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s f Wed., Feb. 15.1950 TH E D I L L O N E X A M I N E R It'S Time.. FOR THAT NEW SPRING HAT! Don’t take less than THE BEST! Don’t take less than a L E E H A T $ 10,00 JOE SMITH'S Friendly Service Always! Norman Giles and his mother, Mrs. Kate Giles, left Dillon Thurs day, Feb. 9,“for a visit to Mis- ^ souri. Enroute they plan to stop in Gillette, Wyoming, to visit Mrs. Giles’ daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mi-s. Dave Moffett and family. B y United Press MONTANA STATE LETTER HELENA—(UP)—Montana tax collections by the State Board of Equalization during January to- t a 1 e d $1,880.830.51 — $56,923.81 more than was collected by the state collecting agency during January, 1949, the board has an nounced. A decrease of $173,921.14 in January income tax collections was noticed ttys year from last, the board said, but that figure was more than offset by increases in 14 of the 23 major taxes handled by the board. The increases noted last month over January of a year ago included a $156,050 gain in state slot machine licenses and a $142,447.04 increase in gasoline taxes taken by the board. Major revenue getters for the state last month, the board said, were gasoline tax, $759,539.02; slot machines, $423,350; income tax, $271,880.41; stores, $123,- 007.50, and cigarette tax, $114,- 824.86. State Land Commissioner Wil liam Pilgeram has been granted permission to submit bids on five high school district bond issues. The Land Board authorized Pil geram to bid on bond issues to be offered in the Belt, Melstone, Lambert, Townsend and Darby high school districts. The board also gave the com missioner the green light on the proposed sale by the state of 2,877 acres of land to the Bureau of Reclamation. The land is located in Lewis and' Clark county and will presently become the bottom OFFICE I U P P I I E « c i p q w d g a EQUIPMENT CALL IN AND LOOK OVER OUR DISPLAY We are stocking some “hard to get” items of of fice supplies and busi ness stationery. AVAILABLE NOW ARE SUCH ITEMS AS: • Rubber Bands • Onion Skin Paper • Mimeograph Paper • Copy Paper for Second Sheets • Index Cards • File Folders • Carbon Paper • Adding Machine Tape • Time Books • Typewriter Ribbons The Examiner Printing C o . Montana Auto Sales, Inc . A n n o u n c e s That All Shop Labor Will Be FLAT RATED on Any of Its Cars Represented Hus means that you will know the price on any work you contract for before it’s started. Before you buy a New Car ... Cometo . . . MONTANA AUTO SALES, INC. and Get Our Figures on That New Car — Ask For Our Appraisal — S e e M r . A r e h a r t F o r T h a t B e t t e r D e a l ! Phone 300 Phone 300 of the reservoir to ibe created by the construction of Canyon Ferry dam. * * • MILES CITY.—(UP)—Dola N. Wilson has been elected president of the Miles City Chamber of Commerce at its annual banquet here. Dick Jensen was chosen as vice .president and Lisle Hawkins was selected to fill, the treasurer’s post. The meeting was highlighted with an address by Milton C. Briggs, Minneapolis manufactur er. * * * BUTTE.—(UP)—The Owsley block, a five-story office building here at t^rie intersection of Park and Main streets, has been sold to Paul L. Höllenstein. Helena. The transaction was handled by the Owsley Realty Co. and fed eral revenue stamps indicated the purchase price at $125,000. * * * HAVRE—(UP)—The months of December, 1949, and January, 1950, combined, were the coldest months ever recorded’ here—and the weather records date back to 1879. The U. S. Weather Bureau said January was the second coldest January ever recorded with a mean temperature of 11.6 degrees below zero chalked up. January, 1916, tops the all-time mark with a record low of 13.3 below re corded for the, 31 days. * * * GLASGOW.— (UP)—H. Kleis Larson of Missoula has been an nounced the winner of the Junior Chamber of Commerce annual distinguished service award. Cliff Walker of Glasgow, state chairman, said a committee of three leading Montana citizens selected Larson from a number of candidates, “all outstanding.\ Larson is principal of the Frank lin school at Missoula. As a mem ber of the Missoula Park board, Walker said, he took the leader ship in installing playground equipment at seven parks with cooperation of civic groups, al though he did the work on TWT ■ himself. The number of cattle on feed for market in Montana Jan. 1 was estimated . at the 'lowest mark since 1939, according to the Bu reau of Agricultural Economics. The total number on feed was 20,000, 53 per cent of the 38,000 head on feed a year earlier. Heavy losses from feeding last year, together with short feed supplies this winter, discouraged cattle feeding, the bureau said. The bulk of the cattle feeding is located near the five sugar beet factories where wet and dry beet pulp and molasses furnish a large part of the cattle feeding ration. Estimated numbers on feed by factory areas are: Billings, 7,000; Sidney, 4,600; Hardin, 3,300; Chi nook, 2,100 and Missoula, 1,800, The remaining head are located primarily in the Gallatin valley and Beaverhead county where 1,200 cattle are on feed. The Jan. 1 survey revealed there has been a marked shift to lighter weight cattle and propor tionately more heifers and1 calves and fewer steers placed on feed than a year ago. HELENA. —(UP)- T r a f f i c deaths on Montana streets and highways decreased 1.2 per cent from 164 in 1948 to 1.62 in 1949, according to Supervisor E. H. England of the State Highway Pa trol. The 162 died in 139 fatal acci dents, 1.5 per cent increase in number of fatal accidents in 1949, compared to 1948. England said fatal traffic acci dents in cities and towns decreas ed sharply last year compared to the previous year. Number of fatal accidents in cities and towns were down 40 per cent and fa talities were down 60 per cent. The percentage gain in cities and towns was offset by simul taneous sharp increases in fatal accidents on highways and county roads. Fatal accidents increased 11 per cent and deaths jumped 14 per