2 Saturday, December 22, 1962 Nafiuira! Causes SDDOivin) Dm lEngebiretsoDi Death lie came to Kalispcll In 1936. KALISPELL Flathead County natural causes and rules out the possibility of other factors," Cat On Oct. 29, 1938, he was married to Fern Copclund at Kalispcll. He had served in the U.S. Army dur Coroner Col Catron reported late Friday afternoon that an autopsy Bhowed Oscar E.
Engebretson, 49, ron stated. Very definitely no inquest will be Conducted," he added. i r. Flathead County authorities had died of natural causes about 7:50 p.m. Thursday at the Stockholm questioned Melvln Bratcher, Bar.
The autopsy placed the direct Eureka, who was alleged to nave scuffled with Engebretson only moments before his death. Patrons at the bar separated the two men, and moments later Engebretson was cause of death as a spontaneous sub-arachnoid hemorrhage. "This makes the death one of ing World War II and the Korean Conflict. He had been employed by the Engebretson Gravel Co. of Kalispcll since that time.
Mr. Engebretson was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Eagles and Amvcts. Survivors are the widow, Fern; one son, Larry, Kalispell; two brothers, Gehard, Ecrthold; Obert, Mohall, N.D.; three sisters, Mrs. Hilda McLoren, Seattle; Mrs. Olga Olscn, Berthold, and Mrs.
Alma Felt, Minot, N.D. Funeral arrangements are pend found slumped over in a booth at the bar. Police went hunting for Bratcher Three Men Get Prison Terms LIBBY Four men from Lia to complete their investigation and place him at the disposal of County Atty. Dean Jelllson and Catron for questioning. Bratcher has been dlschanzed after posting bond for a minor offense with Police Judge ing at Johnson Mortuary.
coin County were sentenced to one-vear terms in Montana State Palmer L. Chrlstophcrson. Mr. Engebretson was born Dec 23, 1912 at Berthold, N.D. Prison Friday.
One of the sentences was suspended. District Judge E. B. Foot sen- tenced George A. Tester of Libby to one year following the defend' ant's plea of guilty to forgery.
Lakesiders Meet SEELEY LAKE Plans for a Christmas party Dec. 27 were made by members of the Lakeside 4-H Club during their December meeting in the Seeley Lake School. The party will be In the school and members will exchange gifts. The club also decided to participate in the annual heart drive. Others sentenced were Al Walk- PORTER PROMOTED PARADISE Airman Robert Porter, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Porter of Paradise, has moved with his family, from Dow, AFB, to Eglln, AFB, according to word received here. With the move he was promoted to technical sergeant.
-rAi inghorse, Al and Jerry Wllke, all of Eureka. They had pleaded guilty last week to grand larceny in the theft Oct. 28 of a generator from a mill near Eu reka. Wllke's sentence was suspended upon the plea of his aged mother. avail.
County iBank Open IKlouse Today Elsie G. Pearson Services Today COLUMBIA FALLS Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie G. Pearson, 82, are scheduled 2 p.m. Saturday tha magnificent uilagnavoii REVOLUTIONARY TRUE STEREO HIGH FIDELITY NO TUBES NO HEAT AMAZING SOUND Magnavox power transistor amplifiers develop 5 tim more music power-reproducing true bass tones never before possible in a portable phonograph.
Detachable second speaker. All parts guaranteed for two years, service for one year. in Montana Soldiers Home Chapel with the Rev. Martin Ellis officiating. Burial will be in Soldiers Home Cemetery under direction of Waggener and Campbell Mortuary.
Mrs. Pearson died Thursday in Whitefish. She had been a resident of Great Falls 47 years before mov Now Your Records Can Last a Lifetime. Because the exclusive MICROMATIC player eliminates discernible record and stylus wear, the diamond stylus is guaranteed for ten years. ing to the Soldiers Home in April 1954.
She was a member of Royal Neighbors of America and the Spanish American War Veterans Auxiliary of Great Falls. She was married in 1908 to A. J. Sullivan, who preceeded her in death in 1928. In 1937 she was married to Jesse L.
Pearson, who died in 1939. Surviving are a son, Chester Sullivan, Great Falls; two daughters, Mrs. Emma McCartney, Columbia Falls; Mrs. Eva Wattnem, Great Falls; three step-children, dent; Douglas J. McDonald, vice president and cashier; Charles H.
James, vice president; George Stewart, assistant cashier and agricultural representative, and Alan Nason, assistant cashier. The bunk is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor poration and has been a member of the Federal Reserve System since July 1942. The bank was capitalized for $50 000 in 1895. Of the original 500 shares of stock, par value $100 each, 450 shares were issued to Marcus Daly, trustee, 10 shares to Marcus Daly personally, 10 shares to D. W.
French, 10 shares to W. C. Donnelly, 10 shares to Charles M. Crutchfield and 10 shares to W. M.
