Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-03-28

] 1AALAOE GlLf-41dIIY u hEAL0 ia
been elected chairman of the retai
, credit bureau Of the merchants com
mittee Of the chamber Of commerce
HELENA Governor Ford has an
pointed Stanley r. Foot, Helena law.
yer and war veteran, as a member o
the Montana selective service appea
board. Foot was named to succeed
Charles Pew Of Helena, who resigned
HELENA Construction of a s20.OOf
permanent water system at the Mon
tana national guard camp here win be-
gin about April l. the adjutant gen
erals office has announced.
HELENA-John E. Erickson, former
/ governor and United States senator
has been appointed special attorney
for the Reconstruction Finance Corn
Senator James Murray has announced.
CULBERTSON Mrs. william T
Young, IS, who died at the home Of
her daughter, Mrs. Cliff Martin. at
Mona, had lived in the state for 26
years. She was native of Indiana.
HELENA Montanas fire losses dur
ing 1941 totaled $1,029, 90478, an aver
age of S1.84 per capita, Fire Marshal
Arthur c. Parsons reported. This was
a decrease Of $130,763.83 from the pre-
vious year
HELENA-Gov Sam C. Ford has ap-
pointed Matt ChriSty of Butte a mem
Der of the executive board of the state
hospital at Galen. He was named toll
succeed Curtis L. Wilson, who has
moved from the state
HELENA boys in the state in
dustrial school at Miles City have pre-
sented Governor Ford with a new pipe
rack and tobacco hunaidor. The gift is
covered by intricate scroll work de-
picting outdoor scenes.
FORSYTH-Walter E. Clarke. 81
Forsyth hotel operator and former
member of the state legislature, was
drowned in the Yellowstone river when
he tried to recover a sign floating in
the river about 20 feet from shore.
HELENA Montana nurses met here
March 20 and 81 for an institute on
patients records Standardization. Miss
Virginia Alcott of the nursing depart
nent of the University of Washington
vas principal speaker.
HELENA-The state board of exam !
ners has approved WPA project for
easing 20 acres in the Bitter Root val
ey which will be planted to tomatoes.
The vegetables will be canned. half
-oing to the state school lunch pro
ram and the rest to state Institutions :
HELENA Montana's average daily t
Tendance of elementary school stu f
entS dropped 1887 from 1928 to 1871, h
ut the cost per pupil for the school S
ear mounted from $103.33 to $10753
I the same period, the Montana Tax
ayers magazine states :
GLASGOW-Robert Ebersole of Fort 81
eek has been elected president of the n
alley Sportsmens association, sue II
eeding Paul j. Campbell of this city q
!. D. Benson is the new vice president ci
nd c. A. Bertsche, secretary. L. j CT
'aker was reelected treasurer. re
BUTTE-A federal district court ac- ~
litted Walter M Franklin, railroad 0e
orker and ex-pugilist, on charges of
liling to register for the draft. Frank SI
n was arrested after a sensational sh
laSe in which he eluded a 27-man LC
)SSe for three hours. 81
ANACONDA-With the Pacific tn
1rthweSt regional music meet can lie,
led because Of the war, H E. Hamer Ri
Anaconda, vice president of the ta
ontana Music Educators association, 40
US Montana may have two music en-
Stivals this spring-one in Billings
ID the other in Butte
he
state grass conserva- Iiv
N commission has approved creation
the Grimes creek grazing district in
stern Montana, Bruce Mott, COM 90
ssion secretary, announced. The dis M'
ct will comprise about 100000 acres an
proximately IS miles north of Miles
~. ule
John F. Sheehan, ma s s-
e of Butte and graduate of Girls ~ ~,
ntral high school at the time that eA'
titution was a co-educational school,
S been named diocesan superintend- AZ
of schools for the Helena Catholic IN
cese and principal of the Girls Cen be,
/ high school. a
GREAT FALLS-Julius M. Bann, "a, /
o died here, had been a Cascade wa
nty resident for about so years. A MOI
tive of Germany, Bann moved to der
It in the early 1880s. He worked Tn
re as a miner until 1910, when he tn