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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-08
BY LEONARD KENFIELD
Great Falls

A breath of wholesome country at
mosphere touched the city of Grea1
Falls last Thursday evening as more
than 1000 people watched the first
annual Montana folk dance festival
in the Civic Center.
For nearly three hours the large
arena teemed with dancers reeling
off square dances, schottisches, min
uets and two-steps. Folks were
there from all ages-grade school
kids and grey-haired mamas-trip-
ping lightly but not Enthusiastically, for
they showed a surprising amount of
rhythmic grace.
Kenneth Fowell, recreation direc-
tor for Great Falls, and his enthus-
iastic helpers had been working up
to this for more than year with
neighborhood folk dance practices
and parties throughout the city
where interest in the dance has been
developed. They got several other
Montana communities to join them
in this first statewide festival-Lew-
istown, Helena, and Fairfield.
Among some of the really fetching
numbers presented were "Docey Doe
Hoedown", ''Varsouvienna" Got
ton Eyed Joe", "Courtin' Days,
"Hambo", "Black Hawk Waltz,
"Carlisle"
The festival got an international
slant from the French Minuet, the
Italian Quadrille, the Scotch Reel,
the Danish Schottische, the Hunga-
rian Schebogar, the Russian Koro-
buska, and the American Quadrille. !
Appropriate costumes favored the
spectacle.
Community pride too was on dis
play. The Fairfield Dancers, the
Lewistown Folk Dancers, the Great
Falls Fiesta Club and the Great Falls
Square Club each gave exhibitions
that brought hearty applause from
the couple thousand spectators. But
Major John Benefits Helena High
School Pioneer Dancers got the big
hand.
Those eight pairs of kids were fas
With the gals in ample
calico gowns, frontier style, and the
boys in western denims, it was very
pleasing way in which they do-si-
decd and balanced all. The Major
was no SLOUGH as caller either. The
Helena group showed how it was
really done. II
The folk dance festival gave new
possibilities for community recrea- E
ion. While to many people present i
he affair was a novelty, there is no ;
loubt of the genuine enjoyment S
shared by dancers and watchers of /
Ill ages.
No stiff, shuffling feet among i
hose dancers, they were smooth and c
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-07-08
Civil Liberties

tapo in it's slanderous vilification of
American citizens behind their
| backs"
AS former civil service commits
sioner, Mr.. Kern said he was espe-
cially sensitive to the attacks on civil
liberties of public employees and de-
nounced the "ugly Indifference of
J. Edgar Hoover to DR.. Edward U.
Condon's recent demand for apology
for the SANDER on the latter's wife.
These assaults make it mandatory
for citizens to raise their voices in
protest. By means of the confer
ence, Mr. Kern concluded, ''we hope
to promote the application of our
ancient Bill of Rights, here where it
is important, and now when our own
liberties are being assailed."
The sponsors referred to the pas
sage in Maryland of the Ober Act
providing prison terms for political
activities judged unacceptable by
the state attorney general, military
Judgment on the views of scientists,
censorship in the arts and profess
sions and threats of deportation
levelled against Americans of for
eign birth. Even attempts to flight
Jim Crow is considered "subversive'
in many places"
FBI Informers Everywhere
They charged, too, "the FBI has
its paid informers everywhere, and
almost any lodge, church, political
meeting or labor organization may
be victimized by these peeping toms"
The American people resent these
actions, they said. Just as Amer
leans in the past defeated the Alien
and Sedition acts, the threat of
slave power to democracy and the
hysteria of the Palmer raids, the con-
ference sponsors maintained, Amer
cans today have to beat back the
current assaults.
The conference, they concluded, is
to "add our weight to the
defense of freedom"
Sponsors Of the conference in
,lude: Mrs. Evans Carlson widow
If the general; Clifford j. Durr,
former FEC commissioner; Robert
W. Kenny, well-known California at
Jurist Arthur LeSueur; Hon.
Vito Marcantonio; Don G. Matchan,
formerly the fighting editor the Val
ey City (N.D) Times-Record; Rev. :
William H. Melish; Dean Thornton :
". Merriam; Scott Nearing, longtime :
Socialist journalist; Grant w. Cakes,
PRESIDENT, Farm Equipment Workers,
10; Father Clarence Parker; o.
ohm Rogge; Prof. Harlow Shapley
# Harvard; Joseph P. Selly, presi-
lent American Communications I'm
on; Reid Robson, Mine-Mill vice {
resident; Paul Robson; Colston E.
Varne, head of Consumers Union;
Ion. Henry A. Wallace; Bishop R. R.
Wright, Jr., and Rev. Herbert E. Ze- :
arth.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-15

