Laurel outlook., 1950-01-11
GREAT WESTERN
FETES WINNERS
High 10 Of District and Top
Station Producers Given
Awards At Dinner

lings in honor of the 10 high bee
growers of Great Western Sugar
company's Billings factory district
To witness the award of honorS
to the high 10 were the highest
producers from all the receiving
stations in the district, bankers
who helped individuals in financ-
ing their growing operations, deal
ers and distributors of farm equip
ment, merchants supplying materi-
ais, and others who we're directly
on indirectly interested in the
sugar beet and allied stock feeding
programs. For the second year
the ladies of the winners, contri-
butors to their mems success, were
guests of the company. Lyman
Andrews, former Billings factory
manager and now northern division
manager, was the featured speak
er.
William and Andrew Martisak
of the Pearl receiving station head
ed the 10-high list this year. The
other nine in the order of their
ratings, together with their 1949
average and the number of acres,
were:
Christ Worm, Sr., Factory, POP
tons average, 1873 acres.
Alec and Herman Popp, Factory,
23.9 tons average, % acres.
Saunder Helm, Yegen, 22.97 tons
average, % acres.
L. M. Mead, Myers, 22.78 tons
average, 26.5 acres.
Sam Becker, Knox, 22.30 tons
average, 1871 acres.
Fred and William Rauchle, Knox,
22.18 tons average, 1858 acres.
Henry DeClercq, Bull Mountain,
tons average, 1921 ere
John Weigand, Yegen, 21.82 tons
average, 1913 acres.
. Enos Erb, Wyne, 21.52 tons av-
arage, 30.1 acres
Growers in western Yellowstone,
eastern Saltwater and Carbon
counties were among station win
lers of the factory district. In
was a new station at Hob +,
son. The winners per station
we're: =.
Ernest A. Reuss, Maudru; Peter, =
robert and Albert Van H%emelryck, 1
.Seiler; Boyd Orthman, Hysham; l.. :
4. Mead, Myers; Albert and Nor '
is Gremmens, Big Horn; Alder ,
Custer; Joseph Ruff, Fee; 7
henry DeClercq, Bull Mountain; :.
ames and Joseph Kratochvil, :
'ompeys Pillar; c.. B. Johannes, +
Newton; William and Andrew Mar q
isak, Pearl; Sam Becker, Knox; =
mos Erb, Wyne; George Foos, I
'hepherd; Clarence Walter, Cline; y
ohm Yurian, Hirsch; Christ Worm, q
r., Factory; Saunder Hitler, Sid !
1g Two; O'Donnell Brothers, Hes >
er; George Streck, Jr., Laurel; A. '.
Shay, Squirting; William Ben :
er, Jr., Park City; Emil Kober, {
r., Youngs Point; w. r. Peterson !
nd Chester Peterson, Columbus; =
.ifred Spaeth, Silesia; John Fab !
enbruch, Keown; John OFT, Edgar; Il
Bauwens, Fromberg; Fred v '
Weber, Bridger; Edward DeRud- L
er, Jr., Overstreet; Carl Ungefug, :.
and w. X. Turner, Hobson. Il
Big Horn Project, Inc, for the
.xth successive year was the dis Il
largest producer of sugar a
Gets. It's 284.7 acres averaged 10 c.
ms each and filled 112 railroad 81
lrS. +
A andrews, speaking after the II
wards had been made, including st
lie special award by Peter Yegen, m
to the highest grower in the
egen station area, said the sugar et
.et industry has proven over the tt
.ars to be a major contributor tn
the economic welfare of the &c
rritories in which it operates. de
ere it accounts for $4,500,000 that X
herwise would not be enjoyed by F.
e agriculturists and business con- tie
rms, besides bringing in and sus- pr
lining thousands of people who ha
ould never have come to add to en-
population. or
He cited it as another example do
the American system of private tn
terprise and individual initiative, or
system that has provided a mere pr
0 million people of the worlds ce
billion with, more wealth, COM sc.
IT and other attributes of pros
rity than any other nation in tn
y age has ever known. Yet bill
ere are those that claim the int
stem is all wrong, the speaker ole
id, and advocate its abandon ha
INT for one of untried dreams. ag
In the nearly so years the beet gr'
has been operating in an
Montana it has pass acc
through successive stages of ex- wa
to produce more and or
ire sugar beets for greater pro- Tn
8 for all connected with it. Now ha'
last the day seems to have come sis
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