The Poplar Standard : Voice of the oil city 1955-08-12

              Completing Elevator Addition
The new 50.0000 bushel addition to the Occident elevator in Poplar was nearing completion when this picture was taken. The main elevator house was also raised 11
;et as shown in the picture. The annex section, built of 2 6 and 2x4 lumber, required ve carloads of lumber to build, he  Hoganson   Construction  Co.
of Minneapolis, Minn., v cializes in elevator and the contract.
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Poplar Standard Photo
Superintendent and 21 New Teachers on Poplar School Staff
When school opens In Poplar this fall Supt. G. L. Erickson and 21 members of his staff will be new to the Poplar school system. Nine of the new teachers are in the high school, while 12 new teachers will be teaching in the grades.
The school will have three first grade rooms, four second grade rooms, three rooms for each of the third and fourth grades, one fifth and two sixth grades.
Teachers returning from last year's staff in high school are Eunice Swank. English, and Ben Bordo. social studies.
Returning teachers in the grade school include: Mary Jane Wigle. chorus; Ralph Lackman. who this year will be grade school principal; Mrs. Josephine Hayes and Mrs. Ethel Taylor, both fourth grade teachers: Mrs. Verna Hoff. third grade: and Mrs. Phyllis Byfuglin. Mrs. George Lotz and Mrs. Effie Pentz. second grade teachers.
In addition to Supt. Erickson. who comes to Poplar from Wibaux, other new members of the high school faculty are:
James Green, principal. Mussell-shoe. Tex.; Harold Saylor. coach. Osnabrock. N. D.; Mrs. Kenneth Johnson, home economics. Holstad. Minr..; Mrs. Adeline Orisson, science. Hamilton. Mont.; James Anderson, commercial. Audubon, Minn.; Melvin Hanson, industrial arts. Nevis. Minn.: Ida May Erickson. English. Wibaux. Mont.: Kenneth Johnson, math. Holstad. Minn.; and James Berg .band and chorus. Minneapolis. Minn.
Junior high and grade school faculty members new to poplar are:
Lee Buller. junior high English. Moorhead. Minn.; S. E. Gotvaslee. junior high math. Norwich, N. D.; Victoria Marshall, social science and girl's physical education. Sidney. Mont.; C. J. Westland. sixth. Wibaux, Mont.: Dale Hess, sixth. Dutton, Mont.; Jennie Gertenson. fifth. Circle. Mont.; Irene Hopper-stad. fourth. Moorhead. Minn.; Eileen Kleir. third. Seymour. Mo.: Mrs. Lena Oster. third. Moorhead.' Minn.: Mrs. Gloria Hess, second. Dutton. Mont.; Roberta Unger. first. Republic. Mo.; Bonnie Roberts, first. Ash Grove. Mo; and Mrs. Pearl Tolzin. first. South  Dakota.
Froid Resident Critically Injured In North Dakota
Ralph Hill, 45, Froid. is in cri-ical condition afer a head-on collision 13 miles west of Williston. N. D.. last Thursday night. Six persons were injured in the crash.
Others hospitalized were Larry Erickson, 12-year-old Plentywood youth, and four members of the Jake Sandvik family. Willis:on. The Erickson boy was a passenger in the Hill car.
According to officials, the accident occurred when Hill, driving behind a semi-truck as it came over the brow of a hill, tried to pass. As he pulled out. he met the oncoming Sandvik car. Both cars tried to pull on to the shoulder of the road where ihey met head-on. The Erickson boy was thrown through the windshield into a ditch.
Hill was suffeiing from shock, a broken jaw. internal injuries, a severe head lacerations. Erickson compound facture of the leg and received lacerations and bruises-
Both vehicles were to:a! wrecks.
Standard Editor Leaving for New Home in Cut Bank
Glenn Bunnell, who has been editor and manager of The Poplar Standard since last year, has resigned his position to become advertising manager of the Pioneer Press at Cut Bank. Mont.
Mr. and Mrs. Bunnell and their son. Errol, will leave Poplar this week-end for their new home.
A man to take Mr. Bunnell's place on The Standard will be named in the near future by the paper's publishers. Vukelich and Downs of Wolf Point.
