Truman Drops Tax Hike Push and Bets on Deficit Stimulus
President Truman told Congress the economy is in orderly retreat from inflation and rejects major tax increases. He urges deficit spending and moderate pump priming, backing tax relief for losses, higher estate and gift taxes, RF C loan terms, and a broad study of investment and development needs. He also calls for higher minimum wage, expanded unemployment and old age benefits, extended readjustment allowances, and revived Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act.
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Truman
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
New Madrid youths hear safety and college plans
Sixty five members of the New Madrid County Rural Youth Organization gathered at Marston for a program on Safety Built into Automobiles led by Bob Schwab and Sgt Montgomery. The group heard about pre registration for the Missouri College of Agriculture on July 21 in New Madrid and a follow up social at a County 4-H Picnic July 14. The meeting announced the next Marston gathering July 22 and urged member participation.
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New Madrid County
Missour College of Agriculture
Circuit Court Room
New Madrid
Ovid U Bay
Missoun Collect of Agriculture
Jesse
Sgt Montgomery
State Highway Patrol
Frank Stanley
Hedden Retires From Deere After 24 Years Of Service
Former Sikeston resident W E Hedden retires after 24 years with John Deere Plow Company. Honored at a St Louis luncheon by C E Masten. Hedden began as special engineer in tractor introduction, later area and territory manager for Missouri and surrounding counties. He and Mrs Hedden plan an extended western trip, visiting son R L Hedden in Vancouver, Washington, and other children in Huntsville Alabama and St Louis.
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W.E Hedden
Hannibal
John Deere Plow
St Louis
C E Masten
Deere & Co
St. Lows
W H. Stenz
Hedden
John Deere
Missour
Cape Girardeau
Sikeston, Mo
Lincoln, Pike, Ralls
Marion Lewis and Clark Counties
Hubbard Street
West Coast
R L Hedden
Vancouver
Wash
W T Hedden
Huntsville
Ala
H A Kuntz
Roy Fowler
St Lows
Six New Homes Near Completion in Sikeston
Six new homes are nearing completion in Sikeston. Two Taylor avenue houses, owned by Bob Dempster and built by E. G Gilmore, will finish in two weeks. one with plastered walls, the other with insulation plank. Branum addition adds three Gilmore-built houses. A Ray Yeager fire room frame house with attached garage and rock trim fireplace is under construction. Mrs. R D Clayton owns two near-complete structures, one large 36 by 50 foot with 24 by 36 basement and a four-room home with garage. A five-room brick veneer on Sikes avenue, by Milford Estes, features plastered walls and a forced hot air system. recreation room planned in the large basement. builder Andy Kappler.
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Taylor Avenue
Bob Dempster
E. G Gilmore
Gilmore
Branum
Ray Yeager
R D Clayton
Sikes
Milford Estes
Andy Kappler
Large New Warehouse For Robinson Lumber Co
Robinson Lumber Co builds a $10,000, one story, 168 by 24 foot warehouse in Sikeston. Manager Carroll Smoky Sutton says completion in 60 days with three storage balconies totaling 8,000 square feet for rock wool and insulation mats. The facility will act as a sending and receiving house for Sikeston, the wholesale and local retail office for 21 yards.
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Robinson Lumber Company
Sikeston
Carroll
Smoky” Sutton
Construction adds eight inch siding and new coal bins
The building will feature exterior coating of eight inch drop siding and 18 to be painted white. Five doors per entrance support loading and unloading. To back the floor, 27 concrete walls six inches thick and 24 feet long are being built. New coal bins replace those in use for twenty five years.
Osteopathic association draws over four thousand to St Louis meet
More than 4000 osteopaths gathered at Keil Auditorium in St Louis this week for the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association outlining advances in medicine and professional updates.
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Keil Auditorium
St. Louis
The
American Osteopathic Association
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Robinson Lumber CO
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