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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1957
Page
4
The writer laments a flu that distorts vision and hearing, making reading the daily paper nearly impossible. He describes misreading corners, stumbling over obstacles, and heightened senses, while noting the perk of less payroll work and a desire to end the vacation.
A daughter, Kristy Faye, weighed eight pounds one ounce at Community hospital on August 25 to Mr. and Mrs. Al Deegan. Thorvald Krone of Reed Point received care at the same hospital from Monday through Wednesday. Miss Ardis Perrine plans to leave Sunday for Minneapolis after a month long visit with her sister Mrs. Della Webb and relatives.
Portland, Oregon, bishops ban Sunday work and shopping in Oregon, Idaho and Montana. The pastoral letter from Archbishop Edward D. Howard, effective Sept 1, requires Mass attendance and abstinence from unnecessary servile work with limited exceptions for essential services.
The Montana Fish and Game commission announced the 1957 58 trapping framework with November 10 as the general start date for most species and extended seasons for beaver otter marten and muskrat in certain districts. Eastern Montana opens to April 30 while western zones vary with a noon deadline for fisher closures.
A Montana Taxpayers Association report covers April 1951 to April 1957 showing Montana among top states in welfare caseload reduction. Montana’s rate fell from 35 to 25 per 1000, with 103 to 119 cases in Sweet Grass County and high Indian-case shares in several counties. The 1953 reform and expanded supervision and staff improved casework, reducing old age and general assistance caseloads while increasing federal support and lowering legislative requests.
Lt Charles E Richardson Jr on leave piloted a light aircraft from Rapid City to Spokane. He made a wheel up landing on a road near Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone Park, sustaining a facial cut and damaging the plane. He diverted to land near people to avoid wilderness. Park officials waived the usual entrance fee.
The Department of Defense requested 8000 men be delivered to induction stations in September for Army assignment. Secretary Charles E. Wilson stressed no plan to end conscription soon and announced tighter Army personnel standards to weed out less capable GIs in favor of skilled atomic age specialists.
Mrs H W Klindt hosted a morning coffee Friday for Mrs Chas Andlin and Miss Doris Strand who are visiting relatives here.
Fragmentary note records a department tag number and locality of capture. No clear entities or events are identifiable beyond the reference to a department, a tag number, and a capture location.
The Montana Fish and Game commission adopted migratory bird regulations a 75 day duck season and two goose seasons. The general waterfowl season opens October 5 with a daily bag of five ducks and ten in possession. East of the Continental Divide goose seasons run 60 days to December 3 and West of the divide 45 days to November 18. Goose limits differ by region with caps on Canada geese and white fronted geese, and a state wide Canada goose limit of six.
Glacier Park Lodge promotes Montana Days with a three day Labor Day weekend package including theater and golf. Ed O Donnell says Montana friends pay 30 dollars for the three day option with seven meals two nights lodging and three days of golf. A two day package costs 18 dollars per person with four meals lodging theater and golf.
The Montana Fish and Game commission adopted regulations for upland game birds. Blue grouse, ruffed and Franklin grouse may be hunted September 15 to 29 with a three bird daily bag limit. No sharptail or sage grouse this year. Ring necked pheasant and Hungarian partridge to be set later. Public lands closures apply. no hunting from highways. no firearms or crossbows allowed. Reservations areas closed to hunting.
Billings visits mark medical checkups for Mr. Davis and a residents’ move brings the Grosfields to the Ivar Holland house on Sixth ave. Verlin Hale of Potomic Ill. sought care at the Community hospital while Earl Butler of Pray attended the Big Timber fair and Bozeman Livestock Auction Co. at the weekend sale. Patrolman Paul Deverle was hospitalized with flu, then released.
The document notes 41 national parks in the United States and 84 national monuments, outlining a snapshot of protected sites and designations across the country.
Instruction shows using a sunlit watch to find south by aligning the hour hand toward the sun and locating the midpoint between that hour and XII on the dial. This method yields a southward line for navigation.
One bedroom modern house with garage available around Sept 3 at 401 Second Ave East Olaf Ma land. Contact Ray Traver at 2-4165. Listed in 48-11.
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