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Helena Independent

Location

Helena, Montana, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1938

Page

4

Ehlers Leaves Health Service as He Is Not Replaced Yet

Helena officials dispute over replacing city county health commissioner Dr. R B M Ehlers after his term ends. Mayor A J Roberts argues for a trained public health expert, while County Commissioners move to not renew the contract citing Montana residency rules. The panel plans to interview Dr C F Jump, the sole qualified applicant, as tensions mount over who leads the joint health program.

DR. Ehlers Board of County Commissioners R. B. M. Ehlers A. J. Roberts Tom Cooney Bert Coty George Middieman Roberts Dr. Ehier Amos Shellady F. {. Sorenson Payne Templeton Clarence Wise Ethel M. Dietrick Ehler Vota Ehlers Montana Health Service Public Health Service Wise Templeton Jump Cooney Ehier Ehlere Los Angeles Helena

Barbara Bell Fashions Pattern No 1498 8 for Spring and Summer

Barbara Bell Pattern No 1498 8 offers a two piece blouse and dress design in taffeta wool linen or silk for skirt and sheer fabrics for blouse. Sizes 12 through 20 with busts from 30 to 40 inches. Includes yardage, sewing chart, and order instructions.

Barbara Bell

Housing Authority Hearing Tonight in Helena

Taxpayers and property owners gather at 7 40 in District Judge Padbury’s courtroom for a public hearing on creating a housing authority under state statute. The five member commission could acquire land borrow money issue bonds and erect multi family dwellings for low income renters. the city remains not financially obligated. Labor unions push for housing and jobs for about 200 unemployed workers. City Clerk Kessler to open the meeting with council to appoint the commission if public sentiment favors the measure.

George W. Padbury Helena Housing Authority Victor XN. Kessler Commission of Five

Campaign for football field lights reaches 63 buyers

Fourteen more season ticket purchasers joined the drive to raise 3900 for installing lights at the high school football field. The Citizens-Faculty committee and four service clubs plus the American Legion plan a 10 am Chamber of Commerce meeting to finalize plans and canvass the city for support. Tickets cost 5 and grant admission to all games and events under the lights next season.

American Legion Chamber of Commerce Hghts L. E. Opp O. G. Lamport al Reep C. E. Pruner Clarice Stellman F. W. Woolworth Company C. A. McFarland O. W. Burgan Mra. QO

Newspapers Dominate 1937 Rail Advertising Outlay

The 1937 railroad ad spend totaled 11,621,631 with newspapers receiving 4,885,901 of the total. Newspapers and magazines combined grew 1.62 percent from 1936 and radio spend rose 1.38 percent, per NP advertising manager L L Perrin citing the Association of American Railroads.

Helena Northern Pacific L. L. Perrin Perrin Robert 8. Henry Ansociation American Railroads Space i

Railway Trains Derailed in Japan Landslide Tragedy

Tokyo June 16 two express trains from opposite directions were derailed by a landslide between Wake and Kuinays in southwestern Japan. At least 20 dead and 150 injured including ten children. Rescue teams work amid debris as the event shocks the region.

Tokyo Wake Kuinays Japan Quad

Open Marlow Run: Yellow Jack on the Cuban Yellow Fever Story

The Marlow theater opens Yellow Jack a motion picture about Major Walter Reed and a team of scientists who go to Cuba after the Spanish-American War to study a yellow fever outbreak. Robert Montgomery stars with Virginia Bruce and Lewis Stone. The film follows a Washington commission that learns mosquitoes transmit the disease and risks volunteers for field hospital experiments.

Water Reed Cuba Marlow Theater Robert Montgomery Virginia Bruce Lewis Stone Walter Reed Washington

Bright Young Star Blen Boles Joins You Cant Take It With You Cast

The 24 year old Blen Boles from Hollywood headlines the Marlow Saturday performance of You Cant Take It With You. A former Disney child actor, he began on screen at eight and built a varied stage and film career including roles in The Road to Ruin and Go Into Your Dance.

Marlow Glan Boles Boles Hollywood Walt Disney San Diego Calif Pictures Warner Brothers Babbitt Guy Kibbee Miss Glory al Woods Roosevelt Hotel Woods New York

Santa Fe CCC director faces Caverns question on CCC role

National director Robert Fechner of the Civilian Conservation Corps may struggle to answer a New Mexico woman’s query about the Carlsbad Caverns. She asks if the caverns were CCC built and if they featured in a recent release What Becomes of the Children. Bursey, a state official, is referenced in the exchange.

Santa Fe N. M Robert Fechner Civilian Conservation Corps Carlsbad New Mexico Joseph A. Bursey G.C.C

Black Cockatoo The Rare Bird at Ringling Circus

Frank Buck notes the black cockatoo is among the world’s rarest birds. Five exist in the U S including one in The Bronx, two at St Louis Zoo, and two at Buck’s Amityville, Appleton. The bird feeds on katari nuts imported from New Guinea and nests in tall jungle trees. It is strong and intelligent, can imitate speech, and guards its territory. Buck is interrupted by a snarling panther. Also Kalispell court bill advances in Congress.

Frank Buck Ringling Brothers Barnum & Batley Circus Madison Square Garden New York United States New Guinea Mr. Buck Bronx St. Louis Amityville Huck Mr. Back

Sticker motif for tourists features Montana girl

Port of entry attendants in Montana will distribute wildshield sticker carts this summer. The Montana highway department announced a new sticker motif featuring a Montana dude ranch girl in traditional Western garb. Supplies have been sent to all nine port of entry stations for visitors.

Montana Montana State Highway Department Treasurer State

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