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The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
Funeral Services
Were Held for
George Thompson

Funeral services for George
Wilson Thompson, 81, of gilbert
son, who farmed in the Andes
Community of Richland County
for as years, were held Wednes-
day, August 8 in the C~ulbertSon
Armory, with the Rev. Thomas
McC ormick, officiating. Cloyd-
Gorder Mortuary of Sidney had
charge of arrangements. Burial
vas in Sunset Memorial Gardens
at Sidney.
MI. Thompson died at the Roos-
evelt Memorial Hospital in Gull
bertSon, Sunday evening, Aug. s..
Born in Usage County Kansas,
near Melvern, on Oct. %, 1879, a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Thompson, he was reared there.
His marriage to Effie Angelina
Lawson took place at Browns
town, ILL.,, Dec. 81, 1909. They
came TO the CulbertSon area in
1911, and in 1913 homesteaded in
Andes Community in Richland
County. He served as a trustee
of the Andes School, and as a
director of the Southside Tele-
phone Cooperative, and was
president of the Andes Farmers
Union Local 300. In 1859 he re-
tired from farming, and moved
to Culbertson, where he and his
wife have made their home since.
He wa a member of the Metho-
dist Church in Culbertson, and of
the Modern Woodmen of America
in BrownStown.
Survivors include his wife, one
son, Fred Thompson, of Andes;
four daughters, Mrs. George
Daniels and Mrs. Henry Peterson,
both of Culbertson; Mrs. Alvin
Snedigar of Enid, and Mrs. Mar
vim Poland, of Sand Coulee; one
brother, Thorne Thompson, of De-
catur, H., "a grandchildren and
50 Observation-Disclosures Three sis
tiers preceded him in death.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
JOHN BIRCH /
INVESTIGATED

A private Investigating firm,
Efficiency Research Bureau, 800
South Rarbor Boulevard, Anaheim
conducted a thorough investiga-
ton of the John Birch Society in
Orange County, Calf. Efficiency
Research Bureau was hired by the
president of a local manufacturing
firm to make an impartial study.
A five-man team of investiga-
tors, including a Negro clergyman,
sat in on numerous Birch meetings
and accumulated a wealth of data
on the organization and its opera
ton. The following are the Ia con-
illusions to which the investigating
team came, based upon their ex-
tensive research.
/. Many of the allegations and
rumors against the John Birch
Society could not be supported by
fact.
2. The John Birch Society is an
anti-C Communist movement open
to anyone interested in joining or
attending meetings.
3. It's not a secret organization.
but rather groups meeting for dis
cussion of views and ways in
which to fight the international
Communist conspiracy.
4. The majority of John Birch
Society members don't support or
agree with many of the statements
Of Robert WEIGH, the Society's
founder; they seldom disagree
with him on policy.
5. Each chapter is independent
and each member cooperates with
chapter, State and national views
according to the dictates of his
own conscience.
6. Efficiency Research Bureau
Investigators attending these meet
ings have found groups as small
as Is and as large as SO at a single
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
Hay Creek News

Mr.. and Mrs. August Huber.
Mrs. Erwin Stordahl, Ilene. Mrs.
Gerda Stordahl, Coral and Shar-
on, Mr.. and Mrs. Sigurd Rudie
called at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Warner Hanson on We'd
neSday to help Diana celebrate
her sixth birthday.
Miss Judy Massett of Sidney
has been visiting the Louie Fri
sons the past three weeks. Judy
is Mr.. Prisons niece.
Nh. Ray Lundberg of Bismarck
called at the Sigurd Rudie home
Friday.
Mrs. James Watts and son re-
turned home from the Sidney
Memorial Hospital July 20. Doug
las Eugene who weighed 8 lbs,
912 ounces, was born July 25.
Bruce and Carol Watts took turns
visiting their grandparents, the.
Leo HackleyS of Sioux Pass. Carol
and Larry stayed at the Stanley
Thiels' and part time with Rose
Thiel, their aunt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Ler and
family were Sunday evening Wis
itorS at the Walter Houchen home.
Richard Levno came Saturday
from Wahpeton, NJ. D., to visit
and help his parents with the
harvest.
Mrs. James Watts and children
helped her father, Leo Hackley
celebrate his birthday Friday.
The Country Woman's club
held their annual picnic at the
Fairview Park Sunday. The MEM
bers and guests enjoyed a very
pleasant afternoon of visiting to-
gether.
Mrs. Garfield Linde and David
accompanied her father ID. J..
Lewis to Havre this week end.
They will visit MIR. Lewis's son
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
Lewis.
Mrs. w. T. Henderson, Debbie
and Joyce, and Mrs. Sigurd Rude
visited Mrs. Celia Stromfeldt and
OkAACA 4AAG4Aho dk LIC 1NAOAAAdAA0
Homes Friday.
Arlene Henderson returned to
her home from a months visit
with her aunt, Mrs. Noble Jones
at Phoenix, Arizona. During her
trip she visited old Mexico and
other interesting places in the
Phoenix vicinity. Arlene enjoyed
hearing the pipe organ and choir
at the Tabernacle at Salt Lake
City.
Thursday, Leslie Sand of Sou
ris, N. D., was a dinner guest at
Jack Berry'S.
Larry Watts attended Youth
Crusade this week at the AS
sembly of God church in Fair
WIlrn
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Alexander News

