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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1939
Page
5
Chicago July 25 grain prices plunge with wheat at seven year lows and corn at six year lows. Rye and oats near four to six year lows despite government efforts to prop up prices. World market conditions drive the decline, signaling a broad farm income squeeze.
A promotional offer touts double votes with GLAZO Nail Polish purchases this week. Two bottles earn 400 votes or more with extra shades advertised at 25 cents. Sherman and Moe Drug Store markets the scheme amid a broader note on farmers storing record wheat and corn under loan protections as prices rise.
The Agriculture Department said conditions indicate domestic wheat prices will remain higher than world prices despite the largest prospective supply in history. Factors cited include a near-flat 1925 crop, more wheat under government loans, and ongoing export subsidies. World supply is seen at 5.29 billion bushels, up 120 million from last year, with 4.09 billion bushels world production forecast for 1939-40 and July 1 stocks at 1.2 billion.
The report shows wheat at about 40 percent, the lowest in ten months and near seven year lows outside last September. Parity and loan values shift as prices tumble from 62 to 55 cents locally, with futures under 50 cents globally. Corn also falls from 58 to mid thirties, echoing a global oversupply and export subsidy effects.
National data show temperatures: today 68 to 86 degrees with hourly readings from 5 AM to 11 AM. Forecast calls for fair skies tonight and Wednesday, cooler in west and extreme north, warmer southeast, with light thundershowers in parts of east this afternoon or tonight in Iowa. Regional notes include cooler trends in western Minnesota and North Dakota, and overall stable conditions across the Dakotas and surrounding states.
RAPID CITY July 25. County commissioners from western river counties adopted a resolution urging the federal government to aid counties in absorbing the load from the planned WPA cut. No specific aid type was named. Officials say crop failures and grasshoppers strain finances as relief costs rise, creating a blank wall for solutions. WPA director Fred Brown explains gradual cut as 18 months of employment end and layoffs lead to reinstatement only after 80 days, not preferred on lists.
Senator Bulow of South Dakota recommends Mrs. Inez Falch for postmaster at Cold Springs with Mrs. Falch already acting and passing a civil service exam. He also supports reappointing Amelia L. Ror at Bowdle and Adolph Kaufman at Colman. Also notes visits by Mrs. Frank James and Leta James to the Swanson home in Woonsocket and hints Taft will announce soon on 1940 Republican nomination.
The Associated Press reports clear conditions in Watertown Sioux Falls Yankton Mitchell Huron and Rapid City with highs in the 60s to 90s and lows in the 50s to 80s. Roads are listed as Good across locations with rainfall totals including Huron 0.24 inches Sioux Falls 0.13 Brookings 0.16 and Rapid City trace.
Washington July 25 A bi partisan bloc opposed to placing water carriers under the Interstate Commerce Commission forced tentative approval of amendments in a general transportation bill. The measure would let the ICC investigate regional freight rate differentials, reveal land grant statutes, and authorize new RFC loans to railroads if private financing fails. It also adds a policy declaration urging a national transport system by water, highway and rail. The bill expands the ICC inquiry to include agricultural commodities and raw materials, and farms commodities for export would have same rate reductions as manufactured products. A ban on railroad consolidations that would displace workers was included. In Texas nearly half the five month accident total occurred on Saturdays and Sundays, with less than 34 percent of traffic moved on those days.
Linnea Fransson of East Orange died at 29 after a ten year period of eating only liquids and candy. Essex County medical examiner Dr George Olcott ruled chronic malnutrition caused her death despite an autopsy showing no other medical reason. she weighed 66 pounds and had refused further surgery.
Caputa postmaster Joe E. Sanders was elected president of the 16th annual state convention of the National League of District Postmasters in Rapid City. Margar et Kenyon of Naples was re elected secretary treasurer. Pauline Stanisl aus, Wallace, did not attend. A vice president will be named later and 1940 convention city selection was postponed. W 3 Olexa Batavia Iowa and A W Armstrong Sioux Falls spoke at the meeting.
Federal surplus commodities for the last week of July will be available Wednesday through Saturday to all eligible residents in the Huron area. Miss Nettie zum-Brunnen, commodity supervisor, announced the plan and urged parents not to send small children, as commodities cannot be released to them.
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