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Evening star., 1951-02-02
Star Reporter Wins
AP Prize
In Writing Contest
BY the Associotsd Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. flames j.
Cullinane. reporter for The Wash
ington Evening Star. and Mike
Meiese of the Salisbury md }
Times, today were adjudged win
ners of top awards in the first
annual news-writing contest con-
Quoted by the Chesapeake Asso-
citation of the Associated Press.
Mr.. Cullinane won in the met
ropolltan newspaper division with
his story on the last graduating
class at Central High School. Two
other reporters on The Star won
honorable mention in the same
class. They are Charles j. Var
brough. for a story titled "Engi-
neer Cools Sidewalk" and Robert
c. Rollings, for "56 Fortune Tell
ers."
Mr.. Cullinane and Mr.. Meiese
will receive Savings Bonds, the
latter for a sorry titled ocean
City Band Leader"
Others Receive Prizes.
Ten-dollar prizes for runner-up
stories were won by John Good
speed of the Baltimore Evening
Sun for a story headlined ;sFloat-
ing Crap Came" and by Dick
Moore of the Salisbury Times for
his "Seagoing Railroaders.
Honorable mention also was
given Terry Randall and Russell
Baker of the Baltimore Sun for
No Merry Christmas for North
eastern Prisoners; A Vernon
Davis of the Hagerstown Herald
for Lake Set Afire," and Betty
Sullivan of the Frederick News
for "Catoctin Furnace"
w. T. Delaplaine, co-publisher
of the Frederick News and Post,
advanced to the Craftsmanship of
the Chesapeake AP Association
today. He succeeded Arnold
Dame, publisher of the Cam
bridge Banner, at the association S
annual meeting.
Better Maryland Coverage.
John j. McMullen, president of
the Times and Alleganian Co.,
which publishes the Cumberland
Times and News, moved into Mr..
Delaplaine' former Office of vice
chairman Henry Decker Cf Fred
erick was reelected treasurer ard
Max Fullerton, Baltimore chief
of the Associated Press, was re-
elected as secretary.
Ed Young, Baltimore Sun city
editor, recommended in his report
as chairman of a continuing study
committee improved news cov-
erage in Southern Maryland, and
closer liaiSon with Government
and military agencies.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Maj. Bonning Receives
|Five-Yeur Sentence
BY the Associated Press

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Feb.
"A United States Army general
court martial today sentenced Maj.
Harold D. Banning, former finance
officer of Berlin military post, to
five years at hard labor and
fine Of $4,000 for misusing more
than half million dollars in
Army funds.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Early Action Urged
On Prince Georges
Government Survey

| Inc Prlnce Georges county
Commissioners today were told
that governmental survey must
be initiated now. and that it
should be done through a three
member special committee which
should be established within a
week.
Calling for the action was Will
liam r. Turner, executive secre-
tary of the Citizens Committee
for Good Government.
Mr.. Turner told the commits
sioners, meeting in the County
Service Building at Hyattsville,
that the recommendations "of a
comprehensive survey are badly
needed by the citizens of this
county"
Many of the problems that
face the county cannot be solved
until its citizens are fully informed.
The survey movement from it's
inception has been a citizens
movement-a genuine desire to
approach the problems of the
county on a constructive and OBJ
jective basis.
I'VE must come to a common
understanding today on the steps
necessary to initiate the survey, I"
Mr.. Turner said.
Mr.. Turner told the Commits
sioners that newspaper reports
had stated April l has been set
as the tentative date "for tackling
survey details" He declared his
group feels that a delay until
April l is undesirable.
There are a number of reasons
for expediting the survey" the
citizens representative, continued.
THE recommendations are badly
needed. You would be much bet
ter able to prepare your budget
this year.
Mr.. Turner said some of the
survey recommendations may re-
late to problems arising out of the
possible dispersal of Federal
agencies. He declared it conceiv-
able that the recommendations
may require emergency action at
next years short" session of the
Maryland Legislature. He asserted
the results of the survey should
be available well in advance" of
the 30-day session.
In suggesting steps that should
be taken to start the study within
week, Mr. Turner said the tenta-
tive scope should be settled and
bids invited by March l. A con-
tract should be let by April l, he
said, making it possible to set
January l "as the approximate
completion date, including publi-
cation Of the recommendations I"
The Commissioners were told
that the county's legislative dele
cation is interested to know the
scope of the survey. He said they
need to know so that current leg
islation can be tailored to imple-
ment the study.
Regarding the special commit
tee, Mr.. Turner recommended it
include member of the Board
OF Commissioners, one member of
the legislative delegation and a
third person having professional
background in the field of local
government.
I'VE believe that the third men,
Der on the special committee
should be chosen specifically to
represent the interest of citizens.
Frankly, the Citizens Committee
would like to select this member" +"
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Teen-Aee Programs

