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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1938
Page
4
The Montana G O P opens Helena office as E K Cheadle Jr announces a vigorous campaign to back county state and national candidates. Marie Maynard of Great Falls leads the Helena office effort to organize the party’s outreach.
The Beaver Head board discussed leasing land and plan to appraise and offer for sale at public auction. They asked the county attorney to review statutes for proper methods in tax deed land sales and to inform the board. Public welfare session noted Old Age Assistance and Aid to Needy and Dependent Children cases returned for final action.
The Rev. A. W. Nelson preached his farewell at Sunday services and will soon move with his family to Houston Minnesota. He will be succeeded by the Rev. Leonard Thompson from Devon Montana.
A registered Guernsey bull named Yeksana's Avoca Banner 261452, listed by the American Guernsey Cattle Club, Peterborough NH, has been sold by Fred Martin to Oscar Anderson of Dillon.
Roy Forrester Jr sails Saturday to Durham North Carolina to study at Duke University. Bob Stephan heads to Iowa City for dental school. Tom Hartwig and Anna Belle Hartwig depart for Missoula to continue studies at the state college. Jean Gilbert leaves Friday for Carleton College Minnesota as a senior. Multiple residents visit relatives, attend conventions or return from trips across Idaho Montana and California in a series of short notes.
The extension will serve 246 customers after REA approval last May. Beaverhead valley rural electrification committee chair Mike Lauterbach will call a meeting of prospective users soon. A survey will refine the route and the contract may be let shortly, with construction likely to start this fall.
E C Burris of Anaconda former W P A director for Montana has been named labor commissioner in the state department of agriculture. He represented Deer Lodge county in the 1935 legislature and helped lead the progressive labor bloc. Burris belongs to the Anaconda machinists union American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He succeeds Edward O Byrne.
Montana's liquor control system shows 1,701,213 in net profit for the first eight months of the year. L. M. A. Wass, administrator for the liquor board, cites 744,820 from liquor sales, 277,500 from licenses, 261,533 from a 50 cent per gallon excise, and 417,109 from beer.
The state board of education denied the petition of Paul C Phillips, former head of the history department and former vice president of the state university at Missoula, seeking reinstatement to the position he resigned from.
The Internal Revenue Department sold 3,100 special beer stamps in Montana for the year ended July 1, down from 3,410 the prior year. Liquor stamps for all businesses fell from 2,587 in 1937 to 2,242 in 1938.
Pres. George Finlay Simmons announces Dr. Francis W. Martin former Minnesota chemistry staff is appointed instructor in chemistry at Missoula State University to fill the vacancy created by the death of Dr. Raymond W. Campbell in an Illinois automobile accident last month.
Rangers report bear hibernation dens on Paint Pot hill heated by warm mud. They propose a nearby glacier to cool bears in summer and maintain year round comfort for wildlife.
W A Anderson a federal jail inspector from Washington says a new rule orders federal prisoners to be furnished ham mocks instead of beds on inspection in Helena last week. The inspector referred to the policy with the remark Swing it No 34674 Swing it.
Dr. Edythe P. Hershey announces two new county public health nurses under the state plan. Emma Pfaff is assigned to Roosevelt county and Fanny Lode to Wheatland county. Twenty two counties now participate with public health nurses under the program.
Business for the reconstruction finance corporation in Montana has surged since the state headquarters moved back to Helena from Minneapolis. Manager Stuart Bingham reports many wheat loans through the Helena bureau and daily requests for more.
Warden Theodore R. Bergstrom says inmate numbers at the Deer Lodge state penitentiary may reach a three year high this year. The August count showed 556 guests housed at the prison amid an upward trend.
The entry notes June this year reached 643 while the low for May 1936 was 521, with 560 recorded in May this year.
Through efforts of the Montana employment service beet sugar growers probably will not have to go out of the state this fall to hire field workers. Available beet field workers have been registered by managers for the employment service in 48 counties and will be referred to growers seeking labor.
