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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
6
Dorothy Lowell plays the title role in the popular serial Our Gal Sunday heard five times weekly on CBS. Her path began at age nineteen impersonating Ginger Rogers on a Columbia radio program, arriving in her mother’s mink coat to audition and winning the job by talent.
Montana news notes Emmett C. Angland will take over as secretary counsel of the Montana railroad and public service commission on June 1. Other items include convention plans for Croatian Brotherhood, garden clubs, and Farmers Union. theatre awards. and local civic elections.
William R. Bandy highlights in Civil Engineering how the Montana Wyoming boundary remains unclear for miles along the Cooke City area. The 1879 1880 survey retraced in 1936 shows jogs and gaps, with officials unsure which state camp sites streams and lakes belong to.
Attorney General H. J. Freebourn rules county commissioners may privately sell lands without reappraisal if not sold on first offering. Lands must fetch at least 90 percent of appraised price. If land values have substantially increased, a reappraisal should be ordered.
It is expected aviation manufacturing will record a 1939 year in the range of 1890 million dollars, a about 40 percent rise from 1938. This does not include contracts obtained after the embargo.
Bandy notes errors in the original survey of the Wyoming state line from the 63 mile to the 90 mile corner. Offsets due to latitude longitude subservations left the line off 45th parallel. Many corner monuments rotted leaving only chips and pits. The 63 to 90 mile segment remains unretraced and possibly jogs up to a half mile amid rough uninhabited terrain.
The Exchange notes a new invention in development that aims to prevent leaves from entering the neighbor’s yard. It may not be completed in time for autumn.
The Montana highway department invites bids for nine road and bridge projects to be opened in Helena on May 25. Projects include gravel and oil surfacing on several state roads, construction of timber and steel bridges, regrading and drainage work across Meagher Blaine Fergus Yellowstone Powder River Rosebud Gallatin counties, and additional asphalt surfacing on the Miles City Broadus route.
A Detroit interview quotes Elo Roosevelt discussing how election years fuel speculation and public interest in politics and leadership. The remarks highlight the role of media in shaping voter expectations during campaigns.
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