Dick Oakland, o of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Oakland, had the mis-
fortune CT breaking his arm while
playing in the park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Hinmen of
San Bruno, Calf, is visiting his
mother and brother and other rel
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Art Weber and
children visited at the Chef Mon
son home Thursday. Friday WISH
tors were Mrs. Otto Tank of Wat
ford City, Wilma Monson and
Mrs. Glenn Heling.
Circle Nv of the Ladies' Aid
met at the Howard Heggin home
Thursday. Circle III were guests
as they did not meet this month.
Mrs. EllingSon gave the lesson
and Mrs. AL Ley from Circle III
gave devotions.
A funnel shaped cloud was seen
by Alexander residents Thursday
about $50. No damage was done
as it disappeared.
Mrs. Glenn Helling visited at
the Ed Thirud home Friday while
cut al the farm Saturday. Mrs
Helling and the youngsters Wis
tied at the Adolph HomStad home
at Fairview enroute from Sidney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Novak and
family of Spokane CRuth Weber,
visited her mother and brothers
and sisters and other relatives
the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Peterson
and family of jamestown visit
ed at the Al Ley home enroute
to the Glacier Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin FjelStad
and Judy of Billings visited his
mother, brothers and sisters and
other relatives the past week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sivert Peterson
of Williston spent the week end
at the Art Hett home enroute to
the Glacier Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Nachan and
family and the Art Wiudens and
the three Helling youngsters were
at the Roosevelt Park last Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Lalim and
children of Tioga spent Sunday
with her mother, Mrs. FjelStad.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Human Of
Colorado Springs, Colorado, came
to visit his mother, Mrs. Bob Hin
men. He came home Sunday af-
ter attending French school at
Grand Forks. The Ivan, Max and
Bob Hbamens were all supper
guests at their mothers home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Miller and
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Warner Hanson
and Dianne, Mrs. Girda Stordahl,
Carol and Sharon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Erwin Stordahl and family were
guests at the Sigurd Rude home
Sunday evening, August 5. The
occasion was to celebrate the
birthdays of Mrs. Annie Anvik
and her great grandson, Donald
Rudie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Swenson
visited the Ole SundheimS Sunday
evening.
We are sorry to learn that Mr..
Ole Sundheim met with a farm
accident last week which cost
him the loss of the pointer finger
on his right hand.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
CHURCH CIRCLE HONORS
MRS. HARRY KREIS

Mrs. Harry Kreis was the guest
of honor when the members of
the Eileen Circle of the LonSdale
Methodist Church met Thursday
morning for coffee in the home
of Mrs. K. Mcdonald. Mrs. Kreis
is moving to Minneapolis, Min
neSota where she and her hus-
band will make their home. A
gift was presented to her in rec
ignition of her fine service to the
circle. Members enjoying the
morning affair were Catherine
Romo, Jean st. Cyr, Ruth Grim
stad, Florence Beck, Joyce Swe-
ley, Dorothy Price, Ella Mae
Nightingale, Hazel French, Mrs.
Harry Kruger and the hoSteSses
Ruth Mcdonald, Edna Fawcett
and Mile Burns.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
GENERAL BELIEFS AND
PRINCIPLES OF THE
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY

