The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-04-17

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Governor Sam C. Ford compile
ted the list of his major ap-
pointments last week by naming
a completely new fish and game
commission, the nine = member
advisory and defense commits
sion, and two new members of
the armory board.
To the fish and game commits
sion, the governor named DR.. w.
]. SeVery of Montana State uni
versity for District No. l; Will
liam C. Carpenter, president of
the Butte Rod and Gun club,
for District No. 2; A. C. Grande,
Meagher county rancher, for
District No. 3; Elmer Johnson,
Glasgow businessman, for dis
trict No. 4, and G. E. Vedove,
| Roundup, president of the Tri-
County SportSmen's association,
for District No. 5.
AS members of the advisory
and defense commission, Gov.
Ford appointed r. E. ToWle, Hell
ent; o. S. Warden, Great Falls;
E. J. Kelley, Butte; T. ]. Hook
ing, Glasgow; Herb Marley,
Great Falls; Mrs. Donad M.
Hetter, MisSoula; Claude c..
Gray, Big Timber; B. w. Column
bus. Red Lodge, and R. S. Mutt,
Sidney. These nine members,
with Gov. Ford as eX-officio
chairman and Agriculture Com
missioner Albert Cruise as eX-
officio secretary, will work with
the federal government in ma
tional defense projects, and will
try to promote the use of Mon
tana materials in defense pro-
duction.
To the armory board, Gov.
Ford named H. L. Richardson,
Great Falls, and Scott P. Hart,
Helena. The recent legislature,
in giving the armory board more
authority, increased it's member
ship from five to seven.
With these appointments out
of the way. the governor had
only a few appointments to mi
nor boards and commissions re-
naming before him.
The governors appointment of
the fish and game commission
followed by a few days an an
nouncement by Game Warden
J. S. Mcfarland the preliminary
plans for Montana'S participa-
ton in the federal wildlife con-
servation program would be
drawn up late this month, and
his disclosure that it was UNI
likely local project could be un-
dertaken this year.
DR.. Mcfarland said he believed
the $40, 900 in federal funds the
state will receive under the Pitt
man-RobertSon act this year
should be used to make a COM
plete survey of game and fish
conditions in the state before
local project were considered.
Chairman w. E. Dowlin, Bill
lings, of the advisory commits
sion for reorganization and
streamlining the state govern
ment, said after a. conference
with Gov. Ford that the COM
mission could get down to work
in about two weeks. At the
same time, the governor warned
that reorganization would be a
~long-range, longtime job, and
that only minor changes could
be made Immediately. He poin-
ted out that major changes will
require constitutional amend
ments, and that only two can
be submitted to the people at
any one election.
On another front, an attempt
was begun to compose a dis
pute between the Montana
Building Trades council and the
WPA over use of WPA labor
ers for skilled work on state
armories under construction at
Poplar, Bozeman and Helena.
The unions commended the
skilled jobs should go to union
men, and Labor Commissioner
E. c. Burris, Chairman John A.
Stage of the armory board, and
a rapreSantatiye IF tho 1obor