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The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25

Roll call was answered with
'fMy Faworite Hobby when the
American Legion Auxiliary of
Henry Hanson Post Is held their
january meeting at the Ira Eur
OFF home. 10 members and one
visitor were present.
Final plans were made for the
benefit basketball game for the
March of Dimes to be played on
Tuesday. january 81 at the gym.
The letter of the month from the
District President was read. Mrs.
Addie Callison, Parliamenbarian,
gave a talk on duties of a pre-
siding officer. 1t was voted that
each member pay 25 cents each
meeting for the remainder of. the
year in order to boost the treas
ury. Pan American study ON
Chile, was presented by Mrs.
August Scheer followed by a leg
isIative report by Mrs. Otis Wat
erS. April 20 was the date set for
The annual amateur program. The
next meeting will be held on
February 10. Lunch was served
by Mrs. Ira Zuroff ST., Mrs.
Gladys VoIbrecht, Mrs. Percy
Lawrence.
The bridge club was entertained
in the Jim Carey home southeast
of Richey on Thursday evening
with Mrs. Lyle Morey as hostess.
Three tables were in play with
prizes going to Mrs. Ira Zuroff
Jr., Mrs. Ralph Wienke, Mrs.
Bob Schultz and Mrs. Verne Sto-
ker.
monday visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Verne Stoker were Mr.. and
Mrs. Jim Mitchell of Glendive.
Wanda Gibson entertained at
a slum0er party Friday evening.
Her guests were the girls of her
senior class.
Mrs. NARROW Eggum under
vert major surgery at the Trini-
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25

Tailor's chalk can be used
on materials which will not
take the imprint of tracing
paper we'll. The marks are
indicated by pins first, the
pattern removed and then the
markings transferred by the
chalk on both sides of the
fabric. Perforations can also
be marked by passing a cotton
thread several times over a
piece Of tailor's chalk and then
sewing through the markings
leaving the chalk on the fab
ric. One way to mark the
center front, center back,
shoulder seams, tucks or fold
lines for pleats, a tiny snip
Is" into the seam line or a
notch cut outward can take
the place of marking by chalk
or tracing paper. Be careful,
however, not to cut any deep
er than A"
Tailor's tacks made of
thread may also be used. Take
a long double thread in a col
or which will show up on the
fabric. Make a small stitch
through the pattern and fab
ric and then backstitch in the
same place leaving a u" loop.
Repeat this until all markings
have been made. Cut the
threads between the stitches,
remove the pattern carefully,
separate the fabric gently and
snip the loops leaving a TUT
OF thread on each side.
There is also on the market
a little gadget called a tailor
tacker which holds tailor's
chalk at the ends of two arms,
marking both sides of the fab
rlc at the same time.
Send any sel0ing tips or
questions to: Amy Cummings,
y. Z. Penney Co., $50 w. S4th
81, New York I, NJ Y.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25
All TRAINING SCHOOL HELD

"A record number of All club
Officers and leaders attended the
Training school held Saturday,
january 81 at the NYA hall in
Sidney. Adult and Junior All
club leaders conducted the train
ing session for the following
groups: Presidents and Vice Presi-.
dents, Mrs. Ray Norby, Arlene
Henderson, Ronald Wick, BETTY
Scheetz, Craig Berry and Gordon
Jensen; Secretaries and Treasur-
erS, Mrs. George Scheetz, Mr..
Lloyd Wick, Cathie Wick, Mary
Anne Mercer, and Myron Pentz;
Reporters, Mrs. Sterling Swigart,
Edith Ann Franz, Dale Norby, and
Bill Henderson; Recreation, song
Leaders, Mrs. Casper Wick, Mrs.
Lloyd Wick, Rose Swigart, Irene
Sorensen, Dennis Wick, and
Dwight Linde; Health and Safe
ty Leaders, Mr.. Garfield Linde,
Wayne Swigart, and Judy Chris
tlanSen; Historians, MI. Ray Nor
by, Delford Milne, and Judy Al
bin; Adult Leaders, Mrs. Walter
Bauman, Mr.. Sterling Swigart,
and Mrs. Elmer Jensen. County
Extension Agents Janet Redgren.
Dean Davidson, and Leslie Som
der also assisted with the vari-
Gus sessions.
The school was concluded with
a period of recreation for all
provided by the Recreation and
Song Leaders.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25
FREDDIE FORD STATIONED
IN GERMANY

