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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1944
Page
8
Mrs Marion Van Campen and Miss Norma Cottke visit Francis Robbins in Reed Point. Local residents host family gatherings and note ill relatives. Faith leaders visit Evangelical parsonage as families attend Luccock assembly.
A Sunday night reception in the Evangelical church social rooms honored Rev. and Mrs. E. J. Schroeder for their 25 years of marriage. Rev. H. S. Tool served as toastmaster and led a devotional with poetry. Grace Renfield sang the Wedding March. Marion Van Campen gave a silver purse from friends. Attendees included many local couples and families.
Pet the dog in Tomahawk Wisconsin will leave an estate of 39 000 dollars to fund care for less fortunate dogs after 16 years of fortune. The dog’s fortune began when Margaret McDermott of Chicago left her entire estate to the animal in 1935. The will directs the 30 000 dollar principal go to the Anti Cruelty Society after Pet’s death.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey leaves on his initial campaign journey after criticizing the Roosevelt administration over local versus federal controls. He heads to Pittsburgh for talks with party, business, and labor leaders and expects a governors conference in St. Louis to offer solutions to friction.
Various small ads list piano pupils sought, cows for sale, a restaurant business for sale, an elderly home request, lost sheep dog Tip, Hereford bulls for sale, hens for sale, new Rawleigh route holder in Sweet Grass county, job ads for mechanics, rental property on Fifth Ave, radio repair service, and a sheep owner list request for predator control funds.
The memo lists ration types with valid stamps: meats and fats with red stamps A8 to Z8 and A5 to C5 indefinitely. processed foods blue stamps A8 to Z8 and A5 to F5 indefinitely. sugar stamps 30 31 22 each five pounds. sugar stamp 40 five pounds canning sugar valid through February next year. gasoline A-12 coupons valid through September 21. shoes airplane stamps 1 2 indefinitely. a table fat use note: one tablespoon waste fat yields five machine gun bullets.
Ralph Langston returns home from Kennewick and Wasna. Stanolind drilling at McLeod continues, drill down 850 feet. Jesse Giles and family move to Billings for stockyard work. Bishop Daniels conducts service at St Mark's with lunch in Dallman hall. Fraser child fractures arm from pony. Draft board to provide WAC info. quota open. Louie Taylor family returns from Alaska. Mr Taylor to join call. Roy Flattum visiting from Fairbanks. government work after Newfoundland stint. Sam Olson on 30 day leave from Navy service in Hawaii. Ralph Bishir recovering at Duck Creek ranch after hospital stay. Cannery opening delays. hope to start Monday. Mrs John N MacFarlane and son Neil traveling to Juneau. sister Grace Smith’s family reside there. job in attorney's office awaits.
London reports the German use of rocket propelled fighter planes as part of a bold Luftwaffe response. Allied air forces delivered massive blows to Munich Ludwigshafen central Germany and Romanian targets including Bucharest and Ploesti, with a record force of over 3,400 heavy bombers and escorts striking Germany France and Romania.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey announced opposition to Rep. Hamilton Fish's bid for re election in New York 29th District. Dewey condemned Fish for raising racial and religious issues saying such conduct is disgraceful and un American.
S-Sgt. Victor Fischer sent home an oak leaf cluster to add to his air medal for every five missions. He asks mail be addressed with his identification number due to 75 men named Fischer nearby. S-Sgt. Bertil Person transferred from England to Italy to see oxen drawing grain in from a barley field. he is an electrician first class. Raymond A. Bieber moved from Conway Arkansas to Norman Oklahoma. Lt. Martha D. Allen, ex teacher at Reed Point, arrived safely in Australia after enlisting in the WAC at Salt Lake on January 30, 1943. Cpl. Oscar A. Esp mailed Harold Branne a Stars and Stripes from overseas noting six infantrymen credited with capturing 21 Nazis. Pvt. Loren Otto of Adams Nebraska reported the haul to Lt. Harold C. Branne of Glenwood Minnesota. A B-26 base story places 12th AAF in the Mediterranean. George J. Mathes of Big Timber Montana completed his nineteenth overseas month. he serves as transport noncommissioned officer for his 12th AAF B-26 squadron. His decorations include good conduct medal and the Mediterranean theater award.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana predicted victory for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1944 presidential election during a visit to Great Falls. He noted Roosevelt’s campaign would be serious if the war ends before election, and he cited Roosevelt’s weakness in the Midwest.
Montana's Federation of Labor will hold its annual convention in Butte on August 15, announced president James D. Graham. He called the gathering the golden jubilee of the state labor movement, noting the ribbon with three bronze battle stars. The report also mentions soldiers and injuries among locals, including Pvt. George E. Clayton and Lt. Leon Titeca, with service updates from Europe.
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