Huron Plans WPA Airport Improvements This Winter
The Huron city commission authorized City Manager Don Sears to draft a WPA project for expanded municipal aviation facilities. Plans include new north south and east west runways, a northeast south west strip, gravel bases, and drainage work to bring the airfield to grade. Weather permitting, base courses will be laid this winter, land acquisition for the project to be pursued, and a lease for the airport hangar discussed with Hanford Airlines.
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Huron
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City Commission
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Municipal Aviation Center
A. H. Wait
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Sears
Ang
Hanford Airlines
George E. Longwatt
It Just Happened Fliers Not Found Fairbanks
Sir Hubert Wilking continued a vain search for six missing Soviet trans polar fliers returning to Barter Island. In Chicago the health department reported 19 new infantile paralysis cases the highest in 24 hours this summer prompting a special medical meeting. In Madison Wisconsin P H Jeffers 91 Civil War veteran from Eugene Oregon died in hospital during the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Stop-Prees News From America and World Headlines
Washington reports a serious Mediterranean raider situation discussed with maritime officials. Drowned in Bordeaux a director of an international bank. Corn prices surged to September delivery highs in Chicago trading. Dean Mocraw named chief justice of Samoan courts. Infantile paralysis cases total 612 nationwide for the week ended September 4. Col Rafael Franco recalls to Asuncion after a coup. Sopwith sails for England seeking a new challenger for the America’s Cup.
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Life's Like This Local News Fragments From Various States
A collage of oddball items across towns includes a judge officiating in his own case in Ind, a woman collecting lucky clovers, a NebraskA rescue tale of searching neighbors for boys, and California shoppers inspecting spinach amid a marijuana finding. The snippets read like a quirky domestic sketch of mid-century life.
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Aunt Sophie Ledbetter In-law Fight Story
A narrator recalls Aunt Sophie Ledbetter calling police during a daughter and son-in-law quarrel. The scene shows a mother stepping in to protect her daughter's interests against domineering husbands. The anecdote features comedian Bob Burns style humor.
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Palice Atellan
Rail disaster near Shanghai hits Chinese civilians hard
At Bungkiang station 30 miles from Shanghai a Japanese air raid killed at least 300 non combatants and wounded 4 as five crowded refugee cars were blown from the tracks. The incident underscores rising danger to foreigners and intensifies tensions as China vows reprisals and Japan demands withdrawal from wider zones around Shanghai.
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Soviet Attack on Britain and France Over Italian Piracy
Moscow criticizes Britain and France for not joining Aureia in actions against Italian pirate raids in the Mediterranean. TASS newspaper predicts limited results from Friday talks and urges collective action to curb Fascist aggression and protect sea lanes.
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500 Rebels Slain in Sharp Counter Move in Spain
Reports from the Franco-Spanish front describe heavy fighting as Gijon defenders counterattacked after a 13 day retreat. About 500 of Generalissimo Franco's advance guard were slain or wounded on the Biscayan coast road near Gijon, with insurgents pushing toward Picos de Europa amid continued bomb and bayonet clashes. Elsewhere insurgents reportedly retook Belchite, engaging government forces in fierce street fighting and destroying entire quarters.
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Homer Myers Named Marshal for South Dakota at National Legion Parade
Homer B. Myers of Pierre, manager of the Locke Hotel, is appointed marshal of the South Dakota section parade at the national American Legion convention in New York City. He will coordinate with Gen. William N. Maskell, grand marshal, handle transport staging, prelate duties, and room assignments at the Governor Clinton Hotel for the state delegation.
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Mother and daughter share birth hours apart in Arkansas
Mrs Ruth Ferguson gave birth to her fourth baby at 4 percent a.m. Tuesday, 29 hours after her daughter Mrs Mildren Colling delivered her first child. In Oak Grove Arkansas Civitan and Conservation Corps volunteers searched a dense wood for four year old Morenos Jackson.
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Murphy family to be reunited after box car discovery
In Denver a mother Opal Murphy and her five children found living in a box car are to be reunited with the husband and father after a “bumming trip” from South Dakota to Texas and Colorado. A telegram from Murphy requested the family be sent to him, with the mother and children, including a baby, starting the journey by train. Denver authorities returned the family to the county.
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Hitchcock seeks funds for Sand Hills National Forest project
Senator Hitchcock urged Secretary Wallace to earmark part of a 10 million Farm Tenancy appropriation to develop the Sand Hills National Forest in Brown and Marshall counties South Dakota and two North Dakota counties. The forest service approved the project and a decision on inclusion is expected soon.
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National Forest
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Comments On Fine Health Then Dies Of Heart Attack
A man who had just remarked feeling well collapsed and died from a heart attack before an ambulance arrived. The incident underscores sudden health failure despite prior comments of feeling fine.
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Tully
Soviet Demand to Italy Over Piracy Attacks Escalates
The Soviet Union warned Italy through its Rome embassy that Fascist replies to Soviet accusations of submarine attacks are entirely unacceptable. Moscow pressed Britain and France to indict Italy for piracy at the upcoming Mediterranean conference while tensions rise across Europe.
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