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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1956
Page
11
The St Paul Minnesota school board eliminates kindergarten athletic activities and other extras to trim expenses and possibly hire 167 more teachers for the 1956 57 term. The paper argues the issue rests with taxpayers and patrons. The board has put the shoes on the proper foot and urges public action.
A newspaper commentary questions Marilyn Monroe's plan to sue a national magazine over advertising of a TV series about her. It contends her fame stems from sex appeal and cautions against inflating the suit to threaten her career, asserting she owes much to public image.
The article highlights Soil Stewardship Week and the vital role of soil in producing food, timber, and livestock. It credits the Soil Conservation Service for farming improvements and warns that synthetic substitutes cannot replace the land’s essential contributions to human survival.
The piece questions why Sidney residents vote in four wards for city elections while eight wards or precincts are used for county elections. It notes the public finds this confusing and difficult to grasp the structure of local government.
A national conference on highway safety will meet next month at the President's request to study methods to cut the rising highway death toll. Recommendations will include building highways to handle heavy traffic and high horsepower cars, since current roads were designed for older engines. The piece argues that while care cannot be legislated away, safer highways can reduce fatal accidents in the jet age.
The Wall Street Journal argues that rising farm productivity with fewer workers signals evolution, not decline. It notes fewer farmers but growing per capita income, driven by tractors and machinery, and frames this as a benefit to family farms and a highly advanced economy.
An East German schoolteacher was sentenced to eight years for taking pupils to West Berlin and showing them well stocked stores. The piece argues this proves the superiority of free enterprise over communist systems and depicts West stores as evidence against state control.
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A columnist laments the 1950s rush era and cites busy lifestyles as a cause of stress. He argues for slowing down to a normal pace, recalling old values, courteous street manners, and the wish for lighter worries. He notes the irony of public life being consumed by wealth talk while personal health suffers.
State Senator Monroe Bixler notes that attempts to amend and de-emphasize property tax assessment do not reduce its burden. He cites rural Nebraska, 60 percent of assessed tangible property value, and 28 percent rural population, with 20 percent of net income accruing to rural residents.
The text argues for replacing the state share of property tax with sales or income taxes or a mix, noting a full abolition is unlikely. It warns that removing property tax would shift equalization to local levels, require reforms to adapt laws to changing times, and that disparities would not be solved by making property taxation a state issue.
Don Bray of the University of Illinois urges poultrymen to provide brooder units chick guards and proper space. A 20 percent protein starter for eight weeks followed by an 18 percent growing ration with home grown grain supports economical pullet growth. A clean range with forage and shade aids development.
Bray advises minimizing range use to reduce costs while promoting later tender growth for poultry. Rotate range every three years, provide water to birds via a buried pipe or hose, and reduce labor by letting water come to the birds rather than fetching it.
Cattleowners are urged to improve dental care as faulty teeth may trigger digestive upsets and poor growth. A cow with a poor appetite faced digestive doubts until a vet found sharp back teeth causing pain. after teeth were filed and adjusted, the cow resumed eating.
The text describes a simple home filtration setup using two glass bottles, a funnel, and filtering material to clean drain oil for rust proofing tools. It mentions Manager Tommy Holmes of the Portland Beavers in the Pacific Coast League and his 28 home runs for the 1945 Boston Braves.
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