The Independent-Record from Helena, Montana • 5

I THE HELENA INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1941 PAGE HY3 Geologist Wants Highway Department To Tell Story of Bad Lands Annual Red Cross Drive to Be Planned at Meet 4 The Prospector 1 1 In Last Chance Gulch City Briefs AVEATHER IN HELENA OCT. 7, 1041 Highest Temperature Today, 'tLThir date laat year 71rHlgh-est eyer recorded at Helena this date since 1880, 79.5, year 1889. Lowest Temperature Today, 38. This date last year 32. Lowest ever recorded at Helena this date since 1880, 15.9, year 1894.

Precipitation Amount lor the 24-hour period ending at 5:30 p. none. Total for this month to date .88 inch. Excess for this month to date .57 inch. OTHER CITIES same time the surface vis undermined and later eroded Into the fantastic formation! which occufln many places along the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers.

Mr. Grafton added that the na4 tlonal park service Is planning a 1,000 or 1,500 word feature on Montanas unique highway markers In the 1942 park service yearbook. He said be will write for the yearbook a history of the 102 markers on state highways and will send them plctnrea of a number of the signs to he need In illustrating the feature. Housing Loans in This County Total Percentage of Loss .8 Over Seven-Year Period Ben S. Hill, state director of the Federal Housing administration, released figures on the comulatlve loans made by the administration in Lewis and Clark county since its Inception in 1934.

A total of 31,475,562 has been loaned in classes I and II during the Beven year period ending June 30, 1941, Director Hill said. The sum is divided into shortterm loans, classified as Title I and the long-term mortgage loans classified as Title II. Under Utle 771 loans for a total of 3483,562 have been made and under Title II, 248 loans totaling 3992,000 have been granted. In all, 1,019 loans have been made, Mr. Hill said.

The percentage of loss on Title I loans, Hill said, was under .8 of one per cent while the losses on Title II loans are even smaller. Hill said the total amount for the state in both loan classes was slightly less than 315,000,000 for the period. An eastern geologist wants to see the story of the formation of eastern Montanas highly-colored baaiandir-printed--tnr-isighway markers for the benefit of tourists. Edwin Grafton, public relations director for the Montana highway department, said yesterday that the geologist who asked that bis name not be used has written the department suggesting that markers be erected describing the burning of huge coal beds under the surface, allowing the ground level to drop and leaving grotesquely-formed clay ajid stone pinnacles. The geologist explained that the badlands were formed as the beds of coal were set afire by lightning or early grass fires, oxidizing the iron in the soil into highly-colored compounds.

At the Personals Northern Pacific passengers yesterday included George W. Wade of Boulder for San Francisco from whence he will sail Oct. 9 for Honolulu; Shell Gelles-ple for Bowie, and G. W. Patterson for Minneapolis.

Marian Keim left Sunday for Great Falls to attend the Sisters of Charity of Providence college of education. She will major in sociology. Registered at the Harvey yesterday were Charles J. Kauffman of Livingston and R. M.

Morris of Roundup. Among the guests at the Placer yesterday were F. E. Benedict of Butte and George W. Bowman of Billings.

Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Hardle of Butte were guests at the Placer yesterday.

R. E. Johnson of Great Falls was registered at the Placer yesterday. Edwin Barton of Billings was registered at the Harvey yesterday. F.

H. Stlverson of Missoula was a guest at the Harvey yesterday. More than 80 per cent of the 100,000 annual cases of diphtheria In the United States occur between the ages of and 5 years. Until Oct. 11th, Then Bozeman DR.

G. D. PONS Optometry Eyesight Service. Office at Room 506 Plaeer Hotel. Hours: 9 a.

till 12 noon and 1 p. till 8 p. m. Entire attention devoted to fit- ting and grinding glasses for difficult and stubborn cases, and new styles. Eyes Examilned Glasses Fitted.

Optometrlc training of ocular defects. See the latest in rimless lens. mb. GET EVERY PLAY! Modl LJOCU-Mottl! aubonof pUftic cabinet woo top awtrd foe Win io nationwide cooceat. Playa oq AC or DC bonae fl fQK tent.

