Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-08-29
Treasure State News Briefs

household oils and fats to aid the wal
effort may suffer unless additiona
steel drums are obtained, A. T. Peter.
son, state OPA director. warned
/ Drums Of all sizes are needed and may
! be turned in TO butchers and packers
who will pay from rs cents to 81. 2s
for them, depending upon the size.
AISSOULA-Isabelle Baker, 10, lost
( her right arm when the bicycle she
was riding and a Northern Pacific
freight train collided near Hall The
girl was thrown under the wheels OF
the train and the arm was severed
at the elbow.
LEWISTOWN-Pa w. Taber, for
mer resident and prominent business
man Of Lewistown, died Of a heart
attack in his Seattle real estate office
Taber was born in st. Paul In Sep
TENDER, 1885, and moved to Lewistown
with his mother in 1893. He was long
associated with the Power Mercantile
Co. before moving to Seattle in 1924.
HELENA-High school students will
be called for the armed services upon
graduation or other termination of
their studies, according to W. E. Ella
son, state supervisor of occupational
guidance and distributive education
He said "these Is and 10 year olds
are the only large source Of eligible
manpower left"
GLASGOW-valley county's first
major range fire Of the season, In the
extreme southwest corner OF. the coun-
ty, destroyed 3,425 acres of grazing
land before it was put out by ranchers
and volunteers from Glasgow. j. Gray
don Robinson, county soil conserva-
ton supervisor, and James K. McGib-
ney, county agent, led the volunteer
group.
HELENA Forty -four states and the
District Of Columbia are now operat-
ing under a reciprocal auto license
recognition agreement with Montana.
Washington and Florida objected to
the granting Of reciprocity, asserting
they will insist that all who enter
their states seeking gainful employ
ment obtain auto licenses. New Hamp-
shire does not have reciprocity with
any state.
HELENA-Governor Ford has APP
pointed M. D. Munro Of Anaconda,
Mrs Arthur Sievers of Butte, J. E.
and Mrs. Gerald Went
worth of Great Falls, Robert Westfall
Of Helena and M. H. Wolff of Mis-
;oula as Montana delegates to the
var recreation congress to be held in
Cincinnati Sept. % to Oct. 2 under the
auspices of the National Recreation
GREAT FALLS-Plans for using
as a sounding board to de-
ermine public sentiment concerning |
Enactment of another wartime prohi-
)ition law were announced by DR.. @. |
v Templeton, Great Falls physician, |
hartman Of the state central commit |
ZEE of the prohibition party. DR.. Tenn
,leton issued call for party con-
Tention to be held at the z. M c. A.
lere Sept. 8.
SHELBY-Mrs. John F. Kavanaugh,
9, owner and publisher of the Shelby
died at her home after an
llness of three months. Mrs. Kava-
augh was born in West Bend, Ia,
nd at an early age migrated with
Ter parents by covered wagon to Clear
AXE, Wis. with her husband and
amily she came to Galata in 1910 and
n 1922 the family moved to Shelby.
The had been publisher Of the Pro-
noter since her husbands death in
937.
BUTTE-Three young, native Butte
awyers who once opposed each other
n courtrooms here have joined to-
ether, with millions of other Ameri- |
ans, in the fight against the axis.
They are Rex F. Henningsen, who has !
his call as a lieutenant,
unior grade, in the United States
Iavy; E. L. Sonny Arpin, who de-
'arted for Quonset Point, r. l., where
viii join him, and VIII
lam B. Freebourn, who left for Fort |
Douglas, Utah, to begin four-month
raining program as a private before
e gets his call to training as a re-
erve officer.