The Poplar Standard : Voice of the oil city 1961-10-27

              HISTORICAL SOCIETY Or MONTANA HELENA
Work to Begin Soon on Listug-Olson Exploratory Well�
All Three Wells in Tule Creek Area Abandoned
MAKE QUICK WORK OF IMMUNIZATION-
WILL PRESENT MISSIONS REVUE-
Dr. Donald N. Fitch and Pub-lie Health nunc Mary E. Bailey make quick work of the immunization of 600 pupils and teach-�ri in the Poplar School Friday, Oct. 20. They are using a new type hypo-spray injection gun with which the 600 shots were administered in one hour and 15 minutes. Pupils liked  It
Mr. and Mr*. Gerald Working-er, shown above with a group of objects they use, along with colored slides, to present their revue of missions, will speak at the   First Presbyterian  Church,
INDIAN AGENCY POLICY TALKED AT CONFERENCE
Superintendent Dale Baldwin of the Fort Peck Agency returned this week from a high level conference of Indian agency superintendents, area directors and central office officials in Denver.
The conference was called by Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall and Assistant Secretary John A. Carver. Jr. for the purpose of getting the fieldmen's view of* a proposed program for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Philleo Nash, the new Indian commissioner, stated that the department is working on a program of "strengthening the Bureau's relationship with the Indians."
Four main areas of need were dealt with, including Indian land use and sales, qualifications to participate education and health and welfare programs, law and order, and economic development of Indian reservations.
Supt Baldwin reported that a statement of policy would be announced later, but that a sense of direction was obtained by the superintendents.
Poplar, Sunday, Nov. 5.
The Workingers, retired farmers of Shedd, Ore., have traveled extensively in the Holy Land and mission fields of the Presbyterian churches.
\ Poplar Bus .Station Is Moved; Schedule Changed
I The Poplar bus depot for the j Missouri Valley Trails. Inc. has ] I been moved from Thacker's Paint Shop to the Outlet Store. ' A new bus schedule was also I announced this week. The west-| bound bus will leave Poplar at ' 12:45 p.m.. and the eastbound bus : will depart at 4:25 p.m.
POPLAR POST LEGIONNAIRES ATTEND MEET
Poplar Legionnaires were well represented at the District No. 1 convention held Saturday. Oct. 21. at Culbertson. both as delegates and program personalities.
Department Commander Allen Saboe represented the state organization; District Commander Dana McCowan and District Adjutant Brian McAnally officiated at the convention: and Poplar Post Commander James Danielsen and John LaRoche completed the Poplar delegation.
POLICEMAN'S ANNUAL BALL IS SATURDAY NIGHT
The annual Poplar Policeman's Ball and Halloween dance will be Saturday night. Oct. 28. Chief Har-rv Skinner reminds area residents this week.
The music will be provided bj the Populaires. All proceeds will go to provide for equipment and other needs of the police depait-ment. The dancing public is urged to come out and support this worthy project.
POPLAR SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT TO ATTEND MEET
Superintendent Duane Adams of1 the Poplar schools will attend the Northwest Regional Conference of the Superintendents as Curriculum Leader at Spokane. Wash.. Nov. 5 through 7. He will be on the program in the Foreign Language . Conference.
The conference, which is spon-sored by the American Associa- j tion of School Administrators, will bring together some the outstand-bag educational administrators of the country.
The conference theme is dealing i with the coming changes in school curriculum due to the shifting emphasis in education. Subjects for | discussion include '"The New Mathematics. " "Changes Coming in I Biology." "Changes Coming in Physics." English and foreign lan- j guages. as well as others in edu- j cational methods and the individual in change.
In the conference on "Changes Coming in Foreign Language." Supt. Adams will serve as an interrogator.
| Disappointment was dished up in three helpings this week as drillers plugged and abandoned all wells tested.
Two wells in the field offered testers only water. A third was plugged, but test results were not given.
Calvert Expioratson Co.. working with Co-operative Refining Assn.�D. G. Hamilton, on the Houg No. 1. reached total depth late last week. Tests in the Devon-ian-Nisku. at 7.780. recovered 1.770 feet of water and no oil shows. The well was plugged and abandoned Sunday.
High hopes were held for oil recovery   on the  Baracker well and production pipe was ordered and delivered before testing completed. Area  residents, seeing  pipe trucked to the well, thought tests  must  have been positive. Not so. Due to expectancy by Phillips Co. and necessity of early ordering to avoid delays, pipe was premature; then not needed at all-Tests Sunday on the Phillips Petroleum No. 1 Baracker. offset to the Lough No. 3. one of the Tule Creek field's best wells, recovered 1.000 feet of water and no oil shows. The well was plugged and abandoned Tuesday evening. British American Oil Co.'s No. 1  Ben Thompson reached total depth of 7.546 but evidently little or nothing was recovered and the well was plugged Tuesday. Test results were not released. The B.A. well was the only tight hole in the area since completion of last Indian lease contracts, several months ago. It was the only wildcat among those completed this week, and B.A.'t first shot at the Tule field. Rigs from Baracker and Thompson wells were moved from the field.  Calvert's  rig   26. from   the Thompson lease, will be taken to North Dakota and Signal's rig trom the No. 1 Baracker will go to the Dw.ver field.