BUREAU LOANS $228,900 MORE IN PAST YEAR
Long-term credit is being used extensively by farmers and ranchers in this area to refinance and consolidate present indebtedness, to make improvements to land and buildings and to purchase land, livestock, machinery and equipment. Knute Hustad, secretary-treasurer of the Northeastern Montana Farm Loan association., reported this week.
Hustad said his association extended $541.700 in new loans during the 12-month period ended June 30. 1955. which was an increase ol $228.900 over the preceding year. These loans were made to farmers and ranchers in the territory served by the association, generally for a term of 20 years.
The Northeastern Montana National Farm Loan association makes and services loans for the Federal Land bank of Spokane.
In Idaho, Montana. Oregon, and Washington the land bank extended $26.596.400 in credit during thci last fiscal year, according to Hus-ened for business in 1917. In Mon-in any one year since the bank op-tad- This was the largest volume tana the volume reached $6.413.800; Idaho. $8.798.200; Oregon. $5.076,-300;   Washington.   $6.308.100.
Hustad said his association and 64 similar farmer-owned associations in the four states own all of the bank's capital stock.
The Weather
Max.  Min.  Prec.
August	4	..  77	50	.00
Auguts	5 ....	.   87	49	.00
August	6 ...	..   84	49	T
August	7 ....	.   91	51	.00
August	8 ....	...   95	63	.00
August	9 ....	_  85	50	.00
August	10 .	-   90	45	.00
FORT KIPP MAN DIES IN GALEN SANITARIUM
Frank Melvin Small. 31. died at Galen. Mont.. Aug. 8. He had been in the Galen sanitarium for about 'five months. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday. Aug. 13, at the Presbyterian church in Fort Kipp. at 2 p.m. Reverend Spider will officiate.
Mr. Small was born Aug. 17. 1923, at Fort Kipp. Mont. He was married to Ruby Bear at Poplar in 1951.
Survivors include his father Frank Small; his wife. Mrs. Ruby Small; a son. Melvin. and a daughter. Carol Ann: and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Red Eagle, and Mrs. Edith Freeman. AH are of Fort Kipp.
Burial will be at the Fort Kipp
cemetery.
STREET OILING STARTS MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK
Mayor J. M. Nass reported Wednesday 'hat Lou Richardson, street oiling contractor, stated that the first oil would be laid Monday of next week.
The workmen are busy shaping find packing the streets after which crushed rock will be spread and the tack coat applied. The first tack coat will be applied either Friday or Saturday of this week.
A word of -warning is issued to citizens regarding this oil tack coat. You are advised that, if at all possible, not to walk in the oil used in the tack coat. If you do have to you are warned to be very careful Bbout tracking it into your home. This oil is almost impossible to get out of a rug or off clothes or linoleum floor covering. If you do get' it on your rugs it will stay there almost as long as the paving lasts.
Those who have to walk in the streets while they are being surfaced with this tack material Should, if possible, wear old shoes, which can be taken off and not worn into the house.
Once the laying of the oil mat 6tarts. the work will move rapidly, and if the weather holds good the job should be completed by the first of September or shortly after.
SIDNEY FAIR WILL FEATURE FARM DISPLAY
The 38th annual Richland County fair and rodeo at Sidney. Sept 1. 2. and 3. will feature a display of farrr produce. This year's exposition will place emphasis on beautifully arranged and artistically displayed produce of high quality.
Fair Manager Don Nutter and County Agent Dean Davidson have found that many communities have their backgrounds completed and many of the forage and grass sheaves ready for showing. The competition for the county collective and the rest decorated booth awards will be keen, they said.
Davidson is satisfied that the 4-H general, the 4-H beef and other livestock exhibits will far exceed last year's. Under the Danish judging system, blue and red ribbons should be awarded in great number, he said. Vo-ag Director Jim Norden believes the FFA exhibits will be numerous and of excellent quality. One of the primary justifications for the holding of a county fair is the value it has to the youth program. Norden said.
Harvest Workers Will Be Given Social Security
With the approach of the harvest season, farm employers are reminded by Stanton S. Thompson, Manager of the Great Falls Social Security office, that farm workers hired to assist with the harvest operations are covered by social security if they receive cash pay of $100 or more.-   �
The farm employer should be certain to record the worker's name end Social Security account number on his records to insure having all information he will need to complete the report of wages required for social security purposes. Thompson continued.
