Milwaukee Railroad seeks dualization of Chateau and Fairfield depots
The Montana Railroad Commission heard a petition by the Milwaukee road to merge operations at Chateau and Fairfield stations. About 20 officials and shippers attended the 90 minute hearing as Ed Wacker would oversee both depots. The plan would move duties to Choteau’s senior agent and shift scheduling between towns.
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Montana Railroad Commission
Milwaukee Railroad
Chateau
Fairfield
Milwaukee
MRC
Choteau
Ed Wacker
Milwaukee Line
Milwaukee Road
Wacker
Rex Manuel
R. G. Scott
Chicago
Scott
W. F. Plattenberger
Deer Lodge
L. F. Walsh
Great Falls
L. J. Biggott
J. C. Garling
Missoula
Paul T. Smith
Ernest Steele
Louis Boedecker
Railroad Commission
Boedecker
Blood drive exceeds quota with 93 pints in Chateau
The Chateau Red Cross drew 93 pints Monday, 28 above quota, aiding the Vietnam effort. The 1965-66 year totals reach 225 pints at three drives, with many first time donors including Al Finley, Betty Johensen and nine high school students. Staff from Drs Kelly Bosshardt to canteen volunteers assisted, with Rainbow Girls praised and the event sponsored by Chateau American Legion Auxiliary.
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Red Cross
Chateau
Grant Curtis
Curtis
Vietnam
Choteau
al Finley
Betty Johensen
Nancy Robinson
Chris Field
Pat Stokes
Alice Stott
Jack Rogers
Donald Gordon
Lyle Weist
Dwaine Anseth
Paul Rohnke
Philip Howard
Cliff Willson
Augusta
Donald Bosshardt
Bill Sabo
Russell Larson
Tom McCartney
John Davison
George Henderson
Ray Bandow
Jess Gleason
Ray van Wichen
Clara Baker
Lorna Huffman
Ethel Sturgis
Gordon Monkman
Percy Robinson
Marian Averill
Adolph Arensmeyer
Choteau Rainbow Girls
The
Chateau American Legion Auxiliary
Board Approves Plans for New Choteau High School
Choteau school board approved tentative plans for a proposed high school and moved to secure Housing and Home Finance Agency approval before Aug. 30. Petitions will then circulate to place a bond issue before residents. The board also approved rural bus bids and reorganized leadership with Duare Reisch reelected chairman, George Hodgskiss vice chairman, and William F. Olsen clerk.
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Choteau
William F. Olsen
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Olsen
James Dellwo
Teton Canyon
Dellwo
Agawam
Glen Stoudt
Premium Center
Warren Connole
Legion's District Meet Draws 100+ Attendees in Fairfield
More than 100 Legionnaires and Auxiliary members are expected at American Legion District 8’s spring meeting in Fairfield Saturday. Posts from Great Falls Chateau Fort Benton Augusta Dutton Power Fairfield Belt Geraldine Fort Shaw and Cascade will be represented. Ralph V. Sluys of Great Falls will chair the business session with separate afternoon meetings for the Legion and Auxiliary and a joint banquet that evening. State officers Frank Pehrson Jay Robinson Bill Lindsay and Chet Shore are slated to attend.
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American Legion District 8
Fairfield
Joseph Rorvik
Frank Pehrson
Chinook
Jay Robinson
Chateau
Bill Lindsay
Helena
Chet Shore
May Day Law Day Proclaimed by Montana Mayor
Mayor John L. Dunckel proclaimed May 1 as Law Day USA urging citizens schools and organizations to recognize the day Law Day USA is sponsored in Montana by the Montana Bar Association.
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Chateau
John L. Dunckel
Law Day USA
Montana
The
Montana Bar Association
Workday Slated At Eureka Lake
Dr Michael Kelly president of the Teton County Sportsmen Association announced a workday at Eureka Lake on Sunday April 24 starting at 10 am He urged all club members boating enthusiasts and interested persons to attend with needed tools. After the lake work the grounds at the rifle range south of Chateau will be cleaned.
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Eureka Lake
Michael Kelly
Teton County Sportsmen’s Association
Sportsmen's Club
Kelly
Rifle Range
Chateau
Tree Planting Slated As City Receives 1000 Free Trees
City Engineer Robert Erickson announces Chateau will take delivery of 1 000 young trees from the Missoula state nursery. The mix includes 500 green ash 400 ponderosa pine and 100 Siberian elms at no cost to the city. Planted in cemetery park and a city tree farm the trees will be available to residents at no charge. Arrival is expected today with some loss anticipated but enough survivors to share.
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Robert Erickson
Chateau
Erickson
Missoula
Slaughterhouse Plan for Chateau Area Fueled by Steak Chain
Choteau may house a $150,000 slaughterhouse supplying King Beef Steak Houses Inc. The plan, backed by Empire Meat Packers Inc., calls for an eight worker operation with a full processing line and by-products, serving 20 Montana restaurants in towns including Libby, Kalispell, Missoula, Butte, Helena, Great Falls and Billings. Corporations seek $500,000 each, 10,000 shares at $50.
