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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1948
Page
12
At Los Angeles Union Stock Yards the week showed irregular cattle prices with a general downturn while hogs and lambs rose. Cattle supplies were larger with cows hardest hit, vealers and calves firming late, and hogs ending steady to slightly higher though overall ranges remained wide.
The forecast for this year predicts Montana California and Washington will produce more than 6 million pounds less mustard than last year and reach the smallest crop since 1939. Montana accounts for about 90 percent of the three state output.
Top honors in the 1948 Montana 4-H better club meetings contest went to the Helena Valley Stock 4-H club in Lewis and Clark County. State Club Leader T. W. Thompson of Montana State College announced honorable mention for Blaine, Carbon, Cascade, Chateau, Hill, Saunders and Yellowstone counties.
The Give The Kids A Brake program backed by the National Safety Council and approved by the National Association of Police Chiefs of America plus the National PTA launches with The General Tire & Rubber Company to educate children and adults about road safety. Ned H Dearborn lauds the effort as a top public service. Sergt William Fouts praises the Schoolboy Patrols role, while the poster earns a second prize in Outdoor Advertising Art. William O Neil notes the national scope and safeguarding aim of the campaign.
Edna Panasuk returns to Saco Mont to teach this year. Clark Huntley family heads to Seattle for Helen Busch school. Surprise birthday party for Mrs Harry Helming features pinochle. Wisdom Chapter No 67 O E S resumes meetings at Masonic temple. Postmaster Neidt returns to work after vacation. Pearl Miller covers the post office during absence.
The Riggs farm home near Riverton Wyoming hosted Mountain States Telephone and Telegraphs millionth phone installation witnessed by Cheyenne and Denver officials. Carroll A Riggs, a World War II veteran, farms 160 acres on the North Riverton Irrigation Project after military service and 1947 reclamation work.
A Riverton Wind River project draw selects a qualifying applicant who moves to land 14 miles north of Riverton in 1948. The one millionth Mountain States telephone is installed and inaugurated with a ceremony attended by Governor Lester C. Hunt and local officials. A commemorative certificate is presented, highlighting rapid postwar growth across the Mountain States system and Montana's substantial gains in telephone deployment.
Mrs Florence E Stone of Helena is spending her vacation here as a house guest of Mrs Lillian enneberry.
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