The Independent-Record from Helena, Montana • Page 5

THE HELENA INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943 PAGF FIVE City Briefs WEATHER IN HELENA, JANUARY 21, 1043 Uy U. 8. WcHther Bureau Weather forecast for Helena and vicinity: Light snow and continued cold Friday. Minimum temneratures Friday morning 28 to 33 degrees below zero. Highest Temperature Today to 6:30 p.

m. -18. This date last year 5. Highest ever recorded at Helena this date since 1880, 50.9 (1909). Lowest Temperature Today to 6 3 0 p.

-25. This date last year -11. Lowest ever recorded at Helena this date since 18SO, (1886). OTHER STATIONS Max. Mlii.

Prep. Butte 43' -14 Great Falls -25 -31 .36 Missoula 20 14 .61 Bismarck -10 -22 Chicago 29 9 Denver 49 Fargo -2 -21 -S 22 -14 35 18 -7 24 Huron 1 Kansas City 47 Paul New Orleans 65 New York 22 North Platte 48 Omaha 27 St. Louis Sheridan -1 Washington 38 22 Willlston -15 -26 Maximum temperature and precipitation for the 12-hour period ending at 6:30 m. Minimum temperature for the 24-hour period ending at 12:30 p. m.

Precipitation less than .10 inch is not leleased. A. Meet Postponed--A meeting of the Bryant Parent- Teacher association previously scheduled for this evening at 8 "'clock has been postponed, offi- i als of the association an- 'lounced. HOOVER Authorized Factory Station. Guaranteed work.

makes repaired. Fligel- i-n's. Phone Ski Try-Outs Culled--The Hel- na high school bkl tryouls, cheduled to be held Sunday on MacDonald pass, have been postponed until Sunday, Jan. 31. Dr.

Cash, dentist. 105 E. 6th. --Adv. Little's Taxi Phone 2780.

--Adv. Card Party Cancelled--A public card party scheduled to be held next Tuesday at St. Mary's hall has been indefinitely postponed. Delicious cakes. Phone Anderson's.

Food Distributors to Meet Here Today, Advisors to Be Named Manufacturers, lesalers and retailers of food products in Helena, arc invited to meet with representative of the U. S. department of agriculture, food distribution administration, at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Helena Chamber ot Commerce office, Matt Staff secretary, announced yesterday. A committee will be appointed In cope with the maldistribution of various food products, Mr. said.

Legislators' Children Enroll in School Twelve students, children of Montana legislators, have been "iirolled in Helena's grade schools Cor two months. The students include: Bob and lion Stewart of Forsyth, Lois and Winters of Stevensville 11 nd Jerry Rice of Lodge Grass, all at Hawthorne; John Antrim and Jacqueline Antrim of Stevensville and Cherie Hoffman of Big Timber, at Jefferson; Gregory Wallander of Froid, Luanne Colo and Prlscllla Antrim of Stevensville, all at Central and Klynn Cole of Wlnnett at Emerson. COMPLETE OPTICAL SERVICE Eyes Examined Glanei Bepalred Mentrum Sullivan OPTOMETRISTS 28 North Main Phone 1870 AVOID THE CROWD! RIDE THE BUS Between 10 A. M. and 4 P.

M. Community Transit Co. High School Course Designed to Aid Potential Soldiers The new semester at Helena high school which begins next Monday will see a large number of changes in the school program, but, unlike former years, will see a much smaller registration of new studonts, W. W. Wahl, principal, announced.

Trigonometry and solid geometry will bo among the new courses offered at the school io those students who are qualified for these advanced i subjects and who wish to specialize In mathematical branches of the armed services. "Many of the new courses have been added to the school curric- for the purpose of aiding those students who will enter the armed forces or those planning to enter war industries," the principal added. MATHEMATICS OFFERED "Because of the importance of mathematics for certain departments of the armed service, a course in "refresher math" will be offered," he said, "which would be primarily for students who desire a quick review of arithmetic, especially in common and decimal fractions." All junior and senior boys will be required to enroll In physical education or military drill classes. The physical education classes will include a certain amount of drill, taught by a regular instructor and" in addition a special class in military drill will be held during the school day or in the evening at the armory, Principal Wahl said. A course in preflight aeronautics with James Lawhead as instructor, again will be offered at the second semester.

