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Dillon Welcomes Chet Huntley 10* The voice of Southwestern Montana since Vol. 87 No. 69 Diilon, Montana" Friday, April 9, 1971 xammer Dillon Welcomes Chet Huntley Blaze Famed Commentator Strikes Speaker at Chamber Park Dillon Volunteer firemen battled Banquet on Saturday for more than three hours to Chet Huntley, featured speakerpresented in the auditorium after Those wanting to hear the control a grass fire at the Dilmont at the annual Beaverhead 8:30 p.m., to allow for adequateprogram in the auditorium and the Park and to keep it from sweeping time to make the change. Chamber of Commerce banquet Huntley speech may make special into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rich scheduled Saturday evening at 7:30 Huntley will be accompanied by Hilton Thursday afternoon. in the Western Montana Collegehis wifp, and by a brother-in-law reservation for seats by calling the The fire, of undetermined origin, dining room will arrive at 5 p.m.with his wife, who will also attend Chamber of Commerce, phone 683- was near the location burned over Plans for his entertainment bythe dinner. The party will be flown5511. These reservations are also Tuesday when a garbage fire the Chamber of Commerce before from Bozeman by Paris Robert ofgood for the dance at the Elks Club leaped to dry grasses and swept a dinner include a stop at theDillon. after the program. 15-acre area in the park, en­ Beaverhead Museum and a tour of dangering several buildings. Dillon in an antique car furnished Two Dillon fire trucks were by A1 Simon. called to the scene Thursday af­ ternoon, with flames and smoke Huntley is a native of Montana, visible for quite a distance. born at Cardwell Dec. 10, 1911 The fire was burning in an area where his father was a telegrapher strewn with downfall and com­ with the Northern Pacific pletely uncleared brush and grass Railroad. of many years collection. The dry Huntley attended local schools, grasses and brush burned ex­ then majored at Montana State tremely hot, leaping into the tall University in zoology and biology trees in the area and threatening to for three years before taking one spread from tree to tree before a year of speech at the Cornish stiff breeze from the south. School of Arts in Seattle. He then Firemen were able to hold the completed work on his bachelor of fire from jumping the small arts degree at the University of stream which borders the Hilton Washington in 1935. home to the southwest. He began his career in radio at There were no injuries to KPCB in Seattle where he was firemen who moved into the thick announcer, writer, handled of the fire with hoses, flails and programming, advertising and axes for control. assumed general responsibility for The actual property damage was all phases of the operation. He not determined, although one pair went into straight news work with of carpenter pants worn by a KHQ of Spokane in 1935, the next fireman were hastily shed at one year he moved to KGW in Por­ point, and must be considered a tland. then to KFI in Los Angeles total loss, since the southern tor two years. portion of thg jjaiit& was In 1939 Huntley went with CBS, pieteiybtrrneiirjrrtnrt^'e" was saved. stayed wun the network until 1956 Fire Chief Mike Swetish warns when he went to ABC for five all area residents to use extreme years. In 1955 he began broad­ caution in burning rubbish, and to casting with NBC working out of keep undergrowth cleared away to Los Angeles and New York, prevent rapid spreading of fires. remaining with NBC until his retirement in 1970 when he returned to Montana. Dillon firemen work amid smoke, heat and falling branches to controlHuntley is the author of two Park Fire the grass and brush fire, believed to have started from a trash burn, in books, “ Chet Huntley Com­ New Road the Dilmont Park north of Dillon. The volunteers were on the scenementary,” which came out in 1964 Threatens more than three hours to control the blaze, which threatened the and his autobiography published in Residence nearby home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hilton. 