Roosevelt to Slash New Deal Budgets Across Agencies
Washington reports indicate the White House and the budget director are pursuing heavy cuts to New Deal programs including NYA FSA and Farm Security, with reductions possibly hitting 100 million for NYA and substantial trims across Social Security aid and elder support. Officials warn of disruption to operations and job losses as agencies brace for next year.
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Blytheville Lions Rebuke Educator Over Zebras Postseason Invite
The Blytheville Lions Club passed a resolution rebuking Superintendent W. D. McClurkin for opposing Pine Bluff High School Zebras participation in a postseason game in Baton Rouge. The group praised the Zebras and expressed best wishes for their success, stating Blytheville fans oppose the superintendent's vote.
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Kroger Drives Apple Campaign Across Middlewest Stores
Kroger stores nationwide join with other chains to push the 1939 bumper apple crop. Albert H. Morrill says the second producer consumer apple campaign runs through December 16 with ads in over 1,000 Middlewestern papers and space in more than 8,000 daily and weekly papers reaching about 25 million readers. War disruptions cut European markets and 126 food chains pledged cooperation to aid producers and boost sales.
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Kiwanis Official to Speak Here Thursday
Kiwanis Lieutenant Governor Elect Joe Nemee will headline a Hope Kiwanis meeting Thursday night at Hotel Barba. The session starts at 7 pm with new 1940 committee chairs listed including A. TE Wade agriculture G Cliff Stewart attendance A W Stubbeman boys and girls work and more.
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Furs to Furows sets Colter tale in frontier drama
Sydney Greenhie’s Myopic offers new history of fur trade era. Excerpt follows trapper John Colter’s escape from Blackfeet in Montana as he crosses prairie to the Jefferson River, then survives by a driftwood island before reaching Lisa’s Fort. Also notes the herring as world’s key food fish.
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Elevator Mystery Stuns Wyoming State House Custodian
In Cheyenne Wyoming investigators probe why the statehouse elevator acted queerly. Chief custodian Avda mainson and assistant Resese Hows report the incident as the elevator suddenly stopped and then fell adding to the puzzling circumstances of the day.
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Inmate Pushes Wheelbarrow Upside Down at Asylum
A superintendent at a state asylum notes an inmate pushing a wheelbarrow upside down. The inmate asks why and retorts that he believes he is sane, saying he moved it upright yesterday but workers kept filling it with gravel. Reported in American Legion Magazine.
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