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2 - Sanders County Ledger, Thursday, October 27, 1977 I Yr. elsewhere in Montana Sanders County Ledger Published weekh at Thompson Falls, Mt. 59873, Box 219. K.A. Fggensperger Publisher Gladys G. liggensperger Business Manager Jack Stephens Printer Mona Turk Clerk Sherry Ilagerman Want Ads & Compuwriter oper. Lucile Ilanson Orcidation & Compuwriter (incr. MEMBER MONTANA PRESS i7 WMPNALPER ASSOCiATION 4 . Assoctolion • Founded 1885 Secund class postage paid at 'Thompson Falls. Mont SUBSCRIPTION RATES Yr. in Sanders County 87.50 $8 I Yr. outside Montana $8.50 Vol. 73, No. 32 41•• Letters to editor 'Gifts with a lift' Dear Friends: \Gifts with a Lift\ again needs help to assure success in this year's program. Your generous contributions, since 1952, have provided thou- sands of Christmas gifts for those otherwise \forgotten ones\ at our Warm Springs State Hospital. Any new personal item is a fine gift and a dollar will buy two. Cash donations are welcome. Gifts are inspected so do not gift -wrap. Wrapp- ings are appreciated and may be included. Some gift sug- gestions are: Men or women --shampoo, deodorant, cigarettes, cases, life savers, gum, handker- chiefs, table games, playing, pinochle cards, jewelry, elec- tric shavers; Men --shaving needs, nail clippers, pipes, tobacco, ci- gars, billfolds, slippers, ball- point pens, model kits, num- ber paints; Women --cosmetics, panty- hose, perfume, cologne, scent- ed soap, purses, handbags, hand care items, lipsticks, robes, slippers, lingerie. Please send gifts soon, or early in December, to give hospital personnel time to sort and wrap. Mail to: GIFTS WITH A LIFT, Warm Sp- rings State Hospital, Warm Springs, Mont. 59756. Miriam Onkalo, chairman Gifts with a Lift Support UNICEF Editor: Do you know what UNICEF' is: what UNICEF is not? UNICEF considers child- ren's needs not their race, religion, sex, or politics. It helps in over 100 countries -- Asia. Africa. Latin America and Middle East -providing basic health nutrition and education services that every child needs. UNICEF provides supplies, equipment, training and ex- pertise not unrestricted funds. National UNICEF Day is Oct. 31, Halloween. Dona- tions become water pipes and pumps, supplementary foods, medical supplies and vaccines, chalkboards and pencils and transportation assistance -in time of emergency and in long-term programs of per- manent help for children. Contributions also help na- tions plan and establish services for mothers and children through the advice and experience of UNICEF's field staff. Donations help support the training of na- tional staff by becoming equipment for training insti- tutions or grants for teachers, nurses, midwives, and other child-care personnel. UNICEF' works as a part- ner not a benefactor. It helps plan and establish child-care programs that are the re sponsibility of the countries themselves, a major factor in their success. UNICEF is financed volun- tarily not by assessment. Money for UNICEF's work is voluntarily contributed by private' citizens, groups, and more than 100 governments of both developed and develop ing nations. UNICEF is international, nonpolitical, child -centered. nondiscriminatory, voluntari- ly supported and a self-help program. Support UNICEF by dona- tions in the UNICEF Day cartons in local business. Adrienne Marich Mont. Extension Homemaker International Chairman Prices soaring in Scandanavia by Sam Gilluly, secretary -manager Montana Press Assoc. HELENA -Inflation and taxation are dirty words in the United States. But if one really wants to know about their bite, he should visit the Scandinavian countries. Ken Ilyerly and his wife, Scottie, did that and remember, among other incidents, paying 56 cents American for one little jelly doughnut. That experience was in Finland, but it was typical of other nations, too Sweden, Nor- way, Denmark and Iceland. The Lewistown News-Ar- gus publisher told about their experience in his newspaper. \They're beautiful coun- tries with friendly people, but taxes and prices!\ Byerly wrote. \They are probably the highest in the world, with the most costly of all being Sweden.\ It was in downtown Stock- holm that the Byerlys watch- ed Swede kids buying ice cream cones. \The woman handed us two small vanilla cones that would cost 15 cents each in Lewis town, Montana,\ Byerly said. \The price we, and those kids, paid was four kroner each for those little cones --that's $1 a cone in American money.