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MONDAY. I707iarBrr 9, 1936.
An Increase of
$821,431 Asked
by the Normals
Budget Calls for Four New Build
ings, Restoration of Salaries
of Two Years Ago.
The state normal board budget,
filed with the state tax commissioner
for the governor's consideration, asks
for ?2,012,4G7 for maintenance of
four state normal schools for the
coming biennium. This is an in
crease of $821,431, the amount ap
propriated two years ago being ?l,-j
191,030. !
The request calls for $439,790 fori
new buildings, one at each of the
schools. It calls also for an increase
of $262, S92 in salaries, the board's,
request as voiced by Comptroller Fred i
Andersen being for funds enough to
restore salaries to where they were
two years ago. For repairs, material
and equipment an increasa of $118,
74 9 is asked, these three items going
to make up the increased request of
$S21,431.
For the comptroller's salary, sup
plies, expense and equipment the
budget requests $9,000 for the two
years, the same as was appropriated
by the last legislature, which created
this office by an appropriation item.
From July, 1935, to July, 1936,
Comptroller Andersen reported that
by the purchase of supplies for the
normal schools thru his office, in
cluding insurance, light and other
costs, he has saved the board $54,4 65.
In less than ten years, he said, the
board would be able to return to the
state all dormitories and equipment
valued at $600,9 64 obtained thru a
moratorium plan of borrowing funds
for construction, the property to be
paid for from receipts.
The increases asked for by the
budget for the four normals are
classified:
Kearney: Appropriated, $325,670;
Request, $615-,09 6; Increase, $289,
426. Wayne: Appropriated $308,216;
Request $572,720; Increase, $204,
504.
Peru: Appropriated. $284,500; Re
quest $433,834; Increase, $149,834.
Chadron: Appropriated, $272,650;
Request, $390,816; Increase, $118,
1CC. Totals: Appropriated $1,191,036;
RequesT, $2,012,467; Increase, $821,-
431.
The legislature of 193S cut the
r.;aintenance appropriation for nor
rrals approximately 20 percent, says
the budget request. Since the cost of
supplies and repairs is practically
fixed, it is alleged the reduction had
to be taken from salaries which were
already low. Loss of prominent fac
ulty members on account of the cut is
cited. As repairs and equipment
could not be made during the pres
ent biennium, the board is now ask
ing for replacements and increase of
salaries. The increased appropria
tions asked for by the board for the
four schools are:
Increases Requested.
Kearney: salaries, Increase, $80,
168; change office make more class
rooms, $7,390; completion of A. O.
Thomas school, $176,790; change
heating plant, $21,500; new roofs ad
ministration building and gymnasium,
$2,170; order of state fire inspector,
$1,407. Total, $289,426.
Wayne: Building and equipment
for new library, $163,000; salary in
crease, $77,054; complete basement
room and new floor in gymnasium,
$3,500; new seats in gymnasium, re
pairs president's residence, $4,800;
remodeling old art building, $3,200;
repair Terrace hall, $1,500; remod
eling and enlarging office Bpace, $3,
000; additional library equipment,
new furniture for hall and school
car, $1,950; additional equipment for
Bcience tables, $1,650; furniture class
rooms, hot water gymnasium, show
ers, lockers, $1,850; new boiler for
heating plant, $3,000. Total increase,
$187,450.
Chadron: Salaries and wages in
crease, $48,000, to total of $272,000;
for west wing of training school
building, $50,000 lands and build
ings. $5,700 request; for supplies, in
crease, $4,000; for expenses, increase,
$2,116; material and parts and re
pairs, $6,000; equipment, $8,000 in
crease. Total increase, ?118,168.
Peru: Salary increase, $71,134;
payment sewer pledge, $60.20 per
month, for thirty years, to be made
in one payment. $15,000; curb on
pavement, two blocks, and repair
pavement. $1,000; roadway thru
campus, 13,000 square yards bitumin
ous mat, $7,000; addition and im
provements to auditorium, dressing
and storage rooms, decorating walls,
new stage curtain and floor, $5,000;
partisan commerce department typ
ing room. $200; build and equip front
wing of science hall, $50,000. Total,
increase, $149,334.
The board asks that its own ap-
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There are plenty of Wines on
the market selling for half and
two-thirds the price of SALUTE,
for like Meats, the quality of wine
can vary greatly. Get the best at
SHARPMACK'S
Liquor Store
FINE WINES AND LIQUORS
propriation' for expenses be increased
lrom $4,500 to $5,000, the increase
to be used in the event of emergency
for clerk hire or other purposes. It
asks that $10,069 cash income from
lands and library fees and other rev
enues for the four schools, not de
rived from taxes, be appropriated.
