Economic Highlights and the 1932 Election Drive
A survey of campaign activity as Republicans and Democrats mobilize for November. Critics like Senator Dickinson challenge the New Deal while supporters cite recovery, with Roosevelt's personal appeal shaping voter choices. The piece notes cabinet travel and broad administration outreach amid uncertain forecasts on congressional control.
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Roosevelt
Dickinson
Herbert Hoover
Democratic Party
Fletcher
Republican Central Committee
Hull
State Department
Perkins
Labor Department
Washington
Congress
Mayfield Builds New Ball Diamond For Town Pride
Mayfield is erecting a modern baseball park on a five acre plot just north of the business district. A covered grandstand for 150 plus, two dugouts, grooved sidewalks, and other improvements are funded as a FERA project with timber from nearby mountains and relief funds used for workers. The park aims to showcase local baseball talent as the season opens. Also, Mr and Mrs N V Sanders left Spearfish for Los Angeles after visiting Hart J Sanders.
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Mayfield
East Mountains
FERA
Baseball Fan Leon Embley Sees Indians Sox Game
Leon Embley, a Utah traveler nicknamed a sand lotter, watched the Cleveland Indians vs Chicago White Sox in Chicago. He later went to Detroit to pick up a new car for R T Harris, Gunnison Sugar Co. president, and visited manufacturing centers before returning east.
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Leon Embley
Centerfield
Chicago
Cleveland Indians
Chicago White Sox
Leon
Detroit
R. T. Harris
Gunnison Sugar Company
Utah
Century of Progress
Governor Blood Traffic Stop Highlights Utah Trip
Governor Blood was stopped in Gunnison for speeding by City Marshal L. L. Childs. He explained he had spoken to Legionnaires in Logan and had engagements in Castlegate and Nephi before heading to Salt Lake City and Nephi for civic club events.
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Utah
Governor Blood
Gunnison City
L. L. Childs
Justice of the Peace
J. E. Metcalf
Logan
Castlegate
Nephi
Associated Civic Clubs
Gunners stumble in Salina fracas
Salina Salts defeated Gunnison Gunners 8 to 1 as five errors crippling the Gunners doomed them. D Nielson booted three errors, Sorenson started on the mound for Salina with seven strikeouts, while Madsen allowed seven hits and held Gunnison to one run.
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Salina
Gunnison Gunners
Salina Salts
Sevier County Boys
Gunners
D. Nielson
Sorenson
Madsen
The
Salts
Turkey Industry Promising Profits for Thanksgiving Crowds
Growers across Sanpete Piute and Juab counties report healthy flocks ready for market. Chil d ers Hatcheries expert E F Bassett predicts strong profits as 25 000 birds are fattened for Thanksgiving and Christmas with high weights and prime condition. New York quotes around 32 cents per pound.
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Sanpete
Piute
Juab
Bassett
Childers
Santa Ana
Calif
Mr. Hassett
Ira Overfelt
Moroni
Nephi
Mayfield
Marysvale
Utah Stockmen Urged to Reduce Herds With Care
Utah officials urge ranchers to cut cattle numbers by about 40 percent to match severely reduced feed supplies. With hay at roughly 40 percent normal and sugar beet byproducts down, the plan calls for selling 170000 head, including 40000 commercially and 130000 to government purchases. Farmers should inventory feed, Cull to keep a foundation herd, and act by November to protect winter rations while federal aid and feed loans are arranged.
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Utah
United States
Grouth
Mr. Peterson
FERA
Southern Bankers Hold Annual Here in Gunnison
Allen T. Sanford Salt Lake attorney and head of Utah Housing administration was principal speaker at the Southern Utah Bankers association annual meeting at the Gunnison hotel. He outlined benefits of the national housing act and local bank assistance for home improvements and needy applicants.
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Allen T. Sanford
Salt Lake
Federal Housing Administration For
Utah
Southern Utah Bankers’ Association
Gunnison
Gunnison Hotel
Sanford
United States
Gunnison Valley
Charles Smith
First National Bank of Salt
First National Bank of Salt Lake
Bank of Ephraim
Manti City Savings Bank
Gunnison Valley Bank
First State Bank of Salina
State Bank of Wayne
Richfield Commercial & Savings Bank
Monroe State Bank
Bank of Southern
Milton Perkins
Tda Edwards
Beth Childs
Former resident Parley Sorenson found dead in Provo reservoir
Parley Sorenson a former Gunnison resident born there was found dead in a reservoir at the Utah State hospital in Provo on Saturday. He likely fell in and could not swim, with the body in the water about two hours. Sorenson, aged 55, had been an inmate at the hospital for about 31 years. He had previously escaped and returned, with no known living relatives in this area.
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Parley Sorenson
Gunnison
Utah State Hospital
Provo
Sorenson
Parley
Forty-Nine Carloads of Cattle Shipped Under Relief Plan
Cattle shipments under the drought relief program will total 49 carloads by week’s end. About 75 percent will be butchered for relief food, 26 percent sent to eastern and southern pastures. Goods gathered from Centerfield Axtell Gunnison, owners released stock due to scarce grazing. First shipment 15 cars, then 16, this week forecast 18 with prices $4 to $20. Agencies Irons Spaulding Soren son Johnson inspect and brand. Cleaning efforts begin in northern Sanpete, smaller southern shipments anticipated.
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Drouth
Centerfield
Axtell
Gunnison
Elmo Irons
Moroni
FERA
Sanpete County
N. C
Gunnison official returns from East trip with Plymouth
Tom Harris, Gunnison Sugar office manager, resumes duties today after a July vacation to eastern centers. He bought a Plymouth coupe in Detroit and toured Chicago for the Century of Progress, with stops in St. Louis and Kansas City. He notes the extreme heat in the East and is glad to be back in Utah.
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Tom Harris
Gunnison Sugar Company
Gunnison
Detroit
Harris
Chicago
Century of Progress
St. Louis
Kansas City
Democrats in Gunnison pick delegates for state convention
The Gunnison precinct chose Mina Beauregard and Leo Bardsley as delegates to the Provo state nominating convention on September 1. E L Swalberg and M Z Beauregard were named alternates. Mina Beauregard became precinct chairman with Mrs Ira Overfell as vice chair. Sidney J Baxter and Roy Edwards were elected secretary and treasurer.
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Gunnison
Provo
Mina Beauregard
Leo Bardsley
E. L. Swalberg
M. 2
Beauregard
United States
the Supreme Court
Mina Feauregard
Ira Overfell
Women's Democratic
Sidney J. Baxter
Roy Edwards
John M Knighton
Jr.s. Eggertsen
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Mrs. N. V. Sanders
Hart J. Sanders
Spearmint
Los Angeles
Hagan
J. 8
Peterson
Main Street
Clarion
State Board of Health
Loren H'll
Vera Foote
Pearl Hill
Clair Tollestrup
Christenburg
A. ©. Willardson
Tollestrup
D. B. Borg
Lourne
Mrs
Kenneth Borg
Richfield
Elsinore
Scipio
Turkey
William Peterson
Droath Relief
A. H. Kearns
C. P. Kleehouer
Latters
San Francisco
Kleebauer
Orgells Kearns
Helen Gaddie
Maxine Sanders
Bourbons
Gilbert Fjeldsted
Winfred Fjeldsted
Mies Melva Fjeldsted
Bryce Canyon
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