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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1935
Page
4
The plan seeks to unite credit associations and district institutions to provide maximum service quality with sound operations. It emphasizes decentralizing operations and involving local farm member-borrowers in managing and running the cooperative system.
Union Pacific reports rising travel with new stewardesses aboard coach trains. The Los Angeles Limited’s coach and tourist cars, in service only weeks, attract many passengers. Air conditioned dining cars serve popular meals and double as club cars during daylight hours.
The Normal college former president becomes principal replacing W W Wahl. Miss Mildred Buckneberg leaves French English and glee to Miss Mary Virginia Ballard. Edwin Eagle takes mathematics duties from Byron Sanborn. Marjorie I Foote replaces Judith Belden in home economics. Henry Edwards from Sheridan aids Coach Carl A Ross in physical education.
Plans are made to reconstruct residence halls approved by the president. The project involves 181 818 dollars with bidding to follow after sketches. Architects are Fred F. Willson of Bozeman and G. G. Cottier of Great Falls. Completion hoped by late summer 1936.
At a Monday meeting stockholders named a committee to probe the canal plan feasibility and arrange construction details. The company may seek state board funds or have stockholders supply labor and teams, then proceed by themselves. A caravan left Dillon Monday with further company members joining along the valley. Mrs. Elizabeth Clemon moved to Dillon for the winter from the Big Hole basin ranch.
A large audience enjoyed the rodeo at the grounds with events in riding, bucking, bull dogging, roping and stage coach racing. Zumwalt took multiple top honors including calf roping bulldogging and bareback riding. Eric Maybee won the stage coach race, with 800 rodeo tickets sold and over 300 for dances.
State officials report at least 35 counties will have full petition quotas in the secretary by September 7, the filing deadline. Representatives from counties statewide visited headquarters to gather petitions and inform leaders the campaign would finish by midweek.
Marie Granger and Dpeenk Wevrin were picked up by Sheriff Larry Weir and Under sheriff Joe Boris after a miner vanished. The woman admitted being with the miner but denied knowing his whereabouts. A Melrose tip placed the man at the mine after noon. no victim meant no murder and the suspects were released the next day.
After years of pursuit, funds were secured two years ago for a new structure. The contract requires completion within 250 calendar days. Carl Mast, noted Dillon contractor, sub contracted to supply gravel and sand and began operations Wednesday at the gravel pit north of Dillon.
The relief office outlines proposed WPA projects and other construction work to employ men and women. The plan aims to shift relief to regular WPA jobs as work decreases. The board of commissioners met in August with Chairman Hartwig and Commissioners Edgar B. Rife and Martin C. Jackson present.
The boxing card Monday night ended in a draw when Watzig won the second bout in 4 minutes and 4 seconds under referee Jack Barrett. Winners include Ralph Tokle knocking out Henry Wenger in the first round. Harold Schonenberger defeating K O Smith. other matches ended in draws between Weston Strasser and Chuck Solon. Jack McLenegan and Ed Rendle. Toughy Schonberger and Roughy Hathaway.
Enrollment totals show 6,476 in 121 third class districts, 7,373 in 19 county high schools, and 1,484 in 16 parochial high schools. The public school fund gains tax revenue but loses to state relief and water conservation funds. Transportation funding and cross-district pupils remain concerns, with potential mill levies in counties with county-wide taxes.
County officials warn delinquent property owners that only county takeovers can wipe out back taxes. Examples show potential savings for farms and ranches if payments are made by December 1, including a $223.42 balance on a 1930 ranch and a $6,456.91 owed on a $100000 ranch, while noting back taxes must be settled to avoid further penalties.
Fay Erwin chaired the Rotary gathering where Dr. Robert E. Albright spoke on international issues. He previewed Italian and Ethiopian developments and forecast shifts next week, with King Loveland of Idaho Falls among guests.
An extension service representative from Montana State College visits pure bred sheep ranches across the state to assist in selecting rams for the Montana Woolgrowers Association sale. The events are scheduled at Billings on September 24 and Great Falls on October 3, with Anderson noted among buyers who benefited from the unusually low ram prices in the past decade.
Bozeman reports Miss Oona Stautz extension home management specialist at Montana State College says organizing kitchen furniture and equipment can save or add up to 15 minutes in meal preparation.
Miss Florence Michaelson of Hogeland, already assistant home demonstration agent in Montana Extension, is appointed full time home demonstration agent for Fergus County starting Sept 1. The Fergus program has been under H. R. Stucky, agricultural extension agent, during the past year.
Miss Eu nice Campbell of Lewistown was elected president of the teachers section of the Montana Home Economics association at the eighth annual conference. Miss Alice Taylor of Bozeman was named chair man of club work for the section at Montana State College.
Misa H. E. Cushman, extension poultry specialist at Montana State College, after attending meetings of the International Baby Chick Association and Poultry Science Organization, says Montana’s small poultry population lags behind the national program and mirrors national problems.
In Bozeman on September 3 members of a Montana dairy herd improvement association culled 17 cows as part of herd management actions.
The article notes July results from a county program to improve dairy efficiency by culling non productive animals. One purebred bull was bought for herd use that month. Yellowstone County Association led in average milk and butterfat production, Cascade ranked second, Gallatin third, and Lewis and Clark fourth.
Sam L. Sloan extension agronomist urges fall smut control campaigns in all winter wheat areas of Montana. Copper carbonate and new ceresan treatments are used. 1936 acreage adjustment reduced to 6 percent to offset crop damage and keep wheat supplies ample. Prices remain unusually high due to short crops and market factors.
Bozeman reports a nine percent rise in egg production for August 1 compared with a year earlier for flocks under the crop reporting board of the U S department of agriculture. Total output remains about ten percent below the five year average, with fewer laying hens than in recent years though less markedly than earlier.
Bozeman officials from Montana State College report Farm Credit Administration expansion of cooperative credit channels for poultrymen. Three loan types mortgage and production credit and cooperative purchasing and marketing finance are available based on operator experience equipment income and risk.
Bozeman notices J C C Taylor, director of extension at Montana State College, outlines an extension plan amid ongoing developments on campus. Details remain sparse in the fragmentary report.
Bozeman reports the United States wheat crop will again be smaller than domestic utilization for the third year in a row due to low yields and heavy abandonment, according to the summer outlook released by the Bureau of Agriculture.
Bozeman reports seed supplies for principal grass and meadow crops should be much larger than 1934’s record small crop. Timothy seed is expected seven to eight times larger, while Kentucky bluegrass is over five times the 1934 volume, according to U S Department of Agriculture advisement.
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