MI. and Mrs. Bill Ford had a
Telephone call Sunday from their
son Freddie on his arrival in New
York where he was being detained
for a few days before sailing for
Mannheim, Germany, where he
win De stationed with a transport
division of the army. Freddie en-
listed for military service in No
VemOer.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25

dividend rate ITO 80 cents per share,
from the 70 cents previously in
effect" commented B. T. Rocca,
Jr., PVO's President. Previously
quarterly dividend had been TIA
cents per share.
Mr.. Rocca added that, hereto
fore. it had been PVO policy to
declare a stock dividend in addi-
ton 10 the cash dividend when
earnings so warranted, but that
the Directors felt that such action
was not now justified as it would
tend to dilute the equity while the
bulk of the Company's convertible
debentures were still outstanding.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25
Pv0 Ups Annual
Dividend Rate

San Francisco, Calf. - Direc-
tors of Pacific Vegetable Oil Cor
poration, 35-year-old San Franc
iSco based international trading
firm and commodity professor,
late yesterday declared a quarter
ly dividend of 20 cents a share on
the SIS par capital stock payable
February 18th to shareholders of
record of February 3rd.
"ThiS will raise our annual
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25

Mr. and Mrs. Knut HoverSten
announce the engagement of their
daughter Julianne 10 Norman
Neil, SON of MIR. and Mrs. N. t.
Nell of Ross, North Dakota.
Miss HoverSten, who previous
ly attended Montana State Col
lege, is now attending Augsburg
College in Minneapolis, M~inneSo-
TIA. Mr.. Nell, a graduate of Mon
tana State College, is doing gradu-
ate study at the University of
Minnesota.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25
HOWARD ERICKSON PRES.
WISCONSIN COURT
ASSOCIATION

Howard 0. Erickson was elected
state president of the Wisconsin
Court Reporters Association at
their annual convention recently.
Howard is a graduate of Sidney
High School and Gregg College of
Chicago, Ill. He is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. O. S. Erickson of Rural
Sidney.
The Sidney herald., 1961-01-25

Every town and city has some
citizens who are ready to cash in
on amy community undertaking.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

that "the cause of freedom has suf-
fered a telling blow" at the Majority
Leaders hands.
While Murphy may have spoken
for considerable segment of the Re-
publican party, particularly the Birch
ite-oriented Montana COP, a Senate
speech few days later by Sen John
Sherman Cooper (R-Kentucky), a
student of foreign policy, indicated
that in the opposition ranks there are
those who believe it possible to find
an alternative course to either zap
peasement' or about nuclear war
-(Cong. Record, July 50
Cooper, paying high praise to Mans
field for his patriotic initiative and
for the Majority Leader having
brought the issue out into the open
as proper subject for Senate debate,
proposed that consultative commit
tee of experts on Germany be named
to assist the State Department and the
President, that the President may have
behind him 'sthe unified support of
the Congress and of the people of the
United States, of whatever party and
whatever section"
Pointing out that we are treaty-ob
hgated to protect the freedom of de-
termination of West Berlin, Cooper
also suggests there may be alterna-
tives to be explored that a workable
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

relationship can be established be-
tween the United States and the So
Wet Union. He said: 81 think every
aspect of our policy about Germany
and Berlin ought to be considered and
reviewed in the days ahead. This does
not contemplate any appeasement. 1t
means that our government performs
it's highest function when it considers
all the possibilities which can be
undertaken to preserve our basic prin-
ciples and yet avoid, if we can honor
ably do so, outright confict-conflict
which could develop into a thermo-
nuclear war"
Since Mansfield and Cooper have
spoken out on the need for exploring
all possible alternatives to the present
rigid stances of the Soviets and this
nation over Berlin, there has been con-
siderable comment in the nations
press. The imminent danger that one
false move may blow the world into
little pieces has given rise to some
most thoughtful editorial considera-
ton by leading newspapers and for
eign policy analysts. Two of these,
most constructive in nature, are re-
printed below. For all of their length,
suggest there is an urgency that you
read them as important contributions
to an understanding of the Berlin ques-
tion.-HLB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