\ The Montanan pointed out that the governments of the five Scandinavian countries are socialist, and \there is much grumbling about them\ In all the countries visited. The sales tax in Iceland is 20 per cent, raised on a \temporary\ basis from 13 per cent a few years ago. Income taxes are very high, too. A guide in Finland told the Byerlys she works \every other day just to pay my taxes.\ Taxes for all start at 30 per cent and go up to 80 per cent. A Norwegian didn't even smile when he said, \Every thing is beautiful in heaven. and there are no taxes.\ Coffee is a staple in On - northern countries. It was SI a cup in Sweden. 67 cents at a small shop in Denmark and $1.25 in an Iceland hotel. Tr' - 'bargain\ price was 35 cents from a coffee machine in the Copenhagen railway station. Milk is the cheapest drink in Denmark at 42 cents for a big glass. Elsewhere, prices ranged from 63 to 75 cents a glass. Scrambled eggs with bacon cost $5 in Finland. The price on a pack of cigarettes being smoked by a Danish friend was 12.10 kroner. or $2.02. A new tax will jump the price to 18 Kroner. or $3 for 20 riga rettes. There is one bargain in Scandinavia. There is no smoke in Reykjavik, Iceland. because hot water is piped from deep wells about 11 miles away. It is used for heating and costs about $200-$250 a year for the average home. What about Prospect? Approval of a bill by a Congres- sional sub -committee last week is setting a July 1978 deadline for completing environmental impact statements for the proposed Nor- thern Tier Pipeline puts that pro- ject closer to reality, although it's still not a \sure thing.'' Sanders County residents, par- ticularly those in the Thompson Falls area, should be concerned about how the plans for bringing this pipeline down Prospect Creek will be implemented. Not wanted is another debacle like the one that permittedthe raping of Prospect Creek during installation of the Yellowstone Pipeline in 1954. That line carries refined pe- troleum products from Billings to Spokane. The Northern Tier Pipeline would carry crude oil in the opposite direction --from the Seattle area, whore tank^r^ olden with Alaskan oil would unload, to Cranbrook, Minn. The line also would supply crude to Montana refineries. The crude is needed by the state's refineries because Canada is in the midst of shutting off exports to Montana. Montana's oil wells do not produce enough to supply the state's refinery needs. There is no question that the Northern Tier line is needed. But, concern should be displayed about the exact route and manner in which the pipeline is built. The line should not be permitted to be placed in the Prospect streambed, as was the Yellowstone line. Undoubtedly if the Northern Tier Pipeline is built the responsibility for monitoring construction will fall on the Forest Service. Hopefully, more experienced than it was 23 years ago, the Forest Service this time will do a better job. •:.: Ledger Lines by K A E We're living in unusual times. There are pocket calculators, pocket camer- as, pocket records --everything for the pocket except money. The dissatisfaction with alignments of western Montana high schools for athletic competition seems to be growing. The Libby Board of Trustees last week voted to authorize the Loggers to forfeit some class AA athletic contests next year where the Libby gridders are outmanned physically. Libby sought to be reclassified into the Class A ranks last spring, but failed. Seven of the Western B Division contemplated similar action List year. Columbia Falls trustees also contem- plated the same action when the Montana High School Aiisn. was planning to place Columbia Falls in Class AA. The Libby head coach, Doc Sargent said Libby teams travel more road miles than any other high school team in the United States, except Alaska, where teams normally fly to competi- tive events. Assistant Coach Don Quinn noted the varsity football squad had only 21 boys suited up. \We can't compete like that,\ he said. It's more than a year yet before the general election in November 1978 but already candidates and their aides are out meeting people and setting up organizations. Last week, a representative of Bruce Jacobsen, MSU professor who plans to seek the GOP nomination for Max Baucus' seat, was in town. The week before it was Pat Williams. Asked why the campaigning is getting started so early, one explana- tion was: \The race for Western Dis- trict congressional seat is going to be a wide open affair. Most of the pro- spective candidates are not well known and need to start early to build public recognition. And the candidates can't even file for the office until Jan. 2. Pity the voter. A word of thanks to the four Plains and Thompson Falls coaches who volunteered their services to referee the football game Wednesday night between the Blue Hawks and Plains. Thompson Falls won 10-6. Refereeing a contest between your team and its biggest rival is not a way to \win friends.