Helena transit deal boosts Service Transit Co assets
Helena reports Jack Thompson has purchased the buses and franchise of the Service Transit Co. Other Montanan briefs note scrap steel drives in Butte, obituaries for Melissa Genger and Edna Abbott, wheat and tax figures, and local appointments including John E. Dawson as Rocky Mountain Fire Insurance president and George Yeager re elected Montana Carpenters head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Jack Thompson
Service Transit Co
Great Falls
John E. Dawson
The
Rocky Mountain Fire Insurance Co
Sam Stephenson
George Yeager
Montana Council of Carpenters
Mears Polson
Montana-Dakota Utilities to Buy Forsyth Plant
The federal power commission approved Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. to acquire Mountain States Power Co. facilities in Forsyth and parts of Custer and Rosebud counties Montana-Dakota to issue 160000 dollars in unsecured purchase money notes as part of the transaction. Drive Carefully During 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Power Commission
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co
Minneapolis
Mountain States Power Co
Forsyth
Custer
Rosebud
Commission
Montana-Dakota Utilities
High Court Verdict Aids State Farmers Millers
A U.S. Supreme Court 8 to 1 decision announced January 5 upheld Interstate Commerce Commission rules blocking dual-rate schemes for grain shipments through Kansas City and seven other primary markets. The ruling prevents Minneapolis mills from leveraging transit balances to undercut Montana wheat, preserving Montana interests and ICC rate integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Justice Frankfurter
United States Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas City
Missouri River
Minneapolis
Omaha
Nebraska
Kansas
Southwest
Chicago
Horace F. Casey
Western Rail Lines
District Court of the United States of
Western District of Missouri
Board of Trade of
Kansas City, Mo
United States
Casey
Supreme Court of the United States
Frankfurter
Practical Health Hints In Wartime Diet Advice
In wartime a calm, well nourished body boosts courage and stamina. The article urges civilians to follow military nutrition by eating foods rich in thiamine, the morale vitamin, to strengthen nerves and morale. Key sources include whole wheat and enriched breads, whole grain cereals, and lean pork and ham.
Foods Rich in Thiamine and Calcium for Morale Health
The article lists thiamine sources such as yeasted peanut butter crackers made from soy beans rye bread cornmeal eggs milk navy beans green peas and nuts with proper cooking to avoid soda. It notes calcium from milk cheese bread flour and leafy greens and suggests a ham or peanut butter sandwich on enriched bread provides about half the daily thiamine need.
Fruit and Vegetable Exports Bring Montana Farmers 1941 Total
Montana farmers exported fruits and vegetables totaling 1 033 598 in 1941 up from 1940 and 1939. Potatoes led earnings at 357 086 10 followed by apples 249 116 15 and green peas 99 739 15. Imports reached 4 607 083 22 with oranges leading at 789 867 30. Oysters noted as widely distributed seafood along coasts.
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Montana
State Department of Agriculture
G. L. Knight
Missoula
Department
Gallatin
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Butte—Butte
Fairfield
Melissa Genger
Moore
Edna Abbott
J. W. Walker
Robert I. Cook
Hamilton
Ravalli County Agricultural War Board
Bitter Root
Maude Bacon Drake
Frank W. Drake
Drake Hotel
Elizabeth Ireland
William Courtnage
Iowa
Idowell Creamery
Livingston
Cora Johnson
Central Park
Bozeman
Missoula County
Fairgrounds
State Board of Equalization
Mark Skinner
Portland
Minnesota
Oregon
California
First National Bank
Commercial National Bank
J. L. Erickson
Royal Milling Co
Charles R. McClare
Montana Flour Mills
Amelia Smith
W. F. Cashmore
Butte
James E. Davidson
Vicinity
Montana Power Co
Missouri
Davidson
Power Company
Sun River Valley Beetgrowers Association
Herman Lenz
C. R. Warnick
Charles McDermitt
J. A. Shoquist
Ben Peden
Greenfields
Wheeler Cole
Victor Morris
Crowe School
Fifth Avenue
New York
Kay Brinker
Sally Victor
Forsyth Plant
CBS
Marjorie Davies
Rosemary Lane
Bethy Crocker
Inches
Ecliniec
Betty Crocker
Home Service Department
Old
France
St. Germaine
J. A. Tobey
Atlantic
Gulf
Massachussetts
Texas
Pacific
Charles M. Russell
West
U. S
Montana Newspaper Association
Great Falls, Montana
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