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The Sidney herald., 1963-08-14
Football Season
Opening
Game Sept. 6

Sidney High football prac-
tice starts August "a at 8 pm.
Head Coach Ron Ewing, ex-
poets about go Eagles 70
check out uniforms for spots
on the Varsity and B squad.
Seniors and lettermen will
draw equipment on Wednes-
day, August 81, 8 am. to IL
pm.
Sophomore and Juniors
will get their pads August %
and % from 9 am. to 5 pm.
and freshmen draw their gear
August 81.
Coach Ewing expects IA re-
turning lettermen to form the
nucleus of his 1868 season.
Returning backfielders are
Ray Hartman, Frank Laci,
Mike Gear, DON Kingery, Bob
Zadow and David Kaneski.
Ewing will have John Welnel,
Tom Marker, Bob Pfau, Gene
Kruger, Charles Quincy, Dale
1Iorby, Jim Ness and Steve
Quilting up front in the line.
This squad will be augment
ed by several outstanding
sophomoreS and some return
ing juniors from last years B
team.
Ewing says, "We will have
enough good boys available for
game duty SO we will be able
to substitute freely"
Line Coach Leo Schlenker
will assist Ewing. Jim Haugen
and Chuck Krous will handle
the B squad. Herb Kimball, a
new conner to the Sidney scene,
is the freshman coach.
First Sidney game will be al
Williston on September 6.
The Sidney herald., 1963-08-14

Level Still
Good Here

Demand for workers con-
tlnueS to increase with the ad-
vance of summer. Hiring in
the construction field is active
with numerous local building
projects contributing to full
employment.
Service, wholesale = retail,
public utilities, government,
and other industries are also
contributing to full employ
ment, according to Howard
Sarbu, manager Sidney EN-
ployment Office.
He said that over 100 work
erS are currently employed on
various building projects and
20 workers were recently alb
sorbed by local retail establish
mentS, including five at the
newly opened Sears & Roe
buck Catalog Store. Sarbu
predicted that the high leve-
of local employment will con
tinue into late fall or later.
He said the Safeway Shop.
ping Center will employ be
tween 10 and Is new worker.
about the first of September
Work on the $257, 4O7.22 Sid.
ney Loop Road is expected tt
start in the next week or two
Construction of the new Sid
ney grade school is expected
to start some time this fall
Other building jobs currently
in progress are expected tc
last into late fall.
The Sidney Employment Of
flee is experiencing their first
major shortage of workers SC
far this year.
According to Sarbu, the EN-
ployment Office currently has
orders for fry cooks, waitres-
Ses, baby s~itterS, bookkeeper
housekeepers, appliance sales
man, janitor, motel chamber
maid, receptionist and cashier
In addition, they are taking
applications for various posi-.
tons in the new Safeway
Shopping Center.
The Sidney herald., 1963-08-14
Assessment of
Property Complete

Assessment of property in
R1chland County has been
completed for 1868.
Assessed valuation is S34.-
7O6,736 and taxable valuation
is $9,946,887. The increase in
assessed value is 81, 1893, 7O1 and
In taxable value is $397,6 $50.
Valuations for school dis
tricts, high school districts,
clubs and rural property are
as follows:
CONTINUED on page Al
The Sidney herald., 1963-08-14

Award Contracts
For Two Trucks

Richland County Commits
sloners awarded a contract for
two 2-ton trucks TO the Gem
City Motor Co. of Sidney at
their meeting here Tuesday
for the sum of $4693 each.
Two other bids were re-
celved, one from Larson Motor
Co, and one from Richland
Machinery, both of Sidney.
Commissioner James Spurgeon
said that one of the other bids
was slightly lower than the
Gem City's, but that it failed
to meet the specifications de-
sired, and so was rejected by
the Commissioners.
The Sidney herald., 1963-08-14

The Auxiliary would work
along lines similar to the work
of the Community Memorial
Hospital Linen Guild, in pro-
viding services and assistance
TO the Home and its residents.
Suggestions for projects will
The Sidney herald., 1963-08-14

be asked of Miss Cora Hines,
Superintendent of Richland
Homes.
A planning meeting has been
set for 7 pm. September 6 at
Richland Homes, Mrs. Tinker
said.
The Sidney herald., 1963-08-14

Lower Yellowstone R.E.A.
reported outageS ON some of
their lines due to branches and
trees being blown on lines and
a hot wire tied up traffic on
Highway Is for about As min
utes before it could be remov-
ed.
The Sidney herald., 1963-08-14