Superheterodyne circuit I Dmmic Speaker CLAFLIN'S 17 West Sixth Ave. MARRIAGE LICENSES O. Martin Coon and Anna Mabel Sallee, both of Chester. Clyde Martin Iverson, Great FallaotLUleti jyiayPage, jvij low Creek. Robert C.

Hunter and Margaret Llgbtfoot, both of Anaconda. Henry Albert Norton and Anna Ida Schneider, both of Helena. BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rummel of York are the parents of a daughtre born yesterday at St.

John's hospital. FUNERAL NOTICES Requiem high mass will be sung this morning at 9 oclock, in St. Helena cathedral for' Claude C. Lanstrum, who died Sunday in Portland. Burial will be in Forestvale cemetery.

Opp and Conrad will be in charge of arrangements. Funeral services for George N. Mires, postmaster at Townsend and former Helena resident who died in Townsend Monday morning, wll be held at 2 oclock this afternoon at the Opp and Conrad funeral The Rev. C. E.

Whittier of the First Presbyterian church will officiate and burial will be in Forestvale cemetery. Graveside rites will be in charge of the Masonic lodge. Pallbearers will be Fred W. Schmitz, Townsend; Ralph N. Lodge, Helena; William N.

Ostle, Charles P. Had-cock and C. A. Dallas, all of Winston, and A. N.

Hass of Bozeman. Christian Science services will be conducted this afternoon at 3 oclock at Opp and Conrad chapel for Mrs. Clara Haderli, a longtime Montana resident, who died suddenly Sunday. Following the services the body will be forwarded to Great Falls for cremation. Camp Fire Leader Will Visit Here Thursday Miss Eldora DeMots, district field secretaiy of the Camp Fire Girls will visit the Helena organization tomorrow and Friday.

The visit is part of an official inspection trip. The Helena council has arranged an informal meeting at 4 o'clock Thursday" afternoon for mothers of new members. Miss DeMots will speak at the session, which will be held at the Y.W.C.A. Membership in the local council has Increased one-third during the past year, it was announced. Mrs.

H. T. Kuehn, chairman of, the committee on arrangements, will be assisted by the following: Pouring, Mrs. B. H.

GYeen, president, of the locpl council, Mrs. R. E. Towle, Mrs. L.

F. Hare, and Mrs. John Bonner; in charge of the table, Mrs. Fred Sell and Mis. Georfee Huber; food committee, Mrs.

A. B. Bradham, Mrs. Walter McCormick, Mrs. A.

H. Tuttle, Mrs. O. M. Carlson, and Mrs.

Elizabeth DeKay. Camp Fire Girls will help in the serving. Stay of Execution, Request Filed In Supreme Court Joseph W. Webber, a Madison county resident convicted on a charge of 'receiving stolen property and sentenced to three years In the Montana state prison, yesterday asked the State Supreme court for a stay of execution pending action on an application for a new trial. Webber was convicted in "the Madison county district court and the decision was sustained by the Supreme court.

Later, Webber asked for a new trial in the MadisoiTcourt on the basis of new evidence, and the motion was denied in district court. He-has indicated be will appeal to the Supreme court to grant him a new trial. DIVORCE GRANTED District Judge George W. Pad-bury, signed a decree yesterday granting Genevieve Best Lea a divorce from Robert E. Lea.

Plaintiff Was awarded custody of the minor children. SUITS AND TOPCOATS Tailored to your M850 And Individual measure Uy A LIBERMAN JIOII Fuller Ave. as a host goes upt. whiskey goes down! ryv Straight Whiskey Plans for the annual Lewis and Clark county Red Cross membership drive will-be outlined at a meeting of the board of directors of the chapter Thursday noon at the Placer hotel: Dr. C.

A. Kenck of Augusta, county chairman, who will preside at the session, said a drive chairman will also be chosen during the meeting. Armistice day will be the starting date of the- drive, Dr. Kenck said. The goal of the drive will be set at 8,180 memberships.

