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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1944
Page
4
Lima residents marked Thanksgiving with family dinners and dances. Local students made the honor roll and maintained full attendance. Marriage licenses were issued, and the Pythian Sisters prepared a December 4 bazaar at the courthouse while various visits and travels were noted.
MMN formation details courtesy of the American Merchant Marine Institute outline a program shift and training emphasis for maritime students. The notice discusses curriculum improvements, resource allocations, and anticipated impacts on cadet preparation.
An itemized notice lists rationing guidance for meats fats processed foods sugar gasoline shoes and airplane stamps. It notes stamp validity indefinite with several new blue stamps X5 Y5 Z5 A2 B2 entering December. sugar stamps 30 31 32 33 34 five pounds. and canning sugar through February 28 1945. Gasoline stamps A-13 valid beyond December for outside East Coast. Airplane stamp 3 effective November 1 and airplane stamps 1 and 2 indefinite.
Numerous local residents hosted and visited relatives and friends for Thanksgiving. Guests included Mrs. Fred Cleveland and son Freddy Gene, Mrs. Alan Hubbard in Dillon, Emma Edmond, J. D. Brandenburg, and many others from Lima, Monida, Butte, Idaho Falls, and Kalama Falls. Several local members traveled, shopped, or attended family dinners while others paused for furloughs and hospital updates.
Transportation remains a key wartime issue as boxcar shortages hit the Farm Front. Demand soars for high grade boxcars and refrigerated cars, with WFA urging 1800 more refrig cars in 1945. Trucks will suffice for cattle and lambs while livestock loading efficiency grows. Butcher hog prices hold at 12.50 per hundredweight through June 30 1945.
A 1945 Food Production Program meeting in Bozeman on December 7 and 8 will discuss Montana's postwar farming plan aligned with national food needs. WFA leaders from Washington and state agricultural officials will attend as price controls and 200 to 240 pound hogs are highlighted for support. The talk in College Station by Secretary Wickard stresses keeping price control after the war to curb inflation and aid farmers.
Department of Agriculture predicts prices for fats and oils in the United States will stay at or near the ceiling during 1945 due to strong world demand. European import demand for fats and oils is rising rapidly. U.S. production from domestic materials in the 1943 44 crop year reached about 11.2 billion pounds, a record high.
Mrs. Leslie G Staudenmeyer announces the marriage of daughter Alice Mae to Pvt. Ralph Bernard Duffner son of Mr and Mrs Albert Duffner of Forest Grove Montana The couple wed Nov 10 at Camp Stoneham First Army chapel Chaplain M B Tollefford officiated The bride wore a fuchsia dress and white chrysanthemum corsage They plan a temporary home at 508 F Street Antioch California Duffner serves in the Army Quartermaster Corps at Camp Stoneham Readback notes list postwar education topics and local club meetings held in town including Blue Bird Entre Nous Alma Matrons and St Rose Junior guild gatherings.
George Wiggins aged 40 was fined 13 dollars and sentenced to 30 days by Judge Louis Stahl in justice court on a petty larceny charge. A 24 hour stay of execution was granted for the jail term. The alleged theft involved a leather jacket from the Buffet bar Sunday night and he was arrested by Sheriff Claude Lay.
In the Beaverhead District Court Estella Hoffman sues unknown claimants to quiet title in lots 1 2 3 4 6 and 6 in Block 5 Barnett Addition Dillon Montana The State of Montana summons unknown defendants to answer within 20 days or face default judgment The case shows Norman court seal and Theodore F McFadden attorney for the plaintiff filed November 17 1944.
George Blum formerly of Bannack and cousin of Matt Kay of Dillon died Saturday night in a Butte hospital. The funeral was held in Deer Lodge this morning. In Bannack he lived with his daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Nels Anderson.
Miss Mary Ann Luebben of Dillon was named one of three associate editors of the Sentinel State University annual by the publications board at a recent meeting.
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