Ravalli Republic from Hamilton, Montana • 1

HISTORICAL SOfJ HELENA. "MONT DAILY IMITATION live Cents Per Copy HAMILTON, MONTANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1957 VOL. LXIX, No. 202 Two Men Arrested In Missoula; May De Linked With August Duiglaries In Victor And Stevi Two Auaust buralaries in Victor and Stevensville appar ently have been solved today, I Cummings-Roberts New Heavy Media Plant Producing Better Flourspar Darby Flourspar production in the Bitter Root has moved a step forward with the construction of Cummings-Roberts new heavy media plant near the company's ore dock on the east edge of Darby. Erection of a three story steel structure was begun early in July and completed in August.

Full scale operation of the new mill began Sept. 16. According to John Taber, General Manager, the new mill, which now permits more complete recovery of ore from the open pit mining operation east of Darby, is a realization of a long recognized need. Low grade mining rejects accumulated at the mine during the past four years now are being up-graded by the new mill to meet exacting market require Missoula police are noiaing two men in connection wun me crime. Sheriff Lloyd Raymond went to Missoula this morning to pick up Bert Tripplett, 23, Hamilton; and Jerry Culverwell, Battleground, Wash.

County Attorney E. Gardner Brownlee said this afternoon that warrants have been out for the two men for some time. Ho indicated that they would be charged with one or both George Mellon Dies; Kites In Anaconda Funeral rites will be held in Anaconda Monday for George Mellon, 75, retired electrical worker, who died early Thursday morning at Daly Hospital. The body Is at Dowllng Chapel, and will be shipped to Anaconda Saturday. Mr.

and Mrs. Mellon came to the valley about six years ago to retire. He Is a former Anaconda electrical worker and city alderman. The family made their home for a short period In Stevensville, where they celebrated their Golden Anniversary In 1952. They moved to Hamilton late in 1952.

The widow survives. lie was born Sept. 2, 1882, at Lake Linden, Mich. He came to Anaconda In 1906, and remained there until his retirement. Other survivors Include a son, George, Anaconda; sisters, Mrs.

Mercedes Grubb. Seattle, and Mrs. Nellie Shea, who lives in Michigan. Brothers are Roland, Wise River; and Charles, Roscoe, Ind. A sister-in-law is Mrs.

Alice Mellon, Iron River, are Ed Kolinack, Superior, and Francis Carrier, who lives in Michigan. Five grandchildren and several neices and nephews also survive. Darby F.Ian Suffers Serious Injuries In Auto Accident John Wolfinbarger, 68-yenP-old Darby man. Is recovering in Daly hospital today from severe facial and mouth cuts received in a one car accident about 5 p. m.

yesterday about four miles south of Hamilton on Highway 53. Wolflnbargcr was a passenger in a car driven by Henry Holtet, Darby. The auto plunged off the road, rolled through the west ditch, and came to rest In a bunch of willows off the road. The accident was just west of the Skal-kaho turnoff, near the Bitter Root river. Wolflnbargcr was thrown clear of the auto.

He was found mln utes later by Sheriffs officers Kelly Robblns and Jack Cain, who came to the scene on their way in from the Lost Horse country. Hoi-tet had gone to a bar a few hundred yards up the road to call for help. Charles Snooks, Darby, had been at the bar. and. went to the assistance of the injured man.

An ambulance took Wolflnbargcr to the hospital. He suffered several cuts inside the mouth, and a severe cut on the tongue. Although losing a lot of blood, at-tending physicians said he was not suffering badly from shock, but his condition is still considered serious. Holtet entered the hospital last night for observation, but apparently suffered no injuries. The men were returning to Darby from Hamilton.

County attorney E. Gardner Brownlee investigated, and later that evening charged Holtet with driving while Intoxicated. The man appeared before Justice of the Peace E. R. Macdonald about 9 p.

and was released after posting $500 bond. He will appear Friday afternoon to enter a plea. The auto received moderate damage. One door was badly smashed. Wolfinbarger returned recently from the Moose Creek area in Idaho.

He had assisted his brother, Ole, in operating the North Star ranch there. crimes. The men were arrested by Mis soula police early this morning. Unofficial reports said one or both men had been in Seattle, for some time since the Victor Enterprise Mercantile was burglarized Aug. 14, and the Stevensville Baldwin Drug was entered Aug.

16. Burglars took a quanily of clothes and cigarettes from the Victor store in an early-morning breakln. Owner William Thrailkill estimated his loss at $150 or more. The Baldwin breakin netted burglars about $150 in cash and a small amount of merchandise. Sheriffs officers were on the lookout for a 1949 model car for several weeks after the burglary.

