Local Selective Service Classifications Released Yesterday
The local selective service board issued classifications covering many men with 1-A 1-C and 4-F designations. Notables listed include Hazen L. Lackey Swen E. Johnson Jr and 3-A names such as Walter Hurry Leach and James B. Hoadley. Several residents and relatives are mentioned with updates on assignments and training, including Don Julson and Sgt. Harry Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Local Selective Service Board
Hazen L. Lackey
Swen E. Johnson, Jr
Sylvester Murtagh Rogan
James T. Hall
Monty H. Kamps
Edward J. Kluesner
Paul A. Lacry
Myron D. Axe
Phillip C. Bond
Martin Walter Stephan
Tom
Pyeatt
Lewis Clark Ford III
Walter Hurry Leach
Donald B. Kingery
LaSharom B. Montgomery
Milton F. Bourassa
Gunnar Samuel Johnson
Norman Milton Giles
Edward G. Nettik
Rudolph N. Nygren
Wilbert Feltus
Ernest Nygren
Clyde G. Sewell
Wilber L. Squires
William J. Schmitt
James B. Hoadley
Sherman I. Koontz
Ray Pope
Leonard A. Schulz
Walter B. Gnose
Joseph J. Michelish
Kenneth D. Clark
George M. Adams
Louis E. Thompson
Vern C. Burke
Chester W. Buckingham
Clarence A. Kaddy
Claude Brown
Charles G. Miller
Charles R. Lee
Myron R. Rammel
William F. Bryan
Daniel E. Henneberry
Fredrick J. Hartwig, Jr
Michael Nettik
Phillip J. Lovell
Jennings L. Mayland
Ralph F. Davis
Amos L. Wright
Lawerence B. McGivney
George F. Nightingale
George E. Michelish
Arthur L. Hasbrouck
Arthur Bay
George J. Stefanatz
Billie E. Watters
Willis F. Koeneke
Matt W. Stewart
Edgar G. Hinman
James A. Harrington
Lyle V. Essex
Ralph B. Shuman
Frank D. Rebish
Elks Cling To First In Boys League After Close Win
The Elks beat Rotary 8 to 7 securing a playoff chance for first in the boys league. Kiwanis would tie them with a Thursday win over the Legion, leading to a championship game on Friday July 16. In women’s play Meden moved to second with a win over Black X high.
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Elks
Kiwanis
Meden
Black X
Rotary
Legion
Harrison Howard
The
Sargent
Osbourne
Coppin
Banning
Banks
Hazlett
Rotary Legion
Rotarians
Orr
Grade School Undergoing Renovation in Dillon
Summer repairs and cleaning are under way at Dillon grade school per Superintendent O. K. Moe. Three rooms are being cleaned and refinished while desks chairs and floors are revarnished. A new water inlet installed. Plans include filling in the playground and removing two aging trees. A new stoker may be added in the Bagley building to save fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Supt. O. K. Moe
Bagley
Beaverhead Boy Scout Drive Ends with $475 Raised
Beaverhead county wrap up of a Scout fundraiser reports $475 donated with more funds expected. T. W. Sargent, financial chair, calls the drive highly successful as captains Joe White, Claude Lay and Bill Hill led Beaverhead to join six counties in the Vigilante council. Funds support upcoming Scout activities and the formation of new troops in the six county area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaverhead
T. W. Sargent
Sargent
Joe White
Claude Lay
Bill Hill
Deer Lodge
Silver Bow
Jefferson
Madison
Powell
Vigilante Council
Duck Stamps On Sale For Hunters This Season
Government announces 1943 44 duck stamp on sale at all post offices starting July 1. Stamp costs $1 and funds waterfowl refuges via the Fish and Wildlife Service. Central image features two wood ducks. stamps available singly or in blocks and sheets of 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay McCarthy
Harold L. Ickes
Walter E. Bohl
Wisconsin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Town to Send Bergeson to Washington for War Activities Plan
Beaverhead county War Activities committee has surveyed Montana State Normal college facilities and prepared a summary for O A Bergeson to present in Washington D C. Governor Ford and Chancellor Melby back the effort to bring war activity to Dillon and the college. The plan supports training for any branch of the armed forces for both men and women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaverhead County
War Activities Committee
Montana State Normal College
O. A. Bergeson
Washington, D. C
R. M. Barrett
Bergeson
Washington
State Board of Education
Missoula
Sam C. Ford
Ernest O. Melby
Army
Navy
Marines
Barrett
Dillon
Former Dillonite named member of Montana war council
Tom D. Caverly, ex Dillon newspaperman and former chair of Montana preparedness council, named by Gov. Sam C. Ford to the Montana War council. Also named were R. E. Trowle of Helena and Glenn D. Faulkner of Montana. governor and agriculture commissioner serve ex officio as chairman and secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom D. Caverly
