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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1950-10-20
street Car Mlleare

Street Car Mileage
Daily mileage Of streetcars. troll.
ley coaches and buses on public
transit systems equals 800 trips
around the earth at the equator.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01

scooped out of the ground. Into this
we threw layer of hot rocks which
were covered with alternate layers
of mud, grass and canas, until the
hole was filled. Over this a fire was
kept burning for about "a hours.
This process of roasting preserved
the camas indefinitely.
The Shoshones called the bitter
root, Montana's state flower, Kant.
When mother couldn't get the roots
of this plant from the Flatheads, she,
Mary and dug it ourselves. In late
springtime the rocky benchland
back of our house was rose-starred
carpet of these nearly stenless, flat,
exquisite flowers.
We dug the roots and from them
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01
Program Variety
Poses Problems

JON DUFFY, PROGRAM director
of KMON, is holding his head these
days over the problem of scheduling
heavy local features, outstanding
American Broadcasting Co. shows
and highlights from the Mutual
Broadcasting systemic say nothing
of working in shows from Intermoun-
tain, a regional, Salt Lake based net
work.
Mutual's contribution to his prob
LENS is the big daytime feature of
major league baseball while ABC
contributes to his problems with a
full and complete lineup of top
shows from their network. Bringing
this type of service to KMON listen
ers is hard job but in Duffy's words,
"It's well worth while-and we feel
we are doing good job. Our listen
ers enjoy a wider variety of artists
and features than from any other
station in the state by reason of our
efforts to program from these three
sources"
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01

peeled the brown skin just before
the Bitterroot bloomed. After
blooming the skin is tough and not
easily removed. Sun-drying pre-
serves them. Mary and I disliked
their taste but mother thought that
steamed or boiled bitterroot served
with sugar and cream was a dish fit
for king.
The Flathead Indians name for the
bitter root was "Spatleum." The f.
mile flat between the city of Mis-
soula and the old military fort was a
rich digging ground. Every spring,
mounted ON horseback, conveyed in
while the women and girls un-
earthed, peeled and threw the roots
on blankets to dry.
A savory dish of the F'latheads
consisted of an equal portion of
bitterroots and service berries
boiled together. think the roots
were the most edible when the In
dams cooked them in meat broth.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01

ga Smiles Worth While" claim the
American Broadcasting Co. Breakfast
club gang. And. they keep a nation
smiling with their off-the-cuff clown
ing every weekday morning tKMON
$500 a. m.). POSTMASTER DON McNeill
(seafed in centerl and the Breakfast
club celebrated radio smilesfone last
week. when they marked their 5.oo0th
broadcast. Current members of the
morning merriment crew are seated
left TO right Songstress Patsy Lee. Nc
Neill. Fran tAunt Fanny Allison.
(sfandingl Baritone Johnny Desmond.
Sam (Clowningl Cowling. Producer
Cliff Petersen. and Orchestra Leader
Eddie Ballantine.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01

ties with the broadcastS of the Sc
lectrics Pioneer league games for
the third straight year.
Herb Hunter, KNOWS ace baseball
reporter, will again handle the play
by play accounts. Game times will
vary when the Selectrics are on the
road.
Supplementing this nightly base
ball highlight, KMON is now carry
ing the top major league game of
the day.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01
Weeyil Control
Tests Made

