Gladys Pyle Points to School Transportation Costs
Gladys Pyle notes over three million dollars spent by local school districts in two years on pupil transportation and private tuition. She cites instances of abuse, county variations, and debates over eliminating transport while highlighting counties with the largest costs and the ongoing push for reform and fair eligibility.
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Lake County
Brookings
Brule
Fall River
Hankton
Harding
Lake
Lyman
Meade
Pennington
Perkins
Stanley
Sully
Aurora
Beadle
Brown
Charles Mix
Clark
Codington
Day
Faulk
Hamlin
Hanson
McCook
Marshall Miner
Minnehaha
Moody
Sanborn
Tripp
Turner
Tran Station
Twenty Years Ago Today In Fiuron
A Fiuron social page reports entertaining events and travel plans from the era. Mrs. Harry Otte hosts a birthday celebration for Ralph with games and refreshments. Mrs. Null hosts a bridge luncheon with six tables. Mil ton Alford wins high, Mrs Holbrook wins consolation. Dr. C H French expected home from California via St Paul. William Ritschlag leaves for Watertown, then Florida on extended travel. Miss Grace Carter of Mitchell to return home from Pearce. Mrs. J A Pyle Mrs. M E Walton Mrs A E Taylor and Mrs A Fairbank depart for Pierre to lobby for the equal suffrage amendment. E H Vance heads to Sioux Falls on business.
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Raenew
Harry Otte
Ralph
T. H. Null
Alford
al ‘Bridge
Mra Holbrook
C. HL French
California
St Paul
William Ritschlag
Watertown
Wis
Florida
Grace Carter
Mitchell
Pearce
Coler Campbel
Mississippi
J. A. Pyle
M. E. Walton
A. E. Taylor
A . Fairbank
Pierre
E. H. Vance
Sioux Falls
Bills Signed To Alter State Law In South Dakota
Pierre February signed measures shifting highway fault rules and taxing, expanding threshers lien scope, adjusting court term dates in the ninth circuit, and empowering county officials to settle real estate taxes for state education property. The governor also addresses embalming, cosmetics licensing rules, wage payment in legal tender, animal disposal methods, and mileage limits for county superintendents. A $2,650 school bond issue in Fall River No. 15 is legalized, with enhancements to the state soldiers home oversight and funding.
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Pierre
Green
South Dakota
Ninth Judicial Circuit
Board of Cosmetic Theapy
Schepp's
Canyon
Fall River County
Hot Springs
New Natural Cave To Be Opened In Hills
Piedmont reports a new cave three miles south of town near Crystal cave will open this spring for visitors. The federal government owns the site and leases it to private operators. Geologists discovered it 35 years ago, and workers are enlarging and clearing it for exhibition. A cavern of jet black crystal is currently under repair.
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Hills
Piedmont
Believe Mice Cause Of Timber Lake Fire
Timber Lake news reports a large farm house four miles east of Timber Lake destroyed by a fire thought to have been started by mice gnawing matches left in the vacant dwelling. The farm, owned by the South Dakota rural credits department after foreclosure, had been vacated by RE Quinn and family January 1. Investigators found no tracks near the site, reducing the likelihood of trampe or temporary shelter users as the cause. Quinn retained little personal property in the house.
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Timber Lake
Re, Quinn
South Dakota Rural Credits Department
Quinn
Erection of New Brown County Jail Considered
Aberdeen Feb 27 Erection of a new Brown county jail is under consideration after condemnation of the present structure by Circuit Judge Van Buren Perry. After inspecting the jail building Judge Perry told the county commissioners in a letter that the structure is unfit for long term detention and for keeping desperate prisoners.
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Brown County
Aberdeen
van Buren Perry
County to mull new jail plan under half mill levy
Judge Bouck and Judge Perry urged county commissioners to build a new jail citing design flaws and sanitation problems at the current facility. They proposed funding from a half mill levy and unexpended county funds, with action expected at the March meeting.
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Thomas L. Bouck
Perry
Sioux Falls Welcomes Visitors With Courtesy Tags
Sioux Falls announces courtesy vehicle tags for visiting cars parked in violation of city rules. Tags explain unintentional violations and invite motorists to ask police for help. Free municipal parking is offered at several locations. A tourist information bureau operates at the chamber of commerce building.
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Sioux Falls
Ninth Street
Seventh Street
Dakota Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Phillips Avenue
Officers Named For Yankton Student
Yankton college announces the freshman edition of the Yankton Student with Morris Nielsen of Yankton as editor and James Brown of Chamberlain as business manager. Nielsen is Drake scholarship prize winner and editor of the issue. Brown is active in extra curriculars and booster club. Grace Nichol and Bernice Jensen of Yankton serve as assistant editor and assistant business manager.
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Yankton
Yankton College
Morris Nielsen
James Brown
Chamberlain
George Bauers
Nielsen
Drake
Yankton High School
M. A. Brown
Oxford
Fresh
Grace Nichol
Bernice Jensen
Teacher Keeps His Wedding Secret in Highmore
Edwin Mogek a mathematics teacher in Highmore schools returned from Christmas vacation and married Miss Helen Louisa Berg of Clearfield Iowa without public notice. The marriage has become known and Mogek receives warm congratulations from friends as he resumes work.
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Highmore
Edwin Mogek
Helen Louisa Berg
Clearfield
Detroit River smuggling shifts from case to pint size
Detroit customs records show a dramatic drop from thousands of gallons smuggled monthly across the river to small hip pocket flasks after a Canadian export ban and stricter river patrols. Col. Heinrich A. Pickert notes the crackdown followed bribery scandals and past brutal smuggling waves, with today’s seizures numbered in single digits and a fading era of large scale operations.
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Detroit
Heinrich A. Pickert
Pickett
United States
Customs Service
Colonel Pickett
Ferry Docks
Howard Pupils Enter District Speech Meet
At the Howard speech contest Fern Melay won first in oratory Gladys Museson first in dramatics Norma Bengston first in humorous Mrs Carl Mundt of Madison judged the event These pupils will represent their school at the district meet on March 21 with Rose Marie Hoss performing Moonlight on the Hudson medals given by Supt M H Hoger An anecdotal note about an imprint from Korea 1200 years ago appears at the end.
March Sky Shows Sickly of Stars in the Evening Sky
At about 9 o clock on a March night the eastern sky reveals Bootes with Arc us bright near zenith. The sickle shaped asterism with Regulus at the base marks Leo’s head. Denebola lies along the Regulus Arcturus line toward Cancer’s Beehive cluster Praesepe.
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Urbana
Bootes
Regulus
Denebola
Arctugus
Stara
Leo
Lion
Beehive Cluster Located Near Regulus in Orion Sky
The Beehive open cluster lies a quarter along the line from Mars to Regulus, visible as a hazy patch in a small star triangle. With field glasses its components reveal themselves as a truly interesting sight, a distant grouping of thousands of stars moving together in a compact cluster within our galaxy.
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Mars
Regulua
Jupiter Shines Bright in Southwestern Sky This March
In the early evening the planet Jupiter appears in the southwestern sky as the brightest object after the moon. It shines with a steady yellow light while the winter constellations linger in the western sky throughout March.
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Jupiter
Geoducks Now Opened to Limited Hunt in Olympia
Washington game laws permit limited geoduck hunting in small Puget Sound zones. The giant clam reaches about eight inches in shell, with necks extending three to six feet. Flesh lies beneath two layers of neck skin and is edible.
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Olympia
Wash
Washington
Puget Sound
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