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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1945
Page
33
Sikeston won the A game 20 to 16 against East Prairie after a 16-16 deadlock led to an extra period. The B team dominated 42 to 19, sealing a clean sweep at home. Key contributors included Odell Miller, Bill Arnold, and Lewis with twelve points.
Iman scored 0 and Chandler 1 as centers. Simpson led with 4 points while Walker and Greenwood added 1 each and guards totaled 16. Referee Herb Y Moore oversaw the game in Poplar Bluff.
Sikeston faces Dexter at 7 20 p m Wednesday in the first round of the Cape Girardeau College high holiday basketball tournament at Houck Field House. The event runs Wednesday afternoon through Saturday with sixteen teams. Parings were set by a committee led by Louis Muegge Carmen Smith and Ralph Black. Teams seeded from last season and this year include Flat River College High Hornersville Elvins Caruthersville Van Buren Sikeston and Cape Central. Admission for early sessions is 50 cents adults 35 cents students. semis and final are 50 cents.
The St Louis District Office of Price Administration now handles all special sugar rations in eastern Missouri. Applications for illness, canning for sale, and bee feeders go to the St Louis office. Local boards will still issue Book 4 rations, replacements, and furlough service member rations until further notice. Tokens need not be counted and may be placed in regular containers. surrender is required to wind up the terminated program.
Sikeston high school's five defeated Chaffee 26 to 14 led by Bill Arnold with nine points. Huey of Chaffee scored ten on six free throws and two field goals. Sikeston built a 6-1 first quarter lead, led 8-3 at halftime, and 16-8 entering the final period with scoring by Inman Miller Lewis Arnold and others against Chaffee.
The OPA reminds public eating places that Christmas Day charges may not exceed 1942 levels and New Year Eve prices may not exceed New Year Eve levels. January 1, 1943 prices are allowed on New Year’s Day 1946. The freeze applies nationwide to all eating and drinking establishments including hotel dining rooms and railroad dining cars and covers all individual items and meals.
The Office of Price Administration told the shoe industry advisory committee in Washington that a 4.75 percent rise in manufacturers prices will not push consumer shoe prices higher. The trade can absorb the increase and still earn above peacetime profits. If you want anything, use a Herald Want Ad.
General Douglas MacArthur moves to end State Shinto in Japan aiming to remove government ties and support for the sect that helped shape wartime ideology. The plan, drafted by Brig. Gen. Ken R. Dyke, envisions shrines with real religious following surviving on voluntary contributions while ending imperial and nationalist doctrines.
The National House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate legislation restoring the 2 cent an ounce rate for local first class mail. The 3 cent rate which the bill would repeal was set by the 1984 revenue act.
Mrs. Martha J. Born aged 75 died after shielding her nine month old grandson Chester Le Roy Keith Jr from a Cairo Illinois house fire. She remained in a second story window passing the child to safety as firefighters arranged a ladder, suffering fatal burns.
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