Joe Spannring Dies After Short Illness
Joe Spannring 49 died at Lott hospital Livingston Saturday after falling ill at his ranch Friday. Though pneumonia was feared, a heart attack caused death. Funeral at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Tuesday 10:30 with interment at Mountain View. Survivors include wife Vonnie, sister Mary Wagner, brothers John Simon and Walter, and other relatives. Born June 11, 1900 in Germany, he came to the United States in 1910 and to Yellowstone ranch area in 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Spannring
Lott Hospital
Livingston
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Mountain View
Arthur Michels
Charles McDonnell
Max Forster
Ralph Wagner
G. O. Schulz
Joe Mathes
Mr. Spannring
Germany
John Spannring
United States
Yellowstone
Big Timber
Vonnie Hoffman
Mary Wagner
John
Simon
Walter Spannring
Moose Shooting Award Winner Leads Big Timber Juniors
Melvin Salmonson won Mondays handicap event for the Big Timber Junior Sharpshooters Moose Lodge candy prize. Scores list Daniel Murphy 79 79 marksman first class, Melvin Salmonsen 84 88 88 marksman, Carl Helvik 86 84 83 87 sharp shooter, and others with various titles and scores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Salmonson
Moose Lodge
Big Timber
Scott Hoskinson
Daniel Murphy
Melvin Salmonsen
Carl Helvik
Stanley Stenberg
Lloyd Goakey
David McKenzie
Ralph Goakey
James McKenzie
Art Dyer
Wesley Burns
Special Elk Season Declared for Martinsdale Meagher County
The Montana fish and game commission announced a special cow and calf elk hunting season in Meagher county from December 19 to January 19 to curb elk damage on private lands. Fifty permits will be sold in Martinsdale at 2 p.m. December 19. The area runs from highway 6 east boundary north to the forest line and along various landmarks to highway 6.
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Helena
Montana Fish and Game Commission
Meagher County
Martinsdale
Forest Line
Daisy County
Trail Creek
Mill Creek
Musselshell North Fork
Social Security Rates Rise for 1950 in Montana
Thomas M. Robinson announces rate increases to one and one half percent for both employees and employers effective January 1, 1950. Employers must withhold and match 1.5 percent of salaries. The law also adopts depositary receipts and introduces form No. 450 for paying social security and withholding taxes.
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Thomas M. Robinson
District of
Montana
Robinson
Santa to Visit Big Timber for Candy Distribution
Santa representing the Livingston Elks lodge will appear at the library corner in Big Timber on Sunday at noon to hand out candy to children. The Livingston Enterprise notes Miss Wanda Overfelt, daughter of Walter Overfelt, has been initiated into Alpha Epsilon, University of Arizona business women’s honorary society. She is a Park County High School graduate and a sophomore majoring in commercial education.
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Santa
Livingston Elks Lodge
Big Timber
Livingston Enterprise
Wanda Overfelt
Walter Overfelt
Springdale
Alpha Epsilon
Business Women’s Honorary Society
University of Arizona
Park County High School
Miss Overfelt
University
Fatalities Drive $22,000 In Property Damage From 1949 Accidents
For the first 11 months of 1949, Sweet Grass County sheriff's records show 45 accidents with one death and multiple hospitalizations, plus over $22,000 in property damage. Stolen property recovered reached $18,732, 92 arrests with $833 in fines, 574 jail days, and 15,724 cattle inspected.
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Sheriff's Office
Sheriff’s Office
Sweet Grass County
Demonstration of Cattle Spraying Techniques at Billings
A public demonstration at Pierce Packing Company feed yards in Billings will show lice control spraying on 75 cattle at 1 p m on December 19 weather permitting Jack C Corkins assistant state entomologist at Montana State college says the cattle are divided into three lots one sprayed with water as a control two with pyrenone and benzine hexachloride all cattle fed for 90 days with weigh ins about every ten days to measure efficacy stockmen are urged to attend.
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Bozeman
Pierce Packing Company
Billings
Jack C. Corkins
Montana State College
Montana motorists face new $3 auto use tax for 1950 plates
State Highway Engineer C E Stahl says the $3 use tax must be collected before 1950 license plates are issued. The tax on autos varies by registration date, with higher amounts for late 1949 plate holders and reduced sums for registrations after June 30. Models 1950 with 1949 plates are exempt.
