Memories for the Week of June 15, 2016

Week 3 Memos

100 years ago

June 15, 1916

Church to be dedicated

The new Calvary United Brethren of Malta, will be dedicated Sunday, June 25, by Bishop H. H. Fout of Indianapolis.

The all day program includes dinner and a special Children's Day program in the afternoon.

Freewater News

John Schempp had a pair of young eagles as pets. They have good appetites and it keeps him busy foraging for them.

George Morgan, who was the blacksmith at Phillips last year, passed here on Monday pulling a hand cart on which his camp and prospecting outfit were loaded. He was going north.

It will be good news to farmers hauling their grain to town, as well as others, that the bridge across the Big Cottonwood will be ready for business by the time this is in print.

Herbert Mead had the misfortune to have a foot severely injured by a horse falling on it, laying him up for several weeks.

75 years ago

June 12, 1941

Close Call

Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson and young son of Minneapolis has a narrow escape from death yesterday at Dodson when a mechanical failure occurred in the steering gear of their car which turned over twice. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were slightly injured and their son escaped unscathed.

Chimp at County Fair

If you've never seen a chimpanzee aerialist do stunts on a high swaying pole there will be one – The Great Calino – at the Phillips County Fair, Dodson, August 16 and 17 as a high light of the afternoon and evening grandstand entertainment.

Calino seems to be the only acrobatic chimpanzee on record. He's a comedian also, proving it be garnering his share of laughs in a riot of funny capers on a bounding bed. Calino tops off his performance with a head-stand and a giant-swing on a horizontal bar.

50 years ago

June 16, 1966

In Pilot Training

Second Lieutenant Edward V. Mangis, son of Vern Mangis of Malta, has entered the U.S. Air Force pilot training at Reese AFB, Tex.

Lieutenant Mangis will fly the newest Air Force jet trainers and receive special academic and military training during the year-long course. He will be awarded sliver pilot wings upon completion of the Air Training Command flying program.

The Malta High School graduate received his B.S. degree in accounting from Montana State College where he was commissioned upon completion of the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps program.

My Dad

(This was written by Bill Kaufman while he was in New Guinea during World War II.)

Take a place like this and see,

How very few gifts for Father's Day be.

So we pool our resources and try to make out,

The truth of this statement there is no doubt.

Here's to a man, I call, Just Dad,

Who gave us all we ever had.

Making our home what it is today,

Giving me something I can't ever repay.

Taught me the creed of the golden rule,

Even before I went to school.

Here's to a man, I call, Just Dad,

Here's to a man, I call, Just Dad,

A man whose life was always spent,

For us at home his labors went.

A man who has stood at our life's helm,

Watching for reefs that'd crush our realm.

Here's to a man, I call, Just Dad,

Who is all to a fellow a son ever had.

Love to all,

Bill.

25 years ago

June 21, 1991

Antelope causes long night for him

A suicidal antelope gave Malta resident Ron Tuma a night he'll always remember.

Tuma was heading home on his Honda Sunday, May 26, between 10-and-11 p.m. near Loring after helping out at a branding when he was accosted by an antelope intent on crossing the highway at the same spot he and his motorcycle were occupying.

The antelope struck the bike broadside, hitting Tuma's right knee with such force that it dented the bike's gas tank.

"I was sliding down the highway watching sparks come off the bike ahead of me," he recalled. Both ended up in the ditch at the side of the highway.

Tuma said he lay in the ditch for four or five hours squeezing the brake handle which caused the brake light to come on. Eventually a truck driver spotted the light and stopped.

He took Tuma back to Loring where he was able to call his uncle. The uncle and cousin splinted the leg with a 1x6 and some Duct tape then transported Tuma to the Malta hospital where he was treated and released.

The antelope didn't fare as well.

"He'll never do that again," Tuma said.

10 years ago

June 14, 2006

'Space age technology' to attempt X-ray images of Leonardo's organs

The Dinosaur Field Station will be closed to the public June 19-21 fora history making technological "first."

The Eastman Kodak Company and NDT, Inc., (non-destructive testing) will be meeting with paleontologist Nate Murphy and nine other scientists to attempt the first industrial X-rays of Leonardo.

"Those industrial X-rays will be the first time in history this technique is used to attempt to capture images of any remnants of fossilized internal organs, if possible," Murphy said. "There has never been any evidence of organs in history."

The Discovery Channel will also be on-hand to cover this historic event and the results of the effort ti use space age technology to unlock secrets of the pre-historic past.