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The Montana Standard from Butte, Montana • 2

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Montana Standard. Friday, April 15. I960 Mrs. McKay Dies MISSOULA (AP) Mrs. R.

H. McKay, widow of a Missoula photographer who died Feb. 21, died Thursday. She is survived by' a daughter, Mrs. Harry E.

Butler, Missoula, three grandsons and two granddaughters. $20 Per Monlh Raise Is Awarded Correclional Officers at Prison Future Fanners Install Officers DILLON The Beaverhead Chapter of Future Farmers of America held installation of officers in the Vo-Ag biulding this week. Those installed were Ron Benson, preisdent; Melvin Heggelund, vice president; Joe Holt, second vice president; Don Bacon, secretary; Bob Buyan, treasurer: Jack Laden, reporter: Francis Schind-ler, sentinel; and Ed Wolf, parliamentarian. Allen Walton is chapter adviser. Western College Enrollment 428 DILLON The total number of students registered for spring quarter classes at WMCE reached 428 as of last Friday, according to Registrar Paul Picton.

Of this total, 417 are fulltime students while 11 are parttime students carrying less than 16 credits. The spring enrollment figure is somewhat smaller than the .450 attending Western winter quarter. I SAGJ 41 Graduated At Law Academy BOZEMAN (AP) The Montana Law Enforcement Academy Thursday graduated 41 lawmen at a luncheon ceremony, with Gov. J. Hugo Aronson as speaker.

The governor said the 2-year-old academy "exists for just one cause the improvement of law enforcement in Montana." Aronson stressed that the two-week school on the Montana State College uses existing taxpayer-owned facilities. All expenses are paid at the local level and no federal aid is involved, he said. The cities, towns and counties which sent 41 officers to the school paid $45 permairto cover board and room. The students represented 24 police departments, 16 sher-iffs'-offices and onetate agency. Aronson said attendance at the school, held for.

the first time in 1959, is "purely voluntary." Asst. Atty. Gen. Thomas J. Han-rahan is the chairman of the academy board.

every sport coat in our stock til iSiS III in i reg. 24.99 19:09: All woo! sport coats styled with the NEW, LEAN LINES! Excellent selection of fabrics. Browns, greys, tans and blues. Sizes 36 to 46 in regulars and longs. HELENA (Ai) The minimum pay floor of correctional officers at the Montana Prison in Deer Lodge has been raised $20 a month by the Board of Prison Commissioners.

The board, comprised of the governor, attorney general and secretary of state, Wednesday boosted the monthly minimum to $275 from $255. The maximum pay remains at $335 a month. Warden Floyd E. Powell said the prison needs eight more custodial or correctional officers, including employes-formerly referred to as guards. Tn Tiie miartprlv TPDOrt to the board, Powell noted eonttnuedt turnover of correctional officers and said he expects hiring more "may become a rather serious problem.

"It is well understood that it takes a minimum of two years to train a correctional officer to where he makes a useful, safe employe around a prison. "We lack enough trained employes for adequate supervision and, with continued operation with partially untrained staff, we find ourselves still in a hazardous condition." The necessity to compete for help from a salary standpoint was one of the reasons behind this week's minimum salary increase. Montana Standard (By Crrlr) DAILY, EXCEPT SATURDAYS AND HOLIDAYS. Per Week 1 35 With Montana Standard-Post. Saturday and Holidays 40 1 Yr.

(payable In advance) 17.80 With Montana Standard-Post Saturday and Holidays 10.80 MaU Sobacnpnoa Rate Montana I Mo. (payabla in advance) I 1U With Montana Standard-Post, Saturday and Holidays I SO 1 Yr. (payable tn advance 13.00 With Montana Standard-Post, Saturday and Holidays 16.00 Post Offices Ontsld of Montana I Mo. (payable In advance) $1.50 With Montana Standard-Post. Saturday and Holidays 1.75 With Montana Standard-Post, 1 Yr.

(payable tn advance) 15.00 Saturday and Holidays 18.00 1 i "We still are in a very crowded condition and lack most of the facilities for efficient prison operation." Powell's report went on. "The combination of the over-crowdedness, lack of adequate facilities and untrained and unseasoned staff leaves us in a dangerous position and unable to operate the good, sound correctional program that we have planned." He said the strength of the present set-up lies with key staff members, department heads and others in administrative positions, and added this note of optimism: "Our program, in spite of the many continues to im prove. We are beginning to show pforarsmgrresuusj Bonneville Power Exceeds Average PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Elec- trie generating power installed in the past 10 years- in Bonneville Power Administration marketing; areas exceeded the national aver-: age by 34 per cent, Bonneville Administrator William A. Pearl said Thursday.