Series of Reports
on Farm Prospects
To Be Published by the Govern
ment Daily From Novem
ber 6 to 14.
The farm outlook for 1937 will be
the subject of a series of reports to
be released daily by the bureau of
agricultural economics, Nov. 6 to 14.
The reports, drawn up with the
assistance of state and federal exten
sion workers, are intended to guide
farmers in making plans for crop
production and livestock breeding
next year. They will cover the pres
ent and prospective situation as to all
the major farm commodities wheat,
cotton, dairy products, livestock,
corn, fruits, and vegetables.
The series will start with a report
on the domestic and foreign demand
for farm products. This will be fol
lowed by reports on agricultural
credit, farm labor and equipment,
fertilizer, feed crops, livestock, cot
ton and cottonseed, wheat flax, dairy
products, hogs, meat animals and
meats, poultry, eggs, turkeys, beef
cattle, hay and pastures, truck crops.
horses and mules, cloverseed and al
falfa, beans, fruits, tobacco, peanuts,
rice, sheep, lambs, wool, and mohair.
Bureau economists and statisti
cians are organizing the basic ma
terial for the outlook reports. Last
week they held outlook conferences
at Washington with economists from
state agricultural colleges.
A feature of the series will be a
report on the farm family living out
look prepared co-operatively by the
bureau of home economics, the ex
tension service, and the bureau o"
agricultural economics.
Pump Irrigation
Schools Planned
Sheridan County Farmers Study Suc
cess of One of Their Number; To
Hold Community Meets.
Indicating that some pump irri
gation schools are planned for east
ern Nebraska farmers during the
coming winter months, Ivan D. Wood,
extension engineer at college of agri
culture, declares there is an added
interest in this type of irrigation in
the state.
P. II. Stewart, extension agrono
mist at the college, together with
Wodd will probably hold the com
munity gatherings sponsored locally
by county agricultural agents and
farmers. All phases of pump irriga
tion and crop cultural practices will
be discussed. Wood will deal with
the engineering end of the discussion
while Stewart will handle the agron
omy end of the meetings.
Recently 100 farmers in Sheridan
county gathered in Rushville to talk
about pump irrigation. Some land
in that area is suitable for pump irri
gation, says Wood, who attended the
gathering. William Christian, 10
miles south of Hay Springs, has a
homemade well which goes down 60
feet and has 1,300 gallon flow per
minute, with an 8 inch turbine pump
tractor driven.
In speaking before the northwest-
!ern Nebraska group, Wood pointed
out five essentials in pump irrigation
if it is to be successful. He listed:
Not spending money before a test
well is put down and it is determined
that water is present. After finding
water, get right equipment for the
! well and power. Land preparation
for irrigation is important. Engi
neering topography necessary. Most
people fail with pump irrigation be
cause they depend on rainfall and al
ways turn on the water too late.
Phone news item to no. 6.
Trucker Must
Have a License
in This State
Otherwise Penal Offense to Transport
Liquors into the State Case
From Hall Co. Reversed
Clarification of the state liquor
law was given by the supreme court
Friday in an opinion by Judge Good,
in which it was held that it is a
penal offense for the owner and op
erator of a truck who has not been
designated as a carrier of alcoholic
liquor by the state liquor control
commission and who has not receiv
ed a permit from such commission,
to transport from another state into
this state a cargo of unstamped alco
holic liquors consigned to a bonded
warehouse or wholesaler in Nebras
ka. Intoxicating liquors imported in
to the state need not have the stamps
placed thereon when brought in by
a bonded carrier with a permit until
the shipment reaches a bonded ware
house or a duly licensed distributor.
The court added that the law of an
other state cannot make lawful in
this state an act which would be un
lawful under the law of this state
nor make unlawful in this state an
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act which is lawful in this state.
The case was brought to the at- j
tention of the court by the state's
attorneys because of rulings of the
Ilall county district court in a case J
in which Mark T. Hyslop, a trucker
operating between Grand Island and
Chicago, had been charged with un-
lawful possession of unstamped liq
uor and unlawful transportation be
cause he had not been designated by
the state liquor commission as a car
rier of alcoholic liquors. The trial
court held that the transportation
count did not charge an offense
against state laws, and the jury ac
quitted Hyslop on the other count.
