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The Sidney herald., 1961-09-20
Riehey News

Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Lee enter
tanned their son-in-law aud
daughter Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Etzel
Jr. of Sidney and Mrs. Anna
Etzel of Savage at a birthday
dinner Friday September 1St
h~onoring Carl Etzel.
Sharon Lobdell left for Moor
head, Minnesota where she will
attend Concordia College.
Labor Day dinner guests of MI.
and Mrs. Andy Lee we're Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenneth Cisna and Leslie
of Fairview and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Wienke and family.
Mrs. Jen Radcliffs reported
seven of her 9th grade pupils and
one 7th grader of Richey School
were winners in the Name, Fran
Note Book Paper Essay Contest in
which they competed last May.
Winners of the Note Book Covers
were: Sharon Carlson, Mary
ChriStianson, Linda Richey all 9Th
grade, and Kenneth Abramson.
7th grade.
Winners of ne Pen and Pencil
sets were: Cecile Taylor, Richard
Lille, Dennis Howard and Jimmie
Schwartz, all 9Th graders. Their
Essay theme was Why I Want to
go to College.
Mrs. Roy Bottoms of Salem,
Ore, came Tuesday for a few DAYS
visit with her brother Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Levengood and
Sharon.
Arden and Conrad Schwartz
recently returned from Hamilton
where they visited the Erben
Richert family.
MT. and Mrs. Hardwick
Schwartz had as visitors last
week, his cousin, MI. and Mrs.
Albert Schwartz of Freeman.
South Dakota.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Scheer.
Mrs. Jennie Nicholson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lars Olson, Mrs. Celia Glib
son, Mrs. Christina Hanson and
The Sidney herald., 1961-09-20

cd the family reunion held at the
Lions Hall IN honor of MIR and
Mrs. Sam Cock and Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Stordahl on Saturday even
ing.
Mr.. James Baird was a dinner
guest at Jack BerryS on Friday.
Mrs. Si9urd Rude, Sonia and
Sandra had coffee with Mrs. Lang
Gunnd Saturday morning in Sid
ney.
MIR. and Mrs. Floyd Yockim
were Labor Day visitors at the
Gordon Berndt home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Berry and
Wayne were among those attend
ing the Cayko-Deming wedding
Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Martin
and Marva Dee were visitors La
Dor Day evening at the Gordon
Berndt home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Berndt.
Colleen and Gene and WAYNE
Berry were among those who at
tended the football game in Will
IlSton on Saturday afternoon.
MIR. and Mrs. Ire Erickson, Kirth
and Randi visited with Mrs.
Stromfeldt on Sunday.
MI. and Mrs. Walt Houchen,
Larry, Brenda and Billy Tesch
were Sunday dinner guests at
Clarence Houchens of Wolf Point.
Barbara Henderson arrived
home after spending a week at
Bob DoreS.
Mrs. Henry Levno was a bust
ness caller at Froid on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sigurd Rude and
The Sidney herald., 1961-09-20
The Sidney Herald-WednesdaY. September 20. 1857

duties, and win attend four state
meetings with other presidents
and vice presidents of Districts in
Montana, during the year
Reports of activities at the con-
ventlon we're presented Tuesday
evening at the meeting by King,
Robert Jarvis, Edward Buxbaum,
Russell Dishon, Jake Kappel, and
Mike Rambur who attended as
officers and delegates.
The Sidney herald., 1961-09-20

Mr.. Roy Bentson was sworn in
and took UP his studies as a
NROTC trainee at the University
of Idaho on September 18th. A
1861 graduate of Sidney High
School, Roy was accepted by the
State Board in June as a candi-
date for the course which includes
4 years of college work and 4
years in the Navy. He will major
in Chemical Engineering at Mos
cow Idaho. Enroute by car, he
and his mother Mrs. Edna Wilson
will visit Roy's grandmother, Mrs.
Anna K. Bentson and other rela-
tiveS at Portland, Oregon. They
were accompanied by Miss Darla
Anderson of Sidney.
The Sidney herald., 1961-09-20
SIDNEY MOOSE ATTEND
STATE

John King, a Past Governor of
the Sidney Moose Lodge. was
elected Wee President of the BAD
lands District OF the Montana
Moose Assoc, 81 the State Con-
ventlon IN Butte. He will visit
Moose Lodges in Miles CITY.
Glendlve, Sidney, Plentywood
and Glasgow in the course of his
The Sidney herald., 1961-09-20