The Seat Pleasant Capitol
Heights-Maryland Park Recrea-
ton Board will hold a teen-age
program at 8 pm. each Saturday
at the Teen-Age Club in the Capt.
tol Heights Firehouse. Mrs. Helen
Mckay of Seat Pleasant is chair
man.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Glasses Sturt Toniqht

Glasses for the second semester
of the Washington-Lee Night
High School begin tonight. Six
teen courses are being offered
from to 10 pm. on Monday.
Wednesday and Thursday of each
week.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
U. Of Va. Speaker Named

FREDERICKSBURG, VA, Feb.
2.-P)-Representative Rivers,
Democrat, of South Carolina will
be the convocation speaker at
Mary Washington College of the
University Of Virginia Wednesday.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
" Dance Tonight

The Bethesda "Y" Cottage will
sponsor a dance tonight in Glen
brook Country Club on Rockville
Pike. Dick Stretton's orchestra
will provide the music.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Dinner in ForestviIIe

The women of Browns Chapel
Methodist Church will sponsor a
turkey dinner from 1903 pm.
tomorrow in the Forestville (Va.)
Grange Hall.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
League to Present PIuy

The Potomac Zone Walther
League will present one-act play
contest at 7::30 pm. tomorrow in
Christ Lutheran Church, Six
teenth and Gallatin streets NV.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Ashton Church Dinner

The Women's Society of Chris
tian Service will hold an oyster
and ham dinner at 4 pm. tomor.
row in the Ashton (Md.) Meth
odist Church.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23

cooperative during the year.
The annual statement of operations
given to each patron showed his saw
ings and carried the following in
formation relative to the savings
"This amount should be taken into
consideration when preparing your
personal income tax returns"
The Farmers Union Oil Company
of Lewistown listed no accounts re-
ceivable nor accounts payable, since
it has been the policy of the stock
holders to operate the cooperative
on a cash basis.
Reelected to the board of direct
ors were Otto Keller, president;
Dean Archer, Grass Range, vice
president, and Albert Pospisil, sec
retary treasurer. New board members
elected were Wencil Vanek, Brooks,
and E. E. Kindshey, Lewistown, both
replacing Bernard Lewis, Lewistown
and Don Seidel, Ross Fork.
The cooperative has 436 stock
holders and more than 800 patrons.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

