-PAGE TWO
WALSH COUNTY PRESS,
Editorially Speaking.....
If you live in Walsh county, you know we have three hospi-
tals, one at Park River and two at Grafton. This being National
Hospital Week, we readily acknowledge that we are mighty
fortunate to have them.
The three hospitals represent healthy financial invest-
ments --about a million and a half dollars. That is a lot of
money tQ spend for repair shops (if you think of them in that
way.) But, in the repair of human bodies and minds, the cus-
tomers demand nothing but the best. The carcass is sensitive.
The feeling of pain multiplies the need for comfort and atten-
tiveness. That means it takes a more elaborate "garage" to ad-
minister to the human mechanical troubles than it does to tune
up a balky automobile motor. We are lucky that Walsh county
is so well equipped.
In Park River where this newspaper is published, we are
more familiar with St. Ansgar's hospital than the others. To
give some idea of the size of the hospital operation, compare
these figures with your family budget. To start off with, the
hospital itself cost about $500,000. It usually has about 20 em-
ployers and its monthly payroll runs to some $4,000. Its food
bill alone is $800 a month and it costs approximately $6,000 a
year to keep it heated. The bill for electricity runs around $300
a month. That accounts for part of your hospital-cost dollar.
Thct there are other items of expense such as office upkeep,
surgery, medical, x-ray, anaesthesia and wholesale supply.
The charade for a room at St. Ansgar's hospital is $8.50 a
day. That includes meals (sometimes lunch between meals) and
24 hours a day service. In many hotels around the state, it costs
at last $5 for a room and that does not include meals.
That the hospital is operated by a religious group, Sisters
of the Order of the Presentation of Mary, apparently has not
affected radically its place as a community hospital. The presi-
dent of the women's auxiliary is the wife of a local Protestant
minister and the auxiliary's membership is made up of women
of all faiths. The unit is an organization that worksbut.hard.
It spent some $1.200 last year for the hospital on easy chairs
for the patients, bed linens, a "blood shaker" and a viewing
box used in typing blood. It also does numerous other things,
such as providing flowers for special occasions and visiting and
remembering patients with gifts on their birthdays while they
aze hospitalized.
The benefits of a hospital are not confined to status as a
healing haven. Businessmen noticeably are aware of that. If a
family is in town to take someone to the hospital or to visit a
patient, chances are the family will visit the stores, go to a
movie or in some other way do a little business.
Someone once remarked rather poetically and round-
about that some of the world's most desolate creatures have
learned the "simple dues of fellowship and social comfort" in
hospitals. We are all for social comfort. But neither do we hesi-
tate in recommending hospitals as a place to go while getting
some good, solid physical comfort if you get a bad pain in the
belly, or something worse.
PISEK LEGION POST NAMES ANTON ZIDON COMMANDER
Anton A. Zidon was named tom- ba. chaplain and Daniel Praska,
mander of the American Legion ] sergeant-at-arms.
post at Pisek when the group met Retiring officers are Louis Ka-
Sunday evening, May 1. chena, commander; George. Chyle.
Other officers are Peter Zikmund
vice commander; Louis B. Greicar, l adj utant and finance officer; Louis
adjutant and finance officer; Albert I Lovcik. chaplain and Stanley Pas-
service officer: Emil Kou- I torek, sergeant-alarms.
Kaehs.na,
J
Greater Good of
State Served by
Higher Pool Level
A fight that has been going on for
almost 10 years was continued in
Washington last week when North
Dakota delegations appeared before
the House and Senate Appropria-
tions subcommittees considering
the operating level of Garrison Re-
servoir.
There is one big difference
though. This year the arguments
Ior a high level pool will be pre-
sented in full and will be backed
up by endorsements from counties.
cities and rural electric co-ops
which will benifit from the use of
Garrison Dam to its full capabilities.
In the past n few people around
Williston h:ve been able to secure
amendments to the Garrison appro-
pri]tion bills which prohibited fed-
eral acquisition of land in the Will-
iston area above the 1 340-foot level.
The dam has been designed and
constructed for a ma×mu,n operat-
level of 1.850 feet above sea level.
The Williston intcrests first tried to
hgld the pool down to 1,830 feet,
and then to ].840. Now their argu-
ment is that the government should
not take the land until just before
it would be flooded.
RcI. Usher Burdick cR-NDi, one
of the strongest proponents for the
love level reservoir, claims that the
water won't reach the 1.830-foot
mark for five years, so he asks,
"'Why not let the people use this 90
thousand acres of some of the best
land in North Dakota until it is
needed?"
