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Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
LOCOMOTIVES WIN OFF.
BOHEMIAN HAWKS, 12-6I

Laurel high schools football
team, under the direction of its
new coach, Pierre Roberts, played
its second game of the season
when it went to Bozeman Sept. 16.
With a score of ~ to 6 the Loco
motives downed the Gallatin
Hawks.
Halfback Don Miller dashed 90
yards on a kickoff return to O
the winning touchdown just as the
third quarter ended. Gallatin had
tied the game at 6 to 6 just Sec
onds before Miller's long run down
the middle of the field. The speed
ing Laurel back also scored his
first touchdown early in
the third period from the one-yard
line.
Although outgained in the air
and on the ground, Laurel's de-
tense frightened when necessary.
A game is scheduled between
Laurel and Lewistown Friday
at Laurel Athletic park at 3
o'clock.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
REBEKAHS OBSERVE
18Th YEAR OF ORDER

The ninety-eighth year of Re-
bekah was observed at a birthday
meeting of Evergreen Rebekah
lodge at the Odd Fellows hall Mon
day evening. Mrs. Ida Platz pre-
scented a paper on the origin of the
order.
Plans were made for the degree
staff to present i~nitiatory work at
the district meeting of district II
in Columbus Oct. Is.
The official visitation of the
state officer, Ethel Krogness of
Glendive, will be Oct. II.
Mrs. Minnie Thomson, Mrs. Eve
Ign Ness and Mrs. Mary Bell Wig
gins were h~ostesses and served
lunch from tables decorated with
flowers and individual
birthday cakes.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
Board Awards Water
Main Contract, Sets
Hearing For Another

Yellowstone county commission
ers let a construction contract last
week to the Blacktop Construction
company for a six-inch water main
III the Van Bramer subdivision of
Billings. The proposal by the
Blacktop company was $5,754.20.
A bid by Barry OLeary vas for
$5,864.5O.
The main feet will connect with
the Billings water system at Long
view avenue and Avenue E, will
run east on E to Tenth street and
thence south.
The county commissioners has
set Oct. 3 as the date for a hear
ing on a proposal to establish a
rural Improvement district, No.
ia, for installation of a six-inch
water main in the Cloverdale sub
division of Billings. The estimated
cost of the improvement is $11,593.
The proposed mains would be in
the area between Central and Dun
ham avenues and Seventh street
west.
Three hundred feet would be on
Central avenue with additional
lines on Seventh street and Bill
ings boulevard between Central
and Durham avenues, and between
Seventh street and Billings boule-
ward.
The county commissioners ac-
cepted the bid Monday of Barry
OLeary for furnishing supplies
and constructing rural improve
ment district los, a 440-foot water
main to serve a rural r in the
immediate vicinity of Billings.
The O'Leary proposal was for
six-inch cast iron pipe at $3.50 per
foot; six-inch double gate valve,
$100; blowout valve, S135; six
pound cast iron valve box, $35;
three-inch cast valve box, $35, and
fittings at 57h cents per
Hearings were held to create
improvement districts 112
and 113, both for water mains,
against which no protests were en-
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
Rev. Chappell Goes
To Great Falls To
Serve West Church

Rev. H. E. Chappell, former pas
tor of the Laurel and Park City
Methodist churches, has been APP
pointed pastor of the West Side
Great Falls Methodist church, eff
fective after Sept. Is. He succeeds
Rev. Bert A. Powell, who had been
serving the Great Falls church and
las been transferred to Richfield
and Shoshone, Ida.
Rev. Chappell was recently re-
appointed to the Sunburst parish
in northern Montana for the third
consecutive year. The Great Falls
church he will now serve is a spe-
cial missionary project of the Mon
tana conference and the general
Methodist mission board of New
York.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
BRANCH DIRECTORS At
BANK H0USEWARM|NG