Fun I'm Orbit Is
Night Show Feature

The Richland County Fair will get under way Monday
and continue through Wednesday.
Activity had the fairgrounds moved into high pitch
THIS week, as booths are being set up and exhibits
readied.
Sidney stores will be closed at noon Monday and
tuesday Tor the fair. Fairvew merchants will close
Monday afternoon for Fairview Day at the fair.
Reserved seat tickets for the night show are now ON
sale at the fair office in the basement of the T.a1ondo
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The photo above shows how
the strong winds snapped off
trees in the Crane area.
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The Weather

rov1-a Tcp. 20 date - 11.64
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WITHERSPOONS' NEST
It's Honne-SWeet- Hostel

For the Witherspoons, the
contract means a chance TO
pursue their creative inter-
ests for at least a year (they
hope longer-"we'll see II we
come through the winter")
and to satisfy their back-to-
the-wilderness impulse.
The only thing they miss
Of the city so far is varied
intellectual companionship.
and what they've lost Of that.
they say. Is partially replaced
by the hostel's young patrons.
THE children" said Cor
don, who looks too young to
be calling the teen-age hos
telers that, ARE quite excep-
tional." The majority come
from privileged homes and
all OF them, according to
Bette, ARE far more self
reliant than average for their
age"
The Witherspoons are there
to maintain the property,
welcome the dodgers, explain
the hostel customs and see
that they are observed: Hos
telers provide and cook their
own food. clean up after
wards, leave their quarters as
tidy as they found them, get
to bed reasonably early 90
pm. is official lights-out
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but lots Of sunshine, bird
song and fresh air.
Married two years next
month, they've been talking
Of doing something like this
ever since their betrothal.
1--WE thought we might buy
a trailer and jeep and drive
around the country. But we
never accumulated the funds
for that" Bette said.
When Gordon saw the
American Youth Hostel ad
in the paper, he answered
Immediately. The Post Of
flee box numbers got mixed
up. however, and the letter
the hostel officials read.
said: II would be happy to
accept the job at $4,000 a
year." Meanwhile, the Ford
Motor Co., which had adj
vertised for an executive,
was reading Gordon's letter,
a somewhat more modest re-
quest)
Eventually things were
Strengthened out, happily for
the Potomac Area Council Of
A. Y. H.-they'd been looking
for the right couple for over
a year, from the time the old
frame and stone building
was dedicated as q hostel
May 5, 1862.
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EXCLUSIVELY YOURS
Janet AuchincIoss
Bows at Brilliant Ball

NEWPORT, r. I.-Janet
Auchincloss, half-sister Of
the First Lady, made her
debut in this palatial sum-
mer resort last evening at a
brilliant Venetian Ball that
drew guests from as far away
as London.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh D.
Auchincloss presented their
lovely looking daughter at
cir summer residence,
Hammersmith Farm, where
President and Mrs. Kennedy
have stayed during the fall
Of the past two years, and
where they will go again next
month.
A surprise bouquet from
President and Mrs. Kennedy
arrived for Janet yesterday.
MRS. KENNEDY, who in
sisted that the party be held
despite the loss of her new
born infant a week ago, had
not planned to attend the
party from the first. This is
Janet's big night" she had
said, and nothing should
detract from the star of the
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Auchincloss
gave a dinner for $50 mem
bers of the young set for
their daughter at Hammer
smith Farm preceding the
dance. And at II o'clock the
debutante and her parents
took up their places in the
receiving line before a flower
banked fireplace in the sit
ting room.
The graduate of this past
June from Miss Porter's
School at Pennington, Conn,
wore a Dior gown Of white
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BY AMELIA YOUNG
star staff Writer

