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The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31

Mr.. and Mrs. John Marman Sr.
are staying at their sons home
and taking care of the family
during their absence.
Sofus Petersen left this morning
Tor Eugene, Oregon, where he
Will visit his father, Lars Petersen
with his brother, Peter NJ. Peter
sen and family, and with other
relatives.
Mrs. Irene Thinker and Mrs.
Fat Woods of Kildeer, North Da-
kota were Sidney visitors Monday.
calling on friends of the former
and the late Scott Gore. account
OF whose death covering his career
as an early day cowboy and rodeo
rider, appeared in The Herald
three weeks ago. Well known in
Rlchland and Mckenzie counties.
Gore had lived at the Shannon
Hotel which Mrs. Thinker operates
partly as a nursing home for five
years prior to his death.
Iver Carlson, who spent the win
ter IN Sidney, went back to his
farm north of Dore the first of
the week to prepare for spring
field work. He will spend the
crop season there.
John Murray was recently
transferred to Sidney as work
unit conservationist for Richland
County Soil Conservation district.
succeeding Henry Dierks who has
resigned from the S. c. Service
and moved to Wyoming to farm.
Murray was assigned to the Cul-
bertson district on transfer from
Fit. Benton, where he spent 16
months, when he got this assign
ment. He is originally from Will
ton, North Dakota.
Mrs. O'Nein Jones will leave
Williston this evening on the En-
pire Builder for Minneapolis to
be accompanied home by her
daughter, Irene Ann, who will
vacation here until after Easter.
Irene Ann is a sophomore in the
Visitation Convent in Minneapo-
lis, where she is attending school
this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gean Lalonde and
little daughter, Kathleen Theresa,
are now making their home at
Middletown, Pa, where Gean is
stationed in his work in the SER
vice. Gean, a graduate from the
School Of Law at the Montana
State University in Missoula, is
doing office work in the Claims
Department of the Army.
Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Jensen
returned Tuesday morning from
Ogden, Iowa, where Rev. Jensen
officiated at the marriage of a
niece. They report a fine trip
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PERSONALS

Carl Lowry and daughters and
Mrs. Bill Norton took their moth
er, Mrs. Clara Lowry, to Evans.
Colorado last week for an ex-
tended visit at the homes of her
daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. R. r,
Smith and family, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Van Beber. Mrs. Lowry
writes that they ran into a snow
storm IN Wyoming where the traf-
fic was heavy and it took them
an hour and a half to 90 a mile
and a half. They Travelled some
distance at % miles an hour be-
cause of the ice. They saw LARGE
vans, trucks and many car in
the barrow pits in the storm and
ice area.
DR.. and Mrs. c. o. Watkins
drove to Killdeer, n. Oak. TO-DAY
TO attend funeral services for Or
Watkins sister-in-law. Mrs. Raw
Watkins. The deceased is survived
by her husband and a grown fam
ily.
L. J.. Lee of the Sidney Electric
store attended a General Electric
dealers service meeting in VIII
hstOn Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. AlmOn Butka re-
turned last Thursday from Cali
fornlas where they enjoyed their
annual winter vacation VISITING AT
the homes of their daughters. Mr.,
and Mrs. Ralph Johnson and three
children, and Mr.. and Mrs. Steve
Bellezza and their two children
The JOhnsOns live at San lose
where Mr.. Johnson is EMPLOYED bv
the PA. Co., and Mrs. johnson
teaches at Campbell, a short dis
lance from San Jose. The Bellezzas
have a fine prune orchard in the
beautiful Santa Clara Valley al
Gllroy. Mr.. and Mrs. Butka, early
day settlers in the Enid commun-
ity, moved from there to Cali
fornia, where they lived for six
years, after which they returned
TO Enid a few years ago and more
recently have taken up their e
idence in Sidney. They have con
tinued to spend the winters in
California. This winter they tel
us they just took it easy" anc
enjoyed many beautiful drives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie Marmar
Jr.. took their six weeks old daugh-
ter, Victoria Marie, to Miles CITY
Sunday, where she is under medi-
cal care at Holy Rosary hospital
They were accompanied by Mrs
Marman'S mother, Mrs. Blanche
Means and Mrs. Fay Corkran
Latest reports r that the baby
IS making definite Improvement
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
Methodist WSCS Meets
"Wednesday, April 6

