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State Historicia Society Helena, Montana $ I , :':1)01ETY iViOi4 I ANA HELENA Vol. 54 No. 34 Sanders County Ledger Most Widely Circulated Newspaper in Sanders County THOMPSON FALLS, MONTANA. Thursday. October 29, 1959 Single Copy 10c Hallowe'en Kids To Collect UNICEF Pennies It will be a UNICEF Hallowe'en again in Thompson Falls Satur- day night, Mrs. S. D. Babcock, chairman, has announced. All children who carry a can or jar with an orange label bearing the UNICEF emblem are collecting pennies for the United Nation Children's fund. \Parents are re- quested to give pennies in place of treats so that many less for- tunate children may have need- ed milk and medicine,\ Mrs. Babcock said. After children collect pen- nies, they will taken them to eit- her the multi -purpose room or the post office lobby. From 7:30 to 9 p.m. Mrs. Ed Muster and Mrs. Newell will be in the post office to collect the pennies while Mrs. Donald Olson and Mrs. Kenneth Soule will be at the multi -purpose room. • Any- one desiring to contribute to the fund who will not be or is not contacted by the \trick or treat\ crowd can send their contribu- tion to the school Friday or Mon- day. The total collection will be sent to UNICEF headquarters. \Our pennies will help carry on the work of helping to eradi- cate trachoma, yaws, malaria, TB, leprosy and other diseases as well as provide food for hun- gry children.\ Mrs. Babcock said. \UNICEF depends entirely on voluntary contributions. Its plan is to help people help them- selves. Governments that receive the supplies take care of the ad- ministration and distribution of them. UNICEF has proved that, with guidance, all peoples of the world can help themselves. When the children knock at your door Saturday night, drop your pennies in their jars. In so do- ing, you will be helping to pro- vide better health for the world's children.\ Bus Travel Okay Given Students The Sanders county school transportation committee voted 7 to 1 last week in favor of per- mitting elementary pupils resid- ing in the operators village at Noxon Rapids dam to ride the Noxon High school district No. 10 school bus to the Noxon ele- mentary school. The students with their par- ents reside in Trout Creek's Schol Dist. No. 6. The students with their par- ents reside in Trout Creek's School Dist. No. 6. ' Earlier their parents had peti- tioned and gained approval from the Noxon trustees to attend the Noxon elementary school. How- ever, prior to the transportation committee's action, their parents transported them to the school district No. 10 line, where they were permitted to board the high school district bus. Present at the meeting of the transportation committee were members Lloyd Johnson, Thomp- son Falls; Dave Hale, Trout Creek; Damon Wheeler, Plains; A. R. Troyer, Dixon; Earl Bar- low, Hot Springs; Claude Denny, Lonepine; Joe Dobravec, Noxon; H. E. Smith, chairman of the board of county commissioners and ex -officio member of the transportation committee, and County Supt. Orin P. Kendall, ex -officio chairman. Hanson Promoted To Ravalli Post Bob Hanson, county agent -at - large, has been transferred and promoted to the position of as- sociate county agent for Ravalli county at Hamilton, County Agent J. H. Mikkelson re- ported this week. At Hamilton, Hanson will be working under County Agent William Thomas. The promotion becomes effec- tive Nov. 1, however Mr. and Mrs. Hanson and family are not expected to move to Hamilton until nex• week. They are cur- rently on v.:cation in Livingston, but are expected to retOrn to Thompson Falls this weekend. Hanson was assigned here in August 1958 after he completed work for his degree at Montana State college in Bozentsn the previous June. Mikkelson said he expects a replacement to be assigned here to succeed Hanson in the near future. Queen Diane I The Weather - Date Max. Min. Oct. 21 Oct. 22 Oct. 23 Oct. 24 Oct. 25 Oct. 26 Oct. 27 Diane Rosdahl Chosen Homecoming Queen at Pacific Lutheran College TACOMA, WASH. (Special to Ledger)—Diane Rosdahl, beauti- ful brunet junior coed from Thompson Falls, will reign as queen over the Pacific Lutheran college homecoming festivities here Friday through Sunday. The charming stately 20 -year - old queen -elect was chosen from a field of 12 candidates in elec- tions held last week. As queen, Diane will be the center of attention for the week- end on the campus. She will be the guest of honor at every event. David 'Rowlands, Tacoma city manager, will crown Miss Ros- dahl as Queen Diane I Friday evening in the college audi- torium before 1300 persons. A special program in honor of the queen and her court will follow. Princesses for the queen, also juniors, will be Linda Effinger of Tacoma and Margery Krueger of Oregon City, Ore. Friday after the coronation. Queen Diane will attend the pep rally and the mixer. She will also be introduced to the alumni at their evening social program. Saturday she will crown one of the students, Handsome powder puff game. Handsome Harry is chosen annually to reign as \king\ at the powder puff tilt. At the PLC versus Central Washington football game in Tacoma's Lincoln bowl Saturday afternoon, Queen Diane will pre- sent the game