BILLINGS COUNTY PIONEER
Has the Right Answers
Lee Stenehjem, president of the
Bank of Watford City, and member
of the Governor's Tourist commit-
tee, presents a "Citation" to Ray
Stenberg, station operator at Wat-
ford City.
Stenberg received the award for
the month of October from the
Tourist committee for having
answered most capably, the quest-
ions asked by a "Hospitality Hust-
let" for the Governor's Tourist com-
mittee. The questions pertained to
the specific area and State of North
Dakota as well,
The Governor's Tourist commit-
tee is encouraging all service per-
sonnel to read up on North Dakota
and specifically the points of in-
terest in their particular area so
that they can be helpful to va-
cationers.
Army Engineers
Unfavorable to
Lowhead Dam
The proposed towhead dam on
the Missouri river near Bismarck
is not cnidered feasible from an
engineering or economic point of
view.
Army engineers have submitted
an tmfawrable report through
their Missouri river division office
in Omaha, Neb. The survey was
atthorized l l/z years ago by the
aerate public works committee.
Bismarck officials had asked the
investCigatti to determine feasi-
bility of building a dual purpose
dam, to provide a crossing for the
'proected irtersate highway and
,to provide an area for recreation,
boating and fishing.
The ergincers' report said the
sorage capacity would be small
and so flaere would be no flood
control benefits...Th power bene-
fits hat could be derived would
be insufficient o justify the con-
structR)n of power general facili-
iies,, and these is no immediate
/ ' " ' n"
prospect )f commercial namgaho .
While there would be an in-
crease in recreational boating fa-
cilities there would be damage to
wildlife nesting areas, the report
said. The water supply ir ,the city
of Marzdan might be affected
through increased algae growth.
MANtlE IS 6$--Mamie Eisenhower, 65, radiates birthday Joy as
she stands in front of her cottage at the Augusta, Ga., National
Golf Club. While the First Lady was smiling, the President
was worried about clouds threatening his chance to play golf.
SAFE M IkASE--Pollcemen in Memphis, Tenn., lead Charles
R. Perry, 20, to headqu'ters after he and Harold V. Bolin
(bottom), 34, were found allegedly Loading a safe into their
r. Bolin was beaten/n a fight with police, one of whom was
erlt/eally injured and another plstol-whlpped in the capture.
;taff Additions
000000m0unced at
00tale Hospital
Jamestown State Hospital Supt.
Henry Lahaug has announced the
appointment of a second board-cer-
tified psychiatrist, Dr. Berchmans
Rioux, Montreal, Canada.
Lahaug and State Board of Ad-
ministration Chairman H. H. Joos
said Dr. Rioux will be director of
the hospital's new receiving and
treatment center.
Other appointments are those of
Dr. David I. Waitzel, psychiatrist in
charge of the outpatient clinic, and
Dr. David Ficks, clinical psycholo-
gist, assigned to the-outpatient de-
partment.
The three new men fill vacancies
created by last summer's loss of two
psychiatrists and a clinical psy-
chologist.
Dr. Rioux, 37, is a native of Que-
bec. He received his doctor of medi-
cine degree from Laval University
Faculty of Medicine in 1949.
He has practiced in the United
States from 1949 to 1957, interning
at Christ Hospital, Jersey City, N.
J. and took his residency in psy-
chiatry at the Institute of Living,
Hartford, Conn.
In 1953-54 he was on the staff of
the Connecticut State Hospital and
finished Yale University's post-
graduate course in neurology and
psychiatry. The following year, he
was associated with the High-Point
Hospital, Port Chester, N. Y., until
he entered the U. S. Army where
he served as a psychiatrist until
1957, when he took up practice in
Montreal. He has been engaged in
private psychiatric practice there
until accepting the North Dakota
post.
Dr. Rioux was certified in psy-
chiatry by the American Board of
Neurology and Psychiatry in 1955
and also certified in psychology by
the Roal College of Medicine of
Quebec in 1957. In 1958 he was pro-
moted from a member to fellow ifl
the American Psychiatric Assn.
LAST APPEARANCE--In what turned out to be his last pubUe
appearance, former heavyweight champion Max Baer (left),
50, is shown with his former sparring partner, Curly Owen
(right), and Owen's son Ronnie, 18, after a high school foot-
ball game in Garden Grove, Calif. Returning to Hollywood,
Baer died of a heart attack in his hotel room while shaving.
Doherty Heads
Blue Cross
Ltyman Group
Howard F. Doherty, newspaper
publisher from Dickinson, was re-
elected chairman of the Blue Cross
Sulscribers committee at a recent
meeting held in Fargo.
Named vice chairman were Ham-
ilton G. Vasey, superintendent of
Fargo public schools; F. E. Murphy,
Stutsman County civil defense di-
rector of Jamestown; Charles Con-
rad, printer and publisher from
Bismarck; and James Dixon, Willis-
ton businessman. Re-elected as sec-
retary was Mrs. William Woolcott,
superintendent of the School of
Nursing in Botineau.