-
TO HELP WIN the fight against
the alfalfa weevil which has been
robbing farmers In five Montana
counties of forage worth $3,000,000
every year, a series of experiments
with sprays has just been comp1et-
ed near Lodge Grass.
The purpose of the experiment
was to learn better and cheaper
methods of controlling the weevil,
according to Ellsworth Hastings, as
sociate professor of entomology at
Montana State college, and DIR. j.
H. Pepper, head of the same de-
partment. Four new insecticides
Were used and in different concen-
trations. Twenty different tests were
made with an airplane and "a with
ground equipment. Tests were made
ON IS farms.
Affect 100000 Acres
The heavy losses have been in
Big Horn, Yellowstone, Saltwater,
Treasure and Carbon counties, ac-
cording to Hastings. These counties
annually grow more than 100000
acres of alfalfa. The weevil de-
stroys most of the feed value of
the first cutting. Then it works in
the stubble and holds back the al
falfa for two or three weeks. For
that reason the third crop is gem
orally completely lost. If alfalfa
were raised for seed in this area the
seed loss would be worth more than
the $3,000,000 forage loss.
Another reason for pushing q
strong research program is that the
weevil is spreading. 1T was first
found in Montana in 1912. Since
then it has spread to the east Dor
der of Montana and is working
northwestward.
Cost $3.50 Per Acre
In the recent experiment the air.
plane sprayed 400 acres and the
ground equipment $50. The cost was
about $3.50 per acre for both meth
DDS.
The plane used was an IS h. p.
Aeronca.
The plane carried 40-gallon load
each trip and was flown about five
feet above the ground. Hazards such
as telephone lines, trees and rough
ground broken by deep gullies
were avoided, yet the coverage was
excellent, Hastings says.
Hastings said the materials, equip
ment and labor furnished amounted
to about $500 and the experiment
could not have been conducted with
out the help received from COM
mercial concerns which provided
materials and services.
Moy |, l95o-23
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01
Montana Memories
BY IDA S. PATTERSON

When unable to pick or dig these
herself she sometimes traded garden
truck to the Indians for them. Wild
gooseberries, currants, strawberries
and plums, while not plentiful, were
supplemented by an abundance of
huckleberries, chokecherries, elder
berries and service Tor sarvis) ber-
rieS.
Indian Vegetables
Her favorite Indian vegetables
We're house, wild onions, wild car
rots, camas and bitterroot.
Mother bartered for house from
the Nez Perez Indians. Ordinarily
we ate it raw. Once in a while she
pounded the roots into flour and
made house bread.
In early springtime the Flatheads
brought wild onions which they
gathered on sunny hillsides. Roast
ing the bulbs in hot ashes neutralized
their characteristic garlic odor and
flavor.
Wild carrots were dug in mid
summer. We liked them unlocked,
although they were very palatable
when boiled in salted water until
tender.
Camas Syrup
Camas was ripe in June about the
time the plant began to flower. The
bulbs, when boiled, produced a
syrup which took the place of sugar.
The best results, though, were OBJ
tanned from the following primitive
Indian method of roasting: A pit,
the size depending upon the GUAM
tity of camas to be cooked, was
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01


uate civil engineer. The story of her
colorful life parallels that of the
development of western Montana.
Mrs. Magee. now "a. sill makes her
home in western Montana.
THE FIRST FARMING in Mon
tana was done by the Jesuit mis-
sionaries in the spring of 1912 for
the benefit of st. Mary's mission at
Stevensville in the Bitter Root val
ley.
During the 1865 the majority of
the people who first rushed into this
Rocky mountain region were inter
ested only in the search for gold.
Most of these many thousands had
to be fed and furnished with supplies
not produced within the territory.
A few of the treasure hunters, not
faring SO well in the mines, saw pos
sibilities in tilling the soil. Produc-
ing food for the gold seekers turned
out to be a profitable business and
in this way farming on small scale
began in the territory.
Early Garden
The first general garden in the
Missoula valley was planted in 1857,
near Old Hell Gate by Frank H.
Woody, later district judge of Mis-
Soula county.
My father planted about five acres
in garden truck. He and few other
farmers found in the freighters,
packers and prospectors ready mar
ket for their surplus products. Father
employed the Flatheads to help with
the gardening.
One year there was a grasshopper
plague. Locusts swarms were so
dense that the sun was clouded. In
dams, using brush brooms, patrolled
the rows of vegetables and prevented
their total destruction.
For winter use some of the vege-
tables and the apples were stored
in long, dark root cellar. Cabbage
and few of the other roots were
kept in trenches covered with straw
and earth.
First Nursery
Mr.. Urlin and father owned one
of the first nurseries in the Missou1a
valley. The fruit trees were pur-
chased from the Payette nursery,
Idaho, and transported over the Bit
ter Root mountains by Jerry Phey's
mule pack train. Wrapped in moss
and gunny sacks they arrived in good
conditions. The first lots were APP
pies of several varieties. Later they
brought in plum, cherry and other
fruit trees.
Meat was kept in large smoke
house. Ham, bacon, salt pork, smoked
beef and elk, gunnysacks full of
jerked venison and buffalo meat
hung in rows across the room. Freez-
ing preserved some of the meat In
winter.
Indians Barter for Food
AS time passed hunger began to
stalk the Indians and they otter
stopped at the farm to buy or trade
for meat and vegetables. The white
mans encroachment upon the coun
try which produced their natura
food supply was gradually forcing
them to seek other means of sub
sistence.
While meat was the staple fare o
the Redmen inhabiting the big gam'
sections of the northwest, yet thei
diet was often varied by numerou
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01
Hunter Reports
Pioneer Games

