The Montana Kaimin, March 9, 1955
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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 3-9-1955 The onM tana Kaimin, March 9, 1955 Associated Students of Montana State University Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Associated Students of Montana State University, "The onM tana Kaimin, March 9, 1955" (1955). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 3089. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/3089 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cherished Year Enters History As you flip the pages of this many extra hours to her Kaimin higher prices and wages. Al paper—final edition of the 1954-55 duties, always helping others when though tempers ocassionally flare most needed. Her ambition as an Kaimin staff—you’ll get a glimpse between the advertising and news associate and her eagerness to see editorial departments, we realize of the development of Western a flawless paper are surpassed by that a newspaper must have ad Montana, Missoula, and MSU. n o n e. vertising to stay “in the black.” With this brief historical ac We owe thanks to her for the fact count we hope to instill a sense News, Campus Editors . that the Kaimin has continued on of pride in University students Ed Stenson has not only fulfilled a four-day-week basis. and faculty—pride in the growth his duties as news editor of the Kaimin, but has done a commend U nsung W or Jeers . of their institution and its fascin able job as editor of the winter There are many others who de ating background. Montana State University, Missoula. Montana quarter Venture magazine which serve credit for making publica came out yesterday. His extra tion of the Kaimin possible during ume LVT Z400 Wednesday, March 9, 1955 No. 75 Hard Work Inspires . ordinary aggressiveness and firm the last three quarters. The copy- Those who have made this paper stand for what he believes is a readers, reporters and ad chasers possible, as well as the many Kai- mark of distinction. have worked diligently for little mins during the last three quarters Kim Forman will aptly fill the credit. The journalism faculty— —cannot be thanked enough for position of Kaimin editor for the especially Prof. Ed Dugan, our Final Edition Index their hours of hard work. The next three quarters if he continues adviser—has continued to put us determination and effort dis to display the reliability, initia on the right path when we tended lish House To Hellgate _______________ Pages 2, 3, 4 played by the five associate edi tive, ambition, ability and firm to str a y . H istory of W estern Montana, Gold Creek, St. Mary’s Mission —Page 2 tors in disseminating campus news ness that he has as campus editor. The group of men who are re picture of Hellgate Town, view of Fort Owen in 1928 _________P a g e 3 has been of their own volition. If his deep thought on what a sponsible for printing the Kai Their willingness would be an newspaper should do for a college min are a “must” in the newspaper inspiration for any editor. and what a college should do for a business. Claud Lord, superin o rdenville To Missoula _____ •__________Pages 4, 5, 6 Art Mathison with his natural student is reflected in his news tendent of the University print S elish-Blackfeet camp near the site of MSU Field H ouse ---------P a g e 4 propensity to see things done right columns-, the Kaimin will fulfill shop, and printers Fred Glaspey H istory and view of Missoula, then called “Missoula Mills” ----- P a g e 5 or not at all, his ability to make its purpose as a campus news and Gale Brammer, and pressman Willie Steingas have worked pa H istory of Missoula concluded ......._j _ __L.__;__ _______ ____________ P a g e 6 proper decisions, and his deep org a n . concern for the future of the press, tiently with a group of inexperi has been a master at the sports Pictures, Advertising enced students who have a de-' sire to learn. Without their help >rnblaser to Doyle ________ :______________ P ages 7, 8 helm and a reliable consultant Hoover Ogata, Kaimin photo we would not learn the important A necdotes of MSU immortals of gridiron, court, and cinder path. on editorial policy questions. grapher, has quietly gone about mechanical phases of newspaper- his work with one idea in mind— ing which are essential to good Associates Praised . to produce the best pictures pos e d itio n s. illard School to Present 4U’ _____Pages 9, 10, 11, 12 Pat