The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
The Cdpitol
Week In Review

Helena, Mont, July % - CUP)
- News headliner of the capitol
week was the state board of ed
%ucation, which met for two DAYS
of busy sessions and then fin
ally adjourned without taking
action on two of it's most i'm
portant jobs - selection of a
permanent president for Mon
tana State university and an
executive secretary for the
Greater University.
The board announced, follow
ing a three-hour closed session,
it had granted committees in
charge of recommendations for
these two posts an additional
80 days each. It was agreed that
the committees would notify
Gov. Sam C. Ford when they
were ready to report, and he
would call a special meeting to
hear them.
But while the board took no
definite action on a president
and executive secretary, it hur-
ried through a long list of work.
It approved the payroll for the
state university, accepted sew
eral designations from faculties
of the various units of the uni
VerSity, granted some leaves of
absence, designated a proposed
$4,000 armory at the state
university as a Federal Works
project instead of a WPA pro-
ject, and granted Carter, NC
Cone, Powder River and Sheri-
dan counties emergency stat
u.s. allowing them to collect
state payments for transporta-
ton of school children without
putting up any of their own
money.
The board also approved es-
Enlistment of a two-year high
school course at the state in
dustrial school at Miles City,
but left details to a committee.
1t authorized presidents of the
university units to increase
board and room charges at res
idence halls $3.50 a month; de-
cided to limit scholarships at
the Schcool of Mines to Latin
American and Canadian STU
dents, and approved in princi-
pie a proposed $4,000 dormitory
at Eastern Montana Normal
college.
On the preparedness and ad-
visory front, Tom D. Caverly,
coordinator for that commission,
said plans were under way to
furnish defense employment to
women formerly on abandoned
WPA sewing projects.
He said a group of Butte
businessmen planned to form a
corporation to lease the WPA's
sewing machines and other
equipment and TO bid for de-
tense contracts on garments,
gas masks and similar equip
ment.
Caverly, acting on instructions
from F. H. LaGuardia, chief of
civilian defense, called off a
proposed inventory" of all
Montana organizations for the
defense program. LaGuardia
said instructions to conduct
such surveys were not author
lZeu Dy MIN.
Attorney General John w.
Bonner, in an opinion for Pond
era Co. Atty. D. w. Doyle, in
%terpreted state law as giving
boards of school trustees vir-
tually unlimited authority and
discretion in the matter of pro-
viding or not providing trans
portation for school pupils.
Bonner held the boards could,
if they desired, pay all or part
of board and room for pupils
sent to schools outside their
districts.
The attorney general, in an
other opinion, held that sheriffs
could collect only actual expen-
seS for delivering prisoners or
insane persons to state inStitu-
tions. The board of examiners
then fixed five cents a mile as
the maximum payment they
would make for depreciation
and operation" of the sheriff's
automobiles used in such duties.
The state land board author
lied J. w. Walker, its secretary
to exchange So, 600, 900 of taxable
government bonds owned by the
state for $%3,210,000 of non-tax-
able government bonds. The
states profit on the deal was
$4,000, plus $10,438 yearly ad-
ditional interest.
Major Fred A. LANCE, adju-
tant general, resigned during
the week and Gov. Ford appoin-
ted Col. E. M. Birely, state di-
!. rector of selective service, to
the post. Lange retained his po-
sition on the selective service
board. Birley was to devote only
part time to the adjutant gen.
erals office and was to draw
only part salary.
SHORT SHOTS: The state
liquor control board accepted
the resignation of former Gov.
J. E. Erickson as counsel and
named T. H. Macdonald, Hell
ena, to succeed him The
board also filed suit in district
court here to collect S7,464.2O