KSIM to Begin Operation of New Radio Enterprise
KSIM plans to go on air at 6 30 a m Saturday July 17 pending a FCC telegram. The new station occupies a 32 by 42 foot concrete building with two studios and a 250 watt transmitter at 1400 kilocycles. Tower is 196 feet monopole with six warning lights and a 120 wire ground system. library holds 1900 records. Officers include C L Malone president and Harry Young secretary treasurer with manager Young and staff Dick Watkins Jr Dan Stengel and Wm Marsh among on air and technical personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KSIM
New Enterprise
Federal Communications Commission
Promised Land
Harry Young
The
Herald
Civil Aeronautics Board
Broadcasting
Western Union
Associated News
C. L. Malone
H. B. Reuber
Jack Bowman
Pleas Malcolm
Oscar Hirsch
Ralph M Hirsch
Hirsch Brothers
Cape Girardeau
Richard L
Dick) Watkins Jr
Dan Stengel
Wm. Marsh
Ben Chambers
Nelson Wheeler
Amos Hargrave
Lela Martin
Farmers Cattle Auction Moves to Saturday Start
The Farmers' Cattle Auction changes its schedule from Friday to Saturday, beginning Saturday July 17 at 11 a.m. The change is permanent and only cattle will be auctioned. Owners include R. A. and Joe McCord Fred Hurst and Lenzie Beck. Fat hogs will be bought as usual without commission, handled by Paul Heckemeyer and Company at yards on Highway 60 West near Sikeston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. R. A
Joe McCord
Fred Hurst
Lenzie Beck
Paul Heckemeyer and Company
Highway 60
Sikeston
Former Farm Agent Heads Missouri CR0P Aid Program
Jos C Caldwell longtime Agriculture Extension agent for Scott county is named director of the Missouri office of the Christian Rural Overseas Program. The Missouri branch will operate from Columbia in the Missouri Farmers Association building with Amy Kelly assisting. Officers include H E Klinefelter president Rev Gene Wetherall vice chair J W Burch director of Agriculture Missouri University secretary Clyde Cunningham and L C Carpenter treasurer all based in Columbia. The group sponsored by Protestant Catholic and Jewish churches plans to distribute food overseas based on need regardless of race or nationality. Caldwell served four years as Scott county Extension agent before moving to the U S Department of the Interior last January and maintains his farm near Benton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos. C. Caldwell
Scott County
Missouri
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Missouri Farmers’ Association
Columbia
Caldwell
Amy Kelly
The
State University
Missouri Branch
H. E. Klinefelter
Gene Wetherall
Missouri Bible College
J. W. Burch
Missouri University
Clyde Cunningham
State Agriculture Extension Service
L. C. Carpenter
Farmers’ Home Administration
Wildlife and Fish Division
U.S Department of the Interior
Benton
Prominent Early Settler Visits Here With Friends
D S Kreps aged 92 and his daughter Miss Mary Kreps visited Mr and Mrs Fred Geske in Hagerstown Md This week Kreps first settled Canalou in 1891 He recalled hunting in the area and buying a 50 acre farm for five dollars an acre He was Canalou s first postmaster founder of the Bank of Canalou and once owned the first store He hoped to live 20 more years and noted Canalou was named to honor canals He was born near the Pennsylvania Maryland line and had been a ranger in Colorado and the Texas Panhandle His wife Annie Hyberger died six years ago Their Canalou home sits two miles south of the Mason Dixon line and three miles north of Hagerstown with a mixed regional accent
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Kreps
Hagerstown
Fred Geske
Sikes Avenue
Miss Kreps
Canaiou
New Madrid County
Geske
Kreps
Canalou
Bank of
Pennsylvania
Penn.Md
Colorado
Texas Panhandle
Jasper County
Missouri
Annie Hyberger
Harry Kreps
St. Louis
B & O Railroad Company
Mr. Kreps
Mason-Dixon Line
Murder Trial Awaits Return of Prosecutor
True Whorton a tenant farmer near Oran faces a murder charge for beating his mother in law Mary Jones to death with a hammer at his home. The preliminary hearing in Benton magistrate court was postponed until Prosecuting Attorney D W Gilmore, an active U S Navy reserve lieutenant commander, returns from a training cruise aboard the U S S Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
True Whorton
Oran
D. W. Gilmore
Whorton
Mary Jones
Benton
Robert A. Dempster
Gilmore
Wharton
U. S. Navy
Naval Reserve
Cape Girardeau
Boston
U. S. S. Albany
Electronics Perfects Horns Band and Orchestra Makers
Electronics Perfects Horns Band and Orchestra instrument makers use a fault-finder that detects pitch errors to one one-hundredth of a semitone. The robot ear is so sensitive it reveals when an instrument is flat or sharp with extreme precision.
Elderly Matthews Woman Beaten and Robbed
Mrs. Liza Smith an 80 year old widow living alone in Matthews South part was found injured by a neighbor after a robbery on Sunday night. She sustained eight head wounds and eight eight? no skull fracture and was transported to Sikeston General Hospital for treatment. The State Highway Patrol investigated and she described being assaulted with a large flash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liza’ Smith
Matthews
Jessie Johns
Smith
Moses
Jake Cade
Southeast Missouri war dead arrive for burial
Thirteen bodies of Southeast Missouri men, previously buried in military cemeteries in France or Belgium, have arrived at the Eastern Seaboard Port via the Transport Oglethorpe Victory and will be sent home for burial through the Memphis distribution center. The returnees include Pyt. Edward F. Bounds Poplar Bluff Sgt Levi D Feltz Perryville Pfc Orville J Gett inger and Pvt Francis S Hoag Ste Genevieve Pvt Seibert A Gibson Morley Pfc Thomas D Ham Pvt Billy M Philpot Campbell S-Set Willard E Hovis Pvt Wendell D Settle Fredericktown Pfc James A Massey Archurd Pfc Thomas C ONeill Fairdealing Bland F Seabaugh Jr Hornersville and Sgt J C Statler Steele.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
France
Belgium
Eastern
Seaboard
Oglethorpe
Memphis
Edward F
Fairdealing
Bland F. Seabaugh Jr
Hornersville
J. C. Statler
Steele
New Farm Committee Adds Altom Member
Frank Altom Jr a prosperous young farmer from Route 1 Sikeston has been appointed to the Scott County Farmers Home Administration Committee for a three year term. He replaces Roy M Johnson of Route 1 Sikeston who just completed a three year term. Other members are Coy N Mayfield Route 2 Sikeston and Alwin G Gasser Route 1 Sikeston. The Committee reviews and approves applications for farm ownership and operating loans and advises Avin E Boise county supervisor of the Farmers Home Administration on borrower progress. Loan funds are now available for farm operating and ownership development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank ‘Altom
Sikeston
Scott
County Farmers Home
Altom
Roy M. Johnson
Coy N. Mayfield
Alwin G. Gasser
Avin E. Boise
Farmers Home Administration
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iewspapere
D. S. Kreps
Sikeston Steel Building Company
Highway
Sikeston, Missouri
Committee
Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet Co
Center Street
Telephone
Mwspaper Raa
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!