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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1940
Page
4
Highlights include James Gilliland planning a February move to Pennsylvania. Lima hosts a major cottage fire sparked by a lamp overturned by a cat. Lima forms a hose and ladder company with M. A. Berger presiding and W. F. Gardner named fire chief.
Charles Niblack arrived home from the east where he purchased stock for the newly formed Dillon Dry goods company. J M Johnson, longtime Pacific Express agent in Dillon, left for Pocatello after a promotion. Alf Cashmore attended the state retail and grocers association meeting in Butte. Spot Gibson resigned as stage driver for Tash and Lenkersdorfer between Dillon and Bannack. Warren Coatway of Bannack and Bert Dunbar filled the vacancy.
Revised U S Navy enlistment instructions effective Sept 8 1939 set age limits for first enlistments from 18 to 31 with a six year term. Ex members with creditable discharges may enlist under 35. Re enlistees under 35 with past service under eight years may join at four year terms. Special order discharges go to the bureau.
Republicans in Montana prepare for an expected visit by Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the presidential nomination candidate. No definite schedule yet, but he is anticipated to stop in Helena while passing through the state en route to the national convention.
Oil fields in Montana produced 527,000 barrels of crude oil in November while refineries processed 450,827 barrels, according to a report by the state oil conservation board.
A damaged OCR fragment references the state attorney general, food distributors, and jurisdiction. It mentions acts of the state and officials but lacks clear names, dates, or locations.
The piece surveys 1941 budget aims doubling defense spending, Japan sanctions, and embargo talk, with notes on Britain’s wartime import shifts, U.S. and Allied industrial posture, and lingering questions about memory of World War I and Franklin Roosevelt-era policy.
More than 400 Montana stockmen are slated to converge in Great Falls on February 24 for the Montana Cowboys association third annual reunion and banquet. The event will honor Charles M. Russell, with plans and committees set, including membership rule changes allowing 21 year old sons of pioneer cowmen to become sustaining members. A six member committee was formed to complete a memorial to pioneer Montana cowboys at the North Montana fairgrounds.
The wage and hour division of the Department of Labor approved the application by northwestern gold miners to be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act maximum hours provisions for seasonal work in open cut placer mining. The decision was announced in Washington on January 11.
Heleene mine operators Hecla Mining plan sinking main shaft to the 450 level, aligning the Heleene with a nearby mine operated by A. J. Theis. The initiative signals expansion at Norris Montana, with potential for greater joint working on the same horizon.
State Purchasing Agent I. S. Mc Quitty will open bids January 26 on 56 new cars for the highway patrol. The current patrol cars will be traded in on the new two door sedans, fully equipped with patrol radios and gear.
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