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Meanwhile, Benson personally bears the brunt of the bitterness. In Goodland and Logansport, Ind., Centerville, Mt. Pleasant and Shenandoah, Iowa, Nebraska City, Kearney, Ogallala and the Scottsbluff area of Nebraska, I met many who complained that the Secretary is a businessman, not a farmer. In strong Farm Union areas such as central and eastern Montana the Republican Party and policy are held to blame rather than Benson. Near Billings, I heard a recorded anti-G.O.P. speech by Senator Jim Murray in use as a radio commercial by a retail outlet as a sales pitch to farmers to buy portable...
Caston has also invaded the hinterland. This winter the orchestra will brave snow & ice on bus trips to such cities as Cheyenne, Wyo., Fort Morgan, Colo, and Scottsbluff, Neb. As usual, Caston & Co. will play matinees for the children. After all, he and his musicians expect to be in the Rocky Mountains a long time...
...Army planes took off to drop supplies, scour the snow-burdened plains for signs of distress. Some spotted stranded motorists, who had survived miraculously far from towns. Some had been lucky enough to sit out the storm in their cars. One man and his wife who were marooned near Scottsbluff, Neb. had even found food-frozen ears of corn from roadside fields...
...rich North Platte valley just outside Scottsbluff, Neb., Harold Baltes bought a farm for $364 an acre, roughly three times the local price in 1939. In the rolling, rocky hill country north of San Antonio, the old ranchers were moving back like Indians in the face of the assault from pale-faced city slickers. Land worth $8 to $10 an acre a few years back was going for as much as $100. Drawled one old rancher: "They want a place where they can keep some horses, have a big hat, boots and station wagon with their name on the side...
Owen R. Smith of Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Kirkland House, has been named second assistant swimming manager. He will become varsity manager in his Senior year...