South Dakota to Use Limited Metal In 1943 License Plates
Pierre reports that 1943 automobile licenses in South Dakota will not resemble current plates. Officials face metal limits of 10 percent of this year's consumption and a ban on re validating devices larger than four square inches. Proposals include small metal taps or windshield stickers with the year. Serial numbers remain the same and colors will be drab black, white, and earth tones. Emergency specs drop chrome yellow pigments. high reflectance whites will be used for markings.
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Pierre
South Dakota
Arena
Michigan
Olive A. Ringsrud
Grand Jury Must Decide 41 Cases in Aberdeen
Sioux Falls reports a 23 man grand jury convening in Aberdeen on April 2 will face 41 cases. The most numerous are Indian liquor violations with eight instances, followed by Farm Credit Administration loan violations and Selective Service with three each. Other items include condemnation proceedings, larceny related charges, and various government property offenses, each appearing in smaller counts.
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Sioux Falls
Aberdeen
Farm
Credit Administration
FSA
Indian Department
Two Nebraska couples fined and jailed in alleged irregular solicitation
Two couples from Norfolk Nebraska were fined 100 and sentenced to 30 days in jail with the sentence suspended on leaving the state after pleading guilty before Justice E W Morgan to charges tied to irregular solicitation of funds for charitable purposes. Police officials said the four named as Mr and Mrs W W Carrico and Mr and Mrs Henry Boettcher could not show they handed farmers money to the charities they claimed to represent.
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Marion
Nebraska
South Dakota
E. W. Morgan
John Steltz
Jack Soeth
Stames
W. W. Carrico
Henry Boettcher
Norfolk
Disabled Veterans Convention Set for Mitchell May 31
Rapid City April 10 The annual state department convention of the Disabled American Veterans of South Dakota will be held at Mitchell Sunday May 31. Floyd Kerr Rapid City department commander announced today that several prominent speakers have been invited and the program details are in the making.
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Rapid City
State Department
Disabled American Veterans of
South Dakota
Mitchell
Floyd Kerr
Wessington Youth To Give Concert Here
Clayton Morrow son of Bert Morrow of Wessington will be among four young men from Minneapolis Bible College to perform at the Huron Church of Christ next Saturday evening. Clayton is studying for the ministry and has attended M B U for three years.
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Aptiay
Clayton Morrow
Bert Morrow
Wessington
Minneapolis Bible College
Huron Church of Christ
Clayton
Postoffice Burglar Sentenced To Five Years Leavenworth
Sioux Falls April 19. James W Moran a Democrat pleaded guilty to two counts of postoffice burglary at Pollock D and was sentenced today to five years in Leavenworth federal prison and fined 500 dollars by Federal Judge A Lee Wyman. Moran had served days in Brown County jail before transfer Tuesday. He was delivered January 3 from Montana where arrested for a similar offense.
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Leavenworth
Sioux Falls
James W. Moran
Pollock, & D
Kan
A. Lee Wyman
William J. Lipo
U. S
Moran
Brown County
Montana
Free book claim on skin ailment cure circulates scam
A dubious advertisement offers a free booklet authored by twelve writers about using a product to relieve conditions like Paorlasis Eczerna Athlete's Foot and Poison Oak. It directs readers to a Chicago P. O. Box 5170 and hints at advancement of a supposed remedy.
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Adreas P. O
Chicago
Bushfield approves survey to boost oil and metals study
Governor Harlan J. Bushfield approved a Geology Survey program for central South Dakota focusing on oil and manganese exploration in central areas and rare metals in the Black Hills. A large field party may complete 1940 41 surface surveys in the Missouri River Valley and map formations while magnetometer mapping west of the river may continue if arrangements are found. The rare metal beryllium grows in demand for war industries and the Bureau of Mines seeks better data on Black Hills deposits.
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Missouri River
Rothrock
Federal Bureau of Mines
Black Hills
Highspeed
Trade Training Course Pamphlets Sent To Schools
SDU distributes about 330 blue pamphlets explaining a state university trade training course offered during two summer sessions. Courses cover machine construction, shop practice, mechanical drawing, shop mathematics, metallurgy, and practical physics. Four hours credit available. program aids young men to enter machinist trades and pursue further technical study before military service.