With very few exceptions
the members of the John
Birch Society are deeply rel
igious people. A members
faith is entirely his own affair.
Our hope is to make better
Catholics, better Protestants,
better Jews = or better Mos
lens = out of those who be-
long to the society. Our never
ending concern is with moral
ity, integrity, and purpose.
Regardless of the differences
between us in creed and dog
ma, we all believe that man is
endowed by a Divine Creator
with an innate desire and con-
scious purpose to improve
both his world and himself.
We believe that the direction
which constitutes improve
ment is clearly visible and
identifiable throughout mans
known history, and that this
God given upward reach in
the heart of man is a COM
posite conscience to which we
all must listen.
II
We believe that the Com
munists seek to drive their
slaves and themselves along
exactly the opposite and
downward direction, to the
Satanic debasement of both
man and his universe. We be-
lieve that communism is as
utterly incompatible with all
religion as it is contemptuous
of all morality and destruc-
tive of all freedom. 1t is in
trinsically evil. 1t must be OPP
posed, therefore, with equal
firmness, on religious grounds
moral grounds, and political
grounds. We believe that the
continued coexistence of COM
munism and a Christian
style civilization on one planet
is impossible. The struggle be-
tween them must end with
one completely triumphant
and the other completely de-
stroyed. We intend to do our
part, therefore, to halt, weak
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
ADTRSMNT AT
'"HB BELIEFs AND PRINCIPLES OF THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY,"

opposition to the Communists
which they have not faced in
any other country. We have
tried to raise a standard to
which the wise and the honest
can repair. We welcome all
honorable allies in this present
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08

steady ensalvement of other
people through the machina-
tons of this Com unis t
agency.
We believe that a constitu-
tional Republic, such as our
Founding Fathers gave us, is
probably the best of all forms
of government. We believe
that a democracy, which they
tried hard to obviate, and into
which the liberals have been
trying for so years to convert
our Republic, is one of the
worst of all forms of govern
ment. We call attention to the
fact that up to 1928 the us.
Army Training Manual still
gave our men in uniform the
following quite accurate de-
finition which would have
been thoroughly approved by
the Constitutional Convention
that established our Republic.
Democracy: A Government
of the masses. Authority de-
rived through mass meeting
or any form of direct express
sion results in mobocracy. At
titude toward property is
communistic = negating pro-
perty rights. Attitude towards
law is that the will of the ma
jority shall regulate, whether
it be used upon elaboration
or governed by passion, pre-
JUDGE, and impulse, without
restraint or regard to conseq-
uences. Results in demago-
gism, license, agitation, dis
content, anarchy" 1t is be-
cause all history proves this to
be true that we repeat so en-
phatically: This is a Republic
not a democracy; let's keep it
that way"
We are opposed to collect
ivism as a political and econ
omic system, even when it
does not have the police-state
features of communism. We
are opposed to it no matter
whether the collectivism be
called socialism or the well
fare state or the New Deal or
the Fair Deal or the New
Frontier, or advanced under
some other semantic disguise.
And we are opposed to it no
matter what may be the
framework or form of govern
ment under which collect
ivism is imposed. We believe
that increasing the size of
government, increasing the
Capitalization of government,
and increasing the functions
of government all act as
brakes on material progress
and as destroyers of person
al freedom.
VII
We believe that even where
the size and functions of gov
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
OUT OF STATE GUESTS
AT ART HANSEN HOME

Mr. and Mrs. Art Slime of Madi-
son, Wisconsin visited in Sidney
last Sunday at the home of Mrs.
Shines sister, Mrs. Art Hansen.
They were returning from a visit
with their SON and his family in
Sacramento, California, and plan
ned other visits ON their. trip, with
relatives and friends in WildroSe,
N. Oak, and at points in Mime
sofa and Iowa.
Miss Sharon Oien of Edmore,
N. Oak, was also a recent guest
al the Hansen home of their
daughter Audrey.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
MDU Completed
One Job, Now
on Another

Montana-Dakota Utilities crews
here completed work of replacing
pipe ca Third Ave. S. E. and
will begin work on alleys in the
residential area east of Central
Ave, and in the west part of
town near Trinity Lutheran
church.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08

law from Seattle attended.
Others in attendance were Al
fred Candee from Sidney: Els
worth Candee from Fairview.
Montana; Vera Steele and hus-
band and their three children
from Medford, Oregon; Dorothy
Candee from Sidney; Esther
Thorson from Bozeman, Montana;
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
of
Hon. John III. ROusselOt
of California
IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
thursday, JUNE IA, 1862

