Montana Ends Session Ayers Signs Most Measures
Governor Roy E Ayers completed action on 65 remaining bills from the 26th Montana Legislature vetoing 13 and approving the rest. A notable law allows women to serve on juries beginning January 1940. The veto list included welfare payments for silicosis victims and a loan shark bill.
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Montana
Legislative
Roy E. Ayers
State Land Department
State Welfare Department
Ayers
Increase in Montana bank cash and February receipts rise
Montana held 7,571,804.10 dollars in banks on March 1, up from 7,103,943.91 a year earlier. Ray N. Shannon, state treasurer, notes February receipts reached 2,447,739.56, higher than 1,888,387.73 last year, while February disbursements dropped to 3,067,104.98 from 4,197,316 in 1938.
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Montana
Ray N. Shannon
State seeks flight instructors and aircraft mechanics
The state employment service reports a call for 10 flight instructors and seven aircraft mechanics for steady positions. Instructors must be 21 to 45 with high school education and at least a commercial pilot license. pay starts at 200 dollars a month for instructors and 150 dollars for mechanics, per Barclay Craighead, chairman of the unemployment compensation commission.
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State Employment Service
Barclay Craighead
State
Fish and Game Board Denounces Unfair Subcommittee Report
The state fish and game commission called a recent legislature subcommittee report unjust and manifestly unfair. It says an auditor found a discrepancy of 531 beaver hides but later corrected the error. The department asked State Examiner W. A. Brown to audit its books and hide records.
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State Fish and Game Commission
House
State Department
W. A. Brown
Leaphart Backed for Supreme Court Appointment
Senator James E. Murray urges President Roosevelt to appoint Charles W. Leaphart of Missoula, dean of the state university law school for two decades, to the vacancy on the U S Supreme Court. Leaphart is in Washington serving as counsel for the Department of Justice before federal appellate courts.
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James E. Murray
Charles W. Leaphart
Missoula
State University Law School
President Roosevelt
United States Supreme Court
Washington
D. C
Leaphart
Department of Justice
Four Hundred Twenty Five File Claims In Montana
Four hundred twenty five workers from twenty six states filed unemployment claims with the Montana unemployment compensation commission. They had built up benefit accounts before arriving and have spent about sixty thousand dollars since coming to the state, according to Chairman Barclay Craighead.
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Montana
State
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Barclay Craighead
Craighead
Tough on Lions But Very Good for Deer in Boulder Valley
Roy Murray reports a harsh campaign against mountain lions near his Boulder valley ranch. He has delivered eight lions to the state for bounty last spring and three more early this year, with a record four in a single week including a lioness and her three kittens. He treks 20 to 30 snowy miles to hunt, sometimes camping without bed or blankets.
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Roy Murray
Boulder Valley
Roy
State Fish and Game Department
State funds show gain and a red university millage fund
Montana posted a total of 6,472,519 in all state funds on March 1, up from 6,004,292 a year before per State Auditor John J. Holmes. Only the university millage fund was overdrawn by 51,488, while the general fund stood at 122,887 in the red most of the past two decades. Bonded indebtedness was 9,003,224.
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Montana
John J. Holmes
University
Income Taxes Likely Above 1938 Total
Federal income tax returns were filed by March 15 with $650,070 collected, down from $697,159 in 1938. Collector Lewis Penwell expected the gap to be closed by late-filed returns and predicted the year’s total would exceed last year’s after final collections. A full report would come several days later.
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Internal Revenue
Lewis Penwell
Helena Opium Den Yields Large Crop
Federal officers led by L V Snowden and D E Denneen raided Wong Ah Foo’s Helena residence uncovering mor phine yensee and yenpops concealed in clothing and a stool. They found three opium layouts pipes lamps yen hooks and needles. pipes were hot. It was the first Montana opium den busted since the 1920s.
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Helena
Wong Ah Foo
L. V. Snowden
Federal Narcotics Bureau
D. E. Denneen
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
Montana
Changes in State Job Insurance Act Explained
Senate Bill 58 changes Montana job insurance rules signed by Governor Ayers. It lowers the waiting period to two weeks, extends benefits to the full 16 weeks, and redefines the base period to the first four of the last five completed quarters. The employer threshold is updated to cover those with one or more workers in any 20 weeks and a payroll above 500 dollars, exempting over 1500 people from reports.
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Senate
Legislative Assembly
Roy FE. Ayers
Montana
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Bowman Named Chief Engineer for State Rail Commission
The state railroad and public service commission appointed Professor C. F. Bowman of the Montana State College electrical engineering department as chief engineer. Bowman assumed duties March 15, bringing decades of expertise in radio circuits, tubes, illumination, transmission and power resources. He served as a Navy radio operator in World War I and is president of the Montana section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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The
State Railroad and Public Service Commission
C. F. Bowman
State College At
Bozeman
Bowman
Electrical Engineering
Navy
Montana
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Soup Mixup Sparks Wordplay Between Boarder and Waitress
A humorous exchange in a diner has a boarder asking whether the soup is chicken or vegetable. The waiter replies with a joke about gasoline and turpentine, turning the moment into a light trade of puns about taste and smell.
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Boarder
Montana to sue 150 employers over unpaid payroll taxes
State unemployment compensation officials anticipate suits against nearly 150 Montana employers who owe 1937 and 1938 unemployment taxes. Attorney I. Lofgren said most employers pay promptly. officials will not extend time for those who deliberately refuse to pay.
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Montana
I. Lofgren
State Commission
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Lofgren
Nine-Man Commission Named to Study Wildlife in Montana
A nine member panel appointed by the state fish and game commission will study Montana wildlife conditions and report to the state board. Chairman B L Price said wildlife resources are very valuable and the group will coordinate conservation efforts by listing all projects affecting wildlife management.
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State Fish and Game Commission
Montana
B. L. Price
Laurel
Fish and Game Commission
McKinnon Elected to Western Road Officials Board
Don McKinnon state highway engineer was elected to the board of directors of the Western Association of State Highway Officials at its annual meeting in San Francisco. He also serves as general chairman of the Montana National Bituminous Conference, a world wide road builders' group.
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Don McKinnon
Western Association of State Highway Officials
San Francisco
McKinnon
Precipitation In Montana Valleys Shows Surplus
Surveys by the engineering office of the department of agriculture indicate western Montana valley precipitation from October 1, 1938, to March 1, 1939, reached 102 percent of normal. The Missouri river valley in central and eastern Montana ran slightly below normal.
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Department of Agriculture
Montana
Missouri River
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Montana State Highway Patrol
Shell Oil Company
J. M. Anderson
Shell
Anderson
Chevrolet
Pi da Lac
Rail Board
Prof. C. F. Bowman
Treasure State Refining Company
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Shelby, Montana
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Oliver Farm Equipment
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