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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
2
Big Timber Lutheran Ladies Aid will meet Friday June 17 at the parish hall with invitations to Melville and Deer Creek Aids. Hostesses are Mrs. J D Herries Mrs Martha Mijelde and Mrs Ed Braaten.
Rosa Currier notes visitors and travelers including Mrs. Wilson and son Dale from Wenatchee visiting Steele Nelson and Dan Archer family. Bill Gibson on 21 day Army furlough from San Francisco, Scotty Bullock party from Windsor Livestock ranch. Al Close travels to Forsythe to visit Robert Close family. Majorie Skinner runs daily vacation Bible school with 13 children enrolled.
Bozeman Montana State College conferred 34 master's and 450 bachelor’s degrees at the fifty third annual commencement. Bachelors spanned agriculture engineering household and applied arts and science with 73 191 95 and 90 degrees respectively, amid the largest graduating class in the school’s history.
Attorney General Arnold E. Olsen delivered the commencement address and President R. R. Renne conferred the degrees at Montana State College. Marjorie Sargent, daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Sargent, received a master of science degree in commercial science.
Montana State University MISSOULA conferred 685 degrees at its fifty second annual commencement. The total includes 616 bachelor’s and 69 master’s. Seven foreign students from Algeria Canada France and Puerto Rico earned degrees. Notable graduates listed include William H. Sippel Philip G Langston Bayliss E Cummings Jr James L Hanson and Hans O Sylling Stuart P Ellison and Harold F Roe.
The agriculture department announced it will pay farmers storage allowances on 1949 crop wheat, soybeans and flaxseed held off the markets under the price support program. Allowances are 7 cents per bushel for farm stored products and for storage in commercial warehouses, matching last year’s terms. No details beyond that are provided.
Montana Highway Patrol Supervisor E H England urges motorists to drive safely during the coming weekend. He offers tips: start early, ensure car is safe, pull off the road in emergencies, signal changes early, match traffic flow, obey signs, and avoid drinking and driving.
Storage allowances will be offered on corn oats barley rye grain sorghums and other livestock feed grains stored under price support programs.
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