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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Browning Teachers At
Educational Meeting

Mrs. Forbes Bottomly, Brown
ing high school home economics
instructor, and Robert W. Harris.
vo-ag instructor, returned from
Billings early this week, where
they had attended a joint confer
ence of all the services making up
the State Department of Voca-
tional Education.
Besides the services locally rep
resented, it includes Trade d
Industry, Distributive Trades, In
dustrial Arts and Vocational
Guidance.
Both teachers report 4 very
helpful and worthwhile program
in their respective sections.
Mr.. Harris was honored with
the state presidency of the Mon
tana Vocational Agriculture Asso-
citation.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Trophy Belt Buckles
For FLA R0de0

Five handsome trophy be t
buckles will be awarded winners
at the FLA rodeo, which will be
staged in connection with the
Browning Junior Fair. Prior to
the Junior Fair they will be ex-
hibited in the display window of
a Browning business establish.
ment.
The events for which the buck.
les will be awarded include bare.
back riding, calf roping. break.
away roping. steer decorating
and all-round cowboy.
AS many of the top hands in
the State High School Rodeo at
Augusta a few weeks ago are
FLA members, quite a list Of
high class contestants are ex-
pected to compete, Such boys as
Ron Norman. Pugs Guardipee,
Bill Devereaux and Clare G
Home Gun will uphold the honor
of the local chapter.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
FLA Forage
Grasses Win At
Billings Event

Browning FLA Chapter for the
first time in its history made an
entry in the Midland Empire Fair
at Billings held August IL to IS.
The entry included two fine ex-
hibits of native forage grasses,
developed for use at the North
Montana State Fair at Grea t
Falls.
Because of the great distance
the exhibits were sent, the Chap
ter forage team-Wayne Goss and
Charles Armour did not make
the trip.
Word has been received that
the two exhibits finished first
and third, respectively, in COM
petition with many of the best
chapters in the eastern part of
the state, including B filings,
Miles City and Huntley Project.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Eastern Young
Woman Seeks
TOWr1 MayOrship

From Twin Road, Pennsylvania
came an inquiry last week from
Rosana M. Thomas. who gives
her age as 80, height 5 feet-4 in
ches. attractive. with sense of
responsibility, addressed to Bert
Fitzgerald, president of the local
Chamber of Commerce.
What this seeming little sug-
airy lump of exoticism wants is
the job of mayor or councilwoman
of Browning if there is a vacan-
cy.
This is in part the wording of
her applications:
If you haven't a mayor or
need a councilwoman. woul d
like to apply for one of the posi-
tions. This. | know. is highly
irregular for a nonresident to
hold public Office. Maybe that
could be overlooked
Since there are no vacancies
in the Town administrative set
up, Rosana's application was of
no avail.
The obliging Chamber chair.
man, Fitzgerald, made prompt
reply to the ambitious little Penn
sylvanian. presumably with these
sympathetic words: Very, very
sorry"
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Junior Fair
Plans Are Being
Completed

Last minute plans are being
completed this week for t h {
eighth annual Browning Junior
Fair to be held September Ia, IL
and 16. 1t is expected that some
$50 All Club and FLA members
of Glacier County will exhibit
and take part in the program.
Featured in the program will
be agricultural and livestock ex.
hibits, educational displays, par
ade, All contests and races, dis
trict FLA rodeo and fat stock
sale.
Judging in all departments will
start at 8 a. m. on Friday, Sep
TENDER ID. For this reason all
entries will have to be made by
8p. m. the previous evening and
all exhibits will have to be in
place by 9 that evening.
The texhibit halls and barns
will be open for inspection by the
public on the following Satur-
day morning at 8. Contests and
race events open to All Clu b
members will feature the after
noon program beginning at 2::3O.
The final day, Sunday, the ex-
hibit halls will open at 8 a. m.
From 10 until noon all livestock
exhibitors will be busy prepar-
ing their animals for the parade,
which begins at 100. Immed-
lately following the livestock par
ade the fat stock sale will take
place.
The closing feature of the fair
will be the FLA rodeo beginning
at 2:3O p. m. Entries in the ro-
dec are open to members of FLA
Chapters of G lacie r District.
Chapters expected to enter teams
include Cascade. Conrad, Chou
teau, Fairfield, Simms, V a i e r
and Browning.
All in all, the 1851 Junior Fair
is expected to be one of the best
ever.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Town Water
Tank Contract
Let For $4,000

