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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1931
Page
2
The veterans bonus loan bill passed the Senate 72 to 12 and the House 363 to 39. Speaker Longworth and Vice President Curtis signed it and sent it to President Hoover. The measure increases maximum loans to 50 percent of face value at 4 percent interest, with total funding near a billion dollars.
Washington Veterans Administration head Hines says priority would go to distressed veterans if a new bill banning compensation certificates passes. Senator Steiner reports the administration expects a lag to implement loans, while applications for adjusted certificates rise. Officials note increases in disability allowances and certificate claims as Congress considers full payments. About 200,000 to 300,000 veterans remain eligible. 3,510,000 certificates issued. January applications total 16,464. other months show mixed gains and declines.
John F. Nugent former Idaho senator announced the creation of a National Chamber of Associated Merchants group to battle the spread of chain stores. He said the body will oppose the growing chain-store system and defend about 1,000,000 independent retailers and 250,000 independent wholesalers and jobbers.
A bill approved by the Kansas House would require a $50 license fee for each unit operating two or more branches in Kansas. Municipalities could levy a similar tax as well.
General Enoch Crowder, who led the draft during World War I, has arrived in Los Angeles and plans to make his home there after a long army career. He previously started a Chicago law practice after retiring from military service.
Washington reports Postmaster General Brown warned of a 150 thousand dollar deficit this fiscal year. President Hoover said he would ask Congress to study raising postal revenues. The plan includes a 2½ cent stamp and a half cent rise for first class letters. Hoover will address Congress before session end but won’t detail specific methods. He noted deficit stems from pay raises and longer hours with a 44 hour week now in place for postal workers.
Alexander Legge chairman of the federal farm board testified before the house ways and means committee urging a temporary embargo on many farm imports. He cited wheat corn oats rye barley butter and eggs and argued Smoot Hawley tariff harmed farmers and relief could be delayed if action is not taken.
Washington state Wheat official Samuel R. McKelvie said the Grain Stabilization Corporation will demand delivery on all March wheat contracts. He noted washed out transactions from millers hedging are excluded and that short sellers must deliver cash wheat or cover options.
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a Jean church in Ottawa Ontario with estimated damage around £400,000. Fire crews battled the blaze as investigators began examining the scene for clues.
Three men from Kentucky, Illinois and Oklahoma leased rights on the Rosa Durner estate near Pawnee City and resumed coal mining six miles southeast of DuBois. They opened a seven by four foot shaft to 19 feet depth and plan a second shaft while old drifts will provide air. Prices once ran 25 cents a bushel and the miner group hopes coal sells at about four dollars a ton. The mine lies south of Humboldt near the Kansas line.
Clay Center and Superior join Beatrice Norfolk York Scottsbluff Broken Bow Crete and Omaha in line for post office remodeling and new buildings under a $100 million extension. Congress plans quick action before March 4 to authorize contracts, with Beatrice remodeling capped at 50000 and Norfolk remodeling at 145000.
Nebraska aviation survey by the commerce department shows a capital outlay of 481000 dollars for 16 airports with total expenditures to date about 376000 dollars and expected spending of 467000 dollars for late 1930 and 1931. It notes eight municipal airports averaging 47000 dollars each and plans to spend 456000 more this year and late last year.
A public notice cites a budget of 30000 dollars for Guard Camp Lincoln projects. Construction efforts priced between 30000 and 45000 dollars will be initiated, with local authorities announcing the start in Nebraska.
Eggs reach a forty year low at Beatrice with quotations at 10 cents a dozen as farmers market as little as possible amid the record cheap prices.
W. E. Schoenauer reports planting 15 trees on February 1 in Plainview and expects each to grow as frost remains minimal in the ground.
Smith Brothers Construction finishes laying ten gas lines beneath the Missouri River at Plattsmouth. Other contractors will soon arrive to connect the under-river lines with land pipelines.
Two fires in Dorchester within ten hours burned a general store and a residence. Property damage reached about $25,000. A stove explosion sparked the Walter Thompson store fire while the Huff dwelling blaze origin remained undetermined.
A. E. Anderson, state and federal crop statistician, estimates Nebraska honey production for 1930 at 2,651,000 pounds, up 121,000 from 1929. Average yield per colony rose six pounds while prices fell by one cent per pound.
Mrs. A. C. R. Swenson of Omaha was elected president of the American Association of University Women of Nebraska at the state convention in Lincoln. Mrs. A. E. Sheldon of Lincoln became first vice president, Miss Ethel W. Hill of Kearney second vice president, Miss Eunice Hilton of McCook treasurer, and Miss Ruth Paden of Wayne secretary. Kearney invites next meeting.
Uncle Sam supplies pine trees each spring. In the Sandhills near Halsey the forest service has cared for 2.5 miles of pine seedlings for three years. In April they will be shipped to farms and homes across Nebraska from Halsey. Applications go to the state extension forester at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
In Hartington district court Interstate Power takes possession of the Coleridge electric light and power plant after a sale court approved. The village received 30 thousand dollars from the high line sale and consumers will pay up to 10 cents per kilowatt hour, rates scaled by usage and purpose. The hearing resolved a suit by Coleridge residents to block the sale.
Preliminary work for paving two Alliance residential streets starts with digging ditches for storm sewer mains. A large workforce is employed and only Alliance men are used. The ground is not severely frozen in most areas, with some spots showing no frost.
Ed Panowicz of Comstock recalls a sand hills ranch between Greeley and Briscon rented for years. The farm stood idle, and now only the well pumphandle remains. He tours the area seeking the missing three room house and several smaller buildings.
Fifteen employees were added to the Deshler broom factory workforce following January sales that approached the plant’s best January since opening. The improvement signals growing demand and expansion at the facility.
A plan to bring natural gas from the Casper area is described, outlining transportation and supply logistics potentially affecting regional energy distribution.
Senate and House conferees reach a compromise on Muscle Shoals revealing government production transmission and sale of power with a Muscle Shoals corporation to be formed and a year to lease the nitrate plant to private interests before government operation if no lease is agreed.
Pea growers move into the Palouse wheat region aligning supply with demand. In 1980 about 75 percent of 70 000 acres were on contract. Average pea crop 20 bushels per acre valued at $24 per acre, versus wheat returning $15.60 per acre for 30 bushels. Wheat men rotate peas as fertilizer after two to three years of wheat.
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