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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1939
Page
5
Dillon brief highlights list local visitors and callers from Butte and Wise River. Ranchers, teachers, and a geologist report snow measurements at Elk Horn Springs. A marriage license issued in Butte joins community events and upcoming St. Patrick dinner plans at St. Rose hall.
Mrs. Harry Andrus was honored Tuesday evening with a bridal shower hosted by Mrs. Farnum Schuyler Miss Margaret Holloran and Mrs. J V McCarthy at the Andrus hotel. About 50 guests attended and gifts were presented. Prizes went to Miss Berthana Koontz for bridge Mrs. Frank Carr for chinker chek and Mrs. Frank Rife for embroidery.
The musicale of the choral club has been postponed from the 17th to the 24th due to illness of members.
Royal Neighbors will meet Thursday evening at 8 o clock at the IOOF hall for initiation. Refreshments and a social hour will follow. Juveniles meet at 6 30.
Postponement of the Ellen May guild meeting due to illness among members. The event will not be held tomorrow afternoon and a new date will be announced later.
The legislature passed a $500,000 referendum to fund a new mental hospital addition at Warm Springs. It also advanced Montana a $30,000,000 annual tourist industry, approving $15,000 yearly for advertising and $10,000 for the state exhibit at San Francisco’s world fair. A highway bill dictates 60 percent federal aid for new construction and 40 percent for reconstruction. Merchants backed a bill empowering the railroad and public service commission to enforce the fair trade act and fund food-distributor oversight. Sportsmen welcomed two fishing license price hikes and a ban on salmon eggs fishing. one bill killing a prior proposal to permit fishing with salmon eggs.
John Hart, a swimming coach in Johannesburg, plays a round of golf in 99 strokes using a makeshift one handed swing. He cut down a No 1 wood and fitted it with a thick paddle to aid his grip.
An insurance firm releases a booklet based on official 48 state data showing 32,000 killed and over a million injured in 1938 accidents. It highlights speed at fault in 39.6 percent of deaths and 25 percent of injuries, male drivers 94 percent, clear dry weather in 84 percent of fatal crashes, Sunday as the deadliest day, and pedestrians comprising about 43 percent of fatal victims.
Mrs P J Ansel and Miss Pauline Lapp of Butte were treated at Barrett hospital for cuts and bruises after an automobile left the road at dead man s curve two miles south of Reichle on Highway 91 Sunday. The car skidded, knocking down guard rail posts before overturning. Driver A H Ansel and another occupant Peter Ansel were uninjured.
The planned release of 100 Chinese pheasants in Beaverhead valley by the Butte Anglers club was postponed due to bad weather. Beaverhead Sportsmen's association officers announced the birds will be released within the next few weeks after feeding at Maiden Rock rearing pens.
The Montana State Normal College women’s debate team won a unanimous decision over the State University team Saturday evening in the college auditorium. Mary Malloy of Anaconda and Elaine Tschache of Froid formed the Normal college team. Upholding the affirmative of the question: Resolved that the United States should cease to use public funds including credit for the purses.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces open competitive exams for positions including junior multigraph operator and several specialists in occupational information guidance and field service. Full details available at Dillon post office.
Judge Henry G. Rodgers imposes a two year term after John Schooley pleads guilty to a felony charge in district court. He was jailed at Byer Lodge after the Tuesday hearing and was charged with stealing automobile tires from a Big Hole basin ranch last summer. Arrested in Mountain Home Ark by local authorities, he was returned to Dillon to face charges.
Three suspects were arraigned in justice court for deer and moose killings in Meadow Creek, Wise River district. Noah Clarkson of Wise River pleaded guilty to killing deer out of season and faced sentencing. Gus Anderson and Francis Moore of Butte waived hearings on charges of causing a moose kill, with trial set for March 21.
A March storm drops four to six inches of snow across the valley with record cold. Temperatures retreat to 19 below zero at 5 to 6 am at the Normal College weather station, then rise to 29 degrees above by afternoon. Dillon ski club members and others headed to Elkhorn Springs for fresh powder.
Helena March 4. The total value of horses mules cattle sheep hogs and chickens on Montana farms and ranches on January 1 1939 amounted to 78 180 000 a gain of 12 297 000 from the previous year and 14 551 000 from two years ago according to the annual live stock report by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
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New method described by Dr. Thomas Garfield Chapman of the University of Arizona uses cyanide dissolution and activated charcoal to bind gold in ore pulps, enabling recovery through flotation. He notes the process could tap a broader range of gold bearing ores and may enable cheaper plants.
The House passes a bill waiving fishing licenses for ages 70 and over this summer. Children under 15 remain exempt from license requirements.
The Dillon Ellis drum and bugle corps will sponsor its first dance of the year next Saturday night March 11 at corps headquarters in Dart's hall. The arrangements committee is headed by H. L. Tolley and Paul Stahl Jr.
Cleveland reporter quotes Douglas Corrigan as saying the notion of foreign invasion by bomber planes is silly. He notes they could fly here across oceans but questions how they would return and insists it would be a one way gift to the United States.
Eugene Oregon news quotes Dr Lester F Beck of the University of Oregon asserting that female babies survive better than males. He says the Dionne quintuplets would not have lived if born male.
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