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Evening star., 1955-04-03
TOMORROW

No concerts scheduled.
TUESDAY
WASHINGTON CIVIC ORCHESTRA,
Hendrix Essers, conductor Soloists:
Richard Heintze, piano. Roosevelt
Auditorium, $50 pm Les PreIudes,
List: Concerto in Flat, Liszt: Pre-
lude to Act III of Lohengrin Wagner:
symphony in D Minor. Franck.
FREEDOM SINGS CONCERT. United
States Army Band, Mai. Hugh Curry,
conductor, Assisting artists: Sergt.
Frank POrretta. tenor; United States
Army Band Chorus. Departmental
Auditorium, $50 pm March: Hands
Across the Sea, Sousa; Symphony in
3 Minor first movement, Schubert:
Music OF the Passover. arr Loboda: o
Bone Jesu Palestrina Were You There,
Spiritual; Hospodi Pomilui. Lvovsky:
Open Our Ewes. MarFarlane: March.
The United states Army Band.
Streeter Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring,
Bach; Father Into Thy Hands Com
mend My Spirit. Dubois; Excerpts
from The Messiah. Handel: La Grande
Pacques Russo, Rimsky -Korsakoy
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell. conductor Con-
stitution Hall. II am. Children's
concert. Soloist: Manfred CaDeil. bar
itone Program Of Bach. Beethoven
Evening star., 1955-04-03
WEDNESDAY

ST. STEPHEN AND THE INCARNATION
AND WESTERN PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH CHOIRS, Church OF St
Stephen and the Incarnation. s pm.
Repeating Sundays program
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH CHOIR.
John b. Wilson, conductor Christ
Lutheran Church. 8 pm. The Prophecy
Fulfilled, William Stickles.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Howard Mitchell. conductor. soloist:
Hall, $50 pm. The Ascension, Mes
siaen; Tod und Verklaerung. Strauss;
CONCERTO No. 5. in z fiat. Opus 10.
Evening star., 1955-04-03

Fair, Sousa: Pageant. Persichetti; At
the Circus. Jones; Liebesmahl der
ApoStel. Wagner.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15

WAS BORN on farm in Spiceland,
Indiana, in 1881. In 1889 my parents
moved to DAVIS, Mont, and squatted on
land in the Milk River valley 211 miles
west of DAVIS. The country had not
been surveyed so all one could do was
squat on land you wanted and wait
We were poor, and since was the
oldest of six boys, had to take mans
place at an early age. There were no
fences in the valley and few shacks,
and no town. Our family was the first
one to move into that locality. DAVIS was
only a side track on the newly built
Great Northern Railroad with box car
for telegraph office.
My father had come out two weeks
ahead of the family with a box car
loaded with things that were necessary
to start ranching. They brought with
them two horses, three milk cows, two
pigs, chickens, lumber and household
goods. He met us when we arrived and
took us out to the ranch.
All along the trail (there was no road
we lodged piles of buffalo bones. He
told us that the buffalo had been killed
by white hunters for their hides year
or two earlier. Our ranch was literally
covered with piles of bones. They lay
just as they had fallen when killed. In
some places you could step from one
pile of bones to the next without touch
ing the ground. Prior to the killing of
the buffalo thousands of them roamed
the Milk River valley. The last one was
killed in 1888 by Andrew Reser. The
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15

along the cable, toward the half-sub-
merged boat. Reaching it, he started
working on the wheel in an effort to
start the boat, Just then, Mrs. Roderick
saw a log floating toward him in the
river and called out warning. Unheed-
ing, he continued working, and the log
caught him, pinning his legs fast against
the wheel.
He called for help, Charlie Marshall
on the shore heard him and came over
the cable with an axe tied to his leg
by little rope, letting the axe drag
in the water. But just as he united the
rope, the big steel cable, anchored to
a huge tamarack stump on the shore,
gave way, tearing the stump up by the
roots.
Men Crushed
The tripod over which the cable
passed on shore swung around. and one
of the big props which held it struck
j. w. MuIlinax, who was crushed so
badly that he died just as he reached
the doctors office. AS the cable swung
around it struck man named Teddy
Wall, crushing him to DEATH
When the cable gave way, the ferry
righted, but the jar threw Mrs. Roderick
into the river, also caused the log that
held Mr.. Kuphatl to be released and he,
too, fell into the water. but was picked
up in boat by MIR. Ed Dawson. This
was miraculous, as the swift current
made it almost impossible to float a
boat.
When the log which had held MIR.
Kuphatl gave way, it broke the reach
of the wagon already in the river. which
let the wagon box down into the water.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15
Ferrying on the Kootenai

