The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-07-21

1t Detroit Lakes, be prohibited.

at Detroit Lakes, be prohibited.
To speed the sale of gas in Redwood Falls, the
promoters propose that the city purchase stoves and
distribute them to patrons with other cost than
monthly payment of gas bills This plan has not been
tried in any other city and the promoters have in
tenton of practcng it in they franchise
here.
The proposal admits that finding gas customers by
usual methods will be difficult. 1t increases the ele-
ment Of risk by at least $50 per customer and unless
the plan carefully supervised easily lead CIV
ing stoves customers who cannot afford the service
and to who have intention of paying for their
fuel. The proposal encroaches the hardware bust
in unprecedented in federal govern
ment enterprises
The argument has been raised that the city can
afford to give ranges promoters cannot because
they would be required pay taxes and because the
city can borrow money at lower interest rates. En-
trely forgotten is the fact that the city, in order
furnish free ranges would have to borrow approx
mately $4,000 than franchise holders would if
they did not furnish the Under city ownership
the city will lose item of 1000 to 81 200 which
would be paid by franchise holder. Privately owned
which replaced by stoves furnished by the
city also would be scratched from the roll of taxable
property Proposed rates under either plan are dent
ical
There is advantage to the city under city own
ershp plan that is not present if proper franchise
city operates the plant builds it and leases it to
promoters, the city is rskng its money in new en-
terprse which must be developed by dgen effort and
which necessarily will have to withstand losses in ear
y months, if not years. If private capital is willing
to assume the risk and work the field under suitable
franchise which will allow the city to acquire the bust
ness when it has proved successful, it is the safer
course. If private capital will take that risk the
city certainly is in position to do
About the Weather
n ECENT hot spells in various sections of the
X country naturally have revived comparisons of
heat with conditions of former years. In the
United States the hottest spot average place
in Death Valley, California, named oddly enough Green
land Ranch where July TO- 1910, the temperature
to 134 degrees.
The record for cold in this country is held by Miles
City Montana where the mercury sank to Is below
in 1888.
Higher and lower temperatures have been record
ed in Africa and Siberia respectively although Death
Valleys high mark is within two degrees of the worlds
record, 1876 degrees at Azizia Tripoli, in 1924.
Some interesting of excessive rainfall and
snowfall have been noted by the United States Wealth
er Bureau. The hardest rain ever recorded was at
Ophids Camp, in California, where an inch of rain
equivalent to lis tons of water per acre fell in one
minute on April 5, 1926 At Porto Bello Panama FAT
inches of rain fell in three minutes on May 1908 The
heaviest snowfall ever to at place equipped for
accurate observation Is inches in "a hours at
Washington, D. c. in January, 1922
The most pleasant climate in the United States,
and perhaps in the world, is enjoyed by Key West
where the temperature has gone above 1OO nor
below Al above It's average for January is 70
and for July "a. Even in the heat of summer this
island city is relatively COOL being famed by breezes
from the Gulf Of Mexico, which seldom fail when ihey
needed.
California town locks up the cars of traffic Of
tenders. 1t must have mammoth garage
scientist declares that the flight of time is an
illusion. Wish he would convince our banker
Arplane models are tested in wind tunnel They
could get rigid test in the Senate chamber.
1t must be said for gangsters that they do more
toward eliminating gangsters than anybody else does