Meat decontrol announced by President Truman
President Truman ordered immediate release of all meat and live stock from price control and signaled accelerated removal of wage controls. He criticized Congress for obstructing price controls and warned against profiteering affecting meat prices and availability. Agency actions follow with additional price ceilings lifted on fats oils and related products.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Anderson
Porter
OPA
Price Agency
Montana Closes All State to Pheasant Hunting in 1946
The Montana Fish and Game Commission announces a statewide ban on Chinese pheasant hunting for 1946 after consulting with local sportsmen. Hungarian partridge hunting is also banned statewide. The commission cites insufficient bird populations in key areas and fears hunter influx from other regions.
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Montana Fish and Game Commission
First Hunt Fatality Near Neihart Reported
William Kercher Jr., 17, son of ranch manager William Kercher, was accidentally shot and killed when his rifle discharged after he slipped and fell three and a half miles south of Neihart in the season’s first hunting tragedy.
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Great Falls
William Kercher, Jr
William Kercher
Judge Holt
Riceville
Neihart
Kercher
Services Saturday For O. P. Terland
Funeral services for Oselius P. Terland a Bridger creek rancher were held at the Lutheran church with Charles Preston of Billings delivering the sermon and a Livingston quartet providing music. Pallbearers were friends Louis Krone Anton Krone Joan Krone Carl Bue Henry Hausserman and Tom Hovland. Interment followed at Mountain View with graveside prayers by Charles Richer. Terland born October 29 1883 in Egersund Norway came to Montana in 1905 purchased his Bridger creek ranch in 1913 and died after traveling from Norway with his wife Inga Toften. He is survived by widow three daughters Agnes Espeland Lilly Lomeland Beulah Green and sons Pete Olando Telmar Terland all of Montana and Washington.
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O. P. Terland
Bridger Creek
Charles Preston
Billings
Clyde Stephens
Dorothy Sheldon
Blanche Curtis
Livingston
Terland
Louis Krone
Anton Krone
Joan Krone
Carl Bue
Henry Hausserman
Tom Hovland
Mountain View
Charles Richer
Egersund
Norway
Oselius P. Terland
United States
Sweet Grass County
Inga Toften
Jorgen
Agnes) Espeland
Clipper, Wash
Eivind
Lilly) Lomeland
Big Timber
Goering Evades Gallows by Suicide in Nurnberg
Ten condemned Nazi leaders were hanged at Nurnberg rail yard after the trial. Hermann Goering killed himself with cyanide in his cell before the reading of the sentence, according to Colonel B. C. Andrus. The others were executed by hanging as scheduled.
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Nuernberg
Hermann Goering
Adolf Hitler
B. C. Andrus
Goering
Andrus
International Military Tribunal
Truman decontrol program triggers stock market surge
New York Oct 15 A $2 billion stimulus from President Truman's decontrol plan sent market values up sharply as brokers reported rising demand for stocks. Gains reached about $12 a share, and market averages posted their sharpest rise in over seven years.
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New York
President Truman
Hunter Hospitalized After Bear Encounter
Kalispell logger Frank Fiest was hospitalized in Whitefish after a fight with five grizzly bears while hunting. He suffered severe clawing and bite injuries described as a mass attack by the bears in a clump.
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Frank Fiest
Kalispell
Mont
Fiest
Local Notes and Folks Reach From Chicago to Big Timber
Lawrence Peterson returns from Chicago with his parents Mrs. Gordon Cunniff of Great Falls visits until her Roquet relatives depart for Indiana. Ella Webber comes from Granite City for a sister’s death. Helen and Martha Blackwell attend the university in Missoula. D J Walvoord undergoes operations in Rochester. A pink and blue shower honors Mrs Byron Grosfield at Eurich ranch. MSgt L B Olson to interview recruits in Big Timber. Deer hunters report large first day kill with many from Billings Livingston Illinois North Dakota Washington Wyoming. Legion Auxiliary meets at the Dugout with a German band. Mrs Ethel Eddy visiting from Angels Camp. Dick Nicholson has emergency appendicitis operation in Great Falls. Timberwolves lose to Park County B squad 14 7. Spike Van Cleve and others hunt goats and elk. Jeanette Rosing visits Nelsons in Big Timber. A G Hash takes delivery of a TD-14 tractor for dam irrigation work. Riverside Badger 4 H club holds meeting and plans Halloween party. Deer struck by car near Big Timber creek. game department takes the animal. Two car and Greyhound bus crash near Reed Point. AWOL men fined and held for army authorities. Knights of Pythias races member contest ends Feb 1.
