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The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 11

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Announcements Time to order your personalized Christmas cards. Several albums choose from. HOPPERS Billings Floral -Lake Elmo Drive Evergreen Center. -Adv. Used'em, enjoyed'em, kept'em nice-Lionel Jr.

Planetarium print set, doll buggy, toys, erector set, 320 Wyo. FLOWERS- -Call Volly and Jo Hopper. Volly's Downtown Florists, Northern Hotel Bldg. Ph. Makes the Difference" Colonial Cleaners, 210 5th St.

W. -Adv. Fresh Flowers; Gainan's Floral 501 N. Ph. Dr.

John Low has returned to his office. NOTICE: Our ONLY Business locations are 524 Lake Elmo Drive and Evergreen Shopping Center. These are Joe Hopper's ONLY Flower Shops. Hoppers Billings Floral. -Adv.

Same da Michel 1001 Alderson Phone 252-3417 Mertuary Parking Adjacent SWITZER Robert Switzer, age 12, son 1 of Mr. Mrs. Frank H. Switzer, 1710 Mariposa Lane. Funeral services will be held a.m.

Saturday at Michelotti yers Mortuary with Dr. Vern L. Klingman, First Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Should friends desire memorials may be made to the Building Fund of the First Methodist Church.

SMITH'S Funeral Home Established in 1896 QUENZER Funeral services for Fred George Quenzer will be held at the Calvary Baptist Church Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The remains will then be taken to Plevna for graveside services in the Plevna Cemetery Sunday afternoon at 3:30. ALLEN Requiem for James Gilbert Allen be Mass, celebrated at the Church of the Little Flower Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Rosary will be recited at Smith's Chapel Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.

DAHL-BROWN Billings Funeral Service Phone 248-8807 10 Yellowstone Ave. PANGBURN Funeral services for Leo Pangburn, 58, of 16 S. 27th are pending at the Dahl-Brown Funeral Chapel. Settergren-Carey Funeral Home Since 1906 Phone 252-2888 BONILLA Mr. and Mrs.

Clemente Bonilla of 3205 Montana Ave. Requiem High Mass will be sung at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church Monday at 9 a.m. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. The Rosary will be recited Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the SettergrenCarey Funeral Chapel.

JOHNSON- -Jacob Johnson of 939 N. 30. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Settergren-Carey Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Jack T.

Nitz of Messiah Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in Mountview Cemetery. FAY- of Fay, of Frank 504 N. 21, widow Fay. Mrs.

Fay will lie in state at the Settergren Carey Funeral Home from 12 p.m. Sunday to 1 p.m. Monday. Private funeral services for the family will be conducted Monday at 1:30 p.m. Interment will be in Mountview Cemetery.

Announcement Rates 50c per line. 400 per line for turther consecutive insertions same copy For Cards of Thanks 30c per line 32 letters and spaces Der line Capital letters count double For announcements call 245-3071, Ext 71. Deadline 4:00 p.m day before except Saturday Saturday deadline 9:30 p.m obituaries Jacob Johnson Dies at Home Jacob Johnson, 79, retired rancher, died at his home at 939 N. 30th St. Friday following a stroke.

had been a resident of Billings since 1944. He was born Jan. 8, 1883, in Sogendal, Norway, and came 1 to this country in 1900 to settle near Big Timber. He operated a ranch there until his retirement in 1943. He married Tina Ueland in Billings on March 20, 1916.

His widow survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ashley Vezey, Moore; a sister in Norway, and three grandchildren. The Rev. Jack Nitz, pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church, officiate at rites in the Settergren-Carey Funeral Home at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Burial will be in Mountview Cemetery. Switzer Funeral Rites Scheduled Saturday Funeral services for Robert Switzer, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Switzer of 1710 Mariposa Lane, will be at 11 a.m.

Saturday in the Michelotti-Sawyers Mortuary chapel. The boy, a Lewis Clark Junior High School seventh grader, was killed almost instantly Wednesday in a car-bicycle accident within a half block of his home on 17th St. W. The Rev. Vern L.

