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South Wolf Point
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Without Water as
Big Main Breaks
The city of Wolf Point south of
the Great Northern tracks has been
Without a city water supply since
about 5 pjn. Monday when a break
was discovered in the main feeder
Une near the Triangle Service Sta
tion, a block north of the railroad
underpass.
The water famine continued
unabated from late Monday af
ternoon until press' time Wednes
day except for a brief Interval
Tuesday morning.
When the break was reported
city workmen started at once to dig
through the frozen ground and pav
ing to get to the break. After
working all night Monday in sub
zero temperature they were able
to repair one break, but another
and even larger break was discov
ered near tne first. This break
was still unrepaired at noon Wed
nesday in spite of the efforts of
water department workmen.
Shortly before noon Tuesday,
water was turned -on and pump
ing began, to supply water to the
south part of town for vital
needs. This had to by stopped,
however, when water leaking
from the main caused flooding
east of the break.
A faulty gate valve below the
break prevented the city from sup-
g lying the south part of the town
y pumping directly into the maihs.
water leaked by the bad valve
Nels Olson Dies
At Great Falls;
Funeral Saturday
Nels Olson, 71. of the Pleasant
Prairie community south of Flax
ville, died Wednesday, Jan. 13, at
Deaconess hospital in Great Falls
after a lingering illness. Funeral
services were held from Pleasant
Prairie Lutheran church Saturday
afternoon, Jan. 16 at 2 o'clock with
Rev. Robert Johnson of Flaxville
officiating. Interment was in, the
church cemetery under direction of
Clayton Funeral Chapel.
Nels Olson was born Sept. 30.
1882 at Willmar, Minn. He lived in
Minnesota until 1914 when he came
to Montana and located in the
Plentywood community. In 1917 he
took a homestead south of Flax
ville 42 miles northeast of Poplar,
where he still resided at the time
of his death.
He was married to Alma Bohm
at Plentywood, Feb. 17. 1919.
He is survived by his wife. Alma;
three sons, Gordon S. of Lambert;
Neil of Glasgow, and Kenneth of
Denver, Colo.; one daughter, Mrs.
Virgil (Nada) Shanks of Burling
ton, Wash.; four brothers, Pete,
Olaf and George, of New London,
Minn., and Andrew of White Hall,
Mont.; one sister, Mrs. Mary Mc-
Ginn of Seattle. Wash., and nine
grandchildren. A son and daugh
ter preceded him in death.
Maurice Royer Is
Given Suspended
Sentence Tuesday
Maurice E. Royer, who was re
turned from Texas to face a forgery
charge, appeared before District
Judge Jack R. Loucks at Wolf Point
Tuesday and. was given a two-year
suspended sentence.
Royer's case came up in court
Jan. 14, and after hearing the evi
dence in the case Judge Loucks
took it under advisement and sent
ence was not passed until Tues
day.
Royer, who had been employed
in the office of a seismograph com
pany in Wolf Point, was charged
with forging the name of Chester
S. Crawford as an endorsement on
• pay check. Royer was arrested
in Beaumont, Tex., and returned
to Roosevelt county by Sheriff
E. G. Shuman.
caused the repair excavation to fill
with water, resulting in flooding
and preventing work to progress
on the repair operation.
After the water was shut off and
the hole pumped out repair efforts
ware resumed. Work stopped dur
ing the night as the city, em
ployees had already been on duty
for 34 hours and additional help
was not available.
Work on the break began again
early Wednesday morning in spite
of the extreme cold. Much of it
had to be done by hand.
The water department hoped to
get the break repaired at least on
a temporary basis Wednesday af
ternoon, or at least turn on the
water to give southside citizens
a chance to store up water In
tubs and buckets to take care of
vital needs while repair. effort! on
the broken main were'renewed.
Cases have been hauling water
from wells to take care of their
needs during the shut-off. People
in north Wolf Point have had water
since they were able to draw on
the supply in the tanks located
north of the break.
Wolf Point citizens have hauled
water or melted snow to help out
when their water supply failed. One
citizen reported melting down ice
cubes from the refrigerator to make
coffee, when the break caught him
without any other water.
Seeking Rooms For
Tourney Visitors
During B Event
Plans are already being made to
handle the large crowds which are
expected to attend the Class B
district basketball tourney in Wolf
Point during February. In order
to take care of this large crowd the
Chamber of Commerce is starting
to line up rooms for tournament
visitors.
If you have a room or rooms
which you will rent out during the
tournament call telephone 99 and
leave your name, address and tele
phone number and the number of
people you will be able to accom
modate.
