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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1941
Page
6
Details on today’s high and low temperatures for Helena and other Montana locations, plus precipitation notes and a roundup of local items. Rummage sale, talks, enlistments, meetings, and social notices fill out a dense page of community events and notices.
Local column recalls wildlife misadventures at Joe Pond’s cabin including a bird house turned squirrel home. Pack rats seize the premises after a winter clash. squirrels retreat. A white rabbit is startled by a police shot fired under it, leaving the rabbit problem unresolved.
Community notes report Mr and Mrs Nan Kavanagh of Chicago visiting Mrs Arthur DeCelles and Dr and Mrs R Wynn Morris returning from Minnesota meetings of the Great Northern Railroad Surgeons association and the Minnesota State Medical association in St Paul Holdie Little back from a 10 day view in Everett Washington Victorie BC and other west coast spots The rabbit story at Seven-Up ranch hints at a growing nuisance The Montana Supreme Court set to hear Sherman McCarten roadhouse case with a July 80 hearing date The Richland county board opposes licensing The nearby liquor issue involves the Mount Helena hills Missed details suggest a license fight A Senate Pepper address to be broadcast by KPFA from Civic Center 8 to 9:30 pm Wednesday with arrival details and local officials to welcome him at Butte airport
The Avery family and Mr and Mrs Bid Johnson express sincere appreciation for the many kind acts shown during their recent bereavement.
Eleven Helena boys named to assist Mr and Mrs Don Jelli son director of the new Y M C A camp on Lake Ellen when it opens next Monday Hach will manage aspects of the program Senior leaders include Mark Farris I Tom Ewing Alan Gros sberg Bob Young Carol Seibers Tom Mahan Bud Cook and Jerry iby Junior leaders are Charles Bradham Chad Smith and Charles Little More junior leaders will be named soon Edworthy Y M C A executive secretary urges parents to notify him for attendance The camp is fully equipped with furniture dishes boats beds and eight tents with wooden floors Mrs Glen Bons will be camp caretaker and cook.
A resident sought permission to shoot rabbits on his property and the police advised an officer could handle the issue. When another rabbit appeared on the lawn the constabulary intervened to manage the situation.
Gov. Sam Ford summoned a 2 PM gathering of United Service Organization members including the YMCA YWCA Jewish Welfare Board Salvation Army National Catholic Community Travelers Aid to outline plans to raise funds for recreation camps at army and navy training stations. Norman Willestine BV Edworthy and Arthur Nelgon named to the temporary committee will attend.
J. D. Gough announces new Civil Service exams for Electrotyper Finisher Electrotyper Molder and Stereotyper at 1.82 dollars per hour for 40 hours. Applications to the Civil Service Commission by July 2. Turner clerk position in Washington DC offers 1440 dollars annually with specialized experience in filing or statistics. applications due by June 16. Further details available at Mr. Gough’s office in the federal building.
Dr FE N Gerrie dental director of the state board of health spoke to the Kiwanis club at the Placer hotel about building a dental health program through schools news releases literature talks by informed speakers and cooperation with community organizations. Rev C B Whittier announced Jack Chivers will direct All Kiwanis night June 1. Chief Justice Howard Johnson of the Montana Supreme Court will discuss Kiwanis land citizenship. Directors meet at noon Thursday in the Placer. Willard Anderson transferred from Great Falls to Helena. Marvin Wallace and Tod Sanders were guests.
A petition for probate of the will of Charles P. Valentine was filed yesterday in district court and hearing was set for 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Judge A. J. Horsky granted a decree quieting title to lots 11, 12, 18, 14 in block mine of the Chessman and Davis central ad dition. The action was led by Florence A. Hooper against Benjamin Hooper and others. Judge Horsky also overruled a deuthrer filed by the Fox Missoul an Theater corporation, defendant in an injunction suit filed by County Attorney J. Miller Smith in which he charged the company was operating a lottery in Helena.
Read in Christian Science churches on June 1 1941 the Lesson Sermon condemns occult beliefs. Scriptural citations from Proverbs Deuteronomy stress serving the Lord and rejecting other gods. Eddy text warns against dual powers and insists God is omnipotent, condemning superstition and polytheistic myth.
Dr James E Dodds, pastor of Church of Truth Portland and former Mind editor, arrives Here this afternoon to give three lectures in Pittsburgh block. Events titled The Great Realty at 8 tonight New Paths to Freedom at 2 30 Wednesday Journey of the Soul at 8 Wednesday evening The Beauty Thursday at 2 30. No other services in center this week.
Orval Cooper of Elgin, UK, a youth who hitch hiked hundreds of miles into Canada seeks his uncle Jank J. Cooper. He arrived in Helena yesterday and last heard from Regina, Sask. He learns his uncle is in Helena working as a Jinenian in 1084. Cooper’s father Fred Cooper of Illinois is very ill, and his aunt Esther Adams is blind. He asks anyone with information to contact the Helena police promptly.
The Montana board of administration reported May tax collections total 688,896.75, up 62,072.37 from May 1940. Major returns came from gasoline tax 559,374.62 and corporate license taxes 79,257.20, with smaller sums from coal, cement, chain store, oil production, telephone, theater, income, contractors, electrical energy, telegraph, natural gas, and inheritance taxes.
The Montana Supreme Court granted petitions for writs of supervisory control yesterday. Hearings are set for June 16 in a $53,537 damages suit stemming from an auto accident near Bozeman on Nov 7, 1940, involving Harold Doyle, Howard Mulkey, George Doyle, and James Novak for Smith Oldsmobile of Bremerton. A second case by Augusta Word of Helena seeks $15,000 against Beaverhead Ranch. June 10 hearing date is set. A writ in Lewis and Clark County awaits a hearing date not yet fixed.
Attorney General John W. Bosze ruled the state lacks jurisdiction to force an Indian with a patent in fee to his Crow allotment to send a child to a public school. The opinion, issued to Big Horn County Attorney Bert Kronmiller, states the individual remains a U.S. citizen but is no longer a member of the government.
The state board of examiners in a brief meeting approved a trip for Donald E. Warner, director of the food and drug division, to St. Paul from June 9 to 13. Warner will represent Montana at a meeting of the National Association of Food and Drug Officials.
The Sun River herd received 1947 metal identification ear tags in a cooperative effort by the Helena and Lewis and Clark National Forests. The tagging, begun in 1937, helps track calf migrations and shows most tagged calves stay near the area with a few harvested within about 15 miles of tagging.
Gov. Sem C. Ford yesterday commuted to 30 months a three year sentence imposed on Leane and Stone in Madison County for grand larceny. Stone aided authorities leading to the conviction of Joseph W. Webber, a Virginia City merchant, on receiving stolen property charges. Webber appealed his conviction, claiming the stolen pump and compressor were involved, to the state Supreme Court.
Montana fish and game department said a public auction yielded 37 514 50 from confiscated state tracts and pelts including 400 beaver skins along with red fox mink and otter furs. The department noted bidders paid standard market prices with Goldberg’s Gelene furriers purchasing much of the consignments. Edible bananas lack fertility but some wild varieties do.
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