Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-05-15
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IN q hospital here, was native OF
HELENA-Don Brinton has been
elected president of the Helena Re
tail Merchants exchange to succeed
Neil Livingstone, president for the last
three years.
BUTTE. j. STEM. widely known
civic leader and manager Of the Mon
tana Hardware Co., has been elected
president of the Rotary club here. He
succeeds E. L. Samsel.
GREAT FALLS George j. BUTLER,
SO. killed at Twin Falls, Idaho, in an
automobile accident was former
Great Falls auto dealer, being in bust
ness here from 1915 to 1927.
FISHTAIL-John L. Orr, 80. who
died at his home here. had been a
rancher in the Fishtail area % years.
He was born in Illinois and came west
when a young man.
BUTTE-A jury celebrating the
case of Theodore Liguras, charged with
the murder OF Nick Zaros last July 8,
was dismissed by Judge J. j. Lynch
after failing to agree on a verdict.
HAMILTON-Glen E. Brown, SO, was
injured fatally here when struck by
two logs from his truckload at the
Shook mill As miles from Hamilton.
His neck and shoulders were crushed.
BuIINGS-James Raab. student at
Great Falls College of Education, was
elected president of the diocesan coun-
Gil OF Catholic youth at the annual
convention here. The convention next
year will be at Glendive.
BUTTE-Robert Daniel Green, SIS,
who died at Rochester, Mimi, was
foreman Of the mailing department of
the Butte Daily Post. He was born at
Wickes, early day mining camp near
Helena The family came to Butte
in 1891
HELEN Sylvester Graham, state
president of the c. I. O., has been
appointed regional director by Nation
al President Phillip Murray. He sue
ceeds w. A. Boyle of Billings. Graham
will cover Montana, the Dakotas and
part of Wyoming as regional director.
GREAT FALLS-James NJ Curry,
48, who was found dead in his room
here, was a native of Great Falls and
a veteran of World war l, serving
overseas with the 91st division. Curry
had been employed as a salesman for
the Great Falls Monumental works.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS high school
student publication, THE Copper
Glow" received a first-class rating by
the National Scholastic Press associa-
ton for the first semester of the 1941-
1912 school year, James E. Gardner,
lie, inc
GREAT FALLS Minimum wages of
rs cents an hour for all labor en-
ployed by the city and 80 cents an
hour for men engaged in care and
maintenance of trees has been asked
of the city council by the Construction
and General Laborers union.
GREAT FA1LS-Mrs Howard Moore,
n, when in hospital here with a
gunshot wound, said she had shot her
self but did not know why" and thus
absolved her husband of blame. She
was shot at her home about % miles
northwest Of Fort Benton in Chouteau
county.
HEIIENA-The state liquor control
board has written a check for $500, 900
as the current dividend on profits of
the state-owned monopoly. Officials
said additional liquor stocks have been
acquired in anticipation of further re-
duction of output by dstilleries as
result Of the war demand for alcohol.
GREAT FALLS-B. Nagelhus of
Simpson declared he had broken all
Montana records when he received
81 1885 for II fat steers sold on the
open market at the Wolf-Langman
yards and purchased by the Berger
Packing Co. here. The steers were s.
year-olds. Average weight of the ami
mails was 1,452 pounds and the average
price per animal was s171.20.
HELENA-Expecting to collect about
$4,000 more in the next two months,
the state board of equalization believes
receipts for the fiscal year ending next
June 80 will show a Is percent in%
crease over those for the preceding
year. In the first 10 months of this
fiscal period, income totals $500, 256 35,
compared with s659,O17.57 for the en-
tire previous fiscal year.
HELENA-owners who abuse or neg
lect their tires won't be able to get
new castings or retreads when the old
ones wear out, the state rationing
received specified that applicants who
seek to replace WORKOUT tires must
prove to local rationing board that the
carcasses of the tires became worn
from reasonable use and not from
abuse or neglect.
BOZEMAN-Lorraine Baker of Fort
Benton won the highest scholastic
honor of the 1912 high school week
contests here. Miss Baker won first
in the pentathlon, an event in which
the contestants selected three of five
subjects on which to write examina-
tons. The victory brings her a $1OC
scholarship. She also won first in al
zebra, American literature and Eng
lish literature.
GREAT FALLS-Appointm OF
Louis w. Wendt, founder Of the Wendt
advertising agency, as business man
ager of the National Wildlife fedora
ton, with headquarters in Washington
D. c., has been announced here. Wendt
has been a national director of the