deal in gossip, and we never will. A straightforward account of what happened is what we ex- pect to give you in our news col umnS.
 We'll continue to quarrel with ideas we think are wrong from our editorial Den. We'll continue to print your letters and opinions when you take issue with us in the Den. We'll often be wrong, as we have been in the past, but we will be writing the things and backing the projects that we think are going to be best for Palmer and the Valley.
 We'd like to tell you of plans for an improved or even an en- larged Frontiersman. There are many things we'd like to do as birthday gift from us to you on
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-15
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VALLEY FRONTIERsMAN

to be right here in Palmer, and today we can't think of a single thing we'd rather be doing than working on the Valley Frontiers man.
 It's customary, when a news paper has a birthday, to an- nounce a whole new set of aims and objectiveS for the coming year. We'd rather not. We still feel that the ones we gave you two years ago cover pretty we'll.
 So again, we repeat - we'll do our best, as long as we're doing a newspaper, to tell a news story impartially and in it's entirety, We don't intend to withhold news if it reflects unfavorably on a friend of ours, or if the event with which it deals is something we don't favor. We still don't
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-15

this important day, when we switch to Volume Three, Number One. But we honestly can't make promises today, with any asSur- ance of their fulfillment, so we are not going to talk plans.
 There may be changes in store for the paper in the immediate future. If and when they come, we hope you'll approve. Until that time, we're going ahead as we have in the months past, just doing our best to do the best Frontiersman we can.
 We've liked the past two years, and so even though we shouldn't say it, we repeat-Happy birth day to us.
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-15

We know we're not the ones that ought to be saying it, but we are just so glad to still be here after two years of neWspapering in the Valley, that it slipped out.
 Conditions on the Valley Fron- tiersman can best be described as a friend of ours once summed up six or seven years of particu- larly rugged war experience. T don't think much about the past, and I haven't any plans for the future" he said. I'm just awful ly glad to be here, and I guess I never get very far beyond that in my thinking"
 We're a whole lot like that. We're glad to be here today, but we're not looking very far be- hind us and we can't see a great distance ahead. We still are glad
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-15
Physician Buys Mat. Valley Practice
Thuma Agrees To Sell More Airport Land

An agreement with Harold Thuma for the acquisition of more land and the awarding of the contract for engineering sur vey work to Victor Rivers has geared the Palmer airport build ing program into full speed ahead again. Although consider able Federal money is available for the local port, work has been delayed pending the securing of the needed additional land.
 Requirements for a DC-3 field have changed recently, making it necessary to lengthen both the north-south and east-West run ways to a minimum of 3,750 feet, according to Tony Schwamm, territorial director of aviation.
 The lengthening of the north south runway made it necessary to secure Il acres more from MT. Thuma, who at first was reluc- tant to sell. However when it was pointed out to him that the airport could not be heightened to the north without the serious inconveniencing of eight fami- lies now living across the north south runway and without fac ing almost inSurmountable nat ural barriers in the landing ap- breaches, he agreed to sell the needed land.
 Engineering work is being has tened by Mir. Rivers. It is in prog resS now, and should be complet- ed by the first week in October, at the latest. AS soon as this work is finished, the board of the Palmer Airport Association plans to deed the port to the territory
 Continued on Page 8
Valley frontiersman., 1949-09-15
DR. BAILEY WILL REPLACE GARRETT ON OCTOBER 1

