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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1938
Page
6
Montana farmers must decide this fall or next spring whether to seed wheat within their 1939 wheat acreage allotments to stay eligible for price adjustment payments. Overseeding raises penalties, reducing combined conservation and price adjustments to 26 to 30 cents per bushel.
Jagged summer lightning started 39 fires in the dry Flathead forests, with one caused by a cigarette. All under quarter acre and controlled. Fires scattered: North Fork 16, Tally Lake 2, Coram 2, Spotted Bear 3, Swan Lake districts 1 each. Bigfork 7, Stillwater 6, Kilas area blaze and another near Kilg.
Oilmont school shows a slight rise with high school adding five students and grades dropping three. total enrollment reaches 129. Nearby Boulder records 32 placer mining locations with $64 in recording fees. Chinook reports progress on an oil test well and sugar beet crop shows high sugar content. Roundup starts Yale Oil Corp station and Ford agency foundation. Milo Jensen to run both operations.
The couple Mr. and Mrs.REEN Smith marked twenty five years of marriage with a dual celebration in Butte Montana and South Africa. Relatives in South Africa reenacted the 1913 wedding scene as family gathered for dinner in Meaderville and a far reunion honoring the bride. They married in Kimberly and honeymooned across Australia New Zealand Tahiti and South Sea ports before settling in Butte in 1916.
The Montana fish and game commission set an open season on Chinese pheasants in all counties from October 30 to November 3, with a daily bag limit of three cocks and six birds held. A one day open season on blue grouse and ruffed grouse was also authorized for September 18.
Ten Montanans were among 26 Salt Lake district recruits for the United States Navy in August. D. R. Fischer of Hamilton, H. H. Fritzel of Warren, H. Radovinatz of Roundup, H. R. Doom of Billings, C. H. Davidson of Livingston, H. Swanstrom of Great Falls, B. A. Deeds of Havre, A. W. Palin Jr. of Valier, R. H. Melton of Dillon, and T. L. Tinder Jr. of Butte joined the ranks, with two others recruited at Butte.
Five Montana state highway engineers have been hired away in six months as projects extend into rugged terrain. Ben Briscoe Don Cummings and E. B. Martin are project engineers, a Keller is a testing engineer, and H. H. Fisher is an instrument engineer, all flown by Texas Oil Co. to assist a pipeline construction road.
Residents and truckers note improvements to 11 miles of road between Ris County line and Lee Creek reaching Tongue River dam area. Rosebud County commissioners had delayed work but grading now enhances access for equipment and materials toward completing the key dam project.
The century plant Agave Americana in the Murray hospital solarium, Butte, bloomed with pink and white petals. It stood about three feet tall with large fleshy leaves. blooms faded a few nights later. The piece notes the old belief that century plants bloom once in 100 years and can be found in the new discussion of historical timelines.
Readable portions describe the near completion of a $100,000 Har lowton high school. Equipment for laboratories arrived. Yellowstone Electric Co. installed first floor lighting and fixtures. second floor work underway. Auditorium gym has back boards and baskets, maple floors, and 350 seat bleachers. Dramatic seating with folding chairs reaches about 900. A steam test of the heating system was performed.
Work began on the North Fork of the Flathead to clear a 1000 acre area burned in 1929. Emergency relief act funds fund labor under the National Park Service with 200 ERA men to be employed for seven months. Snag felling and debris burning are part of the project.
A record daily stone lift at Fort Peck dam topped 1 748 solid cubic yards on August 23 with 1 800 stones moved from Snake Butte by four cranes off 110 railway cars. By August 28 more than 1 900 cubic yards were loaded as 121 cars carried stones, while riprapping reached elevation 2 204 feet.
Eddie Herring of Great Falls wowed Labor Day crowds at the North Montana State Fair grounds with high speed shooting. He popped balloons and tomatoes from moving vehicles using eight guns and fired revolvers from both hands, hitting targets at up to 65 miles an hour. He has trained from a young age and plans further exhibitions in other cities.
Dick Johnson a veteran Montana flier sustained injuries when his Ford tri motor ground looped during landing at Big Prairie forest service field in the South Fork of the Flathead He was taken to Missoula hospital by Pilot Penn Stohr who flew a surgeon to the Big Prairie ranger station after dark assisting the wounded pilot during the perilous operation Johnson was transporting a heavy load at the time.
About 640 CCC members in Glacier National Park are busy with fire duty and trail upkeep. Four camp squads of 20 each are on standby for fires, with two day on and two day off rotations. Fifteen ranger stations retain CCC presence for fire response. Trails total roughly 500 miles cleared. Avalanche camp and Spruce Creek camp focus on campground improvements. A six to ten man crew from Camp GNP-1 is building a house at park headquarters.
Yellowstone park rangers predict a surge of bear cubs in 1939 after recording consistently below normal cub counts along roadsides and at grounds in years with even numbers. They conclude the same mothers produce offspring each year, with mothers seen this year having yearlings now and cubs next year for public viewing.
A freight plane attempting to land on a narrow field picked up a downdraft and crashed. The undercarriage collapsed as the ship struck ground, causing it to ground loop among trees. The pilot, alone aboard, suffered severe head injuries and body cuts.
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