Ravalli Republic from Hamilton, Montana • 1

HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELENA MONT DAILY Ravalli Republican Voice of the Bitter Root Valley LXXV. No. 132 HAMILTON, MONTANA, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1963 Five Cents Per Copy Man Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison Morris S. Russell appeared before Judge E. Gardner Brownlee this morning (Monday) in Ravalli District Court on a charge of grand larceny and was sentenced to two years the state prison at Deer Lodge.

Russell waived the waiting period and entered a plea of guilty. He was charged with the theft of a big game rifle from Burns Finlayson, Darby. Mrs. Ken (Gloria) Roe of Seattle, appeared before Judge Brownlee on a charge of uttering a fraudulent check in the county She entered a guilty plea and imposition of sentencing was deferred for a period of one year. The Weather Hamilton High Low Pres Friday 80 53 .05 Saturday 87 51 Sunday 91 54 Monday 57 One Year Ago in Hamilton July 6, 1962 74 42 July 8, 7, 1962 87 80 46 39 Corvallis Friday 77 35 Saturday 84 52 Sunday 88 55 Monday 59 a FALLOUT SMELTER 1141 "MARKED" FALLOUT SHELTER From left are County Commissioners Anfin Anfinson, Roy Wonnacott, Chairman Sam Hieronymus, Sheriff Jack Cain, and Mrs.

Frank Sullivan, Ravalli County Civil Defense Director. The fallout shelter "marking" is on the sign in the upper right corner of the picture. See story. (Staff Photo) COUNTY CONGRESS D. Schroeder, M.

Mendenhall, S. Voss Named 4-H Top Judges Top judges for horticulture, home economics and livestock at the recent 4-H County Congress in Corvallis have been announced by the County Agent's office. They are Diane Schroeder, Lucky Leapers, Florence, Mary Lee Mendenhall, Sew It and Know It, Hamilton, home economics, and Sharon Voss, Clover Leaf, Corvallis, livestock. Previously announced were demonstration winners Laurie McFadgen, Stevensville, Lucky Horseshoe, with "In the Dough;" Sharon Voss. with "Beef Showmanship." and I ena Lackman, Sew It and Know It, Hamilton, in the under 14 age group, with "Cover Up With Color." County Congress committees working under Mrs.

Hugh Simpson, Corvallis, over-all chairman, were: Foods: Mrs. Phil Bratton, Chairman, Mrs. Bud Summers, Claude Rasmussen, Mrs. Claude Downing. Clothing: Mrs.

E. G. Patterson, Chairman, Mrs. Henry Olson, Mrs. William Engler, Mrs.

George F. Davis. Home Living: Mrs. L. C.

Howell, Chairman, Mrs. C. C. Owings, Mrs. William Smith.

PARATROOPERS 4 Valley Men Win Airborne Wings at Ft. Benning, Ga. Ist Lt. Leslie Linendoll, Del Reynolds, SP5 Bob McTaggart, and SP4 Billy Hughes of Detachment Company 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) graduated from the Airborne School, Fort Benning on June 27th. These four men are now privileged to wear the coveted wings of a paratrooper.

The men are now attending a one week Special Forces Meats: Mrs. Tom Murphy, Chairman, Mrs. David Schroeder, Mrs. Russell Lairy. Livestock Judging: Mrs.

Jim DeBree, Chairman, Mrs. Robert McIlhattan, Mrs. Bob Hanson. Demonstrations: Mrs. Betty Lowell, Chairman, Miss Shirley Murphy, Mrs.

Madge Buck, Mrs. Henry Deitz. Helpers: Shirley Murphy, Emma Shook, Terry Lowell, Rae Dell Buck, Julie Johnston, Peggy Sager. Don Merkely and Tom Richardson set up Horticulture Classes. Blue ribbon winners in the judging were: Livestock Judging Sharon Voss, Clover Leaf; Dan Ellison, Lucky Horseshoe; Judy Bratton, Jim Dandies; Ken Gerner, Scavengers; Dave Muller, Bitter Root Dandies; Jim, Zeiler, Happy Hearts.

Linda Mae Rummel, Bitter Root Hustlers; Max Downing, Jim 1 Dandies; Patti Bell, Willing Workers; Willis Curdy, Summerdale; Bonnie Remfert, Flying Fingers. Horticulture Judging Diane Schroeder, Lucky Leapers; Rae Dell Buck, Summerdale; Billie Ann Barrington, Jolly Juniors; Helen Muller, Bitter Root Dandies; Linda Mae Rummel, Bitter Root Hustlers; J. R. Iman, Bitter Root Hustlers. Larry Haas, Sapphire Rockets; Gladys Miller, Home Acres; Continued on page 2) WAS 92 Rites for "Bertie" on Tuesday "The Lord of the East Fork" passed away his rambling old log house in the Medicine Springs area just before midnight Friday.

