The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 8

THE BILLINGS GAZETTE Page Eight Monday Morning, July 4, 1955 Make It In a Day! Schedule Night DICKINSON, N.D. The Dick Museum Starts U.S. Population State Pioneer Utah Town's July 4 Celebration in 1867 Made Lasting Impression Hits 165,250, inson's Queen City Packers semi-' rill professional baseball team hasi immnr fhQnlliQ designated July 22 as Lions' Ap-j JUlNIIIGI JUIGUUIC nreciaticn Nieht for all Huh in Going-fo-fhe-Suri Road Opened by Park Crews HELENA UP) Going-to-the-Sun Highway in Glacier National Park was opened for tourist travel again Sunday. Supt. Jack Emmert said that Logan Pass had been clogged by WASHINGTON (51 The Census the SloDe area, when thev nlavi HELENA () The Veterans and Ranks Thinning i Society Schedules Annual Conclave Bureau estimated Sunday night the the league-leading Bismarck Bar- Pioneers Memorial Museum swung iiauuu iuuu wuumuuu na: crown ons at Dm persons who aia tnis dirty deed." But the villains never were found, nor was the body identified.

to approximately 165,250,000 per-i a post winter snow storm bufc That was about 55 times the HoMlHo flfin population when representatives of I 1 1 1 1 V. I i I Joe Brandy calmed the crowd. "Never mind," he said. "We'll BUTTE Ufi Twelve members of the Society of Montana Pioneers, make up for it at the program some three million persons signed the Declaration of Independence! on July 4, 1776. crews working around the clock had unplugged the gap.

Emil Jannings won the first movie "Oscar" for his performance in "Way of All Flesh." men and women who came to the over to its summe- schedule Saturday, K- Ross Toole, director for the Montana Historical Society, announced. Museum doors will be open daily including Sundays and holidays from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m.

through November, Toole stated. Two guides have been added to the staff, Toole said. "The new guide service is the first inaugurated since the state museum building was opened," Toole remarked. Territory of Montana prior to this afternoon and at the fireworks tonight." ALT Utah ia Millions of Americans this weekend are celebrating the 179th birthday of the United States. They'll have a hard time matching what happened in this mountain town on July 4, 1876.

Early in June that year saloon owner Joe Brandy called a meeting of Alta businessmen and announced: "Boys, next month our country will have its 100th anniversary and we ought to celebrate. We ought to do something this town won't forget for a long time." All aereed. The program called 31, 1868, have died since the society's 1954 convention. This seemed to perk up the To Wed Egyptian SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) A Saraha desert romance that bloomed in the shadow of the Pyramids will have a true story climax Wednesday when the Eleven of the pioneers died in people and they drifted to their homes or into bars to await the afternoon ceremony. Montana, one outside the state, Roy M.

Crismas, Missoula, secretary-treasurer of the organization, said. The body was taken to a fu neral parlor. Three hours later The society and the Sons and Nowdays, more babies are born each year than the nation's total population at the first national census in 1790, when 3,929,214 Americans were counted. The Census Bureau estimated that at the nation's birth there were fewer than three million Americans. Last year, the net increase in U.

S. population- was 2,823,000 births plus immigration minus deaths and emigration. This was the largest numerical gain for any one year in the country's history. The bureau estimated that in the first six months of this year the nation's net population increased by about 1 1-3 million. the unfortunate happenings of earlier in the day.

The air overhead and the ground around became a booming, sputtering area pitch black one moment and fierced with fiery demons the next. 1 Five minutes after the demonstration began a barefooted candle-bearer stepped close to one of the skyrocket troughs for a better look. A man lit a rocket and moved for a sunrise flag-raising, the re Daughters of Montana Pioneers will hold their joint annual convention in Butte Aug. 25-27. It will be the 71st meeting fos' the Pioneers another body was laid beside it that of a miner shot in a poker game dispute in Brandy's saloon.

This didn't upset the town too much because the dead man was not well liked. At 1 p.m. everyone sat around a flag-bedecked platform in the cemetery for the patriotic meet lease of an American eagle at an afternoon patriotic meeting, and an evening of fireworks. The town's 2,000 people re and the 60th for the Sons and Daughters. Members who died during the sponded eagerly.