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Montana
Jack Rogers
Chamber
Rogers
Chateau
King Beef
Libby
Kalispell
East Glacier
Missoula
Anaconda
Butte
West Yellowstone
Bozeman
Helena
Great Falls
Billings
Miles City
Glendive
Lewistown
Dillon
Shelby
Havre
Columbia Falls
Whitefish
Deer Lodge
Glasgow
Council Sends Knotty Problem On to Zoning Board of Appeals
Choteau City Council referred a petition by Mr and Mrs Pat Mills to move a mobile home into part of the Cowgill addition to the zoning board of appeals for a hearing set for April 29 at city hall. The move hinges on the new zoning ordinance defining the home as a trailer and on zone changes from B to A to keep trailer homes out.
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Council
Knotty
Zoning Board of Appeals
Choteau
Pat Mills
Cowgill
Leo H. Murphy
Chateau
John Dunckel
Board of Appeals
Dunckel
Murphy
Carroll Maynard
Maynard
Enoch Stroh
Montana Power
Andy Jenson
Andy
Dave Nesbit
Amended Complaint Filed By G N in Suit Against County
Great Northern Railroad has filed an amended complaint and served interrogatories in a suit against Teton County seeking half of a 646 tax assessment intended for Teton County airport improvements at Chateau. The county halted airport work pending resolution. bids and construction were slated for 1966. Associate counsel Charles Lovell joins the case.
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G.N
Great Northern Railroad
Great Northern
Teton County
Chateau
Robert Woodahl
Woodahl
Charles Lovell
Great Falls
Church, Harris, Johnson and Williams
Eighteen CHS Students To Attend State Music Festival
Chateau High School will send 18 music students to the state festival in Missoula on May 6 and 7. Diane Gronberg joins as a state band member after an earlier audition. Three groups from CHS earned superior ratings at the Great Falls meet: an octet, double octet, and a boys ensemble.
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Chateau High School
Missoula
Lloyd Reynolds
CHS
Great Falls
Diane Gronberg
Miss Gronberg
Reynolds
Kathie Wilkie
Robin Anderson
Pat Stokes
Nancy Larson
Myrna Pierre
Sally Sulgrove
Betty Jo Dellno
Diane McClue
Tim McCartney
John Scott
Dale Reisch
Dick van Auken
Randy Erickson
Dan McClue
Don Scott
Burr Field
Stewart Moulton
Pastors Exchange Pulpits in Great Falls Lutheran Conference
On Sunday April 24 the Great Falls Conference ministers will swap pulpits. Rev Richard Wang of Redeemers Lutheran Church Great Falls will speak at Trinity Lutheran Church Chateau while Rev Engberg speaks at Redeemers Lutheran.
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Great Falls
Friendly attitudes toward Peace Corps seen in Colombia
Former Volunteer John Ward recalls Colombia as pro American with little anti US sentiment. He describes daily life from bamboo houses to coffee exports, cash value shifts, transport by bus, and village telegraphs. He notes high birth rates, diet projects, and soccer as the national sport.
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Peace Corps
John Ward
Ward
Farmington
Colombia
South America
Venezuela
Caracas
United States
Germany
Vance among top five bowlers at state tournament
Bill Vance of Chateau rolled a 603 series to tie for fourth place with Edwin Hamel of Anaconda in the initial week of the state men's bowling tournament in Missoula. The pair aided a 2,472 team series that put Montana standings in focus as competition continued alongside the Montana State Women's tournament in Great Falls.
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Bill Vance
Chateau
Missoula
Vance
Edwin Hamel
Anaconda
Teton Plumbing and Heating
Montana
Great Falls
Weather Postpones Club's Work Session
A Country Club workday scheduled for last weekend has been rescheduled to Sunday April 24. President Robert Erickson said last weekend’s session was canceled due to inclement weather.
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Robert Erickson
Mrs Bud Quickenden and Debbie Visit Gronbergs
Mrs Quickenden and Deb bie of Great Falls were weekend guests of Mrs Mabel Gronberg and family. The two women are sisters.
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Bud Quickenden
Debbie
Great Falls
Mabel Gronberg
Quickenden
Mrs. Gronberg
Fabrick to Keynote Montana Conservation Meet in Great Falls
D P Fabrick will deliver the keynote address Land and People at the 1966 Montana Conservation Council annual meeting in Great Falls on Friday and Saturday. A Dutch native and longtime Montanan, he is noted for influence on land and water use and has served on the Bonneville Advisory Council and Missouri Basin State Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. P
Dick) Fabrick
Montana Conservation Council
Great Falls
Fabrick
Netherlands
Montana Conservationist
Rockies
Bonneville Advisory Council
Missouri Basin State Committee
Montana Reclamation Association
State Planning Board
State Water Conservation Board
State Forestry Board
Fred Ritchie
Washington, D. C
ASCS
K. Ross Toole
University of Montana
Gene Etchart
Glasgow Rancher
C. Lowell Purdy
State
Agriculture
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Legion's District
Ralph Caskey
Bill Olsen
Leo Murphy
Bill Moser
Maurice Larson
Olsen Agency
Karen Peck
Caskeys
Kaye Caskey
U.S
D. P. Fabrick
Don Nordhagen
Johanne Nordhagen
J. Arensmeyer
James Arensmeyer
Arensmeyer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Arenameyer
Harold Nelson
Cut Bank
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