Lions Club Holds Annual Installation Night in Sikeston
The Sikeston Lions Club held its annual installation and ladies night at the Rustic Rock Inn. Gray was installed as president with Austin Bowman as president, Robert Mitchall as vice president, C. L. OF as third vice president, Wed Kirby as tailtwister and Jack Knehaus of Cape Girardeau past district governor assisting. Several officers and directors were absent. Marshall Craig presided and honors were given to long time members with chevrons. The club plans to send a team to Charleston next Tuesday to install officers there.
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Lions Club of
Cook
Dick Watkins
John Welter
Earl Cook
Marshall Craig
Sikeston Lion Club
Charleston
Weber Gilmore
John Wilson
Lions Club
Sikeston
Ted Kirby
Tall Twister
C. L. Blanton Jr
Robert Mitchell
Delta Community Emergency Run Three Cases At Hospital
Three emergencies reported at Missouri Delta Community Hospital on Wednesday. Joe Schneider, 34, Sikeston, treated for a cut hand after contact with a power mower blade. Six-year-old Charles Donaldson sustained a forehead bump from a baseball. Orwell Greer, 42, Commerce, cut on his thumb in a knife fight and was treated. Mrs. Jonnie H. Bishop of Perth, New Brunswick, visiting relatives, was honored at neighborhood parties.
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Delta Community
Missouri Delta Community Hospital
Joe Schneider
Sikeston
Charles Donaldson
Orwell Greer
Commerce
26 CAP Cadets Sign For Summer Encampment
Twenty six cadets from Sikeston's Civil Air Patrol have signed for a nine day summer encampment at Scott Field Illinois. They depart July 17 in a C 47 with two girls among them and return the same way. Cadets named include Robert Winchester Thurman Burns William Ferrell Charles D Springs and others. The group will be accompanied by Capt Smith and Lts Richart Deweese Harold Pitman and W G Dysart of the local senior unit.
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Sikeston
Civil Air Patrol
Scott Field, Ill
Robert Smith
Smith
Richart Deweesé
Harold Pitman
W.G. Dysart
50th District Masons Meet in New Sikestone Hall
About 150 Masons and Eastern Star members gathered Wednesday night in Sikestone, SAAF, for the 50th District Masons quarterly gathering. A ham dinner funded the Eastern Star building fund. District officers and guests attended, with next meeting planned for Bell City on Sept. 22. Marine Lt Dale Thornton, son of East Prairie residents, recently reported to the Miami Marine air station after enlisting in 1942 and serving with the 1st Marine Division in Korea. his wife Vera Forrester of East Prairie is mentioned.
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50Th District Masons
E@stern Star
Sikestone
SAAF
A.M
Glenn Aslin
Essex
Aubrey W. French
L. M. Hollenbeck
Bell City
Dale Thornton
Joseph Thornton
East Prairie
Marine Corps Air Station
Miami
Fla
1St Marine Division
Korea
Vera Forrester
Stolen Property Charges Dismissed In Benton Court
In Benton Magistrate Court Judge M. E. Montgomery dismissed receiving stolen property charges against Bertees Ratledge after theft of a Stive trailer from a local service station. Property of Ed Telephone Company found in Ratledge's car. he was re-arrested for improper licenses. Other cases: Fred Goodman, 69, charged with molesting two 12 year old girls. case continued with $500 bond. Norman Niswanger pleaded guilty to careless driving, fined $1 and costs. Ida Marie Dunger pleaded guilty to no driver's license, fined $5 and costs.
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Fred Goodman
Chaffee
Norman Vincent Niswanger
Ida Marie Dunger
James Hahs Named Exchangite President
The Exchange Club of Sikeston elected officers for the coming year at its Thursday night meeting. James Hahs was chosen president to succeed Kenneth Smitten, with John Watts as vice president William Gladden secretary and Spur lin Beck Sr treasurer. Lenzie Beck won a Board of Control seat to fill Jimmie Farris's unexpired term as he left for the Army, joined by Don Story Dan Righter and Howard Grant. The group plans a fish fry that night and will install officers at a later meeting.
