The Daily Plainsman from Huron, South Dakota • Page 5

FEBRUARY 27. 1931 THE EVENING HUROMTTE. HURON. S. U.

PAGE FIVE Gladys Pyle Says---- More than three million dollars was expended by the local school taxing districts during the two years just past for transporting school children to and from school and for tuition charges for children outside their own districts. It is little yonder that the members of the legislature have presented bills suggesting the changing or the elimination of the transportation of school children laws when faced with the fact that was spent in this way during the past two years. JThe system of each school district pt ing transportation charges when dren live than two and a half mill away from school a no doubt just. Tha it has been abused in many intancea is equally true. Individual instances have been found in which some patron collects transportation costs for his children but makes his children walk to school.

During the last year a number of counties have reported an exceptionally large transportation item for their schools. In the rural schools of the state Perkins county ranks highest with paid for transportation of pupils. In consolidated schools Lake county the most of any of the counties Ifor irans- portation charges, this item having been $17,708.22. Counties in which either the rural or consolidated schools paid five thousand dollars or more for transporting children were Brookings, Brule, Fall River, Haak- cn. Harding, Lake, Lynian, Meade, Peu- nington, Perkins, Stanley, Sully, Aurora, Beadle, Brown, Charles Mix, Clark, Codington, Day, Faulk, Hamlm, Hanson, MoCook, Marshall Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Sanborn, Tripp and Turner.

Many of these counties are sparsely populated counties in whwjh school dis- -tricts are very large and in which the of transportation is cheaper than would bo the alternative of tuition in other school. In such cases transportation is an economy. There is, however, considerable agitation to eliminate entirely the entire transportation feature and if this is done a large saving will be effected for the schools districts, although at cost to individual members. Various county superintendents of schools report that some of the most troublesome differences of opinion within school districts arise in the matter of deter.iiining just what families are entitled to transportation charges and which ones must bear this item themselves. Twenty Years Today In Huron A party of young people was most pleasantly entertained on Saturday by Mrs.

Harry Otto in honor of the fourth anniversary of the birth of her son Ralph. Games occupied the greater part of the afternoon ad delicious refreshments were served. Mesdames T. H. Null and C.

B. Alford tertainsd a number of friends at a bridge luncheon, given at the home of Mrs. Null, Tuesday afternoon. Six tables of bridge whist were played. Mrs.

Milton Alford receiving the high prize and Mrs. Holbrook the Dr. C. H. French is expected home early this week from California, where he has been visiting with his family for a few weeks.

He will coma by the way of St. Paul. William Hitschlag departed Sunday ev- for Watertown, at which place he expects to visit for a short time. He is now planning on going fro.n there to Florida points on an extended trip. Miss Grace Carter of Mitchell expects to leave this evening for her home after Pearce.

Mrs. Coler Campbell left Saturday for a few days visit here with Mrs. Harry Mississippi points for extended visit. Mrs. J.

L. Pyle, Mrs. M. E. Walton, Mrs.

A. E. Taylor and Mrs. A Fairbank leave for Pierre this evening to appear before the legislature in the interest df the equal suffrage amendment, which will be voted on two years hence. E.

H. Vance departed Monday morning for Sioux Falls to spend a few days there on business. Bills Signed To Alter State Law Governor Green Approves Measures That Would Change Statutes Of S. D. PIERRE, Feb.

legislative bills recently signed by Governor Green change the South Dakota law by: Eliminating the responsibility of townships for highway accidents on township roads. Including combine and corn sheller operators under the threshers' lien law. Making non-observance of a lease basis for forcible entry and detainer action. Changing dates of the court term in the ninth judicial circuit. Giving county commissioners power to compromise, taxes real property conveyed to the state for the benefit of its educational institutions.

Regulating embalming. Changing dates of examinations for cosmetic theapy examinations. Giving the board cosmetic theapy authority to make rules for examinations and qualifications of license applicants with approval of the attorney general. Adding eight grade education as qualification, for cosmetic therapy license applicants and increase training requirements. Defining butter substitutes.

Providing for prevention of establishment of legal settlement by indigent persons. Legalizing a J2.650 bonds issue for Schepp's canyon school district No. 15 in Fall River county. Providing for payment in legal tender of wages for women and girls. Permitting disposal of dead animals by other methods than burying or burning.

