65,000 CATTLE BRANDS
PACK MONTANA RECORDS
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STEAK SIZZLES on the hoof when brand is applied,
i By James F. Tomlinson
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AP Newsfeaiures
Helena, Mcmt.—When a hot branding iron sizzles into a Montana
steer, he’s marked for life with Two Hearts, a Walking Y, a Tilting T
or any of 65,000 other brands registered in the Treasure State.
The man who has to keep track of the cowboy’s coat of arms is
Ralph Miracle, general recorder of marks and brands at the Livestock
Commission in Helena.
Miracle is now re-recording all Montana brands, a job that
bulldogs him every ten years. He reports there is a tremendous de
mand for new brands and he ex-<
• pects recordings to reach an all
time high.
But looking at thousands of
brands isn’t a dull job. Cattlemen
are an ingenious lot and to be
different, they’ve designed many
novel brands, some humorous and
some with a history.
The Two Dot brand marked the
cattle on a ranch so big that a
town which sprang up in the mid
dle of it took the name—Two Dot
fpop. 241).
Teddy Roosevelt, the rough
riding President, used a Maltese
Cross to brand his Montana stock.
I The brand is still registered,
though the Maltese Cross ranch no
longer exists.
Many cattlemen enjoy cowhide
valentines. There is a Two Hearts
brand and single heart, double
hearts, triple hearts, hearts pierced
by Cupid’s arrows, fat heart, long
heart and lean heart.
And now that more cowmen go
to college, fraternity insignia are
cropping up on the sides of white
faced Here fords.
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But no matter what kind of
mark he uses, the cattleman
knows it “is the brand that brings
'em home."
He depends on his brand for
identification at the markets. The
Tilting T brings his lost cattle
back and makes it tough for mod
emday rustlers to rob him.
CONGRESSMAN PROPOSES
INCOME TAX EXEMTION BE
RAISED FROM $600 TO $1,000
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Rep. Cole
(R-NY) proposed Thursday that
the federal income tax personal
exemption be raised from $600 to
$1,000.
Cole announced in a statement
that he was introducing such leg
islation. He said it is “long over
due" because of the constantly
rising cost of living and “the tre
mendous cost of the present gov
ernment."
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Senate Committee Puts
Off Decision to Recall
Eisenhower to testify
WASHINGTON, The Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
Monday put Off a decision on whe
ther to ask Gen. Eisenhower to
fly home and testify on the $7,
900,000,000 foreign ail bill.
After an hour's committee dis
! cussion behind closed doors, chair
man Connally (D-Tex) announced
it had been decided to delay action
on a motion by Sen. McMahon
(D-Conn) to request testimony
from Eisenhower.
* Connally said this was done be
cause “several” committee mem
bers were absent. As far as re
porters could see only Sens. Lodge
(R-Mass) and Brewster (R-Me)
were not present.
Lodge heads the Eisenhower
for-President committee. Brew
ster is a supporter of Sen. Taft
for the GOP presidential nomina
tion.
Connally refused to say whether
the committee took any formal
vote.
The expression “Tell it to the
Marines” is believed to have or
iginated when Charles II of Eng
land was told about flying fish
for the first time and turned to
an officer of the marines to con
firm the story.
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Alaska Carpenters Ask
$3.5$ an flour fry April 28
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — April 28
has been se4 as the date when all
carpenters in Alaska walk off
their jobs unless current wage de
mands of $3.58 an hour are met
The date was announced Thurs
day by James Swan, attorney for
the AFL Carpenters Local 1281.
Swan said an offer from the Asso
ciated General Contractors for a
| 25 cent increase over the present
$3.14 has been rejected and all
but one territorial local has taken
a strike vote.
The carpenters, Swan said, take
the position that for years there
has been too much difference be
tween their wages and other
heavy industry crafts such as
teamsters, operating engineers and
laborers.
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over Britain, a fouf-eftgtae jet
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speed flights to test a new radiqt
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Dacca Flight Log, shows the pilot
the position of his plane on a
map and automatically draws in
its track. It has already been
tried on low-speed helicopters and
piston-engine planes. Now it is
wanted for jet airliners.
Its designers have built a new
airborne receiver which will pick
up signals and convert them into
the track line on the map while
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