Glacier National Park opens 1939 season with ready facilities
Glacier National Park enters a full 1939 season as hotels at Many Glacier and Lake McDonald open and chalets at Two Medicine Sun Camp and Belton welcome guests. Wranglers, waitresses, and park staff arrive, with red buses resuming tours and boats joining the lakes. Logan Pass drives through Going to the Sun Highway begin earlier than usual due to a warm spring.
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Glacter ‘National’ Park
Glacier : ‘National’ Park
Glacier Park
Glacier
McDonald
Medicine
Sun Camp
Belton
Sperry
Cutbank
Glacier National Park
Waterton Lakes National Park
Canada
Great Northern Railway
Empire Builder
Dbus Hines
Logan Pass
Logan Pass Road Now Open For Short Distances Health
Near 6 664 foot elevation the highway offers a dry clear stretch for motorists. Campgrounds and picnic sites welcome visitors as 18 temporary rangers and 9 ranger naturalists join year round staff to provide protective and informational services. CCC crews and ERA workers maintain trails roadsides and campgrounds. A fire school held June 5 to 7. seasoned guards and lookouts have returned to posts.
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Logan Pass
CCC
Montana Court Rules Bond Funding Law Constitutional
The Montana supreme court unanimously holds that counties may issue funding bonds to pay obligations without double taxation. J C F Siegfriedt of Carbon challenges $83,709.05 funding bonds. Nine counties planned to issue bonds to repay state shares of old age assistance and aid to dependent children.
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Montana Supreme Court
J. C. F. Siegfriedt
Carbon County
Carbon County Board of Commissioners
Montana
I. M. Brandford
Public Welfare Board
Transfers Funds Dividing Among Out of County Pupils
Attorney General H. J. Freebourn rules that funds budgeted for transfer expenses of pupils attending schools outside their resident counties must be allotted equally among all such students. J. W. Lynch of Fort Benton represents Chouteau county in the matter.
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H. J. Freebourn
J. W. Lynch
Fort Benton
Chouteau County
4 H Club News and Collins Booster Notes
The Better Homes 4 H club met June 5 at Alice King's home with Merle During presiding. They discussed demonstrating and judging teams and followed with recreation led by Miss Knowlton. The Collins Booster club met June 7 at W D Reiquam’s home with talks on caring for baby chicks and gardening and a sewing machine demonstration by Eileen Reiquam.
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Better Homes
Alice King
Ancetne
Merle
Collins Booster Club
W. D. Reiquam
Eugene Quenomoen
Billy Reiquam
Eileen Reiquam
Quenomoen
Lila Reiquam
Ideal Homemakers 4 H Club Holds Fifth Meeting
The Ideal Homemakers 4 H club met at Young's on June 8 with three Brady and Niehart visitors. They finalized plans for a June 21 tour in Great Falls and the year’s program, with a June 15 meeting at Beerman's.
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Ideal Homemakers Club
Ideal Homemakers 4
Young’s
Great Falls
Brady
Niehart
Beerman
Humming Bird 4H Club Meeting Sees Demonstrations and Cake Judging
The ninth Humming Bird 4 H club meeting was held at the club house on a Saturday in June with two leaders and sixteen members present. After the regular business, girls demonstrated and the group judged breads and cakes. One member dropped out. Three visitors attended including Miss Knowlton from Cha teau. Betty Schultz will attend the 4 H State Convention in Bozeman as the club delegate.
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Miss Knowlton
Chateau
Betty Schultz
Bozeman
Early Bird Breakfast Club Meeting Notes
June 17 meeting at Mrs Webb's chaired by President Joan Allen. Amy Lee led pledges and acted as secretary treasurer. Roll call on foods eaten between meetings. July 8 at Mary Higgins. Elaine Passmore to talk on clearing off the table. Health talk by county nurse Mrs Readicker. Neva demonstrated ginger bread and cream.
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Early Bird
Mrs. Webb
Joan Allen
Amy Lee
Mary Higgin
Elaine Passmore
Readicker
Neva
Mary Higgins
Health meeting and club tour with Greta Bush hosts
North Star 41H members gathered at Greta Bush's home on Thursday June 8 at 2 30. Each member gave health talks including poems on health eye care food habits dental care posture and exercises. The group toured Great Falls visiting Sapphire Flour Mill Charles Russell Memorial Great Falls Airport and enjoyed a Giant Springs picnic before Gibson Park supper.
