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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1955
Page
8
The writer notes a base dining hall menu priced at 85 cents for adults, detailing turkey with fixings, sides, dessert, and beverages. Reports 650 turkeys or 9,700 pounds served, describes persistent rain and cold, and shares longing to return home in December and play hockey while noting anticipated county-wide shortage of young men by year’s start.
Two Bozeman girls Barbara Mehlhoff and Sharon McAllister travel to Chicago with nine other Bozeman High School 4 H members for the National 4 H Club Congress. The Busy Bees perform dance routines they created and sponsor U S Rubber Co. backs their appearance at the Share the Talent show.
The Montana Power Company paid half of its 1955 Sweet Grass county property tax, $14,854.60, in two checks with $1,414.13 paid under protest. The protest targets alleged excessive assessments by the state board of equalization, a classification and appraisal fund, and a separate court-challenged item. The company plans to sue for recovery of the protested amount after exhausting administrative remedies.
Season tickets for ten home games go on sale this week through the S Club. Regular tickets cost 5 dollars with possible extension for extra games. A reserved seat option is 7 dollars and 50 cents for center north gym seating. Tickets available via S Club, at the door Saturday night, or the high school office after Saturday.
Daughter visiting John Hager meets his guest Mrs. George Turman Jr and her daughters Marcia and Linda after arriving on the Milwaukee from Seattle. Turman, employed at a bank, is recalled to Portland for a two week training session.
The agriculture department proposes a conservation acreage reserve paying farmers up to 5000 dollars yearly to remove land from production. The program aims to reduce farm output, fund soil conservation, and compensate for foregone crops while allowing remaining land to be used for grazing. Government cost runs into billions over 15 years with widespread farm participation expected by 1969.
A concise notice highlights a pioneer classified listing promising rapid results. It emphasizes speed and efficiency in connecting buyers and sellers through a compact ad format.
London tax officials believed Bill Hughes, a 50 year old shipyard worker, faced charges in bankruptcy court for bookmaking and unpaid taxes. He confessed to saving 16800 by strict methods including no candy or drink, avoiding outings with women, sharing razor blades, charging his grandmother interest, and borrowing family shoes to save leather.
Chicago reports nearly 31 000 Americans died in highway crashes during the first 10 months of 1955, up seven percent from 1954. The National Safety Council stresses Safe Driving Day as President Eisenhower’s traffic safety effort to reduce deaths.
For Sale Corral poles posts and Christmas trees. Phone 2-4392. Glen Mothershead Bridger Creek. 9 tf.
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