YOUR MONTANA Farmer-Stock-
man station, KMON, continues its
year-round coverage of sport activi-
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-05-01

moy |, l95o-23
Evening star., 1950-03-19

How many times she will be able to act with
similar stupidity and come back to find car
and possessions intact is simply matter of
percentages.
Every day in the year about 1900 cars are
looted in our larger cities. Most of them (a)
have something of value clearly visible on the
back seat, (b) have wing window unlocked
and (c) have been left parked on the street
under circumstances which make it reason
ably sure the owner will not return imme-
diately.
If you are one of the 100000 owners whose
cars were broken into last year, chances are
you'll have learned the hard way to avoid
repetition. If the carbreakers haven't gotten
around to you yet bear in mind that accord
ing to FBI figures one third of all thefts are
from cars. Remember, too, that such rob-
berries are increasing at an alarming rate.
81, l,oo0, 900 Worth Week
That the loot from parked automobiles
already tops ST 0OO, 600 week may not be as
significant to you as the fact that little can be
done to combat this particular crime, aside
from what you do for yourself.
Sometimes police can recover your missing
property, but not often. Don't expect to be
as fortunate as Dotty Lamour, who lost a bevy
of luggage, containing among other things a
number of exclusive creations valued well up
in four figures, while her car was parked in
front of swanky Baltimore hotel. Police
knowledge of likely suspects and swift
roundup of those known to be in the vicinity
did recover the movie stars possessions in
tact. Frequently though it doesn't work out
that way.
Big-city budgets can't provide enough
patrolmen to watch all the hundreds of
miles Of streets, the thousands of parked
cars. And as the parking problem gets worse,
more drivers leave their cars. on streets less
brightly lighted, less often patfolled than
main thoroughfares. Result: field day for
auto looters.
Carbreaking is the one felony which fire.
quently is never reported to authorities at all.
Probably not more than one out of every five
cases of carbreaking ever comes to the atten-
ton of the police.
A Philadelphia captain of detectives gave
these reasons for what amounts to a sort of
conspiracy of silence.
1t isn't played up by the papers, so people
don't seem to figure it S much of a crime. Some
crook busts into a hotel room and gets away
with a few hundred dollars worth of dia-
monds, right away it's headline. But let
some l8-yearold toughie use can opener on
doctor car, steal his overcoat and an emer-
Evening star., 1950-03-19

gency kit - nobody'd put that in the paper.
Then again, burglar who crawls in
window of some house to make a try for the
loose cash in the bureau drawer might have
gun. He might kill somebody. The kid who
Evening star., 1950-03-19

One third of al thefts il the u s. from parked
and be the victim Of this rising
# have % leave valuables parked here's
how protect yourself with openers
Evening star., 1950-03-19