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Sweet Grass
Billings
Livingston
Illinois
North Dakota
Washington
Wyoming
Ethel Eddy
Lawrence Peterson
Angels Camp
Calif
Dick Nicholson
Columbus Hospital
Great Falls
C. C. Nicholson
Timberwolves
Park
Park County
Cattle Prices Jump After End Of Control
Washington reports Tuesday saw cattle prices surge as meat controls were scrapped, triggering stock market gains. President Truman faced Republican pushback as voters weigh meat shortages and future prospects ahead of the three week elections. Pork chops and hamburger prices spiked in several markets amid the shift.
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Washington
America
Truman
Carroll Reece
Reece
Pittsburgh
Bear hunt ends in triple fatality and warning
The speaker describes a hunt in which three bears were killed before the others fled. Deputy Game Warden Ross Wilson pursued the wounded bears and warned that grizzlies are especially dangerous when injured.
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Ross Wilson
Sweet Grass County Leads at Billings Junior Stock Show
Sweet Grass county 4 H and F F A members shone at the Regional Junior Fat Stock show and sale in Billings taking five of six lamb showmanship places. Mavis Murray won champion 4 H lamb showmanship Everett Messing took F F A honors with top sale lamb brought 130 dollars per cwt.
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Sweet Grass
Billings
H. M. Oefstos
Mavis Murray
Everett Messing
Jo Ann Stole
McLeod
Larry McComb
Big Timber
Albert Broughton
Big Timber 4-H
Danny Smith
Powell, Wyoming
Sweet Grass County
4-H
Safeway Stores
Everett
Eugene Baker
Dale McLane
Vonnie Murray
Dolores Murray
Fearn Ettleman
Wanda Maitland
Gerald Christensen
Jimmy Scholten
Donald Duncan
Eighteen Girls Join Future Homemakers Of America
Eighteen girls were initiated into the Future Homemakers of America in a candlelight ceremony on October 14. New members include Georgia Aalgaard Kay Bryan Rita Christensen Lucille Clouse Margaret Coster Fern Ettleman June Gibby Audrey Groom Adeline Holland Sylvia Hoskinson Betty Kremper Ruth Larson Fern Mack Lorraine Messing Selma Mossness Betty Olson June Vander Voort Beth Woolsey. Each received a red and white ribbon from a big sister guide and the group later enjoyed games singing and dancing with refreshments served.
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Future
Homemakers of America
Georgia Aalgaard
Kay Bryan
Rita Christensen
Lucille Clouse
Margaret Coster
Fern Ettleman
June Gibby
Audrey Groom
Adeline Holland
Sylvia Hoskinson
Betty Kremper
Ruth Larson
Fern Mack
Lorraine Messing
Selma Mossness
Betty Olson
June Vander Voort
Beth Woolsey
High School F H A Club Presents Assembly Program
The F H A club directed by Miss Harriet Mecklenburg staged an assembly for the grade school on Tuesday Oct 8. Twenty four girls performed two skits Amy Brant and Tableau Good and Bad Table Manners with Margaret Coster and Georgia Aalgaard as polite guests and Joyce Viers and Donna Christensen as impolite guests. Norma Reese read aloud and musical numbers included a duet Your Land and My Land by Donna Christensen and Kay Bryan with Miss Berg accompanying, plus piano numbers by Lucille Clouse.
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F. H. A. Club
Harriet Mecklenburg
Amy Brant
Margaret Coster
Georgia Aalgaard
Joyce Viers
Donna Christensen
Norma Reese
Your Land
My Land
Kay Bryan
Miss Berg
Lucille Clouse
Fred Thompson Weds Billings Girl
Bonnie Cross and Fred W. Thompson Jr of Billings were married Saturday at 11 am by Rev H S Tool at the Evangelical parsonage. Attendants were Maurice Thompson and Mrs Slettebo. A reception followed at the Slettebo home before the couple plans to live in Billings.