cent on highways. Acci dents were up 16 per cent and' deaths increased 34 per cent on county roads. * * * For the second consecutive week unemployment compensa tion claims in Montana increased to set new records, Carroll M. Stewart, chairman of the Unem ployment Compensation commis sion has announced. Claims for last week increased 1,149 to set a new all-time high of 15,509, The increase for the pre vious week also broke the post war record of 13,900 which was established in March, 1946. * * « State Auditor John J. Holmes has announced that there was over $8,000,000 more in the state’s net cash balance Feb. 1, this year, than at the same time last year. In his regular monthly report on the financial condition of the state, Holmes said that the net cash balance at the first of this month totaled $61,857,925, com pared to the $53,046,247 balance in all state funds Feb. 1, 1949. He added, however,’ that the state’s 'bonded indebtedness had also shown a marked increase. Montana’s bonded indebtedness Féb. 1, 1960, totaled $20.745,000, compared to the $10,978,000 re ported by the auditor’s office at the corresponding time of a year ago. State funds invested by Feb. 1 of this year totaled approximate ly $3,000,000 more than were in vested a year ago, Holmes said. At the beginning of this month, state\ funds invested amounted to $28,789,928, compared to the $25,- 732,109 invested Feb. 1 last year. * * * Montana’s liquor control ¡board has reported a net profit of $3,- 946,396.78 for all operations dur- ing 1949, according to Gov. John W. Bonner. The board reported to Bonner that gross liquor sales for 1949 were reported at $14,969,527.97 and gross profits at $3,778,010.25. For the preceding year, gross sales totaled $15,187,667.22 and gross profits were $3,770,211.36. HELENA—Commercial slaugh ter of meat animals in Montana during 1949 totaled 111,166,000 pounds liveweight, or 14 per cent greater than the 97,229,000 pounds slaughtered in 1948, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Eco nomics. “Although there were fewer sheep and lambs slaughtered in 1949,” the BAE said, “more cat tle, calves and hogs went through Montana slaughterhouses than a year earlier. Average slaughter weight for all species were lighter than for the previous year, the bureau added. Cattle slaughtered during 1949 numbered 67,100 head, against 55,800 head in 1948, an increase of 20 per cent, the bureau said. \They averaged 941 pounds per head, as compared with 959 lbs. in 1948, the federal agency said, adding that “approximately 12,- 400 head of calves went to the block in 1949, compared with 11,- 600 in 1948, an increase of seven per cent.” The slaughtered calves aver aged 348 pounds per head in 1949 to a 367-pound average in 1948, the BAE said. “Earlier marketings, resulting from the season’s drought and fewer cattle placed on feed is largely responsible for the lighter weight of cattle and calves slaughtered,” the bureau said. Sheep and lamb slaughter to taled .5,400 head, a reduction of i 17 per cent from the 6,500 head killed in 1948. They averaged 100 pounds per head, just two pound lighter than those killed during the previous year, the bu reau added., A reduction in num ber raised and reduced in pen feeding operations are largely re sponsible for the reduction in numbers slaughtered, agency of ficials said. The BAE said also that ¡Mon tana plants slaughtered 183,200 head of hogs in 1949—14 per cent over the 161,200 head slaughtered in 1948. The kill averaged 235 pounds per head, or six povmds lighter than the 1948 slaughter weight. Montana farmers have marketed their hogs at lighter weights in response to the lack of interest shown for lard type hogs, the bureau said. * * * The Montana Livestock Pro duction Credit association’s new building was dedicated in Helena March 11. Association Secretary W. A. Bell said that the dedication was preceded iby a meeting, after which a dinner of barbecued buf falo was served. Principal speaker at the dedi cation-meeting was William I. Meyers, dean, of agriculture at Cornell niversity. * ' * * Range conditions in some sec tions of Montana have been re ported as “critical” during the month of January by the Bureau of Land Management. “Throughout the region the weather conditions varied consid erably but in northern Montana and in the area south of the Mis souri river in central and eastern Montana the weather conditions are critical,” the bureau said. ‘Teeding started about the mid dle of December and has con tinued since that time, however feed supplies are becoming short now,\ the bureau added. Livestock losses were reported to be on the increase in northern southeastern Montana, the cold has been severe. “In these areas,\ the bureau said, “the stockmen were pre pared for it and generally the livestock is wintering well.” FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH The public worship next Sun day Feb. 19 will begin at 11 a. m. W. F. Koeneke will'be the speak er. The Sunday school will be gin at 9:45 a. m. The choir will E L E C T R I C A L CONTRACTORS Estimates cheerfully given on large or small wiring jobs A complete line of electrical appliances DAVIS ELECTRIC CO - 21 E. Sebree meet for rehearsal at 8:00 on Thursday evening. The junior choir will meet at the parsonage Thursday at 4 p.m. Great Falls Select You can’t go wrong when you buy Great Falls Select. Its smooth, delicious flavor gained from choice ingre dients and skillful brewing, its full and mellow ageing is all set to thrill your taste buds every time you open a can or bottle, or order a glass from your favorite dealer. Its availability throughout Montana and southern Idaho makes its general enjoyment that much greater. And the variety of packs—including the handy, new 12-can pack that you can carry under your arm—puts Great Falls Select within the reach of beer lovers throughout this area. >Uen YoU • r e o u t ^ refr'S* AVAILABLE IN CANS, IN BOTTLES AND ON DRAUGHT Great Falls Breweries, Inc. Great Falls, Montana
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