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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1939
Page
5
The piece argues Roosevelt urged Navy and government spending while critics claim waste and favoritism toward packers. It notes Senate and House budget actions, gains for agriculture programs, and compares opposition rhetoric to fiscal losses and political maneuvering in a presidential year.
President Roosevelt proclaimed the week of May 31 1939 as National Flood Prevention Week urging federal, state, and local agencies to intensify watershed management. Forest Supervisor Betenson notes plant cover as key to watershed balance and cites Utah Davis County flood damage repairs, including terrace systems, reseeding, and grazing regulation as a model for southern Utah.
Bruce McDaniel of Mutual Orange distributors notes Americans now drink 24 times more fruit juice than eight years ago. Last year total fruit juices and citrus products reached 24 million cases, aided by mass distribution, a citrus drive in Florida, California and Texas, and extensive ads and promotions.
Dr ALS W Rosenbach of Washington DC bought the original manuscript of the Bill of Rights. The 1729 New York congress drafted the first 12 amendments, with Article II later splitting into amendments. The parchment bears Muhlenberg and Adams signatures and is on display in Philadelphia.
Dr James F Bender an authority on stuttering reports that nine out of ten of the 1 350 000 stutterers in the United States are men He notes radio and talking movies have increased speech consciousness and cites a seven year study of 243 college stammerers at the American Speech Correction association convention He is the association's director of information The survey found college students who stammered scored higher on intelligence than non stutterers and that stammerers were less sociable and more emotional than those with normal speech
In the Roman calendar the month split into calends nones and ides with varying days. The ides, often on the thirteenth or fifteenth, and the associated Gret day and rones mark the month’s end. The phrase Beware the Ides of March warns of impending danger, linked to Julius Caesar’s assassination.
Department of Agriculture warns marauding insects and fungus threaten U S crops with annual losses near three billion dollars. To combat these plant enemies the animal budget is set at about 100 million dollars for insecticides fungicides including sulfur compounds, primicals, nils and floating.
Navy recruitment announces six year enlistment starting July 1 1939 with discontiuation of under age 13 applicants after June 30 1939. Policy aims lasting personnel and four years of experience. Recruits credit foresight and career potential. Also notes future battleship sizes and Chinese checkers anecdote. Includes world hourly statistics, jokes, and legal notices ending with creditors notice for Charles Alfred Nelson.
The State of Utah Office of State Engineer publishes notice that Sam Wet C Mortensen of Parowan has applied to appropriate 0.022 cubic feet per second from Lost Spring in Parowan Valley Utah. Water to be stored Jan 1 to Dec 9 each year in an 80 foot diameter pond 1.3 feet deep, located N 80 54 W 778.7 ft from the SM Con See 2232S RB at W. SLUM, and released via a 2 inch pipe to troughs for watering 2500 head of sheep. Application No. 22875. Protests with reasons must be filed with State Engineer T. H. Humpherys by July 1 1939, with $100 filing fee. First published May 28 1939. last publication June 23 1939.
Several acres at pase ture in Chimney Meadow. Inquire Mrs. Chas D. Adams. WOOD, Coal and Rock said for sale. Phone 2367. J. A. Evans, Parowan. COAL and chshce sawed wood, Call 2532. Ancel J. Adams, WANTED to buy two weaner pigs. WW. Mitchell, Parowan.
The article notes a new mechanical mucking device developed by a Dial man and manufactured in Dab, sold worldwide. It speeds ore removal, reduces backbreaking labor, but still needs miners to operate. Continued improvements aim to raise ore output while market prices and external forces push operators to stay productive.
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