
will not be the grave of individual
capitalist countries, but of world
capitalism as a whole"
He said that atomic energy in the
hands of capitalism is the means
of bringing death"
Turning to a new note for the
moment, he declared that I'VE
do not want war and are doing
everything to prevent it." Then,
discussing atomic energy again,
Malenkov asserted that atomic en-
ergy Sin the hands of the Soviet
people must and will serve as a
mighty weapon of unprecedented
technical progress and further
speedy growth of the productive
forces of our country.
FOLLOWING THE PARTY LINE
right down to the final syllable. he
charged that the United States has
a plan to "enslave the entire world
and that this plan was borrowed
from the mad plans of Hitler and
Tanaka (pre-war Japanese militar-
ist but different in that it exceeds
both plans together
Despite all the Boosting and the
bombast, there existed in many
minds doubt that Russia has the
atomic bomb as we know it-a
weapon ready to be dropped at will.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02

ers want the general assembly once
more to endorse their proposal for
atomic control and to order secret
talks to continue between the Big
Five and Canada.
SIR BENGAL N. RAU, India's
chief delegate, offered another
idea in the debate outlining official
ly his plan for the international
law commission to draw up a
world declaration for prohibition of
the bomb and for control of atomic
energy.
But, it was said in official circles,
that the French-Canadian proposal
was as far as the majority powers
wanted to go at this time.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02

and young professional people on
the personal traits of older persons
they knew well. The subjects of the
study, the philosophy teacher said
ranged in age from so to over 80.
Results were presented at the Sec
ond annual meeting of the geron-
biological society, where Chandler
said age itself was no cause for its
wearers to be cranky or irritable,
the tests showed.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
Effects of Erosion

The dictionary defines erosion AZ
the wearing away of soil by water.
Erosion's effects are evident every
where-mud-laden rivers swelling
up over their banks, hillsides etch-
ed deep with bitches, busy dredges
sucking silt from harbor bottoms.
Erosion's inroads in the topsoil of
the United States on which 40
million Americans rely for food
and fabric, have been severe.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
STANDARD Matched"

With softwood flooring, stand
ard matched" means that the up
per lip of the groove is thicker
than the lower. The thickness of
the lower lip is the same for all
standard thicknesses of flooring,
and hence the difference between
the upper and lower lip becomes
more pronounced in the heavier
thicknesses.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
OLDSTERs' ATTITUDE
OL0STERS ATTITUDE
Crunkiness in Old Aqe Linked to Health

According to an Ohio state uni
versity professor, crankiness or a
cantankerous state in old age is
directly proportionate to poor
health. In other words, the profess
sor's situation holds basis for the
adage that man is "only as old
as he feels"
The professor, Albert R. Chandler,
said his conclusion was the result
Of sos reports by college students,
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
POLITICS.:
Sound & Fury

The sound and fury of the 1850
congressional "a mpaign was
touched off rather prematurely by
Minnesota's Harold E. Stassen in
Minneapolis where he accused
President Harry Truman of making
vicious and untrue" statements in
his attacks on political enemies.
AND STASSEN is one of those
enemies, for the former Minnesota
governor and now president of the
University of Pennsylvania, is
certain candidate for the COP pres
idential nomination in 1852.
Stassen charged that Truman
used historical references in his re-
cent St. Paul speech to wrap the
cloak of Jefferson around himself"
but that actually the President
long ago personally trampled on
the cloak of Jefferson"
WITHOUT mentioning Truman
by name, Stassen answered direct
ly the Presidents address at St.
Paul in which the chief executive
assailed "reactionaries" who, he
said, had impeded progress of his
welfare program in congress.
Stassen praised congress for re-
fusing to 60 along with Truman
on the dangerous" Brannan farm
plan, on the Presidents request
for postwar retention of OPA, and
on his demands for pyramided
centralized power over a wide
range of subjects"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
FIRST BOMB WEIGHED TON

