Browning Wildcats Triumph In Overtime Victory
The Browning Wildcats edged Dawn 30 28 in overtime after a tight game. Key players Woolf Smith and Ware starred while D Dixon fouled out. Dawn's fast forwards challenged Browning’s defense throughout. The Browning B team later beat Green City Gophers 20 to 13 with strong ball handling.
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Wildcats
Smith
Dawn
Browning
Woolf
Kelly
McCormick
Ware
D. Dixon
R. Dixon
Johns
Browning School
Gooch
Browning Wildcats
Green City Gophers
Ray Hoselton
Leroy Beckett
Dewayne Gray
Charles Christy
Bob Moore
Charles Vincent
Bob
Milan Preps Dual Basketball Showdown With Browning A B
On Friday night December 10 Milan hosts Browning A and Browning B in back to back games. The B team starts at 8 while the A squad tips at 9 as two competitive matchups unfold for local fans.
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Milan
Ready Made Family Junior Play Set For Christmas Run
The Junior Play Ready Made Family will be staged just before Christmas with the cast announced.
High School Rec Hour Winners Named in Friday Events
In the High School Gym on Friday afternoon the class sponsored a recreational hour. Mrs Brantner and Mr Page won the first contest. Mary Smith and Junior Fanning won the needle ing event for the Junior class. Sophomores won the three legged race with Ronald Maggart and Eugene Jacobs as reps. Cocoa and wafers were served.
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Brantner
Page
Mary Smith
Junior Fanning
Ronald Maggart
Eugene Jacobs
Evening Sports and Dancing Round Up
The remainder of the hour featured volleyball table tennis and dancing. Participants enjoyed active indoor recreation with varied activities and social dancing to close the event.
Fifth Grade Class Presents Colonies Unit Findings
The fifth grade social studies class under Mrs. Thurlo completes a unit on the thirteen original colonies. Students showcase knowledge of founding, settlement, and growth toward national power.
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Thurlo
Fourth Grade Wins Sunday School Tendance Contest
ROOM II reports Fourth Grade won with an average of 55 1/9 percent, Fifth Grade second at 42 1/19, and Sixth Grade far behind at 9 1/11. Mr. Arnold donated a tree now on display. High School Girls took first at the Mooresville tournament last weekend. all players contributed to the win.
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Mooresville
Room I
Rooms II
Ili
Paul Tiahrt
Clinton Bennett
Devaughn Ginder
Seventh Grade Tops Spelling And Civic Club Plans
Room III reports top spelling in the week and describes eighth graders studying Civil War while seventh graders learn the Pony Express. Art projects include holly wreath patterns for menu cards. about thirty finished for Junior Red Cross by December 15.
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Red Cross
Pony Express
Town and Farm in War Time
The rationed beef items have been cut two to three points, expanding civilian access since rationing began last March. Most pork remains at the reduced OPA value set in mid November, while lamb, mutton and veal point values stay the same, boosting December meat rations about 30 percent compared with early November.
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OPA
War conference on farm structures in Chicago on December 10
Farm building material makers organized by the Farm Structures Institute with the War Food Administration will hold a Chicago conference December 10 on maintaining farm structures. The keynote urges maintaining top production efficiency for the nation’s ten and a half billion dollar farm structure investment with minimal new construction.
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Farm Structures Institute
War Food Administration
Chicago
WFA
Change Date on Cattle Program
The cattle rice stabilization program shows an effective date of December 1.
End date set for accounting period after December 15 1948
The text defines the end date as the beginning of the first accounting period after December 15 1948 for each slaughter. It establishes a uniform cutoff tied to the holiday calendar and applies to all slaughter entries mentioned in the record.
Draft board cautions farm workers on address change
A farm worker who fails to inform his local selective service board of a change of address or occupation may be re classified or inducted. Only the board where the individual registered has authority to grant a temporary release from non farm work to protect his deferred classification.
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Selective Service Board
Record coal output and price boosts under wartime contract
The U S Bituminous Coal Mines set a weekly production high of 12 700 000 tons for the week ended November 20 under the new wage agreement. Price ceilings rose by 17 cents per net ton to offset higher labor costs, with an 80 cent rise for central west blast furnace coke and a planned similar increase for central west by product coke.
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U.S
Harold L. Ickes
Central West
Changes In Tire Regulations Under OPA
OPA announces changes in tire rationing rules. Recapping of tires for commercial vehicles with truck type camelback is no longer rationed. War tires made largely from reclaimed rubber may be bought by those previously eligible for used tires. December quotas remain largely unchanged from November.
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OPA
December 15 Set for Filing Income Tax Estimates
Government urges farmers to file estimates by December 15. Collectors will provide forms and assistance. Form 100F available for precise estimates. simplified worksheets cover approximate estimates within a 33 1/3 percent margin. Credits for income and withholding affect tax due. Filing thresholds for individuals and couples are outlined, with directives for first time filers and those with varying wage withholdings.
