Girl Scout Cookie Sale Under Way In Dillon
The annual cookie drive starts April 2 with door to door sales by Girl Scouts. Chairs Mrs Paul Parkinson and Mrs Clair Michels report two cookie types a sandwich creme and a vanilla wafer with chocolate melt candy sold for 45 cents a box to fund camp for scouts and troop treasuries. Top sellers earn camp scholarships with 100 boxes earning a full week at camp, 50 boxes a half scholarship, 25 boxes a $3 campership. Drive ends Monday April 13 with funds collected after school.
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Paul Parkinson
Clair Michels
Dillon
Dairy Prices Kept Stable With 90 Percent Parity Basis
The Department of Agriculture announces new dairy support prices effective April 1 as 3 percent below prior levels due to parity decline. Manufacturing milk priced at 3.74 dollars per hundredweight and butterfat at about 67 cents per pound. National support will be funded via carrot purchases of creamery butter cheddar cheese and skim milk solids. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson warns high fixed supports may harm markets farmers rely on and says current prices do not set future precedent.
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Department of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Behson
Service Officer Here Thursday
Veterans of Beaverhead county are reminded that James McCashin of the Montana veterans welfare commission will be in Dillon Thursday April 9 and each Thursday thereafter until further notice. He will meet veterans at the state employment service office 30 South Montana street to assist with pensions insurance employment vocational rehabilitation education and other GI bill benefits.
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Beaverhead County
James McCashin
Montana Veterans’ Welfare Commission
Dillon
State Employment Service
South
Montana Street
Former Resident Dies in Havre Traffic Mishap
Karl Beehrer of Olympia Washington died after an auto accident near Havre. He was born on a Big Hole River ranch and lived in Olympia for over twenty five years in business. He was unmarried and survived by sisters Martha Burdick and Lowise Boucher, a brother Frank Buhrer, and a niece and nephew. Interment will be in Olympia on April 7. Other items note a measles victim Donnie Kambich, Easter events, school elections, 4-H activities, weed warnings and local visits.
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Karl Beehrer
Big Hole
Frank
Minnie Beehrer
Germany
Buhrer
Karl
Frank Buhrer
Martha Buhrer Burdick
Juneau
Alaska
Lowise Buhrer Boucher
Glen
Mary Louise Strum
Beehrer
Olympia
Washington
Havre
Wash
Arthur Berry
Spokane
Karl Kambich
Donnie Kambich
Ruhrer School
E. P. Marvel
Reichle
Billings
Sagebrushettes
Dillon
Bob Reviere
Carl Pappetti
John Carl
Pocatello
Larry Bradley
Kathy Jo
Butte
Poole and Verbance
Paul Gnelling
Rudolph Polish
Vern Stanford
Home Guard Club
Cities Service Drilling Below 10 000 Feet in Lima Structure
Cities Service Oil drills below 10 316 feet in the Tensleep sandstone near Lima Beaverhead county Montana. The well No 1 Emerick in section 33 township 14S range 7W lies close to the Centennial mountains and is described as a tight hole with no public information at this stage. The project aims to reach a potential oil zone in the Tensleep formation, with extensive leases and local economic expectations riding on a successful producer.
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Cities Service Oil Company
Emerick
Beaverhead County
Carbon County
Lima
Centennial Mountain Range
Montana-Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
Cities Service
Wyomin
Dillon
Ino
Luma
Granville Stuart’s Montana Journey Recounted in ACM Ad
The advertisement retells pioneer Granville Stuart and his party’s 1857-58 trek from California toward eastern states. Blocked by Mormon soldiers in Utah they turned north, wintered in Idaho, spent the 1857-58 season where Dillon now stands, and moved on to what is now Powell County Montana.
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Granville Stuart
Montana
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Stuart
California
Utah
Idaho
Dillon
Powell County
Butte Hospital Admits and Releases List for Week Ending April 7
Admitted to Butte hospitals during the week ending April 7 were Edgar Lowman of Virginia City Otto K Boetticher of Melrose Elaine Bacon of Wise River Wesley DeArmond of Sheridan Mrs Ruth Puyear and Mrs Martha Wilson Didion Elaine Bacon was released. Others released included Mrs Velma Evans Melrose Lester W Struthers and Mrs Mary Salmonson Alder Jack Kennedy Virginia City Mrs Herbert R Foster and Mrs Dorothy Bates Lima Rachel Mayberry Mrs Velma Cottin Mrs June Forsythe Mrs Esther Delaney and Mrs Bruce Walters and Gaughter Dillon.
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Butte Hospital News
Butte
Edgar Lowman
Virginia City
Otto K Boetticher
Melrose
Elaiine Bacon
Wise River
Wesley DeArmond
Sheridan
Ruth Puyear
Martha Wilson
Didion Elaine Bacon
Velma Evans
Melrose Lester W Struthers
Mary Salmonson
Alder
Jack Kennedy
Herbert R. Foster
Dorothy Bates
Lima Rachel Mayberry
Velma Cottin
June Forsythe
Esther Delaney
Bruce Walters
Dillon
Cantrell Promoted to Corporal in Tokyo WAC Unit
Peggy L Cantrell of Dillon serving with the WAC at Tokyo Army Hospital in Tokyo Japan was promoted from private first class to corporal. She belongs to Company C Tokyo WAC battalion and entered service in 1951.
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Peggy L Cantrell
Dillon
WAC
Tokyo Army Hospital
Tokyo
Japan
Army Home Town News Center
Local Lima Merchant Notes on Nose In Recovery
In a Dy lon Examiner piece a Lima merchant hints at ongoing efforts and key themes in the community recovery. The writer previews forthcoming discussions outlining the ful damertais of renewal and the path ahead for locals.
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Ocal
Lima
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Dillon Examiner
van Line
Butte-Dillon
Glen News
Dan Piccone
THE
Col
Ray E. Colton
James Grose
Bull Roberts
Helena
Margaret Bryan
William Bryan
Lewiston
ACM Ad
Dodge
America
Coronet
Meadowbreek
Meedowbreek
Meadowbreeck
J. W. Walters
Montana St
Dillon, Mont
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