In most cases the Army Engine-
ers would do just that, by ]easing
unflooded lands, with the former
owners being given preference.
But if the acquisition is delayed
five years how is the Bureau of Re-
clamation going to know for sure
whether to plan irrigation projects
to be supplied with water from
Garrison Dam? The Bureau would
not know whether water would be
available at the 1,830 or the 1,850
foot level and that 20-foot diference
represents millions of dollars when
it comes to digging canals or in-
stalling pumping stations.
Nor would the Bureau know for
sure how much firm hydroelectric
power would be supplied by Garri-
son Dam to rural electric co-ops.
The potential power output per
year would be 151 million kilo-
watt hours of energy less at 1,840
feet than it would be at 1.850. In
addition, all the cities of central
and eastern North Dakot
l=,ave
it
major stake in the high--level res-
Everything it takes to be"T0PS"
5'1'AN DARD 6ASOLIHES
... he/00ce# for top power, economg, and all "round performance
... and raised to the Highe__00 Octane levels in our historg
We are mighty proud of our new gasolines. They have been
stepped up to the hig])est octane ratings in our history ..
desi6ned to give knock-free per[ormance in tne mos moaern
of high compression engines, and older cars as well. But
!portant as octane is, good gasolines need something more.
hey must be balanced too. S'rANDARD WHITE CROWN and
RE]) CROWS Gasolines are balanced to give youtop
performance, with controlled volatility--the rign
gasoKne for the right seasonwith no vapor
lock even in the hottest summer weather. ,
Try a tankful of one of these clean-burning,
high octane, balanced gasolines today,
and prove to yourself that there is a
dierence in gasolines,
You exnect more from and get itl
IT'S NORTH DAKOTA MADE
FOR NORTH DAKOTA TRADE
Standard Gasoines sold in Horth
Dakota are made from North
Dakota crude oil and refined by
North Dakota citlzas at our DeW
Maan Refinery,
Hardy' Standard Service
Bert Hardy, Prop. "Park River, N.D. Dial 36721
PA RK RIVER, NORTH u.=dKOTA
ervoir, because it represents future
mumcipal water supply for cities
as widely separated as Fargo and
Minot.
With such a municipal supply as-
sured, there would be no limiting
factors on the growth of North Da-
kota cities. And with irrigation wa-
ter available for between one mil-
lion and two million acres of land,
there would be no limiting the fu-
ture expansion of North Dakota's
farm economy.
There is so much at stake in
this question of whether the Gar-
rison pool should be 20 feet shal-
lower than planned that all of
North Dakota must convince Con-
gress that the greater good would
be served by the higher level. The
Fargo Forum.
County Agent
He,00s
By- Robert W. Amstrup
County Extension Agent
I believe this year more certified
small grain was planted than in any
other previous year in Walsh coun-
ty and therefore. I have received
many requests for information on
how to keep grain certified.
If you have gram that you wish
to keep certified you .mus follow
the rules and regulatiOiS as set up
by the State Seed Department. All
the necessary info.rmation for certi-
fying your rain can be obtained
from my office.
Following are a few of the regu-
lations:
1. Plant grain on clean land, pre-
ferably summerfallow land or clean
row crop land. (These are excep-
tions, however).
2. Leave a border of at least 10
feet around the field. This border
should be cultivated and kept weed
free throughout the growing season.
3. You must apply for field in-
spection by June 20. Application
blanks for this purpose are avail-
able at my office. If you do not get
this application in by June 20 you
can apply until July 5 but there is
a cash penalty for all applications
submitted between June 20 and
July 5. No applications will be ac-
cepted after July 5.
4. Cost for field inspection for
small grains is 50 cents per acre be-
fore June 20 and 60 cents per acre
from June 20 to July 5, with a min-
imum fee per farm of $5.00 and a
minimum per field of $2:00. .
5. Final certlflcation cleaning,
tags, etc.. also require special 'care
and this information can also be ob-
tained from my office.
o O o
Time to Plant Glads
One of the most popular flowers
in North Dakota is gladiolus and I
suggest you try some this year. The
cost and work involved is very
small compared to the pleasure one
gets from them and for those who
have never grown them.
Hundreds of varieties of Glads
are to be had but a few suggested
varieties to try are: Snow Princess.
White-Midseason; Maid of Orleans;
White-early; Beacon-pink late; Gold
Dust, Yellow. Early; Blue Beauty
blue. Midseason.