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Helena
Stahl
Huge Lodge to Be Constructed Near West Yellowstone
A 100 bed room sportsman's lodge will be built eight miles southwest of West Yellowstone near U S highway 191. Los Angeles group to develop Lionhead lodge aims to open for the 1950 hunting season. Lionhead lodge to boost winter sports area. Milwaukee and Northern Pacific railways will promote the ski area with packaged tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
West Yellowstone
Albert Erickson
Los Angeles
Erickson
Lionhead Lodge
U. S. Highway 191
Milwaukee and
Northern Pacific Railways
Lionhead
Milwaukee
Hunter Kills Eight-Foot Mountain Lion in West Gallatin Canyon
Jim Overstreet of the Lazy TK ranch reports killing an eight-foot 200-pound lioness in upper West Gallatin canyon while elk hunting. He will receive a $25 bounty for the kill.
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Bozeman
Jim Overstreet
Upper West Gallatin Canyon
Overstreet
Lazy TK Ranch
Local Notes and Folks From Big Timber Area
Louis Hancock of McLeod will visit Mani tou Springs Colorado for about a month. Alma Cort travels to Billings to meet her son Robert from Faribault Minnesota for Christmas. Mrs Frazee hosts Sunday school party at EUB church with small gifts and refresh ments. Shelterbelt trees must be ordered by December 31 through McNary Nursery Missoula. Teddy Munson suffers rheumatic fever in bed. Wool Marketing Association meets December 23 at 2 p m in the county courthouse. The Sheepherders and Big Timber Lions both drop basketball contests to Columbus and Roundup respectively. Weather: six inches of snow in Big Timber with rising temperatures and weekly highs and lows listed.
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Colorado
Louis Hancock
McLeod
Manitou Springs
Colo
Alma Cort
Billings
Robert
Faribault
Minn
McNary
Missoula
F. B. Peterson
Sweet Grass County
Big Timber
Peterson
Urges Clear Cut GOP Program
The Republican national Strategy committee chair Arthur E. Summerfield urged a clear program opposing the Democrats and warned the GOP must offer a distinct choice. He recalled 1946 as an example and said no immediate action was announced. The group discussed a 1950 drive and heard about Wisconsin and New York GOP outreach efforts.
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Arthur E. Summerfield
Michigan
Summerfield
Congress
Wisconsin
New York
Civilians Cut From U.S. Defense Payroll In Budget Drive
Washington December 11 The Defense Department has dropped about 116000 civilian workers since the economy program began last summer as it pursues a 135000 man force cut. Army layoffs total 41000 and Air Force 18000 with Navy reductions at 76000 delayed to June 30 next year. The program targets saving about 200 million dollars the first year and about 500 million when fully in place.
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Washington
Defense Department
Defense
Johnson
Department
Army
Air Force
Navy
National Defense
New York Faces First Water Holiday to Save Supply
New York officials announce a Dec 16 water holiday urging residents to avoid shaving and bathing to conserve the city’s dwindling supply. Chief Engineer Edward Clark says voluntary cuts could delay drastic restrictions and help avert shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward Clark
Coffee price trend halted says Sen Gillette
Washington December 13 Senator Guy M Gillette Democrat of Iowa said the rise in coffee prices has definitely been stopped as he prepared to hear more testimony on price spreads Gillette chairs the Senate agriculture subcommittee and spoke on the development today
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Guy M. Gillette
D-Ia
Gillette
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Secretary Sawyer backs repeal of wartime excise taxes
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer said repealing wartime excise taxes would boost business. After a nationwide survey of 2,500 businessmen and officials, he noted strong calls to cut or repeal taxes on communications cosmetics and leather goods. He warned only major strikes could derail the 1950 recovery and foresaw steady wages production and prosperity with limited price increases.
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Washington
Sawyer
Truman
Explosion at Swift and Co packing plant devastates Sioux City
A blast destroyed the Swift and Co packing plant office in Sioux City Iowa killing an estimated 30 to 35 people. Iowa adjutant general Brig Gen Charles Grahl cited reports of 30 to 35 dead, while Walter Lindgren city public safety head put at least 25 dead with up to 200 injured in what may be the worst disaster in the citys history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa
Swift and Co
Charles Grahl
Iowa National Guard
Des Moines
Walter W. Lindgren
Mother tells son Santa Claus is dead
Philadelphia police recounted a Christmas tale after a six year old boy from a large poor family was found lost in a department store. He told officers his mother had warned him Santa Claus is dead, saying he would receive nothing this year.
