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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1963
Page
4
School bus routes for Big Timber and Springdale will start service Sept. 3 with arrival at 1:00 p.m. for the first day. All routes to reach school by 8:40 a.m. thereafter. Lunch program to begin Sept. 4 with prices unchanged from last year.
The year faculty includes Miss Gertrude Conwell as English and librarian and A R Collins as principal. Non instructional staff list chiefs and custodians. Beginning enrollment is about 230, slightly below last year’s peak of 238.
In a weekend round robin in Columbus 11 and 12 year olds competed with teams from Billings Absarokee Columbus and Big Timber. Billings won first place with 329 players in the program and a 11 win 4 loss record. Big Timber finished second and displayed its trophy at Robbins Gust window.
Mrs. Mike McKague writes from Parma Idaho describing a hectic year with unseasonable weather. She notes little spring heavy winds and cold into July. The first hay crop was nearly a loss but grain crops fared better and wheat was just combined last week.
A Idaho agricultural note reports a farm average of 77 bushels per acre and recounts Mike's severe arm injury from a beet harvester last November. He endured a heavy cast into April and another surgery on July 22, now aided by three metal rods and ongoing recovery while his brother runs the operation. The writer notes local wind ignorance and Snake River valley conditions.
Dr. Orville J. Halverson announced a certificate of merit and cash prize to Dr. Paul N. Holcomb of Big Timber for his winter 1961-62 work in Yellowstone National Park. Holcomb, federal veterinarian of the Montana force, tested buffalo and elk trapped in the park for scabies brucellosis and anaplasmosis to aid transplantation planning.
Mr and Mrs Ed Nelson return to Montana to operate the Lazy BZ Cafe on North Main Street in Livingston purchasing fixtures from Bob Zander. Mrs Nelson, formerly Patsy Deegan of Big Timber, was born in Livingston. They have three children and plan seven day hours from 6 am to 10 pm.
Mr and Mrs C Eddy Erickson announce the engagement of their daughter Sonja Marie to Kenneth W Dahlager both of Minnesota. Miss Erickson teaches in the Chicago area and will teach in Bloomington Minnesota this fall. Dahlager is employed by St Paul Book Stationery Co. An October 26 wedding is planned at St Johns Lutheran church Northfield Minnesota.
Montana veterans of the Korean War who have not yet applied are reminded that the 38th Montana Legislative Assembly extended the deadline to January 1, 1964 for filing the bonus application. Applications can be submitted at designated offices until the new cutoff.
A note indicates requests should be directed to the Adjusted Compensation Division in Helena Montana or filed with the County Clerk and Recorder's office for Montana.
Elaine Kinsey and Diane Dutton volunteered to craft cleanup posters for the fair grounds. Shirley Rostad demonstrated apron making while Tony Mathes showed chain saw operation. Marilyn Mathes taught sewing a hem and Diane Dutton discussed drug store wrap. Diane spoke on kitchen safety. Mrs. Jack Peterson served refreshments. Irene Peterson, reporter.
Montana fish and game commissioners set 1963 waterfowl seasons within federal limits for Central and Pacific flyways. Central Flyway runs Oct 13 to Nov 16 with daily bag four ducks and up to eight in possession. mallards limited to two per day. Geese season Oct 6 to Dec 19, five geese per day with up to 16 in possession. Pacific Flyway duck season Oct 13 to Dec 26 with five ducks per day and up to 10 in possession.
Montana allocates daily limits for hooded mergansers and wood ducks and maps an 82 day goose season in the Pacific Flyway from Oct 6 before sunrise to Dec 26 sunset with six geese daily. Federal rules override some state plans, capping canvasbacks and redheads nationwide and shaping choices for 1963.
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