George H. Larsen War Veteran Dies at 66
The World War I veteran George H. Larsen, 66, died Sunday night at his home in Dillon Montana after long illness. Funeral held from Brundage chapel with American Legion burial rites at Mountain View cemetery. Survived by wife Myrtle sisters Josephine Stapley and Dayton Fenter maker brother Wilford H. Larsen and several nieces nephews. half-sisters in Spanish Fork Utah.
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George H. Larsen
Brundage
Mountain View Cemetery
American Legion
North Washington Street
Spanish Fork
Utah
Bertha Hansen
Lars Hansen
Montana
P& O
Beaverhead Ranch
Craig Cornell
Camp Lewis
Wash
166Th
Beaverhead Post
Judge Padbury to Stand Trial in Helena for Mail Fraud
Judge George W. Padbury of Helena will face trial June 24 on charges of using the mails to defraud and conspiring to defraud. He is to be tried with John R. Phillips and Louise Phillips in connection with the 1951 gasoline tax refund swindle. All pleaded innocent at arraignment. Ronald James Weiss of Helena, 16, earned the Distinguished Rifleman medal from the National Rifle Association, becoming a top junior rifleman after months of competition and multiple ratings.
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United Press
Helena
George W. Padbury
H. H. Walker
Padbury
John R. Phillips
Louise Phillips
Montana
National Rifle Association of America
Ronald James Weiss
Weiss
National Rifle Association
Highway Lab Is Started in Helena Construction
Earth moving operations began on the $886,172 project to build the new State laboratory building south of Helena. The work advances a key state facility and will employ local crews during the construction phase.
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Highway Lab
Helena
State Laboratory
Kalispell Bid Wins State Building Project Aboard
The Mitchell building by Riedesel Construction of Billings won a 566 300 general construction bid at a May 3 board of examiners meeting for a state health board and highway commission project. Previous bids under 900 000 failed to meet appropriation rules. Officials say earthmoving work will begin once forms are filed. Kalispell union chief George H. Gohn resigns amid Anaconda aluminum strike disputes. Montana meat and crop prices show mixed movements with hog slaughter down in May.
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Mitchell
Riedesel Construction Company
Billings
Board
State Health Board and
Highway Commission
Kalispell
Kalispell Building and Construction Trades Council
George H. Gohn
Anaconda
Columbia Falls
Gohn
Flathead Valley
Helena
Montana
Monitana Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Montana Crop and Livestock Service
Conoco Introduces New Double Duty Motor Oil
Conoco unveils New Super Motor Oil marketed as America’s first double duty motor oil. Kenneth Kennedy notes extensive research with 118,000 man hours and 1.5 million miles of testing before market launch. Advertising will run in The Examiner and via radio TV and farm trade papers.
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Houston. Tex
Conoco
Rio Grande
Continental Oil Company
America
Harry J Kennedy
Kennedy
Continental
Conoco Oil
Examiner
Conoco Super Motor Oil
Saturday Evening Post
Collier's
Grade School Band Invited to Buttes Jubilee Parade
The grade school band directed by Don Wheat has been invited to participate in the parade linked to Butte Diamond Jubilee celebrations. A Bitterroot river sandbar auto found by two fishermen near Fort Missoula contains the body of Henry Svendsen, last seen in fall 1952. Coroner Ralph Simmons suspects current carried the car from a bridge site to the sandbar, where Svendsen apparently drove into the Bitterroot.
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Don Wheat
Butte
Missoula
Bitterroot
Henry Svendsen
Fort Missoula
Svendsen
Ralph Simmons
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Dillon Examiner
Dillon
Butte-Dillon
Moos Nl
William Cashore
Center Square
Washington
Laura Holmes
St. Louis
National Press Photogs
Deborah Kerr
Licia Albanese
RCA Victor
Deborah
Licia
New York Life Insurance Co
Irene R. McFadden
St. Atlantic St
Ceonoco
Colorado Rockies
Fairbanks Morse Deep Well
Fairbanks Morse
Fairbanks-Morse
Rly
Goodall
Genuine Montana Agate
Andrus Hotel
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