30 Years Ago

Thursday, June 1, 1989

8th grade trip turned into drinking binge

The eighth-grade class trip this year turned into something less than had originally been planned. Two of the class members have been charged with illegal possession of alcohol and at least three more of the approximately eight students believed to have been involved in a drinking binge will be charged later.

And, two female members of the class were caught shop lifting at a Rapid City business, but charges were not filed against them.

The youngsters apparently got intoxicated on peach schnapps that one had taken from his parents. Other members of the class reported the drinking incident after one of the students involved got sick on the bus.

Because of the numbers involved, about forty students, the four chaperones apparently failed to notice the behavior of the drinkers, until after the alcohol had been consumed.

Old Denson home went traveling

There was quite a spectator turnout to watch a two-story country home being moved over some 20 miles of road and prairie last week.

The home was jacked up and moved from the former Denson Ranch at the mouth of Butte Creek on the Powder River to the south Charles Patten Ranch, or “old Graham”.

The very nice two-story home, with “balcony type” second story was built by the late Bob Denson for his young family. Joe Considine remembers, “I helped him pour the basement and from there on Bobby did all the work himself.”

Andrew Lewis and his wife, present owners of the “old Denson place,” plan to build a home on the spot from which the home was moved.

Maxine Patten took food to the moving crew and snapped many pictures of the house sailing down the road. She said, “Historically, this is a date to remember - the original Patten land in Montana should continue to have a home on it.”

A trailer house has served at the old Graham since the house burned in the early 1960 decade.

Neighbors granted right-of-way for the tearing out and replacing of fences and some grading. A few small trees had to be cut along the route, and technicians of Tongue River Electric accompanied the house on its journey to lift power lines as necessary.

State track results posted

Although Broadus Hawk athletes failed to win medals at the State Track meet in Billings last weekend, several placed in the top ten and one runner broke a local school record, according to information released by head coach Joan Jilka.

Ron Richards paced the boys with several fine marks, including a new school record time in the 400-meter dash of 52.48 seconds. The fast time won fourth in the preliminaries. Richards went on to place eighth in the finals in that event with a 52.71 second time.

Richards also placed fifth in the preliminaries in the 100-yard dash and tenth in the finals. He ran the preliminary race in 11.40 seconds and the finals with the slightly slower time of 11.64

The senior athlete placed sixth in the 200-meter dash preliminaries with a 23.27 second time. Teammate Tary Hanson placed eighth in the preliminary race with a time of 23.88 seconds.

Pete Neiman placed ninth and tenth in the 110- and 300-meter hurdles preliminaries, with respective times of 17.95 seconds and 47.34 seconds.

The 400-meter relay team of Richards, Bill Hoffman, Neiman and Hanson placed eighth in the preliminaries with a combined time of 45.99 seconds. Individual times were: Richards 11.06, Hoffman 11.15, Neiman 11.94 and Hanson, 12.1.

Hoffman placed sixth in the finals in the long jump with a distance of 21 feet and one-half inch. He had a mark of five feet, 10 inches in the high jump, failing to place.

Bill Isaacs did not compete because of a sprained ankle and Dale Andrews who had also qualified at divisionals, did not compete because of disciplinary reasons, Jilka said.

For the girls, Rhonda Raschkow placed eighth in the preliminaries in the 200-meter dash with a 27.98 second time.

Christine Olson had a 66.59 second time in the 400-meter dash for a tenth-place ranking in the preliminaries.

Anna Vernon placed ninth in the preliminaries in the 100-meter dash and tenth in the 300-meter hurdles, behind respective times of 18.78 seconds and 54.09 seconds.

The 400-meter relay team of Lori Ann McGill, Vernon, Raschkow and Lauri Morella placed seventh in the preliminaries with a 54.83 second time. Individual times were: McGill: 15.09, Vernon 12.6, Raschkow 13.3 and Morella 12.6.

The 1600-meter relay team of Raschkow, Vernon, Morella and Olson won eighth place in the preliminaries with a combined time of 4:28.39, their best of the year. Individual times were: Raschkow 65.55, Vernon 67.25, Morella 68.25 and Olson 66.67.

Morella had a non-winning mark in the long jump of 14 feet, 11 inches and Shauna Kane, a non-winning distance in the discus of 86 feet, seven inches.

Hoffman and Richards were honored as Jilka’s Male Athletes of the Week for their efforts. Female Athlete of the Week honors went to 1600-meter relay team of Raschkow, Vernon, Morella and Olson.