Bottom-Hole Pressure
Survey in Poplar Field
Postponed Due to Cold
The bottom-hole pressure survey
in the Poplar field will be post
poned until some time between now
and March 11. The postponement
was made due to the cold weather.
Ken Byerly, chairman of the
Montana Oil and Gas Conservation
commission, made the announce
ment last week while on an infor
mation tour>in the district.
Present plans call for the com
mission to hold a hearing in Pop
lar March 11 for the purpose of:
Investigating the record of pro
duction of oil, gas arid water from
each Individual well In the field
from the date of discovery to
March 1, 1954.
Investigating the record of res
ervoir tests of each Individual
well Including bottom-hole pres
sure, gas-oil ratio, water-oil ra
tio, productivity Indices and sand
thicknesses.
Requesting the operators to fur
nish the commission at the hear
ing Isobaric, Isopachous, porpos
ity, permeability and other maps.
This Information and other data
to be gathered at the hearing will
be to the end that the commis
sion may determine the produc
tion, practices best suited for the
greatest ultimate recovery of oil
L. R. (BOB) HOVEY, new pres
ident of Wolf Point Chamber of
Commerce, addresses the annual
meeting of the group Thursday
evening. Seated at the speakers’
.table, from left to right, are:
Lyman Clayton, master of
ceremonies; William Preston,
speaker from Great Falls; Pete
Coffey, Chamber of Commerce
secretary, and Mrs. Coffey.
As a part of the entertainment
program a quartet from the high
school presented two novelty
numbers. In the group from left
to right were: Mary Grace Sever
son, Joyce Randall, Barbara Han
son and Shirley Sugden.—Herald-
News Photo.
CITY TO LET
STREET REPAIR
CONTRACT SOON
COUNCIL HOPES TO HAVE
STREET PROJECT START EAR
LY THIS SPRING IF POSSIBLE.
An invitation to bidders was is
sued this week by the city of Wolf
Point for the repairing and sealing
of all Wolf Point streets and for
the supplying of all necessary labor
and material.
The city attempted to let a con
tract for this work late last sum
mer, but because of the lateness
of the season, did not receive any
bids and so was unable to let a
contract.
The Invitation to bidders calls
for supplying of 35,685 gallons of
bituminous oil for sealing the
streets and an additional 4,000
gallons for patching; 200 tons of
mix patch and 1,800 tons of cov
-rer aggregate.
The city council authorized the
advertising for bids at this time in
hopes that if a contract were let
now work could begin as soon as
the weather was suitable in the
spring.
Under the specifications the city
will pay one half of the bid price
when the contractor completes his
work and the other half will be
paid within one year from the com
pletion date.
The bids will be opened and the
contract let Monday’ evening, Feb. 8.
Divorces Granted
Divorces were granted recently*
in the district court of Roosevelt
county as follows: Leonor Cooper
vs. W. T. Cooper, Jan. 7; James R.
Leete vs. Alice Leete, Jan. 7; Helen
Poll vs. Oliver Poll, Jan. 14.
and gas from each individual wall
and the entire pool.
The bottom-hole pressure sur
vey was only postponed, Byerly
said, and he expects the tests to be
run before March 11 with all oper
ators making the tests as near the
same time and date as possible.
The commission geologist, Mark
P. Autrey, and C. A. White of the
engineering Service, bottom-hole
pressure contractors, were all in
Poplar and ready to make the tests
when the wire was received from
the commission attorney, postpon
ing the tests.
The Poplar oil field of Roose
velt county Is now the largest In
Montana portion of the Williston
basin, having 39 producing wells
and perhaps some 150 proved lo
cations.
Oil commission records show the
approximate cumulative production
from the field to Dec. 1, 1953 of 1.-
300,000 barrels. This amount was
divided as follows among the pro
ducing companies: 26.000 barrels
from three Ajax company wells;
15,000 barrels from three Empire
Oil company wells; 406,000 barrels
from four Cranston-Thomas com
pany wells, and 853,000 from the 29
wells of C. H. Murphy and others.
Area Held in Clutches
Of Severe Cold Wave
Covering Roosevelt, Eastern Valley, Northern McCone, Southern Daniels and Sheridan Counties
Official Newspaper of Roosevelt County
Pioneer Voice of the Community—Established In 1913 *
Vol. 41. Net, £
150 PRESENT
FOR CHAMBER'S
ANNUAL DINNER
L. R. (BOB) HOVEY INTRODUC
ED A 8 NEW CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE PRESIDENT FOR
1964.
