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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1940
Page
6
Anaconda Copper Mining Co raises wages across its Montana mines mills and refiners by 25 cents a day as copper price rises above 114 cents per pound for a 30 day average. Underground minimum increases to 6.00 dollars a day. salaried workers up 6.25 dollars monthly.
The Hospital Service Association of Montana filed articles of incorporation creating a no capital nonprofit group to provide hospital care via a small monthly fee about one dollar. Trustees include 13 prominent Montana medical figures led by President J. Shields and Dr L Hawkins explain the venture as hospital insurance for organized groups and individuals who join through clubs or organizations.
September 1940 brought record rainfall and heat in Stevensville, a penitentiary inmate tally of 500 in Deer Lodge, FHA insured loans totaling 430 550 in Helena, and Runyan couple’s 40th anniversary in Whitefish. Nashua gains gas service. three insurance agents named in Billings. Edmon ton pleads to second degree assault. Lambert injured in Palace Club incident. WPA begins 240-worker airport project in Butte with earth removal to expand runways for bombers.
The United States currently has a capacity to produce about 3000 short tons of magnesium though demand greatly outstrips supply. Atawcoesiika is noted as a competitor to aluminum in the market.
J R R Carmichael of Billings was elected president of the Montana Fire Underwriters association at the annual meeting in Great Falls. He succeeds W G Bloomdahl of Great Falls. Larry T Diringer of Great Falls becomes vice president with Malcolm McLelland of Helena named secretary treasurer.
The article notes a surge of American prodistia being introduced into Brazil, signaling expanding cross border trade. It highlights potential economic impacts and policy considerations as the imports increase.
Aldermen faced a paradox as Poundmaster McKenzie claimed 210 tails totaling 210 dollars for eliminating dogs. Officials approved the payment and later burned the tails while McKenzie sought an icebox to store them. He also noted other animals and packed doubt about broader bounties.
A five carload shipment of certified seed potatoes from Irvine & Cotton farm near Dillon left for New Orleans to be loaded onto a freighter bound for Argentina. The grower is the region’s largest, and the 1940 consign ment is the largest yet. Crates hold 110 pounds each. Delays from September rains slowed digging and some tubers cannot be classified as No 1 seed potatoes.
It is estimated that during 1939 motor vacation travel reached an all time high of five billion dollars, signaling strong growth in American road tourism and related travel spending.
Twenty eight purebred Hereford bulls were sold at an auction in Montana. Prices included a top bid of 450 dollars for a bull bought by Grande Jr. of Lennep, with another bull purchased for 245 dollars. An average price of 189 dollars was reported with many bulls at 215 dollars each. All cattle went to Montana buyers in the first auction held by Ross and Walter Higgins.
Six of seven Hobbs sisters who came to Montana in the 1880s remain alive in Carbon county. The article notes marriages into local families, and references frontier figure Liver-Eating Johnson as described by J A Barclay who slept on a barn floor after arrival.
A state sugar beet display from seeds to sugar, sponsored by Montanans Inc, tours Montana after three fairs and a reclamation meeting. It is now in Great Falls with Dan P. Thurber arranging further showings. The 1940 Montana beet crop is 1,050,000 tons on 86,000 acres, with growers earning about 7,035,000 dollars at 7.60 per ton and beet tops valued at 1,312,000 dollars. Railroads gain 3,010,000 dollars in revenue and 2,016,700 dollars goes to labor.
Great Falls science teacher C. H. Hancock notes a scorpion found in a gravel plan box near the Missouri River at Box Elder Park. He says spiders and horned toads also appear farther north and that the scorpion may have moved northward naturally.
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