Klingman, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Mel Boice, Yellowstone County coroner, said Thursday night that he does not plan an inquest, but may call a coroner's jury. The accident victim, who has lived in Billings almost three years, is survived by his parents, two sisters and his brother. Mrs.

Lamach, 84, Big Timber, Dies BIG TIMBER Mrs. Mary Pravda Lamach, '84, long-time Big Timber resident, died Wednesday night in the home of her son, George Lamach. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Lowry Funeral Home. The Rev.

W. F. Clingman Evangelical ed Brethren Church will officiate. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Mrs.

Lamach was born April 30, 1878, in Bohemia. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Pravda, brought her to the United States when she was 4. She was married to John W.

Lamach April 2, 1900 in North Dakota. They moved from North Dakota to a farm near Alexandria, in 1909. They came to Ryegate in 1913 and homesteaded in Sweet Grass County in 1917. They ranched until 1940, when they moved into Big Timber. Mr.

Lamach died in Big Timber in 1951. Surviving are nine sons, Charley and George of Big Timber, John of Billings, Ted of Mullan, Idaho, Joseph of Missoula, Gene of Three Forks, Pat and Mike of Casper and Eli of Sparks, three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Drivdahl of Big Timber, Mrs. Laura Steele of Missoula and Mrs. Elda Walker of Seattle; 25 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

NEUROSURGEON DIES NEW YORK (UPI) Dr. Israel S. Wechsler, 76, former president of the American Neurological Association and the New York Neurological Society, died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital. EXECUTIVE SUCCUMBS NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. George S.

Sackett, 66, treasurer of Recordak New York, an Eastman subsidiary, died after a ness Wednesday. Announcements SQUARE DANCE- Beginners class will start a free dance Jan. 12 at Barn. Plan now to gather friends join this group. Faith Koch, instrs.

For (UPI) former Corp. of Kodak long ill- with Ray's your Ray info. Ph. Dr. James N.

McBride, Op- tometrist, in attendance at American Academy Of Optometry Educational Seminar, will return to his office Dec. 12. Office will remain -Adv. Rummage sale Girl Scout Troop 189, Fri. eve.

7 to 9 all day Sat. 25th Mont. PENNEY'S Will Be Closed Saturday Until 1 p.m. in respect to the memory of ROBERT SWITZER Son of our manager- -Frank Switzer The Billings Gazette Friday, Evening December 7, Edition 1962 11 Soviet Troops Preparing Forts, Airfields in Cuba Mrs. Case Dies In California City Mrs.

Patricia A. Case, 19, of Venice, daughter of James B. Harris of 2080 Bench died of cancer in California. Rosary was recited and requiem mass celebrated Wednesday at St. Mark's Catholic Church in Venice.

Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mrs. Case was born in Bremerton, and had lived in Venice 12 years. She is survived by a son, Robert Allen; her mother, Mrs. Dorothy M.

Harris of Venice; father and stepmother; a brother, David C. Harris of Venice and a maternal grandmother, Mrs. Polly V. Markussen of Bremerton, Wash. Mrs.

Fay, 81, Dies In Nursing Home Mrs. Maude C. Fay, 81, of 504 N. 31st Billings resident since 1928, died of infirmities of age at 3:45 p.m. Thursday in a Billings nursing home.

She had lived in nursing homes for about five years. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday, in the SettergrenCarey Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Mountview Cemetery. Mrs.

Fay was born May 19, 1881 (in Rockport, Mo. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Needles. She was married to Will Copas in Missouri in 1902.

He died Dec. 25, 1915 in Joplin, Mo. She moved to the Black Hills area of South Dakota in 1918. She was married to Frank Fay July 18, 1926 in Hot Springs, S.D. They came to Billings in 1928.

Mr. Fay died in Billings Dec. 25, 1958. Surviving Mrs. Fay are two sons, Wayne Copas of Spearfish, S.D., and Scott Copas of Lead, S.D.; her daughter, Mrs.

Katherine Cole of 504 N. 21st seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. EX ICC MEMBER DIES MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI) J. Haden Alldredge, 75, former member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, (ICC), died Wednesday.

