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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1947
Page
8
Sixty seven days after the disaster, Texas City held a funeral for unknown dead at a one acre memorial cemetery. Five ministers led a twenty minute service for the unidentified victims among 468 total. The town’s skyline bore the remains of plants four miles south as a 2,200-strong crowd watched delays in casket placement hold up the burial.
About 240 pallbearers from Texas City veteran and labor groups helped funeral directors lower cypress caskets into individual graves after brief services.
Notice from the Board of Trustees states tuition for children living outside School District No 1 who wish to attend a district school during the 1947 1948 term is 170.00 dollars.
Montana's net cash balance across all funds on May 31 reached 35,330,059.51 dollars, up 4,347,767.56 from a year earlier. The report lists 1,952,468.21 in the general fund, 155,483.95 in the university millage, 1,440,864.16 in the highway fund, 1,183,415.56 in the highway trust, and 23,875,633.10 in the unemployment trust. Investments totaled 627,704,708.47 with bonded debt at 4,997,000.
The wedding of Donald Brockway and his bride took place in Seattle with many relatives and friends in attendance. The bride wore pale rose-beige gabardine with brown accessories and orchids in her corsage. The couple will reside at Randolph Apartments, 1833 13th Ave. The bride, a St Nicholas School and Wellesley College graduate, served as a Marine Corps Woman’s Reserve lieutenant in the war. The groom, Montana State College and Inter-Mountain Union College graduate, earned a Sigma Alpha Epsilon affiliation and served as a captain in the Army.
The Senate overrides the president on a labor bill restricting union powers and banning the closed shop while allowing a restricted union shop. The act also tightens union activity rules under Wagner and Taft Hartley processes. Appointments to the National Labor Relations Board and a 14 member joint committee follow, with Senator Ball favored to head the committee.
Too Late To Classify Spirella corsets and Girdles made to measure. Your order would be appreciated. Call 11-7 for appointment. Mrs. M. M. Bone, 37-1 Anyone interested in the Red Comet fire extinguisher, contact Ceryll O'Leary, phone 33-Y. 37-3 For Sale-'38 Studebaker coupe and '38 Ford Forder. Ray's Body Shop. 37-1 For Sale-A frame building 14 by 42. Phone 106-K 37-2 Daniel Webster, outstanding early American statesman, was first elected to congress in 1812.
The Sixth Judicial District in Sweet Grass County Montana will hear the probate of Thorval Gunderson’s will on July 11 1947 at 10 00 am in Big Timber. Menda Gunderson Shipton petitions for letters of administration with the will annexed and any interested party may contest. Beulah Patterson clerk and E O Overland attorney represent the petitioner.
Father Bernard Hubbard, the glacier priest, told Chico Record that Russia had an atomic energy plant a year ago that blew up due to lack of know how. He said the blast devastated a wide area and killed several scientists during his exclusive interview.
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