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Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
CARL F. ANDERSON
DIES IN BOHEMIAN
Former Operator Of Laurel
Food Markets Succumbs
To Heart Ailment

Carl F. Butch" Anderson, who
came to Laurel in 1912 and lived
here about IS years, died of a
heart ailment Wednesday in Boze-
man. Funeral services will be con-
Quoted Friday at the Docket fun
eral home in Bozeman.
Anderson was an operator of
butcher shops and food markets
during his residence in Laurel. He
left here about 1929 or 80 and To-
Gated in the Gallatin valley. He
built and operated the Belgrade
Cold Storage company plant, which
he was operating at the time Of
his death.
Information Wednesday after
noon from Mack T. Anderson, Liv-
ingston, was that death was caused
by a thrombosis in the heart struc-
ture.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05

president of the Montana Young
Republicans, and a present men,
Der of the Republican state central
committee; but has held political
office only once. He was elected
county attorney of Yellowstone
county in 1910 and again in 1912,
and served as such until he en-
tered the army in 1913. Hibbs and
his two deputies, Fred Moulton
and Charles B. Sande, all entered
the military service. He appointed
E. E. Collins and Melvin N. Hoi-
ness as deputies and the latter,
upon Hibbs' departure and at his
recommendation, was named county
attorney.
After active duty with the air
corps in India, China and on Oki-
nawa, during which time he was
awarded the bronze star, he was
discharged from the army in 1915
with the rank of a technical SER
geant, and returned to Billings to
r~e-establish his law practice.
In addition to the practice of
law, the candidate has engaged in
farming and livestock operations,
as we'll as other business activities
here.
Mr.. Hibbs is a graduate of the
University of Montana law school.
He was a charter member and
former director of the Billings
Junior Chamber of Commerce; he
is a past president and member
Of Billings Aerie No. 176, Frater-
nal Order of Eagles, a member of
Ashlar Lodge No. 20, A. F. G.
A. NJ, American Legion post No.
4, and is a charter member and on
the board of control of the Ex-
change club of Billings.
Hibbs is married and resides at
80 Mountainview Boulevard, Bill
Speaking of his candidacy, Mr..
Hibbs said:
Extensive legal and business
experience and wide acquaintance
ship with people in this country
in every walk of life lead me to
believe l can be a good state SEN
ator for Yellowstone county. Il
nominated and elected, | shall en-
deavor to be Just that"
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05

The operating cost per pupil Of
the public elementary and second
airy schools in Yellowstone county
was STA for the 1948-49 school
year, according to a study released
by the Montana Taxpayers a%ssOci-
alton. This compares with a state
wide average of 1929 per pupil.
Yellowstone county, with an en-
rollment of 1902 pupils, leads the
state in numbers with Cascade sec
ond with 7,457 and Flathead third
with 5,z73. Only one county, Flat
head, has a lower cost per pupil,
it being $40.
Carbon county has 1909 pupils
at a cost of $243 and Saltwater
995 at $241.
Operating cost figures do not
include expenditures for capital
outlay, transportation and debt
service.
The 1948-49 total expenditures
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
H|BBS CANDIDATE
FOR STATE SENATOR

Rex Hibbs, Billings lawyer,
Wednesday announced that he will
be a candidate on the Republican
ticket for nomination as state SEN
ator from Yellowstone county. This
is the first such announcement this
year by any candidate for that Of
flee.
Mr.. Hibbs was born in Billings
and raised on the Huntley Project
in Yellowstone county. He has been
prominent in business, civic and
political affairs in this community
for many years.
In Republican politics, the candi-
date has taken an active part. He
was twice county chairman of that
central committee, former state
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
NAME WOLO, DAHL
TO SCHOOL BOARD
E Election Brings Out PSI
Voters To Choose Two For
Three-Year Terms

According to Mrs. C. G. Har-'
man, clerk of school district No. Z,
281 voters turned out for the school
election Saturday. Oliver Void
and L. H. Dahl were elected to
three year terms to succeed DR..
|. N. Smith, chairman, and Jack
son Parker. DR.. Smith and Parker
were not candidates for reelection.
Of the votes cast, Void received
1888; Dahl, 1874; j. G. Mace, 116,
and Eddie Burke, SO. The board of
trustees will have its annual re-
organization meeting the third Sat
urday in April.
Judges at the election were w.
v. d. Chapman, Nels Vordahl and
Mrs. G. N. Virgins.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
CENSUS COUNT BEGINS
| AS PLANNED.