More than ISO Chamber of Com
merce members and their wives
and other guests attended the an
nual Chamber of Commerce din
ner in the Elks dining room Thurs
day evening of last week. It was
the largest crowd on record to at
tent the organization’s annual meet
ing.
A program of speeches and oth
er entertainment followed the din
ner with Lyman Clayton serving as
master of ceremonies.
Speakers introduced in addition
to william G. Preston, Great Falls
insurance company executive, who
was the main speaker of the eve
ning. were:
L. R. (Bob) Hovey, newly elect
ed president of the Wolf Point
Chamber of Commerce; Harvey
Bryan, out-going chamber presi
dent and newly elected director;
Mike M. Vukellch, out-going di
rector;-Frank Hanel told of the
progress -of the diversion dam
project; and Ford Slight explain
ed the purpose of Business-Edu
cation and Education-Business
days whisk will be sponsored by
the Chamber as Commerce In the
near future. ■Berate Lockwood
called on to Introduce the speak
er of the evening and Pete Cof
fey, Chamber of Commerce sec
retary. made a brief report on
the group’s activities for the past
year.
Other entertainment on the pro
gram consisted of an escape dem
onstration by Glendi the Mystic, a
group of novelty numbers present
ed by a girls’ quartet from Wolf
Point high school under direction
of Albert Jahnke, composed of
Mary Grace Severson, Barbara
Hansen, Joyce Rounds and Shirley
Sugden, accompanied by Susan
Randall; and a duet by Margaret
Heser and Connie Dewitt accom
panied by Mona Scourey.
New officers Introduced were:
L. R. Hovey, president; and Harvey
Bryan, Baxter Larson and George
Loendorf. directors. Hold-over di
rectors are Paul Nygaard, Parker
Eldridge, Burl Ault, Edwin Jensen.
L. R. Hovey and W. E. Schrieber.
Roosevelt Banks
Deposits Reach
New High Mark
Deposits in the four banks in
Roosevelt county reached what
may be an all-time high at the
close of business Dec. 31, 1953,
when figures in the bank state
ments show total deposits of $14,.
181.340.76.
This total Is $686,334.15 more
than the total of the deposits at
the close of business as of Sept.
30, 1953, and Is $2,380,896.08 more
than the total deposits at the
close of business June 30, 1953.
Recently published statements
of the four banks show deposits
as follows:
First state Bank of Wolf Point.
7,047,459.31; Traders State Bank
of Poplar, $2,620,348.13; Culbert
son State Bank, $2£94,571.81; and
First State Bank of Froid, $2,218,-
961.51.
Figuring the present population
of Roosevelt county at 11,000 peo
ple (the 1950 census shows 9,580)
the average person In the coun
ty has on deposit $1,289.19.
Harry Sorensen
County Agent For
Crop Insurance
Appointment of Harry D. Soren
sen as agent for the Federal Crop
Insurance Corporation for Roose
velt county, " has been announced
by HenryrL. Anderson, state direc
tor for the corporation. Sorensen
assumed his duties Nov. 6, 1953.
All crop insurance matters such
as applications for Insurance, filing
acreage reports, premium pay
ments, reports of damage to crops
and notices of loss, which former
ly were handled by the county
“MA committee will be handled
by Sorensen at Culbertson.
Mr. Sorensen has lived in Roose
velt county since 1908 and has wide
experience in the farming busi
ness and has worked as a loss ad
juster for the Federal Crop Insur
ance Corporation for the past six
yegrs. <• ,
Cancel PT A Meeting
Mrs. W. E. Burnlson announced
Wednesday morning that because
of the extremely cold weather
the January PTA meeting, which
had been scheduled for ♦onloM.
Thursday, has been called off.
The next meeting will be held
In February. The date and pro
gram for this meeting will be an
nounced later.
Wolf Point, Roosevelt County, Montana, Thursday, January 21, 1954
Carloadings From Wolf Point Increase
During 1953 Over Shipments In 1952
Car loadings have long been con
sidered a prosperity index of a city,
and the records for 1953 as releas
ed by the Great Northern Railway
Company, show that car loadings
out of. Wolf Point are on the in
crease.
During 1953 a total of 1680 car
loads of wheat, livestock, hay, scrap
iron and crude oil were shipped
from Wolf Point station as com
pared to 1387 cars in 1952. In 1953
there were 18 cars of crude oil.
the first ever shipped from Wolf
Point and 37 carloads of hay. No
hay was shipped from here in 1952.