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Exchange Club of
Sikeston
James Hahs
Kenneth Smitten
John Watts
William Gladden
Spurlin Beck Sr
Lenzie Beck
Board of Control
Jimmie Pharris
Army
Don Story
Dan Righter
Howard Grant
James Matthews Je Attends Summer School
FARIBAULT Minnesota Boys from 20 states enroll in the 40th Shattuck school camp opening June 21. James E Matthews Jr is in the senior group where classroom instruction and credit toward graduation are emphasized while afternoons are for sports and recreation under army staff.
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Faribault
Minnesota
Shattuck School
James E. Matthews Jr
A. B. Craig
Shattuck’s
Ecamp
Onksigdagen
Harierare
Scott County Leads In Savings Bond Sales
Scott County tops May Series E and H Savings Bond sales in Southeast Missouri with 53,466 dollars, part of a 288,084 dollar six month total. Cape County trails in May but leads yearly district totals at 325,148 dollars, followed by Butler 17,112 and Dumiklin 9,493, among others.
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Missouri
Scott County
Jefferson City
Scott
Cape County
Butler
Dumiklin
Madison
Mississippi
New Madrid
Pemiscot
Perry
Stoddard
Body Found In River Near East Prairie
The body of Army recruiting sergeant Sgt. George McIntire, 36, missing since Monday, was found in the Mississippi River at Osmont Landing near East Prairie across from Columbus, Kentucky. He disappeared while swimming with friends a mile north of Mound City as swift current pulled him under. His body was recovered about 25 miles downstream at Mound City where burial will occur.
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East Prairie
Mississippi River
Osmont Landing
Columbus
George McIntire
Tardie Terrett
James Shand
At Prairie
oGtata
Abedytire Cogpe
Mound City
Kentucky
Sgt. McIntire
Soldiers in Europe and Korea Highlight Army Readiness
Army Sgt. Orville Buchanan of Sikeston Missouri serves with the 32d Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade in England, training with U S Air Force and British forces after arriving from Fort Knox in January 1951. Army Pfc James Westrich, 21, of Chaffee Missouri, with wife Ida, serves in Korea with the 7th Infantry Division as Bayonet unit drills sharpen for peak combat readiness after arriving last September following enlistment in March 1953.
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Upper Heyford
England
Orville Buchanan
Pearl Buchanan
Sikeston
32D
U. S. Air Force
Buchanan
Fort Knox
Korea
James
Westrich
Ida
Heeb Ave
Chaffee
Pu‘san
Yalu River
Blandine -Westrich
Army
Cadet Billy Flowers Attends Fort Benning ROTC Camp
Cadet Billy Flowers son of Mr and Mrs Flowers from Arkansas College attends a six week 1954 General Military Science ROTC Summer Camp at Fort Benning Georgia. The program trains leadership and infantry small unit combat skills for commissioned officers across 37 colleges in the Third and Fourth Army areas.
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Benning
Billy¢ . Flowers
O.'A. Flowers
Arkansas Sai ‘College
Fort Ga
General’ ‘Military Science Reserve Officers’ Training’ Corps
Fort Benning
Morley Soldier Separated After Two Years of Service
Sgt. Wills D. Segraves of Morley Missouri was discharged from active duty after two years in the Army. He served at Fort Bliss Texas with C Battery 1st Training Battalion Antiaircraft Artillery Replacement Training Center and was an instructor in 90 millimeter guns. Segraves joined July 24 1952 in St Louis and earned the Good Conduct and National Defense Service medals. He plans to attend a barber college in St Louis after release.
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Morley
Fort Bliss
Texas
Wills D. Segraves
Army
Segraves
Lillian Segraves
Tex
St. Louis
Southern Oil Company
Cape Girardeau
Morley Senior
Barber’s College
Surprise Dinner Honors Birthday of James Spivey
James Spivey was honored at his home with a surprise birthday dinner hosted by Mrs. Spivey on Thursday. The buffet on the lawn featured a birthday cake. guests were mainly Kroger store associates and relatives. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Humes, and several Spivey family members. entertainment followed with bingo and prizes won by Art Zigler and others.
