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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
7
A pair of prospectors on Grasshopper creek near Bannack face a sudden Indian raid after a successful elk stalk. The narrator shoots a heifer elk to escape, is ambushed, and flees through burnt timber and pine to reach Camp with his partner Pete, while pursuing Indians trail the meat-chewed aftermath near the hollow.
Two suitcases belonging to Dr. and Mrs. Fred W. Tinney, a Malta Montana couple and U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry scientist, were recovered from a voyage that began in Glasgow and ended with the sinking of the Athenia. Contents included clothing, art pieces, souvenirs, and film, with insurance and transport fees settled before delivery in Malta.
Starlet Betty Jane Rhodes, 15, joins CBS to replace Martha Mears on It Happened in Hollywood. The program airs five nights a week with duets by Rhodes and John Conte and Eddie Dunstedter’s orchestra backing.
Indications show rising interest among Montana farmers in oats as a cash crop. Associate agronomist A I Schlehuber of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station notes that quality matters as much as quantity, evaluating oats by test weight, groats percentage and protein content.
A narrator recalls retreating to camp after tense work with remaining meat and a long vigil for potential Indian threats, expressing that the episode was enough excitement for one time.
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