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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1930
Page
7
Washington reports naval limitation spurs experiments to equip submarines and destroyers with folding airplanes. A submarine flying craft is being designed to launch from water and return, with tests aimed at near fleet scouting at night.
After probate of Han ford MacNider's will in Mason City Iowa the MacNider estate transfers half and quarter sections of land and lakefront lots at Lake Byron to W J Folahan and others. Holahan notes equal partnership with MacNider and foresees rising farm land values while MacNider serves as U S minister to Canada. Plans to enhance Lake Byron property and Foster creek water level are discussed. Holahan and relatives visit as plans for development unfold.
Voters cast ballots in a contest for a prize trip to Alaska at the Publix Evening Buronite event. Vera Meyers led with 521,600 votes, Lois McDonald had 513,225, and other contestants included Verna Magruder Belen Hustad Dorothy Willinger Dorothy Brayton Myrtle Ruark Hazel Henson and Grace Hammell with various tallies. Ballots were to be submitted at the Huron or Bijou theaters as part of the official drawing process.
Webster man Maurice Swenson confessed to third degree forgery and received an indeterminate sentence of five months to five years in the state penitentiary at Sioux Falls. Accomplice Johnson was arrested, pleaded not guilty, and bound over to the next term of court. Prof and Mrs R F Bustead and daughter Marlys from Aberdeen visit Kimball with family.
In SCHEREVILLE MD July 2 a lone town officer named Peter Reader serves as police chief motorcycle officer fire department chief and street commissioner. After a hit and run he used the fire truck to extinguish a blaze then chased and captured the driver within ten miles. He later repaired highway holes and reported the actions to the town board as president of the board of safety.
Lon Chaney stars in The Unholy Three at the Huron theatre a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talking picture about a ventriloquist midget and giant in a sinister trio. Chaney voices five parts including an old woman and even sings. Lila Lee Elliott Nugent Harry Earles and Ivan Linon contribute strong turns in this atmospheric thriller with Lee as the heroine and Conway directing.
A carload of Aeronca airplanes arrived for Rapid Air Lines and will be distributed soon. Six planes are in the shipment, praised for economy, using about two gallons of gasoline for every 35 miles. The Wamblee Chanko, a Ford tri motor ship owned by the airline, landed at noon with Pilot Clyde Tee and crew refueling, en route to Madison, 5, DB.
A message of greeting from Gov. Bulow of South Dakota to Gov. Kohler of Wisconsin will be carried by Kohler air and dropped by paratrooper Mrs Nellie Zabell Willhite in Sheboygan Sunday. The broadcast will be signed by Pierre state officials and weighed with a Mount Rushmore rock fragment.
Vermillion July 25 A South Dakota study by W E Nelson superintendent of Reliance schools finds no significant effect of high school athletics on scholarship grades for district students. Using data from 96 boys and 116 girls across seven semesters, Nelson correlates athletic participation with grades and notes variability in both groups. He observes letters earned in sports can spur better effort but overall grades fluctuated widely regardless of sports involvement.
Mr. Melson concludes that athletics have neither positive nor negative influence on the scholarship, while noting that athletic programs act as a stimulus to community interest. He states students share common interests in extracurriculars and that sports lift school spirit and keep students engaged to reduce dropouts.
Pierre July 25, Sadie Tamblyn serving a $300 Minnehaha county jail fine for liquor possession was pardoned today by Governor Bulow.
On July 3 the state pardon board recommended clemency but the governor held action for further investigation after protests. The report notes a March 8, 1930 sentence of 60 days with an unpaid fine as context for the case in Lets County.
Episcopal bishop of North Dakota warned clergymen that a young man posing as his son is an impostor and swindling clergy across the country. The bishop, writing to The Churchman, urged caution after receiving reports from South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and New York about the fraudster.
Sioux Falls mourns Charles M Rohde 62 a longtime retail merchant and president of the Freese Rohde company who died after a weeklong heart attack suffered while playing golf at Minnehaha Country club He is survived by his widow and a son
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