One bright spot in the picture is the fact drilling operations are not ceasing entirely. Calvert rig from the No. 1 Houg is being moved   to   Listug-Olson No. 1, Sec. 34, 31N-47E. The Listug-Olson well is last of a three-well exploratory program by Hamilton and Calvert Generally. Tule Creek's oil picture looks dim. Scuttlebutt in oil circles   indicates   end   has   been reached in wild spending for leases. Those who might know atso say they feel companies will be thinking hard before starting any new wells.
Most companies report no hope for recovery of drilling and exploration investments in the field. Current production, they say, could never pay for expenses already incurred. To date, of 22 tries in or near the field, only six have brought producing wells.
A strike on the Listug-Olson lease is not believed capable of reviving interest in the area, and chances of a strike seem remote, considering past averages.
The Poplar Standard
'Voice of The Oil City"
VOL. 51�NO. 51
Poplar, Roosevelt County, Montana, Friday. October 27, 1961
Battm Will Speak To County Groups
Representative James F. Battin, �astern Montana congressional delegate, will speak in Roosevelt county Nov. 2.
Congressman   Battin   will   appear  in the Fort Peck Tribal Council building Thursday at 10 a.m. to discuss problems with the tribal council and report on work of the 87th Congress. All tribal \ house  in the Council  building j between 2 and 5 pan. to meet 4 Representative Battm.
Thursday,  starting at S   p.m,  I
Congressman Battin will speak In the Southside school gymnasium in Wolf Point. An informal reception and "get a cquainted" hour will follow hi* address. Members of the Wolf Point chapter of the Federation of Republican Women will serve coffee and cookies during the social hour. Mrs. Frank Hanoi is in charge of arr�giwants.
Aldon Lea* county OOF chairman, urges all area residents interested in government to attend.
WEEK'S WEATHER IS COOLER WITH SOME SNOW
! The Poplar weather for the past [ week varied from a balmy 72 de-| grees to a cold 19 degees. Some much needed moistune in the form of several inches of snow fell Sunday. Oct. 22. amounting to .06 \ inches of precipitation. I Florn Martin of the local weather station gave the following re-I port: ,
; Date Hgh    Low
Oct. 19  ................................72        34
! Oct.  20 -............................. 64 32
; Oct 21  .............................. 41 30
Oct. 22 ..........................._ 40 19
! Oit 23 .................._........._ 49       20
Oct 24......................... 47 28
I Oct. 25 ........_..........________ 49        24
BANDS PRACTICE FOR ANNUAL FALL CONCERT
The Poplar High School and Junior High Schol bands are polishing up on the music they will perform at their annual fall concert, which is scheduled for Nov. 10.
The music to be presented this year is of exceptionally high quality and more difficult to perform than that which has been used in previous years, according to band director Gayle Craig.
Included in the program this year will be many marches, novelty numbers, overtures, classical selections and a featured trombone trio. The program will be varied enough to please any musical taste.
Band Director Craig promises a fast moving program of entertainment on the evening of Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. in the multi-purpose-room of the grade school.
All proceeds from the concert will go into the band uniform fund to help defray the expenses of the new uniforms purchased during the past spring..       f
CARNIVAL AT BROCKTON SCHOOL NOV. 3
The Brockton School Carnival will be held Friday. Nov. 3 it was announced this week by school officials.
The festivities will start at 7:00 p.m. and everyone is .nvited.
The carnival is an annual event at the Brockton school and offers a fine evening of entertiinment
NEW METHOD OF IMMUNIZATION USED AT POPLAR
Poplar Public Health officials have been using a new type vaccine gun to immunize area school children and teachers against influenza.
Two of the new hypo-spray guns were used Friday. Oct. 20. to vaccinate 600 pupils and teachers in one hour and 15 minutes at the Poplar school.
The gun is one of several types of injection guns and works on the hydraulic principle forcing the fluid at high velocity through the skin.
Dr. Donald N. Fitch, of the Pub- 1 lie Health Service Hospital. Pop- j lar. stated that the fluid is driven I by a pressure of 16.000 pounds per I square inch and has a velocity of 1 600 miles per hour.
