Bond Purchases Rank Silver Bow Second in Montana
Silver Bow county bought 203 685 dollars in savings bonds ranking second among Montana counties for last month. Cascade topped the state with 283 722 dollars, state total 2 532 165. Other leaders Yellowstone 162 359 Lewis and Clark 117 911 Gallatin 114 709 Hill 111 582. District 6 Butte area counties Deer Lodge 49 600 Powell 19 978 Jefferson 14 362 Beaverhead 13 450 Madison 7 866.
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Silver Bow County
Montana
A. T. Hibbard
Helena
Cascade County
Cascade
Silver Bow
Yellowstone
Lewis and Clark
Gallatin
Hill
Butte
Deer Lodge
Powell
Jefferson
Beaverhead
Madison
Hart Foxley Livestock Firm Incorporates in Montana
Hart Foxley Livestock company of Billings filed articles of incorporation in Helena. Authorized capital is 30000 dollars with directors James A. Hart A J Coleman of Billings and W J Foxley of Omaha. Eddy Bakeries Inc Delaware firm named J E O Connell Helena Montana representative. Turner Sportsmen's Club of Turner organized as non profit directed by Jed Barber Bernard Getten and Stella Getten.
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Helena
Hart- Foxley Livestock Company of
Billings
Montana
Turner Sportsmen's Club of
Turner
Jed Barber
Bernard Getten
Stella Getten
Rainy week continues across Montana with beneficial moisture
Montana experienced showers and light rain for a seventh straight day with forecasts predicting more through Sunday. Rain fell on high Mullan Pass and across Helena Havre Butte Great Falls Cut Bank Drummond Superior with Livingston reporting thunderstorms. Precipitation eased fire danger and aided crops, while reservoirs near capacity in several projects and abundant runoff expected this summer.
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Helena
Montana
Mullan Pass
Montana-Idaho
Havre
Butte
Great Falls
Cut Bank
Drummond
Superior
Livingston
Whitehall
Dillon
Belgrade
Missoula
Kalispell
Glasgow
Montana to offer high school equivalency tests for veterans
Montana veterans will receive high school equivalency diploma examinations through the summer as demand dictates, with no fixed dates yet. A. O. Gullidge notes tests help veterans secure jobs or pursue further education. 390 certificates have been issued to date. Veterans seeking summer appointments should contact Gullidge.
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Helena
Montana
A. O. Gullidge
Gullidge
Sam C. Ford
Elizabeth Ireland
Texas Badman Rips Plumbing Loose in Great Falls Jail
Sheriff D. J. Leeper said inmate Billie Schafstall calling himself a Texas badman damaged jail plumbing at the Cascade County lockup. Schafstall, held on federal car theft charges, brandished a torn pipe, threatened guards, and flooded the cell before deputies subdued him with gas.
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Great Falls
D. J. Leeper
Texas
Leeper
Billie Schafstall
Schafstall
Young lifeguard saves girl at Miles City pool
Fourteen year old Tony Dyba applied Red Cross training at the Miles City pool when he saw six year old Joan Roberts in danger. He leaped from the diving tower and grabbed the girl by the hair to pull her to safety, proving his training effective.
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Miles City
Red Cross
Tony Dyba
Joan Roberts
Local Banquet and Meetings Highlight Week in Missoula
On Thursday the School of Mines Alumni held a banquet in the Treasure State Room while Rotarians enjoyed a mixer in the Silver Bow Ballroom. The New Comers Board Chevrolet and the Dental Clinic met during the day and continued through Friday. Luncheon meetings gathered the Chamber of Commerce Montana Lumber Dealers and the Traffic Agents Friday. Tomorrow and Sunday music lovers attend Copper Bowl dinner with Mary Lou Conners and Gib Cooney from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
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Cib Cooney
School of Mines
Silver Bow Bar Association
Treasure State Room
Soroptomists
Kiwanis
Ellis Paint Company
Active
Rotarians
Silver Bow Ballroom
Newcomers Board
Chevrolet
Dental Clinic
Chamber of Commerce
Montana
Copper Bowl
Gib Cooney
Montana State University Law School Alumni Honor Seven
At a Helena banquet seven candidates for admission to law practice were honored by the Montana State University Law School Alumni Association. The graduates will be examined by the state Supreme Court Saturday with judges present at the dinner. Commissioner A H Kruser will attend a soil conservation hearing in Stanford Saturday seeking creation of a soil district for Judith Basin County.
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Helena
Montana State University Law School Alumni Association
Montana
Supreme Court
A. H. Kruser
Stanford
State Soil Conservation Committee
Judith Basin
Marylyn Gordon to Attend State 4 H Camp at Neihart
Miss Marylyn Gordon of the Armstead Needle club will represent Beaverhead County at the Montana state 4 H club camp in Neihart June 16 to 21. She has completed eight years in 4 H and will return as recreational director for the county camp at Birch Creek ranger station June 30 to July 2, with Barbara Scott assisting.
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Birch Creek Ranger Station
Barbara Scott
Armstead Club
Miss Embleton
Miss Gordon
Funeral set for Archie Henneberry Dillon official
Dillon Montana June 6 funeral services for Archie C. Henneberry Beaverhead county commissioner will be at 2 p m Monday at Brundage chapel with Rev. Lewis D Smith of St James Episcopal Church officiating Graveside rites at Mountain View cemetery will be by Dillon lodge No 16 A F and A M and an escort of Knights Templar Henneberry son of Mr and Mrs Michael Henneberry a prominent pioneer ranch family in the district He was active in the Masonic lodge and a member of the Bagdad temple Shrine in Butte.