Herbert W. "Bertie" Lord was 92. Funeral services for the well and loved early day photographer and Bitter Root Valley pioneer will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in Dowling Chapel with the Rev.

Ben Joachim officiating. Interment will be in Sula. He was born July 10, 1870, in Parksville, N. Y. "No one ever thinks of "Bertie" as H.

W. Lord or even as Mr. Lord, for his name like his home has always been synonymous with the Medicine Springs neighborhood," B. K. Monroe wrote in a feature story on Bertie which appeared in the recent May 29 issue of the Ravalli Republican.

"He is Bertie Lord, now nearing his 93rd birthday, and still loving the memories and the friends of the years that have 9 YEARS First Marking of Fallout Shelter Implemented Here Charles Smith, extension soils specialist; Richard Marks, extension forester; Eldon Smith, extension wildlife specialist; Leslie Sonder, extension weed specialist; Roger Fliger, educational representative of the Montana Fish and Game Commission; Lee Liberty extension agent; and Noble Dean, Flathead county extension agent. Others attending the camp will be soil conservation district supervisors, forest service officials, and a delegation of 4-Hers from Alberta. Return campers are: Jack Corrigan, Anaconda; John Green, Bozeman; Karen Pattison, Glasgow; Georgia Irvine, Havre; Vicky Borgen, Kalispell; Bruce Gillespie, Kevin; and Cathy Johnson, Rainsford. The culmination of nine years proved by the U. S.

Corps of preciated." of work by Ravalli County Civil Army Engineers as a 180- Mrs. Sullivan, a graduate in Defense leaders has been real- space shelter unit. shelter management of the Offized with the "Marking" of the Mrs. Frank Sullivan, Stevens- icers of Civil Defense School in Ravaili County Courthouse as a ville, Ravalli County Civil De- Alameda, said a supply "fallout shelter." fense Director, said the "efforts of foodstuffs capable of susIn a short ceremony at the of the county commissioners taining 180 persons for three courthouse Friday the upper and Sheriff Jack Cain in obtain- weeks has been requisitioned and lower vaults of the court- ing this first designated shelter from the federal government house were officially ap- in the county are greatly ap- and will be delivered within a few weeks. "With the shelter HOME ON LEAVE designation, the county will reall the supplies at no cost," Mrs.

Sullivan added. 2 Persons Hurt in Mishap She said the Hamilton Post Office has also been approved and will soon be designated as Occurring South of Darby a Mrs. 200-man Sullivan fallout said shelter. these are "just the first steps in bringTwo persons were injured will remain in the hospital a ing this county up to date in about 11 p. m.

Sunday when an few days for further observa- regard to the entire Civil Deautomobile driven by a 25-year- tion. X-rays revealed no broken fense system." old sailor failed to negotiate a bones. Mrs. Sullivan leaves Wednescurve by the Conner bridge Mrs. Fitzgerald, another day for Yakima, where three miles south of Darby and daughter of the Holmquists, she will chairman the women's almost rolled into the river.

and her family are home on session of the U. S. Civil DeTaken to Daly hospital leave. fense Council for Region 8. where they are reported in satisfactory condition were JULY 8-12 Linda Holmquist, 17, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Chester ette Holmquist, Francene Darby, and Fitzgerald, Claud- 22, 4-H Conservation Camp wife of the driver, Thomas S. U. S. Navy.

Fitzgerald, a seaman in the Slated at Livingston Fitzgerald and his son, Troy, 3, escaped injury in the crash. More than 100 Montana Campers will study the interRavalli County Sheriff Jack club members will attend state relationships of range lands, Cain said the car was a total 4-H conservation camp at the soils, forestry, wildlife, and wreck after rolling several Bow and Arrow Ranch near weeds. Each delegate will times and coming over, on a Livingston July 8-12, according then choose one of the five water-measuring device which to C. W. 4-H and other areas for study in workshop prevented it from rolling into youth specialist at Montana sessions.

the Bitter Root river. State College. Staff instructors will include: Hospital authorities said Miss Theme of the camp will be Don Ryerson, extension range Holmquist and Mrs. Fitzgerald "Inquiry into management specialist; Dr. Charles Smith, extension soils Cheryl Foss Employed By SS Office CHERYL FOSS CHERYL FOSS Quick advancement has marked Cheryl Dorothy Foss, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Sam T. Foss of Hamilton, since her placement by a business college in Missoula. She is employed by the Social Security Office in Missoula. Cheryl graduated from Hamilton High School in 1962 and enrolled in an intensive stenographic course.

She was considered an outstanding graduate of the Nancy Taylor selfimprovement course, which she took as a student at the business school. Mrs. Goodman Here Mrs. W. Ray Goodman and son Larry, and daughter, Mrs.

