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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1941
Page
6
Highest temperature today 95.5 degrees set in 1910 with last year 87.55. Lowest today 40 to 43 with records for 1880 and 1920. Precipitation for the 24 hour period ending 6:30 p.m. not specified. Month to date 1.96 inches with a deficit of .09.
A new public relations division of the state highway department will publicize interstate highway moves and mileage for national defense. Howard W. Holmes, state highway engineer, leads the effort to inform the public, with a policy stressing cooperation and public enlightenment on highway programs amid wartime demands.
Local narrator Bud Beauchamp and his terrier O Casey endure a comic porcupine raid on the Beauchamp cabin near Canyon Creek. The porcupines gnawed the ice box, prompting a slapstick battle that echoes Bud’s fiction writings. Meanwhile Anton Nel chen, a longtime Helena resident, dies at 74 with services planned. Bud’s adventures mingle with obituary notices as spring unsettles life in Mon isow’s mountain.
Twenty four Montana youths including five from Helena enter the Ford Good Drivers finals at the Montana highway department with state finalists arriving Monday night and staying at the Placer hotel. The contest begins Tuesday with winners, one boy and one girl, to receive prizes at a banquet at 6 30 p m at the Placer, with Gov Ford awarding the prizes. Helena competitors include David K Rowand Mark Farris Jr K M Davis Claire Burgan and Dotina Palich.
Ruth E Chew, leader at the Unity Metaphysical center, contributes What Is It That We Have to a new book Mind 2 Remakes Your World, a symposium by 36 leaders in applied Christianity and the science of mind. The gathering at the local center tonight invites the public, with details for a Unity Metaphysical picnic and a Nashville trip noted.
Gertrude J. Buckles of Billings and Walter Muhlenburg of Bozeman were registered guests yesterday at the Placer and Harvey hotels respectively. C Nicholson of Great Falls and Mr. and Mrs. Ed D. B. Parsons of Missoula also stayed at the Harvey and Placer hotels. Thomas Gordon of Great Falls conducted business in Helena while W A Kimmerly of Avon and A C Sherrick of Bozeman were Helena visitors. William Hunter Sr. of Roundup and Conrad O. Orr of Dillon appeared as Helena visitors yesterday.
City Water System Subject of Story explains the Helena water department accounting system in the June Western City article. The piece, by an unnamed author at Western Municipal Leagues, details modernization, use of machines and billing methods, and notes decreased delinquencies since implementation.
Vital Statistics lists Mr and Mrs Adolph Burgrali of Wolf Creek as parents of a fourth daughter born yesterday at St John’s hospital. The infant joins siblings and expands local family ties in the community.
Charles J. Kenek, a former Helena resident, died in San Diego on June 14 at age 81. He came to Helena in 1872, left in 1894 for California, and lived near Del Mar. He is survived by a California widow and two sons, a daughter, and several relatives in Helena. Burial was at Itory Cross cemetery in San Diego.
Funeral services for H. E. Washburn 77 longtime Helena resident were held yesterday at 2 pm in the Opp and Conrad chapels. Burial followed in Forestvale Cemetery. Also granted citizenship to Andrew Magnus Leonard Lovley and Emile K Guth Sister Mary Theodosia by District Judge A J Horsky yesterday.
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