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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1947
Page
9
Coach Bill Straugh and his quad will leave tomorrow morning for Billings for a three game series meeting Billings Poly tomorrow night and Eastern Normal Friday and Saturday nights Poly again has its former long time coach Herb Klindt who returned to that post recently.
Eastern Normal beat Poly 60 to 37 on Saturday marking its first win in 13 years to boost conference hopes. Star Fages, an all state player from Billings High in 1941, leads the team with Johnson McGuire and others listed as key players. Bradley misses trip due to duties and a College of Education game next Tuesday is cancelled by Great Falls club with a substitute date planned.
Alma Matrons Guild met Monday evening at St James guild hall with hostesses Miss Virginia Irvine Miss Margaret King and Mrs Lewis D Smith Officers who served during the past year submitted their reports.
The Mining Association of Montana will hold its seventh biennial legislative meeting January 23 at the Placer hotel in Helena from 2 to 5 PM. Resolutions for the Montana legislature and 1947 officers will be announced. Ed Tittmann leaves East Helena plant for El Paso. Kuno Doerr Jr. to assume East Helena post around March 1. A short program to bid farewell and welcome will precede Montana banquet chaired by Charles R. Brazier. Hotel reservations urged for overnight stay.
The bridge tournament was won by Betty Newton Deer Lodge and Robert Thompson Miles City. Billy Jolly Butte won the Chinese checkers title and Frank Vetter Ennis was cribbage champion. Many students and staff competed over two months with plans for pinochle checkers and chess in the second semester.
Educational groups to meet here this week invite the curriculum committee for teacher training institutions to meet Saturday. A health committee led by K Elizabeth Anderson of the state department meets at 10 AM in the gym lounge. Supt O K Moe and Elena Shepcevich of Montana State Normal College participate. A noon luncheon follows chaired by Miss Slepcevich. all three committees are invited.
Beaverhead County commissioners designate districts Stahl Hendekersy and Jackson. advertise sale of a 1939 Caterpillar tractor for 2600 dollars and set sale for February 4 1947. Appointments include county high school board May Sprinkle and Jewell Carrigan for two years, and several other boards. A rural fire truck purchase is discussed with a January 18 meeting planned.
A Beaverhead polio campaign opens with a nurse, an epidemiologist and two physical therapists aiding epidemic areas. Harvard and Northwestern units have been deployed to Florida and Peoria respectively. Chapters of the National Foundation cooperate with the Red Cross to fund salaries and transport for nurses. Local and national aid covers care regardless of age or race. A Monday meeting at Mrs. T Lee McCracken's home discussed volunteers and funds, with $750 spent locally since September 1946.
Beaverhead county ranchers and their wives are attending the Western Livestock Show in Denver this week. Among them are Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Staudenmeyer, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Gleed, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Huntley, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Huntley, Frank and Vincent Peddleton, and Tug Judy.
New members admitted at the last regular meeting include Mrs. McFadden Mrs. Stephan Mrs. Leslie Thompson Mrs. Raymond Love and others. State regent breakfast organizers include Mrs. Luebben Bergeson Jean Bishop and several committee chairs.
Idaho hosts a snowplane racing event on January 25 drawing racers from Idaho Montana and Washington along with a newsredal photographer and a professional propeller manufacturer in attendance reported by Laird.
Observers from the war and navy departments may attend to assess the snowplane's feasibility for air rescue work and arctic transport. The Beaverhead Showplane omen is expected to perform well in the race, with machines noted for high speeds on difficult county terrain and operators described as expert.
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