A sharing meal for the Lenten-
tide will be observed by the mem
bers of the Methodist WSCS at
100 Wednesday, April 6 in the
Sunday school rooms of the par
sonage. This will be followed by
the regular meeting of the WSCS
in the Fellowship room of the
church at 2 p. m.
Mary Circle will have charge
of the program, and members of
Ruth Circle will be the hostesses.
Election of officers for the en-
suing year will be held and other
topics of interest to the society
will be discussed. It is hoped that
a goodly number will attend both
meetings. April % is the date
set for the mother-daughter ban
quet.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
Delegates Named
To Attend
Girls State

Two girls from the junior class
of Sidney high school and one
from the junior class of Fairview
high school will again attend
Girls State, to be held at Rocky
Mountain College at Billings in
June, through the program spon-
Sored by the American Legion
Auxiliary. Delegates selected are
Julie Buchholz, sponsored by the
auxiliary, and Joan Gilster, spon-
sored by the Sidney Kiwanis club,
as a part of its youth activities
program. Alternates, who will at
tend in case the delegates are un-
able to go, are Vera Knels and
Faith Witt, in the order named.
Fairviews delegate is Martha
Kay Miller, with Mable Hopper
stad as alternate. The cost of
sending the Fairview delegate is
assumed by the Fairview PTA.
The expenses of Sidney delegates
are by the auxiliary and Kiwanis.
The program has been continu-
Gus in the Sidney high school
since it was first established in
Montana in 1948. Ten girls have
gone from Sidney high school,
six from Fairview, four from Lam
bert and two from Savage.
Girls are chosen for good char
acter, leadership, and coopera-
ton. Grades are considered but
the other qualities r considered
more important.
Girls State aims to teach girls
how a government is run. Each
girl is assigned to a political par
ty which holds a caucus and or
ganizes its party.
The girls then file for city.
county or state offices and hold
elections. Primary elections fol-
low the same form as regular
primaries, and the candidates con-
duct their campaigns, complete
with stump speeches., platforms
calculated to appeal to their con-
stituents, and posters on every
tree on the campus. Rallies anc
meetings r climaxed by the
election, after which the success.
full candidates are sworn in anc
actually perform the duties of of.
fees. The county attorney ma
file her charges, the sheriff make
her arrest, the judge hold court
and the city council pass ordi.
nances, exactly as some of the
girls may do when they become
voters and office holders. But a.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
Obituary

Funeral services for Frederick
E. Becker, 81, who died at his
home in Nampa, Idaho, March 90,
were held Friday, March Is at the
Church Of the Nazarene in Sidney.
Rev. R. A. Gilster officiated and
burial was in the Sidney ceme-
terry. Death was caused by a heart
attack.
The deceased was born at Hut
Gibson, Kansas, April is, 1887. He
married LYDIA Mae Roberts at Sid
ney, Sept. 20, 1917. He served for
81 months in the army during
World War I, during which time
he was with the AEF in France
eleven months.
After the war the Beckers
homesteaded near Lambert, where
they lived until 1886. AT that time
they moved to an irrigation farm
near Sidney. They moved to Nam
pa, Idaho in 1850 but returned
here several times for the sum-
mer. Mr.. Becker was an attend
ant at the church of the Naza-
rene In Nampa.
He is survived by his wife, two
sons, Lloyd of Williston, N. D.,
Dale of Nampa, and four daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Doris Bell, Miles City;
Mrs. jeanette Swihart, Richey,
Mrs. John Vida, st. Johns, New
foundland, Canada; and Mrs.
Joyce Deaton, Houston, Tex. One
brother, Connie, of Los Angeles,
Cal, and a sister, Mrs. Marie
Woods, of Council Grove, Kansas.
Seven grandchildren also survive.
The body lay in state at the
Cloyd-G order Mortuary in Sidney.
Pallbearers were Chris Joseph
son, Jim Dynneson, Dan Schwa-
bauer, Floyd Williams, Bill Lee,
and Wayne Roberts, and honorary
pallbearers were Les Schilling,
Frank Fisher and Ellis Deckert.
n~oz - ~o-~ oxa ~wo%A So
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
Attention, Band Mothers

The Sidney Band Mothers are
requested to attend a meeting in
the high school band room Mon
day, April 4 at 4 p. m.
Please call soon at the home of
Mrs.C.O O. Watkins for pans and tins
unclaimed since the band mother
buffet dinner last fall.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
Y SHOW AT MOOSE
HALL. APRIL. 9Th