A contract involving expendi-
ture of approximately $4,000 for
improvements upon the water
tank of the Town of Browning
has been let to Valley Mercan-
tile Co. of Hamilton.
In the improvement, as pro-
posed by the contracting firm, a
circulating water system in re-
placement of the present surge
system will be installed.
Past troubles in the distribu-
ton system are attributed to the
inability of the water supply to
circulate.
In the circulating system there
will be an inlet-a pipe that will
feed water into the tank, and an
outlet-a pipe through which the
water supply will drop down into
water mains.
With the present surge sys-
tenn one pipe must function both
as an inlet and outlet. Under the
circumstances the destructive ac-
ton of frost, as is already OBJ
vious from maintenance costs
records of the water department.
the circulating system is the only
solution.
The project is to be gotten un-
der way next week, according
to Mayor Wynegar.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
0. E. S. Notice

Browning Chapter, o. Z. S.
will hold the annual banquet in
the Yegen banquet room next
Monday evening. Sept. 10 at 6.
Mrs. Francis Halverson of Cut
Bank, Worthy Grand Matron,
will be the honor guest, she be-
ing present on her official visit.
All members of the O. F. S.
are invited.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Air Force Reflections

Failure on vision tests is the
most common cause for rejection
IN the air force.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Death Claims Mrs.
Josephine liep|lart;;
Funeral Tomorrow

Death claimed Mrs. Josephine
Liephart, 70, wife of H arve y
Liephart, at the local hospital
Wednesday morning at 7:3O after
a several months lingering ILL.,
ness.
Funeral services will be held at
the Methodist Church tomorrow
Saturday afterdoon at 2, with
the Rev. Edgar B. Smith oficiat-
ing. Burial will be in the Brown
ing cemetery.
Mrs. Liephart was born on the
old Teton Agency, in the vicin-
ity Of the present city of Chou
teau June Is, 1872, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Langley,
early day residents of that sec
ton.
For a short time she attended
the Carlisle Indian School in
Pennsylvania, abandoning her
studies and returning home be-
cause of illness. She was among
the first students to be enrolled
at the beginning of the memoir
able Fl. Shaw Indian School.
For two years she was captain
of the famed Indian girls basket
ball team of that school. Taking
on all challengers. the Fl. Shaw
team would tour the state, TAX
ing on both boys and girls teams,
leaving behind them sorrowful
and vanquished squads. Those
were the days when it was IN
thinkable for athletes to prosti-
tute their prowess and m g h
with whiskey and cigarettes.
On Christmas Day of 1903 oc-
Cured the marriage of M is s
Langley to Harvey Liephart, the
event being at school, where the
groom was employed in the In
dian Service as a baker.
After various residence, includ-
ing Great Falls and Spokane. the
I couple came to Browning, where
Mr.. Liephart was engaged in
business for several years.
From 1887 to 1949, when Mr..
Liephart retired from the Indian
Service, the couple resided at the
Cut Bank Boarding School, where
he was employed as a baker.
/ Since his retirement the couple
had made their home in Brown
ing.
The deceased is survived by
her husband and a number of
other relatives.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Card OF Thanks

Grateful to our many friends
for their devotions and t h e r
expressions of sympathy in our
bereavement. in the death of our
beloved wife and mother, the
late Mrs. Anna Lena VALLEY
Powell. we take this means of
expressing our heartfelt thanks.
Charles Powell ST., C harle s
Powell Jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Powell and family. Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen Powell and family.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Beauty Hint