When Bette and Gordon
Witherspoon moved into
their new home last month,
they found a black snake on
a windowsill, no central
heating and some country
neighbors who were, to put
1t mildly, suspicious.
But the couple was i'm
pressed.
1t does. after all, have hot
and cold running water, in
door showers, electric stove
and refrigerator, o huge
stone fireplace. even one
air conditioner.
The Witherspoons' house
is q hostel. Two miles by
foot from historic Harpers
Ferry. it's the Kiwanis Youth
Hostel at Sandy Hook, Md,
one Of three such lodges
along the Gao Canal chain.
AS hostels go, theirs is pretty
luxurious.
Bette and Gordon, a
writer and artist, respective
ly, have given UP full-time
Jobs in Washington to be-
come the permanent house,
parents, a responsibility that
brings In very little income
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organza trimmed with lilies
of the valley with a fitted
waist and flared hemline.
Her handsome mother was
gowned in a yellow silk Bal
main dress embroidered with
white beads.
AS THE GUESTS, includ-
ing a number of foreign am
bassadors and socialites from
Washington, were greeted
they proceeded into a gaily
decorated pink marquee
erected on the Narraganset
Bay side Of the estate. The
poles supporting the tent
were striped in gold and blue
and gold and orange but
unlike those of Venice SPAR
killed. with FREELY lights. Vari-
colored Venetian lanterns
Illuminated the tent, and ia
bles around the dance floor
were covered with long cloths
OF amethyst, turquoise, orange
and blue, each centered with
vari-colored frosted candles
on Venetian gold stems.
Meyer Davis and his Or
chestra poured forth dance
rhythms against a gondola
backdrop, in gondolier COS
tunes, and gondolier hats
were dispensed as favors to
all the young men present
while the girls were given
golden masks reminiscent Of
a Venice carnival.
Dinner music was provided
by Roland Haas and his
Hungarian trio and during
the evening George Foyer,
the pianist, entertained both
young and older fry at the
piano.
The large buffet table was
draped in Venetian red and
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BY BETTY BEALE

decorated with small gondolas
filled with fruit. grape leaves
and pheasant feathers. An
other, or auxiliary marquee,
was decorated with obelisks Of
flowers. The driveway to the
residence and the Sunken
garden glowed in the night
with special illumination. All
the decor was done by Helen
Cole Of New York.
DINNERS BEFORE THE
PARTY, which came at the
end Of tennis week and
marked the height Of the
Newport season, were legion.
Some 80 guests, including
Peruvian Ambassador and
Mrs. Berckemeyer who are
staying there, dined at Wake
hurst, the fabulous formal
residence Of Mrs. Louis Bru-
giere, one of the remaining
millionaire grande danes Of
the fashionable resort.
Australian Ambassador and
Lady Beale dined with the
Harvey Firestones who enter
tanned at a big party before
the dance at their place,
Ocean Lawn. Belgian Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Scheyven and
former Ambassador to Great
Britain and Mrs. Winthrop
Aldrich were dinner guests of
the Sheldon Whitehouses.
Greek Ambassador Alex
ander Matsas was among
those attending the Charles
Patersons' dinner at their
home, Hopedene, and Italian
Ambassador Sergio Fenoaltea,
whose wife is in Italy, was at
the dinner party given by
Mrs. C. Oliver ODonnell at
Cave Cliff. U. N. Ambassador
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from Panama and Mrs. Ro-
bert Huertematte dined with
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gil
leSpie.
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL,
who came from London to
attend the affair that also
drew his son Winston, was q
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Bemused, Gordon sounded
less sure the second time:
I'm a fair cook" he said.
well, can your wife cook
whale" they persevered.
Yes. she cooks well. too"
he tried again.
mo. WHALE, WHAH-
HALEl" the boys exploded.
They had pork chops and
bread for supper that night.
The hostel consists Of two
bunk rooms that accommo-
date 10 each Zone for girls
Continued on Page C-S
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time) and rise early enough
to be outdoors by $3.50 am.
Bette and Gordon are not
required to be "chaperons"
and strict disciplinarians.
While they will provide
books, games, information
about the locale and a lis
tening ear on request, they
keep to the background as
much as possible.
Sometimes they're called
on for special advice. For
example, one day Gordon
took q couple Of Southern
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hostelers to the country
store to buy groceries. In
side the boys discovered q
special" whale meat for
27c a pound. (They didn't
know 1t was sold as dog
food They stuck their
heads outside and asked Mr..
Witherspoon, Can you cook
whale?"
Eyes. I cook pretty WE'LL"
he replied.
Il mean can you cook
WHALE" one OF the boys
explained.
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A. H. Berger Photo via AP

dinner guest at Elm Court,
home of Mrs. Guy Fairfax
Cary.
The Wiley Buchanans gave
a dinner for so or so mem
bers of the post-debutante
set for their daughter Dede
Continued on Page ca
The Glacier reporter., 1963-02-28

Mrs. M. X. Fields and children
were business visitors in Cut
Bank Saturday.
Kenneth Holland was in Spok-
ane and other points in Wash
ington last week. -.--..-s=- ..
The Glacier reporter., 1963-02-28

