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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1942
Page
2
Robert F. Westfall former Helena high school physical education director and track coach departed for San Diego to begin eight weeks of training at the U S naval base on leave from his duties.
Vern Haugland, 34, AP staffer and former Montana newspaper man, is listed missing five days after a storm‑bound flight from Townsville, Australia to New Guinea vanished. He had sought war reporting overseas since January and worked for the AP bureau in Salt Lake City before his assignment.
Sergeant Howard Jaycox, about 30, a former Butte resident and Whittier school alum, is missing in action after going toward the Alaskan peninsula to search for Japanese forces June 4, the day after Dutch Harbor was attacked. He served as a bomber radio operator and lived previously in Red Lodge, Laurel, Logan, and Missoula. His father, George Jaycox, formerly a Northern Pacific fireman, now in Puyallup, Wash., survives.
Montana fields show record crop increases across wheat, feed crops, sugar beets, dry peas and beans. Wheat total rises to 71 116 000 bushels with overall gains in flaxseed tripling 1941 output while dry beans and peas lead large percentage gains. Unusually favorable weather contrasts wartime shortages and supports livestock and crop production statewide.
Former President Herbert Hoover celebrated his 68th birthday with a quiet dinner party after a day of successful fishing at Hebgen Lake. Attending were Thornton the host, Charles S. Henderson, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur Stanford president, D Arthur Hyde former Agriculture secretary, Burt Matei Honolulu Oil Co president, and Hoover’s longtime fishing companions.
Montana's lamb crop this year stood second to Texas with 2,299,000 lambs, 82 percent of last year's breeding stock, reflecting an 576,000 head drop due to unfavorable lambing weather. The 1942 U S lamb crop totaled 32,260,000 head, the second largest on record and about 7 percent above the 10 year average.
The Montana Board of Equalization lowers the state levy for the current year by 2.5 mills, eliminating the 2-mill general fund and 4-mill Capitol bonds levy, with a total saving of about $846,000. The plan sets state purposes at 4.31 mills for the University system and 4 mills for Warm Springs hospital bonds, reducing the overall levy to its lowest in more than two decades.
Bears from Yellowstone roam into Flathead and Gallatin valleys causing tree and sheep losses. Dr. McFarland says shooting bears may ease damage while preventing unwarranted killings where no harm proven. Governor Ford shares Hershey letter on Montana’s armed forces quota and enlistment rates.
James Goodwin of Billings is named state rationing officer under the Office of Price Administration in Montana. The appointment is effective immediately, announced A. T. Peterson state OPA director. E. W. Johns is appointed state fire rationing representative to assist in the office.
A lady asks a pet shop proprietor for a well trained dog that will obey, fetch, stay by her side, and guard the house. The proprietor replies that she does not want a dog but a husband, delivering a pointed joke about marriage and companionship.
The Montana liquor control board reports 4,878,753 barrels of whisky in Kentucky alone and says large stocks are held in Pennsylvania Illinois Michigan and other whisky producing states. They note inquiries from tavern operators fearing future closures but expect no shortage for at least four years.
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