Plant glads in any good drained
garden soil where they will be pro-
tected from the wind and in sunny
places.
The early part of May is a good
time to plant glads but bette.J
make several plantings from
15 to June 1.
Glad Corms, or "bulbs" as l
are commonly, but wrongly,
should be planted or set 3
ches deep and six inches
the row. If you plant more
one row the distance
rows should be 28 to 36 incheS,
The time to dig up the
bulbs is normally during
tober, their storage and other
tors for care and culture of
all given in the Extension
A-92 (revised) which is
my office and can be
dropping me a card.
STOP, = BEFORE
PAINT YOUR HOUSE
Read this MARSHALL-WELLS
/00HOUSE PAINT
BLISTER-PROOF GUARANTEE
DOUBle-YOUR-MONEY- BACK
GUARANTEE
"You are guaranteed that, when applied according
to the easy directions, Marshall.Wells' IMPERIAL
House Paint will not be stained by rusting or cor-
roding metals, that it will not bc discolored by
sulfur-bearing fumes and, further, that it will not
form blisters due to moisture, when applied so pre-
viously unpainted wood..."
IT'S PRINTED ON EVERY CAN OF
THIS REVOLUTIONARY PAIN'[
OH YOUR NEW HOME or for your
next re-paiN use this sensational new
k|nd of house paint. Once you feel the
better body spread smoothly and
evenly under your brush--once you
see its color and beauty live and last
you'll never again use a conventional
paintl AND NEW IMPERIAl. HOUSE
PAINT COSTS NO MORE THAN THE
OLD-STYLE PAINTS YOU'VE USED
BEFOREI
$5.95
Marshall.Wells Stores
PARK RIVER. NORTH DAKOTA
settle for
#W00-R r//E
a 1949 engine in
your new 1955 truck!
Make sure you get it in aim
your new truck... .......
Short-itroke engine reduces
piston travel, cuts friction. Piston
rings last up to 53% longer, Gas
savings up to 1 gallon in 7.
ONLY FORD gives you a
modern Short Stroke engine,
V-8 or Six, in truck!
Ford T_ripl_e Economy Trucks
' Bateman Motors
PARK RiVeR, NORTH DAKOTA M.S.BATEMAN, PROP.
Only Ford Dealers Sell Used Cars and
DIAL
-PAGE TWO
WALSH COUNTY PRESS,
Editorially Speaking.....
If you live in Walsh county, you know we have three hospi-
tals, one at Park River and two at Grafton. This being National
Hospital Week, we readily acknowledge that we are mighty
fortunate to have them.
The three hospitals represent healthy financial invest-
ments --about a million and a half dollars. That is a lot of
money tQ spend for repair shops (if you think of them in that
way.) But, in the repair of human bodies and minds, the cus-
tomers demand nothing but the best. The carcass is sensitive.
The feeling of pain multiplies the need for comfort and atten-
tiveness. That means it takes a more elaborate "garage" to ad-
minister to the human mechanical troubles than it does to tune
up a balky automobile motor. We are lucky that Walsh county
is so well equipped.
In Park River where this newspaper is published, we are
more familiar with St. Ansgar's hospital than the others. To
give some idea of the size of the hospital operation, compare
these figures with your family budget. To start off with, the
hospital itself cost about $500,000. It usually has about 20 em-
ployers and its monthly payroll runs to some $4,000. Its food
bill alone is $800 a month and it costs approximately $6,000 a
year to keep it heated. The bill for electricity runs around $300
a month. That accounts for part of your hospital-cost dollar.
Thct there are other items of expense such as office upkeep,
surgery, medical, x-ray, anaesthesia and wholesale supply.
The charade for a room at St. Ansgar's hospital is $8.50 a
day. That includes meals (sometimes lunch between meals) and
24 hours a day service. In many hotels around the state, it costs
at last $5 for a room and that does not include meals.
That the hospital is operated by a religious group, Sisters
of the Order of the Presentation of Mary, apparently has not
affected radically its place as a community hospital. The presi-
dent of the women's auxiliary is the wife of a local Protestant
minister and the auxiliary's membership is made up of women
of all faiths. The unit is an organization that worksbut.hard.
It spent some $1.200 last year for the hospital on easy chairs
for the patients, bed linens, a "blood shaker" and a viewing
box used in typing blood. It also does numerous other things,
such as providing flowers for special occasions and visiting and
remembering patients with gifts on their birthdays while they
aze hospitalized.
