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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-11-10

Mems Prayer Meeting 800 p m.
THURSDAY:
Public School Release Time 100
to 300 p. m.
c. A. Service ..-............ 300 p. m.
FRIDAY:
Ladies Missionary Council 200
p. m. (home of Mrs. A. Lentz)
LEON H. AYERS, Pastor
Libby. Montana.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-11-10

ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
There will be evening prayer
Sunday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 followed
by vestry meeting. Rev Arnold
Moulton will be here.
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Entertain Young Friends

The Misses Louise Gay, Myrtle
Rand, Betty Hunter, Dorothy Farris
and Helen Rowe entertained in a
delightful way Monday evening at
the home of Miss Hunter the mem
bers. of the K. o. P.'s and a number
of other friends. During the fore
part of the evening taffy pull was
INDUCED in and later dancing was
enjoyed. Refreshments were ser
we'd.
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Silver Threads of
Twenty-Five Years
Ago In Libby
September rs, 1924
Entertain for Bride tO-be

Mrs. Bernard Schlumm enter
tanned at a miscellaneous shower
Friday evening in honor of Miss
Della Wood who became the bride
of Ferdinand Doris Monday.
The home was prettily decorated
in lavender and white with pretty
autumn flowers. Miss Wood re-
ceived many beautiful gifts.
Mrs. Schlumm was assisted by
Mesdames Sam Tefeau, Dan Ray
ONE and Joseph Shaurette.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-11-10

Queen Victoria Of England was
one Of the first women to undergo
anesthesia in childbirth.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-11-10

LIBBY METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. VIM. Stearns, Pastor
SUNDAY:
Gas a. m. Sunday School
ll:0e a. m. Worship
THURSDAY:
1000 a. m. Church Food Sale,
Parker Studio
100 D. m. Released Time Glasses
500 p m Mulligan Dinner, at
Moose Hall.
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FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH

FIRST LU LhEntAN NHUEtN1AE
]. L. Redal, Pastor
SUNDAY:
Sunday School GAS a. m.
Service HOO a. m.
SATURDAY:
Confermants 1000 a. m.
Ladies Aid, the afternoon of Nov.
II, at the Ronning home. Hostesses
Mrs. T. Ronning and Mrs. K. Dou-
bek
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ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Eureka, IHOntana

sunday:
1000 a. m Sunday School
1900 a. m. Family Worship.
Wednesday:
500 p. m. Prayer Meeting
F. L. Lewno. Pastor
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TROY METHODIST CHURCE

TROY METhODAST ChUhCh
Rev. VIM. Stearns, Pastor
SUNDAY:
Saturday, Nov. 5 Rummage Sale.
SUNDAY:
1920 a. m. Sunday School
$50 p. m. PotLuck Fellowship
Supper.
7:30 p. m. Worship
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-06-01
Veterinary Department
No Case of X Disease
SO Far i'm State
BY DIR. HOWARD WELSH

THERE HAS BEEN so much pub
licity and talk and rumor about
x disease that it seems worthwhile
to state definitely what is known
about it.
1t is a chronic disease, lasting from
several weeks to three or four
months, affecting calves and year
lings more than adult cattle. At
first there is a watery discharge
from nose and eyes, loss of appetite,
loss of weight, dizziness, and later,
a progressive thickening of the skin
(hyperkeratosis).
The temperature, pulse, and res-
piration rate are not affected. There
are wart-like growths around the
muzzle, on the tongue, inside the
lips and cheeks. Toward the end of
the case, there may be diarrhea. Sc
verely affected calves usually die.
Drug treatments have not been
successful, and attempts to transmit
the disease from one calf to another
have failed. 1t is now conceded that
X-disease is not contagious.
The general picture of a case is
a thin calf, standing bumped up, ears
down, watering at the eyes, a muzzle
that looks blistered and crusted, and
a hide that looks wrinkled, heavy
and scaly especially around the
head, neck and shoulders, as if the
calf had mango or a heavy load of
lice. The dry, wrinkled, scaly skin
is the most typical symptom.
No Sure Diagnosis
There is no sure method of dag
nosis, and as a result cases have been
reported that were false alarms.
But it seems to have been identi-
fled in 81 states, which include
Utah and Wyoming. In Montana
we have seen many suspicious cases,
but have not positively identified
X-disesase as yet. Most of the cases
and most of our information about
the disease came from New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the Caro-
linas, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky,
etc. 1t is definitely a disease of the
east and south, as yet, but since
no n knows the cause, it may oc-
cur anywhere. A month Or so ago
some physician stated that x
disease and some other obscure
disease of cattle and man were due
to the increased general use of DOT
and there have been other wilc
guesses made, not based on facts.
1t may be seen in Montana thi:
year and sick calves or yearling:
showing the symptoms we have
roughly outlined above should b.
reported to the state veterinarian a
Helena, or to the nearest veterinar
ian. Investigations of X-disease ar,
being extensively carried on in thu
southeast, and the true nature o
the trouble may be uncovered soor
At present it is an unknown guam
tity, X-disease.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-06-01
TboAgbts on Life
What Is Secularism?
BY DIR. JOHN w. HOLLAND