stream in raging river In construc-
ton, the hoist for the apron of the
ferry was built on the wrong side. The
water dashed over it, tore the apron
and the boat swamped With keen fore
sight, Beach Loucks unlocked the
horses from the wagon, removed the
harness and backed them into the river.
Turning complete somersault, the
horses swan down the river until OPP
posite a corral on the bank, when they
climbed ashore. One of them ran a
distance of SO miles to its old home on
the Yak.
Mr.. Loucks, still thoughtful of others,
took charge of the little boy. frankie
Murray, trying to quiet him, but as he
did so, the boat tipped and they were
washed into the river, together with
Bill Larking, Mr.. Harmon. Mr.. Franz
and Slim Frederick. Harmon and Lark
ing grabbed some planks that were
floating about, rode them down the
river to the mouth of Flower Creek and
there reached shore Mr.. Franz, who
also rode a plank, was not SO fortunate.
He disappeared. Both Mr.. Loucks and
frankie were drowned.
Despairing Onl0okers
AS the boat tipped. Mrs Roderick
was washed astride one of the posts of
the railing. where she chung for two
hours and forty-five minutes. BY this
time. hundreds of people had gathered
on the shore. calling for help. but real
izing that it was almost futile under the
circumstances. Little Frankie's moth
er was among the despairing onlookers.
However, a Mr.. Kuphatl, young min
ing engineer, started hand over hand
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15

ing of the steers, which was done by one
of the white men had been going on for
several minutes when a small Indian
boy fell off into the stockade.
Indian Courage
About half of the steers were down,
some just wounded, and the others were
wild with the smell of blood and running
around the stockade. When they saw
the boy they started for him. At this
point an Indian chief, who sat near
where the boy fell, jumped in and stood
with his back to the log wall with the
small boy behind him There he stood
with his arms folded over his chest
and looking up so he could not see the
wild steers charging him.
Those longhorns steers would charge
right UP until the points of their horns
were only inches away from the Indian,
but they did not hurt him. 1t was a
hair raising sight for me who was sit
ting just above him on the roof Riders
were sent in as soon as possible and
soon had them out The Indian told
father afterwards that the steers did
not hurt him because he stood still and
if he had made a movement they would
have killed him.
After the killing the squaws went in
to skin and dress the meat AS soon
as one was opened UP the liver was
taken out and cut into strips and fed
to the children. They ate it as it came
from the carcass. Father asked me if
wanted a piece of it. shook my head.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15
By ROSE ]. ROBERTSON

Mrs Roderick, by twist Of fate, was
swept into the wagon box, from which
she was lifted back onto the ferry boat
by Charles Marshall The ferry was
drifting slowly to shore when she was
taken off into the smaller boat and back
safely to shore.
The bodies of the drowned victims
were found a few weeks later, one in
the boom at Boomers Ferry, and the
others near Troy where they were
washed up by the river
Awards for Bravery
Three men, Mr.. KuphatI, Charlie Mar
shall and Ed Dawson. received Carnegie
medals for their bravery during this
tragic experience. Mrs. Roderlck in
relating the story of the accident in later
years, paid tribute to her friends as
follows:
''This is the story of the accident but
I would like to mention some things
that happened that might seem like
little things, but to me they will always
be the big things. had lost my pocket
book and wagon load of supplies, had
a long spell of sickness caused by the
exposure when was in the river so
long and from grief over my grandsons
death. Joe Parrault paid Ida CowelI
for taking care of me, which was a
great kindness. Harry Donahue offered
to help me with my haying and waited
until fall for pay. Mrs Hamilton loaned
me her wagon to use until had mine
taken out of the water. These kind
nesses 1 shall always remember and
they help little to soften the memory
Of what really was the most terrible
accident in Lincoln County"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15

