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6 The Missoullon, Wednesday, October 9, 1963 GN Train Derailed 'Ambulance-Chasing' Case Again Before High Court Employers Liability Act of April 22, 1908." asked, "What more comprehensive decree could have been entered?" The union counsel described the appeal as frivolous and argued there is no reason in logic or law KALISPELL The Great Northern Railway coped Tuesday with its second train derailment in as many days. Wrecker crews and the heavy crane from Whicfish were sent to the main line derailment Bite near Nimrod to get 10 freight cars back on the track. Monday, the crews didn't have to move quite so far. The derailment was right in the Whitefish yards when a diesel engine jumped the track. Otto Fisher, assistant superintendent of the Kalispell division of the railway, is supervising the any particular lawyer or group of lawyers.

Ryan told the justices the trial court decree should have lusted violations of the Canon of Ethics. He claimed these violations included so-called ambulance chas-inc soliciting legal business- HELENA (AP)-Monlana's Supreme Court, hearing arguments in a 5'i-year-old case of alleged "ambulance chasing," was urged Tuesday to establish a precedent for the unauthorized practice of law. Robert P. Ryan of Deer Lodge and Ben E. Berg Jr.

of Bozeman, appearing as the Committee on Unlawful Practice of Law of the Montana Bar Association, appealed from a Yellowstone County District Court they said favored them but did not go far enough. The lower court decree, issued Dec. 15, 1961, stopped the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen from channeling legal employment to As Jaycees Launch Academic Study New Junior High District Considered at Kalispell CORVALLIS HOMECOMING CROWN SHARED Paulette Doty, Linda Rum-mel, Gardner and Nelsine Nor-beck. problem was dividing one two queens. (Bob Olson Two senior girls were crowned queens of the Corvallis High School Homecoming this past week when the student vote ended in a tie.

Sharing the crown are Lois Moe, left, and Mauretta Kern. At of service at Nimrod. The derailment was such that it did not interfere materially with passenger train and mail service. The mishap occurred early in the morning. No injuries were reported.

Rasmussen Rites This Afternoon KALISPELL Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Rasmussen, 81, are scheduled 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Waggener and Campbell Chapel with the Rev. Merrill Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Conrad Memorial Cemetery.

Mrs. Rasmussen died Friday in Enumclaw, Wash. She was born Oct. 19, 1881, in Oslo, Norway. She moved to the United States when she was 14 and made her home at Cando, N.D., where on Christmas of 1900 she was married to Christian H.

Rasmussen, who preceded her in death in 1952. The couple farmed in the Helena Flats area and in 1920 moved to Kalispell. She was a charter member of the Kalispell Assembly of God Church. Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Esther Ross and Mrs.

Pearl Bowman, both of Kalispell; Mrs. Iva Carpenter, Black Diamond, Mrs. Ruby Smith, Medford, a son, Donald, Kalispell, 12 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Mahle to Speak ARLEE Therin G. Mahle, education specialist, Flathead Indian Agency, will speak at a meeting of the Arlee Parent-Teacher Association 8 p.m.

Thursday in the school lunchroom, Leon Wolcott, president, announced Tuesday. Hours by Appointment Phone 543-6771 KALISPELL Kalispell Jaycees have launched an independent study and survey of the educational needs of the city of Kali-spell and the immediate surrounding area. Marshall Murray has been named as general chairman of the project. Murray named three Jaycees to head special committees within the Nurses Meet HAMILTON The Montana Nurses Association, District 13, met Monday night in the home of Mrs. Dorothy Dittmaier.

Mrs Everett Felix, Corvallis, told the group of her experience with physical therapy for arthritis. Reports from the delegates to the Montana Hospital Association convention in Great Falls, last week were also presented. The Hamilton delegates were Miss Dar-lene Haacke and Mrs. Marion Hayes. FQatheaci IF1FA Accorded! for it.

Meglen said the brotherhood's Legal Aid Society was abolished last Nov. 15 which ends any ques tion about its operation. He said the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has about 210,000 mem bers, including some 750 in Montana. Herriott claimed the brief of Ryan and Berg was "designed for press release" because it included such words as "ambulance chasing, tipsters and bird-dogging." He said the Canon of Ethics mentioned by Ryan and Berg ap plied only to lawyers and was not binding on such a group as the railroad union. One phase of the case was argued before the Supreme Court Jan.

15, 1962. On Feb. 13, 1962, the tribunal held unreasonable a 13th Judicial District Court rule setting up requirements for get ting more time to file bills of ex ception. The bar association committee had protested District Judge Guy C. Derry's denial of its request for more time to file exceptions in the action against the brother hood.

The bar committee claimed that members of the union were acting as legmen for a Minneapolis law firm which handled personal in jury cases involving railroad workers several western states Dist. Judge Victor H. Fall of Hel ena replaced Justice Stanley M. Doyle on the Supreme Court in hearing the case. Doyle, a former railroad employe, disqualified himself.