the Soviet armed forces mean bust
ness, it's free inhabitants and theil
cities would be immediate casualties
To mention such a fact is de-
nounced by many as appeasement.
But it is one of those the Ameri-
can people have right to know.
This right is emphasized by the
other fact that their government,
not they, agreed to in wartime
secrecy, if it did not originate, the
monstrous zoning of Germany
which set Berlin 10 miles within
the Russian zone and thereby cre-
ated the perilous problem which
could involve them in the horrors
of thermometer war.
This is the possibility which leo
Senator Cooper not only to term
Senate discussion inevitable and cor
rect, but to make his own proposal.
1t was that "men who have specific
and practical knowledge of the is
sues, who have dealt with them face
to face, and are broadly representa-
tive of our country" Che mentioned
several) should assist the President
and the Secretary of State in review
ing every aspect of the problem, in
Guiding all possible ways of easing it.
Maybe it can't be eased. But to
search intensively for it, as Mans
field was, isn't appeasement.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

lin may visit ga new disaster to man
kind. He said one alternative would
be to set up a free city. He also con-
tended that sooner or later the west
ern nations and the Soviet Union must
seek new way, third way to solu-
ton of the Berlin problem along the
lines which have suggested, or some
other.
"We are not engaged in Berlin with
the fast draw and wax bullets of tele-
vision any more than the Russians are
engaged in harmless game of chess.
In the last analysis" he warned, 1--WE
are engaged now, as we have been at
Berlin with the whole future of the
United States :"
Mansfield's proposal that free city
or other alternatives be debated
brought forth immediate adverse COM
ment from Montana Republican lead
ers who are eying his political scalp
in 1864. COP National Committee
man James E. Murphy, Kalispell, i'm
mediately charged that Mansfield was
advocating that the United States
"back-down" from it's treaty-guaran-
teed obligation to defend Western Ber-
lin from any Russian move to take it
over. Murphy, in usual troglodyte
manner, hung the label of appease-
ment on Mansfield, and contended
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

Insurance company opposition to
the plan did not evaporate until it
became clear that other industries
were interested in protecting" their
employees and recognized group COW
erage as an excellent means of ex-
tending paternalistic control.
BY the early 1920's, group cover
age had been extended to include
accident and sickness, accidental
health and dismemberment, and in
sured pension plans.
Group inSurance-of all kinds
continued to increase in popularity
through World War III, but did not
begin to make its giant strides until
1949-5O when the Supreme Court
declared that pensions and welfare
benefits were proper subjects for
collective bargaining.
The strikes for pensions in the
steel industry and at Chrysler, and
the wage controls during the Korean
fighting, led to strong union de-
mands for fringe benefits
ing group insurance coverage.
Iouay, SIoup lle iHSurdHcc UoIdlS
almost five times the amount in force
10 years ago and represents 80 per
cent of all private life insurance.
Over As million Americans are COW
cred by group life policies; 81 mil
lion have group accident and health
coverage; an estimated so million
have some form of group hospital;
and over four million are protected
by insured pension plans.
The insurance industry can be
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14
Berlin There An Alternative To Rigid Positions Of Washington Moscow?

Berlin has been the focal point of
recurring crises in relations between
the United States and the Soviet Union
almost from the day World War II
ended. In recent weeks international
tempers have again risen as result
of Soviet Premier Khrushchev's an
nounced determination to sign peace
treaty with the Communist Republic
of East Germany.
Regardless of the merits of positions
held by either the USA. or the USSR,
the present rigidity of each is of such
gravity that unless the highest type
of calmness in craftsmanship prevails
the world may find itself thrust into
thermo-nuclear war that nobody
wants; a war which would immediate
ly destroy hundreds of millions of
people and would leave heritage of
utter waste and contamination to those
surviving.
Recently, Sen. Mansfield suggested
that Berlin be set up as a free city,
guaranteed by the United Nations in
a manner similar to the current UN
effort in maintaining the peace be-
tween Israel and her Arab neighbors.
In a major foreign policy speech, June
IA, the Senate Majority Leader
warned that unless an alternative was
found to present rigid positions, Ber-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14
A Senate Debate In the Highest Interest