The sight was enough for me.
No white butchers could have done
faster job than those squaws. Some of
them used flint knives. Nothing was
wasted. The entrails we're taken out into
the river and washed When they were
through there was nothing left in the
stockade. A lot of the meat was cut
into thin strips and hung in the sun to
dry. In my association with the In
dams during my boyhood days | have
eaten their dried meats and dried wild
currants and found them very good, in
deed. =
DAVIS Becomes Chinook
Late in the summer of 1889 DAVIS be-
gan to grow Thomas Ohanlon built the
first general merchandise store; Wyn-
coop the first grocery and butcher shop;
J. E.. Lewis the first drug store. The
first hotel, the Chinook House, was built
by a man named Rideout. Charles Han
sen had the first livery barn and Hogan
Rhoune the first barber shop. Within
three years these had doubled with nine
saloons added Mr.. w. c. Kester was
the founder of the Chinook Opinion, our
first newspaper. Somewhere in those
years the name had been changed from
DAVIS to Chinook.
In those days the families living in
the town kept their own milk cows and
I had the job of rounding them up every
evening. Since there were still no
fences, it was quite job getting them
all together. This was my first expert
ence in the cattle business.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15

year following our arrival the Indians
collected the bones and they were taken
east and made into fertilizer.
Fort BeIknap Trading Post
When we wanted provisions of any
kind we had to go to the trading post
at old Fort Belknap which was across
the river southwest OF where Chinook
now stands. 1t was here that the gov
eminent issued rations to the Indians
every two weeks until they were moved
to the Belknap Indian Reservation at
Harlem year or so later.
The government had to do this, be-
cause the white hunters had destroyed
the Indians source of food in killing
off the buffalo Some of the Indians
were sullen and resentful of the white
men but others we're very friendly. 1t
was an old Indian squaw that told my
mother that the buffalo berries were
good for food Before that we had.
thought they we're poison.
One day in the summer of 1889, my
father took me to the fort on the day
that the rations were given to the In
dams. The buffalo hide tepees of the
Indians were standing in orderly rows.
1t was a great sight. On that day there
were 81 head of seven-year-o longnorn
steers to be killed for the Indians. The
few white men and many Indians and
children climbed up on the roof of the
old log fort to watch the slaughter
which was to be done in the stockade
on the east side of the fort. The shoot
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15

BEFORE THE DAYS of roads and
bridges, when ''tote" trails were COM
mon, the only means of crossing the
Kootenai River to Libby in northwestern
Montana was by means of toll ferry
The first one was built in 1892 by'J. e.
Clark and Henry Hamilton, local home
steaders. In 1900 this ferry was rebuilt
and moved to the site of the present
bridge on Highway 81. In 1908, Jack
Elliott purchased the ferry from j. z.
Clark. operated it for two years, then
turned it over to the newly-formed Lin
coin County. The commissioners at
once attempted to construct a modern
ferry which was operated by Mr..
Franz
Crossing the Kootenai by ferry at any
time was daring and hazardous I'M
dertaking, but when the water was high.
as it invariably was in June, it became
even more dangerous On June IS, 1910,
Mr. Franz took on full load of passen-
gers to cross from Libby to the north
side of the river, remarking. ssThis will
be my last trip" as viii Harmon was
to take over as operator the next day.
The passengers included VIII Lark
ings, Slim Frederick, Beach Loucks,
Mrs. Matte Roderick and her 6-year-
old grandson, frankie Murray. Mrs.
Rodericks team and wagon, with farm
supplies, were also part of the cargo.
Boat Swamped
When the ferry was almost half way
across the stream, the boxing in the
wheel which was used to propel the
boat along the cable broke or Ioosened
and the ferry stopped at once, mid
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-05-15

year following our arrival the Indians
collected the bones and they were taken
east and made into fertilizer.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

