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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1952
Page
6
The Wisdom Community Building association met at the Community building to plan building cleaning and discuss activities. Several Wisdom residents traveled to Butte for events and visits, with multiple antelope hunts, social gatherings, and attendance at the Ravalli county fair noted.
In Dillon’s 1952 rodeo weeks, men grew beards of various types for prizes. A panel of ladies judged the styles with winners including Albert Spencer for whitest beard Alvin Stocker for most novel Charlie Christie for reddest Ray Lynch for blackest Joe Bergeson for curliest and Mike Proulx for sparsest beard.
A family attended the Ice Follies in Butte Sunday evening while Mr Williams went to a stock sale Monday morning. Mrs. Bonnie Wheatley of Spokane teaches at Bristow School this year.
Ted and Chuck Haight vacationed in East Chicago with Charles Haight in Elkhorn Hot Springs. Mrs Marchesseau needed medical help after a fishing hook injury. James and Dodd visited Butte leaving baby Betty Jane for throat infection treatment at St James hospital. J D Harrison and family joined others to Butte to view Holiday on Ice. John Knoll returns from D L ranch for a short break.
Mrs Dan Piccone and guests including Margaret and Janey Bryan and Mr and Mrs Ashley Roberts travel through Glacier Park into Canada on a family motor trip this week. Mrs Jack Sturm hosts Glen Home Guard club with a health lesson by Mabel Piccone and plans for October meeting at Genevieve Buhrer's home. Mrs E D Terry of San Bernardino Calif visits Wayne Cummins with J M Cummins of Dillon also attending.
State tax collections through August totaled 20,805,469, according to the state equalization board, surpassing the previous year by over one million. Gasoline taxes reached 9,753,429 with 25 percent set aside for refunds on off highway use. Income tax receipts were 5,016,770 versus 4,215,240 in the 1951 period.
The campaigns of Rep Mike Mansfield and Sen Zales N Ecton are underway with Mansfield vowing to stay in Montana until the November election and visiting many cities. Ecton also toured several towns including Culbertson Froid Medicine Lake Reserve Plentywood Opheim and Scobey.
President Harry S. Truman is set to address dedication ceremonies for the Hungry Horse dam in Kalispell on October 7. Don Trevor, leader of the Flathead Valley Citizens committee, said Truman will alight from his special train at Columbia Falls and travel by motorcade to the site.
The Better Living show in Wisdom Montana runs Wednesday and Thursday September 17 and 18 starting at 2 PM each day. Montana Power company and Vigilante Electric Cooperative sponsor with local appliance dealers. Lois Coleman from Montana Power will lead demonstrations on electric ranges and home freezers plus stage cooking and food dollar stretching tips. Color sound movies entertain and inform. meals prepared on stage will be given away to audience members. No admission charge. residents invited.
Dillon city firefighters responded to a grass fire on East Glendale Street during a quiet afternoon shift. The blaze was extinguished with no property damage reported.
A note from a column recounts Ben and Belle’s honeymoon tale in Idaho. They visit a 100 foot wide town built in a canyon with a railroad through the hotel and gas station. The piece uses the joke to illustrate shared spaces and neighborly conduct for all communities and interests.
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