Lewistown Man Heads Montana County Officials Group
W. W. Hogeland of Lewistown elected president of the Montana Association of County Commissioners at the 37th annual meeting in Butte. G. W. Fenton of Laurel as predecessor, Arthur Kuehn named vice president, B. H. McCarthy re-elected secretary, William A. Brown retained as counsel. Great Falls chosen as 1947 convention site for the second week in June. Over 100 commissioners from 56 counties attended the three day event focusing on postwar taxation welfare highways and legislation. Convention hosts were Silver Bow county officials Emmett P. O'Brien Mrs. Loretta L. Sullivan and Joe F. O'Donnell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Hogeland
Lewistown
Montana Association of County Commissioners
G. W. Fenton
Laurel
Arthur Kuehn
Baker
Hogeland
B. H. McCarthy
Hardin
William A. Brown
Helena
Great Falls
Butte
Silver Bow
Resolutions Committee
Carl Shellerud
Glasgow
Earl Hollister
B. H. McCarty
Native Butte Man Assigned to Veterans Office
Daniel J. McCarthy, a native Butte man, is assigned permanently to the Butte VA bureau as training officer. He will work with Homer F. Shepard and Douglas F. Brown as contact officers for the VA program in Silver Bow and five nearby counties. McCarthy is a Portland University graduate and Army medical corps veteran who served 42 months, 24 overseas, aboard troop transports and the USS Mercy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel J. McCarthy
Butte
Butte Bureau
Veterans Administration
Famliar
V. A
Homer F. Shepard
Douglas F. Brown
Silver Bow
Mr. McCarthy
Boys Central High School
Portland University
Army Medical Corps
Navy
U. S. S. Mercy
Army
McCarthy
William McCarthy
West Quartz
Gertrude
Garrison
Rabbit Breeders Set Election Date for July 11
The Western Montana Rabbit Breeders association will elect officers at a meeting on July 11 and ballots are being mailed to out of town members. The date was set at a recent Anaconda gathering at G G Ouldhouse’s home with attendees including W M Myler Harry McGuire Nate Mayfield and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Montana Rabbit Breeders Association
Anaconda
G. G. Ouldhouse
W. M. Myler
Harry McGuire
Nate Mayfield
H. Baird
W. Baird
Charles Wathen
Henry Snow
B. L. Mason
Raymond Ouldhouse
I Chose Freedom The Journey From Soviet Union to Canada
Victor Kravchenko recounts the long, claustrophobic Soviet vetting process to obtain a passport for the United States in 1943. He describes endless interrogations, letters of reference, medicals, and ideological tests, then a sea voyage to Vancouver where he first steps outside his native Russia and glimpses life beyond Stalin’s reach.
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United States
Victor Kravcchenko
Communist Party
Commissariat of Foreign Trade
Shtoob
Vera
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Glaymetal
Gershgorn
Corogan
Mironov
Council of People’s Commissars
S. R
Glavmetal
Commissariat
Lebedev
Mikoyan
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan
Politburo
State Defense Committee
People's Commissar For
Central Committee
Party
United States of America
All-Union
All-Union Raw Materials Import Administration
Irina
Kazan
Vladivostok
Vancouver
Canada
Japan
San Francisco
Lomakin
Stalin
Secret
Kalispell Woman Elected President of Montana Music Clubs
Miss Caroline Walchli of Kalispell was named president of the Montana Federation of Music Clubs at a bi annual election in Butte. New officers include Mrs. Roy Page Great Falls first vice president, Mrs. Esther Benson Miles City second vice president, and others. Delegates from clubs statewide attended the session after a Finlen hotel luncheon where Miss McTucker hosted and was honored with a gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Walchli
Kalispell
Montana Federation of Music Clubs
Butte
Eleanor McTucker
Roy Page
Great Falls
Esther Benson
Miles City
W. I. Lennom
Charles Shoknect
Bernard Bretherton
Frank Smith
Sweet Grass
Finlen
Miss McTucker
Hoge named information director for Wyoming price agency
Owen S. Hoge, previously OPA agricultural relations adviser for Montana and Wyoming, is appointed information director for the Wyoming district of the price agency. He succeeds Sidney J. Stall, who resigned and moved to Big Horn. Hoge has served since 1944 as Montana Wyoming agricultural relations adviser and is a former northern Wyoming ranch operator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Owen S. Hoge
OPA
Montana
Wyoming
Wyoming District of the Price Agency
Hoge
Northern Wyoming
Sidney J. Stall
Big Horn
Korean Educational Commission chairman visits Butte seeks Korean students
Dr Chang Wook Moon chairman of the Korean Educational commission and civilian secretary for foreign affairs under the U S Army in Korea visits Butte to discuss enrolling two Korean students at Montana Tech. He plans meetings with Mines officials and to visit a Korean colony near Nine Mile. Moon outlined aims to renew cultural ties and place 400 Korean students in U S schools next year. He notes Korea’s 30 million people and past education under Japanese rule. Moon arrived via Western Air Lines from Salt Lake City and will travel to Los Angeles soon.