\ They did a fine job. Trustees attending the annual con- vention recently of the Montana School Boards Assn. adopted a reso- lution to support the ratification of House Bill 29 by voters at the 1978 general election. HB29 would raise the legal drinking age and is being submitted to the voters next year for approval or rejec- tion. The resolution by the trustees notes that the current drinking age is \ad- versely affecting school children at an earlier age\ and that \the consump- tion of alcoholic beverages by legal - age students in off -campus situations during the school day ultimately returns to the school environment as a serious disciplinary problem...\ Friends hope R.J. Trevithick is faster with a hunting rifle on big game or a shotgun on birds than he was in firing the pistol to signify the completion of the first quarter in the Plains -Thompson Falls football game. The clock seemed to signal the quarter had ended several seconds before \Barney\ Trevithick got his pistol out and fired it. This was the last year, thank goodness, that confusion will exist over what date to observe Veteran's Day. Next year the observance will be noted Nov. 11 --the traditional date -- throughout the nation, and by all government agencies at all levels. It's good riddance. Welcome back Nov. 11 Acorns from the oak tree are poisonous. Building Supplies • Hardware - Plumbing - Electrical - Paints EMPIRE BUILDERS fULt 3 1 / 2 \x15\ Insulation 70 sq. ft. roll 9 20r1, 15,30 and 90 lb. felt rolled roofing 10.80 rl. 240 lb. Sealdon Shingles 22.95 sq. Colors in star white, mint frost, walnut brown and cinnamon frost Entire stock of Masonite Paneling -Grade A, 5 patterns in stock, 4x8 sheets 5 88 each All Fuller -O'Brien Paints. 20)/0 off cum / dere line of Fuller O'Brien Paints WE DELIVER! One Mile West on Hiway 200 • Ph. 827-4781 Now Open 8:30 a.m. 5 . 30 p.m. Monday Saturday The Way It Was Lorraine Dufresne TEN YEARS AGO OCT. 26, 1967 When Mrs. Lee Weiner read last week in Bo Millar's column ' This week in Montana,\ about the ghost town of Kendall being donated to the Boy Scouts, she recalled that Kendall was her birthplace. At one time she had a ring made from the gold that was mined there. Kendall was a booming mining town north of Lewistown and at one time boasted 1,400 residents. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, OCT. 22, 1952 Work of rebuilding the Thompson Falls Lumber Co. sawmill is already under way and a first unit is expected to be in operation about the first of the year, according to Arden Davis, superintendent. The sawmill burned to the ground early the morning of Sept. 27. Despite efforts of the crew, the Thompson Falls Fire Dept. and Forest Service workers to save it. The planing mill, dry kilns and boiler house were saved and their operations are continuing although only on a one shift basis. Among the gifted and talented people who help put our town on the map were, first, Leon lieroth, famous cartoonist, who for many years now has done the art work for the syndicated comic strip, Don Winslow. His business partner, Frank Martinek of Chicago, does the writing of the inspiring episodes which go to make the strip. In an advertisement of the General Features Corp. this paragraph was found: \The all -service Don Winslow is the only comic strip with the objective of inspiring, fostering and moulding our youths into loyal citizens who are proud of the traditions of freedom and the services that defend it.