Orvin for Congress Club Seeks Local Support
The Pioneer notes a Figure-for-Congress club in Sweet Grass county soliciting help from residents to back Orvin's congressional bid. The piece explains club funding basics, soliciting methods, and invites 25 cent to 100 dollar contributions, with emphasis on personal outreach and voter registration. It also shares a humorous aside about a reader's critique of large editions and includes an clipped analysis of farm subsidies versus broader federal spending since World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Pioneer
Sweet Grass County
Orvin
Claude Gray
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Federal
Treasury
U. S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Commerce
Department of Interior
Swimming Pool To Open This Summer
Roy Snyder will oversee the pool to open around June 7. Two coats of paint are planned before opening. Daily hours are 1 to 5 p m with additional 6 to 7 30 p m on Monday Wednesday and Friday evenings. Swimming lessons start after July 1 from 11 to 12 for beginners. Parents should contact Snyder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Snyder
Snyder
Mrs Adams Heads to Portland for Month Visit
To Portland Mrs John Adams and four children left Friday by car for a month's visit with her mother Mrs Alex Johnson in Portland Ore Lola Myers accompanied them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
John Adams
Alex Johnson
Ore
Lola Myers
Big Timber Rodeo Set For Aug 7-8
The Big Timber Ropin n Ridin club hires Hellgate Rodeo Co of Missoula to stage the Big Timber Stam pede rodeo on August 7-8. Events include bronc and calf roping, bareback riding, team tying, wild horse races, with a state cloverleaf barrel race and a National Cutting Horse Association approved cow cutting contest offering a $200 purse. Contests open to all contestants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Timber Ropin
N’ Ridin’ Club
Bob Rooker
Hellgate Rodeo Co
Missoula
Big Timber
Rookers
Col. Huidekoper
Pensacola Cadet Earns Carrier Wings After Monterey Landings
Naval Aviation Cadet Lawrence Furstenberg of Big Timber Montana qualified as a carrier pilot after six successful landings aboard the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey in the Gulf of Mexico. He trained at the U S naval air station Minneapolis and Corry Field before advancing to Corpus Christi Texas for advanced flight instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Fla
Monterey
Gulf of Mexico
Lawrence Furstenberg
Rosa Fustenberg
Big Timber
Mont
St. Olaf College
U. S. Naval Air Station
Minneapolis
Annapolis
U. S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station
Corry Field
Here
Corpus Christi
Texas
House Passes New Social Security Act in Thin Senate Passage
The House approved a broad social security expansion 355 to 8, sending the measure to the Senate. It would bring in about 9.7 million new workers, raise the wage base from 3600 to 4200, boost benefits, allow some work while retaining benefits, and include 3.6 million farm operators and 1.3 million farm workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Sen
Millikin
R-Colo
Senate Finance Committee
Graduates Speak At Lions Meeting
SGHS graduates Diana Sauter and Teresa Drivdahl spoke at the Lions Club noon meeting. Diana read Gift from Heaven a letter from a woman awaiting surgery, and Teresa presented Courtesy and Life focusing on highway safety and deadly driving stats.
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Diana Sauter
Teresa Drivdahl
Lions Club
SGHS
Melvin Wertz
Fisher
Lions Entertainment Committee
Diana
Teresa
Sweet Grass County Votes Bring Low Election Cost Per Ballot
The Montana Taxpayers Association reports Sweet Grass County had a 1952 cost of 1.47 dollars per vote based on 1704 presidential electors ballots and 2500 dollars in election expenses. Cascade County plans to buy 100 voting machines for 149,800 dollars to cut costs and improve procedures.
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Montana Taxpayers’ Association
Gallatin County
Missoula
Garfield County
Taxpayers’ Association
Sweet Grass County
Cascade County
City of
Great Falls
Mrs Wordal Presents Students In Recital
Mrs Wordal presented her piano students in a recital at Congregational church Tuesday evening. Assisted by Mrs John M Fisher Mrs Kenneth Davenport and Miss Kay Boe the program featured solos duets trios and ensembles with a long list of student performers including Jean Eaton Judy VanDaveer Shirley Kjarma Jane Ann Beck Karen Officer Wayne Larson Kay Bray Janice Johnson Jack Prather Nancy Huffman and many others.
Tragedy at Park County Graduation Night
A Park County high school graduation ended in tragedy as 91 seniors received diplomas and one died the next day in a head on crash six miles west of Livingston. Four injured included Wayne Mayer Barbara Mahlum and Edwin Borovec with Clinton Palmer deceased. The collision occurred about 4 45 am on highway 10 after Palmer’s car crossed left of center.
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Park County High School
Park Hospital
Livingston
Clinton Palmer
Wayne Mayer
Nick Mayer
Barbara Mahlum
Sig Mahlum
Edwin E. Borovec
Elmer City
Wash
Mahlum
Roy Mahlum
Big Timber
Ellen Nelson
Springdale
Billings
Mayer
Washington
Highway No. 10
Palmer
Willys Borovec
Toledo
Ohio
Elks Hall
Bozeman
Highway 10
Borovec
Norris Lean
Sullivans Sell Boulder Ranch to New Mexico Pair
The Clyde Sullivans sold their East Boulder ranch to Mr and Mrs Florian Rock of New Mexico. Possession and future plans are not set. The Sullivans bought the ranch three years ago from Ben Gwynn. the Rock family includes two young sons aged four and five.
