Beav erhead County Ten Sign Up for Soil Bank Program
Ten Beaverhead County winter wheat growers have enrolled for 2,667 acres under the Soil Bank 1957 winter wheat acreage reserve. If they comply, payments total 54 553.95. statewide, 1 482 farmers cover 102 797 acres with payments 2 319 449.61. Eligible voters may return ASC ballots by December 5 for election of community committee members. Weston urged participation.
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Beaverhead
Soil Bank
Weston
County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
Leo S. Kolstad
ASC
Kolstad
Voter Ballots Delivered With Envelopes For Convenience
The notice states ballots will be delivered with addressed envelopes to speed processing and aid voters. It emphasizes timely distribution to ensure ballots reach voters without delay.
Civil Service Exam Offered for Dillon Post Office
The Eleventh U S Civil Service Region announces a substitute post office clerk and carrier exam for Dillon. Entrance pay is 1.82 dollars per hour. Residents within the Dillon delivery area or bona fide patrons or employees may apply. Applications due by December 10 1956 at the Seattle regional office.
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Dillon Post Office
Dillon
Te Bona Fire
U. S. Civil Service Region
Federal Office
Seattle
Washington
Public invited to inspect KDBM broadcasting station
The article invites the general public to visit the KDBM broadcasting station during broadcast hours to witness the live programs. It notes Mr Oliphant, a Washington State College Radio Department graduate, as a staff member who has worked at stations in Pullman Lewiston and Moscow.
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Oliphant
Radio Department
Washington State College
Pullman
Wash
Lewiston
Moscow
Idaho
Safety Practices Highlight Rotary Meeting
Eugene Hamilton of Butte used scale models to illustrate safety around electricity at the weekly Rotary luncheon. Leonard Mashino chaired and introduced guests Al Simon, Dale Conover, Frank Murphy, and Ronald Swanson. Ladies Night is set for December 3 at the Elks Club with dinner. tickets available from W. E. Fry, Charles Seifert, and Dr. Warren Monger.
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Eugene Hamilton
Butte
Rotary Club
Leonard Mashino
al Simon
Dale Conover
Frank Murphy
Ronald Swanson
Hamilton
Montana Power Company
Elks Club
W. E. Fry
Charles Seifert
Warren Monger
Farm Bureau meeting raises funds for Dillon Fire Department
A $100 check was given to Dillon Volunteer Fire Department Chief Al Simon and Fireman John Harr, representing total proceeds from a dance. Mrs. Downing reported progress on the money making project. Vilas Banning presided with Bernard Harkness taking over as county meeting chair. The evening ended with a pot luck lunch and a Three Stooges musical pantomime by Patty Sneed, Wanda Pilgrim and Donna Nelson. Recommendations for state convention include restocking streams, refinancing the university levy after 1958, study of underground water needs, Farm Bureau insurance, tax law revision, and government reorganization for efficiency. The group supported beef promotion, added predators to the list, urged penalties for littering campers, backed reduced freight and fuel prices, and pest control expansion for budworm eradication.
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Patty Sneed
Wanda Pilgrim
Donna Nelson
County Bureau
Montana Fish & Game Commission
State University
State Farm Bureau
Bureau
Montana and
National Beef Council
Paving Route Discussion at Dillon Meeting
Mayor Lovell urged owners to come forward with objections to the curb to curb paving on Helena and Atlantic streets to avoid delays. Speakers stressed the need for rapid street improvements and shared costs plus a city wide storm sewer upgrade. Aldermen present included Robertson Magnus Bond Puyear Herman Orr Sargent with Cottom absent. Some Atlantic and North Montana property owners opposed the double assessment due to heavy tax burdens.
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Helena Street
Atlantic Street
Lovell
Dillon
Carl Robertson
Max Magnus
E. W. Bond
Paul Puyear
Arlo Herman
Matt Orr
T. W. Sargent
Phil Cottom
Montana Street
County officials weigh street route near high school
Elmer Petersen, a rancher and county high school trustee, asked the board to rescind previous objections to the Helena Atlantic street route. He cited a future highway west of town and a new vocational agriculture building as factors that would reduce truck menace and provide pavement benefits near the school.
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Elmer Petersen
Dillon
County High School
Helena
Atlantic and
Spruce Streets
FFA calf project leads to Gray Summit farm tour prize
Tom Pendergast describes a guest group of 400 visiting the Gray Summit lab and 738 acre research farm to view livestock feeding experiments and feed supplement research. The award stems from an FFA calf raising project begun last January using a Hereford calf raised and fed Purina by Freddie Backus.
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Tom Pendergast
Page
Gray Summit
St. Louis
Tash Ranch Company
Freddie Backus
FFA
Backus
Pendergast Attends Boys State Conclave in August
Auction proceeds financed the trip. Pendergast served as a delegate to the Boys State conclave held at Western College in August, organized by the Montana Department of the American Legion.
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Pendergast
Western College
Montana Department of the American Legion
Risley Expected Back Home Wednesday
B A Risley was expected to arrive home from Portland on Wednesday after surgery in a Portland hospital. He became ill during a coast vacation with Mrs Risley and expressed appreciation for flowers cards and other expressions from county friends while in the hospital.
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B. A. Risley
Portland
Mr. Risley
Mrs. Risley
Long Time Resident Leaves Dillon for Colorado
George Baldwin a longtime Dillon resident and former Bedrock rancher left Dillon Friday for Greeley Colorado to visit his sister Mrs. Alice M Stephens for several months Baldwin has lived in the county more than 51 years He recalled the 1908 to 1912 period when Dillon was a thriving horse market and sent many horses to Army remount stations in the west The Dillon horse market was a key supply point for cavalry horses for the U S and British armies with local stockmen including the P O Ranch breeding cavalry type horses for the market
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George Baldwin
Dillon
Bedrock
Greeley
Colo
Alice M. Stephens
Baldwin
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Lois
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