Helen Hanson motored to Fortuna,
North Dakota Sunday where they
attended the Golden Wedding
Anniversary celebration of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Raaum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Boles and
daughter of Seattle, WI. and
Charles Miller were Friday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Miller.
The Sidney herald., 1961-09-20

family, MI. and Mrs. Dallas Un-
man and family, Garfield Lindes
attended the Music Mothers Smor-
gaSborg held in aFirview Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walt Houchen
Larry, and Brenda were Saturday
afternoon visitors at Henry LevnoS.
The Sidney herald., 1961-09-20
FUNERAL HELD FOR
MOTHER OF LOCAL WOMAN

Mrs. VIM. Hlebichuk OF Savage
and Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Elko OF
Sidney returned from Belfield,
North Dakota on Tuesday. They
attended funeral services for Dor
othy Basaraba, Mrs. Elko's moth
er and sister-in-law of Mrs.
Hlebichuk.
Evening star., 1961-06-18
Amidon Expansion

The appropriations subcommittee
headed by Representative Rabaut has
performed a meritoriouS service in
making $751; 900 Immediately available
to extend the experimental teaching
techniques developed at the Amidon
School, This small amount, unfortu-
nately, is only about half the sum
required to buy the instructional ma
terialS needed to install the Amidon
system in all Washington elementary
schools. But it nonetheleSS constitutes
a welcome "Shot in the arm" for the
program, as Superintendent Hansen has
noted.
Specifically, the $157,00O will be
spent largely on basic textbooks, cover
ing such subjects as reading, spelling,
arithmetic, languages, history and geog-
raphy. The ultimate goal. is to place
a set of such texts in the hands of
each elementary pupil. For the Amidon
program puts much heavier reliance
on the use of textbooks, as part Of
thoroughly planned week to week
schedule of instruction, from which
there is minimum of deviation. If
this seems fundamental to members of
the older generation, it is nevertheless
new to many of our modern classrooms.
Already, although definitive results
of the Amidon experiment are not yet
in, the new program has generated
interest far beyond the Washington
area. Recently the students at Amidon
were given extensive tests. The results
are expected before the fall term begins.
And If they bear out the early indica-
tionS of progress at Amidon, there
should be no difficulty in the future in
obtaining such funds as are necessary
to extend and expand the program.
Evening star., 1961-06-18
Moneys Color

To those of us who yearn to cling
to the eternal verities, it is disturbing to
read that the United States Treasurer
"a pleasant lady named Mrs. Elizabeth
Rudel Smith) is in favor of changing
the color of our paper currency. AS
we understand the situation, she would
do away with the traditional green in
many categories of value-from the
dollar on up. We think, most definitely,
that she is wrong.
At any rate, Mrs. Smith would have
our higher bills tinted in various lurid,
non-green colors, ranging from pink
and yellow to Lord knows what Why?
Well, frankly, all we know, or at least
think, is that our money should not be
geared to the rainbow On the contrary,
leaving tints entirely to one side, we
feel that American cash-in an age
when too much change is making all
of us too dizzy-should be tinkered with
only in terms of saving it from further
initiation.
Evening star., 1961-06-18
Khrushchev at Fireside

If it is true that imitation is the
Sincerest form of flattery, then Nikita
KhruShchev has handsomely compli-
mented our country with his unprece-
dented, more or less American-Style
"fireSide chat" addressed to the masses
of the Soviet Union. Unhappily, how
ever, the chat itself, unlike the kind
we are accustomed to as free citizens,
must be described as something amount
ing to little more than party-line
propaganda which no Russian-if he is
in his right mind, or values his liberty
or life-will dare to criticize or challenge.
Still, on the free side of the Iron
Curtain, it may be said without fear of
contradiction, retaliation or effective
rebuttal that the Soviet Premier in
his long-winded Moscow discourse, via
radio and television, has increased the
tensions of the cold war. He has done
so not merely by distorting the truth
and generally libeling America as
regards such issues as Laos and nuclear
testing-but also by deliberately setting
the stage for a potentially grave new
crisis over divided Germany and Berlin.
He has stated his case quite simply, and
quite menacingly: "The conclusion of
peace treaty with Germany cannot be
postponed any longer. A peaceful settle
ment in Europe must be accomplished
this year" And the settlement he
emissions, of course, is one under which
the free Berliners and all the treasures
and liberties of the city's free sectors
would be taken over, in due course, by
the Communists.
Walter Ulbricht, East Germany'S
Red leader, has left little room for
doubt about this prospect Having in
mind Mr.. Khrushchev'S promise-and
threat to sign a separate peace
treaty" with the puppet German regime,
the humorleSs Herr Ulbricht has pro-
claimed that his government" will
assume "full control of all traffic on
land, on water and in the air" to and
from free Berlin. And he has gone on
to suggest, as has Mr. Khrushchev, that
the Western powerS-meaning partic-
ulary France, Britain and the United
States - will be inviting the most
dire consequences (including retaliatory
1OChCUO 41OLL1 O0O1OJ IL OA1Cy navy
the presumption to deny, and to back
the denial with force, that the sleazy
German Communist authority is entitled
to regard itself as sovereign enough
to attempt to put an end to Anglo
French-American legal rights in Berlin
and block access to the city.
Plainly, in reaSserting his intention
to bring this issue to head by the end
of the year, Mr.. Khrushchev has
indicated that he is in mood to issue
ultimatums. More than that, he appears
to be confident that the United States
will be respectful of his threatening
attitude. Certainly, to sum up, if that
is the fact of the matter, he and his
co-conspirators had better understand,
as Hitler and the NaziS never under
stood, that our free world is determined
to stand fast against the enslaving
aggreSsor. A Soviet miScalculation on
that score could be cataclysmic.
Evening star., 1961-06-18
McGM on Reds

