Sikeston High School honors dictation and typing stars
Office training students will receive certificates for 60 words per minute dictation with at most ten errors, and Helen Dye at 100 wpm with seven errors. Typists earning 30 wpm with five or fewer errors receive certificates. list of recipients includes many names with speeds and errors. FFA boys head to Cape Girardeau for agriculture contests, with Sikeston entrants in animal husbandry, dairy products, meats, dairy production, public speaking, radio skit, parliamentary procedure, farm mechanics, crops, and poultry. winners advance to state meet in Columbia April 21 to 23.
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Helen Dye
Mary Ann Hitchcok
Viva Hubbard
Sue Stowe
Velma Stacey
Corndell Parks
Jo Ann Sadler
Sikeston
Mark Marshall
Marion Parks
Billy Acord
J. W. Nelson
Jerry Townsend
James Guiling
Bull Hodges
Ned Tanner
Gene Aufdenberg
Richard Springs
Gene Jones
Harold Lee Hodges
Don Matthews
J W Nelson
Bill Hodges
John A Matthews
Manon Parks
John Blomfield
Gerald Hodges
Bob Bechel
W. A Cashion
Dick Bloomfield
Jerry White
John Bloomfield
James Coleman
William
Baker
Columbia
Occupations Classes Inspect Industries Visits Two Plants
On March 25 the Diversified Occupations class visited Hart's Bakery. John McCrory explained bread making steps and a bakery tour revealed new hardwood floors and a flour bin vacuum. On April 1 L M Standley and Burl Heath guided the class at Reiss Dairy with tours of stock room labs pasteurizing bottling and offices followed by ice cream at the Cowbell. The students praised the cleanliness of both plants.
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Hart's
John McCrory
L. M Standley
Burl Heath
Reiss’ Dairy
Mr. Standley
Eight Girls Chosen for Play Day at Cape
Sikeston selects two representatives from each senior high class for Play Day at State College in Cape Girardeau this Saturday. About 400 Southeast Missouri girls are expected. Representatives include Jean Kellett Barbara Canedy Patsy Moore Nell Dodd Mattie Moore Dottie Haters Mary Ann Walker Judy Heath. Transportation provided by Mrs. Jeanne Galladay and Barbara Canedy. Seniors chosen for the senior play "Pure Family" are Sue Stowe Charlotte Aldrich Margaret Thrower Mary Ann Hitchcock Phyllis Garner Lucy Aufdenberg Marilyn Yoffie June Cathey Dick Young Jay Dowden Gene Nicholson Jack Bowman Buddy Limbaugh Ned Tanner and Bob Porter.
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Sikeston
State College
Cape Girardeau
Missouri
Jean Kellett
Barbara Canedy
Patsy Moore
Nell Dodd
Mattie Moore
Dottie Haters
Mary Ann Walker
Judy Heath
Jeanne Galladay
Sue Stowe
Charlotte Aldrich
Margaret Thrower
Mary Ann Hitchcock
Phyllis Garner
Lucy Aufdenberg
Marilyn Yoffie
June Cathey
Dick Young
Jay Dowden
Gene Nicholson
Jack Bowman
Buddy Limbaugh
Ned Tanner
Bob Porter
Sikeston students sweep Cape Girardeau music contest
Sikeston sent a record eight first place winners in vocal and instrumental events at Cape Girardeau Friday April. Firsts went to the girls trio June Cathey Barbara Guthrie Charlotte Aldrich and the clarinet quartet Lucy Jo Auf denberg Mary Nell Van Bibber Dick Keller Ann Keller, plus Graham Sadler alto horn John Kendig cornet Bill Modersbach Harold Coleman bass horn Charles Berthe and Mary Elizabeth Stevenson piano. Seconds to Janice Shepard Norma Oden piano Mary Jane Faris and thirds to Leta Faye Sutton Sue Slade. Sikeston schools dismiss Friday April 15 for Good Friday observance.
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Sikeston
Cape Girardeau
June Cathey
Barbara Guthrie
Charlotte Aldrich
Lucy Jo Aufdenberg
Mary Nell van Bibber
Dick Keller
Ann Keller
Graham Sadler
John Kendig
Bill Modersbach
Harold Coleman
Charles Berthe
Mary Elizabeth Stevenson
Lincoln School Dismissal For District Teachers Meeting
The Lincoln school will dismiss all day Friday so teachers may attend the District Teachers Meeting in Charleston. The two day meeting runs Thursday and Friday with Sikeston teachers attending one day. Principal R V Ford and six faculty attend Friday sessions starting at 10 00 am. The theme is The Educational Outlook in Education and aims to unite Southeast Missouri teachers to exchange ideas. Attendees include Cape, Charleston, Sikeston, Poplar Bluff, Caruthersville and other Southeast Missouri schools.
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Lincoln School
Charleston
Sikeston
Prin. R. V. Ford
Fnday
Missouri
Cape
Poplar Bluff
Caruthersville
Missour
Junior High Party Staged in Gymnasium
A junior high party sponsored by the student council was held in the gym Friday night. Pat Nickens organized entertainment and C H Vogt managed refreshments. Dancing was central. a homeroom contest awarded 8C and 7A. Table games were played. chaperones were Miss Nell Yanson and Mrs Wm Baker.
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Pat Nickens
C H Vogt
Nell Yanson
Wm @ Baker
Pupil Course Planning Ahead Of Pre Registration
Pupils in eighth through eleventh grades discuss next year’s four year high school plans in homerooms. With parental guidance and sponsor advice they map four year schedules to clarify aims and ideals. Early spring planning aims to avoid hectic fall registration.
Inter-school speech contest postponed to next Wednesday
Miss Mary Ellen Bailey and Robert Walker, coaches, say the inter school speech contests are delayed because of numerous spring events and overlapping activities. Many schools cannot send representatives at this time.
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Mary Ellen Bailey
Robert Walker
Two sophomores seek national award in UN test
Bill Berry and Michael Lewis, both sophomores, took a United Nations organization test entered in a national contest on April 1. Over 2000 schools nationwide participated. Winners will be notified by telegram after the Awards Committee decides. Gideon W. O Hunter sustained a broken collarbone and five broken ribs in a loading accident. Get our prices before you buy LAIR'S.
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Bill Berry
Michael Lewis
United Nations Organization
General Assembly
Committee On Awards
United States
Hawaii
Alaska
Panama Canal Zone
Gideon—W. O Hunter
Gideon-Anderson Company
Eighth Grade Graduates Visit Rural High School
Eighth grade students due to graduate from surrounding rural schools will visit the high school next Thursday. They will eat lunch at the home economics cottage, attend a girls chorus assembly, and tour the music and agricultural buildings and visiting classes.
Car makers cut prices after Ford and others
Nash-Kelvinator announced a price cut of twenty to one hundred twenty dollars on its two car series effective midnight April 4. The move follows similar reductions by Ford and comes after Kaiser-Frazer Willis-Overland and General Motors had already slashed prices in the prior four weeks.
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Nash - Kelvinator Corporation
Ford
Kaiser-Frazer
Willis-Overland
General Motors
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Norma Oden
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