ONE OF THE WORDS so often
heard is "secularism." What is it?
1t stands for a philosophy based
wholly upon material values. There
is a story in Deuteronomy 32:15,
which describes it.
The word Jeshurun was another
name for Israel. Israel was pros
porous and living in luxury. Then
came a threat of war, and Jeshurun
was called to defend the land of Is
rael. They did not rally. They were
so saturated with luxury and easy
living that they had lost the iron
out of their souls. The Bible tells
this truth about the people: "Jesh-
urun waxed fat and kicked-and
then he forsook God which made
him, and lightly esteemed the rock
of his salvation"
For over a generation we Ameri-
cans have been trying to put the dol
"a otSi oo 1iC 0J1ilOO1 III dIillOSt
every value we have been taught to
cherish and defend. There are many
beautiful exceptions to that state
ment, but it remains threateningly
nu of US.
Secularism is invading our homes.
Am I talking foolishness when 1
refer 10 the custom of our fore
fathers in taking a little time for
Bible reading and prayer in their
homes before they began the labors
OF each day2 What do you think
about it7 The home that prays usu-
ally stays" If home is merely a
place for physical living, if it be-
comes a point of departure for other
places more alluring and entertain
ing then, the secular spirit has done
its worst within us.
Statesmen sitting up nights trying
to parcel out what of our mobile
wealth they think that we can spare
to keep the world at peace seem to
forget that the force that makes for
peace is a spiritual power, a power
that can only operate through love
and never through selfishness. A
secular civilization will kill itself by
the very power it boasts. 1t has hap
pened in history again and again
1t could happen here.
What said Moses to Jeshurun'
"Set your hearts unto all the word.
which I testify among you this day.
which ye shall command your chill
dren to observe to do all the word
of this law" deuteronomy 32:46.
We know more than did our fathers
but we are not so wise as they were
They understood, and followed tn
leading of the Spirit Of Almight,
God.
Evening star., 1949-02-24
Stone, Canadian Minister Here,
DESIGNATED as Envoy to Sweden
Long FomiIior Figure
In Capital Retired to
Caroline Farm in '35

Thomas A. Stone, Canadian
Minister in Washington. has been
named as his country's new envoy
to Sweden, it was announced to-
day.
Formal disclosure of the ap-
pointment was made in Ottawa by
the SECRETARY of State for External
Affairs, Lester Pearson.
Long a familiar figure in diplo-
matte circles here, Mr.. Stone has
been second in command of the
Canadian Embassy here since No
vember, 1916. He began his diplo-
matte career in Washington as
Third Secretary from 1927 to 1882,
and returned as Counselor in the
spring of 1945.
The 48-year-old career diplomat
also has seen service in Paris and
London and has attended numer-
GUS international conferences else
where. He retired from diplomacy
in 1885 to engage in farming in
South Carolina, but returned to
the department of external affairs
with the outbreak of war in 1889.
No date was announced for his
transfer as Minister to the Lega-
ton in Sweden, but it was under
stood Mr.. Stone is likely to remain
Evening star., 1949-02-24
Benefit Party for Boys Club
Planned by Junior Board

