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The Sidney herald., 1958-05-28

CALL FOR BIDS
Sealed bids will be received by the
Richland County Fair Board, Sidney,
Montana. for the following:
Construction of a 6" drilled and
cased well and well pit. The well to
furnish adequate water supply for
all fixtures in the Fair grounds rest
rooms after remodeling Is completed.
Or adequate to furnish a reliable
supply for / - 700 gallon per hour
the system.
Construction of well to be COM
pleted by July 18th. 1858. Bids will
be opened on June 18th, 1853 at 8
p. m. in the County Court House.
The Board reserves the right TO re-
ject any and all bids. The best bids
will be accepted. Address all bids
to the Richland County Fair Board.
Box 1923. Sidney. Montana.
Publish May %. June 4, ~
The Sidney herald., 1958-05-28

offtce OF the Clerk of this Court and
TO file your answer and serve a
copy thereof upon the Plaintiffs at
torney within twenty t20) days af-
ter the service OF this Summons
elusive OF the day Cd service and in
case of your failure to properly APP
pear or answer, judgment wn be
taken against you by. default for the
relief demanded in the complaint.
This cause o action Is brought for
the purpose of procuring a decree
from the above entitled Court quiet
ing title in the Plaintiffs 10 the land
and premises specifically described
as follows, to-wtt:
Lots Ten and Eleven 40 & III OF
Block Seventeen an. of Kenoyer's
First Addition to Sidney. Montana,
according to the official plat there
od.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of
this Court this 26th day OF May.
A. D. 1858.
(COUHT SEAL)
ALMA MURPHY
Clerk of the District Court
". G.. KOCH
Attorney at Law
Courthouse, Box 831
Sidney. Montana
Attorney for Plaintiffs
publish May %. June 4. IL. 18)
The Sidney herald., 1958-05-28
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS

NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
the Gossett School District No. d
will receive. up to 800 O'Clock on
June Is, 1858 at the home of the
Clerk, sealed bids for the moving
of a school building and the con-
struction of a concrete basement, APP
proximately "a by IS feet. the con-
structton of a concrete foundation
approximately II by "a feet and the
necessary carpenter work to Join two
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Boy, 9, Dies
In Shedding
Accident

Jay Wright, 9, of 66o5 GUIDE
Avenue. Takoma Park, died in
Washington Sanitarium early
Tuesday, the victim of a sled
ding accident.
Takoma Park firemen said the
boy was shedding Monday on
Guide Avenue at the intersection
of Poplar Avenue when the trag-
edy occurred.
In another shedding accident,
David Starr, Is, of 340S Univer-
sity Boulevard West, was in crit
ical condition at Suburban Hos
pital where he underwent sur
gerry Tuesday.
Kensington volunteer firemen
reported the boy slid under a car
at Farragut and st Paul Streets
Sunday evening. The boy devel.
oped a partial paralysis Of the
spine, hospital officials said.
Police said the Starr boy ran
into the left rear of car driven
by James r. Balsley. Al, of 1916
McComas Street, Kensington.
Police said the driver was unable
TO see the boy because of an EN-.
bankment on Farragut Street.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Three Die
Shoyeling
Deep Snow

Snow shoveling claimed the
lives of at least two Montgom-
cry County residents and a Wis
itor from Pennsylvania.
The two countians We're iden-
titled as Edward Steers, 81, of
2709 Feninore Road, Silver
Spring, and Stanley Brown, 60, of
Olney.
Authorities reported that Steers
was stricken while shoveling
snow in front of his home Sun
day afternoon. Brown shoveled
snow for several hours Sunday
and died after entering his home
with severe pains in his chest.
The Pennsylvania was Thomas
r. Watts, 81, of Pittsburgh, who
died while shoveling snow Satur-
day night at the home of his son,
Raymond D. Watts, 81 E. Jeffer.
( son Street, Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Stellar Role Played
By Police in Crisis

