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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1930
Page
2
Judge L L Calloway of the Montana supreme court ruled the school board exceeded its authority by selecting a new Hamilton high school site without voter approval. The ruling reversed a district court decision by Judge Treodore Lentz and may halt construction planned for the fall.
President A A Wood of Libby announced the Montana Education Association committees at Helena offices. The groups cover Group insurance with chair H A Veeder of Wibaux and members Gullidge Baker Brewer Bozeman Swain Helena Fee Missoula. Placement bureau chaired by W E Moser Shelby with Stegner Plentywood Wollin Miles City Foote Billings Bowman Belt. Equalization and state support chaired by Silas Gaiser Sidney with Moe Helena Irle Glasgow Hinderman Whitefish Collins Roundup. Legislative committee chaired by Elizabeth Ireland Helena with Maddock Missoula Woodard Bozeman Bergan Cascade Ragsdale Butte.
A compiled schedule of county and state gatherings across Montana from April to August, including the State Conventions of DeMo, Rotary, and Eagles, the Montana Livestock Show, 4-H encampments, veterans encampments, and bank and press association meetings. Notable cities include Butte, Great Falls, Bozeman, Lewistown, Lewis town, Helena, Missoula, and Fort Missoula.
Forsyth plans paving work totaling over 30000 dollars to improve streets this summer. The city outlines include fourteen blocks to be laid at high cost, signaling major local construction.
After months of acrimony the Senate voted 53 to 31 to pass the tariff measure and send it to a conference with the House. The bill raises duties on agricultural products and adds new levies on cement, brick, soft wood lumber, aluminum, pig iron, watches and chemicals, while revising many rates. Debate over export debenture, farm relief, and flexible tariff provisions looms in conference.
Secretary Mellon warns Representative Hawley that the Cochran backed proposal to release 25 percent of the 635 million dollar adjusted compensation fund is flawed. He says the full reserve cannot be immediately available and financing would require tax increases or new bonds, raising the national debt and disrupting current government plans.
The Department of Agriculture reports farmers intend to plant 2.8 percent more corn and 0.1 percent more spring wheat while durum wheat acreage drops by 2.15 percent and all other spring wheat falls, based on March 1 intentions from about 50,000 farmers to guide planting decisions.
The Canadian house of commons passed Prime Minister King's bill by 173 to 11, enforcing a ban on liquor exports to the United States. Galleries watched the final vote as senators prepared to receive the measure in the upper chamber. The large attendance totaled 184 votes from 244 members.
IGH treasury officials express confidence that the 1 per cent income tax reduction granted by Congress for 1929 can be continued this calendar year. March tax receipts exceed expectations and the government’s fiscal year 1930 outlook appears bright with total income tax revenues reaching $1,785,282,857.
HAINMAN ALEXANDER LEGGE, head of the federal farm relief board, declares opposed to developing new irrigation and reclamation schemes. He argues expansion of farm lands would increase surpluses and stockpiles wheat and other commodities. He says conversations with Interior officials may lead to stronger action and that the board will oppose bills adding farms or farmers at this time.
The national business survey conference released summaries from 27 lines of business for four months after the stock market crash. Three fourths of reports were optimistic, noting firm conditions and gradual overcoming of early retarding factors. Construction credit and utilities plans are urged for revival, with projected expenditures totaling 3.25 billion dollars this year compared with 2.863 billion last year.
Reports to William Green show unemployment eased in the first two weeks of March for the first time since August. Union data from 24 cities for the first half of March indicate 21 percent unemployed, down from 22 percent in February, prompting Green to declare that the rise in unemployment has been checked.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York has announced fellowships totaling more than $200,000 to 85 scholars writers poets composers sculptors painters and other creative workers. Recipients reside in 23 states and Mexico and were chosen from over 700 applicants.
State and federal reports indicate Montana farmers may plant 3,405,000 acres of spring wheat this year, down from 3,644,000 last season and 3,877,000 in 1929. Nationwide, about 50,000 farmers in wheat states plan a 3.7 percent cut from last year.
Pondera county poultry raisers marketed over 12 000 turkeys earning more than 43 000 dollars. Lake county bankers plan lamb loans for breeders. Chestnut Valley Irrigation district leases total 3101 acres near Great Falls. Norwegian visitor Einar Lende Ngan studies Montana sheep industry for articles. Crop acreage in Yellowstone valley may shift due to market outlook. Sugar beets flax barley sweet corn and seed beans to rise as wheat prices fall. Rodney's Commander top price at Montana Shorthorn show selling for 280 dollars to George W. Spring. Thirty eight cows and bulls averaged 158 dollars. Montana Farmers union plans add nine counties. Seed law inspections begin April first with state seed laboratory testing. W D Hay designated seed inspector. Dairy commissioner Thrailkill notes firmer dairy foundations. Wheat marketing urged to aid rail logistics. Mackey Sheep of Billings ships wool to National Wool Marketing Corp at 27 cents per pound, with 24 1/2 cents loan advanced. State horticulture inspection opens Miles City office to aid seed and potato shipments.
F C Roberts minister of pensions received an inscribed grain of rice in a glass tube with a magnifying glass from a Delhi museum. The inscription reads May God bless a long, happy and prosperous life. London Tit-Bits.
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