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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1945
Page
3
Sikeston High School students attend Charleston council installation and hear Ernest Harper of McKnight Keaton Grocery Co discuss price control. Activities include class elections, stock exchange tour, Gabby Street visit, assembly plays, and a freshmen weiner roast.
A service member outlines benefits of reenlisting for three years including selecting Air, Ground, or Service Forces, overseas theater choices, mustering-out pay, a $50 yearly reenlistment bonus per year served, family allowances for the term, GI benefits on discharge, and potential retirement pay after 20 to 30 years with time already served counting toward retirement.
Men now in the Army who reenlist before February 1 will be reenlisted in present grade. Men honorably discharged can reenlist within 20 days after discharge in the grade held at discharge, provided they reenlist before February 1, 1946.
Morehouse School A and B teams defeated New Madrid A and B on Thursday November 29 with scores 28 to 26 and 22 to 12. Mrs Evelyn Barnett first grade teacher was absent Monday December 3 while visiting St Louis to meet husband Harry Barnett discharged from the U S Army. An all school party was held in the local gym Friday November 30 with basketball games dancing and refreshments. Betty Sheeter senior class member was absent Tuesday due to illness the first absence in four years of high school art. Frank Hudson Medical Corps member stationed at Fort Mason San Francisco visited his wife Lucile Hudson in the high school as he prepared for shipment overseas.
The Army reports that 1.25 billion V mail letters were exchanged to and from GIs overseas during the three and a half years of the system. More than 110 tons of cargo space were used for the microfilmed mail, which, if standard size and weight, would have filled about 14,000 tons of space.
The Joint Committee on Tuberculosis Control chaired by Dr. Herbert L. Mantz urges Missouri to erect at least two state tuberculosis hospitals to improve beds per death. He notes Missouri has 2120 beds, unevenly located, with a 12.7% bed per death ratio versus a 25 standard, and projects 1335 deaths in 1950 if declines continue.
Colum Bus reportedly set foot on Puerto Rico, the sole U S territory he traveled to, according to the readable extract. The note emphasizes Puerto Rico as his exclusive territorial stop among U S possessions.
Relief for hay fever asthma hives and other allergies was promised this week by Dr Earl R Loew of the University of Illinois College of Medicine who discovered a new drug Benadryl.
The text cites a claim that a certain pharmacology brings hay fever and hive relief in 30 to 60 minutes. It also mentions alarm bells as health precautions at exits of atomic research laboratories to ring when someone’s clothing or body has been affected by radioactive radiations.
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