Ravalli Republic from Hamilton, Montana • 1

as That for lis will who 1 be in I 3 3 i HELENA MONT RAVALLI REPUBLICAN GA EXPONENT FOrgO VOL. LX No. 123 HAMILTON, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1956 Five Cents Per Copy YES, WE REALLY ARE Yes, the Ravalli Republican is really going to give away five shiny. gleaming new bicycles, portable 17-inch TV set and in addition several hundred dollars cash prizes. Boys and girls in this area are being given an opportunity for these prizes by becoming candidates in the Ravalli Republican Subscription contest which is now underway.

Registration is taking place at the Republican office and those have not entered I may do so all day Saturday. Either bring or mail your entry coupon to the Ravalli Republican signed by one parent. These coupons may bel Corvallis Grange To Hear Report Corvallis Master Frank Heidt report on the recent State Grange meeting in the Masonic I temple Monday night. The fair booth committee will meet at the home of the chairman, Mrs. Alvin Thorson, Friday night.

and it is expected a report of the session will given Monday. The two delegates from Grange, Donny Thorson and Sandy Bratton, are attending the State Gange Youth camp at Rollins. They left Wednesday and will be home this weekend. Funeral Saturday For Mrs. P.

Bosket Funeral serviees conducted by the Jehovah's Witness' Church will be held for Mrs. Peter Bosket, Saturday at 2 p. m. in the Dowling Chapel. Mrs.

Bosket, who died Thursday noon in Daly Hospital, has 20 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. She and her husband came to this country from Italy in 1913 and to the Valley in 1919. The service will be conducted by Cy Anderson of Deer Lodge. Pallbearers include C. F.

Donaldson, Fred Goddard, Clifford Brown, C. A. Bennett. George Mihara and Lawrence Goddard. One Entrant Awarded Ten Blue Ribbons Mrs.

Everett Peterson won the most blue ribbons in the Hamilton Garden Club's flower show Thursday at the Elks Temple. She received 10 first place awards from the judges in two of the four divisions. Second place over-all winner was Mrs. Guy Pender with seven blue ribbons. Both of the ladies received several second and third place awards in the various divisions.

A complete list of all the winners will be published in Monday's issue of the Ravalli Republican. Judges for the show were Mrs. Harry Shryock, Mrs. John Algie and Mrs. Marvin Hart.

CHECK ON SOIL BANK- Corvallis Ray Morris, chairman of the county agricultural stabilization and conservation committee, is in Bozeman conferring with other Montana agriculturists in an effort to work out a plan for lowing the Soil Bank program here. Mr. and Mrs. Morris left Wednesday noon for Bozeman and plan to return Saturday. At The Hospital Admitted- June 21-Frank Potter, Stevensville; Mrs.

John M. Haas, Florence; C. C. Curley, Hamilton. June 22- Clarence Hogue, Hamilton.

ReleasedJune 22- John Winings, Evelyn Poole, James R. Noakes, Miguel Martinez, Stevensville; Dan Albert Fullerton, 6 days, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fullerton. HIS SOCIETY OF MONTANA Valley Visitor Registration Count Is Up found in the two page advertisement of Wednesday, June 20 issue.

Extra coupons may be gotten at the Republican office. The contest will continue until July 14. Winners are determined by the number of votes they receive, each subscription counting as votes. Lots of extra bonus votes are given for various sales achievement. Act now! Some of the boys and girls have already started their sales work.

Don't wait any longer. Come in Saturday and see Max Poulter, the campaign manager. He will help you off to a good start. Remember -you will receive 10.00 free votes when you enter as an active candidate. Jaycees Will Send Darby Lad To Tennis Tournament The Jaycees are taking to the woods timber Sunday.

They're going to cut for making fence posts for sale, the money to be used to send their tennis representative to the state Junior Chamber tennis tournament. Wallace Evers, Darby, is the local Jaycee sponsored Bozeman player 9-10. and will compete President Jerry Milligan told the members present at the bi-monthly meeting Thursday night that Kermit Crews and Don Woodside, vice presidents of Junior Chamber. were in Hamilton last week. They were here to discus the business and planning meeting of the August convention in Glendive.

Check Pressure Gauges; Home Club Told Corvallis Having pressure gauges checked each year in preparation for the season's canning is important, Mrs. Robert Smyth told members of the Mountain Viewers Home Demonstration club at a meeting in the J. E. Backlin home June 14. Checking pressure gauges is a service which is available at the home demonstration office in Hamilton.

In a lesson on home canning she discussed types of jars and lids and necessary equipment. She pointed out that it is usually. better to prepare the jars the day before and that is also a good idea to buy enough lids at the beginning of the season so the canner doesn't have to stop her canning to run to the store for more lids. The last meeting for the summer will be held June 28 and will be a potluck picnic at the Oscar Berggren home. No lesson is planned.

Hamilton Jumper Undergoes Surgery For Broken Leg Surgery was performed on the leg of Kenneth Wickham, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Wickham.

Thursday night in El Paso, Tex. Young Wickham suffered a broken leg while parachuting into a fire in the Gila National Forest where fires broke out recently. here suffered a broken femur, According, to, reports received a splinter penetrating the flesh of the thigh causing the operation. At last report he was doing fine in the Hotel Dien Sisters Hospital. The parachutist had made six jumps into the New Mexico forest fighting fires before his accident occurred.

