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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1955
Page
5
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Funeral services will be conducted in Butte for Mrs Elsie Victoria Bray former resident who died last Tuesday in The Dalles Oregon She was a Basin native and attended school in Butte marrying Roy Bray who died in 1946 She left in 1947 for The Dalles Surviving are her parents Mr and Mrs Otto Schubert of Butte sons Jim and Robert Bray of The Dalles brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Clarence Phalen of Los Angeles aunt Mrs Mary Polland of Baltimore Md and several nephews nieces and cousins The body is in White's Funeral Home.
Butte native Roberto Sampson, a Montana State College junior, was selected to receive a membership in the American Chemical Society funded by Dr. Jessie E. Richardson. The award honors a junior woman majoring in chemistry based on scholarship, and Sampson is also a Phi Kappa Phi member. She will receive Chemical and Engineering News weekly and one ACS monthly journal.
Butte trustees of School District No 1 will hold a meeting at 8 PM tonight in the School Administration Building to consider a resolution for land exchanges. The board plans to trade Wilson Park area property for land owned by John Shutey in Wilson Park and Daly additions, and also exchange Hopkins Addition lots.
Admission and dismissal notes list patients at Community Hospital and St James including Judy K Pilling Esther Lilley Ann C Sodja Carol J Sahlberg James A Shea James L Neely Louise Kelmann Gladys L Rubusch Clara B Ostoj and others. Dismissals include Gene Taylor Master Milan G Popovac Eddie Maddox Myrtle Francisco Sylvia Higgins Earline Fairchild Elizabeth Bowden Ray Sullivan Lillian Stabler William Mullane Fred Miller Cleo Higgins Marcus Dillon Walkerville Sherman Daly and more.
The moon appears similar in size to the sun because the sun is 400 times farther away and 400 times larger in diameter. Separately, the U S pet selling business now totals about 50 million dollars annually.
Pete Moar, 64, of 525 Madison died Sunday morning in a Butte hospital after a brief illness. A 30 year resident, he came from Austria and was born September 8, 1890. He is survived by three brothers in California. remains are in the Daly-Shea Chapel.
4-H clubs staged a rodeo at the fair grounds with rodeo riding roping and other stunts. Youth riders wore western outfits and displayed numbers on their sleeves. Entries came from Whitehall Twin Bridges Anaconda Dillon Race Track Deer Lodge Gar rison Avon and Gold Creek after completing 4-H project requirements and record books.
The Deer Lodge Men's Softball Association will officially open the summer schedule this evening at 6 30 noting a game each evening. Two weeks of preliminary play have prepared teams as townspeople are invited to attend games on the football field diamond.
Sunday births include a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Seccomb at Walnut Street and a son to Mr. and Mrs. F Harris on the Garrison Ranch. Dwellers from Dillon Great Falls Missoula Sidney Deer Lodge and Helena pass through Butte while Navy Mothers Club plans officer installation at Clark Park Armory Monday at 7 p.m. with white attire and a potluck.
Fairly Spoken Good news notes a worldwide surplus of bachelors with the United States lagging by one or two per hundred. Australia reports ten thousand hopefuls, while Ireland shows bachelors delaying marriage into their thirties. Germany offers a matrimonial slot machine for quick matchmaking, and even Prince Rainier of Monaco is cited as a coveted bachelor.
A playful note blends gossip about Prince Rainier and an American bride hunt with a jab at Zsa Zsa and Edna Jones, then shifts to a formal public notice. The piece closes by reporting a Montana liquor license transfer hearing notice set for July 21 1955 at 9 20 A M in Helena.
A quirky collection of natural oddities covers the world from the dandelion’s jagged leaf edges to ants weaving nests, cold climate effects on chickens, and the vast wingspan of the flying fox. The piece notes how no two leaves or snowflakes are identical, and explains ant workers and larvae collaborate to bind leaves, while tiny Arctic insects survive freezing. It ends with a promotional note for a nature quiz panel and a generous encyclopedia prize.
Civil Air Patrol squadrons from seven Montana cities tested the Ground Observer Corps in the Billings area. Units joined from Missoula Eureka Libby Dillon Great Falls Lewistown and Sidney to evaluate reconnaissance readiness.
Anaconda youths Joseph Varelia and John Pritchard were listed as fair at St. Ann Hospital after a Saturday car crash that killed 19 year old Robert Lee Williams. Williams’ body lay at Finnegan Co Funeral Home awaiting burial in Nevada City Tuesday.
Louis Blasich 834 N Montana died Sunday evening in a local hospital after an illness. He lived in Butte 42 years and was born in Utah. A miner, he belonged to the Butte Miners Union Eagles Pioneers Club and St. Lawrence Church. Survived by his wife Catherine a daughter in Miles City a stepson Don Lowney a sister Rose Blasich of Los Angeles a brother-in-law and sister Thomas Trimm and wife of Renton Wash an aunt Mrs Pete Bisach of Renton and several cousins in Renton. Body at Duggan's Merrill Mortuary.
Suez Canal traffic has reached an all time high, tripling since World War II. U.S. cargo shipped via Suez has risen tenfold over the past 25 years, signaling growing strategic and commercial importance of the route.
A full schedule of IOOF events for the coming week listed by Butte Odd Fellows lodges includes meetings across Silver Leaf Rebekah Lodge, Fidelity Lodge, Colusa Lodge, Summit Encampment, Enterprise Lodge and Mile High Theta Rho Girls. Activities span regular meetings, first and second degrees, luncheons, officers election, and social sessions in Enterprise Hall, Meaderville, Front Street, West Broadway, and Walkerville with specific times from 1:30 to 8 o'clock and attendance noted for the week.
In historical notes, corn is referred to as Turkish wheat in Hungary and the Netherlands. The term reflects regional naming conventions that differed from the American term corn. This linguistic usage shows how language varied across European agriculture discourse.
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