Weather echoes through local talk and winter records
The piece recalls historic cold snaps with 1936 as a benchmark, noting 47 below in Big Timber and 55 below in Melville on February 15. It mentions a lighter, growing focus on youth activities, scouting, rifle careers, and the newly launched Gossip Grinder Gazette at the grade school with staff credits.
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Bailey Open Forum
Big Timber
Melville
van Cleve Lower Ranch
Clarence Flattum
Preston
Minn
Weather ramblings lead to Montana trip in warm winter
Chuck Bray reports in the Gazette how H. H. Mc Intyre and friends fled St. Paul’s below zero spell for Montana’s milder winter. They arrived Sunday night just as unusually cold conditions hit back home, leaving Mc Intyre likely regretting the decision. Continued on page four.
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Chuck Bray
the Gazette
H. H. McIntyre
St. Paul
Montana
West Yel
MSC Coach Clyde Carpenter Headlines J C Sponsored Banquet
Montana State coach Clyde Carpenter gave the principal talk at the JayCee sponsored football banquet in Parish hall honoring last fall’s Sheepherder squad. Principal Wesley Walker introduced him as Orvin Fiare led as master of ceremonies.
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Bud Arneson
Sheepherder
Pap Rocks
JayCees
Arneson
Bill Badgley
Klindt
Clyde Carpenter
Montana State College
MSC
Wesley Walker
Orvin Fiare
JayCee
Lutheran Aid to Host Meet Friday at Parish Hall
Big Timber Lutheran Aid will host its meeting on Friday February 6 at Parish hall with Mrs Martha Mijelde Mrs J D Herries and Mrs Ed Braaten as hostesses Melville and Deer Creek Aids are invited to attend.
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Lutheran Aid
Martha Mijelde
J. D. Herries
Ed Braaten
Big Timber Lutheran Aid
Melville
Deer Creek
Anderson approves four of six grazing management proposals
Secretary Clinton P. Anderson told House Public Lands Subcommittee Chair Barrett he approves four of six committee proposals on forest service grazing land procedures. He backs writing all commitments, allowing counsel at hearings and transcripts, pushing range improvements, and considering economics when reductions occur. He disapproves the 3-year moratorium on livestock reductions and a final- authority appeal board.
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Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
Frank A. Barrett
House Public Lands Subcommittee
Forest Service
Congressman Barrett
Anderson
Stockman
New Grazing Fees Announced for 1948 in Big Timber
Forest service range division sets 1948 grazing charges. Cattle rates range 42 to 56 cents per animal monthly while sheep cost 8 to 9 1/2 cents per head monthly. Fees rise tied to 1947 beef and lamb prices, with cattle up 30 percent and sheep up 32 percent, marking record highs.
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Forest Service Division of Range Management
Alban Roemer
National Forest
Roemer
Edith Merrielees Named Managing Editor of Pacific Spectator
Time magazine reviews Pacific Spectator noting editor Edith Ronald Merrielees, 69, retired English professor, is the publication’s only paid staffer. The profile includes a photo and mentions her Palo Alto home study and the Merrielees as prominent early Big Timber residents.
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Edith Mirkielees
The
Pioneer
Pacific Spectator
Time Magazine
Chas. McDonnell
Miss Merrielees
Time
Edith Ronald Merrielees
Farm Bureau and Farmers Service Hold Annual Meeting
The Sweet Grass County Farm Bureau and the Farmers Service association held their annual meeting at Fraternity hall Monday presided by Claude C Gray. The session discussed the annual statement and patronage dividends. Despite higher costs the group reported a growing net profit with assets of 35796.86 and merchandise inventory of 20576.03. Earned surplus reinvested earnings totaled 28157.78. Net earn-
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Farm Bureau
Farmers Service
Sweet Grass County Farm Bureau
The
Farmers Service Association
Fraternity Hall
Claude C. Gray
Farmers Service Meeting
Melville Longhorns Edge Bozeman in Opening Hockey Clash
The Melville Longhorns defeated the Bozeman DeMolays 3 to 2 on Sunday at Melville. Victor Tronrud Jr and Leif Anderson scored for Melville, with Tronrud adding the winner in the third period. A return game is planned in two weeks at Bozeman if ice allows.
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Melville Longhorns
Bozeman
Melville
Victor Tronrud Jr
Leif Anderson
Victor
Thorvald
Carl
Kermit Anderson
Sig
Percy Lavold
Spike van Cleve
Adolph Tronrud
Earl Green Jr
Paul van Cleve
Byron Grosfield
Victor Tronrud Sr
Funeral services held for Oliver Myers of Grey Cliff
Oliver Myers of Grey Cliff died early Monday. Services were held at Big Timber Lutheran church at 2 PM today. An obituary will appear next week. Queen candidate Tleana Hanson from Big Timber is nominated at Montana State College to reign as the college yearbook queen. MSC sent 25 coed photos to Tyrone Power who will select five for the honor. Winners announced at the Montana dance in Bozeman on February 20.
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Oliver Myers
Grey Cliff
Big Timber Lutheran Church
Tleana Hanson
Big Timber
Montana State College
Tyrone Power
Bozeman
West Yellowstone Records 43 Below Zero Institute
Montana faced a brutal cold snap with West Yellowstone hitting 43 degrees below zero marking the nation's coldest reading. Other towns recorded subzero lows including Kalispell Belgrade and Helena with varying frigid temperatures as a massive cold front stretched from the Dakotas to the Rocky Mountain region.
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West Yellowstone
Helena
Montana
Kalispell
Belgrade
Broadus
Butte
Miles City
Lewistown
Glasgow
Dillon
Billings
Great Falls
Havre
Continental Divide
Weather Bureau
Livingston
Cut Bank
Midwest
Canada
Dakotas
Minnesota
Central State
Rocky
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