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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1936
Page
1
Des Moines dispatch reports a state WPA headquarters statement announcing the closure of 564 state project workers after a relief-needs survey of Works Progress Administration staff. Other items include murder conviction in Brookville Maryland and German industrial efforts to aid food supply in the third Reich.
Citizens including Harold Brock C. Van Caster L. Whitney Hollister Reuben Franzen discuss humane methods for killing rabbits. Readers weigh gunshot versus clubbing, noting escape rates, animal suffering, and practical outcomes in hunting. Opinions vary, with some favoring quick guns and others defending clubs under certain conditions.
A quirky wire of brief items notes a fireman fined after shopping during a Christmas outing in Owensboro Kentucky, a late shopper in Wheeling West Virginia back in jail within an hour, a California man returning to jail after a Christmas parole, and a cafe operator in Illinois receiving a $500 Christmas present check from an employee. The page also mentions a Violet Schmidt in Indiana waving to trainmen and getting festive funds from admirers.
A humorous reminiscence from 1938 recalls old manners and travel, contrasting modern life with ancestors’ months long trips. An Arkansas traveler recites a risqué old egg note leading a humorous, cautionary letter exchange about a jilted marriage possibility.
Havana reports the Cuban House of Representatives voted 111 to 45 to impeach President Mariano Gomez for vetoing a 1,500,008 sugar tax bill funding rural schools. The Senate will act as court. observers expect Gomez guilty, with Batista backing the tax bill’s sponsor. The impeachment hinges on overriding the president's veto to enact the measure.
Redfield records the burial funeral rites for United States Senator Peter Norbeck aged 66. Norbeck lay in state at Williamson Funeral Home before services at Our Savior's Lutheran Church. Officiants included Rev Loyd Strand Dr Lars Roe and Dr C M Granskou. Pallbearers were Julian Blount Carl J Williamson Henry Sasse and Charles Woodland with Leslie Jensen and Governor Tom Berry among honorary attendees. Burial followed at Bloomington Cemetery near Platte.
Congress faces a heated fight over curtailing relief spending as the Roosevelt administration hints at a balanced budget within two years. Roosevelt and aides suggest either tax increases or cutting relief will fund relief through June and beyond. Treasury projections show a growing deficit, with debate over 1938 revenues and potential relief caps shaping a pivotal fiscal clash.
Seattle's Christmas program stalls as the Alaska maritime strike delays Santa Claus deliveries. The Yukon steamer sits idle while Georges Pointer rehearses his duties in Seattle, with 200 pounds of gifts planned for 6,500 Alaska children, uncertain to reach coastal hamlets this year.
In Madrid a squadron of Fascist planes bombed the Rosares district in the first raid after days. A plane believed to be an insurgent craft crashed. Socialist pilots launched at the signal and forced the Fascists from the suburbs. Government orders closed the Portuguese consulate at Gijon. Reports say government lines near Pozuelo de Alarcon and Sal Ferdinand bridges faced fresh bombardment while advances claimed by Socialist defense.
Governor elect Leslia Jensen led a four hour statewide relief conference in the Elks ballroom urging sweeping changes to end favoritism and expand WPA and RA activities. Delegates from nearly every county backed resolutions calling for seed loans, extended relief, more hours, labor makeups, and closer cooperation among welfare boards, WPA, and county officials.
In Pierre Dec 22 the South Dakota legislative session eyed a quick adjournment as the Senate prepared to act on unemployment insurance amid a House dispute over ore taxation. The minority and majority reports on the ore levy to raise mine tax from four to ten percent sparked debate. The joint committee planned to push a near term unemployment bill with a de pass recommendation while permitting later amendments. New bills were introduced on liquor control and old age assistance, with cost of the special session set at 10,200.
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