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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1944
Page
4
A Browning High teacher describes blackout games to students as fun. A sophomore boy reportedly gives chocolate kisses on the school bus. Mary Lou DeVore looks forward to the fifteenth of the month with furlough noted.
A driver edged into a roadside ditch west of town the night before the junior play. Miss Gooch routinely sits behind Gwen Kelly and Shirley Lowe during English tests and likely glances toward Jeanne Woolf if laughter rises in class. Leroy Beckett and Leon Stephenson show vocabulary words they use when something displeases them from their dictionary.
After a two minute talk, Leroy asks feedback from Miss Gooch who says the speech was alright but she disliked his gum. Leroy jokes that he thought he had been chewing it.
Quentin DeVore and Ed Tucker perform disruptive antics in the study hall as they kick an ink bottle along the aisles until it breaks. the scene reflects a stray moment of schoolyard mischief.
Students thank Mrs Jennings and Mrs Keithley for help during the week back at school. Absent due to colds, Bobby Tunnell moved away. All pupils received new reading books and began studying capitalization and punctuation. Grades expected to improve. awaiting grade cards.
The report lists December 26 and January 2 attendance for 4th to 6th grades with percentages and notes top performers. It notes grade cards due this week and parents should see their children’s first semester averages, highlighting several students with near perfect or high spelling and overall marks.
The cur er reports six new enrollments across grades six to four. Gale Hedges enters 6th grade, Billy Phillips joins 5th grade, Helen Atkins moves to 5th grade, and Jerry Hedges advances to 4th grade, bringing total in the room to 34.
The OPA announces special gasoline rations for servicemen recuperating from illness or wounds received in active duty. Rations are issued upon leave papers and a medical officer's letter certifying automobile travel aids recovery.
The Kansas City Chamber of Commerce launches a pasture dairy and livestock contest for 1944. It is a medal contest with first prize a gold medal, second prize a silver medal, and third prize a bronze medal. Entry blanks and information available at the County Extension Office.
True Blue Club of Shafter will cover fuel costs for cars delivering blood in Northwest Linn County. A seed oats shortage prompts farmers to secure seed promptly and notify the County Agent. Louise Woodruff will lead a Linn County training on cleaning kerosene stoves. A memo urges canning by approved methods now that pressure cookers aren’t rationed. Mrs Lawrence Dowell of Laclede reports 135 hens laying average 14 eggs in December with good profit and describes her housing, litter, and feeding practices.
Missouri drives set a 282 million quota with a national 14 billion goal for the Fourth War Loan Drive opening January 18. Navy yards in Puget Sound and Mare Island need workers for fitting out and repairing ships. jobs include electricians machinists and sheet metal workers with minimal experience required. applicants contact the U S Navy Recruiting Station in Saint Joseph Missouri.
About 76 million pounds of tea will be available to civilian consumers in 1944 under wartime restrictions or shipping space constraints, authorities say.
In 1943 America faces its worst infantile paralysis epidemic in 12 years with over 12 000 cases. Children in hospitals need help now and a potential 1944 wave looms. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis asks citizens to celebrate the President's birthday by contributing January 14 to 31 to fund the cause.
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