Drought Film Withdrawn After Plains Criticism
Representative Mundt said the National Emergency Council would not commit to further showings of The Plow That Broke the Plains until it is altered to satisfy Great Plains residents. NEC would add an epilogue and adjust the map to include rivers and shelterbelts, pending funding and narration adjustments.
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Washington
Mundt
South Dakota
National Emergency Council
Plains
Great Plains
NEC
Chaiman Lowell Merett
Plains States
Will Changs Map
Senator Bulow
Democrat
Representative Case
Mellett
Black Hills
Church speaker among speakers at Rapid City conference
Douglas Horton of the general council of Congregational and Christian churches will headline the Rapid City annual Congregational Church conference late this month. He will speak during the concluding Sunday session on April 36 in the morning action.
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Congregational Church
Rapid City
Douglas Horton
General Council of Congregational and Christian Churches
Horton
Revisions Aimed at Plains Study Face Photo Update
The official plans to include corrective information and new photographs in study packets when the film returns to circulation next fall after changes. The proposal notes a new image showing the plains in true perspective could satisfy over a thousand letters from residents across the Dakotas Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas New Mexico Colorado Wyoming and Montana.
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Fim
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Plant More Trees At Lake Louise Project Near Miller
In Hand County 1937 WPA tree planting project at Lake Louise near Miller resumes this spring under foreman Charles Phillipson of Madison. Eleven WPA workers join crews to plant about 20 000 trees over the next 30 days, with replacements for last year’s plantings and soil conditions noted as wet. State game and fish commission supplies the seeds and equipment for this large state project within a game refuge area.
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Lake Louise
State Game and Fish Commission
Flashes Of Life And Odd Local News Items
Baltimore reports a $100 watch stolen in 1920 from Andrew Fisher was found by Detective William A. O'Brien in a pawn shop. Police aim to return the timepiece to Fisher's widow. Ada Oklahoma notes a fourth set of twins eight-pound girls born to Sheriff and Mrs. Diyas Kaiser. Quincy Michigan mentions ongoing frontier style horse thefts with a pony taken. Des Moines Iowa reports a bridge hand with no bid as a notable detail with several players each holding 13 cards.
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Baltimore
Andrew Fisher
William A. O'Brien
Ada
Okla
Des Moines
Iowa
John Denison
B. McGregor
E. S .Olmsted
W. A. Cordingly
McCambridge
Anniversary of Double Wedding Observed at Luker Home
Anniversary note marks 34 years since the double wedding of Mr and Mrs Gottlieb Luker and Mr and Mrs Theodore Feistner. Relatives gathered at the Luker home with guests including Mr and Mrs Will Pawlowski Mrs Sophie Peimann Theodore Pawlowski and his sons Elmer and Emil Feistner.
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Gottlieb Luker
Luker
Theodore Feistner
Will Pawlowski
Sophie Peimann
Theodore Pawlowski
Elmer
Emil
Feistner
Pupil Describes Jig-Saw Puzzle Making at School
Ruth Hohm a fifth grader at Foster District No 4 School recalls making jig saw puzzles in class. She explains covering tablets with cardboard backs cutting them into pieces and assembling the puzzles for fun under teacher Joseph Greenan's guidance.
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Joseph Greenan
Ruth Hohm
Foster
Bankers Profit In Loan Program
Bankers in the grain belt find it profitable to participate in the government crop loan program. Officials estimate at least a million dollars went to community bankers for holding mortgages on grain. The CCC and banks have advanced about 390 million dollars on corn cotton and wheat with local banks major lenders where grain was produced and stored. If banks held half the total for six months interest would top a million dollars.
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Chicago
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Gather Farm Facts From AAA Records
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics with WPA support is collecting facts from Hand County AAA farm records. Four workers under Hugh Meyers of Brookings gather data on farm sizes, management practices, and crop varieties. cooperates with county extension, Agricultural Conservation Association, Farm Security Administration, Social Security office, and other federal agencies.
Funeral at De Smet for Mrs Leo Menzel
The funeral of Mrs. Leo Menzel was held at the Catholic Church with Rev Father Ethon officiating. Burial followed in De Smet cemetery. Mrs. Van Menzel, age 30, died after a prolonged illness at her home north of the city. Survived by her husband, one son, and two daughters.
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de Smet
Leo Menzel DE Smet
Leo Menzel
Father Ethon
van Menzel
West Coast
Guest Benny Fuller Visits Halversons
Benny Fuller of Springfield Ohio, longtime patient at St Marys Hospital Pierre, is a guest of Mr and Mrs Tom Halverson at their home.
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Blunt Blunt
Benny Fuller
Springfield
Ohio
St. Mary's Hospital
Pierre
Bheck
Tom Halverson
Hearing Ends On Gas Pipeline Proposals
Examiner Norman B Gray of the Federal Power Commission closed a three week hearing on permits to build natural gas pipelines. Kansas Pipe Line and Gas seeks a Hugoton Kansas to Mesaba Minnesota route. North Dakota Consumers opposes and would extend a line from Bismarck to eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota. Public Service Gas filed but may withdraw opposing Kansas plan and seek a line from Montana Wyoming fields to Minneapolis Mesaba. Coal interests oppose gas entry arguing harm to coal business. Briefs due within 60 days.
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Washington
Pril
Norman B. Gray
Federal Power Commission
Kansas Pipe Line and Gas Company
Hugoton
Kan
Nebraska
Dakotas
Mesaba Iron Range
Minnesota
North Dakota Consul Company
Kai Ipany
Bismarck
N. D
North Dakota
Kansas Company
Public Service Gas Company
Montana
Wyoming
Minneapolis
Mesaba Range
Examiner Gray
Litigants
Schroeders Visit Titus Family at Miller Sheffield
Mr and Mrs Harry Schroeder and daughter Lucille join Mrs W Benston for a Sunday motor trip to Miller to see Mr and Mrs Bryan Titus Titus formerly Miss Lona Benston.
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Sheffield
Harry Schroeder
Lucille
W. Benston
Miller
Bryan Titus
Titus
Lona Benston
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American Institute of Lauinderings
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Kant
Earth
Huron’s Finest
Food
Huron
Home Grocery
Loretta Wright
Huron Country Club
the Rite Food Shoppe
Penneys
NuGraft
Enney’s Penney Company
Encor
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