Reducing mileage allowance for county superintendents attending state meetings to ten cents a mile by automobile and five cents by train. Creating an incidental fund of $1,000 for state soldiers' home at Hot Springs. Giving greater disciplinary authority to superintendent of state soldiers' homo. Prohibiting the leaving of refuse on highways or public grounds. New Natural Gave To Be Opened In Hills PIEDMONT, Feb.

new cave. containing the only black crystal room on record is to be opened this spring for visitors. The new cave is located three miles south of here near the famous Crystal cave. It is the property of the federal government and is being leased by it to private operators. Discovered by government geologists 35 years ago, the cave is being enlarged and cleared for exhibition.

One cavern of jet-black crystal is now under repair operations. Believe Mice Cause Of Timber Lake Fire TIMBER LAKE-- Feb. gnawing matches which may have been left in the house are thought responsible for a fire which destroyed the large dwelling house on a farm four miles east of Timber Lake which was vacated January 1 by R. E. Quinn and family, who took up their residence in Timber Lake.

The farm belongs to the South Dakota rural credits department, having been foreclosed by the department through failure of the former owner to pay a rural credits loan. Investigation following the fire did not reveal any tracks in the vicinity of the dwelling, thereby eliminating the probability that the fire might have been started by tramps or others making temporary use of tha building for shelter. The dwelling was one of the largest situated on a farm in this district. Mr, Quinn still had a small amount of personal property in the house, but it was of no great value. Consider Erection Of New Brown County Jail ABERDEEN, Feb.

of a new Brown county jail is under consideration here, after condemnation of the present structure by Circuit Judge Van Buren Perry. After an inspection of the jail building, Judge Perry infonrud the county commissioners in a letter that the structure is unfit for keeping long-time and desperate prisoners. The jail has also) been condemned for Imprisonment of witnesses and person! held tor contempt court. Among other points, Judge Perry explained that the present jail Is of antiquated design, inadequate and is in such a condition that it is no longer capable of holding desperate criminals. Provisions for sanitation were described as unsatisfactory.

The jail was similarly' condemned by Judge Thomas L. Bouck 15 years ago. Judge Perry made the suggestion that county commissioners consider erection of a new jail, with funds to be derived from a half mill levy authorized by bill now Before" "the legislature, and from unexpended and unappropriated county money. Action on the judge's letter will probably taken at the March meeting of the county commissioners. Sioux Falls To Give Courtesy To Visitors SIOUX FALLS, Feb.

that out-of-town visitors would be extended all the courtesies possible when they visit Sioux Falls, was given with the announcement week that new courtesy vehicle tags, for use by city patrolmen on visiting cars parked in violation of city parking ordinances were being prepared. The new tags are printed on yellow carboard and bear the following: "Welcome to Sioux Falls. You have unintentionally violated one of our local traffic rules, as checked on the back of this card. We realize the difficulty of conforming to the different traffic regulations hi each city, and therefore you are excused. "We want your stay in Sioux Falls to be exceptionally pleasant.

Traffic regulations are, however, necessary and in the public interest. Please feel free to ask any policeman for information about traffic rules. "Free municipal parking spaces, with no time limits, are maintained at: Foot of Ninth street, Seventh street and Dakota avenue, Fourteenth street and Phillips avenue. "A tourist information bureau is maintained at the Sioux Falls -chamber of commerce. 900 Citizens' National bank building.

We hope you will like Sioux Falls. "Chief of Police." Officers Are Named For Yankton Student YANKTON, Feb. 27-At a special election this week of the freshman class of Yankton college Morris Nielsen of Yankton and James of Chamberlain were selected as editor and business manager respectively, of the freshman edition of the Yankton Student, weekly campus paper, it was announced by George Baucrs, Yankton, president of tha freshman class. Nielsen, the editor of the frosh issue, is the winner of the Drake scholarship prize, for meritorious work during the first semester. Nielsen graduated last year from Yankton high school.

James Brown, Chamberlain, the son of M. A. Brown, former Rhodes scholar to Oxford from Yankton college has distinguished himself during his freshman year at Yankton college In extra-curricular The frosh business manager is a prominent member of the Yankton Booster club. The class, of '34 selected Grace Nichol of Yankton as assistant editor and Barnice Jensen of Yankton as assistant business manager. Teacher Fails To Keep His Wedding A Secret HIGHMORE, Feb.

27--(Special)--Edwin Mogck, teacher in mathematics of the Highmore schools went back to Iowa to spend his Christmas vacation, and while there, married Miss Helen Louise Berg, of Clearfleld, returning to his work without mentioning the little circumstance. But marriage, like murder, "will out," and Mr. Mogck is today accepting the hearty congratulations of his friends and appears to-like it Detroit Checks Rum Smuggling Liquor Now Trickles Across From Canada In Pint Quantities DETROIT--(IP)--A- year ago liquor came the Detroit river here by the cue--in power boats, trucks, sleds and skiffs. Today it trickles In by the pint In such hip pocket flasks as elude sharp- eyed customx inspectors. This contrast in the sire of smuggling operations at Detroit, says Col.