The September meeting of the
board of directors of the Helena
branch of the Federal reserve bank
of Minneapolis was held in Bill
ings at 8 o'clock Saturday after
noon. Following the meeting the
board viewed the enlarged and
modern quarters of the Security
Trust & Savings bank and later
participated in a housewarming as
guests of the bank officers and
directors.
A similar meeting was held in
Missoula in May at the time of
the housewarming of the First
National bank, which had under
gone extensive changes and addi-
tions. In October the board will
have a joint meeting with the Min
neapolis board in Minneapolis.
Others at the meeting were
Chairman Malcolm Holtz, agricul-
turalist at Great Falls; Directors
B. M. Harris of the Yellowstone
banks of Laurel and Columbus,
Edward MacHaffie Of the State
Publishing company in Helena,
Theodore Jacobs of the First Ma
sional bank of Missoula and DR..
Mccain, president of the
University of Montana; Robert E.
vice president, and Clarence
". Groth, assistant vice president,
both of Helena.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
COMPLETE STEP IN
SOIL WATER STUDY.
u. S. Conservation Service
Drills So Wells In Area
South Of Laurel

Some 35 test wells to determine
the height of the water table of
an area comprising 1000 acres in
the Clarks Fork valley between
Laurel and Silesia have been drill
ed by the U. S. soil conservation
service. The drilling was complet-
ed Friday, according to H. w. Rick
and C. D. Thompson of the Billings
office. Land owners of the Sile-
STA area supplied the casing and
the S. G. S. drilled the test wells.
The test wells will be checked
and the water level in each will
be recorded for a year while a top
ographical map is prepared for the
area. When the study is complet-
ed the S. C. S. will submit it's rec
concentrations for draining and re-
claiming the acreage to land own
ers.
OF the 1000 acres, about 700 are
in need of relief from the existing
high water table condition. Such
conditions usually spoil the land
by creating surface deposits of al
kali.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
G. B.. NOEL, a., DIES
IN TRACY, CALF.

A former Laurel resident, G. b.
Noel, rs, died Friday, Sept. 16, in
Tracy, Calf, of a heart ailment
and complications. Funeral serv-
ices and interment were conducted
in Tracy the following Monday,
Sept. 10.
Mr.. Noel was born in Davis
county, Iowa, in 1874, the son of
Philip A. and Cynthia M. Noel. He
came here from Wisconsin in 1913
and homesteaded south of town,
moving in 1910 to California
where he had since resided. He
and Mrs. Clara Kimbell we're mar
ried in Billings Oct. Is, 1924. Two
brothers and a sister died some
years ago.
He is survived by the widow,
Mrs. Clara A. Noel of Tracy,
Calf; three sons, Philip E. Noel
of Silesia, Harry E. Noel of Mis-
soula and Ashley B. Noel of Laur-
ell; two daughters, Mrs. Celista Ep-
Ter of Saint Maries, Ind, and Mrs.
Dorothy Kirkland of Silesia; a
stepson, Harry w. Kimbell of
.reybull, Wyo.; a stepdaughter,
Mrs. Marie A. VanNice of Laurel;
"a grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
He is also survived by four sis
-ers, Mrs. Nina Dauring of Mar
'halltown, Iowa; Mrs. Dora Ritz of
Iowa; Mrs. Ollie Humph-
-eys of Bloomfield, Iowa, and Mrs.
Elva Price of Douds, Iowa, and a
brother, V. C. Noel of Denver.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
AUTHORIZES
RADIO TRANSM|TTER
FOR USE Of POLICE

The city council at a meeting
Tuesday evening authorized the
purchase of a radio transmitter for
the city's police car, together with
necessary equipment and a heavy
duty generator. The subject had
been brought up for consideration
az the councils first meeting in
September.
The sewer committee brought in
a report concerning a sewer for
the Trace tracts area Immediately
west of the city, as it had been in
structed by Mayor Peter Thomson
at the Sept. 6 meeting. The re-
port recommended that the county
put in the sewer and connect with
the city's sewer on West Fourth
street, with the city to have the
right to allow property owners
within the city to connect with the
line. The city would collect serv-
ice fees from its residents using
the sewer.
Elsie Freeze asked the city to
in a group health insurance
plan for employees by paying one
fourth of the cost. No action was
taken.
Several construction permits
were granted:
Neil Baker fro a sidewalk in
of his home.
o. N. Vadnais for extension on
a garage on the north half of lot
4, block 9, Laurel Heights; $3.50.
Herman Schessler for replace
ment of a sidewalk in front of a
house on lots II and 10, block 8, :
Laurel Realty subdivision; $500. ,
Alex Ostwalt for construction of ,
4 16 by 20-foot garage on lot 9, ,
IL, Laurel Realty subdivi- ,
sion; $500. ,
John Alvin for moving and re-
modelling a garage, the garage to ,
'e moved go feet south and en- ;
arged from ~ by 10 to 16 by %
eeC, 9lUU. .
G. A. Perry for construction of ,
frame garage on lots 10 and II, d,
lock 9, Laurel Realty subdivision; :
900. !
Earl Fuller for construction of .
double garage, &c by % feet, on :
ITS II and II, block 10, Laurel !,
Ieights; $3.50. :
Chester Scott for a 10 by IA .
EDITION to his residence on lots 2
nd 3, block 8, Laurel Heights; /
200.
Henry Fox for construction of a
by 15-foot sidewalk at III
ourth avenue; $50.
An application to connect a
'ailer house with sewer and water
was denied. o
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
Altimus Going Soon
To Compete In Truck
Contests In Boston

