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_ - ö V g s . # * - < J » m ss stm m m mmm ÉN8T0RICAL R ^ f f T T • X Service Men fe List of registrants reclassi fied July 17, 1945: i-C (Disc.)—Raymond F. Rich mond. (L)^—Melbourne L. Jack- f i f MONTANA HELENA P u b l i s h e d i n t h e I n t e r e s t s o f B e a v e r h e a d — M o n t a n a ’ s L e a d i n g L i v e s t o c k C o u n t y Official County Paper Dillon, Beaverhead County, Mont., Wed., July 18, 1945 Volume 55 Number 1 mbnd. ♦ , 2-A eon. 2-A—Ronald W. VanWinkle. 2-B—Earl K. Wheat. 4-A—Marlin Kelton Farmer, Comley C. Sullivan. 2-A (F)—Harold S. Price. 2-B (F)—-John E. Bowring. ^8 Sgt. Robert Medsker, taken prisoner by the Germans in North Africa in 1942 and an in mate of prison camps until his liberation at the time of the Nazi surrender, has been returned to the States and is now visiting his mother in Duquesne, 111., accord ing to word received by a friend, Albert Johnson, in Dillon last week. The former Dillon man, who was serving with a tank • battalion when taken prisoner, wrote that he was in good condi tion despite his long incarcera tion. He is to report at Miami, Fla., in August. i (*<a Lt. Howard Morse, jr., has been assigned as a recreation di rector at a rest camp at Pilsen, Germany. He is now a member j county of the Third Army of Occupation. \ special Beaverhead Assessed Valuation Increases TONSIL, EYE CLINIC SET FORCOUNTY Dr. L. G. Dunlap Will Con duct Clinic Here July 27 to 29 Taxable Valuation Is $16,884,- 671, Compared With $16,- 630,208 in 1944 Beaverhead county’s assessed valuation increased ' . arter of a million dollars according to ' County ' nf3<b Meade atir ^ ITH TODAY’S ISSUE, the Dillon Examiner begins its fifty-sixth year of continuous publication and the purpose expressed by the founders, Kress & Barker, still holds good in'full measure: “The Examiner will be devoted to the development of the great and diversified resources of Beaverhead county ^ « ^ a s t year, an(j Southern Montana.” compiled by Sylvester P. The founders further stated that: “Being assured by many of the leading business men of Dillon that a progres- <y • , , , i . j * » » * * * v v * i v i v u u a i g w u o i n t o o l u t i i u j . l y m u i i u i a t c * \ J i u ^ i v o * 3X3 f va u' i sive journal would be welcomed and its efforts appreciated, Pfc. Myron Axe arrived home yesterday morning to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Axe, during a 30-day furlough. He was in Europe since February and saw action in the final battles of the war in Germany. He wears the infantry combat badge and a presidential unit citation. Following his furlough he will report to a base in North Caro lina for re-assignment. Pfc. Ralph Davis of Dillon, who has been hospitalized much of the time since he was wound ed in action in Germany last Oc tober, is now with an American Army of Occupation in Germany, he has written relatives here. F. L. Kurtz, son of Mrs. Oli ver Kurtz of Dillon, is now sta tioned with a Navy V-12 unit at (Please Turn to Page 8) BRUNDAGE IS NAMED HEAD FUND DRIVE /• - . ^Fill Head Montana War Fund Campaign in Beaverhead ' Next Fall For the third year since the start of the present public health program in Beaverhead county, a tonsil and eye clinic will be conducted here July 27 to 29, inclusive, with the services of Dr. L. G. Dunlap, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist of Anaconda. By special arrangement, ton sillectomies will be done July 27 and 28 at the Barrett hospital and eye examinations will be made July 29 at the offices of Dr. W. H. Stephan. Reduced cash rates will be made available to children of the through the c 1 i n i c’s arrangements. It is a follow-up of health examinations made in all schools of the county during the past year'. Those who plan to take advantage of the clinic should make such arrange ments on or before next Mon day, July 23, at the office of Dr. W. H. Stephan. - Health authorities assert that benefits of the past clinics con ducted here have been very ap parent and regard the program as an important factor in raising the health standards of the county. -•al and personal prop- ' - $16,884,671 as compared .» $16,630,208 in 1944, repre sented largely by a raise in the valuation of cattle, as decreed by the state board of equalization. The 64,589 head of cattle in Beaverhead were assessed at $3,- 136,541 this year, while last year a greater number, 64,638 head, were valued at $2,768,538 in 1944. Sheep decreased in both num bers and valuation, with 118,314 head valued at $702,716 this year, as compared with 114,160 head as- sesse dat $864,709 last year. Horses, once one of Beaverhead rYY'YYù Yl\*“ Y;Y T\*“ (Please Turn to Page 5) ■ f ° r SUCh a ° in s t i t u t i o n . to cast our lot with prosperous Beaverhead BEAVERHEAD TAXJ5ESSI0NS Commissioners Meet Monday as Board of Equalization, First of Series. ROY AUSTIN IS SPEAKER CLUB DINNER Whitehall Man Gives Interesting Talk at Rotary Dinner Last Monday. Lew D. Brundage has been named Beaverhead county chair man of the Montana War Fund drive, to