Mrs. Dorothy Florey, e lead
err for the federal census in the
west end of Yellowstone county,
reports that the enumeration got
under way April l a. planned. The
tally is progressing very well, with
good cooperation reported by the
census takers.
Because of recent storms, the
count in the outlying districts may
be delayed to some extent.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
Rebuilding
Plans Near Finish;
Work Starting Soon

Final drawings for the addition
to the Methodist church are to be
completed by the end of this week
and it is expected that actual work
will be started on the building in
the near future, according to Rev.
c. G. Spellman, pastor of the local
church.
Word has been received here
from the Advance committee meet
ing in Helena that the special
Easter offering may be designated
for use in the local building fund.
Money received in blue envelopes
will be used for that purpose.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
FARM PRODUCTS
ADVANCE IN PRICE
Statistician Reports Gains Of
6 Points During March On
Animals and Grains

Higher prices for meat animals
and grains on March Is, pushed
the index of prices received by
farmers to 254, up 6 points during
the month. On February 10. the
index was 248 per cent of the
1909-14 base period.
The index of meat animal prices
continued the rise which began in
December, and showed a 9 point
gain over the 319 reported in mid
February. Beef cattle at $20.40 per
cwt. were up 70 cents and veal
calves at $23.20 gained so cents
per cwt. Lambs rose 40 cents to
reach $22 per cwt. on March Is,
and sheep advanced from $40 per
cwt. to 5000. Hogs at $16.60,
however, recorded a drop OF 10
cents during the month.
The grain group index at 234 is
8 points above mid-February and
the highest since May Is, 1949.
Wheat rose to $1.89 per bushel. A
7 cent gain over last months price
and rye a up 8 cents to reach
95 cents per bushel. Barley, how
ever, dropped from 95 cents per
bushel on February Is to 81 cents
by mid-March. Corn at SLAP and
oats at Ga cents per bushel were
unchanged during the month end
ing March Is.
The dairy products index was
down 2 points from last months
204. Wholesale milk at Sd per cwt.
registered a drop of Is points from
mid-February and retail milk was
off from 1879 cents per quart to
1877 cents. Butter decreased 1 cent
from last months price of &c cents
per pound, and no change was
shown in the butterfat price of 81
cents.
The chicken and egg index at
113 dropped 6 points from the Feb
ruary index, and the lowest record
ed since May 1916. Chickens show
&c a 1 cent gain over last months
price of 24.5 cents per pound.
Eggs, however, dropped from 1923
cents to 30.1 cents per dozen dur
ing the month.
Flaxseed averaged 1926 per
bushel, down 8 cents. Dry beans
were up 10 cents to $3.50 per cwt.
or March Is, and alfalfa seed at
$27 was off 70 cents per bushel.
Wool showed a gain of 2 cents per
pound, averaging So cents on
March Is. Potatoes at $1.60 per
bushel, loose hay at $21.40 per ton
and sweet clover seed at $3.50 per
bushel were unchanged from one
month ago.
U. S. Parity Index Up 2 Points,
Prices Received Unchanged
The index of prices paid by
farmers including interest, taxes,
and wage rates, rose 2 points,
(nearly 1 per cent? during the
month ended March Is. During the
same period, the index of prices
received by farmers remained I'M
changed at 237.
AS a result, the parity ratio ira
ito of the index of prices received
by farmers to the index of prices
paid by farmers including interest,
taxes, and wage rates., declined
one point to 95, the same as De-
1949 and the lowest, ex-
cept for January 1850, since July
l941. {
Although the index of prices re- I
ceived by farmers was unchanged
this month, prices of fruit, cotton, /
grain, meat animals, and poultry l
and eggs were higher. These in +
,reases were offset by decreases in {
of truck crops and dairy
products. {
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
FLY TO WASHINGTON

Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Johnston,
accompanied by their daughter
Linda, left Thursday by plane to
visit their daughter, Miss Pat
Johnston, a senior at Carnegie In
stitute of Technology at Pitts
burgh, Penn. They will also visit
relatives inc Washington, D. c.,
before returning home next week.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
Teachers Meet; View
Contracts, Salaries

A meeting of the Laurel local of
the Montana Education association
was held at the high school April
5. A discussion of teachers sal
aries and contracts and reports by
delegates, Miss Marguerite Roscoe
and j. G. Macdonald, to the recent
delegate assembly in Helena, were
chief items of business.
Refreshments were served by a
committee of high school teachers.
Laurel outlook., 1950-04-05
GUESTS OF LARSONS

Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Miller and
family of Livingston and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bill Warden and family of
Billings were week end guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ. Larson.
Evening star., 1950-02-21
This Changing World
Soviet Leaders Confident of Invitation
From i. S. and Britain to Limit Arms

we already had stockpile of such
weapons and could rain destruc-
ton on the Russians If they
started any trouble was never
considered. All the American
people heard was that they risked
total destruction unless the Amer
lean Government gave up the
secret of the new weapon.
A similar scare campaign was
launched in this country soon
after President Truman an
nounced that we would build the
new and far more powerful hydro
gen bomb. The administration
was urged to overlook all the pre-
vious failures of our efforts to
induce the Russians to partici-
pate in a real program of paciflca-
tion and disarmament and beg
Moscow to join in outlawing the
bombs.
So far as is known in best-in-
formed circles in Washington, we
still have. as of today. a far
greater stockpile Of atomic bombs
than the Russians have and a big
lead in the manufacture Of the
hydrogen bomb.
Agreement Prospects Slim.
Without question it would be
ideal to get a formal and real
agreement to do away with both
weapons. This could have been
achieved if traitors-both merce-
nary and theological - had not
given the Russians enough infor-
nation to permit them to compete
with us in making these bombs.
But since the Russians have both
the formula and the know-how
for the manufacture of the atomic
bomb, at least, the prospects for
an agreement to outlaw atomic
explosives are, to put 1t mildly,
extremely slim.
Moscow believes, however, that
IN spite OF its advantage the
American government will not be
able to withstand for long-espe-
cially in an election year-pres-
sure from the public, which has
been thrown into a state of panic
by the gruesome tales Of what the
hydrogen bomb will do and will
ask Stain for another conference
to agree on controls.
The Politburo can sit back and
await developments. 1t knows
that the Western democracies
never will resort to preventive
war. If we approach the Soviet
government with a plea for an
other meeting, Moscow expects to
obtain important gains in other
fields in exchange for a genera,
promise to refrain from producing
a weapon which it does not pos
sess yet in sufficient quantity to
carry out its plan for world dom
ination.
Evening star., 1950-02-21
On the Other Hand
American People Can Be Kind, but
Some Statesmen Make It Difficult

perhaps was his departure for Eu.
rope during the late weeks Of the
last session to make his own per-
sonal Investigations junket COM
bined with a friendly visit to
Franco In Spain-taking advan-
tage thus OF his colleagues un-
willingness to act in his absence.
A few weeks ago his committee
finally reported out DIP bill and
1t Is now before the Senate. 1t is
a bill characterized by a minority
report as not only less liberal than
the House bill, but more restric-
tive, unfair and discriminatory in
some respects than the present
law. It was agreed to by a ma
jority Of the committee members
merely as a means Of getting a
bill onto the Senate floor where it
could be amended. That this is
the fact has been made clear by
seven members of the committee,
signing a supplementary state
ment calling for numerous changes
in the committee bill.
New Delay Possible.
So at long last the Senate ap-
pears in fair way to get at this
problem despite Mr.. McCarran's
obstructive tactics. But
A new opportunity for delay
and for confusing the issue has
been offered. Allegations of fraud,
corruption and "sex blackmail"
have been made against some of
the administrative officials in
Europe. So the matter must be
investigated" Top administrative
officials are being summoned
home to be questioned by the
McCarran committee. The nature
OF the charges makes certain that
a nasty atmosphere will surround
the whole subject of displaced
persons until the matter is cleared
up.
This, regardless of how we'll
founded or ul-founded the
charges prove to be and regard
less of how little bearing they
may have on the question OF the
number Of displaced persons this
country should take in and the
conditions to be attached to our
taking them. But one thing prob
ably will be achieved: Further con-
fusion and further delay.
Taking up where the former
and unlamented West Virginia
Senator. Chapman Revercomb,
left off, Senator McCarran has
succeeded in turning Americas
original generous gesture toward
Europe's war victims into behavior
that reflects little credit on this
great democracy.
Evening star., 1950-02-21

