Debt of cities cuts fifth straight year nationwide
Rosina Mohaupt of the Detroit bureau reports a 4.6 percent drop in city net debt for the fifth consecutive year, with 286 cities showing a total gross bonded debt of 8.748 billion dollars as of Jan 1 1942. Per capita debt averages 171 dollars, higher than one third of federal debt, and warns of possible postwar construction shifts and increased federal role.
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Rosina Mohaupt
Detroit Bureau of Government Research
National Municipal League
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Detroit
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Baltimore
St. Louis
Boston
Pittsburgh
Washington
D. C
San Francisco
Milwaukee
Buffalo
N. Y
New Orleans
Newark
N. J
Kansas City
Treasure State News Briefs Highlights Montana Items
A roundup from Butte Conrad Great Falls Kalispell Helena Malta Chinook Laurel Glasgow Lewistown and other communities reports deaths, school renaming, highway work, Scouts programs, electricity co operatives, port entries, inmate footwear contracts, and Indian independence remarks.
Montana Farmers See New Highs in 1942 Production Value
Montana agricultural leaders project 1942 value of all production at 212.85 million dollars up from 180.21 million, with price rises and expanded acreage across crops and livestock. Cited crops include corn wheat oats rye flaxseed barley beans potatoes sugar beets and cattle with notable price gains and larger plantings.
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Montana
Jay G. Diamond
United States Department of Agriculture Statistician
Agriculture and Economic
Montana State College
Montana State University
Relocation Center Construction Requires 5000 Workers
A relocation center for about 10 000 Japanese from the Pacific coast is being built on the Heart Mountain project between Powell and Cody Wyoming and should be ready by early August. Maj J C Roberts says up to 5000 laborers will be needed and workers are being brought from as far as Omaha. House to house canvasses are finding living quarters in Powell and Cody, with many workers to be stationed at the center. The current crew works ten hours daily seven days a week and floodlights will allow 24 hour operations.
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Pacific Coast
Heart Mountain
Powell and
Cody
Wyo
Maj
J. C. Roberts
Army
Omaha
Powell and Cody
Montana Students Absent Less Than Half
A census bureau survey places Montana third among eight intermountain states in school attendance for ages five to twenty four. Of 195 728 Montanans in that range, 116 000 were in school, 59.5 percent, with highest rate among 7 to 13 year olds at 97.3 percent and 14 to 15 year olds at 93.5 percent. 16 to 20 year olds show 50 percent. Shanghai campaigns licensing ponies ridden for pleasure.
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Montana
Intermountain
United States Bureau of the Census
Utah
Idaho
State Table Shows Livestock Crop Values and Beet Benefit
A state table estimates comparative value of livestock and crops and notes a $2.65 per ton benefit paid by the U S government to beet growers.
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U. S
Crisp Cookies That Stay Crisp and Flavorful
The article explains storing baked cookies in a can with a loose cover to keep them dry and crisp, notes they may soften in humidity and can be dried again in the oven, and suggests serving with summer drinks. It adds tips to shape cookies square or round using waxed carton molds for uniform size.
Fabric-saving patterns advertised by the Newspaper Pattern Dept
The notice lists fabric-saving designs for work sport and dress parade and directs orders to Newspaper Pattern Department MN at 232 West 18th St New York NY. It then details 1941 1942 cattle sheep hogs horses mules and animal product prices and quantities with expectations for record crops and production.
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Newspaper Pattern Department
West 18Th St
New York
N. Y
Census Finds Montana Homes Well Equipped With Modern Devices
The 1940 Montana housing census shows one third of homes have mechanical refrigeration and nearly three quarters have electric lights. Seven eighths of occupied units report radios. central heating is present in about a quarter. Gas heating is most common with central systems.
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Montana
J. C. Capt
Bureau of Census
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Butte
Chris Hoffman
Germany
Conrad
Clifton Sutton
Washington, Ill
Great Falls—Hawthorne
Fannie B. Collins
Kenneth Burnell
Caleb Burnell
Fort Harrison
Elk Park
Great Falls
Fritz Isler
Kalispell
National Council of Catholic Women
Joseph M. Gilmore
Helena
W. E. Bawden
Montana Highway Department
Army Engineers
Malta
Edwin C. Brown
Sarah Barker
Michigan
Will
Laurel
Riverside Park
Laurel Boy Scouts
Phillips County Equity Cooperative Association
Elmer Hendrickson
Erick Anderson
State Highway Commission
Globe Clothing Co
Helena, Anderson Co
Miles City
Roberts
Johnson & Rand Co
Glasgow
M. P. Hansmeier
Bozeman
Vandalla
Lewistown
Fergus County
Fergus Electrical Co-operative, Inc
W. G. Ferguson
Russell H. Hart
Salt Lake
Hart
American Legion
India
England
Edmund M. Fern
Bombay
Rotary Club
Alice Fisher
William F. Fisher
Diamond City
Carl Sumner Knopf
Salem
Ore
Knopf
Harlowton
Nels P. Olsen
Seattle
Helen Prato
Olsen
J. C. Dunn
Torrance
Calif
Warm Springs
Canada
United States
Northwestern University
North Dakota
CCC
Winifred
Portman
Hamilton
U.S. S. Lexington
Coral Sea
Harry Terou
Terou
Theodore C. Carlson
Veterans’ Hospital
Fort McKenzie
Sheridan
Sweden
Carlson
Antone Carlson
Belt
Robert Rummell
State School For the Deaf
Gallaudet College
Rowen
Shanghai
Betty Crocker
Kischereclinic
Beg
Pat
Home Service Department
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