Billings Herald (Newspaper) - October 28, 1948, Billings, Montana Billings The eleventh annual regional junior fat stock show and sale opened Wednesday at the Mid- land Empire fairgrounds with 225 animals from 10 counties entered In. the Approximately delegates and visitors from eight states at- tended meetings of the west Episcopal synod here day and They were addressed by the Rt. Rev. Henry K. bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church In the United Bear Admiral E. W. commander of the Puget Sound navy spoke at a street rally during Wavy day observances Wednesday He was also guest speaker at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Optimist club Wednesday noon in the Northern M. manager of the Construction com- pany of was elected president of the board of trustees of Rocky Mountain to succeed the late Cloyd H. Con- The election took place at the annual meeting of the board Tuesday The Rev. Ralph W. tor of the American Lutheran announced the first of a series of adult group discussions on the Book of to be held October 31, at p in the assembly room of the Y. C. 416 North 31st street Curtis O. Ness will act as With the continuation of able all farms in the Billings sugar factory district are expected to finish beet this according to H. L manager of the Western Sugar Harvest was 93 per ceni complete Monday Slicing of tons of beets per day is expected to continue until Dec- ember 3. Harold E. president the University of was welcomed by Republican leaders on his arrival at the lings airport Tuesday afternoon and provided a motor escort to The former of Minnesota and candidate presidential nomination made t major campaign speech in Lewis town Tuesday night In behalf o the ticket and G O. P. candidates in New warehouse in the amount of has been undertaken by Billings firms on spur lines of the Burl ington it was by Paul division freigh and passenger The Row Furniture the Yellow stone Motor Sales am the Oil Equipment and Servic company will have warehouses Fifth avenue north between Thirtieth and and the Steel company will have a warehouse for bulk storage of butane an on Sixth avenue at High way 10J BILLINGS MAN SPURNS DUTY FORMER RESIDENT INJURED Mr. and Mrs. Denis H. O'Brien f 32B Lewis avenue left ay afternoon for where their nt Denis H. is con- Ined to a hospital with critical sustained in an ile accident late ording to reports received in Mrs. the r Jean of was cilled instantly in the collision which occurred between Patterson air field at where the lieutenant is stationed nd By V. A. LECHNER Yon can identify a really driver by the moderate speeds at which he operates his He knows that ing too alow causes traffic to pile lip On other driving fast invites the possibility of Keeping pace with the age flow of traffic is the est rate of OBEY POSTED SPEED LIMITS It is now 86 days since the last traffic fatality in Let's keep the record PRICE 5-CENTS 25 Midland Empire's Independent Community Newspaper OCT. MORE PARTIES BILLINGS CHILDREN Dr. L. L. chairman of the parties sponsored by he Billings and ernal announces one more This party will be held at B. Arrington's church at 423 South 25th from to in October 30. Mrs. W. W. Westwood and Rev. W. B. Ar- rington will be in charge of this The organizations in charge are the Federation of City Women's Hubs and the Junior Women's The children attending the will be entertained by the Al and there will be etc. This s the seventh in the series of parties arranged by the local The ages for this party are from four to 10 Gonna Vote This Says a Well-Known Resident Sam long-time resident of and one of our said today in an interview that he is hot going o the polls on November 2. In a series of homespun he his political philosophy and explained his reasons for ng one of the most important duties of a citizen in a. said us into Roosevelt got us into didn't have no and then when I did have it they took it in I WON'T Billings said today he plans to be absent from the polls November 2, because If he doesn't vote he can't be REPORT SHOWS BIG EXPENSE FOR MISSOURI RIVER BASIN The reclamation bureau and other interior department cies spent more money in the basin during ust and September than during any previous three-month According to n quarterly report published Wednesday by the basin reports was spent on basin development from July 1 to September 30, the first ter of the 1949 fiscal the report is 26 percent of the scheduled to be spent during the World Travellers Visit Wish to Make Home in Billings Guests in Billings this week are Mr. and Mrs. Earl S. De citizens of the who like our and are hoping to their home Mr. De is I an internationally recognized specializing in the problems of entomology and soil His whom he met and married in was born in Norway and educated in She was caught in Paris by the German and served as a nurse In civilian Recently returned from a visit to her home in she re- people suffered rible things at the hands of the but the country is ing a. rapid Everyone Is short of and such things as coffee and but they are too proud to ask for Of they are terrified of the and very Mrs. De who speaks five languages and has seen most of the is enthusiastic about the beauty of western America and the friendliness of She thought Yellowstone Park lovelier than for the future wants a log cabin and a A graduate of the University of De Smidt was associated with the department of agriculture of that state until 1941, when assisted to the agricultural rehabilitation pro gram for Japanese Since that time has travelled as special advisor to China and Central Food for China Mr. De Smidt considers