Montana Legislature Considers Sliding Scale Land Rentals
Rep. Esp drafts a bill to replace flat land rental rates with a sliding scale based on livestock carrying capacity and annual livestock prices. The plan aims to reappraise grazing lands per animal unit and reduce farmer complaints while lawmakers push 115 bills in 20 days.
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Mard Esp
Sweet Grass
Montana House of Representatives
House Committee On State Lands
House State Lands Committee
Lloyd Barnard
Valley
Esp
House
Senate
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bozeman Jaycees Name DSA Recipient Hal Wheat
Hal Wheat of Bozeman named recipient of the Jaycees Distinguished Service Award for outstanding community service. Wheat, 1949 president of the Bozeman Jaycees, is a Beaverhead native and son of the late E L Wheat and Lillian Wheat now of Bozeman.
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Hal Wheat
Bozeman Jaycees
Jaycee
Wheat
DSA
Hal
Beaverhead
E. L. Wheat
Lillian Wheat
Bozeman
Senior Play Draws Busy Audiences In Town
Two full auditoriums enjoyed the three act comedy Growing Pains by a high school senior cast. Directed by Joe Ryburn the performers delivered an admirable show with Roger Hammond Rose Zugel John Peterson and Mary Beth Smith among the cast. Joseph Smith led the school orchestra providing intermission music.
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Dolores White
Katherine Jacovac
John Lanner
Robert Davis
Dolores Davis
Joseph Smith
Tribune High Leads Week in Bowling Standings
Tribune High tops the Commercial League for the week with a 2 854 high series and 1 000 high team score. Bucking ham’s high single 238 tops the week, while Brundage posted the best 596 series. Matches list Jan 29 and Jan 25 results with numerous team scores and shifts.
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Tribune High
The
Tribune Quint
Buckingham
Brundage
T-Bones
Commercial League
Lou’s Flowers
Tash Ranch
Warner's Food
Men’s Store
Eagles
Gorman Drug
Eliel’s
Bond’s Groc
I Bays Butchers
Tribune
Paddock-Tyro
Oasis
Creamery
Winn’s
State Bank
Roberts
Tash
Paddock & Tyro
Gosman Drug
Bay’s Butchers
Bonds
Warners
Eagle Bar
Truck Cargo Burned On Return Trip From Jackson
Ross Hill driver of a mail truck stopped at the Berg Christensen ranch house when smoke and flames appeared in the rear. He and a passenger escaped as two laundry bags a bed roll and a canvas tarp burned in the blaze. Insurance covers the loss and the cause is undetermined.
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Jackson
Ross Hill
Berg Christensen
Hill
Brown visits Clinton. mother marks 100th birthday
Harry Brown returned Sunday from Clinton Missouri where his mother celebrated her 100th birthday. She remains active, attends to her household duties, and knits a doily for each of her children as a keepsake of her long life.
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Harry Brown
Clinton
Combine Style And Beauty Shop Relocates In City
Mrs Hazel Sorenson, owner of the Beauty Shoppe, will move stock from Idaho Street to the Glendale Street location in the Andrus Hotel. The move will close the former shop except for Friday this week. The merged business opens Monday with Jo Kesel and McDonald remaining as beauty operators.
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Idaho Street
Glendale Street
Andrus Hotel
Hazel Sorenson
Beauty Establishment
Innocent Plea Entered by Gallahan in Burglary Charge
Arthur Gallahan appeared in district court with attorney George Toole of Butte and pled innocent to burglary. Bond set at 2500 by Judge Lyman Bennett. Prosecution accuses him of breaking Lovelace Motor Supply window on North Idaho Street in December and stealing an electric drill.
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District Court
Arthur Gallahan
George Toole
Butte
Lyman H. Bennett
Gallahan
Lovelace Motor Supply
North
Idaho Street
Elsie Cornell Places Fifth in National Bowling Averages
Elsie Cornell of Dillon ranks fifth in the national averages forWomen’s International Bowling Congress with 191 pins per 30 games. The national bulletin, received by Dillon Bowling Center, names her as Montana’s sole representative and a “Who’s Who” individual among small communities. Other high rollers hail from Detroit Chicago and St Louis clubs.