For this years fashionable longer
coitfures, the wispy neckline hairs
need strong, !ong-lasting curl.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Maggie Fox's Home
Destroyed By Fire

Fire of unknown origin COM
pletely destroyed the home OF
Mrs. Maggie Fox, near Brown
ing late last Sunday, the misfor.
tune including loss of even most
of her clothing.
Mrs. Fox, who is an aged per.
son, had resided there since 1910.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
EveryOne's Duty

Every person and every COM
munity has part to play in the
civil defense program. Remoteness
from places considered probable
targets does not exempt any COM
munity from playing its part in the
overall program. since evacuee re-
ception and care must be planned,
and a support program organized.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Get I'm 4 Petition

II you don't feel capable Of ex-
pressing yourself in public, write
letters to the public officials or
others involved, or to the Voice Of
the People" columns in your local
newspapers. Or get up a petition.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
Enduring Blue

1t is believed by scientists that
the blue seen on mummy cases,
having lost nothing of its bright
ness, must be either ultramarine
or cobalt
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1951-09-07
No Greater Humiliation

From ancient times devout Arabs
and Jews alike have cherished
boards in obedience 10 church laws.
In their eyes there can be no great
er humiliation than loss Of beard.
Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
Chos. Lechner ST. In Highway Accident

Narrowly escaping serious in- jury, Charles Lechner ST, was resting at his home today fol lowing highway accident which almost completely wrecked his Seward Machine Shop pickup.
 The accident occurred Wednes- day evening, as MT. Lechner was returning home from the town of Homer. Nearing the third covered bridge, the pickup struck loose plank and skid ded off the road, rolling down gullcy. Mir Lechner was un- conscious, and has only a hay memory of the details of the ac- cident He regained his senses while being deposited in the Seward General Hospital by MT. and Mrs. John Walsh, passing motorists who found him in the wreck and rushed him to the hos pltal. He was attended by Dr. DelShcr for severe cuts about the face and head, but apparent ly there were no fractures or internal injuries.
 Mrs. Lechner stated that the pickup was found to be 75 per cent demolished when it was lowed into the shop yesterday. She said that MT. Lcchner would rest up few days before resum- ing his work.
 The entire Lechner family ex- pressed it's deep gratitude to Mr ana AIrs. Walsh fer tAc;r prompt and unstinting aid, without which MT Lechner might have suffered great physical harm from the combination of cold and his injuries.
Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
Conned : Sc1Emon Not Involved ;n Probe

Seattle-Alaska canned sal mon is in no way involved in the investigation by various fed eral agencies of fish sales to thc army, a spokesman for the in dustry pointed out this week.
 Loose use of the word pro cessed - instead of 'froZen' has caused many people to think that th 125,000 pounds of sal mon by federal court order at the Army's Auburn General De pot represented canned salmon, the spokesman said Many let ters have been received by the industry from people in Alaska and the United Stat 8.
 The canned salmon industry is an innocent bystander in this case, the spokesman declared. but the resultant publicity has led many people to believe that cans of salmon were seized. Ac- tually every pound involved was frozen, uncanned fish
 The spokesman explained that the industry very carefully in spccts it's products to insure high quality.
 Since l919,' he said, the industry, through the Northwest Branch of the National Gamers Association, has conducted it's own research to improve the pack ald make careful, scientific inspection of canned salmon be- fore it reaches the markets of the world. Careful inspection by a staff of trained men makes certain that every can of Alaska salmon meets the requirements of the US. Food and Drug Ad- riniStration. This rigid inSpec- tion applies to salmon whether it is for civilian or military con sumption.'
Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
C. of C. Endorses Development Boord Action