According to Stephen M.
Alexis, Haiti, the first atomic
bomb weighed a ton. He made
the statement at a United Ma
tons session. Statistics on the
makeup Of the bomb have not
been officially disclosed, but
Alexis said he had his informa-
ton from a scientist, and that
in three or four years there
would be a smaller bomb for
use by smaller countries.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
Eclipse of Sun

Each year there are at least two
eclipses of the sun, which occur
when the shadow of the moon falls
on the earth.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
Since Time Pepan

They called the first woman on
earth Eve because when she came
man S day of happiness was draw
ing to a close.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
This One Will Slay You

Then there was the chlorine who
was put into private room in a
hospital because she was too cute
for wards.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
GEESE:

Former Burned
Near Allegan, Mich, nearly
$4,000 Canadian geese were making
themselves at home in the grain
fields of farmer Andrew Degeus.
The loud yackety-yak of the birds
as they devoured the grain at
tracted about 5000 sight-seers. At
times, nearly 1000 of the birds
would rise into the air in a black
cloud. Spectators thought it was
great fun to watch the birds eating
their dinner on the farm.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
SOMETHING IN COMMON

Little Willie: MON, you said
the baby has your eyes and Dad
dy's nose didn't your"
Mother: yes, darling"
Willie: well, you'd better watch
him. he has 0randua's teeth now"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
Corporation Taxes

Corporation taxes total over one
third of the federal budget per
year.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSLS---
France, Canada Urge Atomic Pact;
British Labor Gets Speedup Rule;
GIN. Dividend Sets Industry Mark

Who @ sG's these ss" thu
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02
A-LaSs!

What a fun-loving girl 1 thought:
She's just the type for me.
Alas! My savings My bank &C.
count!
What fund-loving girl is she!
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02

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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-12-02

Alger Hiss (left) is shown
with his attorney as they left
federal court in New York after
Hiss had been refused a three
week delay in his second trial
on charges Of perjury. The
first trial ended in a hung
jury.
Evening star., 1949-07-07
After Dark
Jody Miller Thinks Girls Crazy
Not to Try for Local Beauty Title
BY Harry Macarthur
By Harry Macarthur

be Miss Washington the 194e
one is happy to tell you.
I've had a fine time and I'd dc
it all over again" she says. 1--WE
met whole lot of nice people and
I've had lot of professional op-
portunities that I wouldn't have
had otherwise. I had that radio
program on WWDC for instance
I had a television job on WMAL-
TV for awhile and now I do one
show a week on WNBW. And ]
still get calls all the time to sing at
banquets and things like that. !
managed to get a lot of singing
experience that I would have been
a lot longer getting if I hadn't
been Miss Washington
Miss Miller probably would have
had the present King Cole Room
job without her beauty title. She
was slated for that before she
won. In fact. Owner Vince Gal
iagher. with luck that shouldn't
happen to him, signed her in ad-
vance as one-night substitute
for the evening Immediately fol-
lowing the finals last year. and
she's been a "permanent" fixture
atop the bar for a number of
The only untoWard event con-
nected with Miss Millers tenure OF
office took place before she won the
title. One of the men grooming
the entrants for the contest was
struck with the notion that it
would be a fine thing for Jody to
sing Night and Day" as If going
Evening star., 1949-07-07

stark mad, tearing out her hair by
the f1stfull and hamming 1t up all
over the stage. She resisted the
temptation to drop the whole
thing right there, and also resisted
any temptation to follow the
mans advice.
Miss Miller has made herself
available as beauty contest con-
sultant to make sure that nothing
like that happens to any of this
years girls.
Things around the Statler'S EN-
bassy Room are looking up again
what with the return of Evalyn
Tyner. the pianist. and the two
young men who complete her trio
Miss Tyner has spent her time
away from the Statler playing a
previously contracted theater date
in New York and seeing South
Pacific" She enjoyed both,
though the theater date did give
her a small. brief complex. She
had Alvino Rey's 2Ospiece orches-
ira to provide background music
for her there.
Nov that we're trio again" :"
says Miss Tyner, II sometimes get
the feeling that the brass section
has just ducked out for a smoke" ;"