The Junior Board of Commerce
announced today that it will hold
a stag party for the benefit of the
Police Boys Club campaign at 8
pm. tomorrow at Heurich Gym
nasium, Twenty-sixth and Water
streets NV.
Junior Board Director Gilbert
Breen, chairman of the affair,
said entertainers from Washing
ton night clubs and theaters will
be featured and there will be Spe-
cial boxing and wrestling matches
as we'll as interviews with men,
bers of the Caps basket ball and
Redskin football teams.
Meanwhile, the Junior Board
has sent nomination forms to
more than 80 Washington civic
groups in order to select man
between the ages of 81 and IS who
has performed outstanding service
to the city during the past year.
The award will be made late in
April, it was announced.
Evening star., 1949-02-24
House Policy Group
0G. May Confer
On Pension Proposal
BY The Asseciafsd Press

The House Republican Policy
Committee arranged today for its
first meeting of 1949 next Tues
day.
It may tackle, among other
things, the controversial veterans
pension problem, along with rent
control.
Minority Leader Martin told
reporters yesterday that the ques-
ton of pensions is likely to come
up. He said he doubts if 1t will
be made a party matter.
Personally. Mr.. Martin said
without discussing the merits Of
the pension. II think the House
will pass it."
Mr.. Martins reference was to
the Rankin bill, approved by the
House Veterans Committee and
opposed by the Democratic lead
ership, to pay all veterans Of both
World Wars a pension of 500 a
month when they become IS years
of age.
President Truman, in what was
generally regarded as an indirect
expression Of opposition to the bill,
voiced a warning to a group Of
officials of veterans organizations
recently against stretching the
Governments financial structure
too far.
At Mr. Truman's news conference
today, reporters asked his views on
proposals for pensions or bonuses
for World War II veterans. He said
he would not comment in the
absence of any legislation before
him.
The President also said he was
not ready to comment on proposals
to raise the pay of men in the
armed services.
The pension bill may get to a
vote in the House in about two
weeks.
The bill is scheduled for a
hearing by the House Rules Com
mittee next week and its clear
ance for a House vote the follow.
ing week is expected.
The apparent strategy Of OPP
ponents is to load it down with
amendments or, failing that in
the House, to shelve it in the
Senate.
The new Policy Committee was
known in the past as the Steer
ing Committee. 1t was set up
this year by House Republicans
to state the party's position on
legislative matters affecting the
party. 1t now has 26 members.
13 of whom were on the Steering
Committee in the last Congress.
Mr.. Martin is its chairman.
In a statement to Congress yes
terday in which they opposed the
pension measure, officials Of the
American Veterans COMMITTEES
placed its overall cost at $780,.
000, 100000.
Evening star., 1949-02-24
Maryland Bill Asks
Penalty for Discharge
OF Refuse in Bay
BY q sfoff Correspondent Of The Stor

| ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 24.-A bill
which would impose stiff penalties
on persons convicted Of discharg-
ing refuse into Chesapeake Bay
or any Of its tributaries is to be
introduced in the General AS
sembly today by Senator Louis L.
Goldstein, Democrat, of Calvert
County.
The measure prescribes a max
imum fine of $4,000 or one year
in prison, or both. for offenders.
Enforcement would be by the
State Water Pollution Control
Commission.
Refuse is defined in the bill as
/ oil, ashes, cinders or garbage.
The House Alcoholic Beverages
Committee voted an unfavorable
report yesterday on bill by Dele
gate Deran, Democrat, of Hart
ford County to ban alcoholic
beverages sales on Sundays.
Mr.. Deran announced he would
lead a floor fight to override the
report when 1t reached the floor
for consideration today.
Thirteen counties now ban
Sunday liquor sales. Mr.. Deran' S
bill would dry up" the other 10
and Baltimore City on the Sab
bath. too.
| The Ways and Means Subcom-
mittee appointed to study the
Governors budget urged in a re-
port yesterday that it be cut more
than $5.000.000.
Gov. Lanes initial budget. to be
followed by a supplemental ap-
preparations bill calls for a record
outlay of 100000 for the IL
months starting July l. Expend-
itures for the current fiscal year
will total about Sis, 100000.
Among the cuts suggested was
one of $1.270.000 from State Roads
Commission appropriations for
overall operations and another for
100000 reduction in the Uni
versity of Maryland's general fund
allowance.
Evening star., 1949-02-24
Illuminating Gas Ban
For Home Heating
Rescinded by PUG