Mr.. ROUSSELOT. Mr.. speaker.
the Efficiency firm, has completed
a thorough investigation of the
John Birch Society in Orange
County, Calf. Findings of the
Bureau are reported in the March
1862, issue of the Santa Ana Reg
lister, a newspaper published in
Orange County. l believe the find
ings will be of interest to my col
leagues. Under unanimous consent
| place the report which appeared
in the Register in the Appendix
of the Congressional Record.
The report follows:
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
ADVERTISEMENT

unceasing war. And we hope
that once they and we and
millions like us have won a
decisive victory at last, many
of these same allies will join
us in our long look toward the
future.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08

eminent as possible should be
retained in the hands of as
government units as
possible, as close to the peo-
pie served by such units as
possible. For the tendencies
of any governing body to
waste, expansion, and despot-
ism all increase with the dis
lance of that body from the
people governed; the more
closely any governing body
can be kept under observa-
ton by those who pay its bills
and provide its delegated au-
thority, the more honestly re-
sponsible it will be. And the
diffusion of governmental
power and functions is one of
the greatest safeguards again
st tyranny man has yet devils
ed. For this reason it is ex-
tremely important in our case
to keep our township, city,
County and State govern
ments from being bribed and
coerced into coming under
one direct chain of control
from Washington.
VIII
We believe that for any
people eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty far more as
against the insidious encorch-
ment of internal tyranny than
against the danger of SUBJ
jugation from the outside or
from the prospect of any
sharp and decisive revolution.
In a republic we must con-
stanly seek to elect and to
keep in power a government
we can trust, manned by peo-
pie we can trust, maintaining
a currency we can trust, and
working for purposes we can
trust none of which we have
today.) We think it is even
more important for the gov
eminent to obey the laws
than for the people to do so.
But for 80 years we have had
a steady stream of govern
ments which increasingly
have regarded our laws and
even our Constitution as mere
pieces of paper, which should
not be allowed to stand in the
way of what they, in their
omniscient benevolence, con-
sidered to be "for the greatest
good of the greatest number
Tor in their power-seeking
plans pretended so to believe.)
We want a restoration of a
government of laws, and not
of men" in this country; and if
a few impeachments are nee
essary to bring that about,
then we are all for the inn
peachments.
TX
We believe that in a general
way history repeats itself. For
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
SIDNEY HERALD
WANT ADS
BRING RESULTS

en-, rout, and eventually to
bury, the whole international
Communist conspiracy.
We believe that means are
as important as ends in any
civilized society. Of all the
falsehoods that have been so
widely and deliberately cir
culated about us, none is so
viciously untrue as the charge
that we are willing to con-
done foul means for the sake
of achieving praiseworthy
ends. We think that COM
munism as a way of life, for
instance, is completely wrong;
but our ultimate quarrel with
the Communists is that they
insist on imposing that way
of life on the rest of us by
murder, treason, and cruelty
rather than by persuasion.
Even if our own use of force
ever becomes necessary and
morally acceptable because it
is in self-defense, we must
never lose sight of the legal,
traditional, and humanitarian
considerations of a compass
sionate civilization. The Com
munsts recognize no such
compulsions, but this very
ingredient of amoral british
ness will help to destroy them
in the end.
We believe in patriotism.
Most of us will gladly concede
that a parliament of nations,
designed for the purpose of
increasing the freedom and
ease with which individuals,
ideals, and goods might cross
national boundaries, would
be desirable. And we hope
that in some future decade we
may help to bring about such
a step of progress in mans
pursuit of peace, prosperity,
and happiness. But we feel
that the present United Ma
tons was designed by its
founders for the exactly OPP
posite purpose of increasing
the rigidity of Government
controls over the lives ad af-
fairs of individual men. We
believe it has become, as it
was intended to become, a ma
jor instrumentality for the
establishment of a one-world
Communist tyranny over the
population of the whole earth.
One of our most immediate
detectives, therefore, is to get
the United States out of the
United Nations, and the
United Nations out of the
United States. We seek thus
to save our own country from
the gradual and piecemeal
surrender of its sovereignty to
this Communist = controlled
supergovernment, and to stop
giving our support to the
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
JOHN BIRCH
SOCIETY INVESTIGATED

