Adjutant's Report to Legion Post 19
Post 19, Sweet Grass, with over 230 members, highlights a year of active Legion service and community events. Memorials included funerals with color guard, a parade with Boy Scouts and Junior Drum and Bugle Corps, a public service and cemetery rites, plus a two F101 fly-by. The Americanism committee ran Veterans Day programs in schools. the post funded Pee Wee baseball, uniforms, and equipment. and a large flagpole at the cemetery was installed. Highlights included a military ball, a $50 Americanism Scholarship, and continued support for youth programs, milk in schools, books, and veterans hospitals. The bowling team won first in league half, chairs were bought, and the post remains open to all county groups for a small fee. The report credits dues and events for financing, notes a life membership awarded to Dr. Ben Olness, and praises sister organizations for support, pledging ongoing service to community, state, and nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweet Grass Post No. 19
Jim Graham
Legion
Yellowstone River
Americanism Committee
Post 19
Sweet Grass County
Post
Pee Wee
Our Post
The
Hallowe’en
Veterans
Montana Boys State
American Legion Magazine
Jaycee
Ben Olness
Paul Harvey
Our Legion
the Post
Montana
Lung cancer deaths linked to smoking in 1965
The American Cancer Society reports 47000 lung cancer deaths in 1965, with about 75 percent avoidable if patients had not smoked cigarettes. A Pioneer Classified Act is suggested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Cancer Society
Legacy of the Glass Lindsay boating era in Sweet Grass County
Readers recall a 30 foot wooden boat once the Boat Club pride from 1918 to repairs in the 1920s. It carried Miss Mary Osbourne and Alma Larson Andem, was bought by Mrs William Knowles, and later vanished after stolen towing gear. The piece also recounts 1913 Rod and Gun Club activity at Glass Lindsay lakes and the incorporation of the Big Timber Rod and Gun Club with keys stands at Gilass Lindsay lakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Osbourne
Glasston School
Alma (Larson) Andem
William Knowles
Chico Hot Springs
Emigrant Lake
Glass‘Lindsays
Boat Club
Con Smart
Con
Glasston Lakes
Sweet Grass County
Big Lakes
Big Timber
Glass- Lindsay Land Co
Oswald Crest
Northern Pacific
Rod and Gun Club
Big Timber Rod and Gun Club
Montana
Hickman
City of
O. A. Fallang
A. L. Phillips
Charles W. Campbell
Herman Utermohle
Elmer Sanderson
Phil Cook
C. W. Allen
Gilass-Lindsay Lakes
Navy honor man Rostad graduates in Memphis
Airman George A. Rostad USN son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Rostad graduated as Honor man from Aviation Structural Mechanic Hydraulics School at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Memphis Tennessee The school covers hydraulic system operations troubleshooting and maintenance as well as aircraft stability control safety and landing gear inspection He previously completed a two week Aviation familiarization and a four week mechanical fundamentals course at Memphis
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Rostad
USN
Clarence Rostad
Aviation
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Memphis
Tenn
25th Anniversary of Series E Bonds
Nearly two hundred million Americans mark the 25th birthday of the Series E Savings Bond celebrated during the week of May 17. Since Roosevelt bought the first bond on May 1, 1941, the instrument boosted war funding and thrift, growing U S holdings from 30 to about 50 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweet Grass County
Charles McDonnell
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
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Livingston
Cc. E. Ayers
Roy R. Ayers
Park
P.D.A
Sienderk
Aly Rendat
Ira Bay’ Sebny
C.D.D
Big Timber, Montana
al Phillips
John Beatty
F. R. Hickman
John Watt
Ernest Patterson
C. W. Campbell
George Brammer
Ed Everett
S. A. Keppler
Elmer Smith
Prof
C. V. Brown
Nick Curtis
Emil Keppler
George Rostad Navy
ACS
City of Big Timber
Oscar D. Forsythe
Bill
Montana Power
FFA
4-H
Boys State
Ihs
Montana Power Company
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