The Herald-news., February 13, 1947, Page Page Two, Image 2

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STATE LABOR
DEMAND HITS
RECORD LOW
"Labor demand in Montana is
the lowest recorded within the
past year, while the labor supply
is greater today than at any
other time since June," Stacey E.
Eckert, manager of the Montana
state employment service office at
Wolf Point, said this week.
"Figures released by Barclay
Craighead, chairman of the Un
employment Compensation Com
mission, Helena, Indicated 2,156
job openings as the demand, and
7,086 job applicants as the sup
ply. This upset has developed
since October 1, when the labor
market was in relative balance.”
Seasonal influences are ascrib
ed by Mr. Craighead as the prin
cipal factor in the upset "Weather
of abnormal severity," he says,
"has resulted in halting nearly
all highway construction, building
operations, lumber and logging,
railroad maintenance. Other sea
sonal factors are the completion
of the sugar refining run at five
plants in the state, release of ex
tra sales help following the holi
day rush, and the winter low in
farm employment”
"Included in the listed job open
ings,” Mr. Craighead points out,
"are 1,500 men needed in the cop
per and zinc mines of Butte—a
demand which is expected to in
crease to nearly 3,000 as the re
sumption of zinc mining progres
ses. Some of the farm and sugar
factory layoffs normally go into
the mines for the winter and
The HERALD-NEWS
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF ROOSEVELT COUNTY
Established in 1913
Continuation of The Wolf Point Herald, The Roosevelt County
News. The Fort Peck Leader, The Wolf Point Promoter, The
Roosevelt County Independent
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Wolf Point
Montana, July 11, 1940, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NATIONAL €t>nOWAL_
’ ” .^ASSOCIATION
Member Eastern Montana Pre** Association
Published Every Thursday Morning at Wolf Point,
County Seat of Rooaevelt County, Montana
HARRY N. DOWNS and MIKE M. VUKELICH
Editor* and Publisher*
— SUBSCRIPTION RATES —
Year $3.00 (In the Counties of Roosevelt, McCone, Daniels, Val
ley, Sheridan and Richland). Outside the above counties, $1.50
per year.
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usually withdraw again in the
spring.
"Intensive recruitment efforts
for the past two years have about
met the loss by turnovers but
have not succeeded in staffing the
Increased operations. Few of the
7,000 job seekers at employment
service offices meet the require
ments of this underground em
ployment. More than 1,200 of
them are women, others are out
side the age range, physical rea
sons bar another large number,
and still others are skilled work
ers in other lines and wish to re
main in their own fields.”
“The other 650 jobs listed with
our employment service offices,"
Craighead continued, “are the or
ders active on the first day of
the month. They represent a cross
section of jobs in process of be
ing filled. Women are desired for
150 of these jobs; there are 50
managerial and professional open
ings, 150 clerical and sales, 100
carpenters, 130 of other miscel
laneous skills, 100 In service oc
cupations, and 120 for common
labbr or helpers.
"A month ago the job demand
was 1,068 Instead of 650, two
months ago It was 1,847, and
three months ago the year’s high
point of 2,526, desldes the miner
demand of 1,500 was reached.”
Concerning the number of job
applicants, Mr. Craighead said
that 7,000 now is the same as on
file a year ago. “In February of
1946 our unemployed list went to
10,500," Craighead said; "in March
It was 13,000, then gradually
dropped to 8,825 on June 1, 6,200
on August 1, 3.600 In October, and
3.400 in November."
A. S. Peterson. Oswego, trans
acted business in Wolf Point on
SatufHay.
John Boysun, from Vida, was in
Wolf Point on Saturday of last
week.
THE HERALD-NEWS — Wolf Point, Roosevelt County, Montana
| GREAT NORTHERN'S NEW EMPIRE BUILDER
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The nation’s newest passenger
train will launch an era in rail
transportation for Montana when
Great Northern Railway's stream
lined Empire Builder goes into
regular service on February 23.
Complete in every detail for
rapid travel in comfortable
and pleasant surroundings, the
five 12-car trains on their
45-hour schedule between Chi*
SCHOOL PROBLEM LIKELY TO BE
PASSED ON TO NEXT LEGISLATURE
Open debate on the proposed
school reorganization law is ex
pected to be scheduled in the
house of representatives before
the end of this week and current
odds are that the problem will be
passed on to the 1949 legislature
for solution.
Three amendments adopted ear
lier upon recommendation of the
house education committee have
not eliminated many of the sus
picions that were aroused in rural
sectors when the bill first was in
troduced. And at the same time
they have turned some of the or
iginal friends of the measure
against it.
Representatives of some of the
larger schools have their hatchets
sharpened for amendments r per
mitting districts without high
schools to be organized.
Their argument is that this still
would permit elementary districts
M'CONE COUNTY
DAM SPILLWAYS
NEED REPAIRS
The very heavy rain storms of
last July punished the spillways
of many dams in the McCone Soil
Conservation District very severe
ly. The large amount of water
that was poured over the spillway
in a comparatively short time in
some cases produced cuts in the
spillway. If these cuts are not
taken care of, it ultimately means
that the spillway will go out with
the loss of the dam. This is the
time of the year that these spill
ways should be examined and re
paired if necessary.
The ground is now frozen to a
depth of two or three feet. If a
cut has occurred to any extent in
a spillway, snow or ice should be
cleaned out of it and hay or straw
should be put over the frozen
ground two or three inches deep.
This should be covered with Dia
mond Willows or some other sim
ilar light live sticks, and the hold
covered with rock until the cut is
filled. When the water comes this
spring the ground will still be
frozen below and the hay, wil
lows and rock will protect it from
fast moving water.
