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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1941
Page
16
Ferguson announced a weekly average of about 5,094 new small homes started under FHA inspection in the month, the highest rate under the National Housing Act. Most homes are in defense housing areas or near defense industrial sites. Mortgage insurance applications under Section 203 also rose.
The Scott New Madrid Mississippi Cooperative Association will open bids Monday night July 28 for a new T shaped office and warehouse building. Architect J L Sutterfield reports final plans approved and a 20000 dollar estimated cost. Construction to begin mid August after bond clearance in Washington.
Construction expands the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics with new barracks a multi use clinic building and cafeteria addition under way this week. An armed officer now checks visits at the gates and only authorized personnel may enter the secured grounds with completion planned for early fall as cadet intake rises.
Announcement last Thursday stated a payday change at the International Shoe Company here from Friday to Thursday. The next payday will be Friday, July 18, as usual, with the change taking effect on the following payday.
Stripes on barber poles recall the bandages used by early barbers who performed bloodletting as a medical cure. The red and white patterns symbolize the tools and healing traditions of medieval barber surgeons.
About 150 visitors attended the open house at Delmo Group Labor Homes in East Prairie. The event, the first since homes opened in Southeast Missouri communities this spring, featured a basket dinner and tours of 11 of 60 homes plus two garden projects. Area director John Thomas Stewart Marvin M. Gray and H. M. Zarkor addressed the gathering.
Shellac fiber rugs stay bright longer when shellacked at purchase and resist weathering outdoors. The project is the largest and most elaborate. reshelving occurs each spring. Externally the building appears nearly finished, but occupancy awaits several weeks.
Major Tanner C. Dye of Sikeston, stationed at Camp Robinson Arkansas, leaves for Fort Benning Georgia for a three month battalion commander and staff officer course at the Infantry School. Col H E Dudley, regiment commander, has been at the school and will complete the same course. Also signaling moves are Lt Col A D Sheppard and Capt Charles I Lutz. Capt Francis A Pfeffer heads to Arlington Cantonment for a three month adjutant general course.
First Sergeant F. Jones, after a weekend with his wife in Flat River, Missouri, returns to Camp Robinson. A lieutenant engages him in a five minute talk and the sleepy sergeant finally replies Yes dear.
Protesting farmers won a minor concession in a federal policy that penalizes wheat grown beyond allotments. The Agriculture Department extended the storage loan period to April 30, 1943, offering three ways to avoid the 49 cent per bushel excess penalty, including underplanting next year, awaiting quota lifting, or accepting a large crop loss offset.
Farmers west of Gordonville backed by Wm Schuette sign petition to abolish the AAA farm program and the wheat quota rule in protest of a 49 cent per bushel penalty. The State Social Security Commission issued a bulletin urging employable relief clients to seek private jobs and lists steps to find work nationwide.
A historical note explains a method to repair wood by packing a hole with a mix of fine sawdust and melted glue. When pressed tightly, the material fills the cavity and the wood regains a near new appearance.
Sergeant George T. Johnson of Company K, Missouri National Guard, was commissioned second lieutenant on Saturday July 12. He joined in 1930 and received a long service medal this year. Several Company K promotions followed with new sergeants Doyle Heath and W. G. Norman, corporals J. R. Foster Herbert Minner and Raymond Buss, and privates first class Cleland Hanshew Bennie Hicks Ethel Owens and R. L. Polley. The unit practiced maneuvers 20 miles north of camp near Cato, transporting by trucks. 120 men spent the Fourth at home. Additional notes mention construction work on routes in Sikeston division, including 24 miles of concrete pavement and 2,017 miles of Route 67 paving at Old Greenville.
Three wage and hour division inspectors from the Department of Labor are in Sikeston this week to hear complaints make inspections and answer inquiries about the wage and hour law. Inspectors M B Brownfield F R Grolock and Sydney Sample stay at the Dunn Hotel and will be available to meet with interested parties each afternoon from 4 to 6.
T. F. Ball came back last week from a two week trip visiting his daughter Mrs. George L. Martin and family in Chicago and friends in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He enjoyed fishing at Long Lake Wisconsin during the vacation.
Co A Hollingsworth of Oran transacted business in Sikeston Saturday, reflecting routine local commerce activity and nearby trade ties.
W. E. Barron, government meteorologist for 40 years largely based in Cairo, will retire on September 1 at age 70 under the government retirement plan. He joined the weather service in 1901, led Cairo from 1908 to 1912, returned in 1919 and has run the Cairo office for 22 years. His river forecasts aided flood rescues in 1912 1927 and 1937.
Mr and Mrs F E Mount with guest Chas Mittendorf traveled to Metropolis Illinois on Thursday to visit relatives. They spent Sunday at Reelfoot Lake with Mr Mittendorf returning to Cincinnati on Monday.
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