could take a Henry McLemore.
poll of all Americans old enough
and big enough to fire gun with
out finding one who wants to
shoot Mr.. Chandler. The chances
are he could walk around unes-
corted by artillery-bearing folk
with perfect safety. And so, I
am sure, could 80 and 99/l00ths
Of the folk who are given armed
escorts in this country.
Considered an Honor.
But our Nation seems to con-
slider such an escort an honor. To
me such an escort is an insult, |
not an honor. If a man can't |
walk among his fellows without
having gun-toters on all sides, the
implication is that he is so down.
right ornery that somebody wants
to have a plug at him.
To continue the subject of
things that puzzle me, why does
Winston Churchill, if the Con-
servatives beat the Labor regime,
want to arrange talk among
himself, Stain and President Tru-
man? Stain appears to be the
type who would lie about his age
to his mother. so what would any
of his promises mean?
Suppose he said Russia never
would drop a bomb, and shook
hands as a pledge Of good faith.
Could any sane man believe him?
A fellow named Hitler did just
that to fellow named Chamber
lain, and while Hitler was shaking
hands with his right hand he was
cooking a pistol with his left.
Mr.. Churchill and Mr.. Truman
are too honest to deal with Stain.
Being men of good will, they are
blind to the fact that a lot of |
men aren't cut from the same
solid cloth. If any one is to be
sent to talk to Stain, I think it |
would be wise to find the crooked
est man in the United States and
the biggest thief in England and
makes them the official emissaries.
No one can see through a crook
as fast as another crook.
Pictures Too Old.
Another puzzler. Why don't |
newspaper columnists send out
pictures to run along with their
columns that bear some slight
resemblance to themselves? Most
of the papers which use my
column use picture of me taken
when I was at an age when I was
switching from a tricycle. to al
bicycle. If the picture were much
bigger it would show my rompersI
and the Buster Brown shoes II
was wearing.
And I am not as guilty of mis-
representation as some others of
my craft. I know a female
columnist who is pictured as too
young to make mud pies when
the truth IS she was a ballot box
tender wher Mckinley was run
ming.
I can answer my own question.
Most of us columnists don't dare
send out pictures of ourselves that
look the way we really do. After
all we have to have readers to |
make a living, and if you frighten
a reader often enough he'll give
you up for the want ads.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc) |
Evening star., 1950-02-21

The decision dealt with search
and seizure. A majority of five,
including all the four judges ap-
pointed by President Truman, up
held the right of Federal officers
to search and seize without a
warrant in the course of a lawful
arrest.
Justice Frankfurter, who wrote
the dissent joined in by Justices
Black and Jackson. took care that
the public should not miss the
obvious. In an unusual and
oblique slap, minus names, at fel-
low-justices, he suggested that the
court would not have so ruled had
the late Justices Murphy and
Rutledge still been there.
Impolite But True.
This may have been impolite
but 1t is surely true. The two
justices who were such great
friends and who died so tragically
before their time, were the courts
surest defenders of individual civil
liberties. Their two votes would
have turned Mondays scale.
Justice Clark succeeded Justice
Murphy and Justice Minton sue
ceeded Justice Rutledge. They
have gone along in this impor-
Evening star., 1950-02-21
Controversial DeCisiO.
Ruling on Search and Seizure
Called Blow to Civil Liberties

tant case, exactly as it was pre-
dlcted they usually would, with
Chief Justice Vinson.
The Chief Justice remains the
Presi .'nt's devoted friend and
played poker with him over the
week end on the WILLIAMSBURG.
1t is felt here that Mr.. Vinson
is intent on re-making the court
into his own moderate image and
that he is influencing Mr.. Tru-
man to name justices that will
make this end possible.
The new decision will intensity
opinion that such is the shape of
things to come on the court.
Douglas Due Back Soon.
Today the liberals are all anxi-
ously asking about the current
health of that tried civil liberties
fighter. Justice William o. Doug
las. Justice Douglas was danger
ously injured by his horse and
has been a long time in Arizona
recovering.
He is due back at work March
l3. Justice Black, who visited him
for a week recently, found him
in good shape and fretting to
return.
The new search and seizure
opinion also will raise the ques-
ton OF when will the court settle
down. Liberal jurists say it rep
resents the reversal of an opinion
handed down only last year in
the Trupiano case, which declared
police had to obtain search war
rant If there were time.
This point was made strongly
by Justice Frankfurter in his in
sistence that the court was "giv-
ing fair ground for the belief that
the law Is the expression Of
chance contingencies in the
choice of successors.
Justice Frankfurter was the
voice of the liberals, which is not
usual these days, but he was be-
ing consistent. He has often op-
posed them while they were in
the majority because, he said they
shifted the courts ground too far
and too fast.
Evening star., 1950-02-21

