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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
8
Local residents attend events and travel for work and leisure. Activities include visitors from Billings and Cody, a prom dance and high school conference, birthdays and anniversaries, church events, library meetings, and a father and son banquet with community leaders speaking.
The Park County Woolgrowers association sold its 1940 wool pool to S. Silberman & Sons of Chicago for 30 cents per pound. The deal covers about 45,000 pounds or 4,000 fleeces with delivery at the Livingston freight depot by July 10 and shearing expected by June 15.
The senior class of the local high school stages "That Crazy Smith Family" Friday night at 8 in the high school auditorium. Admission 35 cents. A lively farce features Tony Smith the football star, Julie the co-ed, and Barbara in a love tangle, amid a staged prize fight and a stormy plane incident with a cast including Ellen Ward and Tony Smith.
Early Friday Dr Yager was called to attend Mrs Flemming who is ill with influenza. Sidney Fraser Jr returned from Billings where he visited his son Billie. The Johnsons and Mrs Fraser visited Billy Fraser in a Billings hospital. Barbara Duffey dined with the Haussermans Tuesday. A card party honored Ralph Berrie on his twenty first birthday with many relatives present.
Colonel Abram A. Anderson 93 artist sharpshooter and founder of the U S forest reserve system died of pneumonia in New York He urged Roosevelt to create the first forest reserve in 1902 led ranger patrol at Yellowstone and helped clear Jackson's Hole with a ranger band He was husband of Elizabeth Milbank Anderson founder of the Milbank Memorial Fund which has donated over 11 million to public health and charities He owned Palette Ranch Wyoming near the Montana line and aided early conservation efforts
About 300 Montana bankers gathered in Helena for lectures from economists of the northwest. Speakers included Gov. Roy E. Ayers. W. C. Coffey. A. L. Strand. O. S. Powell. R. B. Heflebower. Roy J. W. Ely. Harold F. Hollands. and R. T. Clark, addressing financial livestock and agricultural issues.
A nine o clock Tuesday April 30 school assembly awarded high school students in several categories. Notable honorees include Erys Evelyn Smart Stuart Ellison Mary Louise Shunk Lyle Larson and others in citizenship scholarship and athletics with multiple recognitions across departments.
Bozeman Montana April 26 R Lee Frank a Gallatin county farmer for 37 years was appointed by District Judge Benjamin E Berg to the board of county commissioners He succeeds W W Brownell who died last Saturday He will serve until the general election in November Frank has chaired the Gallatin county soil conservation committee since 1933.
Mrs A D Banker wife of a Sunburst oil operator died of a broken neck and other injuries in a head on collision about 10 miles north of Sunburst Monday. Her husband and the occupants of the other car Mr and Mrs Carter were injured. Carter known as Montana Slim was a radio entertainer. Debris and exact collision details were not released. The death marked Montana’s thirty sixth traffic fatality this year.
The Senate passed legislation granting the president power to regulate or prohibit foreign investments in the United States during war or emergencies. An amendment by Senator Danaher to curb foreign exchange control was rejected, with Glass opposing. President Roosevelt and Democratic leaders discussed the situation, with Barkley noting no June change in plans.
Charles G. Dawes told the Chamber of Commerce that the next president must fight a large army of spenders and patronage politicians to avert bankruptcy. The former budget director linked current chaos to Roosevelt's 1933 abolition of the federal coordinating service and advocated a Harding-style plan to balance the budget.
Helena April 27 More than 325000 acres in Montana have been added to irrigation since 1935 through the state water conservation board with WPA support. Total project cost 8140000 dollars, about 5 million to be repaid by water users. Tongue river project leads with 50000 irrigated acres in Rosebud county.
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