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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1956
Page
1
Beaverhead Chamber of Commerce dinner at Elks lodge will feature Montana scenery films and slides by William Browning. Lt Gov Gosman and Mayor Lovell to be introduced as the 1956 program is outlined by President Dan Carpita with Lasich reviewing 1955.
A local community polio committee decided to avoid a county wide immunization program. They will use publicity and information campaigns to promote Salk vaccine safety and effectiveness while relying on office based vaccinations due to doctor shortages and vaccine supply considerations. Publicity through press, pamphlets, movies, and March of Dimes events will inform parents as efforts continue.
Virginia students adopted 23 Beaverhead County ranch brands to decorate a Christmas yule-tree in a Charlottesville schoolroom creating a bridge between east and west. Teacher Mrs Evelyn Heltzel visited the Beaverhead Museum and secured a list of brands from Warren M Stone museum custodian.
A smouldering rubbish pile near hot furnace ashes triggered a brief blaze at the Telephone block last Saturday afternoon. Fire Chief Al Simon and the local department aided by suction fans quickly vented smoke, preventing damage to the Penney Store Mountain States Telephone Exchange and other offices on the first floor.
Beaverhead county filings by 1955 exceed 300 location notices in the county clerk Dora Schmittroth's office amid rising interest in radioactive ores. Prospectors claimed radium and thorium along with traditional metals such as gold silver copper lead zinc tungsten. Key districts included Frying Pan Basin Dyce Creek Dewey Vipond Park Brown's Lake and Agenta.
Beaverhead Post, American Legion, surpassed its 1956 quota by signing 216 members against a 202 target. Veteran organizer Paul Tempie secured over 100 enrollments. The post plans its Feb 9 meeting to finalize March Legion birthday ceremonies with a Paris 1919 symbolism cake.
W W Hawkins president of the First National Bank and secretary treasurer of the Beaverhead Water Development Association explains that budget support including a 130000 item for the Reclamation Bureau study improves progress prospects for the Clark Canyon Water Supply Company. He notes planning and government acceptance standards must be met and optimistic that studies favorably reflect a start for federal funding and future water provision for farms and livestock.
Harold E. "Toke" Contway and John Prohosky filed nominating petitions on the Democratic ticket to seek re election to their current county offices. Contway is Clerk of the District Court and Prohosky is District No. 2 county commissioner and chair of the board. Primary set for Tuesday June 6 with filings due by April 26, announced by County Clerk Dora Schmittroth.
At a Dillon community meeting Dr. R. J. English cited a local polio case showing vaccine protection. A vaccinated household had two immune children when a third unvaccinated child contracted paralytic polio, underscoring vaccine effectiveness and March of Dimes funded therapies.
J R Simplot Company plans a multi county phosphate mining program in the Centennial Valley area with open pit and underground operations on Odell creek. The project includes ore haul roads on both sides of the Continental Divide and a 30 mile Union Pacific branch from Monida. Estimated 100 150 thousand tons of ore in 1956 with increased output after railroad completion.
Beaverhead County announces by County Clerk Dora Schmittroth the locations and deputy registrars where voters may register for the upcoming primary and general elections. The list includes Lakeview Monida Hazel Flint Leva M Park Lima Francis Merrell Jr Calvert Hilma Merrell Dell Jos M Dowling Bill Rule Armstead Sophia Guzz Mrs Mae Mulliner Argenta Ida Hand Glendale Birchcreek Irene Kambich Amelia Kambich Bannack Polaris Laura Judge Selah Stallings Jackson Winifred Shepherd Royse Wisdom Don Anson Ruth Beasue
The Western College weather station led by L S Osborne recorded a week of fluctuating temperatures from a high of 43 to a low of 6 above zero beginning January 18 and ending January 24. A new cold wave swept the county after midnight with Union Pacific stations showing subzero readings at Dillon Barretts Armstead Lima Monida before noon when the UP thermometer rose to 12 above zero.
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