Law May Compel Conservation of Auto Tires
The OPA in Helena asks state leaders and local officials to aid in tire conservation. Officials will be urged to stop drivers who abuse tires by overloading or speeding so they may be denied new tire certificates. The plan calls for tighter scrutiny of applications and cross‑checks with other sources to ensure rubber is used only for essential purposes.
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Office of Price Administration
A. T. Peterson
Helena
Peterson
OPA
Sam C. Ford
Highway Patrol
Justices of the Peace
Clem W. Collins
Denver
Collins
Shell filling method described for TNT explosives
A common method of filling shells with TNT involves heating the explosive to just above its melting point and pouring it directly into the shell. The description notes the TNT resembles brown sugar at normal temperatures during heating.
Montana Farmers Exceed War Production Goals Amid Yields
Montana farmers surpassed most war production targets with gains across crops. Wheat totals rose to 74,062,000 bushels, barley and oats feed crops reached record or near-record levels, and sugar beets, flaxseed, and rye show strong yields. Rust and grasshoppers hurt flax, while barley and oats lead the 1942 crop outlook.
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Montana
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Montana committee proposes license and governance reforms
A state reorganization and economy panel to Gov. Sam C. Ford urged codifying trade and license statutes and consolidating licensing under a single agency. It called abolishing the board of food distributors, selling timber lands to the state, codifying fish and game laws, halting new junior colleges, and transferring Havre North Montana college lands.
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State Board of Food Distributors
W. E. Dowlin
State Board of Health
Montana Trade Commission
State Board of Equalization
Equalization Board
Associated Merchants of
Montana
State
North Montana College
Havre
State Board of Education
West Virginia Oil Discovery in Southwest Virginia
The West Virginia 24th state to produce oil with finds in Lee County Virginia near Tennessee. Sands found at 1100 feet yield about twenty barrels per day, marking a new era for regional petroleum.
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Virginia
Lee County
Kentucky
Tennessee
Union
Deny Price Hike Based On Higher Railroad Rates
Wisconsin oil men requested higher retail prices due to a 6 percent railroad freight rate rise last March but the OPA refused any price increases based on higher freight costs. An official noted that price hikes require proof of hardship from the rate increase.
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Washington
Wisconsin
OPA
Fast Coast Shipments Rise in Oil Tank Car Volume
Tank car shipments of oil to the east coast averaged 824 850 barrels daily for the week ending September 5, up 1 590 barrels per day from the prior week.
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East Coast
Legislation Aims Rename Boards and Abolish Agencies
A report outlines plans to require ports on motor fuel for intrastate and interstate shipments to aid tax collection, abolish the state board of education examiners and empower the education board to adopt new rules, and abolish the inactive state agricultural conservation board created in 1935. The committee declined action on numerous recommendations from the Griffenhagen report on various state offices and commissions as outside its reorganization powers.
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educa=tion
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Cates
State Agricultural Conservation Board
Griffenhagen
Attorney General's Office
Armory Board
Veterans’ Welfare Commission
Athletic Commission
Veterans’ Memorial Commission
Teachers’ Retirement Board
Highway Patrol
Grass Conservation Board
Ickes to Speak to Oil Men at Wichita Meeting
Secretary of the Interior and Petroleum Coordinator for War Ickes will address the Independent Petroleum Association of America at its 13th Annual Meeting in Wichita Kansas October 19 20 and 21. His banquet speech is scheduled for October 21 with efforts to broadcast via CBS and KFBB to reach Montana listeners.
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Harold L. Ickes
Interior
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Frank Buttram
Oklahoma City
Wichita
Kansas
Ickes
Columbia Broadcasting System
KFBB
Great Falls
Ickes Praises Gasoline Output For War Planes
Petroleum Coordinator Harold L. Ickes says U.S. production of 100 octane gasoline for warplanes is vastly beyond expectations from a year ago, highlighting extraordinary wartime speeds and efficiency.
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Baltimore
America
Harold L. Ickes
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