Marketing Group Sets Up Regional Offices
The Agricultural Marketing Administration created seven regional offices to handle its expanded wartime field duties. Regional chiefs include Buell F. Maben directing the New York area and J. Stuart Russell overseeing the Midwest region covering North Dakota to Minnesota. The Des Moines Ta. designation signals Midwest offices launching September 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agricultural Marketing Administration
Rey F. Hendrickson
Des Moines
Midwest
Buell F. Maben
Kiester
Minn
AMA Food Distribution Program
Milwaukee
New York
J. Stuart Russell
Newton
Des Moines Registers and Tribune
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Oil Test Launch Planned in Fall River County
In Fall River County the Continental Oil Company prepares the Flint Hill structure near the Robert Gull Ranch for its first big oil test. Martin and Manning of Casper Wyoming erected a grilling derrick, with the rotary rig ready to be set and two tanks for bentonite mud and water in place as drilling is expected to begin soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgemont
Fall River County
Flint Hill
Robert Gull Ranch
Martin and Manning
Casper, Wye
Continental Oil Company
Old Radios Sought for Government Radio School Needs
Mathews of the Government Radio Training School in Huron issued an urgent appeal for old and discarded radios and parts to aid student instruction. Donors are asked to notify Mr. Mathews with any available items to support practice work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mathews
Government Radio Training School
Huron
First Major Drilling Tests Chilson Anticline at Hot Springs
A new road leads to a drilling site in section 36-8-3 marking Fall River County's first major company operation. Oil men view this as the initial real test of the Chilson anticline, regarded by geologists as the region's strongest oil structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Te Hot Springs
Edgemont
Fall River County
Chilson
One-Room School Reopens To Help Local Pupils
In White Plains New York the board of education reverses a closure of a one-room schoolhouse citing 19 pupils who would face transportation hardship due to gasoline rationing. The move aims to keep rural students from two miles away connected to schooling and reduces travel hurdles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
Board of Education
Boy Denies Self To Buy War Bonds
A 16 year old Huron boy uses his summer earnings on war bonds after learning from a friend that his cousin Eddie Ellington, a U S air force pilot in Libya, was badly wounded and possibly captured following a dog fight with German forces. The youth plans to buy needed school items but chooses patriotism over personal purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Huron
Darwin Ellington
Spearfish
Darwin
Eddie
U. S
Libya
Rommel
St Lawrence School to Open on Sept 8
The St Lawrence school will open Tuesday September 8 with dormitory opening and lunch for students. J E Crouch heads the teaching force with C E Montgomery teaching agriculture and science and W S Knutson in charge of band and history. Edith Jones teaches English, Helen McCormick handles fifth and sixth grades, Sizella Hubbard third and fourth, Gladys Austin primary. One high school position and one seventh eighth grade position remain unfilled. Substitutes secured for both postings pending regular teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Lawrence
J E. Crouch
Espe
C. E. Montgomery
W. S. Knutson
Edith Jones
Helen. McCormick
Sizella Hubbard
Funeral Thursday For Harold Wistrand
Funeral services for Marcia Wistrand who died after a protracted illness will be at 1 o clock Thursday at Welter's Chapel and 1 30 in the American Lutheran Church Rev Sander Tollefson officiating with interment in Riverside Cemetery Pallbearers are Emmett Minske Joe Farrell Charles Sinclair Herschel Cooley E V Anderson and Edwin Mann The casket will be open to friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Welter's Chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcia Wistrand
Welter's Chapel
American Lutheran Church
Sander Tollefson
Riverside Ametery
Emmett Minske
Joe Farrell
Charles Sinclair
Herschel Cooley
E. V. Anderson
Edwin Mann
Welter’s Chapel
Russian Front Turmoil and RAF Sweep Hit Saar Valley
