Glacier County chief. [volume], May 27, 1938, Magazine Section, Image 10

About Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940

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Treasure State
News in Brief
WHlTEFlSH— Counterfeit dollars
floated in Whitefish are so well made
that even the First national bank ac
cepted one of them.
HAVRE— H. P. Thomson of Harlem
was elected president of group No. 1
of the Montana Bankers’ association
at the annual meeting here. He suc
ceeds Edward Harris of Fort Benton.
HELENA— The game of “skiball” is a
game of skill and is not prohibited by
Montana statute. Attorney Gen. H. J.
Freebourn ruled for County Attorney
L. D. Glenn of Harlowton.
MARTINSDALE— A black ewe be
longing to Oswald Berg bore two black
lambs. Berg says this is the first in
stance of the kind that has come to
his attention in 35 years.
BUTTE— Police Chief Walter I. Shay
announced his retirement, effective
June 1 due to ill health. He was ap
pointed Oct. 2, 1935. succeeding Jere
Murphy, who died Sept. 20 of that
year.
WHITEFISH— C har 1e s Poorbaugh,
who served two terms as mayor of
Whitefish and who was one of the
group of veterans who made the trip
to France last year to look over the
old battlefields, was elected commander
of the local American Legion.
HELENA— Proprietors licensed to
maintain card tables may supply their
customers with chips for keeping score
on licensed games when such counters
have no exchange value in money or
merchandise. Attorney Gen. Harrison
J. Freebourn ruled.
NASHUA— Since installation of the
Nashua water system last year, beauti
fication of homes has been noted.
Lawns, hedges and trees have been
planted at 50 ;>ercent of the homes.
The Nashua high school grounds under
a WPA project are being finished.
HELEN A— Montana unemployment
compensation tax collections, being
held in trust in Washington. D. C., had
earned interest amounting to $19,113.05
on March 31. State Treasurer Ray N.
Shannon re;x»rted. The collections now
total $2,400,000.
BUTTE— Automobile brake tests were
made in the vicinity of Butte recently
by the Montana highway patrol. Test
ing facilities were set up near the city
limits and all cars tested as they en
tered and left the city. Cars with defec
tive brakes were sent back to the city.
MISSOULA— JoIin Hanrahan, Miles
City student at Montana State univer
sity, was elected president of the
student body for 1938-39, defeating
Stanley Shaw, Missoula, by a vote of
756 to 441. Nearly 1,300 votes were cast
in the biggest election in university
history.
LlVlNGSTON— Livingston city offi
cials -are hopping mad. Some malicious
person placed emery dust in the spank
ing brand-new prowl car and ruined
its motor. The abradant was also
placed in the motor of the city's new
SIO,OOO fire truck, but was discovered
before any damage was caused.
HELENA— Contracts for 350,000 gal
lons of road oil were awarded to the
Yale Oil Co., and Independent Re
finery of Billings and the Home Oil
Co. of Great Falls by State Purchas
ing Agent I. S. McQuitty. The oil will
be used in the northwest part of the
state. The price was 8.1 cents a gallon,
heated and delivered.
GLACIER PARK— A special allot
ment of $5,000 was made from emer
gency funds by the director of the na
tional park service in Washington for
repairs to road shoulders and surface
on aoout a mile of the Going-to-the-
Sun highway 23 miles east of Belton.
The damage was caused by high water
from rains.
HELENA— A second unit operating
agreement involving 480 acres of state
land in Glacier county for oil operations
was signed with the Glacier Production
Co. by the state land board. The agree
ment was based on a decision handed
down recently by the supreme court
upholding the right of the land board
to make such agreements.
BUTTE— An old desk in the form of
a bar probably brought into Butte
while Montana was still a territory was
admitted in evidence in the damage
action brought by Mrs. Frank K. Wil
son against A. J. Davis and others in
a more than half a million dollar claim
on the Hamilton-Baxter estate. The
desk is said to have been one used bv
John B. Hamilton.