The Public Utilities Commission
has rescinded its year-old order
limiting the use of Illuminating
gas for home heating to new con-
struction and homes occupied by
invalids.
In an order issued late yester-
day, the PUG said it was amend
ing the ban on gas heating for
homes at the request of the
Washington Gas Light Co. The
company, which originally sought
the prohibition last February, in
formed the PUG last week it now
believes it will be able to furnish
gas for the winter of 1949-50 with
out limitation.
The PUG said the Federal
Power Commission recently Or
dered construction of a new, 26-
inch natural gas pipeline stretch
ing from Cobb Station, w. Va, to
Rockville, Md. This pipeline,
which is expected to be completed
by next December. will supple
ment the existing pipeline bring
ing natural gas to the Washing
ton area from Kentucky and West
Virginia. -
Company's Receipts Drop.
If completed by next December,
the additional gas supplies brought
here by the new pipeline should
eliminate any gas heating prob
lem in Washington. no matter
how severe next winter may be,
the PUG indicated.
Meanwhile, E. j. Boothby, vice
president and general manager
of the gas company. revealed the
company has sustained a Is per
cent drop in gross receipts this
winter as compared with last
winters business, despite the
greatly increased number Of Gus
toners.
The severe cold weather Of last
winter placed a tremendous strain
on the company's ability to sup
ply gas to Washington over the
single pipeline. 1t was this short
age that impelled the PUG to cur
tail installation OF gas heating
units in existing homes last win
ter.
Equipment to Be Registered.
A PUG official said the drop
In gas company receipts this WIN
ter could be described as serious"
While it rescinded its old order,
the PUG directed that all gas
heating equipment installed after
February Is, 1949, to replace Or
supplement equipment using other
fuels be registered with the COM
pany within five days after install
lation. II it is not reported, the
company will not be required to
supply gas for the equipment.
Evening star., 1949-02-24
3Americans Proposed
For Nobel Peace Prize
by the Associotsd Press

OSLO, Norway, Feb. "a
Twenty-three persons and insti-
tutions have been proposed for the
1949 Nobel peace prize, including
three Americans.
Americans nominated are Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Drew Pearson
the columnist, and Maj. Gen
Frank Mccoy, chairman and
United States member of the Far
Eastern Commission.
Other nominees include: Count
Richard Coudenhove- -Kalergi, Sec
retary-general of the European
Parliamentary Union; Sir John
Boyd Orr, former director of the
Food and Agricultural Organiza-
ton of the United Nations; Presi-
dent Juan Peron and his wife
Eva, of Argentina. and Karl Rem
ner, head of the provisional gov
ernment in Austria.
The American relief organiza.
ton, CARE, and the international
Red Cross were among institu-
tions proposed.
No Nobel peace award was made
last year. The prize in 1947 went
to the American Friends Service
Committee (Quakers) and the
Friends Service Council, London
The prizes are awarded from q
fund set up in 1896 by Alfred B
Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
Under the terms of the Nobe.
will, candidates for the award
which usually is worth about $44,-
900 may be proposed by any Of the
following: Governments of nations
members of the Norwegian Nobel
committee; professors of univer-
stiles in philosophy, economy OF
current history: institutions or in
dividuals previously awarded the
prize, and several international Or
ganizations.
Evening star., 1949-02-24
Reich Leader Reported
Arrested by Russians
BY the Associoted Press