The Seward Chamber of Com merce at the regular noon lunch con meeting this week, endorsed action taken by the Alaska De VelOpment Board on six differ cnt issues.
 The Board has offered all DOS Slble assistance to the Interior Department in obtaining funds for the enlargement and i'm proVement of port and railroad facilities at Seward. Requests for additional appropriations will be made of Congress in the near future. With this in mind, the Development Board will give any assistance required of it.
 Secondly, the Board reiterated it's repeated recommendation to the Bureau of Land Managem9nt for the opening of lands on the kenai Peninsula which have been withdrawn from settlement.
 The third point was request to the Department of Labor for an autonomous office in Alaska which would aid contractors and labor in the settlement of dis putes and wage stabiliZation.
 The fourth letter recommend ed and requested the re-estab- lishment of an office of the De partment of Commerce in Alas ka.
 Fifth was the request to the Bureau of Public Roads, asking that all possible consideration oa given to the building of roads connecting every community in the Territory with a1tcrial ' gh- ways, thus giving now isolated communities access to their neighbors and hastening develop ment in the Territory, =~:.
 The Board also asked that an office of the American Automo- bile Association be established i'll Alaska.
 All six of these letters sent by the Development Board to the various organizations were en- dorsed by the Chamber of Com merce and copies of the endorse ment s5nt to the Board
 Members also discussed a change of meeting days, to in crease the number of meetings each month, 10 give prospective members better opportunity to attend.
 Cards are now ready for 1852 membership and ducs are due.
Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
4 :. .C. ne'eGses T252 Sailing Schedule

The 1852 summer schedule of sailings for Alaska Steamship Company passenger vessels has just been announced by H. N. Peterson, General Traffic Man ager
 The Alaska Line will operate the steamers Baranof, Denali, Alaska and Aleutian on twelve day trips with sailings from Se- attle every Wednesday and Fri day throughout the summer. Each ship will feature a distinc- tive itinerary. While all the lines vessels will call at Ketch- ikan, Juneau. and Seward this year, the ports of Petersburg, Cordova, Wrangell, Valdez. Sit ka and Kodiak are on the sched- ules of one or more of the ships. The steamer Denali visits Alas ka's three capitals-Juneau, the present one; Kodiak, the first capital under the Russian re- gime: and Sitka, where the Unit ed States took formal possession of Alaska in 1867.
 On May 23 the Aleutian is scheduled to make her first voy- age of the season, augmenting the steamers Denali and Bara- nof, presently in service. The Alaska will join the active fleet on June II.
 Beginning in June, Alaska travellers will be able to visit
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Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
Womun's Club Will Send Chrisfmos
 To Korea This Year

Instead of the usual exchange of Christmas gifts among mem b~rS of the Seward WOman'S S Club, each lady is asked to bring a dollar contribution for Care for Korea to the next meeting, Thursday, Dec. 13.
 The meeting will be held in the Methodist Church basement this month to allow more space for presentation of the program.
 Mrs. Roberta Thornton, pro gram chairman, has arranged for entertainment by Say Johnson S School of the Dance, which is a very popular group of entertain CTS.
 All Seward women are invited to attend the Christmas party meeting, but each visitor will be asked to contribute to the Ko- rean refugee, as well as the reg ular members.
 HoSteSseS for the evening are Mrs. Tom Jones, Miss Mary Ran dolph, Mrs. Reba Rose, Mrs. Jean EaStOn, and Mildred Kirkpatrick
Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
Civil Defes,sa Food Supplies and
 Emergency Feeding

