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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1936
Page
6
The Senate and House face claims that WPA money is used for political aims to aid Democrats in upcoming elections. Democratic majorities block investigation resolutions, while partisan concerns extend to WPA worker selections in states like Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The piece criticizes WPA programs including beauty treatments for mentally ill women and recreation funding as wasteful. It cites a Nashville report on bridge games and warns that the national debt will reach 36 trillion by July 1, with taxes falling on all wage earners. It urges careful project selection and notes that borrowing funds to spend on gifts or useless ventures harms future taxpayers.
The Department of Conservation paid bounties on nearly 1000 predators in early 1938, listing 508 bobcats 441 coyotes and five wolves. By May 1 there were 324 bounty contracts issued. April payouts included 57 bobcats 45 coyotes six coyote pups and one female wolf.
Greenwood Grange No. 932 met at the town hall with two membership proposals and reinstalled member Mrs Mary Jane Smith who joined over 40 years ago. A pot luck lunch followed a short meeting and dancing. The June 11 meeting will feature a debate on Is the Townsend plan practical with Bilmer Hosler Lucas vs Verne Woodin Charley Van Blancon.
Mt. Vernon Grange members attended the Isabella Pomona at Gilmore with the next gathering set for Delwin prange. Several residents and families visited and hosted gatherings after Grange Monday night.
Gilmore Grange meets Thursdays at Beach schoolhouse with attendance and Pomona notes. Breyfogle the county agent gave an address at a Pomona gathering. next Pomona meeting slated with Delwin Grange on June 17. Residents travel between Clare, Coleman, Farwell, Saginaw, Big Rapids and Lansing for family visits and alumni events.
Extension warns corn refuse must be plowed under or burned within ten days to stop moth hatching. C B Dibble of Michigan State College says moths have emerged in labs and will soon outdoors, after which damage cannot be prevented.
Extension specialist 1 D H LaVoi reports quintuplet lambs born to a West Branch ewe owned by William Bedhelyon are alive. Two sets appeared this season while several from Dr Francis L Hoffman of Battle Creek died. First recorded quintuplet births in Michigan.
A tour of livestock farms in Gladwin and Clare counties precedes the sixth annual cattle sale in Gladwin on June 11. The animal husbandry department at Michigan State College says the tours will be on June 10. Cattle feeders tours are set for Lenawee county June 5 and Calhoun county June 6 as part of extension division activities in June.
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