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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1943
Page
4
A 1939 Evening Huronite editorial argues that lasting world peace requires American leadership. It calls for freedom of movement, open commerce, and adequate trade to keep workers employed, emphasizing the need to safeguard freedom and independence both at home and abroad.
Henry Kaiser's plan proposes selling government bonds redeemable for postwar goods to pull demand and supply together after the war. The scheme would curb inflation by removing money from circulation while ensuring the government acts as a banker, not a producer, and must withstand criticism while merits are weighed.
Cities are increasingly placing day laborers on monthly or annual salaries with benefits such as sick leave and retirement. Dallas Detroit Escanaba Milwaukee lead a trend, with Milwaukee expanding to 700 salaried workers and only 50 still hourly. Sacramento and others have long used salaries.
Ten years ago many cities shifted ill key laborers from annual to annual pay for school district work, excluding garbage collectors. Cities like Minneapolis and Los Angeles led this move with others in Cincinnati San Diego Everett Wichita Falls and New Rochelle. The change boosted quality and reduced turnover while posing challenges to stabilize year round employment and plan consistent staffing. Pay methods vary from hourly or daily rates scaled to a 52 week year to surveys of similar workers or actual earnings. Some districts reassign workers to similar tasks to maintain steady employment levels.
In the Victory Book Campaign running January 5 to March 5, readers are urged to donate books for soldiers at sea and on land. Individuals and groups should remind neighbors and even offer to pick up books to ensure fighting personnel receive quality volumes rather than castoffs. Any book you truly value is suitable to give.
A wartime morale piece urges women to consider the challenge of staffing a rationed frontier home kitchen and facing a model soldier after storing supplies. It uses practical food storage scenarios to spark discussion.
Ruth Millett asks readers to honestly assess wartime attitudes and self indulgence. She cites refusing to buy war bonds, skipping volunteer work, resisting meat rations, seeking fun, and traveling freely. The piece argues the soldier fighting for all deserves scrutiny of civilian choices and priorities.
Roosevelt vows relentless bombing of war factories and ports while American troops press forward in the Pacific and Europe. Frank Hewlett reports on Buna and battlefield graves as war tolls mount. Adlai Himsley quotes compare courage and suffering as spring finds Allied forces still bogged in Tunisia.
A Minneapolis Star-Journal editor responds to a reader letter urging spending 45 thousand dollars on air raid sirens. The piece argues for practical warnings, notes existing drills and civil defense readiness, and questions immediate siren purchase versus army guidance and broader city and state decision making.
Washington January 14 Lend lease faces further appropriation review to finish the fiscal year and possibly extend the act beyond June. Edward Stettinius defends operations while Harry Hopkins speculated as the real target amid wartime politics and social whispered scandals.
The 21st Film Daily press and radio critics poll names Mrs Miniver as 1942’s No 1 feature with 555 ballots. It tops a list including How Green Was Your Valley and Kings Row as ballots show Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon and Teresa Wright lead the cast.
A Bangor Daily News reader in Guadalcanal praises the column You Cant Print That and complains there have not been enough items. The piece then recounts a Manhattan tale of Bollywood producer Morton who hid a wife and son to dodge the draft, and another about a hard boiled city editor named Jack who urged reporters and later joined WAAC recruitment.
January notes require tire inspections by the 31st for passenger cars and trucks. Gasoline and mileage rationing updates include Stamp Nos. A-3 A-4 and No. 10, with oil and sugar stamps pending, while Red Cross classes and war necessity certificates proceed through January and February.
A jumbled puzzle page with clues and abbreviations mentions Barstow Palm lly and Sedate hints. It lists across and down entries such as war god, compass point, and various short forms, plus stray words like sandpapering stepping and dutch city. The text reads like a stray OCR of a newspaper puzzle filler with inconsistent capitalization and punctuation.
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