Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-20
News Briefs
From the Treasure State

! patrol. said.
MSSOULA-The AGisoula city cosln.
ell has decided to install parkins
meters on downtown streets for a six
month trial period Installation wa
recommended by a chamber Of CON-
merce committee.
HELENA The Montana supreme
court has gone into formal summer
recess with an order issued BY Chief
Justice Howard A. Johnson The CHIEF
Justices order scheduled beginning OF
the regular fan term Sept. is.
GLASGOW-W. A. Bechtel g. Co. OF
San Francisco, which has the contract
for the Montana-Dakota Utilities Co
gas line extension from near Fort
Peck to the Glendive area, has opened
headquarters office in Wolf Point.
ROY-The six-mile stretch on the
Grass Range-A1alta road eight miles
east Of Roy has been grayeled. The
three bridges and a cattle pass were
finished last month and the dirt NOV
ing crew completed its contract several
weeks ago.
HARLOWTON - Miss Mary Elene
Snyder who was born in Hedgesville,
recently was graduated from dental
college at Portland, Ore. and win take
postgraduate work under a scholarship
at the Forsyth infirmary at Boston,
according to word received here.
MARTNsDALE-Gu were called
from a dinner dance at the Twodot
tavern to fight range fire east of the
Snedaker ranch started by lightning.
Men from the Moore, Pump and BAR
ranches brought the fire under control
after it swept section of grass land.
HELENA-State income during June
totaled $164, 68487, State Treasurer Ray
N. Shannon reported. Shannon said
that at the end Of the month Mon
tana's cash balance was $T94, 554 90,
while investments totaled ST, ESQ, 667 IS.
The cash balance In permanent funds
was $1,I16,838.41.
SWEET GRASS-Truck movement
Of petroleum products from refineries
In Toole and Glacier counties to the
Canadian market has been greatly cur
tailed due to immigration restrictions.
Canadian truck drivers are now begin
ming to get their passports so they
can again enter the United States.
HELENA-Loans numbering $4,000
and totaling $49, 100000 were made by
81 Montana banks last year, according
10 a survey OF the American Bankers
association. There are Ill commercial
banks in the state but only slightly
more than half participated in the
survey.
HARLOWTON-The Milwaukee rail-
way expects to start construction in |
he near future on three new stock |
,ens at the west end Of the switchboard /
or the convenience of ranchers living !
outh and west of here. The present ,
vards will continue to be used for the /
,ulk of livestock shipments from Har- /
owton.
HELENA-Leo Whemet, 10, of Butte |
vas killed when struck by a large tree /
le was helping TO unload from g trail
T near Lincoln. The youth was work
ng with his uncle, Thomas Jeffers,
vho lives at a lodge four miles east
f Lincoln. Jeffers said Whemet was
teadying the tree while it was being
fitted.
BUTTE-Soil testing equipment re-
emily purchased by the work projects
administration viii be used In the fIH-
ure to scientifically test soil on all
tate WPA landscaping jobs, State Adj
Joseph E. Parker stated
gently. The equipment viii be used
y Herman Krogman, state landscape
ngineer.
GREAT FAI.LS-Indicatin a wider
Sc of the employment service by both
Employers and those seeking work, the
ocal office of the Montana employ
1ent service found 184 Jobs In private
1dustry in June for unemployed per-
ons as compared with 80 placements
urtng the same month last year, S.
!. johnson, manager, stated.
HELENA--The cost of removing
oxious weeds from state highways
lust be paid from a weed fund pro-
ided by the 1889 legislative session,
.ttorney General n. J. Freebourn
lied. In the opinion, written at the
squest Of w p Halloran, Deer Lodge
o statute providing for payment
therwise"
BUTTE-Memoir NO. 20 Of the state .
ureau OF mines and geology, known
S the Directory Of Montana Mining
roperties," Is now ready for diStTtbu-
on, according to an announcement
y DR.. Francis A. Thomson, director {
the bureau. The memoir will be dis !.
'ibuted from the presidents office Of 7
ne Montana School Of Mines and a
aarge Of 81 per copy win be made.
MISSOULA--Col. Robert E. Jones,
cad OF the military science depart
ent at Montana State university, is
)ending the summer In active duty In
1arge Of the r. 0. +. @. camp at
Ill remain at the camp until July H
| when he and his family win leave
II q short vacation In British Column
"a, before returning to Fort Lewis to
Ike part in the annual maneuvers
lere