County Agent Outlines County Planning Effort in Agriculture
County Agent Fred Willson details a two year effort to unify agricultural planning in Teton county. He notes thirteen community committees formed, land use map corrections completed, and farm budgets discussed to shape a long term county plan with farmer cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Willson
Teton County
Agawam
Joe Torgerson
Alex Truchot
Henry Weist
Farmington
Dick Reiding
Martin Swanson
Chris Swenson
Bynum
Reid Swenson
County Agricultural Board Formed With Multiple Agency Officers
Representatives from the Grain Producers association and the A A A Farm Security Farm Credit administration Soil Conservation and local government agencies join on the central committee. The group aims to advance county agriculture through coordinated policy and future planning with strong community support.
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Ion
The
Grain Producers Association
Water Conservation Board
Modern Rustlers Target Montana Cattle Industry
Cattle rustling resurfaces in Montana as a steer carcass is found on railroad tracks near East Helena. The animal was killed and the hind quarters are missing, signaling a nighttime theft that threatens the livestock trade.
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Montana
East Helena
Notes From Montana State University Missoula Campus
Mary Ellen Robison, a Chateau student at Montana State University, is a member of Women's Athletic Association. Wayne Gitchel, a senior chemist from Pendroy, belongs to M club and Pi Mu Epsilon. The student union building serves campus activity, funded by students over years. The library invites deposits of old Montana newspapers and clippings for its reference service.
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Mary Ellen Robison
Chateau
Montana State University
Women’s Athletic Association
Wayne Gitchel
Pendroy
Pi Mu Epsilon
Montana
Montana State University Library
Local Welfare Officers Ready to Aid Blind Program
Local welfare office has received forms for the aid to the needy blind program. Eligibility hinges on financial need, degree of blindness, and potential vision correction. An ophthalmologist appointed by the state welfare board will assess blindness and treatment options. Applicants may apply in person or by mail to the Teton county public welfare office in Choteau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Public Welfare
State Welfare Board
Board of County Commissioners
Teton County
State Board of Equalization appeals Gallatin tax ruling
The State Board of Equalization appeals a Gallatin County district court decision requiring the purchaser of an automobile after January 1 to pay the taxes. Through its attorney Judge John A. Matthews the board seeks a Supreme Court ruling that car dealers must pay taxes on all autos in their possession January 1.
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State Board of Equalization
Gallatin County District Court
John A. Matthews
Supreme Court
Public Welfare Commission to Buy 189 Sewing Machines
The Public Welfare Commission ordered 189 sewing machines for Works Progress Administration projects serving relief clients. The machines will support 1400 women in sewing room projects and workers' proceeds are distributed to relief clients through the commodity department, Administrator J. M. Brandford announced.
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Works Progress Administration
Public Welfare Commission
Commodity Department
J. M. Brandford
Montana joins inter state parole supervision system
The last legislature placed Montana in a parole supervision group resulting in Mike Horan being returned to Illinois as a parole violator. This case is the first under the effort to tighten criminal acts against lawlessness and ensures parolees moving between states come under surveillance of the receiving state's parole board.
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Montana
Mike Horan
Illinois
Parole Board of the
Istate
State Purchases For Training School And Highway Dept
I S McQuitty state purchasing agent bought $854 worth of children's clothing from several firms for the Boulder training school. The state opened 14 bids on 3500 gallons of stripe paint with samples to be tested in the state laboratory. A carload of gasoline was purchased from Big West Refining Co. and lumber from Interstate Lumber Co. for the highway department. A Plymouth sedan was bought for the State Board of Equalization from McArthur Motor Co. of Great Falls and a one ton Reo truck for the state vocational school from Benson Carpenter Co. of Helena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. S. McQuitty
Boulder
Big West Refining Co
Interstate Lumber Co
Highway Department
State Board of Equalization
McArthur Motor Co
Great Falls
Benson-Carpenter Co
Helena
State Purchases Steel for Montana License Plates
State purchasing agent J. B. McQuitty ordered 133 tons of 24 gauge steel from Joseph T. Ryerson Co of Chicago at 4.76 dollars per 100 pounds. New plates will be sturdier and cost 1.5 cents more each than the old version.
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Montana
J. 8. McQuitty
Joseph T. Ryerson Company
Chicago
State cash balance boosts Montana treasury in February
Montana's cash balance on February 1 stood at $9,427,769, about one million higher than a year earlier, Treasurer Ray N. Shannon announced. January income reached $1,031,000 while disbursements totaled $2,959,841.
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Montana
Ray N. Shannon
Federal benefits for Montanans turning 65 in 1937
Helena office of the social security board offers free help to claimants who reached age 65 since January 1 1937 or the estates of workers who died since then. Lump sum payments equal 344 percent of earnings are available to eligible workers and estate beneficiaries. In 1937 Montana paid 6463.05 dollars to those turning 66 or to deceased workers estates.
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Helena
Montana
United States
The
Social Security Board
Foggy day hints at showers and moon forces
The column muses on weather lore and the moon while praising Boy Scouts seen at a Methodist church service. It recalls a youngster named Leslie Jourdonnais doing his good turn and urges adults to imitate the Scouts as future citizens and leaders.
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Methodist Church
John Barleycorn
Mephisto
Chateau
Leslie Jourdonnais
BE. R. McLean
Power Company seeks writ to block water rights hearing
The Montana Power Company asks Judge A J Horaky in Helena for a writ of prohibition to stop the Public Service Commission from hearing Madison River farmers claim to priority water rights during the growing season. The petition asks to prevent water impounding in the Hebren during summer. A hearing on the writ is set for this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Power Company
A. J. Horaky
Helena
Public Service. Commission
Madison River
Commission
Hebren
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E. N. Southard
Peden
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Harold Crane
Roscoe Thompson
Miles Averill
Diamond Valley
M. B. Bolland
Harry Laubach
Fred Schults
Fairfield
Qa. Baldwin
Yarl Smith
Lester Young
Bole
W. G. Deuwalder
Stewart Meyers
Lyle Standish
Duatton
Ole Rosholt
Donald Kerr
Wm. Webber
Beck
John Toenyes
Geo. Heddington
Joe Primus
Earl Yeager
Oliver Mauseth
J. C. Salmond
Farmers UN
Patrick Cardinal Hayes
New York
Coral Gables
Fla
Nassau
King Carol of
Romania
Michael
Goga
Carol
Magda Lupescu
William J. Kelly
Machinery Institute
Senate
Fisher
Chevrolet
General Meters
Seles Corpor
Dereon
Joull de Hhend
Wallace Motor Company
Choteau, Montana
State University At
Missoula
Charles Krause
St. Anthony & Dakota Lumber Co
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