The group voted to re-organize
into four districts with Vasey as
chairman of the Fargo-Grand
i Forks district; Murphy, chairman
of the Jamestown- Devils Lake dis-
trict; Conrad for Bismarck-Dickin-
son district and Dixon for the Wfi-
liston-Minot district.
"In re-organizing." Doherty said,
"we will have more workable com-
mittees and will eliminate exces-
ire travel for many of th members
Our plan are to increase the mem-
bership to approxximately fifteen
persons in each district, " he said,
"'w2th members clmsen from the
"four corners" of .the state, repre-
9prrting farming, industry, labor,
education and other important seg-
ments of )ur population."
Doherty added that "the purpose
of ,the Blue Cross Subscribers com-
mittee is to examine such subjects
as (1) ctoes the public want an ex-
tensk)n of Blue Cross benefits (2)
do Blue Cross subscribers use hos-
pital service more than necessary
(3) why are hospital costs and Blue
Cross rates climbing steadily and
(4) wha is the future of voluntary
repaid hospital care.
Ronald A. Jydstrup, director of
orth Dakota Blue Cross, said the
foraation of this committee in the
fall of 1958 was one of the most ira"
portant steps ,taken by Blue Cross
in its 19 years of existence.
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NOW IS THE TIME
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ed chains will reduce your stopping
distance on glare ice from 195 feet
to 77 feet.
Snow tires will improve your
car's pulling ability on glare ice
28 per cent, regular tire chains
231 per cent, and reinforced chains
409 ,per cent. In loosely packed snow,
reinforced tire chains.., then make
per cent better than regular tires.
Snow tires increase your car's ef-
fectiveness more .than 50 per cent.
WIF4 HURtED TO OFJTH--His hand still clutching the bent
steering wheel, Richard Lewis, 32, of West Babylon, L. I., New
York, sits dazed as police work to free him and his mother-
in-law, Mrs. Harriet Barton, from the wreckage of his small
ear in Manhattan, N. Y. Lewis ° wife, Catherine, 25, was thrown
to the street and died at the hospital Car hit a road divider.
KISS FOR MARLENE--With her eyes closed and her lips puck-
ered, actress Marlene Dietrich receives a kiss on the cheek
from French singer Jean Sablon on her arrival by air in Paris.
Miss Dietrich is scheduled to appear at the Etoile Theater.
Board Resumes
STS Hearings
The state board of administration
resumed its hearing this week into
allegations of mistreatment at the
State Training School at Mandan.
State Sen. Charles Murphy of
Mandan said Saturday that some
employees have expressed fear that
they may be fired if they testify.
Murphy asked that they be given
immunity from discharge.
Board Chairman H. H. Joos said
no employees of the school will
be discharged for testifying at the
hearing, but that on the other hand,
the board would not guarantee any
• 'five-year contracts."
The hearing is a resumption of
one begun at the school Nov. 9,
following allegations of six legisla-
tors that four boys were disrobed
i and shackled together as punish-
ment for running away.
Murphy, a member of a legisla-
tive research committee group as-
signed to study the school, has been
critical of what he called a secret
investigation.
The research subcommittee is
scheduled to sit as observers at the
resumed hearing. Murphy has in-
dicated he intends to seek a more
active role than observer.
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Red Owl Names
Manager for
New Division
Duane V. Peters of Fargo, north-
ern division manager of Red Owl
Shores, Inc., since 1952, has been
promoted manager of the Western
Division, a newly created division
with the company. The announce-
raent was made by James A. Wat-
son, vice president in charge of re-
tail operations for the firm.
"T h e increased responsibilities
given Peters are the results of a
geographical realignment of a num-
ber ,of our retail food stores" Wat-
son stated: "Our former Northern
Division. has ,been expanded to in-
clude two additional districts from
what was formerly called our
Southern Division. These two dis-
tricts include 17 stores in the Blael
Hills area of South Dakota and in
,northwestern Iowa," Watson said.
Peters was first employed in 1939
as a meat cutter in the Red Owl
store it# Crosy, N. Dak. Prior ts
his appointment as northern divi-
sional ,manager Peters served as"
meat department manager and alter,
store manager of several stores in
North Dakota and 1Yli_rmesota, meat
buyer, meat merchandiser and dis-
trict manager. He also served in
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
in World.War II. H and his family
reside in Fargo.
USED TO BE A GUY--This is the Mrs. Charlotte Heidal, 3,
who used to be Charles Ernest McLeod in the U. S. Army,
then became Charlotte McLeod via operations in Denmark,
then married Ralph Heidal, 36, in Miami, Fla., in October.
The transformation took place in 1953-54. None of Mrs.
Heidal'a friends In Miami knew of her former identity, re-.
ports Miami Herald. As GI, she was from Dyersburg, Ten
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