Dillon
Sam C. Ford
Montana War Council
War Council
Caverly
Montana Preparedness and Advisory Council
War Production Board
Helena
Valier
R. E. Trowle
Glenn D. Faulkner
Missoula
Demonstrations Planned This Week Across Three Homes
Demonstrations are set this week at Mrs. W. C. Jones home for Wise River tomorrow and at the Melrose event in the community hall on Friday. Today the Jackson demonstration occurred at Mrs. Wendell Jardine’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wise River
W. C. Jones
Melrose
Jackson
Wendell Jardine
Volunteers Sign Up to Fight Fires in Dillon
Dillon fire control training program begins with volunteers recruited by Undersheriff Claude Lay and Agt. F A Ralston. Volunteers will be paid when fighting forest or Taylor grazing fires after a two hour training session at Birch creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Claude Lay
Bagley Building
Supt. O. K. Moe
Otto Sassman
John Wedum
Cloyd Shaver
Dave Hier
Montrose Everett Dingley
Sam Langdorf
William Waugh
Fishermen Fined for Closed Waters Violation
Judge Stahl fined three Salt Lake men William Noonchester Lee Brown and E E Scott $27.50 each after they pleaded guilty to fishing in closed waters near Armstead Horse Prairie Creek Game Warden Charles Price arrested them for the violation The offenders were caught in Horse Prairie creek closed waters while fishing near Armstead
Gasoline Ration Hours Set By Stations in Dillon
Corrected report shows each Dillon station operating under a 72 hour weekly limit for A B and C rations with varied schedules. Texaco Husky Conoco Shell Farmers Union Montana Auto Paddock Tyro and J W Walters list their hours six days a week with Sundays partially open or closed per policy.
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The
Examiner
Dillon
Texaco
Husky
Conoco
Bey
Shell
Farmers’ Union
Montana Auto Sales Co
Paddock _o Tyro
J. W. Walters
Stocker Family Likely Visits Grant Residents
Mr and Mrs Ross Stocker and their daughter Shirley of Grant visited town Thursday afternoon. Mar got Luebben returned to the ranch with them for a visit of a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Stocker
Shirley of
Grant
Margot Luebben
Recreation School Is Successful at Bagley and Primary
Summer sessions of the primary and grade schools reach the halfway mark with attendance expected to match the first half. The Bagley building operates as a recreation school offering Spanish arts and crafts piano dramatics fancy work and swimming for girls and boys league baseball and storytelling. The primary school runs as a workshop for students in a college refresher teacher training program with two Spanish divisions and arts and crafts classes including soap carving and leather tooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. K. Moe
Bagley
Octavia Graves
Ernest Luebben
Jean Bishop
Lila
Mary Emerick
Mary Hansen
Estelle Waldorf
New President of Rotarians Assumes Post
Joe G. White officially took the gavel as incoming Rotary president for the coming year at last night’s meeting when committees were named and the new president installed. Lambert Eliel praised the retiring president T. V. Sargent and thanked E. E. Hazel and Tom Gilbert for long service. Dr. Sheldon E. Davis installed White as president. Sargent handed the gavel. White announced a Rotary breakfast in Butte next Sunday morning. Committees were listed for club service program membership finance vocational service fellowship community service inter-club rural urban public health and crippled children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe G. White
Rotary
Lambert Eliel
T. V. Sargent
E. E. Hazel
Tom Gilbert
Fred Bridenstine
Sheldon E. Davis
Sargent
White
Butte
Mike Gallagher
Billings
Rotary International
Bert Megquier
Sam Wilkinson
Frank Tyre
Jack Roberts
S. F. Erwin
Ed Buck
W. J. Bierrum
Fred Honeychurch
George Gosman
Ed Hilger
Joe Wedum
H. M. Brundage
A. F. Waldorf
R. D. Curry
Fred Woodside
J. W. Walters
W. A. Stephan
C. J. Hovren
J. G. Mattingly
H. M. Brundagé
O. A. Bergeson
J. W. Rees
Ben Davis
T. E. Luebben
T. V._Sargent
Harold Snow
Volunteer Fire School schedule for Beaverhead County
Beaverhead county coordinates volunteer fire training as districts complete plans. Fire leaders notified of appointments while sessions in Elk Horn, Still Creek, and multiple districts advance. Training covers fire control and suppression. state law allows drafting ages 18 to 55, but county relies on volunteers.