Linda Fine and her son, Donny, arrived Tuesday from Van Nuys and Covina, and will spend about a month in Hamilton. Mr. Goodman will arrive in about two weeks. Hospital Data AdmittedJuly 5 Harry Sargent, Darby. July 7-Stewart Minor, Hamilton; Mrs.

Georgia Woolsey, Stevensville. July 8 Mrs. Thomas Fitzgerald, Linda Holmquist, Darby; Mrs. James Gordon, Stevensville. ReleasedJuly 6 Glenda Weber, 9, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. David Weber, Hamilton; Timmy Wolfinbarger, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wolfinbarger, Corvallis. July 8 Harry Sargent, Darby; Mrs.

Walter Cowan, Hamilton. 3 MILLER SAYS $11,752 Received by County For School Transportation Superintendent of Public In- amount school districts in struction Harriet Miller has not- the County received from this ified County Treasurer Louise source this school year is Oertli and County Superinten- 475.31. dent of Schools Champ Hannon The state payments aid in the that Ravalli County will receive $11,752.23 as the final transpor- costs. The state support of the schools' tation reimbursement payment portation reim- burses one-third of the basic for elementary and secondary costs of transportation in accorschools from the State Public School dance with a schedule set by Equalization Fund. law.

This payment is based on The rest of the money to pay claims submitted to the De- for school transportation comes partment of Public Instruc- from a county-wide tax levy tion for transportation provid- and from school district taxes, ed by the districts. The total Miss Miller said. at Fort Benning. They are receiving instruction in the concepts of Special Forces parachute equipment containers, aerial navigation, and the duties of the jumpmaster. As part of this special training they will make two equipment jumps.

The 41 Special Forces members, now all qualified jumpers, will arrive in Missoula by C97 transport sometime Saturday, July 6th. rolled over his horizon since he came as a teen-age boy to the East Fork with father, Ed Lord, and an Uncle Jim," B. K. continued. "That was in 1882's late months," Bertie recalled, "and they were first in the Sula country, they then journeyed back to Arkansas still homeseeking," B.

K. wrote. will attest that Bertie Lord did find a home. The oldest part of the Bertie Lord home, which is located on the Medicine Springs turn-off of U. S.

Highway 93, was built around 1888 and the bigger addition early in the 1900s. It was home for Bertie and his wife, Finetta, and their three chidren, Gilbert, Ray, both of Fork, and their only daughter, Rosa, who died when she was a child. Bertie's wife died a few years after and for most of the years since, Gilbert and his wife lived in the home with Bertie. Bertie's studio is lined with There are opproximately six million veterans of the Korean Conflict in civil life according to the VA. REV.

NORBECK Former Butte, Helena Minister New Pastor at Faith Lutheran Rev. Nels H. Norbeck, former pastor of Gloria Dei Church in Butte, has recently taken over the pastorate at Faith Lutheran Church in Hamilton. Rev. Norbeck, who also engaged in interim work in Polson, Savage and Glasgow parishes while at Butte, came to Montana 20 years ago on call to the St.

John's Lutheran Church in Helena. Before that he had served parishes in Flint, and Vancouver, British Columbia. During his ministry in Helena, a large American Colonial Church was built as well as a new parsonage. While in Helena he also served as chaplain at the Fort Harrison Veteran's Hospital under the National Lutheran Council, and for several years as chaplain with the Montana Wing of Civil Air Patrol. Rev.

Norbeck is an honorary life member of the Helena Lions Club. He was chaplain of the 1960 governor's convention in Glacier. The new Hamilton minister has a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, and a B. D.

from Augustana Theological Seminary, now a part of the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago. The Norbecks have three ed the summer schedule of children, Peter and Luther, stu- services as being on 10 a. m. dents at the Montana School of Sundays and 7:30 p. m.

ThursMines in Butte, and a daughter, days. Nelsene, a junior in high school. Robert Gerloff, president of They have purchased a home in the Faith Lutheran congregathe Hamilton Heights area six tion, extended the official welmiles northeast of the city. come from the congregation to Rev. Norbeck has announc- pastor and Mrs.

Norbeck. photographs of wild animals caught by his camera in odd moments of their travels through their native habitat. There are mounted heads of big game too, testimony of Bertie's skill with a rifle. B. K.

finished her feature story on Bertie with the following observations: "The years are taking their toll and Bertie was a little more on the aging side and glad to just sit in his favorite chair by the south window and 'remember But at almost 93 Bertie Lord's mentality is still keen and his heart warm with friendliness." Surviving besides the sons, Gilbert and George Raymond, are 10 grandchildren, 30 greatgrandchildren, a first Mrs. Louis Buck, Hamilton, a sister in law in Clarkston, and a brother-in-law in Ruba City, Calif. Pallbearers will be Gerald, Francis, John, Charles and Richard Lord and Dick Monk. REV. NELS H.

NORBECK.