that his major work has been done In where he worked in an advisory capacity ment of This in the part of the has a lation of 12 million and an area about equal to that of One of more progressive inces of It is still according to De Many of the natives have not yet learned to use the They drag their burdens from place to place on crude and are unable to understand wind mills or any more complex than a There is no lack ci educated men in Dr. of the provincial department of is a graduate of and there is a large class of But the caste system which prevails makes it impossible for the scholars to share their enlightenment with the As a result their which Is the richest un- developed agricultural area in the highly with plenty of water and a 12-month growing supports its relatively small population in conditions of direst There are ands of acres of the finest ing and no livestock Oranges and bananas grow wild but there is no Water highways lead to the kets of Canton and Hong Kong but there no Work in Progress Into this entirely closed to outsiders until after World war the government and foreign specialists have brought 55 irrigation projects to open Many of these were completed by hand labor it being too sive to ship machinery and line Into the They the first cooperative farm been adopted ly as model for progressive and six experimenta farms to establish a greater var iety of produce In a land long devoted almost exclusively to rice and sweet Mr. De who has his foreign is abou ready to settle down in his favor ite and with that en in view has turned down a new mission to He Is in Bil lings to investigate the possibili ties of establishing an industry here After a trip to San h and Mrs. De Smidt hope to re turn to build their cab buy their and mak their contribution to better in behalf of their own Be Sure to Vote Every totalitarian ment today and yesterday owes its beginning to the people's lack of interest in their own Good government in America hinges on a wide ex- pression of our people at the It is everyone's duty as a citizen to vole on next November 2. Plans Made by Workers In Local Chest Drive divisions Kof Community Chest workers are in- this week for the an- drive to be launched ember 4. A division meeting was held at 5 p. m. Wednesday in the Commercial club for the re- tall firms division headed by C. W. chairman the Chest Captains for the division are J. M. C. V. Larry Johnson and Art meetings are scheduled for Thursday at 5 p. m. and day at p. m. The public em- headed by F. G. will meet Captains are Gordon don't know what Truman or i Dewey will get us but I don't I think I'm going to like it. If I don't I can't be Asked what he thought about the Issues of the Sloth said he no mind to them and didn't know what the issues Had he read impartial studies of current trends in I don't hold vith Did ho think America a good place to Why? in his country people has the YOu the people what I How do they you blamed young don't you know? They what they they Mr. for a en- discussion of And we left Other A. W. Katie Dr. W. C. Paul M. C. Hilda A. D. Dr. A. G. Robert Lyman E. Harry wheeler Milt Two headed by Les Hardy and Curtis will canvas downtown business of- These will meet Captains in Hardy's division are G. W. Wayne Howard Cal Frank George D. Snell and Floyd Captains in division are B. C. Charles o. S. Walter A. T. Walter H. E. C. Don Lewis and Residential districts will be by the women's Mrs. Henry Lohof is manager and captains are Mrs. George A. Mrs. W. F. Koch and This ion met last week for campaign E. M. N. QUEEN OP HOMECOMING Students at Eastern Normal Wednesday elected their coming but results of the election will be kept secret until her to take place at the Fox theater Thursday night were Mo Dorothy Candidates of and Rose Marie Ward Gallatin Football cap- tain Carl Johnson wil present the crown to the winning The queen will preside over the annual Homecoming dance Friday for Eastern students and Students of Rocky tain college will be special guests She will also preside at the an- cross-country run Saturday morning and the Homecoming football game with South Dakota Mines Saturday sloth and his friends con- a c enough age of the American to decide the result of almost every important Yet they are consistently absent from the and the logic of citizen re- sponsibility does not prevail against They cannot vote intelligently every two years be- cause they fall to realize that a voter must function every day of his following government fairs as they develop and forming opinions of the wisdom of policies and There were Sam Sloths in Yellowstone county for the election of 1946, who cared enough about freedom to but didn't show up at the OF ON AIR THIS SUNDAY NIGHT The first of three episodes of Vicar of by Oliver Goldsmith will be given by the Radio Playhouse group day October 31. from to over The entire three weeks will be sponsored by the Settergren Funeral Etta Mae ducer and said today that she hoped everyone would tune in promptly in order to get the beginning of the The group is composed of local talent and will give ten weeks of one- half hour radio plays this The cast for the first week of Vicar of is as William Deborah his Adeline Zelda Beatrice Virgil Emil Jack Squire Hugh Tavern Larry Cast An- George PETERSON TO ADDRESS GREAT FALLS MEETING Dr. A. G. president of Eastern Montana Normal left Wednesday for Great Falls where he will attend the north central district convention of the Montana Education The president will address the first general session Thursday afternoon on the Job Is human He will also address primary In- section meetings