The benefits of a hospital are not confined to status as a
healing haven. Businessmen noticeably are aware of that. If a
family is in town to take someone to the hospital or to visit a
patient, chances are the family will visit the stores, go to a
movie or in some other way do a little business.
Someone once remarked rather poetically and round-
about that some of the world's most desolate creatures have
learned the "simple dues of fellowship and social comfort" in
hospitals. We are all for social comfort. But neither do we hesi-
tate in recommending hospitals as a place to go while getting
some good, solid physical comfort if you get a bad pain in the
belly, or something worse.
PISEK LEGION POST NAMES ANTON ZIDON COMMANDER
Anton A. Zidon was named tom- ba. chaplain and Daniel Praska,
mander of the American Legion ] sergeant-at-arms.
post at Pisek when the group met Retiring officers are Louis Ka-
Sunday evening, May 1. chena, commander; George. Chyle.
Other officers are Peter Zikmund
vice commander; Louis B. Greicar, l adj utant and finance officer; Louis
adjutant and finance officer; Albert I Lovcik. chaplain and Stanley Pas-
service officer: Emil Kou- I torek, sergeant-alarms.
Kaehs.na,
J
Greater Good of
State Served by
Higher Pool Level
A fight that has been going on for
almost 10 years was continued in
Washington last week when North
Dakota delegations appeared before
the House and Senate Appropria-
tions subcommittees considering
the operating level of Garrison Re-
servoir.
There is one big difference
though. This year the arguments
Ior a high level pool will be pre-
sented in full and will be backed
up by endorsements from counties.
cities and rural electric co-ops
which will benifit from the use of
Garrison Dam to its full capabilities.
In the past n few people around
Williston h:ve been able to secure
amendments to the Garrison appro-
pri]tion bills which prohibited fed-
eral acquisition of land in the Will-
iston area above the 1 340-foot level.
The dam has been designed and
constructed for a ma×mu,n operat-
level of 1.850 feet above sea level.
The Williston intcrests first tried to
hgld the pool down to 1,830 feet,
and then to ].840. Now their argu-
ment is that the government should
not take the land until just before
it would be flooded.
RcI. Usher Burdick cR-NDi, one
of the strongest proponents for the
love level reservoir, claims that the
water won't reach the 1.830-foot
mark for five years, so he asks,
"'Why not let the people use this 90
thousand acres of some of the best
land in North Dakota until it is
needed?"
In most cases the Army Engine-
ers would do just that, by ]easing
unflooded lands, with the former
owners being given preference.
But if the acquisition is delayed
five years how is the Bureau of Re-
clamation going to know for sure
whether to plan irrigation projects
to be supplied with water from
Garrison Dam? The Bureau would
not know whether water would be
available at the 1,830 or the 1,850
foot level and that 20-foot diference
represents millions of dollars when
it comes to digging canals or in-
stalling pumping stations.
Nor would the Bureau know for
sure how much firm hydroelectric
power would be supplied by Garri-
son Dam to rural electric co-ops.
The potential power output per
year would be 151 million kilo-
watt hours of energy less at 1,840
feet than it would be at 1.850. In
addition, all the cities of central
and eastern North Dakot
l=,ave
it
major stake in the high--level res-
Everything it takes to be"T0PS"
5'1'AN DARD 6ASOLIHES
... he/00ce# for top power, economg, and all "round performance
... and raised to the Highe__00 Octane levels in our historg
We are mighty proud of our new gasolines. They have been
stepped up to the hig])est octane ratings in our history ..
desi6ned to give knock-free per[ormance in tne mos moaern
of high compression engines, and older cars as well. But
!portant as octane is, good gasolines need something more.
hey must be balanced too. S'rANDARD WHITE CROWN and
RE]) CROWS Gasolines are balanced to give youtop
performance, with controlled volatility--the rign
gasoKne for the right seasonwith no vapor
lock even in the hottest summer weather. ,
Try a tankful of one of these clean-burning,
high octane, balanced gasolines today,
and prove to yourself that there is a
dierence in gasolines,
You exnect more from and get itl
IT'S NORTH DAKOTA MADE
FOR NORTH DAKOTA TRADE
Standard Gasoines sold in Horth
Dakota are made from North
Dakota crude oil and refined by
North Dakota citlzas at our DeW
Maan Refinery,
Hardy' Standard Service
Bert Hardy, Prop. "Park River, N.D. Dial 36721
PA RK RIVER, NORTH u.=dKOTA
ervoir, because it represents future
mumcipal water supply for cities
as widely separated as Fargo and
Minot.
