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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1940
Page
16
Montana items report planned plantings at the Masonic Grand Lodge Building grounds, a funeral service for John Patrick, and health updates noting cases of mumps and chicken pox. Also listed are real estate permits, a 4-H club formation, and other small notices from Helena and surrounding areas.
Montane fish and game commission discussed special fishing and hunting regulations for the Blackfeet Indian Reservation with Blackfeet tribal council members in Cut Bank yesterday. Decision pending. no final ruling reached. Glacier National Park officials and local groups attended the meeting.
5B. G. Toomay, county chairman of Citizens' Military Training camps, announced a dual men and professions men’s camp for applicants ineligible for other types of military service. To be held near Monterey, California, July 2 to 24, applications are now being accepted. Applicants will be selected by education and civic leadership. Ages 25 to 60. Applications may be obtained from J. L. Sanders in the Silver Row block, Butte. Each application must be accompanied by a $28 check.
Reader Diliarou and George Bart Dennis pleaded guilty to grand larceny and were sentenced by District Judge George W. Padbury Jr to one year in the state penitentiary. They stole a typewriter clothing and other goods valued over 200 from Alfred Blust’s car. Hoegkons, Suav 22. The Central Chinese News Agency also reports Chinese artillery sinking a Japanese destroyer and a gunboat on the Yangtze near Tanglin in Anhwei Province on June 18 casualties reported.
Rain drenched eastern Montana over the last 48 hours with totals in multiple towns from Broadus to Billings. Amounts ranged from a trace in Fort Peck to .98 inches in Broadus and helped ease parched top soils across farming regions.
Two Massachusetts men, John A. Henderson of Holden and John B. Knowiton of North Granville, arrived by air yesterday and plan a two week stay in Montana. They will visit Glacier National Park after meeting Henrietta Dawalt at the chamber of commerce information bureau, then return home to Massachusetts.
Difford York Potson pleaded guilty to a federal charge and was sentenced by Judge James H. Baldwin to twelve months in jail and a fine on three counts. John W. Loogie of Tenmile, N. D., admitted to receiving a stolen item and was given four months. judge Baldwin scheduled trial dates for related cases.
Fire Chief John Roth tested a new department mask and gear under real conditions but, after painful exposure, stresses safer procedures. The incident occurred in York Nok on Tune 23 as authorities evaluated protective equipment and protocols for the fire department.
The June 1 quota of European refuges garments is received at national headquarters. County chairman C A Bercher was advised. The packing committee includes Mrs J E Denmen Mrs D R Wallhen and Mrs Charles McCoy. The liaison committee features Mrs William Mc Clatchey Mrs Van Clark and Mrs C W Eckhardt. Women of the county work on their September 1 quota nearly double June 1 with Mrs A T Tibbard to chair yarn distribution aided by Mrs Bradley Reynolds. The telephone committee includes Mrs Tom Tobin Mrs William Copenhayer and Mrs Sherman W Smith. Washington grants for public assistance are listed by the Social Security Board. Nebraska totals: aged 706702 blind 20823 children 234039.
Personal notices recount guests at the Placer yesterday including Bir and Ace Pred W Mase of Paradice Mrs Rowand of Lincoln was moon at the Fineen and J B Brana Stilings was at the Placer Nile Bauer from Grant Palin attended as a guest Ralph Holm of Milee City at the Harvey event G E Blein of Darby also present at Harvey and Frances Conrad with Mr and Mrs Hatfield Conrad were guests at the Placer yesterday
The Helena community honors Mother Barry a legendary race track figure turning 80. Once a pioneering female jockey born in Melbourne in 1863 she built a life around horses and dairy cattle winning prizes and ribbons, living near Resurrection Cemetery with friend Rosa Lockwood as her companion.
A traveler cashed two stolen checks for 109 dollars each in Yellowstone country. The forgeries used blanks taken from a Nebraska Tobas post office. Officials urge public help to locate the culprits and recover the missing blanks, noting the thief appears to be moving swiftly during a vacation period.
Broadwater canals on the Broadwater Missouri irrigation project await completion after P W A and water conservation board engineers approved four miles of work. Maj J W Ritchie said concrete work should finish within a month as river levels receded. The project will irrigate about 40 000 acres. Also notices optometrist Dr B A Kunts will be away until July due to a postgraduate course in eye care. Feld Bauder will handle office duties and optical repairs.
City Engineer Andy Richards announced a meeting in the Civic Center council room at 7 o clock Monday evening. Attendees include property owners on Ewing Street between Savannah and Bleventh avenues and on Eighth Ninth and Tenth avenues between Warren and Rodney streets. The purpose is to discuss material removal and timing for street oiling and to offer a street oiling project.
Dedication is planned for a new $91,000 highway bridge over Beavar Creek at Wibaux next Wednesday. Local officials and sportsmen organize ceremonies with highway department representatives R. A. Stevenson of Helens and B. Sanders of Miles City to present the completed structure to the mayor.
Officials from Montana Wyoming set Monday conference to study old age and survivors insurance progress since 1940. Olga Stromach says emphasis on improved service for mobile beneficiaries. Montana recipients number 62 384 with 3 172 dollars monthly to beneficiaries. Attendees include managers and staff from Helena Billings Butte Great Falls Havre Miles City Sheridan and other field offices in Montana and Wyoming.
June marriage activity across Lewle and Clark counties remains strong as the Clerk of Court and deputies report 30 licenses issued so far, with nine days left in the month and expectations of beating last year’s June total. Officials note this June has been exceptionally favorable for marriages.
Mrs C Kenley of Nannes Montana, long ill with pain, heart trouble, and stomach issues, says after weeks on Chinese herbs her pain eased, appetite returned, and she could walk again. She reports improved energy and sleep and urges others to try Wong Run's Chinese Herbs.
Lowia J. Murphy national commander of the Disabled American Veterans will visit the local post next Wednesday June 26. He will inspect Fort Harrison veterans hospital and speak at a meeting open to ex-service men. The event, arranged by adjutant Cross, will announce the exact meeting location soon. Murphy, a South Bend Indiana native and Notre Dame graduate, was wounded in combat November 1918.
Helena YMCA announces upcoming tryouts for the youth swim team. Sam Mummery, physical director, lists 21 invited candidates and notes a series of standard tests will determine qualification with regular-class tryouts possible for additional applicants during class periods.
Sct B K Wheeler wired Mayor Buck Waytin urging expedited action on the Lethbridge extension of Western Air Lines. Western Air and Inland Lines request halting extension pending U S Civil Aeronautics Authority decision on their merger with United Air. The merger was denied and the extension proposal must be decided by June 30.
Dr Wy Butler, head of the state Milk Board, announced yesterday the board’s operating under control rules and price provisions. The board will hear petitions from dairymen in White Bell and Cut Bank seeking admission to the program.
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