Cotton Producers Urged to Vote on December 15 Election
Portageville Mo December 8 The Missouri Cotton Producers Association urges all members and nonmembers to vote in the cotton referendum across the belt next Thursday December 15 Executive vice president Ronnie F Greenwell stresses voting for quotas to secure 80 percent parity and avoid acreage limits or reduced price supports. Missouri's 1950 allotment is 462 839 acres from a national 21 000 000 acres based on 1949 and earlier baselines.
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Portageville
Missouri Cotton Producers Association
Ronnie F. Greenwell
Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan
Greenwell
Department of Agriculture
Missouri
Memphis
Tenn
Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Boy Injured After Fall From Tree
Jack Lair Jr., 10, son of Mrs. Jack Lair, suffered severe head lacerations when he fell from a tree while playing last Sunday. He was treated at Missouri Delta Community Hospital with stitches and a skin graft, then released to convalesce at home. He attends Bailey school in the fifth grade.
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Jack Lair Jr
Jack Lair
Missouri Delta Community Hospital
Jack
Bailey School
Boy Burns From Exploding Oil Furnace Incident
Charles Largent, son of Mr and Mrs Louie Largent, has recovered from facial burns after he poured kerosene on a furnace at home last week. He is now back in school. Warm Morning coal heaters in all models.
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Charles Largent
Louie Largent
Charles
Lair’s
District Outlook Conference outlines 1950 farm forecast
Delegates from Scott county, Sikeston and nearby areas attended the 1950 District Outlook Conference in Poplar Bluff. Economists Gordon Nance and Clarence Klingner projected a continued postwar recession in 1950 with weaker domestic and foreign demand, likely lower prices, and reduced net farm income compared with 1949. They also forecast price changes and production shifts across major crops and livestock.
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Scott County
Poplar Bluff
Gertrude LeGrand
L. T. Marshall
Hime-Fornfelt
Ben Moore
National Farm Loan Association
Wm. Z. Baker
Jean Klein
Thatcher Seism
Production Credit Association
Alwin G. Gasser
Farmer
Farm Bureau
Sikeston
Hunter E. George
Alvin Schraer
Tom B. Stroup
Scott County 4-H Youths Visit Chicago for Congress
Shirley Alcom and Leon Rister, 4-H club presidents from Scott and Blodgett, toured Chicago with Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company support. They joined 79 guests for events at Palmer House and the International Livestock Exposition, attending the National 4-H Congress with Missouri delegates and national winners.
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Shirley Alcom
McMullin 4
Scott
Missouri
Chicago
Illinois
St. Louis
Lorene Hubbard
Scott County
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Gene Autry
California
Shirley
Leon
Funeral Monday for International Shoe Company official
Funeral services were held Monday for Frank C. Rand 73 of St Louis an official and longtime leader of the International Shoe Company He headed the board since 1930 and before that served as president He died Friday after surgery at University City Methodist Church with interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery Rand a Vanderbilt alumnus and philanthropist was survived by four sons and two daughters The company paused operations briefly Monday in his memory
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Frank C. Rand
St. Louis
International Shoe Company
University City Methodist Church
Ivan Lee Holt
John F. Caskey
Bellefontaine
Rand
Nettie Hale
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