Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-10-07
News Briefs

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GREAT FALLS - Fifty first-yeal
students have started classwork at the
| Great Falls unit OF the consolidated
/ DeaconeSs nursing schools.
BILLINGS - Mrs. Charles Cooley
| production manager for the Billings
/ Civic theater last year, has resigned
| Mrs Cooley Is leaving to make her
home in Lewistown.
LAUREL-F1fteen men were added
to the shop force Of the Northern Pa
cific railway recently for seasonal
work. such as adding beet sides to cars
and conditioning gondolas.
HELENA-E. Leibert, United States
marshal for Montana, has announced
the appointment Of William w. Craw-
| ford of Great Falls, former marshal,
as chief deputy.
GLENDIVE-The sixth district of the
Montana Federation of Women's clubs
viii meet here in 1941, It was decided
at this years meeting, held at Round
up recently.
SIDNEY-Burglars who forced their
wav into the high school building,
chiseling their way through locks 10
offices and into the vault, found only
SIS. The money belonged to various
student funds.
BUTTE-The question of installing
parking meters on Butte streets, under
discussion for several months, Is Stil
unanswered. The city council voted to
install the meters, but Mayor Charles
Hauswirth announced he would veto
the measure. Further debate is expect
ed early in October
CUT BANK-Farmers and ranchers
living north OF here are enjoying travel
over a completed link Of the highway
Joining the oiled road north Of Santa
Rita with the east road at the juno
ton of the Frank Stuff ranch.
MEDICINE LAKE - The Medicine
Lake CCC camp is one of the IS camps
that will be operated in wildlife refugees
in IS states during the six months be-
ginning Oct. /, Robert Fechner, CCC
director, has announced.
GREAT FALLS-The third annual
sugar beet field day, sponsored by the
Great Falls Chamber of Commerce,
will be held here in November this
year, p @. Bulen, president of the
chamber of commerce, announced.
HELENA-Work on the national
guard recreation hall at Camp Roy E.
Ayers, near here, will be completed
early in October, Col Lyman E. Moore,
commander of the state guard, has
announced.
BUTTE - State WPA Administrator
Joseph E. Parker has been notified
that presidential approval has been /
given $3.50 pedestrian traffic count
project here. Twenty persons will be
for two months.
TERRY-The initial trial of pump
ing units for the first unit Of the 7
Buffalo Rapids project was made here
Trials to determine efficiency /
Of the pumps and the pudding in Of +
canals will be done later.
HELENA-Protein content of wheat
grown in north central Montana this +
year will be unusually high, James 7.
Sparkling, state commissioner of agr1-
culture, said recently following a tour
Of the area. There were no total crop +
Aiures in the area, Sparkling declared.
OPHEIM-Opheim remains one of
he few towns In Montana without I
according to the annual /
'eport Of A. NJ. Johnson, deputy state
examiner. The town has been debt
rec for several years and has cash
balances in all funds.
HELENA - IWenCy-Cnree GnOuSanQ
Chinese pheaSantS will be liberated In
Montana this year-more than at any
,ther time in the states history-Joe
= Hendricks, superintendent Of the
tate game farm at Billings, has an
bounced.
CUT BANK-The Glacier Park Ski
Tub, which has been organized for
wo years, will accept members from
Shelby, Browning, Choteau and Con-
ad during the coming season. Here
ofore all members have been residents
f Glacier Park, Cut Bank and Bolton.
DRUBTMOND - Miss jeanette Ran
in, Americas first congreSswoman,
Tho as a member of congress in 1917
oted against participation of the
United States in the World war, spoke
ERE recently on the present European
onflict and the possibilities of keep
1R this country out of it.
FLEETWOOD One of Sheridan
ounty's oldest citizens, who lacked
My three months of having lived for
8 years, died at the government hos
ital at Poplar recently. He was
.ndrew NORM Of Medicine Lake.
FORM q Chippewa Indian, was born