Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-08-28
News Briefs
From, the Treasure State

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BILLINGS-Dr. Robert j. Hanley,
81. Billings physician since 1916, prom
inent horse fancier and rodeo doctor,
died suddenly of heart attack.
MISUNDERSTANDING in the petition
of the town of Townsend for an in
crease in city water rates will be heard
by the state public service commits
sion Sept. 3.
BILLINGS-Charles L. Hammond,
"a. rancher at Dryhead, Carbon coun-
ty, died at Billings hospital. Ham
mond came to Montana in 1892. He
leaves his widow and three daughters.
BUTTE-A goal OF 5000 pounds Of
greases and fats to help blast the
Japs from the Solomon and Aleutian
islands has been set for the Camp
Fire Girls of Butte.
BILLINGS-Coran H. Cruttenden,
81, office manager of the Billings
Polytechnic institute, died near Ana
conda. Cruttenden was business man.
ager of the Intermountain Union col
lege at Helena, from 1929 until 1896,
when he came to Billings.
HELENA-Joseph Beeson, represen-
tative of the war relocation authority,
in Montana inspecting japanese la
borers, said there are approximately
300 japanese working in the state at
the present and that plans are being
made to have 1000 by fall.
LEWISTOWN With the Central
Montana fair Cancelled, the fair board
has scheduled fall frolic here Sept.
3, 4 and 5, which will feature stage
revue and a carnival. Both had been
contracted for before the fair was
Cancelled.
HELENA-A total Of 1882 persons
we're placed in jobs by the United
States employment service in Montana
during July, 2,128 of them on farms.
For the first seven months of the year
the service has recorded 25,830 job
placements.
FORSYTH-A man identified as
william w. Carpenter, "a, of Butte,
was killed here at the railroad station
by an east-bound Northern Pacific
passenger train. The man was identi-
fled by a social security card and
other papers found on his person.
HELENA Frederic R. Veeder, di-
rector of the Hospital Service Associa-
ton of Montana, has reported for
duty with the marines and has been
succeeded by John w. Scofield of Bill
lings, who has been field representa-
tive.
CHINOOK-The sugar beet crop in
the Chinook factory district is in eX-
cellent condition, and is more adj
vanced than it was at the same time
last year, according to Halter Gear
heart, state manager for the Utah
Idaho Sugar Co., who recently visited
the district.
BILLINGS-As long as they can
obtain materials to keep tracks and
equipment in repair, American rail-
roads will continue to meet all the
transportation demands of war, in the
opinion of Ralph Budd, president of
the Burlington road, who stopped here
on an inspection tour.
LEWISTOWN-W William F. Hannah,
rancher and stockman of the Straw
section, died at local hospital fol-
lowing an operation. He was born in
Missouri and came to Montana in
1885, He was married in Lewistown in
1904 to Callie F. Haggerty, who died
Oct. 8, 1941.
HELENA Bennion, secretary
of the Montana Taxpayers associa-
ton, said that the total tax levy on
Helena taxpayers in the 1942-1943 fis-
cal year will be 1884 mills compared
to 82.67 mills for 1941-1942 and will
mean an appreciable cut in individual
tax bills next year.
HELENA Isolated cases of sleeping
sickness among horses have been re-
ported from western Montana but DR..
H. F. Wilkins of the state livestock
sanitary board said he did not expect
a large number of cases because of
the lateness of the season. Frosts
usually terminate spread of the dis
ease.
BIG SANDY-Keith B. Simon of
Billings has been elected athletic
coach in Big Sandy high school, &C
cording to Supt. Charles E. Hood.
Simon is a graduate of Billings high
school and attended Washington State
college at Pullman, where he was
graduated with a bachelor of science
degree IN 1911.
HELENA-The campaign to collect
household oils and fats to aid the war
effort may suffer unless additional
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 s1.25
for them depending upon the size
LEWISTOWN- 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 1898. 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