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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1939
Page
3
In a Farmers Bulletin excerpt, Leon C. Snyder warns that house cats devastate songbirds and game birds across North America. He urges farmers to limit cats, lock them at night, and discard stray-cat practices to protect wildlife.
The house killed a road and poll tax bill that would have required all jurors to pay taxes. The woman juror bill passed the house, and the tax bill faced opposition from its backers. If both bills pass, women jurors would pay $4 annually in road and poll taxes.
Opponents defeated a bill to reduce real estate tax classification from 30 to 20 percent. The measure would have saved the state about 4.7 million dollars annually, while a separate Senate proposal to tax cuts in a county was rejected 27 to 20. Senator Drumheller, taxation committee chair, said the state would lose 600000 to 800000 annually if the bill passed.
A Sunday pickup option remains for revelers after a bill failed to pass. Lawmakers rejected a measure to close saloons from Saturday midnight to Monday morning and on election days.
Teton County Montana board of commissioners met February 6 7 and 8 1939 auditing county claims approving tax cancellations and payrolls granting a 25 dollar monthly cash allowance for care of a dependent and requesting extension service funding and liquor revenue sharing. They examined reports from the poor farm county nurse and county treasurer and approved numerous warrants across general road poor bridge and miscellaneous funds with relief requests and county office payments noted.
The house moved nearly 60 measures through the calendar in day sessions before the midnight deadline to send bills to the senate. Proposals included taxes on trucking, telephone gross income, coal over 100 000 tons mined annually, and oleomargarine. also a highway commission, civil service for legislative staff, and rural electrification levy upgrades. The Senate approved welfare act amendments, four year terms for county attorneys, later saloon hours, welfare fund deposits, re enacted chain store tax, higher non resident fishing licenses, a seven man fish and game panel, and highway and defense related measures including $16 000 for tourism ads and federal aid road reconstruction.
A house paused bill would exempt residents aged 70 and over from fishing licenses this summer. The measure keeps existing exemptions for youths under 15.
The Montana House killed a bill by Representative Cannon of Silver Bow county to permit salmon eggs as bait for anglers. Fishermen will instead have to use worms and hoppers or other methods to catch trout.
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