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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1935
Page
6
Hundreds of Gallatin county farmers are expected at Montana State College on the afternoon of June 4 to hear M. L. Wilson assistant secretary of agriculture discuss agricultural problems vital to the state. The meeting is organized by agricultural and civic groups in Gallatin county.
Thirty four Hereford heifers were exhibited and sold by the Montana State University experiment station at the annual Billings livestock sale. The cattle were fed on rations of wheat and dried pulp and pulp mill feed since last November, showing the station’s ranching program in action.
At the state house the state game and fish commission reported a cash balance of 13 651 dollars at the end of April, up from 5 390 dollars a year earlier. Over the past year license sales brought in about 170 000 dollars and April fines totaled 126 40 dollars.
The Northland Greyhound Lines and the Spokane-Butte Motor Coach filed with the state public service commission for certificates to operate a joint belt line from Garrison to Three Forks via Helena. Hearing set for May 29.
Governor Cooney urges executive clemency for Kenneth Clark serving a 10 year term for criminal assault at the state penitentiary. Effort seeks release to treat him as a psychopathic patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Clemency proposes a three year commutation to make him parole eligible.
The Montana public service commission orders Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph to show cause why rates statewide should not be reduced. A hearing is set for June 25 and will continue day by day across the state until a thorough investigation of all rates and charges is completed.
The Montana board of land commissioners voted to continue the federal wheat production control program. The state’s share of the 1933 crop adjustment payments exceeded 832,000, more than the department’s current fiscal year appropriation. Adjustment payments for 1934 were not yet completed.
Red Lodge officials announce a six event rodeo July 4 to 6 featuring a new goat roping contest. Lou Tunnicliff provides bucking stock and wild billies for the first time in the arena. Cowhand performers approach the novelty with skepticism.
University of Montana law students gain access to about 24 593 volumes spanning four centuries. The collection's oldest works include Henrici de Bractoc Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae 1569 Magna Charta 1576 Stamford Le Plees del Caron 1583 and Brook Le Grande Abridgment 1586. It also houses 45 Montana legislative session volumes from 1864 and codes from 47 other states.
An American operated air transport service reported no accidents during the second half of 1934 as it expanded routes into foreign countries. Executives cited strict safety protocols and expanded maintenance programs as key factors in the record.
State Treasurer James J. Brett issued a call for warrants on the general fund. All outstanding warrants were paid on May 22 and interest ceased. The state will pay warrants in cash after this date and issue no more registered warrants on the fund.
April fatalities totaled nine with Montana reaching 23 deaths in the first three months of the year. The report lists deaths by county and notes two from Phillips and Silver Bow each and one from five other counties, plus two Rocky Mountain spotted fever deaths and 23 influenza deaths. The Supreme Court remanded the Mining Securities case to Powell County and affirmed Silver Bow verdicts in other appeals, reversing Fergus county in the Midnorthern Oil dispute.
The State Liquor Control Board announces plans to construct a liquor warehouse in Helena as soon as possible at an estimated cost of 50 000. Architect R C Hugenin is to prepare plans and specs and seek a Public Works Administration grant. The board, after weeks of debate, unanimously approved building the facility to meet expanding storage needs and to save costs versus remodeling existing space. The board is currently leasing storage space.
Governor Cooney announces reappointments and new appointments to multiple state boards. K Bowman of Hardin is reappointed chairman of the state board of hail insurance commissioners through April 15, 1938. New members include Dr. J Arthur Lamb Kalispell Robert Loss Cascade George H Osborn Warm Springs to the state soldiers home board.
Crop estimates show winter wheat near 12 million bushels, rye up to 600 thousand, with only cold weather as a drawback. May 1 wheat condition at 84 percent, winter kill 15 percent, 770 thousand harvestable acres. Hay stocks are at a multi year low. Governor Cooney seeks to turn Mammoth Cave into a Montana state park with a CCC camp for cave work, road building, and buildings. A Fort Assinniboine CCC camp on Beaver Creek near Havre is developing 18 000 acres into a state park under Freeman A. Daley, including cleanup, sites, ponds, and fencing.
The Montana Supreme Court upheld the district court of Hill County in the case of H Earl Clack Co against Thomas Staunton of Great Falls and United States Guaranty Co. Staunton sought a venue change from Hill to Cascade County but the request was denied. Staunton built 12 miles of highway in Toole County under state contract. subcontracts led to Clack's suit over unpaid equipment supplies.
An 1868 Montana diary item helps identify writer Louisa Frizzell who journeyed west with husband Lloyd and four sons in 1852 along the Oregon Trail. The piece notes she later lived in Virginia City and may have married a Hutchinson before moving near Fort Benton.
The Bonanza mine in the Emery mining camp eight miles east of Deer Lodge, owned by the Zosel family, is leased for several years to Trout Mining Company of Philipsburg. The site will be drained and inspected to decide future plans, with a view to operating on a large scale if justified. Opened in 1888 by J. E. Marcum, it has changed hands through Dave Conklin and Warren Varella before the Philipsburg lease.
George E Farrell states that farmers voting in the national wheat referendum on May 25 placed no obligations to sign a new adjustment contract. The report notes the farmers were voting under the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The piece also mentions French Canadians enjoying numerous holidays.
James Waight and Richard Mengan, both 20 of Butte, were treated at St. James hospital for superficial wounds after a 22 caliber rifle discharged during a friendly scuffle while they were shooting gophers. Waight had a bullet wound in the left thigh and Mengan in the left hand. both were discharged.
W G Gilbert president of the Montana Woolgrowers association Howard E Morse executive board member and Joe Mel Jen vice president of the Montana Stockgrowers association returned recently from Salt Lake City where they attended a Taylor grazing act officials meeting F R Carpenter director explained latest regulations for act administration Beaverhead district has not been designated under the act
The United States received 1,898,320 short tons of sugar from Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Hawaii for consumption in the first four months of 1935. The entries, charged against 1935 quotas, accounted for 42.6 percent of admissible total from these areas.
A study of railroad waybills by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration shows farm purchasing power improving, allowing housewives nationwide to buy kitchen utensils and household furniture once again. A remark notes that a big gun is the most powerful thing on earth made by man.
Missoula High's Ebonah won first place in the class A interscholastic newspaper contest. Gallatin Coin and Great Falls tied for second, Flathead Butte Boys' Central won first in class B with Laurel second and Hardin third. Shelby led class C with White Sulphur Springs second and Sacred Heart academy of Missoula third. Class D was won by Hamilton with Clyde Park second and Bainville third.
An industry estimate suggests that an average automobile wheel is about 54 ounces out of balance. This figure highlights common balancing issues affecting ride quality and tire wear.
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