classes of that day, whose food and
| luXures were produced by slave Ia
| Dor, Roman institutions and civili-
zation seemed as eternal as the seven
hills on which the city was built.
The late President Sisson of the Uni
versity of Montana once said that Rome
was falling for 500 years, but nobody
knew it, All, that the people wanted
was bread and circuseS.' 1t should also
be recalled that during the centuries
of Rome's decay, the Christian church
| spread throughout the empire and be-
came the dominant religion. Even the
Roman emperors found it polite to be
Christians. But the Christian church
of that day did not generate enough
righteousness to save the empire from
moral decay and destruction
Last Sunday morning, Howard K.
Smith reported that after listening to
the UN debates in the Assembly, he
had come to the conclusion that our
diplomacy was bankrupt, that there
was no sincerity in it. No one believed
what he said.
Dean Acheson was talking politics
for home consumption, so that Sen.
Joe Mccarthy could not ACCUSE him of
appeasing the Communists.
Insincerty is the cardinal vice in
our public life today. There are only
a few politicians who have convic-
tions that they will stand up for in
the face of what they think is popu-
lar disapproVal Our editors and re-
porters write the views of the publish
ers rather than their own. The radio
commentators and newscasters follow
the line laid down by the owner. Po-
liticaI platforms are written to get
votes. They are usually forgotten when
the election is over with This prac-
tice of purchasing political office at
the expense of convictions is just as
corrupting as the transfer of cold cash.
This situation is, very definitely, based
every man for himself and the Devil
take the hindmost. The prize for sue
cess is so magnificent and the penalty
for failure so degrading, that every
one is engaged in a mad scramble to
succeed. No one can afford to be handi-
capped by unpopular convictions nor
by public activities that will interfere
with getting the dollars or winning
public office. This is the thing that is
corroding our politics and public moral
ity.
The only solution is a cooperative
system. In my judgment the central
theme in the Gospel of Jesus is the
Brotherhood of men, the Kingdom of
God on earth. Jesus hoped to gener-
ate that spirit in the minds of men,
who would thus be inspired to build
o cooperative world where it would
be each for all, and all for EACH
If we are to escape the moral dis
indignation of the Roman Empire, we
must ChriStianize our economic system
as well as the family and our politics.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
NMC ON THE FARM TRAINING PROGRAM ONLY One
OF ITS kind I'm MONTANA

room instruction covering every one
of these phases.
Farm instruction is taught on the
farms of veterans themselves. Each
individual has a chance to present
his own special problems, and help
solve them.
Such things as the keeping of eff
ficient production records, new en-
terprises, utilization of labor and
more efficient farming practices are
discussed.
Since June veterans have also
learned the various types of grain
harvesting equipment, better methods
of harvesting grain and caring for
machinery, how to handle and store
grain, and how to utilize range and
raise livestock.
i, Veterans also conduct tours of
state experiment stations, and study
such things as outbreaks of diseases
among cattle in actual out-of-class
instruction. For example, during re-
cent outbreak of Anaplasmosis among
cattle on the Rocky Boy Indian Res
ervation, veterans went to Rocky
Boy to study the disease at first
hand. They studied how it was mani
tested, the extent of infection, and
how it could be best controlled. They
learned that the cattle would be
tested at the fall roundup, and any
infected cattle would be condemned
and sold for slaughter.
The OFT program also brings in
professional men from surrounding
areas to give additional instruction
that could not be obtained here.
Supervisor for the district is A.
w. Johnson and field supervisor. is
Basil C. Ashcraft. = NOMOCO,
Northern Montana College.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
Chicago Unions To Open Eye
Care Center

CHICAGO-(CNS)-Pla are be-
ing made for fall opening of the
Union Eye Care Center in this city's
Loop area. Thirty Chicago area UNI
ions and joint boards and one local
cooperative, with total membership
OF 10000, will together own the cen
ter. Members of these organizations
and their families will be able to get
eye examinations, correction of visu-
al defects, and eyeglasses at or near
cost. Savings will return to the mem
Der organizations. The center, which
will be directed by topnotch eye
doctor, is the outgrowth of an inten-
sive organizing effort by the member
bodies, the Council for Cooperative
Development and the Cooperative
League of the USA.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
Reasoning of Catholic
Clergy Is Sound
BY JOHN McGUFFEY, Roman


Sunday mornings paper carried a
report of the pronouncement made by
the leading churchmen of the Roman
Catholic Church of this country in re-
gard to our increasing moral corrup-
ton in public affairs. They compared
our condition with the moral decay
that occurred in the Roman Empire.
They said that it was moral decay that
was responsible for the down fall of
the Roman Empire rather than the
invasion of the barbarians from the
north They believe that we are now
in greater danger from internal cor
ruption than from Communism from
without
think their reasoning is sound as
far as it goes. The trouble with these
prelates is that they do not take into
account the economic forces that are
the cause for this moral decay. While
the Roman Empire was being built,
enormous fortunes were accumulated.
Large landed estates were built up
and were worked by gangs of slaves.
The Independent formers, who had
built Rome were displaced, crowded
into the cities, and were recruited into
the Roman Legions to extend the bord-
ers of empire Their descendants were
placed in far off garrisons to guard the
ramparts When Rome fell, the old
Romans with their rugged virtues were
gone. While the empire was decaying
from within, Roman civilization put
up a magnificent front. Wealth ac-
cumulated, vast public works and high
ways were constructed. To the upper
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23