Dr. Clarence Bailey, recently returned from advanced study in eye, ear, nose and throat, sur gery, obstetrics and internal medicine at Virginia Mason clin- ic in Seattle, is the most recent physician to add his name to the Valleys growing list of medics. pr. Bailey will assume the prac- tice of pr. R. E. Garrett on Oc- tober 1.
 Dr. Garrett plans to leave the Valley in the near future, to make his home in California.
 Meanwhile pr. Bailey has planned extensive renovations and improvements to the suite of offices he will occupy in the Neal Wright Building. Carpen- ters are at work there now, and it is expected that the remodel ling will be completed and new m e d e a l equipment installed Withing the next week.
 Laboratory facilities planned by Dr. Bailey will permit him to make electro cardiograms, basal metabolism tests, audiograms and special diagnostic tests at his offices.
 The remodelling in progress will provide for an eye examina- tion room. treatment room for eye, ear, nose and throat disor- ders, rooms for diathermy and physiotherapy treatment, exam ination rooms and facilities for minor surgical treatment.
 Of particular interest in the office will be the pathology lab-
 Continued on Page G.
Evening star., 1949-11-17
Stocks Extend Gains,
With Auto Shares
Supplying Power
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-Auto-
mobile shares supplied the main
motive power for another ad-
vance in the stock market today.
Gains ran from fractions to an
extreme of 2 points. with i'm
provement in most cases limited
to a point or. less.
Rails and chemicals were among
other groups which made a good
showing although buying was not
so insistent as in the case of
the motors.
Demand for motors also domi-
mated yesterdays market. Today's
rise on top OF the Wednesday
advance just about wiped out the
fairly substantial losses of Mon
day and Tuesday.
Trading was moderately brisk
and at a rate which was once
more above the 100000 shares
for the full session.
Interest in the motors appeared
to be based mainly on prospects
for continued high sales, plus
past and anticipated generous
dividend action.
Chrysler, strong yesterday,
paced the motors with a 2-point
rise. General Motors and Stude-
baker also stepped ahead smartly
but Packard dipped 1s.
Also ahead were New York
Central. Southern Railway,
Southern Pacific. Allied Chemical,
American Cyanamid, Du Pont,
Union Carbide, United States
Steel. Youngstown Sheet, Cater
pillar Tractor, Lockheed, Schen-
ley. Admiral Corp, American Tel
ephone, American Smelling,
Homestake Mining, General Elec-
trio, American Woolen, Coca
Cola, Standard Oil of New Jersey
and United States Gypsum.
Among a handful of issues
backing down a trifle were Good
year. International Harvester,
Radio Corp, Mcintyre Porcupine,
Philip Morris and Baltimore &
Ohio.
In the Curb Cities Service
jumped around 2 points in the
wake of an increased and extra
dividend.
Corporate bonds performed on
a highly selective basis. United
States Government issues held
steady in over-the-counter deal
ings.
Evening star., 1949-11-17
Produce Markets