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Santa Claus
Philadelphia
Sonny
Elk Slaughter Not To Exceed 500 In Yellowstone
Montana officials report Secretary of Interior Chapman agrees to limit elk slaughter inside Yellowstone National Park to 500 animals in the overgrazed northern section. The plan changes from initial hopes of up to 5,000 elk. The herd numbers about 11,000.
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Washington
Chapman
Montana
Yellowstone National Park
National Park Service
Newton Drury
Michael Straus
John W. Bonner
Mansfield
D- Mont
O. S. Warden
Livingston Woman Seriously Wounded
Mrs Josephine Drake 53 is in Park hospital after a bullet wound to the abdomen and hand from a family quarrel at her home. Her husband George Drake about 70 is jailed on an open charge as officers investigate the shooting and the gun involved.
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Livingston Enterprise
Josephine Drake
Park Hospital
George F. Drake
N. P
Park County
Fred J. Bassett
30 Hours For Four Year College Course
J Edward Nelson, 17, completed the equivalent of four years of college in 30 hours at the University of Chicago. Officials applaud the placement tests that determine academic standing by knowledge rather than course count. Nelson, son of a YMCA secretary in Rome, attended Bronx High School of Science and studied at Giovanni Verga in Rome before entering this program.
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Chicago
J. Edward Nelson
College of the University of Chicago
Edward
YMCA
Rome
Italy
Bronx High School of Science
New York City
Giovanni Verga
Gas well blast jolts Montana town with mud geysers
A gas well casing failed 700 feet underground near Chester Montana causing a square mile area to spout mud water and natural gas. Workers injected 2000 cement bags into holes around the well as cracks up to four feet wide opened and ground tremors occurred before the commotion subsided.
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Chester
Montana
Services Held For James R. Campbell
Funeral services for James Robert Campbell 81 lifelong Big Timber resident were held at Lowry funeral home with Rev. P N Bennett officiating. He died of a heart ailment December 9 at his son Charles Campbell's home in Eureka California. Burial was at Mountain View. Campbell born March 5 1866 in Kirkwood Illinois married Blanche Cannon February 15 1893 in Litter York Ill they lived on a farm before moving to Big Timber in 1914. Survivors include six grandchildren and 18 more descendants with several children living in Montana California and South Dakota.
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James Robert Campbell
Big Timber
Lowry Funeral Home
P. N. Bennett
Mr. Campbell
Charles Campbell
Eureka
Calif
Ted C. Busha
Mervin Sell
Tommy
Bobby
Bud Jarrett
Russell
Jack Webb
Jimmy Campbell
Mountain View
Kirkwood
Ill
William Campbell
Blanche A. Cannon
Litter York
Ilinois
Hauge
Hardin
Winifred
Slot Machine Licenses Due Jan. 1
Montana non profit groups must obtain 1950 state licenses for slot machines by January 1. The state equalization board mailed notices warning that machines without a valid license will be seized and premises abated. Fees vary by town size, and groups must provide current membership data and organizational details. The state licensed 6,507 machines across 1,325 establishments this year.
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Helena
Montana
State Equalization Board
Equalization Board
Lewistown Woman Dies During Storm
Carla Gunderson a 27 year old Lewistown resident died from carbon monoxide asphyxiation after her car stalled in a snowbank during Montana storm. Her companion Ben Horn sought help while she warmed the car. Survivors include her parents five sisters and one brother. Earlier storm deaths occurred near Butte and Miles City.
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Lewistown
Carla Gunderson
Montana
Hobson
Ben Horn
Horn
Emil F Nitchie
Butte
Thomas MacAlister
Miles City
Butte Plans $100 Slot Machine Tax In City Radius
Butte Montana officials announce a $100 license fee for slot machines operating within three miles of the city and $25 for machines outside that zone. County commissioners expect the fees to raise funds for a poor fund emergency, aiming to generate substantial revenue next year.
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Butte
Silver Bow
Mrs Jarrett Hosts Sewing Club Christmas Party
Mrs Tom Jarrett Jr entertained her sewing club Tuesday evening at Mrs Arne Grosfield’s home. The gathering marked the club’s annual Christmas party with members in attendance.
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Tom Jarrett Jr
Arne ’Grosfield
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Teddy Munson
Robert L. Munson
The
Lamp Farm
Wool Marketing Association
Columbus
Big Timber Lions
Ronald Dahl
Jerry McCauley
Richard Hults
Jack Myers
Tommy Hoskinson
Bob Deegan
Republican National Strategy Committee
GOP
Metor
Ism
James R. Campbell
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