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historical society of Morj r a ,' j a H elena M c A rthur and miller to receive EAGLE SCOUT GAUGES AT COURT OF HONOR CEREMONY HERE FRIDAY Scouting’s highest award has IMr. been earned by Robert McArthur ' and C. Gosta MiUer, Jr., and Eagle Scout badge? will be pre sented to these two outstanding Scouts at a special Court of Honor in the courtrooms of the County Courthouse, May 18, at 8 o’clock. It has been a number of years since Scouting’s highest. award has been presented to a Beaver head County Scout. In recogni tion of their outstanding accomp lishment, the Dillon Kiwanis club is sponsoring this Court of Honor, which will have on its program officers of the Vigilante Council as speakers and participants. .Robert J. McArthur, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McArthur, Dillon, is a freshman at the Bea verhead County High School. He joined Scouting in the fall of 1952. He was a member of troop' 62, later transferring to Troop No. 64 and while with this troop ad vanced to the rank of Life Scout. In January 1956 he transferred as an Explorer Scout to Explorer Post 61, of which he is now a member. He has served as Senior Patrol Leader in Troop 64 and is now Senior Crew Leader of Post No. 61. C. Gosta Miller. Jr., 15, son of Commencement Activtiies Begin At College Sunday Commencement activities at Western Montana College of Edu cation begin Sunday, May 27, with the graduates dinner in the college dining room at 1:30. Baccalaureate services, also on Sunday, May 27, occur at 3 >p.m. with the Reverend William J. Holland of the First Presbyterian church giving the sermon. His subject is “ Christian Agnostics.” Part of the traditional com mencement week activities is the annual art exhibit with work on display from the fine art classes of Mrs. Mary Emerick and Mrs. Stella Bierrum and the industrial arts classes of O. Kay Moe. The art gallery will be open from 7:00 to 7:45 Monday evening; from 3:00-5:00 Thursday afternoon and from 7:30 to 8:30 that evening, and again Friday morning from 9:00-9:45 before the commence ment exercises. “Ruddigore,” Gilbert and Sullivan is being pre sented at 8:00 Monday evening. May 28, under the direction of Professor Brinton Jackson. The traditional College Sing and Candlelight Procession are scheduled for Thursday evening, beginning at 8:30. The' fifty-ninth annual com mencement will be held at 10 a.m. «Continued on page 8) \ Huge Program „ For Vigilante All Set to Begin /A n extensive construction pro gram was given the green light at Vigilante Electric Cooperative headquarters when word flashed from Washington last Friday of an $840,000 loan application by the Rural Electrification Admin istration. Notification was con tained in a telegram from Sen ators J. E. Murray and ' Mike Mansfield and Congressman Lee Metcalf, \ The construction - renovation project embraces building 91 miles of distribution line to con nect up 160 new members; exten sive system improvements includ ing 41 miles of transmission lines, :21 miles of tie lines, substation construction and modernization in the nine-county area served by Vigilante. Manager Howard Babcock said that besides modernizing installa tions here, it will mean substation installation or renovation at Wis dom, Twin Bridges and Dillon, and construction of a new power line from Bannack to Wisdom. More than $600,000 will be .spent for making system improve ments and substation installations and renovations which will en able the system to meet the de mands resulting from expanding power use. New hookups will bring the number of consumers now served to well over 2,000. and Mrs. C. Gosta Miller, Dil lon, is a freshman at Beaverhead County High School. He joined Troop No. 64 hi February 1953 and while with this troop ad vanced in Scouting to the rank of Life Scout. In January 1956, he transferred as an Explorer Scout to Explorer Post No. 61 of which he is now a, member. In addition to- his Scouting advance ment, he » has received the Ad Altare Dei award and is a