Extensive Additions Improvements For Sikeston Public School
Sikeston unveils large scale school system improvements for 1950 including a $555000 budget, 2500 students, new centralization under district A6, bus routes for rural areas, expanded elementary and high school facilities at Airport and South Grade, new heating, kitchen, and classroom upgrades, a staffed faculty with added teachers, and plans for a fully operational hot lunch program while preserving rural districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston
North and West
Airport
Board of Education
Beta Sigma Phi
Bailey
Lincoln
Lincoln School
Women’s Civic Club
Rotary Club
Terest
Jewell Coal Company
Kellett Motor Company
Charleston
Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet Company
Chevrolet
School Staff and Students List from Airport Area
Ruth Drexler Irene Richey Smith Lucille Stubblefield Nancy Black Lauranna Mainard Margaret Brazeal Sue Hinchey Veda Sidwell Minnie Lee Boone Martha Lou Wiggins Virgie Solomon Irma Allen Marie Gale Priscilla Dale Watkins June Wiggins Susan Horner Georgia Houchens Fielding A Poe Jr Assistant to Supervisor Dorothy Powell Russell V Ford Virginia Neal Geneva Ford Minnie Sanders Jimmie Geeter Corinne Terrell Aileen Howard Arthur Moring Head Custodian J H Hayden Sr Custodian of Grounds Franklin Moring Robert Nelson Clarence Morrison Foncie Poe
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Drexler
Irene Richey Smith
Lucille Stubblefield
Nancy Black
Lauranna Mainard
Philip A. Sadler
Margaret Brazeal
Airport School
Sue Hinchey
Veda Sidwell
Minnie Lee Boone
Martha Lou Wiggins
Virgie Solomon
Irma Allen
Marie Gale
Priscilla Dale Watkins
June Wiggins
Susan Horner
Georgia Houchens
Fielding A. Poe Jr
Dorothy Powell
Russell V. Ford
Virginia Neal
Geneva Ford
Minnie Sanders
Jimmie Geeter
Corinne Terrell
Aileen Howard
Arthur Moring
J. H. Hayden Sr
Franklin Moring
Robert Nelson
Clarence Morrison
Foncie Poe
District Guardsmen Begin Field Training at Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri National Guard 140th Infantry Regimen begins two week encampment at Fort Leonard Wood with troops from Cape Girardeau Fredericktown Salem Poplar Bluff Sikeston Dexter Caruthersville Portageville Marston Charleston Farmington Jackson Perryville De Soto Festus Doniphan Kennett Bernie West Plains. Training focuses on camouflage map compass terrain defense and movement day and night. Also notes rising US population and 38,537,000 US families in April versus 32,166,000 in 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri
Missouri National Guard
Cape Girardeau
Fredericktown
Salem
Poplar Bluff
Sikeston
Dexter
Caruthersville
Portaveville
Marston
Charleston
Farmington
Jackson
Perryville
de Soto
Festus
Doniphan
Kennett
Bernie
West Plains
United States
Bureau of Census
Lieutenant Schuchart Arrives From Tokyo for Leave
First Lieutenant Martha Schuchart, in the U S Army since 1942 and in Japan since 1946, is on a two month leave with her Western Sikeston parents Mr and Mrs R P Schuchart. She left Tokyo by boat July 30 and reached Seattle August 10 and traveled to St Louis by plane. After her visit she will report to Army headquarters in Washington for orders. She recalled dinner with John Denman and Mrs Denman, former Sikeston residents, in Tokyo. Denman, a Northwest Airlines pilot, and Mrs Denman expect to travel to the United States next month with their young son after two years in the Orient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Schuchart
R. P. Schuchart
Sikeston
Tokyo
Japan
Schuchart
United States Army
Army
Washington
D. C
Seattle
St. Louis
John Denman
Denman
Oriental
Northwest Airlines
Candidate Matthews II for Sikeston District A-6 Board
The Herald announces Co. D. Matthews II as a candidate for member of the Board of Education of District A-6 Sikeston Enlarged District for a term expiring April 1962, subject to an election on August 30 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. D. Matthews II
Board of Education
Sikeston
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bremen van Bibber
Ellen Patterson
Pansy Faris
Callie Burker
Keith Collins
Dorothea Miller
Vera Mae Richter
Jean M. Klein
Jackson L. Burke
O. W. Farwell
Charles Lindser
Loomis F. Mapyfield
Frank R. Steck
Robert J. Genius
Eleanor Jean Allen
Ida Baker
William Z. Baker
Margaret Coates
Jeanne Galladay
Davis H. Hart
Uriel Haw
Martha Howard Jones
Kenneth Knox
Imogene McCormick
Eldoris McMikle
Merle Miller
Lucille Mount
Evelyn Barnett
Maryann Wingerter
Mignon Bess
Mary Ethel Daugherty
Lillie England
Lillie Newton
Phoebe Rowe
Lucille Alexander
Maude Montgomery
Martha Pepmiller
Delores Cochran
Pauline Foley
Margaret Cain
Dorothy M. Willm
Henry W. Dunker
Laura Kornegger
Robert Holloway
Bailey School
Leroy Stanfil
Sammy Sanders
Vance Montgomery
Lieutenant Schuchart
Center St
Allard-Matthews Insurance Agency
Newsparern AbHlye
Walgreen
James
Front Street
Louie Sargent
Tusal
Ksim
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