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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1941
Page
7
Sikeston Lumber Company moves its office to the Weltecke Lumber Company building during remodeling. Manager A M Jackson says plans are not yet complete but aim for an attractive, comfortable space for customers and staff. Weltecke building had been unused for years and was repaired prior to occupancy.
Practical guidance on under sink cabinet design stressing easy access to traps and pipes. recommended floor coverings for concrete slabs both above and on ground. notes on moisture precautions. Edge grained wood shingles defined as narrow straight bands parallel to edges with low expansion and high resistance to splitting and curling.
Los Angeles report shows a department store offering a complete line of cotton upholstered furnishings for bedroom living room and dining room. With help from a noted interior decorator and manufacturers the line provides high style options at budget prices, appealing to newlyweds and others seeking affordable elegance.
Planning hints for small homes offer cost reducing ideas for moderate income families. The article suggests practical savings like building stairs between partitions, avoiding expensive exterior gingerbread trim, using short length floor boards with good finish, omitting gutters with a gravel bed to catch drip, finishing plaster walls with water paint and later wallpaper, often skipping basements, and locating the chimney to serve the heating plant flue if a fireplace is included.
The fact notes there is about one mile of road for every square mile of U S territory excluding city streets, highlighting extensive rural road networks across the nation.
Harry Kerr, Sikeston Prudential Life agent, and his family will take possession of their new Scott street home tomorrow, purchased this week from Mr. and Mrs. Cletius Shell. The Shells moved to Cresap street lodgings, while the Kerrs relocate from the Beryl Heath residence on Vernon avenue.
Davenport manufacturer fibers 450 pounds of cotton linters into blanket insulation for Cotton Belt houses. The material boasts lower thermal conductivity than kapok rock wool and jute and is fire resistant and rodent proof. Linters are stitched between flame resistant waterproof kraft paper for insulation.
Data from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows the average new house built today has five rooms, down from six fifteen years ago. FHA insurance reports from 1940 indicate nearly half of new homes with mortgages had five rooms, counting rooms minus bathrooms closets halls and storage.
Private home builders feel the pinch of defense priorities as contractors seek scarce hardware. Atlanta reports nails nearly exhausted and zinc coated nails scarce. Officials urge builders in non defense areas to “sit tight” while allocation programs are developed by OPM OPA and Civilian Supply.
Washington The Office of Production Management said final returns from the aluminum scrap campaign may total 14,000,000 pounds, refined to about 10,500,000 pounds of aluminum, enough for 2,800 fighting planes. It also reported 6,700,000 pounds of pots, pans and other aluminum scrap had already moved toward defense production.
Using existing space in a home, an attic or basement conversion provides a sewing room den or library without the cost of building a new wing. This approach leverages unused areas to create functional extra living space efficiently.
In Washington DC a government sample of one inch cotton fiber shows an average length of .86 inch. Classed specimens labeled as one inch reveal average lengths from 0.80 inch to 0.92 inch. The piece discusses how true inch lengths vary and how classers determine standard measures.
Americans are urged to buy Defense Bonds and Stamps to serve the country and conserve earnings. Purchases aid national defense and help prevent high prices and living-cost increases. Bonds are registered, nontransferable, and payable to the named holder, not pledgable as collateral. Mail order forms available from the Treasurer of the United States or via post offices, banks, or savings associations.
U S Senator William Langer of North Dakota will address Kennett on August 30 at 3 30 p m The topic is Farm Legislation and Old Age Pensions The meeting is sponsored by the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Missouri and local arrangements are by B H Reagan of near Kennett
James Cunningham aged 60 died after a paralytic stroke while plowing with a tractor on a farm three miles southwest of Hayti. The driverless tractor circled until stopped by Oscar Haley, the farm owner nearby. He leaves a son, Sgt. Joseph Cunningham of Camp Robinson, Arkansas.
More than 3,000 Missourians failed to meet military education standards in a statewide Selective Service survey. Of 455,976 registered, 2,001 signed questionnaires with marks, 96 were unable to read or write, 862 fell to the fourth grade education rule, and 171 were rejected after local boards.
The Treasury Department or the Federal Reserve Banks will hold your Defense Savings Bonds for safekeeping free of charge.
New York haberdashers prepare new price tags as Manhattan Shirt Co announces a 25 cent rise on white shirts. Company spokesman cites higher manufacturing costs and increased raw material charges driving the retail price hike.
The Herald reports on local farm activities and agricultural updates. Key topics include crop conditions, livestock events, weather impacts, and community farming efforts shaping the region’s agrarian cycle.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will donate the International Mind Alcove books to the Sikes ton public library. Miss Beatrice Dobbins, librarian, announced the program under which foreign life, customs, and history volumes will arrive in four quarterly installments. The collection will total 100 books over about six years, with the first batch due in October.
John H Marshall, 72, a well known Beekerton farmer, died at home Saturday after a heart attack. He was widely known in the community for his farming work and local involvement. Funeral arrangements were to be announced by the family.
The government once employed platinum in low value coin production similarly to how nickel is used today for small denomination coins.
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