Harold Altimus of Billings, son
of William b. Altimus of Laurel,
will go to Boston next month to
compete in truck and semi-trailer
national driving contests. He was
winner of that division last July
80 in state heavy driving contests
at a rodeo in Billings that was
sponsored by the Montana Trans
port association.
j. c. Moore of Butte, who won
in the straight truck class at the
Billings meet, will also go to Bos-
ton to compete with winners in
that class from the other states.
Hugh d. Greenup of Great Falls
is in Phoenix, Ariz., this week to
represent Montana in national
competition Sept. % and "a to de-
termine the nations best truck and
full trailer driver.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
Teachers Reception
Planned For PTA's
First Fall Meeting.

An invitation to the public and
to the local school teachers to be-
come better acquainted has been
extended by the Parent-Teacher
association, which will feature the
introduction of the teaching staff
at the associations first fall meet
ing Wednesday evening, Sept. %,
at 8 o'clock in the high school
gymnasium.
Mrs. j. G. Mcdonald, program
chairman, has announced that a.
the conclusion of the meeting the
teachers attending will be segre-
gated according to schools AMI
grades, to enable the parents to
become personally acquainted with
their children's instructors.
Also to be featured will be re-
ports by Mrs. j. Melvin Williams
end Miss Betty Warden, county
health nurse, on the results of the
rre. school clinic and innoculatioo
program sponsored by the local
PTA unit this summer.
Fred w. Graft, superintendent
Of schools, and j. G. Macdonald,
high school principal, will discuss
the school program for the coming
year.
Group singing will be led by
Mrs. Wynona Denny, music in
.structor for the Laurel schools.
Refreshments will be served at
the close of the meeting by a COM
consisting of Mrs. Archie
Kirkland, Mrs. Neil Baker, Mrs. j..
l.. Childs, Mrs. Dave Frank, Mrs.
Harold Leach and Mrs. John Klein.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
Theta Rho Changes
It's Meeting Dates

A hay ride was planned for Oct.
l when the Theta Rho club met at
the /. o. o. F. hall Thursday eve
ming. June Wiser, vice president,
presided in the absence of the
president.
1t was voted to change the meet
ing nights to the first and third
Thursdays of each month at 7
o'clock, with the next meeting
Oct. 6.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
SILVER WEDDING

In observance of the silver we'd
ding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur l.. LaMotte of Billings,
their daughters, Mrs. d. l.. Gowen
of Laurel and Mrs. Wilson j. Perry
of Billings, were hostesses at open
at the LaMotte home Sun
dav afternoon. About 40 relatives
and friends were guests.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
CITY CLERK IN EAST

Miss Tillie Hohendorff left Mon
day of last week for New York
City to spend her vacation from
duties as city clerk. While sight
seeing in the east she will visit
several former Wacs with whom
she served in the Pacific during
the war. Mrs. Gail Gunter is act
ing city clerk during Miss Hohen-
dorff's absence.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
EDUCATOR EVALUATES
KEY CLUB MOVEMENT

