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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
6
Friday Lawn Ridgers Club meets Mrs. Riddle at 378 Simmons Avenue Southeast to exchange pickle recipes and sewing squares. St Cecilia's Band shifts to Friday 7:30 pm at Mrs John Stackwick home for a gathering with music and socializing.
Lt and Mrs Abbott Barstis and daughter Rebecca Lu of Greenbelt Md visit Mrs Barstis' parents south of Huron. Carla Rae Bailey born at 3 PM weighing seven pounds five ounces at Huron hospital. Kay Ann Roger visiting from Detroit with Royer family. Barbara Ann Frederickson born at 2:47 AM in Huron hospital weighing seven pounds. Homer McDaniel and wife welcome daughter at 11:55 AM in Huron hospital weighing eight pounds four ounces. Ellis Stephens son born 2:40 PM weighing seven pounds at Hitchcock.
Edward E B Hansen, Minneapolis police chief, will spend a week or two at a northern Minnesota camp after release from St Marys Hospital this weekend. Dr Harry Klein, his physician, said Hansen wants to rest before resuming duties.
Lloyds of London quotes Washington bombing odds at 1006 to 1 per $1000 for one year on war and bombardment insurance with no cancellation clause. The policy is discussed by the agency in Washington on August 6.
The Fifth District Auxiliary hosts a Sunday tea from 3 to 5 PM at the Hotel Marvin Hughitt to open the State Legion and Auxiliary convention August 10 13. Mrs L C Nelson Redfield and Mrs George Kutschke Faulkton preside, with district presidents as hostesses and a program of vocal and instrumental numbers followed by tea service.
In Bethlehem Mrs. Ethel Sherer fends off a three foot rattlesnake with a stick while her daughter Dorothy kills it. In Albuquerque Mrs. Emilia Rivera’s mattress is removed quickly after a theft of 560 dollars in postal saving certificates. In Hamilton a farmer, thought to be ill, regains speech after a doctor removes a fat bull caught in his vocal cords. In Scottsbluff a lawnmower encounter with a four foot bullsnake spooks the operator. The text then shifts to a labor dispute overview covering a mediation board vote on a modified union shop and a 12 percent wage increase, with union leaders pressing for the shop and company officials resisting a closed shop amid a broader California aircraft wage dispute involving Lockheed and Vega.
A continued strike disrupted Bethlehem Steel amid wage renegotiations, while 36,000 California aircraft workers faced a National Defense Mediation Board during a two month stalemate. At Federal Shipbuilding in Kearny a CIO picket line blocked gates as 9,000 onlookers gathered. Police monitored with riot gear as 16,000 of 17,000 workers at the yard stayed home.
Summary of historic and current temperature highs and lows, precipitation totals, and sunrises and sunsets. Forecast for Huron and vicinity calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Friday with scattered thundershowers and cooler conditions tonight.
Forecasts indicate South Dakota will be partly cloudy tonight and Friday with scattered thundershowers east and central tonight into Friday, slightly cooler central regions and warmer western areas. Iowa expects fair to partly cloudy conditions tonight and Friday with a few scattered thundershowers in the west and north-central Friday afternoon, no major temperature changes.
Areas across Minnesota faced heavy flooding after 5.78 inches of rain in 12 hours. Norman County bore the brunt with Halstad, Twin Valley, Shelly and nearby towns recording multiple inches. Crops suffer uncertain drying weather as local basements fill and stores are inundated. Health officials monitor an encephalitis outbreak spreading from the region, with cases in North and South Dakota and Minnesota.
Encephalitis discussion continues from page one while an ad promotes a home remedy claimed to ease hayfever symptoms. The product, described as a “ wonder medicine,” is advertised as rapid, low-cost relief available through H. H. Humphrey with no obligation and invites full investigation.
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