The following amounts of each
commodity were shipped from Wolf
Oil, Gas Leases
On 17,081 Acres
Bring $410,788
TOP PER ACRE
BID AT $277.79
BY RICHFIELD
NO BIDS MADE ON 34 UNITS
COMPRISING 3,422^4 ACRES
OF INDIAN TRIBAL LANDS.
Oil and gas leases on 20,523.76
acres of Indian Tribal lands, were
offered for sale at Poplar Jan. 12.
and bids were received on all but
3,442.24 acres in 34 units. Total of
the high bids was $410,788.74. And
the averagfe per acre was $23.95. _
The top per acre price offered
at the sale was paid by the Rich
field Oil company when it bid
$277.79 on 160 acres located In the
SE'/4, section 1 township 29 North
Range 50, east; and a similar bid
on 80 acres located E'/gNE’A sec
tion 12, township 29, north, range
50 east
The total of the bid on the 160-
acre tract was $44,446.40, while the
total for the 80-acre unit was $22.-
223.20.
The second high offer was
made by the Deep Rock Oil Com
pany. It paid $251 per acre for
the 180 acres In unit 16 on which
six other firms made blds. The
tract is located Wi/jSW^NW^,
WASWA In section 5 and NE'/i-
NW'AJA, NWJASW/4 of section 8
all In townsnip 29, north range
51 east
Other high bids were made by
Carter and others, which includes
Carter, Murphy. Phillips and
Placid. They offered $110.89 for
several tracts as follows:
Unit 6, 240 acres, located SEI4-
SEVs, section 2 and EA4SEI4, NW
SEW, SW'4SEU all in township
29, north, range 50 east; unit 12?
320 acres located NW 14 NE 14. NWI4-
NW‘4 in section 14, and NA4NEW.
SW%NEI4, WI4SEU in section 15.
all in township 29, north, range 50
east; unit 13, 200 acres located SH
NWI4 of section 14 and SE^NEV^
EI4SEI4 in 15 all in township 29.
north range 50 east; and for unit
16. Carter and others bid $100.89
for 180 acres located WI4SWI4-
NWH, W^SWW in section 5 and
NE 14 NW 14. NWKSWH in section 8
all in township 29, north, range 51
east.
Another high bld of $l3O per
acre was made by the Ashland
Oil Company for the 80 acres In
unit 11 located N'ASWAi In sec
tion 14, township 29, north, range
51 east
The low bid was made by Del
Monte Construction Company. It
offered sl.lO per acre on numerous
tracts in the offering.
Among other firms making bids
on various tracts were Empire
State, Texas Company, Continental.
Simon Lebow, Anderson-Pritchard.
Sunray, Sun Oil Company. Sinclair.
California, Pure Oil Company, and
others.
MRS. ANDREW SOLHEIM
DIES IN MINOT HOSPITAL
Mrs. Andrew Solheim, who lives
northeast of Wolf Point died Wed
nesday morning in a Minot, N. D„
hospital. ... . , .
Mr. and Mrs. Solheim had been
visiting with her sister in Minot
since before Christmas. Mrs. Sol
heim suffered a stroke Tuesday and
died the following day.
Point via the Great Northern, with
the year 1953 listed first:
Livestock, 182 and 219; wheat
1437 and 1180; scrap iron 6 and 8:
and 37 cars of hay and 18 cars of
crude oil.
The number of carloads received
at the Wolf Point statioc during
the past two years, according to
figures provided by C. P. Suted
berg, Great Northern agent at Wolf
Point, were: 648 in 1953 and 797 in
1952. This makes the total carloads
of freight handled in the local rail
yards at 2328 Jn 1953 and 2184 in
1952.
The losses of in-bound freight
were in farm machinery, automo
biles and lumber.
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A/3c FRED R. STEELE
A/3c Fred R. Steele, 20, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Steele of
Poplar, a 1953 graduate of Brock
ton high school, has entered the
USAF technical school for air
craft mechanics at Sheppard Air
Force Base, Texas.
Trinity Lutheran
Elects Officers
At Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of Trinity
Lutheran church was held this
week and the following officers
were elected to serve during the
coming year:
Roy Fromdahl, president; JLeo
Schumacher, vice-president; Orville
Reiner, secretary; Kermit Ulrich,
treasurer; Edwin Mair, financial
secretary; Howard Braaten, church
elder; Ray Olson, Sunday school su
perintendent; Rudolph Schultz,
trustee, and Peter Rotheisler, head
usher.
Chamber Plans
Teachers 9 Visit
WitA Merchants
Wolf Point Chamber of Com
merce is joining other similai'"
groups over the nation in sponsor
ing locally a “Business-Education.
