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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
7
Retailer offers Kodak rings in sizes 4 12 16 19 Rett and 21 jewel watches in South Bend. Billfolds clocks and compact sets priced from five dollars to twenty seven fifty. Toilet sets also advertised in period style catalog.
Missouri's November outlook shows 337000 bales produced from 368000 acres with a 1.3 percent abandonment. Yield reached 438 pounds per acre the highest on record, aided by favorable weather and better lands. Ginning to December 1 totaled 318000 bales, about 94 percent of the crop, with 24 percent middling or better and 80 percent of staple lengths one inch or longer. Scott County ginned 11259 bales from the 1938 crop prior to December 1, down from 16507 in 1937.
The Farm Security Administration reports that 1885 farm tenants sharecroppers and laborers used Bankhead-Jones farm tenant loans in 1938 to buy farms averaging 130 acres at about 890 dollars financed each. Congress had authorized 10 million dollars for the first year and 25 million for the current year to fund roughly 5000 additional farms.
Scott county farmers receive loans at 57 cents per bushel for their 1938 corn crop. Nine teen farmers have applied. loans carry 4 percent interest and are non recourse if repaid with corn to the Commodity Credit Corporation. Eligible producers must planted within their 1935 corn allotments and keep corn in proper cribs off the ground. For details contact the Scott County Farm Bureau office.
The 2 percent sales tax, lauded in 1937 as yielding $2,000,000 monthly, has reached that target only once in 18 months. Through November 1938 it collected $18,539,092, averaging $1,685,572 monthly, mostly from retail food sales at 268 percent of the levy.
Preliminary Census Bureau estimates place the continental United States population at 130,215,000 as of July 1, 1938, an all-time high. This figure reflects a continued growth trend and sets a record for the nation.
The 1939 farm program offers a full test of the AAA plan under 1938 act says R M Evans national administrator. Meetings nationwide will inform farmers well in advance of the 1939 crop season with changes only where needed for new crop conditions. The national acreage goal is about five million acres lower than 1938 while cotton corn and soil depleting crops goals remain similar. The program sets a soil-depleting goal of 270 to 285 million acres and provides conservation payments from the 500 million annual appropriation, plus continued soil-building practices and 212 million dollars in price adj...
Payments authorized by the last Congress go to cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco and rice producers who seed within their farm allotments. Farmers who overplant wheat acreage will not qualify for any wheat price adjustment payment.
EF R Wilcox, director of the marketing division, said British millers agreed to take an additional 5 million bushels under the export subsidy. Total U S sales to the United Kingdom rise to about 25 million bushels as the department aims to dispose of 100 million bushels before July 1, 1939, with 69 million sold in the first five and a half months of the fiscal year.
A 4-H club organized in New Hamburg this past week under James Meyers Scott county assistant agricultural agent with dairy heifer as the initial project. Leaders are Charles Grojean and Rev Herbert J Eggeman with officers Theon Grojean Jr president Herman Bucher vice president Morrell Dirnberger secretary treasurer Leon Bachfish reporter and Al Glastetter game leader. Meetings will be held at members homes.
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever deaths in the United States have dropped by 93 percent since 1900, according to Census Bureau reports. The long-term decline reflects improvements in public health, sanitation, and medical treatment across the nation.
The Missouri College of Agriculture extension conference gathers agricultural, county and home economics agents from across the state in Columbia. Dr M F Miller, dean and extension director, delivered the annual report as four days of sessions and planned activities for next year. County Agent F B Veatch Assistant Agent James T Meyers and Miss Ella Fickuart of Scott County attend.
The Miner 4-H Health and Sanitation Club held an achievement day at the Miner community hall with talks by Miss Filla Fikuart and James T. Meyers. Seventeen members completed projects and received pins, including Fae Heath who received a gold pin for five years of club work, the third such pin in Scott County.
State finance commissioner R. W. Holt announced the Bank of Poplar Bluff had purchased the Wayne County State Bank of Greenville. The Greenville bank on December 10 showed total liabilities of 300,030.16 dollars, including 278,248.42 dollars in deposits.
Col Leonard P Ayres predicts 1930 will show better employment and higher national income with rising industrial output. He warns against overreliance on public spending and cautions that a long term recovery requires new capital for expansion.
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