be conducted this fall in connection with the National War Fund campaign, it was an nounced by state headquarters in Helena last week. Beaverhead’s quota has been fixed at $4,800, Chairman Brun dage stated, an increase over last year's goal, when Beaverhead residents contributed over $4,000 to the fund. Proceeds from the drive are ^tvided among the USO and 21 Supt. Roy Austin of the White hall schools was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner of the Dillon Rotary club Monday night, talk ing on Montana archaeology. Superintendent Austin, who has done much research on prehis toric Montana, brought an inter esting exhibit of Montana fossils and primitive artifacts. The speaker sketched the be ginnings of archaeological studies in the United States, retarded by the fact that American research dollars brought excavations in Crete and Egypt rather than in ' America. In recent years, there Beaverhead county’s board of h35 been a great increase in study we decided county.” A reading of the first Examiner is an experience noth ing less than exciting. The changes are numerous in over a half-century, yet the reader is surprised to find so many names which still form an integral part of this community’s life and activities. For instance one reads that “The improvements on the Eliel building are now nearly completed and the owners feel happy that the results are all they anticipated. The Messrs. Eliel Bros, have an establishment, of which the people of Dillon may well feel proud.” And a very pertinent suggestion that was successfully carried out: “A state normal school in Dillon would be appro priate. It is conceded that Dillon is the most beautifully situated town in Montana, and would offer a splendid site Would it not be well to agitate the question?” Under the head “Dillon Wants” were itemized: \Water works, a paper mill, electric lights, a $25,000 hotel, a flouring mill, a woolen factory, another railroad, state normal school, a smelter and refinery, efficient fire department, foundry and machine shop, an irrigation system to irrigate our rich table lands.” Among other business names still familiar are: \The Dart Hardware company is laying the foundation for a ware house on the railroad track near the freight depot,” “The First National Bank of Dillon, capital and surplus, $100,000.” And in these days of meat scarcity and rationing, look at this ad of C. H. Padley’s Union Meat Market: Beef by the side, 5 cents per lb.; veal by the side, 8 cents per pound; mutton by the side, 10 cents per lb.; pork by the side, 10 cents per lb.” Big Hole Star Route Discussed at Meeting Two homes Are h it by Lightning Daily Mail Service for Resi dents Between Jackson and Wisdom Is Urged Daily star route mail service between Jackson and Wisdom was the principal objective of a well attended meeting at the city hall council rooms in Dillon last Thursday night, with M. M. Bo- dell of Pocatello, chief clerk of the railway mail service for this division, conferring with inter ested citizens regarding the pro ject. Following the conference and discussions, Mr. Bodell said the suggested route will be most defi nitely under consideration by the postal department but that he plans to communicate with all of the 21 residents effected before making recommendations to the department, whose decision will (Please Turn to Page 8) GETS FIRST NIP Sh eommissioners began its annual series of tax sessions Monday, meeting as a board of equaliza tion, to hear complaints or ques tions of taxpayers concerning their current assessments. The board will continue to act in that capacity until the import ant August 13 meeting, when the commissioners will also hold their final budget meeting and fix the county tax levy for the ensuing year. At Monday’s meeting, all coun ty officers submitted their esti mated needs for the ensuing year. The commissioners will hold other organizations, many of „ . , , . , , „ •which provide relief for people of, ^ ^ \ V \ 3 'b°ard ravaged European countries. By grouping all together, the neces sity for a separate drive for each organization is eliminated. Chairman Brundage has named the following assistants: Mrs. J. C. Wedum, city chairman; Mrs. Paul E. Puyear, secretary; J. W. Mrs. Minnie Innes of Pasadena. Reis, treasurer, and Dorothy Er- Calif., is visiting at the James ickson and Homer Faust, public- Conger home here, having ar- ity co-chairman. rived Saturday. She was ac L. W. Upshaw of Helena, state! companied by Mrs. Leonard Innes campaign executive, conferred j of Alberta, Calif., who proceeded with Crairman Brundage last on to Noxon, Mont., but will re final budget, Aug. 8. In attendance at Monday’s meeting were Chairman Martin C. Jackson, Commissioners Ar chie Henneberry and Paul Stahl, and Clerk C. W. Buckingham. of prehistorical Montana and^ other Western states. Our state; is rich in materials worthy of j archaeological study, he declared. | The Stone Age man may be;' traced in buffalo jumps and in' aggregations of flint chips indi cating an ancient village. In many caves there are bones and great varieties of caveman’s arti facts. Research has already demon strated that Montana was inhab ited by a Stone Age man at least 15,900 years ago. Large univer sity and research foundations spend enormous sums in study of fossils in the mountain West. Naturally the discovered speci mens are housed for the most part in the East. If Montana (Please Turn to Page 8) BILL CHEEK IS CLAIMED BYJLLNESS Well-known D i l l o n Man Passes in Butte Hospital; Funeral Here Monday. 