down. Additional police brought
the boys out.
Our biggest single job was to
keep the roads clear and then
to see that calls for help OF all
kinds were answered" McAulifie
said.
Police worked In close cooper
alton with volunteer fire depart
ments and county road mainte.
nance crews through a radio mon
itor system.
The first calls for help, Sunday
and Monday came from persons
who couldn't get from their
homes to a main road or who
were stalled in tangled traffic
snarls. The police dispatcher
would notify the county roads
department and send a police car
TO the scene. The police car would
keep the dispatcher informed of
progress or failure, in which case,
more snow equipment was sent.
Sick people and expectant
mothers were another police prob
lem. In this case. the police dis
patcher would send a car, notify
a fire department which would
send an ambulance, and then call
the county roads department IL
a plow were needed. The police
radio dispatcher coordinated all
units.
In one case Sunday, police went
10 the aid Of woman on Falls
Road who had suffered a heart
attack. They couldn't get close to
her home. An accompanying
snow pillow stalled.
A call to the Rockville Volun-
teer Fire Department brought out
four men who, with the use Of a
walkie.talkie radio borrowed from
the police, walked in and brought
the patient out on a stretcher.
AS the snow emergency contin.
ued, food and fuel supplies de.
creased. Cold and hungry fami-
lies called police who in turn sent
a car with snow pillow to the
marooned home. They also alert.
ed fuel companies to stand by.
As soon as the plow cleared
the way, police advised the fuel
companies to move in with oil.
In many cases, police then load
cd the family into a cruiser and
Continued on Page p
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Many Families Need Food,
Medicine, Heating Fuels
By Steed Evans
Staff Reporter

combination of Is inches of snow prolonged drv-
ing winds and nearZero temperatures this week added up
to the worst snow emergency to hit Montgomery County
In half century.
In the past snow has been deeper and temperatures
have been low There have also been high winds dur
ing snow storms.
But not during the past so years have the three ee-
ments combned-for long-to produce such critical
public danger.
Many families, cut off by deep snow drifts, were
without heat, food needed medicine When emergen-
ces police and freen got to only with the
greatest difficulty And could only be reached by
helicopter.
While many residents nearer the District were able
to continue normal routine, almost the entire
upper or rural, part of the county was virtually
Fuel oil companies warned that the real crisis is yet
to come SO far supply is concerned They warned per-
sons with oil furnaces to conserve oil much possible
for the next two weeks.
There is not enough ol-delivering equipment in the
county to catch up with the huge backlog of demand for
at least 10 days, warned John A. McNaughton president
OF the G. D. Armstrong Co., Inc, of Laytonsvile
Hundreds of automobiles abandoned with their
owners taking refuge IN nearby homes. Expectant
mothers and other emergency cases. evacuated by
helcoper In at least two cases. budozers cleared the
way for morticans to bodies. At least two
died a result of overeXerton while Shoveing snow.
Dairy farmers, blocked by huge drifts that kept
them from delivering milk to Washington daireS poured
thousands of gallons of milk the ground Meanwhile
the Montgomery County General Hospital ran out of
milk.
request for Air Force helicopter from Andrews
Field to fly insun to marooned dabetc in Glen Hills,
cancelled when team of Rockville firemen hiked
through the drifts.
County plows found from three to seven-foot
drifts all county roads and 20foot drifts on Others
Strong winds blew the back the roads as soon
they cleared forcing the to quit until the
winds died down.
Not before Wednesday morning-four days after the
had falen-were they able to make any steady
progress on upper county secondary roads.
Helcopters used to take food to isolated COM
munities in Poolesville and Glen Hills.
Fuel oil companies plagued with calls, could deliver
fuel only to those families living cleared roads,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Rescue Squad
Boy, 8,
In Big Drift

When you are an emergency
worker during a severe snow
storm, you expect to see almost
anything.
But what greeted the unbeliev.
ing stares of the crew in a Whea-
ton Rescue Squad ambulance
Saturday night still is causing
chuckles around Wheaton.
The ambulance was returning
from a hospital run when one of
the squad members said, Whats
that sticking out of that snow
bank?" They were at Randolph
and Dewey Roads.
Sliding TO stop, the squad saw
only the head of small boy pro
truding from the deep snow bank.
I'm Brad Crowley" the head
exclaimed.
Seems Brads boy friend had
haired him to jump into the snow
and then left, without calling any.
body for help. Brad was in the
process Of working his way out
when discovered.
Brad 8, is the son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Steven B. Crowley, Jr., of
12008 Ashley Drive, Silver Spring
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20

