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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1939
Page
5
A college stage revival of A Christmas Carol draws a large crowd and sets a new high in staging revealing the enduring appeal of Dicken’s tale. The production emphasizes familiar principals and the classic message as a timeless Christmas tradition.
The Huron College Campus Players staged A Christmas Carol to a large audience in the college auditorium. The production featured vivid stage settings and costumes, with notable backstage technical work and a strong cast led by Scrooge and his familiar associates, though some dialogue loomed in dim lighting.
Rep Ramspeck Democrat Georgia urged the resignations of NLRB members J Warren Madden and Edwin S Smith and proposed two major amendments to the Wagner Labor Act. He warned Congress may abolish the three member board if they refuse to resign, arguing the board favors unions over workers’ rights and seeks to expand union influence. He also pressed for protections and bargaining election rights for workers.
Rome inaugurates airmail service with a 1000 pound mail payload as a Lince Aerea Transcontinentali Italiane plane departs for Rio de Janeiro. Additional mail will be picked up at Seville, Spain, en route.
Weather data shows temperature highs and lows from last year, monthly and yearly precipitation totals, and sun timing. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy conditions with light snow across South Dakota Minnesota and Iowa, with slight warming tonight and Friday, and varying wind patterns. Minimum temperatures are projected regionally from 5 to 20 degrees with heavier cold in the west.
Baby John Boettiger will join three Roosevelt grandchildren for Christmas at the White House. The four Roosevelt grandchildren will be welcomed by Eleanor Roosevelt as they open stockings in the President's bedroom in Washington. Curtis Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Dall, both from Seattle, will also attend with Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. from Charlottesville, Va.
Huron city schools dismiss for Christmas with St Teresa parochial and Huron College releasing at noon today and all to resume January 3. Special programs planned. St Teresa to host a program tonight. shops and offices announce closures through the holiday period.
Bonilla high flying Eagles solidified first place in Beadle County Conference by trouncing the Wolsey Cardinals 31 to 1. Benison and Meyer each scored eight to pace the winners while Wolsey’s Haskins led his team with eight. Bonilla reserves beat Wolsey reserves 11-10 in a low scoring preliminary.
Plan for Christmas visits as Mr and Mrs Malcolm Eckert and Miss Pugh of Wessington school faculty travel to Iowa and Missouri. Miss Pugh will visit Shenandoah and Jamesport alongside Chillicothe and Kansas City. Eckerts will visit his mother in Canton Missouri during the holidays.
Germany and Rumania agreed on a trade pact lowering the mark’s purchasing power by about 20 percent. The deal reduces the price Germany pays for Rumanian raw materials, mainly oil, while raising the price Romania pays for German finished goods. The agreement calls for Romania to export 199,090 tons of oil monthly to Germany.
City Manager Don I Leary announced final approval from the Works Progress Administration in Washington for a lighting project at W W Howes Municipal Airport. Westinghouse Supply Company of Sioux City will furnish material due to arrive late this month. WPA crews under Harry Teuber have been reassigned to a county highway project pending equipment arrival. Preliminary airport lighting work has begun with ditching for cables completed before ground freezing. Birds migrate northward in spring, a note aside from weather.
Government loans totaling nearly 5.1 million dollars are to be issued on more than 9 million bushels of 1939 corn under the Agricultural Conservation program. Alfred R. Barnes reports 3,200 corn samples tested for eligibility in the state office lab during the first week. If the 1939 harvest results in 9 million bushels sealed, the combined granary would exceed 13 million bushels when including 1937 and 1938 reseals, with total seal value near 7 million dollars by March 4, 1940.
The farmer can benefit from any price advance by settling his loan, paying accrued interest and charges, and clearing the balance owed.
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