Frederick Lyonais Dies at Kalispell KALISPELL Frederick Lyonais, 62, of Williston, N.D., died in a hos pital here Tuesday. He was born July 3, 1901, at Wild Rice, N.D. He farmed near Williston and in 1935 was employed by the Great Northern Railway as a carpenter. He retired last year. He was an Army vet eran of World War II.

Mr. Lyonais had been here the past three weeks visiting with his borthers and sisters. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Williston, and of the Knights of Columbus. Survivors are four brothers, Sev- erin, Portland, Zenophile and Philip, both of Renton, Edward, Kalispell; eight sisters, Mrs.

Leona Gray, Lebanaon, Mrs. Marian Lynch, Williston; Mrs. Rosalie Stenslie, Missoula; Sister Mary Severin, Grafton, N.D.; Mrs. Delima Schuchard, Renton, Sister Charles Joseph, Wallhalla, N.D.; Mrs. Cecelia Barnhart, Columbia Falls, and Miss Delvina Lyonais, Kalispell.

Rosary will be recited 8 p.m. Wednesday in Johnson Chapel. Re quiem high mass will be celebrated 9 a.m. Thursday in St. Matthew Church with the Rt.

Rev. Msgr M. J. Halligan, celebrant. Burial will be in Conrad Memorial Ceme- trey.

Former Hamilton Resident Dies HAMILTON Word has been received of the death of William Fisk, 51, in La Granda, Calif. Mr. Fisk was a former resident of Hamilton, graduating from high school here in 1930. His wife is the former Carol Grafton, also of Hamilton. Survivors besides the widow are a son, Gary, and a daughter, Mrs.

Allan Bruce of Palo Alto, Calif. Mrs. Mamie Fisk of Hamilton is an aunt. starting with a silver medal in 1942, and another silver award in 1957. All the rest have been gold medal awards, giving the chapter a record that is not equalled anywhere else in the nation.

The Fergus County High School at Lewistown, the only other chapter in the state to receive national recognition, won a bronze medal. St. Ignatius Woman to Speak At Midwest Garden Meetings WILLIAM J. NORMAN, M.D. PRACTICE LIMITED TO NEUROLOGY Announces The Opening of his office in the Professional Village Ryan said the operation was "disguised and cloaked" by the name of the brotherhood.

He claimed this was done "under the guise that the union had a right to advise its members of their legal rights, to protect its members from railroad adjustors and to urge employment of defendant lawyers." Representing the railway union were Joseph F. Meglen and Ralph L. Hcrriott, Billings lawyers. They said the lower court decree covered every question raised by the bar association committee on which proof was offered and sible accurate and up to the minute information," Murray said. The Board of Trustees of the Kalispell School District Monday night discussed the possibility of establishing a junior high school district that would coincide with the boundaries of the existing Flathead County High School District.

It became immediately apparent there would be a legal difficulty in formation of such a district because of archaic legislation that now exists. However, trustees felt that study should be made now against the time when legislative changes would make it possible for high school and elementary school districts to join in the establishment of a junior high school district. 4-H Leaders Hear Mrs. C. E.

Keller HAMILTON Mrs. Charles E. Keller of Kalispell, Northwest District 4-H president, addressed the Ravalli County 4-H Leaders Council here Monday night. Mrs. Keller is a leader of the Evergreen Hummingbirds and Evergreen Pinetopppers 4-H clubs.

Much of the meeting was given over to planning the district lead ers conference Oct. 24, 25, 26 in Rocky Mountain Grange Hall. Seven counties will be represented at the meeting. Speakers are to include several members of the Montana State College faculty. Edward A.

Hanlan STEVENSVILLE Funeral services for Edward A. Hanlan, 73, are scheduled 2 p.m. Thursday in Whitesitt Mortuary, with the Rev. John W. Pfleiderer official ing.

Burial will be in Three Mile Cemetery. Mr. Hanlan died Monday night in his home in the Three Mile area. He was born July 12, 1890, in Illinois. He was married at Wau-kegan, 111., in 1917.

The couple lived in Canada, Wyoming and Arkansas before moving to the Bitter Root Valley in 1952. Survivors besides the widow are three sons, Floyd, Stevensville; Everett, Biddle; Raymond, Gillette, two daughters, Mrs. Viola Ballard. Fortuna, Miss Alberta Hanlan, Stevensville; mother, Mrs. Mary Hanlan, Moose Jaw, two brothers, John, Briercrest, Sa.sk.; Elwood, Seattle; three sisters, Mrs.

Edith Grant, Toronto, Mrs. Ruth Strand, Wadsworth, Mrs. Pederson, Waukcgan, and four granddaugh ters. Suspects Charged KALISPELL Formal arraign ment for two men charged with the Aug. 18 burglary of the State Liquor Store at West Glacier, was conducted Tuesday morning in District Court.

Stanley C. Olsen, 36, Sandpoint, Idaho, appeared before Judge Eugene B. Foot. Rolland E. Folowell, 61, Kansas City, was arraigned before Judge Frank I.

