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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
2
The piece argues manufacturing sustains about 20 percent of employment and notes the United States has twice as many motor vehicles as the rest of the world combined. It urges staying ahead and unique in progress.
Researchers reveal half of the nation's synthetic vanilla derives from waste streams of paper production. The finding explains a surprising source for flavor additive and highlights industrial interdependence between pulp, chemical, and food sectors.
Analysis notes Willkie's fall in the Gollup poll from 284 electoral votes to 78 while Roosevelt rises from 247 to 458. The piece also recalls the Literary Digest poll that preceded Roosevelt's 1932 victory, highlighting pre election polling volatility.
Kenneth S. Wherry announces a series of visits by prominent Republicans. Dewey Short will fly to North Platte on Saturday September 28 for a two day trip ending in Fremont. Alfred M. Landon will speak at Hastings on October 1. Theodore Roosevelt Jr will appear in Alliance and Scottsbluff on Monday October 7.
Diller school officials chose a simple float theme The Blizzard of 1888 led by Misa Erma Sible and team to build a modest entry Judges awarded Diller first prize for county high school float marking a second top prize for the district In sum the Sible sisters Erma and Sylvia earned praise for their effort.
George Champ cas six cows, producing seven heifer calves, one set as twins, in the fall season.
Republican U. S. Senate hopeful Hugh Butler visited Diller on Wednesday. A small town crowd greeted him at Farmers store, where he spoke from a car PA system. He promoted the corn loan program for destitute farmers, Nebraska senatorial platform, and criticized New Deal errors.
Congressman Carl T. Curtis testified before a five member committee in Lincoln about migration from western Nebraska. Witnesses urged immediate action to relieve plains distress and highlighted pump irrigation and water conservation as possible solutions to the depopulation in the south central Nebraska area.
Joe Serra argues the idea of indispensability is overblown comparing modern leaders and projects to Egypt’s pharaohs. He notes pyramids and dams persist beyond rulers who claim indispensability, suggesting even great figures are replaceable and eventually found buried.
Rev. L J Wolff led the service for relaying the fifty one year old church corner stone moved from south of town to the present site in Diller A jar with items from the original setting and the Record came to rest inside the stone John Weers chaired the building committee and a large congregation attended The church will be formally dedicated on October 6th
Charles G. Binderup, ex congressman, seeks an independent bid after losing to Carl T. Curtis. He has gathered over 2000 petition names to place his name on the ballot. Critics say his monetary system idea may not work and distracts from duties.
Railroads in the United States Canada and England are said to share a common track gauge of four feet eight and two tenths inches. The source text, though garbled, centers on noting this standard width used for railway rails and sleepers.
Dan Gilbert spoke at a chapel event at a great eastern university about God in Our Generation. Attendance was compulsory and the university president reacted that the talk was extraordinary and irregu lar, noting religion is often seen as private and not indoctrinated by authoritarian religious views.
Indications point to early glass block manufacture possibly 2,000 years ago. A Roman era panel in a German wall suggests block placement during Roman occupation. The block appears to be band blown.
Rev. H. M. Hammett of Calgary Canada lost a big toe in battle and had a graft from a German soldier. During the European crises his toe ached and he planned removal. He jokes that he should ask Hitler for advice.
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