This course is open to boys desiring to become pilots or other students interested in aeionautlcs. COURSES IX MECHANICS Upper class students are being urged to consider the possibilities of work at the aeronautics school ami may enroll In radio, sheet metal, welding or aviation mechanics. Two preinduction courses, as recommended by the government, will be offered this next semester, including one in radio and the one in auto inechanics. John Collins will instVuct the radio class and T. A.

Seibert the auto mechanics Prelndur.lion courses also may he offered in general mechanics and electricity if demand for them should develop, Wahl said. A new class also will begin in word derivatives with Miss Amsel Greene us instructor. The local high scliool Is the only one in Cue state and one ot the few in the nation to offer such a course. A textbook, "Word Clues," written by Miss Greene is used in this course. Wahl also announced that a new class in business English will be open to seniors in the commercial department.

Interesting Program Planned tor Arts, Crafts Meet Today Members ot the arts and crafts department of the Helena Woman's club will present an interesting program this afternoon at 2 3 0 o'clock at the YWCA when wives and daughters of Montana legislators will be special guests. Mrs. Henrietta Crockett will have charge of the program which will be high-lighted by a talk by Mrs. William H. Cable, wife of the superintendent of the Lutheran Indian mission at RocKy Boy, a brief description of the Indian recreational project on Blue bay and a reading by Mrs.

S. L. Kleve. An exhibit of Indian arts and crafts also will he on display at the Friday meeting. Case of "Telepathy" In Baby's Illness Oklahoma a recent day a baby was born to Mrs.

James B. Wilson. For days it was ill and the''doctor said It was, a "near miracle" that it finally recovered. A few weeks later Mrs. Wilson received a letter, from her husband, Lt.

James B. Wilson on foreign duty with the army. In It he said that he had heard a child crying; the dream was so vivid he got up in the night to find the I a of course, none was there. The date was the one on which his infant had passed the crisis of Its illness but when Lieutenant Wilson wrote the letter he had not yet been informed of Its birth. Staff Sgt.

Howard J. Sarbu and Mrs. Sarbu, the former Shirley Elizabeth Clausen of Vancouver, who were married last June, were In Helena recently visiting relatives of Sergeant Sarbu. He Is stationed at the Hammond general hospital in Modesto, and after enlisting In the army June' 17, 1941, was stationed at the medical department at Barnes' general hospital in Vancouver, before being transferred to Modesto. Sergeant Sarbu was a former employe of the American Smelting and Refining company East Helena, He his wife visited here with his mother, Mrs.

Andrew of Kenwood, his grandmother, Mrs. Maude Grogan, his sisters, Mrs. Joseph McGllI and Mrs. Otto Smithon and Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Ortloff. They returned to California Tuesday. "Student Prince" Enjoyed by Large Audience A large and appreciative audience enjoyed the presentation of the "Student Prince" at the Marlow theater last night, giving the excellent company several curtain calls at the end of the performance and roundly applauding Everett Marshall, star of the show. Despite the most adverse of weather condition, the show attracted a very large audience of playgoers and they were unstinting in their praise of the manner in which the Slgmund Romberg operetta was presented and were especially delighted with the work of Ann Pennington. Mr.

Marshall, who was starred in the role of Dr. Kngle. is a former baritone with the Metropolitan Grand Opera in New York city. His rich, resonant voice was greatly appreciated by music lovers. The famous singing chorus also drewrepeatcd ovations.

Others who scored in prominent parts were Frank Hornaday, Barbara Scully. Detmar Poppen, Agnes Cassldy, Nina Varela, Harry M. Morton, Zella Russell, Victor Morley and Lorraine Bridges. Women of Moose to Receive Official Visit From Dean Mis. Ada Jacobsen of Missoula, associate dean of the Academy of Friendship of the Women of the Moose In Montana, will pay an official visit to the Helena chapter this evening at.

8 o'clock at the Moose hall. Mrs. Jacobsen will address the meeting which also will Include several musical numbers. Mrs. V.