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Beaverhead
W. B. Willey
W. W. Hawkins
OCD
John Troupe
Mr. Willey
Elkhorn
Favre L. Eaton
Sheridan
Bill Schowe
Twin Bridges
Dillon
A. A. Schroeder
Rock Creek
Reichle
Wisdom
Morrison
Stet
Krause
Ruby Creek
Beaverhead County
Circus truck overturns near college injures ropster
A Seibling Brothers circus truck overturned on a highway curve near the college, plowing into a fire hydrant and causing a minor flood. The wooden trailer splintered, the cab dented, but the truck’s motor remained undamaged. One roustabout suffered a broken rib. the other escaped serious injury. City water officials shut off the main about 30 minutes later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seibling Brothers Circus
College
Community Canning Project Advances In Dillon
Community members in Dillon approved a canning project at a city meeting led by William Evans from the high school. The plan calls for a 106 quart pressure cooker at the Aldrus hotel kitchen with a per can cost under five cents including the can. Each housewife will prepare her own produce using cleaning blanching canning sealing cooking and cooling steps with garden fresh vegetables. The next meeting is slated in about two weeks with exact date to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Cannir
Willia Evans
Aidrus
Mr. Evans
Police Catch Victory Garden’s Four-Legged Thief
City police last Saturday apprehended a brown four legged thief wearing a single white sock at the Victory Garden bar dit. The animal, a vegetable wrecking culprit, now awaits bail as owners soothe irate gardeners.
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Gardeners-For-Victory
Accurate Replica Of Sloop of War In Store Window
A true replica of the Hartford sloop of war is on display in the Westwood store window. Built from actual blueprints by W. Mackenhaupt Dillon, the model is about three feet long and rigging and details are exact down to the smallest feature.
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Hartford
Sloop of War
Westwood
Actua
W. Mackenhaupt
Dillon
Hart Ord
Gasoline Explosion Sparks Cabin Fire at Skinners Meadow
A cabin at Skinners Meadow caught fire Tuesday when heat from a stove ignited uncovered gasoline fumes behind the stove. Forest officials say the cabin was broken into and gas left uncovered. Trail crew extinguished the blaze. Charles Berry, a crew member, suffered serious burns and was taken to Barrett Hospital.
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Skinners Meadow
Charles Berry
Barrett Hospital
Mr. and Mrs Carl Knoll Visit Polaris in Dillon
Mr and Mrs Carl Knoll of Polaris were Dillon visitors on Friday. They stopped to tour local landmarks and meet with residents during their brief stay in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Knoll
Polaris
Dillon
Auto Use Tax Stamps Issued with July 15 Deadline
Five hundred auto use stamps for the quarter starting July 1 are issued by the post office. The cost is five dollars and must be displayed on every vehicle in use on July 1 1943. Delinquent owners will be subpoenaed and penalized starting July 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay McCarthy
Lewis Penwell
Internal Revenue
District of Montana
Helena
Penwell
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Jess Roberts
Navy Seabees
Camp Park
Calif
Gene Hinton
Curtiss- Wright Technical Institute
Glendale
Gene
Army Air Corps
Florida
Curtiss-Wright Institute
Cpl
Don Julson
England
Don
Harry Smith
Winn’s
Smith
North Africa
R. A. Pedersen
A/S Co
Camp Waldron
U. S. Naval Training Station
Farragut
Idaho
Gerry Giem
Lee England
Scotts Field
H. M. Warner
Robert
Bob
Robert M. Warner
H. Q
Pl. S.A.W. Bn
Drew Field
Tampa, Fla
Mary Dawn
Women’s Reserve
Marine Corps
Bill Pedersen
Hans Pedersen
Bill
Metlen
Ranch Magazine
Clemow Ranch
Mark Clemow
Big Hole Basin
Montana
Montana State College
Bozeman
D. A. Bergeson
War Activities Representative
Dillonite
Lay and
Ralston
Recreation School
Jim Mansfield
Andrus Hotel
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