This figure exceeds the figure reached last year by nearly 4,000 memberships, Dr. Kenck said. He explained the increase as necessitated by the increased activities of the Red Cross throughout the world. Miss Ruth Beem, executive secretary of the county unit, said yesterday-12 women have completed the courses in home hygiene and care of the sick sponsored by the unit. They are: Mrs.

Laura Porter of Fort Harrison, Mrs. Edna Schatz and Mrs. Freda Paulson of the Helena valley, Mrs. Marie Weaver of Kenwood and Mrs. Maud Mills, Mrs Agnes Turner, Mrs.

Lucifie Ingersoll, Mrs. Thelma Thurston, Mrs. Helen McDermott, Mrs. Thelma Billerbeck and Mrs. Mary Serum-gard, all of Helena.

Another class will start The standard and advanced courses in first aid are set to start the latter part of the week, Miss Beem said, and more than 40 registrations have already been received for the courses. Miss Beem also announced plans for a nurses-aid "Course which may be started later this year. The course is designed to train volunteer women to do routine hospital work. 20th Hi-Y Mixer Is This Evening At High School The 20th annual Hi-Y mixer will start at 8 oclock tonight in the old high school gym. The theme of this years mixer is to be the "Parade of Nations.

Arrangements for the dance this year are under the direction of the "club officers," president, Suzanne Hinman; vice president, Myrtle Jean Farris; secretary, Virginia Bold; treasurer, Lila Steffenson, and the faculty advisors, Miss Lundborg and Miss The officers are being assisted by the following committees: Date Lois Hart, chairman; Mary Helen Stewart, Agnes Regan, Helen Brutsch, Charlotte West, Alice Dupuis, and Jean Newell. i Barbara Scherrer, chairman; Helen Peterson, Beverly Thompson, Betty Goettlick, Shirley Tuohy, Nina Murfitt, and Lorna Richardson. Decoration Mary Lou Mac-. Donald, chairman; Lois Fraser, Dorothy Underseth and Lula Hampton. Programs Elinor Rawls, chairman; Barbara Lovegren and Marilyn Veach.

Publicity Pat Templeton, chairman; Mary MacLanahan and Martha Love. Prize Dorothy Angstman and Lois Ashton. Refreshment Phyllis Shupe and Ethel Regan. Entertainment Getty Tarker, chairman; Jean Berg and Zoe Bandy. Any girl who does not have a date and would like to go, is requested to see Miss Lundborg or Miss Newell.

The girls Hi-Y was first organized immediately following the first World war. It was organized by Mrs. Gertrude M. Richmond. The clubs purpose then was to make bedding for refugees The -first-mlxer-took place at the Y.W.C.A.

in 1920. The mixer today is a means of acquainting freshmen and new girls with the other girls. Richard Crosby Is Now Lieutenant Richard Crosby, son of and Mrs, J. W. Crosby, 433 Clark 'street, former master sergeant with the Helena unit of the Montana national has been piomoted to second lieutenant having completed the officer graining course at thein-fantry school at Fort Benning, Your stock as this fine Kentucky Bourbon By Del Leeson Lets all get together and organize a bang-up sleighing party for Main street note: The wind whistled shrilly around the corner at Sixth and Main yesterday whipping some old rain, leaves and dirt Into the faces of passeri by.

Men dug their hands dee into their pbekets and women pulled their coat collars more firmly around their throats. A little girl, peihaps three, looked up at her mother and shouted above the wind, Mommy, I want an ice cream cone. (P. S. Her mommy said no.) Mrs.

Bill Christie, watching the World's series from a box seat at Ebbetts field in Brooklyn, found boxes immediately adjoining hers occupied by such a varying collection of notables as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Wendell Willkie, Joe Louis and Babe Ruth. The world's heavyweight champion, she commented, was resplendent In a smoking jacket which could be heard well above the anguished cries of Leo Durocher, Grace Chivers, secretary to County Attorney J. Miller Smith, is not in the slightest happy. Saturday afternoon she tripped on the courthouse steps and suffered a badly sprained ankle which Is not coming rlong too well because she broke a blood vessel in the ankle In addition to spraining it. And in addition to that she hurt her side painfully when she fell against the steps.