G. Warren, committee chairman of the Academy of Friendship, will have charge of the program. Following the program Mrs. Jacobsen will meet with officers and committee chairmen. Mrs.

Agnes Eckmeyer, war relief chairman, has asked that all members bring cookies to be donated to the USO. Hostesses will be Mrs. Ray Morris. Mrs. J.

J. Hartnett, Mrs. Hester Murfitt. Mrs. Coral Halpine and Miss Freda Hoffman.

4-H Club Gives Box Of Games to USO Eight members of the American Beaverettes 4-H club composed of girls at Central school, yesterday piesented a box of games for the servicemen's enjoyment at the USO. A "good-luck" card was presented with the box and those who signed the card were: Beverly Sherlock, Patricia Kendrlck, Alice Williams, Donna Rugh, Rose Mary Baker, Myrtle Bushnell, Beverly Boras and Evelyn Mayer. NO. 1 WEST POINTER PUPILS STRING ALONG two weeks pupils of Ravensworth school collected enough strinpr to make a ball five feet six inches high containing 63 miles of string and weighing half a ton. U.

S. flying forces are consuming munitions by weight to the tune of some 450 pounds per operating hour per engine. DO YOU REALIZE WHAT OUR NIGHT SCHOOL HAS TO OFFER? Classes in shorthand, typewriting, comptometer (a calculating machine) and MACHINE shorthand on the STENOGRAPH. Good Inilracton Ratei Reatonable HELENA BUSINESS COLLEGE Phone 253 Program Set for Dinner of Civic Chamber Plans for the 36th annual Helena Chamber of Commeivo dinner, which will be held at 6:30 o'clock next Monday evening, Jan. 25, at the Placer hotel, were announced yesterday by the chairman of the program committee, Ralph J.

Conrad. Mr. Conrad has been assisted with arrangements by Taylor B. Weir and .7. R.

Kaiserman. The invocation will be given by Bishop H. H. Daniels, bishop of the Montana Episcopal diocese, and Lester Loble, presided! of the Chamber of Commerce, will act as toastmaster. The dinner program will open with the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner" and the introduction of guests by President Loble.

The program Is designed with the Idea of reviewing Helena's achievements during the past year, and brief addresses will be presented by Col. Robert T. Frederick, commander of the first special service force now in training at Fort William Henry Harrison; Lieut. Commdr. B.

C. Shearer, chief medical officer of the Montana navy recruiting station, who will leave soon for a new navy assignment in New Orleans; Capt. C. Phipps, director of the Rimini a i i center; Mayor J. J.

Haytin, who will review events of the past year and outline plans for the coming year, and Payne Templeton, who will outline Helena's educational system. Matt Staff, secretary of the Helena Chamber of Commerce, will present his annual report, as will Lester Loble, president. All Helena residents are Invited to attend the dinner. Tick- els may be purchased until FrI day evening at the Chamber of Commerce office. ROAD TO TUNIS FrankS.

Bull Dies Of Heart Attack At Family Home i a Snow 71, retired i engineer and wollknown Helena resident for 39 years, died I yesterday at the family home 1425 Boulder following a heart attack. He was born In Rochester, N. May 27. 1S72 and spent 40 years in the service of the railroads, coming to Helena from Iowa In 1902 for his health. He Is survived by his wife, i Katherlne, a son Dr.

E. F. Bull of Helena now serving overseas with the armed forces, a daughter-in- law, Mrs. E. P.

Bull of Helena and a stepdaughter, Mrs. A. A. Parks of Mlssoula. Rosary services will be conducted at 7 3 0 this evening in St.

i Mary's church and funeral serv- lices will be held at 10:30 Satur, day i in St. Mary's church. Burial will be in Resurrection cemetery. The body Is at the Opp and Conrad mortuary. Highway Chief Worries Over Gasoline But Not His Own Howard W.

Holmes, Btatc highway engineer, who IK plenty worried thcsr ilfly.s over mileage rationing nnrt consequent doerense of hlKhuuy revenue, Isn't much bothered about own gtisoline supply. Ijist night, lifter the deadline for use of 3 roujMns In book--the only one be has--Mr. Holmes still had all but two coupons in the book. The secret--he walks to work. Le Kef has been left behind and this American soldier looks longingly toward Tunis as he sits astride a milepost on the road to the Tunisian capital.

