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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1938
Page
3
U S Department estimates show far western states reducing cattle on feed to around 50 60 percent of a year ago. California and Arizona feedlots held about 250 000 cattle on Dec 1 1937 while the national meat picture shows higher beef consumption and near normal hog slaughter, with ongoing price adjustments in Los Angeles markets.
The reclamation bureau will open bids in Denver on December 2 for labor and materials to construct earth work and structures on extensions and sublaterals for the Greenfields division of the Sun River project near Fairfield.
The state board of education approved four contracts totaling 177 191 for a library and museum building at the State School of Mines in Butte. Of 200 000 build funds the school received 90 000 from the federal government with the balance loaned. Cahill Mooney of Butte received 155 531 for general construction. William G Schmit Plumbing and Heating of Anaconda 14 246. The Western Plumbing and Electrical of Butte 3 794. William G Clayton of Butte 3 620.
Glacier county commissioners must appoint a short term sheriff to serve from election day to January 1. Attorney General H. J. Freebourn ruled a vacancy exists when the elected sheriff in 1936 did not qualify. The newly elected sheriff cannot take office until year’s start. another must serve meanwhile.
The state highway commission will open bids November 29 for five grade crossing and bridge improvements totaling 413 000. Projects include a Custer coulee bridge in Yellowstone county six thousand dollars. a Pompeys Pillar rail overpass in Yellowstone county nine three thousand. a Wolf Point rail underpass in Roosevelt county one ninety thousand. a Harlo ton rail overpass in fiscal two hundred seven thousand. and a Jordan Circle road bridge in Garfield county seventeen thousand.
Montana's unemployment compensation fund, funded by employers, is projected to exceed 4 750 dollars by month end. Barclay Craighead, bureau chairman, says covered workers will receive benefits when employed once the unemployment compensation law takes effect on July 1.
A state board of health statement notes overall disease decline from April through September compared with last year. Measles and whooping cough rose, while total cases for the six months reached 4,530 versus 4,889 a year earlier.
Montana farmers received 42.9 million dollars for their products in the first nine months, down from 46.9 million in the prior year. Livestock sales dropped 11 percent and crop sales were 28 percent lower, according to a federal Agriculture Department report.
Lloyd Kurth was sentenced to five years for embezzling from the Great Falls water department at Deer Lodge. He served one year before being freed. Governor Ayers commuted the term to two years and the parole board granted parole after half the sentence due to first offense.
J. E. O Connell of Helena has been reelected to a three year term as director of the Federal Reserve bank of Minneapolis officials announced. He has served as a director of the bank for several years.
Nationally known paleontologist Darwin Harbricht from Fort Peck donated a remarkable Montana display for the 1939 San Francisco world fair. The fossils pine cones fossil figs and related materials will be used in the state exhibit lodge and incorporated into other displays outlining Montana history and recreational resources.
The state bar association asks the state supreme court to set rules regulating lawyers in the state and to require group membership with an ethics code. The measure, sponsored at the last legislature, was defeated.
District Judge McHugh ruled the state water conservation board holds first right to waters stored in Flint Creek reservoir during the non irrigating season in Granite county. The decision marks the first adjudication of a state board appropriation and protects water users benefiting from the project. The board may store runoff at the dam for distribution during the irrigation season from Oct 1 to May 1.
Fourteen prospective certified public accountants completed the state exam given by the board of accountancy. C Howard Walden of Helena chaired the test. The Montana Society of Certified Public Accountants met in Helena after the examination and plans its 1939 convention in Missoula.
Joe J. Boespflug of Miles City awarded the Broadwater-Missouri water storage dam contract near Townsend for 515 088 dollars by the state water conservation board. Public Works Administration final approval pending. About 25 000 acre feet of water pledged. total 42 000 acre feet needed. Tertelling and Sons of Boise bid 180 226 dollars for canal. project cost 900 000 dollars with 45 percent federal grant and 55 percent loan over 30 years.
The Montana Supreme Court held that counties must reimburse expenses of county boards of commissioners when they meet to handle welfare matters. Broadwater County sought 416 for such costs. welfare attorneys argued the state law does not require payment. The court upheld the county position.
Major George W. Finley commander of the first battalion of the 163rd infantry and educational director at Cavern CCC camp near Whitehall is chosen for advanced training at Fort Benning Georgia. He will depart after the first of the year and be relieved around June 1.
Helena weather bureau reports October as the third wettest month in state history with 170 percent of normal rainfall. The month’s precipitation totaled higher than average, while state October average is 1.75 inches.
Harold L. Boyd of Nashua has been admitted by the state supreme court to practice law in Montana and will maintain a Nashua practice while serving as principal of the local high school.
The state water conservation board will open bids on December 12 for ground clearing and drilling contracts at the $400000 Middle Creek water storage project in Gallatin County. The facility will hold 8500 acre feet for irrigation on 16000 acres, with 45 percent funded by public works and the rest loaned to the water board to be repaid by water users.
The state board of examiners prepares a tentative budget expected to shrink by 1.5 million dollars before the next legislature. It will review department and institution requests to set final figures, with a balanced tentative budget to be submitted to the legislature.
Emmet Shandy of Powell County was pardoned after serving a year in the state penitentiary for stealing calves that were later found not stolen. He confessed and had been sentenced to seven years at Deer Lodge. The owner could not identify or claim the calves used as evidence. Gov Roy E Ayers recommended the pardon and the state board approved.
Administrator L M A Wass reports the state liquor control system earned 2 083 074 in profit for taxpayers in the first ten months this year. The distribution shows 1 009 368 from liquor sales 277 750 from licenses 331 141 from excise tax and 464 815 from beer licenses and tax. The operating expense percentage is below the 1937 figure.
Sen Burton Wheeler warned in Boston that government ownership of the railroads could come if cooperation fails to make profits. He accused railroads of stock speculation and costly terminal projects during boom times and said few favor ownership except as a last resort.
A group of Lewis and Clark county doctors proposes a new medical aid system funded by redirected doctor salaries. Needy residents would choose their own doctors, with payments made from a central fund, aiming to reduce political influence and improve patient satisfaction.
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