Local residents share visits across states and stateside
AR on The Herald's phone is 1240. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Poage visited St Louis this week. George W. Ewing and granddaughter stayed with Elon Proffer near Matthews. Earl Allen guests Cedarville Michigan summer home three weeks. C T Old and son Shad visiting Mrs Ball in Troy Missouri. Mrs Christina Byrd and children with O C Petersons. Kendall Sikes return from Colorado and California vacation with Emily Kendall. Cadet John Watts to Mitchell Field for three months training. Della Weaver returned from Walnut Ridge Arkansas. Ralph Anderson family visiting Jacksonville Tennessee. W H Stubblefield returns from hospital in Kansas City. Charley Boyce attends funeral in Anna Illinois for Mrs Grace Midland. June Bunker arrives to fetch Mrs Bunker from Lake Village. Mrs Harry Dudley and son accompany daughters from YWCA camp to Hardy Arkansas. Miss Hahs to teach in Ste Genevieve. Miss Dudley to State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau.
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Lowry Field
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Walnut Ridge
Ark
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Charley Boyce
Anna
Ill
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Boyce
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G. H. Barger
M. G. Gresham
Bunker
Betty Barger
Harry E. Dudley
Otto Hahs
Hardy, Ark
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Lois Hahs
Social notes from St Louis and surrounding visits
A swell of visits fills the week as families journey to and from St Louis and nearby towns. Mr and Mrs Charles Bethune plus children Barbara Jean and Charles Robert vacationed in St Louis while Mr and Mrs Louie Davis and their kids stayed with Glenn Nicholson. Various relatives shopped, socialized, and traveled to meet friends including Mrs Leonara MecMullin and Mrs A J Moore, and Miss Betty Bell in St Louis. J H Yount Jr wraps up an animal husbandry course at the University of Missouri and heads home, while Lynn Galeener from New Iberia visits his mother in Houston. Keith Collins returns after six weeks away, after working for William Woods College in the Midwest. Mary Jane Sikes returns from Oglesby Ill, where she aided at Miss Barbara Moyle’s wedding. Robert Finley and Eugene Watson plan a week in Sikeston. both recently served at Great Lakes. Several families greet relatives in Murphysboro and Washington Ind, then Floyd Matthews attends an auction school in Decatur Ind. Mrs Arthur McGibeny departs for Alice Texas to visit kin. Sgt McGibeny joins later as they move toward Uvalde for a new air school under Capt C B Root. Patronize Herald advertisers.
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Carrollton youths hitchhiked home from Camp Lewis
Two Carrollton youths, Ed Cart mill and Christian Stipp, after visiting Camp Lewis Washington, found rides scarce and separated to travel through different states. After about 2000 miles on the road, they arrived back in Carrollton within fifteen minutes of each other.
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Ed Cartmill
Christian Stipp
Carrollton
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$1 Down Credit Control Urged
Leon Henderson of the Office of Price Administration urged Congress to adopt a dollar down dollar a month plan to curb inflation. testifying before the House Banking Committee he argued the Federal Reserve Board can regulate installment credit under the 1933 emergency banking act and suggested adding such authority to the price control bill. Members welcomed the idea, citing private credit as a main inflation source.
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Canal Zone census shows 874 in agriculture
Census data for the Canal Zone reports an area of 62 square miles with 874 persons employed in agriculture.
Three Brazilian states exceed Texas in size
Three of Brazil's 20 states are larger than Texas by land area, highlighting the vast geographies within Brazil. The fact underscores Brazil's regional diversity and the scale of its constituent states.
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Elephant Can Drink 14 Gallons In One Try
A brief note states that an elephant can drink fourteen gallons of water at one time, illustrating the animal's large drinking capacity.
Minute Man statue used on defense savings poster
Treasury Department displays the Defense Savings Poster featuring the Minute Man statue by Daniel Chester French. It promotes Defense Bonds and Stamps sold at banks and post offices as essential to national defense preparedness.
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Spiritual defense urged by priests at Catholic Action
Rev J Roger Lyons of St Louis told Catholic Action summer school that democracy can be saved only by a spiritual defense. He called Christian life a continuous struggle and warfare, criticizing Hitlerian uniformity as an ersatz form of unity. Fr Edward Dowling and Fr Georg McDonald likewise warned of forces disrupting civilization as Europe turns away from Christ.
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Census Figures on State Revenue Share From Unemployment
Census figures show that in 1940 unemployment compensation receipts constituted 20 percent of total revenue for the 48 state governments.
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