\ A story came out in the Oct. 19, 1952 Spokesman -Review in the hobby story section entitled, \Montanans Raise Honkers for Pets\. The story was describing the Canadian honkers or giant geese, being raised as a hobby by M&M George Hartman of Thompson Falls. The story was written by Helen McDonald Clark, the local high school English teacher. She writes well, bringing out human interest appeal and her stories are on varied subjects. THIRTY-NINE YEARS AGO OCT. 26,1938 Since 1889, he Methodist Church has been a social and moral force in Thompson Falls. Oct. 24, saw the laying of the cornerstone of the present building which is now being outgrown. Prominent in the early days of the church were devoted laymen such as John Willis, who donated the lots for the parsonage, Sen. Ed Donlan from whom were secured lots for the church. D. V. Herriott led the choir stationed in a wagon with the organ. The building committee consisted of the Rev. C. L. Cone, F. S. Hougland, H. W. Gates, D. V. lierriott and D. N. Laughlin. (This is the present Community Congregational Church.) A turkey dinner was served at the John Brauer home on Main St. to abeut 30 people to honor M&M Herbert Kurz, who were married in Seattle Oct. 19. Mrs. Kurz, before her marriage was Dorothy Brauer. They will make their home in Spokane, where Mr. Kurz is employed by the Federal Land Bank. Marian Hanson of Minneapolis and M&M Clayton Ilanson of Wolf Creek spent the week end with M&M Roy Ilanson and attended the christening of their infant daughter, Eleanor Jo. Forage conditions on the National Bison Range at Moiese are good and it will not be necessary to dispose of any of the bison this year, Dr. Robert S. Norton, warden, said. In past years the herd has been trimmed to keep it within the carrying capacity of the range. Plains citizens receive piano by Lenora Brown PLAINS The Senior Citi- zens group held their potluck supper at the Plains Grange Hall Thursday. Mrs. Ogden and Mrs. Tompkins were hostesses. Dorothy Matchett, county coordinator for senior citizens, accompanied by her husband was present. Eight new members joined the group. Jack Harwood talked on revenue sharing money. It was pointed out the group needs to raise more money. Donations are being accepted. M&M Edwin Diehl present- ed the group with a spinet piano. Tables have arrived. Fred Starner is working on them. Mrs. Francis Cone is presi- dent of the Council on Aging. It will meet at Thompson Falls today. Mrs. Harold McLaughlin, president of the Senior Citizens. Helen Rezen- ski, secretary, and M&M Fred Minear will attend from Plains -Paradise. Plains Briefs M&M Lee Webber spent two weeks vacationing in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and l'ortland where they visited Edith Boyer, sister of Mrs. Webber and the Robert Oliver family, a niece of Ruth's. M&M Jack Harwood drove their son, Jim, to Missoula where he took a plane to Saudi Arabia. Jim is a field engineer on a gas conversion pipe line for Fluor, Inc. He will be there for two years at least. M&M Clarence Vacura of Santee, Ca., who spend their summers on northern lakes were in town recently visiting relatives. Ed and Evelyn Vacura of Spokane were also home for the week end. M&M Orville Mildren of Plains are on an extended trip around the United States. BN promotes Ken Meyers PLA1NS-K. L. iKen) Mey- ers, a 20 -year employe of the Northern Pacific -Burlington Northern Railways, has been appointed supervisory agent at Livingston effective Nov. 1. Meyers was asked to accept the post Sept. 12. In his new position, Meyers will be supervisor over freight, sign checks and arrange vacation schedules. Ken started work with the railway in Noxon in 1952 and has worked in Paradise, Plains. Orofino, Julietta and Sandpoint, Id. He has been in Plains since October 1969. His wife, Ellen, who has worked in Sanders County post offices as a relief clerk, will accom- pany him to Livingston. They plan to sell their Plains home. Anna Lyn Reilley of White- fish will fill the opening in Plains created by Meyers leaving, pending a permanent assignment. TOVESI What's an Earth Stove? Just possibly the best wood stove you can buy! # 11 • Air Tight • Automatic draft • Pre -heating manifold • Seconary drafts • Burns 18 hrs • Converts to open fire firebrick Vinod — I.C.B.O. Approved — Built In Montana If your going to boy a stove to last a lite time why not have the best' Jet Electric Winches Jerry Cans $9.95 Check our Quick Catalog Order Service 360 AM P CRANKING POWER Group 24 4 -Year BATTERY $3.2 Sat. - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon. -Fri. -8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. C & C SUPPLY ki If 'here Vow Always Ger A fierier Buy K Poison Ronan Thompson Falls 755 5285 883 5369 676 0661 821-4801
