The Sidney herald., 1955-02-24
KiWanis Has
interesting Session

The regular weekly MONDAY lunch
con of the Sidney kiWanis club held
today Thursday at the Lalonde hotel
combined the annual Farmers Day
meeting and an interclub meeting
with Circle.
President Carl Johnson of the Sid
ney Kiwanis club expressed deep ap-
probation to the farmers and their
TO the klWanlans who entertained ru-
raj guests, many of whom were IN
town Tor the Town and Country Insti-
tute.
Lane R. Potter was indicted as a
new member OF the club. his member
ship sponsored by Otto Habedank.
Lane was presented with a Kiwanis
instruction book and was urged bv AL
Johns to study it carefully.
Herb FiSser, chairman of the Agri-
culture committee of the Jaycees, dis
cusSed their new program, which he
winning Farmers of America, and sec
Ond. to lnStll in the farmer a desire
to be more closely connected with his
community. Lyle Larson, Henry NoU-
meyer, Orvald Norgaard and Archie
Strand were runnersup in the rating
for Farmer of America James Stracf
was elected by this committee as the
outstanding farmer for 1855.
President Johnson also presented stu
dent KlWanian Marvin Anderson. who
spoke briefly on the fine work of
the club from a students standpoint
and expressed his appreciation at hav-
ing been given the privilege of taking
IN the meetings and learning first hand
Of the worthwhile projects of the or
g~anization.
The president then called on Babe
Turner who introduced DR.. Il. d.
Benson, a past president of the club.
who presented a gift to H. F. Mikel-
son. DR.. Benson said it was a very
rare occasion for a club to have a
district governor as a member and
that the gift ne was presenting from
the past presidents was in recognition
OF the honor which Mr.. Mikelson had
brought to the local organization thru
ms election to that office.
The president also commented on
the 1act Ihat the annual farmers day
and the lnterclub meeting with Circle
were being observed at the same time.
He called on Rev. A. n. Backman. pres
1dent OF the Circle CLUB, who in turn
introduced their one n only past
president, John Jordan and his wife
and their daughter and granddaugh-
ter Mr.. Porter and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lockrem. President Backman present.
ca the travelling plaque, which is cir
culdted by way of these inter-club
meeAngS TO Past Pres. Dean Beck. MIR.
Backman explained that the purpose Of
tnls plaque is to encourage in
terclub meetings and fellowship
among members of all clubs. He
stated that Fort Peck has a mem
oershlp of %, n q of them at
tended the 1nterclub meeting at Circle,
WnIch will be a difficult percentage
10 peat. Sidney will travel to Glendive
with the plaque next week.
Lean Davidson, member of the XII
vans program committee, presented
kelph Klmbal of Meyers, Montana, as
the guest speaker for the day. Mr..
kimbau gave a very interesting slide
was there as an exchange student. He
SAID India was a land of contrast,
where one farmer would have a cart
wholly made by hand from wood,
while another would have one of steel
pipe on rubber wheels. In terms of the
Indian, Mr.. Klmbau said, this was
comparable to owning a Chevrolet or
a Cadillac.
Special guests Of the luncheon were
E. j. Duncan, St. Paul, agricultural
development agent for the Great
Northern; Chas. E. Jarrett, Great Falls
agricultural agent for the c.. N. for
Bob Kurland of Denver, Phillip So and
All American B. B. from Oklahoma
A & M; Ted Sorensen of Dutton, for
merly chairman Of the Agriculture
Administration Co; DR.. Dean Johnson,
professor of chemistry at the state
college; Jesse Green, Butte, ACM fer
tlllzer Div; John Farmer, Billings
Phillip 66; Elaine Urbaczka, Miles
City, home economist for Montana Da-
kota Utilities.
The above were visiting speakers in
Sidney this week for the first Town
and Country Institute to be held here