after all the help we've lived through,
/ guess one more batch won't kill us.
Squuwberry Flat is sure short of
entertainment this foil. No houses
o-buiIdin', no road work, only few
little ditch jobs hardly worth stondin'
in the sun TO wotch.
Bart Whepley has cut the askin' price
of his Giant Super Colossal Mammontb
uranium mine from $500 to $1.75. He has
done this cause the guvverment needs
uranium right now and he needs the
$1.75 even quicker.
These felIers thot keep pesterin' me
to buy things. they 0ggervote me ter
rible. But not holt as much as the
felIers that keep pesterin' me to pay
for things I've bought.
NV spouse, Manzanita, says she used
to think it wasn't possible for real
person to stand as much grief and
abuse as them pore sufferers in the
radio soap opperies, but now she knows
better. She has stood It,
Glenn Lozenby says he can most
usually outsm0rf q carp or sucker
or onv other fish that an Injun dog
wouldn't eat. But q trout is plumb be-
yond him in brain power.
This is Big Luck Year for farmers
around here. After the summer rains
they shut down their irrigation pumps
and saved almost half enough money
to paw the extry cost of fightin' the
weeds the rains brought up.
Three out of five people in this
neiohborhood is down flot with nerv-
GUS shock and bein' waited on by the
two that oin't had their 1856 tax bills
yet.
NV uncle Cocklebur has lived shell
tered life and he's the first Johnson to
last old enough to get into the Pioneers
Home. He was in the reform school till
he was 20 and in the penitenchary from
there to IS.
Never vet did start TO tell wom-
ON somefhin' important but whot she
stopped me to tell somethin' scandal
GUS.
Fodee Rucker is home from the hos
pittIe but still mighty puny. Says ne
feels about as comfortable as a man
wearin shorts in catclaw thicket.
The outs can always depend on the
ms to make enough plumbers to let
the outs in where they com moke their
own kind of plumbers and really
wreck the country.
Last week I started to be an Optimist
and hunted so hard for things to De
hopeful about that got plumb wore
out. This week I'm takin' it easy as
pesSimist.
From the looks of things the OLD
fashioned hoop skirts is back from
the sound of things. the old-foshioneo
wirnn,en fhof wore 'em is still away.
Here's a maggazeen with list OF tne
100 most important men, and I'm hOS
in it. NV wife says sOmebOdy'n come
along with a list of the worlds moSe
useless men. all JOhnsons and me &C
the top.
7 oIwovs soid few good roins
would brino us everything we need
Summer showers brought us oil KINGS
q 1919 <,-,~y syo weeds brought These
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15
&11fcstt1aili
lux )otaA,Aeu}
III, ~

EZ BENSON says he's workin' up
new scheme to help us farmers. Well,
after all the help we've lived through,
/ guess one more batch won't kill us.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

SquuwberrY Flat is sure short of
entertainment this foil. No houses
o-buildin'. no road work, only few
little ditch jobs hardly worth st0ndin'
in the sun TO wotch.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

Bart Whepley has cut the askin' price
of his Giant Super-Colossal Mammontb
uranium mine from $500 to $1.75. He has
done this cause the guvverment needs
uranium right now and he needs the
$1.75 even quicker.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

These fellers that keep pesterin' me
to buy things. they oggervote me ter
ribIe. But not holt as much as the
feIIeHs that keep pesterin' me to pay
for things I've bought.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

oIwoYs said few good rolls
would brine us everything we need
Summer showers brought us oil KINDS
of weeds and the weeds brougnf mess
foil fires and the fires brougnt us
smoq ever bit os fine os Los An9eies
ever had.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

The Town and Country is
the greatest mud, snow or
ice passenger cor tire ever
built. q quiet highwcy
tire as we'll as ca traction
tire.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

Never yet did start TO tell a wom-
ON somethin' important but what she
stopped me to tell somethin scandal
OILS.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

My spouse, Manzanita, says she used
to think it wasn't possible for real
person to stand as much grief and
abuse as them pore sufferers in the
radio soap opperies, but now she knows
better. She has stood it,
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

Glenn LozenbY soYs he CON
usually outsmort carp or q 81
or any other fish that an Injun
wouldn't eat. But q trout is plum
vond him in brain power.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

The outs can always depend on the
ms to make enough blunders to lei
the outs in where they CON nnoke fner
own kind of bIunders ana reoHY
wreck the country.
Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1955-10-15

Fodge Rucker is home fro
pittIe but still mighty pun.
feels about as comfortable
wearin shorts in a catclaw t
Evening star., 1955-01-16

dress salon of my friend, Don
Loper, who is both q dress
designer and an interior
decorator" she said, "but I
stayed out Of the movies"
Prodded Directors
In 194S. back in New York,
her second husband died, and
Miss Furness set about to flnd
herself q job.
II managed to find the
names OF about 200 television
and radio directors and pro-
ducers," she said. 'and I gave
them my undivided attention.
Il sat by the phone for
hours every day. calling them.
trying to get appointments to
see them. asking for profess
sional advice, asking for small
Jobs, big Jobs. The ones 1
couldn't get TO see, or couldn't
reach by phone. I reached by
letter"
At the age Of Is. Betty Fur
ness was q Hollywood starlet.
A born New Yorker, she got
a summer job as a model with
John Powers. and he arranged
q screen test for her, which
was successful.
Il often wonder why" she
said. "It was so bad I still get
the creeps when ] think Of It., !,
Evening star., 1955-01-16