Judge Good says that the trial
judged erred because it was clear
Hyslop had not been made a carrier
of liquors, had no permit and had
given bond; that when liquors
are imported they become articles of
commerce within this state and
stamps need not be affixed when
brought in by a lawful carrier until
destination is reached, and that the
trial judge erred when he told the
jury that the law of Illinois is pre
sumed to be the same as the law of
Nebraska, since Nebraska laws have
no extra-territorial effect and no
penalty can be incurred under the
state law except for transactions
within the state.
NEBRASKA. AND ALFALFA
WEEVIL QUABANTITvES
Following the drouth of 1934 there
was considerable demand by Nebras
ka farmers that the alfalfa weevil
quarantine be modified so that hay
could be moved into the state from
certain counties in Idaho and Oregon
that were known as weevil-infested
counties. Similar requests are again
being made. To those who are not
familiar with plant quarantine prac
tice it may seem a simple matter to
change a quarantine; however, ex
perience has shown that many com
plications may arise after such ac
tion. For instance, after the Nebraska
alfalfa weevil quarantine was modi
fied in 1934 to permit shipments of
hay from Idaho and Oregon, several
of the mid-western states imme
diately placed embargoes on all Ne
braska hays and cereal straw, regard
less of where that hay or straw was
produced, and it took several months'
time and a lot of negotiation with
officials of other states to get the
markets of the country again open to
Nebraska hay.
Some are inclined to believe that
these quarantines against Nebraska
were unjustified, but unless the of
ficials of the states issuing the quar
antines can be convinced that is true,
there is nothing Nebraska officials
can do about it. Therefore, our
course seems to be mapped out for us;
we must follow the quarantine poli
cies outlined by the states concerned
or take the chance of having the
principal hay markets of the United
States closed against us. Since Ne
braska is one of the leading hay-producing
states, the latter course seems
out of the question.
However, your State Department
of Agriculture and Inspection Is
working with the plant quarantine
officials of other states and present
ing Nebraska's side of the question
at every opportunity so that it may
be possible In the future to have the
quarantines so modified that they
will not interfere seriously with the
movement of hay into or within the
state.
For high class Job printing
phone your order to No. 6.
PLATTSKOUTH SE3H - WEEKLY 70TJENAL
Flying Missionary Carries
Gospel Into Remote Alaska
German Priest Founds Aviation Branch
Which Contacts Distant Lands
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By CHARLES GRENHAM
International Illvfitratcd News
Feature Writer
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:stv luitiv. 'ians recently an-jgested to strapping young Rev.
nounced for carryinc on missionary ; Sehulte. At that time he was sta
work in the remote regions of Alaska ! tioned near Tempelhof airdome in
and Canada call attention to the Germany doing home mission work.
newest method of spreading the Gospel.
Regions which have hitherto been jn the regular army. When he en
inaccessible to the indefatigable rep-itered the order of the Oblates of St.
; rerentatives of the church are now
' being contacted by airplane.
Prime mover in this development
' is a stalwart German Catholic priest
by the name of the Rev. Paul Sehulte.
;This ambition which took shape in
I his mind 10 years ago is now a real-
ity, and his latest venture is in the
j direction of the unchartered north
I which he plans to penetrate with his
'plane, te "St. Lucas."
Mission Work by Plane
: The huge distances to be covered
and the dangerous mountains which
have handicapped missionary work
among the Eskimos are now to bejiogne and the Missionary Communi
traversed by plane. Ease stations will ; cation association came into exist
be established at various points and ence, its motto being, "Toward
the work carried on from key cities.
Rev. Sehulte is the founder and
(head of the Missionary Communica
i tions association. This organization
i now has more than a dozen planes,
1150 automobiles and motorboats
(which aid missionaries in their work
i in such places as Albania, New
Guinea, Brazil, South Africa, KoreaUerest in the work of the MIVA.
Steel Industry
Increases Pay
of Its W orkers
Financial Circles Say Boosts Will
Amount to 33 Millions ; 475,
000 Employes Affected.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 6. Thousands of
steel workers received notice Friday
of pay raises averaging about 10 per
cent, and the entire industry was ex
pected to pay the increased scale after
Nov. 16.
The Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.,
largest United States Steel Corp. sub
sidiary and the Bethlehem Steel Corp.
were among the companies to grant
the raise following negotiations with
employe representatives.
The Jones and Laughlin Steel
Corp., largest independent producer
in th? Pittsburgh district, with 20,
000 mill workers in two plants, an
nounced Friday night it will grant
the same increase effective the same
date.