1968, “The Generous Years.” Chet Huntley Progress The demand has been so great County and Forest Service of­ lor the annual banquet this year, ficials have requested a because of Chet Huntley’s ap­ clarification of a story that ap­WMC Opens Frontier st.Jam es pearance as the guest speaker forShoup Criticizes peared in Tuesday’s Tribune- the evening, that arrangements Examiner concerning construction were made to hold the musical and improvement of the WiseConference Baseball Good Friday program and the speech inColley Verdict River-Polaris road. Western Montana College Completion of the 12 miles Services Auditorium, nearby the dining WASHINGTON — Congressman is never attached to them. presently under construction southIn Dillon Saturday area in the Main Women’s Dor­Dick Shoup (R-Mont.) today ex­"If allowed to stand,” Shoup of Wise Ri vèr is expected this fall. The St. James Episcopal Church mitory. pressed astonishment and regret said, “this verdict will make im­ President Lynn Thuesen an­over the verdict handed down Good progress is being made in the Western Montana’s diamondof shutout relief in the EMC will be open all day-Friday, with a possible raising a volunteer army securing of rights of way for the union service to be held at thenounced that all 300 tickets for the recently in the Calley murder trial.and undoubtedly will endanger squad, sporting a wealth of strongTourney at Billings. banquet were sold out several“The same officers who have five mile connecting link betweenarms and potent bats, kick off their In the nightcap, either Paul Presbyterian Church. Rev. Keith continuation of the draft.” the present construction and the Lokensgard, Rev. James weeks ago, but there have been tried Lt. Calley, are themselves “Though I share the deep and Frontier Conference campaignGreenough (0-1) or Marzelle hundreds of requests for the op­ town of Wise River. here Saturday, hosting Northern’sFairman (1-0) will get the mound Dickinson and Rev. Lee responsible for training—if notwholehearted concern of the vast Review, for the proposal for Schlothauer will participate. portunity to hear Huntley. Calley—thenTo other young men fornumbers of Americans, I have Lights in a twin bill at Vigilante assignment. Greenough, the senior accommodate this demand, the this horrible business of killing,” improvement or reconstructionField. of lefty, dropped a 7-4 decision toFriday evening at 7:30 in the St. infinite faith in our American the existing road from the south James Church Rev. Schlothauer change to the auditorium wassaid Shoup. system of justice,” explained the Ricks but rates as the Bulldogs' made and will provide more than “Those same men would be the end of the new constructionCoach John Thatcher has tabbed No. 1 hurler. Fairman, a talented will present a meditation on the Western District Congressman. 650 comfortable seats. first to take punitive action against through the forest to Polaris is 6-6 righthander Mark Winans tofreshman who doubles at short­cross and there will be a service of "Galley's fate is certainly not continuing. twirl the 11 a.m. opener. Winans (1- Ante-Communion. The dinner starts at 7:30 p.m. an officer who failed to obey or­sealed by this verdict,” cautioned stop, has encountered control with all the usual introductions and No new construction contracts0) stopped Ricks College on problemsa but offsets these with a Easter Sunday at St. James has ders,” he added. Shoup. will be let before some time in three-hitter here Tuesday and two Holy Communions, one atformalities 8 concerned with the Shoup noted that infantrymen"By military procedures, he will variety of strikeout pitches. banquet program, including theare those who do the personal fiscal year 1972. previously fashioned five inningsIn pre-league play, Western hasa.m. and the second at 10 a.m. with automatically be granted an ap­ a coffee hour following in theawarding of door prizes. killing while artillerymen and peal. The right of the individual is compiled a 3-4 mark, winning two The musical program and the of five at Billings before splitting aRectory for those whose schedule bomber pilots may kill far morefirst stringently preserved in the Dillon Junior Rifle, pair with Ricks. permits. Huntley speech will then becivilians, but the stigma of murdermiljtary court system—even more “Errors have hurt us,” Coach than in our own civil courts,” said Thatcher reports. “We’ve had 18 of the veteran of World War II and ’em in seven games and three of Korea. Pistol Club Honored our four losses were the result of "Should the military appeal poor defensive play. We hope to process fail to deal with Calley in a Members of the Dillon Juniorwhich were all fired from a prone change all that Saturday.” just manner, I would then feel Rifle and Pistol Club, shootingposition, and the junior matches called upon as a member of The Bulldog pilot has, on the Ö r-;-.; under the leadership of Dr. Johnwhere one target is shot from a other hand, been pleasantly sur­ Congress and an American citizen Seidensticker ahd Don Bohna, prone position (10 shots to eachprised with the team’s pitching and to seek another avenue of have recently advanced severaltarget) and one from sitting. hitting, both impressive during redress,” concluded the freshman members in the program and congressman. Final score in the junior divisionearly season tilts. ■■* * •** % presented awards upon completionwas prone—Lima 461, Dillon 461; of requirements set by the Nationalsitting—Lima 392 and Dillon 384.
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