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North Star
Greta Bush
Mae Gronberg
Anna Lee Dauwalder
Dorothy Dale
Donna Faye Dauwalder
Lois Gronberg
Mrs. Bush
Greta
Great Falls
Sapphire
Charles Russell
Giant Springs
Gibson Park
United Hearts 4-H Club Fifth Meeting Notes June 1
The United Hearts 4-H club met at Lucille Hansen's on June 1 with Frances Denison and Lucille Hansen demonstrating. A lunch was served by Virginia Kochman and Madge Newman, and visitor Mrs. Cliff Hansen joined. The group planned demonstrations for Chateau and named Frances Denison and Donna Hamburg to present.
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United Hearts
Lucille Hansen
Frances Denison
Virginia Kochman
Madge Newman
Cliff Hansen
Donna Hamburg
Green
Chateau
Francis Denison
Katherine Kelly
Federal contract to raise dykes at Pishkun reservoir
The federal government awarded a contract to enlarge the Pishkun reservoir in the Sun River district. Four dykes will be raised and four new ones built at a total cost of $142 10. The project will boost capacity from 22 000 to 29 000 acre feet and ensure a steadier irrigation supply for 86 000 acres in the Greenfields district.
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Pishkun Reservoir
Sun River District
Greenfields
Echoes From the Past June 26 1919 and 1929 items
Notices recount the sudden death of ranch manager George E. Bowers on Minnesota fishing trips, multiple June marriages including C D McDonald with Eva Sturgeon and Alta Cohoe with Jim Ledgerwood, plus Olga Waynild and Gordon Monkman. Fire and weather notes cover Flathead forest fire, a near fatal lightning strike on Henry Schneider, and a grizzly bear elk calf kill spotted on June 27. Other items note tours, ship departures, and local medical moves.
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George E. Bowers
Reickhoff
Minnesota
C. D. McDonald
Eva Marie Sturgeon
L. F. Haley
Bride
Helen Sturgeon
E. J. Crary
Alta Cohoe
Jim Ledgerwood
Cut Bank
Olga Waynild
W. E. Lockhart
Birch Creek
Katherine
C. S. McDonald
New York
Mildred Thompson
Lews Thompson
Earl Butcher
Gallup City
Shelby
Gordon Dutt
Maynard
Ruth Evelyn Jarl
Everett Houle
Superior
Wis
Great Falls
BE. J. Crary
Minneapolis Hospital
Helena Survey Approved For City Housing Project
Senator James E. Murray informed the Helena city council that a Works Progress Administration project to conduct a property survey of Helena, estimated at 3261 dollars, has been approved in Washington. The survey is the first step in a housing authority project to be carried on in Helena.
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James E. Murray
Helena
Works Progress Administration
Washington, D. C
Soil Board Named to Meet New Act
Governor Roy E. Ayers appoints a seven member Montana soil conservation commission to coordinate projects in cooperation with federal and state agencies under the new act. Members include Clyde McKee Bozeman J C Taylor Bozeman James B Grierson Myers Rockwood Brown Billings James T Sparling Flaxville John E Norton Bozeman and Ole Gunderson Power.
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Roy E. Ayers
State Soil Conservation Commission
Montana
Sevenman Board
Clyde McKee
Bozeman
State Agricultural ‘Experiment Station
J. C. Taylor
James B. Grierson
Myers
State Grasing’ Commission
Rockwood Brown
Billings
Water Conservation Board
James T. Sparling
Flaxville
John E. Norton
Montana Farm Bureau
Ole Gunderson
Power
Farmers Union
Wheat crop in 1939 at lowest in years says USDA
USDA estimates the nations 1939 wheat crop will total 668 to 693 million bushels, down from 930 million a year ago. Winter wheat about 523 million, spring wheat 145 to 170 million. Domestic export needs run about 750 million, with a 275 million bushel surplus likely to cover the shortfall.
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Fedeal Agricultural Department
Railroads and rivals contend highway subsidies overtaxing them
The piece contrasts Great Northern and its trucking competitor claiming heavy tax burdens. It notes the trucker earned over 314 million dollars last year and paid taxes totaling 1068/100 percent of revenue, similar to the Great Northern’s 10 56/100 percent, arguing both must fund general government costs and maintain roadways used by trucks.
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The
Great Northern
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Ol’ Prof. Wright
Chick’s Shell Station
Soil Board
Wwe
Ahan
GMC
Arensmeyer Garage
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