Employe represenatives of the com
pany said last Tuesday they had been
informed the wage boost would be
granted but the company said then
negotiations were incomplete.
Others were the Columbia Steel
Co., Pacific Coast subsidiary of U.
S. Steel; the Inland Steel Corp. of
Chicago, and the American Steel and
Wire Co. of Cleveland.
Provides Adjustments.
Basing their figures on 1935 pay
rolls, steel men calculated that the
increase for U. S. Steel and Beth
lehem subsidiaries alone would
amount to 33 million dollars a year.
Friday's agreements also provided
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and Madagascar.
It was a decade ago that the Idea
of mission work by plane was sug-
His interest in flying dated from
the World war when he was a pilot
Mary the Immaculate, his interest in
flying was none the less keen, and he
kept on with his aviation until his
ecclesiastical superiors grounded him.
ItlTVA Rapidly Expanding
When a friend and fellow-priest
died at his post in South Africa, Rev.
Sehulte volunteered to replace him
and sought permission to establish
a missionary flying branch which
could better cope with the jungle
ai:d vast distances of the section. Af
ter much endeavor he obtained the
permission of his namesake, Joseph
Cardinal Sehulte, archbishop of Co-
Christ on land and sea and in the
air."
The territory and activities of this
group have gradually expanded until
it now goes into many remote parts
i of the world. The world's first aerial
'mass was celebrated this summer and
the Pone has evinced considerable in-
adjustments, limited to 5 per cent
each, of wage rates with changes in
living costs as reported by the Unit
ed States bureau of labor statistics.
The agreements are to stand a year.
Financial circles accepted the an
nouncement as leading to advances
for approximately 4 75,000 workers.
For Common Labor.
Common labor will get the major
shade of the increase. Bethlehem said
the base labor rate would be raised
cents an hour.
Demands for increases ranging
from 10 to 25 per cent have been
submitted in recent months by em
ploye groups of the Carnegie-Illinois,
the industry's largest producer.
Philip Murray, director of the steel
union organization drive, told lead
ers of John L. Lewis' rebel labor
unions, arriving for a meeting Sat
urday, that the industry had decided
before the presidential election to in
crease pay.
Withheld Notice.
Announcement of the raise was
held up, he said, in hope it could be
attributed to a republican victory.
Murray called the negotiations be
tween management and employe rep
resentatives "a mere subterfuge to
deceive the public into thinking that
the raise resulted from collective bar
gaining." Murray claimed for his steel work
ers organization committee all credit
for the steel wage increases he said
would come.
Murray, in a statement, termed the
increase from 47 to 52 cents an
hour in tho basic rate for unskilled
labor "a miserly pittance" which the
companies "undoubtedly will attempt
to use to prevent workers when or
ganized from demanding their proper
increases."
flURDOGK ITEL'JS
Mr. and Mrs. Herman R. Schmidt
were at Elmwood Wednesday after
noon of last week, where they were
looking after business matters and
visiting with friends.
Mrs. A. J. Tool spent a number of
days during the past week at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. George
Work and family in Omaha, enjoying
a most pleasant visit.
Louis Schmidt, who has just been
re-elected as road overseer, was over
near Wabash last Wednesdaj', where,
with a capable assistant, he was
making some repairs to a bridge west
of town.
Harold Luetchens and family vis
ited over the week end at the home
of Mrs. Luetchen's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Shrader, of Clay Cen
ter, driving out on Saturday and re
maining until Monday morning.
Mrs. Fred Luetchens, who has
been sick with sciatica, still remains
so poorly she is not able to get about
as she would like to. However, she
is making some improvement, which
will be pleasing news to her many
friends.
Uncle Fred Stock, who has been
sick at his country home for many
months, remains in about the same
condition, being able to be up a por
tion of the time, but not able to get
out and do any work, as he is very
desirious of doing.
Grandmother Schweppe, who pass
ed her 84th birthday a few weeks
ago, has been in poor health of late
and is confined to her bed. Her ad
vanced age makes it difficplt to over
come the malady with which she is
beset, but she is cheerful and hope
ful, as are all her friends, that she
may again be restored to good health
in the near future.
Rev. and Mrs. E. F. Haist and
daughter. Miss Ruth, of Lincoln,
were guests at the home of Floyd
Williams on the farm east of Mur
dock last Sunday, where they all en
joyed a very fine visit and a delic
ious dinner. Rev. and Mrs. Haist
made a home for Mr. Williams when
a boy and he became as a son to
them, the ties of friendship being
very strong. Rev. Haist also visited
the Evangelical churches of this
section, being superintendent for this
district.
