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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1950
Page
2
A federal report notes Montana ranges and livestock improved in May with June 1 grass adequate for current use but below normal overall. Most ranges started late and grew slowly due to low temperatures. moisture only adequate from a seam county east to the Dakota line.
The Montana BAE reports moisture demands highest in western lighter soils with limited range feed at higher altitudes delaying grazing. Stock water is adequate and irrigation for pastures appears sufficient. Cattle conditions improved with range gains last month. losses run 3.6 per 100 head since Jan 1, above last year, while lamb losses trend similar. Shearing progresses rapidly across the state.
A 67 year old logger Goran Erickson was killed when a swinging 16 foot log dragged by a Caterpillar tractor struck him at Stryker near Eureka Montana. The death follows another logging fatality nearby earlier in the week leaving no known relatives.
Judge William R. Taylor set a June 21 hearing at 10 a.m. on Stanley Fitzgeralds motion to quash a murder charge in the death of Steve Huff after an altercation at Thompson s confectioners located at 213 Main. Fitzgerald is free on 7500 bond as the defense argues the charge is superfluous. Walter Bolkovatz represented the state while Horace Dwyer and Thomas C Malee led the defense.
Park rangers report that educated bears again toppled the third sign along the main east west highway. In preparation for the 1950 tourist season officials posted a series urging visitors not to feed bears.
Citizens of Girls State on the Rocky Mountain college campus elected county officers and heard a talk on parliamentary procedure after polls opened Monday. Officials named include county commissioner Sharon Rudman and clerk of court Joyce Previs, with other posts filled by Sharon Hunter, John Hammer, Donna Cameron, Joan Bachman, Joan Brooks, Dorothy Malvic, Bonnie Kelly, Reta Geiger, and Pat Moore among others.
MISSOULA June 12. Summer quarter opens at Montana State University with registration of new students. Registrar Leo Smith says enrollment will exceed 1,000 for the fifth straight year. Session runs through August 18 with conferences and institutes and activities at the biological station on Flathead Lake.
Bozeman June 12. Mr and Mrs Earl Presley and daughter Patricia of Livingston escaped injury when their car was sideswiped by Cecil Hale of Three Forks as they returned from Butte where their son graduated from Montana School of Mines. Hale and cousin Don Hale were treated. passenger Lee Kratzer 51 of Three Forks was hospitalized with neck injuries. Hale charged with careless driving.
Dillon June 12 registration urged at the Sport Shop for youth entrants in the homecoming fish derby to be staged in Butte July 3. The chamber of commerce will arrange transport for participants and prizes will be awarded along with a hobby contest for model airplanes featuring Frank Korn of Butte.
Alonzo E. Crumley of Shelby was elected and installed as grand master of the Montana Grand Council of Royal and select masters at the annual assembly. Other officers installed included Andrew R. Sims, W. R. Kohls, John Scott Harrison, Luther T. Hauberg, Lyman E. Smith, Ben R. Draper, Frank W. Osborne, Rev. L. F. E. Anderson, Walter A. Kennedy, and Dr. I. W. Stam. Installation ceremonies were conducted by G. G. Hoole.
Three committees of the Mid-Century Conference on Children and Youth met in Helena to plan Montana programs for youth. Mrs. Dallas Reed of Missoula heads the children under six, Dee Cooper of Townsend leads ages six to thirteen, and Rhoda Hanson of Miles City chairs the teen agers committee.
Horsky and Padbury seek to halt further proceedings in Porter's indictments arguing improper appointment of Small and missing oath of office. Porter's charges include conspiracy to operate slot machines and extortion. A jury found Porter guilty of attempting to bribe a grand juror and recommended a $5,000 fine. sentencing is set for Tuesday.
MISSOULA Montana June 12 Two forest fires were being battled Monday in western Montana as a result of yesterday's severe lightning storm officials said. The fires were described as small.
State Welfare Administrator N. C. Briggs announced that June assistance payments totaling 903334 dollars are in the mail to 19450 Montana residents.
Montana and Alberta clash over river water rights under the 1909 treaty. Officials cite that every acre foot crossing the boundary from Belly river and Waterton rivers belongs to Montana, while Alberta and federal bodies push for equitable division. Montana seeks irrigation for 139000 acres in Toole, Liberty and Hill counties amid warnings not to let cross border developments use waters already claimed by Montana. Senators Murray Mansfield and state lawmakers submitted statements supporting Montana, while officials stress treaty rights cannot be altered without an amendment.
The state convention of the PEO sisterhood began at Montana State College in Bozeman with at least 300 delegates. Final sessions will feature officer elections.
Washington reports the Federal Bureau of Community Facilities approved a 6740 loan to plan construction of a fire station in Missoula Montana Rep Mike Mansfield said on Monday.
The State Department rejected claims that it used women to cajole Congress into voting its way. It says recent parties were strictly business and funded by top officials. The latest event cost 650 dollars, drew 38 lawmakers, and featured 7 female employees and a former congresswoman among attendees.
R B Marquiss of Gillette endorses Montana Stock Growers demand for reduced Reclamation Bureau funding. He criticizes the Pick-Sloan plan and says West water and power needs are overstated. He labels Moorhead and Keyhole dam projects as impractical and cites local rancher opposition and divide-and-rule policy.
Rain slowed the Montana National Guard encampment at Camp John W. Bonner Fort Harrison but 1300 Guardsmen pressed on with special schools and equipment overhauls. The 3,669th ordnance company under Capt. Claude Trinder departed Sunday for a 15 day exercise in the Scratch Gravel hills north of the camp.
Reports credit George Bernard Shaw with the top status in playwright earnings. Observers note his success places him ahead of rival dramatists globally, reflecting strong stage appeal and prolific output.
William Schmeder, 60 to 65, of Kalispell, was killed when a tree fell asSawyers removed it from a site on the Hungry Horse reservoir project. A doctor said he died of hemorrhage and shock shortly after the center rotten tree toppled on him about 40 miles southeast of here. McLaughlin, Inc., of Great Falls, holds the contract for the dam project.
The project proposes relocating 16.7 miles of forest service road in the reservoir area. Schmeder leaves one daughter, also of Kalispell.
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