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James
Spivey
Kroger Store
Charles Stearns
Bill Humes
Art Zigler
Nellie Bates
Addie Hughes
Harrison Manley
Henry Bell
Hal Fagan
Donald Lynn
Gene Aufdenberg
John Vaughn
Krogers
John Newcomer
Bill Shain Sr
Lewis Spivey
Jimmy
Gary Spivey
Spiveys
Bill Eaton
Bernard Cockrell
Coleman Buys 33 Angus From Ky Cattle Dealers
Coleman of Sikeston purchases 33 Anguses from Dericex Johnson of Taylorsville Kentucky and four cows from Shirley Johnson and Sons of Taylorsville in a regional cattle deal.
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Coleman
Angus E. P. Coleman
Sikeston
Dericex Johnson
Taylorville
Shirley Johnson & Sons
Taylorsville
Vowels Home Razed For New Urban Brothers Office
The old Vowels home on Stoddard Street was razed by workers to clear space for a 30 room office building. Dr. FE Urban and his brother Dr. Dewey Urban plan the new structure with Dr. Ben Williams and possibly another physician to use the clinic and offices. The project follows Sikeston’s improvement campaign but is not part of it, with plans awaiting final floor and construction details.
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Vowels
Urban Brothers
FE. D. Urban
Dewey E. Urban
Urban
Willi
Proposed Stoddard Street building to replace old homes
A new building is planned a short distance south of the Ushan property on the former home site of Mrs M G Gresham and her late husband. The house has been moved to the rear of the lot to make space for the proposed structure. Denman says the cleanup effort may encourage replacing old buildings with new, aligning with council goals.
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Stoddard
Ushan
Denman
Advance Builder Gets Contract for Route F Work
A contract for about 0.6 mile of improvements on State Supplementary Route E in Scott County was awarded by the State Highway Commission. Bids opened May 20 place the project at roughly 16,465 dollars, with grading and gravel or crushed stone surfacing to be done northeast from Benton toward Commerce. The work, under District 10 in Sikeston, is part of a 4.3 million dollar program covering 3 miles of roads in 18 counties.
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Scott County
Ate Highwey & Commission
Steinhoff |Ood - Joiner
Vance
Benton
Commerce
Joe,Le Smund
Susie Wilkinson
Fred Schiwitz
Bill Beardslee
Norman Sanders
Charlie Michael
R. M. Vincent
J. A. Skinner
Mrs
Joe Edmunds
Oliver Scott
W. C
B. H. McVay
McVay
Ed Johnson
Moris Olson
Commission
Sikeston
M.S. Gwinn
A. E. Nance
Sewer Line Builders Open Local Office in Sikeston
Clark Brothers of Eldon Mo the successful bidders on laying the main sewer lines for Sikeston's new sanitary sewer system have opened field offices on square ? South of the Pepsi bottling plant Excavating and other machinery will be moved in and Mayor Charles H Butler expects digging to start this week
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Clark, Brothers
Eldon
Auto Age: Average Farm Vehicle Up At Eight Years
A historical note states the typical life expectancy of a farm driven automobile averages eight years. The figure reflects the era’s vehicle usage patterns and maintenance conditions on rural farms.
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Sikeston Lions
Beck
Blanton
Woeblecke
Roger Halley
Lions
Jones
W. Parker
Cane Girl
Hy Southeast Mic
Parker
A. Hichiy
Beno
Lee Austin Bowman
Nash E. Gray
John Powell
Ewart Taylor
Jonnie H. Bishop
Perth
New Brunswick
Canada
Emmett Young
CAP
Eston
State
Bill Gardner
George W. “Bill” Gardner
Henry Meldrum
American Legion
Legionnaires
Henry ‘‘Hankt’ Switala
Eonest Race
C. “Chuck’’ Blee
Herne Poe
Harold McElwain
Ira Keller
Marshall Myers
Poe
Morehouse
The
Odd Fellows
Lodge Hall
Grover
Drake
King
S. Charles Wyrick
Ester
Shirkey
Lewis Iffin
Mary Ed Neal
George Kasting
S. Elma Bryant
Exchangite
James Matthews Je
Allard-Matthews Insurance Agency
Fast
Torily
James Spivey
Clint H. Denman
Improvement Council
Stoddard Street
Unn Tanner
Jasper Wilson
Tanner
Moses Caney
Canoy
Aaa
Advance Builder
Carroll
Packard
Packard Pacific
Packards
America
Whier
Cada Dogen
Jarvis Motor & Equipment CO
Sikeston, Mo
Highway
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