HELENA— Montana traffic fatalities
showed an increase of 24 percent for
the first four months of this year, while
fatal accidents decreased 18 percent in
the entire United States during a
similar period, according to figures of
the National Safety council. In Mon
tana the total of highway deaths up
to May 1 was 31, as compared with
25 on the corresponding day of 1937.
MISSOL LA— Bill Spooner, logging
camp operator, was shot and killed on
a bear hunting expedition in the Lake
McDonald country. He and a group of
other hunters had gone into the moun
tains shortly after their dinner. The
party spread out and after several
rounds of firing one of the hunters
found Spooner slumped behind a tree,
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RELIEF EXPENSES MAY
BE PAID OUT OF COUNTY
POOR FUND, IS RULING
County commissioners may pay for
gas, truck hire and similar functions
from county poor funds for the trans
porting of relief clients to and from
WPA projects w’here such projects are
located at a distance. Attorney Gen.
H. J. Freebourn has ruled.
The opinion was written in response
to an inquiry from I. M. Brandjord,
administrator of the state public wel
fare department.
The legislature has declared it to be
a public policy that the state and po
litical divisions co-operate with any
agency of the federal government for
construction of work projects intended
for a useful purpose and calculated to
furnish employment and assistance to
the needy, the opinion said.
“If the project being sponsored by
a county is located at a distance where
some means of transportation is neces
sary and the individual would have to
provide such transportation at his own
cost, then his earning, designed to pro
vide the common necessities would be
reduced and the county would have to
supplement such earnings to this ex
tent,” the opinion held.
“Therefore it is my opinion that the
counties are authorized to purchase
gasoline and hire trucks for the con
veyance of employes to WPA projects
and are authorized to expend poor
funds for that purpose when such funds
are available.”
a bullet wound in the back and another
in the neck.
HELENA— Montana freight carload
ings during March were 27.19 percent
less than during March, 1937. the state
railroad and public service commission
said. Carloadings. in the state during
March this vear totaled 15,098, com
pared with 19,931 loaded in March last
year.
BUTTE— Western fruit growers will
get a break this year because of mis
fortune to growers in other sections of
the country, said W. A. Hein, general
perishable freight agent for the North
ern Pacific railroad. Hein said middle
western fruit growers had been hard
hit by late frosts. He said the outlook
was good for fruit and vegetables in
the Bitter Root, Yakima and Walla
Walla.
GREAT FALLS— One of nature’s
phenomena was viewed by many Great
Falls residents recently when a “sun
dog” was seen as the sun was setting.
Sun dogs or parhelions, are generally
seen in the winter % time when the
weather is clear and very cold. Par
helions are in reality small rainbows
and are caused by sun shining on par
ticles of frost, raindrops, dust or mist.
HARLEM INDIAN STUDENT
WINS IN ESSAY CONTEST
Leona Cochran, seventh grade
student at Harlem and a member of the
Oros Ventres Indian tribe of the Fort
Belknap reservation, won a state-wide
essay contest for Indian children on
the prevention of tuberculosis. Mrs.
Henrietta Crockett, executive secretary
of the Montana Tuberculosis associa
tion, has announced. The contest was
originated by Mn. Crockett and spon
sored in conjunction with the Montana
^deration at Women's elube.
Many industries in Caechoelovakla
regst that IMT businaa was equal to
GLACIER COUNTY CHIEF
Liquor Dealers Adopt Code
Pledging Lawful Operation
Intended to set up a form of self
regulation within the industry, a code
of fair practices was adopted by the
Montana Licensed Liquor Dealers' as
sociation at its recent convention in
Helena.
The code emphasizes compliance with
the law governing the retail liquor
business and co-operation with author
ities in stamping out “conditions that
offend public conscience.” It reads:
“We pledge ourselves to:
“Maintain our stores in strict ac
cordance with the laws and ordinances
of our state and our community.