Jesse G. Ragsdale, principal of
the Billings high school and speak
er Wednesday evening at the week
ly meeting of the Laurel Kiwanis
club, analytically examined Key
clubs as a whole, failed to agree
with all that Kiwanis Information
al said on the subject, and ap-
proved with provisos the Key club
movement as one worth while for
participating high school students
and the school. His school was
one of the first to have such an
organization in this state, which
gave him o than ordinary adj
vantage in experience.
The Key organization began in
California, had Indifferent success
there because hish schools already
possessed an adequate supply of
organization who were rendering
somewhat similar services, but
caught on later in a big way in
Florida and the deep south where
there was a dearth of school clubs
devoted to the service of the stu
dent bodies.
Ragsdale wiped away the CLAM
our, slightly criticised Interna-
tional for being starry-eyed, and
said that at no time should the
tail attempt to wag the dog.
From the positive position, he
saw Key clubs as important be-
cause they bring young men into
contact with a community's older
men of leadership. The youths, al
possessing the necessary
qualities for accomplishment and
service, m stimulated in their
concepts of universally. The club
IS a means for development. !
So also is a Key club i~nterna-
.ional convention, like the one the {
Laurel and Billings boys attended
the past year at Washington, {
D. C. The advantage there was &
bringing together the young I
men of similar ideas for exchange '
If thought and enjoyment of fell g
cwship. The schools, though, are r
'eing questioned by accrediting as /
iociations about the loss of class Y
Dom time.
One of the primary purposes of \
Key club is cooperation with {
chool authorities. Another is to O
ncourage and develop enlightened s
.roup action. With these accom- @
the Key club movement |,
croves its worth. I
j. Willard Baldwin, president of 6
he Laurel Kiwanis club, presided G
( the session Wednesday evening. n
It his request, Wesley Freeberg 2
Introduced visiting Key club men, q
ers, Carmen De Carlo, Don
chester, Marvin Sheldon and t.
Ieil Roberts. 81
Hugh Sweeney, local attorney, F
as introduced as a member-elect. r,
lick Shotwell announced that he F,
nd his wife Irene had been oper- h
ting the Owl cafe exactly a year,
nd invited the club members to T
al at the cafe that evening for l.
Ike and coffee.
Kiwanians from Billings were E..
:. Collins, Curt Nabler, Lincoln
and the speaker.
Several announcements were
.ade from the chair and from the
cor. NJ
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
HIGH RECORD IN
EMPLOYMENT IS
BEING CONTINUED
Final Figure For Last Month
Expected To Exceed That
OF October 1913 =

Employment levels in Montana
continued their upward trend
through the spring and summer
months, and although the trend
may have now spent its force, it is
probable that when figures are
available for the current month of
September they will be found to
have remained at their high point.
They probably will not be changed
much until colder weather and
other influences intervene.
This general information regard
ing employment in the state is
contained in a recent release of
statistics from the unemployment
compensation commission of Mon
tana, which constantly has a fin
ger on the pulse of industry, pop
ulation fluctuations and the shift
ing of locations of industrial and
business activities within the state.
Adjusted figures-the realities
Of actual records as compared with
earlier estimates-show that six or
seven weeks ago there were 49,
600 wage and salary workers in in
dustries other than agriculture
July, and that in August
the total was close to Ia, 900, an
increase of six-tenths of one per
The report from the commission
seems to indicate that the actual
count for August had not been
at the time the report
was issued, but that enough was
to warrant the estimate
hat August would be the highest
n recorded employment, exceed
ng the all-time high of October
I948 by nearly 1000. Earlier esti-
mates had granted this level to the
July employment, but more COM
Dlete reports caused a slight re-
iuction in the figure for the first
# July.
Montana's seasonal experience
las been for September and Octo-
er to continue the high point
cached at midsummer, with an
Their uptrend in December. That
experience also indicates
nat a sizeable falling off in totals
Or January and February may be
Xpected.
The principal factors in the Au-
ust employment increase were
etail trade, hotels, tourist trade
railroads, government it
,lf, and manufacturing. All of
showed an upward move
.ent. Mining as a whole, and
holesale trade too, showed no
lange in August. Surprisingly,
construction reflected a
light decrease from July.
Montana's important industries
metal mining and production of
nber products employed slightly
wer persons in August than in
lily. Lumber employment de-
med one or two hundred when
ders for railroad ties were can
lied, causing the closing or re-
nverting of 20 or 80 tie-making
tfits who had a total employ
emit of ATS.
Mining employment is still slow
cause of the weakened price.
ructure in the metal markets.
Another Montana occupation.
at of processing food and re-.
ed products, underwent a nor
seasonal rise in the August
The unemployment compensa-
commission at Helena is COM
sed of Carroll NJ. Stewart, chair
IN, and Louis G. DeNayer and
j. Smith.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
Firemen Put Out
Restaurant Blaze

The Laurel volunteer fire de-
partment was called to the Yellow
stone cafe Monday morning when
grease on the kitchen range
caught fire.
Chemicals were used to put out
the blaze. Damage was caused by
smoke.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
VIEWS THREATS OF
FAsC|SM TO !. S.A.

