Divisional Track Meet Set at Choteau Saturday
Northern divisional Class B schools compete in Choteau with 10 am to 3:30 pm finals and morning trials to decide state qualifiers. Entries include Choteau Fairfield Conrad Cut Bank Sunburst Browning Valier with LeRoy Yeager Wayne Carlson Ray Yeager and others aiming for top five in events.
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Choteau
Missoula
Fairfield
Conrad
Cut Bank
Sunburst
Browning
Valier
Chateau
LeRoy Yeager
Wayne Carlson
Ray Yeager
L. Yeager
Jon Huffman
Dan Hansen
D. Hansen
F. Joramo
Rich Clough
Lonnie Dale
Terry Kelly
Lynn Nordahl
Poppy Day Observed in Choteau May 20
The Choteau American Legion Auxiliary announces 1961 Poppy Day on Saturday May 20. Poppies, made by disabled veterans, honor 500000 war dead and 1 000 000 wounded from World War II Korea and conflicts. Funds go to welfare for servicemen and families.
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Choteau
American Legion Auxiliary
Chateau
Fort Harrison
Helena
American Legion
The
Legion Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Babe Ruth League Holds Friday Practice for Boys
The Babe Ruth League invites all boys aged 13 to 15 to attend the first practice session on Friday at 6:30 p.m. The Cha teau Grade School ball field will host the session, with American Legion officials sponsoring the program. Coaches and volunteers are urged to attend if possible.
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Chateau Grade School
American Legion
Choteau High Sees Tough Loss to Great Falls Central
Choteau High School’s track team dropped a two way meet to Great Falls Central at Great Falls with Central scoring 70 1/3 and Choteau 51 2/3. LeRoy Yeager led Choteau with three firsts and two seconds including high hurdles and broad jump.
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Choteau
Great Falls Central
Great Falls
Central
LeRoy Yeager
McFadden
Kohanek
Hollar
L. Yeager
Ray Yeager
Lloyd
Elliott
Jorame
Schall
Kelly
O'Hare
Miller
Mooré
Connole
Gollehon
R. Yeager
Heffernan
Yeager
Gilligan
Dean
Heisler
Wilson
First Results in Helena Mixed Doubles Bowling Tourney
Rothy Sipes and Helena Jim Dellno lead the fourth annual Mixed Doubles Invitational at A and E Lanes with 1648. Art and Dorothy Suckow of Great Falls follow in second with 1626. The event runs weekends through May as bowlers from several towns compete.
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Rothy Sipes
Helena Jim Dellno
Chateau
A & E Lanes
Art
Dorothy ‘Suckow
Great
Falls
Fairfield FFA High In Judging Contest Triumph
Fairfield FFA land and range judging team won the western region title in land and range judging and finished 10th nationally. The Oklahoma City event was the 10th annual International Range and Soil Judging contest. Team members Gary Davis Lyall Stott Gene Stott and Dennis McOmbers. instructor William A. Armstrong. The western region included teams from 13 western states plus Alaska and Hawaii.
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Fairfield Ffa
Oklahoma City
Gary Davis
Lyall
Stott
Gene
Dennis .McOmbers
William ~ A. Armstrong
Alaska
Hawaii
Legion Baseball Meeting For Juniors Tonight
A junior legion baseball meeting will be held tonight at 7 in the lower Legion Hall. Boys with birthdays after January 1, 1943 are eligible to play junior legion baseball.
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Pnureaucs
Legion Hall
Chateau High School Musial Swinging High at Auditorium
Chateau High School presents the operetta Swinging High tonight and Friday at 8 p.m. in the auditorium. Tickets cost 1 for adults and 0.50 for students, available from band students or at the door. The story follows Cooper High under Principal McDuff and features Diana Bill Connie Andy and Senator Whittwatt in a campus romance and comedy.
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Chateau High School
Chateau Band
Chateau’s
Cooper High
McDuff
Connie
Bridge Replacement Bid Invited For Fairfield Area
Montana Highway Department invites bids for a 60 foot concrete bridge over Greenfield South Canal about 4½ miles southwest of Fairfield on Highway 89. It will replace the narrow bridge blamed for several accidents. bids open in Helena on date shown.
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Montana Highway Dept
Greenfield
South Canal
Fairfield
Highway 89
Helena Eo 24
Rete
Lions Convention Speaker From The South
Lions clubs of District 3 will host a convention with a Southerner as featured speaker. The event, including parts of Mopitania and Alberta, is slated for June 22 and is expected to be one of the largest ever held in the district.