1t will take the Montgomery
County Police Department
men and machines - a long
time to fully recover from the
big snow.
Evidence Of the strain imposed
on the whole department was
mirrored on the face If its direc.
tor, Superintendent James S. Nc.
Auliffe as he dug into another
18hour day Tuesday. He had been
at II almost constantly since Sat
urday evening.
His eyes bleary from fatigue
and a stubborn head cold, McAu.
life said, Il have never seen any.
thing so bad for so long in the
past Is or 20 years. This is the
worst"
McAuliffe spoke the feelings OF
approximately 22O working pO-
licemen - some were marooned
at home and couldn't Join their
buddies - who toiIed In double
shifts around the clock.
Many who couldn't get home
because Of the snow were bunked
down after work in local fire
houses. They ate on the run.
They rode two to a car, for
safety's sake.
Policemen can freeze just as
quickly as anyone else, "McAu.
life remarked, laconicaIly.
Although snow emergency con.
dltlons prevailed Saturday and
Sunday in the lower county, the
upper county was still stagger.
ing Wednesday morning. The big.
gest enemy a cruel, soaring
wind, sometimes blowing 40
miles an hour, filled clear roads
as soon as snow plows moved
on,
Many police ears themselves
were stalled in deep snow and
had TO call for help. Some were
abandoned.
One Of the first Of these was
a car that went to the rescue Sun.
day Of several Boy Scouts who
were camped at Seneca. The car
managed TO sllthcr through the
drifts and pick up the boys but
then II became rnired.
A call TO headquarters brought
a crane which cleared the way
and then also became begged
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Drifting Snow Cuts Off
Hundreds in Rural Area
Schools Closed
Rest of Week

County School Superintendent
c. Taylor Whittier announced
Wednesday that schools will be
closed for the rest of the week.
Blocked roads have prevented de-
livery of fuel oil to many schools,
he said.
A total of six days must now
be added to the school year as a
result or four days taken out
of the six-day Easter vacation,
DR.. Whittier pointed out. The
school official said he had al
ready added two lost days to the
school year extending it to June
Is. 1t will be up to the school
board to decide which way to
make up the necessary additional
four days, he said.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Wea1yCre,Uof2OO
Battles Big Drifts

Two-hundred exhau S t e d
men, battling snow drifts as
high as 20 feet only today
began to see the end of a
gigantic snow removal job
that more than once threat
ened to end in defeat.
ITS been terrible, just terri
ble," said ]. o. Harvey, Super
visor of County Roads.
Harvey and his men started
fighting the smothering drifts
last Saturday. He said he hoped
to have most major roads clear
by Friday.
AS late as Tuesday night. Har-
vey said: There Is only one main
road open in the county-Rt. 240,
the new Washington National
Pike"
People don't know. They z !.
well, they just don't know what
it's been like.
Farmers dumping milk ON the
ground. They can't get feed for
their livestock, people sick and
dying because doctors can't get
through, folks freezing I'm their
homes because they have run out
of fuel oil they Just don't
know
Harvey supervises 927 miles of
road in the county. He estimated
that there we're still 300 cars
some buried - abandoned on
roads.
He said he figured that one
snow pillow could clear about one
and a half miles of road In one
day. "At that rate, we'd need 800
pieces of equipment and we only
have rs, including some the coun-
ty has hired from about 80 build
ing contractors" he said.
The District lent Harvey one
of its biggest pieces of modern
snow removal equipment Tues
day when 1t was apparent the
situation was critical The appa.
ratus is called a blower" 1t
bores into the snow and blows
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20

il high into the air and to the
side.
But you never have enough
equipment in cases like this
Harvey added.
I'VE don't need manpower -
we need machines" he declared.
He said his crews often had to
so across fields to get around
drifts that were too high to pene-
trate.
He said that no equipment has
been lost in the snow although
some had to be abandoned over
night. Equipment used ranged
from jeeps and trucks to huge
bulldozers and road graders fit.
ted with V-shaped scrapers.
i've never seen anything like
IT, Harvey asserted. "And it
isn't anybody's fault. Snow fenc.
ssxg1 cant help. ThAS Wind sbIcARa
the drifts over the top of the fenc
ing. You can't see the top Of
many snow fences in the county,
Harvey said that every road In
the upper portion of the county
had from three to seven feet of
snow from Saturday night until
Wednesday. The 20feet drifts &C.
CURED on, the roads from Der.
wood to Redland, from Laytons-
vile to Etchison and on the Gosh
en- Road.
Harvey stressed "the wonderful
cooperation from everybody on
this - the police and the fire de-
partments." Police monitor radio
broadcastS by the County Roads
department and fire boards.
Harvey said he couldn't praise
his crews enough.
They have been wonderful.
Almost none of them have been
home since Saturday night. led.
note: Harvey was interviewed
Tuesday night) Neither have /.
I'VE bring the men into the
Gaithersburg garage at night and
they sleep on the floor. They can't
get home.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
80 Inches of Sno,O Fell
On County in 1899

This weeks snowfall-up to Is
inches In the rural areas-was
the deepest in % years.
Old-timers remember the 30
inches that fell in the District.
and even deeper in the county,
back in 1889. On February Is
SO years ago-a county farmer
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Snow Blamed
In Death of
Elk SEC Head