BALTIMORE quotations furnished by the
Apples-Market dull; bushel baskets and
essiSs Us Fair NC Color Zoo ne A.Ts %
land Golden Delicious, 225-50; Staymais,
2A inch up, fair color, LOO; 2h inch
2oo-25; stsymans. fair color. go; Penn. PENN.
sylya1ia nua. Golden Delicious. 1.5o-2.a5; best.
..sfs aStaiesMsskst PstsasIa. su Ho :ss
ssekks, sd;oo:lo: very 4 isx higher paper sneT
'asks Sweet 90 p5sssoss-Msssat 1saoss o2eo dull
baskets, q. S. No. /. Maryland and Vir.
SS9os9 few n,ah hshsr; PUERTO S,. H,sans
sn Nancy alsh h.s 2aS aoo wnss nssiSs yaRs
bushel hampers, soldens. l.15-25.
pou,+rv Poultry ogStstions: .';sst's :.r,,.. =,
ceipts moderates trading slow, some fowl
aa.t, carried; frysrs. !E3.; SE,4 pounds. soM:ss;
ss: hens Sfovp, Ssavsvsishss. lew mostly
ducks. lew ss-so: mostly as-ss; turkeys.
ss5as g paands hsns sd ns up gss ggsusnsss 1885, TOMS
Flour-Receipts, 9,76s 10O-pound sacks.
.tosfs SaSss ao nes w1sf
2.06; No. 3 red winter garlicky, spot, 2 2.02.
ments, $4,000 bushels; stocks, 4,024. .611
Oats-Receipts, 5000 bushels: ship
ments,. none; stocks. 100000 bushels; no
quotations.
BarIey-Receipts. 13.e4s bushels; ship
ments. none; stocks. 13s.655 bushels,
EyeRscsiDts so9s5 Sss by bushels ship
Soybeans-Receipts. none: shipments.
none; stocks, 390.834 bushels.
Millfeed-Receipts. 245 tons.
Butter and Eggs.
Eggs-Market about steady; receipts
moderate; demand slow; A large, 5s-63:
50-62; current receipts. too few sales to
quote.
Receipts-Butter. 1886 pounds; eggs.
R4g raaes
Evening star., 1949-11-17
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. Nov. II aP (usDA).-sal-
cents lower on small supply choice butch
ers under 210 pounds; general market
very slow and 60-75 cents lower on
weights over 21O pounds; TOP, 1875 for
choice 10000 pounds; most sood and
choice ,1Sp-220 pounds, 16.76-16.O0; good
and choice 230-280 pounds, 1b.26-16.76;
sows, % to mostly 80 cents lower; weights
under 400 pounds, 14.75-16.26; few
heavier weights as low as 1890.
Salable cattle, $500; saIable calves,
800; medium-grede shortfed steers over
1,066 pounds slow, weak; other steers
and yearlings fairly active, fully steady;
heiferS steady to weak; cows steady to
Is cents lower: bulls and vealers steady;
load high-choice 840-pound steers and
heifers mixed, mostly steers, 81. 90; good
and choice fed steers and yearlines
27.50-36.75: medium to low-good. 21 .O0-
90; load common to medium 1,025-
pound steers. 1900; load good to choice
950-pound heifers, 1900; bulk medium
to iow-good shortfeds, 81 .0O-25.0O: COM
mon and medium beef cows. 14.00-1 100;
few good cows to 1900; Gamers and
cutters, 11.O0-l3.75; medium and good
ssussss bulls. I.SSSS-1e.oo; Y SS vealers' $500
Salabie sheep, 2,5O0; seenrally steady
on all classes; all lambs wteghing ever
100 pounds discounted, 1.00-1 so; early
top good to choice fed lambs. 1855;
hendyweights held at 24.00; most good
and choice lambs according to weight,
20. 2.50-23. IS; yearling active: ewes steady
Ct 9.25-12.00 for natives, mostly ll.oO
down.
Evening star., 1949-11-17
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO, Nov. II R.-Grains made
. light recovery today from the sagging
tendencies which developed late in the
previous session on the Board OF Trade
Wheat and corn paced the advance with
eats inclined to drag.
side at the start, indicating that some
public investment and speculative interest
was being attracted to the market. But
after initial sales were out OF the way
the market eased bit.
Many traders in wheat were hopeful
could i f Be worried out Between the Govern.
ment and. the private trade which would
permit greater export Of the bread cereal.
eome pickup also was noted in domestic
a'sa Reports from the Western plains said
that rain would be helpful: The Western
M 9 has snss sse9 ocoS.2 xut o any HOW @
ever. subsoii moisture. Is believed to be
ade auate and no real apprehension over
the winter wheat crop was expressed.
Corn arrivals totaled 230 cars. They
time; lake steamer cleared here WITH VII
port. Many traders believe European
pand livestock populations.
This possible European demand. cou-
pied with the small arrivals and the big
discount under the Goyernment loan leysl,
,.os srnsns sSn na
lated at 81 "a bushel Chicago basis.
Oats. which have enjoyed q substantial
runup In price over the past two months
again encountered pront-ta6tnga a LAKE
steamer cleared here with r s12.o%09 % bushels s,I;
further reduce the already fairly small
local supplies,
Evening star., 1949-11-17
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Nov. IT lP.-Butter, 544,-
hshsr shsa On 9ak
(AA), 63-83h cents; 92 score tA), 62A-
62h; 80 score iB). 61h; SO score (C),
Cheese. 1se.so7. steady; prices un-
changed.
sale market. Receipts totaled 1885
cases. Spot quotations follow:
Midwestern: Mixed colors, fancy heavy
weights, 1854; extra, 1, large, 81; extra,
l, medium; 40; dirties, Al; checks, 40h;
Whites: Fancy heayyweights, 57-59; ex-
ira, 1, large, 66-67; extra, 1, medium,
Browns: Fancy heavyweights, 54-55; ex-
ira, 1, large, So.
vhts ad eeus On
selling prices for the finest marks, and
not paying prices to producers or Ship
whites: extra fancy heavyweights, 81;
fancy keavyweights, 59.6O; others, large.
peeweeS, 1880.
Evening star., 1949-11-17