Haswell. Both men entered pleas of innocent to the charge, and bond was continued at $2,500 each. Both cases are continued over the fall term of the court, which means that formal proceedings will not be instituted before the spring jury term. Think TYPEWRITER SUPPLY For All Your OFFICE HEEDS 314 North Hisffins Phone 543-5183 Suite Highway 93, South splitting of fees and using a lay agency to control lawyers. "After many years of work, we were not satisfied to have a nothing for a decree," Ryan said.

He said the record showed "the existence of a hichlv integrated organization for actively soliciting and handling personal injury cases of railroad employes against their employers under the Federal survey. Walter Bahr will head the academic committee study; Dean Jellison, the legal committee, and Kenneth Erickson, the architectural committee. Murray said these three committees would report back within 30 days with recommended solutions. "The purpose of the project is to determine the actual educational needs of the area, and define existing problems. Once those problems are detrmined, then a definite solution for each problem will be derived.

"The study will include the expansion needs of the Flathead County High School, and the Central Junior High School in Kali-spell. Facts derived from this survey will be presented to school boards for their information and action. Making an independent study will also present a more reflective picture without special interest recommendations and give school board trustees the best pos tana, Mrs. Hamel will present the need for further allocations to develop landscape design schools in the stale, with a long-range view of educating a number of persons to serve as members of park boards, highway commissions, school grounds committees and to collaborate with members of the landscape design profession in planning grounds of public buildings, parks and roadsides. MSC Yearbook Again Rated Outstanding BOZEMAN The 1963 Montan an, yearbook of Montana State College, received a certificate of special merit and an rating from the National School Yearbook Association.

The score, the association reports, means "excellent." The Montanan editor, Steve Had nagy of Bozeman, was compli mented for the theme Quo Vadis" and how it was carried out. "Your photographic cover creates an interesting introduction to your story of the year. Your early positioning of the year's highlights is good, the color pictures certainly add to this presentation. We like the class section in the back of the book," were comments by the judges. The judges praised the sports, women's, and intramural coverage, portraits, activities program and the editing throughout.

Copies of the yearbook have been distributed to all Montana high schools. The yearbook will be judged as a lithographed book later this year. The previous yearbook was one of six top lithographed annuals in the United States and this group was displayed in the principal cities of the United States. DAY SPECIAL EXTRA PANTS HALF PRICE When you buy your MADE-TO-MEASURE SUIT Choose from our entire line, order your extra pants to match, or select a different fabric. Res.

Phone 543-4 8 KALISPELL The Flathead Chapter of the Future Farmers of America Continues to be the outstanding FFA Chapter in the na tion. The local group has received its Floy F. Litle Rites Today WHITEFISH Funeral services for Mrs. Floy F. Litle, 75, who died Friday in Portland, are scheduled 2 p.m.

Wednesday in Catron Chapel with the Rev. John Warning officiating. Burial will be in Whitefish Cemetery. Mrs. Litle was born July 22, 1888, at Mound City, Mo.

As a young woman she moved to Conrad and in 1933 to Whitefish. She had moved to Portland earlier this year. She was married at Spokane in September of 1913 to R. Clarence Litle, who preceded her in death in 1949. Mrs.

Litle was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Whitefish and of the Royal Neighbors of America. Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. C. Phillips, Whitefish; Mrs. Donald Buss, Mrs.

Glen Mack and Mrs, Robert Rock, all of Portland; two brothers, George and Presley Vaught, both of Clarks Fork, Idaho; a sister, Mrs. Art Bowman, Troy, and 10 grandchildren. PO to Be Remodeled HELENA (AP)-The post office in Winnett, county seat for Petroleum County, will be remodeled. Sen. Mike Mansfield, said the Post Office Department accepted the bid of Rex and Frances Eager of Winnett for the work on a month to month rental.

fw 20th gold medal for excellence in FFA programs. The award was made at the Nationsl Convention at Kansas City, where two chapter representatives, Darrel Heim and Ernie Motichka, are attending activities. Henry Robinson, head of the vocational agriculture department of the Flathead County High School, checked back on the chapter award records. The members have won 22 awards in consecutive years, GUESTS IN STEVENSVILLE STEVENSVILLE Lt. and Mrs.

Philip Kimery have arrived to visit Mrs. Kimery's parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. E.

Enebo. The visitors have spent the past three years in London where the lieutenant was stationed with the Air Force. From here they will go to Savannah, where he will be at Hunter Air Base. En route they will visit his parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. i rv.

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Ignatius, is attending the National Council of Garden Club's fall board meeting in St. Louis, Mo. Following the board meeting, at which Mrs. Hamel will speak in her capacity as national Judges' Council chairman, she will appear as guest arranger of the Central Region. Before returning home, Mrs.

Hamel will attend the Garden Club Conference at the University of Chicago as guest of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for delegates from the 12 states being invited to participate to exchange ideas about community beautification and improvement projects. Among the speakers will be Dr. Philip Hauser, Internationally known sociologist, and H. Osgood, director of urban programs for the foundation, which at the present time allocates $1,000 yearly to Montana Federation of Garden Club-sponsored projects.

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