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Clyde Sullivans
East
Boulder
Florian Rock
New Mexico
Sullivans
Ben Gwynn
Nebraska teacher plans summer in Big Timber
Mrs. Rasa Furstenberg has returned from Waterbury Nebraska where she taught in the high school this term. She plans to spend most of the summer in Big Timber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Rasa Furstenberg
Waterbury
Neb
Big Timber
Hiway 10 Contract Let June 29 In Helena
The Montana highway commission will let a widening contract for Carter's bridge south of Livingston at its June 29 meeting in Helena. The steel and concrete structure will receive safer approaches after several fatal accidents.
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Carter
Livingston
State Highway Commission
Helena
Commission
Northern Pacific
Mission Siding
Springdale
Big Timber
Park
Sweet Grass
Lutheran Bible School Opens Across Four Towns
The Lutheran vacation Bible school opened Tuesday in Big Timber Grey Cliff Melville and Bridge schools with 134 students enrolled. Edward Alseth serves as superintendent and classes run 9 am to 3 pm, except beginners 9 to 12, for two weeks except Bridge which lasts one week.
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Lutheran Vacation Bible School
Big Timber
Grey Cliff
Melville
Bridge
Edward Alseth
John Carney
Linda Olness
Dean Lowry
Audrey Berg
C. E. Lowe
Kay Johnson
H. A. Anderson
Kay Boe
R. H. Alexander
Kathleen Beley
Raymond Esp
James Esp
Gyda Pederson
Thea Westre
Mary Jane Ward
Kidnappers Sentenced in Moskovitz Abduction Case
San Francisco Superior Judge Twain Michelsen sentenced Harold Jackson to death in the San Quentin gas chamber and co defendant Joseph Lear to life imprisonment for kidnapping realtor Leonard Moskovitz last February. The Little Lindbergh law carried automatic death for both, but the judge reduced Lear's term after ruling the verdict not mandatory and denying a new trial. Jackson admitted planning the abduction with Moskovitz, while Lear claimed he was an unwilling participant.
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San Francisco
Twain Michelsen
Harold Jackson
San Quentin
Joseph Lear
Leonard Moskovitz
Jackson
Lear
California
Moskovitz
Ranson
Michelsen
Col Huidekoper to Receive Honorary LLB Degree at MSU Commencement
Col Huidekoper of Big Timber a veteran Montana rancher and livestock leader will be awarded an honorary doctor of laws by Montana State College at the 58th annual commencement on June 7. The honor follows his long involvement with livestock development in the state, the Montana Veterinary Research Laboratory, and his ranching career.
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Bozeman
Wanis Huidekoper
Big Timber
Montana
Montana State College
R. R. Renne
Huidekoper
Montana Veterinary Research Laboratory
State Board of Education
Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Medora
N. C
Theodore Rosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
American Fork
Twedot
Musselshell River
Montana Stockgrowers Assn
Montana Livestock Production Credit Assn
Charley Russell
Montana Historical Society
Helena
Dakotas
Wyoming
Ferguson Flanagan Rites Solemnized at St Marys Columbus
Patricia Flanagan and Darrel Ferguson were married in a May 29 ceremony at St Marys church Columbus officiated by Rev Fr Kelly. The bride daughter of Ray Flanagan Absarokee and Colleen Weast attended Columbus High School and Colorado State Teachers College. The groom son of Mr and Mrs Mike Ferguson is an Air Force sergeant stationed at Forbes AFB Topeka Kansas.
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St. Mary’s Church
Columbus
Kelly
Patricia Flanagan
Darrel Ferguson
Mike Ferguson
Ray Flanagan
Absarokee
Big Timber
Gloria Meriot
Janet Jones
Jerry Weast
Tommy Flanagan
Colleen
Peggy Weast
Gary Ferguson
Don Webb
Jim Mosier
Air Force
Roy French
Pat
Maureen Ferguson
Mrs. Ferguson
Columbus High School
Colorado State Teachers College
Greeley
Beal Inc
Billings
Sargeant
Forbes Air Force Base
Topeka
Kansas
Faculty Plans for Summer Activities Across Town
High school staff outline summer roles including Bill Anderson selling insurance in Big Timber and two weeks at Helena for National Guard camp. Principal John Fisher pursues medical degree studies at the University of Minnesota. Others take guard duty, forest service work, ranch travel, and trips to Alaska and Utah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Anderson
W. J. Carvey
Bryan
Helena
National Guard
Scott Hoskinson
University of Minnesota
John M. Fisher
Edith Malcolm
Gertrude Conwell
Roy Snyder
Jean Staudenmeyer
Alaska
Montana
FFA
Logan
Utah
Dillon
Mervin Wertz
Forest Service
A.L. Schump
Soil Conservation
H. A. Anderson
Alta Lindley
Portland
Ore
Missoula
Banner Tourist Season Expected
The AAA forecasts a banner summer for U S travel with 60 million people taking vacations by car, rail, air and sea, a 10 percent rise from last year. Spending could exceed six billion dollars. Foreign travel grows, airlines see heavy foreign flights, and overseas travel remains strong.
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New York
American Automobile Assn
AAA
Department of Commerce
Ralph T. Reed
American Express Co
Lind Released On 3000 Dollar Cash Bond
Herman Lind was taken into custody after a wide search last week and charged with second degree assault. He was released Tuesday morning after posting a $3000 cash bond in justice court for appearance in district court.
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Herman Lind
Justice Court
Summer Library Hours Announced
Mrs. O. A. Fallang, librarian, announced the summer schedule: Monday evening 7 to 9, Tuesday 2 30 to 5 and 7 to 9, Thursday same as Tuesday, and Saturday 2 30 to 6.
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O. A. Fallang
Siary
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Lloyd Severance
New York Times
Times
Lloyd
Middleton
Conn
Salmon
Connecticut
Lions Meeting
Sweet Grass Co
Boulder Ranch
Hiway
Lutheran Bible School
Lind
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