With such a municipal supply as-
sured, there would be no limiting
factors on the growth of North Da-
kota cities. And with irrigation wa-
ter available for between one mil-
lion and two million acres of land,
there would be no limiting the fu-
ture expansion of North Dakota's
farm economy.
There is so much at stake in
this question of whether the Gar-
rison pool should be 20 feet shal-
lower than planned that all of
North Dakota must convince Con-
gress that the greater good would
be served by the higher level. The
Fargo Forum.
County Agent
He,00s
By- Robert W. Amstrup
County Extension Agent
I believe this year more certified
small grain was planted than in any
other previous year in Walsh coun-
ty and therefore. I have received
many requests for information on
how to keep grain certified.
If you have gram that you wish
to keep certified you .mus follow
the rules and regulatiOiS as set up
by the State Seed Department. All
the necessary info.rmation for certi-
fying your rain can be obtained
from my office.
Following are a few of the regu-
lations:
1. Plant grain on clean land, pre-
ferably summerfallow land or clean
row crop land. (These are excep-
tions, however).
2. Leave a border of at least 10
feet around the field. This border
should be cultivated and kept weed
free throughout the growing season.
3. You must apply for field in-
spection by June 20. Application
blanks for this purpose are avail-
able at my office. If you do not get
this application in by June 20 you
can apply until July 5 but there is
a cash penalty for all applications
submitted between June 20 and
July 5. No applications will be ac-
cepted after July 5.
4. Cost for field inspection for
small grains is 50 cents per acre be-
fore June 20 and 60 cents per acre
from June 20 to July 5, with a min-
imum fee per farm of $5.00 and a
minimum per field of $2:00. .
5. Final certlflcation cleaning,
tags, etc.. also require special 'care
and this information can also be ob-
tained from my office.
o O o
Time to Plant Glads
One of the most popular flowers
in North Dakota is gladiolus and I
suggest you try some this year. The
cost and work involved is very
small compared to the pleasure one
gets from them and for those who
have never grown them.
Hundreds of varieties of Glads
are to be had but a few suggested
varieties to try are: Snow Princess.
White-Midseason; Maid of Orleans;
White-early; Beacon-pink late; Gold
Dust, Yellow. Early; Blue Beauty
blue. Midseason.
Plant glads in any good drained
garden soil where they will be pro-
tected from the wind and in sunny
places.
The early part of May is a good
time to plant glads but bette.J
make several plantings from
15 to June 1.
Glad Corms, or "bulbs" as l
are commonly, but wrongly,
should be planted or set 3
ches deep and six inches
the row. If you plant more
one row the distance
rows should be 28 to 36 incheS,
The time to dig up the
bulbs is normally during
tober, their storage and other
tors for care and culture of
all given in the Extension
A-92 (revised) which is
my office and can be
dropping me a card.
STOP, = BEFORE
PAINT YOUR HOUSE
Read this MARSHALL-WELLS
/00HOUSE PAINT
BLISTER-PROOF GUARANTEE
DOUBle-YOUR-MONEY- BACK
GUARANTEE
"You are guaranteed that, when applied according
to the easy directions, Marshall.Wells' IMPERIAL
House Paint will not be stained by rusting or cor-
roding metals, that it will not bc discolored by
sulfur-bearing fumes and, further, that it will not
form blisters due to moisture, when applied so pre-
viously unpainted wood..."
IT'S PRINTED ON EVERY CAN OF
THIS REVOLUTIONARY PAIN'[
OH YOUR NEW HOME or for your
next re-paiN use this sensational new
k|nd of house paint. Once you feel the
better body spread smoothly and
evenly under your brush--once you
see its color and beauty live and last
you'll never again use a conventional
paintl AND NEW IMPERIAl. HOUSE
PAINT COSTS NO MORE THAN THE
OLD-STYLE PAINTS YOU'VE USED
BEFOREI
$5.95
Marshall.Wells Stores
PARK RIVER. NORTH DAKOTA
settle for
#W00-R r//E
a 1949 engine in
your new 1955 truck!
Make sure you get it in aim
your new truck... .......
Short-itroke engine reduces
piston travel, cuts friction. Piston
rings last up to 53% longer, Gas
savings up to 1 gallon in 7.
ONLY FORD gives you a
modern Short Stroke engine,
V-8 or Six, in truck!
Ford T_ripl_e Economy Trucks
' Bateman Motors
PARK RiVeR, NORTH DAKOTA M.S.BATEMAN, PROP.
Only Ford Dealers Sell Used Cars and
DIAL