“Preserve standards of order, decency
and wholesomeness in our premises,
and to insist upon fair and courteous
treatment of every patron.
"Prevent the abuse of liquor in any
form and to refuse to sell to minors or
to any patron who has drunk to excess.
“Co-operate with the authorities in
stamping out conditions which offend
NEW DEVELOPMENT
GROUP IS FORMED
NORTH MONTANA ASSOCIATION IS
ORGANIZED AT MEETING
HELD IN HAVRE
Representatives of Boards of Commis
sioners and Civic Bodies From 14
Counties Launch Movement to Aid in
Co-operative Support of Projects.
To co-ordinate the activities of
the counties of northern Montana
in the development of their re
sources, the Northern Montana De
velopment association was organ
ized at Havre by representatives
appointed by the various boards of
county commissioners and the civic
groups in the area.
The organization meeting followed'
a preliminary conference of citizens of I
the region at Havre a few weeks ago.,
Judge C. B. Elwell of Havre was unan
imously elected permanent chairman 1
of the new association. There will be
a board of directors of one from each
county, to be chosen by the county
commissioners of the county. The
counties invited to join were Roosevelt,
Daniels, Sheridan, Valley, Phillips,
Blaine, Hill, Liberty, Toole, Glacier,
Chouteau, Cascade, Teton and Pondera.
A committee on permanent organiza
tion was appointed, consisting of H. B.
Brooks, Cascade county: W. M. Bailey,
Hill countv; H. M. Montgomery, Blaine
county; H. D. Rolfe, Liberty county,
and J. P. Stemhagen, Valley county.
Their report on the form of organiza
tion was adopted.
It was declared the purpose of the
association to unite the whole northern
area In support of worthy projects pre
sented by county and local organiza
tions and to act as a clearing house in
aiding the development of the whole
area by existing civic groups and pub
lic bodies. Irrigation and water storage,
power development, road and highway
betterment, resettlement and land
utilization, aa well as other projects of
general benefit, were declared objec
tivezofthe united effort of the counties
for jrtiich the aeendatioo will act as a
unifying attney.
the public conscience.
"Sene beverages in their original
purity through observing of high stand
ards of sanitation and refrigeration.
"We make these pledges voluntarily
as good citizens valuing the perma
nence of our business, and our places
in the community.”
W. C. "Bill” Endress of Helena was
elected president and Jack Higgins,)
also of Helena, re-elected treasurer of
the association.
Other officers chosen were F. J.
Riley of Butte, vice president (re
elected); Joel B. St. Clair of Great
Falls, secretary (re-elected); Mike
Twohey of Bozeman, William B. Stein-)
brenner Jr., of Missoula, Henry Twohey
of Bozeman, Frank Rogers of Billings,
Curtis Breede of Glasgow, Thomas
Hanrahan of Miles City and Paul J.
Hagen of Glendive, directors. Of the
latter, Henry Twohey was re-elected.
The principal address of the conven
tion was delivered by L. S. Kelly of
New York city, a representative of the
Brewers’ Industrial foundation, at an
open meeting. Mr. Kelly’s subject was
। "Public Opinion and True Temper
ance,” stressing the necessity of keep
ing tlie liquor industry a legitimate
business by expelling the “chiseler,”
maintaining sanitary establishments,
and publicizing the facts that liquor
and driving do not mix. and that chil
dren and the liquor should have no
relationship.
The address brought out facts in
tended to show that the liquor business
can be kept clean.
Others who addressed the conven
tion were L. M. A. Wass, administrator
of the Montana liquor control board,
who spoke on “Problems of Adminis
tration,” and D. A. Batchoff of Butte,
chief inspector for the liquor control
board, who talked on “Law Enforce
ment.”
FANNY, GLACIER PARK’S
MOST FAMOUS DEER,
DIES FROM OLD AGE
Fanny, the most famous deer in
Glacier park, is dead. For 15 years
the favorite of tourists at Lake
McDonald hotel, she succumbed to
the Infirmities of old age.