HAVRE-Northern Montana col
lege is the only institution of higher
learning in the state that features
an on the farm training program.
| Most instruction in this course is car
ried out in high school or primary
schools, although approximately one
half of the veterans in the state are
enrolled in some form of OFT.
The institution of on-the-farm-
training is financed by the. Veterans
administration, which contracted the
state vocational agriculture depart
ment to teach the course. Here at
Northern it is night course, taught
every Friday. '-' 5e@ se8
The object of the OFT program
is to furnish additional training
which Veterans could not otherwise
receive on the farm" says Joseph
Quinn, instructor.
This can be done both by class
instruction and outside work, it was
explained. Each individual must have
a minimum of 200 hours of class
instruction per year, forty per cent
of which is farm shop work. In adj
dition he must spend 100 hours per
year at outside work on farm instruc-
ton if he is a manager of farm, and
SO hours per year if he works for
farmer.
FOURTEEN MAJOR COURSES F.
The program consists of IA major
courses of study. Included among
these are farm management, farm
business management, farm imple-
ment and machinery, farm shop, live
stock production, soil management
and small grain production. Since
this program started in June, stu
dents have had GA hours of class
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
MAURY'S Foreign
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lei in Korea are some valuable chrome
and tungsten mines An Armistice is
always agreed on, on lines held by each
army Ninety days have been fooled
away by cunning talk to see if the
American Armies can get these chrome
and tungsten mines Brave Tom Hamil-
ton of Gordena, California gave his
life to get these mines.
WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE
There is more chrome in Saltwater
County than in Korea; there is more
tungsten in Granite County than in
Korea. This war is costing us 500
million each day. One days expendi-
ture of $40 million in opening up the
chrome and tungsten mines in Mon
tana would put more of these metals
into our factories than we can ever
get out of Korea.
War is barbarous, war is waste, war
is useless, war is He'll. ss ${t
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
Legal Advertising
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE
STATE OF MONTANA, IN AND FOR
THE COUNTY OF LEWIS AND
CLARK.
No. a2.975
S U NJ NJ o N S

-
JOSEPH MARK McGILLIS, Plaintiff,
MARY ANN McGILLIS. Defendant.
THE STATE OF MONTANA Sends
Greetings to the Above Named Defend
ants, and to Each of Them:
You are hereby summoned to answer
the complaint in this action which is
filed in the office of the Clerk of this
Court, a copy of which is herewith
served upon one of you in each County
wherein any of you reside, and to file
your answer and serve copy thereon
upon the plaintiffs attorney within
twenty days after the service of this
Summons, exclusive of the day of serv-
ice, and in case of your failure to APP
pear or answer, Judgment will be TAX
en- against you, by default, for the re-
lief demanded in the complaint. This
action is brought by plaintiff for the
purpose of obtaining Decree OF ADJ
solute Divorce from defendant and to
obtain custody of the minor child Of
plaintiff and defendant, namely, Mark
Lewis McGilliS The action is brought
by plaintiff against defendant upon the
ground of extreme cruelty by defend
ant toward plaintiff by the threat OF
grevious bodily injury and of bodily
injury dangerous to life and the re-
peated infliction of bodily injury and
personal violence upon plaintiff and
the repeated threat of bodily injury
dangerous to. life by defendant to
plaintiff.
Witness my hand and the Seal of
said Court this 9Th day of November,
1951.-
COURT SEAL)
WILL WHALEN, Clerk
BY RAE @. SMITH, Deputy Clerk
GRAYBILL, BRADFORD e. SMITH
ITO First National Bank Building
Great Falls, Montana
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
s.. st Nov. 8, thru 16, %, 80.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
FOURTEEN MAJOR COURSES
CONTINUED from page one)

