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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1945
Page
7
The Missouri State Board of Health notes twenty six births in October in the Sikeston registration area, listing fifteen boys and eleven girls by parent names and towns including Sikeston Morehouse Chaffee Essex Benton Morley and Morley. Several deaths are also recorded from Sikeston Morehouse Essex and surrounding towns.
Evin Burke was re elected to head the 1946 AAA committee of Scott county at the annual convention of the organization held at Benton Saturday. Other officers are Coy N. Mayfield vice chairman Roy M Johnson member Louis E Heisserer first alternate Almont R. Howell second alternate and Helen Miles Wilkinson secretary treasurer. The following community committee men were elected by farmers to serve as representatives in their respective townships Commerce E A Sprenger chairman Ed Johnson vice chairman Ed Dempster member Kelso Louis W Heisserer chairman Otto J Ressel vice chairman and Joe Diebold member Moreland John E Mayfield chairman Peter Gosche vice chairman and Frank V Krueppel member Morley Roy Phillips chairman Jim Mac Emerson vice chairman Marshall Page mer Richland Morse Lynn chairman Alvin G Gasser vice chairman Herman Newman member Sandywoods Roy W Howell chairman Fred M Forbis vice chairman and T R Galemore member Sylvania Almont R Howell chairman Ernst Hanselman vice chairman and Jack Limbaugh Tywappity John D Daniel chairman Bill Limbaugh vice chairman and Elbert Brown
The Scott County Home Economics Council announces that the Annual Club Achievement Day and officer election for 1916 will be held Monday December 10 at Benton. Program starts at 10 o clock with exhibit arranging followed by a flag ceremony, a Model club meeting by the Miner club, games led by Commerce and 4 H club demonstrations. The Missouri State Library Commission Bookmobile will be featured with Kathryn P Mier discussing rural library services for home economics clubs. The 4 H Club Council meets the same day and will share the noon meal with club members, per Walter Shegley president.
Eastern Missouri ration banks report few red tokens turned in by trade. OPA aims to recover tokens for salvage and asks food distribution businesses to surrender tokens by December 12 without counting them. About three fourths of the roughly one billion red tokens are in dealers inventories. tokens only, no ration credit. Also notes railroads invested $560.112 million in 1941 for equipment and other improvements, the highest since 1930.
The Office of Price Administration and Civilian Production Administration say December passenger tire quotas remain 2,500,000, unchanged for six months. Large-size truck tires stay at 250,000, while small truck tires 7.50 and under fall to 300,000 due to more new trucks. Owners are urged to conserve and recap tires as inventories stay tight.
State Forester George O White announced wildlife planting bundles offered by the State Conservation Commission and Agricultural Extension Service. Each 200 plant bundle costs 2 dollars and includes ponderosa pine red mulberry black walnut flowering dogwood wild plum elderberry wild grape multiflora rose hazelnut sun...
The Marine Corps opens a temporary recruiting office in Cape Girardeau from December 3 to 13. Major Raymond D. Wright, in charge of the St. Louis district, announced relaxed enlistment rules including a 63 inch minimum height for 17 to 19 year olds, 2 to 4 year enlistment terms, and age limits 17 to 26. Single men with no dependents or criminal records eligible. Reenlisted discharged Marines within 90 days get the same temporary rank and rank date, with transfer to preferred duty station.
Glenn Earl Uelsmann 16, son of Mr and Mrs Walter Uelsmann of Ilmo, died in a Cape Girardeau hospital four hours after a head injury sustained during final practice for a game when a teammate collided and his temple struck the floor. Funeral held at Lutheran church with Rev R Borth. Survivors include parents two sisters two brothers and maternal grandfather Thomas of Malden.
The passage notes that American public libraries contain more than 107,000,000 volumes. It emphasizes the vast size of library collections and reflects a national scale of catalogued books and materials in public libraries.
Relatives from distant towns attended funeral services Friday afternoon at the Methodist church for Mrs Catherine Rachel Kornegger. Sisters Mrs N C Barrett and Miss Margaret Seibert joined Stewart Barrett of Ashley NL and numerous relatives from Evansville Indiana St Louis Memphis Puxico and McCord Field Washington. Grandsons William Ronnie Melvin Bobby Joe and Harold Lane served as pallbearers.
In Hendersonville North Carolina a woman nicknamed the sun lady wished the sun to shine forever on her face through a glass aperture in her mausoleum. The grave drew so many visitors that it was sealed shut several years ago to prevent further curios crowds.
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