Heinrich A. Pickert, collector customs, is the result of two -things: More rigid satjoling of the and the "friendly of the Canadian government in placing a ban on the export of liquor to prohibition countries. And Colonel Pickert frankly admits that the bigger element was the Canadian ban, for, asks, wai it not an uphill fight in the old days when 150 border patrolmen tried to hold in check an estimated 10,000 men engaged in smuggling? The present -state of affairs resulted only after one of the most exciting episodes in the history of smuggling. During 1928 and 1929, and until the Canadian ban went into effect last spring, thousands of gallons of liquor a month started across the mile-wide river and most of it reached its destination on the American shore. Official -Canadian export records show some 4,000,000 gallons a year of whiskey, beer and other liquors were cleared for the United States.

Estimates of value show that that business at one tune amounted to as much as a year when profits of smugglers and bootleggers were taken Into consideration. Numerous scandals came to light In connection with the smugglers' activities. Two years ago 26 border patrolmen of the customs service, along with a number of smugglers, were indicted for bribery, and another 20 were exposed as bribe-takers in 1930. Most of them went to federal prisons. Stories were told of smugglers pulling up alongside patrol boats to throw to rolls of bills and of patrolmen who received as much as 51,500 a week.

Shooting, too, kept the border in turmoil as international notes flew back and forth regarding bullets allegedly fired by smugglers and patrolmen across the Canadian boundary, which Is in the middle of the river. But now. Bays Colonel Pickert, the "day of glory" for smugglers is gone. Half a dozen cases today is a big seizure, whereas a hundred or so was only fair-sized two years ago. Commercial smugglers, Colonel Pickert declares, could not operate proBtably even if they succeeded in getting by with six cases or so.

As to the hip pocket cases, the collector adds, they just keep the inspectors at ferry docks, bridge and tunnel from "getting rusty." Howard Pupils Eiiter District Speech Meet HOWARD, Feb. At the contest held here elimination was made preparatory to the district contest Fern Malay was awarded first place in oratory, Gladys Moseson won first in dramatics, and Norma Bengston captured first in humorous. Mrs. Carl Mundt of Madison acted as Judge. These contestants will represent their school in the district contest to be held here.on March 27 where 20 schools will participate.

Rose Marie Hoss played "Moonlight on the Hudson" while the judge retired te make her decision. medals were presented by Supt M. H. Hogen, In Korea, 1200 years ago, when slaves were sold to new masters, an imprint i of their, thumb was placed on the deed of transfer. March Sky Offers "Sickle" Of Stars By Kstert H.

Baker (Professor of Astronomy, University of URBANA, 9 o'clock on March night one finds in the eastern sky, just rising, the constellation of Bootes, marked by the bright star Arc- furus. A UUle southeast of zenith Is This Is a brilliant group of stars, six of which are arranged in the form of a sickle, with the bright star Regulus at the base or handle. The top of the sickle is to the north and the blade opens toward the west' constellation extends from the sickle eastward to Denebola, which is half way on a line drawn from Regulus to Arctunu. The ancients saw in this group of stars, Leo, the lion. The sickle formed his head and mane and Denebola was at the end of the tail.

A spectacular and entertaining sight through an ordinary pair of field glasses is the star cluster Praesepe, or the Beehive, in About 9 o'clock on a night in the middle of March it is on "LUXURY" Cottage Cheese A Splendid Lenten Food 8 oz. Pkg. 13c At All Leading Food Dealers In ordering Milk, Cream, Butter or Cottage Cheese, you are assured of the finest quality by specifying the "LUXURY" Brand Huron Dairy Products Co. Plant That Huron with Health" Never Dreamed It Would Cost So Little 1 DRY CLEANING Is ECONOMY RY Cleaning la an important part of any family's program of thrift. Prolonging the life of your garments; presenting an appearance of immaculate cleanliness and prim appearance and all at BO small an investment as our prices involve te economy indeed.

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Such groups are faily common in the sky and are all in our galaxy. In the early evening, the planet Jupiter is seen in the southwestern sky. It is brightest object in the heavens at this) time, except for the moon, and out with a steady yellow light. The svin- ter constellation also are still visible in the western sky in March. STRANGE CLAM NOW HUNTED OLYMPIA, WASH.

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