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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1946
Page
12
Clarence A. Tryon Jr., associate professor of entomology at Montana State College, warned that rats are spreading west in Montana. He urged farmers and ranchers in unsettled areas to take preventive steps as eastern rat populations increase.
Tryon outlines steps to control rats on farms including burning hay and straw bottoms, selling scrap iron, and removing junk. He recommends using Antu poison away from buildings and children, saying thorough cleanup prevents rat establishment.
Growers of registered small grains with seeds that passed inspection are told by Ralph D. Mercer to clean seed promptly and send a one peck sample to the Montana Seed Growers association in Bozeman for grade determination. Until grade is set, seed cannot be sold as registered grain. Mercer urges sending thresherman's statement and affidavit of yield after threshing to avoid later lab delays and enable early seed sales.
The GI Bill benefits continue for future army enlistees with a deadline of October 5 for full benefits. Those enlisting after may still receive benefits, lasting until Congress declares peace. If an enlistee serves 90 days before war end, he gains 12 months of educational benefits plus one extra month per month of service, with all other GI Bill benefits included.
A new illustrated booklet from the War Assets Administration explains how World War II veterans can buy surplus property for business farm or professional use. Copies are available at the Helena regional office and WAA certification offices in Butte Great Falls Billings Missoula and Sidney with updated office addresses. The guide includes step by step instructions and lists of certification and regional offices. Robert M Littlejohn War Assets Administrator endorses giving every veteran a chance to buy from available surplus items and urges contacting the nearest regional office for help.
Glacier National Park logged 201 145 visitors for the 1945 46 travel year from October 1 1945 to September 30 1946 Acting Chief Ranger Asten announced. Cars accounted for 182 422 visitors and Montana led with 40 849 people from five figure states.
The Office of Price Administration requires all processors and distributors of livestock meat and related products to keep till July 1 194% copies of records made during price controls for examination. Retention applies only to documents required while controls were in effect.
Beginning October 14 the office of price administration with other agencies launched a drive to secure veterans housing preferences and prevent over ceiling prices on new homes. Four goals include protecting veteran preference rights ensuring builder commitments compliance with price and posting rules. Houses for veterans will carry placards stating sale to veterans for 60 days or rent for 30 days with ceiling prices and stay posted until the preference period ends or sale or rental to a veteran.
New production records for corn wheat tobacco potatoes peaches pears plums and truck crops push 1947 crop output to the highest US history. Near record classes include oats rice peanuts grapes cherries and sugar cane with optimism for hay soybeans and apples. Cotton rye broomcorn dry beans and pecans show weaker prospects. Oil crops outlook, meanwhile, remains below last year as lumber output grows seven percent above the prior period.
Secretary Clinton P. Anderson asserts US agriculture can promote peace by keeping farms strong and markets robust. He identifies two tasks: preserve markets that absorb surplus output and adjust production to match demand.
Anderson urges peacetime farm standards and efficient resource use to sustain civilization. He notes soil conservation and better distribution are essential as agriculture must stay economically healthy and abundant. The federal all risk crop insurance works in 26 Montana counties and will expand in 1947.
Three committeemen and two alternates will be elected this fall in each Montana farming community to represent the area in formulating and administering the 1947 agricultural conservation program. Each community will also elect a delegate to the county convention at the community meeting which will choose.
A county committee will oversee the farm program for the coming year. Voters include those participating in the 1946 agricultural conservation or sugar programs or holding a federal crop insurance contract.
Federal and state officials will gather in Washington October 22 and 23 to review operating procedures for the school lunch program now under a permanent grant in aid. Leslie L Brown of Helena represents Montana in charge of lunch and distribution programs. More than eight million children in 48 states, territories and DC are expected to participate this year.
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