Bro therhood member in the Order of the Arrow. He has served as a Patrol Leader in Troop No. 64, is Past Senior Crew Leader of Post No. 61. and for the past two years has been Den Chief of Den No. 7, Cub Scouts. Both boys received Junior Leader Training at Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimmarron, New ■ (Continued on page 8) C. Gosta Millet, Jr. Robert McArthur ARSON ATTEMPT COSTS TWO YEARS IN PRISON Minor B. Liday, Idaho Falls, was sentenced to serve two years in the state prison at Deer Lodge when he entered a plea of guilty to a charge of arson in District Court before Judge Philip C. Duncan Monday afternoon. Liday was alleged to have set fires with oil soaked rags at the front and rear entrances of the Darrel Peterson ranch home near' Red- rock several weeks ago. Occupants quickly discovered and 'quenched the fires before any extensive damage was done. Liday’s wife had returned from Idaho Falls several days previously and had joined her mother, Mrs. Darrel Peterson, at the ranch. Sheriff John MacDonald and Undersheriff Lloyd Thomas made the investigation which led to the arrest of Liday at Idaho Falls. Undersheriff Thomas took Liday to Deer Lodge on Tuesday to be gin serving his sentence. Publish T hx S outhern <¿ a i b iKfa°8 tvau*;'\'<rhead County H tEAsuRE S tate I V • The DILLON Official County Newspaper Volume LXV— Number'46 Dillon, Montana — Wednesday, May 16, 1956 Commencement at High School Starts Sunday with Baccalaureate; Sixty- Six Will Receive Diplomas Wednesday Western Students Ask State Board To Reduce Fees; Jordan Offered Contract With Other U Presidents Several actions by the State Board of Education of1 significance to Western Montana College of Education have been noted in press reports from Helena this week. A WMCE delegation of stu dents asked the Board to recon sider the hike in registration fees; the board offered all six of Mon tana’s university unit. presidents a comic opera by j contracts at the same salaries now received; and in a third action authorized the issuance and sale of more than two million dollars :in bonds for the several units. The WMCE student delegation Connty Meetings For Fire Control A series of fire control meetings will be held in Beaverhead county in the near future, according to Ed Atkins, Beaverhead County agent. The purposes of these meetings will b e ' to acquaint people with methods of fire control and pre vention, instruct them in effective use of fire control equipment, and discuss rural fire crew coordina tion within the county. In addition to the rural fire equipment, which is stationed at Lima, Jackson and Wisdom, the Bureau of Land Management plans to place sixteen tool caches at various ranches. Later in the season it is planned that the county will place 16 additional tool caches at strategic locations throughout the county. Two films dealing with fire fighting will be shown at the meetings and instruction will be given in use of hand tools, i Assisting with the meetings will be Lloyd Thomas, Rural Fire Warden, Dick Bauman, Bureau of Land Management Fire Control Officer, Bruce Watters, Vigilante Electric, Forest Service personnel, and Ed Atkins. The dates and locations o f the. meetings are.as follows: Monday, May 21, 7 p.m., Lima school house; Tuesday, May 22, 8 p.m., Armstead school house; Thursday, May 24, 8 p.m., Dillon court house; Friday, May 25, 8 p.m., Glen, Hall; Saturday, May 26, 8 p.m., Wisdom, Community hall; Saturday, June 2, 8, p.m., Jackson, Diamond Bar Inn. Any, one interested is invited. Coffee and donuts will be served. asked , for restoration of the old fee schedule of $20 instead of the $40 recently set by thè board. Board members reminded dele gates that there is at present a “hardship” clause which permits the president of the college to waive regular enrollment fees where necessary. The delegates had said that the hike in fees will work a consider able hardship on students. No ac tion was taken on the student request. W e s t e r n College’s President Rush Jordan who submitted a separation