Better Farming for Sullivan County 4-H Week Activities
Sullivan County 4-H highlights march 3 to 11 as National 4-H Club Week. Nine clubs enroll 145 members, led by presidents including Robert Pendergraft and Warner Steele, with baby beef projects and community events like a pie supper funding club treasuries.
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Sullivan County
State of
Missouri
Osgood
Robert Pendergraft
Prairie Dale
Warner Steele
Humphreys Victory
Donald Lake
Johnson
J. O. Harris
Comstock Victory
Billy Young
Pollock
Willard Schnelle
High Point
Kenneth Caldwell
Winigan
Shirley Romine
Newtown
Dean McCollum
Johnson Baby Beef 4-H Club
Town and Farm in Wartime
Civilians at war urged to support the 1945 Red Cross Drive with $200,000,000 in voluntary contributions. Citizens are asked to save waste paper kitchen fats and tin cans where collected and to use V Mail to aid cargo space for soldiers overseas.
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Red Cross
Home Repairs Program Financed Urgent Aid for 390000 Families
Nearly 390000 American families received financing for urgent home repairs and maintenance last year. The program aimed to stabilize housing conditions and prevent further decay, assisting homeowners with essential improvements amid rising costs.
FHA aims to spur jobs through postwar property repairs
Abner H. Ferguson of the National Housing Administration says removing wartime restrictions will unleash property repairs and improvements funded by private lenders. He notes these efforts will create many jobs during the transition from war to peace and estimates up to 3 billion dollars in repairs and improvements in the first year.
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Federal Housing Administration
Abner H. Ferguson
National Housing Instiation
FHA
Farmers delay 1945 tax declarations to January 15 1946
Farmers who rely mostly on farming may delay filing 1945 declarations until January 15 1946 and may file annual returns then. Declarations are required for those expecting to earn 500 dollars or more. If they delay, they must pay the full estimated tax then. Farmers who have not filed 1944 returns must do so by March 15.
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Collector of Internal Revenue
Food rationing in Japan covers all essentials
The Office of War Information reports Japan imposes total rationing on food, clothing, matches, medicines, gasoline, and fuel. Neighborhood associations issue rations for ten families each, with police appointing local chairmen. Local food corporations deliver rations to consumers at their doors.
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Japan
Office of War
Safety First For Farm Investments
M L Pred, chief of the Agricultural War Finance Division, warns farmers to invest savings wisely. He recalls many farmers, drawn by high interest, losing money in speculative stocks and bonds during the last war period. War Bonds are urged as the first choice for farm savings.
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M. L. Pred
Agricultural Son of Treasury
War Bond drives sugar ration plan for 1945 home canning
The War Bond EF offers high interest as 10 million yards of cotton goods are allocated for rural merchants in early 1945. WPB limits distribution to small towns under 25 000 population, targeting home garment makers. Bowles outlines a tightened home canning program with five pound sugar coupons issued by local boards and per person and per family limits.
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War Production Board
WPB
Chester Bowles
OPA
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Sullivan County Agent's News
R. H. Gwynn
E. P. Maitland
Extension Service
Consumers Cooperative Association Cannery
Milan
Clyde Cunningham
Columbia
Ese
Milan Circuit Court Room
Green City
Browning
Pollock House
Humphreys
Friendly Neighbor Women’s Extension Club
Albert Posey
Lester Leonard
Arthur Pratt
Donald Gray
Linn County Farm Bureau
Good Roads Committee
Linn County
Elmo Schreck
Schreck
Farm Bureau
Joe Edmundson
Linneus
Riley Pankey
Brookfield
Don Taylor
Marceline
E. L. Jacobi
T. A. Connors
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
National Meat Department
Conners
M. F. A. General Cooperative
Hamburger
K. Weiner
Tapicoa K. C
California
Scott Eden
Browning, On
Jersey
Oxford
E. L. Albritten
H. V. Campbell
Ces of
America
Alice Buncies
Post Office
Cora M. Haley
ADMX
MAY Auction CO
Lawrence
Kansas
Herman Payne
Shelby
Howard Payne
J. I
Belle City
Friendly Circle Club
Raymond Browning
Roy McCollum
Carl Tapscott
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