MINISTER DIES MINISTER DIES PHILADELPHIA, (UPI) Litell, 90, The a Presbyterian minister for 55 years, died Wednesday. Youngsters Can Help Trim Library Tree Youngsters can trim the library Christmas tree at a 10:30 a.m. Saturday party in the children's room. Mrs. Mary Schmiedeskamp, Parmly Billings Library children's librarian, said children from 3 to years should bring a cutout snowflake for the Christmas tree.

Bookmark prizes will be given for the most unusual, largest and smallest snowflakes. Judges will be members library and children will have refreshments. Five Firms Register To Sell Securities firms have been registered in HELENA (AP) Five more The Montana to investment sell securities. commissioner's toner, office them as: Life Insurlance Investors, Nashville, Edwin L. Wiegand Pittsburgh, Colony Growth Plans, Boston, Inter-American Development Bank, Washing.

ton, D. and Oppenheimer Systematic Capital Accumulation Program, New York City. CLIPPED WINGS -Russian IL28 jet grad, heading east about 110 miles from bombers rest in their crates aboard the Havana, carried 15 of the planes, some Soviet ship Krasnograd. The bombers in crates and some wrapped in heavy were part of 42 that the defense depart- canvas. ment has reported leaving Cuba.

Krasno- Wintry Blasts Club (Continued From Page 1.) Electric Illuminating Co. said the 117-square it serviced is "a pretty bad mess." Some 30,000 customers of the utility were without electric service, many since Thursday night, when lines coated with snow and ice snapped in high winds. Hundreds of additional workers were called in for emergency duty on utility work. West Virginia Hit Drifts of up to 20 feet piled up in the Flat Top Mountain section of West Virginia and up to 18 feet in the area around Blackwater Falls State Snow continued falling in West Virginia. The fall measured 14 inches at Elkins at midmorning, seven inches at Charleston and Bluefield and five inches at gantown.

Sixteen inches of snow was reported in Garrett County, at the western edge of Maryland. Powerful winds caused near-blizzard conditions. Some 95 per cent of the roads in the county were closed by drifting snow. Schools were shut in three western Maryland counties because of the snow. Along the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, some schools were closed because of high water -about three feet above normal.

Turnpike Closed At Bradford, 13 inches of snow lay on the ground and winds Tim Removes (Continued From Page 1.) license. plate he could stand in line too. Some Intercity Rivalry Ellingson said there's some friendly intra-city rivalry involved in low number collecting. One Charles Orr, a Laurel man, is the current champ and has gotten the No. 1 license the last two times plates were issued.

"I sure did want to beat him this year," Ellingson said. Mrs. Michunovich later said she'd promised the No. tag to Babcock and that was that. Ellingson will probably get up early next Jan.

2, anyway. And he refuses to what time he plans to reach they courthouse. That, he says, is a low numbered license collector's very personal secret. TWIN STYLE Ideal WHITE Share la FRESH BREAD FREE Ideal Kiddie Show at the FOX THEATRE Saturday, Dec. 8 --12 NOON RANDOLPH SCOTT STATION CINEMASCOPE IN EASTMAN COLOR COLUMBIA so starring PICTURE NANCY GATES NEW YORK (AP) Soviet troops in Cuba are reported engaged in the construction of underground fortifications and additional airfields throughout the island, the New York Times said Friday.

A Washington dispatch by Tad Szule said "A detailed report on these activities, dated Nov. 29, Bragg (Continued From Page 1.) of a mother who's asked the Family Welfare Service to help make this Christmas a good one for her four children. A food basket, of course. Toys, perhaps, for the 4-year-old and the one who's 12. While they're here, the mother feels, she wants to do what she can for them because after Christmas they go back home to their father.

Home for Christmas, you hear people children saying- -and wondering you feel where four home is. Think about the day for a moment. Think what of a day it will be for a grandmother and a grandfather asked for a basket of food and toys. Toys for a 5-year-old boy. Toys for a girl, just a year old.