And in addition to that she lost a distinctive, valuable pin she was wearing. Everything happens to me, is her theme song now. Trooper O'Leary, the sage of Soutii Main, says he once knew a man who insisted he had to put his glasses on at night so he could see to go to sleep. "Flash Blizzard" Reported in Three Forks Area A flash blizzard was reported last night in the area between Toston and Three Forks with heavy snow of a few minutes duration forcing highway traffic to proceed at a snail's pace. The driver of a west-bound bus said here the sudden storm reduced visibility to nearly zero and that the swirling snow made things plenty He said, however, that as he pulled out of the storm the weather was warming and the snow turning to rain.

No precipitation was reported in Montana yesterday and the coldest point was West Yellowstone with 22 above while Bntte had 27. N.Y.A. Training Is Outlined by Speaker at Lions The N.Y.A. is now training young men to fill specific places in the national defense project, Ben Ulberg, supervisor of the residen N.Y.A. training center here, told members of the Lions club yesterday.

The state N.Y.A. camp here, now the only one for boys in Montana, lias a capacity of 135 trainees with most of the training coming from the aeronautics and related trades school at the airport. Musical entertainment was furnished by Mrs.Hazel Hitchcock who sang three vocal solos accompanied by Louise Wood Tompkins. S. E.

Haraldson gave a C. W. Burgan was program chair-humorous basball reading and Dr. man. West Yellowstone To Incorporate West Yellowstone residents are planning to incorporate their town as the first step in Setting up water supply and sewage disposal systems adequate for increased population which will result If the Ur SrarmyTiuilds Its proposed Henrys Lake camp, Dr.

W. F. Cogswell, secretary of the state board of health, said yesterday. Dr. Cogswell said the move toward incorporation came after a meeting last week of V.B.

La-moureaux, U. S. public health service district engineer from Denver; Dr. A. D.

Brewer, Gallatin county health officer, and C. W. Brinck, assistant director of the water and Sewage division, state board of health. School Speaker George W. Darcy spoke to the Helena high school trade relations yesterday on the subject of practical functionality of applied psychology, COLLISION REPORTED A collision involving cars driven by L.

Stevens and Bob Russell, itook place yesterday near the intersection of Lawrence and Main streets. Damage was slight to both cars, the police said Up and down and around Main street on a day which would caube'no poet to stng of October's bright blue weather: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Archibald, who iuive just returned from the American Mining congress in San Francisco, ran across Frank L. Sizer at the meeting.

Many an 'earlier dny resident will remember Frank Sizer who was around Marysville in 1843 where he was connected for a time with" the Drum Lummon mine. He built the Empire mill and was manager of the old Whltlatch-Union at Untonvllle. Ho surveyed the fume line and siphons for Eldorado bar in the days when recovedy of sop-phldes was an important business. Still active in the mining business he celebrated his 85th birthday during the congress. Edward R.

Foord, public schools music supervisor, came pumping merrily down the Btreet yesterday on a bicycle. He says its his contribution toward relieving the big, bad gasoline shortage that keeps Harold Ickes awake nights. The facts in the matter, however, are that Mr. Foord feels he hasnt been getting enough exercise and is taking that vehicular means of obtaining it. Well, Ed, if this weather keeps up for a couple of more days you can put awiy the bicycle and drag out the snowshoes which are good exercise, too.

And speaking of snowslioes, the skiing season opened last Sunday. John Morrison and Fred Sheriff went up on MacDonald pass and found things quite to their liking so far as the skiing business was concerned. lar as we know this is the earliest skiing has bden indulged In nround these parts since the year of the big snow. Missouri Drainage Water Supply Meets All Needs Surveys of the entire Missouri river drainage system above Fort Benton indicate there is sufficient water available for all present Irrigation and power requirements and for future developments, Fred Buck, state engineer, said yesterday. The picture concerning water resources in the huge drainage area developed during the year and a half since the survey began.