Additional information may be obtained by contacting Thompson who will be in Wolf Point at the Montana State Employment service on Wednesday. Aug. 17 between the hours of 9 and 10:30 a.m.
Wreck Near Circle Injures 3 Persons
Bureau Approves Indian Education Formula for Funds
Billings�A formula for prorating Indian bureau education funds to eligible Montana schools has been approved by the U. S. Commissioner on Indian Affairs
Reinholt Brust. assistant area director, said in announcing approval that under the formula, a school district's share of the funds allotted to the slate will be determined by its eligible Indian enrollment plus the amount of tax ex-emot land within its boundaries. "Eligible" Indians are those with at least 25 per cent Indian blood and who live on tax exempt land.
The bureau has been allotted $400.000 this year to assist Montana schools which can qualify for aid. including school lunch programs and other special aids.
OIL ACTIVITY IS VARIABLE DURING WEEK
Oil news this week remained steady neither too bad nor too good. Two wells were abandoned as dry holes and two well look pretty good with oil being recovered.
East Poplar Unit No. 61 is coring the B zones after recovering a considerable amount of free oil in drill stem tests in the A zone. This well if a producer will be the easternmost production well in the East Poplar field.
Richfield No. 1 Buck Elk is conditioning the hole preparatory to running electrical surveys. It is reliably reported that operators recovered considerable amounts of oil on drill stem tests in the B zones.
West Poplar Unit No. 5 was plugged and abandoned as a dry hole.
Amerada No. 1 Lander in Sheridan county has been plugged also as a dry hole.
East Poplar Unit No. 57 is drilling at 6819 feet in the Lodgepole formation.
Production casing has been set in East Poplar Unit No. 60 and preparations ar� being made to complete it as an oil well.
California No. 1 Tribal is drilling below 7100 feet in the Mission Canyon formation.
Two people were hospitalized and another injured when a pick-up truck in which they were riding rolled into the ditch 15 miles north of Circle, about 1:30 a.m. Aug. 4.
The driver of the truck. Robert Hunt Jr., with his wife. Dorothy their three children, Duane. Muriel, and Mannie, and a harvest hand, Lewis Crum. were on their way to spend a few days in Wolf Point visiting Hunt's mother. Mrs. Robert Hunt, Sr., and his sisters. Hunt failed to see the curve at the top of the hill, and the truck was over-unhurt.
Hunt received a severely bruised back and neck. Crum's neck was severely strained and both received cuts and bruises. Mrs. Hunt was cut below the eye, on her lip, and shoulder. She was also badly bruised about the shoulders, neck, face and arms. The children were unhure.
Hunt was released from Trinity hospital this week, but Crum will be hospitalized for at least six weeks. The truck was a complete wreck.
The Hunts' residents of Wolf Point, were completing a combine-threshing tour and were threshing on a farm in the Circle vicinity.
TULE CREEK BEATS MINERAL BENCH SUNDAY
Sunday. Aug. 7. Tule Creek won over Mineral Bench 8-2 in what was really a pitching duel between Roger Johnson and Bob Renz. played at Mineral Bench. Both pitchers went the distance by givin/{ up only 5 hits. Renz was in trouble almost consistently, giving up nine bases on balls while Johnson issued only one. Tule Creek started the scoring in the second with a double by Jim Burt, two bases on balls and two wild pitches which resulted in two runs. Tule Creek scored again in the third on a single by Johnson, two bases on balls and a wild pitch.
