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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1942
Page
6
A department of agriculture survey shows farmers plan about 4 percent more land seeded this spring but some key crops may miss goals set by the war food program. Wheat acreage falls from last year while corn oats barley flax and sugar beets rise. cotton prospects unspecified.
B J Ornburn longtime Montana highway commission bridge designer since 1929 will resign effective April 1 to join the Northern Pacific railroad engineering department. He plans a preparatory period in St Paul before heading to Seattle to establish his headquarters. Ornburn came from Kansas City in 1929 and earned praise for the Middle Fork Flathead river bridge at Belton which won a 1938 AISE Class C award.
Bitter Root horsemen celebrate Primdora foaling a filly colt sired by Maedie linking to Marcus Daly era. The Kentucky bred mare, bought by Merlyn Yorkton of Darby, is a great-granddaughter of Ogden, the imported Kentucky Derby winner Daly brought to Montana. Primdora was among 17 Kentucky horses purchased by Bitter Root buyers at Lexington last fall.
Montana dairy reports February cheese production 151,667 pounds, 23 times February 1941. Butter output fell 12 percent from last year to 733,298 pounds, while ice cream dropped 10 percent to 75,840 gallons.
A Pittsburgh note recalls thirty one future soldiers entrained at Trenton New Jersey at 7 45 a m. The local draft board deemed the hour too early and the weather too cold for the brass band and sent the troops home after martial music via phonograph at the railroad station.
A roundup of Montana notices reports resignations political announcements and local incidents across cities including Glasgow Lewistown Baker Conrad Neihart Missoula Townsend Helena Great Falls Conrad Chinook Lewistown Butte and other communities. Highlights include county clerk resigning to become bulk plant agent and a 13 percent rise in Montana department store sales for January and February 1942.
Treasury data show March 1942 as the heaviest tax receiving month in history with over 3.01 billion dollars in fines and excess profits taxes for the first 28 days. January and February add 413.97 million, sending Q1 revenues above 3.5 billion, while expenditures reach 3.15 billion in 28 days, mainly defense costs.
Parents are urged to incorporate milk into soups cereals and desserts to boost intake. They should also make drinking milk a game and allow children to pour themselves when old enough. The new handiquart bottle is lighter and easier for a child to handle.
The Butte Chamber of Commerce urges Montana senators to restore forest fire control funds, warning the cut from 18 million to 2 million endangers northwest and Pacific coast fire defense. Current measures would drop firefighting to 70 percent of normal, halt mobile student camp forces, squelch volunteer training, and delay CCC equipment repairs. The war emergency committee is reconsidering the 18 million to 2.5 million reduction.
A recovering pneumonia patient repeatedly asks for food and then for a reading moment. He asks the nurse to bring a postage stamp and to read the Classified Advertisements, signaling a simple desire for reading material.
J H Ramskill 60 a Montana State University forestry professor prominent in northwest scientific circles died at his Missoula home. Born Aug 11 1881 in Evanston NL he studied at Cornell and Yale receiving a masters in forestry from Yale in 1928. He earlier worked for the forest service Eyeing Burma Mines England India and later joined MSU in 1922.
In 1864 Virginia City and Alder Gulch buzzed with hurdy-gurdy dance houses where men paid a dollar per dance. Notable spots included The Shades on Jackson Street and Con Orem’s saloon The Champion on Wallace Street. Texans like William Muttall and Tom Duncan ran social entertainments as boxing star Con Orem drew order to the camps.
Puget Sound dealers urge Montana refiners to increase output and supply all available gasoline and fuel oil. A major Montana refinery’s total output was offered but not accepted due to existing commitments as western movement of Montana products is anticipated to ease regional fuel shortages in Washington and Oregon, which lack local refining capacity.
The American Petroleum Institute reports no new oil fields discovered in District 4 in 1941. U S reserves rose slightly to 19.589 billion barrels overall, with Montana Wyoming and Colorado showing modest changes. The committee urges continued drilling to meet war demand and offset slower discovery rates.
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