It was unofficially reported that officers had a "lead" on the two men apprehended today, but were unable to determine their whereabouts until recently. Drones Face Tough Opponents Friday; Anaconda Central On Homecoming Slate Darby-Superior Fray At Dobcat Field Friday; Anderson Says Tigers Up And Ready when it was announced that Vital Statistics Birth Oct. 1C Girl, 7 lbs. 12 to Mrs. and Oliver Johnson.

at The Hospital Admitted Oct. 16 Phil Jemlson, Claude Cunningham, Elaine Meuchel, all Hamilton; John Wolfinbarger, Darby; Thomas, 6 son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Almsback, Heart Butte. Oct.

17 Henry Holtet, Jim Foust, Darby. Released Oct. 16 Gordon R. Tebbitt and Mrs. Boyd Gibford, Hamilton.

Oct. 17 Bob List, Hamilton. Personals Miss Marlene Waugh, 5, Simms, is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thompson.

She arrived last weekend. The Thompsons will take her to Simms Saturday. The young lady is the daughter of the Thompson's daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Don Waugh.

Gardner Brownlee, Tom Koch, Ed Gnmes and Doctors Armon Meis and Richard Ormsbe returned Wednesday from the Big Sandy area, where they were antelope hunting. All got their antelope, hunting along the Missouri river breaks. Bob Edberg, Great Falls, a representative of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing was a business caller in Hamilton Thursday. Glenn Chaffin returned to his 'duties as Chamber of Commerce secretary after he and Mrs. returned from a two-week vacation to Washington state and Vancouver and Victoria, B.

C. They spent a weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Del Brisbin, former Corvallis residents, in Toppenish, Wash. I 'o Legion, Auxiliary Fete Dist.

Officers A joint meeting of the American Legion and Auxiliary was held at the Legion hall Tuesday night to honor District Auxiliary president, Mrs. W. J. Ahlin Drummond; her husband, and Hugh Cummings, also Drummond. Potluck supper was served to about 50 guests.

Dance numbers were provided by Lorena Lackman and Kathryn Grube. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Vadheim and children, Mark and Hollis, also provided entertainment. Hosts were Mr.

and Mrs. K. J. McDonald, Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Nobles Mr. and Mrs. Sam Billings. Informal meetings of both groups followed. Auxiliary delegates to the district meeting in Drummond Nov.

3 were named. They are Mrs. Ray Vegoren, Mrs. Walt Sokoloski, Mrs. Gerald Shcultz and Mrs.

Perry Van Blaricom. Legion delegates will be named at the meeting next Tuesday. TO DEER LODGE FOR WINTER Victor Mrs. Anna Reed has re turned to Deer Lodge with her daughter; Mrs. 1 Jenkins, where she will, make her home this winter.

HOME FROM HOSPITAL Stevensville Mrs. Artemus Skaggs was released from a Missoula hospital early this week. ments for flourspar ore. More Spud Whoppers Are Brought In; Strnisha Has Largest Spuds, spuds and more spuds; the office is beginning to look like a grocery store. Four more whoppers came in yesterday, and they're really big.

Joe Strnisha claimed title to Spud King, at least temporarily, when his big ones weighed 3 lbs. 6 ozs. and 3 lbs. 2 ozs. The heavier was a Wasaco Russet, and the other a gem.

L. R. Meuchel had a couple really big red spuds. Both weighed slightly over 3 lbs. Anybody got any four-pounders.

IN MISSOULA HOSPITAL Stevensville Mrs. Artemus Skaggs was admitted to a Missoula- Jifwpltal. eariy. this week. WEATHER Mm.

Mia. HamOtMi Wednesday 59 Thursday 30 One Tear Ag Hmlltoa Oct. 17, 1956 67 35 CorraJll Wednesday 54 Thursday 28 Cloudy. pleased with the improvement shown by backfield subs Dan Hug-gans, Bob Stevens and John Spur-lock in recent games. This gives him lots of depth in the backfield.

He was more concerned with the line. Tackles Greg Palin and Walker McVicar are "iron men" by necessity, and line replacements are lacking Anderson said he'd "probably" go along with his usual starting lineups: O'Brien and Rick Roberts, ends; McVicar and Palin, tackles; Jim Matteson, center; Sterling Wetzsteon, quarterback, and Ed Nicholson and Jerry Skaw, halfbacks. Superior, besides the tough line, features a speedy backfield of slippery Russ Brazill at quarterback, and Lewis Forry and Bill LaCombe at halfbacks. Charles Forry and Jim Tamietti are ends; Robert and Richard Dunn are tackles, and Ron Johnson is the center. Delegation of Fans Darby fans indicate that they'll plan mass movement to Superior Friday.

