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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1954
Page
6
Beaverhead county wheat growers vote next Friday July 23 at 9 am to 6 pm on marketing quotas for the 1955 crop. The outcome affects price support levels and penalties for noncompliance with acreage allotments, with mail or in person voting options and county polling at the city hall.
The state ASC office announces extensions to the Farm Storage Facility Loan Program through June 30, 1955. The program, begun in 1949, offers direct and guaranteed loans via lending agencies for on farm grain storage facilities. Changes include a 1 percent service fee with a $5 minimum, an 80 percent maximum loan cap, removal of the 45 cent per bushel capacity limit, and state ASC committee approval required for loans over $2,500. Applications and forms are at county ASC offices.
Ralph Huntley of Wisdom is chosen for membership on the Montana Beef Council created by the Montana Stockgrowers association executive council. The council aims to promote beef sales with cooperation from the Montana Livestock Markets association to finance and operate sales promotion efforts. Other stockgrowers on the council include President Dan Fulton Ismay Joan Black Hinsdale Senator Walter Donahoe White Sulphur Springs. The group will match Huntley’s membership with the Livestock Markets association. It also funded State Extension Service housewives schools to spread beef information across Montana.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Fenner have been visiting relatives in Dillon and left for Glacier Park and Banff yesterday They plan to return to Pasadena via Vancouver BC and down the coast Mrs Fenner is the former Ruth Innes of Dillon and Mr Fenner once lived here as a boy
Robert McCoy serves as minister at Lima Lima Community Church with Sunday school at 10 am morning worship at 11 am youth program at 3 pm and evening worship at 8 pm. Prayer meeting is Wednesday at 8 pm and youth recreation occurs Thursday at 7 30 pm.
Obituary details Daniel L. Altmeyer born April 1 1888 Loggin Iowa died July 10 in Great Falls. He lived in Power County Idaho Lima and Great Falls with family, leaving son Jack and five grandchildren. Community notices include church events and local club reports with social details and reflections on town life.
Workmen remove the aging loading ramp and platform at the freight depot once plagued by a rubbish fire. Decaying timbers are taken out to reduce fire risk to the freight warehouse and nearby structures. The fire was blamed on transient workers who used the under platform shelter.
The plan calls for a semi cloverleaf traffic distribution system on about 94 miles of highway from Butte to nearby towns. Two 12 by 12 steel concrete boxes north of the Propane plant mark the first phase built by Dudley Construction of Great Falls. The project, estimated at two million dollars and lasting two years, includes highway overpasses and box structures to handle heavy truck traffic. Right of way easements have been acquired with some still to be cleared.
Readers with knowledge of Bonnie Darlington are asked to contact Dillon Jaycee president George Brown. Bonnie won a top prize for catching the largest fish in the girls class at the derby but was not notified due to an error.
Clayton Nelson, pastor, leads Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning service at 11 a.m. Evangelistic service at 7:30 p.m. Mid week service Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Take your vacation but not from God. You and yours are invited to attend Sunday school and church.
The Methodist Church invites all visitors to Sunday school at 10 am with Delmer L. Morgan as superintendent. Morning service begins at 11 am with organist Helen Tysdal and a sermon by Pastor R N Johnstone.
Rev E W Goodrick leads Sunday school at 9 45 am and morning service at 11 am with evening service at 8 pm. Wednesday prayer meeting is at 8 p m.
John Spencer, Pastor leads morning worship at 11 a.m. on Sundays with Holy Communion on the second Sunday each month. Registration requested at 10 45 a.m. All are invited to worship.
St Rose Parish schedules Masses on Sundays at Dillon at 8 00 and 10 00 am Limsa at 10 30 am first Sunday Melrose at 10 00 am third Sunday and fifth Sunday when occurs Jackson at 9 30 am fourth Sunday of each month.
The church will present a Sunday service highlighting the practical value of Bible truths in daily life. Scriptural selections include II Timothy 2:15 and Isaiah 25:9 1, with readings from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. The lesson emphasizes truth as guidance and the faithfulness of old counsels.
Beaverhead county home demonstration club members, led by Geraldine G Fenn and Mrs Lara B Penwell, sent scrapbooks about rural life to Switzerland Netherlands and Scotland. Recipients include Mr and Mrs Point Veld and Mr and Mrs Sandy Stewart and Mr and Mrs Ruedi Mumenthaler, all connected to IFYE exchanges.
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