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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1943
Page
8
Stories from Dillon and surrounding area detail veterans and cadets advancing in training with Curtiss-Wright and Army programs. Names include Patricia Gilbert, Ralph G. Smith, Elza Smith, George Anderson, and George Aitken, with furloughs and transfers noted. The piece closes with a wartime economic note: 1942 shoe demand would have outpaced production by 100 million pairs if continued in 1943.
The Metlen Elks beat the Legion 8 7 in a pitchers duel with Hastings and Ward homering for Legion while Sampson and Ward powered Metlen. Rancherettes defeated Black X 19 11 behind Hansen and Gaustad as Es yesterday races kept their undefeated status.
Mrs. Car men Jarussi of Red Lodge announces the marriage of her daughter Louise to St John M. Cross. The ceremony was in Chicago June 22. Cross is a former Dillon teacher and now in the Army Air forces. the couple will reside in Petersburg. A second engagement news from Dillon concerns Miss Elsie Lloyd to Staff Sgt John A. Lavelle of Butte with July 19 wedding in Long Beach. Other notices include Miss Marjorie Lovell to Lt Herbert E. Hewitt at Spokane July 17, and a dessert bridge hosted by Mrs Sheldon E. Davis. News also reports the marriage of Miss Bette White to Don Sampson on July 6 in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Twenty two men are listed as draft delinquents by the local selective service board. The list is under federal investigation with address change notices and other cases to be reviewed by the Federal Board of Investigation.
Dr. F. M. Poindexter will install local Legion officials with E. E. Patrick and Jay McCarthy as alternates. The state convention will be strictly business with minimal special entertainment, state officials announce.
The passage celebrates East Coast colonists, Mississippi Valley home builders, and western frontiersmen as the enduring core of American opportunity. It asserts freedom to profit from individual ability and urges that the spirit remain unchanged.
Beaverhead planning board, the local USDA war board, and the AAA committee met at the courthouse with Oscar Tretsven and Claude Cory to review 1944 production estimates. County and state meetings contribute to a Montana wide report, as F A Ralston cites the national food situation demanding high crop and livestock production.
W S Tash visited from Grasshopper ranch last Thursday. Robert Wetzel of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph was in town on district business late last week. Mrs Clarence Baril and daughter Darlene visited friends in Butte over the weekend. Dillon hosts seen for various trips from Dell Medicine Lodge Sheridan and Logan Utah with several residents visiting relatives and assisting local families. Regulars include Mrs Jim Mansfield, Polly, Miss Elizabeth Wilkinson heading to Los Angeles, and Air Force personnel with families returning from Glasgow. Two state water commission representatives inspected irrigation projects.
A woman clerk at the War Production Drive Headquarters develops a method using workers' production suggestions that saves 4,992 man-hours per year and 264,000 sheets of paper.
In the Midwest war production area 2 200 plants report a 69 percent rise in women employed within six months. The update highlights rapid labor shifts as industries ramp up wartime production.
A heavy bomber travels at 250 miles per hour and consumes 3 13 gallons of gasoline each minute, highlighting its high fuel burn rate during flight.
The article outlines OPA and Agriculture Dept guidance ending gas for Victory garden trips after July 12 and allowing use of prior-issue rations for existing gardens. It also explains farm supply replenishment for farmer cooperatives, vacation trip authorizations, hospital patient diet safeguards, pro-rating farm deliveries, and local poultry price adjustments. A separate obituary notes prominent Salt Lake citizen Dillon Bottling Works passing with funeral details.
C L Boyer traveled to Great Falls on business last week, returning with unspecified outcomes or follow up planned.
Dillon Girl Scouts assist with a door to door campaign urging public help in collecting old records and cylinders for the USO and Service Men clubs. Mrs. Paddock appeals to donors by asking readers to imagine troops abroad and contribute to preserve American entertainment.
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