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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1936
Page
2
Dr H W Griest Presbyterian medical missionary at Barrow Alaska completes sixteen years in the Arctic. He plans to retire to California this summer and longs for motor car travel fresh vegetables and fruits and a peaceful rural life with cows trees and birds rather than dogs and ice.
President Roosevelt moves to marshal 500 million dollars in relief funds for drought stricken North and South Dakota eastern Montana and Wyoming. Henry Wallace tours the stricken areas while Hopkins orders relief jobs for 25 000 to 50 000 farmers on water projects roads schools and recreational programs. A special committee is appointed to study resettlement and broader recovery measures.
Industry and transport show solid gains in the first six months of 1936. Auto production reaches 2,400,000 units, steel runs up to 71.2 percent of capacity, electricity output hits a record, and rail carloadings near their 1931 highs, with 1936 six-month results well above 1935.
Chester Davis reports a 90 percent rise in cash farm income from 1932 to 1935 for cotton wheat tobacco corn and hogs under the Agricultural Adjustment act. The 1932 figure was 1.365 billion dollars and 1935 reached 2.593 billion. Other farm products rose from 3.012 to 4.307 billion.
The American Iron and Steel Institute issued a Condent statement declaring it will oppose any concession or retaliation in response to labor actions. The note highlights a standoff between unions seeking higher pay and industry leadership defending current terms amid a 50,000 worker scale.
Governor Landon on vacation near Estes Park plans reconvening the Kansas legislature on July 23 with a proposed constitutional amendment allowing broad social welfare powers and federal cooperation. The amendment would empower funding for health unemployment and social security with tax or other means. Also, New York Governor Lehman reverses prior retirement to seek re election, aiding the national ticket.
As leaders meet in Geneva to lift Italy sanctions and aid Haile Selassie, discussions shift to possible League reform with a September assembly seen as likely for a decision. In the U.S. Justice Bailey rules railroad pensions can be funded through payroll taxes and collected from workers, while railroads may be reimbursed for processing costs.
President Roosevelt accepts the resignation of Breckinridge Long due to illness. Undersecretary William Phillips will represent the United States in Rome to address Stato American problems after Mussolini's takeover of Ethiopia. Phillips has held posts across Europe, the Far East, and Canada.
A dated quotation from J G Holland urges the young to shun gossip. It portrays gossip as a low, frivolous and dirty business that splits churches and poisons neighborly relations, warning it becomes a chronic disease if unchecked and urging early reform.
Crochet pattern 5544 from The Sewing Circle Household Dept offers a six sided medallion rug project with colorful flowers. Instructions include rug materials, stitches, and border ideas. send 15 cents to request pattern 5544 with name and address.
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