Ralph McGill's statement
that there is little commu-
nism to fight in this country
is like so much of the stuff
he writeS-a half truth. In
his column, "Moley's Stand
Against Miller" he minimized
the seriousness of the threat
to our freedoms of Commu-
mist infiltration and Suover-
sion here and at the same
time disparaged the efforts
of loyal Americans to focus
attention on this infiltration
and subverSion.
For such a positive state
ment as he made, one would
expect some Substantiation,
but as is so frequently the
case with his writing, Snide
opinion is sandwiched in
with discussion of other sub
ject material.
If by little Of it." lie.
communism in America, he
means that the ratio of
known Communists to the
total population is small,
then he's quite correct, but.
as any student of Communist
operations knows, this is but
a small part of the story.
AS I'm sure Mr.. McGill
knows. there has never been
a take-over of any country
by the Communists. not even
in Russia itself, where the
number of known Commu-
nists involved was other than
little" when considered in
relation to the total popula-
ton.
Only one-tenth of an ice
berg is visible yet only a
foolhardy ships captain
would ignore the menace of
the other nine-tenths simply
because it is not apparent
and visible to the unsuspecJ-
ing. Thank God a growing
number of Americans prefer
to believe that the activities
in America of the known
Communists, their sympa-
Tiers and dupes constitute as
great or greater threat to our
national security than Com
munist activities 5000 miles
from our shores.
Since the United States is
the number one obstacle to
Communist aims, it stands to
reason we are now and have
been for a long time the
number one target for their
infiltration and subversion
tactics. We play right into
their hands when we pooh
pooh their chances of sue
ceeding here as they have
done elsewhere. Are We going
to wait until the foundations
Of our country have been
undermined or destroyed be-
fore we expose the termites
to the light of day?'
E. M. Hampton.
Evening star., 1961-06-18
See America!

1t is encouraging, praiSeWorthy and
potentially very useful that the House
and Senate have agreed in conference
committee on legislation designed to
stimulate foreign travel to the United
States. BY and large, our tourist deficit
amounts to about ST billion yearly
meaning that American travellers spend
that much more abroad than foreign
nationals spend in visits to the United
States. This is a sizeable fraction-one-
third or more-of our current yearly
deficit-of-payments balance.
The legislation now headed for en-
aetment would throw a considerably
greater Federal effort behind the project
Of encouraging foreign touriSm in the
United States. 1t would place the pri-
mary responsibility for this effort in the
Department of Commerce, but with
the essential cooperation of the State
and Treasury Departments, which have
Jurisdiction over conditions of entry,
customs, currency exchange and so
forth. 1t would permit further relax
alton of paper work requirements, on
which substantial progress has been
made in recent years, and establish
travel-in- America centers abroad. And,
in our own country, it would enlist
greater participation by the communi-
ties in promoting the facilities for travel,
housing and communication which are
needed to care for visitors after arrival.
In the long run, too much emphasis
cannot be directed toward this private
enterprise effort at home. Our inter-
national carriers, sea and air, already
are spending productive money and
effort to encourage travel to this
country In effect, their jurisdiction,
and even their privilege to serve, ends
at the waters edge. There also has been
criticism that at ticket windows, hotel
desks and information centerS there are
too few people competent in foreign
languages or concerned with their role
as "hoSt" to a traveller from abroad.
If this good start on a program to
increase tourism here is to fulfill its
Evening star., 1961-06-18
100 Yeurs AGO

