Scott County Awards Gravel Kingshighway Contract in 1930s
Thirty years ago this week the Scott County Court awarded a $189,946.03 contract to a Kansas City firm for a gravel Kingshighway roadway. Local road advocates had formed the Mississippi River Scenic Highway Association led by W. H. Heisserer and others to push concrete paving, but the effort failed. Concrete pavement by the State Highway Department came later as part of Federal Highway 61.
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Scott County
Kansas City
Mississippi River Scenic Highway Association
W. H. Heisserer
Benton
G. B. Greer
Sikeston
Arthur Chrisman
Lyman Matthews
Oran
State Highway Department
Sikeston High Seeks Championship Team This Year
Steve Schroff, Orlando Arthur, and Vv. L. Johnson sustained injuries in a collision with a parked car. An arson attempt on Pab Jones’s Delmar Daniel home was thwarted by firefighters. no resident was present. Sikeston High’s coach L P Lingle predicts a championship football team with key players Mack Bomer Bernard Crain Eugene Potashnick and Howard Marshall. Several lettermen and graduates are listed. East Acres home construction on College and Sikes avenues began. Mrs. W T Marshall, mother of Mrs. Moore Greer, died in Charleston after a brief illness.
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Steve Schroff
Orlando Arthur
L. Johnson
Delmar and
Daniel Streets
Pab Jones
L. P. Lingle
Sikeston High School
Mack Bomer
Bernard Crain
Eugene Potashnick
Howard Marshall
Bill Bowman
Jack Lancaster
Clifford Preacher
Pilot ignored rules caused Fort Dix air crash
Disobeying orders to give airplanes wide clearance led to the crash near Fort Dix New Jersey last Saturday. Twelve passengers died along with the three crew members and the Wildcat fighter pilot Lieut Robert Vernon Poe whose body was found near his unopened parachute.
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Eastern Airlines
Fort Dix
New Jersey
Navy
Robert Vernon Poe
Highway Condition Bulletin August 19 1949 Details Detours
Major routes show bridge out and detours on U S Route 60 U S Route 61 and other state roads. Paving and oiling operations limit traffic with some periods of one way traffic and several avoidance advisories across Missouri counties including Scott Cape Girardeau Dunklin Bollinger Stoddard New Madrid and Mississippi.
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Scott County
Stoddard
Dudley
Cape Girardeau
Scott Counties
Benton
New Madrid
Risco
Cape Girardeau County
Dunklin County
Senath
Arkansas Line
Bollinger County
Mississippi County
Anniston
New Madrid County
Bollinger
Cardwell
Fast Place
Neve Madrid
Frau
Five Years Ago August 3 1944 Highlights
Lieut Joseph Dover barely escaped in a Thunderbolt bailout over Australia at 25000 feet with the chute opening at 300 mph causing internal injuries and partial blindness. Pvt Billy Anderson from Italy notes daily parades led by a band not matching the Sikeston high school band of 1942-43. Over a thousand people attend the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics open house for the Army Air Forces 37th anniversary.
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Joseph Dover
Australia
Pvt
Billy Anderson
Italy
Sikeston
Sikeston High School
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
Army Air Forces
Ordination Ceremony for Carroll Owen at Sikeston Baptist Church
Carroll Owen, youngest son of Rev and Mrs E D Owen, was ordained as a minister of the Gospel in a ceremony at Sikeston Baptist church. The narrative notes the ordination as a key life event with family involvement. Mr and Mrs R H Weaks own a brick bungalow at Moore and Wakefield. Betty Waldman of 115 School Street begins as secretary and receptionist for Attorney Robert A Dempster. Dortha Lee Jackson engages to local newsman Don Paxon.
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Carroll Owen
E. D. Owen
Sikeston Baptist Church
R. H. Weaks
Moore and
Wakefield Avenue
Betty Waldman
School Street
Robert A. Dempster
Dortha Lee Jackson
Don Paxon
Nationwide August Furniture Sale Promoted by Kroehler
W R Lair of Lairs Home Sikeston says a nationwide August furniture sale is underway. Kroehler Manufacturing promises substantial savings on fine living room suites with hidden-quality construction. Major August feature includes a two-cushion modern sofa and matching chair advertised in LIFE Saturday Evening Post Ladies Home Journal and Better Homes and Gardens.
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W. R. Lair
Lair's Hore
Sikeston
Kroehler Manufacturing Company
Kroehler
LIFE
Saturday Evening Post
Ladies’ Home Journal
Better Homes and Gardens
Mr. Lair
Poliomyelitis Q and A outlines risks and controls
A public health Q and A covers poliomyelitis incubation periods isolation approaches and contact rules. It details transmission theories, viral shedding timelines, disinfection guidance, school attendance, travel and camp considerations, fatigue effects, pregnancy risk, tonsillectomy links, immunity after attack, vaccines and ongoing research, with practical notes on routes in Pemiscot and Stoddard counties and a reminder about the Missouri State Fair August 21 to 28 at Sedalia.
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Board of Health
Roberta at St Louis Municipal Opera Forest Park
Roberta a Jerome Kern musical returns to Forest Park Open Air Theatre for seven nights from August 8 at 8:30 pm starring Marion Bell Jack Goode Sibyl Rowan Hayes Gordon and others. The revival features a fashion show with Audre Nethercott designs and includes popular numbers like Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Lovely to Look at. The plot follows Aunt Minnie who runs a Paris fashion shop.
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St. Louis
Roberta
Jerome Kern
Municipal Opera
Forest Park
Alice Duer Miller
Marion Bell
Jack Goode
Sibyl Rowan
Hayes Gordon
Helen Raymond
Christine Johnson
Davis Cunningham
Ray Malone
Xenia Bank
Edwin Steffe
Melton Moore
Audre Nethercott
New York
Minnie
Paris
Missouri State Fair at Sedalia Promises Many Distinct Departments
Roberta entrusts her business to nephew Kent while Stephanie, the young manager, continues directing the shop and gains an interest. The modiste also pushes a match between Kent and Stephanie as the plot unfolds amid 26 departments at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia from August 21 to 28, with many free attractions.
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Roberta
Kent
Stephanie
Sedalia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Scott County Court
U S
U S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Nagasaki
1945
Greenwich Observatory
Hawaii
Wilbur Ensor
Applegate’s Grove
Sam Bow- Mian
Paul Malone
John
Ward Denman
Billy
Danny Malone
Jasper Wilson
Harry Young
Gordon Blanton
John McMullin
J.M. Klein and Son
National Stock Yards
Ill
Sam Bowman
Washington
Canada
C. A. Cook
Heisscrer
Wew Madrig
Center Streets
Harry Harry
Chicago
Germany
Paul von Hindenburg
Adolph Hitler
Board of Public Works
Center and
Ranney
Lions Club
Charles
Acs Theore
Allard-Matthews Insurance Agency
The
New York Health Department
Gideon West
Pemiscot County
Cottonwood Point
Stoddard County
Bloomfield
Sedalie
Louis Municipal
Coca-Cola Company
Keston
Coca-Cola Bottling CO
Sikeston, Mo
Continental Assurance CompAny
W. A. Myers
P. O
Ea Americas
National Gas Service
America
Eagegere
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