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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1934
Page
4
Local notice from Diller Nebraska about mail transmission and advertising rates. Rates are six cents per line per insertion. Business locals are run until ordered out. Advertising terms provided on application.
D. K. StamY of Harbine Nebraska declares his Republican nomination candidacy for sheriff and asks voters to support him at the August 14 1934 primary in Jefferson County Nebraska.
State banking officials report prices for farm lands rising beyond the 20 percent forecast for the first half of the year. April marks the strongest month for sales since 1929, signaling a major upswing in property activity in Nebraska.
Nebraska reports fire losses totaling 1 833 880 dollars for 1933, the lowest in a decade, with 1 969 fires and 55 deaths. The year 1932 saw 3 060 344 dollars in losses and 2 325 fires. Incendiary losses rose, and the state fire marshal lists individuals proven to be firebugs.
The secretary of state sees Cochran for governor petitions arriving while the highway department head, a longtime appointee under McKelvie Mullen Weaver and Bryan, declines to disclose plans. Griswold Metcalfe and Sorensen supporters urge keeping road work steady over an anticipated switch to politics as a fence builder.
The state penitent iary houses 912 prisoners with 673 in factories. Attorney General Good fears idleness could trigger trouble and supports teaching trades if funds exist. Mrs. Nellie G. Benson outlines a plan to expand the reform school canning factory to supply 17 institutions and add a penitentiary packing house.
Attorneys challenge the supreme court's jurisdiction over ouster proceedings tied to Conklin perjury bribery and conspiracy. District Judge Frost considers quashing the conspiracy count as defense seeks clarity on whether payroll funds are state property or belong to janitors implicated.
Governor Bryan files for U S senator as he heads to Washington for his brother William Jennings Bryan memorial statue unveiling. He supports higher basic money to raise farm prices, tariff cuts, cooperation with the president, jobs for unemployed through agricultural revival, unemployment insurance, and full use of rivers for electric power and irrigation.
Douglas county relief officials announce plans for a state bond issue to fund poor relief. FERA chair C E Hall argues more poor voters than rich opponents. Tax Commissioner Smith doubts the measure, noting relief burden centers in Douglas and Lancaster counties. He predicts higher county levies as federal aid tapers. About $650000 in federal funds aids relief this month. Nuckolls and Perkins receive $500 May allotments.
State banking records show a strong system with rare bank closings this year. Since 1931 to 1933, 124 state banks closed, while many of the 400 banks closed during the March 1933 bank holiday have been restored to solvency and allowed to operate. RFC loans totaled over 1.23 million dollars aiding 36 banks to repay depositors though some failed banks remain liquidated and ineligible for RFC aid.
The legislature approved a bill to allow counties to switch to a county manager form. Two counties Douglas and Box Butte have petitions for November votes. The plan creates a county board paid five dollars per meeting and a county manager to run departments while the county superintendent remains elected.
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