Manganese Resource Drives South Dakota Defense Efforts
Researchers in Chamberlain seek methods to unlock manganese ore as a key defense mineral. The article notes manganese’s high value in steel production and its status on the strategic minerals list, with South Dakota deposits offering ore around 16 percent manganese usable in large deposits. It contrasts domestic supply with imports from Russia Cuba and Brazil and mentions refining and uses in alloys batteries and photography.
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Gordon Mikkelson Chamberlain
America
Dakota
South Dakota
Nashville
Tenn
Missouri River
Russia
Cuba
Brazil
Metal Resources Board
Washington
Arizona
Minnesota
Manganese Ore Boom Drives New Dakota Mining Push
The article outlines South Dakota manganese deposits becoming a key feed for steel, with Bureau of Mines trials in Minneapolis Boulder City Nev Salt Lake City refining methods, and private firms led by M G Sharpe expanding mining via stockpiles and flexible labor. A federal plant aims to boost ore recovery while conjecture on river power and a Dakota Valley Authority frames future refining.
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U.S. Bureau of Mines Laboratories
Minneapolis
Boulder City
Ney
Salt Lake City
Bureau of Mines
General Manganese Corporation
WPA
M. Q. Sharpe
South Dakota
Gumbo
Sharpe
Con
Minnesota
Missouri River
Senate Bylow
Dakota Valley Authority
TVA
Redfield High School girls prepare summer homemaking projects
Miss Ruby Livedalen, homemaking supervisor, completed home visitations for 58 girls in the department. Projects cover family relationships, home improvements, management, health, child care, clothing, food and nutrition, with mothers educated on cooperation for next fall submissions.
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Redfield
Ruby Livedalen
Redfield High School
Sixteen Men to Fill Spink County June Draft Quota
Sixteen men are called to fill Spink County selective service quota for June 25, bringing total to 55 in service or awaiting forms. Nine are already in active military service. A total of 1,195 questionnaires were mailed. classification cards due by June 15. HYDE COUNTY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Attends church camp North Carolina for Youth Caravan training.
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Spink Redfield
Spink County
Selective Service
Uota
F. B.'inker
Highmore
Philip Kaye
Washington, D. C
North Carolina
Lake Junsleska
Methodist Church
Spink County Crops Boosted By Recent Rains And Land Boom
Persistent showers in Spink County lift farmer confidence and spur a land boom with rising land values. After May rainfall, 1.93 inches, June totals reach 1.45 inches in ten days with no end in sight. Wayne Fish of Minneapolis emerges as leading buyer, acquiring the Holienpeck farm near Northville, the Holcomb farm near Ashton, and the Will Blume farm near Cottonwood Lake, with options on additional acreage.
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Spink County
Wayne Fish
Minneapolis
H. O. Fish
Redfield
Holienpeck
Northville
Holcomb
Ashton
Will Blume
Cottonwood Lake Road
Crandon
Two Rescues From Drowning In Bear Creek
Sturgis June 12 Edward Vaughn a nearby construction worker plunged into Bear Creek to save two 15 year old boys Angie Hotchkin and Edward Findley who fell from a plank into the flood channel. Vaughn pulled Hotchkin from an island and then recovered Findley from downstream aiding his rescue with a rope and a pole. Both boys are recovering at home.
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Sturgis
Edward Vaughn
Bear
Butte Creek
Angie Hotchkin
Edward Findley
Vaughn
Hotchkin
Findley
John Lindie
Ella Escott
Masonic Degree Conferred in Gann Valley
Mecca Masonic Lodge of Gann Valley conferred the Fellowcraft degree on Robert Trainer during a special Monday meeting J V Drips worshipful master of Kadoka lodge performed the ceremony Drips once lived in Gann Valley and edited the Gann Valley Chief 33 years ago BJ Trainer and Drips attended grand lodge sessions in Huron this week.
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Gann Valley
Mecca
Masonic Lodge
Robert Trainer
J. V. Drips
Kadoka Lodge
Drips
BJ. Trainer
Huron
Highways Closed As Rain Halts South Dakota Road Work
South Dakota highway officials report 10 days of rain closing three U S routes U S 212 from Newell to Faith U S 14 from Midland to Philip and Spearfish to the Wyoming line Traffic rerouted via U S 83 and 16 with detours on U S 85 through Lead and Deadwood State 8 and U S 212 restrictions extend as rain continues and bridge work stalls along the Bad River leveled by floodwaters.
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U.S. 83
U. S. 16
U.S. 14
Midland-Philip
Spearfish
U. S. 85
Lead
Deadwood
Tsabel
U. S. 12
Mobridge
Harry Westphal
Westphal
Plenty Of Fuel For .D. Oil Furnaces, Dealers Emphasize
Sioux Falls reports that South Dakota oil furnace owners will not face a winter shortage. Dealers say the current east shortage is transportation driven, not supply, with oil moving from Texas and Oklahoma by pipeline to Minneapolis. Wells in Texas and Oklahoma operate at 26 percent capacity, and only two percent of output goes to government defense.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
East
Texas
Oklahoma
Aha
Minneapolis
Warren Walsh
Warren Walsh, Manager of the’ Cumbow-Lanning Oil Company
Britain
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Knoxville
Camden
N. J
Santa Fe
Iars
Sherman & Moe
Taffic
Ford
Foun
Pord
A. M. Urquhart
Mercury
Hyde County
Erastus Cornell
N. E
Sylvia E. Kendall
Verne E. Kendall
N.E
State of South Dakota
Parker
I County Court
Susanas Et al
S. W
Vernon T. Banger
Carl Christsveen
S. E
Hilmer Thinglestad
Bear Butte
HANES
ANES
Geiger Clothing CO
Jace
Auronoce
Toby
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