It became clear early in
the Civil War that this was
no gentlemen's affair Of hon.
or. with al the nicetieS OBJ
served. A Scorched-earth pol
icy would be the rule rather
than exception. practiced by
both sides. with retreating or
withdrawing armies deter
mined to leave behind noth-
ing that might prove useful
to the enemy. What. they
couldn't take with them was
burned or otherwise destroyed
when time permitted. This
was illustrated when Con-
federate General Joe john
ston pulled out of HarperS
Ferry in mid-June. 1861. The
Star of June Is. 1861. printed
this correspondence from q
reporter at MOnocacy. Nd:
Il have Just returned from
the Maryland heights Cnow
clear of the enemy'S troops.
There 1900 feet above
the river below. I saw the
impressive scene of mingled
beauty and horror &.
Harpers Ferry lay in ruins
literally below my feet. The
great railroad bridge. with
1900 feet Of treStling sup
porting the track along the
Potomac, and also the upper
railroad bridge over the
armory. are all completely
burned. The entire range of
armory buildings. the rifle
works and all other govern
ment and railroad property.
excepting the dwellings form
erly used by the armory Of
ficers on the hill-nOw used
as headquarters of the en-
emy here-are also being de-
stroyed. The value of the
property of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad thus ruth
leSsly and wantonly destroyed
must be about half q million
dollars. :" On June 81,
1861. this paper reported a
small force of Confederates
had returned to HarperS
Ferry to complete the job:
"CThey) set fire to the
fine bridge over the Shenan-
doah They threw into
the river a very fine ami very
large locomotive They
next went to Halls rifle
works and removed the gun
stocks that had been left
there undestroyed: they we're
worth about SIS. 900. On
Evening star., 1961-06-18
Reorqonizinq the FCC

The 323-77 vote by which the House
buried the Federal Communications
Commission reorganization plan was
more than a defeat for the admins
tration. 1t also constituted a sharp, if
unSpoken, rebuke to the new FEC chair
man, Newton N. Minow, whose recent
attack on television and radio program
ming practices aroused strong con-
troversy.
~ Since major provision Of the FEC
plan would have strengthened the au-
thority of the chairman, it is probable
that the views of Mr.. Minow, and par
ttcularly his implied threats of tighter
controls on the TV industry, played a
role in the House action. Yet Mr..
Minow, in the long debate which pre-
ceded the vote, was entirely ignored by
critics Of the plan. References to the
proposed new duties of the FEC chair
man were made only in the most general
terms.
Instead, the opposition was based
on other grounds. One group argued
against reorganization plans in general.
Another assaulted the FEC plan as a
"back door" attempt by the White House
to seize control of the regulatory agency.
The most forceful opposition, led by
Speaker Rayburn and Representative
Oren Harris, contended the plan would
"amend" two provisions of the basic
FEC lava prerogative which they
argued may be exercised only by Con-
gress.
At the same time, however, Mr..
Harris conceded that there are deficien-
cies in the FEC operation, which need
to be corrected. He said his opposition
was not directed to what was proposed
to be done, but to the 10dy in which it
was to be done-through the reorgan-
ization plan. He promised, in fact, that
his Interstate and Foreign Commerce
pCommittee, which already has held
hearings on the FEC, will soon report
b bill to accomplish the purposes of the
reorganization plan and to "help the
commission in it's work."
All of this, it seems to us, places a
particular obligation upon Mr.. Harris
to make good on his promise, especially
since the House has upheld a reorgani-
Zation plan for the Securities and Ex-
change Commission which is similar to
that for the FEC. Perhaps some of the
mystery surrounding the House vote will
sbe cleared up when the legislative bill
.emergeS from Mr.. Harris committee and
when the House is given an opportunity
to vote on tiff indeed that oppor-
tunity is given at all.
Evening star., 1961-06-18

