Five Montana 4 H Members Win National Awards
Five Montana 4 H members earned national recognition in the farm and home accounting contest among 5000 entrants. Paul R. Musgrave of Belfry and Doris M. Reuss of Forsyth won blue and national awards respectively, with Clara Mehling Park City Edwin Brown Bridger and Arthur Grebe Belfry earning state red blue awards. The contest required receipts expenditures inventories and analysis of farm home and crop accounts with income improvement suggestions.
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Montana
Doris M. Reuss
Forsyth
Governor Proclaims Mineral County Emergency for Fund Transfer
Gov. Roy E. Ayers declares an emergency in Mineral County enabling the county commissioners to move 2000 from the road fund to the poor fund under state public welfare law. The proclamation cites the necessity for the transfer to aid county welfare needs.
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Mineral County
Roy E. Ayers
Fish Plantings Expected to Exceed Last Year Total
John Schofield state superintendent of fisheries and hatcheries says this year’s fish plants will likely top last year’s 23 622 802. Large plantings will continue through September, making exact figures unavailable at present.
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John Schofield
North Montana State Fair draws record crowds and marquee features
The 10th anniversary North Montana State Fair opened Monday August 5 with record advance ticket sales and a rush of exhibitors from across the region. Livestock entries include 25 Herefords 13 Shorthorns 6 Aberdeen Angus and 24 dairy herds while 42 horse shows 15 swine entries and a six day 42 event race meet with $18000 in purses. The rodeo by Leo Cremer the Rubin and Cherry exposition the State Fair Revue and the Miss Montana contest headline a busy midway and entertainment program. More than 400 thoroughbred horses compete and 1000s attend 4-H FFA events with beauty contestants vying for Miss Montana to go to Atlantic City. Bernadine Lewis King will perform aerial stunts Saturday. Public ticket sales indicate this is Montana’s greatest spectacle yet.
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North Montana
Branchos
Atlantic City
Bernadine Lewis King
Montana
United States
Canada
Montana notices and appointments across cities
Len H. Morrow of Great Falls is named to the state board of pharmacy by Gov. Ayers for a term ending July 1, 1943. Other briefs note ranch sale near Olive to Mrs. Tom Jones, a major hailstorm in Red Lodge destroying 40,000 to 50,000 bushels of grain, a moose sighting near Whitefish, first crop insurance for Sam Kerstein, death of Mrs. Frank McDonnell in Seattle, law school graduates admitted, mining and park travel news, a fatal runaway in Livingston, a notable obituary in Best, a rabbit scratch causing death in Columbia Falls, Dr. I Q Valentine joining Crow tribe rites, and a rattlesnake find east of Fairfield.
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Helena
Len H. Morrow
Great Falls
Roy EB. Ayers
State Board of Pharmacy
Broadus
John Childress
Olive
Tom Jones
Miles City
Red Lodge
Roberts
Fos
Janet Logan A CBS Beauty On Road of Life
Janet Logan, a 95 pound CBS actress known as Nurse Helen Gowan Stephenson on Road of Life, balances radio work with talents in figure skating dance swimming golf and more. A Los Angeles beauty contest winner shortly after drama school, she blends beauty brains and energy across a busy career.
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Janet Logan
CBS
Heard
Helen Gowan Stephenson
Columbia Network
Janet
Los Angeles
Dramatic School
Great Northern Officials Report 1940 Business Boost
G N official says Great Northern will post a 15 percent gross rise in 1940 over 1939. F R Newman, VP traffic, spoke at Great Falls and noted Glacier Park hotel business is ahead of last year. Lumber metal and grain shipments, including copper and iron, are larger than in 1939 with Newman touring Fort Peck and Montana en route to St Paul.
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Great Northern Taey
F. R Newman
Great Falls
Newman
Glacier Park
Montana
Fort Peckham
St. Paul
Mapping Resources Projects Across States
In compliance with the national defense council the state highway department maps natural resource locations and analyzes gravel and soil deposits along highways. Similar state programs are under way to provide the national council with comprehensive data.
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National Defense Council
State Highway Department
National Council
The Brewers Big Horses by Mildred Walker Published
Great Falls reports author Mildred Walker formerly Mrs. F R Schemm has sent her fourth novel to Harcourt Brace The Brewers Big Horses chronicles a woman fighting social intolerance and follows Wireweed Light from Arcturus and Dr Norton's Wife authorship history.
Old-time bullwhacker Hank Flanagan Dies in Stevensville
Henry W. Flanagan, 88, a Montana resident since 1864 and famous bullwhacker known as Hank, died in Stevensville after a long life of freighting between Helena and Fort Benton and service as an army scout with General Howard during the Nez Perce war. Born in Dalton, Nebraska, he moved west with his family in 1864, drove ox teams across the plains, later settled in Bitterroot valley, and was a lifelong member of the I O O F at Stevensville.
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Henry W. Flanagan
Montana
Stevensville
Dalton
Hank” Flanagan
Flanagan
Iowa
Idaho
Montana Territory
Plains
Hank
Fort Benton
Helena
Bozeman
Howard
Bear Paw Mountains
O. G. Cooper
Barker
Cooper
Cow Island
Bitter Root
I. O. O. F. Lodge
The Lady Was Right About Monkeys in Yellowstone
Yellowstone Park staff confront a visiting tourist who claimed to see monkeys along the highway. Ranger George Kennaugh explains monkeys are not native to the area and discovers two from a traveling zoo had escaped into the park. The incident ends with a pine cone barrage from the displaced primates.
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Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone National Park
George Kennaugh
Kennaugh
State income gains report for insurance department
The state insurance department earned 375 255 in the first six months, about 6 000 more than the same period last year, from licenses and the premium tax. Jack Pace, son of former Jefferson county residents, visited in Whitehall. he now works for Thomas E. Dewey in New York.
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State Insurance Department
John J. Holmes
Whitehall
Jack Pace
Ike E. O. Pace
Jefferson County
Lot Borden
Jack
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Lincoln
Neb
Aalto Vision for Finland as a Laboratory of Oil Building
Architect Alvar Aalto expresses a personal wish to make Finland a laboratory of good oil building. He frames the idea as a national project blending design, industry, and quality materials to advance modern architecture.
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Alvar Aalto
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