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D i l l o n E l k s c e l e b r a t e 6 0 . P a g e 2 I n j ‘B r i e I 1 H e l p f o r H u g o s o u g h t . . . Donations for the relief of farmer* who experienced damage during the Hugo hurricane in North and South Carolina, may be mad«s throughFarm Bureau Insurance. Mark Quigley, agent for FBI, noted me company ie providing a channel for donation* to fanners in the hurricane damage area. Donations may be made a t the Dillon FBI office a t 21 E **t Sebree P e p C l u b h o n o r s a d u l t s . . . Beaverhead Coun ty High School is observing a Na tional Activities Week to honor people who are help ing students in their extra- curricular activitiee. On Monday the clubwill observe National O fficials Day; 'foesday, Speech and Music Day; Wednesday, Support StafTDay; H iursday, Trmin- <trs Day; Friday, Advisors Day an d Saturday, National Coaches Day. Chairing'the event are Nicole Olivier and Jammie Delaney. ( M o n t a n a S t r e e t g e t s s t r i p e s . . . ‘M o n ta n a '8 tnet in Dil- lori, from Helena io Selway ptoceee flf’ left turn lane to Kelp 1 ____ flow more smoothly, accord* * ing. to Lee A H ,tniffic engi neer ofthe state Department ofHighways, which i* work ing on the modification. S o r o p t l m l s t s m i n e s m e a t M e m b e ftdf the Sorop- timists will be rolling up their sleeves and mincing no words, b u t • lot of m eat, during their annual Mince Meat project this weekend. Group members ars meet ing a t V igil ante Electric a t 8 a.m. Saturday to mix up a batch of their traditional holiday mince meat. The mince meat is now available from any Soroptimist, or from the H ie Book Store, Bannack House and the Town f t Country Gallery. Almanac Buslness/Ag ........ 7 Classified m e iH ii H ii i 12 Community ......... S Sports Life.....— ...8 Viewpoint.... __ .......4 M IMS MSUE OF TW tfcstlNE: T V i e w M M C M | M liy W « M in | r ie Dillon's Weatherwatch H I PpL 52 Oct. 17 Oct. 18 Oct. 19 Oct. 20 Oct. 21 O c t 22 O c t 23 O c t 24 69 68 70 65 61 64 17 21 32 32 34 42 30 38 f a c e s r e d i s t r i c t i n g o r d e r The Beaverhead County As of Monday evening the Commissioners will meet a t 10 commissioners had not been a.m. Thursday to consider how^ -derved with th* Mandate, but to respond tb a suit in district judging from press reports on court th at would mandate redis- tricting the county's three com missioner districts to more ac curately reflect county, popula tion. Filed last week by J ohn F lu tt, Jr., the suit asked the District Court to require the'commis- . sioners to divide the county into three commissioner districts as compact and equal in popula tion and area as possible. The suit maintained, that such' a division was required following the 1980 census b u t never done. .District Judge'Frank Davis, responding to the suit, issued a W rit of Alternative Mandate directing the commissioners to divide the cotinty into the three districts by Dec. 1, or as an alter native, to appear in court a t 10 a.m. Monday to shbw cause why they cannot the suit, commissioner Dave Moss said it did not appear “to be a big problem, I don’t know why it wasn't done before.” Commission chairman Randy Tommerup said the commission is setting a special meeting Thursday to prepare for the order and is planning to appear before the judge on the redis- tricting. h In other matters Monday, the commissioners met w ith County Planner Don Chance concern ing a possible’application for Title DC funds. Those funds, . made available to the eounty because of the unemployment impact of Stoltze Lumber, would require as much as a 50-50match with local funds and could be used in helping stimulate the local economy. Moss expressed doubt the county had “$1$0,000to use as a match,” and was not aware of any economic development proj ect that would be' suitable for the g rant The commissioners, along with the City ofDillon, the Beaverhead Economic Develop ment Corporation and others will meet Nov. 6 to further ex plore the possibility of Title DC fluids. Hie commissioners also set speed limits on several areas of Highway 324 in the Horse Prai rie area, making it 56 mph for all vehicles, except 35 mph for trucks during; the spring breakup and 20 mph near schools. A study is also being done by roadmanager Dick Miller to determine the status of allcountyroadsandthelevelaof maintenance required on each. Following a trip to the River side Drive and Sullivan Lane areas, the commissioners de clined to accept the roads as county roads because, according to Moss, “they are too narrow* M a y o r a s k s f o r b u d g e t c u t H o s p i t a l r e c e i v e s g r a n t Mayor Jim Wilson is asking the various department heads of the city to cut five percent from their current 1989-90 op- eratingbudgets in an attempt to increase thecity’scash reserves. This year’s general fluid budget of $470,000, includes $10,000 from previous reserve funds. Asking for a reduction of five percent over the rest of the year w ill mean replenishingthat amount and addingover $10,000 to the reserve. The problem, Wilson noted,' stems from 1-105, an initiative - passed several years agoJ th at limits the ability