Moreover, he told the Electric' Club of Oregon, on hydro-electric (installations alone, this region's' installations have been double the national average He said that in the past 10 years there have been 11 new federal, projects started in the Columbia River system including a number of tributaries as well as 7 by public utility districts and 17 by private utilities. Installed capacity in the areai embracing Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho and western Mon- tana stands at 10,435,580 he said, three times what it was 10 years ago. Projects now under construction will boost it to more than 14 million, he said. In the future, Pearl said, the! region may get power from ic fission and also may be able to draw on the benefits of Canadian water storage if present negotiations are successful. Three Births Are Listed in Dillon DILLON Three births were recorded at Barrett Hospital during the past week Mr, and Mrs.

Jc- seph Phillip, Dillon, a girl, April 8: Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Decker, Dillon, a boy. April 11; and Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Dale, Twin Bridges, a boy, April 12. Admissions were Jack Simmons, Carl Hollensteiner, James Barden, Dillon; Mrs. Cora Marchesseault, Polaris; La Von McCurdy, Lima; Fred Mailey and Margaret Ehl-mann, Twin Bridges. Dismissals included Mrs. Tommy Tompkins and daughter, Mrs.

Raymond Bailey and daughter, Mrs. Clara Ferris, George Smith, Mrs. Minnie i 1 Mrs. Violet Walker, Otto Christensen, Dillon; Mrs. Joseph Rawson and son.

Grant; Frank Yager and Karen Washburn, Lima. i r. JaCK OinHTlOnS illl8S Are Set Saturday DILLON Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. from Brundage Chapel for Jack Simmons, 69, who passed away Wednesday at Barrett hospital following a short illness. The Rev.

W. J. Holland will officiate and burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Mr. Simmons was born Julv 9, 1890, in Missouri.

He had lived! the past several years in this i county and had worked on ranches in this area. FOOD SALE SATURDAY DILLON The St. James Episcopal Sunday School organization will hold a food sale Saturday, beginning at 9:30 a.m., in Eliel'sla Store. Proceeds will be used for vacation school activities. to it 8, Murder Victim Said Dangerous BILLINGS (AP) A Billings psychiatrist testified at the murder trial of Mrs.

Frieda Estes that her late husband, Earl, suffered from a mental disorder the doctor described as a "psychosis." Dr. Edmund one Thursday said he had examined Estes, who was shot Feb. 12 The defense claims-MrsEstes shot her husband in self" defense. Jones said results of his examination convinced him that Estes was dangerous to himself and to others and that he was a man of emotional instability. Earlier, Mrs.

Estes sobbed as she related incidents leading up to the shooting of her husband. She described a phone conversation with her husband the night of the slaying, when she had taken the two Estes children to the home of her parents. She quoted her husband as saying, "If I can't have those kids, you won't either." When Estes arrived at her parents' home later that night, Mrs. Estes testified in district court, he threatened to kill her, the children and her parents. Missoulian's Kidnap Trial Is Poslponed COEUR D'ALENE.

Idaho 'AP) Trial of Robert Leroy Saunders, 42, Missoula. on a kidnaping charge was postponed Thursday until the fall term of U. S. District Court. Saunders is accused of picking up Joan Kessinger, 20, at Cataldo, Idaho, and driving her into Montana Oct.

9. Trial was originally scheduled to begin Friday. Saunders is free on bond. Choteau Firm Gets Phone Building Bid ST. REGIS (AP) WUkerson Construction Choteau, has been awarded a $5,100 contract for construction of a dial telephone building in St.

Regis. D. H. Thomas, Missoula manager of the Mountain States Telephone Telegraph Thursday said construction is scheduled to begin Monday with completion set for July. A CHEF'S DINNER SPECIAL Friday.

April 15, 1960 FILFTOF LEMON SOLE7CAPR1CE" vvvvv Potatoes, Green Beverage 1.45 FINLEN HOTEL AND MOTOR INN -vk-'-. Butte, Please! Shoestring vegetable, 6 I i At Look Your AS SEEN IN LOOK THE TRIM LOOK jMAe fntiAM mmaTj Seven members of the Industrial Arts Club at Western Montana College of Education, accompanied by their sponsor, Clay Anders, made an extensive tour of several cities considered key spots in industrial development in Oregon and Washington. The tour was made during the spring vacation period. Included the tour were visits 'to Boeing Aircraft, Bethlehem Steel, and the Kenworth Motor and Truck Co. in Seattle; Timber Everett.

