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

Is moved to a ranch in the lower Be
Il district. He moved here 81 years ag
! BUTTE - Three Mitchell, S. q
:. youths were sentenced here to ia
p terms for their violations Of fedora
: automobile and firearms regulation
f They we're Fred Thompson, IS, sen
1 fenced TO four months; Dean Uptor
10. and Harold Bauer. 20, who drel
l. six months.
0 BUTTE-Members of the Kiwani
: club here went on record recently Il
: definitely aid the government in 1t
> effort to find out the capacities o
the machine plants in Silver Bov
county. The club is making a strve.
of all Butte mechanical plants Of tn
= smaller groups. not now engaged il
war work
GREAT FALLS-Robert L. Nickel
lar. II, who died here, was chief engi.
4 neer of the Montana Flour Mills Co.
i and supervisor of the company's cleo
4 trical and mechanical equipment. Nc
Kellar was born in Scotland. He came
to Montana in 1910 and in 1911 joined
! the Montana Flour Mills Co. at Har-
/ lowton.
LEWISTOWN-Mrs. Katie Dawson
/ has filed a S25, 900 damage suit here
against the Milwaukee railroad, charg-
! ing that negligence on the part of
the train crew on March 6, 1941,
! caused the death of her son, Albert,
killed when the truck in which he
was riding was struck by train north
west of here.
MALTA-A resolution favoring use
Of Japanese labor in the beet fields
Of northern Montana under proper
supervision was passed recently at a
meeting called by the Malta CONNER
cial club. George G. Durland, Ravalli
county AAA committee chairman, said
the sugar beet growers of the Bitter
Root valley had also lined up in favor
of importation OF Japanese from the
Pacific coast for beet crop work.
GREAT FALLS Possibility of gov
eminent regulation of all purchases
on open accounts, with the require
ments that all such accounts be paid
in full within a month, with only a
Today grace period in some instances,
is visualized here by Byron DeForest,
Of the Great Falls Credit Ex-
change. Such a regulation, he says, is |
now in operation in Canada.
VIRGINIA CITY - Madison county
have ordered county
of WPA projects suspend
ed, effective April l. The commission
ers said they acted because of the
acute farm labor shortage, due to en-
rance Of young men into the armed
forces and migration Of workers to
high paid defense plant jobs in other
itateS
MISSOULA-About four months ago
"a Verne N. Singer, II, of Drummond,
vas turned down because of poor eye
light when he tried to enlist In the
lavy. After returning home, he was
that often vitamins A and
"a aid in overcoming eyesight defi-
iencieS. He gave the vitamins
nance and when he returned to the
ecruiting station here to try again
e passed the sight test and was ac-
spted.
BOZEAdAN-Three students received
pecial awards at the closing OF a
lort course in agriculture. Robert
ouden of Kalispel won the Harry L. !
ummerS award for livestock judging.
ruce Packard of Rudyard received
le Alpha Zeta award for scholarship,
and activities, and Floyd
idenour of Kalispeu won the Mon
ma Seedgrowers association award Of
IS for the best essay on plan for
op improvement.
BUTTE-Mrs. Olga Aiken, who died
ere, was born in Sweden. She had
red in Butte for 40 years.
HELENA General plans for the
ming year viii be discussed by the
ontana livestock commission at its
lnual meeting April Is.
HELENA State employees here have
edged the purchase OF $3,607 in de-
nse bonds monthly. Walter Coombs,
i've chairman, said 95 percent Of thel
lployes had signed pledges.
GREAT FALLS-Arthur j. Calcott,
who died suddenly here, had lived
Great Falls for IS years and had
en- a motion picture operator for
years. He was born at Deer Lodge.
new curricula in
II work for women have been an
unced by DR.. Ernest T. Eaton, presi-
MT of Billings Polytechnic institute.
ley are one and two years in length.
lie one-year curriculum provides work
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