BERLIN, Feb. 24.-The Soviet
secret police have arrested a vet
eran Communist leader in Eastern
Germany and taken him to Rus
sia, it was reported today.
The Western licensed Del
Abend, which says 1t has reliable
sources, reported that Artul
Fischer, Stralsund County secre-
tary of the Socialist Unity Party
(Communist), was taken into Gus
tody in the past week.
Fischer has been active in Com
munist circles in Pomerania since
the end of the war. He was q
Communist before Hitler came tc
power. The newspaper said
Fischer kept out Of trouble in the
intervening years by being an
3nformer for the Gestapo.
Evening star., 1949-02-24
7 County Leaders Ask
Defeat OF 4 State Bills.
On Park Commission
BY q stor StoH Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 24.-An ap-
peal by two top-ranking Mont
gomery County Democrats for the
defeat Of four proposed bills
which would transfer many Of the
functions of the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission to the Montgomery
County Council was before State
Legislators today.
The appeal was contained in
letters sent each delegate by E
Brooke Lee. vice chairman of the
commission, and j. Bond Smith
it's general counsel.
Their request was described i'm
mediately by members of the all
Republican Montgomery delega-
tion as ''the most vicious and mis-
leading statement which has ever
been sent by any partisan poll
tician to this legislative body"
Hearing Set Tomorrow.
A public hearing on the bills
will be held at 1870 am. tomor-
row before the House Ways ano
Means Committee.
In their letters. Mr.. Lee anc
Mr.. Smith charged that the pro-
posed legislation was intended tt
destroy" the planning commits
sion and would have harmful
effects on the future development
of sections of Maryland adjacent
to Washington.
In reply, Montgomery Delegates
John r. Reeves and r. Duncan
Clark insisted the bills would have
no effect on "the original func-
tions of the commission as a park
acquisition and park administra.
tive agency and it's ability to CO.
operate generally with the Ma.
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission in plans for the
Maryland Washington metropoli-
tan district"
Rubber Stamp Legislators Cited
Recalling that when the COM
mission was set up in 1927 it had
no authority over building and
electrical inspection and Subdivi-
sion planning, the two delegates
said:
1T was only when the charter
movement gained strength and
Mr.. Lee thought he might
lose some political patronage
that he had his stamp
Legislators in Annapolis put
Through the necessary bills tc
transfer the functions to the Park
and Planning Commission.
Evening star., 1949-02-24
Dunburton GuiId to Meet

The Parents Guild Of Dunbar
ton College of Holy Cross will
meet at o'clock tonight in the
college to hear a discussion Of
business and economics. The dis
cussion will be directed by Miss
Nora Dollymore, head of the eco
nomics department.; Miss Rose
Marie Rogers, head of the busi.
ness department, and Sister Cath
crime Francis. assistant In the
departments.
Evening star., 1949-02-24

private construction firm in Mil
waukee at a salary considerable
larger than he was drawing in
the Government. Friends say Mr..
Field would like to remain here
but that he can not afford to turn
down the offer.
Replacing Mr.. Field as commits
sioner is Pere F. Seward, who has
done a good job as deputy COM
missioner for engineering in the
bureau. Mr.. Field will leave on
March 4.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Federal
employment will remain prac-
tically unchanged under the
Budget Bureaus employment
ceiling quotas for the final quar-
ter of this fiscal year. The 5000
personnel increase permitted for
the quarter will center mostly in
the Agriculture Department, where
time seasonal employees will
be hired, and in the Army and
Navy Departments various units
scattered throughout the country
Hirings in Washington during
April, May and June will be in
consequential. The newly Gre
ated Displaced Career Employees
Association has drawn up a pro-
posed bill that would forbid agen-
cies to hire or promote employees
in positions which does can fill.
The group will seek to have the
measure introduced by members
in both House and Senate Civil
Service Committees.
BE sure to listen In Sundays
at 1915 am. oDer WMAL,
The Star Station, for Joseph
Young's Spotlight Uersion OF
the Federal Spotlight. featuring
additional news and UieWs OF
the Government SerDice.J
Evening star., 1949-02-24
Recopture Of Airstrip
Claimed by Burmese
BY the Associoied Press

RANGOON, Burma, Feb. "a
The Burmese government today
announced recapture of Anisakar
airstrip Z miles south of the May
mo army base in Central Burma
1t also announced that Burmese
troops opened an attack on rebel
Karen tribesmen in Maymo
Street fighting was reported there
The Karens have engaged ir
recent widespread fighting. seek
ing to set up their own independ-
ent state.
Evening star., 1949-02-24

in negotiations for several months.
He has been engaged recently in
negotiations involving the pro-
posed security pact Of the North
Atlantic powers.
Mr.. Stone is married to an
American, the former Alexandra
Ewing Noyes Of Washington. He
has one daughter and three STEP
sons. His wife and daughter will
accompany him on his new assign
ment