At any rate the screen test
got her to Hollywood at such
a tender age that she had to
finish her senior year of high
school on the studio lot.
In addition to being a New
Yorker born, Betty Furness
has a second distinction. She
is among the very few movie
actresses who never changed
her name. Elizabeth Mary
Furness she was christened,
and Elizabeth Mary Furness
she has remained. with only a
slight concession to brevity.
She worked for RKO for
two years and for Metro
Goldwyn Mayer for four years,
making a total of 35 pictures
for the companies.
During these five years she
also took time to get married,
TO the musician. Johnny
Greene. aforementioned. and
to have a baby. Barbara, now
Is years old.
Miss Furness and Greene
were later divorced and Bah
bic makes her home with her
mother In New York.
Her first part on television
was q very small one on
Studio One and 1t was from
. subsequent part on 'stpdio
Evening star., 1955-01-16

a cigarette in his hand while
singing on the show. He had
to stop this because the fans
wrote to tell him 1t was bad
taste.
Fran Scott, a member of
Bob's cast. did a hilarious
imitation of Liberace one
afternoon. but too many fans
didn't like to see fun poked at
apother of their heroes. so
that was never done again.
There also was an occasion
when Bob had some inflated
balloons on the set. Don't
get any cigarettes around
these balloons" warned Bob,
because Phil Harris blew
them up"
No Tipping
The implication that air
from the Harris lungs might
have alcohol in it was enough
to cause many fans to re-
primand Bob for making light
Of that Oh debbil rum.
One Of the reasons Bob
severed relations with Jack
Benny's TV show last season
was his fear that he would
inherit the jokes which Benny
made of Harris alleged i'm
bibing.
When Bob's daytime fans
saw him supposedly slipping
champagne on one of Benny's
Evening star., 1955-01-16
On the Air
On the Air
What About Programs?
The Public Isn't Buying Color Tv Sets
Because There's Little Color TV
By Harry Macarthur

You out there have proved q
great disappointment to the
television industry. Those Of
you who can afford large, new
convertibles and Honolulu va
cations. especially, have let
the TV trade down. In large
numbers you have refrained
from rushing to the store and
counting of 1895, or there
abouts, plus tax and installa-
ton, for a color television re-
ceiver.
This lack Of enthusiasm
seems to have many of those
concerned puzzled. What's
more, according to Martin
Codel's Television Digest, it
Is now accompanied by q lack
Of enthusiasm on the part Of
most manufacturers.
Only RCA sees the future in
bright rainbow hues. Mo-
torola has cut back It's once
ambitious plans, according to
Mr.. Codel's newsletter, and is
prducing color sets on q very
limited basis" The word at
CBs-C Columbia IL limited"
700.
Public Not Interested?
Westinghouse will be getting
cut Of color production alto
Sether in q short time. Philco
has advised its dealers that 1t
viii not have q color set until
"it can be sold with confidence
ct o reasonable price"
$50 there you are-manu-
facturerS, broadcasters. dealers,
all pointing finger at each
other" Television Digest sums
up the trade situation. But
the dealer" it adds, lends UP
by pointing to the consumer
saying public just isn't in
terested in color"
Well, it may be in the Amer
ican tradition to blame the
reluctant prospective custom
ers for their sales resistance.
but in this case it is a little
rough. That man RCA Presi-
dent Frank Folsom sees as the
best bet to buy a color set
the one who can afford q
Cadillac and a Honolulu vaca-
tion-did not attain that posi-
ton without becoming some
what aware of the value Of q
buck.
The solution is really very
simple, logically If not eco
nomically. 1t will dawn on the
manufacturers. broadcasters
Evening star., 1955-01-16
Viewing TV
They Figure We're Close Friends
Bob Crosby Finds His Daytime Teevison Audience
T.L; q prnn uInhnra inA liz

shows, they let Bob know
they didn't like it, even If 1t
was all in fun.
Bob is of the opinion that
Brother Bing made a mistake
playing the role of a Dip
somaniac in his current hit
picture, "The Country Girl"
He may win an Oscar for
his performance, but I think
he has hurt himself with a
lot of his fans" predicts Bob.
Despite all of these seif-im-
posed restrictions Bob has to
live with on daytime TV, he
obviously is thriving on 1t.
Nobody Donees
In addition to the daytime
shows Bob may soon do q
weekly program in a night
time slot.
1T wouldn't be too different
from what I'm doing now, ex-
cept I'd put on tux and have
Connie RUSSELL" he explains.
Many of Bob's fans keep
asking him why he doesn't
set out with his Bobcats" and
play for dances again.
His answer is that nobody
dances any more. And all of
us in the band business had q
lot to do with that. We for
got people liked to dance. and
filled our library with too many
novelty numbers"
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