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Lions
Mopitania
Alberta
Ict Sheesh
Feau
Hela
Dr Briggs Led Lions Club Leader and Education Figure
Dr Briggs served as Lions International president for 1948 41 and held multiple senior roles including district governor of Oklahoma clubs. He led Phillips University since 1938 and authored education books. He held key educational and civic positions and was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1951.
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Briggs
Lions International
International Association
Okmulgee
Okla
Lions Club
Durant
Lions Clubs
Oklahoma
Phillips’ University
Enid
National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America
National ‘Conference of‘ Christians
Convention
Oklahoma Hall of ‘Fame
Crusade For Freedom
Measuring Wheat Acreage and Soil Bank Compliance Visits
County ASC reports will visit farms to measure 1961 wheat acreages and Soil Bank base crops for Conservation Reserve contracts. If acreages exceed allotments, farmers receive notices and must dispose of excess by deadlines in July. Operators should guide the reporter and certify fields devoted to wheat and CR contracts.
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Lyall” Schaefer
ASC
Schaefer
Schaefer Salzo
Ines Oe Bank
Adventists Expand Worldwide Disaster Relief Appeal
The Adventist Church reports a global relief effort last year totaling 1,390,554 in material value. More than 832,000 pounds of clothing and over seven million pounds of surplus food valued at 442,000 were shipped to hunger spots including Chile and the Philippines. Vitamins and medicines worth 66,177.21 were sent, with equipment to aid victims. Early this year emergency supplies to Congo totaled 120 tons of powdered milk and corn meal. A biennial offering funds the program with a monthly aim until the emergency ends.
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The
Chateau Seventh Day Adventist Church
Washington, D.C
Chile
Hong Kong
Korea
Philippines
Adventists
Adventist World Headquarters
Congo
Program on Creep Feeding Next Week
An informative meeting on creep feeding sponsored by Montana Flour Mills Co and Chateau Feed and Seed will be held Thursday May 18 at the Legion Hall starting at 8 p.m. Dr William H Burkitt director of nutrition for Montana Flour Mills and William Fluegel Cereatana fieldman will provide the information. The discussion topic is Extra Profit with Creep Feeding. Coffee and donuts will be served and door prizes will be given.
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Montana Flour Mills Co
Chateau: Feed
Legion Hall
William H. Burkitt
Montana “ Flour Mills
William Fluegel
Ceretana
Charles Cowell 82 Dies in Long Beach Hospital
Charles Cowell 82 died in a Long Beach California hospital in the early part of May after an extended illness. He is survived by his wife Macey two daughters Dorothy Jean and Rita and three grandsons all of Long Beach. Interment was at Forest Lawn Cemetery. The Cowell family were former Chateau residents who moved to California in the early 1920s.
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Charles
Cowell
Long Beach
Calif
Macey
Dorothy
Jean
Rita
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Chateau
California
William A Johnstone to give Chateau High commencement address
William A Johnstone, director of educational research at Montana State College, will be commencement speaker at Chateau High School on Tuesday May 23. A 1937 MSU graduate and lifelong educator, he has chaired state curriculum advisory panels and held leadership roles in multiple Montana education groups. His address is titled Target Tomorrow.
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William A. Johnstone
Montana State College
Chateau High School
MSC
Johnstone
Montana
Montana Education Ass
Aronson
Taxation Education Commission
Montana Education Ass’n
Montana High School Ass’n
Montana Ass’n
National Education Ass'n
University of California
Montana State University
Anaconda Science Program Names Choteau Students
Fifteen Choteau area students join 57 Montana youths invited to display science projects at the State Fair in Great Falls this summer. Scholarships by Anaconda Company will go to the top four seniors with prizes 500, 250, 150 and 15.
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Choteau
Choteau Area
Montana
Anaconda Company
Great Falls
Joann. Chalmers
Robert Hollar
Patti Schiller
Marlys
Moon
Janice Stromswald
Don’ Reiner
Ann Chalmers
Walter ‘Malone
Aux-S
Montana School of Mines
Montana ‘State University
Prograp
Anaconda
Belt
Cascade
Deer Lodge
Fort Shaw
Helena
Kalispell
Livingston
Missoula
Philipsburgh
Sidney
Two Public Events at Chateau High School
Two events for the general public will be held at Chateau High School during the coming week. The first is a musical comedy by the high school band titled Swinging High, tonight and Friday at 8 p.m. in the auditorium. A second show is scheduled for May 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the same venue. Homemaking class girls will model skirts and blouses they made, with dresses also displayed.