Hotel here in 1881. He is a gradu-
ate Of Washington and Lee Uni
versity and a native OF Savannah.
The Alabama-Tennessee Nat
ural Gas Co. has appointed the
Liberty National Bank as transfer
agent and Riggs National as regis
trar for its common stock. A con-
siderable amount of this stock is
held in Washington and vicinity.
The Seat Pleasant Bank an
nounces that the new bank build
ing at Roosevelt avenue and Foote
street will be open for inspection
next Monday night from $50 to
& o'clock. Later in the evening a
reception will be given at the
Prince Georges Golf and Country
Club.
New Trust Steps Urged.
Gilbert T. Stephenson. direc-
tor of trust research work for the
American Bankers Association.
urged the creation of "An Estate
Planning Council" in an address
before the Fiduciaries Section Of
the District Bankers Association,
1T the Burlington Hotel, last
night.
Such a group should include
bank trust officers, life under
writer's lawyers, tax experts and
accountants, he said. They would
form policies and rules to be fol-
lowed in handling trusts and
smooth out many differences
which have existed in the past.
Edward A. Dent, jr., chairman OF
the section, presided. Mr.. Steph-
enson is in charge Of the trust
department of the Graduate
School of Banking and knows
many trust officers here.
DR.. John H. Richter, head, Eu-
ropean Division, Office of Foreign
Agriculture Relations, will ad-
dress the District Institute of Ger
titled Public Accountants on 'The
Postwar Problem Of International
Trade" at the Mayflower this
evening"
Evening star., 1949-11-17
October Rail Revenues
24.8 Pct. Below 1948
By the Associated Press

The Association of American
Railroads estimated today that
railroad operating revenues for
October were about 24.8 per cent
below the same month a year ago.
Freight revenues were esti-
mated to have dropped 26 per cent
last month and passenger rev.
enues 1873 per cent.
The estimates were based on
advance reports from representa-
tive class one railroads-those do
ing 81 100000 or more gross busi-
ness annually.
Evening star., 1949-11-17
Commerce & SAVINGS
And National Capital
Vote Extra Dividends
By Edword G, Stone

