Montana Board Sets Tax On Imported Cattle
The state board of equalization ordered the assessment of 3,973 head of cattle in Big Horn county at 35 dollars per head for personal property tax. The move follows an opinion by Attorney General R. V. Bottomly that cattle imported from Mexico and held in warehouses for grazing are taxable, overturning owners' claims of nonassessment.
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State Board of Equalization
Big Horn
Miller Land and Livestock Company
R. V. Bottomly
Mexico
United States Customs Division
Federal
Treasury Department
Bottomly
Bert W. Kronmiller
Big Horn County
Republic of Mexico
Argentina
Treasury Department Division of Customs
Montana
Draft summons arrives as Luckey delays medical exam
Lieut Kenneth A Luckey stationed at Camp White Oregon reports he received a draft board card in Butte directing a physical. He says he has been in the army since February 27 1942 and may not appear. An unrelated note mentions Sahara desert tree pollen purchases to ensure dates.
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Kenneth A. Luckey
Camp White
Ore
Butte
Luckey
Army to set up dog training center at Rimini camp
Army officers announced a reception and training center for war dogs will operate at the former Rimini CCC camp under Fort Harrison leadership. The site will process and train dogs and teach enlisted men dog handling while plans include use of 160 acres and recruiting via the Dogs for Defense.
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Fort William Henry Harrison
Army
CCC
Rimini
Helena
Rimini CCC
Corps of Engineers
Quartermaster Corps
Department of Agriculture
E. J. Purfield
Lawrence C
Montana
Dogs For Defense
Flaherty
Great Falls
New York City
East 60Th Street
Phipps
Captain Phipps
Quartermaster Remount Service
Red Cross
Farm priorities urged at Denver convention
The National Reclamation association adopted a resolution demanding co equal priority for agriculture with arms and shipbuilding programs. It urged rapid completion of supplementary and new water projects, with funding and manpower, as wartime and postwar measures. The group backed equal financial and moral support for farm production and re elected its National officers: O. S. Warden, Ora Bundy, Robert W. Sawyer, J. A. Ford, and Floyd O. Hagie.
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National Reclamation Association
Denver
Armed Services
Association
O. S. Warden
Great Falls
Ora Bundy
Ogden
Utah
Robert W. Sawyer
Bend
Ore
J. A. Ford
Spokane
Floyd O. Hagie
Washington, D. C
Guayule
Farmers Union Sets Draft Review At Billings Convention
The Montana division of the Farmers Union warns the U S could lose the war if the army grows too large. Delegates back farm production to feed troops and civilians, call for key man on every farm, parity at 100 percent, heavy taxes on high incomes and profits, steel for farm parts, and abolish poll taxes. D W Chapman of Peerless reelected to head the state group.
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Montana
The
Farmers Union
Billings
United States
Roosevelt
State Department
Washington
Red Army
D. W. Chapman
Peerless
Pan American Group Formed At Montana State
A new Montana State University chapter of the Pan American Student Forum, an organization with over 80 western hemisphere chapters, held its first meeting on campus. Robert Hayton of Kalispell leads the effort as international president. The group aims to improve economic and cultural ties among American nations and expand Hispanic American studies in schools.
Veteran Billings officer Schultz retires after 32 years
Serg P H Schultz age 59, long serving Billings police officer and 17 year sergeant, retired from active duty with the Billings department on November 1 after a 32 year career as a copper.
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Billings
P. H. Schultz
Montana
Safflower Farm Grows Oil for Warship Paint in Montana Triangle
In Montana's triangle north of Great Falls safflower farms expand in 1942 with 5 000 acres. A safflower cooperative plans an in region oil plant by 1943 to replace external processing. The crop yields 15 to 20 bushels dry land and 30 to 40 bushels irrigated, producing 600 pounds of oil per acre and a protein-rich hull for livestock feed.
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Uncle Sam
Pacific
Montana
North Central “Triangle
Great Falls
P. J. Anderson
Conrad
Triangle
Anderson
United States
India
Anthony Baron celebrates 92nd birthday message
Col Anthony Baron marked his 92nd birthday here with the motto Never worry about tomorrow live today. He says this approach has guided his long life and daily practices.
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Hardin
Col
Anthony Baron
Mine Manpower Problem Will Be Topic of AMC
A metal mine war conference will be held in Salt Lake City Utah on November 16 and 17. Organized by the American Mining Congress western division the meeting will tackle manpower shortages, boosting production for war needs, metal prices quotas and premiums, machinery priorities and other strategic mineral issues.
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Washington
Salt Lake City
Utah
American Mining Congress
Mining Congress
Western Division
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