McCrackin. In 1900 the 450 shares issued to Marcus Daly, trustee, were reissued to William G. Rockefeller, trustee, of New York City. It was at this time that Marcus Daly sold the Anaconda Mining Co. and other property to the Rockefeller interests.
This stock was sold in 1901 to W. W. McCrackin, John A. Summers, S. A.
Chaffin, Charles Donovan, Thomas J. Burns, George McGrath, Alexander McCrackin, C. E. Dow, O. C.
Cooper, Abraham O. Bucl, C. M. Junkin and others. The capital stock of the Ravalli County Bank was increased to in 1957, in 1959 to $100,000, and this year to $125,000, the largest amount of capital of any bank in Ravalli County.
Assisting Marcus Daly in its management was W. W. Mc-Cruckin, vice president and cashier. Charles M. Crutchfield, V.
C. Donnelly and Daniel French, with Mr, Daly and Mr. McCrackin, constituted the first board of directors. On Dec. 9 of that year the Ravalli County Bank became a slate chartered bank.
In 1900, W. W. McCrackin became president, Charles M. Crutch-field assumed duties as vice president, and J. F.
Hartenbergcr became cashier. Mr. McCrackin continued as president until 1013, and meantime, in 1905, Dr. George McGrath became vice president, a position he continued to hold until his deoth in June, 1939. Also in 1905, M.
A. White joined the bank as cashier, succeeding to the presidency in 1913. When he resigned in 1920, Wallace McCrackin, son of W. W. McCrackin, became president serving in that office until 1940.
C. II. Raymond joined the organization in 1916, and was elected to the presidency of the bank In 1940. serving until 1951 when K. J.
McDonald purchased controling interest and became president. Raymond then become board chairman. In 1959 R. Wickham Baxter became president and K. J.
McDonald became chairman of the board while C. H. Raymond continued as board member. Donald L. Scothorn is vice presi and the mechanical room.
The carpeting Is of bluo green wool. At the immediate right is the installment, auto and personal loul department of which Alan Nason is in charge. Next to this department, on the south side of the officer area, are three offices, K. J. McDonald's, board chairman, a conference and directors room, and in the corner is a living room type of conference room, with davenport and comfortable chairs.
Cornering on the officer area and the teller counter are the two vaults. The first Is a safe deposit, customer and money vault. Mirrors will line the vault walls Outside are two customer rooms, both mirror lined. The well-known firm of Gump's of San Francisco assisted in the interior decorations. Behind a partition In back of the tellers' counter is the bookkeeping area.
The drive-in bonking window is in this room. The windows to the drive-in banking are of bullet resisting glass, and are heated to prevent frosting. West of the lobby is the employe lounge with its hearting surface, its refrigerator and sink. On the other side of large plate glass windows is another interior court, this one for employes. Marcus Daly founded the Ravalli County Bank in and served as its first president.
The bank opened April 1, 1895 as a private bank in a sturdy two-slnry hrick building one block south of the bank's new home. HAMILTON The Ravalli County Bank, Montana's oldest state chartered bank, shows its new face here Saturday. An open house is scheduled 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The new building at Pinckncy and Third streets from the outside shows massive beams projecting through cream colored brick walls, supported by shapely wooden columns, with amplo room for lawns and planting and parking on all sides.
The approach to the bank Is past a boulder strewn lawn, under a wide multipeaked canopy beside a reflector pool. The front doors are blue and enter onto a spacious lobby with a floor of reddish brown polished terrazzo. The laying of tcrrazzo floors Is an art passed down from one Italian family to the next. These floors were laid by an Italian family from Great Falls, one of the few such artists in the state. Chips of rocks are imbedded in concrete and then are polished level and smooth, then waxed.
There is a wcarout to such floors. Across the lobby is a wide teller's counter with full length marble ledge. The marble was shipped from Missouri. At the right of the lobby section is the officer area at the front of which is the desk of Sophie Redjou, receptionist and secretary. This area and all of the areas of the bank are carpeted, with the exception of the lobby, the washrooms Mrs.
Mabel Dow, Chester and Tom Pearson, all of Great Falls; eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Irene Potter Dies at 72 Stereorami, with Micromatlc player, two speaker system With detachable second channel. Smart luggage. Choice of colors. Model 229.
fMQQ STEVENSV1LLE Mrs. Irene Potter, 72, died Friday morning in a Hamilton hospital. only She was born July 16, 1890, in She was married in April 1912 to Clayton Klees, who died in 1918. Jfr- if She was married in January 1920 Gordon Hayward, Hamilton Native, Dies to Frank Potter at Billings. Mr Mrs.
T. R. Poole Taken bv Death Potter died in 1956. The Potters moved to the Bitter Root Valley in 1924 and settled in the Stevensville ried here lo Cleo Holt, Aug. 16, 1942, and she survives in Spokane where they have lived for the past nine years.