The full dinner pail used to interest the average working man, but today he wants a full gas tank. WEATHERMar. Prec. Thursday Friday Corvallis Friday Thursday 62 3 Registration of visitors to the Bitter Root during the first 21 days of June is considerably higher than during the same time last year. According to Glenn Chaffin, Chamber of Commerce secretary, 51 have registered in the Chamber office from 13 different states and three foreign countries, England, France and Switzerland.

Last year the count was 37 from 15 states and three Canadian provinces. There have been no registrations from Canada so far this: year but in May visitors reported in from Africa and Mexico. In May there were 23 registrations. According to Mr. Chaffin the historical museum at the Chamber office is drawing more visitors.

Bob Jones and Jim Patterson, who are operating the Port of Entry south of Darby, are passing out literature on the Valley and the museum. Police Chief In Hospital; Has Heart Attack Chief of Police Clarence Hogue. 74, was admitted to Daly Hospital Friday morning following a heart attack, according to his sister, Mrs. Mabel Robbins. At last report he was resting well.

Father, Two Sons On Team For Davis Cup Trophy Hamilton Gun Club's five-man team will shoot in the Davis Cup: trapshoot match Sunday at the Missoula Trap and Skeet club. A father and his two sons will make up three members of the team; Tom Popham, president of the local team, sons Henry and Jack. Jack is an Air Force colonel home on leave. Other two mem-: bers of the team are Claus Birrer! and Dr. W.

R. Spencer, Stevensville shooter. In the match each man shoots! 100 singles at 16 yards. Last year' Missoula won the trophy at Dillon. MRS.

DOROTHY McGREGOR, Sleeping Child's most colorful Ground Observer, points to some Indian signs on a rock shelf near her country home. Wife of a forestry service employee in the Bitter Root valley, Mrs. McGregor also likes to get close to the mountains they both love so much. Mrs. McGregor is proud of the pioneer-like outdoors life she leads, just as her neighbors are proud of her.

They wouldn't have anyone else call their square dances. Belle McGregor Ground Observer, Rancher, Housewife Extrordinare ly one year ago Air Divisions in the Pacific northwest region went on "Condition Red" after Canadian radar scopes picked up an unidentified flight of bombers headed for the states. Civil Defense sirens wailed in seaport cities: military Early one morning approximate- installations tightened security measures. then stood by to "wait BOB HORNUNG, post supervisor at Hamilton, heads one of the busiest GOC organizations in the- Bitter Root valley. Miss Lillian Glesne, commandant of the 15 Civil Air Patrol cadets, coordinates the efforts of the youth in helping to "Skywatch." Hamilton policemen on the beat at night as well as earlyrising farmers and ranchers help keep Hamilton's calls to the Helena Filter Center averaging about 50 per month.

Retired Farmer Dies In Hospital and see' whose aircraft approached. same morning at a little Sitter Root Valley ranch between lamilton and Sleeping Child, Mrs. Delroy McGregor awoke early, as to prepare b.eakfast her family. Soon after her husband leit his job with the forest service, she heard two jets overhead. These she reported to the Air Defense filter center at Helena.

Shortly thereafter, as she walked after her cows in a nearby field, five more jet contrails appeared. She turned. and as bewildered cows looked on, sprinted to the telephone. That noon, as she listened to the mid-day news summary, she realized her report of the jets had been the first absolute identification made of the unannounced B-47's. The SAC aircraft had headed toward Alaska on a scheduled flight, then unexpectedly returned.

Mrs. McGregor hardly had a chance to wash a dish or bake a biscuit the next day as her bors called to congratulate her for the significant work. Although not all her neighbors realized it, Mrs. McGregor demonstrated that morning just how effective and significant an American housewife can be in helping the USAF carry out its job. The life of Belle Ground Observer, rancher, housewife, and outdoorswoman -is as colorful as the little valley in which she lives.

She grew up in the Bitter Root Valley, eventually marrying forester Delroy McGregor. They have four children, Margaret, 14, Helen, 12, Elmer, 10, and Della May 8. Nearly three years ago, after the Ground Observer post at Hamilton (Continued on page 3) Stevensville Frank B. Potter, 76, died Friday morning in Daly Hospital, Hamilton. Mr.

Potter had been a farmer in the Bitter Root since 1925 until his retirement in 1945 when he and his wife moved to Stevensville. Born in Missouri July 10, 1880. Mr. Potter was raised in Barre, Ill. He came to Billings in 1905 and married Mrs.

Irene Kleese on Jan. 2, 1920, in Garland. Wyo. The couple moved to the Burnt Fork area in 1925. He is survived by his widow.

a son, Francis, of Stevensville; two daughters, Mrs. Don Twedt, Glendive and Mrs. Ruth Baremoore of Terreboone, Ore. Also 10 and several nieces and I nephews. Whitesitt Funeral Home is making funeral arrangements.

Funeral Monday For Stevensville Resident Stevensville. Funeral services will be held for R. K. Young, an old-timer of this area, on Monday at 2 p. m.

in the Whitesitt Chapel. His body is being brought here from Sheridan on Friday. He died Thursday while staying with his sister in Sheridan. Further information was not available. In The Service Join Air Force- Victor--Two Valley boys joined the Air Force Wednesday and left for their basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Tex.

They are Dale A. Vick. son of Mr. and Mrs. L.

A. Vick of Victor and Gary L. Vollmer. Finishes BasicSR Robert L. Boyd, son of Mr.

and Mrs. R. C. Boyd, arrived home last week after completing his basic training at the Naval Station, San Diego. The seaman will be stationed Pearl Harbor upon reporting for duty.

He leaves here June 25..