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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1938
Page
4
Fort Shaw Farmers club selects October 28 for the harvest home festival. Kalisell reports a bumper huckleberry crop with early-season pickers expecting heavy yields in gulch and North fork areas.
The Montana national guard completed a 15 day field encampment at Camp Roy E Ayers Helena. With 1200 officers and men in infantry quartermaster and medical units the program mixed tactical exercises with athletics and town outings. The event underscored state guards readiness and efficiency per War Department records.
The article recounts Camp Ayers encampment visits by Maj. Gen. Albert W. Bowley and explains Montana's 163d Infantry lineage from the Second Montana to the 163d. It covers World War I mobilization, service with the 41st division, Frontline duties, heavy losses, regimental band honors in Paris, and postwar demobilization returning units and individuals to Montana.
Robert Coburn once a Malta boy and Circle C ranch youth rose to become the highest paid still photographer in the motion picture industry. He works as a director of still photography for Samuel Goldwyn and is praised for color discoveries and drawing stars to Goldwyn studios.
In Kalispell Ed Lund 32 technician on the Hughes round the world flight is celebrated by family. His scrapbook shows a farm boy who left school to work in a garage then washed planes, rose to mechanic and designer, and for years headed construction at Floyd Bennett field. Lund calls his success luck.
A Choteau County Bank of Fort Benton announces the resignation of its cashier after more than 14 years of service starting as a clerk and bookkeeper. The longtime employee, identified as a leading figure in Montana banking, departs amid routine administrative changes.
A visitor from Butte told Warren near Colonel Moore that members of the presentday national guard have strong promotion prospects. He noted his family’s military lineage including sons who graduated from West Point, Annapolis, and the academy, with entries from national guard organizations.
Montana farmers may pay federal crop insurance premiums with negotiable warehouse receipts for wheat through county agents. If receipts are unavailable, premiums may be paid in cash or checks. Applications for 1939 winter wheat coverage must be filed by Aug. 30 with county AAA committees. Warehouse receipts must come from bonded, qualified warehouses and prove wheat is in the insurance reserve.
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