Former Marston Boy Teaches Japanese Hydroponic Growing
Corporal Paul R Tucker, 21, of Marston Missouri, serving with the 8002nd Hydroponic Farm at Chofu Japan, trains GI and Japanese personnel in soilless vegetable cultivation. The Far Eastern project supports troops in Japan and Korea, using hydroponic beds, chemical nutrition, and controlled irrigation across ten five acre plots plus a greenhouse.
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Tachikawa Afb
Honshu
Japan
Marston
Missouri
Paul R. Tucker
Chofu
Tokyo
Korea
Otsu
Tucker
Green House
Far East
Tucker Produces Big Cucumbers with Wartime Farm Unit
Corporal Tucker, a former Conran High School student, enlisted in October 1947 and joined the 8002nd Hydroponic Farm in May 1948. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J M Tucker of Marston, Massachusetts. Production forecasts for 1948 tally 5,225,000 pounds or 29,000,000 servings.
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Corporal Tucker
Conran High School
J M Tucker
Marston
Rites Held Yesterday for East Prairie Woman
Mrs L Watson aged 52 of East Prairie died Monday afternoon at her home from a heart ailment. Funeral services were held yesterday from the Methodist church in East Prairie. Interment was in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Charleston. She is survived by her husband and three sons.
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L Watson
East Prairie
W F Watson
Sikeston
Methodist
Odd Fellows
Charleston
Dedication of Enlarged Wyatt Methodist Church
The Rev and Mrs A D Rankin attended the dedication of the remodeled and enlarged Methodist church at Wyatt last Sunday. Improvements include a new auditorium and a room for the Sunday school. The parish notes a Hydroponic Farm produced vegetables and the Wyatt church reported 2,390,382 pounds of fresh produce for 1948, with 4,758,247 pounds over the years.
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A D Rankin
Wyatt
Re. Rankin
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