\u2022 December 3 \u2013 Start of statewide paper salvage drive. Duck season closed.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 5 \u2013 Montana actor George Montgomery married Dinah Shore.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 6 \u2013 A student with the 317th Training Detachment died from exposure at the base of a cliff in Pattee Canyon near Missoula.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 7 \u2013 More than 1,100 civilian employees of the 34th Subdepot at Great Falls Army Air Base were honored with an “emblem of civilian service.” Twenty-three new WACs were sworn in at Butte.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 9 \u2013 Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls recorded the birth of the 12,000th baby born in the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 16 \u2013 A bomber recently based in Great Falls crashed at Kearney, Nebraska, killing one crewman.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 17 \u2013 Eighty-six student nurses completed training at Montana State College.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 20 \u2013 The Butte Safeway warehouse burned, causing “tremendous” loss.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 24 \u2013 Two men were arrested after a dynamite explosion at the Silver City nightclub in Butte injured 15 people.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 27 \u2013 The U.S. Army took control of the nation’s railroads to avert a threatened walkout.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 29 \u2013 A fire in Stevensville destroyed the Gavin Theater and damaged nearby buildings.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 30 \u2013 Havre schools reopened after a scarlet fever outbreak.<\/p>\n
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