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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1936
Page
8
A Missouri reader discusses the U S public debt approaching 32 billion dollars, its impact on individual citizens, and how deficits from Hoover to F D R raise taxes. The piece compares Jackson era debt repayment, predicts higher future taxes, and urges fiscal curb.
Dr. John P. Senning leads a PWA study of county finances in 20 counties to speed tax payments and cut costs. WPA workers examine records from 1918 to 1935 to reveal revenues, fund allocation, and county service costs for fiscal efficiency.
Representative Cartwright announced the amounts Nebraska will receive under the Hayden Cartwright bill totaling 461 million dollars for federal highways farm to market roads and grade crossing elimination. Nebraska gets 2.58 million for federal state highways 520 thousand for farm to market roads and 890 thousand for grade crossing elimination with required local matching for the farm to market program.
Lincoln banking chief Hope and RFC regional director Daniel push to clear technicalities delaying a proposed RFC loan. Washington must approve contract form changes to meet Nebraska laws before the RFC can lend receivers the full market value of assets in about 120 banks. Receivers auction remaining equity, pursue stockholder liability, and close receiverships.
State Tax Commissioner W H Smith predicted modest increases in Nebraska's 93 counties for 1935 marking the first rise since 1930. Higher values are expected for grains and livestock due to stronger markets as boards of equalization prepare schedules. Farm lands make up 56 percent of total, town lots 22 percent, personal property 22 percent, with total assessed value at 2 030 243 533, 34 55 percent below 1930.
Lincoln area reports 27 auto deaths in May 1936, surpassing April as the peak month. The year to date total hits 91 deaths since January 1, with no 1935 comparison available.
Col. W. H. Oury, commandant, said the new field artillery and engineering units will raise the military payroll by 3000 dollars monthly. Expenditures for 12 to 15 motor trucks and reconnaisance cars are not included. Artillery equipment will be stored at the agricultural college. Five officers and about nine enlisted men will command the units. Capt. William Grove and Capt. Chester C. Hough, with two enlisted men, have arrived to handle preliminary work.
Nebraska Agricultural College reports 1935 living costs for 261 farm families averaged $1,157.94, up from $1,044 in 1934, including home grown products and expenses. City family costs averaged $1,602.06 versus $1,397.56 the prior year, reflecting higher living expenses across the state.
D F Felton state works progress administrator after conference with Governor Cochran said WPA aid will extend to southwestern counties to fix flood damaged county roads and bridges in the Republican river valley. Cochran cited Dundy and Hitchcock counties requests. Felton will dispatch engineers next week to survey the area and will act on the engineers report.
M B Jenkins of a WPA forestry project outlines planting about 700 trees and shrubs on a three acre plot around each of Nebraska 6133 country schoolhouses. Ninety nine percent are unprotected now, needing two additional acres. The project would cost about 100 thousand dollars with returns many times that amount.
Ben N. Saunders announced charter approval for the Cedar Rapids State Bank which replaces the Cedar Rapids Co-Operative Credit association. G. M. Cox serves as president and George B. Miles as cashier. The bank organized with 10000 dollars capital and 2500 dollars surplus under a 1935 act reducing minimums for new banks.
Louie Sieker bid 136.50 per acre on an 80 acre tract southeast of Waco at a referee sale. An earlier high bid of 24 was rejected by the court. The new bid stands as York county’s highest in several years.
Capt. H. B. Loper of Omaha reports Woods Brothers Construction of Lincoln bid about 550000 for Missouri river channel development between the Decatur and Louisville bends. Nine firms bid. total project cost around 900000 with materials and supervision. Up to 300 workers may be hired.
Nearly 5,000 people left the relief rolls in the third week of May as the spring shrinkage continued. Durfee’s NERA figures show 44,512 listed May 21 versus 48,671 earlier in the month, with 8,614 unemployed family heads and 4,822 nonemployable cases. Ranchers at Gordon voted 34 to 26 to study the New Deal agricultural program and draft adaptation plans for range cattle. others at Ogallala and Alliance rejected the federal plan. A committee was named to submit a plan.
Brisbane This Week surveys rising prosecutions and global headlines. It notes Dewey’s New York conviction of Charles "Lucky" Luciano on 62 counts, and contrasts honest crime with tax plays, while reflecting on war, aviation, and Mussolini era power shifts.
The text notes Americans eagerly accept foreign goods, especially from British origins. It highlights British labels Proudly claiming Made in Great Britain and English urging Buy British, with Americans seeking Made in England or Made in France. King Features Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service.
Enchanting dress features shirred sleeves with wide contrasting cuffs and a jaunty bow tie neckline. Made in dotted swiss, batiste, or voile, the design is simple with two front skirt pleats and a trimmed blouse. Barbara Bell Pattern No 1846 B fits sizes 12 to 20 with busts 30 to 38. Pattern costs fifteen cents. order from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept 367 W Adams St Chicago.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a couple discussing how one partner speaks to the other, with one side claiming positive manners and the other describing negative tone. The text is fragmented and lacks full context or identifiable names.
In a brief verse a parlor scene ends with a table lamp going out. two is company, and the trio quietly departs.
In a light exchange a vendor touts his oranges as the best in years while a passerby asks for any other that he hasn't tasted in years, reflecting a humorous fruit market moment.
A catalog dialogue shows Beerstein and Mowcher negotiating a suit price. Cash price twenty dollars, installments forty dollars with half down, reflecting a seller’s terms and prompt payment incentive.
A survey of about 8 000 dahlia names finds men less likely than women to have a new flower named after them and married women slightly more so. Bees rely on nectar from many flowers with clover supplying most honey. Irrigation and ammonia enriched water promote plant growth in southern California. Counter claim: sour cream does not exceed butterfat in quality. only lower grade butterfat results.
Dark and light lilacs form a floral spray for bedspreads with four smaller sprays on bolster. Designs use lazy daisy and French knots with blanket stitch outlines in lilac orchid or pale yellow. Transfer pattern 18 by 21 inches pattern 1152 plus two reverse motifs 4 by 544 inches. Send 15 cents for pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York.
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