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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1929
Page
6
Nebraska forecasts a 232,871,000 bushel corn harvest and 1,086,000 tons sugar beets with 25 bushels per acre in most counties. Pheasant hunting yields 41,293 birds with 13,000 hunters, and 500,000 birds remained statewide awaiting season counts.
A U S government report shows Nebraska held 71.9 inmates per 100000 residents in 1926, up from 29.2 in 1904, still lower than Kansas and Colorado but higher than several neighbors. From 1923 to 1926 homicides fell, while assaults rose and forgery, larceny, liquor, drug, and sex offenses increased. A separate suit claims Boeing Air Transport caused the death of 56 foxes when planes flew low, seeking $40000 in damages as foxes died from trampling and noise.
Farmers in Sheridan County tie to a Minneapolis flax contract and grow 9 005 acres. The county's flax crop is valued at 243125 dollars, making it the banner flax county of the state this year as acreage doubled due to the contract.
Apple production totaled 868000 bushels, pears 40000, grapes 2125 tons, flax 161000 bushels, 1928 crop 64000, buckwheat 11000, grain sorghum 386000 bushels with 17.5 bushels per acre. Farmers report varied yields and weather effects across Nebraska during the season.
Nebraska recording of 64 golden wedding anniversaries in October increases 1929 total to 365 for ten months. Six couples exceeded sixty years of marriage. Golden B. Goff and wife of Madison hold longest married life at 67 years. C. Nacke of Hebron marks golden jubilee for Rev Joseph C. Nacke of Waterloo Iowa who completed 50 years in priesthood.
The administration proposes a $160 million tax reduction for 1930, with a 1 percent cut in overall income tax rates for individuals and corporations. The plan lowers rates on the first $4,000 of taxable income and accelerates relief for 1929 earnings, aiming for quick action by Congress.
Foreign Minister von Blokland in The Hague says Holland will keep its policy of nonrecognition toward Soviet Russia, seeing no reason to open diplomatic relations.
Dr. Julius Curtius, a trusted ally of the late Gustav Stresemann, has been appointed foreign minister of Germany, signaling a continuation of conservative foreign policy in Berlin.
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