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Masonic Lodge
Bagdad Temple of the Shrine
Butte
Opinion on Montana driving law doubles permit cost
Montana gains a new driving law requiring tests for drivers and doubling permit fees from 75 cents to 1.50. Attorney General R V Bottomly said the act should take effect January 1 to avoid hardship and confusion, following a request for clarification by highway patrol supervisor Charles L Sheridan.
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Helena
Montana
R. V. Bottomly
Charles L. Sheridan
Oregon Youth First to Travel Cooke Highway This Year
Dennis Montgomery a 16 year old from Corvallis Oregon became the first tourist to cross the Cooke Highway top of the world this season after leaving Cooke Thursday. He spent a night in his car it broke through a snowbank and battled a snow storm reaching Red Lodge with ankles cut from drift crusts. Yellowstone ranger Tom Elas arrived and warned that shortcuts should not be taken. Montgomery planned to meet his family at Laurel on Friday.
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Billings
U.P
Dennis Montgomery
Corvallis
Ore
Cooke
Red Lodge
Beartooth Mountains
Montgomery
Tom Elas
Yellowstone Park
Elas
Laurel
Postmasters Elect Officers at Montana Convention
Montana Postmasters association holds its three day 1948 convention with Friday boat ride through the Missouri Gates of the Mountains a picnic theater party and business sessions. Officers will be elected and the 1948 convention site chosen during Saturday events. Noted speakers include W D Hammell Melvin Northrip Frank R Harwood Joe Sternhagen Fred Stimson Harry Andrus Forrest Derosia Tom Darnell Allen McKenzie and others.
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Helena
Montana Postmasters Association
Missouri Gates of the Mountains
W. D. Hammell
Melvin Northrip
Seattle
Frank R. Harwood
Santa Ana
Calif
National Legislative Committee
Joe Sternhagen
Glasgow
Fred Stimson
Pablo
Harry Andrus
Dillon
Forrest Derosia
Libby
Tom Darnell
Walier
Allen McKenzie
Philipsburg
Fort Peck Dam May Reach Full Capacity This June
Glasgow June 6 Fort Peck reservoir could reach full capacity if June rise materializes. District engineer Col. E H Walter reported the reservoir would hold 18,213,400 acre feet of water at capacity, be 230 feet deep, and cover 365 square miles with 1,600 miles of shoreline. The current level is five feet above last year’s record high.
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Glasgow
U.P
Fort Peck
Col
E. H. Walter
Walter
Eighty-One Year-Old Cowman Rides 25 Miles to Lewistown
Lewistown dispatch reports Billy Lacock aged 81 rode his horse 25 miles from his Alaska beach home to Lewistown as part of a long habit during his 52 years in Central Montana. He joked about retiring at a hundred.
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Lewistown
Billy Lacock
Alaska
Montana
Bride Flattens Bridegroom on Wedding Night in Billings
A 28 year old bride, released from Billings jail to wed, was rearrested on a drunkenness and disturbance charge after allegedly striking her bridegroom in a street quarrel. She faces a $60 fine and possible 25 day jail term on the latest charge, with a desire to marry and reform.
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Billings
Pauline Weber Clark
Four State 4-H Members to Attend Alberta Meet
Four Montana 4-H club members Dorothy Wolf Avalon Fuller Lloyd Smiley and Arthur Bouchard will attend the Alberta province club week at Olds 50 miles north of Calgary during the week of July. This marks Montana’s first delegation to the Alberta rural youth meeting. They invite Canadian youth to join the second annual Montana 4-H club congress in Bozeman September 15 to 18.
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Bozeman
Montana
Governor Accepts Hawaii Sea Trip Invite
Nine state chiefs including the governors of Wyoming and Montana accept the Navy invitation for a free sea trip to Hawaii aboard the battleship Iowa. The Navy invited all 48 states to join a normal reserve training cruise after the Salt Lake City governors meeting July 13 to 16.
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Washington
Wyoming
Montana
Navy
Hawaii
Iowa
Salt Lake City
Aircraft Spraying Poison on Locust Swarms near De Aar
Aircraft sweep locust swarms over De Aar South Africa using chemical spray to curb looming crop damage. Officials confirm aerial operations and monitoring by agricultural authorities.
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de Aar
South Africa
Sven Larsen Leaves For Boston College Study
Sven Larsen, recent Normal college degree candidate, departed Butte by plane for Boston to enter Boston College for advanced work. He was accompanied by several friends. Czechoslovakia, Holland and Poland are selling Britain 60 000 bedroom suites.
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Dillon
Sven Larsen
Butte
Boston
Boston College
Czechoslovakia
Holland
Poland
Britain
Labor bill seeks to curb strikes and union powers
The measure would bar union controlled health funds, require workers to join unions, and outlaw jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Senators Murray and Pepper led the opposition as votes from Colorado Wyoming Nebraska and Montana shaped the conference report with party lines evident.
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D-Mont
Pepper
D-Fla
Washington
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Montana
Millikin
Edton
Wherry
Johnson
Butler
O'Mahoney
Turkey Raises Freight Rates Amidst Car Shortage for Crops
Turkey increases freight charges while facing a shortage of freight cars needed to move this year's harvest. Venezuela reportedly buys railway equipment in the United States, seeking supply for its transport network.
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Turkey
Venezuela
United States
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