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Bonnie Cross
Fred W. Thompson
Billings
H. S. Tool
Evangelical Parsonage
Thompson
Big Timber
Theodore Slettebo
Maurice Thompson
Slettebo
Stock Prices At All Time High In Billings
Billings stockyards report all time highs for hogs cattle and sheep amid a stock car shortage. Hogs jumped from 16.36 Montana ceiling to 25 per hundredweight, up 8.65. A H Langman says cattle sales are discontinued until shipping is arranged as 1,800 cattle remain in feed lots.
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Billings
Montana
A. H. Langman
Billings Livestock Commission Company
St. Paul
Alliance
Neb
Lions Leaders Travel to Billings for Zone Dinner
Dr and Mrs B Olness and Sen and Mrs Leon Olmstead depart this afternoon for Billings to attend a Lions International zone dinner for presidents and secretaries celebrating the organization.
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Lions
B. Olness
Sen
Leon Olmstead
Billings
Lions Interna
Kratzer Halverson Wedding Held in Livingston
The quiet Tuesday afternoon ceremony at Redeemer Lutheran parsonage in Livingston united Mabel Kratzer of Big Timber and Jacob Halverson of Grey Cliff. Rev. Webster H. Clement officiated with Rita Braaten as maid of honor and Raymond Esp as best man. The couple plan to reside on the Grey Cliff ranch after a brief honeymoon.
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Redeemer Lutheran Church
Livingston
Mabel Kratzer
James Kratzer
Big Timber
Jacob T. Halverson
Ronald Halverson
Grey Cliff
Webster H. Clement
Rita Braaten
Raymond Esp
Halverson
Sunday services and sermon at Congregational Church
Sunday school at 10 a.m. church services at 11 a.m. Rev. Conner of Billings will deliver sermon. P. F. at 5 30.
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Congregational Church
Conner of Billings
P. F
Big Timber Lutheran Parish Services and Sunday Schedule
Big Timber Lutheran parish led by Pastor E. FE. Tollefson. Sunday school at 9 45 morning worship at 11. In Melville on Sunday October 20 Ladies Aid at Adolph Tronruds at 1 30 with services at Tronruds at 3 00.
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BIG Timber Lutheran Parish
E. FE. Tollefson
Big Timber
Melville
Adolph Tronruds
Tronruds
Gideons to Conduct Sunday Worship at Evangelical Church
The Gideons from Billings will lead the 11 a.m. service at the Evangelical church Sunday October 20 with an offering for Bible distribution in hotels libraries and public areas. Sunday school begins 10 a.m. and prayer services are at 7 30 p.m. Thursday with no evening service.
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THE
Evangelical Church
Tool
Gideons
Billings
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Chicago
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Indiana
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Granite City
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Martha Blackwell
Missoula
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D. J. Walvoord
St. Mary’s Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Wm. Muirs
Thad Busha
L. B. Olson
Army Recruiting Office
Bozeman
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Marines
American Legion Auxiliary
Adeline Baskett
Jean Berg
Magda Sundeen
Vida Bryan
Dolores Sylling
Alice Snyder
L. H. Bryan
Ed Braaten
Oscar Braaten
Spike van Cleve
Kermit and
Thorvald Anderson
Massachusetts
Bitter Root
Nelsons
Jeanette Rosing
Minneapolis
Ernest Nelson
Butte
Miss Rosing
Dorothy
University At Missoula
A. G. Hash
Lethbridge, Con
Howard Huyser
Art Holland
Riverside Badger Club
Riverside Badger 4-H
Guy Scholten
Stella Jean Duncan
Cherie Hoffman
Evelyn McLean
Weiss Vander Voort
Duncan
Eugene McCafferty
John Walach Jr
Theodore Conrad Jr
Lewistown
Ed Adam Ranch
Big Timber Creek
Greyhound
Reed Point
Walter Osborne
Desmond J. Barton
George Lucas
J. D. Holly
Barton
Robert E. Ward
Scott Field
Ill
Osborne
Lucas
K. P
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Tope Strobel
Thos. Jarrett
Strobel
F. M. Ferris
Percy Lavold
Shard Lavold
R. B. Mehlhoff
Theo Olson
J. B. Kratzer
Floyd Bergholm
C. V
Fred Thompson
ST. Mark’s Episcopal Church
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