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Yesterday's Phillips County News Memories for April 4, 2014

100 years ago

April 25, 1918

Frank DeTray has been arrested for making seditious remarks about the president of the United States. He was in the county jail.

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A letter from Dick Thompson, 36 company 166 Depot Brig. at Fort Lewis, Wash., to inform interested friends that he and W.E. Wysel, who is in the same company, had learned to do "squads right" and "squads left" without running over anyone.

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Representative and Mrs. Dudley Jones were down from Dodson on business.

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A big drive for Red Cross funds was to be inaugurated the following week.

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Mrs. Catharine Weikle, county chairman of boys and girls garden clubs, County Agent W.P. Stapleton and Ms. Flora Simms, county superintendent of schools, we're holding meetings throughout the county in an effort to secure a record number of garden clubs.

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Mr. and Mrs. Max Sklower, who had spent the winter on the West Coast visiting friends, return to Malta.

75 years ago

April 22, 1943

450 Japanese workers in county

The sugar beet labor situation is looking a great deal better at this time than it did a year ago, John Haynes, acting manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company said yesterday. About 450 Japanese men and women have arrived in Phillips County to work in the beet fields, either on a cash labor basis or on a crop-share basis.

The Utah Idaho beat acreage at the present time is approximately 13,000 acres, including 8400 in Hill and Blaine Counties, 1,800 and Phillips, 1,800 Valley and 2,000 in Chouteau. This is about 3,000 acres short of last year, but factory officials believe another 2,000 acres will be signed up by the middle of May.

Bennett Lake in Lees victory egg

President Franklin D. Roosevelt will probably have an egg for breakfast on Easter morning. If he usually has two eggs for his breakfast, the egg sent him this week by Mrs. Jack Rudd of the Bennett Lake community will be ample.

The egg produced by one of Mrs. Ruud's flock of Barred Rock hens weighed four ounces. It measures 6 3/4 x 7 and 7/8 inches. Not only is it remarkable for a size but it has a three-quarter inch "V" plainly on the shell. That hen was going to be sure that her part of the war production program would receive due attention.

Pioneer Landusky woman sitcoms in Havre

Funeral services for Mrs. Erick Thorsen, who died at the Deaconess Hospital in Havre early Monday morning, will be held at the Community Hall in Landusky this Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock and burial will be in the Landusky cemetery.

Mrs. Thorson, who had been ill health for many years, had been at the Deaconess Hospital for about six weeks prior to her death. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, August 30, 1870. She came to the United States in 1910 and was married at Minneapolis, Minn., on July 4 of that year to Erick Thorsen. She came to Montana where Thorsen was a deputy sheriff. She had made her home in Landusky since that time.

Pallbearers will be old friends and neighbors of the Thorson's.

Meat rations will stay on weekly basis

Meat rations will continue on a weekly basis in May, officials said Monday.

When stakes, cheese, butter and allied products went on the coupon system March 29, OPA expressed hope that the weekly allotment would be temporary and that as soon as the meat stocks both on the national and store to store basis became adjusted to rationing it would be possible to put rations on a monthly basis, giving the public more flexibility in purchases.

This is still the hope of officials, but they said that the meat inventory situation still is not good enough to permit people to spend meat coupons two or three weeks ahead of time if they choose.

50 years ago

April 24, 1968

Gene Omdahl nearly killed Sunday afternoon

Gene "Skip" Omdahl is in the Malta hospital suffering from two injured ribs as the result of a near tragic accident at his home Sunday afternoon.

Omdahl was working at digging a basement under his house on S. 3rd St., W. when the accident occurred about 3 p.m. He had dug a sloping excavation under the foundation of the house and planned to back his tractor down the slope under the foundation. The tractor was a small homemade one and as he was backing up, it got out of control and he was pinned between the concrete foundation and the steering wheel of the tractor. He anticipated the accident and had braced himself in a standing position sideways against the foundation. His supply of breath was cut off.

His wife witnessed the accident and ran next-door to get help from Bob Wright. He hitched up his pickup to the tractor and as he pulled it away, men standing by lifted Omdahl free.

The ambulance was on hand at the time and Garry Adams of the Bell Funeral Home administered oxygen to him immediately. It was estimated that he had been pinned against the foundation for five or six minutes.

Upon arrival at the hospital, his heart had stopped beating, but by cardiac massage, drugs, and use of a resuscitator, Dr. D.T. Molloy was able to bring him around.

Examination at the hospital determined that he had two injured ribs in the lower rib cage. He is now recovering at the Malta hospital.

25 years ago

April 18, 1993

Recount is official

It's official!

George Knudsen and Doug Ost have officially been elected to the Malta School District board or trustees.

A recount of the votes by county commissioners on Friday produced one more vote for Ost and one for Craig LaFond, but the two additional votes didn't change any results.

Challenger Marlyn Orahood had requested the recount at last week's school board meeting. She finished four votes behind Ost in the trustee election. Knudsen, Ost, and Orahood had finished within a 10 vote spread and the top two vote-getters are elected to the board.

10 years ago

April 16, 2008

Street Talk

Question: Have you decided how you are going to spend your Economic Stimulus Refund from the government?

Cathy Rhodes: I'm going to use it to pay down medical bills.

Bob Darrah: I'm going to sock it away for emergencies.

Natasha Bartak: Buy a vehicle.

Donna Newby: Put it in savings so I can draw interest to pay the taxes on this money next year.

 

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