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Polk Progress in Polk, Nebraska

30 May 1940

Page 8

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Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

May 30, 1940

Page

8

County Commissioners Hear Petitions and Audit Claims

Polk County Nebraska officials meet in regular session May 21 1940 auditing numerous county fund expenditures including salaries clerk and sheriff, approving payments to many individuals and businesses. A refund claim for 1872 1873 1874 taxes is noted along with a gravel road petition from Swede Home area and adjournment to June 4 1940.

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Osceola Nebraska Polk County Varsus Wit County General Fund Jonn J Andere County Clek Sava Kresha Vava Pieters Ruth Stewart Ler Burroughs Adding Machine Co Servce James Cock Wateh Phil B Campbell C Denhim Roy W Eriksen Reece H F Lenk Helen McCormick LeRoy M Smith Co Treas Carleton Anderson Harriet Smith Johnson J B Logan Gerade K-B Printing Company George K Fox Holger Nielsen Clear Creekey Klopp Printine Co Merrick Lillian Timm Herman Thelen Hackberry Nadine G Croisant Raymond Scholz Asa Smith Craven's M. P Siegel Osceola Lumber Company N. J C.W. Moon Otto Bernt Anderson & Merrick Bernire Hanson R J Miller H Smith Stromshure Nordstram Grocery Forslund Grocery Food Center Stromsburg Hattie Clark Minnie Carlson Ope Farmers Union Oil Company Jowa-Nebr Light & Pane Company Stromsburg Food Stromeburg Nordstrom Grocery Finer Swanson Gwen McClung Sinclair Refining Co Robert Doner Edward Schlesinger Lee Ee Joel Hanson Board of County Commissioners Harless Frank Bolton Laura Bolton H. P. Tewell Frances Tewell Ralph Kahler Eva Willits Clair Willits Leland Harless Edwin Drewel Thelma Johnson Raymond D. Johnson Anna Belle Swanson Arlen Vunzdahl Fred Yungdahl Edd Conver
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Live Stock Prices at South Omaha Market Report

Receipts at Omaha Monday show hogs trade active and higher. Fat lambs sell at 11.50 for native and Californias, with shorn lambs at 8.85 to 9.65. feeders and aged sheep steady. Cattle lists include cornfed steers 9 to 10.75, yearlings 8.75 to 9.65, and feeders 9 to 10.25. hogs open week higher with prices largely 7 to 20 cents above Friday.

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Union Stock Yards Omaha
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Revised Grading System Could Speed Graduation

Dr Willis D Ellis of the University of Arizona urges colleges to adopt a sliding scale for graduation credits. He argues top students would earn more credits and average students would still graduate in four years, with others taking longer based on merit. The plan aims to spur greater study and better align credits with achievement.

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Willis D. Ellis University of Arizona Ellis
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Women Surpass Men in Longevity, Says Insurance Data

Statistics from a leading life insurance firm show women live longer than men across all life stages from cradle to old age. By 1937 the death rate gap favors females at every age, implying a growing female surplus and potential social shifts including marriage patterns and divorce trends in Europe after World War I.

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Forest Plantings Cost and Species Distribution Last Year

The average cost to raise and transplant a seedling was about 1.25 cents. National forest planting totaled 125 million trees across 131,707 acres with longleaf pine leading at 28.6 million, jack pine 22.98 million, and red or Norway pine 22.81 million. Shortleaf pine fell to under 8.5 million, while slash, northern white, ponderosa pine and white spruce each ranged seven to eight million. Other species included Douglas fir, western white pine, Jeffrey pine, loblolly, cedar, Engelmann, Sitka and blue spruces, plus black locust oaks, black cherry, yellow poplar and cucumber magnolia among hardwoods.

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Forest Service Engleman Norway Sitka
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Television in Wartime Science seeks plane portable set

Television in Wartime Science discusses efforts to create a compact television device for aerial use. Lord Chatfield notes the Admiralty has an in shipboard system enabling a captain to view shell fire, but at table size, too large for aircraft. Germany pursued a similar project years earlier.

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Lord Chatfield House of Lords Admiralty Germany
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IMD and American policy sparks debate in Nebraska column

The piece discusses Industrial Modernization Day and fears of government power, notes congressional moves on farm mortgage reform, debt limits, and Indian Office reforms, and lists Nebraska postmaster confirmations from the Senate in Monday’s Congressional Record.

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Senate States The Union Nebraska
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OF County Commissioners J E. Steeple W J Herbers W Warwick R G Pinckney O H. Smith Merle J Watts Loyd Cole Albert Ryan Dwight M Bur Wm H Larson G T Ray C W Husted Ernest E Nyquist Leo R. Israel E A Walrath Waixine Herbes Carl Anderson Arthur B Bintz Eunice I Batz M R_ Anderson Mary Ge O Fredrickson Ansel Fredrickson Clarencys Larson Marold J Nelson WV Hurst Sinclair Service Stu Hastings George Hetchkiss Robert Johnston Calmer Boden Glen Smith Albert Ao F Branting Robin Sigler M McDona Clark W Norton O Hansen P Johnson George Malek Frank Marek Walter South Omaha Carl Curtis Ccc NYA NRA WPA Aiy Ungton IMD America Ameri Congress Jones Texas Schwellenbach Washington House Jones-Wheeler Committee On Agriculture John Collier Indian Office Sam Ches Firestone Voice of Richard Crooks Margaret Speaks NBC P.t.wurtz& Son Abc
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