New Baby Arrives
A new baby arrived last week at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Brackhage near Davey, Nebr. Miss
Bernice Reichman, daughter of Otto
Reichman. who has been making her
home with her grandmother, Mrs
Henrv Reichman. was over to the
Brackhage home to care for the little
stranger and its mother.
John H. Buck Improved
John H. Buck, Murdock black
smith, who has been so seriously ill
at the hospital in Lincoln, where
he underwent a major operation, is
reported as getting on fairly well
at this time. His son Glen was over
a few days ago and found the fath
er making good progress and greatly
desirious of getting back home and
at his work again.
Eeturn from Snowy North
Dr. and Mrs. Lee and son Larry,
who, accompanied by a sister of Dr.
Lee, Mrs. Hazel Clifton, of Ithica,
left some two weeks ago for a trip
to Saskatchewan, Canada, where they
visited another sister, Mrs. D. C.
Messe and husband, have returned
home after a most pleasant stay.
They tell of the country being very
dry up that way and also that the
general contour of the land is one
big level stretch with but few hills
and these along two rivers which
converge at the point where they
were visiting.
Enroute home, they found travel
ing very good until they arrived in
northern Minnesota, where they en
countered a foot of snow and ice cov
ering the highways, which made
trevel difficult, and they drove many
miles at an average speed of but 20
miles an hour. Getting further south,
they found the roads in fine shape
again and were able to make good
time the rest of the way.
TJncle George Mills Poorly
Since his second very severe at
tack of illness, which occurred some
three weeks ago. Uncle George Mills
remains very poorly at his home
north of town. He is not able to
get about very much, but likes to
get out in the open on nice days
and would also like very much to get
back at his work, but his physical
condition is such that he cannot do
so.
Eed Cross Boll Call Soon
The annual American Red Cross
roll call will be under way Boon,
opening on Armistice day and con
tinuing until Thanksgiving. The Red
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CHECK UP today on your
Fire Insurance. . . Don't
wait until you have a
loss to learn that your
protection "was not ade
quate. Searl S. Davis
OFFICESi 2.I FL.OOK
Platts. State Bank Bldg.
Cress is known througliout the length
and breadth of our land as the most
humantarian relief agency in exist
ence, and is one organization to
which everyone should belong. The
membership fee of ?1 is not large,
and from it is provided the relief
funds used to alleviate want and Buf
fering. Have your name enrolled on
the membership list of your home
chapter at the earliest possible mo
ment.
After the Pheasants Again
Lacey McDonald, Henry Arr gwert,
Bryan McDonald, John McDonald,
A. J. -Tool and Henry A. Tool made
up a party of hunters from Murdock
who went up near Hubbard, in Da
kota county, over the last week end
for a second pheasant hunting expe
dition just before the close of the
season. They were joined there by
S. P. Lies, who had gone with them
the week before and remained for a
visit with relatives in that locality.
They. found the birds plentiful but a
little hard to scare up, which added
to the excitement of the chase. All
returned home Sunday evening.
Wm. Bourke Elected Assessor
William Bourke, who has served
as assessor for several years, was re
elected to that office at last Tues
day's election, being opposed by two
candidates, and feels that he is one
of that large group who have been
highly endorsed by the voters.
Eas New Housekeeper
Mrs. J. J. Arnold, sister of the
late Mrs. L. Neitzel, will be the
housekeeper for L. Neitzel, replacing
Mrs. Clara Ilartung. daughter of
L. Neitzel. who has taken care of the
home since her mother's passing.
Mrs. Arnold's husband passed away
nearly three years ago. She has spt-nt
the last year near Lakeside, Calif.,
with her niece. Mrs. Arnold visited
here rbout a year ago. She has a
sister living at Cedar Bluffs, -which
brings the sisters within easy reach
for visiting.
TUEKEY PEICES L0WEE
Brady, Tex. Turkey prices skidded
off the high level of last year as the
Thanksgiving market opened with an
abundance of choice, well filled birds
in sight. The best offered was 12
cents a pound wholesale for No. 1
birds. The market reacted swiftly to
reports from all over the southwest
that flocks were from 25 to 50 per
cent larger than in 1935. vhen
drouth conditions checked produc
tion. This year's price was about 2
cents down.
Automobile
gnsnranoe
Driving conditions are of
ten bad during the winter
months. If you drive a
car you need good insur
ance.
we
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