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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1937
Page
3
A Montana highway patrol survey shows excessive speed and liquor tied to fatalities this year from 130 deaths. Thirteen deaths stemmed from reckless driving with liquor in six cases. liquor involvement reached 24 traffic deaths and three pedestrian deaths.
Noted western romance author Will James challenged the Frasers in the state supreme court over his Big Horn ranch. He had placed a $1,000 option on his property with R B and Don Fraser who allegedly sold 225 head of his stock for 12,000 dollars and kept the proceeds, leaving a 23,000 dollar balance. The Big Horn county court ordered surrender of the property, but the Frasers appealed on bankruptcy grounds.
Thirty Montana farm leaders testified before the U S Senate subcommittee on agriculture and forestry in Great Falls. James T Sparling urged an ever normal granary with marketing quotas a minimum price for staples and a federal surplus commodities corporation to stabilize prices and allow flexible regional administration. He called for nationwide coverage and practical crop insurance to steady western farming.
The Methodist Ladies Aid Society will meet at the church parlors tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Loren Spencer Mrs. A A Schroeder and Mrs. Tom Dubois as hostesses guiding the event.
Mrs Arch Stewart and Mrs Helen Margott attended the funeral of H T Wilson in Caldwell Idaho. Stockmen and residents from Wisdom visited Butte Hamilton and Dillon for sales games and gatherings. Nellie Arbour Polish of Reichle died in a plane crash near the Polish ranch with her husband Rudy Polish and infant daughter among survivors.
M. P. Trenne of the Montana Motor Trade association defended the new automobile license law before Cascade county officials and in the Montana supreme court. He said dealers oppose being tax collectors for negligent county treasurers and will seek court protection if needed. He argued the law ensures every car owner pays the current year’s tax before license, addresses past underassessment, and strengthens tax collection without issues of private property seizure or unequal classifications.
The state railroad and public service commission sitting as the unfair trades board heard the Farmers' Union Trading Company of Butte petition to fix minimum potato prices. Petitions signed by 75 percent of growers in six counties seek $1 per 100 pounds for top grade, with lower grades priced accordingly. jobbers to merchants set at $1.10 and $1.25. Potatoes would retail at about $1.50. Senator Garri son led growers. Deer Lodge attorney Keeley opposed. The measure has backing from local labor groups.
Montana high school students may compete for the $500 Gorgas Memorial essay prize announced by state health officer Dr W F Cogswell. The topic is The Achievements of William S Gorgas and Their Relation to Our Health. School winners advance to state judging for final awards including $150 second prize and $50 third prize plus bronze medals for school winners.
All eight candidates for embalming licenses passed the state board examination held last week. The new embalmers are William J. Hayes Townsend Carl O Knudson Libby Wayland Beals Forsyth Elden Wright Great Falls Clarence Achen Zurich Philip Hansen Polson and Howard R Cashmore Dillon.
A light tale notes navy tradition as Nelson Eddy in a navy role gets a short cut. A congressman aboard a ship commanded by his son in law triggers a barber’s navy style trim in the crew’s forecastle barbershop. The skipper’s wink seals the joke.
Sunday service readings across Churches of Christ, Scientist on October 17, 1937 focused on atonement. The golden text urged faithfulness in calling to fellowship with Jesus Christ. Scriptural lines urged a clean heart and renewed spirit, with Eddy’s Science and Health noting truth as remedy for error and warning that sin must be forsaken before forgiveness.
The program this year saved 72 900 acres of grain 2 700 acres of hay 100 acres of garden and 10 000 acres of irrigated crops including beets and beans in Yellowstone county through suppression efforts.
Plenn Oneal took his parents to Spokane for a change of mood that lifted his father’s spirits. Residents attended the Grizzley-Don game in Butte. Salvation Army plans a Jackson visit on Oct 25 with a silver offering shower. Residents and guests travel to Twin Falls Idaho and Wise River for gatherings. Peritonitis patient Thelma Nelson shows improvement. Noel Jackson recovering from appendicitis in Butte. Stork shower hosted for Vern Stanchfield. guild activities at Mrs. Martin Jackson’s home.
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