2nd LT. CARL M. DAVIS SHOOTS AT CLOUD; DOWN COMES JAP week concerning the Beaverhead drive. turn here friends. to visit relatives and CHICKEN GUTTING AND CANNING MEET JULY 26 ■ -------- 1 . ® --------------------------------- :--------- Demonstration Will Be Held j Department of Agricul- Next Week, Miss Lois I ^ure recentiy has been conducting Hnffmon Announces An important and instructive demonstration on chicken cutting and canning will be held in the home economics room at the Bea verhead county high school Thursday afternoon, July 26, at 2 o’clock, it was announced Mon day by Miss Lois Huffmon, coun ty home demonstration agent. Mrs. Marjorie Jennings, War Pood assistant for western Mon tana, will conduct the demonstra tion, assisted by Miss Huffmon, and anyone is invited to attend. research work in the canning of meat, with special emphasis on processing times. The time has been shortened on most process ing. Mrs. Jennings also wjll discuss the preservation of chickens by frozen storage. It is expected that in view of the meat shortage, poultry flocks will be cut down materially to supply food. In cognizance of this situation, Mrs. Jennings will devote a portion of her talk to the scientific cutting down of flocks. TRIO INJURED ON LAST LAP LONGJOURNEY Within Short Distance of Destination Here, Missouri j People Hurt j Within a little more than 20' miles of their destination in Dil lon after a long motor journey from Clinton. Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Dale Stone and Edwin Stone were injured Saturday evening when their car collided with an other auto on the bench road this side of Sheridan. Meeting at the top of a hill, the two machines crashed head- ion. The Stone car was badly wreck ed. Mrs. Stone and Edwin Stone both received severe cuts and bruises and Dale Stone was slightly hurt. The driver of the other car escaped with slight in juries, it was said. The Missouri people were on their way to Dillon to visit the Stone brothers’ sister, Mrs. John Foster, to whose home they were brought by a passing motorist after the accident. (By Sgt. Ed Talty, a Marine Corps Combat Correspondent) OKINAWA, (Delayed)—Irri tated by his lack of success in pursuing an elusive Jap bomb er through night skies north of Ie Shima, Marine 2nd Lt. Carl M. Davis, 22, of Dillon, Mont., vented his disgust by shooting into a cloud where he had lost contact with his quarry. A few seconds later the ene my plane spun out of the clouds in flames and exploded a short distance away from Davis' Hellcat. The explosion of his initial victim knocked his com munication gear out of order and he had to be led back home by Major Chamberlain. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Loren Davis, who resides at 121 S. Washington St., Dillon, he is a 1942 graduate of Montana State Normal college. William M. Cheek, 56, well- known Dillon saloon owner and a resident of Beaverhead county for nearly 30 years, died Thurs day afternoon in a Butte hospital, to which he was admitted a month before following a stroke. He had been in poor health for several months. He was born Feb. 22, 1889, near Springfield, Mo., and spent his youth in that state. Coming to Beaverhead county, he was em ployed on the Peyre Brothers ranch, near Dell. He served in the armed forces during World war I and upon his return was again engaged in ranching before entering the sa loon business here. Since repeal of prohibition he had been asso ciated with C. F. Murphy in the operation of the Moose bar on (Please Turn to rage 8) DILLON MAN DIED PRISON CAMPIN1942 Word of Death S-Sgt. John J. McGahan in Philippines Receiv ed Here by Mother. Residence of Dr. Beata Hall and Wise River Ranger Station Hit FIRST HAYING ACCIDENT OF YEARFRIDAY Beri Hoff, 33, Suffers Frac tured Pelvis When Der rick Falls on Him Caught beneath a falling der rick at the Carl Hartwig ranch near Reichle Friday afternoon, Bert Huff, 33, hay hand, sustained a fractured pelvis to become Bea verhead county’s first haying sea- : son casualty of the year. Dr. W. H. Stephan of Dillon j He was brought to Dillon, was elected vice-president of the ! where Dr. W. H. Stephan gave Montana State Medical associa- ; bim treatment, and Friday night ELECTED OFFICER OF STATE GROUP tion at the state convention held Helena last week. It is be- m lieved to be the highest office to which a Dillon physician has ever been named in the state associa tion. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Stamper of Lima were Dillon visitors last Wednesday. They expect to leave soon for Fresno, Calif., to was taken to an Idaho Falls hos pital, as the Barrett hospital here is still closed. The victim’s home is in Idaho Falls. Fellow-workers declared the Friday the 13th jinx must have had a hand in Huff’s mishap. Had he remained where he was standing when the derrick start ed to fall, they said, he would not have been touched. Instead, ■he started to run, tripped, and make their home, Mr. Stamper having purchased a farm near fell directly in the path of the that .city. heavy timber framework. Confirmation of the death of S/Sgt. John J. McGahan in a Japanese prison camp was re ceived this week by his mother, Mrs, E. R. Brown, from the War department. The department found that the 23-year-old Dillon man died June 13, 1942, of dysentry. He had been reported missing in action since the fall of Bataan in the spring of 1942 and the last letter received by his mother was mailed in February of that year. It may have been carried out by the boat which took General MacArthur from the Philippines during those tragic days. Though no word had been re ceived from him since, his family had hoped that liberation of the Philippines would find him alive. He enlisted in the Army in December of 1940, a year before Pear Harbor, and was sent to the Philippines in February of 1941. He attended a bakers and cooks school for the next few months and was enlisted in the Philip pine Scouts when the Jap inva sion began the following Decem ber. He was a native of Dillon, hav ing been born here Oct. 20, 1918.' He was graduated from the Bea verhead county high school and attended Montana State Normal! college for a time. | Surviving him are his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Brown; ’ three brothers and sisters-in-law, Sgt. Jerry Mc Gahan, with the Army in the (Continued on page 8) Two Beaverhead county resi dences were struck by lightning in electrical storms of the past week. Lightning last Wednesday af ternoon struck a power line to travel along the wire into the borne of Dr. Beata Hall, on the river road just west of Dillon. Curtains in a bedroom in which Dr. Hall was working at the time caught fire, but the flames were quickly extinguished, though Fire Chief O. T. Vande- grift and other volunteer firemen were called to the scene. Dr. Hall escaped injury, and damage was confined to the burned curtains. Last Friday afternoon, light ning struck the Wise River rang er station occupied by Mr. and Mrs. A1 Muchmore and their three children, who were in the building at the time but escaped injury. The bolt of lightning tore off a part of the roof but did not set fire to the buildUM.^, Forest Supervisor W. W. and Charles Joy of Missoula^ sistant regional supervisarn' charge of grazing, were 200 yards of the ranger when the lightning struck PROGRAM R CROSS H IS ENLAR Field Representative Confers With Members of Beaver head Chapter Beaverhead county’s Red Cross program is likely to be broadened during the next year it was stated by Miss Anna Stalin, field repre sentative of the Red Cross, at a meeting of officers and represen tatives of the local chapter Mon day night at the city council chambers. Details of the work of the Bea verhead chapter were discussed at the session, presided over by Lambert Eliel, chapter chairman, and Miss Stalin outlined the en larged program, which will in clude more medical and surgical treatment for children in need of it, as well as other assistance. Miss Stalin told also of the na tional program of the Red Cross and its all-important war work. In attendance at the 'session were Paul Stahl, Mrs. Fred Woodside, Mrs. Lois Hazelbaker, H. H. Bates, Charles Niblack, Dorothy Erickson, W. W. Wetzel, Mrs. Stella Murray, Miss Mary Dougherty and Chairman Eliel. ALLEGED ARSONIST IS TAKEN TO CALIFORNIA ©- Curtis L. Wootin, Arrested Two Weeks Ago, Returned to San Francisco Curtis L. Wootin, alleged San Francisco arsonist arrested near Lima June 29, was delivered into the custody of J. J. McCarthy, San FTancisco police official, last Saturday to be returned to the California city. Wootin was taken into custody at a ranch near Lima by Deputy Sheriff Larry Peterson, acting upon instructions from Sheriff Claude Lay. Upon questioning by Sheriff Lay and Co. Atty. Lew D. Brun dage, Wootis is said to have ad mitted that he started fires in the St. Margaret’s club in San Fran cisco, following a quarrel with fellow-workers at the establish ment. He had been held at the county jail here following his arrest. Ray M. Clayton, transient, was (Continued on p a re 8) Parke Scott Is Hurt in Tractor Accident Monday m m m m Parke T. Scott, prominent Armstead rancher, had an almost miraculous escape from serious injury Monday morning when a rubber-tired tractor ran over al most the entire length of his body while he was working at his ranch. Rushed to Dillon by Mrs. Scott and his son, Walter, he was ex amined by Dr. W. H. Stephan who found the injuries were no more serious than painful bruises and scratches. The Armstead rancher was cleaning a ditch when the tractor went on its rampage, running over his leg and across his chest While receiving treatment, he is a guest at the G. A. DeckerY home in Dillon.