O’Hare, feature editor of sible. Through his efforts the F irst faculty and beginning of University history ------------------------ P a g e 9 the Kaimin and ASMSU vice- Kaimin has been able to run a C onslusion of MSU history and 1899 student-faculty picture —Page 10 president, has guided and defend larger number of pictures and pic The Final Trihute . Picture of University taken in 1910 _______ ”______________________ P a g e 11 ed the Kaimin in many controver ture stories. As a final tribute in our final V ie w o f 1913 p a r a d e a r o u n d o v a l, p ic tu r e o f D a d d y A b e r ------‘..P a g e 11 sies with student government. She The girl who has received little paper we’d like to give special Contrast of first Kaimin staff of 1899 and the 1955 staff — ........P a g e 12 must be admired for her strong praise for making the Kaimin thanks to Mrs. Mary Ferguson, desire to see cooperation between financially successful is Joan director of the historical museum, the newspaper and student or Brooks, business manager. With for all the work she has done in •day’s N ew s __________________________ Pages 13, 14 ganizations in working toward a out her financial acumen the Kai helping us “get the facts” on W est T oday’s meetings, review of “The Crucible” :----------------- -— -P a g e 13 better MSU. min would have had trouble oper ern Montana, Missoula, and MSU A WS elections, story on famous university alums -111.................. —P a g e 14 Barbara Mellott has devoted ating under present conditions of history.—B.N. Page Two Wednesday, March 9, 1 Summary of Area’s ‘Firsts’ Relates History of Montana By HOOVER OGATA “In the beginning there was Mary’s mission in 1845. With two the Word and the Word was God.” mill stones imported from Bel And for whatever significance it gium and his mechanical inclina has, the first white man to record tion, he harnessed water power a Christmas in Montana was and constructed a gristmill, one of David Thompson, an employee of the first in Montana. the Northwest Fur company. He Saint Mary’s was closed in 1850, spent Dec. 25, 1809 watching the and the place sold to John Owen, weather and writing letters at an Indian trader. Owen built a Saleesh house on the Clark Fork. fort, extensively farmed, and But the Word waited until a built a sawmill and gristmill. St. band of Iroquois Indians arrived Ignatius was founded when the a little before 1820. They had fathers returned to St. Mary’s in been converted by the Catholics 1854 and the first sisters arrived in the Great Lakes region, and to teach school Oct. 17, 1864. settling with the Flatheads, taught . the faith so well that four Flat- Benetsee Found Gold head expeditions were sent to St. In 1852, it was rumored that Louis to get the “black robes.” Benetsee, Francois F in la y , a trapper for the Hudson Bay com Father DeSmet, in company with pany, had found gold on Benetsee other clergymen, passed where creek, now Gold creek, near Gar Missoula now stands in September rison, Mont. The Hudson Bay 1841 and went up the Bitter Root company had sent instructions to river to a point between Stevens keep any news of gold quiet, fear ville and Fort Owen, where St. ing a rush would destroy the fur Mary’s mission was formally trade, but the rumors spread. founded on the first Sunday of The story now turns to James O ctober. and Granville Stuart. “The history of Granville Stuart DeSmet— First Farmer . and his brother James is essen That winter, Father DeSmet tially a pioneer history,” wrote went to Fort Colville, Wash., and Dr. Phillips, retired MSU professor brought back a few bushels of of history and editor of Gran oats, wheat, and potatoes; and a ville’s “Forty Years on the Fron few cattle. He planted the seed tie r .” in the spring for crops, and by 1846 had 40 head of cattle. This Stuarts Pioneered . was probably the first permanent “I came to what is now our agriculture and cattle industry in magnificent state of Montana th e sta te. when it was a trackless wilder - Father Ravalli was sent to St. (please see page 3) PENDLETON for w om en TOP PICTURE S k i r t s ? S w e a t e r s This was Gold Creek, Mon and tana Territory, in 1881, 31 years after Benetsee Finley first dis • THIRD CLUE • ec 49’er Jackets covered float gold on a nearby of the Grill Room’s tributary to the Hell Gate river le, and two years before the golden spike of the Northern Pacific Second Mystery Guest Contest f railroad was driven here, link ( 451 N.