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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1940
Page
4
Rates for subscriptions listed: local carrier 20 cents weekly, mail six dollars yearly. South Dakota elsewhere 15 cents weekly. Mail options include one month sixty cents, eight weeks one dollar, three months one fifty, six months two seventy five, one year five dollars. United States by mail six dollars per year.
A 1935 Evening Horoscope editorial urges that lasting world peace must grant freedom of movement and commerce to sustain employment and independence globally. It emphasizes America as a decisive power ensuring ongoing liberty both at home and abroad.
President Roosevelt declares all-out support for Britain despite Axis threats, arguing it preserves peace yet acknowledges risks. He contrasts this with a cautionary path of isolationism, tolls of war, and loss of freedoms leading to defeat and enslavement, urging continued aid as America's chosen course.
A guest editorial hails nationwide newspaper exchange and notes News Week poll results showing Governor Bushfield as the sole Republican governor opposing Roosevelt’s proposal to lease and bind war equipment to Britain. The piece mocks GOP unity against the New Deal while praising Bushfield’s independence.
A call asserts war as the road America must travel to uphold democracy and international ideals. It recalls a history of struggle and victory, urging brave participation in global leadership, warning against isolationism, and envisioning a future where the United States leads toward a better world through courage and honor.
A columnist recalls the 1666 phrase for a wondrous year and surveys 1940 as a time of global war and uncertainty. The piece muses on humanity facing massive events, the unpredictability of the year ahead, and calls for courage and gratitude as a hopeful new year begins.
The essay lauds an unnamed woman as the outstanding American woman of 1941. It depicts her as loyal to democracy, defender of minority rights, and promoter of liberty. The piece credits her with upholding individual dignity, rejecting dictatorship, and serving as a symbolic Goddess of Liberty.
Quaker relief worker Clarence Pickett states that only totalitarian nations appear free of labor strife in peace and war, while the price is too high for others to pay. Herbert Hoover urges public debate on every step toward war, and Senator Robert F Wagner echoes caution.
The army’s rapid seizure of farmland for artillery ranges airfields and factories displaces about 10 000 tenant families. The Farm Security Administration faces slow payments and high land costs while exploring options to relocate and house workers near Radford Virginia and Madison Indiana. The plan includes building new homes on farms near employment centers and later selling them to dispossessed farmers.
New York reports New Year programs across networks featuring five bowl game descriptions. Highlights include MBS Religion's New Years message to armed forces, Ken Carpenter and Clinton Twiss with Tournament of Roses parade, Bundles for Britain benefit with Jack Benny, and a dense line of NBC CBS and local station listings across morning to late night, covering sports, music, quizzes, and dramatic programs.
The great San Francisco earthquake and fire occurred in 1906. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of Russia in the traditional sense of Eastern Orthodox nations.
Radio schedule lists quiz show ends at 7, Quiz Kids at 7:30, Manhattan at Midnight at 8, Doctors at Work at 8,35, Jimmy Flynn Quiz at 7:35, MBS-12:36 Dance Music, ae Song Spinners at 7, Guy Lombardo at 8:30, Adventures in Rhyththm at 10:15.
Lt. Col. Leslie Jensen former South Dakota governor and executive officer of the 147th field artillery training at Camp Ord is in government hospital over the holidays after an influenza attack.
An increase of 846000 telephones over 1938 figures brings the United States to a new all time high of 20800000 instruments.
A playful OCR style puzzle listing many cryptic terms and clues across numbers and letters, including references to a vice president elect and various scattered definitions, with garbled wording and mis-typed entries. It resembles a themed word puzzle page fragment with incomplete answers and irregular formatting.
Announcements report Miss Hilda Thompson of Woonsocket and Mr John Shepherd to wed in Mitchell on Christmas day. Edwin W Patton to marry Mrs Fanny Wright in Sioux Falls. Edna Bloodgood and Leona French head to Yale for vacation. Mrs Frank Henderson hosts 25 guests for J B Henderson visit with games and prizes. Movie listings feature Fat Hurst, Tom Mix, Charley Chaplin, Marguerite Clark and Franklyn Farnum. Mr and Mrs Charles Lampo depart for Omaha Ez City and California for extended visit.
Dr. J. C. Hagin, Hand County health chief, announced Miller received a baby incubator for county use. Any doctor may apply and show need to use it. Also noted by WPA in Sioux Falls that a pint of gasoline is estimated for a gunpowder explosive effect and may aid dynamite reduction.
A newspaper note describes an incubator built from special plywood lined with fibroglass for insulation to aid prematurely born infants. It uses a thermostat for heat, with hot water bottles as an alternative, and can accommodate an attached oxygen tent for respiratory support.
During the Christmas period year, there is a 40 per cent increase in the quantity of first class mail originating in New York City, due largely to Christmas cards.
Pattern No 8817 offers a youthful notched collar blouse bodice and full swingy skirt with inverted pleat. Designed for sizes 8 10 12 and 14 years, it suits flannel jersey wool crepe cottons and gingham. Send 15 cents plus name address style number and size to The Evening Journal pattern service.
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