WPA Training Schools Contribute To S D War Effort
Mitchell reports 66 percent of WPA workers completing defense training in the past year. A Yankton resident and former WPA worker now at Pearl Harbor completed a 10 week shop course at the University of South Dakota and passed a civil service exam before starting defense work. Seven South Dakota shops, including Huron and Vermillion facilities, trained 668 workers with 406 securing defense industry jobs nationwide.
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Naval Base
Kennedy
WPA
South Dakota
State Department of Education
National Defense
Huron
State College
Brookings
University of South Dakota
Vermillion
Northern State Teachers College
Aberdeen
Rapid City
Custer High School
Mitchell Junior
WPA training shops train workers in defense trades
The article outlines WPA operated training shops in Huron and surrounding towns offering courses in aircraft mechanics, machine shop practice, welding and forging, sheet metal work, and blueprint reading. About 150 WPA trainees, including women, enroll weekly with two eight hour shifts over ten weeks, aiming to place graduates in defense jobs via Employment Service.
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Cause
WPA
Huron
Brookings
Vermillion
Aberdeen
Rapid City High School
Custer and Mitchell
Kennedy
Employment Service
Neighborhood News Highlights Local Visits and Travel
Local residents share Memorial Day visits with relatives in Broadland and Milan Mn. Louise Harrington stays with daughter Frank Quiram in Broadland as infant Dennis Jeanine recovers in Huron. Several families, including the Hamilton, Meyer and Vice clans, vacation or host guests from Sioux Falls to Omaha and Kadoka, with trips noted to Miles City and Mitchell.
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Honilla
Louise Harrington
Frank Quiram
Broadland
Quiram
Dennis Jeanine
Huron
Joe Scaran
Wm. Davies
Shirley
Ronald
Akeley
Minn
Joyce
BR. Wayne Hamilton
State College
Brookings
Harlan Meyer
School of Mines
R. Hamilton
Vice
Sarah Parkinson
Sidney Parkinson
Kadoka
Heckerman
Clarence Christianson
Milan
Homing Pigeons Finish Flight to San Antonio
Wellington Springs June 4 A depot agent released a crate of homing pigeons that reached the San Antonio home loft in eight days two hours 35 minutes covering about 1012 air miles. The birds faced storms on return though Petersen notes a 1100 mile two day four hour nine minute 30 second record from St Paul Minn remains a longer distance.
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Wellington Springs
Roy Jones
San Antonio
Texas
Mr. Jones
E. S. Petersen
Petersen
St. Paul Minn
Trucker Call Urges Help to Relieve Midwest Storage
Glenn Martz executive secretary of the State Motor Carriers Association urged truckers to volunteer for a race against time to move wheat from swollen South Dakota elevators into eastern Iowa. He said 35 South Dakota truckers are certified and more are needed to haul grain as storage bins are ready in central and western Iowa. Fleets operate across the Dakotas Nebraska Kansas Wyoming and Montana to provide storage for the coming harvests using regular carload rail rates between points involved.
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Astmaunen
South Dak
Midwest
Glenn Martz
State Motor Carriers Association
Martz
South Dakota
Iowa
Commodity Credit Corporation
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Wyoming
Montana
Annual rodeo near Gann Valley promises wild thrills
The Allen Tysdale ranch 234 miles north of Gann Valley on Highway 45 hosts the annual rodeo Sunday June 7. Featured acts include twenty riding stalls a clown cowboy Bill French with his trick mule wild steer riding and a tug of war on horseback. Arena announcer George W. Bridge chute foreman Louis Truman.
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Gann Valley
Allen Tysdale
Highway 45
Bill French
George W. Bridge
Pe Arena
Louis Truman
State Elks Convention Set for Madison June 6 7 8
South Dakota Elks plan a three day convention in Madison June 6 7 8 featuring public exercises headlined by Floyd E Thompson Chicago attorney and past grand exalted ruler with James G McFarland Madison master of ceremonies. Events include Huron Elks chorus Sioux Falls Elks motorcycle band concert and a Tiny Little Orchestra dance.
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Madison
South Dakota Elks
Floyd £. Thompson
Chicago
John McClelland
Atlanta
Huron's Elks Chorus
Loftus H. Ward
Carl Nelles
James G. McFarland
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls Elks Band
Aspen House
Madison Elks
Elks
Church Rally Held at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church
The Christian Endeavor rally at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church drew over 30 youth from Wessington Bonilla and Hitchcock. Harold Trovato led song and talks by the Rev Wienands and Rev Trovato, with plans for more rallies this summer and a lunch served.
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Hitchcock
Christian Endeavor
Presbyterian Church
Wessington
Bonilla
Harold Trovato
Wienands
Trovato
Buffalo County Raises War Bonds Quota to 1900
The Buffalo County Defense Council reports a May War Savings Stamps and Bonds quota of 500 but actual sales reached 1400. For June the quota is increased to 1900, nearly quadrupling the May target.
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Buffalo County
Gann Valley
Defense Council
Defense Council of
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