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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1938
Page
4
Puzzle with mixed word clues and misprinted letters across horizontal and vertical entries. Many entries include months numbers and garbled phrases making precise solutions difficult. The page presents a cryptic style calendar puzzle with scattered hints like Roman ruler after whom a calendar is named and multiple entries referencing common crossword style clues.
A meditation on New Year resolutions as a humane guide to self improvement. The piece argues humans are earthbound yet born of something deathless and should chart a course toward better conduct. It challenges the view that self interest alone drives progress and urges steadfast pursuit of ideals.
The Huron Elks Lodge chorus, formed recently, has earned praise through lodge functions and external appearances. It sang at Gov Bushfield inauguration events in Pierre, with 25 to 30 members under director Loftus Ward. The group, led by Harry Carlson and John Sainsbury, also offers a $60 annual music scholarship to a Huron College student.
Secretary Gene Denning of the Chamber of Commerce urges all Huron organizations to list their 1929 meetings entertainments and conventions on the community calendar to minimize conflicts. Chambers will act as a scheduling clearinghouse and clubs should consult the calendar before setting dates for events.
The piece commends the Chamber of Commerce for pushing a city calendar in 1939 and calls for wide cooperation. It contrasts rival views on the New Deal, notes President Hopkins plans a nationwide drive to return millions of unemployed to private work, and recalls his WPA success and backlash from private enterprise.
In a 1938 column Ruth Millett portrays youth as wanting the government to secure 1939 jobs. She cites Joseph Cadden and the American Youth Congress as arguing for pensions, apprenticeships, WPA hiring quotas, and longer schooling to delay competition. Youth claim self education and physical improvement are their main self-help efforts.
Rankin of Mississippi urges a probe into a power trust amid TVA investigation anxiously. The chaotic lines mention Judge Ambrose presiding over the Epting Snyder trial and Tyrone Power discussing romance with Annabella, plus a Jonesville preacher's reaction to Bewitched.
The Minneapolis Journal reviews an embassy sponsored Cuban brochure on a New Deal in Cuba. Colonel Batista backs the plan to Congress while allowing three Cuban critics to publish opposing views within the official pamphlet. Critics include Dr. Chibas Enrique Cruz and Dr. Herrera Sotolingo, living and free for now.
The Sioux City Journal discusses expanding aviation training beyond 20 000 college and university men to include thousands of aviation mechanics as part of national defense. It argues preparedness saved lives in 1917 18 and urges training now to avoid future war delays. It also notes personalities Heinie Pierce Doeg Huston Schraeder and Brookings commentary on public profiles.
A December 24 diary fragment recalls a snow storm and a family outing to town. Vivid scenes include children at the window watching a train, strangers sharing Christmas cheer, and a hope that kindness and peace may spread worldwide amid war concerns.
A society page notes a 60 guest dinner at Hotel Marvin Hughitt with an orchestra, featuring Mr and Mrs Joss Burns and Mr and Mrs Mark Kuni. It covers the December 26 wedding of Miss Gene Sprague to Ralph Wetrich at the Presbyterian Church manse with Edna Bloodgood and Carl Wetrich as attendants. The couple plan a home at 21 Florence Ave NW after a wedding trip. Wetrich, active in athletics, attends Huron College and works at Huron Dairy. Also mentioned are visits from Miss Margaret Ball and Mrs L J Manning of Minneapolis returning to Huron.
A ten day visit with relatives includes Mrs Manning enrolling in a permanent ve ing course. Huron again reports airplane hangar facilities and Rapid Air Lines completes an all motor structure at its flying field yesterday.
Radio listings detail New Year Eve and Day programs across WEAF WEAF NBC WABC WOR WJZ and WIZ with hours and show names including dancing parties, symphonies, and sports bowl broadcasts for December 31 to January 1 and January 2 with schedules. The column notes overlapping Saturday and Monday entries due to humidity and lists prominent hosts conductors and programs across stations.
The column surveys historic precedent on presidentialterm limits, noting Senate votes on a Springer style third term and contrasting 1928 and 1940 positions. It cites La Follette’s 1920s push, Washington Madison and Jefferson precedents, and warns that a third term could threaten republican stability.
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