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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
2
Watercraft values nearly double to $98,445 while motor vehicles rise to 381,623 units. Personal tangible property totals $479,560,686 and land valuations reach $1,581,278,483 as the state posts a grand total valuation over two billion dollars for 1936.
Lincoln-Cal A Ward, regional Resettlement administration director, cites total loans grants and emergency advances reaching 17 297 525 to farmers in Nebraska Kansas and the Dakotas by end of July. Drouth relief itemized with North Dakota receiving 24 584 for 1 614 families. South Dakota Kansas and Nebraska listed 12 349 7 451 and 3 417 totals to 1030 518 and 183 families respectively. Standard farm loans totaled 11 108 435 across 61 850 transactions. Emergency feed loans were minimal with 44 in the Dakotas totaling 11 210, none in Nebraska or Kansas. Ward expects a sharp near term increase.
Red Cloud completes a 640 foot 24 foot wide bridge across the Republican River at a total cost of about 100000. The three span structure replaces a five span flood damaged bridge and straightens the approach from Red Cloud toward the Kansas line. River work and rip rap were added to prevent future floods.
President Nelson said Dana college will run its new student operated farm for nine months. The farm, the first of its kind in the middle west, includes dairy cattle hogs cattle and chickens to supply the dining hall and provide employment for nearly all male students offsetting their expenses.
Nebraska state board of control adopts retrenchment as drought and poor harvest raise costs for maintenance and livestock feed. The group will buy corn oats and hay for dairy beef hogs horses and other livestock at institutions while debating stock replenishment. The article also notes an upcoming amendment on state bank liability and Nebraska tax payments to federal special levies, plus the establishment of the Nebraska state employment service in Omaha with G W Casler and Rudolph Vogeler leading the new agency.
The agriculture department forecasts a 294,537,000 bushel potato harvest for 1936, seven percent below 1935 and the smallest on record. Drought in five central surplus states plus Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming cuts July losses to about 22,000,000 bushels.
Secretary Ickes was supplied a Geological Survey report showing a drought reaching New York with Nebraska summaries. Farm fires caused 55 percent of property losses in the first half of 1936, urban fires 3.4 percent. total farm losses $302,840 on $550,004 value, urban losses $615,177 on $17,961,446 value. Fifty percent of farm properties were insured.
The White House pressed no new taxesa policy backed by Morgenthau s assertion of recoverable assets from emergency loans as a path to debt retirement. Critics warned that repayment of these assets is unlikely, raising doubts about funding current spending and potential debt cancellation.
Florence Eldridge discusses choosing family life over film work while Fredric March moves to movies with Mary of Scotland. Gertrude Michael, Brilhart Chapman, Lily Pons, and John McCormack surface in industry chatter as TV and radio plans expand.
Brisbane notes the Vimy Ridge memorial designed by a Canadian artist unveiled by the king to honor Canadian soldiers who fell. He cites high Allied casualties among Canadians, the unknown graves, and compares horrors of World War I to the Spanish Civil War, citing Daily Mail reports of executions and atrocities by both sides.
Reports say Russia communicates with Madrid by radio and advises the Spanish government while helping fund bonds and organize a Soviet style government in Spain. France and Britain face pressure as Hitler is allied with insurgents amid threats to Nazi officials and a dramatic confrontation involving a Hitler office raid.
A guide to a Barbara Bell pattern 1933 B for sizes 12 through 20 describing a simple chic dress suitable for campus wear. It notes seven pieces, fabric from A to Z, and a size 14 fabric requirement of four yards. Orders to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago with 15 cents.
A lighthearted reminder that a welcomes guest makes a visit pleasant by offering a sincere compliment as a breezy opening to every encounter.
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