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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1963
Page
1
Informational notice about a Sabin oral polio vaccine clinic in Big Timber on Saturday October 5 from 1 to 5 PM. Tickets 75 cents from Cole Drug Klindt Pharmacy or Community Hospital. Details compare Sabin and Salk vaccines and outline administration, immunity, and eligibility ages six weeks to 40 years.
SGHS principal A R Collins announced that Nina Adams and Mary Ellen McDonnell were named semifinalists in the 1963 64 Merit Scholarship competition. The two Montana seniors are among 13 000 semifinalists nationwide.
Local Jayceens at the Havre fall board meeting included state president Mrs. Jim Graham acting state secretary Mrs. Dennis Beer and others. Mrs. Melvin Thornton of Oklahoma accompanied the Big Timber delegation. The Friday executive board and Saturday general meetings plus a banquet honoring Bill Bromfield who authored the Jaycee Creed were held.
Andrew Larson, 93, father of Mrs. Wilbur Williams, died at Big Timber Rest Home early Wednesday. He lived with his daughter for nine years and had been there two weeks. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at the Absarokee Lutheran Church. Interment in Rosebud Cemetery beside wife, 1955. Surviving son Edward Larson of Fishtail. Born April 4, 1870 on Bornholm, Denmark. He emigrated in 1889, worked near Ringling and White Sulphur Springs, returned to Denmark in 1906 to marry Marie Lolle, homesteaded on the Stillwater, and in 1920 bought a ranch near Absarokee.
Harold Smith of the Soil Conservation Service spoke to Vo-Ag IV on farm planning as essential. He stressed soil condition as the key factor and urged a complete soil inventory, with groups reviewing aerial contour and soil maps of Sweet Grass county areas.
Lodge Grass Indians battled the Big Timber Sheepherders to a scoreless tie in a southern division class B football game Friday. Big Timber had four scoring chances to Lodge Grass two, with Prather shining for Big Timber and Lodge Grass thwarting three inside the five. A potential Lodge Grass touchdown was called back on a whistle after Wayne Not Afraid advanced 55 yards.
Gerald Stensland 33 of Culbertson died when his car struck a oncoming truck and hit a concrete bridge abutment near the safflower plant east of Culbertson at 10 a m Friday. He was a Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp. field representative. Portia was uninjured. Funeral services were held at Trinity Lutheran Church Culbertson with interment in Highland Cemetery Glasgow.
Don Wulff of Big Timber placed second in the Montana Championship Hootenanny held at the 3D club in Great Falls. Seven finalists emerged from fifty statewide contestants over a two week contest, with a Great Falls trio winning first place and Wulff receiving a $100 prize.
Teresa Drivdahl daughter of Mr and Mrs Emil Drivdahl and Hallas Ridgeway son of Mr and Mrs Benton Ridgeway exchanged wedding vows last Sunday at the Lutheran church. Rev Ocee Johnson officiated the ceremony with organist E O Overland and soprano Sven Maitland. The bride wore white Thai silk with lace accessories and a pearl necklace, carried white carnations. A reception followed in the parish hall with about 100 guests. The couple planned a Glacier Park wedding trip in a black Thai silk outfit for the bride.
County Agent Robert Racicot urges farmers to order trees from the Mis soula state forest nursery by January 31 to secure preferred selections. Extension Forester Rich ard T. Marks highlights windbreaks and shelterbelts cutting fuel costs, boosting yields, and improving moisture distribution, with livestock and crop benefits noted.
Dr W Paul Holbrook longtime Tucson physician and first national president of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation died during a hunting trip in Springerville. He was 65 and had lived at 4101 East Whittier Street. He campaign ed against cigarette smoking for more than 25 years and was remembered for his arthritis work and wartime service. Dr Charles A L Stephens Jr and Dr Philip Derickson commented on his contributions and character.
The local Jaycees report twenty percent of petition signers for the Rest Home proposal are ineligible to vote. They urge correcting the oversight before the upcoming vote so every eligible voter can participate.
SGHS Curtis magazine subscription drive concluded with receipts of 3558.98, slightly below last year. Nellie Faw led with 123.52, followed by Roger Thomas 102.05 and John Ellison 79.50. seniors over quota by 216, net school profit about 900 with 300 to activities and 600 for a major project.
The Big Timber Lutheran church hosted the September 14 wedding of Miss Ronda Rae Miller to Lars Egeland. Rev. Ocee Johnson officiated the 8 pm ceremony before an altar of pink and white gladioli. The bride wore Chantilly lace and taffeta with a pearl tiara veil and carried a pink rose Bible bouquet. Attendants included matron of honor Ivar Stenberg’s sister Myrna Miller and bridesmaid Virginia Voldberg. Best man Gunvald Rusdal. Lawrence Allestad attended the groom.
Most of SGHS 1963 graduates will pursue college this fall with many heading to Montana State College in Bozeman and Eastern Montana College of Education in Billings. The list includes Shirley Algard Elaine Anderson Corale Beer Ronnie Boe Rose Buster Mike Clark Jim Egas Richard Fredrickson Kenneth Hanson Duane Hauge Gene Langhus Sarge Hoem Sex Ulman Pam Watters. Additional students attend Kinman Business College Spokane St Marys Xavier Kan Western Montana College Dillon Drake University Des Moines Iowa University of Chicago Porterville Junior College California Pacific Lutheran University Parkland Washington St Vincent Hospital Billings and other schools.
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