The snow condition was blamed
yesterday for the death of Rich
ard B. McEntire. a former Securi-
ties and Exchange Commissioner,
of Bethesda. He succumbed to a
heart attack early Tuesday after
his car stalled and he was forced
to walk home.
He was to have celebrated his
nth birthday yesterday.
DR.. Frank j. Broschart, Mont
gomery County coroner, said:
He weighed $50 pounds and he
walked in the snow. That did it,"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Silent Switchboard

The telephone switchboard at
the new County Building in Rock
vile was unnamed Monday and
Tuesday.
Hundreds Of callers seeking
help from various county agen.
cies called Poplar 2-2121 but got
no answer. No employees went to
work in the building Monday and
Tuesday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20

wrote in his diary: Temperature
10 degrees below zero, had to
shovel a great deal. First train
in two days to reach Rockville.
Earlier, on March II, 1888, the
same diarist had written: Wen
never forget this blizzard. Drifts
are three to four feet across
roads"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
OAR Postpones

Placing Of bronze marker on
the site Of the original Bethesda
Presbyterian Church, scheduled
for Saturday, has been postponed,
according to Mrs. Eliot c. Lovett,
regent Of the Chevy Chase Chap
ter, OAR. A later date will be
announced.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
We're Sorry But . :.

With all Of the Washington
Birthday Sale advertising. the
Sentinel was preparing a big,
lively newspaper this week. Then
the storm struck. Sorry! Normal
routine went out the window.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-20
Here's the Dope

Snow, all that white stuff out
side your window actually is
nearly transparent and colorless.
It's wilderness is caused by reflec-
ton of light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-30

WTHEN artist Michael Kella was considering
w building a new home in Medinah Ill,
he wanted to have a swimming pool, but he
didn't want to go to the expense If he could
use it only during the summer His solution
was to design the kind of swimming pool he
wanted, and then build the house around it.
Instead of the conventional living room
and dining area, Mr.. Kella installed 12x34
pool inside a 2Ox40 room. Adjoining the pool,
he used a terrace effect for his studio and
adorned his whole natatorium area with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-30
House With Built In Tropics

enough tropical effects to make him think of
sunny lands during the dreariest winter days.
According to Mr.. Kella, upkeep on his
pool is simpler than on the outdoor type
because he doesn't have to worry about dirt
and windblown leaves nor does he have to
be concerned about neighbors' children falling
in accidentally. practitioner of naprapathy
(spinal massage therapy) and hairdresser
on the side, Mr. Kella has enough occupations
to keep him busy, plus one of the most
luxurious Office setups of any job.
Diario las Américas., 1958-12-25

esta dotando de formidables aviones de
reaction.
Los informes dados a conocer por la Or
ganizacion del Tratado del Atlantico Norte
recientemente, confirman estos hechos y ad-
equipo a las fuerzas armadas, Sc esta hacien.
do en- forma Sostenida.
Ell coSto de los nueyos tipos de armamen.
tos, proyectiles autopropulsados inclusive,
excede enormemente, por 10 que Sc sabe, del
de los armamentos corrientes.
Por ESQ los peritos hacen notar ell enor-
me aumento de las cifras de production de
la industrial, con arreglo a los nuevos planes
economics de Moscu. Aunque en- general
los rusos 'persiguen In genuine aumento de
su production, industrial, tambien Sc supone
que esoS aumentos contemplan ell perfecciona
miento y la production de las armas mo.
dernas. En- ~efecto, los o~bjetivos del nuevo
plan economico para ell presupuesto de 1865
comprenden un aumento de la production de
herramientas ~(incluso "~herramientas eSpecia-
lizadas") en- I'm so por ciento, de maquinas en-
Serie "automaticas y semiautomaticas' en- I'm
ITO por ciento e Instruments de precision
en- I'm. 100 por ciento.
Que ~articulos militares Sc ocultan tras es-
tas ~partidas, es cosa que nadie de fuera de
Russia puede siquiera imaginar.
Las cifras presupuestarias ~oficiales tam
POGO ~reflejan ell verdadero alcance de los gas
tos de defensa o SUI reduction, a causa' de la
tasa de Gambia del rublo en- relacion al dollar
enteramente, irreal que tienen los sovieticos.
Ademas, los precios de los rusos no permiten
comparaciones fidedignas con los de los esta-
dos capitalists occidentales.
De todos modos, los peritos occidenta1es
pronostican que los rusos explotaran sus SUI
puestas rebajas presupuestarias en- defensa,
en- SUI propaganda contra Occidente, y que las
mencionaran como nuevos y notables aportes
. SUI campana de affirmation sobre sus in
tenciones p%acificas.
Diario las Américas., 1958-12-25
ELE MAIssI + 4 X
De Gau||e Y Ia Unificaci0n de Europa