Correspondent, NEW YORK TIMES
ISSUE" This, he said, will enable the
President to rely on that full sup
port (of his ultimate decision) by a
unified Congress and unified coun-
try" This is indispensable and is
strongest when it is voluntary and
not forced submission to an official
fait accompli.
That was the spirit of Senator
Manfield's highly visionary sugges-
ton that a free city made of both
the Berlins, it's independence guarded
by an international treaty to which
the U.S.S.R was signatory, and ac-
cess to it guarded by international
arms, might be a negotiable alterna-
tive. 1t is wholly likely, as his Senate
critics predicted, that the U.S.S.R.
would then use it's familiar tactics
to try to communize and thus make
short shift of this freedom" as the
West defines it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14
Insurance Industry Twists
History Of Group Covera9e

Early in June the insurance indus.
try-with a loud bang announced
the 50th anniversary of group insur-
ance. The celebration was hailed as q
fitting tribute for zone of the major
contributions of private enterprise
to the social and economic develop
ment of industry"
Somehow, the insurance firms man
aged to ignore both their own early
opposition to group insurance and
the part played by organized labor in
providing coverage for their mem
bers and dependents.
With over $175 billion of group in
surance now in force, the carriers are
UNDERSTANDABLE reluctant to mention
their original opposition to type of
coverage which they considered a
menace.
The first group policy was written
on June 1, 1911, by the Equitable
Life Assurance Society. The policy
covered 121 employees of the Panta-
sote Leather Co., in Passiac, N. j.,
providing insurance equal to one
years wages for each worker.
If Equitable understood the bene-
fits of group coverage, however, the
remainder of the insurance industry
was far from convinced. Meeting in
1913, the powerful American Life
Convention unanimously adopted a
resolution calling group coverage ga
to legal reserve life insurance.
a discrimination against regularly
examined policyholders, unfair in
principle and dangerous in practice"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

based on bluff, then. And isn't it
so based at the moment? Clearly, we
have no solid agreement with our al
lies. President De Gualle is reported
as seeing no real reason not to nego-
tiate with the government of East
Germany, though the West Germans
angrily reject such action because
to them it means recognition of
contemplate puppet regime. The
British are plainly unenthusiastic
about forcing the issue of a German
treaty to the point of nuclear war.
Our own Berlin policy has other
built-in weaknesses. Would Senator
Bridges, for instance, vote for a
declaration of war against the Soviet
Union over such an issue as whether
or not we should have dealings with
the Communist government of East
Germany? This is vast oversimplifi-
cation of the whole German problem,
to be sure. But it is the aspect which
the Soviets will insist on presenting
TO public opinion in America and the
rest of the world.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14
CITY CANNOT BE DEFENDED

1t is not improbable that, if no
alternative to the East-West status
quo is found, the seeds Of war will
sprout the day the U.S.S.R. is ready.
And, in view of the military fact
that West Berlin could not be sue
cessfully defended by the West if
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

cit is particularly valuable
for a Republican leader so re-
spected as Senator John Sher-
man Cooper to speak up on a
possible approach to the Berlin
problem. There is danger of a
complete political freeze on the
subject.
When Senator Mike Mansfield was
bold enough to suggest that all of
Berlin be made a free city under
United Nations protection, he was
denounced by Senator Styles Bridges
as an advocate of weakness. Nobody
likes to be charged with appeasement
on such a subject. Yet many people,
including Democrats as we'll as Re-
publicans, have convinced themselves
that it is unpatriotic even to talk
about ways of extricating ourselves
from the dangerous Berlin deadlock.
Senator Mansfield warns against this
tendency to "equate all change with
defeat or retreat
There may be some value in pro-
posal by Senator Jacob Javits. He
wants Congress to go on record as
reiterating our pledge to protect the
freedom of the 2 million West Ber-
liners against any threat. But Presi- |
dent Kennedy undoubtedly gave that
to Premier Khrushchev at |
their Vienna meeting.
Those who insist on absolute
rigidity in our Berlin policy are
not serving the best interests of the
Berliners or of ourselves. They are
stalking our national future on a
perilous gamble. They assume that
Mr.. Khrushchev is not really seri-
GUS about his threats to Berlin, be-
cause he issued an ultimatum some
30 months ago and has not yet car
ried it out. They believe that we
can fritter away yet another
months as we have frittered away
the past 80, without proposing any
new initiative whatever on Berlin.
These patriotic citizens are gam
ling on the idea that Khrushchev is
eally bluffing ON Berlin, and that I
We can call his bluff by standing pat
md asserting our rights. [
;OvIET CONFIDENCE HAS y
They fail to recognize that the So
let Union has grown more confident
f it's strength since 1868. There is
till good reason to avoid a nuclear
Tar, as long as they can make prog
ess toward their world goals through
oitical and economic pressure. But
; is the Soviets, and not ourselves,
Tho are now in position to practice
ne dangerous art of craftsmanship.
is they who are likely to force our
and in Berlin, instead of our fore
lg theirs.
Our final Berlin policy cannot be
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14
By ARTHUR KROCK, Washington


