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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1953
Page
1
Teachers at Beaverhead County High select 11 juniors for Boy State sessions. With sponsorship from Rotary Club Boy Scouts VFW and other groups the delegates will travel to Bay State sessions from August 23 to September 1 under school and sponsor approval.
Funeral services for Fred Waldorf 79 were held at St James Episcopal Dillon with burial at Mountain View Cemetery. He died suddenly May 2 at work in Dillon. Survivors include wife Alma. daughter Estelle Fir ney San Gabriell Cal. son George Morse Waldorf Arcadia Calif. four grandchildren. brother Paul Vance Walker Dillon. sister Harriet Thole Harlowton. several other relatives. Waldorf was a longtime Dillon Lodge member and Vestryman at St James.
Beaverhead county high school students Connie South Nora Lee Jones and Louis Richardson and coach James Stroud took part in the Montana Inter scholastic meet at Montana State University. Louis Richardson delivered What Are We Building by Paul E Raymond. Connie South gave a humorous declamation. Nora Lee Jones presented China Blue Eyes by Alma Prudence Boss and Teenicide by Marcia Reamers.
Memorial Day events bring a double holiday with most stores closed Saturday May 30 and a 10 45 am parade led by Lt John D Lor. George M Gosman will give the Memorial Day address at Dylons mt Mole taggue near Inaho and Sebree streets, with VFW and Lincoln Whipple Post sponsors and all veteran groups expected to join.
Four Dillon Girl Scouts earned full camperships for selling 100 boxes each, including Marian Dingley Caryl Nelson Doris Taylor and Diana Squires. Nine received half camperships for 50 boxes, led by Shirley Currey Molly Hart Joanne Nettik Patsy Contway Gleanne Foster Billie Ann McFadden Linda Sawyer Kathleen Sweeney Colleen Kirby. Sixteen earned $300 toward camp by selling 25 boxes, listed as Judy Comfort Joan Gransberry Ann Jones Donna Lessey Sandra Peterson Patsy Childs Gayle Jendresen Sharon Senon Patsy Smyth Shirla Weston Barbara Kelly Marilyn Bogus Mary K Straugh. Camp attendance required to use camperships.
Graduation activities surround Beaverhead county and Western Montana college with ceremonies for graduates from the college, high school, and grade schools. Lt. Gov. Gosman will address eightieth graders at West Montana college auditorium, with diplomas to 70 students.
The 1948 modern comedy Jenny Kissed Me by Jean Kerr will be staged in the Western Montana college auditorium Monday evening June 1 as the commencement production. Ras Sumon plays Father Moynihan with Des Greenfield as Michael Saunders and Virginia Parks as Mrs Deasy in a lively three act farce about wit, reform, and a rector’s clash with a housekeeper and young scholars. The Gargoyles drama club produced the play, directed by Joe Ryburn with Laverne Willows assisting and Betty Haulman in charge of properties.
The Dillon city council will hold its regular June meeting at 8 p.m. on Wednesday June 3 at city hall. Since May the council has met with engineers and attorneys regarding the sewer situation. The session is open to the public and routine business will be addressed.
Local Dillon pages carry greetings from businesses to the 1953 graduates of Western Montana College of Education Beaverhead County High School Lima High School Lima Grade School Dillon Public Schools and rural grade schools. The Dillon Examiner urges graduates to heed the encouraging messages and seek inspiration from the notices.
Memorial service to honor deceased armed forces members will be held Friday May 29 at 8 p.m. at Mountain View cemetery under Beaverhead American Legion Post No 20 with support from Lloyd Whipple VFW Post 4163 and Company D 163rd Armored Cavalry Montana National Guard. Rev Arthur Lord will deliver the address. Firing squads, color guards, a wreath, taps, and a public loudspeaker message will mark the ceremony. Edward Swetish leads the event.
A. D. chapter of Dillon will be hostess to Montana PEO chapters for the state convention at Dillon June 7 8 9 10. State president Mrs Iva Lee Orr of Dillon and her staff are arranging a program to be held at convention headquarters at Western Montana college.
The Chemocrat club of Beaverhead County High School held its yearly picnic at Stone Creek on May 17. Members enjoyed hiking and food cooked over an open fire during the outing.
Francis M. Gibbons a Beaverhead county figure and World War II veteran was buried with full military honors at Mountain View Cemetery after dying May 20 from an accident on a Montview Idaho project. Beavershead post 20 American Legion led the rites with pallbearers Ralph Davis Bilk Tritt Bill Schmidt Paul Schwab Dick Pierce and Tom Pierce. A native of Ireland he came to the United States as a boy and rose to statewide fame as a high school basketball player and Golden Gloves boxer. He is survived by widow Evelyn of Idaho Falls, his father Martin Gibbons of Dillon, two children from a former marriage Jack and Carlee in Dillon, his mother and a brother Tor in Portland, a brother Vincent of Alberton, and a sister in Los Angeles.
Montana extension service announces the Big Three 4-H awards for the year including 18 college scholarships totaling 5100 dollars. Top boy and girl in each program win trips to the 1953 4-H congress in Chicago along with numerous other trips, statues, watches, and medals. Ford Motor Co and donors fund the awards. county agents provide details.
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