POLSON Mrs. T. died in her home here Pooolc Friday area. Survivors are a son, Frank, Stevensville; two daughters, Mrs. Jack Baremore, Wallowa, Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs.
L. H. Prather, Detroit, Mrs. Ronald Blbler, Darby; Mrs and Mrs. Stan Twedt, Glendtve; a HAMILTON Gordon K.
Hay-ward, 45, a native of Humilton, died ut a Spokane hospital Thursday evening after an illnes of several months. The body will be returned to Hamilton for funeral services under the direction of the Dowling Mortuary. Burial will be in the family plot at Riverview. Hayward was born in Hamilton, March 31, 1917, the son of the iate Dr. and Mrs.
Herbert Hayward. He was educated In Hamilton schools, graduating from Hamilton High School In May of 1934. He was mar Dorman Newton, Independence, Ore. one brother, Herbert V. Hay ward, Daly City, three Snow Forecast For Kalispell KALISPELL Wcuthcrmun Ray Hall says that it's very likely that the Flathead will have a White Christmas.
Currently two major storm fronts are moving towards the Flathead and they are expected to collide over the valley which will definitely bring snow. One storm system is moving in from the Pacific and there Is a straight south push of Arctic air. When they meet here, the snow will come, There has been only one winter in the past decade, Unit coming In 1954, when there was not snow on the ground for the holiday. aunts, Mrs. Burt Kerlee, Darby; brother, Henry Moheiser, Park Ridge, 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services are scheduled 2 p.m. Monday in Whitesitt Chapel with the Rev. John Pflelderer officiating. Burial will be In Stevens-ville's Riverview Cemetery. Mrs.
B. K. Monroe, Hamilton, and Mrs. R. L.
Henderson, currently visiting in Hamilton from Wood burn, Ore. Candee Argues For Rorke's Imprisonment LIBBY Lincoln County Atty. Marshall Candee filed a motion in district court Friday to vacate the suspension of sentence of Harold M. Rorkc. Rorke was sentenced to five years in state prison last week following his plea of guilty to the commission of a lewd and luscivous act upon a child.
The judge at that time suspended the sentence and placed Rorke on probation. Candee maintained in his argument before the court Friday that before imposition of sentence Rorke had not testified and had made no pica for leniency. In the absence of such a plea, Candee argued, the court had no power to suspend the sentence. The case was continued until next Friday. Stereograph Deluxe, complete stereo high fidelity In one beautiful case.
Micromatlc player. Two coaxial speakers. Handsomely styled luggage. Choice of colors. Model 239.
only12500 Other MAGNAVOX Stereo Portables morning. Surviving are the widower, Thomas two sons, Thomas Missoula, and George San Francisco; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Price, Santa Fe, N.M., and Mrs. Frank Weimer, Seatttle; two brothers, George A. Tremper and Clarence J.
Tremper, both of Poison. Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Tuesday, and requiem mass will 1 celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Holy Rosary Church. Dies in Seattle HAMILTON Friends here have been advised by Mrs.
Marie Burns of the death at Spokane of Mrs. Edna Lyell Masek, an arly resident of Hamilton, daughter of the J. A. Lyell family. Brothers to survive are Arthur Lyell, Seattle, and Louie of Spokane; a daughter Is Mrs.
Everett Shaner of Phoenix, Ariz. from only $69.90 Delaney Elected RONAN Howard Delaney, St. Ignatius, has been elected chairman of the Lake County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. SNOW BOWL OPENS TODAY! 12 easy miles from Missoula follow the signs Everybody Welcome -Spectators and Skiers FESTIVITIES START AT 12 NOON SATURDAY Chairlift Rides Extra Special on Helicopter Rides over the area (weather permitting) Team of Huskies and a Dog Sled Snow Machines Thi Saratoga amazing performance with clear, rich sound. Detachable second channel.
A selection of colors. Model 238. Come in today and hear our compleb selection of Magnavox Stereo The following carriers will perform no pickup or delivery service in Missoula Monday, December 24. BUCKINGHAM-UNITED FREIGHT LINES CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS GARRETT-NORTHWEST FREIGHT LINES NORTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORT COMPANY PACIFIC INTERMOUNTAIN EXPRESS CHAIRLIFT RIDES- Itound trip, skiers or spectators $1.50 Stay on top as long as you like warm lodge and light lunches. INCLUDES FREE SKIINO ON ALL UPPER TOWS, BEGINNER TO EXPERT, AMPLE SNOW AND ROOM! Sunday: Regular rates, $2.50 round trip on chair lift and all-day skiing on upper tows.
(Spectators, round-trip $1.50 on chair lift.) OPEN EVERY DAY FROM NOW ON! Season's Greetings to All MlsiouU'i Home of "STEREO" HOLIDAY VILLAGE AND 310 N. IIIGGINS, DOWNTOWN.