Coffege Students Eligible for V-l Classification Lieut. John F. Biehler, officer in charge of" the Montana naval recruiting district, said Thursday that 17-year-old college students or high school seniors, who are actually In attendance of an approved college or university before March 16, 1943. and are propertly qualified, can now be enlisted in class V-l. He said 17-year-old high school seniors who will not finish high school until after March 1 6, 1943, may be-eligible for enlistment under a new program soon to be announced.

"College or high school students 18 years of age or older may he eligible for selection for the new navy college training program under a procedure which has not yet been established," Lieut. Biehler reported. He said young men interested in this program can obtain Supreme Court Denies Writ of Mandate Asked by Furriers The Montana Supreme court yesterday denied a petition for a writ of mandate asked by the Montana Furriers' association to require the state fish and game commission to subpoena witnesses and documents in the Feb 9 hearing on the association's request that Dr. J. S.

McFarland of Whitefish be removed as state fish and game warden. The Furriers' association seeks Dr. MrFarland's removal charging a he violated Montana fish and game statutes in administering a beaver fur sale last fall. A founal petition for his removal was filed by Joseph Thiebes of Great Falls, president of the association, on Jan 13. 19-13, after which the commission granted the hearing with the provision that the commission Itself would not subpoena witnesses.

It was stipulated that the Furriers' association would be free to call whatever witnesses It desired. The association also usked that the hearing date be vacated i least 20 days a a i a decision is had," in the supreme court, and that the commission pay the association S300, which the association claims due because the a to subpoena witnesses required the association to retain legal counsel at Its own expense. Highway Commission Will Discuss Revenue, Rationing Montana's i a commissioners, when they meet next Wednesday, Jan. 27. are expected to be chiefly concerned with problems of mileage rationing and future revenue.

Howard W. Holmes, state highway engineer, said that postwar plans for construction and Qe results of mileage rationing as they are affecting and will affect highway revenue would be considered In by the commission. He added that a of personnel problems are also scheduled for consideration. Chairman A. F.

Wlnkler of Kallspell. who is now recovering from an operation at a Great Falls hospital, possibly will not he able to attend the session, Holmes said. Five Young Men to Leave Here For Navy Base I The navy recruits are slated to leave main a a navy recruiting a i In Helena Friday i for the naval training station at Farragut. Idaho. They arc James F.

Holland of Missoula, Clyde .1. Wilt of Col Floyd Schram, Jr of Glendivc. i i A. Slcklcr of Forsyth and Kenneth Olds ot Plains. Vital Statistics BIRTH Mr.

and Mrs. Karl W. Harris, 1203 Hauser boulevard, are the parents of a son horn yesterday at St. Peter's hospital. DEATH Frank Snow Bull.

71, retired railroad engineer and resident of this city for the past 39 years, died yesterday at his home, 1425 Boulder avenue, following a heart attack. Rosary services will be held at 7:30 this evening in St. Mary's church and funeral services will bo held at 10:30 Saturday morning In St. Mary's church. Burial will be In Resurrection cemetery.

The body Is at the Opp and Conrad mortuary. FUXERAI; XOTICE Funeral services will he conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Opp and Conrad chapel for Thomas G. Francis, 47. 1202 Lamborn avenue, a carpenter with the Northern Pacific railroad here for many years, who died Wednesday In St. John's hospital a a lingering Illness.

The Rev. C. E. Whlttler of the First Presbyterian church i officiate and burial will be in Forestvale cemetery. An aveiagc of 2,388,000 motor vehicles have been scrapped each year for the last 10 years.

