Road Building In National Parks Highlighted In Albright Report
Horace M. Albright’s annual interior department report emphasizes road and trail construction aiding local employment. About 7.5 million dollars were spent last year across 22 national parks and 36 monuments, with 2.85 million additional obligation authority. He cites expansion plans for Grand Teton, park conservation, and urgent forest pest control, especially pine beetles in Yellowstone and blister rust in Mount Rainier, alongside rising visitor numbers to parks in 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace M. Albright
Secretary of the Interior
National Parks and Monuments
National Parks
National Park Service
Bureau of Public Roads
National Monuments
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Interior Department
Secretary of Interior
Florida Everglades
California
Death Valley
Kings River Canyon
High Sierras
Albright
Jackson Hole
Grand Teton Park
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Wakefield
Colonial National Monuments
Virginia
Great Smoky Mountains Park
Yosemite
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Acadia
Maine
Park Service
Yellowstone
Canada
Mount Rainier
Yellowstone Park
Crop seed mix up leads to damages suit in Montana
Alfred Doughty, a Radersburg farmer, sues the Sweet company in Helena district court for 1089 claiming the wrong seed caused a total crop failure. He seeks recovery of seed costs 190 labor and time, plus 476 rent value and shipping, alleging winter rye substituted for spring rye and ruined both rye and alfalfa crops. Wellington D Rankin represents the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Doughty
Radersburg
Helena
Bozeman
Doughty
Laboer
Totson
Plaintiff
Bozeman F
Wellington D. Rankin
Bridge project planned to start by May on Missouri river
The state highway commission aims to begin work on the Culbertson Missouri river bridge by May 1 or early summer. Army engineers have approved the plans, with final approval pending from the bureau of public roads. Great Northern Railway has granted use of its right of way between Wolf Creek and Sieben for the improved highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
Missouri River
Culbertson
Army Engineers
Bureau of Public Roads
Highway Commission
Great Northern Railroad Company
Wolf Creek
Sieben
Carveth Wells On Air Again With New Series
Explorer Carveth Wells, dubbed the Truthful Liar, begins a 28 week Wednesday radio series Exploring America with Conece and Carveth Wells on NBC. The half hour programs are sponsored by Continental Oil company across 25 NBC stations. The first programs air this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carveth Wells
Radio Land
America
Conece
Carveth Welle
N. B.C
Continental Oil Company
Radio travel host Carveth Wells to tour foreign lands
The piece previews a schedule split between foreign travel and U S attractions. A 15 000 mile European trek last summer and an 11 000 mile airplane run across the United States were used to gather material for Conoco broadcasts. Local listeners may hear KGHL KGIR or KOA on Wednesday nights at 8 30 p m.
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Globe-Trotter
Europe
United States
Conoco
KGHL
Billings
KGIR
Butte
KOA
Peer
Carveth Wells
Four Held on Counterfeit Charge in Helena
Four men were arrested in Helena and slated for counterfeiting charges. Names given were George Fuller alias Clark and Frisco Slim, Dodge Shannon, Ray E. Brewer, and James Tatem, with the latter two identified as Helena residents. A room contained counterfeit $5, $10, and $20 bills and related paraphernalia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
George Fuller
Alias Clark
Frisco Slim
Dodge Shannon
Ray E. Brewer
James Tatem
Old School Plant Now Modern Auditorium
Idle Red Lodge Washington school auditorium is rebuilt into a 36 by 65 foot facility with 600 seats, dressing rooms, showers, and a 16 by 32 foot stage alcove. Main floor doubles as gym and dance floor, financed by city relief funds. completion expected by January 1. It will cost 1,000 to 1,500 dollars in new materials. The building, opened in 1898 as a high school, later became a county institution, then a grade school until three years ago when reduced enrollment led to its closure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Red Lodge
City Reef Fund
Reclamation Act to Aid State Agriculture North West
L A Campbell of the Northern Pacific railway said at Helena the Reclamation Act and the Western Reclamation conference in Salt Lake City will benefit Montana and other western states. The newly formed national organization was noted after the Utah meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Reclamation Association
Salt Lake City
Montana
L. A. Campbell
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Helena
Utah
Reclamation leaders urge federal loan for western irrigation
At the conference delegates backed continued national reclamation policies and urged a temporary loan of at least 5 000 000 to sustain the ten year program started in 1926. Montana's John A. Lovelace stressed storage needs and private projects facing funding and storage gaps amid shrinking repayments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall N. Dana
Portland Journal
Presient
Sam Stephenson
Great Falls
Campbell
Reclamation Service
Congress
National Reclamation Association
Mississippi
Montana
John A. Lovelace
Bozeman
John E. Erickson
Lovelace
Fac
Hocking Wins Libel Action Against Evered
Hocking publisher of the Glasgow Courier prevailed in a libel suit brought by Erick O. Evered, who sought 30000 damages. The case stemmed from Evered’s role as investigator in the J. E. Arnot murder inquiry, with Mrs. Arnot deemed mentally unsound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. 3. Hocking
Glasgow Courier
Erick O. Evered
J. E. Arnot
Evered
Foot
Hocking
Shelters and Saplings Spread Across Pondera County Farms
More than 19 000 trees have been supplied to Pondera farmers from Missoula and Mandan nurseries through the county extension office. The nine year shelterbelt project shows 378 000 trees on 248 farms by spring 1932, with 411 farms expected and over 400 000 trees. About 1 000 farms could grow trees, with at least 40 percent of all farms already planted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Mandan
Pondera
Carbon County Tax Payments Recover Half Year Remittance
Carbon County received 252 745 85 dollars in first half tax payments toward 502 934 80 assessed for the year. Collections stand at 50.2 percent, down from 50.5 percent year ago, with a 34 000 assessment omission on Red Lodge Rosebud irrigation lands. In Holy Rood church Waterford England lights similar to automatic signals aid the priest in signaling the organist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meney Mall
Red Lodge-Rosebud
Holy Rood
Waterford
England
Census Shows Fewer Children in Carbon County
The school census reports 4 357 children aged 6 to 21 in Carbon County down from 4 433 in 1931 Red Lodge loses the most numbers due to coal miners families moving away The county notes 1 112 children of school age in Red Lodge now vs 1 167 in 1931 The text also discusses canal project funding and reclamation needs for Sun River Milk River and related storage highlighting impacts on farmers homes and national stability Montana delegates to the conference include J S James Lovelace Stephenson Campbell Sklower August Vaux Lillis and Dawson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbon County
Red Lodge
Tato
Montana
J. S. James
Lovelace
Stephenson
Mr. Campbell
Joseph Sklower
Malta
August Vaux
Sidney
B. C. Lillis
Billings
J. A. Dawson
Great Falls
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Grand Canyon Park
N. C. Huseth
Optemerist and
Optician
Charles M. Russell
University Club
Ass’n
Mont
Carson
Mr. Russell
Paul Danielson
Farmer Claims Company
Dan and Mack
Central Ave
Great Falls, Mont
DR. Perham
M. A
Stanford
Reclamation Act
Poplar
The
Sadducees
Charles M
Russell
Charlies M. Russell
U. S
Carson's
Buffalo
Queen's War Hounds
Montana Newspaper Association
Billings Business College
Polytechnic
Lewis T
Ean
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