John Old Chief was "at himself
his ability and capability was
everything that could be asked OF
a cowboy on a roundup.
Joe Mckay on numerous oc
casions said the man with whom
he worked the best, they under
stood each other perfectly, nei
ther smoked nor drank, both low.
ed to dance and each swung a
rawhide rope was his own broth
er, Tommy Favel.
Tommy Favel had the misfor
tune to be kicked in the groin
inside a rope corral" crowded
with horses, in September oi
1911, and passed away January
81, 1912 at Macleod, Alberta al
the age of 80.
1t was after his brother, Tom
my, whom his first born son was
named. When his son, Tommy
The Glacier reporter., 1963-02-28

was between the ages of three
and four he taught him to count
to ten in four languages - Eng.
lish, Blackfeet, French, and Cree.
He would amuse himself by TAX
ing Tommy to town and having
him count for his friends and
acquaintances.
Tommy Mckay passed away
from a heart ailment January IL,
1888 at the age of 16.
AS for his own formal school
ing Joe Mckay had none. He
taught himself to read and write
the English language. Being a
Cree half-breed until he was
about ten years old he spoke
only Cree and some French but
could neither read nor write any
language.
In his later adult years it was
highly amusing to him to tell
The Glacier reporter., 1963-02-28
Joe Mckay Rode Border To Border

In those days when you went
to work as a cowboy for prob
ably $40 per month you were
allotted anywhere from 8 to 10 to
20 or "a half-broken. uncoopera-
tive range land horses known as
a string" You either rode them
or you didn't work - unlike the
solitary. subdued and noble shep-
herd - you could not chase
cattle like sheep around all day
on foot
Chan Hoffman. local LIQUOR
store vendor. recalls vividly how
as a boy of II in 1908 in the vi.
The Glacier reporter., 1963-02-28

cinity of Waller, Montana, it was
only with the greatest of Difficult.
ty that he would be able, with
the cold. raw wind about to take
away every breath in the just
coming daylight or darkness of
the early morning, to saddle orn-
cry, mean unwilling horses for
the days work, he remembers
that Joe Mckay was the only
man who ever came out and gave
him a hand saddling those mean,
almost impossible animals.
Chan managed TO survive the
ordeal and worked many years
The Glacier reporter., 1963-02-28

as a capable, experienced round
up cowboy.
might add that there is dis
tinction drawn between a Rodeo
and Roundup cowboy.
Some of the prairie roundup
cowboys he recalled from the
Browning area included Angus
Monroe, "Ballie" Buck, Chan
Hoffman, Nose Gillian, Big
Jim" Johnson, Charles Powell,
Sr., Tom Aubrey, Peter Flint,
Bill Spanish, and the man he re-
garded as the greatest of all full
blooded Blackfeet Indian cow
boys was John Old Chief, Sr. He
would often remark that when
The Glacier reporter., 1963-02-28

about the first word he was
taught to utter of the English
language. He was handed small
can with a potato in the spout
for a stopper and a twenty-five
cent piece by his step-father one
day when about 10 years old and
told to take both to the local
Hudson Bay Store and when the
clerk approached him he was to
hand both the can and quarter
to the clerk and say "coal-eye"
(coal-oil, kerosene).
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Joe Mckay had a wealth OF
stories about roundup cowboys
all of whom were hard-riding
and some a hard-drinking breed.
One story concerned a certain
Tex" Meyer who always man.
aged to do a little "elbow-bend-
ing" when in town and then al
ways seemed to have an available
adversary with whom to engage
in the manly art.
One day after a particularly
turbulent weekend one of "Tex's"
cowboy cronies inquired of him,
Tex, when you gonna quit
drinkin?" well, I'll tell ya," re-
piled Tex, when they let that
rope down in that hole, then you
can say, well, l guess Tex quit
drinkin."
One of the earliest Browning
merchants for whom he worked
briefly was Peter DesRosier, Sr.
Pete, as he was known to all,
was always remembered by Joe
Mckay as being the only nom
Indian merchant in the Brown
ing area who could speak and
understand the Cree language.
He also had memories of a
youthful Joe Sherburne driving
a horse and buggy, with the
proper get-up" white gloves
(which were a must" for a prop
er gentleman in those days. and
all, going to the Cut Bank Board
ing School to make a purely Soc
ial call where a certain Eula
Churchill was a school teacher.
Another lifetime Browning
resident Chas. Devereaux, Sr.,
recalls when he was on a horse
buying trip to Canada. He first
saw Joe Mckay roping in the
stockyards at Lethbridge, Alber-
ia, in 1906. Mr.. Devereaux re-
marked, Il and some others went
down to the stockyards to look
at some horses - there were all
non-Indians and there with one
exception - I noticed the fellow
doing all the roping in the yards
looked like an Indian - that's
where I first met Joe Mckay"
One of the tales he was fond
of relating about an early day
cowboy concerns the original
Howell Harris, a Texan by birth,
whom Joe Mckay worked with
and for as teen-aged cowboy
in Canada. II appears Harris and
small party of hardy horsemen
were crossing the boundless prair-
lie one hot summer day in the
late 1905 with seemingly moth
ing between them, the Texas
panhandle and the Peace River
country but bunchgrass and
bleached buffalo bones, then
upon coming up and over a small
ridge who should be there to
confront them but a band of
marauding and apparent hostile
Indians who were all mounted
on horseback and had Harris and
Co. outnumbered about 10 to /.
From the outset it became quite
obvious that the war parties con-
cern for the general welfare of
the small band of cowboys led
by Harris left something to be
desired.
Upon coming into closer prox.
unity with each other, the parties
stopped in their tracks and sur.
veyed each other coldly and
quietly. The leader of the war
party then dismounted and by
use of a commonly accepted sign
language known to all early day
old-timers, cowboys and Indians
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alike, let it be known that he
wished to discuss a matter with
the leader of the cowboy band;
thereupon Harris dismounted and
strode slowly toward the silent
ly standing Indian who by now
was gazing curiously at the brown
dust-covered hair showing be
meath the sweatband of Harris
cowboy hat. All the while the
Indian was fondly caressing a
wide beaded buckskin belt with
thumb and forefinger, encircling
his waist.
The Glacier reporter., 1963-02-28

