District Gets Big Contract Says Senator For Fort Shaw Irrigation
Senator James E. Murray reports the Senate Interior Committee approved a $100000 rehabilitation contract for the Fort Shaw irrigation district. The plan charges $1 per acre annually to cover 10 522 acres, extending payments by about ten years with 74 percent of rehab costs returned in the first decade. House Interior Committee already approved. sets to take effect next month.
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Senate Interior Committee
Fort Shaw
James E. Murray
Acantha
House Interior Committee
Weekend Visits Span Lakes Kalispell and More
Local residents and visitors covered a wide area over the weekend. Mrs. Bob McDonald and Daniel and Mrs. Sid Hanson spent time at Lake Five and in Kalispell while Mrs. Albert Wiseman and children Dorothy and Russell toured Great Falls. Roy Wiseman returned from Casp er Wy and two weeks of summer camp after basic Air National Guard training in San Antonio.
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Bob McDonald
Daniel
Sid Hanson
Sandy
Lake Five
Kalispell
Albert Wiseman
Dorothy
Russell
Great Falls
Wiseman
Roy
Casper
Wyo
Air National Guard
San Antonio
Tex
Kathryn Hanks
Anna Broders
Earl Terry
Edmund Hill
J. W. Breen
George Sexton
Bud Guthrie
John Rice
Teton Canyon
Hanusa
John
Ohio
Roy Husam
John T. Moore
Bill Riston
Camrose
Alberta
Canada
Leo Murphy
Pat Donovan
Shelby
Harry Price
C. G. Passmore
Ken Sturgis
Glenn Dallin
Long Beach
Calif
Reid Swenson
Las Vegas
Nev
Dean Swenson
Floyd Swenson
Helena
Beth
Debbie Coates
George Henderson
Havre
W. L. Thompson
Fairview
Jim Hamilton
Boulder
Freeman Curtis
Glenn Holmes
Lincoln
Teton Memorial Hospital News Admitted Patients and Births
List of patients admitted to Teton Memorial Hospital including Reginald Wilson and Mary Wipf with several residents of Choteau Pendroy Fairfield and Butte. Births report one son for Mrs Jake Luinstra and one for Mrs Ernest Dale. Discharged patients include Fred Perry Kathleen Johnson Andy Anderson Marsha Waltermire Mrs Charles McDonald and Mrs Donald Ameline with infant son.
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Reginald Wilson
Dutton
Mary Wipf
Choteau
Alfred Ameline
Ethel Anderson
Fairfield
John Hughes
Pendroy
Ole Dolgaard
Jake Luinstra
Scenta Kretschman
Granville Bradford
Joseph van Ham
Butte
Ernest Dale
Gary Dunckel
Gerald H. Ditto
Pendrey
County Women Attend Meet At Lethbridge
Four Teton county women joined Alberta and Montana groups in Lethbridge Alberta for International Friendship Day events. Dignitaries included Mayor A W Sheckleford and Dr Nancy Adams of Saskatchewan. The gathering highlighted the Associated Country Women of the World and the Pennies of Friendship program.
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Teton County
Lethbridge
Alberta
Eugene Baquet
Paul Alzheimer
Clark Inbody
Collins
D. H. Moulton
Chateau
Alberta Women’s Institutes
Montana Home Demonstration Clubs
Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada
Home Demonstration Clubs
United States
A. W. Sheckleford
Nancy Adams
Saskatchewan
Canada
Associated Country Women of the World
A.C.W. W
Lyle Johnsrud
Fort Benton
A.C.W.W
Fairfield Couple Wed in Great Falls Lutheran Ceremony
Fairfield couple Rhoda Grasdock and Gordon W. Hansen were married Friday at Our Saviour's Lutheran church in Great Falls. Rev. Griffith Williams officiated. The bride wore a blue silk dress. the groom is an Air Force veteran farming near Fairfield. The newlyweds reside in Great Falls.