In the eighth they broke loose with four big runs to sew up the game on bases on balls to Bud Jensen and Bobby Lowry, a single toy Les Eck. sacrifice fly by Johnson, base on balls by Burt. Jim then stole second base and same home on Walter's single. In the ninth, Tule Creek added one more run on Bud Jensen's single and an error on the rihtfielder and came home on Lowry's ground out. Mineral Bench did their scoring on a double by Renz a single by T. Nes-bit and A. Schagunn. In the sixth inning. M. B. got one more on an error by Johnson and a single by Buckles. The final score was Tule Creek 8. Mineral Bench 2.
n Atoms For Peace '^X�ifStamp Dedicated At Washington
Tule Creek	AB	R	H
L. Eck ...............	.......   6	1	0
J.  Jensen   .......	.......   4	0	0
R. Johnson ______	.......   4	1.	1
J. Burt ...............	.......   2	2	1
K.  Walter .......	.......   3	0	1
R. Thorsen .......	___5	1	0
D.   Morley   .......	.......  5	0	0
B. Jensen .........	....... 3	2	1
B. Lowry ...........	2	1	0
	34	8	s
Mineral Bench	AB	R	H
J. Baker ...........	.......   4	0	0
J. Nees .............	.......   3	0	0
B. Renz .............	4	1	1
V. Hoffman	4	1	0
T. Nesbit ...........	4	0	2
A. Schagunn .....	.......  4	0	1
S. Buckles .......	.......   4	0	1
T. Nees ...............	4	0	o
Christian ...........	3	0	0
	34	2	s
Leaves for Home
Mrs. Harry Swank. Sr.. has returned to her home in Sebring. Fla., after spending several week in the Poplar area with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brown, and her sons (here and at Froid. Mrs. Swank teaches the sixth grade and visual-aid in the Woodlawn school in Sebring.
Formal Dedication Of Aluminum Plant Set for Aug. 15
The new aluminum reduction plant at Columbia Falls, Mont., will be formerly dedicated Monday. Aug. 15. at 2 p.m. The plant is owned by The Anaconda Aluminum company.
Arrangements have been made to take groups of visitors through the large plant at intervals of each half hour, Aug. 15. from 10 am. to 1 p.m. and from 3:30 to 5 p.m. the same afternoon.
The company extended the invitation to attend to all Montan-ans and frienas from other states.
LITTLE LEAGUE PLAYERS SHOW WARES FRIDAY
The Poplar Babe Ruth leaguers met the Wolf Point little league team here under the lights Friday night and dropped a 3 to 0 contest that was tight enough to do credit to a much older, more experienced group of players.
The Wolf Point team collected its three runs on three hits and two errors, one of the hits being a home run. All of the Wolf Point scoring come in one inning. The Poplar lads made but one safe hit
For the most part the two teams played air tight ball that put their elders to shame. I! was the kid's first game under tne lights, but they performed like veterans before a good-sized crowd.
Rev. John Kendrigan has been coaching the little league players in Poplar.
On July 28. 1955. the "Atoms for Peace" U. S. Postage stamp was dedicated before an audience of high governmental and philatelic officials and representatives of 73 foreign nations in a ceremony held on the White House lawn.
Postmaster Gen. Arthur Sum-merfield introduced the stamp telling those present that it was unique in that it did not commemorate an event or honor an individual from the past but rather was concerned with the future. This new stamp prominently features the quotation taken from the Dec. 8. 1953. address of the President. "To find the way by which the inventiveness of man shall be consecrated to his life."
The Honorable Lewis Straus, chairman of the Atomic Energy commission, then spoke reminding his audience that the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, convening in Geneva on Aug. 8, is a continuation of such conferences striving for international unity. Eighty years ago the nations throughout the world gathered in Switzerland and established the universal postal union which has done much to make possible the free communication of ideas throughout the world. He concluded by pledging a continuation of development of the inventiveness of man toward life, not death .
Pres. Eisenhower then spoke emphasizing the fact that every discovery we have made can be used for good or evil depending upon the purpose of man and that the discovery of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion should offer such great benefits to the world that finally mankind would reject within themselves the evil impulses that lead to war ana work only for the good of all.
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The Poplar Standard
"Voice of The OU City"
VOL. 46     NO. 42
Poplar, Roosevelt County, Montana. Friday. August 12. 1955
CROWD WATCHES THRILL PACKED SUNDAY RACES
The crowd at the Hi-Line Stock Car speedway between Poplar and Wolf Point was held down Sunday by harvest operations, but in spite of the busy season a good crowd was on hand for some thrilling races. There were 28 cars entered.
