Two Montana offices consolidated after resignation
Governor Ayers consolidates two state offices to save $3000 annually for the water conservation board. E. B. Donohue becomes state engineer of Montana to fill the unexpired term of J. S. James who resigns to join the U.S. Department of Agriculture. James served as state engineer since 1927. term ends March 7, 1939. Donohue has 33 years in Montana and studied at the University of Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy E. Ayers
Water Conservation Board Fund
E. B. Donohue
State Water Conservation Board
Montana
Donohue
J. S. James
United States Department of Agriculture
Ayers
Oncy
Water Conservation Board
James
Federal Department of Agriculture
Highway
Veterans Eligible for World War Bonus Bonds Tally
About 100000 veterans remain eligible for World War bonus bonds with roughly 84000000 dollars due. Applications are allowed through 1940. An English school switches from geography textbooks to census projects and observation tours of industrial and residential areas for teaching.
Wong Sun's Chinese herbs help Sheridan woman after rheumatism
Mrs. Mary Chapman of Sheridan Wyoming reports nine years of rheumatic pain and swelling in shoulders neck hands and feet. After a few weeks on Wong Sun's Chinese herbs she says pain and swelling vanished and she can walk and work again. She recommends the remedy to others suffering from ailments like hers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wong Sun
Mary Chapman
South Gould Street
Sheridan
Wyoming
Heating installed to permit concrete pours at Fort Peck gates
The Fort Peck diversion tunnels main control gates gain winter heating with thermostatically controlled gas heaters delivering up to 200,000 BTU per hour in shafts to maintain 65 to 72 degrees. Preheating of aggregate water, boilers using natural gas, and hot water systems enable concrete placement through the winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Peckham
Fegles Construction Co
Carbon County Farmer Makes Chicago Entries
Montana's F. D. Purcell of Carbon County filed Montana's first entries for the 1938 International Grain and Hay show at the International Livestock exposition. He will exhibit navy and Great Northern beans harvested on his Fromberg area farm. He ranked high in the crop competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbon County
Chicago
Montana
F. D. Purcell
Fromberg
Airlines Lead in Installing New Navigation Instruments
Commercial airlines push ahead with new navigation instruments, setting the pace for widespread adoption and shaping modern flight guidance and safety practices across the industry.
Montana pioneered aerial mapping in forestry work
J B Yule, Montana topographic engineer, credits aerial photography developed from World War I as the nation’s main mapping method. Early tests were costly and imperfect, but by 1932 improved planes and gear made air mapping far more efficient, enabling ten times more area to be charted than ground methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
France
J. B. Yule
Yule
United States
John B. Taylor
Deer Lodge National Forest
Taylor
District Forestry Service
War Department
Tises
East Helena Smelter Shapes Montana Mining Revival
The East Helena smelter, rebuilt in 1888 by Montana capitalists and now run by American Smelting and Refining Co., marks a new era for Helena region mining. In 1937 it processed ore from 454 mines, yielding substantial gold, silver, lead, and copper outputs and supporting a large payroll in a community of about 1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
East Helena
Indust
Helena
Samuel T. Hauser
Holters
Helena and Livingston
Alta
American Smelting & Refining Co
Montana and
Northwest
Idaho
Washington
Black Hills
South Dakota
United States
McClellan Creek
Culbertson’s Rise From World’s Worst Player to Bridge King
In a vivid interview on a white train car, Ely Culbertson recalls being labeled the world’s worst player after a Swiss romance ended. He explains his drive to study, teach, and expand the Culbertson system through a vast bridge empire while noting Montana’s lack of Culbertson residents and his belief in mathematics as the mind’s engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely Culbertson
Butte
Mutte
Switzerland
America
Angele
Joann
Buns Bridge
Culm School of Bridge
New York City
Montana
Culbertson
Caucasian
Europe
East Helena Smelter Details Safety and Benefits Program
The East Helena smelter reports a long safety record with zero disabling accidents since May 1937 and an extensive benefits plan including a free pension since 1912, free $500 life insurance after one year with increments, and medical coverage costing workers $1 monthly while the company pays for most costs. The plant notes substantial equipment and production improvements, a 400-foot stack due next spring, and significant rail freight payments in 1937 amid labor difficulties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Power Co
East Helena
Emloyes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Water Board
John S. James
Conservation Body
Donahue
University of Isconsin
Kalispell
Wong Sun Company
Billings
Mont
Missoula, Mont
Great Falls, Mont. Sheridan, Wyo
PECK
Schenley
Treasure Island
San Francisco Bay
J. B. Taylor
Forestry Service
Forea
Fing Solutions
Mevine
Cei
Germany
Great Falls
Butte Mont
Eley
Weissman
Carl Weissman & Company
4Th St. So
U. S. Bureau OF Mines
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