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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1949
Page
5
A total of 8304 city driving permits were sold to Butte motorists this year, about 1000 fewer than last year. Permits cost 50 cents each and fund traffic control. Chief Bart J. Riley asked state patrol to inspect brakes and lights at stations citywide with motorists urged to cooperate and have cars checked.
Chicago event marks the publication of Marshall Field's book with Anna belle Scoon noting a bobby-soxer praising Field’s autograph. Field is called the second most famous haber dasher in America at a Washington banquet. John Powers frets over a missing 1938 World Almanac from his desk.
Mr and Mrs Robert Currie and daughter Bonnie Lee left for Salt Lake City after visiting relatives in the city. Several locals attended graduations and church events with plans announced for the Boulev ard fire department auxiliary dinner and Meaderville spring dinner at St Ann parish.
James R. Thomas longtime Montana Power company treasurer since 1933 will retire effective Wednesday. President F W Bird will name his successor at June board meeting. Thomas plans to stay in Butte pursue reading in history and economics and has traveled widely. He was born in Milwaukee May 9 1884 and educated at Oxford.
Thomas, who spent 1910 to 1912 on geological surveys in Chile Peru and Bolivia under British Museum and Oxford, later served 33 years with Montana Power with a stint in the Cuba Cane Sugar corporation. He rose from transmission work to treasurer and then to chairman of the board overseeing scholarships and local civic groups. He and his wife Lucile Jones lived at 1020 Caledonia, Missoula, with two children and two grandchildren in Seattle. his brother Dr Franklin Thomas earlier headed Missoula High School.
Harry Alan Driggs a 13 year old pupil at Webster school won the seventh grade state prize in the third annual American the Beautiful crayon art contest His drawing named Freedom earned him a mounted plaque presented by George Haney at Butte high school in a program attended by about 200 people He was guided by teacher Margaret H Quigley and his work was entered in national finals at the Waldorf Astoria New York City
United States life insurance companies reported assets topping 51 million dollars as of year end 1947, reflecting growing financial strength in the sector.
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