Improvements In Telephone Service In Sikeston Vicinity
The Southwestern Bell Telephone Co expands service in Sikeston area replacing one wire farm lines with metallic circuits. A special switchboard for farm lines and long distance service is installed. Free service to Oran and Benton ends. Rain reduces fair grounds horse racing attendance to fund Sikeston National Guard unit. Farmers Supply advertises Maxwell cars at 665 fob Detroit. 37 Boy Scouts camp at Burfordville under Mather Pitman Decker. Campaign speeches for James A Reed noted. At Malone Theatre Pola Negri in Gypsy Blood and Tom Mix in Chasing the Moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwestern Belle Telephone’ Company
Sikeston
Boy Scouts of
Burfordville
T. B. Mather
J. M. Pitman
Oscar Decker
P. M. Malcolm
G. W. H. Presnell
Atty
W. L. Patterson
James A. Reed
U.S
Malone Theatre
Pola Negri
Tom Mix
Marconi Dies at Rome Home in 1937 Obituary Note
Fifteen years ago Walter Clymer died suddenly of a heart ailment. Marquis Gugielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, died at his home in Rome. A new shoe factory was formally opened at Chaffee. The Post Office Department announced the appointment of Pleas Malcolm as Sikeston Postmaster. EB. J. Keith, real estate agent, reported East Acres lots in Sikeston were selling fast and would soon be sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Clymer
Marquis Gugielmo Marconi
Rome
Chaffee
Post Office Department
Pleas Malcolm
Sikeston
EB. J. Keith
East Acres
Sikeston Historic Snapshots From City Chronicle
Ten years ago Sikeston hired Jack Duncan as athletic director at the high school and a veterans post formed in Sikeston. Five years ago Commerce lit its first electric streets and library board members were named. Last year Fisk Bank suffered a robbery, guards trained at Camp Ripley, and a new Lutheran church cornerstone was laid. Notable deaths include Charles W. Francisco, and Fred Schorle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston Board of Education
Jack Duncan
Brookfield
Allan G. Swaim
U. S. Army
J. C. Penney Company
Veteran of Foreign Wars
Sikeston
Burl Heath
Charles W. Francisco
Division Nine
Missouri Highway Department
Willow Springs
Scott County
Commerce
Marvin Carroll
H. E. Reuber
Robert Dempster
Roger Bailey
Matthews Wagon Yard
Christopher Columbus Clark
Fred Schorle
Semo Motor Company
Highway 61
Tanner St
Fisk
Missouri Penitentiary
Camp Ripley
Minn
Owen Johnson
American Legion Auxiliary
New Lutheran Church
Tin can shortage threatens M Nation farmers
The American Farm Bureau Federation warned that a prolonged steel strike and tin can shortage threaten crop yields and may force higher canned goods prices. Telegrams to officials urged President Truman to invoke Taft Hartley to reopen mills, stating canning crops risk waste and potential bankruptcies for producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Farm Bureau Federation
Bureau
Truman
With Our Sons in Service at Lackland AFB Texas
Airman Charles Edward Meeks 19 son of Mr and Mrs Frank Meeks Bertand Mo is completing basic airmen indoctrination at Lackland Gate way to the Air Force near San Antonio the world largest base and home of officer candidate school His training prepares him for technical schooling and a future Air Force career Joyce rifleman in Company E 1st Infantry Regiment part of the 7th Division entered the Army November 1951 and earned the Korean Service Ribbon with one campaign star Parents Mr and Mrs Pearl Joyce live on Helen St Sikeston Mo
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackland Air Force Base
Texas
Charles Edward Meeks
Frank Meeks
Bertand
Air Force
Lackland
San Antonio
Air Force Base
Human Resource Research Center
Air Force Technical
Joyce
Pearl Joyce
Helen St. Sikeston
Corporal Clarence Bunch Jr Training With 1st Infantry Division
Corporal Clarence Bunch Jr of Gray Ridge Missouri trains with the U S Army 1st Infantry Division in southern Germany. The unit, famed for World War I campaigns in North Africa Sicily and Europe, has served overseas since 1942 and now forms part of NATO defenses. Bunch serves as an instructor at the 26th Infantry Regiment Army Education Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Clarence B. Bunch Jr
Gray Ridge
1St Infantry
Germany
Scotland
NATO
Europe
Butch
26Th Infantry Regiment
Soldier Joyce Awarded Combat Infantryman Badge
Pvt. Carl T. Joyce of the 7th Infantry Division in Korea, wife Margaret of Sikes ton Missouri, received the Combat Infantryman Badge for outstanding frontline service. The badge signifies distinguished combat duty and features a miniature Revolutionary War replica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl T. Joyce
Margaret
Sikeston, Mo
7Th Infantry Division
Military air defense exercise to test Pacific Northwest
Capt Elzie L Brant son of Mr and Mrs Elva Brant Ancell Scott Mo will join Operation Signpost July 19 28 with the 3186 Anti Aircraft Artillery Brigade. The first controlled training to place US Canada air defenses on an all out operational basis with AA batteries and GOC coordination over the Pacific Northwest. Brant joined the Army September 1950 and previously taught at Southeast Missouri State College in Cape Girardeau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Lewis
Wash
Elzie L. Brant
Elva Brant
Ancell Scott
United States
Canada
Civilian Ground Observer Corps
GOC
Pacific Northwest
115Th
Brant
Army
Charleston residents file large damage suit
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Roberts of Charleston sue Karl L. Ryder Paul Wolsefer of Baton Rouge and American Idemnity Company for damages totaling 129 943 42 claiming losses from an incident in Charleston the suit names the defendants and seeks compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse L. Robertson
Charleston
Karl L. Ryder
Paul Wolsefer
Baton Rouge
American Idemnity Company
Automobile collision suit tied to Charleston crash
In Galveston District Court last week, Mr and Mrs Robertson filed suit over injuries from an automobile accident in Charleston on April 23. They allege Woisefer was negligent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Texas
Robertson
Charleston
Robertsons
Woisefer
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Federal Army
Farmers Supply Company
Maxwell Cars
F.o.b. Detroit
VanduSer
Scott and Stoddard Streets
Nazarene
Silas Malcolm Boardman
Sikeston Loutheran Church
College Avenue
L. C. Erdmann
Clifford Gipson
Sikeston Mercantile Company
Springfield
Canalea
Missouri
Woolworth
Carl Davis
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Hazel Young
Girl Scouts
Lillian Rita
Derris
Chaney
O.P.S
McKnight-Keaton Grocery Company
Golden Drip
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
the Bank of Sikeston
SPA Perralalye
U. S
Korea
Bunch
Southeast Missouri State College
Cape Girardeau
Charlestonians
Pitman Tailors and Cleaners
North Kingshighway
Acci
East Center Street
Uncle Sam
Mississippi
REA
Missouri Public Service Commission
Issouri Association of Public Utilities
Papals
West High Stree
Istiarson City, Missouri
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