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Elsie Cornell
National Congress
Dillon
Cornell
Montana
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Frostbitten Student Struggles After Snowbound Trip
Millie Salvo a Beaverhead county high school sophomore suffered severe frostbite on hands and feet after a car mishap during a blizzard. She along with her brother and sister left the stranded vehicle and trudged home across snow with the temperature around 15 below zero. They reached Barrett hospital for treatment and Millie marked her sixteenth birthday with the ordeal.
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Millie Salvo
Beaverhead County High School
Miss Salvo
Barrow Pit
Millie
Barrett Hospital
Railroad worker arraigned for third degree assault
Thomas A. Owsley, railroad section man, pleaded guilty to third degree assault in district court. Judge Geo. E. Baker fined him $50 with the fine suspended for allegedly cutting Richard Schmauch in the face and neck after a barroom altercation Saturday night.
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Thomas A. Owsley
Geo. E. Baker
Owsley
Richard Schmauch
Chimney Fire Traced to Soot in Kentucky Ave Cabin
A neighbor reported heavy smoke from a chimney at Mrs Lenox s log cabin on Kentucky avenue. Firefighters found no damage after investigation as the smoke proved to be burned soot.
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Lenox
Kentucky Avenue
Charles Williams Recalled From Utah Visit in Dillon
Charles Williams of the B-bar Aeons in the Big Hole basin was lopped off in Dillon on Tuesday on his way home from a D business visit to Utah.
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Charles Williams
Big Hole
Int Dillon
Utah
Dillon Girl Sings at Butte Matinee Musicale
Peggy Lou Sutherland daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Sutherland of Dillon was a featured vocalist at a Sunday matinee musicale at St John s Episcopal guild hall in Butte. Presented by Phyllis Wolfe the event featured Sutherland singing Verdi aria Tacca La Notte from Il Trovatore with Mrs Peggy Bretherton as accompanist.
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Peggy Lou Sutherland
J. W. Sutherland
St. John’s Episcopal Guild Hall
Butte
Phyllis Wolfe
Dillon
Miss Sutherland
Peggy Bretherton
Shower Given at Bowling Center for Agnes Marie Smith
Agnes Marie Smith, a leading local bowler, received many gifts at a shower held after the Women’s bowling league session last Wednesday night at the Bowling Center. She has announced her forthcoming marriage to Lee Schuler, a bowling enthusiast, planned for the latter part of February.
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Agnes Marie
Baby) Smith
Miss Smith
Lee Schuler
Firemen Contain Blaze at Fred Hansen Cabin
Volunteers from the local fire department quickly responded to a Saturday morning fire at a cabin on Thom son avenue. The blaze started from an overheated chimney and was extinguished with little damage reported.
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Fred Hansen
Thomsom Avenue
Fire at 589 Thomson Avenue Burns Wall Covering
A chimney fire at 589 Thomson Avenue Tuesday morning was extinguished by a bucket of water after volunteers arrived. Damage was limited to a section of burned wallpaper. MISSOULA More than 100 show people cowboys and entertainers attend the Western Shows and Rodeo Association convention in Missoula this week to set dates for rodeos fairs and horse shows in the coming year.
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Thomson Avenue
Missoula
Western Shows and Rodeo Association
Montana
Idaho
Card of Thanks for Bourquin family obituary notices
The Bourquin family thanks friends for sympathy after the death of Charles H Bourquin. Special gratitude to Mrs G E Finch the mixed quartet Rev Robert N Johnston pallbearers and the Bourquin family and Theodore L Bourquin. Blaz Lugar of Jackson attended the senior high class play Growing Ains as an out of town guest.
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Charles H. Bourquin
G. E. Finch
Robert N. Johnston
Blaz Lugar
Jackson
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Roberts Food
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Dillon Hide
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MontAna Auto
TM Reg
Reddy
Montana Power Company
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State Bar and Lounge
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George
Hazel
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