Montana Album: Price of haircuts to rise to $2

50 Years Ago

From the Tribune week of Apr. 26, 1965

Trustees of School District No. 1 and the administration Monday night took under study at least three proposals for solving the problem of commencement exercises for 761 seniors at Great Falls High School on May 31 or June 1. Principal R.W. Swarthout said the high school auditorium will be short 380 seats if each senior is given two tickets and even if 20 percent of the class could be seated on the stage as honor students. Rather than gamble on weather conditions and schedule the ceremony for Memorial Stadium, the board will consider scheduling commencement for the entire graduating body and all guests in the C.M. Russell High School gymnasium using bleachers if they arrive in time or having ceremonies on May 31 and June1 at GFHS, splitting the student list in half alphabetically.

SEATTLE – About 250 women spent terrifying moments Thursday, riding out an earthquake which sent Seattle’s 400-foot-tall “Space Needle” swaying and clattering back and forth. The women were participating in a television program originating from the restaurant more than 500 feet off the ground when the heaviest ever recorded earthquake in the Pacific Northwest hit. The quake jolted four states and British Columbia, bringing at least five deaths and many injuries.

“Stay Away, Joe,” Dan Cushman’s successful novel of reservation life, almost unobtainable in book stores for some time, again has been published. Cushman bought rights to the plates from which the novel was printed, and the latest press run was done by Colonial Publishers. Cushman says the novel, originally published in 1954 and later published in pocket book form three times, will be available this week at book stores.

WASHINGTON – What is going on in Viet Nam is “armed aggression” from the North Vietnamese, resisted by South Viet Nam and the U.S., but this is not, legally speaking, a war. The present legal status reflects the conflict from the standpoint of the Johnson administration, although officials do not deny that the fighting is real and can be called “war” from a nonlegal standpoint. “The fact than military hostilities have been taking place in Southeast Asia does not bring about the existence of a state of war, which is a legal characterization rather than a factual description,” the State Department says.

Haircuts in Great Falls will be raised from $1.75 to $2 effective Saturday, it was announced by Steve Motil, secretary-treasurer of Barbers and Beauticians Union Local 58. A similar raise was rejected last year, but the increase follows the trend across the state.

PAWLING, N.Y. – Edward R. Murrow, the CBS radio and television news craftsman and former head of the U.S. Information Agency, died at his farm here Tuesday after months of cancer. He was 57 on Sunday. Murrow built an international reputation from his World War II broadcasts from London. Beginning, “This — is London,” they were a vivid re-creation for American radio listeners of the courage and tenacity of the British people beneath the lash of Hitler’s air blitz.

Great Falls businessman Edward R. Ellis, 38, and his wife, Marcia, 35, were killed Monday morning when their plane crashed east of Missoula after striking power lines. The crash orphaned their five children, aged 15, 13, 11, 9, and 1¹/₂, who lived with their parents at the family home in Grande Vista. Both victims were pilots. Witnesses saw and heard the plane cut through two high-voltage lines, 150-200 feet above U.S. Highway 10, about 25 miles east of Missoula.

WASHINGTON – A famous but publicity-shy figure of aviation history has been working quietly in a small downtown office here for several months for the protection of wild creatures. Monday, Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, president of the Wildlife Management Institute, announced that Charles A. Lindbergh, 63, of Darien, Conn., — first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean — has been appointed a director of the World Wildlife Fund. “Whenever civilization comes, wildlife tends to disappear,” he wrote in a recent magazine article. “On every continent, and in almost every country, the crisis for wildlife is acute.”

Montana Deaconess Hospital was without power for about 30 minutes Saturday night after a heavy sedan hit a power pole at 23rd Street and Tenth Ave. S. Montana Power Co. crewmen were called to the scene shortly after the 10:33 report was received by police. The outage reportedly occurred as the result of a light pole cable flipping across main feeder wires to the Deaconess Hospital-College of Great Falls area. The driver of the auto was taken by ambulance to Deaconess Hospital, and since the power was off, the ambulance was sent to Columbus Hospital, where he reportedly refused treatment and left on foot. Police were seeking the driver late Saturday night.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Luck rode with Lucky Debonair Saturday as the flashy colt carrying the silks of Mrs. Ada L. Rice of Chicago held on under jockey Willie Shoemaker for a neck victory over fast-closing, but lightly-regarded, Dapper Dan in the 91st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

Marni Nixon, soprano, will be guest artist for the annual pops concert Sunday of the Great Falls Symphony Orchestra and Choir. Miss Nixon has been described as one of the best known unfamiliar singers in the country because her career until recently consisted largely of dubbing her voice for that of well-known actresses in movies and television. Hers was the voice of Deborah Kerr in “The King and I,” of Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady,” and for most of Natalie Wood’s singing in “West Side Story.” Her numbers here will include selections from those movies as well as from “Madame Butterfly” and “Porgy and Bess.”

WASHINGTON – The nation’s schools were served notice Thursday they must integrate at least some grades by next fall and erase all racial segregation by the fall of 1967 if they want to qualify for federal aid. The Office of Education also warned that the aid might be cut off unless steps are taken to desegregate the faculty, transportation and other facilities. The basic requirement for next fall is that school districts have integrated classes in at least four grades — the first grade, the lowest grade in junior high and the first and last high school grades.