Fanny was an orphan fawn
brought to the hotel at Lake Mc-
Donald by W. A. Bose of Belton.
When she was a year old she was
struck by a car and received a
broken front leg. The break was
not set and the leg withered away,
necessitating her hobbling around
on three legs, which gave her the
name Crippled Fanny. Fanny ap
peared to enjoy her fame and
begged for sweets from tourists.
Every year she raised twin fawns
and her family remained about the
hotel, building up a sizable band.
Arrival of the twins each year has
been “big news* and a watched -
for event among residents of the
hoteL
Mrs. Wendal Chapman of New
York, feature writer for the Na-
Uoiul Geocraphle ma*ulne and
natlaiiaUy known nature authority,
wrote a book about the favorite
animal, entitled “Fanny, the Deer.”
Birkenhead, England, haa rejected
the aunertton that prayers be said at
the openlnc of town council meetlnc
“to lessen party teellnq."
FEDERAL FUND FOR FISH
SCREENS TO BE SPENT
BY FEDERAL AGENCIES
The $20,000 appropriated by congress
for the installation of fish screens on
Montana lakes and streams is to be
expended through federal agencies and
will not be under the administration
of the state fish and game department,
John W. Schofield, state superintend
ent of fisheries, has advised.
The federal appropriation is to be
handled by the United States reclama
tion service and bureau of fisheries,
but it is expected the wishes of the
state department will be followed in
the installation of the fish screens,
Schofield said.
The money, however, is to be expend
ed entirely on federal reclamation ir
, rigation projects in the state.
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SPEED IS URGED
FOR REGRASSING
CO-ORDINATED EFFORT PLANNED
TO SOLVE LAND AND WATER
PROBLEMS
Meeting of Representatives of State
and Federal Agencies Presided Over
by Governor Ayers Discusses Con
structive Long-time Program.
The need for co-ordinated effort
In handling the many land and
water use problems of the state
was voiced at a meeting in Great
Falls of representatives of many
state and federal agencies and
presided over by Gov. Roy E. Ayers.
A constructive, long-time program,
rather than immediate relief was
stressed at the meeting, during which
each of the agencies reviewed activities
having a bearing on better use of land
and water resources.
Methods for regrassing the great
acreage of abandoned dry farmed lands
at a reasonable cost have been pretty
well worked out, it was asserted, but
the present rate of progress is too slow.
The delegates agreed all agencies
should seek to hasten the reseeding
program and that methods should be
developed for reseeding unplowed
ranges depleted by recent drouth years.
Considerable interest was shown in
development of all types of land in the
state to bring them into their best use
and hasten the rehabilitation of Mon
tana and its people.
The present effort of the state ad
ministration in co-operation with the
national resources committee to define
and co-ordinate the functions of the
state and federal agencies into a prac
tical program of land and water use
to meet the economic and social needs
of each section of the state was ap
proved by the conferees.
To further this program it was rec
ommended the governor appoint a
committee of representatives of state
and federal agencies to act as a clear
ing house and to formulate such a
program in consultation with local
committees.
FARM PROSPECTS GOOD
Federal Statistician Jay Diamond
says prospects for Montana farmers as
of May 1 are officially the best since
1932. Rains have fallen since that date
when data was gathered, improving
growing conditions. On 980,000 acres of
winter wheat, a harvest of 15.5 bushels
per acre is indicated, the largest in
histroy; rye crops will produce 420,000
bushels and prospects for hay are
equally bright—unless something hap
pens in June and July. Due to damp
ness and cold the crop of Mormon
crickets and grasshoppers is happily
retarded. Diamond says.
The observatory “talking clock” in
Paris, which automatically announces
the correct time every 10 seconds, is
consulted approximately 5.000,000 times
a year by telephone.
Plans to make the Polo Grounds in
New York a winter sports center after
next fall, include a ski jump.
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