football to the team captains prior to the kick- off. Saturday night she will attend the alumni banquet and the homecoming play. Sunday she will worship with the students and alumni, and in the afternoon will be guest of honor in all of the residence halls which will be having open house for the day. \Wide Wide World\ will be BPW Convention Reports Presented Twenty-six members of the Thompson Falls BPW club at- tended the dinner meeting at the IOOF hall Tuesday evening. Dinner was served by ladies of the Rebekah. The local club was one of six in Montana to receive a national citation from the National Fed- eration of BPW for outstanding service in connection with the nationwide survey on uniform traffic signals. Reports on the national convention held in Kal- ispell in June and hosted by Dist. I occupied the balance of the evening. Mrs. C. H. Weismandel reported on action taken on by- laws; Mrs. Don Campbell report- ed on the woman -of -the -year luncheon in charge of the local club, and Mrs. Harvey Hotzel, state finance chairman for 1958- 59, reported on the budget she presented to the members at the convention. President Miss June Thayer gave highlights on the entire convention program. Mrs. John Britt was a guest for the evening. Mrs. Norman Lovhaug assisted by Mrs. Har- old Jensen will be hostess for the next meeting Nov. 10 the homecoming theme and the campus and buildings will be de- corated to carry out the theme. Queen Diane was active in stu- dent life at Thompson Falls high from which she was graduated as salutatorian in 1957. At Pacific Lutheran, the queen --elect has been an out- standing student and campus leader. - In her freshman year she was treasurer of her class and a dea- coness in the student congrega- tion. Last year she was a mem- ber of Spurs, national sophomore honorary for women. This is her third year as a member of the college's famous \Choir of the West.\ Diane is majoring in education and plans to teach in high school. She was delighted to learn in a telephone call from her par- ents, Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Ros- dahl, that they will come to Tacoma for the homecoming weekend. They will leave for Tacoma today. Lunch Program Commended Again Thompson Falls' school lunch program has received another accolade, Supt. Everett W. Long reported this week. L. L. Brown, director of the school lunch program for the State Dept. of Public Instruction, in a letter to Superintendent Long following a September in- spection commented that \this is a very fine program and one of which you have every reason to be proud. You are fortunate to have a cook as interested in the program.\ The inspection by the state department was in addition to a report made last week following an inspection by a sanitarian for the State Board of Public Health, who gave the program an \excel- lent\ rating. Brown made a few minor sug- gestions for improving the pro- gram such as providing addition- al ventilation for the store room. having student servers wear hair nets and providing a separate return for silverware. Camp Fire Girls Selling Candy Camp Fire Girls and Blue Birds will be selling Camp Fire mints and aplets and cotlets this week as their fund raising pro- ject. The money received is used to buy materials and books for their programs throughout the year. Miss Gwenn Harper, Spokane regional advisor, will meet with the leaders, assistant leaders, spOnsors and members of the executive committee for train- ing and organizing the new as- sociation. A pot -luck dinner for parents and their daughters will be held Saturday evening at 6:30 p.m. in the multi -purpose room of the elementary school. The girls will give a short program and Miss Harper will show a film, \Girls in Camp Fire.\ 57 54 54 61 61 57 57 46 42 32 42 46 29 29 arlem Clowns To Perform Here November 4 Prec. .04 .19 .01 tr. .07 tr. 0 The Harlen Clowns led by comic Bob Woods will meet the Missoula All -Stars, 1959 Missoula City league champs, at the Thompson Falls High school gym Wednesday night, Nov. 4 at 8:15 p.m. The high school athletic fund will receive 35 per cent of the proceeds. The Clowns, traveling profes- sional Negro club, have attracted large crowds wherever they have performed. Their only other ap- pearance in western Montana will be the following night at Hamilton. They are scheduled to arrive in Thompson Falls from an Idaho engagement, In addition to being cage stars in their own right, the Harlem club clowns throughout the game, even when pressed by their opposition. The Missoula club is composed of former all -state high school and Grizzly stars. Included on the roster are Jimmy Powell, former all -state high school cag- er who received honorable men- tion in the Skyline conference; Jim Saylor, who played with the state champion Mission Bull- dogs; Dave Lien, all -state, Pete Rhinehart, son of the Grizzly trainer, and others. C of C to Assist Dam Dedication - Ceremony in June TROUT CREEK—Directors of the Thompson Falls - Noxon Chamber of Commerce went on record Monday night favoring the holding of the dedication ceremony for the Noxon Rapids dam in mid -June immediately following the National Gover- nors conference in Glacier Na- tional park. BPR Conducting Study Of Short Cut Routes