The most thrilling action of the day took place in the first lap of the trophy dash when two cars piled up on the east turn with one car climbing on top of the other "piggy back". The first driver to be injured since the track opened was John Hoveland of Wolf Point. His car. 30W. sponsored by The Fad, went over the east curve embankment and crashed into the rest room building in the pit area. The building was partly demolished and Hoveland was injured, though not seriously, by a flying board. The car. however, was not damaged and with another driver at the wheel, later won the B Mian.
During the day there were several thrilling finishes, with the winners still in doubt until the stretch run on the final lap.
Winners of the various races were as follows:
1st heat�James Sonnenberg. 8W. 1st; R. A. Hammer, 13W. 2nd; Dick Girard. 9W, 3rd.
2nd heat�Joe Bushaw. 212, 1st; Bob Kelsey, 326, 2nd; Alien Lewis, 7J, 3rd.
3rd heat�Bud Nees. 33W. 1st; Orville Sharboro. 777D. 2nd; Ed Travis. 3*W. 3rd.
4th heat�Bruce Ballentine, 14J. 1st; Louis Kurtz. 4',4 J. 2nd; Al Johnson. 41W, 3rd.
Trophy Dash � Won by Louis Kurtz in 4V4J. He also won the trophy at the previous race.
B Main � Curt Simonsen. 30W. 1st; Ben Moe. 16W, 2nd; and Dick Prokop. O. Jr., 3rd.
A Main � Bruce Ballentine, %J. 1st; Arlen Lewis. 7J. 2nd; and Joe Bushaw, 212 3rd.
The race for car sponsors was postponed because so many cars were out of condition by the end of the A feature. Also taken into consideration was the extremely dusty condition of the track. Cars cut through the oiled layer and by the time the feature race was run the track was so hidden in a fog of dust that neither drivers nor spectators could see.
Races will be held again Aug. 21. More oil will be placed on the track before that event.
Wheat Average May Top 25 Bushels Per Acre in Poplar Area
Parakeet Found On Ranch Land
Jutt how a parakeet landed in a tree at Joe Pilgrim's ranch, nine miles south of Poplar and 25 miles southeast of Wolf Point, is a mystery to the Pilgrims.
Gary Pilgrim found it in a tree Wednesday evening Aug. 3, and managed to capture it. The bird was put in with the Pilgrims' two parakeets where it started eating right along with the others, said Mrs. Pilgrim. The parakeet didn't seem especially tired.
County Committees Outline Service At WP Meeting
County committeemen and supervisors from Roosevelt. Phillips. Valley. Daniels, Sheridan, and Richland made plans for better service to agriculture at a meeting of the Farmers Home administration at Wolf Point.
Frank S. Mendes. county supervisor lit Wolf Point, talked to the group about loan programs, explaining changes that had been made in the program which would make it more workable and which would give families a better opportunity to become established and repay debts.
The meeting was presided over by Merle Peterson. Sidney, area supervisor.
Wilbur P- Lockman, Oscar Olson, and Thomas P. Reid, county committeemen of Roosevelt county attended.
TWO CARS AT the Hi-Llne Stock   Car   speedway   pile   up
"piggy-back" on the east turn In races Sunday. The action took place in the first lap of the
trophy dash.
CRUSADE MOTTO URGES DRIVERS TO SLOW DOWN
The Montana Crusade f&r Safety committee joins all fraternal, farm groups and veterans organizations of Montana and the nation in urging everyone to slow down and live �to drive carefully and be alive in '55.
National organizations that now have their own educational traffic safety campaigns include the Eagles, Elks. Moose. K of C. U.T.C.. Oddfellows. K of P. State Council CIO. Montana Federation of Labor. V.F.W.. American Legion. Amvets, also the D.A.V.
The following organizations it. convention assembled this year adopted resolutions joining the state-wide crusade for safety campaign: The Order of Ahepa, Montana Public Health association. Montana Home Demonstration council. Disabled American Veterr ans auxiliary, United Spanish War veterans, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Montana District council. Lumber & Sawmill Workers and Carpenters of America.
Frank Murray, clerk of the Supreme court. Helena, is Secretary of the Montana Crusade for Safety committee-
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bunnell and. Errol were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. James. Wednesday evening.