The public is reminded Of the
style show to be held Wednesday
evening April 6 at the Moose Hall.
The show is being sponsored by
the Women of the Moose and the
patronage Of the public will be
appreciated.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
SOCIETY
Eastern Star Officers to
Sponsor Food Sale

The officers of the o. E. S.
will sponsor a food sale, to be
held Saturday, April 9 at IL a. m.
at the Valley Hardware Store.
All Eastern Star members are re-
quested to have their donations in
by 10 a.. m. A large assortment OF
home baked goods will be on
sale. The patronage of the pub
lie will be appreciated.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
SIOUX PASS
TO MEET AT WICK HOME

The Sioux Pass Homemakers
will meet Wednesday, April 6 at
200 p. m. at the home of Mrs.
Casper Wick with Mrs. Stanley
Swenson as assistant hostess. The
lesson will be on rolls.
All members please be in at
tendance.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
Covered Dish at Sidney
Country Club April 2

Hosts at the Sidney Country
club covered dish dinner Satur-
day night, April 2 will be Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Anderson, Mr.,
and Mrs. Louis Lee and MI. and
Mrs. Don Nutter.
Mrs. K. o. Eck1ey, Mrs. Bill
Buccholz and Mrs. Bill Rounce
will be hostesses at the regular
Wednesday meeting of the La
dies Golf and Bridge CLUB next
week.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
WCTU Notice

The WCTU will meet Friday
afternoon, April l at the home
Of Mrs. George Mielke with Mrs.
Bert LeSueur as assistant hos
tess. Members are urged to be
present and all who are interest
ed are welcome.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
Mrs. r. d. Benson Hostess
To Birthday Club

Mrs. r. D.. Benson was hostess
to her birthday club at a lis
bridge luncheon at her home
March IL. Tables we're attractive
ly appointed with cut flowers for
room and table decoration. A
draw prize was presented to Mrs.
Lauster and Mrs. Benson received
the usual birthday remembrance
from the group.
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
RUMMAGE SALE SATURDAY.

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The Friendly Fireside circle of the
Congregational church will hold a
rummage sale Saturday. April 2 be-
ginning at ! o'clock in the church
basement. A fine assortment OF used
clothing and miscellaneous articles will
be on sale. 9-2tc
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31

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NOTICE

NOTICE
My office will be closed from
March % to April 1.
DR.. 1. ]. Peterson. 9-Itc
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31

Trade in your old watch now dur
ing John Stockhiu Jewellers special
trade-in event. SITE
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31

Trade in your old watch now dur
ing John Stockhiu jewelers. special
trade-in event. 9-zte
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31
NOTICE

NOTICE
DR.. M. E. Finneman's office will
be closed until April 10. (c)
The Sidney herald., 1955-03-31

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Evening star., 1955-06-01
Court Gets Appeal
In Sheppard Case

CLEVELAND. June ! R-
An Appellate Court today stud
led q new defense brief which
contends q Common Pleas Court
Judge erred in ruling that new
evidence" does not warrant a
new trial for DR.. Samuel Shep-
pard, convicted wife slayer.
The brief, fled yesterday.
holds that findings Of DR.. Paul
L. Kirk. University Of California
criminologist. show the slayer
Of Marilyn Sheppard was q sex
crazed prowler. not her osteo-
path husband.
Prepared by Attorney William
]. Corrigan, the brief also asserts
that "the person who did COM
NIT this crime is partly identi-
fed in the newly discovered evi-
dence."
Cited as evidence were DR.
Kinks reports that the blood Of
Evening star., 1955-06-01

q stranger was found in the
murder bedroom and that blood
spatters indicate the slayer was
left-handed. Dr.. Sheppard S
right-handed.
Before Common Pleas Judge
Edward Blythin. the State de-
clared DR.. Kinks findings were
inconclusive. Judge Blythin's
decision Is now being appealed.
DR.. Sheppard was sentenced to
Evening star., 1955-06-01
U. S. Cheese DeuIs
Will Be Probed
By the Associated Press

House investigators prepared
10 explore today reports that the
Government bought millions Of
pounds Of cheese from manufac-
turers and sold 1t right back to
them at o lower price.
Representative Fountain. Dem
ocrat. Of North Carolina said he
has no information Eat this
time" that fraud was involved
in the transactions he says ap-
parently cost the Government
more than 81 million.
He called on Agriculture De-
partment officials to explain at
an open hearing before q House
Government Operations Sub
committee.
Mr.. Fountain said his groups
information indicates that the
Commodity Credit Corporation
bought millions Of pounds" of
cheese at 81 cents a pound in
March. 1854, and at once con-
tracted to sell 1t back to the
Evening star., 1955-06-01
czeehs Split Ministry
OF Fuel and Energy