Field work in the survey should be completed about the middle of the coming winter, Buck said. A portion of the survey crew is being transmerred to the Flat-head valley where a U. S. bureau of reclamation survey of a project is underway. Buck, who is chief engineer for the state water board, declared the.thorough survey of the upper Missour is developing into a complete picture of the water available and the demands on it.

He said that eventually such surveys may be made of the, entire state drainage. Highway Department To Insure Funds Federal money available to Montana for highway construction during the 1941-42 fiscal year will be matched by state money and committed to contracts well in advance of the end of the fiscal year, Howard W. Holmes, state highway engineer, said yesterday. By placing the money under contract rs soon as possible, the state highway commission will avoid the danger of losing any uncommitted portion at the June 30 deadline. Holmes said two moie lettings may be sufficient to take care of the current fiscal year allotment, after which lettings would be fnade, as is the general custom, on money which will become available during the following year.

Rotary Governor Is To Visit Today O. D. Speer of Deer Lodge, Rotary distrief governor, will pay his official visit to the Helena club today at its regular meeting at the Placer hotel at 12:15 oclock. Governor Speer will discuss various phases of Rotary work with club members today. Two Men Apply for Navy Reserve Chief Machinist Mata E.

Clark announced yesterday that two men, Robert Mathis -and Archie Winter of White" Sulphur Springs, applied for enlistment In the U. S. naval reserve yesterday. NEW MANAGER 1 -Coloradrf Color, "Oetrfrr (JP) John Gaedert Will be succeeded tomorrow as manager of the civilian public service camp here by Ray chllchting of the camp staff. Gaedert will go to Newton, Kan.

where Mrs. Gaedert recently underwent an tynam Home. Ae Hicanaaua The ingredients for your prescriptions come from every state in the Union, from every comer of the world Opium from Turkey, Anise from Egypt, and Camphor from Japan, to mention but a few. Others come from west of Zanzibar, from north of Labrador, from south pf Singapore. It is a part of our professional service to have these hundreds of ingredients promptly available.

You can bring your prescriptions to us with the assurance that you get just what the doctor orders in the exact quantities specified. Delta Kappa Gamma Fraternity To Have Meeting Here The first annual state convention of Delta Kappa Gamma fraternity will be held in Helena Saturday, according to an announcement by Miss Catherine Nutterville of Butte, state president of the fraternity. The society is an honor fraternity in education, being a professional organization concerned with elevating the teaching profession. Montana has four chapters, Alpha of Helena and Missoula; Beta of Butte and Dillon; Gamma of Billings, Hardin and Lewistown, and Delta of Hill, Chouteau and Cascade counties. Alpha chapter of Helena, of which Miss Lucy Kreiman is president, will be host to the convention.

Convention headquarters will be at the Placer hotel. Dr. Flora M. Gillentine, national vice president of the fraternity, will be one of the main speakers at the convention. Dr.

Gillentine is a member of the faculty of Henderson Teachers college of Arkansas. Another out-of-state speaker will be Miss Ellen Daugherty, one of the state founders of the fraternity in Minnesota. Chapter presidents of the organization are Miss Dora Drowat-sky, Butte, Miss Alice Lausted, and Miss Lois Trombly, Great Falls. Helena Company Is Given Contract At State College The state board of examiners yesterday awarded a contract to the Caird Engineering company of Helena to build a 61.600 fire escape to the third story of the chemistry Guilding at Montana State college at Bozeman. The board also authorized John Flanagan, assistant supervisor of the Montana highway patrol at Butte, to attend a F.B.I.

retraining school at Washington, D. which will include instruction in emergency and defense policing. Other trips authorized by the board were for C. W. Bloom, assistant professor of forestry at the State university to attend the Pacific Logging conference In Seattle, and for State Engineer Fred Buck to attend the Phoenix, convention of the National Reclamation association.

