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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1965
Page
1
Services Held For Mrs Albert Rostad. The Absaroka Beartooth Development Association pushes $1 memberships to fund a Boulder to Cooke City road. Editorial arguments against eastern land ownership and private access frame advocating recreation, urging wider public use of the primitive area.
The Yards and Scales Association met on June 23 to reaffirm building a stockyard and scale after failing to rent current facilities from the Northern Pacific railroad. A non profit group formed to fund the project via contributions with land optioned and scale prices secured. John Ronneberg leads finance while directors include Kermit Anderson Art Stephens John Yost Svend Maitland Arvid Larson Terrill Tollefson Don Blair Roger Whidden Fred Swift Tope Strobel.
The story recounts a rainbow trout caught in the spillway at lower Gilatun lake by Mrs. Don Bainter. She released it, but on a second encounter the fish swallowed the bait so deeply it had to be cut open to remove the hook. Scott Hoskinson vouches for the incident.
Ralph Erven Houdeshell, 68, died Tuesday afternoon of a heart ailment at the Salvation Army rooms in Billings. He worked on Burns and Beley ranches in the area for years and was born October 15, 1901 in Fulton South Dakota. He was a World War I veteran.
Lloyd Neste had a hair raising morning while fishing on the Boulder river above Eight Mile bridge. He hooked a limb, pulled it down, and found two large rattlesnakes coiled near his feet. A limb broke and he fell, narrowly avoiding the snakes as they were immobilized by the cold at 5 o'clock. He escaped unharmed and left the area.
To Utah Mrs Dean Lowry with Doug and Debby are visiting Salt Lake City and staying with John Conrows during the trip.
Margaret Voges on shift says numbers at the Lions Information Center in Ever increasing counts since it opened a couple of weeks ago. She notes more registrants than last year and predicts more visits if highway signs draw travelers. Mary Ann McDonald and Jeanette Holmberg also staff the center.
Sweet Grass county showcased its new Pioneer Home with an open house Sunday from 1 to 5 pm drawing about 500 visitors from multiple counties. Guests toured facilities, praised decor and layout, and heard compliments for staff and planners led by Mr. and Mrs. Clete Huff.
Sheriff issues warning citing city ordinance that requires motor vehicles to have mufflers in good working order to curb excessive noise and smoke. It bans muffler cutouts on streets, avenues, and alleys.
This morning at about 9 30 Mrs Margaret Hokanson became the first patient to enter the Pioneer Home after transfer from Big Timber Rest Home. She will be followed by Rae Harper Mrs Carrie Groom Denver Sailor Omund Sunde and John Hays as the facility begins operations with thirty one beds and a waiting list.
Mary Ann McDonald was elected grand treasurer of the Order of Rainbow for Girls at the Faith session of grand assembly in Helena. She arrived with Mrs. Wilbert Johnson and fellow delegates Linda Yost Peggy Gottlob and Margaret Lavold. Distinguished guests included Leta Sexon Selena Paulson and other leaders as the group toured Shodair hospital and the Masonic Home.
The Big Timben chapter of the Women of the Moose held a formal installation of officers Monday night. The seated slate included Mrs Vern Dodge as grand regent, Mrs Archie Lake senior regent, Mrs Ann Jones junior regent, Mrs Vic Gee captain, Mrs Charles Sloan recorder, Mrs Jim McKay treasurer, Mrs Wayne Reed pianist, and Mrs Robert McKenzie Argus.
Mr and Mrs Gerald Chapin and Donna, from Greeley Colorado, were visitors from Friday to Tuesday at the home of Donna's mother Mrs George Alden.
Sweet Grass county agent Bob Racicot will leave Big Timber at month end to become county extension agent in Sanders county based in Thompson Falls. He will split time on weed control with the weed district and oversee 4-H beef and sails work. Racicot noted 44 4-H members and leaders support the extension program built over 35 years. Replacement already undetermined.
Gwena McGehee daughter of Mr and Mrs James McGehee is a nonpartisan candidate for associate justice of the supreme court at the American Legion Auxiliary Girls State in Bozeman. She previously served as alderman of Copper City and narrowly lost a county commissioner primary while drawing the Gold party's long straw.
Mrs Stella Ayers, who recently moved to Big Timber from Missouri, left this week to take summer employment at the Gordon ranch near Seeley Lake.
Jerry Etzold, the city lifeguard, opened the pool amid a cool breeze. The schedule shows Monday cleaning, 1 to 5 pm daily, with night swimming for adults and high schoolers on Wednesdays and Saturdays from July 7, closing at 4 pm those days. As warmth returns the pool will run 10 am to noon before lessons begin.
Mr and Mrs Bill Cory of Miles City purchase the late Mrs Nealie Phillips property from her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs George Lamach and plan to reside here.
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