0FFfcER JAMES McGIvERN of the Balti-
~ more Traffic Squad has his job cut out
for him at busy cross street, especially be-
tween and pm. At quarter past five on a
Friday afternoon last September, when the
homebound and week-ender jam was at its
peak, fustered matron pushed through the
crowd of pedestrians on the crosswalk:
"Officer!" She clutched McGiverns arm.
will it be safe for me to park my car down
there in front of the bank for half an hour
or so?"
He waved to traffic. did you lock it.
MADAME"
''Oh yes, she nodded brightly. 'I've been
shopping so there are lot of packages in it.
That's why l want to make sure it'll be
safe. It's that gray sedan; if you'll just
keep an eye on it!''
Lady, I've few other little matters to
look after" McGivern said with grim pa
tience. But the lady had already hurried
across the street, against traffic, heading for a
tea shoppe.
That's what mean," McGivern said to
me. 'Must've been twenty people heard her
say she'd parked her Car with lot of valuable
stuff in it down in front of the bank, and that
she'd be gone half an hour. What better mvi-
tation could one of these car looters ask?"
few minutes later we strolled together
to the gray sedan. 1t was parked about rs
yards from the intersection and most of the
time completely cut off from the view of the
oE1 Nv 4
buses.
There y'are" He nodded at the dress
boxes on the rear seat. mot content with
broadcastin' it, she has to leave the stuff right
out where everybody can see it. Even money
the luggage compartments empty, too. Most
of em don't even take the trouble to unlock
the trunk after they've been shopping; just
throw their bundles on the back seat"
A Piece of Wire Would Do II
f1E TRIED the doors. They were locked But
MCGivern went around to the drivers win
dow; the wing was open half an inch.
"One of these sneak workers would have a
real tough time getting in this, he said dryly
Take him about as long to open that door
as it would if he had the key. He'd use wire
piece of coat hanger likely, bent to hook
around the window crank handle. Slick and
quick"
He returned to his post. stayed to watch
from distance. But no carbreaker took ad-
vantage of the lady's fooishly announced
absence. Possibly the officers inspection
warned away any lurking looter; more likely
the thoughtless matron was merely lucky
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
Lost Her Hat
Continued from Page y


which over here is not quite SO
time-consuming as in the old
countries. Miss Korkkinen has also
found that many American women
function as social arrangers" and
arrange social contacts for their
husbands in order to boost their
careers. This is not difficult for
them since the American personal
ity cult, the art of meeting and
handling people. is part of the
high school education.
Finland Misunderstood
Miss Korkinen has given a num-
Der of talks before various womens
organizations since her arrival in
Seattle few months ago. The
Washington Business and Profess
sional Women have donated money
TO the Foundation for Internation-
al Understanding Through Stu
dents for her maintenance here.
She is one of two students from
Europe who were chosen to study
at the. University of Washington.
She wants to get first-hand in
formation about life, culture, and
education in America and do re-
search work for a doctors degree
in American literature in Finland
AS for her future, she plans to
teach English in her native Fin
land, where she holds a high de-
gree at the University of Helsinli.
Speaking Of Finland, she believes
that many Americans are misin-
formed about the country's po-
litical position. Many people have
asked her, how was it possible
for you to reach America from be-
hind the Iron Curtain ?" Actually,
she says, Finland runs it's own
affairs and has assumed a neutral
position toward Russia in accord
ance with the good neighbor policy
outlined in the peace treaty.
Miss korkkinen is very impress
sed with America and says the
American people are extremely
hospitable and "asy to get along
with"
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
Yearly PREDICTION Of $50, 900 Enamel
Bathtubs In A New Swedish Factory

STOCkHOLM-ROughly 100000
enamel bathtubs pressed in one
piece, or 500 units per day, is the
annual capacity of the new Gus
tavsberg factories outside Stock
holm. The plant, which has cost
Kr. 2O,OOO,O00 ($4,OOO,OOO), is
claimed to be the largest and most
up-tO-date of its kind in Europe.
1t belongs to the Swedish Coop
erative Union and is located close
to the internationally known Gus
tavsberg pottery works, another
link in the Unions chain of indus
tries.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16

About SO per cent of the pro-
duction. valued at Kr. 3O,OO0,OOO,
($6,OOO,0O0) is intended for export,
the rest filling most of the do
nestle demand for bathtubs. The
factory having been in operation
only for a short time, export sales
are as yet in an initial stage,
states Mr.. Hjalmar OLSON, head
of the company, but orders have
already been effected, apart from
neighboring countries, to Austral.
ia, the Belgian Congo, the Benelux
countries, India, Switzerland and
a number of South American coun-
tries
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16

grams designed to increase such
cooperation by no means exhausts
the field. What has been presented
here has been but a limited portion
of a list of instances revealed by
a cursory examination of the SUBJ
ject.
The relationships between the
five nations is not all one of
peaches and cream. If it were
those programs of the Norden
Societies designed to eliminate the
sources of ill-feeling and misunder-
standing between the peoples of
Scandinavia would not be neces-
sary. On the other hand, the fact
that organized groups are fight
ing so diligently to remove these
relatively minor sources of ir-
ritations presages continued ex-
pansion of cooperation between the
Scandinavian countries, a policy
of mutual help between sovereign
nations, which has already reached
remarkable proportions.
Carlyn F. Anderson
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
nordic Cooperation Successful

