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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1966
Page
1
Choteau Fire Department sponsors its annual New Year's Eve dance at the Masonic hall starting 9 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $1.50 per couple with hats and noisemakers. proceeds fund firemen's clothing and equipment. Chief Bud Taylor urges locals to stay off highways and notes last year’s turnout was strong.
The Chateau Bulldogs beat Simms 47-43 in a rubber game and lost to Worden (Huntley Project) on Friday. The two wins and one loss wrapped up non-conference play before a holiday break, with next games set for January 6 and 7 against Sunburst Refiners and Walier Panthers.
The first blood drawing of the year is set for Tuesday January 3 from 2 to 6 pm at Trinity Lutheran Parish Education building. The quota is 65 pints with 11 more needed to replace blood sent from the Montana Red Cross Center for Floyd Sibley who had heart surgery in Spokane. Rainbow Girls will provide babysitting for donors.
Drawings in district 20 Shelby and LeRoy Anderson Conrad awarded four year term to Anderson and two year term to Gordon McOmber of Fairfield. McOmber must run again in two years, then seek a four year term if re elected.
Funeral services were held for Richard A. Bean 91 a retired rancher at Augusta Community Church with Rev Edward Ferguson officiating. Interment followed at Augusta Cemetery under Banks Funeral Home. He was born February 16 1875 in Westbrook Minnesota and lived in Silver City Montana before moving to Augusta in 1899. He married Caroline Barrett in Augusta on November 22 1899 who preceded him in death. Two children Maudie Bean Leta Converse survive along with a foster son Warren Barrett three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Also noted are visitations by Darrell Lawrance and Paul Dean of Cut Bank.
The Chateau Methodist Church will host a New Life Mission from January 22 to 29 with visiting evangelist Rev Paul Leaming of Nashville as speaker. An organizing committee lists chairs for membership evangelism, attendance, advertising, arrangements, materials, finance, youth, groups, nursery, and worship plus co chairs and assistants.
Chateau firemen and their wives are asked to attend a work meeting at the Masonic hall tonight for the purpose of decorating for the Firemen's Ball. Carol Miller, daughter of Mrs. Guy Miller, has a 4.00 first quarter average at the University of Montana Missoula, earning A in economics French Russian typing mythology and accounting.
Montana’s 1966 crop production exceeded the 1960-64 average for most major crops despite generally dry weather in 1965. Wheat yields set records due to higher irrigated shares, and barley topped previous years as the state posted the largest barley crop ever while oats, flaxseed, and rye were notably low. Harvested area totaled 8.095 million acres, down 3% from last year.
Despite a delayed white Christmas elsewhere the Chateau area saw three to four inches of snow after Christmas. The warm pre holiday weather let youngsters play in shirtsleeves and the season brought higher temperatures than last year. Moisture totals measure 10.58 inches year to date in Choteau with November 1.96 inches the wettest since 1927.
Montana residents in Choteau will start buying the Big Sky Country license plates on January 3. The treasurer Lorraine Maynard reports 3300 passenger 2700 truck and 250 trailer plates ready, with record of last year’s sales. She warns buyers to bring the correct re registration receipt to avoid a 2 dollar fee and explains how attached receipts vary by vehicle type and purchase date.
Funeral services for Fred Tesch will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Chateau Methodist Church. Tesch died Wednesday December 28. A full obituary will follow in next week's Acantha due to limited information.
Mrs Gerald Mosher of Augusta will address the Chateau American Legion Auxiliary at the lower Legion hall on Monday January 2 at 8 pm. She is secretary of the coordinate child welfare committee of the Auxiliary Department of Montana and will describe the group's child welfare work. The meeting is open to the public including welfare officials and both men and women need not be Legion members.
LaVerne Murr the Teton County Civil Defense director announced a fallout shelter analysis workshop will be held January 12 13 in Great Falls. The aim is to help attendees estimate protection factors for homes barns or other buildings and learn how to improve structures for better radioactive fallout protection. The program targets lumber industry workers general contractors carpenters and others in the building trades. Local residents may contact Murr for attendance details.
The Choteau Jaycees will hold their annual Christmas tree pickup on Sunday January 8. Residents are asked to place trees in the alley for collection and subsequent burning at the city dump.
All Teton county stockmen are invited to a five event livestock production and marketing series in January and February at Fairfield city hall and Chateau high school auditorium. Sessions cover range nutrition disease problems marketing outlook livestock management and breeding and selection with specialists from Montana State University guiding the program.
The 1967 outlook cautions that the 1966 boom shows signs of easing. Domestic momentum remains, but risks abroad, including U S Soviet tensions and Middle East clashes, threaten growth. Tax hikes, tighter credit, and defense spending shape a year of deceleration with gradual easing possible.
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