The two guns used here belong to the Communical Disease Cen- i ter. Atlanta. Ga.. and are on loan I to the Public Health Service. Bil- j lings. Dr. Fitch said he hoped to be able to borrow the guns again in a couple of months to administer the second series of shots.
The vaccinations have now been completed in the Poplar. Brockton. Wolf Point. Oswego and Fraz-er schools.
Also assisting in the immunization were Miss Mary E. Bailey and Miss Saralou Leaphart. public health nurses. Poplar, and Dr. Enrico Leopardi. assistant medical officer. Public Health Department. Billings Area office.
PRESBYTERIANS TRICK OR TREAT FOR UNICEF
The Junior High young people of the First Presbyterian Church Poplar, will visit the homes throughout the community on Halloween Eve "trick or treating" for UNICEF.
"Respond generously to our youth and to the youth and children of the world" Rev. Russell Lewis, pastor of the church, re-oueits. Rev. Lewis continues, "The United Nations Children's Fund has been very effective over a period of years in helping to alleviate poverty, disease and malnutrition among children and mothers throughout the world. Any contribution you make will be appreciated by the youth. One cent will buy a piece of chewing gum or enough BCG vaccine to protect a chid against tuberculosis. Three cents will buy a postage stamp or provide a hungry child with a glass of milk per day for two weeks. Twenty-five cents will buy i malted milk or the sulfone to treat a child suffering from leprosy tor a whole year. Respond generously to our youth and to the youth and children of the world."
All County Now Development Area Program
Efforts by many county groups and individuals produced results this week as all of Roosevelt county was designated part of the Fort Peck Reservation Area Redevelopment program.
A telegram from Senator Met-calf Wednesday confirmed reports designation of the entire county might be forthcoming. Metcalf said the Area Redevelopment Administration approved a request by him and Senator Mike Mansfield to mane all Roosevelt county eligible for area redevelopment loans.
Previous designation applied only to the reservation. Hard work and cooperation by county citizens helped make designation possible. Metcalf said. Among those helping were the county soil conservation districts, county Fanners Union, city officials, chamber of commerce groups. Roosevelt County Planning and Improvement Council and tribal officials.
The designation makes the en-I tire county eligible for federal loans, grants and technical assistance. The overall economic development outline, prepared by various county and tribal groups and submitted by agency authori' ties, was reviewed by the Administration and found to meet all basic requirements. The Admin-
MINOR INJURIES WEDNESDAY IN WRECK NEAR WP
Only minor injuries were reported Wednesday in a two-car collision just east of Wolf Point on U.S. 2, at 9:55 p.m.
Lyle Loendorf of Wolf Point was treated for a dislocated shoulder and minor abrasions, and Jim Pipe, also of Wolf Point, received minor cuts. No other injuries were reported.
Loendorfs car was struck from the rear by an. automobile driven by John Mail of Poplar, as they entered a four-lane stretch of road on an uphill grade coming into Wolf Point from the east Both cars skidded off the highway. Loendorfs car tipped after leaving the road. Both were badly damaged
Loendorf was alone at the time. Passengers of Mail's car were Pipe, and William Whitehead of Poplar. Loendorf was traveling west about 35 miles per hour when overtaken and hit
Mail was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol and convicted in Justice court early Thursday.
PRIZES AWARDED IN PUNT, PASS, KICK CONTEST
A unique kind of a football con-*est was held Saturday at 10 a.m. on the Poplar football field.
It was the 1961. Punt. Pass and Kick contest sponsored by the Ford Dealers National Football League The first, second and third place winners all received prizes oflsome nice football equipment. There were contests in five age groups. 6 through 10 years of age.
The winners by age group were: six year olds. 1st prize. Roy Azure: 2nd. Buzz Granbois; and 3rd. Robert Magnan.
Seven year olds: 1st. Marvin Magnan; 2nd. Bobby Holen; and third T. Kirns.
Eight year olds: 1st. Elmer Dakota; 2nd. Dunn O'Connor: and third F. Lemay.
Nine year olds: 1st Adrian Ham ilton; 2nd. Mike Thorsen. and 3rd. Tom Tim.
Ten year olds: 1st. Scott Adams; 2nd. Craig �humake: and Jeffrey Hill.
AH the first place winners received certificates and prizes consisting of complete football suits. The second place winners got warm-up jackets: and footballs were awarded to third place winners.
The scores of the first place winners were sent to Fargo for the district contest. If they win there they may compete in the National competitions.
istration said in their opinion, concurred in by the Department of Interior, the outline represented a very fine job, particularly with respect to analyses on economic potentials and basic problems and needs.
The administration requested only a more detailed financial picture on the Fort Peck tribes and cooperating counties < Roosevelt and Valley), information on individual members of the tribal council and members of groups working actively with the program, and breakdown on types of skills of wage earners in non-agricultural employment.