VIENNA. June / R.-Com-
munist Czechoslovakia has split
It's ministry Of fuel and energy
into two ministries. the Prague
radio said yesterday.
Incumbent Minister Josef
Jonas viii head the new Fuel
Ministry. The former deputy
minister Of planning. DR.. Fran
tisek vlasak. will head the En-
ergy Ministry.
In Communist Romania. the
State Committee for Collecting
Agricultural Products was raised
to the status Of ministry.
Evening star., 1955-06-01

original manufacturers at 34K
cents a pound In April.
The cheese itself repeatedly
remained in the manufacturers
hands all this time and was
never actually delivered to the
Government.
Evening star., 1955-06-01
Exports Boosted

Sharp increases In shipments
to Australia and New Zealand
boosted British 1854 exports to
all-time record heights. trade
figures show.
Evening star., 1955-06-01

life Imprisonment after q Jury
convicted him Of the July I
Staying.
Evening star., 1955-06-01
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political questions. Thus, cam
paigns for higher wages, for
example, must be linked with
overall Soviet political goals.
In that statement. a free
translation from Red doubletalk.
lies one of number Of reasons
why Communist parties in Eur
ope are on the downgrade.
Communist leadership is har-
ried and embarrassed by the
dilemma Of having to toe a
Soviet line which hurts at the
source of the Reds chief sup
port. the working classes. Ex-
perience has taught that the
political line is not popular with
the workers. particularly in
France and Italy.
But In the interests of long
range Soviet detectives, the
Communists must follow a soft
line. WOO their enemies the So
cialists. WOO the middle classes
and even employers. They must
avoid the appearance Of revolu-
ton methods. They must even
sacrifice the interests of trade
unions they control if that
should be necessary to gain sup
port for Moccow's goals.
Communist Reverses
Here are some of the results:
In Italy: Communists were
routed in shop elections of the
Fiat works in Turin. the coun-
try's little Detroit" The Reds
lost heavily in other industrial
elections, including Milan and
other areas of the RED North"
Among the farmers, the Chris
tan Democratic Party has been
showing new strength. Through
out the country the CISL
christian Democratic Labor
Federation) has undertaken a
vigorous anti-Communist often :
sive. 1t capitalizes on the paral-
ysis of action that the leadership
of the CGn (Communist-domi-
mated Labor Federation inherits
from the need to toe the line.
Once the CGIL claimed mil
lion members. It's membership
today is about 3 million, of
whom at least 80 per cent pay
no dues. The anti-Communist
unions are edging toward the q
million membership mark.
In France: The Communist
run general Labor Confedera-
ton (CGT) claimed 6 million
members at its peak in 1916.
A year later when the anti
Communist workers force was
formed, the CGT still claimed
million. Today the estimate
strength has dropped to 21a
million. The French Communist
Party had $4,000 members at
its peak in 1916. It now has
about 100000 The circulation of
L'Humanite, the Communist
morning Newspaper, has dwindled
from 100000 to $4,000. The
Communist evening paper, Ce
Soir, once Boosting a half mil
| lion circulation, went out OF
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HOW GOES THE COLD WAR?
European Communism
Held in Soviet Trop

