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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1943
Page
8
County agents report community leaders chosen for 4H and sewing clubs. Plans include war time meals demonstration by Flora Carl and contour farming to boost yields. Red Cross fund reaches 134.50. 128 women enrolled in First Aid and Home Nursing classes.
Miss Woodruff, Home Management Specialist, shared key upkeep and repair tips for home equipment. A new bulletin, number 29, is now available upon request at this office.
War Department halted discharges of men over 38 on March 31. They will be transferred to inactive status in the enlisted Reserve Corps if they request and obtain a War Manpower Commission statement showing essential-industry entry. They may be recalled on demand by the War Manpower Commission.
Citizens wives and infants of lower ranking service members will receive maternity care via a new program from the U S Department of Labor. Katherine F Lenroot notes Congress allocated 1 2 million dollars to extend aid across 48 states Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Eligibility covers wives or infants of buck private private first class corporal or sergeant in the Army and comparable Navy Marine Corps or Coast Guard ranks. Higher ranks are excluded.
Retail pork price ceilings took effect April 1 with the OPA planning similar schedules for beef lamb mutton and veal. Price Administrator Prentiss M Brown calls the move a major blow against the black market.
A local regulation limits tire stock for farm equipment. Dealers or individuals servicing farm gear may hold at most six rear-wheel tractor tires on hand, with specifics likely outlined in the accompanying notice or ordinance.
Plenishment portions Part B of rationing certificates call for truck tires to be replaced with tires suitable for farm equipment. The notice directs suppliers to adjust stock to meet agricultural needs and maintain essential farm operations.
Mrs Harold Spake helped her grandparents move to Green City from a farm south of town. Red Cross fund drive in Winigan district collected 100 dollars. Visits paid to Aubrey Evans and Nation families. Curt Crist attended Brookfield. Mrs Othel Haggy visited her parents. Jim McConnell traveled to Marceline to see Cecil Bolander from California. Mina Catt ey Carter funeral held at New Boston with burial at Price cemetery. J L Jones left for Bible Institute in Kentucky. Doctor called for baby daughter of Eldon Morris. Lewis Nation of Bute visiting parents. Hardins set to visit Oregon. Lola Riddle to Washington DC for employment. Tom Greenstreet bought 25 Hereford steers in Kansas City. Alexander school closed with program and basket dinner. Johnny Cook visited Kirksville.
North Salem residents report funeral attendance for Walters of Brookfield and multiple Sunday visits and dinners. Local couples plus relatives travel to Linneus Kirksville Bucklin and Kansas City for family gatherings and medical or travel notes.
On Friday April 2 the science class and band under Mr Wilkison presented an instructive assembly. DeWane Gray hosted with assistants Bob Bennett Charles Christy Loren Lumsden Roy Robison and Quenin DeVore. The program featured science demonstrations and musical numbers plus a guest song by Mary Ellen Wilkison.
Students skipped school for a country hike in search of signs of spring. English Achievement tests for last week show top ranks in Fifth Grade with James Dell and Janet Lumsden leading. Fourth Grade scorers include Roxie Foxe and Eva Carter. pencils awarded for perfect spelling scores went to a list of pupils including Rita Jacobs and Mary Helen Moore.
The school notes last week's report cards with some students raising grades and a few declining. All students aim to improve further for the final term grades.
Room III honors six week students include John Lee Robison Norma Holley Nola Jean Lay Donald Linhart Valjean Gooch Jean Bartow Thelma Lee Gender Vaughan Ginder and Jimmie Nevins.
Section A of sixth grade spelling posted 100 percent on the last unit. Seventh and eighth grades earned an E minus with only one boy in each class missing a single word.
The Friday afternoon program was enjoyed by all and proved entertaining and educational for the student body.
In Fine Arts we study Oxen Plowing by Rosa Bonheur and The Song of the Lark by Breton. Correlating with Language Arts we examine The Year’s at the Spring by Browning and The Voice of Spring by Felicia Hemans.
Students work on measuring areas and perimeters and estimating fencing costs for gardens. They discuss row spacing for planting and calculating acres on small farms.
Writing letters provides a strong method for bulletins samples and general practice. Work books offer opportunities for remedial work and corrections in form arrangement and legibility of writing.
Sixth grade science clash studies water life with student Jimmi Nevins contributing an aquarium container. The fragment notes apples and fil grown Trogs and references other unclear details about the project focus and participation.
Four Sullivan County boys joined a district sheep shearing demonstration at Milan on March 25 to learn proper shearing. Attendees were Dale Mitchell and Bill Gray of Green City, Carl Sykes and Delbert Callihan of Milan, Raymond Smith County Agent, with instruction from E. S. Matteson of the Missouri College of Agriculture and Mr. Bartlett of a Sheep Shearing Manufacturing Company. They purchased equipment and will help relieve next year’s shortage of shearers.
Public Roads Administration reports 53 percent of cars still exceed 35 mph and 91 percent did so a year ago. Rationing had little effect, while a 40 mph appeal cut average passenger speeds from 47 to 44 mph. The 35 mph federal limit, effective last October, lowered the average to about 27 mph.
Mr and Mrs George Phillips visited near Hecla with Wilbur and George Phillips brothers Wilbur and his wife left for Washington state. Mrs Glenn Morris of Chillicothe was a guest of Glenn and Bill Morris. Harold Campbell and family hosted dinner with Sanford and Agell Campbell of Galt. Lilburn Gilmer and Price Gilmer hosted at their home. James Morris and Jeny Sue dined with Jerry Jennings’s family near Browning. Elmer and James Hammock shopped in Brookfield for groceries. Ramah Hicks kept the store. W E Morris and grandson Bud Tate visited Richard and Lelia Tate near Linneus. Mrs Elmer Hammock went to Trenton for a doctor visit. Campbell relatives spend time with grandparents. Rogalee visited her mother Mrs Lela Hicks. Noted Kitchen Klatter says dry coffee grounds on cucumbers and melons.
Carlos Hick under the weather. Mary Gooch spent Saturday night with Beverly Stevenson. Rev Hines and wife held regular services at Morris Chapel with sermons and music led by Mrs Hines. Sunday School reorganized with a fair crowd. Helen Lee visited parents Judge and Mrs Lee. Attend church and Sunday School and buy bonds and stamps.
Mr and Mrs Robert Lambert and sons Calvin and Marvin traveled to Kirksville where Marvin had an appendectomy and returned home Thursday evening Mrs Lambert stayed with him. Numerous local families hosted and visited in Browning Linneus and Kirksville with hospital trips noted for Marvin Lambert.
Mrs John Longwell and Dan Gray visited Chillicothe on Monday. Mrs Longwell brought home 300 baby chicks. Mrs Jesse Longwell spent Sunday with her mother Mrs Alva Deskins. Robert Lambert Ervin and Leoma visited Kirksville with Marvin Lambert. Mrs Lambert returned home after being with her son since Wednesday. Marvin is reported as getting along fine. Belle Gray of St Louis visits at J T Longwell's. Mr and Mrs Marlin Woodside and daughters were Sunday visitors. Of his parents Mr and Mrs Jess Woodside.
Mr and Mrs Geo E Artz and children visited near Green City with Mr Artzs sister family. Betty Bardon attended the last day of school in Scottsville. The McCoys moved to the Woods farm south of Sterling. Sherman Cutsinger visits Roger home. Sunday guests at Addie Dell and Alpha Lovell included Tunnells and Stokes families. Nearby, Basil and Edwin Tiptons with kin visited Mr and Mrs James Rogers and Haddox families. Ada Smith planned a Kan visit to relatives. Ed Wright of near Cora visited with the Crowdis family.
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