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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1942
Page
2
Montana faces a grave manpower shortage that will impair transportation and farm product marketing. John J. Jewell of the Montana Auto Dealers Association said after touring 21 counties that there are no mechanics available to man repair shops and every auto and truck service man has weeks of work ahead.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue opened a Seattle district office for its salary stabilization unit. It will serve Washington Oregon Idaho Montana Wyoming and Alaska with jurisdiction over salaries above $5 000 for executives administrators and professional workers not represented by labor unions.
The Montana liquor control board adopted a rule prohibiting state liquor retailers from buying liquor in wholesale quantities for resale outside Montana. Officials cited tight retail supply nearby as the reason behind the limit.
Montana creameries produced 829,727 pounds of butter in October, a 9.2 percent drop from the previous year and 2.4 percent below the five year average. Cheese output fell to 100,237 pounds from 161,833 a year earlier, while October ice cream production reached 145,252 gallons, up 48 percent from October of last year.
Felix Hughes a well known former Butte resident died of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles He had worked as an engineer with the Anaconda Copper Mining Co for more than forty years This obituary-like note memorializes a longtime industry professional from Montana connected to Anaconda Copper Mining Co and a relocation to California.
The old log mill at the quarry site near Billings is set to be torn down ending a pioneer industry once run by the Heffner family. A diamond dust can found by Mrs. Heffner hinted at explosive fears, later clarified as a relic. The elder Heffner’s steam boiler, likely the first in Montana, remains among relics before the site’s final clearance.
The article warns a wartime sodbusting surge could recreate the dust bowl as wheat demand rises and land shows renewed cultivation. Experts cite grass restoration and erosion controls but warn labor shortages and climate conditions will decide whether abandoned acres regain cover or blow again.
An eight year old Montana boy Daren Shook was found to have a metal rivet in his right lung. After unsuccessful attempts at home he was taken to Minneapolis where a surgeon removed the rivet with a bronchoscope after two operations.
A note explains that pecan was an Indian name for any hard shelled nut and adds that a rubber tree yields seven years after planting.
Harriet Sutherlin widow of Robert N. Sutherlin pioneer publisher of the Rocky Mountain Husbandman died at her Urbana home after years with her daughter Kathryn Sutherlin a University of Illinois music instructor. The Husbandman began in Diamond City in 1875 moved to White Sulphur Springs then to Great Falls before passing to W W Cheely and the Montana Newspaper Association now publishes it.
With Sen. Charles H. Mahoney of Garfield and Sen. R. E. Morrison of Lewis and Clark in the armed forces, two counties may lack representation in the 1943 Montana senate unless acting appointments are made. County boards urged immediate replacements to avoid last minute confusion, as most senators are at duties or holdovers.
The 19 state run ranches with convict labor posted bumper harvests in 1942 led by crops in beets cabbage and potatoes while profits from cattle and hogs totaled 37000. Dudley Jones reported to the state board before turning over to J E Henry and James A Allison appealed a second degree murder conviction to the state supreme court.
Abe Weaver aged 68 died at a Great Falls hospital after a 23 year residency in the city. He was active in real estate and insurance.
Representative Burdick of North Dakota argues wheat should be an essential wartime product. He criticizes government notions that only dairy, beef, pork, and mutton are essential. He says food wins wars and cites wheat as crucial despite a surplus.
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