Dempster's Leads City Softball Fight To Start Week
Dempster's edged ISCO 11 to 9 to take the league lead with five victories and three defeats. Oil Mill beat Cadets to tie ISCO for second at four and four. Cadets drop to cellar. Oil Mill previously defeated Cadets, then jumped to a four run third inning. Dempster's big fourth inning produced seven runs on two hits aided by three Cadet errors. Cadets later scored four in the seventh, but it was too late. Box scores follow.
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Dempster
ISCO
Oil Mill
Flying Cadets
Organized taxpayers claim 1941 Missouri budget gains
Jefferson City Missouri reports the 61st General Assembly completed a balanced budget with no new taxes, restoration of veto power over legislative appropriations, and reductions in county budgets. Taxpayers credit organized action for restraining overspending and defeating high minimum Old Age Assistance payments. Editorials praise Public Expenditure Survey influence.
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Jefferson City
61St
General Assembly
Missouri
Assembly
Associated Press
Howard Flieger
Joplin Globe
Missouri Public Expenditure Survey
Missouri Aims to Attract More Tourists With State Fund
Enthusiastic Morland Brown urges Gov Donnell to leave a $30,000 state appropriation unspent and to administer the program at no cost. The plan uses highway funds to publish pamphlets maps and newspaper ads distributed at filling stations hotels and tourist stops to boost Missouri tourism and state revenue.
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Morland Brown
Travel-In-Missouri Association
Missouri
Brown
Forrest C. Donnell
Association Board of Directors
Ozark
Lake of the Ozarks
Lake Taneycomo
Spring Wheat Crop Put At 255,883,000 Bushels
The Agriculture Department estimates spring wheat production in Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Montana at 255,883,000 bushels based on July 15 conditions up from 206,767,000 on July 1. Last year the four states produced 187,186,000 bushels with a 1930–39 average of 127,469,000.
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Washington, D. C
Agriculture Department
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Governor Invites Texas To Daughter Molly's Wedding
Austin Texas Gov W Lee O Daniel urged all Texas residents to attend the governor's mansion wedding of his daughter Molly to Jack D Wrather Jr set for July 31. The ceremony precedes his departure for Washington as the new junior senator. Wrather is the son of an east Texas oilman and an officer in the Naval Reserve.
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Austin
Texas
W. Lee O'Daniel
Molly
Jack D. Wrather Jr
Washington
Wrather
Naval Reserve
Farm Security allocates $50 million in farm loan aid
The Farm Security Administration tentatively allocates $50,000,000 in loans to tenants for farm purchases among states. Texas receives $4,297,245, followed by Mississippi with $3,777,500, the largest shares.
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Washington, D. C
Farm Security Administration
Congress
Texas
Mississippi
Cairo to Play Reliables Here Tomorrow Night
Sikeston Reliables travel to Cairo Illinois for a softball clash at the local high school field. Both squads sit atop the upper bracket, signaling a tight contest in a key tri city standings battle.
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Sikeston Reliables
Cairo
Charleston
Sikeston Golfers Head To Brookfield For State Tourney
Sikeston Missouri State Highway Department golf team travels to Brookfield Sunday to compete for the T A Butler trophy. Sikeston holds the cup but must win it three consecutive years to keep it. Team members include Fred Harris L R Burns Eddie Mathis Donald Hearnes Wilbur Ensor C L Moore of Poplar Bluff. All sections of the state will be represented.
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Missouri State Highway Department
Brookfield
T. A. Butler
Sikeston
Fred Harris
L. R. Burns
Eddie Mathis
Donald Hearnes
Wilbur Ensor
Government spends billion in 19 days
The Government spent 1,018,609,659 in the first 19 days of the new fiscal year, nearly double the prior year’s period. Defense outlay reached 582,301,735 in 19 days, with daily pace around 30,000,000, suggesting July totals could top 900 million.
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The
Treasury
Naval expansion authorization clears Senate for White House
The Senate passed on Tuesday a bill authorizing 585 million dollars to expand naval shipbuilding, ship repair and ordnance manufacturing facilities. The measure, approved unanimously without debate, earmarks 300 million for shipbuilding facilities, 160 million for repair facilities and 125 million for ordnance facilities.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
White House
Donnell Sends 1 Percent Appointees to College
Jefferson City Governor Forrest C. Donnell announced a new training program for state workers. Seventeen Republican inspectors in the State Agriculture Department will attend a four day course at the University of Missouri. Future courses are planned for health labor mines departments and the public service commission. Details remain undisclosed.
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Jefferson City
Forrest C. Donnell
State Capitol
Donnell
State Agriculture Department
University of Missouri
State Department
Health, Labor and Mines Department
Public Service Commission
Tax collections in 1940-41 exceed prior year by billions
Washington reports total receipts from all sources for the year ending June 30 show a gain of 2,023,960,267 over the previous year. Internal revenue receipts reached 7,364,412,613 in 1941, up from 5,340,452,346 in 1940, with New York State leading at 1,454,505,858 followed by Pennsylvania and Illinois. Missouri totaled 166,594,650 versus 137,966,376 the prior year.
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Washington
The
Treasury
New York State
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Goose Drowns in Trough at Farm Drink Time
In Ways, Kansas Frank Bieker reports his goose died while trying to drink from a water trough. The bird slipped under water and drowned after avoiding a duck pond, ending its brief lapse in water etiquette near the dry-sand chicken pen.
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Goose
Frank Bieker
Bieker
Man Learns to Make Rubies as Natural Ones
A scientist has developed a method to create rubies that match the appearance of natural stones, but the highly intricate process keeps the synthetic gems just as expensive as their natural counterparts.
Rubber trees are no more limber or rubbery than other trees
A concise remark notes that rubber trees resemble typical trees in flexibility and resilience, challenging common assumptions about their unique properties. The statement contrasts rubber trees with standard arboreal behavior, suggesting no special limberness beyond normal tree characteristics.
Millers Shut Out Paducah 8 0 in Sunday Gridiron Clash
Sikeston Milers avenged a 4 3 loss by routing Paducah 8 to 0 on their home field Roy Smith twirled a three hit shutout while his teammates Mack Bandy and Mel Schwab fueled the offense with hits and RBIs The Box score shows strong team hitting and solid defense as Sikeston prepares to host Hurst Illinois champions this Sunday with manager Austin Cameron announcing the matchup
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Sikeston Millers
Paducah
Sikeston
Eagles
Roy Smith
Paducah Boys
Tope
Bandy
Mel Schwab
Schwab
Pucker
Smith
Puckett
Marshall
Hurst
Austin Cameron
Millers
Southern Illinois
Sikeston Abr
Seeeneeeeeten
Ccsee
Mills Cf
Marshall, Cf
Stacy
Zacher
Rafferty
Paducah Abr
HE McGarvey, SS
Russell
Tunstill
Bartlett
Morgan, C
Heath
F. Carlson
Backer
Mason
Peoples
J. Carlson
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