Chiefs and Secretaries of District Set to Visit Dillon
Montana Rotary presidents and secretaries will attend the Dillon club’s annual district executives assembly Monday and Tuesday. District Governor Fred Bennion of Bozeman leads the event with planned business sessions and entertainment including a banquet Monday and a golf tournament. Committees were named at the Dillon club meeting to finalize the program.
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Montana Rotary Clubs
Dillon Club
Fred Bennion
Bozeman
Dillon Rotary
O. A. Bergeson
Montana geography author McBain pens fifth and seventh grade text
J Ford McBain professor of science and geography at Montana State Normal College wrote a Montana geography book issued by a Boston firm. The work targets fifth and seventh grade classrooms and builds on his Montana geography studies. Continued on page 8.
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J. F. McBain
Normal College
Montana
J. Ford McBain
Montana State Normal College
Boston
Dramatics Classes at College Filling Up
Summer dramatics at Montana State Normal College are active with two one act plays staged at the weekly assembly and a children's theatre performance scheduled for Saturday at 2 30 in the college auditorium. The fantasy The Blue Prince by Alice C D Riley will be produced under Mary Emanuel with a mixed cast of college and training school students including Carrie Leyson Ina McCracken Winifred Regan May Sprinkle June Johnson Giovanna Cardinali Dorothy Anne Gosman Eileen Grimes Mickie Callaghan Pattie Curry and Bunnie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State Normal College
Blue Prince
Alice C. D. Riley
Mary Emanuel
Carrie Leyson
Ina McCracken
Winifred Regan
May Sprinkle
June Johnson
Giovanna Cardinali
Dorothy Anne Gosman
Eileen Grimes
Mickie Callaghan
Pattie Curry
Bunnie
Aged former matron Annie McGee dies in Missoula
Mrs. Annie McGee 81 long time Dillon and Beaverhead valley resident died at her daughter’s Mis soula home last Sunday from complications of old age. She lived on a Dillon ranch for many years and left behind numerous friends.
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Annie McGee
Dillon
Beaverhead Valley
Missoula
McGee
Forest fire rages atop Continental Divide near Salmon and Wisdom
A large blaze driven by high winds grows to about 3500 acres on the Continental Divide between Salmon and Wisdom. About 175 fire fighters have been dispatched from Dillon with more trucks and crews arriving. officials suspect lightning started the fire, which spread before containment efforts began. The incident follows a three-car collision near Dillon’s river bridge with no injuries.
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Salmon
Wisdom
Dillon
Salmon Forestry Office
Continental Divide
Sacajawea Monument Petition Sent To Officials
A Beaverhead Mining association petition seeks a national Sacajawea monument at about 140 acres atop Lemhipasa, near the Lewis and Clark route, with Idaho urging federal action and President Hoover to consider the site. George Knapp, Beaverhead pioneer miner, dies at 90 in Argenta.
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Sacajawea
the Interior
Joseph M. Dixon
Roy B. Herndon
Beaverhead Mining Association
Hoover
Lemhipasa
Lewis and Clark
Rocky Mountains
Miasouri
Beaverhead
Lemhi
Idaho
Herndon
Beaverhead Commissioners Open Series of Budget Equalization Sessions
The Beaverhead county board of commissioners met in special session as a board of equalization and as a board of preliminary budget. The equalization session runs to August 10 with daily adjournments. Taxpayer protests should be filed with Clerk Albert S. Baker.
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Beaverhead
New Forest Supervisor Appointed From Miles City
A. A. Simpson arrived last week from Miles City to take over as supervisor of the Beaverhead National Forest, replacing J. C. Whitman. He is accompanied by his family and had previously led the Custer forest with headquarters at Miles City. The board will meet August 10 after the regular session to approve the final budget and set the tax levy. Minutes from the July 6 meeting record budget transfers across several offices and note attendance.
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A.A. Simpson
Miles City
Beaverhead National Forest
J. C. Whitman
Dillon
Beaverhead
Whitham
Gallatin Forest
Simpson
Custer Forest
Eber Badcon Named Secretary to Seattle Mayor
Eber Badcon, once a Dillon resident and Beaverhead county high school graduate, was appointed secretary to Seattle mayor Robert Harlin after a recall vote. He lived in Dillon before World War II, later moved to Seattle, where he worked in mortgage lending and served in veterans organizations. His wife Marian Fergus Badcon worked at Montana State Normal College and Seattle Daily Times. they have two sons.
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Eber Badcon
Dillon
A. L. Badson
Seattle
Robert H. Harlin
Badcon
Beaverhead County
Washington
West Seattle
American Legion
West Side Republic Club
Seattle Forty and Eight
United Veterans Club
Marian Fergus Badcon
Montana State Normal College
Seattle Daily Times
Harold Badcon
Routledge Family Flees to Canada for Weeks Vacation
Mr and Mrs George Routledge and their small daughter moved to Canada in the latter part of last week and will spend their vacation at scenic Seeanaae lanes in Roe jes. They expect to be gone several weeks.
