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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1942
Page
2
The Montana land board weighs a lease application from the Rocky Mountain Sportsmens Association of Butte for 18 acres of state land in the Red Rock lake region of Beaverhead county. The state fish and game department opposes the lease contending the site is too close to the trumpeter swan refuge.
The 330 hens owned by Mrs. E. C. Mitchell of Dutton led extension demonstration flocks of over 100 hens in April with 7,524 eggs total and an average of 23.2 eggs per hen, per Mont. St. College poultry specialist Harriette Cushman.
I L Stagg of Helena was elected president of the Montana Letter Carriers association at the annual meeting. R E Patte of Billings advanced to presidency of the Montana Federation of Postal Clerks as the two groups met jointly. Helena to host next convention. Mrs Earle Hancock of Great Falls elected president of the clerks auxiliary.
The Prince of Wales hotel at Waterton park will not operate this summer season after Ottawa ordered no fuel oil for heating. The oil heated hotel will remain closed due to lack of heating fuel for guests and operations.
War time cooperation among farmers spurs a neighborly scheme to pool produce transport. One farmer now delivers all five cans on his route, saving tires, gasoline, and labor by sharing cars for town trips and reducing depreciation on extra vehicles.
Maj J S P Armstrong head of a Canadian army commando school praises American and Canadian Boy Scouts as ideal for commandos. He and Maj Frank Courtney describe brutal, night intensive training with live ammunition, obstacle courses, and multi weapon drills to create Canadian shock troops. Local tone emphasizes hard preparation and endurance.
A wartime drive for higher food output lifted annual incomes of 10 353 farmers in Montana Colorado and Wyoming by 85 percent and nearly doubled home use food production Brannon of the Farm Security Administration said the gains totaled about 6 500 000 with Montana leading in income growth to 1 521 from 788 Colorado rising to 1 059 and Wyoming to 1 525 Brannon credited active FSA borrowers and small farms for adding to wartime production and rural relief
A baby named Glenn Ernest Nordberg was born in a Butte hospital with a V-shaped skin mark on his right thigh. Parents Carl V. Nordberg and wife view it as a good omen except for Hitler. Obstetrician Dr. Glenn Carmichael notes it as a rare marking seen in his many deliveries.
Albert Erickson of Oakland Calif recalls early life in Great Falls including telegraph operations in a tent near the Missouri River, the move of the office to the Tribune building, and when the city gained the railroad. He tells of Colter falls and local mills, and his printing career ending as a foreman in Alameda.
Ole M. Olsen of Portage, angered by a hitchhiker who admitted desertion from a Denver area camp, wrestled with Frank Wallace 18 as the two moved near Culbertson. Olsen restrained Wallace after a gun misfired injuring Olsen, and with help from Frank Akers they tied up the suspect and delivered him to Roosevelt county jail in Wolf Point.
The United States government via the Fish and Wildlife Service administers 50 national wildlife refuges dedicated to colonial non game birds, chiefly gulls and terns, focusing on habitat protection and species management.
Robert Lee Miller a former Helena resident and Stephen B L Petek of East Helena, Lexington shipboard crewmen, visited on furloughs. Miller recalled torpedo work during the Coral Sea battle as the carrier was struck by torpedoes and bombs and sank after hours of fighting. He noted pilot Edward H. O Hara was among Lexington's earlier attackers and that Miller returned to San Diego on June 27.
The Montana grass conservation commission plans to relocate its offices from Helena to Miles City for the coming year to reduce travel for grazing districts and save rubber and gasoline. The move is stated as temporary, with most work next year centered in Miles City. Chair J H B Grierson Myers, vice chair John Etchart Tampico, and secretary Bruce Mott Miles City named.
Report notes hosiery manufacturers plan to produce stockings in size 93 with medium length. The shift aims to fit women who require longer legwear, though the group described as “average length” remains small in number.
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