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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1956
Page
2
W. E. Fry, forest supervisor of the Beaverhead, is in Billings for the Montana Stockgrowers Association 72nd annual convention. He is expected to return to Dillon on Wednesday.
Loren M. Eberline of Dillon received a contract to break and disc about 130 acres on Argenta Flats. Beaverhead Forest officials announced the planning is for a revegetation project at Argenta Range.
The Forest Service and cooperating landowners plan reseeding this summer in the Rattlesnake watershed near Dillon. Crested wheatgrass and hard fescue will be used to improve ranges and water beds. Supervisors, contractors, and regional staff continue to finalize program details.
Beaverhead Forest road work progresses toward completion at Battlefield Monument site. Mickey Durant notes high water on the North Fork of the Inhole may delay final completion.
Forest officials report progress toward eradicating the Spruce Budworm this summer in Beaverhead area. Thomas Terrell of the Forest Insect Laboratory Missoula and Paul Hoskins accompanied by Harvey Rowland and Vance Warren surveyed area damage in Centennial Valley Gravelly Range Lima and surrounding timber stands.
Carl W. Simpson of Dillon and Bea verhead range conservationist returned from a survey of range revegetation projects. Sage brush eradication was the main objective with sites in Argenta Flats Horse Prairie Little Deadman creek Ruby river and Madison district ranges. A 60 acre spring sagebrush burn near Little Deadman creek was completed on May 17 by Ranger Hoskins and crew.
Reports to authorities this week cite burglaries of private homes and cabins in Bannack. Forrest Herr’s property was ransacked with theft of money clothes a valuable heirloom watch and other items. Earlier a mineshaft and buildings suffered forced entry and extensive damage. The ghost town remains inhabited amid public outrage.
Two Dillon students in the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry will be honored at Scholastic Achievement Day at Mayo Memorial Auditorium. Robert Romers and Merrill Packer, both first year dental students, earned B average or better. Romers prepared at Western Montana College. his father Dr. Romers is a Dillon dentist.
Mrs. Carl W. Smith, daughter of Mrs. Lenore McCollum of Illnn, writes from Semboth near Kaiserslautern Germany where Lt. Smith is reassigned by the Air Force. She and their daughter Gretchen Marie recall a brilliant tulip fete in Holland and note postwar towns rising from war ruins in Holland and western Germany.
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