The school band is chartering a bus, and pep club and other students will attend in large numbers. An unusual feature of Darby home games this season has been the closing of the Storer and Flightner mill, to allow employees to take in Tiger contests. Mill officials said this week that the mill "probably" will shut down for the Superior game. Corvailis-Florence Corvallis Blue Devils meet Florence Falcons at Corvallis at 2 p. m.

Friday, and Bob Holton's crew will be looking for their second league victory of the season. But it's liable to be a tough contest. Don Marsh's "iron men" from Florence, 10 strong, proved that they are tough competitors by holding victor to a narrow, 20-19, win last Friday. And Marsh has one of the top passing combinations in the District In Dale Fowler and Dick McPhee. Holton's lineup will probably be (Continued on Page 4) Ethel Davison was admitted to a Missoula hospital early this week.

Finished ore produced by the new plant from these mining rejects is of equal quality to that formerly mined from high grade surface outcrop ore bodies. Despite the lower grade of ore, the company is able to continue maintaining the standard of quality now well-known throughout the steel industries of mid-western and western U. S. Fluorspar, for which many of the country's largest steel producers have come to depend on Cummings-Roberts as their principal source of supply, is an essential ingredient in the production of steel. Heavy Media Refining The mill employs a well-known modern ore concentrating method called "heaty media" or "sink-float" concentration.

No chemicals are used in the plant. The process works exactly on the same principal as one. might employ to separate sand from- cawdust, by dumping such a mixture in a vat of water and skimming the swdust floating at the surface. In the fluorspar plant, the vat is charged with a heavy mixture of finely ground magnetite (a natural mineral) and a man-made iron silicate of similar properties. Mixed with water, these ingredients form a thin heavy liquid in which the ore's mineral impurities, lighter in weight than the ore, actually float at the surface of the vat and are skimmed off to be rejected.

The fluorspar, which is heavier than the liquid media, sinks to the bottom of the vat where it is recovered and washed as a finished product ready for shipment. This method of treating the ore is so siinple mechanically that only a small part of the machinery in the mill is devoted to it. The more complex and major part of the mill machinery is required to refine, recirculate and maintain an exact mixture of the fluid ingredients. The. fifty tons of media in the mill circuit, at any one time, are ton for ton more than three times as valuable as the fluorspar being produced by the circuit.

Sixth Year of Production Now in its sixth year of production, the Cummings-Roberts operation has become one of the prin cipal industries in the Bitter Root valley. The mine, situated 26 miles by road east of Darby, at 7000, feet altitude, operates about nine months of the year on an average. Snow conditions govern winter operation of the mine. The new mill may extend production somewhat longer, but extreme cold weather will force its closing. A crushing-screening plant built at the mine in 1955 is used to prepare the ore for concentration at the Darby mill.

Five trucks, two crawler loaders and a wheel-mounted loader are used in the open pit for granite removal and mining. Crushed mill feed ore is hauled to Darby by a fleet of 12 large dump trucks. Forty men are employed currently. Rites For Hall Friday Afternoon At Chapel Funeral rites' for" Guy Hall, Corvallis farmer who died Tuesday, will be held Friday at 2 p. m.

at the Dowllng chapel. Rev. Jesse Dove, Kalispell, will officiate. Jack Hawker will be music soloist. Burial will be in Corvallis cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Donald and Robert Holloron, Joe Sutherland, Gomer Lockridge, Oswln Glidewell and Otis Talbot. Mrs. Mary Brush, 90, Dies In Stevensville Stevensville Mrs. Mary Brush, 90, died about midnight last night in the Arcadian rest home. She entered the home last April but had been in good health, considering her age, until a couple of days ago when she suffered a stroke.

She was born Jan. 7r. 1867 in Illinois, but came to Montana from Missouri about 65 years ago, locating in Anaconda. In 1910 she moved to Hamilton with her husband. They went to California in 1942, and in 1947 went to Missoula, but were there less than a month when Mr.

Brush died. Mrs. Brush then went to Hamilton and lived there until six months ago. I wo sisters, Mrs. Cora Ritchie, Hamilton, and Mrs.

Harry Lord, Sacramento. survive. A son- in-law, Robert Kreklau, St. Regis, arrived this afternoon to help Mrs. Ritchie make arrangements for the funeral.

Mrs. Lord will be unable to come because of ill health. The body is at the Whitesitt Funeral Home. Queen Candidates Named At Victor Victor The 14 Homecoming queen candidates of the Victor high school and their sponsors are Pat Cunningham, Gladvs' Beauty Shop; Jeanne Dillon, Victor Volun teer Fire Department; Dolores Hackett, Victor Garden Club; Myr-na Miller, Larry Grimm, Neuropathologist Masseur; Elsie King, Enterprise Mercantile; Arlene Buh- 1 ler, Buker's Texaco; Evelyn Brun-ner, Farmers State Bank; Peggy Golay, Victor Hardware; Vada Yates, Box Elder Cafe; Donna Kerr, Roberts Realty; Cecelia Cole, Frank's Service; Lilly Olson, Gobel Drug; Judy Esche, Victor Feed Mill, and Carol Woodward, At-well's Grocery. The girls were chosen from junior and senior classes by vote of the student body.