To resolve the situation and
retreat from the brink of war"
on this particular prairie occa-
sion, the war party leader let it
be known all Harris had to do
was to relinquiSh dominion and
control over all the burlap sacks
and wooden boxes of fOodstuff,
and supplies Harris pack-train
of horses was carrying to round
up camp many miles to the north.
The Indian also implied that
Harris didn't have till doomsday
to come to a decision.
Harris, coming to grips with
reality in those few anxious
moments, probably realized that
the phrase, "the survival of the
fittest," was never brought into
more sharper focus or could new
er be more starkly realistic He
decided to gamble and gamble
big, with help - he knew not
where - he bet his life and those
of his cowboy companions that
he could stand up to the war
party and get away with it. His
reply? He spit in the Indians
face.
The leader of the war party
was so astounded by the display
of cold, raw, reckless courage on
the part of the leader of the
small band of courageous cow
boys, that he, the leader, moved
a few PAGES to the rear and af
ter a consultation in low voices
among him and his followers
Harris and his party were allow
ed to proceed and completed
their journey unmolested.
If the foregoing reads like a
TV Bonanza" or Wagon Train,
| have accomplished my purpose.
I've tried to show by a factual
account of a perhaps little known
incident that is from the lives
Of men like Howell Harris, Joe
Mckay and countless little
known, unsung tens of thousands
of riders and ropers of the
prairie west where today's writers
and artists on TV, movies, maya
zines and periodicals obtain their
material. These men and legiOns
of .unknowns, and forgottens like
them are history. They were the
prairie cowboy west.
Joe McKay's stories of the
early prairie plains and roundup
cowboy days could, and may
someday, fill a book - as l am
in possession of wealth of them
from the simple to the unusual,
unvarnished facts without the
veneer - all the wheat and none
of the chaff.
OF all the tributes, praise and
recommendations paid him down
through the years for his roping
and long, seemingly endless hours
of cowboy roundup work, the
sentence uttered by his daugh-
ter Isabelle's small son Jimmy,
some four years ago after hear
ing many a cowboy tale told him
by his grandfather the day be-
fore he entered the kindergar-
ten epitomizes, eulogizes and
met with the most approval by
his grandfather when he said,
'When / start in the kindergar-
ten tomorrow I'm gonna tell those
kids in school that i got a grand
pa who is real cowboy"
Mrs. M. X. Fields and children
were business visitors in Cut
pa,E SATURDAY.
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Delegates
To Be Named

The members Of the
Woman's Army Corps Vet
Grams Association, District of
Columbia, Chapter 16 will
hold the election of delegates
to the convention which will
be held at the Statler Hilton
Hotel in Boston in August.
This meeting will take
place Tuesday at 8 pm. at
the Shoreham Hotel.
All WAC's in the Washing
ton area are invited to the
Dutch Treat" dinner at $50
pm. preceding the meeting
In the Garden Dining Room.
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the USDA's Agricultural Re-
search Service. recognized her
as an administrator. as q re-
searcher, and as an interna-
tional leader who has made
contributions in the science
of human nutrition and the
well being of people in all
parts of the world.
Through DR.. Stiebelings
leadership in many interr1a-
tional food and nutrition
conferences. the results Of her
work have crossed boundaries
and are helping to improve
the lives of people everywhere
in the world, DR.. Shaw said.