Soviet communique claims German assault deepened wedge in defenses on the Don and Volga fronts while Russian counterattacks reestablished positions. In the west, RAF strikes against Saarbrucken center praised as a success with three bombers missing. Allied air actions sweep toward the French coast as German raids target Sheffield and a Dover Strait camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don
Volga
Krasnodar
Caucasus
Moscow
Rzhev-Vyazma
Air Ministry
Saar Valley
Saarbruecken
U. S
DNB
Sheffield
Dungeness
Dover Strait
Rommel and Rommel’s Upper Nile Gambit in Desert War
The article analyzes Rommel’s push in the Sahara and Mefoel maneuvers as he seeks to break the British line along the Qattara Depression. It notes Allied reinforcements since July and Schmidt’s burning attempt to disrupt the Mediterranean front. It warns of a potential winter operation that could threaten the Middle East from both east and west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mediterranean
Middle East
Hitler
Stalingrad
Caucasus
Palestine
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Rommel
Egypt
Sahara
Frommel
Heaton
Roramel
Qattara
Mediterranean Sea
Seacoast
Ad” Jess
Ferther North
Stem Rust Scarcity Noted in South Dakota Grains
In 1942 South Dakota plant pathologist Dr V F Buchholtz reports scant stem rust on wheat oats barley and rye due to resistant varieties barberry eradication and favorable weather. Barley and rye remained unusually free. Three horses died in an electric storm near Hitchcock as a house was struck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Buchholtz
Ceres
Thatcher
Rival
Richland and Mi
H. Gilbert
Lynn D. Hutton
R. O O. Bulger
U. S
Minneapolis
George Eade
Hitchcock
Wiliam
Kuestermeyer
Kuestermeyers
Winners Named at Beadle County 4-H Junior Fair
Beadle County 4-H Club members showcased 57 blue ribbon 34 red and 19 white exhibits at the junior fair held Wednesday August 26. Garden and animal classes list top blue red and white winners led by Marian Morse Joyce Hamilton Glen Eggleston Duane Lowry Merlyn Thomas and Duane Lowry among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beadle County
C Garden
Marian Morse
Joyce Hamilton
Bonilla
Marvin Eckmann
Cavour
Yvonne Jungemann
Wolsey
Betty Ramsell
Charlotte Gleason
Huron
Blaine Sheffield
Wessington Springs
Duane Lowry
Iroquois
Glen Eggleston
Virgil
Dale Hedlund
Troquois
Marvin Walton
Stanley May
Dorothy May
Donald Sison
Lorraine Eggleston
James Clark
Syvilla Terney
Marvin Westby
Arthur Scheidegger
Merlyn Thomas
Donald Olson
Wilbur Gutormson
Alvin Gutormson
Lyle Lee Wolsey
Red—Allen
Blue—Duane
la Vonne Lowry
Leonard
Phyllis Mattke
John Rudy
Derold Eckmann
Staley May
Darold Eckmann
Leonard Mattke
White
Blue— Duane
Red —Duane
Geese
Home Life 4-H Groups and Home Furnishings Notes
A fragmented list from a 4-H fair or catalog details groups and colors for Home Life Dining Room Group Laundry Group Curtains Homemade Furniture Finished Furniture and Seran Book on Home Furnishings Blue Red White color assignments include individuals such as Phyllis Cranston Eunice Gutormson Joyce Hamilton Elsie Zvonek Marian Townsley and Doris Mathews. The item ends with Table Juniors 4-H.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Mattke
Phyllis Mattke
Robert Lynch
Charlotte Gleason
Huron
Lorraine Eggleston
Virgil
Joyce Hamilton
Eunice Gutormson
Louise Husen
Cavour
Elsie Zvonek
Wessington
Mary Lee Cranston
Phyllis Cranston
Marian
Jean Townsley
Iroquois
Shirley ‘Cranston
Elma Smith
Delores Walter
Toyatoees
Marian Townsley
Elaine Sheffield
Springs
Syvilla Terney
Doris Matthews
Lucille Fritzsche
Pauline Konlmeyer
Beverley Sheffield
Wessington Springs
Lelia Mae Weese
Marian Morse
Seran Book
Bushfield Probes High Combine Fees in South Dakota
Governor Bushfield said he is studying actions against what he calls unfair combine operators from Kansas and Oklahoma. He cited harvest charges of 10 to 12 dollars per acre and a case where a Sully County farmer reportedly gave half his wheat crop as payment. He urged southern farmers to move equipment north to break the combine clique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre
Bushefield
Kansas
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Bushfield
Jence Tat
Andrew Nelson
Sully County
Nelson
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Fall River Area
Atyles
Geiger's
Geiger’s
EL Paso
Tex
Bill Lovan
Fort Bliss
BR. Kuehm
Austin
Leon County
Harold Wistrand
MacKenzie
Karin
Gett
Carter
Carver
Hela
Oly
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