And you wonder but you don't ask because you know there's no way in the world even during the magic time of Christmas you can take a mother and a father and put them in a basket or in a stocking and have them there for a little boy. and girl on Christmas morning. Merry Christmas, say the lights and the smiles windows and and the the chill signs in the air, Merry Christmas. And you look at the white cards and at yellow sheets of paper but if the words are echoed there you can't hear them. Not yet, anyway.

Multilith Reproductions Verifax Copiers Rubber Stamps Business Cards Office Reproductions HAGENS LETTER SHOP 213 No. 30 Street 30 Street DRYERS was received from Havana through anti-Castro intelligence channels. adding: "The report stressed that while some Soviet military camps had been closed, all indications were that many Soviet units and advisers remained in Noting that President Kennedy said he had been informed by Moscow that Soviet combat troops in Cuba also would be removed, the Times said "The number of such troops is now believed to be between 5,000 and 10,000 The report suggested, the story said, that the Russians are concentrating on aiding Cuban forces "to redeploy and improve their defenses along the lines of conventional The newspaper said the report quotes "high officers" of the Cuban army as having said that "the majority of Soviet military technicians will not leave Miles City Library To Receive Award up to 60 m.p.h. piled up drifts everywhere. The Pennsylvania Turnpike was closed for 160 miles because of drifting snow and high winds.

Huge drifts were reported piling up throughout the Appalachians area. Sections of Michigan received up to 12 inches of snow. Up to eight inches fell in the Upper Peninsula. Drifts up to five feet stalled vehicles and forced closing of some 300 schools. More than a foot of snow hit Olean, N.Y.

Many schools in the section were closed and traffic slowed. The snowfall in Indiana ranged up to eight inches, mostly across the northern portion of the state. Ten inches of snow fell at Newfound Gap in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Lesser falls were reported in Kentucky and Virginia. The coldest reading of the day was -4 at Bemidji, Minn.

The lowest reading in the South was 22 degrees at Tallahassee, Fla. Many Regular $29.50 Value! Illuminated life- -like Santa. Full round for indoor or outdoor use. Stands 63 inches high! Complete with sturdy base and 110 volt U.L. approved cord set.

Available Only at EASY No Payments Due Until STOP IN NOW 109 N. 27th Treasure Lewistown Men Fined In Gambling Cases LEWISTOWN J. M. Gies of the Midway and James C. Sparks of the Glacier Tavern, entered pleas of guilty to charges of operating gambling devices in district court and Judge LeRoy McKinnon fined each of them $200.

The case stemmed from "visits" to three taverns last month by county attorney and sheriff's officers in which punchboards were seized. Another tavern involved was the Mint. The tavern owner, Harry Pasley, has not appeared. He has posted $300 bond. other sections of Florida reported temperatures in the 40s.

Farmers worked to save early winter vegetable from ruin. Asheville, N.C., reported a reading of 20 degrees. Atlanta had 22, Jacksonville, 35; Mobile, 37; Miami 50 and Key West, 60. I'm yours $5 INTEGRITY STORES DEPENDABILITY with the any major ALL Hotpoint APPLIANCES REDUCED WASHERS RANGES March! AT NEW YORK The Carnegie Public Library at Miles City, and the Teton County L- brary at Jackson, were among libraries in 38 states ceiving $1,000 state awards Fri day from the Book-of-the-Month Club Library Awards. Official presentation will be made April 21, first Sunday of National Li brary Meet.

The winning small-town library for each state was selected on the basis of records of achievement. IT PAYS TO KNOW YOUR STATE FARM AGENT STATE PARA INSURANCE Phone 248-6700 Louis Volk 1328 Ave. Billings State Farm Life Insurance Co. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. State Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

HOME OFFICE- BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS for only purchase of appliance! 1962 DISHWASHERS REFRIGERATORS Give better here piest LIFESIZE SANTA ME ART TERMS 9 9 HER the GIFT that keeps on giving easier, living for many years to come. Select the gifts with the hapfuture! State, 252-3886 FREE Shos Shot.

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