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SDU
Social Workers Plan 20th State Conference in Pierre
Vermillion April 12 the South Dakota State Conference of Social Work will hold its 20th annual meeting in Pierre April 23 24 and 25 with a theme on non planning and postwar reconstruction Out of state speakers include Charles P Tait Mrs W Frost Dorothy Lally Mildred Biklen and Sara James Officers listed include John Aseem Grace Martin A L Myklebust and S C Edwards About 250 social workers from across the state are expected to attend
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Vermillion
South Dakota
Work Projects Administration
Sara James
Bureau
Public Assistance
Social Security Board
John Aseem
Grace Martin
Child Welfare
A. L. Myklebust
South Dakota School For the Deaf
5. C. Edwards
Department of Social Security
Paul West
Yankton
Decker Appointed Education Head in Rapid City
Iya Apoint ment places Lowell Decker of Rapid City as supervisor of distributive education, succeeding R. J. Aldrich who left to serve as an officer. Decker, Nebraska Teachers College and Harvard bound, has led Rapid City High School's commercial department for seven years.
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Pleare
Iya
Lowell Decker
Rapid City
R. J. Aldrich
JF. Hines
South Dakota
Decker
Nebraska ‘Teachers’ College
Peru
Harvard
Hea
Nebraska
Rapid City High School
Shower for Yale Bride Receives Albert Pellan Guests
Mrs Emil Maass and Mrs Bernard hosted a shower in Albert Maass Jr. recently married. About twenty guests attended in Yale, playing bridge with Mrs Walter Glanzer winning high score. After lunch the bride Naomi Sty opened her gifts prior to marriage.
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Yale
Emil Maass
Bernard
Albert
Wayland Bridge Club Meeting Report
Mrs. Clara Ravenscroft hosted the Wayland bridge club on a Wednesday afternoon in April. Ten members and two guests attended. Mrs. Emma Lilly won high and Mrs. Tilda Borkhuis took second. Guests Martha Vaughn and Verlyn Hurley received prize defense stamps. Refreshments were served.
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Wayland Bridge Club
Wayland
Clara Ravenscroft
Emma Lilly
Tilda Borkhuis
Martha Vaughn
Verlyn Hurley
Wayland Red Cross Workers Get Materials
Mrs Francis McGuire secretary of the Wayland Aid Society has secured Red Cross yarns and materials for garments and the menu the society have started work with them. Other interested workers may secure materials by calling at the Wayland store.
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Wayland Red Cross
Wayland
Francis McGuire
Wayland Aid Society
Red Cross
iVayland
Fire destroys hen house at Miller farm
Miller April 10 report describes a fire at Jeff Sutton’s farm near Miller. Firefighters arrived Wednesday evening and extinguished a blaze that spread from a small stove, destroying four hundred young chickens valued around one hundred dollars.
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Miller
Miller Fire Department
Jeff Sutton
Wigader
Mechanical Drawing Summer Training Aims at Better Employment
A program during the summer months invites men with some mechanical experience to improve their knowledge and secure better forms of employment through practical drawing instruction and practical applications.
To Conduct Annual ROTC Inspection at State University
Vermillion April 10 Lieutenant Colonel F M Flanagan of Coe College Cedar Rapids will lead the annual ROTC inspection at the State University on May 14 and 15 The purpose is to determine the proficiency of the ROTC unit The inspection divides into theoretical and practical parts with observation of classes and field assessments led by Lt Col Joseph Church head of the university military department
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Vermillion
F. M. Flanagan
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
The
State University
Joseph Church
Colleges Support Navy V-1 Officers Training Program
The Navy reports united support from South Dakota colleges for its V-1 training plan that mobilizes about 60,000 college students 19 years old into officer commissions. Sophomores and freshmen may enlist as apprentice seamen, with inactive status until mid second year, then take a Navy exam. About 20,000 yearly will transfer to V-5 aviation cadet training, while about 15,000 go to V-7 for engineering and officer training, requiring a four-year degree completion.
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Minneapolis
Navy
United Support
South Dakota
Midway
V-5
V-7
Coce
Selecting for V-1 course guidance in South Dakota
Those not chosen for either course may complete their sophomore year and then proceed to naval training schools as regular enlisted men. Applications for the V-1 course are being accepted at recruiting stations in Aberdeen Deadwood Huron Mitchell Sioux Falls Watertown and Yankton in South Dakota.
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Naval Training Schools
Aberdeen
Deadwood
Huron
Mitchell
Sioux Falls
Watertown
Yankton
South Dakota
Advanced First Aid Courses Started For Miller Class
Miller April 1 Special An advanced first aid course began here Thursday evening under Dr M W Pangburn. The class meets twice weekly in the court house for five sessions. Eligibility is limited to those who completed the standard course. For ten weeks Pangburn taught the standard course, splitting the class due to high interest. About sixty completed and passed the examination.
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Miller
M. W. Pangburn
Court House
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