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Chateau High
Obert Peterson Undergoes Surgery at Columbus Hospital
Obert Peterson underwent surgery at Columbus Hospital on Monday. The report notes a routine procedure with the patient in stable condition and expected to recover as advised by physicians.
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Obert Peterson
Columbus Hospital
TV booster upgrade in Chateau awaits FCC license
Cha teau JayCees report no improvement in TV reception after a door to door collection. They seek FCC approval to upgrade the Rattlesnake Butte booster and add Channel 3 KRTV, with parts custom made for Chateau once licensing is secured. Officials expect service within about six weeks after license issuance.
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JayCees
Rattlesnake Butte
Federal Communications Commission
KRTV
Great Falls
Harold Hinman
FCC
Chateau
Hinman
Rural Play Day Set for May 20 at Chateau Track
The annual American Legion rural school play day will be held in Chateau on Saturday May 20. Twelve Teton County rural grade schools will send boys and girls to compete for medals and ribbons starting at 9 30 am under Stan Rathman. Events include running climbing pole vaulting high jump tug of war and field events with a trophy for the top point winner. Schools competing include Greenfield Golden Ridge Agawam Pendroy Bynum Farmington Pleasant Ridge Collins Premium Center East Farmington and Doheny. Entries due by May 14.
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American Legion
Chateau
Teton County
Stan Rathman
Fairfield Legion Posts
Greenfield
Fairfield‘post
Golden Ridge
Agawam
Pendroy
Bynum
Farmington
Pleasant Ridge
Collins
Premium Center
East Farmington
Doheny
Huck Finn Day Set for June 3 at Chateau and Roxy
The Chateau Junior Chamber of Commerce hosts the sixth Huck Finn Day with Crazy Days events on Saturday June 3. Activities run morning through a matinee at the Roxy Theatre with free admission, including prizes for the biggest Spring Creek fish and best Huck Finn costume.
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The
Chateau Junior Chamber of Commerce
Roxy Theatre
Spring Creek
Dr. Ed Cherry Visits Family During Dental Society Meet
Dr. Ed Cherry of the United States Navy visits his parents, the Wes Cherrys, amid attending the State Dental Society convention in Great Falls last week. He will be discharged in July and plans to locate in Montana.
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Ed Cherry
United States Navy
Wes Cherrys
State Dental Society
Great Falls
Cherry
Montana
Lions Charter Night Honors Longtime Lions and Speaker
Chateau Lions Club marked its 34th Charter Night at the Lions Hall with speaker Al Horner governor of District 37 C. He urged Lions to raise their expectations. Awards honored 15 year and 25 year members including Leo Murphy and Gibson Monkman for perfect attendance and long service.
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Chateau Lions Club
Lions Hall
al Horner
Montana
Alberta
Horner
Coutts-Sweet Grass Lions Club
Arnold Hanusa
Leo Murphy
H. W. Bateman Jr
Robert Gronberg
Ray Kelly
William F. Olsen
Lions Club
Gibson Monkman
Monarch Chevron
Ray Carlson
Fairfield Lions Club
Rex Peterson
C. Gibson Monkman
al Finley
Jack Wright
Grant Gormley Promoted to Eagle Scout Rank
Grant Gormley son of Mr and Mrs Robert Gormley earned the Eagle Scout award becoming the third Chateau boy to reach the highest scouting honor in years. The ceremony at the county courthouse also recognized numerous county scouts with merit badges while officials from local scouting groups attended.
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Grant Gormley
Robert Gormley
Chateau
Ronnie Pierre
Leo Piérre
David Shannon
David L. Shannon
Grant
Boy Scout Organization
Scout
Court of Honor
Howard Harmon
Leo Pierre
Glen Yeager
Bob Zion
Bill Olson
Richard Crabtree
Weather Driver license exams at courthouse Wednesday
Weather service notes driver license examinations will be given at the courthouse on Wednesday at 9 AM. Residents are advised to bring required identification and previously issued permits.
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Court House
Wedandy
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Neal Wedum
Gary
T. Kelly
Jim Connole
R . Wilson
Gary . Dunckel
Ronnie Gollehon
Ll. Venders
Babe Ruth
Bulger
L Yeager
Jeramie
Weber
T. Furlong
Diana
Bill
Senator Whittwatt
Andy
Wade
Kincaid
Gerry
Calamus Hospital
Eugene Briggs
Charles. Cowell
Tages
William Johnstone
Huck Finn
Eagle Scout
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