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Rhoda Grasdock
Herman Grasdock
Fairfield
Gordon W. Hansen
Fred Hansen
Griffith Williams
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
Great Falls
Hansen
Good Crowds Seen At Swimming Pool
Attendance at the Lions Club pool is up with more youngsters in lessons totaling 261. Chateau runs 90 beginners and 36 intermediates with 6 in advanced, nine of twelve in life-saving passers now lifeguarding. Dutton 49 beginners/intermediates, Fairfield 68 beginners/intermediates. Choteau Fairfield youths train for a four-session weekly swim team through Helena meet late August. Carol Howard becomes first gold medalist, others earning water-safety cards and Fish Club ranks as progress toward Flying Fish and Shark levels.
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Lions Club
Chateau
Dutton
Fairfield
Choteau
Chateau Acquatic
Ronnie Stroh
Dean Baker
Bob Webb
John Meyers
Rich Clough
Jere Huffman
Carol Howard
John Hanusa
Scott Seaton
Justice of the Peace Unites Local Couple Saturday Afternoon
Eva Sangray of Augusta and John R. Bruno of Choteau wed Saturday Aug 2 with Justice of the Peace James Sulgrove performing the ceremony. Attendants were Bill Riggs and Lorraine Fenner. The couple, both born in Choteau, are rooted in local families and were celebrated at a dancing party hosted by the groom’s daughters Cleo Lensing and Elizabeth Caldwell.
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Eva Sangray
Augusta
John R. “Jack” Bruno
Choteau
James Sulgrove
Bill Riggs
Lorraine Fenner
George and
Annie Petch Richards
Bruno
Joseph Bruno
Teton County
Cleo Lensing
Elizabeth Caldwell
Lensing
George Family Marks Tragic Loss in Utah Visit
Mr and Mrs Aaron George of Bynum traveled to Salt Lake City to be with their son Don and family after the death of Mrs Don George from leukemia. Funeral services were conducted on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Baker
Swan Lake
Hampton Bloom
Polson
Melvin Manseth
Lima
Colo
Oliver Mauseth
Melvin
Choteau
Aaron George of
Bynum
Salt Lake City
Don
Don George
Reserve Payments For Teton Farmers To Be Made Soon
Teton county farmers will soon receive payments for participation in the 1958 acreage reserve program for wheat. Leo S. Kolstad announced these will be the first payments for the 1958 Soil Bank. Acreage reserve payments reward planting less than allotted wheat acres, with 3,024 Montana farmers signing agreements covering 219,378 acres this year.
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Teton County
Leo S. Kolstad
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Administrative Officer
Montana
Commodity Credit Corporation
Certificate redemption limits for grain in Montana
Certificates may not be redeemed in grain in Montana until after September 30, marking end of the normal harvest period. The provision aims to protect producer prices during heavy marketing periods and ensure market stability.
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Montana
Lower Tax Levy Adopted by Council
The council approved a reduced levy to cover two city debt projects. A new water tank on the hill and a northwest supply line to the pump house, fed by a natural spring, fund the tax. The sewer sub-drainage line installed in 1952 will be paid off in three to five years. The sewer lagoon, started in 1955, costs 70000 and is paid at 7000 annually with 49000 remaining. Freight Rate Association at Helena.
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Helena
Chamber Seeks Funds For Litigation Costs
The Chamber of Commerce discusses financing litigation costs after a state freight rate hearing. Manager Bill Johnson lauds Senators Smathers Magnu son and Schoppel for their knowledge and time. He says Montana’s class rate floor remains 15 to 20 percent too high and notes freight taxes were repealed Aug 1 reducing bulk shipment costs. Mrs Bessie Edwards leaves July 21 for Napex California to visit relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Johnson
Smathers
Magnuson
Schoppel
Montana
Johnson
Chamber of Commerce
Cornell
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Gordon Haiberg
Teton Memoral Hospital News
Justice of the Peace
Teton
East Glacier Park
SWIFT
del Monte Flats
del Monte
Chamber
Bessie Edwards
Napez
James Howard
Granite
Te Rent Cell
Carl Larson
Penney’s
Orion
ORLON
Pencale
Dacron
DAN River
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