Dozen Weekend Accidents Kill One and Injure Ten
A weekend of traffic crashes in the Troop E area left one man dead and ten injured. Raymond Lee Joly, 22, of Conran, was fatally struck when his parked car was hit by a second vehicle on Route EE near Marston. Several others, including Pauline and Nadine Jolly, were injured, and a taxi incident near Cape Girardeau involved Cleo Richardson. Additional crashes occurred in Hayti and Bell City area towns, with injuries ranging from broken bones to minor cuts.
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Theif County
Troop E
State Highway Patrol
Raymond Lee Joly
Conrap
Hooseveel
Quinn
Marston
Jolly
Quinin
Reymond Lee Jolly
Oklahoma
Pauline Hunt
Conran
Mary Joly
Opal Joly
Charles
Herbert
Ropert
Frederick
Earl
Carl
Franklin
Cleo Richardson
Blaytheville
Ark
Cape Gatrardeau
Cape Girardeau
Mildred Sheppard
Blytheville
Bell City
Eugene Pullen
Missouri Delta Community Hospital
Hayti
Hubert Robinson
Robbie Willams
Robinson
Albert Peters
St. Louis
Jerry Schwettmann
Rt 2
Peters
Easy Irrigation From A Golf Club Tip For Dry Weather
An old golf club shaft is repurposed into a soil moisture tester to guide watering. The article explains how soil type affects moisture, how to water deeply and infrequently, and tips to avoid leaf wetness to prevent fungal disease especially in vegetable gardens.
Alumni Meeting Set by Missouri College of Agriculture
The eighteenth of twenty five alumni meetings for the University of Missouri College of Agriculture is planned for Friday July 26 at 8 am in Dexter at Central Grade School. Dr J H Longwell will speak on the Challenge of Agricultural Leadership and a film Opportunity in Agriculture will be shown. Refreshments follow. reservations to Rendlemar or Worley.
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Toe
University of Missouri College of Agriculture
Dexter
Central
College of Agriculture
Missouri College of Agriculture
J. H. Longwell
Missouri College of Agricultre
Missour Association of Agricultural
Robert L. Rendlemar
Painton
Ronald Worley
Sikeston District Okra Planting Trials Begin
District farmers including Chester Oldham and W F Weehjecke plan to plant okra on ten and additional acres amid tomato harvests. Other growers Carl Luper Charles Hampton Dean Mc Mullin and D Kimes will plant two three five and twenty acres. Dunklin County farmers attend meeting to plan okra and fall cabbage as quick cash crops with buyers like Bill Maurer of Overland vowing to pay at least 1.25 per half bushel and potential shipment arrangements via commission.
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Sikeston
Iissou
Chester Oldham
Dean McMullin
D. ©. Kimes
Dunklin County
Dunklin Daily Democrat
Glen Antie
Antie
Bill Maurer
Overland
Missouri
Maurer
Antle
Delinquent Tax Collections Exceed $358000 in 1956 57
Jefferson City reports $358,302.89 in delinquent taxes collected by the attorney general for the 1956 57 year ending June 30. Delinquent sales tax accounted for $155,136.21, with the remainder from income franchise motor fuel guardian inheritance tangible and private car taxes. The 1955 57 biennium total was $726,218. &a.
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Jefferson City
John M. Dalton
Over 731 Retired Workers in Scott County Get S.S. Checks
More than 731 Scott County residents received monthly social security checks totaling 38399.00 at end of 1956, up from 590 old age beneficiaries a year earlier. Harold F. Kearns notes the 1956 amendments lowered the qualifying age for women to 62, boosting beneficiaries and noting rapid coverage growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County
Harold F. Kearns
Social Security Administration
Cape Girardeau
Kearns
Smuth Doxer cotton classification and market news filings due
Clyde G. McWhorter, manager, urges all cotton sampling entities in the South Central AMS to file applications for Smuth Doxer classification and market news services by August 1. Last year over 3.8 million samples were classed for 173 thousand members in 919 groups. About 418 groups have filed this year. roughly 300 remain. Bond filings and sampling arrangements are requested now to ensure supplies reach agents before ginning begins. Applications and forms available from the cotton classing offices or local county agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smuth-Doxer
Clyde CG. McWhorter
South Central Area
AMS
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Toups
Neighbors Demand Opera Amid Stabbing Incident
A neighborhood dispute surfaces as locals demand an opera performance after an alleged stabbing. Tensions rise as speakers frame the event as a cultural flashpoint, with residents pressing authorities for clear remedies and safety assurances.