of governmen tal bodies to increase spending. With normal inflation.the city is running into difficulties in containing costs and stiH pro vide the same level of service as previously. Most departments are going to be able to comply with the request, Wilson said, noting the Library plans to make the five percent reduction through a reduction in book and subecrip-, tion purchases. , ; ? j Other departments, such a s i the police department, may have i m o rtdiffictdtylnm a ld n g a full^ five percent reduction (over $15,000), but all department heads are working to comply with his request, Wilson said. At the council’s regular meet ing last Wednesday, the Mayor outlined his request, noting it (Continued o n pegs 14) Barrett Memorial Hospital will receive a $72,500grant from the National Rural Health As sociation to help it accomplish some of its long tenn goals for patient health. Hie mon^y, provided through this Kellogg Foundation, will be spread over three years. As one of 13 demonstration sites cho- s e n b y t h e linpiA ,them o n e y will be used tb help define miyor heajfl^probkins_ i n t h e area, . tfM M V it h p ln o b - ' i a Among uie steps involved in Uie demonstration grant w ill be identifying projects and biring the community into the hospital’s plans,” Dr. Tim Viss- eher noted. Dr. Visscher, com munity encouragerJeanieBema and R.N. Sue Hansen will be working closely with the proj ect, he said. Among thefactorsthathelped qualify Barrett Hospital for the grant, Berna said, was the qual ity of the cooperative in county health administration between the cbunty commissioners and thehbspitaljthelowbirth weight preventprqject, the Rural School H e a lttP r o g r im a n d - rhelto muftoitloiyclinks developed by the m m * H e J S S S S ? faculty, Is' the site consultant for thedemonstrationpnroject, which is officially tided the Commu-, nity Oriented Primauiy. Care Project, (COPC). P h o n e j a n g l e f o r f u n d s Hie telephones were ringing Sunday, as a squad of eight I Western Montana College stu dents lent a hand to the annual WMC Phone-a-thon to raise monqr for the Alumni Founda tion. The fUnd-raising effort, an annual event, hopes to gather up to $30,000 in pledges from | WMC alumni around the coun try. Sandra Kennedy, program coordinator a t WMC and Kris Shively, Director of Develop ment and Executive Director of I the Foundation, areheadingthe two-week long event Set up in the physics lab a t WMC, a crew of solicitors, in cluding students, faculty and alumni,keepthephoneshot with calls. The money raised by the- Phone-a-thon is used to purchase academic equipment for the col lege. Music, drama, science, physical education and indus trial arts all received funding through the alumni association last year, Kennedy said. The success of the program led to a similar use of the money this year. The rest of the money *• used to support the athletics program, she added. Bill and Virginia Straugh again renewed their challenge for alumni to contribute to the college, thia year offeringa$1000 challenge to help fund an en dowment fund to help support WMC athletics. The' Phone-a-thon began Sunday, and continued through Tuesday. A second session is planned for Sunday and Mon day next week, Shively noted. : i \.■ft\'*' Anne Marie Moriarty, a WMC student, calls coBege alumni as part ofthe annual Phone-a-thon fund raising campaign Sunday. ■/- ' ••• - | * /j - M J, , . - : ^ ✓ f f a T 7 W y '*'* ’ \ ’ - A , L * < s A p A*}* Next month’s Beaverhead County Centennial Ball will relive a part of the history of the old Union Pacific Depot in Dillon. Thedepotbuilding, which waa built in 1909, was given to the Beaverhead County Museum this year, for future use as a community center. It ’s first official function will be Nov. 4, as the site fbr the county’s Centennial Ball. Although not yet renovated, the Centennial Ball committee is making plans to hold the ball there as a fund raising effort for the 80-year old struc ture. There’s plenty jof precedence for i t On New Years eve, 1909, the building was the site for an opening reception and ball. Then known as the Oregon Short Line, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific, the railroad wa3 the first to enter Mon tana, in 1881. In the early days of it's construction, the railroad, known as the Utah and Northern, was a narrow-gauge railroad running from Ogden, Utah to Garrison, Montana. When the new depot was b u ilt, replac- inga30-year old wooden structure which stood ju s t west ofthe present-day Beav erhead County museum building, i t was formally opened with one of the city's largest social event events. According to the Dillon Examiner of the time, nearly 1,000 people attended the ball and the paper dubbed it “with out doubt the most auspicious event of the kind ever held in Dillon.” \The scene was one o f splendor and was as briffiant as is possible to imagine. Hie rooms had beenpret- t% decorated and gave more the ap pearance of a ballroom than rooms of the depot One of the most pleasing features of the event was that the program, as arrangeed, was carried out perfectly, nothing happening to mar the pleasure of £he occasion* CoMfcHMil an page 14 -