Washington, June % - To
search for an alternative by
which war could be averted,
without sacrificing the honor
or the treaty obligations of the
United States, is the highest
duty of craftsmanship. When
the threat from a status quo
to which such an alternative
might be found is nuclear war,
the obligation of government
is even more demanding. But
it was for suggesting a specific
plan to solve the Berlin crisis,
and a plan out of line with the
u. S. policy, that Senator Mans
field is being criticized.
The premise of his critics is that
because Mansfield is the majority
leader of the Senate the Kremlin will
take his public and detailed proposal
of possible Berlin policy alternative
as a semiofficial hint the United
States is preparing to retreat from
the prospect of showdown; that,
therefore. Premier Khrushchev will
decide he needs only to stand firm
on his demands to attain them in full
without any risk of war. In view of
the fact that the Kremlin made this
miscalculation before, and had to be
corrected by the allied Berlin airlift,
it is entirely possible that Mansfield's
critics are right on that point. But
it is not sufficiently conclusive to
serve as a silencer of the Senate de-
bate on the Berlin issue in its con-
stitutional foreign policy role.
This week Senator Cooper of Ken
lucky, made an impressive comment |
to that effect, accompanying it with
a highly constructive proposal. After
reviewing the basic positions of the
United States and the U.S.S.R., as
recently restated by the President
and Premier Khrushchev, he said to
the Senate:
ISSUE MUST BE DEBATED
''It is inevitable and correct that
this issue must be debated in the
Congress. Several Senators) have
views, alike in their pa
triotic purpose, but nevertheless far
apart concerning the policy this gov
eminent should undertake. AS the de-
bate proceeds, it is possible that we
will have a polarization of views in
5he Congress to hold without {
deviation the position the United
States has asserted in the past, and ]
5he other to find an alternative" 4.
Because, he continued, the Ger
nan and Berlin issues are dangerous
and most critical ones that confront !
our nation, with the possibility of
: a thermonuclear war;" the
American people who would be among
hose cast into this incinerator of I
civilization must, like Congress, pre- I
yiously be assured that the best {
has been given by the {
administration to every aspect of the |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

Work is great blessing; after evil
came into the world, it was given as
an antidote, not aus punishment
A. S. HARDY.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14

proud of the 50th anniversary of
group coverage, but it can hardly
take all of the credit.-IUD BULLE-
TIN.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14
PAINTING OURSELVES INTO
A CORNER

/
The vial point is that, in Kennedy's
words, we must not "fear to negoti-
ate or negotiate out of fear" If we
make it an unpatriotic act even to de-
bate the Berlin problem, we are paint
ing ourselves into corner from
which there is no escape short of war
or utter humiliation. There is little
doubt that the whole American peo-
pie would accept even the horrible
choice of war under such circum-
stances. But surely we must try to
avoid leaving ourselves with only
such dreadful alternatives.
Senator Cooper lis not proposing any
particular pattern for Berlin settle
ment. He only urges the appointment
of committee of experts on Ger
many, to advise the President and
the State Department. The group
would be nonofficial and nonparti-
san. He suggests such people as John
j. McCloy, Lucius Clay, and James
A. Conant, plus two former secre-
taries of State of different parties,
Dean Acheson and Christian A. Her
ter. 1t would be wise to add a few
younger men, whose contacts with
Germany are Immediately up TO date.
1t sounds very noble to talk of
standing fast in Berlin. We will
and must stand fast, in the sense
of refusing to surrender the West
Berliners to the mercies of the
Communists. But a nation can be
firm without being utterly rigid,
and without locking itself into a
straitjacket at a time of national
peril. Senator Cooper's moderate
proposal may at least make it re-
spectacle to talk about Berlin poll
icy without being branded an APP
peaser.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-07-14
Our Policy, Not Russia's, May Be Based On Bluff

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