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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1947
Page
5
Read in 1904 to 1940 era style report the National Tuberculosis Association notes an almost 80 percent drop in TB deaths since 1904. Despite progress 53,000 Americans die yearly, with 4,500,000 fatalities since 1904 and TB ranking seventh overall, fourth among Blacks, and lethal for ages 15 to 44.
Rep A L Miller told the Interstate Commerce Commission at a Friday hearing that Congress feels the commission fails to protect small business. He urged maintaining the freight rate ratio between live stock and processed meat to prevent discrimination against small packing houses in Nebraska and the Midwest.
Kimball county fair board at a public hearing voted to hold a home talent fair next year and approved a 500 dollar appropriation to defray expenses of outside attractions. Joe S. Steele announced. A new board chair S E Torgerson and secretary Arthur Hendrickson were elected. Other new members Henry Peterson Petrus Peterson and Charles Shingler join the board. The meeting sought to verify if the fair can be financially viable next year as it has become hard to run profitably.
Kimball County commissioners were to decide the site for the new hospital after recommendations from the Hospital Advisory Board. The old courthouse square, now a city park, was ruled out due to lease and park use concerns. Gotte Park was eliminated for sewerage costs and low land, leaving southwestern city sites as the focus.
Construction will begin on 136 miles of rural electrification lines in Keith county once weather allows. Cater Construction Co. of Kansas City won the contract from Midwest Electric Membership Corp at Grant, with REA approval. The project will serve about 140 to 150 Keith county families, plus $400,000 allotted for future lines in Keith and Lincoln counties. Cater also built Perkins county lines already serving nearly 500 farm homes.
Cheyenne County Soil Conservation Service supervisors met Friday with county extension to repeat last year's conservation and education program in schools. This year the effort will cover all rural schools and include 4-H club meetings and a public tour of soil projects. A committee of Clyde Johnson and LeMoyne Johnson was formed to prepare the annual report for the next meeting on January 2.
The Telegraph notes a fair supply of paper clips though overall scarcity persists. Buyers can purchase by the box or carton with a limit of one carton containing 1,000 clips per customer.
A weekly auction offers Christmas gifts this Thursday December 18 at 2 PM. The following week the sale moves to Friday December 26 while Thursdays January 1 sale proceeds as planned.
Researchers seek ways to reduce thinning labor in beet fields. USDA and state breeders develop seed balls with two seeds, aiming for single-seed balls. Colchicine treatments may alter chromosomes to create new varieties with one seed per ball, but adoption will take time.
A vintage advertisement touts a DUO DUSTIN CLOTH for housework. It claims the cloth dusts and polishes simultaneously with no lint or muss, selling a roll for 50 cents.
A brief observance notes that scotch tape pensers are carried, reflecting routine newsroom supplies and the practical needs of the Telegraph office.
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