One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
10 years ago-
Wednesday,
November 16, 2011
Hail damage 100 percent on Malta High School/Middle School, Head Start buildings
Hail damage 100 percent on Malta High School/Middle School, Head Start buildings
An independent insurance adjuster says the shingle roofs on Malta High School/Middle School and the Head Start building suffered 100 percent damage from summer hail storms.
The district also owns the Head Start building.
Supt. Kris Kuehn shared the adjustor’s assessment with school board members at last week’s board meeting.
The superintendent said he is waiting to hear from the district’s insurance provider regarding the roof.
“This is official verification that we will have to do something with our roof,” he said.
Hospital eyes electronic records system
The annual meeting of the Phillips County Hospital and Hi-Line Retirement Center provided a glimpse into the future, financial reports, and the opportunity to elect a new director to the hospital board.
During his report, chief executive officer, Ward VanWichen, reported the electronic health records are on the horizon at a cost of about $500,000.
VanWichen said about $250,000 of the cost should come from the state. “If this works out, we should get the other $250,000 from Medicare in cost reports,” he said.
Malta man faces attempted homicide charge
Malta resident Michael Torrez, 38, has been arrested and charged with attempted deliberate homicide, three counts of assault with a weapon, and two counts of criminal endangerment, all felonies, according to the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office.
Bond was set at $250,000 for Torrez.
The Sheriff’s Office received a call from a residence on the 700 block of South 1st Ave. East on Nov. 11 about 5:57 p.m. that the front window of the residence had been shot out with a rifle.
Deputies responded to the scene and interviewed the victims and witnesses around the area.
Deputies then tracked down the suspect about a block and a half away and found him in a shed in a backyard.
Deputies, with the assistance of Border Patrol agents, arrested the suspect and identified him as Torrez.
Showing at the Villa
Dolphin Tale starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd
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25 years ago-
Wednesday,
November 13, 1996
ZMI will lay off 40 more; sit out winter months; about 40 to stay
About 40 more Zortman Mining Inc. employees will join the ranks of the unemployed as the company prepares to pretty much sit out the winter months before moving into an expansion phase in the spring.
Mine Manager Kevin Ryan confirmed last week that 40 or so current employees have been notified that they will lose their jobs by the end of this month or in early December.
Ryan said three factors dictated the layoffs. Although a record of decision was recently signed and a permit issued authorizing what is known as the Zortman Expansion Project, the onset of winter means construction work can’t begin until spring.
Whitewater top seed in 3C tournament with 17-1 record
Whitewater enters the District 3C tournament this weekend at Saco on a roll as the league’s top-seed after a pair of well-played victories last week over Opheim and Hinsdale.
In their final game of the season Friday night at the Penguin Dome, the Penguins took advantage of their inside game and “held” Opheim’s Alea Renner to no three-pointers and 19 points in a 58-42 victory.
The victory completed a remarkable six-year unbeaten record at home for the Penguins.
Showing at the Villa Theatre
The First Wives Club starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton
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50 years ago-
Thursday,
November 25, 1971
Stores Open Monday Nights
The merchant’s committee of the Malta Chamber of Commerce has again decided that participating Malta retail stores will be open Monday evenings before Christmas. The first Monday night opening will be Monday, Nov. 29. Other opening dates will be Dec. 6, 13, 20, and Thursday, Dec. 23. It is planned that the stores will remain open until 9 p.m. The committee will sponsor a $25 cash drawing at participating stores each evening the stores are open.
Some stores will also remain open until 6 p.m. on Friday nights before Christmas, except Christmas Eve.
Vote Recount Shows No Significant Change
Secretary of State Frank Murray announced Monday that recounts of Constitutional Convention delegate votes in three of Montana’s 23 districts showed no change in victors.
In District 5, which takes in Phillips, Blaine, and part of Valley counties, Lloyd Barnard of Saco, democrat, wound up in the recount with 2,388 votes, three less than he got in the first canvass.
Barnard’s challenger, John W. Black, Hinsdale republican, finished with 2,381 votes, down two from the original count.
So Black finished seven votes behind Barnard on the recount, compared with their original eight-vote difference.
In Phillips County, the clerk and recorder’s office reported no change in the original count for Barnard or Black.
Showing at the NEW Villa
Darling Lili starring Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson
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75 years ago-
Thursday,
November 13, 1946
“Stop Signs Mean Stop,” Says Pray
“All motorists are required to stop at the new stop signs now posted along Sixth Avenue,” A.W. Pray, Malta Police Chief announced this week.
The motorists will have a few days’ grace, according to Chief Pray, until they are used to stopping, and then if they do not stop, they will be fined.
Basketball Starts This Week For Mustangs
The Malta Mustang basketball squad held their first workout of the coming season last Tuesday, and according to Coach “Bun” Lodge, prospects for the season are better than last year.
Reporting for practice are last year’s lettermen Hromas, Spartz, Long, Genger, Losleben, Knudson, T. Simanton, and D. Simanton. Along with several new prospects who are expected to make a strong bid for a position on the squad.
“Any and all positions are open to anyone showing enough basketball to be convincing,” Lodge said.
The Mustangs will meet Hinsdale there on December 6, for the opening game and will meet Dodson here on December 7 for their first home tilt. The season’s schedule will appear as soon as all plans are completed, according to Lodge.
Two Pay Fines
There were two fines dealt out in the city police court over the weekend, according to Chief of Police A.W. Pray. Charles Whorly, who gave his address as Illinois, paid a $50 fine on the charge of carrying a concealed weapon, and William Doney of Malta paid a $12.50 fine on the charge of creating a disturbance.
Showing at the Palace
Bedlam starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee
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100 Years Ago - 1921
- Federal road officials were talking encouragingly about constructing the last 37 miles of road through the Rockies along the route of the Theodore Roosevelt Highway.
- There was a move on the part of the Malta Commercial Club to buy a carload of purebred cattle and put the animals out among county farmers. The editor of the Enterprise remarked sagely that if there were more purebred stock in the county, there would be fewer mortgages recorded.
- County authorities bird-dogging around in search of illegal liquor, apparently found pay dirt at a local restaurant where the take amounted to two quarts of “moon” after an exhaustive search.
- Fred Anderson lost a work team by drowning in Big Warm Creek. One animal crowded the other off a narrow bridge and wagon and a second horse followed it into the water.
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118 Years Ago – 1903
- It was ten below zero and there was snow on the ground, but this end of Valley County was fairly quiet otherwise. The crime front was in the County Seat at Glasgow where Arthur Parks was in the law’s toils for assaulting Saco’s J.B. Northcutt, Justice of the Peace, with an open knife. He was being tried before Judge Tatten.
- Government officials were talking of making a reservoir out of the Bowdoin Lake area, in connection with the Milk River irrigation project which was being surveyed and planned.
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