Am rica's pitchers, bakers. grocers and milkmen were call ed upon recently by Federal Civil Defense Administration and the Department of Agricul- ture to help set up immediate plans for nationwide emergency civil defense 1scdlng in event of enemy attack ..-.
 The statement was made in an announcement that FCDA and the Department of Agricul- ture had reached agreement on detailed plans to provide ade- quate food for the nation under emergency attack conditions.
 We are counting on the peo- pie who know most about this problern--the food merchants and handlers thelnselVes-to as sist us in this program and make it work" Deputy FCDA Directo. James J, WadsWorth stated.
 E cDresgntatiVCs of the food industry are being asked to serve on state and local emergency food supply advisory commit tees to consult with civil de fense directors planning for transportation, distribution and control of food supplies neces- sary to sustain the people dur lns unusual circumstances, he said.
 Food hoarding or heavy stOckpiling is unnecessary, unde- sirable ard definitely unpatri otic in land where food is plen- tiful,' MT. WadsWirth said. One of the reasons is that if stored foods become damaged or spoil ed under attack conditions then eaten--there is a chance that much food poisoning might occur at time when everyone's efforts and strength would be needed for cari g for th - injured and restoring ,hN JmmuNty.
 The joint agreement spells out the responsibilities of the re- spective agencies. The Secretary of Agriculture is charged with production, processing and allo- eating food during the present emergency. In addition he will redistributa food supplies to damaged cities, to reception and evacuation areas, as requested by the FCDA Administrator under emergency conditions.
 The Federal Civil Defense Ad- ministration will provide plans and programs for emergency feeding of victims of attac.c. From time to time FCDA will transmit to regional and state civil defense directors additional information on the food plans in instruction m manuals and guides.
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Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
BULLETIN

Governor Ernest Gruening to- day announced the resignation oi Colono, Earl Landreti1 as Di- rector of Civilian Defense. and! inc appointment of Colonel James C. Crockett. who has been serving as Acting Director.
Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
fe StoV of |E:WARD D
 By Jay Stauter
XXVII
EWARD'S PART IN THE
 COAL CONTROVERSY
By Jay Stauter

always been tWo-fold. On the hand, the town has always Flded a minimum livelihood a certain number of workers commercial enterprises. in the heyday of early rail construction, when at least ouSand men Wer2 employed lin 50 miles of the tOWnsite in the town itself, retail ness boOmcd and there was lively easy opportunity for la6orcr, the small business and the professions. Yet we seen that Seward at the P time was becoming a sup Rnd transportation center for rapidly-groWing mining ac- on the kenai Peninsula in the Susitna Valley, which Independent of the progress e railroad. Hence, when new truction gradually ceased, G the Alaska Northern Com became progressively bank Seward did not die, but sted partially on the inn ate business from mining ity, and partially on the that the railroad would be tually completed. It was al the reality of the bird in hand, plus the hope of the in the bush, that kept Sew olive, During most of Sew 48 years of existence, CT practical reality alone, hope for the future alone, have prevented disaster. people of Seward somehow knack of hanging on to the in the hand, while at the time going after the two in |ush.
 1909 it had become pain clear, despite tna rather lily optimistic position of rd's newspaper, that only a le could bring about the letion of the Alaska North Railroad as a private pro Tn fact, only a certain sps- miracle could do the trick, that was the successful safe exploitation of the IuSka coal deposits, which the projected route of the ad from Seward to the Ra.
 5 beside the point Wheth-r facts indicate that neither Pal1aineS, nor the Shedd erS, nor the Frost-Osborn cate, nor any other inter group was in any actual ial position to complete roject, in 1909, regardless eventual rewards to be ted. History, as record of men did, depends as much belief as upon fact, and |ople of Seward fervently ed that only the limitations he private exploitation of coal lands prevented the ktion of the railroad, and cted accordingly.
 polk several years for the i've Proclamation of No r IT, 1906, to take full
 This was the order by ent Roosevelt withdraw ] Alaska coal land from h | e entry, and placing rritory's coal resources in me class as forest lands future, in the National !. We have already noted bokesmen for the Alaska T Railroad denied at the lat this prohibition would "bearish" effect upon
 prospects. The Seward (y, the organ of the Bal |rothers, said at the time
 fficient coal claims were
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Seward seaport record., 1951-12-07
Send Christmas Cards To The
 Boys In Service

Many of our Seward Boys will not get home for Christmas. It always makes the holiday little less bleak to hear from friends and acquaintances at home. The following addresses have been turned in for publication and it is hoped that others will be re ceiVed in time for next week issue.