and Sweden. Unfortunately, be-
cause of the great distances be-
tween Iceland and the Scandinav-
ian peninsula, Iceland does not
Each of these cities
could take a personal interest in
the activities of the other, friend
ships, and understanding would be
built up between the cities, and
the cause of the Norden Societies
would be furthered in the process.
At the present time there are
120 Swedish cities participating
in the plan although there are not
120 complete circles of four towns,
since the other countries are all
smaller than Sweden. Close con-
tact is maintained between the
officials of the towns, and news
is circulated between the cities in
the local papers so that all will be
informed of the activities of the
others.
Kids Exchange Parents
And ClassrOOms
Very popular with the young
people is the exchange of students
between two Friendship Towns.
An equal number of school chill
dren from each country simply
exchange parents and classrooms
| for a couple of weeks.
But it is not only the kids who
get chance to travel and study
! in their sister lands, the old folks
do it too. Summer study trips are
arranged to provide an exchange
of adults in the same manner as
for the children.
Costs in the case of both children
and adults are very low. Since the
travellers are lodged and boarded
gratis by the people they visit
about their only expense is for
transportation. This cost is kept
way down by securing special
group rates from the transporta-
ton companies. Every effort is
made to keep the expenses at
rock-oottom so as to enable people
of all economic levels to partici-
pate.
ReWrite History to Suit Each Other
An ancient stumbling block in
the path towards greater Scandi-
navian unity used to be the history
books used in the schools. There
was often a tendency on the part
of the writers to interpret all past
events to the favor of their own
country. At the same time they
were likely to cast aspersions on
their sister countries With whom
relations had not always been as
amicable as they are today.
To eliminate errors and obvious
falsifications in school texts a
panel of experts from the Norden
Societies of all five Scandinavian
countries got tog tn er som e
twenty years ago. The group eX-
amined all school texts and recon-
mended changes on those points
on which they were in agreement.
CThe members of the panel SUD-
sequently published a book ev-
planning their individual positions
on points of disagreement
Although this board has no legal
power to enforce its decisions upon
the authors of text books its sug-
gestions have generally been fol-
lowed. Since the original investiga-
ton, text writers have felt morally
obligated to submit manuscripts
OF their books to the board before
the books are published.
The foregoing examples of Scam
dinavian cooperation and pro-
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-01-16
Friendship Towns

One of the Societies pet projects
has been the establishment of
Friendship Towns. The idea was
to form a circle of four cities, one
each in Denmark, Finland, Norway
Arizona sun., 1950-07-14

Fred c. Struckmeyer, Jr.. Mari
copa County Superior Court
Judge, today formally announced
his candidacy for the office which
he now holds.
Judge Struckmeyer, 38 years
old, was born in the then Terri
tory of Arizona, and is the son of
former Superior Court Judge Fred
c. Struckmeyer, Sr. He attended
the Phoenix elementary schools,
Phoenix Union High School,. re-
ceived a degree from the college
of Law of the University of Ari-
zona in 1896, and since has prac-
ticed law continuously in Mari
copa County except for four years
in the United States Army during
the last World War.
Judge Struckmeyer, served with
the Third Infantry Division in
Sicily, Italy and France until re-
tired for wounds received in COM
bat. Upon his return from the
military service he engaged in the
private practice of law until his
recent appointment as Judge of
the Superior Court, and for four
years prior to such appointment
was also special legal advisor to
the school district of Maricopa
County.
Judge Struckmeyer resides at
5O4 Pierson Street, Phoenix, with
his wife, Margaret. and their two
children. He is a member of the
Episcopal Church, an active men,
ber of the Maricopa County, State
and American Bar Associations,
the Elks, the American Legion
and the Military Order Of the
Purple Heart.
In announcing his candidacy
Judge Struckmeyer said:
"T believe in a common sense
administration of justice. Those
who live outside the law should
be made to realize that Arizona
is not a haven for habitual GRIM
inals, but in dealing with juvenile
and youthful offenders rehabilita-
ton where possible should be the
primary purpose of the Court"