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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1954
Page
8
In 1953 the US logged 38,300 traffic fatalities with 58 million registered vehicles. S-D Day on December 15 encourages local action to reduce crashes through strict adherence to traffic laws, courtesy, and full attention to driving and walking. Local officials urge community effort in 1954.
The Catholic Ladies Auxiliary of Chateau joins the National Catholic Welfare conference in a weeklong clothing drive. The goal is ten million pounds of usable clothing to aid refugees and the needy amid Indochina displacement. Contributions may be left at St. Joseph's church.
Montana Odd Journal reports Conrad Oilman, head of Emrick Management, is hospitalized after a yard accident broke the brace on his tight leg amid ongoing polio-related paralysis. He had been regaining ability to walk and continued work from his Conrad office for months.
Sgt Charles N. Rorvik, 21, son of Joseph Rorvik of Fairfield, is with the 3rd Infantry Division leaving Korea for the U S. The Rock of the Marne unit will be stationed at Fort Benning. Rorvik entered service February 1953 and arrived overseas in August 1953. He was formerly a forest ranger in Augusta.
Interstate Commerce Commission examiner Charles R. Gray adjourned a Montana freight rate hearing at 4:00 pm. The nine percent intra state rate request covers five major railroads. Briefs are due within 30 days after transcript delivery.
A federal state weekly crop report notes Montana ranchers focus on winter preparations. Soil moisture is ideal for fall work. sugar beet harvests finished with above average yields. Some threshing of feed grains completed. Ranges largely provide plenty of feed, but dry southern areas show shortages prompting limited concentrate supplementation.
The Railway Express Agency told an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Helena this week that it lost 164,563 dollars for the year ending August 31. Opponents of the rate increase denial by the Montana Railroad Commission were present as the agency sought to overturn the ruling.
The Montana Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes a record barley harvest for 1954 and a sizable hay increase. Acreage rose by about 24 percent year over year while feed demand shows only modest changes, with gains in feeding activity mainly around Billings and Sidney. County agents and stockmen reported overall steadiness in national feed usage despite regional upticks.
ANACONDA UP Mrs Edna Patricia Kohler pleaded innocent this week to nine counts of first degree murder and one count of arson in the Oct 30 Flood Block fire in Anaconda. She was held without bail by Deer Lodge County Sheriff after arrest while watching the blaze from a nearby floral shop. The accused, described as a former inmate of Montana and Washington institutions, faces charges for nine killings including Leland Bowman and Arthur Saul with properties reported lost at about $500000.
Montana Public Service Commission schedules Nov 29 hearing in Helena senate chambers on Western Union Telegraph Co. request to raise intra state wire rates after reporting a $31,462 loss last year. The firm notes the FCC approved a similar interstate increase without a formal hearing.
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