los norteamericanos empezaron retrasados
respecto de los rusos, pero Sc han anotado pun
tos con Ell exito del satellite, exito que va a to-
ner repercusiones militares".
Reynaud inst6 a una mayor cooperation
en- ell campo cientifico entire las naciones del
Oeste.
Advirtio Reynaud que las n~aciones del
bloque comunista desarrollan I'm gran esfuer-
10 para i%nfiltrar las posiciones occidentales
en- America Latina, Africa y Asia.
"Puedo decirle -expreso- que en- los
altos ~oficiales chinos, existe un mapa en- Ell
cual todos los continentes asia, Africa y
America Latina) deben caer bajo ell dominic
del comunismo international, jugando sin du-
da papel preponderante la propia China.
La idea basica" detras de la estrategia
'comunista, en- opinion de Reynaud, "es pri-
var al mundo occidental de las materias pri-
mas que n~ecesita, y estrangularlo economical
mente, sin llegar a la guerra.
Preguntado 81 creia que los rusos irian a
la guerra por Berlin, Reynaud, que hace POGO
visit6 Russia, respondio: mo, no creo que
10 hagan. Creo que Moscu desea causar
dificultades en- Ell exterior a fin de dominar
mejor SUI propia opinion publica''.
Agrego Reynaud que "la i~niciativa de Ru.
STA sobre Berlin, mace tambien del hecho que
Moscu desea impedir la reunificacion alemana
a cualquier costo. Por 10 tanto, Moscu de-
sea obligar a Alemania Occidental a entrar
en- negociaciones, o por 10 menos obtener
reconocimiento de facto, de Alemania Orien-
tal'.
Ell p~roposito sovietico, segun ell estadista
frances, es "admitir que la unificacion de Ale
mania debe lograrse mediante accion de los
dos gobiernos aIemanes'.
Termino d~iciendo, siempre sobre ell mis-
mo tema: eel Canciller (Konrad) Adenauer,
Sc ha negado a reconocer ell regimen de Pan.
kov (del Este aleman) y por ESQ Occidente
mantiene la posicion que tomo ell ~consejo de
la O.T.A.N. la semana pasada, de que no ha.
bra guerra.
La amenaza de guerra Sc presentaria solo
81 Occidente diera a Russia la impression de
que ~vacila".
Diario las Américas., 1958-12-25
Los Gastos Mi|itares de Russia
K. c. THALER

Los entendidos en- asuntoS sovieticos, con
sideran hoy que los gastos militares totales
de Russia, probablemente van en- aumento con
tinuo, aun cuando los presupuestos muestran
rebajas en- ellos.
Detras de esta contradiction esta Ell Sc
creto de los p~resupuestos sovieticos. Pero ell
sistema de contaduria de Russia muestra solo
los gastos Sustanciales, no los gastos "ocul-
tos" de la ~defensa, en- la industrial y las or
ganizaciones de investigation. Ell elevadisi-
mo costo de investigar y producer proyectiles,
aeroplanos, tanques y equipo de radio, por
eJemplo, forma parte, por 10 menos insepa-
rable, de todos los gastos de production in
dustrial y de perfeccionamiento.
Ell anuncio de la reduction de los gastos
de defensa es Ell cuarto desde 1855, pero al
mismo tempo es ell menor desde que ell Krem-
lin Sc EMBARGO en- una calculada medida
de reduction de los presupuestos de defensa.
Los peritos ven. detras de esta medida, I'm
nuevo ~esfuerzo fundamental para dar enfasis
a los llamados moscovitas.
Los ruSos han insistido en- ell pssado en-
negociaciones de desarme, en- pos de un acuer-
do de reduction general de los presupuestos
de Oriente y O%ccidente, entire un 10 y I'm 20
por eiento. La reduction del ano siguiente
apenaS 81 contrarresto Ell aumento anterior de
IL por ciento, y desde entonces. la reduc-
cion de los presupuestos de defensa ha lido dis
minuyendo considerablemente.
Los peritos recuerdan que Russia anunci6
varias rebajas en- ell tamano de sus fuerzas
armadas y consider6 que la reduction de los
p~resupuestos de defensa reflejo, en- grado
considerable, Ell ahorro en- los gastos de man.
tenimiento de las tropas. Sin embargo, las
informaciones mas recientes de los s~ervicios
de inteligencia occidentales dan a conocer
que ell poderio militar de ataque sovietico Sc
mantiene tan formidable como antes. Las fuer-
zas armadas soyieticas estan equipandose con
armas tacticas de nuevos tipos, que COM
prenden proyectiles. A la fuerza aerea Sc la