June Traffic Toll Sees 12 Fatalities in Troop E Area
State Highway Patrol reports 12 deaths and 133 injuries from 19 crashes in June for Troop E region. First half totals rise to 50 fatalities and 665 injuries. county records vary with Scott County posting six fatalities to date. Across Bootheel counties, June counts show multiple crashes, with accumulated year figures for 1957 in parentheses.
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State Highway Patrol
14- Cenputy
Troop E
Scott County
Bootheel
Durkin
Cape Girardeau
Mississippi
New Madrid
Pemiscot
Stoddard
Vanduser Gin Under New Ownership
Tom F. Baker and Charles A. Cook have purchased the Servail Gin at Vanduser, to be operated by Farmers' Gin Co. Inc. under Vanduser. Formerly known as the Black Gin, it is a well equipped cotton gin plan t, with plans for improvements and full scale operations this ginning season. Cook will lead the new venture.
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Tom F. Baker
Trauback Plantation
Charles A. Cook
Charleston
Vanduser
Farmers Gin Co., Inc
Farmers’ Guin
J. R. Lee
Foster Brothers
Mr. Cook
Corning Jaycees Lease Land to Market Group
The Northeast Arkansas Livestock Marketing Association will locate on a ten acre tract bought and leased by the Corning Jaycees on the John Baxley farm near junction 62-135 on Highway 135. Local officials and extension staff aided the plan. Four sales yearly are planned with a first sale September 16 offering about 1,000 head.
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Corning
Ark
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Northeast Arkansas Livestock Marketing Association
Corning Jaycees
John Baxley
Highway 135
Jaycees
Glenn Arnold
Green County
Harold Hicks
Farmers plan cooperative sales and marketing outlet expansion
Jaycee officials announce plans for an annual registered breeders sale and a second hog sale along with a vegetables and fruits marketing outlet at the association building next spring and summer. Officers include President Herbert Farrell and Vice President Oran Nicholas with a six member board led by O. L Woods and Paul Wayland. Fish fry at Charleston Country Club with alumni chairmen Abner Beck and Kenny Hearn and student chairs East Prairie.
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Jaycee
Marketing Association
Herbert Farrell
Oran Nicholas
Author Gabler
O. L Woods
Corning
Orbra Hollis
Greenway
Paul Wayland
Paragould
Charles Graham
Marmaduke
Walter Lange
Lafe
Charleston Country Club
Bob Jackson
Charleston
Abner Beck
Kenny Hearn
East Prairie
Charleston Hosts Sixteenth Ag Alumni Meeting
The University of Missouri College of Agriculture schedules its sixteenth alumni prospective student meeting for Wednesday July 24 at 6 p.m. at the Charleston Country Club. Dr J H Longwell will address “Challenge of Agricultural leadership” and a film “ Opportunities in Agriculture” will be shown. All alumni students and prospective students are invited to attend.
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University of Missouri College of Agriculture
Charleston Country Club
College of Agriculture
Missouri College of Agriculture
J. H. Longwell
Mississippi
Professional X ray Neurocalometer For Sale
Registered Angus bulls for sale at Harold Hill Angus Farms on U S Highway 61 nine miles north of Sikeston. Heifers also available. Phone 2400 W 1 TF.
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Harold Hill Angus Farms
U. S. Highway 61
Sikeston
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Gaspe Peninsula
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United States
Quebec
Perce Rock
Bonaventure Island
Cotton News
NAWAS
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Continental Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Earle E. Partridge
CONAD
Vanduser Gin
Stran-Steel Div
Greet Lobes Steel Corp
National Steel Corp
Sikeston Steel Building CO
Highway 60
F. L. Sisson
DR. L. E. Bechtold
Front Street
Joe Hefner
Qulin, MO
United States Rubber
Naugatuck Chemical Division
Naugatuck
Connecticut
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