The Laurel Rotary club enter
tanned at a dinner Tuesday eve
ming at the Masonic temple for
members of the public, school fac
ulty and their husbands or wives,
members of the school board and
their wives, and the wives of the
Rotarians. The dinner and pro-
gram preceded a regular meeting
Of the club, with Pres. Wayne
Hageman presiding at the business
session and extending a welcome
to the guests. About $50 attended.
DR.. C. j. Manning of Rocky Noun
tain college, Billings, was the after
dinner speaker.
The program opened with Pres
ident Hageman directing the in
PRODUCTION of the teachers and the
club members Rotary AIMS. Supt.
Fred w. Graft of the Laurel school
system, acting as postmaster, in
troduced three of the five board
members and wives, DR.. and Mrs.
l. N. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Hartley and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Giblin. Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson Par
ker and Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Weber
were unable to attend.
Lee Newan, past president of the
Rotary club at Pittsfield, ILL.,, was
introduced as a visiting Rotarian.
He was accompanied by Warren
Bloys, also of Pittsfield, and A. E.
Birch of Billings.
Miss Marlene Freeman and Miss
Linda Johnston played a piano
duet, followed by two vocal num-
bers by Miss Johnston with Miss
Freeman as accompanist.
POSTMASTER Graft then intro
duced the speaker, DR.. Manning,
who has had more than so years
experience in the teaching profess
sion. He began his career in a
small rural school in Iowa. Dur
ing his long subsequent residence
in Montana he has been prominent
in the field of education, serving
for 20 years as superintendent of
in the Lewistown schools
and for several years as principal
OF the Fergus county high school.
After this lengthy term in admin
istrative capacities he has now re-
to his first love, that of
,eaching, at Rocky Mountain col {
Iege. /
He revealed in his address that I
he e serious challenges and dan 6
gers pressing in to threaten dem {
,cracy throughout the world and /
is existence in America. He was t
the opinion that in the test the
question would be on whether dem T
,cracy can demonstrate its ability ?
o resist the encroachments, with
he test finally resolving itself into r
. test of the Submarines of the r
public school system. The school /
ystem, he thought, is the most
profound organization this nation O
las to depend upon. +
Although viewing communism as L
threat, which will have to come Y
rom without, he was more alarm
d about fascism, the program for N
citing up a centralized autocratic s.
ational regime with severely ma
ionalistic policies and exercising Il
egimentation of industry, COM N
1erce and finance, rigid censorship B
nd forcible suppression of opposi- L
ion. He pointed to signs and his Il
ersonal observations and expert
noes which to him indicated this
ountry's rapid approach to the e'
ascist state. If America falls 1t a
ill fall as the victim af a statism II
sther than communism, the O
opined. In
On the other hand the schools OF tt
ne land are the only places where d
,ildren of all races, creeds, class nj
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21

es and religion can meet, mingle
and, without consciously doing so,
imbibe and embrace the principles
of democracy for Use throughout
life. The problem is to continue
to teach the principles to the chill
dren. With this rightly done the
nation need not fear.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21

COMMERCIAL CLUB SPEAKER
80. j. r. Pratt, above, of Mime
apolis, will speak here Monday
evening, Sept. &c, at a meeting of
the Laurel Commercial club. His
topic will be Federal Aid to Edu-
cation" The session, a monthly
meeting of the club, will begin
with a dinner at $50 at the Odd
Fellows hall on West Main street.
Since August 1913 he has been
manager of the northwestern divi-
sion of the Chamber of Commerce
Of the United States, a territory
embraces Montana and five
other states.
Laurel outlook., 1949-09-21
IN HOSPITAL

Mrs. Eddie Burke is in a Bill
lngs hospital where she was taken
Monday evening, suffering pneu-
monia.