4-H Week Highlights New Clubs and Reenrollment
National 4-H Week runs October 1 through 7 with new clubs forming and youths reenrolling in projects for the coming year. Four-H emphasizes learning by doing and guiding youths toward high standards of achievement and self-confidence through projects like horse riding and foods. Teton County seeks 4-H members and leaders. contact the Extension Office in Choteau or Fairfield.
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Four-H
Teton County
Choteau
Fairfield
Day to Honor Hunters proclaimed by Congress and Nixon
A Day to Honor Hunters on September 23 1972 was declared in a move led by hunters. The Hunt the Hunters Club formed by Friends of Animals Inc aims to curb hunting on public lands and shift weapon taxes to general coffers for wildlife sanctuaries.
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Congress
Nixon
Hunters Club
Friends of Animals, Inc
Committee For Humane Legislation
Alice Herrington
Halls of Congress
Miss Herrington
Fish and Game Commissions
General Treasury
Montana Wheat Shipments Climb in First Half 1972
Montana shipped 39.5 million bushels of wheat to out of state destinations in January to June 1972, up from 29.1 million bushels in 1971. Winter wheat totaled 20.1 million bushels and spring wheat 19.5 million, with 35.6 million moving west and 3.9 million to eastern and other destinations. Rail carried 30.0 million bushels and trucks 9.5 million. Figures come from elevators covering 95 percent of Montana storage capacity and licensed truckers. unrecorded market channels are excluded.
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Montana
Legion Auxiliary installs officers at C James Smith Unit meeting
Mrs. Sarah Kropp installed officers for the year at the C James Smith Unit No 6 meeting. Elected officers include Mary Peterson president Mary Ellen Burns first vice president Alyce Gleason second vice president Edith Southard secretary treasurer Lorna Huffman chaplain and Mae Arensmeyer sergeant at arms.
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Mary Peterson
Buttle
Daugher
Colleen
Edith Southard
State Department
T. G. Chilton
Superior
Ariz
American Legion Auxiliary
Maysel Denton
Miles City
Columbia Falls
Earl D. Franklin Jr
Sterling
Colo
American Legion National Children and Youth Commission
John Geiger
Chicago
Maxine Chilton
Lorilyn Styren
Farmington
A.S.A
Geraldine
Colleen Olson
Sun River
C. James Smith
Lorna Huffman
Cleo McClue
Sarah Kropp
Big Horn Forest Receives Wild Buffalo Herd
Montana's Big Horn National Forest has a new wild buffalo herd, with ten escapees from a 69 animal shipment bolting into the Crow Reservation forest. Officials consider roundup unlikely, while Crow leaders may recapture or quarantine the runaways.
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Big Horn National Forest
Buffalo
Montana
Crow Indian Reservation
U. S. Forest Service
Fish and Game Department
North Dakota
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Yellowstone National Park
Department of Interior
Robert Jenson Commended in National Merit List
Robert Jenson of Bynum received a Letter of Commendation for high PSAT NM SQT performance at Chateau High School. NMSC announced 37,000 commended students nationwide, ranking in the top 2 percent expected to graduate in 1973, below the 15,000 semifinalists named in September.
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Robert Jenson
Hal Jenson
Bynum
Chateau High School
Dan Ferriter
National Merit Scholarship Corporation
NMSC
United States
Edward C. Smith
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Cleteau 4Eantha
Montana Press
Dick Nordhagen
Association
Uptown
Ford Sales
Legion Auxiliary
The
National Geographic Society
National Park
U. S
Yellowstone
Lamar Valley
Bozeman
South Dakon
Moon
Zenith
General Electric
Andy’s Appliance Center
Pennywise
Betty Crocker
Helper
Birdseye
Wagner
Schilling’s Pepper
Hills Bros. Coffee
Wishbone
U. S. No
Idaho
Scotts
Mrs
Chateau
Lucille
Malcolm Sussenden
Glenna
John Peebles
Grace
Emil Depner
Anna Armstrong
Helen
Lloyd Hodgskiss
Nora
Russell Larson
Sheila
Jim Crawford
Enco
Rick Corey
Mgr
Choteau, Montana
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