The Great Plains During World War II

Volunteers Save
Sugar Beets of
Sheridan Region


Sheridan, June 22.–(U.P.)–A thousand acres of the vital sugar beet crop of the Sheridan area has been saved for the war effort through the energy of volunteer workers.

G. W. Hardy, chairman of the Sheridan county labor sub-committee for the agriculture war board, says that from the first call for volunteers up through the weekend more than 450 persons have registered to work in the beet fields.

The volunteers include high school boys and girls, men and women from local business firms and practically every miner from the Sheridan area coal mines.

Hardy says the work of thinning the bets probably will be finished early next week and he declared the amount of sugar saved by the volunteers will fill at least 36,000 sacks.

–DIG UP YOUR RUBBER–