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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1948
Page
6
Highway patrol warns against passing on hills curves and intersections as Missouri law requires clear sight to pass. Officials urge obeying no passing lines yellow center lines and using signaling while urging caution on three lane roads.
The State Highway Commission will receive bids April 30 for 43.3 miles of highway improvements across 24 projects in 15 counties at an estimated cost of 2,350,000. Nearly 40 miles are farm to market system work, with the remainder on the major system. Details list divisions and routes in Pemiscot and nearby counties.
Cecil Hurley of Main Street Southeast Missouri tossed a lit cigarette at a sleeping lion at the St. Louis zoo last Sunday to provoke the animal. Three square inches of hair burned before the zoo fire department intervened, and Hurley was fined $100 in court for cruelty to animal. He admitted drinking.
William H Walker aged 78 died last Thursday night at Ellis Fischel Cancer Hospital in Columbia. He had lived in the Dement community for 40 years.
The Census Bureau began a two week special census of Perry and Cape Girardeau counties on Monday to gather data used to improve the national census in 1950.
Poplar Bluff reports a 12 mile stretch of Highway 6% north of Silva is under concrete construction and should be traffic ready in about two weeks. Paving on a Wayne county section is planned to start around May 1.
Poplar Bluff area to gain a gladiolus farm as John F. Ragsdale, seven miles south, has planted an acre and a half and plans to add five and a half acres this spring.
Mr and Mrs Robert Dempster observed their sixtieth wedding anniversary at York Chapel Methodist church south of Perryville. He is 83 and she 78. The couple have five children sixteen grandchildren and twenty eight great grandchildren.
The report notes spring harvest crops in major states will be about 4 percent below 1946 and 12 percent above the 1937-46 average. Missouri acreage for late spring cabbage is 10 percent under 1947. spring plantings are delayed with little ground prepared by April. Strawberries prospects in Missouri are below last year. thin stands from the 1947 drought depress yields despite more acreage. Public health nurse numbers in the U S, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands total about 21,500.
The State Highway Commission approved bids totaling about 2.718 million dollars for seventy seven tenths miles of highway work in seventeen counties. Projects include grading surfacing and concrete box culverts in Bollinger Dunklin and adjacent routes with contractors Joseph L. Pohl of Nevada and Rock Hill Asphalt and Construction Co. of Clayton.
The 1948 Missouri Legislature ended a three month session the shortest in years. It passed 129 bills and appropriated nearly 300 million dollars for the next year, about 20 percent more than last year and triple the level a decade ago. Expenditures for pensions, dependent children aid, and general relief rose seven million dollars, with twenty seven and a half million allotted for eleemosynary and penal institutions and schools. A two million dollar office building in Jefferson City was funded, plus an extra two point five million for teacher salary increases. Proposals to raise the sales tax to three percent for a Soldier’s Bonus and to raise the gasoline tax by 132. per gallon for roads were advanced. Saint Louis bills moved sanatorium and training school functions to the state, costing about a million five hundred thousand annually, and authorized an earnings tax. Changes at Boonville’s State Training School for Boys were approved, and a two state planning authority was created to shape the St. Louis region. Two school bills passed, including a consolidation requiring local taxes for state aid, and unemployment benefits tightened. A small loan bill failed. The report notes tuberculosis mortality has fallen since 1935 and U.S. maternal death rates at birth have dropped from 5.8 to 2.1 per 1000.
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