If upon the examination of your
spillway you find there is a cut- to
a considerable extent and you do
not know how to do the job, get
in touch with the Soil Conserva
tion Office in Circle and they will
give you the necessary help to
put your spillway in good condi
tion to withstand not only the
flood waters of this spring but
future floods as well.
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
ANNOUNCES LENTEN
SERVICES
With the beginning of I>ent on
Ash Wednesday, February 19,
Trinity Lutheran church will again
conduct mid-week Lenten Services.
These services will be held every
Wednesday evening throughout the
Ixjnten season, at 8 p.m. The
theme of these special services
will be the Suffering and Death
of the Savior.
The first service will be con
ducted next Wednesday evening,
February 19. Trinity Lutheran
church invites you in spirit to ac
company the Savior through His
Passion for the redemption of the
world by attending these special
services’
YOUR CHILD DESERVES
THE BEST POSSIBLE
START IN LIFE
Find Out How We Can
Help You Plan It.
Bankers Li/e Company
MS /moinh
W. C. HANSON
Speofal Agent
Box M 1 Wolf Point, Montana
cage and Seattle-Portland will
reduce previous running time
by 13*/2 hours.
One train will leave Chicago
and another Seattle daily, with a
connection at Spokane to and
from Portland to provide 45-hour
service to and from Portland as
well as Seattle.
On its 13-day exhibition
tour, one of the trains was
open to public inspection at
to send high school pupils to an
other district, which would be bur
dened with the entire expense of
financing the buildings and other
improvements necessary to care
for the outsiders as well as the
local students.
Intent of the bill as drawn was
to make taxpayers of an area
served by a high school liable for
the support of the permanent im
provement program. While it may
be possible to further amend the
bill to meet this objection, it is
the contention of opponents of the
bill as it now stands that the real
answer is elimination of the
amendment.
Figures compiled by R. A. Neill,
a member of the governor’s com
mittee on reorganization and ex
ecutive secretary of the Montana
Taxpayers association, indicate
that amendments permitting es
tablishment of additional districts
t^dll America will welcome the
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even more beautiful and desirable in every way
Today, we and all other Chevrolet dealers are displaying the newest
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for 1947 —offering you an even greater measure of BIG-CAR QUALITY
AT LOWEST COST!
See it ind you will agree that it’s the biggest-looking and best-looking Chev
rolet ever built. It’s more beautiful in every way, both inside and out. It's
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Make it a point to see this newest Chevrolet at our showroom— tod<ry/
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Er ickstein Chevrolet Co.
wolf point, mont.
Great Fall* from 9 a.m. to 12
noon February 11 and at
Whitefish from 8:30 to 9:30
p.m,, the same day.
Symbolic of the eastern and
western terminals of Great North
ern, Mississippi river and Puget
Sound water will be used in
christening ceremonies in St Paul
February 7 during the exhibition
tour and at Seattle later.
would mean an increase of from
$300,006 to $400,000 annually In
cost of elementary education as
compared with the original bill.
He said that the added cost would
be necessary to properly budget
for approximately 20,000 pupils.
He also anticipates a decrease In
total revenue from the proposed
10-mill district levy if the bill
should pass in its present form
because of the temptation to form
small districts with high valua
tions. This could lead to setups
where the full 10-mlll levy would
not be necessary to support the
foundation program and a subse
quent Increase in county and
state aid for other districts not
so fortunately situated.
The school reorganization bill,
one of the longest ever submitted
to the legislature, now is in the
hands of the printers but is ex
pected to be available in a day or
two. When correctly printed, it
Is slated to go on the general or
ders calendar of the house for de
bate but may be made a special
order of business for a certain day
In order to permit proponents and
opponents to assemble their am
munition.
Heavy Snowfall
Reported in State
Recent snow surveys by the
geological survey and engineers
on mountain passes and river
basins in Montana have indicat
ed heavier Snowfalls in m£ny
places than during any time
since records were started in 1935.
A. H. Tuttle, survey engineer,
reported that Marias pass show
ed the greatest snow depth re
corded, with 50.6 inches of snow.
Ten Mile creek drainage had 40
inches. Madison river basin snow
was much deeper than normal,!
with 29.2 inches at West Yellow
stone.
Twenty-one Mile, on the divide
between the Gallatin and Madison
rivers, had 40.6 inches.
The survey also showed stream
flow during December was 98 per
cent of average at Corwin Springs
on the Yellowstone, with 992 sec
ond-feet per second average mea
sured. Since October 1, the flow
NOTICE!
WE ARE PAYING
65c per pound
for No. 1 Butterfat
and
68c per pound
for Sweet Cream
HI-LINE CREAMERY
Wolf Point, Montana
Thnraday, February 13, 1947.
at thia station has been M per
cent of normal for the October-
December average. The mean flow
for the Judith river near Utica
was 8.3 second-feet or SO per
cent greater than normal
YOUNGKINS AND CAMPBELLS
LEAVE FOR ROCHESTER
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Youngkin and
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Campbell
went to Rochester, Minnesota,
where Mr. Youngkin will go
through the Mayo clinic. Mr. and
Mrs. Campbell will go from there
to Kansas City to attend to busi
ness matters. They left Saturday
morning by train.
WATTERS RETURN FROM
TRIP TO ST. LOUIS
*ir. and Mrs. Joe Watters re
turned Monday from St Louis
where they spent the past month
visiting Mrs. Walter’s parent^,
Mr. and Mrs. William Edgar,
their daughter, Mrs. Frank Boyd,
and three grandchildren and other
relatives.