The regional disbursing office in Helena sent checks totaling 1.569 million dollars to 42 Montana agencies in August. Bureau chief Richard Zohm said nearly 22 000 individual checks were issued by the office.
Federal Judge Charles N. Pray settled an oil well dispute in Great Falls. He ruled that drillers who struck water on a twenties wildcat should not bear the cost of plugging the hole. The government had plugged the hole at 8975 dollars after earlier permission to abandon without removing the pipe.
The state railroad and public service commission will hold a hearing on September 27 in Bozeman regarding Northern Pacific Railway’s request to discontinue bus service between Bozeman and Billings.
The state board of health tests soil samples from an arsenic bed near Townsend along Indian Creek. Nine cows died last week. officials initially blamed contaminated grass but digging shows the arsenic bed runs several feet underground.
Nine courtesy stations operated by the state highway department to aid tourists in Montana have closed for the season. Don A. McKinnon states this was the third year of operation. The service has been widely praised by locals benefiting Montana's $30,000,000 annual tourist trade.
Great Falls may revive the curfew siren at 9 PM though the ordinance, passed nearly a decade ago, has not been enforced. It targets youths under 14 to return home, with parents facing a $50 fine if children are found on the streets after curfew.
The $98,000 irrigation project under the state water conservation board moves forward after changes to the loan and grant agreement with the public works administration. Preliminary work began on three pumping stations drawing Yellowstone river water to irrigate 5,300 acres near Sidney, after a delay while the agreement was updated.
Montana state health board reports 37 new whooping cough cases last week, down from an average of 60 weekly in recent weeks. Health officials note the trend shows a decline while monitoring ongoing spread across the state.
The federal Indian service starts a health condition survey among Montana Indians in cooperation with the state board of health. Dr. W. F. Cogswell, board secretary, announced the initiative. Dr. J. G. Townsend of Washington, D. C., director of health for the federal service, leads the effort.
United States Forest Service reports the first Montana lamb shipment to Chicago this season grossed 8.75 dollars per hundred pounds. Averaging 77 pounds, they sold at 25 cents above the day’s other lambs. Shipment was by Snyder Sheep Company of Bil.
Gilbert Hilde of Dillon spoke at a Rotary meeting about Cutbank field's oil abundance and limited marketing capacity. He advocated Montana Gas for Montana to boost local markets and keep money in state, highlighting the Montana home market idea.
The Indian bureau and Dr L A Fullerton of Spokane medical director for Indians in this division will be assisted by Dr Cogswell in the survey.
Dr. George Finlay Simmons announces the appointment of Larrie Haydon as director of dramatics at the state university in Missoula. Haydon, former executive director of the Portland Civic Theater, succeeds Donal Harrington who resigned to join the University of Washington drama staff.
Washington plans to spend 622000 to enlarge the Rocky Mountain laboratory of the public health service at Hamilton. Assistant Surgeon General Dr. L R Thompson, who visited last week, says the institution will be used for research on several diseases in addition to spotted fever.
Superintendent Edmund B. Rogers says Yellowstone National Park will invest over 1.2 million dollars to improve 70 miles of roads in the coming years. He notes that several projects may soon go under contract thanks to a last Congress appropriation.
Miss Phyllis Presvett of Buffalo Lake Minnesota married Jack Barrett son of Mr and Mrs R M Barrett of Dillon on Thursday September 8 at Buffalo Lake near Minneapolis. The groom is a Dillon youth attending the University of Minnesota and plans to live in Minneapolis to continue his studies after the wedding.
Victor Cushman of Sheridan and Miss Maxine Thomas of Blackfoot Idaho were married in Blackfoot recently. Both former Normal College students. They will reside in Outlook where Cushman will teach this coming term.
