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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1945
Page
8
Barclay Craighead of the Montana unemployment compensation commission reports Beaverhead county wages totaled 145000 for the first quarter of 1945. 118 firms employed 535 workers with retail leading at 70000 to 267 employees across 58 firms.
Minutes show welfare board actions on aid cases and county commissioners reviewing farm and school accounts. John Wenger reports farm livestock, crops, hay, and sales figures. receipts total $445.48 plus a keeper payment. Visitors include Nathalie Sacket of Englewood, NJ, staying with Bertha Huber.
A spokesman said longer hours and higher wages have enabled wage increases. He concluded that the tighter labor market makes pay improvements possible despite broader economic pressures.
Locks of service news from Butte to Bozeman highlight Army and Navy assignments and homecomings.Lt Squires returns from Standing Germany with five battle stars while kin in the Army Air Forces Navy and Marine Corps are listed. Also notes inductions at Cut Bank and updates on dairy and agricultural extension findings in Bozeman.
The text outlines a new reconversion manpower program with expanded veteran services and job counseling. It emphasizes guiding workers from wartime to peacetime employment, offering job advice for opportunities elsewhere, and giving priority to reconversion activities to stabilize employment.
Non federally inspected slaughterers under certification must, after notification, set aside for government purchase the same percentage of meat as federally inspected slaughterers.
Montana State College extension dairy specialist J O Tretsven notes Pennsylvania experiments show pre milking cows two to 16 days before freshening can reduce udder congestion and mastitis, especially in congested cows and heifers. He warns calves need vitamin A supplementation to replace colostrum loss, or else slow growth and illness may follow.
Montana seed alfalfa losses reach about 50 percent due to rough handling. Ralph Mercer advises cutting earlier, stacking in long narrow piles to finish ripening, delaying threshing two to three weeks, ensuring seeds dry to prevent heating and germination loss, and using a self reaper to reduce field handling waste.
A grower emphasizes the need for strict attention to prevent crop mixtures and weeds from contaminating seed. Achieving pure seed requires careful steps from planting through harvest and cleaning.
Pres Sheldon E Davis of Montana State Normal College attended a meeting of the state board of education in Helena yesterday. Several local residents were noted in travels and returns from trips including Bremerton Seattle and Alaska. Ray Strayer Dunmeir, 39, was taken into custody at a ranch near Dell Saturday on a draft delinquency charge.
The July report forecasts a third largest U.S. crop volume with record wheat oats peanuts rice peaches pecans and truck crops and near records for hay tobacco soybeans sugarcane fruits while big outputs are seen for potatoes grain sorghums and flaxseed. Farmers should grasp lamb subsidy rules to secure payments and ensure bids reflect government subsidies in markets under the Packers act.
Two couples wed in Butte and Dillon events mark military families. Mary Katherine Hynes and Pfc. Thomas Laden wed last Saturday with Dillon ties and Marines service. Ensign Don J. Smith and Anna Lou Parker tied the knot in San Francisco with Latter Day Saints officiating.
National Selective Service says occupational questionnaires for men ages 45 to 65 from early 1942 will be withdrawn from active files and given to paper salvage. Registrants should carry registration cards. Three cards were created at registration for US Employment Service Census and local draft boards.
Janet Henneberry daughter of Mr and Mrs Dan Henneberry won a prize in a cartoon contest on a KFPY Spokane radio program. She was among 60 children. She and her parents were visiting relatives in Spokane and planned to return home Sunday.
Frank P. Blair a Virginia City attorney spent the first of the week in Dillon attending to business matters and meeting local contacts.
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