Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uninvited (Paramount) is a ghost picture as creepy as a rattlesnake ranch. The ectospasms begin shyly while London Composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister (Ruth Hussey) are sitting in a vacant house on the Devonshire coast, wondering whether to buy it. While they talk, some roses they have brought along shrivel up quick-&-quietly as closing fans...
...worked in a lumber yard, drove a truck, did clerical work in Los Angeles, worked for a utilities company. For four years he was postmaster of Bell, Calif. Now he is national field secretary for the American Legion, is married, with a couple of sons, and has a ranch...
Sheepherders in their covered wagons, without telephones, beyond telegraph service, get advance information on blizzards breaking fast over the bitter Montana ranch lands. Farmer Jones's wife can sleep at night when KFBB finally tells her that Farmer Jones is safe in town and not freezing on some snowy butte. Most of the rural schools have radios, and warnings like the following are a winter commonplace: "The teacher at the Pleasant Val ley school should not let the children start for home this afternoon because the roads are blocked," or "The children of Pleasant Valley school are safe. . . ." Tickets...
...merchants, still sees to it that the station pays more attention to the facts of Montana life than to Kate Smith and Jell-0, for instance. This winter, so far, has been fairly mild, and distress calls infrequent. But a prairie fire broke out last week on the exposed ranch lands 35 miles south of Great Falls. At 4:30 p.m. KFBB called for volunteers. Three hours later the sheriff told the station there were 500 on hand, and the fire was under control...
Animal Kingdom. At Snake River, Wash., one of four mules which were loaded with firewood and hopefully re leased in the direction of Jack Titus's ranch, eventually turned up with two tele phone poles and 1,320 feet of wire. In But ler, 111., Earl and Roy Kinsella, Bob How ard and Harry Klepper went out coon hunting with a hound which at length got bored with the lack of game, treed all four hunters, and kept them perched aloft until dawn. In Farragut, Idaho, a pet deer named Bambi went right on chewing tobacco...