in that sector ended, the two of
them existing on what they could
find to eat. The grandmother
died in December, but the little
girl is now in the safe haven of
her uncle's home, surrounded by
friendly new neighbors. She is
part Of the quota Of displaced
persons accented by the United
States.
Not so heart-warming was q
story carried that same day out
of Washington. It told Of another
investigation" into the opera
tions Of the Displaced Persons
Commission by a Senate subcom-
mittee named by Chairman Nc
Carran Of the Judiciary Commit
tee. The commissions work in
this country and in Europe has
had the benefit Of almost un-
remitting investigation from the
day 1t was set up. One congress
sional party after another has
found time to visit the camps in
Europe and bring home reports.
Almost without exception, the
Congressman, individually and in
groups, have reported favorably
on the commissions operations.
Action on Bill Held Up.
In the meantime, Chairman Nc
Carran has used the power of his
position to hold. up action on the
bill passed by the House last year
to liberalize the terms Of the orig
fnal Displaced Persons Act. De-
spite the pressure Of majority
sentiment in both houses for such
legislation and despite the fact
that every month that passes rem
ders the situation of the displaced
persons more miserable, he has
been able to stall Senate action
His most tiagrant performance
Evening star., 1950-02-21

sit tight and Constantine BROWN
await the first move from Wash
ington and London. The pam
icky reaction in the United States
and in Western Europe to the
prospective destruction by these
bombs, If they are ever released,
has made Soviet leaders confident
that the West will overlook the
disastrous effects of its previous
dealings with Moscow and will
try another appeasement con-
ference.
Public Fright Counted On.
The fact that President Tru-
man and Secretary Of State Ache
son have rejected another three
way conference is not taken seri-
ously by the Politburo.' Its mem
bers are convinced that under
pressure from a frightened public
the American and British govern
ments soon will ask the U. S. S. r.
w SOllo1oC1 Oubld 1llS tllC llCW OC-
structive weapons. The Russians
base their expectations on the re-
markable phenomenon which oc-
ours in the West whenever a new
destructive weapon is perfected.
Soon after the A-bomb was
used against Japan and we be-
lieved that we had a monopoly
on that weapon, a widespread
campaign was launched in this
country to give the bomb to the
Russians, lest they make their
own and mercilessly slaughter US.
The fact that at that time the
Soviet possessed neither the
formula nor the know-how to pro-
duce the bomb seemed to make no
difference to the hackers of the
campaign.
The American people were told
by certain scientists, newspaper
and radio commentators and civic
groups of the terrors which would
be visited on the people of this
country If we kept the dread
secret to ourselves. The fact that
Evening star., 1950-02-21
On the Record
Chinese Aid for Indo.C China Guerrillas
Likely to Result From Pact With Russia

War 111-which the American
mind falsely projects as future
possibility, instead Of seeing clear
ly that it is already in its fifth
or sixth year-the subsection of
Asia is the flanking movement
against the West, in which Indo-
China plays a critical strategic
role. If Ho Chi Mini triumphs
there, no Ear Eastern expert whom
/ know believes that Siam and
Burma can long be held. And
these are the rice bowl of India.
which by Communist conquest of
them would be rocked to its eco
nomic foundations.
The situation in Malaga is al
ready critical and could hardly be
maintained were the surrounding
world to fall. But the loss of
Malaga would tear the financial
foundations from under Great
Britain herself, removing the last
hope OF closing the dollar gap.
Great Britain cannot earn suffi-
clent dollars by exports of Scotch,
tweeds and porcelain to America,
but only by Malaya's raw ma
terials.
Economics Part of Plan.
Although the Russians believe
IN economic determinism, they
have never made politics subser-
Went to economics. Economics
always serve their plan of world
conquest. Food and raw materials
are Weapons-Weapons to use or
withhold for the purpose of re-
warding the faithful or stran-
Cling an enemy-and the enemy
takes precedence.
If the worst comes to the worst
in Asia, what then will the West
do? Shall we always postpone
thinking until after the event?
The Moscow agreement, regard
less of secret codicils, shows that
the pact is military and directed
against Japan-i.e., against the
United States.
Under the terms of this Russo
Chinese alliance, any American
attempt to halt the conquest of
Asia by military countermeasures
even such passive ones as estab-
llshlng air bases in Japan, can be
interpreted as aggression. So
could a separate peace.
Along the whole line the Rus
slams maintain the initiative, in
contemptuous confidence, and
without trace of fear.
1t is. therefore. hard to ina
glne peace talks which would not
mean further surrenders.