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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1933
Page
6
A stream of opinion touches males like Jim Stillman and J P Morgan, praising restraint and fair dealing in romance while condemning scandal. It recalls Morgan the Magnificent and notes sailors, ships, and a captain’s compassionate conduct, praising science and honest work as guiding ideals.
On her eighteenth birthday Barbara Thorne, motherless daughter of artist Christopher Thorne, awakens hopeful. She receives a birthday ring from Bruce MacLain and they picnic on Provincetown sands where his gypsy tale mirrors her own love. Returns home to drown father, family relatives arrive, Bruce urges marriage, and four children plan to run away to Stephen Drake, Barbara's godfather, who once loved Barbara’s mother Emily Trent.
Stephen handles four unexpected visitors, three children and a young girl, while Emily contemplates marriage and Aunt Edith questions the situation. Barbara Thorne, christened by Stephen, reveals a godchild and hints at a past love, as Stephen weighs returning the children to Provincetown relatives and seeks Emily’s understanding.
Aunt Edith enters the library at eleven and presses Stephen for an explanation about the unsettling evening. Stephen hopes to distract her from the unsettling events by asking about the concert.
North Platte volunteers report donations over 2000 dollars for the Sutherland irrigation and power project with a goal of 3000. W J Hendy J W Ramigh and F J Wurtele lead the drive. Ed Johnson saved his horses from a prairie fire near Arnold suffering severe facial and arm burns while riding a sister seat.
State health director Dr. P H Bartholomew reported measles cases rose in April in Nebraska. Influenza and smallpox increased while scarlet fever and chicken pox declined. Diphtheria and tuberculosis fell. meningitis rose from two to nine cases and typhoid fever reached seven cases versus none in March.
The Nebraska House adopted a plan to divide the four cent gasoline tax with one and a half cents to counties and 2 ½ cents to the state. Earlier in the session the body approved a two cent allocation for counties. Speaker George W. O'Malley championed a different split but the proposal failed. a reconsideration brought the amendment back and it passed.
The Commerce Department reports 166 airplanes in Nebraska with 109 licensed and 57 unlicensed. Gliders total eight with one licensed pilot. Nebraska has 246 pilots: 97 transport, 16 limited commercial, 133 private licenses. National totals list 9,086 planes in 48 states and 18,457 licensees. California leads aircraft at 985 and pilots with 3,531. New York 945. Pennsylvania 637.
Extension Forester Clayton Watkins announces a project to plant sixty thousand Scotch pine seedlings in Morrill and Scotts Bluff counties with cooperation from county farm bureaus relief agencies civic groups and Burlington railroad. One hundred eighty men from Mitchell Scottsbluff Bayard Minatare and Bridgeport will work for a few days while farmers provide teams plows and wagons. Long term maintenance will be done by unemployed workers through local relief groups. Professor E E Schramm estimates dust storm losses at millions noting 25 million dollars in mineral fertilizer value added to soil at ten dollars per ton based on 2 500 000 tons of dust from Texas Oklahoma and Kansas.
Nebraska's 1933 4H enrollment reached above 10000 as home economics clubs gain popularity among girls. L. L. Frisbie notes sewing clothing and cooking clubs are drawing applicants, with 1932 figures of 15000 involved last year and beef club growth already setting a new record.
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