business from lack of readers.
The situation has brought
grumbling among party leaders.
The "Togliatti line" propounded
by Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti
in Italy, made tough militants
squirm. Such a militant is Pietro
Secchia, deputy secretary gen.
eral. who composed leaflets for
the recent party congress. These
criticized the party leadership as
becoming soft and bourgeois"
Italian anti-Communists, quick
to note the Red embarrassment,
have plastered the cities with
posters ridiculing their obvious
subServience to Moscow. One
poster shows Togliatti in an i'm
passioned oratorical gesture, with
the caption: Il always was for
Bulganin It was a reference
to the downfall of Georgi Malen-
kov and the appointment of
Nikolai Bulganin as Soviet Pre-
mier.
French anti-C Communists watch
with satisfaction a debate rag
ing among the Reds as the party
prepares for June congress of
the CGT. The debate is over the
program of action" One Red
leader has been complaining bit
terly that the prospective pro-
gram plays into the hands of
the party's worst enemies" But
the dissidents will lose.
The symptoms of this disease
are noticeable among Commu-
mist parties of all Western Eu-
rope. They are baked in their
drive for mass support by the
overriding Soviet interest in di-
viding the Western allies and
throwing a wrench into West
ern defense machinery.
Not Interested in Members
All this would seem to add up
to happy augury for the West.
But figures do not tell the whole
story. The hard reality is that
the Communist parties are not
primarily interested in numbers.
The fact is that the Communists
in both Italy and France remain
a potent and dangerous force.
and will be so long as they have
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portant figures as Luigi Longo
and Giuseppe di Vittorio of Italy.
Laurent Casanova, Alain lie Leap
and Louis Saillant of France.
and labor leaders from many
other countries. Before they left
they apparently decided on the
next twist in tactics. with these
expected aspects:
l. The spectacular attempt to
join forces with the free trade
unions under what will look like
attractive terms. for a common
front keyed to peace" and work
erS' rights.
q A drive against Western
rearmament at factory levels.
While wooing leaders of free
unions, the Communists at the
same time will urge workers at
factory levels to turn their backs
on their leaders and take matters
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Women Muy Deliver
Mol in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM.-Because of a
shortage of man power. women
letter carriers may have to be
used in Stockholm.
Sweden used women mail car
riers successfully during the war.
Swedish postal authorities also
are considering ending the prac-
tice of delivering mail to every
door in apartment houses.
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into their own hands If they
want to avoid being dragged into
a new war.
8. Extending to local Com
munist parties a much larger de-
gree of discretion in day-to-day
dealings with trade unions they
control, so actions can better fit
patterns of particular national
conditions. This means more
independence of action without
previous reference back to the
center-to Moscow through the
WITH council.
There is a hint of Soviet deS-
peration in this, an idea that the
next few years in Europe will be
highly critical. The main Soviet
aim is to prevent West German
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Plone Firms Report
Bio SuIes to AirIines

LOS ANGELES.-Commercial
airline sales of one major air.
craft manufacturer exceeded in
1854 the value Of all the gold
produced in the United States
In that year.
Yet those sales represented
only II per cent of that manu-
facturer's total business for the
wear.
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armament, at whatever cost.
There is even a hint that Mos
COW considers itself UP against
such a fierce political battle in
Europe that an eventual crisis
might lead in some areas to out
having the Communist Party. If
that were to happen, the way
would have to be clear for the
party to go underground. This
would require local freedom to
make independent decisions. If
this is what the Russians are
contemplating. the implication is
that Moscow fears itself moving
toward dangerous ground.
Tomorrow: The military sit.
uatiOn.
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their small, hard cores of dis
ciplined militants ready to obey
Moscow.
Achievement of the main So
Wet goals. neutralism in Europe
and division of the Western allies
needs powerful support. That
accounts for the strange spectacle
of the party openly wooing the
upper middle classes, making
persuasive gestures in the di-
rection of businessmen, speaking
softly of the need for unity OF
all parts of the population, fritz
tering away Communist support
among the working classes. A
calculated risk is involved.
At the same time, the Commu-
nists seem visibly concerned at
the loss of support among the
workers. One of the agencies
most concerned with attempting
to stem the tide is the World
Federation of Trade Unions
(WFTU. It's leadership repre-
sents the most important branch
of today's many-branched Com
muniSt international.
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Big Shots Confer

Early in March, procession
of Red big shots from nom
Communist countries slipped into
Vienna for a meeting with the
Soviet brains of the WITH.
These leaders included such i'm
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By WILLIAM L. RYAN

Associated Press Foreign News Analyst
PARIS, April 27.-Commu-
nism in Western Europe is in a
trap of Soviet design.
The Red dilemma was ex-
pressed recently by Maurice
Thorez, boss of the bellwether
French Communist Party, in an
order which went like this:
Communists must not divorce
economic questions from broad
This is the second in series Of articles
surveying the cold war oreo from
France to Turkey.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c. Alb
WEDNESDAY APRIL
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-08-11
Singing Convention
Meets at Flower Hill

The Montgomery County Sing
ing Convention will meet at
Flower Hill Church at 2 pm.
Sunday. All county church
groups are invited to participate
in the program.
Flower Hill Church's pastor
will be back in the pulpit Sun
day, after the close of the camp
ing season at Camp Pencil. In
addition to the minister, many
members of the Flower Hill con-
gregation attended the camp
sessions.
Next Sunday, the church will
hold farewell dinner for DR., A..
Stauffer Curry, Flower Hill elder
who is leaving to take literary
editorship at Elgin, Ill. The pic,
mic style dinner will start at 6
pm.