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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1941
Page
6
News notes a busy slate of meetings and events across many groups including Degree of Honor Juveniles, PEO chapters, Girl Scout Leaders, PTA units, Knights of Columbus, Odd Fellows, and church clubs. Also covered are a birthday party, a dinner for a basketball team, and multiple social gatherings with organizers and hostesses named.
Mr and Mrs Ferg Duchon Uron thank Huron friends and relatives for kindness on their 25th wedding anniversary celebrated March 23. They praise their pastor Rev Mueller and music by Fred Kruger and 4-H girls, with a reading by their niece and gifts from all. They also thank their daughter and husband Mr and Mrs Herbert Vaughan for a chenille bed spread from Palo Alto.
Earl Longfellow of Chicago has arrived in Huron to lead a week of pre Easter services at the Baptist Church. He will graduate in May from Northern Theological Seminary with a Bachelor of Divinity and has six years of pastoral experience. He cannot start full duties until June 1 but will conduct daily services from April 4 through Easter Sunday April 14.
The newly formed South Dakota Committee for Agriculture will meet in Huron on Saturday to discuss plans and review progress. Leonard J Parker of Hazel, the state chairman, announced the gathering with expected board members Enoch Nerbeck Platte Ray Satterlee Martin Peder Andersen Genterville and Frank Friend Mc Laughlin. The session will be in Suite A of the Knights of Pythias building.
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with somewhat warmer conditions. Totals show month to date .06 inches, year to date 1.17 inches, with normal figures noted. Easter forecast references a festival, and local notes include births, visits, and coat ads from nearby shops. Temperature ranges and hourly data are listed alongside regional forecasts for South Dakota Iowa and Minnesota.
Extended forecast shows below normal temperatures across the northern Great Plains with light to moderate precipitation mainly in eastern Nebraska and eastern Dakotas. Western Nebraska and western Dakotas expect little or no precipitation, with intermittent activity early in the period.
W F R Wherton and Mr and Mrs Jack Foasberg hosted visitors while Mr Frost of the Food Stamp division worked in the state. Mrs W W Howes left for Washington DC after a ten day stay in Huron with relatives. She will visit her mother and sister in Tracy Minnesota before stopping. Mr and Mrs M C Gordon of Buyailup Washington departed after attending a family reunion honoring Mrs Emma Gordon in Huron. Mrs Gordon, a Tracy resident, had been living with her daughter Mrs Light.
Mackenzie reports on Croat autonomists aligning with Serbs while Auds push for division to weaken Yugoslavia. German press campaign aims to erode morale and set terms without fighting. Hitler may seek more troops for a Balkans drive, with Allied forces estimated at about five and a quarter million if Turks enter.
The article sketches a sweeping German mobilization, noting potential 8 million armed personnel across Europe. It cites a second Balkans move contingent on early Yugoslavia fighting outcomes, with estimates of Turkish and other reserves ready for rapid deployment and broad continental pressure.
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