The Ellen May guild will hold an anniversary meeting tomorrow at 3 30 in Miss Jean Bishop’s home with Mrs Saito as associate hostess. Mrs F C McFadden will present the history of the Woman's Missionary society Mrs S E Davis that of the Westminister guild and Mrs T Lee McCracken the Ellen May guild story. Mrs W J Bierrum will introduce the year’s study book Moving Millions the story of modern India and devotionals will be led by Miss Evelyn Rimel.
The state fish and game commission announced an earlier mink trapping season to improve harvest prospects. State Game Warden James A. Weaver said the winter season runs December 15 to March 15 inclusive, shifting from the prior March 1 to April 30 schedule.
Regional PWA director in Omaha sets September 30 as the deadline to hold the election for matching funds for a federal grant. The county awaits voters at sixteen polling places including Dillon High School and Metlen Hotel with several other sites stationed across Lakeview Monida Dell Red Rock Grant Bannack Bishop Birchcreek Glendale Polaris Jackson Wisdom Dewey and Nicholia.
The Rural Electrification Administration in Washington allocates 119000 dollars to Montana for a 100 mile power line to serve 329 rural customers in Park county. Project cost will be repaid by users and engineering will be handled by the state water conservation board.
R. D. Tobin of Helena was elected first vice president of the Western Building and Loan Association, succeeding the late Oshey Devine of Great Falls. Harry McCain, also of Helena, was chosen to fill Devine's director seat after a Salt Lake City board meeting.
Morgan Burke of Havre is named traveling auditor for the state department of agriculture by Commissioner James T. Sparling. He will contact elevators statewide to ensure compliance with the Montana grain law. Burke previously represented the Imperial Elevator company of Minneapolis in Montana for 29 years.
The state board of education awarded contracts totaling 39 465 for an addition to the natural science building at the state university in Missoula. After contracts and preliminary costs, 1 837 remains from the 45 300 for equipment purchases.
State Auditor John J. Holmes last week issued warrants totaling $200,000 for the unemployment compensation commission fund and $23,411 for the teachers retirement fund.
The church observed its anniversary with special Sunday services attended by former pastors and long time member George R. Featherly who joined shortly after founding and has served 40 years on the session. Ellen May guild and Manse society marked the birthday at their meetings.
At a state board of education meeting the plan was presented to add about 30000 dollars yearly to the appropriation for the six units of the University of Montana. Heads of the six units said the rise is needed to cover higher operating costs.
Beaverhead County mourns a longtime rancher with ties to Walla Walla and Grant. Survived by brothers W Brenner and Charles Brenner, nephews Jack and Tom Brenner, and niece Isabelle. Parents died in 192 then 1933. Funeral Sunday at St James Episcopal with Rev H N Tragitt officiating. burial in Mountain View cemetery.
Two well known Butt salesmen Jack Denny and Bob Doyle were involved in a crash on the Dillon Twin Bridges road at Point Rocks yesterday. Both drivers escaped with minor cuts and bruises, but their cars were badly damaged in the collision.
An inquest found Miles died from internal injuries in an accident at the Greed ranch. Burial took place at Mountain View cemetery Monday afternoon.
Mrs D L Johnson and C P Thomas won first honors in a two ball mixed foursome at the Country Club course on Sunday. Thomas, the club's oldest active member, recently joined the ace club with a hole in one on No 31, witnessed by Gordon Berry.
Officers of Dillon camp Modern Woodmen of America will institute a new lodge at Alder Saturday with a large delegation expected from here. After the ceremony a social evening will follow with dancing as the diversion according to N P Christensen secretary.
Word reaches here that William Chance, former honor roll student at Montana State Normal college, has been granted a teaching fellowship in English at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Miss Marie Larsen daughter of Mr and Mrs S P Larsen moves from the Chicago office of H and C Sugar Refinery to the New York office in a company transfer.
Prices are below last year but align with other Western sections as livestock shipments begin. The Dillon Examiner notes the start of shipments and compares current pricing to regional levels.
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