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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1940
Page
9
Advert describes selling a line of products on consignment with cash investment or signers and requires a car. Names listed include F. Baker & Co in Keo kuk Iowa. Includes various financial excerpts and a mixed legal notice, then a narrative segment ends with a cliffhanger.
Johnny Regan navigates a complex summer romance involving Molly and Jean Reynolds. Jean confesses deep love but urges Johnny to warn Molly, while Johnny clings to memories of Molly and plans an outing with her. The scene shifts to a bicycle ride toward Capetown, where beauty sparks pause.
In Belle Fourche an experiment uses branding of sugar beet beetles and an airplane to track migration and life traits. Scientist N P Larsen and Floyd Collins spray colored lacquers on beetles, release them, and recapture weeks later to study patterns and viability of aerial versus ground control methods. An aerial feeder distributed poison over 15 acres, showing air spread can be more efficient than ground methods.
Sioux Falls 1940 lamb crop estimated at 1 949 009 by Evan V. Jones, the largest on record. Breeding ewes wintered well, spring lambing favorable, with 96 percent of ewes on hand lambing in 1840 comparison and 99 percent in 1939. About 55 percent of the lambs in east river counties, 45 percent in west river, chiefly northwest.
Senate approves amendments to liberalize railroad unemployment benefits under the 1938 act. Senator Wagner argues a $130,000,000 reserve exists and current weekly benefits average $7, while Republicans urge a smaller rise and a tax reduction. Proposed changes would cut waiting period, extend payments from 80 to 100 days, and raise maximum benefits to $40 with increments for dependents.
Government relief moves into quake zones in the central Anatolian plateau as 300 people die and hundreds are injured from tremors that razed 12 villages. The disaster centered near Yozgad, about 200 miles east of Ankara, with tremors felt in Ankara, Istanbul, Erzincan, Tokat, Kayseri, Amasya, and Sinop. Last fall quakes in Anatolia killed about 40,000 people in the region.
DeWitt MacKenzie reports Virginio Garda warning against immediate invasion while Hitler may delay sea assault. He paints a grim view of a possible war of attrition, with Britain extending its blockade and both sides intensifying bombings as food shortages bite across Europe.
Sanborn County counties to host a four H fair in Woonsocket on August 1 and 2 with par ade at 1 p m Friday August 2. Livestock swine sheep and horse divisions supervised by Jay Welch Harold Dechow Maurice Van Walleghen and Ed Krause. Women’s classes led by CG Clark and Mrs Lestrave John Swanson invite homemakers to exhibit. Thursday August 1 features judging demos in agriculture and home economics open to the public with water sports baseball carnival shows and dances adding to the program.
Ida Belle Crackel of the Sunshine Sisters Club south of Ree Heights received the State 4-H Roundup scholarship. She will attend the Roundup with thirty boys and girls from Hand County. An active member for five years she has served as leader and assistant leader in past years. The Sunshine Club promotes 4-H work through publicity, demonstrations, and local achievement days.
Farmerettes 2-12 Club met Wednesday at Marjorie Geiver’s home with Cleone Yost presiding. Six members attended. They declined a local achievement day, aiming to attract many to the Miller event. A club float and exhibits were planned, two demonstrations given on bread and butter cake.
Sunny Jitterbugs Club met at the Maroni residence with six members and three visitors. Mr Brooking led an identification study showing pictures of wholesale and retail cuts and how to identify pork beef veal and lamb. Members planned to attend the 4 H Roundup at Brookings August 1 3 after the meeting adjourned a lunch of ice cream and cake was served.
The Lake Dudley Fat Lamb Club met at Dewey Minske home, presided by Wayne Langstad. No old business, 4-H Roundup at Brookings discussed as new business. Four members were absent. Next meeting set at Wilard Minske home.
Stanley Shields of Mitchell was fined five dollars by Municipal Judge C. No Bal after pleading guilty to a speeding charge. A city patrolman who arrested Shields in the north part of the city said he was driving at 40 miles per hour.
Two more overtime payers appeared on city police station records today, with forfeited one dollar bonds or ordered to pay the customary dollar fine. Names listed were H. Butterfield and Mrs. Charles H. Swett.
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