100 Years Ago

From the Tribune week of April 26, 1915

The hobo season opened yesterday for the official vag hunters. This morning there are two dozen jobless wanderers in the city jail. A squad of officers went in the patrol wagon at daylight yesterday morning to the river bank jungles where the “bosses” were sleeping around bonfires. They were fined $10 each in court yesterday morning and were committed to serve out their penalties. Patrolmen in all parts of the city were vigilant last night, another group being brought in, some from streets where they had been begging from passers-by and some from alleys where they had been sleeping.

LONDON – After serious fighting in which the Turks offered a stubborn resistance, British troops have established themselves on the Gallipoli peninsula and advanced a considerable distance toward the narrows of the of the Dardanelles, while the French have cleared Cape Kum Kaleh of Turks. Thus, it may be said that the second and most serious attempt to force the Dardanelles has been fairly launched. The Turks, under the guidance of their German officers, placed every obstacle in the way of the invaders, but against the fire of the allied fleet and the gallantry of the army, they were forced to fall back. The British forces lost heavily in the operation.

HELENA – Professional automobile races under the auspices of the International Motor contest association, and which will draw to Helena automobile racing men such as Barney Oldfield and other stars of the automobile racing world, will be a feature of the Montana state fair this year. The board of directors of that institution decided the matter yesterday and announced that $4,500 will be hung up for a three-day meet. In holding an automobile meet of this kind, the state fair immediately steps into the ranks of the important automobile race meet of the year. It is said the automobile race detracts none whatever for the number of horse races, both running and harness, nor from the size of the purses which will be offered by the fair for these events.

MONTROSE, N.Y. – Frederick W. Seward, assistant secretary of state in the cabinets of Presidents Lincoln, Johnson and Hayes, died here today in his 85th year. Mr. Seward was closely associated with some of the gravest events in the nation’s history. It was he who was sent on that memorable mission from Washington to Philadelphia, to warn President Lincoln that his life was in danger if he followed his itinerary through Baltimore. Four years later he figured in another, stirring incident after the assassination of Lincoln. He was at the bedside of his father, Secretary of State William H. Seward, when Payne, one of Booth’s accomplices, pretending to be a messenger with medicine for Secretary Seward, suddenly drew a revolver and beat Frederick Seward into unconsciousness. Then, dashing into the sick room, Payne slashed Secretary Seward many times. Both Sewards eventually recovered.

BOZEMAN – Three hundred dollars will furnish a house of four rooms and a bath comfortably and completely according to Miss Mary Noble of Whitehall, sophomore in the Montana State college, who has worked out the figures as a problem in home economics. Her list of the necessaries is fully itemized, and every item is priced according to current Montana retail prices. The list includes everything form the standard kitchen range and the birds-eye maple bedroom set to the pepper shakers, the alarm clock and all the household linen. The complete list has not been published, but would doubtless be sent by the home science department to any prospective brides or bridegrooms who need help.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – More hitherto unknown chapters in the political history were revealed in the Supreme Court here today when confidential correspondence that passed between Theodore Roosevelt on one hand and William Barnes and former U.S. Sen. Thomas C. Platt — “the boss” — on the other, was read to the jury. It was the former president’s sixth day upon the witness stand in the $56,000 suit for alleged libel brought against him by Mr. Barnes. Col. Roosevelt wound up the day by claiming as his own the speeches and interviews published in New York newspapers in which he said some things about the men he called “the bosses.” The names if Barnes, Murphy, Guggenheim, Cox, Lorimer, Penrose and others were scattered trough these articles.

Claiming that through the negligence of the employees of the Great Northern, she fell from the vestibule of a fast moving train between Belt and Great Falls and that she received injuries which are of a permanent nature, Maud S. Jones has brought suit against the railway company in which she demands judgment in the sum of $15,000. Miss Jones alleges that on March 29, 1914, she was taken ill upon the train bound for Great Falls and made a number of ineffectual efforts to enter the women’s compartment in the car but always found the door locked. She asked a brakeman to open a window, but he was unable to do so on account of the storm windows. She then assayed to pass into the next car for relief. She alleges that the trainmen had negligently permitted the door to the vestibule to remain open, and in her weakened condition, she fell through the doorway while the train was running at a high rate of speed.

CINCINNATI – Chicago and Cincinnati played a brilliant 15-inning game today which was finally called on account of darkness with the score a tie, 4 to 4. The game was replete with marvelous catches by the fielders and fairly good pitching after the eighth inning when Standridge and Douglas went into the box. Both these pitchers were wild, but they managed to hold down the opposing batsmen.

To siphon water from a natural ice cave over a bank and down to a flat into troughs for sheep is the novel plan to be developed on high mountain ridge in the Jefferson National Forest. A letter authorizing the expenditure was received yesterday from Washington by Supervisor Scott Leavitt, and the district ranger who conceived the scheme will be instructed to start work at once. On the ridge which forms the backbone of the Big Snowy mountains is an open, grassy meadow. It offers abundant food, but not a drop of water. However, the pressure brought upon forest headquarters by applicants for sheep grazing permits influenced Supervisor Leavitt to consider this upland plan.

Flying rocks and boulders held in fists wounded two men and bruised three others in a private fight in front of the Burlington Hotel on First Avenue South at 10 last night. The mix-up was considered strictly private, for bystanders who attempted to rescue one injured man were threatened by the other fighters. One man, half-conscious from blows in the face, was being carried towards Whittier park when Patrolman Ted Powers stopped the battle. He arrested that five, who were booked at the station as fighters until more is learned of the fray.

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