Leupold and Stevens Instruments. Portland. The group also visited museums, zoos, ana a boat show. Students accompanying Anders jwere Don McDaniel, Dillon; Kevin Larry Kalafa- tich, Butte: Bud Parrett, Butte; John Lyons, BuLe; Dan Scott, jArmstead; and Jerry Pugh, 'Fort Benton. The WMCE Children's Theater class and Mrs.

Frances Jackson's fifth grade presented "Prince Fairy Foot' at assembly Wednes-i day morning Joe Ryburn has charge of the Children's Theater. Gert L. Daniels, professor of biological science at WMCE, has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Education from Columbia University. The degree was conferred upon Dr. Daniels following his year of study and research in the field of science education at Columbia while on leave of aosence from Western.

The topic of his dissertation was "Stability of Interest in Science Fair Winners." Dr. Daniels found over 70 per cent of the science fair winners continue science as a major field, although many of them change their interest within this field. Dr. Daniels earned his B.A. and M.A.

at the University of Texas. Easter Seal Drive Opens Saturday DILLON The 1960 Easter Seal Campaign, sponsored in 'Dillon by the Kiwanis Club, will get underway Saturday morning with local Cub Scouts selling Easter lillies and tags. Carl M. Davis, state director of the Montana Society for Crippled Children and Adults, is 'Chairman of the Beaverhead County drive. Kochel Files DILLON County Clerk Evelyn Sage announces that James Kochel has filed a nominating petition for reelection as justice of the peace for Dillon Township on the Republican ticket.

National Weather By THE ASSOCUTED PRESS High Low Pr. Albany, cloudy 82 39 Anchorage, clear 50 31 Atlanta, clear 80 55 Bismarck, clear 82 35 Buffalo, rain 65 50 .01 Boston, cloudy 70-42 Chicago, rain 65 55 .39 Cincinnati, cloudy 81 60 Cleveland, cloudy 74 54 Denver, cloudy 72 39 Des Moines, cloudy 67 52 Detroit, rain 71 61 .01 Fort Worth, cloudy 86 67 .04 Honolulu, cloudy 80 71 Indianapolis, cloudy 55 Jacksonville clear 80 56 Kansas Cityclear 71 58 .68 Los Angeles, clear 74 55 Memphis, cloudy 80 61 Miami, cloudy 75 71 Milwaukee, cloudy 67 57 .07 Paul, cloudy 66 42 New Orleans, clear 79 60 New York, cloudy 78 50 Omaha, clear 74 44 Philadelphia, cloudy 84 44 Phoenix, cloudy 86 54 Pittsburgh, cloudy 80 56 Portland, cloudy 48 38 Richmond, cloudy 90 54 St. Louis, cloudy 76 11 San Diego, clear 75 54 San Francisco, clear 60 50 .02 Seattle, cloudy 46 38 .57 Tampa, cloudy .86 62 Washington, cloudy 91 56 Winnepeg, cloudy 58 33 .02 The oldest General Hospital in United States is the Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia, founded in-1752. Ask about Slumbercoach -i mm the you If, i v. Veteran Patrolman D.

Allen Retires MISSOULA (AP) Highway Patrolman D. (Pokey) Allen has made his last run and retired. Allen was among the first men. join the Highway Patrol after was formed in the 1930s. He was assigned to Poison Sept.

1937, and to Superior Feb. 15, 1941. His Missoula assignment began Sept. 11944, but wbs interrupted when Allen, a World War I veteran, went back into Marine uniform for World War II. After the war, he returned to Missoula.

Allen plans to go to work in the security department at the Waldorf-Hoerner Corp. pulp and paper plant at Missoula. DIRECTORS NAMED HELENA (AP) Robert L. Dickey of Helena and Charles Nelson of Missoula were elected directors of the Western Acceptance Corporation at a meeting of directors. The firm announced plans to open two more loan offices in eastern Montana.

DRUMMOND GETS GRANT WASHINGTON (AP) Drum-mond, Thursday received $10,500 federal grant to help fi- nance a $35,000 sewage disposal 'project. Easter Best 1 i situation. DILI'S yi on the Vista-Dome LIMITED Coast Twin Cities Chicago v. i iv -f il a ff i i CHAMP continental Trim elegance In every detail With its tapered center crease crown end narrower bound edge brim, Continental lives up 8.95 1 to any dress-up NEW COLORS. in Butte exclusively at I MONTANA 1ARGET HEN ft yjr i BUTTE 220 iyf 5eClAL' 1 Jc Nothing But Nothing Goes Better With Hard Boiled Eggs Ham Than In Cans In Bottles On Draught Pints, Quarts, Nips Brewed and Bottled Right Here in Butte by the BREWING CO.

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