They donated granddaughter of Cecil B. De-Mille marries an Egyptian cavalry officer. The romance of Petite Cecelia DeMille Harper, 19, and Maj. Abbas El Boughdadly, 33, reads like one of her grandfather's movie scripts. The five-foot, eleven-inch major, once a body-guard for ex-King Farouk, met his five-foot-five blonde bride-to-be in Alexandria, Egypt, and courted and won her on the vast movie set erected on the desert near Cairo for the color shooting of De-Mille's second production of the "Ten Commandments." back, planting his boot on a set last year, who were Montana na FOR SALE BY OWNER Two-Bedroom Home In choice location.

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tives, and tne year of their birth were: The boy screamed and jumped 7034 SIZES 10 12 14 16 13 20 about. He bumped into the crate tions. One group cut down a 75-foot pine tree and trimmed, planed and polished it for a flag of fireworks and dropped his can Addie P. Harris, ForT" Benton, 1867; Thomas S. Williams, Willow Creek, 1868; Anna S.

Turnage, Missoula, 1864; Samuel Franklin dle into it. Dole. Another capturea an Someone shouted a warning and American eagle. the crowd scrambled. ing.

A Professor ijustuncn oi Salt Lake City spoke and led the singing of patriotic songs. During the third singing of "The Star Spangled Banner," a husky young man dragged an enormous American eagle to the grandstand on a chain. The stubborn bird pulled at the chain and squawked. Professor Busturich spoke: "We are about to unfetter this Ralston, Burbank, 1864; Jul A young volcano erupted on the Almost everyone restired early the night of July 3 so they would be rested for the "great day." ia R. Elledge, Virginia City, 1867; Fannie Davis Ennis, Butte, 1867.

meadow. The crate exploded and scattered dirt and sand hundreds of feet. No Padding Allowed NEW BRIGHTON, England R-Officials of this town's annual bathing beauty contest announced Sunday that matrons will inspect all entrants to make sure none use padding. First shot of World War-II was fired at the Polish fortress known as the Westerplatte, in Danzig Harbor. 1 Livery stable owner Jack Par- Mrs.

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Send 25 cents In coins for this pattern-add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-claas mailing. Send to The Gazette, 306 Household Arts P.O. Box 168, rockets, roman can June 11. of the 4th. He stepped outside and looked at the flag pole in the dles and firecrackers erupted and shot in all directions.

Pioneers, who came to Montana prior to 1868, and who died the last eagle to sail away into the blue to represent the liberty and freedom we enjoy so much in this "DON'T DRIVE year, with the year of their arrival None of the fleeting spectators, back to the fireworks and dashing in Montana, were: great country." The eagle was unchained and the for cover, was hurt. YOUR CAR TO DEATH Only the peolpe who watched uia uieisea station, New York 11. N.Y. Print plainly Name, Address, Pattern Number and 8ize. Order our 1955 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue.

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With a half walk, half run, it stretched its broad wings to clear the ground. Faster, faster beat the mighty wings. Faster, faster moved the muscular legs. Into the air it wentr-a full three feet and then kerflop, back into the dusty road it fell. lorgot tor a long time.

town square. He gasped. Hanging at the top, swaying gently in the early half light of dawn, was the body of a man. Soon the whole town gathered at the base of the pole. Two men tugged at the rope but a big knot at the top would not move through the pulley.

Some burly miners tried to climb it but it was too slick. Finally, Joe Brandy, who was celebration chairman, decided the pole would have to be cut down and reset. An axe bit into the base of the pole and it toppled to the ground with a loud crash. The people groaned. Their beautiful flagpole lay on the ground in three splintered pieces.

There would be no flag-raising, and the crowd was angry. It vowed to catch and punish the It tried again and again, but it was no use. It had been held captive so long its wings had lost their strength. Sj Children chased the bird into some brush along a creek bed. The people were disappointed.

Everything was going wrong with their grand plans. But they bolstered their 'spirits with thoughts of the fireworks show. A large meadow north of town was selected for the display. Just before dusk a wagon wheeled into the meadow and six men unloaded a large wooden crate containing the $700 worth of fireworks. Office Space FOR RENT New Air Conditioned Inquire building manager, room 103 or phone 2-0111.

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They held candles for light. I By 9 p.m. most of the people Cotton 'Lingerie Gm3 Be a were in the meaaow. uincrs watched from town. The explosion of a giant firecracker signaled the beginning of the show.

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