Two more Washington banks
Commerce g. Savings and the
National Capital-have declared
year-end extra dividends in addi-
ton to the regular disbursements.
The Bank of Commerce & Savings
directors also voted a Christmas
bonus for the entire staff Of one
months pay.
Commerce & Savings voted an
extra dividend of 81 a share and
the usual quarterly payment of
$3.50 a share, both payable De-
cember 81 to stock of record June
20, President Thomas j. Groom
announced. The extra is the same
as paid a year ago and brings 1949
dividends to $12 share.
The Christmas bonus also is the
same as last year. The directors
authorized transfer of 100000
from undivided profits to surplus,
bringing the total to 100000.
National Capital Bank directors
declared q semiannual dividend Of
so cents per share Is per cent?
and a special dividend of 20 cents
g per cent?, payable December 80
to stock of record December Is.
George A. Didden, president,
stated. Fifty cents was paid in
June, which brings the total for
the year to $1.20 a share, or IL
per cent.
Convention Sought Here.
Washington delegates left here
today for the 57th annual conven-
ton of the United States Saw
ings and Loan League, in Chicago,
intending to invite the 1850 con-
clave to Washington. Fred A.
Smith, president of the District
League, is certain the invitation
will be accepted, about $500 dele
gates and their wives being ex-
pected to visit the Capital. Nee
essary hotel reservations have al
ready been made.
In addition to Mr.. Smith, the
Washington delegation includes
Edward c. Baltz, c. Clinton James.
William H. Dyer. Thornton w.
Owen. William Rippard. Carl c.
Smuck, Ray C.. Williams, r. E.
Buckley, r. w. Santelmann, w.
H. Blanz, w. c. Farmer, B. j.
Coyle. Eugene Phifer, ]. c. Wilkes,
C! E. Kefauver, j. Hawley Smith,
Horace Smithey, j. P. Balster, E.
K. Jones, H. S. Gott, L. A. Inabi-
net, r. L. H. Jones, Fred w. Smith,
and o. K. La Rogue, member of
the Home Loan Bank Board.
Wilder Takes Hotel Post.
Jack Wilder has been trans
ferred from st. Louis and made
sales manager of the Washington
Statler to replace Edward T. Doty
Evening star., 1949-11-17

Coleman Co., Inc, net income
for nine months ended Septem-
ber 80 was 1885 ,066 OF. $1.93 VS..
$2,439,010 or 1894 in the same
1948 period.
Solar Aircraft Co. earned $705,-
500 or $l.49 in six months ended
October 81 VS.. $545,62 or SLIP
a year earlier.
Evening star., 1949-11-17
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, Nov. II R).-Foreign ex-
change rates follow (Great Britain In dol
lars, others in cents):
Canadian dollar In New York open mar
ket, 9A per cent discount or 90.26 q. s.
cents, unchanged.
Europe: Great Britain (pound), 2.S0h,
unchanged; Great Britain, 3O-day futures
2,80is, UNCHANGED; Great Britain, 60-day
futures, $50. UNCHANGED; Great Britain,
so.d., futures Ss Saei up .ns Of cent
sweden akrona), 1895. unchanged; swift
8erland tfrane) (free), 23.18, unchanged:
Latin America: Argentina (free), 11.15,
lnchanged; Brazil (free), $50, UNCHANGED;
Mexico, I1.67. UNCHANGED.
Evening star., 1949-11-17

V ossey ~ In6 Ekch8nGO 1oA0y1
l1:00 am 400 900 70 100 noon soo ooo
100 p.m.- aso 600 $500 nm. 900 600
-,rrtna rtHnt oi trading 10 shares. slu pank-
under the Bankruptcy Act Or secuTities
assumed y such companies. Rates Of divS.
disbursements based on tSe iist ousptnr,v ptn~S,,
or semiannual declaration. Uniess othar.
wise noted. special or. extra dividends sfe
q Ex rishts . Also extra or extras b1PfT9n; BIZ
stock dividend Cash or stock. 3 PAID
las. veaT: PAYABLE in stock. essimatsd
cisred Or gs,d 20 fsr tais Year. s psc{aFs6
2t paid after stock dividend or spilt-up.
Z Declared or Detd this year. On accumuis-
this year. dividend omitted. deferred cr no no
action taken at last dividend. mestinS.
Dsclsrsd 1888 Dayshle q 1e49. q Laui.
ssssh valus undetermined on declaration
Evening star., 1949-11-17
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. Nov. ~. R.-cotton
noon nosTIes tradins today. Liquidation in near
by December was attributed to hedging
and liquidation Of futures against pur-
Offerings were absorbed principally
through mill buying. Later deliveries were
steady as light buying orders met only
Noon prices were Is cents . bale higher
to 10 cents lower than the prsvlous a
close. December $3.50. March 2s.7e
and May 1918.
Evening star., 1949-11-17

VINO resigned 10
become mana
ger Of the Her
mitage Hotel in
Nashville. Man
q g er Herbert
C. Blunck an
nounced. He will
have charge Of
b o o XII g and
handling con-
ventions a n d
other meetings.
Mr.. w il d e r
started his ho-
tel career. at
49, D o1oS y