M. Longtree Killed; Rites Thursday
Michael F: (Poncho) Longtree, 15-year-old Poplar high school freshman, was killed instantly Sat* urday when struck by a shotgun blast.
The youth was hunting with a friend. John Hill. Jr.. when the accident occurred. Hill was walking behind and in process of un-loading his 12 ga. shotgun when it discharged, hitting Longtree in back of the head.
John Bushman. BIA criminal in* vestigator. said Hill carried Long-tree about 300 yards to a highway, when a passing motorist informed him Longtree was dead. The pair had been bird hunting about 3 miles north of Poplar.
Longtree was born May 18. 1946 in Poplar and has lived there all his life. He attended Poplar schools and this year played P squad football. He was outstanding in are* Babe Ruth baseball, chosen for tho Hi-Line All-Star team, which participated in the National tournament at Miles City last summer. He also played with Poplar's grade school basketball team last year.
Survivors include foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Linner of Poplar: brothers. Aloysius. at Ft. Ord, Calif., and Hansel: sister. Jo Ann at Pierre. S. D. and step brother. F. James Fairley. at Stead AFB near Reno. Nev.
Funeral services were Thursday at 2 p.m. in the First Presbyterian church of Poplar, with the Rev. Sidney Byrd officiating. Interment was in the Poplar City | cemetery. Clayton Memorial Chapel was in charge of arrangement*
Agency Official Cites Position on Lunch Program
Ft Peck Agency Superintendent Dale Baldwin this week stated the government's position regarding the free lunch controversy in the Wolf Point schools. He stated that three types of Federal aid are available and that application by the local school district for all three must be made through the Montana State Department of Public Instruction. The Wolf Point schools are now drawing money from two of these sources, it was stated, and could draw from the third. During the past year the Wolf Point schools did draw from all three sources.
The National School Lunch Program is promoted by the Department of Agriculture and includes about 4' 2 cents per meal as a cash subsidy and a supply of commodities, including butter, eggs, milk, flour, meal, meats and fruits, Baldwin said. This program may be entered by school systems anywhere in U.S. The school districts agree to provide lunches for needy pupils free or at reduced prices, he added and local authorities decide who are needy. Under this program all needy school children are eligible, he said.
Another program of assistance is Public Law �74, the Aid to Federally Impacted Area Bill. It provides federal assistance to schools where parents live or
work on tax free land, or where their major employment is with a government facility or on tax free land. It applies to Indian and non-Indian alike.
Interpretation of this law Is that these funds can he used to supplement the free lunch program, but do not have to be used for this purpose, Baldwin said. Sine* some doubt has arisen as to use of PL �7� funds for lunch programs, an opinion was given by Attorney General Forrest Anderson, stating that they may be so used if they are budgeted for that purpose by the local school district, he continued.
The third source of assistance in the hot lunch program Is the Johnson-O'Malley Fund. These were used by most schools In their hot lunch programs formerly. This law allows the Bureau of Indian Affairs to enter into contract with state and local authorities to provide for Indian children. PL S74 was most practical and paid more, so moat schools use it Baldwin said.
Baldwin said local districts, through the office of Public Instruction, can present a request justifying need and get Johnson' O'Malley funds even when they are drawing the other two. Under the Johnson-O'Malley Act the tlx level of the district must be up to the state level.
Pleasant Prairie Church Plans Lutefisk Supper
The Pleasant Prairie Church, south of Flaxville. is holding a Lutefisk supper at the church Saturday. Nov. 4. from 5:00 to 8:0 p.m. In addition to Lutefisk. fried chicken and lefse will be served. The prices are $1.50 for adults and $.75 for children.
Mrs. George Severson of the supper committee extends a cordial invitation to everyone to atten.
Man Receives Five-Year Sentence for Roofing Theft
Roofing thefts supplied sheriff's office escorts for two men this week.
James Evans was sentenced to five years in Montana State prison at Deer Lodge after conviction of charges of stealing 58 rolls of roofing materials and five rolls of base flashing, valued at about $200.
Also taken to Deer Lodge by sheriff's officers was Marvin Stanley. Stanley, arrested with Evans in connection with the robbery, will face a parole violation charge.
If convicted he will probably serve the remainder of his current sentence and lose "good time" earned while on parole.
The pair was arrested in Circle last month. When taken they were driving a pickup loaded with the stolen roofing materials. They were returned to Wolf Point and Evans appeared before Judge Jack Loucks in District court this week to face grand larceny charges.
Stolen materials were for the: Faith Retirement Home and belonged to Midland Rooting Co. of I Billings.
Policeman's Ball and
Halloween Dance
Saturday Oct. 28
LEGION CLUB
Poplar, Mont.
Music by the Populaires Admission $1 par person