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Collector of Internal Revenue
St. Louis
Local social notes from Milan and area
Mr and Mrs Cleo Collins and family visited Chas Collins in Milan while Collins serves a 15 day furlough from Camp Mce Cain Mississippi. Funeral attendance for Frank Moffitt near Green City was reported with George Moffitt C E Rogers Haddox among mourners. Dr Ralph DeWitt of Waynesville now has a son several months old. Grant Smith homecoming dinner honors birthday cluster with church friends and relatives. Reverend Poole to preach at Methodist Church. Walter McKay visits with Dwayne Ford family. Anna Alma Grind staff ill but attended Sunday school. Mrs L H Fisher improving after illness.
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Cleo Collins
Pfe
Glenn Collins
Gary
Milan
Chas. Collins
Collins
Camp MceCain
George Moffitt
C. E Rogers
Richard Haddox
Frank Moffitt
Green City
Donald DeWitt
C. J. DeWitt
Ralph DeWitt
Waynesville
Grant Smith
W. G. Mink
Hazel
L. H. Stephenson
Harold
Erma Jean
Mollie Breeding
Robert Stephenson
Keith
Thelma Swank
Nadine McKay
Stella Bachman
Lois Dixon
Dorothy McClaren
Albert Smith
Stella Hollenbeck
Clifford Seckington
Gregory Poole
Rationing Update on Brown Stamp Valid Dates
Brown Stamps L M and N are valid through January 1 for meat cheese butter and fats. Stamp P is valid December 12 through January 1 and Stamp Q is valid December 19 through January 1.
Sugar Stamp No 29 and Book IV Validity Dates
Canned and processed foods green stamps A B and C in Book IV valid through December 20. Green stamps D FE and F in Book IV valid December 1 through January 20. Sugar stamp No 29 in Book IV valid for five pounds through January.
Shoes Stamp No 18 and Stamp No 1 Panels Good for One Pair
The article notes that Shoes Stamp No 18 in Book I and Stamp No 1 on Airplane page of Book III remain valid for one pair indefinitely.
Scrap Drive Urges Farmers to Turn In Waste Metal
A county scrap bank harvest is set for Tuesday December 14 to meet Missouri and Sullivan County quotas for 72 000 tons of waste scrap. The army offers to collect if needed but organizers urge local farmers and residents to bring in every scrap metal piece to support arms production. Local township committee members listed include Clifford McKay Bowman M T Rhoads Buchanan Howard Robinson Clay G G Freeland Duncan O Ray Jackson Ray Fairley A C Crist Morris M Pratt Penn Pleasant Hill H O Knight Polk Joe Moran Taylor Lee Wilkinson Union Isaac Pickens.
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Missouri
Sullivan County
Armed Service
Clifford McKay
Bowman
M. T. Rhoads
Buchanan
Howard Robinson
Polled Shorthorn Show Champion Bull At Sedalia Sale
George E. Smith of Ridgevale Farms near Roger, Missouri, won grand champion with a Shorthorn yearling bull at Sedalia's Polled Shorthorn Show and Sale. The champion sold for 1100 dollars, with five females from the farm bringing 550, 450, 400, 357, and 360 dollars. Other consignments included a Lock Springs bull at 610 and two females at 400 and 150 dollars. Sale highlights also noted top honors at the Iowa Rapids sale.
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George E. Smith
Ridgevale
Roger
Lee Marlay
Sedalia
Oakwood Commander
Ae Rapids
Iowa
Price Freeze Claimed on Food and Drink in 49 Missouri, 3 Kansas Counties
J. G. Callaway, District OPA Director, announces a price freeze for prepared foods and drinks in 49 western Missouri and three eastern Kansas counties starting December 15. The order caps on premise consumption items at the highest price from April 4 to 10, 1943, with menus filed at County War Price and Rationing Boards.
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J. G. Callaway
OPA
Missouri
Kansas
Missouri adopts preregistration blood tests for marriage licenses
The Pre marital Law requires a blood test for all marriage license applicants. The State Board of Health provides free tests at its laboratories in Jefferson City Springfield and Sikeston plus other approved labs. Local or private labs may perform tests after state evaluation. Certificates and report forms are distributed to recorder offices and bureaus. the law takes effect January 1, 1944.
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State Board of Health
Recorder of Deeds
Jefferson City
Missouri
Springfield
Sikeston
U. S. Public Health Service
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Jean Woolf Ceeseee Sevsers
Charles Vincent Er Ee
Waverly Ware
Lorane Taylor
Sane
Joel Brookshier
Darlene
Peggy Head
Room
Mr. Arnold
Mundell
Jeans Bartow
Valjean Gooch
Junior Citizens Club
Anna
Alma Grindstaff
L. H. Fisher
M. F
Staley’s
Staley
Wilke’s
M.F.A. Central Cooperative
Browning, MO
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