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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1949
Page
6
This weekly column answers common questions for World War I veterans about US Government Life Insurance USGLI eligibility and reinstatement rules with details on plans, coverage limits and required medical exams. It also previews future topics including federal grants for paraplegic veterans housing and GI Bill medical treatment limits for WWII veterans.
Mrs. Mary Jensen of the Beav erhead County Department of Public Welfare will discuss the adoption laws prevailing in Montana.
Montana's job market showed a December setback delaying a brief pause in 1948 gains, but unemployment commission head Bar clay Craighead says October's record 143,100 will likely stand into late summer 1949. Construction layoffs cut non agricultural employment though total non farm work remains 5,000 above last year. Bond sales in 1948 totaled 34.44 million with Cascade County leading in E F and G bonds.
Farmers Union members from seven states including Montana Wyoming Colorado North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota and Wisconsin travel to Washington for meetings with lawmakers. Caravans win all expenses trips funded by FA as they seek to enroll 100000 families. first Montana bus left last week and will meet others in Jamestown and St Paul with a second Montana bus set to depart January 26.
Great Falls truck service to Alaska is postponed to late January as Alaskan Trucklines awaits heated and refrigerated vans built in Spokane. The overland freight link was delayed after the Spokane factory set a January 18 delivery date.
John A. Wilson of Stanford was reelected president of the Central Montana Production Credit association at the annual meeting in Lewistown. J W Bradley of Spokane spoke on sound lending to dependable stockmen and borrowers at the lowest possible cost.
Montana agricultural statistics report cattle in feed lots at 29 000 head on Jan 1 down from 35 000 a year earlier. Most feeding near five sugar factories with major centers Billings Hardin Missoula Chinook and Beaverhead county. Sheep and lambs in feed pens drop 12 percent to 216 000 head, the smallest since 1938, while grain and hay remain primary feeds. A two day school on aerial crop spraying and dusting will be held March 17-18 at Montana State College Bozeman with out of state and local speakers invited.
The state board of health reports 158 cases in the second week of January this year versus 262 in the same week of 1948, indicating a lower level of communicable diseases in Mon Montana so far this year.
Local society notes list residents and visitors in Butte and Dillon including Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Selway Grant. John Strodtman and son Dave from Jackson. E. A. Beam Grant. Ed Marcheseau Grasshopper. Charles Bray from Big Hole basin. Tom Pyeatt Glen dale Calif.. Lewis Hoadley Lima. Effie Hodges Dell. Gerry Geiger Armstead. Community meetings set at A A U W and Presbyterian and Lutheran groups with speakers and devotional topics.
Col. Paul H. Prentiss announces Operations Little Vittles at Great Falls will include navy personnel. The training unit will keep producing 29 three man crews weekly while reducing airforce trainees, and every future crew will include navy fliers.
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