4. The court erred in receiving
testimony from an unauthorized at
torney (Cedor Aronow), law part
ner of County Attorney Hoyt. Citing
the rule of law that g. it is i'm
proper, and the officer has no au-
thority, to take his prisoner to a
third person before taking him to a
magistrate !" The defense called
attention to the section of trial
transcript where Aronow had taken
an active part in the questioning of
Dryman and had helped obtain the
confession before charge was placed
against the defendant.
5. The court erred in permitting
the confession and other information
to be introduced without the endorse
ment of any known witnesses names
thereon. Under "due process" it is
the constitutional right of the ac-
cused to know who his accusers are.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
LEWIST0WN FARMERS UNION OIL RETIRES Lock
OF PATR0N-EARNED STOCK

The Farmers Union Oil COMPANY
of Lewistown retired $2,268.42 worth
of stock earned by shareholder-pat-
rons during the years 1886 to 1910
inclusive at an annual meeting of the
enterprise, in Lewistown, November
16, according to Otto Keller, Ross
Fork, President.
Of the cash distribution made,
$2,212.35 was Earned by holders of
common stock, Keller told delegates,
and represented only that amount
over $500 share of stock accumu-
lated by each of As farmers, most
of whom are charter members of
the organization.
PAID 1865 REAL AND PERSONAL
PROPERTY TAXES
The annual financial statement of
the cooperative showed $965.23 paid
in taxes for the year, which does not
include $255.37 in social security
taxes. Officials of the organization
said the cooperative had paid a sub
stantial amount of taxes every year
SINCE eSldDllSIileuL III IJOO-
The statement of operations for
1851 showed a gain in business done
for patrons over the previous year
amounting to $4,000. The co-opera-
tive handles fuel, lubricants and other
farm supplies.
Savings amounted to 80 per cent
allocated in the form of capital con-
tributions to patrons according to the
amount of business each did with
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
Another Maury, Hamilton
Fan

Mr.. Harry Billings
Helena, Montana
Dear Mr.. Billings: , ,4,iss5
| couldn't use. the sub blank on ac-
count of Mr.. Maury's article ION the
opposite side, but you'll know what
the two bucks is for. Mr.. Maury al
ways does good job, and in the Voice
of Nov. 2, Mr.. Hamilton wrote one
that couldn't be sneezed at
Folks around here just about wear
my papers out, but you know how
they are when it comes to subscribing.
Yours truly,
KYLE PUGH,fgyts ssFtl
Yuma, Arizona ssss. fts1fE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23

LOS ANGELES (CNS) Pacific
Coop oil well No. 4, on which Pa
cific Supply Cooperative started
drilling last month in the Seal Beach
area, was down $500 feet on Novem-
Der 1. The first three Pacific wells
in the new coop field tapped the
producing zone at about 5000 feet,
and now average so to rs barrels a
day, per well.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
For News That's Fair

Frank Edwards, news analyst
for the American Federation of
Labor is on the air from Radio
Station KFDW, Helena, Monday
through Friday of each week. Mr..
Edwards program comes on from
1000 to 10:15 each evening.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-11-23
NAVAL ". SPRATT
INVESTIGATIONS

In contending that Judge Hatters-
ly should have granted trial by
jury at the May 29 hearing in light
of the naval medical survey records
that became available to the defense
only few days before the hearing,
the defense asks the supreme court
to compare the naval findings-com-
piled after exhaustive investigation
over a two and one-half month pc
riod with a series of B. and 8-min-
ute psychiatric examinations per-
formed by Drs. Wilder and Spratt.
The Navy had discharged Dryman
because their findings were that he
was insane" Drs. Wilder and Spratt,
calledfin to make an examination by
the Governor, found, after a total Of
2 M-3 hours investigation that the
youth; was sane at the time he killed
Pellet -more than month before.
Upon the findings of Wilder and
Spratt, and in spite of the somewhat
more exhaustive examinations carried
on by the Navy, the Governor twice
refused !. to stay execution before
the May 29, hearing. At the May 20
hearing, although contending Dryman
was sane, Wilder admitted that ode
PENDANT had no volition or control
at all =. :" over his actions. 81
The defense further argues that
Judge Hattersly, instead of giving
weight to the hasty mental finding of
Wilder and Spratt, should have put
the question up to "the province of
impaneled jury after OPP