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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1936
Page
4
The Parowan Times, a weekly publication, states W. Walter Mitchell is the lessee. It notes a post office entry as a second class matter for Parowan Utah dated October 27, 1916.
Letters critique relief spending, liquor use by recipients, and control of funds. The writer disputes authority bans, questions canning center plans, and asks why Parowan lacks CCC camps while noting city officials' hiring and promises to reduce PL W A positions.
Industrial production and consumer spending rise while farm income improves and transportation firms perform better. Modern machinery boosts efficiency, reducing labor needs and creating a persistent army of unemployed. Public works may be the solution.
The text argues that future observers will be required to be sponsored by government agencies and financed by taxes. It states those taxes should be levied beyond the income produced by modern machinery, which in turn caused unemployment among men.
An Associated Press report from Berlin says a leading German editor received a life term for high treason with no official explanation. Journalists recall he once disclosed orders from the propaganda minister to the foreign press corps and was arrested soon after, illustrating dictatorship’s suppression of press freedom and constitutional rights.
A historical review notes industrial accidents decline while automobile crashes rise, predicting 1936 to top 32,000 deaths. It blames the human element for drivers’ recklessness and argues factories enforce safety, whereas traffic enforcement remains insufficient and fines often small.
A workman laments careless operation as daily crash risk rises. He argues only persistent public pressure and a shift to thinking safely behind the wheel will lower the mounting automobile accident toll.
An officer accuses a sentry of smoking after seeing a glow from a pipe. The sentry denies, insists no pipe, and the officer leaves. The sentry secretly retrieves a warm pipe from another pocket, muttering that the recruit was right about having two of everything.
A garbled note declares not vice versa between The Pessimist-Misery Jones company and The Optimist-Tes, with a stray remark about love of misery. Details are unclear, but the fragment hints at a dispute or contrast between two firms.
A man with severe pneumonia is examined by a doctor who jokes that he must be a musician. After a thorough check the physician notes no obvious lung strain yet a strained larynx, and asks what instrument he plays. The patient answers the concertina.
This issue lists prizes for the County Fairs to be held in Cedar City including $26 for the best acre of dry land wheat and $26 for dry land corn and potatoes. Livestock prizes range from 12.50 to 25. Parowan bids call for a new school building opening August 17. Local business notes include Barton and Bowman offering a free air pump service and S A Halterman selling cars to Parowan doctors. A grain crop forecast predicts the largest harvest yet, with Henry Lyman visiting from California with his family. First U S coin portrait feature notes George Washington as the first head used on American coins.
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