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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1941
Page
4
One year in advance six months in advance or $1.50 for six months. Entered at the post office at Diller Nebraska for transmission through the mails as second class matter.
Notice notes Fleischmanns dry yeast advertised weekly on page five. Roy Geer drives a Chevrolet five passenger coupe as vacation plans loom. Dick Close remains unemployed after leaving Pickard Cafe last Sunday. Gladys Lottman to take his restaurant position.
Across the United States about 1 890 English language daily papers with a total circulation near 40 million readers and 625 Sunday papers rely largely on motor trucks for bulk distribution to their audience.
Fred Achtemeier of near Harbine visited the Record office Wednesday reporting a fall from a riding lister while driving through a field about a week ago. He broke a rib and said he is recovering with short breaths as he repairs at home.
Brotherhoods of engineers, firemen, and other railway train men plan a June 6 demand for a thirty percent wage increase. Experts doubt full amount will be granted, suggesting a ten percent boost may satisfy workers for the time being.
Mr and Mrs Francis Clark appear in the Omaha World Herald photo from last Thursday. They are part of a group of fifteen Reed Self Serve Shops employees. The Clarks run the shop at 1465 South 13th Street. Francis is styled as a French chef and Martha as manager.
Lincoln Star offers a trial rate of one dollar for the daily and one dollar seventy five cents for daily with Sunday mailed outside Lincoln to Nebraska and Kansas for eleven weeks. The rate is four dollars a year for the daily seven dollars with the Sunday. Order direct or through the Record office.
Frank L. Spear of Fairbury called at the Record office and paid one year backward and one year forward on his subscription, a paper he has read for nearly 40 years. President Roosevelt requested 158 million dollars to train 3 million more defense workers, including 263 thousand in engineering and 500 thousand in rural youth industrial skills.
Ernest Schulz and Frank Johnson work on Main Street to remodel the front of the old post office building. They push the top corners north to make them plumb and plan to use more lumber and less glass in the new front.
A strong hail storm moved through Hastings Cortland and Auburn last Thursday afternoon bringing golf ball to base ball sized hail. Enormous ice slugs caused property damage and injuries with several people hospitalized. A dog in Hastings was killed and Congre gational church glass in Cortland shattered. Autobile damage reached about 150 dollars.
Don Shearen of the Fairbury News editorial staff places in nomination the man who visited several Fairbury tulip beds clipping blossoms and leaving the blooms. A close second is the motorist who drove down the parkway center in front of the city park cutting a wide sod path with his tires.
President Roosevelt announced at a press conference that Thanksgiving Day 1942 would remain on the last Thursday in November. He admitted his shift to an earlier date failed to boost business and cited commitments to retailers and calendar makers. Nebraska continued to mark Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November by law.
Local observers report a sharp decline in grain prospects around Diller as severe winter kill, scarce rainfall, and pest damage threaten a near total failure. Chinch bugs rust and Hessian fly infestations have worsened conditions with wheat crumbling and oats heading early. prospects for small grain are not good.
A new provision of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act strengthens safety by preventing dangerous food containers. Officials expect the clause will curb lead in can solder and foil wrapping, issues that challenged enforcement under the old law.
The first continental US new bird in 21 years is discovered in the West Virginia panhandle by Karl W. Haller of Bethany College. The wood warbler-like species is small with yellowish olive back, brown sides, sienna throat tint, and white tail tip. The prior new species was the Cape Sable seaside sparrow in Florida.
The Lincoln Nebraska State Journal offers a by mail trial at 1.00 for eleven weeks daily or 1.75 for daily with Sunday mailed outside Lincoln to Nebraska and Kansas. Local delivery 25c weekly. eleven weeks costs 2.75, with flexible payment and late rural delivery.
Brigadier General Guy N Henninger state director of selective service urged Nebraska registrants to correct physical defects before examinations. He said prehabilitation could improve personal health and state wellbeing. He advised consulting personal physicians and dentists to find proper treatment and care locations.
Many old roofs are being re shingled with asphalt shingles under FHA modernization loans. These loans are repayable to the lending agency in small monthly payments. The repayment period may be as long as three years.
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