Another vote will determine the top three, who will reign at the football game Friday afternoon with Philipsburg. The queen will be crowned at the Homecoming dance- Friday night. Olson's orchestra will provide music. Potato Harvester's Son Dies Early Thursday Elton Aimsback, six-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

George Aims-back, Heart Butte, died early today in Daly hospital. The child's body was taken today to Browning for burial. The child suffered from pneumonia. His parents were here to assist in potato harvest operations with the Case Potato Co. STEVI WELL CHILD CLINIC Stevensville Some 21 children attended the well child clinic Wednesday.

Dr. R. L. Peterson and County Nurse Mrs. Dorothy Ditt-maier were in charge.

Stag Vogt faces- what is probably the toughest task of the Hamilton Homecoming; meeting the Anaconda Central Saints, currently tied with Loyola for top spot in the Southwest Class division. The Bronc-Saint clash is Friday night at 8 at Haynes field, and Vogt has been drilling his charges all week on fundamentals. "Block ing and tackling, we still must concentrate on fundamentals," Is the way Vogt termed it. The Broncs held scrimmages Monday and Tuesday, and practiced punts and placements Tuesday. The Saints bring a team of 12 letterman.

Although they're not tough as last year's championship squad, Vogt still concedes that it will be a rough game. Injuries also have beset the Broncs. Lee MacLean is suffering a knee injury and will see limited action at best. Hank Jobe probably won't play at all. Probable starters are Don Robinson, center Jack Lagerquist and Darrell Clark, guards; Pete Larson and Steve Vogt, tackles; Ken Price and Gerald Robbins or Bill Hettrick, ends; Whitey Johnson, quarterback; Bob Taylor or Andy Gaasch and Gordon Pagenkopf, halfbacks, and Cliff Wilkins, fullback.

The Saints run generally from a formation, with an unbalanced line. They pitch out for end runs a lot. They don't pass too often, but most of their passes are right down the middle. They ordinarily use a 6-3-2 defense. "I think our boys are going to show a lot of spirit, and we'll make it an interesting ball game," Vogt concluded.

Stevensville-Deer Lodge The Yellowjackets meet Deer Lodge at the Warden field Friday and it should be a game to see if Stevi can recover from their lost spirit from last week's laping at the hands of Loyola. Coach Frank Ogslebee was justifiably concerned about his boys being "down" last weekend, and hopes they can play the type of ball they are capable of. The Jackets showed plenty of power in games against Anaconda Central and Hamilton. Deer Lodge features a massive forward wall, and a better-than-average backfield. And they'll be tough to beat on their home field.

Loyola-Helena Cathedral The Rams, tied with Anaconda Central for top division spot, play host to the winless Greenies. Loyola is heavily favored to win. The Rams have a terrific passing attack and their" runners are no slouches, either. Looks like a good tuneup game for the Rams for their game at Anaconda Central next weekend. "Our boys are up and ready to go, and if they play the type of heads-up ball they're capable of, we should come home with the trophy," was the way Darby Coach Walt Anderson described the Tigers big game at Superior tomorrow.

But the Tiger mentor wasn't all optimism. The massive Superior line is giving him headaches, and he won't deny this fact. line averages 162. Superior's line averages 185. Darby's backfield averages 145.

Superior's averages about 170. What to do? With a smile on face.the Tiger coach indicated that Darby Will undoubtedly go over or around the big Bobcats. "Our passing game, which has been fairly successful all year, will be a big asset," he commented. But nevertheless, he conceded that it will be a "rough" game, particularly on the Bobcat field. The team will be at nearly full 'strength.

End Fat O'Brien has the flu, but he will be available for at Jeast part-time duty. The rest of the squad is in top shape. -Backfield Improvement-Anderson said he was highly LARGE CATTLE SHIPMENT Stevensville Thirty -five carloads of cattle were shipped by special train on Oct. 12 to the Montana Livestock Butte, by Fred Thomas of Stevensville. VISITS MRS.

DAY Stevensville Mrs. H. W. Knapp of Seattle is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

E. A. Day. In The Service Mildenberger on Furlough Pvt. James Mildenberger, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Phil Mildenberger, arrived Sunday from San Diego, where he has completed boot training with the U. S. Marines. Mildenberger wil return to the same station to attend a communications and electronics school.

He was met in Missoula by his parents and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Williams..