June II. 1861. Union troops
came off second best in a
clash with Confederates at
Vienna. Va. The Star the
next day described The AT
fair at Vienna" thuSly: Falls
Church-When Gen. Schenck
reached this point yesterday
by rail. with the Ohio regi-
ment of Col. McCook that
had stumbled on the diSun-
ionistS' concealed battery near
Vienna. they were duly noti-
fled that between a thousand
and eleven hundred South
Carolina troops were sta
toned there. 1t was de-
teTmined to proceed, and
when the train got in sight
of the battery. the existence
of which no one on the train
knew anything. the brakes
were instantly put down hard.
That was at the curve
lust east of Vienna. 1t was
too late. however. for a shot
came booming along that
severed the connection of the
locomotive with the train.
The battery fired seven shots
in all. killing, I believe five
of our men and wounding
more, before Col. McCook
ordered his men to seek cover
of the woods All the train,
wood cars and two passenger
cars, were completely demol-
ished the locomotive and
tender only escaping. (.
At 4 O'Clock this morning
Federal (reinforcements) un-
der Gen. Tyler were posted
four miles this side of Vienna,
preparing to march upon that
point. :" AS the Confeder-
ateS gave ground here and
there. they continued to burn
bridges. June 10, 1861: Goose
Greek Bridge covered and
fine structure on the Lees
burg turnpike. four miles
from Leesburg has been
burned by the Virginia
troops.
Evening star., 1961-06-18
Nice Portrait

1 yield to no man in nv
admiration for the kind and
gentle Florence Bergman. l
am sure that everyone in
the field of art who has come
in contact with her wishes
her a long and happy retire
ment. At the same time I
must express my pleasure
land aStoniShmentl at the
luck of The Star in obtain
ing the services of Frank
Getlein as Miss BerTyman's
successor.
Mr.. Getlein, whom I know
only through his writing. is
in my judgment one Of the
ablest art critics in America.
AS critic for the New Re
public" he has been a bril-
liant fighter against the
meretricious and the fraudu-
lent in art. He has been
thorn in the flesh Of the
drip-dry school. and I am
glad.
1 hope that in writing for
The Star he will keep
battling for his opinions: I
hope he viii remain Jus: as
controversial as the ciTcum-
stances require. ani I hope
that The Star will uphold
him
Mr.. Getlein has demon
Strated to me at least that he
has a firm basis In knOwl-
edge of art for the exercise
of his critical faculties. I am
sure that he has demon
Strated IN the few articles he
has already written for The
Star how clear. engaging.
and entertaining he is as a
writer.
I do not. Of course. know
whether Mr.. Getlein fell into
The Stars lap. or whether it
sought him out. but In either
case it is a matter Of the
man and the hour having
met and 1 extend congratula-
tions to all concerned.
Charles AIldredge.
Evening star., 1961-06-18

the stirring Civil War annals
now at the Tooth anniversary
being seen and read by nil
lions.
For those who really see,
it cannot be doubted that
goodness is the most attrac-
tive thing in this tangled,
tragic world. During World
War II Bishop Berggrav, in
whom the lure of the lovely
was made flesh, so radiated
his innate goodness as hum
bly, he wore the garments of
Righteousness that during his
Imprisonment the NaZi
guards were frequently
changed for fear of the con-
tagion of his spirit.
When in the lovely poem,
Pippa passes with her simple,
unspoiled goodness, all uncon-
Scious is. she that, as she
sings in the joy of her in
nocent girlhood, rapturous
bluebirds of happiness are
wheeling about her and white
doves of purity are perching
on nearby sordid easements
of misery and at windows of
woe.
In the midst of all that is
loathsome on this planet the
Sermon on the Mount blazes
like a bouquet of diamonds.
Here are the glittering gar
ments of goodness. Alas, that
after 1000 years, even with
the lure of their luster, those
fundamental promo e.
mentS are more admired
than acquired, more highly
assessed than possessed and
practiced.
Goodness, wherever found,
like the first fragrant arbu-
tus beneath decayed leaves
as spring trips north, is the
most fascinating and win
some thing on earth. 1t is
the delicate fragrance of life
1t is the lifting poetry Of ex-
istence. 1t is the crowning
summit of all true joy.
One passage above all the
headmaster of one of the
great boys schools of Amer
ica loved to read as the hun
dreds of lads assembled in
the long vaulted study hall
each day for morning prayer.
Those boys, now men, help
ing to bear the responsible
tiles and burdens of this
troubled world, have carried
ever in their memories the
sound of his never forgotten
voice:
Finally, brethren" he
read, again and again, and
again, whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things
are honest. whatsoever things
are just. whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things
are of good report" - the
deep-toned voice would pause
an instant and then go on
to leave the final lingering
accent in the climactic SEN
tence-''if there be any vir-
tue, and if there be any
praise, think on these
things" And thus he lifted
up for the gaze of his boys
the men to be, in the future
he visualized-The Garments
of Goodness!