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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
2
Publication details for Choteau Montana appearing weekly on Thursdays with second class entry. Subscription costs listed for in county and out of county, plus foreign and Canada. Advertising rates given: display 40c per column inch, volume discounts, legal ads statutory rates, want ads 50c minimum.
The piece outlines Montana's ongoing farm labor shortage as production expands postwar. It notes limited native labor, reliance on Mexican nationals with varied experience, and a projected need of 5,250 workers to harvest 80,000 beet acres. German POW labor supplied 3,300 this season but is returning home.
Missouri Basin Inter-Agency committee hears that two of 11 Montana developments in the Pick Sloan Missouri basin program are near contracting. Canyon Ferry dam and Marias project reach bid-ready stages pending appropriations and Montana Water Co. contract. Completion would water 446000 extra acres.
Col H H Roberts says only about 3,000,000 acres have been treated and $12,000,000 in work remains to finish the world’s largest earth filled barrier in northeastern Montana. Current year expenditures will total about $5,000,000 with $4,000,000 for a power plant expected to generate 105,000 kilowatt hours.
Bottomly stated a petition signed by five percent of votes cast for the primary winner must be filed with the proper state or county officer by August 6 to qualify for the November ballot.
A Grandview Missouri letter to the editor corrects an article about Bonnie Wade Humble and clarifies statements regarding Harry S Truman and Wade Humble. It notes the president conferred the Third Degree on Humble at the Grandview Masonic lodge in 1935 and mentions Truman as first Master of Grandview lodge No 618 A F and A M.
A reader clarifies that a 1940 letter accompanying a president’s picture to Bonnie Wade was written by Mary Jane Truman, sister of the president, not his daughter. The note confirms long acquaintance with Mr Humble and his mother Mrs Josephine Humble, longtime Grandview postmaster, and aims to keep records straight.
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