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Butte
Montana School of Mines
Chang Wook Moon
Korean Educational
United States Army
Korea
Moon
Nine Mile
Western Air Lines
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
University of Utah
Rotary Club
Gutenburg
Minnesota
John Spielman
Mines
Francis A. Thomson
A. E Adams
United States
Educational Commission
Four Seek County Office in Butte Race
Four candidates filed for county posts in Silver Bow. F B Ted Moriarty a World War II veteran and Montana lawyer seeks the Republican nomination for the state legislature. Antone Mufich and John Harrington filed Democratic bids for county clerk and recorder and constable respectively. J J Buzz Winston seeks re election as justice of the peace while coping with blindness and Braille self education.
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F. B
Ted Moriarty
Moriarity
Butte
Montana
Great Falls
University of Chicago
Moriarty
Philadelphia Navy Yard
New London
Pacific
U. S. S. Solace
Leutenant
Silver Bow County Bar Association
Montana Bar Association
The
Elk
Butte Miners’ Union
Silver Bow Athletic Club
North Side Athletic Club
Winston
Jack Winston
Soroptimist Club Elects Officers At Finlen Hotel
The Soroptimist club met at the Finlen hotel for guest day with Dr. Robert Kroeze as speaker. Lois Jacobsen was named president, succeeding Ruth Boulter who became a board member. Other officers include Kay Wilson first vice president Fay Perry second vice president Henrietta OConnor treasurer Alma Wilmer recording secretary and Marjorie Lee corresponding secretary.
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Finlen Hotel
Robert Kroeze
Lois Jacobsen
Ruth Boulter
Kay Wilson
Fay Perry
Henrietta O'Connor
Alma Wilmer
Marjorie Lee
Four German POWs Escape From Ontario Camp
The Butte FBI and Montana police seek four escaped German prisoners who fled an internment camp near Neys Ontario Monday. They are Karl Goertz 30 Paul Machery 26 Joseph Lescher 24 and Herman Shoemaker 30 all in PW uniforms. Goertz and Shoemaker have mustaches and Shoemaker has a gold upper tooth.
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Butte
FBI
Montana
Neys
Ontario
W. G. Banister
Karl Goertz
Paul Machery
Joseph Lescher
Herman Shoemaker
Goertz
Shoemaker
Bulletin
Rotary Meeting Canceled for Miners' Union Day Holiday
The Butte Rotary club announced no meeting this week due to a local holiday on Thursday Miners' Union day. The next regular meeting is set for June 20 with George A. Selke, newly elected chancellor of the Greater University of Montana, as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Rotary Club
Miners’ Union
R. M. Hobbs
George A. Selke
Greater
University of Montana
Third Burglary Attempt Fails At West Granite Grocery
A third burglary attempt this week to steal from a local business was investigated after a prowler ripped an iron grate at West Granite and Alabama. The owner returned to find the cash register untouched. No new details on two weekend armed robberies. In Meaderville a cafe lost several thousand dollars after robbers bound a cleaner. A Hiway Grocery on Harvard was robbed of $15 by a partly masked gunman. New Zealand manganese mine near Auckland remains inaccessible in winter.
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West Granite
Alabama
Rocky Mountain
Meaderville
Hiway
Harvard
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Lee Metcalf
Victor Kravchenko
America
Uncle Joe
U. S
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Petri California
Lauterne
Petri Wine
Petri Lauterne Is
Petri Wine CO
San Francisco, Calif
Music Clubs
Kalispell Woman
Korean Educational Commission
K. C
Leo Riley
Knights of Columbus
Deer Lodge
Riley
William Fritz
Joseph D. Armstrong
Fred Balkovetz
Bernard T. Harrington
John Spritzer
James Marron
George A. Browne
John Mack
James Roe
Soroptimist Club
ZEMQ
New Zealand
Auckland
Wes
Kurow Smo
Tilfor
Ak, Xi
Park & Tilford Distillers, Inc
New York
Conoco
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