World This Week Fast Flying Jets Cross Atlantic In Ten Hours
Sixteen U S Air Force jet propelled fighters crossed the Atlantic yesterday in 10 hours at an average speed of 430 miles per hour landing in England. President Truman will address Congress in a special session next Tuesday at 11 a m. Mrs Mabel Wagnalls Jones gives Lithopolis Ohio 2 5 million for education art science and music. Since July 1 Agriculture Department reports export purchases of 21 262 529 bushels wheat 99 240 000 pounds flour 844 000 bushels barley and 3 069 285 bushels grain sorghums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Air Force
Atlantic
England
Harry Truman
Congress
Mabel Wagnalls Jones
Funk & Wagnalls Publishing Company
Lithopolis
Ohio
Father
Washington
Agriculture Departent
War Shipments Reported From Camp Phillips
An unconfirmed report from La TVia Kansas claims army equipment is sent from Camp Phillips to the eastern seaboard for re shipment to England. It says 240 flatcars carried gun carriages vehicles ambulances and command cars while others carried blankets and clothing.
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Latvia
Kansas
Camp Phillips
Here
Eastern
Seaboard
England
Enlistees at Sikeston Recruiting Office Accepted in July
Six Sikeston boys and eight from nearby towns enlisted for service at the local recruiting station in July. Names include Ralph E. Wyatt known as Dago, Haskel M. Price, George M. Holland, Daniel Dwyer, Milbern P. Childers, and Wallace M. Nelson, with others from Morley Tallapoosa Vanduser Painton Mathews. All were sent to Jefferson Barracks, St Louis, for induction into the Army Air Forces and other branches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston
Samuel T. Smith
Ralph E. Wyatt
Wyatt
Fort Knox
Haskel M. Price
Cyclone Fence Project Planned for High School Field
Supt Bretien VanBibber says a 1400 foot cyclone fence will enclose the athletic field. Construction by Addrest Fence Construction Co of St Louis using surplus Weldon Springs property funds. Project begins August 23 with emphasis on securing the field and advertising the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bretien VanBibber
Tone
Sateld
Weldon Springs
Addrest Fence Construction Co
St Louis
Planters and Ginners Return from Tour
The Southeast Missouri planters and ginners on a weeklong tour returned home Saturday night after a stop at the Mississippi Delta Experiment Station in Stoneville Mississippi. Sikeston farmers joined in Memphis and accompanied others from there to Stoneville where they viewed mechanized equipment used in the Yazoo Mississippi Delta cotton cultivation and the latest gun machinery and rust prevention methods. The Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company hosted a barbecue and showcased modern dairying and hybrid cotton experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast Missouri
Mississippi Delta Experiment Station
Stoneville
Miss
Sikeston
Memphis
Missouri
Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company
Volunteers Provide Personal Services for Veterans Hospitals
The Veterans Administration reports over 4000 volunteers in ten area hospitals across Arkansas Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma contributed 22 794 hours of service in one month. Volunteers aided library recreation occupational and social work reading shopping letters and personal comforts. they also supplied gifts flowers tickets transportation and other morale items to assist hospitalized veterans alongside professional staff. The program, coordinated by VA Voluntary Service, supplements essential personnel and equipment with vital morale boosting support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans Administration
Moore
Veteran Administration Voluntary Service Program
Oran News Roundup Highlights Local Visits and Events
Mrs Mary Purcell correspondent notes Cape Girardeau visitors including J B Reed and Mrs Kappler guests of relatives. Residents: Bud Mason Scout troop at Camp Lewallen. local gatherings: Baptist Workers Conference, Sikeston singing. National Gas demo by Sikeston firm with Sandwoods Fiddling Boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Reed
Cape Girardeau
Arnold J. Kappler
Potosi
Millard Mansell
Tommy Kilhofner
M. N. Frobase
Benton
H. C. Watkins
H. C. Watkins Jr
Donald Cook
St. Louis
Eugene Barks
Leon Diebold
Bud Mason
Camp Lewallen
Billy Gene Stone
Jerry Tenkhoff
Chaffee
Paul Lowes
L. O. Townsend
Ferdinand Bishop
Joe Bishop
Arnold Schoen
Lawrence Schoen
Andrew Halter
San Diego
Cal
Henry Halter
Cline
Norman Buge
Vanduser
Taubitz
Lead
Ina Lou
Myra Dell Warren
Baptist Workers Conference
Wilbert Bernard
Frisco Railroad Company
Frank Stone
James Stone
Aaron Wagoner
East St. Louis
Mary Purcell
Sikeston
Peggy Louis Brindley
Burt
Orville Carter
Fort Knox
Gladys Cook
Lucille Stigall
Ed Macelo
Hershel Snider
Pete Kappler
Evelyn Blackman
Rowsell
New Mexico
Martin Menz
Mary Jane
C. C. Paugh
Chaffée
Daisy Duke
Matthews
Alfreda Matthews
Frank Mier
Jeff. Ates
Shirley
Geroy Ates
Sherman
Texas
Ava Dudley
Baptist Children’s Home
Pattonville
William Maddox
G. J. Yount
Earl Yount
Dawson Cook
Cok
Pfc
William O'Mara
Baptist Church
Delta
Memorial Park
George
Milling Company Introduces White Satin Flour Here
The Scott County Milling Company rooted in Sikes-ton with mills at Dexter and Oran began packing White Satin flour locally for direct distribution. After processing soft winter wheat for major bakeries, the two and five pound packages aim at households. The flour, enriched for baking, credits Southeast Missouri farmers for the crop quality and cites cooperative programs with Missouri institutions and growers leading to improved soft winter wheat. The report notes local farm and industry collaboration and highlights A. J. Anderson’s 1944 blue ribbon and Pillsbury award for Missouri wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County Milling Company
Sikeston
Dexter
Oran
Missouri
Farm Bureaus
Missouri Experiment Station
College of Agriculture At Columbia
Missouri Seed Improvement Association
A. J. Anderson
Near Sieston
Columbia
Pillsbury
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United States Steel Corporation
Frenchman’s Bayou
Ark
B. M. Sinn
Wendell E. Sears
Missouri Training School For Boys
Boonville
Nil M. Donnelly
John A Harris
Mlssouri
Truman
Steel For War
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Lea
YENCE
America
4-1 Club
Planters
Willys-Overland
Arkansas
Oklahoma
B. C. Moore
Henry Agard Wallace
Agriculture
Commerce
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Oran News
NEW Madrid County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Inc
New Madrid
Scott, Mississippi
Pemiscot, Dunklin and
Stoddard
Burt H. Rowe
Stallcup
Jack Wright
Baptist Missionary Union
the Herald
Plow Company, Inc
Phone
Amanito
W. R. (Rich) Lewis
Sikeston, Missouri
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