The board reported that the populaton at the state prison at Deer Lodge decreased from 493 prisoners at the end of August to 474 at the end of September. Fire Chief Asks For Observance Fire Chief Dick Coe appealed yesterday to Helena residents to participate in the observance of National Fire Prevention week, which began Monday ahd will continue through Saturday. Coe listed careless smoking as one of the major causes of avoidable sparks on roofs, defective or overheated flues, defective electric wiring and spontaneous Ignition also cause a large number of fires. Fire Chief Coe said that 'these facts should be considered especially this week and an effort made through home cleanups and checking to prevent the outbreak of such fires. ond half tax notices for Lewis and Clark county residents had been mailed.

The deadline for payment is Nov. 30. Attorneys to Meet Lewis and Clark county bar members will meet Friday at the Corr cafe at 12:15 oclock to take part in general discussions, according to District-jBdgeTU e6r FacT-bury. In Hospital Miss June Kran-lch, 662 Davis street, is recuperating at Johns, hospital, where she Is a patient, lss Kran-kh recently underwent an STARZ PHARMACY 21 W. Sixth Ave.

Helena, Montana Phone: Number 309 (Maximum temperature and precipitation are for 12 hours 'ended at 5:30 p. m. Minimum temperature Is for 24 hours ended at 5:30 p. Student Examined Mrs. Ethel M.

Dletrlck, school nurse, reported yesterday 418 high school students underwent health examinations during September. The largest single defect found among the children was defective teeth. Of the students examined, 248 were found to be without defect. Paint Up with. Sherwin-Williams Enamelold, the easy-to-use, quick-drying enamel for furniture, walls, all sort of odds and ends about the house.

Its fun to paint with Enameloid. 16 beautiful colors. Only 95c per pint. Helena Hardware Co. Adv.

Six Weeks' Student. Ballroom Course Beginning Monday Oct. IS, 3-9 p. in. K.

C. Hall. CIDNEY MUNN SCHOOL OF THE DANCE. Adv. Beauty Culture Board Members of the state board of beauty cudture met yesterday in Helena.

Mayor Jack Haytin, chairman of the board presided at the session. Other members of the board are Edith Johnson, Livingston, and Margaret Harlan Lockett, Billings." Helena Mattress Shop Work Call 335. J. L. Williams.

Adv. Riding Togs, Slacks, Golf Jackets. Town and Country Shop. 4 W. 6th ave.

Adv. Executive to Visit S. Chambers, Pacific northwest area executive of the national council of the Y.M.C.A. will visit the Helena Y.M.C.A. Sunday afternoon, Secretary Floyd Rathraan, announced yesterday.

He will confer with the Helena executive hoard during his visit Closing out at 5c-10c and 15c at St. Paul's Rummage Sale. Adv. For cakes made to order call 1193. Adv.

Building Permit The city engineers office yesterday granted a permit to David Dunn, 910 North Rodney street, to erect a three-room frame house at a cost of 33,760. Seven permits for a total of 9,575 have, been issued so far in October. Dr. Cash, dentist, 105 Sixth. Adv.

See Reeves for music needs. Adv. Joins Regular Army Wesley Moore, Fort Harrison, left yesterday for Gort Missoula, where he wilt be inducted into the regular army for a three-year enlistment. He will be in servee in Hawaii. Tax Notices County urer, Julia Fiscbl said yesterday more than half ofthe 2,157 sec- LADIES! FIT! VIslfr-thr-Regu tarly! BATTLE CREEK 1 HEALTH EQUIPMENT MODERNE nEAl Lalonde Blk.

STUDIO Phone 1807 Why Put It Off? If You Want to Make Sure of Winter Comfort, Order Storm Sash and Windows Now! They'll Pay for Themselves in Fuel Savings! 1 I Defense orders have cut the production of the infill where our storm sash and windows are made in order to get these for your home in time for win- -ter it is necessary that you order well in ADVANCE I See us now aBout sizes and prices. 1.25 pt. 2.40 qt. v' Nitientl Distiller! Products Gxpomion, Ntw York 90 Proof.