Education-Business’’ day. The event
is designed to give teachers a bet
ter understanding of the operation
of business and t ie free enterprise
system so that they will be better
able to correct a lot of mistaken
ideas, which a national survey
shows, are being harbored by the
school children.
The event will be held in Wolf
Point Thursday, Feb. 4, when the
teachers of the ..public schools will
have a chance to spend several
hours at one or two local business
places to learn first hand how they
operate.
In the evening following this
56 BELOW ZERO ’ <
WEDNESDAY tH
LOW READNS
NO EMERGENCY OR HARDSHIP;
CASES DUE TO COLD SNA^
REPORTED IN WOLF POmT
WEDNEBDAY.
Wolf Point and this area 'of:
northeast Montana was locked iia*
the icy grip of a cold wave th<*
week. The mercury plunged below
zero Thursday of last week and at
press time Wednesday the temper
ature was still below zero, making
a solid week in which reading*
were all in the sub-zero range.
The low point of the cold wav*
was reached Wednesday mornlnat
when readings generally hovereß
near the 60 below mark. The stat*
highway department on the east
. edge of Wolf Point had a low
reading during the early morning
hours Wednesday of 66 degree*
below zero and at 8:30 a.m. th*
temperature was up two degree*
to 54 below.
Montana-Dakota Utilities' record
ing thermometer showed a low of
47 degrees below zero in Wolf
Point at 7:15 a.m„ and at 9:30 an*'
the reading was 43 below, up 4 de
grees. .
Considerable snow fell during
the week. Heavy falls were record^
ed on Thursday of last week amk
Sunday and Monday of this weA.
At press time Wednesday tld*
area had experienced no wind 3*
drift the snow or to add to the suf
fering from the sub-zero tempera
tures.
Many people were forced to walk
to work Wednesday morning when
their cars would not start. Many
equipped with the popular "head
bolt heaters would not start
As a sidelight on the cold wav*
the M-DU office reported that
Saturday the temperatures record
ed at Its office In Wolf Point
ranged between 26 degrees be
low zero for low and 14 below
for high. On the same day a year
ago the temperature range at
recorded by the company ther
mometer was 18 degras above
zero for low and 4* above ler
high.
Up to shortly before noon Wed
nesday no hardship cases, due to
the extreme cold, have been re
ported in this area. A check with
Clayton Funeral Chapel for pos
sible emergency ambulance trip*
and with the Anderson Flying Seat
vice, revealed no emergency call*.
Extreme cold usually results in.
losses of livestock, but according
to Don Hunter, Roosevelt county
agent, losses this year, if any, ar*-
not expected to be great as most
operators had their cattle off the
range before the extreme cold hit
the area. Mr. Hunter also reported
the feed situation is in good shape
with most cattlemen having ample
to surplus amounts of feed on hand.
First State Bank
Elects Officers;
New Deposit Mark
The annual stockholders’ meeting
of the First State Bank of Waif
Point wgs held Monday, Jan. 12 in
the banking rooms of the bank.
A very satisfactory year was
reported and a dividend of 10
per cent was paid on capital
stock.
It was noted at the directors’
meeting that the bank’s deposits of
$7,280,301.56, as shown in the re
port of Dec. 31, 1953, was the high
est ever reached in the history of
the bank. Subsequent deposits, as
of Jan. 15, when footings reached
$8,149,659.54, were the highest ever.-
The bank’s surplus account has
been increased $15,000, making its
present capital structure, $100,000.00
surplus and $100,000.00 capital ac
counts.
Directors re-elected for 1954 were
F. E. Rathert, G. H. Flint, C. W.
Rathert, A. V. Appelgren, J. T.
Brownlee and L. A. Cowen.
Officers elected were F. E. Rath
ert, chairman of t u e board of direc
tors: A- V. Appelgren, president;
G. H, Flint, vice-president; L A.
Cowen, vice-president; J. T. Brown
lee, cashier; and J. C. Witte, assist
ant cashier.
visitation a dinner will be given
at which teachers and ♦•■•'r •■••• s
or husbands will bo guests of the
Chamber of Commei /s
a chance to visit with t h e vari
ous business men and learm mor*
about how business competition,
and free enterprise really works:
Tae other side of the problem
will be shown in a return visit of
the participating business men '<»
the school. The date for this visit
has not been set.
At the present time 18 Wolf'Point:
business firms have signea uo o>
take part in the program, and Ur
help present to the teachers t-o
true story of how business operate*
and of the need for the free enter
prize system and the need for profit
motives in the American economy.