Maj.W.R.Rankin No Stranger To Rough Going Maj. W. R. a of Whitehall, who IR i i i i himself by leading one of the toughest bands of fighters In the South Pacific, Is no stranger to roiiRh Roing In the mountains. Parker, Mlssoula.

state forester and personal friend of Major a i said "Jungle i i would be second nature to the major. He has lived all his i In the mountains and Is one of the best outdoorsmen I know." Parker said he was one of the most potent influents In the creation of Morrison Cave state park and later did much to develop it as a playground. He was superintendent of the CCC camp which developed the park's facilities to make it available to tourists. Today Red Cross Activities Administration: Red Cross headquartetrs, 9:00 a. m.

to 12:00, Mrs. Sam Ford; 1:00 p. to 5:00 p. Mrs. Win.

Roth. Production: Kohrs' building, surgical dressings, 10:00 a. m. to 4 0 0 p. Mrs.

J. V. Bennett. Red Cross headquarters knitting room. Mrs.

James Byrnes. First Aid class girls vocational school. 3:00 p. m. to 5:00 p.

Mrs. Guy Richardson, Instructor. Nearly one-half of the 92 known elements are used In the building of automobiles. Priced From 3 ONLY NORGE OIL HEATERS Up 1008 Eleventh Ave. American Will Sponsor Dance for ther information concerning It at Saturday Lewis and Clark post No.

2 of the American Legion, of which Hen is commander, will be sponsors of the i dance next Saturday i for servicemen a i in Helena. the nearest navy recruiting station. Tax Assessment Case On Advisement The Montana supreme court The dance will mark the in the series, of such events to be yesterday took on advisement in held A and the case of the state on relation music i be i by a local of John H. Corcoran of Great orchestra from 9 to 12 o'clock. Ten tons of ore have boon removed from one of the i a mines, every one- carat i a In the market.

I Falls against the state board of equalization, in which Corcoran The USO i hostesses i he In attendance and a seeks a writ of mandate ordering I luncheon will be served. a reduction in tax assessment of Great Falls. The petitioner seeks to have an assessment ot $51,325, made on the 'lots by the Cascade county assessor, reduced to $5,420, a reduction which was denied both by the Cascade county commisMun and the state hoard. County Clerk Hears The Facts of Life Colorado Springs. Clerk Charles Ozlas assumed the fellow at the othpr end of the telephone wire had an automobile in i when he m- Prevlons dances a the servicemen a a nearly 1)00 young inpn and women.

Soldiers Abroad Now Study at Oxford a officers and men are going to Oxfoid. Provision has been made for a i i of them to take courses at the i i but they can attend classes only ing leave or Among the subjects listed for four courses a for the Canadian and A i a soldieis arp psychology, laws and government quired: "Where can I get a cense?" So Ozias connected i i of Great i a i economics and with the auto license bureau. 'social science. "What model and type of They will be housed free, but a body?" inquired Norman Shoit. small fee will be charged for food chief of the bureau, when the and services, caller had repeated his inquiry.

"She's a girl, but what's that got to do with it?" said HIP fellow rather sharply. "Naturally I wouldn't be taking out a marriage license to marry a man!" It Must Have Been Quite a Spectacle Geary, a a ney see to with his glasses on because kept a i i i i i so he laid them HOUSE MEAT St. Petersburg, The sleek greyhounds that nice gently on a pile of picked cotton at the St. Petersburg Kennel nnd went on i nightly have felt the effect of Some time later he i to the meat shortage along with find cotton and glasses gone. everyone else.

In years they were hamburger addicts, receiving a pound of chopped beef a day, but now they eat horse They had been hauled off and run through the cotton gin. WAHTK PAPER I I I meat. Trainers say the a paper is hasn't affected their appetite or so urgency needed in Ilrilaln a speed. householders a been acked to 'search i cupboards and book- CIVIL SERVICE POSITION Bhe ves anew am sem 0 a a Wallace C. Sharpies, civil sen--.

a 6 any not consid- ice representative, announced wol th yesterday that a position In i area is open for a male ger, at J1.320 per a Interested men may apply at Mr Sharpies' office, room .110, Plnccr hotel. Well on his way toward "going places" Dlmltrl Kellogg, of San Francisco, who Is No. man academically In West Point's new grad- I uatlne r.lftSM. IRON RATION Ing under the Inter-Allied i mation committee are i ing with a new "Iron ration" to help feed European countries after the war. FILLS UP TONIGHT Do this--Try Va-tro-nol.

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