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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1932
Page
6
Nebraska state statistics show elementary education expenditures dropping from 30.9 million in 1926-27 to 25.65 million in 1931-32. Tax mills fall from 5.62 to 4.66, while total enrollment rises to 324,241 with high school students at 73,255.
Nebraska state fair secretary Lincoln George Jackson says the fair will stay on its usual dates within the middle west fair circuit to protect scheduling. He notes other fairs would seize Labor Day dates if Nebraska drops out. Jackson, president of the circuit, will attend the annual meeting of 10 fairs across Missouri Iowa Kansas Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana.
Nebraska reports a 1930s decline in gross farm income with last year’s total about 253.231 million dollars, down from 379.707 million in 1930 and 458.304 million in 1929. A. E. Anderson warns the trend may continue due to falling prices for farm goods, noting calendar year versus crop year estimates. The national figures show 6.945 billion in 1931 versus 9.396 billion in 1930 and 11.937 billion in 1929.
State game warden Frank B. O Connell announced 3 275 000 fish planted in Nebraska lakes and streams in 1932, about half the usual cost. Over 2 375 000 fish stocked this year set a high mark besides last year’s 4 000 000. Raising and distributing costs dropped from 50 to 25 dollars per thousand, with 100 000 bass and 50 000 trout imported, all other fish raised locally.
Axemnan in Nebraska woodlands harvests trees sown by previous generations. Forester Clayton W. Watkins estimates two million dollars worth of firewood will be hauled statewide this winter to warm homes, noting last winter’s fuel crop reached one million dollars. He says plantings were made for emergencies like these.
Dr. George E. Condra of the University of Nebraska notes hundreds of walnut groves in southeastern Nebraska and eastern Iowa with nuts on the ground. He says city buyers would pay 35 to 50 cents a bushel, preventing waste and providing extra cash for farmers and a food source for towns.
Surveyors report the Wood River corridor west of Gibbon will be shifted about half a mile to straighten the Lincoln highway between Shelton and Kearney. Poles, lights, and trees along the route must be moved. a new river channel will be cut west of Gibbon to widen and straighten the road to meet federal standards.
Arrangements in Loup City authorize Henningson Engineering of Omaha to study a power irrigation project on the Loup River funded by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The plan would irrigate 10 000 to 15 000 acres and develop hydro electric power under a 1931 irrigation district law. Attorney General Sorenson consulted local citizens who said the river flow is constant enough to generate power without a reservoir.
Frank P. Fogarty of the Omaha chamber urged Lincoln Advertising Club members to promote Nebraska to residents and the nation. He argued Nebraska is a three billion dollar business with no organized local advertising and cited good roads as the key to attracting outsiders.
A University of Nebraska survey of 4 026 workers shows 196 per thousand in Lincoln unemployed though able and willing to work. The study covers about 13 percent of the city’s labor force with 61 percent jobless over 10 weeks and 23 percent jobless over two years.
Warden W T Fenton describes the four tiered east block nearing completion as highly equipped with a radio in every room and claims it may be the first state prison to use rooms rather than cells, following federal precedents. Upon completion inmates will move in and roof repairs on the west block begin.
Washington report notes in Ankara nine years of reforms shaping the Ghazi led state. It highlights separation from the Ottoman dynasty, adoption of Latin alphabet, Westernization of dress, and a push to Turkish language purity. Roads and railways expand as education, literacy, and national consciousness grow amid funding limits.
The Paris Midi reports cabinet ministers earn 180,000 francs yearly with 12,250 francs monthly pay and 4,165 francs for car costs, plus two days pay if a cabinet lasts only 48 hours. The president’s package totals 3,600,000 francs yearly when including household and travel outlays. most presidents do not end richer than their entrance.
The fifteenth census shows 13.8 percent of American homemakers held gainful employment besides home duties. Of 28,405,204 homemaker families in 1930, 3,923,516 had full outside work, with 19.4 percent working at home and 80.4 percent away from home. Servants and waitresses were the largest outside-work group at 24.4 percent.
The piece notes gradual binding of regions through steel bands and roads, reviving the Trebizond Er zurum trade lane between Persia and the Black Sea. It highlights Turks taking over trades, state-led industrial training, and U S influence yet rising home industries as imports wane and local foods and brands grow more common.
A 120 year old French tradition saw four masons and an anonymous climber descend the Senlis Cathedral weathercock Le Coq Gaulois to collect tips from residents. The feat echoes earlier daring climbs in 1731 when a man reached the copper ball atop the spire before escaping the sexton and facing jail.
The department of communications prioritizes finishing the Laredo Mexico City highway by next summer and delays other major routes such as Mexico to Acapulco and Vera Cruz to Puerto Vallarta. Total project cost is estimated at about 30 million dollars.
The last of the Lawlers in the St. Louis Police Department resigns after 34 years. The note recalls a 106 year lineage of Lawlers on the force, tracing from William Sawyer’s grandfather to William himself. He plans to move to California to raise oranges.
In Weaver Junction a traveler revisits Main Street with wistful memories of old friends and mischief. The exchange reveals vanished neighbors, quirky deeds, and a sly moral about profiteers and reputation.
The Cowthorpe oak in England, about 1600 years old, grew near a Roman road a few miles from Wetherby. In 1842 it yielded 74 tons of timber with a 60 foot circumference trunk and 43 foot height. today only gaunt limbs remain, yet spring leaves appear and workers strive to keep the giant alive for a few more years.
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