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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1940
Page
6
Officials and press guests attended a district highway headquarters housewarming on Dakota Avenue North. District Engineer Walker and staff now occupy the new building completed late last month, with a buffet dinner and informal activities marking the event.
University dean Julian urged Kiwanis members to favor youth and faulted elders for problems facing society. A poll of 1,000 high school students showed desirable parent traits include spending time with children, respecting opinions, and positive involvement without nagging. The dean praised today’s youth as capable individuals who deserve guidance not criticism.
The 640 by 130 foot brick structure cost 22482 dollars and houses the district office staff repair shop testing laboratories shower and locker rooms and storage. It sits on Dakota Avenue north of the McKinley school. State highway officials and contractors attended the open house with talks from E W Merker John Swenson Charles Hornbek Harry Westphal R K Morrell L E K Vercue Charles Rudd W S M P D Hickman and H C Beall plus M Taylor and L A Groves E A Pugsley and Robert Berndt of Huron who oversaw the project.
Wilma Koch won the sweepstakes ticket in this week’s coloring of the comics contest. Other winners included Earl Kline Sylvia Milburn Fleet Stanton Patty Ja Maria Harold Shearer Lucille Presho Shirley Cranston Elma and Calvin Schmidt of Virgil. Ten theatre tickets to the Huron Theatre are awarded each week for it.
A Saturday section item invites young readers to submit a coloring page entry. Entries must be in the Huronite office by 5 on the following Wednesday. The call emphasizes a family friendly activity and local participation.
In Little Falls area, 5500 Sixth Division regulars move from Lincoln toward the Blue line while other Red units converge from Pierz. Blue forces push from Onamia to Pierz within 15 miles of Camp Ripley as weather hampers operations. Farmers harvest as infantry sweep across fields amid mock battles.
N. 3-Pi-Bert Humphries kept busy over the weekend. On Saturday he pitched for the East Orange baseball club, and on Sunday he preached from a pulpit in a small church at Baldwinville New York where he is the Tegulae minister.
Mr. John Charlton of Fremont Nebraska describes severe constipation indigestion and muscular pain with crutch dependence. He credits EraGon capsules with restoring regularity easing pain and enabling him to walk without crutches after years of suffering.
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