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George Routledge
Canada
Seeana Ae Lanes En Roe Jes
Warm Yesterday Not The Hottest Day In Dillon
Weather observer J. E. Monroe recorded a maximum of 91 degrees, one degree below Monday's 92 degree summer record. Despite strong winds, residents sweated in the heat, but the town did not reach its top temperature of the season.
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Dillon
J. E. Monroe
Beaverhead Booklet to be Written
Dillon and Beaverhead county will be nationally advertised this fall and during the winter and spring months following action of local business men who granted a permit to A Decker of Dillon and Tom Green of Greenfield Advertising Agency for publication of several thousand copies of a new illustrated book. Contract for the publication has already been let to The Examiner.
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Dillon
Beaverhead County
A. Decker
Tom Greenfield
Greenfield Advertising Agency
Butte
Examiner
Unidentified Man Found Near Wisdom
A man about 40 was found dead near the highway six miles east of Wisdom. The body was brought to Dillon and authorities found no clues to his identity or cause of death. No identifying marks or signs of foul play were reported.
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Wisdom
Dillon
Sue Ur
Montana highway costs top seven million for year
Montana's highway improvement program cost 7 172 920 90 during the fiscal year ending June 30. Payments to contractors totaled 5 173 826 62 or 72 13 percent of the total. Rights of way 376 483 58 signing 14 92 37 cents and more, with overhead at 6 36 percent.
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Helena
Montana
Highway Commission
Commission
Disapproval Plan In Court Blamed In Helena
The Montana state board heard that Billings and Havre schools will keep operating in borrowed quarters as financing falls short of constitutional needs. Billings will use about 31,000 square feet via the YMCA building. Havre will use the Junior high building and a four room brick campus unit. The board approved a cooperative contract for carbon county research between the Bureau of Mines U S and Princeton University. Fees at the State Normal School rose for summer and other quarters. The Havre associate in arts degree proposal was rejected. diplomas will be issued for two year graduates along with those from Dillon and Billings.
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Bureau of Mines
Princeton University
Carbon County
State Normal School
Havre
Dillon
Bilings
Five Years for Forgery Alias Ted Golden
Ted Golden alias Ted Jones received a five year sentence from District Judge Henry G. Rodgers after pleading guilty to forgery. He allegedly wrote bad checks using a Big Hole basin rancher’s name and cashed them at two local firms. In a separate incident, high winds felled the county fairgrounds grandstand under construction, injuring three workers including Edison Kent.
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Ted Golden
Ted Jones
Dish
Henry G. Rodgers
Goldens
Big Hole Basin
County Fairgrounds
Renfro Dominates at Billings State Trapshoot
Ted Renfro of Dell wins multiple titles at the Montana State Trapshoot in Billings. He loses the singles by one target to W. W. Rothrock of Billings but takes doubles in a shootoff against Joe Lattimer of Butte, wins the Brownlee medal, retains the all around title with a 96.3 average, and is elected MT Trapshooting Association vice president as Robert H. becomes president and Co. B. Smith is re-elected secretary.
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Ted Renfro
Dell
Montana
Billings
W. W. Rothrock
Renfro
Dellman
Joe Lattimer
Butte
Montana Trapshooting Association
Robert H
Co. B. Smith
Dillon Airmail Schedules Announced by Postmaster
Postmaster J C Fuller announces new Dillon airmail connections with mail placed by 10 45 a m on train No 30 southbound. Letters reach Salt Lake City by 11 55 p m the same night and arrive next day in Los Angeles San Diego and San Francisco with further connections to Cheyenne Denver Omaha Kansas City St Louis Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland New York and Boston.
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Denver
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Louis
Chicago
Cincinnati
Greveland
New York
Oston
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Dillon Man
Nels Nelson
Glen Dilley
Pilley
Nelson
Dilley
Frank Green
California
Bar
Beaverhead Forest
George Knapp
Argenta
Watertown
N. Y
Kansas
Wyoming
Addie Leonard
Bertha Shaffer
Lulu McDonald
Sarah Ledebur
Carrie Spafford
Ernest
Sidney
John
New Forest
A. A. Simpson
Hk Board of County Commissioners
Martin ©. Jackson
C. ¢. Gosman
Glork Albert
Clark and Recorder
Togal
Robert Harlin
Incourt
Edison Kent
John Kent
Arlie Zoliner
B.C. McAlpin
Kent
Billings State
J. C. Fuller
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
A. m
San Diego
San
Francisco
Cheyenne
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