plan at last month’s meeting of the board, was tend ered a contract renewal at his present $9,500 yearly salary, along with the heads of the other five units.. Jordan’s salary was lowest of the six. In making the contract renewal to all six presidents, the board failed to comment on Jor dan’s action at the previous meet ing. It appears that if Jordan re- cides to accept the renewed offer he will be welcomed back with his status unchanged—at least for the present. The Board’s offer gives the presidents 15 days in which to accept the contract. In the third important action i the State Board • of Education Monday authorized the issuance and sale .of more than two million dollars in bonds for several of the University of Montana units. This included sale of $1,600,000 in rev enue bonds for construction of a Health and Physical Education Building at Montana State Col lege, Bozeman; $330,000 for a new residence hall at Eastern Montana Billings; $200,000 for field ouse equipment at the univer sity. Neither Western, Northern nor the School of Mines were mentioned as beneficiaries from this bond sale. Sixty-six seniors will graduate this spring at Commencement ex ercises at Beaverhead County High School which will begin with baccalaureate services in the school auditorium at 8 o’clock next Sunday night. Rev. E. W; Goodrick, minister at the Baptist church, will deliver the sermon entitled “Quo Vadis?” The Girls Ensemble0 will sing. Graduation ceremonies w i 11 take place Wednesday night, May 23, at 8 p.m. at the auditorium. The Commencement speaker will be Prof. Edward Dugan of the school of journalism, Montana State University. Title of the C o m m e n c e m e n t address is ‘Thinking Is Messy.” The high school band will play the proces sional and recessional and the high school chorus will sing sev eral numbers. Diplomas will be presented by Wallace Christian sen, board of trustees member. Rev. John L. Spencer of the Luth eran church will give the invoca tion and benediction. A social hour will follow the exercises in the; Recreation Center. The following sixty-six students are candidates for diplomas: ' Dorothy Lucille Andersen, Dor othy Mae Baldry, Bernice Jo Ann Benson, Loretta Ellen Bourassa, Benny Benson. Brown, Ted Allen Christiansen, Craig Roscoe Cor nell, Jerry L. Dodd, Joann Edith Dumke, Lyle Bruce Eliason, Ste phen Hall Foster, George Reed Featherly III, John Milton Giles, Gail Gray; Frank D. Hazelbaker, Donna Rae Held; Margie Faye Holland, Judith Belle Holmlund, Sylvia Lee Ibey, Verna Marie Jenkins, Right or Wrong by George M. Melton Famous last words: “We were ranning a little low on cash on our vacation so we stopped at Las Vegas to win some.” . Jit s 15c UNPAID PROPERTY TAXES GO DELINQUENT JUNE 1 County Treasurer Martha O. Greene said Saturday that- the deadline for paying the second in stallment on 1955 property taxes will .be at 5 o’clock Thursday, May 31. The volume of payments is increasing steadily as the term inal date approaches, she said, but a substantial amount still remains to be paid. Taxes becoming delin quent after May 31 will be sub ject to penalty and interest char ges. ' - Since history began, I guess, the routine lives of sheep and then- babies have not changed much. A wooly lamb, toy size, hopping be side his mother, full of antics and p l a y e x e r t s an indescribable charm on both children and grown-ups. This is especially true of people who have always lived in large cities where such animals are seldom seen. If it happens that the ewes and lambs are in a field close to a suburban high way it is surprising how many people stop and stay to look and exclaim. It happened many times times with us last winter down in the Imperial Valley. A school bus, loaded with small children, their teacher and driver, made us such a visit. The teacher arranged the trip as a holiday outing and for the kids it was (Continued on nage 8) Urgent Need for New Alumni Cup at-BCHS There is no place for additional names on the “Alumni Cup” at the high school and former, stu dents are asked