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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1930
Page
2
Lincoln assistance to the American Legion in organizing its vigilante system will come from the state sheriff's office. Sheriff W C Condit said the aid is delayed by bank robbery investigations. He will support deputizing vigilante groups through county sheriffs and coordinated cooperation with Legion efforts.
State Tax Commissioner Harry W. Scott reported Nebraska tax levies are among the lowest in the six neighboring states, with Kansas the only state lower for state levies. The Nebraska state levy was 2.34 mills in 1980 and 2.40 in 1929, while the average for all taxes was 18 mills in 1929 and 20 mills in 1980. The Nebraska total tax take this year, 7,249,449 dollars, tops Colorado, South Dakota and Wyoming but trails Iowa and Kansas.
Nebraska capitol construction nears total cost of 10 156 500 including 250 000 for joint heating plant. Secretary Roy Cochran proposes raising 710500 through a 0.22 mill tax for one year or 0.11 mill per year for 1931 1932 to cover remaining grading landscaping murals and furniture as the building started in 1922 and will be fully paid when complete.
The Nebraska Farmer announces the Husking Contest will be held November 11 on Leo Wolf’s farm three miles southwest of Alma. The Lions club is organizing the event to entertain 10,000 or more spectators, honoring last year’s winner Henry Sorensen of Washington County after the championship crown in 1929 by the Cornhuskers Lincoln Nebraska.
Frank T B Martin president of the Insurance Federation of America and Nebraska Insurance Day general chairman invites all licensed agents in Nebraska to Omaha. He predicts the event will gather more men from every insurance branch than ever before as Nebraskans pay 50 million in premiums and the nation 5 250 600 000 annually.
The contract holders committee of the Nebraska Fur Farm, Inc. met to approve a reorganization proposal. Holders will subscribe $25,000 of remaining bonds and exchange contracts and animals for 6 percent preferred stock equal to the original investment, making them owners of the plant and free to operate it.
The Nebraska bureau of health notes sixty infantile paralysis cases, up from none last year. Lincoln community chest reaches its fourth annual goal with $149,240 subscribed. Nebraska’s Indian population is around 3,000, with a federal school for Indians at Genoa serving youths from the central and western regions.
State Treasurer W M Stebbins announced the department collected 4,911,425 dollars in gasoline tax in the six months ending September 30, up from 4,561,185 dollars a year earlier.
Fifty three counties will open muskrat season December 1 1930 to March 1 1931 inclusive while forty other counties start January 1 to April 1 1931 inclusive. Extension of timber in Nebraska boosts bird life with over 400 species observed year round seasonal or transient during flight season.
Some Gibbon residents favor Sunday moving picture shows and a special election will be held in November to decide the issue. The proposal has previously been defeated in past votes.
Elevations rise east to west in Nebraska with 825 feet at Rule in Richardson County and 5342 feet on the table land between Banner and Kimball counties near the Wyoming line. Amos Gramlich flew to the C Y Thompson farm near West Point to witness a corn variety demonstration attended by over 200 farmers, showing Nebraska hybrids outyield other varieties. Frank O Connell announced the purchase of fifty acres in Sherman County near Loup City for state recreation grounds at 350 per acre, completed at a state capitol meeting by the state game Parks and forestry commission.
Officials announce the lighting contract for the college stadium. Sixteen 1000 watt projectors will be installed with an estimated cost of 2500 dollars. Work has begun and will finish soon. The first under lights game is October 31 between Cotner and Wesleyan colleges.
More than 99,000 game fish fingerlings were removed from private ponds near Norfolk for distribution across Nebraska lakes. Over half were black bass, with 9000 bass and 15000 croppies allocated to Carter lake in Omaha and Pibel lake in Wheeler county. The remaining fish were released into 22 waters along the Elkhorn river from Wisner to ONeill.
The D A R sponsors a campaign to create a state park at King Hill seven miles south of Plattsmouth Nebraska. The site with Queen Hill figures in Otoe history and may include Rock Bluffs abandoned in the late 1850s to early 1880s.
The draft horse and mule pull relies on age height weight heart girth loin and cannon bone measurements. Entry is invited for the championship horse pulling contest during the Third Annual Ak-Sar-Ben Livestock and Horse Show from October 31 to November 7 at the Exposition grounds in Omaha.
The Wauben sie bridge dedication is set for October 17 at Nebraska City. Officials expect more than 10,000 cars to cross the half mile Missouri river span and 35,000 to 40,000 people to attend the ceremony with no traffic charges on that day.
Continental Construction at Plattsmouth drives a Missouri River gas line project with fifty workers. Three months to finish at a cost of 350000 dollars. Ten pipe sections welded on the river bank will be lowered from barges and placed 30 feet below the river bed. Two lines of five ten inch pipes connect to a 24 inch main on the Nebraska side.
Pop Warner, head coach of Stanford University, enters the season with his team in fine shape and ready to compete. The renowned coach is backed by a lineup of key players as preparations continue.
Prof. Robert P. Carroll of Syracuse University was selected by dry party leaders as the Prohibition candidate for New York governor. He carried the banner of the newly organized Law Preservation Party.
Congress appropriated 30000 to support an official American exhibit at the IPA International fur and hunting exposition in Leipzig Germany from May 31 to September 30. Frank G. Ashbrook will direct fur resources. The United States leads in fur production with a 65 million dollar harvest and a 25 million dollar farm investment, while knowledge of breeding fur animals remains limited.
The article explains hurricane origins in the tropical Atlantic and Gulf, their seasonal peak August to October, and rare Gulf landfalls such as Galveston 1900 and Corpus Christi 1919. It contrasts with tornadoes of the central United States, detailing their local, southwest to northeast paths and funnel cloud dynamics.
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