meeting. About Is seemed to be
preferred.
7. AL indications show that the
John Birch Society anti-C ommun-
ist movement is growing continu-
ously and steadily.
8. Utilizing both white and
colored investigators, it was learn
ed the John Birch Society isn't
anti-Semitic anti-Negro, or anti
any religious group. That they, in
fact, have chapters comprised en-
tirely of colored membership. Also,
it was found John Birch Society
has Jewish members on the ma
tional advisory council.
9. Investigators found no evi-
dence of violence or unlawful act
ivity engaged in by the John Birch
Society.
10. Investigators did learn that
there were individuals who carried
personal prejudices with them into
the organization. 1t was learned
John Birch Society works to iso-
late persons with such prejudice.
If a whole chapter is found to
share certain prejudices the area
coordinators try to disseminate
such groups.
IL. Investigators learned there is
a John Birch Society major coor-
dinator for Orange, Los Angeles,
and San ernardino Counties and
he has two coordinators directly
under him.
IL. Investigators expected to
find a dictatorship and didn't find
it.
Is. The society as a whole works
very hard to make sure that John
Birch Society isn't used as vehicle
to promote prejudices.
IA. Investigative work included
checking out documented informa-
ton by factfinding groups which
is used as a basis for some John
Birch Society work.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08

girls Of Crosby are visiting at the
home Of her parents, the Dean ia
cObSOnS.
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HsHa WI 81 A
In summary, we are Striv-
ing, by all honorable means at
our disposal and to the limits
of our energies and abilities,
to bring about less govern
ment, more responsibility, and
a better world. Because the
Communists seek, always and
everywhere, to bring about
more government, less indivi-
dual responsibility, and a
completely amoral world, we
would have to oppose them at
every turn, even on the phil
osophical level. Because they
are seeking through a gigan-
tically organized conspiracy
to destroy all opposition, we
must fight them even more
aggressively on the plane of
action. But our struggle with
the Communists, while the
most urgent and important
task before us today, is basic
ally only Incidental to our
more important long : range
and constructive purposes.
For that very reason we are
likely to be more effective
against the Communists than
if we were merely an ad hoe
group seeking to expose and
destroy so huge and powerful
a gang of criminals. In organ
ization, dedication, and pur-
pose we offer a new form of
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08

The work is a part of the
regular re-conditicning program
of the company, which is carried
out each summer, in various
towns served. About three to four
weeks of the work here, remains,
if weather continues favorable.
Completion of the work un-
der streets in the east part of
town allowed city authorities to
proceed with the project of re-
~surfacing streets in the business
and residential area, which is a
part Of the original paving dis
trict. Work on this project is be-
ing done by the Albert Lalonde
Construction Co. of Sidney.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08

Lester Candee, his wife Ruthild
and their three children from
San Francisco, California; Naomi
Chubb, her husband, Lyle and
their two children from Phoenix,
Ariz.; and Nina Price, her hus-
band Give and their four chill
dren of Hunters on whose ranch
the reunion was held.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08

any combination of causes,
similar to an earlier combina-
ton of causes, will lead as a
rule to a combination of re-
suits somewhat similar to the
one produced before. And his
tory is simply a series of
causes which produced re-
suits, and so on around cycles
as clearly discernible as any
of the dozens that take place
elsewhere in the physical and
biological sciences. But we
believe that the most import
ant history consists not of the
repetitions but of the changes
in these recurring links in the
series. For the changes mark
the extent to which man has
either been able to improve
himself and his environment,
or has allowed both to deter
iorate, since the last time
around. We think that this
true history is largely deter
mined by ambitious indivi-
duals (both good and evil and
by small minorities who real
ly know what they want. And
in the John Birch Society our
sense of gratitude and respon-
sibility Ito God and to the
noble men of the past), for
what we have inherited
makes us determined to exert
our influence, labor, and sac
rifice for changes which we
think will constitute improve
ment.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
Hon. John I'll. ROusselOt
of California
In The
House of Representatives
-Tw-1D TTrNTE 10 TnEO

House OF REPRESENTATIVES,
TUESDAY, JUNE II, 1862
Mr.. Rousselot. Mr.. speaker,
many of my colleagues have
questioned me concerning the
beliefs and principles of the
John Birch Society. For their
benefit, under unanimous con-
sent | insert those beliefs and
principles in the Appendix of
the Record.
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
ADVERTISEMENT

OF REMARKS
The Sidney herald., 1962-08-08
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

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We believe that in a general
way history repeats itself. For