to rally ’round with donations to provide a new one — in time for this. year’s presentation. Containers have been placed at the‘ Mitchell and Gosman drug stores for collections. The present “Alumni Cup” was first inscribed with a student’s name 26 years ago. Each year the faculty chooses the graduate who in their opinion best exemplifies the attributes of Service, Leader ship, Character and Scholarship. The cup becomes his or her prop erty for the year until a successor is named. Now the space forsjhe names is filled and the time ap proaches for the new award. All alumni of the school are asked to contribute to the fund for the new cup so that this traditional award can be continued. Names now inscribed on the cup are as follows: Class of 1930, Cora Anderson; (Continued on page 8) Janet Lee Johnson, Loren. H. Jones, Vonda June Jones, Carblee Claire Kambich, Dalene Kay Les- sey, Thais Ann Lightfoot, Jack Walter Lovell, James David Mar- chesseault; Sandra Louise McArthur,’ Carol Ann McMannis, Winona Gay Mc- Mannis, John' William McNeill, Peter Gordon Miller, William : Carter Mitchell, Harold Kenneth . Mugaas, James Philip Nettik, Nels E. Nygren, Marlene Westad Orr,^ Joseph Eugene Pe'rusich, Robert’ Christian Petersen, James D. Pickering, Joan Elizabeth Puyear, Darlene Joyce Reamer; - Mary Frances Rebich, Audrey.; Beryl Remely, Bany Evan Rem- ely, Elizabeth Mae Reynolds,- Marvin C. Riebhoff, Don Eugene Roberts, Betty Lou Robinson,- Myrha Lou Rosdahl, Kenneth Merle Rose, George H. Saito, Marilyn Smith, William Lee Stan ford, Virginia Lee. Stefonic, Mai-- colm Eugene Stone; / Thomas Roy \ Thiel, Aileen Ro berta Warrick,' Eathel Zina Wat ers, Richard E. Wenger, Norman I. Wight, Robert Ollen Wilke, Margaret Ann Wolfe, Ardis Ann- Wright, Roberta Louise Wright. Spruce Budworm Campaign Is In Early Stage The campaign;— not the poli tical fracas in the fall — but the Beaverhead Forest’s all-out strike against the spruce budworm is: progressing satisfactorily at this , stage, according to W. E. Fry, for- ’ est supervisor. He pointed out, however, that much preliminary work has to be done before the target date in late June. • Aerial reconnaisance over the Pioneers and the east slope of the Tobacco Roots’ carried out Sun day by Frank T. Bailey, assistant forest supervisor, and Ron Schulz, district ranger at Ennis, furthered: the job of demarcation of areas to to be sprayed. The \importance of the 300,000 acre project is not underestimated: by professional foresters, who/ point' out that insects, in 1952,: killed in this county seven times as. touch .timber' as fire. Nine-, tenths of the loss occurred in; western, and Alaskan forests, and reached the staggering total, na-; tion-wide, of 5 billion board feet of sawtimber. The Beaverhead’s stake in the • current program amounts to saving some 2 billion board feet of'timber, according-to; Mr. Fry. . - Forest officials reiterate'that the DDT mixture to be used in' the spraying operation bears not the slightest threat to- either wild life or domestic animals. This chemical, by its highly selective action in'destroying only insects; may actually prove a boon to livestock and wildlife generally, by reducing the numbers of deer fles and allied pests in the sprayed areas. . , THE W EEK’S WEATHER • Showers during most of thé week have given way since Mon day to bright weather in the Dil lon area. Hills and vales are green, lanes are muddy and fish ermen are restless. There’s, no doubt about it, Spring is here. At 1:15 this afternoon the thermo meter at” the Union Pacific sta tion across the way registered a bland 74. . For the week through Tuesday, the weather records of L. S. Os borne at Wèstern College, tell the story in highs and lows as follows:. Date Day May 9 Wed. ...... May 10 Thurs. ............ 588 May 11 Fri. : ................. 55 May 12 Sat. .......... ,46 May 13 Sum —- ............ 5353 May 14 Mon. ...... May 15 Tues ........ Average' for week ....57 Total precipitation H L P ..56 38 .04 ..5 38 .06 ..55 34 .28 .,46 31 .10 .. 32 .04 ..63 31 .70 34 -57 34 .52