Charge Police At Wolf Point With Beatings
Wolf Point �
The city council assured a delegation of Indians Monday thai everyone in Wolf Point, white or Indian, would be given the fullest protection of the law or the council would investigate and correct the situation. The statement was given after the citizens presented a petition stating that persons had been mishandled by local policemen.
Mrs. Hamilton presented the council with photographs taken of her boy. Robert Hamilton, after he was beaten up by someone July �6 about 1 a.m. Mrs. Hamilton said she was convinced that a local policeman had taken the boy to the railroad tracks and beaten him for no apparent reason. She also showed the members a doctor's certificate.
Police Commissioner Dr. C. R. Grow reported that he had seen all those concerned in the Hamilton case and evidence had shown that  it couldn't  have  been  the policeman since he was elsewhere at the time of the beating. "The witnesses I talked to didn't have a chance to discuss the matter among themselves before I saw them." the doctor said-Other names presented as being unaccountably beaten were Wayne Cantre'.l and Joe Shields.
"We are '.lot a jury" said Mayor Harry Hartz. "but the case will be fully investigated."
OIL GEOLOGIST WRECKS AUTO NEAR LANARK
Peter Howard. Miles City, oil geologist working out of Williston. escaped serious injury early Sunday morning when his car crashed into a pole and guy rope supporting a telephone pole on highway No. 2 near Lanark and traveled 290 feet into the ditch and then back onto the road.
Suffering from a bloody nose, he hailed Sidney Kennedy, Williston. who was driving by. and was brought into Culbertson. Constable Alex Damm investigated the accident and Howard McKinney towed the 1955 Plymouth into Culbertson.
Mrs. George Lotz and Mr. and Mrs. Rov Larson, Minot, visited Mrs. W. "C. Price at Sidney Wednesday.
The harvest of one of this area's record wheat crops was in full swing this week and by the end of the week should be pretty well in the bin up to eight miles north of Poplar.
Some scattered cutting has already started on the bench and they should be going in earnest by the first of the week.
The yields and quality of the wheat this year are excellent, and the combination of yield, test weight and protein content makes it one of the best crops on record.
Yields in the Poplar area are frequently reported at 35 bushels per acre and reports of even better yields are not rare. Some wheat is going as low and 15 bushels per acre, however, and the best indications are that the crop in the Poplar vicinity will average 25 bushels per acre und possibly a little better.
Test weights hover very close to the 60 pound mark with a few loads a bit over or under that figure.
The protein content, on the basis of tests made to date, would appear to average about 15 percent. The highest protein reported to date was on wheat marketed by a farmer from south of the river. His wheat tested 17.2 protein. The, bonus for protein is now about eight cents per point above 12 percent.
Some saw fly damage is being reported and this damage is particularly heavy along the edges of the strips.
No estimate on the total yield for the county has been received, but it is certain to far exceed the available storage capacity of farm and commercial granaries.
All local elevators are filled to capacity and they are now able to take wheat only wan they can get railroad cars. The car situation is said to be very tight at present, and grain men here believe the car storage will become more and more critical as the harvest moves along. Before long the sight of long lines of waiting trucks at Poplar elevators will become all too common.
Former County Man Killed at Opheim; Rites in Poplar
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in the Poplar Presbyterian church for Alfred Albert Walker, born in Froid. Sept. 29. 1909. As a young man lie was a high school athleti.' star, and later worked at the Fort Peck project. For some years he was a professional wrestler and later was employed by the Glasgow police department.
He worked on the Wolf Point police force from June. 1954. to November.   1954.
Alfred Walker met his death when he was caught and pulled completely through a trenching machine used to dig sewer line ditches at Opheim. Wednesday of last week. There were no eye witnesses to the accident and it was not discovered until Mr. Walker was found lying on the conveyor belt of the equipment. He died shortly afterward. He was working as an oiler on the Opheim town project and was employed by the Papilla Construction company of Havre.
Besides his widow. Doris Lingle Walker, whom he married in Wolf Point. Dec. 22. 1953. he is survived by two children by a former mariage. Alfred Walker, attending school in California, and Joan Lewis; a son. one year old. and five step-children.
Funeral services were in charge of Rev. William Sanders and interment was in the Poplar cemetery.
Cars Pile Up at Hi-Line Track
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