The Bureau of Public Roads currently is making a study to determine the most feasible route to provide a connection between U. S. Highways 10 and 10A, W. B. Iluffine of Helena, 1BPR division engineer, has writ- ten Don Saint, chairman of the Thompson Pass committee. Huffine said the alternates in- volved are the Thompson pass route via Murray and Pritchard and the Glidden pass route via Burke and Wallace. \Compara- tive construction and engineer- ing costs .for each route begin- ning at a common point at the western terminus (Cooper gulch) of Montana FAS route 471 and extending to Enaville and Wal- lace, 44.8 and 21.9 miles respec- tively. are approximately $3 mil- lion for either route. However, a complete economic analysis of the routings has not been ac- complished to date so little can be concluded.\ Iluffine did not mention a date when the study would be comp- leted. The study is one of the latest developments in efforts of Idaho and Montana towns to achieve construction -of the route, which would shorten the distance be- tween Glacier park and Spokane by approximately 40 miles. Tuesday of last week, Idaho. Washington and western Mon- tana boosters met at Coeur d'- Alene to discuss methods to pro- mote the route. Attending from Thompson Falls were Saint, Fred (Bud) Moore and John Britt. L. 0. Thomas attended from Hot Springs. Other towns represent- ed at the meeting were Spokane, Kalispell, Coeur d'Alene, Lake- side, Rollins, Kellogg, Wallace, Murray and Kingston. Two offici- als were present from the Idaho Department of Highways and two from the Forest Service in Coeur d'Alene. Wallace and Kellogg repre- sentatives agreed to take the pro- posal back to their respective chambers of commerce and gain their reactions to the Thompson pass route as opposed to the In the resolution being for- warded to the Washington Water Power Co., builders of Noxon Rapids, the directors voted that they would be willing to cooper- ate with and assist WWP in staging its dedication ceremony. The National Governors confer- ence will end Thursday and it is tentatively planned to conduct the dedication either Saturday or Sunday of that weekend. WWP hopes to secure a na- tionally known personality as the principal speaker. Gov. J. Hugo Aronson has informed the local chamber that he wants to attend the ceremony. Actual selection of the date and plans for the ceremony are in the hands of WWP officials. Mark Holliday of Noxon re- ported that the Weyerhauser Timber Co. is not interested in coming into Montana or Idaho and that it has designated this territory for its subsidiary, Pot- latch Forest Industries. It was reported that Potlatch is plan- ning to erect a pulp mill at Priest River. S. D. Babcock, chairman of the industrial development com- mittee, said that his committee was going to realign its thinking for industrial development of the area. He said he believed the chamber should seek to promote small sub -contracting plants, such as a wood chipping plant, to serve larger, nearby plants, such as the new plywood mill and pulp mill in Missoula. The Rev. Olah Moore discus- sed with the group steps that could be taken to ascertain the interest and support among peo- ple in the area for a health center to handle maternity and emergency cases. It was the con - census that firm estimates of costs for both construction and operation would be needed be- fore any survey should be at- tempted. To Run Again HELENA—Attorney General Forrest H. Anderson has an- nounced he will again be a candi- date for that office on the Dem- ocratic ticket in 1960. Mrs. Arlene Johnson VFW Auxiliary President Visits Burke route and vice versa. It was reiterated at the meet- ing that the main stumbling block for the route remains the county commissioners of Shos- hone county and their failure to request that the Thompson pass route be placed on Shoshone's secondary system. Montana can not place the stretch of road between Coopers gulch and the state line on the secondary sys- tem until Idaho agrees to place it on its secondary also. Once the route attains secondary road status, the local road boosters plan to request that the next con- struction contract let on the route be from the state line to- wards Coopers gulch so as to get the road into a traversable condi- tion. A news story concerning the Coeur d'Alene meeting appear- ing in the North Idaho Press, published at Wallace, quoted William Featherstone, chairman of the Wallace chamber's high- way department as follows: Featherstone said \Thompson Falls business men are live wires and are all out for developing western Montana; that they de- finitely are not going to let any grass grow under their feet and he thinks the wisest thing for Wallace to do is to cultivate this group and work for the develop- ment and growth of Wallace as well.\ LUTHERANS TO BUILD NEW CHURCH SOON Construction is expected to start in about two months on a new church home for Our Savi- or's Lutheran congregation, Wil- liam Oliver, chairman of the building committee. has an- nounced. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Jake Weig- and and Arthur Koenen. Oliver said Pastor Solberg of Minneapolis, president of the Home Missions Dept. of the Evangelical Lutheran church, was here Thursday and formally approved the building program for the local church. Funds for the structure will be supplied by the Home Missions Dept. The churth will be of modern architectural design. and is ex- pected to cost between $15.000 and $18,000. In addition to the niffin worship auditorium, which will have a seating capacity of 100 persons, recreation, class- room and kitchen facilities will be provided in the basement. Off- street parking will be provided also. Robert Felberg, Billings archi- tect, has been engaged to pro- vide plans for the structure. He is expected to visit Thompson Falls soon to look over the site. located above the swimming pool and below the Woman's club house. The building committee now has preliminary blueprints and specifications, which will require some modifications for adapa- tion to the local site. Oliver said the building would be about 26 by 46 feet HAWKS FACE EUREKA IN HOMECOMING TILT Saturday will be homecoming for Thompson Falls High schooli with a parade and dance on the; schedule in addition to the home -1 coming festivities at the gamer between the Blue Hawks and the. Eureka Lions at 2 p.m. The parade preceeding the game will feature the Boy Scouts, members of the Thomp- son Falls Saddle club, high school band and floats for the Mrs. Arlene Johnson of Poi- son, District I president of the VFW auxiliary, paid her official visit to the Thompson Falls chapter Thursday evening at the October meeting. She was ac- companied by Mrs. Marge Coons, District I flag bearer, also of Poison. Speaking to local members, Mrs. Johnson urged their con- tinued support of the Montana Farmstead at the VFW National Home at Eaton Rapids, Mich., telling them that in the entire history of the home they have never had a child with a police record. an almost unequalled re- cord and one of which to be proud. She also urged support of the Montana soldiers home and hospital and the Fdrt Sheri- dan, Wyo. hospital where 239 Montana veterans are still hospi- talized. Members of the local chapter made plans to sell for-get-me- nots made by the Disabled Am- erican Veterans Saturday, Nov. 7. Lunch was served by hostesses Mrs. Rich Heater and Mrs. N. T. McIntosh. Mrs. Johnson thanked the members for the gift pre- sented her and for their hospi- tality. County, Towns Split Spirits Tax Sanders county and its three incorporated towns received $1.524.37 as their share of third quarter liquor excise taxes, Ralph Goode, county treasurer, has reported. Of the total, the county re- ceives $381.09 while both Thom- pson Falls and Hot Springs each received 445.88 and Plains $251.- 52. The tax payment is prorated on the basis of retail liquor sales. During the quarter, which ended Sept 30, net liquor sales in the county totaled $38.109.14. Sales by individual liquor stores were as follows: Hot Springs, $10,068.67; Thompson Falls, $10,- 013.80; Paradise $6,261.17; Nox- on, $6,171.09, and Plains, $5,594.- 41. PF Unit Stages Hallowe'en Party A hard luck hobo Hallowe'en party was staged by the Senior Pilgrim Fellowship Sunday even- ing in the church annex, which was decorated with cornstalks, a hobo campfire and logs for seats. .‘ After the opening game the group adjourned for a worship service and workday fox Christ money dedication in charge of Carolyn Selvig. Following wor- ship, the group engaged in games and a Hallowe'en ghost story directed by Susan Duffield, Miss Selvig and Ernest Schmoy- er. Hallowe'en hobo lunches car- ried on slicks were served by Susan Puphal and John Muster. four queen candidates. The homecoming queen will be selected by secret ballot Fri- day and the result announced at halftime preceeding the corona- tion. Candidates for queen are Bon- nie Butte, senior; Beverly Mey- er. junior; Susan Duffield, sop- homore, and Sheila Gable, fresh- man. The class floats, on which the queen candidates will ride, will be judged on originality and at- tractiveness. The homecoming dance will start at 830 p.m. in the multi- purpose room with the queen and her court as guests. ASC Nominates '60 Committeemen Nominees for election as agri- cultural stabilization and con- servation committeemen for 1960 have been chosen by com- munity election boards. Ray Jor- genson, secretary, said Tuesday. Nominees are: Thompson Falls -Heron area—Donald Naeg- eli, Paul K. Harlow, Wesley Wolfe, Ernest Weber, Howard Haviland, Doyle Chenowith, L. A. Branson, Edgar Lagge, P. E. Hungerford and John Harker. Plains—Carl Pilgeram, John Helterline, Cyril Williams, Wen- dell Stephens. John Nelson, Ed- gar French, Leo Gebhardt, Wil- liam Pilgeram, George Van Nice, William s Howells. Camas - Prairie—Arthur Argo, Herbert Cross, Joe Frchul, Louis Kline, N. J. Mogus, Vladimir Voiles, Morland Neiman, Tom Holland, Archie Kneer Jr., Del- bert Muster. Lonepine—James Cook, Tom Jacques. Jack King, Minnie Ros- mas, John Welch Sr., Harold Ped- erson. Allen Voorhies, Dean Sampson, Stewart Hauptman. D. 0. Stellmon. These nominees and others who may be nominated by peti- tion will be listed on the ballots which will be sent about Nov. 20 to all farmers and ranchers eligi- ble to participate in the election. Balloting will be conducted by mail with a three -member com- mittee and two alternates to be elected in each community.
