Everly’s Sweet Grass County becomes single released
Phil Everly wrote and recorded Sweet Grass County after a Montana visit. RCA released the song as a single from the Star Spangled Springer album amid rising radio play and demand in Montana stores. The Everly story ties to a Montana trip, a birthday gift to Tom Slater, and Everly’s reflections on returning to the country.
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Sweet Grass County
RCA
Montana
Big Timber
Livingston
Phil Everly
Everly
California
United States
Tom Slater
Slater
Los Angeles
Readers' notes from far and near on Big Timber Pioneer
Letters from Mrs Philip Weamer Sunnyside Washington Armand Sanders Alamogordo New Mexico Lena Manis Scofield Kirksville Missouri Lynn Weimer and family from Wabash Indiana praise Big Timber and the Pioneer. They recall fishing on Boulder River and express desire to return or move nearby acknowledging changes and opportunities.
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Philip Weamer
Sunnyside
Wash
Armand Sanders
Alamogordo
Mexico
Big Timber
Boulder River
Chrome Mine
Lena (Manis) Scofield
Kirksville
FHA Launches Outreach to Promote Farm Home Programs in Montana
The Farmers Home Administration announces an outreach program to educate Montana residents about FHA programs. The effort aligns with current and new Rural Development Act of 1972 loan authorities and includes opening seven sub offices across the state to explain available loans and services.
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Montana
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Rural Development Act
Sube
Coal problems and potential in eastern Montana mining
The article surveys eastern Montana coal mining challenges from Colstrip’s 1923 start to current energy shortages. It notes vast leases, multiple coal seams, strip versus underground debates, and rough reclamation hurdles under stringent state laws. It cites forecasts of six billion tons over 50 years and 200 square miles disturbed, with 600000 acres leased.
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Robert E. Miller
Montana Press Association
Montana
Colstrip
Northern Pacific
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
Northern Plains Resource Council
Hauck Family Tours Oregon Coast to Kalispell Visit
Local notes report Mr and Mrs Bob Hauck and family spent a busy summer touring the Oregon coast Spokane and into Kalispell where they visited Eleanor's sisters Margie Slama and Lorraine Foley. They watched the East West Shrine football game as a highlight. Eleanor's nephew David Slama joined the Haucks for a few extra days at home.
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Bob Hauck
Oregon Coast
Spokane
Kalispell
Eleanor
Margie Slama
Lorraine Foley
David Slama
Haucks
Sweet Grass High to Hold Athletic Physicals Monday
Sweet Grass High School athletes must take physicals at Sweet Grass Community Hospital this Monday. Senior boys 8:00, junior boys 8:20, sophomore boys 8:40, freshmen boys 9:00. senior and junior girls 10:00, and sophomore and freshman girls 10:30. Bring 7.50 and a filled exam form from the high school office.
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Sweet Grass High School
Sweet Grass Community Hospital
Robert Hauck
Ipate
Hauck
Big Timber Wagon Train Ride Plans to Start Labor Day Weekend
A meeting set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the City Club gathers Big Timber area residents interested in joining the Milk River Wagon Train Ride over Labor Day weekend. Jim Dennis, who plans to enter a reconstructed wagon, invites all interested to attend. Dennis aims to depart Big Timber August 29, reach Sandusky August 30, travel to Malta, and arrive around 10 a.m. Labor Day for the rodeo. The project could expand to five-day wagon trips up the Boulder next year with three wagons carrying up to 30 vacationers. The return would require two more days.
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City Club
Jim Dennis
Dennis
Big Timber
Sandusky
Malta
Boulder
Best West To Tours Fall Color Tour From Billings
BEST WEST TOURS OF BILLINGS offers a fall color trip to Eastern Canada and New England with a Sept. 15 departure. brochure requests by writing or calling B.W.T. Inc. Box 1697 or 406 252 8977.
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Billings
Canada
New England
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Ed Webber
Sports Marine
Rer
Tr Stor Hk
Oregon
R & R Locker Plant
East First St
Sears
Sears Roebuck
Livingston, Montana
Dale Cass
Worden
Art Stephens
Stephens
Three Forks
Capt
Tom Kuenning
Kuenning
Citizens Bank and Trust
FDIC
Big Timber, Montana
Phil and
Nancy Moulden
117 McLeod
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