Browning Newspaper Notes 1957 - 1959

Oct. 31
Flood control project underway in Browning.

Nov. 28
Surveying #2 Highway reroute around Browning.

Dec. 12
Albert Vaile Jr. Bags Huge Mountain Lion

1958

Jan. 16
Bernie Wilson is chief of police

Jan 21
Newspaper is serializing “North of Fort Bridger” by Renshaw.
Jay Franklin (Wilma’s husband) is very ill.

Feb. 6
Theodore Last Star and Cecile, with Audra Pambrun as medical support, taken to Great Falls with a bad heart.
Marion Garrow starts as school clerk.

Feb. 13
Among Browningites attending the Glacier County Wildlife Association meetings in Cut Bank were Harold Douglas, Bob Scriver, and Fred DesRosier.

March 6
Barney Weasel Head climbs the water tower.

March 27
Bill Riddle is in Browning.

May 29
Last Star chair of Indian Days

July 10
Vaccinations for polio
Multiple slide show at the Indian Museum.

July 17
Tom Kehoe, Ph.D. at Harvard. Donald Miles Kehoe, born in Boston. Sam, the Blackfeet Indian dog
MAJOR POLIO CAMPAIGN No Indian Days because of epidemic

July 31
Spitzer (anthro) back.

Aug 7, 1958
Eddie Big Beaver Services Set for Saturday Morning
Funeral services have been set for Saturday, August 9, at 10Am in Little Flower Catholic Church for Eddie James Big Beaver, Sr., 79, whose body was found in an irrigation ditch between Yakima and Toppenish, WA, early this week. Authorities believe his body had been in the ditch about six days before discovery. Big Beaver was a full-blood Blackfeet Indian who spoke excellent English and was regarded as a competent game-keeper, experienced in the handling of all kinds of animals and an experienced show man, having done this type of work in different sections of the US. In 1931, during his employment with South Park, a director for the Bureau of Parks described him as a “picturesque full-blood Blackfeet.” During his lifetime his activities were many and varied. In 1935 he and four other Blackfeet Indians were employed by Ringling Bros. Circus. He was also a one-time game warden at Pittsburg. In 1936 Big Beaver was requested to participate in the Natioinal Folk Festival at the Texas Centennial, an educational and cultural organization that brought together different Indian groups from many regions of the US In 1939 he was employed by the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in the motion picture “Susannah of the Mounties.” Survivors include sons, Sam Wolverine, Eddie Big Beaver Jr. & Lynus; Daughters, Joyce Boy and Margaret Boy and 11 grandchildren. [Death was due to a fractured skull from a blow on the head.].

Aug 21
Ned Jacob and Ace Powell of Hungry Horse were Browning visitors Tuesday of last week.

Sept. 4
50% Increase in Juvenile Delinquency

Nov 6
Hunting in the Teton Canyon area Sunday were Don Watson, Harold Scriver and party, the Oscar Doane and MK Fields families.

Nov 13
New Renshaw novel: “Among Sun’s People.”

Nov. 27
No more Reiss Great Northern calendars.

1959

Jan 29
Conducting Art Classes
Ned Jacob is conducting free art classes in the Agency Barracks every Saturday at 1 PM for persons who are 13 years of age or over. The purpose of the classes is to discover and develop the artistic talent of the local youngsters and the response to the project will determine whether or not financial sponsorship will be available in the future.

Feb. 5
Victor Pepion Dies in Great Falls
Word has been received here Wednesday of the death of Victor Pepion, 59, who passed away in the Columbus Hospital in Great Falls at 8:30 AM, a victim of cancer from which he had suffered for the past year. Mr. Pepion had been a native of Dupuyer all his life and had worked on various large cattle ranches throughout the state. Funeral arrangements at this time have not been completed but Mass will be held in the Mission Church and Burial will take place in the Robaire Cemetary near Birch Creek. Survivors include his widow, Daisy; a daughter Mildred Vielle of South Gate, CA; Stepson Vernon of Browning; 3 brothers, John, Tom and Frank, also of Browning; 3 sisters Mary Clark, Josephine Bull Calf Jr. of Browning and Louise Rutherford of Hana, Germany. Several grandchildren also mourn his passing.

March 19
Letter from behind Iron Curtain.

April 9
Train wreck in CB

May 14
Phil Ward is superintendent.

June 4
Tom Kehoe goes to Regina: Provincial Archeologist & Curator of Archeology and Ethnology at the new Museum of Natural History

July 2
Sun Lodge

July 9
Dorothy Johnson named by Charlie Reevis: “Princess Kills Both Places”. Milo Fields named “Chief Running Rabbit” by Dan Bull Plume
Rev. Jim Bell is here as the Methodist minister.

July 16
Photos of Sun Lodge

Aug 20
Jack Holterman and Bobby Salabye of Kearns Canyon, AZ, are spending two weeks at the Holterman cabin at St. Mary Lake.

Sept. 17
Browning Taxidermist Asks for Transfer of Alaskan Albino Buffalo
Bob Scriver, Browning taxidermist and Western sculptor, has requested that Senator Mansfield use his influence in getting one of Alaska’s two albino bison transferred to Montana. “Big Medicine,” Montana’s only albino buffalo, died Aug 25 of this year, leaving the state minus a popular tourist attraction. The two albino biosn in Alaska are descendents of “Big Medicine,” Scriver thinks, as the Big Delta herd was stocked from the Moiese herd of Montana. White buffalo were at one time a sacred animal to the Indians and it was considered an extremely lucky omen to even sight one.

Sept.24
Ace Powell and Ned Jacob of Hungry Horse were Browning visitors Monday. Ned has been wrangling horses at Lake McDonald during the tourist season.

Oct 8
Al Racine is carving a memorial plaque.
Isabelle McKay’s death.
School funds scandal.

Oct 15
“All the Young Men” filmed in Many Glacier.

Oct 8
Al Racine is carving a memorial plaque.
Isabelle McKay’s death.

Oct 15
“All the Young Men” filmed in Many Glacier.

October 22
Earthquake

Oct 29
Dr. GA Matson of U of Minn is taking blood samples.
Dr. Schaffer returns to the Museum of the Plains Indian.

Dec. 3
Mrs. Margaret Starr returned from a visit with nephews and nieces in Alberta. She has been away for several weeks but a nephew, Mr. Caldwell, who works at the Browning Mercantile Co., drove up during the holidays and brought her back.

Dec. 10
Word comes from Alaska that both albino calves are dead.