Vital Issues Hidden By Space Constraints Across News
The piece argues how space and time limit coverage of the president's umbrella legislative program amid international crises. It notes proposals on Taft Hartley changes and farm policy reform, expects limited action in an election year, and discusses tax, Seaway approval, and foreign trade as potential outcomes. The president favors guidance over command, a stance that could become a campaign issue.
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Geneva
Supreme Court
Benson
Burglaries and court actions in Benton county amp. Cape Girardeau cases
Former Silmo Man Kinder and partner Carl Ford were jailed on burglary and grand larceny charges after a planned break in at Mrs. W. M. Odom’s Ancell home. Sheriff John Dennis noted matches of loot include weapons, meat, and money. bonds set at $2500 each with Ford denied bond as a parole violator. Other magistrate court cases involve multiple DUI, license, and vagrancy charges with various fines and sentences.
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Dwight Leon ‘Kinder
Tlnio
Kansas City
Carl Leon Ford
John Dennis
Dennis
Kinder
W. M. Odom
Ancell
Ford
M.E. Montgomery
Cape Girardeau county
Jackson
sher
State
Norman Vincent Niswanger
Limbaugh
Jim Henry Green
Morley
Jearlean Green
Jim Green
Bryan Knight
Willie Jackson
Miami
Fla
Samuel Reed
Negro
Henry Buxton
Henry Fenley
Buxton
City Collector Records May Receipts Total 3454.98
City receipts for May total 3454.98 with taxes and licenses leading the mix. Taxes include Poll 190.00 real estate 94.64 personal 564.16 Licenses show dogs 6.00 merchants 187.25 automobile 2062.75 miscellaneous 1378.4 and interest 97.64. Clerk costs 15.20 weed cutting 6 burial permits 72 and sewer permits 27.50. A new record system installed in the clerk's office uses forms from Berry Palmer and Day, hired by the Dry Council to modernize city bookkeeping.
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Berry
Palmer
Dry Council
Attendance at Sikeston Sunday Schools May Day
Attendance tallies from Sikeston churches show 487 at Bantast Church, 44 at First Methodist, 412 at Assembly of East, 208 at Church of the Nazarene, 207 at Church of God Tanner Street, 163 at First Christian, 149 at Second General Baptist, 90 at First Presbyterian, with totals reflecting May attendance across nine congregations.
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First Methodist Church
Assembly of East
Church of the Nazarene
Tanner Street Church of God
First Christian Church
Presbyterian
Chiach
New Death Toll from Memorial Day Holiday Hits Record
During the Memorial Day long weekend violent deaths and overall fatalities surged to a new peak with at least 523 deaths across traffic drownings and other mishaps. Traffic toll reached 355, 92 drownings, and 76 miscellaneous deaths. state tolls shown city by city reflect broad national impact.
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Natonal Safety Council
Judge Lankford Seeks Re election to Court
Les D Lankford Presiding Judge of Scott County seeks renomination for a four year term. Opponent is Tom Rafferty of Sikeston. Lankford, lifelong resident with roots in Sikeston and Chaffee, is a pharmacist who ran Lankford Drug Store since 1928 and served as Chaffee alderman and mayor. He has led county finances and roads policy and cites civic leadership including Rotary and Chamber of Commerce memberships. He married Lela Morton in 1928 and they have one son.
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Scott County Court
Tom Rafferty
Sikeston
Judge Lanford
Scott County
Joe P. Lankford
Chaffee
Chaffee High School
Missouri University
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Lankford Drug Store
Lankford
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Chaffe Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Lela Morton
Leslie M
Chaffee Methodist Church
Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce and
Elks
Clean-Up Campaign Removes Hog Pens in City
City clean-up drive reports progress toward a healthier town. Chairman Clint H. Denman says all city hogs have been removed and many eye sores have been cleaned, though several large property owners and areas along Highway 6 and near the Missouri Pacific right of way still need work. Fire Chief B Ramsey notes only minor incidents in March, including a roof fire on West Gladys damaging a hose.
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Missouri Pacific
Deeman
B Ramsey
Mar
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J. S Wallace
Lions Club Forms Team to Visit Charleston for Initiation
A Lions Club meeting formed a special initiation team to travel to Charleston on June 29 to install officers and initiate members. Charleston invited Sikeston Lions for the installation ceremony. Local officers’ installation is tentatively set for June 23 with details to follow. John Wilson Jim Wallace Nash Gray Vinson Jones will attend the state Lions convention in St. Louis. A J Davenport, longtime local member now of Globe Arizona, attended as a guest.
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Charleston
Noah Gray
Sikeston Lions
John Wilson
Jim Wallace
Nash Gray
Vinson Jones
St. Louis
A J Davenport
Globe, Ariz
Sikeston to Meet East Prairie in Benefit Game
Sikeston will host East Prairie at VFW Memorial Stadium at 8 pm in a non league benefit game. Sikeston, holding seven wins and no losses in Bootheel League play, strengthens with several new players, aiming to be among the area’s top teams. The Friday schedule also features three other Contests in the region.
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East Prairie
Sikeston Citizvers
ids
VOW Memorial Stadium
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Hass
ceel tloser
Bothee
souri
Matthews Boy Killed When Hit By Automobile
Larry Gene Warren seven died instantly when struck by a car driven by 15 year old Georgia Churchwell of East Prairie on Highway 61 north of Kewanee junction after they darted onto the road while picking berries. Peggy Jean Warren 11 suffered a fractured arm and cuts. The car belonged to Emanuel Guill of East Prairie. The driver was cited for permitting a minor to drive. Larry Gene Warren lay in state at Richards Funeral Home before burial in Oran Cemetery. Larry was born February 14, 1947.
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Larry Gene Warren
Marvin Warren
Route 1
Matthews
Peggy Jean
Georgia Churchwell
East Prairie
Kewanee junction
Lamar Holderness
Anniston
Miss Churchwell
Emanuel Albert Guill
Guill
State Highway Patrol
Peter Jean Warren
Missouri Delta Community Hospital
little Larry Gene Warren
Richards
Oran
Pentecostal
Four Burg On Hes Farm Rocked by Explosion
POPLAR BLUFF Mo Four members of a farm family were burned to death and two others injured in a house explosion near the area early Wednesday. Zachariah Bolen 57 and three of his children Jimmy 14 Mary 12 and Allen 5 perished trapped in the blaze Mrs Gertie Bolen 50 was critically burned and another child Wayne 10 suffered burns and injuries Coroner Grover Greer said the refrigerator had been active and a gas stove unused for hours Mrs Bolen walked a mile to summon help and attempted to rescue others before perishing in the fire. Wayne said he helped pull his mother from the flames and aided in rescuing siblings before the inferno drove him back.
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Gertie
Wayne
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City May building permits total sixty three thousand four hundred ten
May permits issued in the city totaled 63 410 dollars with a daily average near 2 dollars. Projects include a 20 000 auction barn and 13 000 value shop for Hahs Machine Works plus several residences. Permits were issued to H Clayton for a Marian garage and other addresses listed.
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H Clayton
Chism
kestan Archon Co
Meck
barnoon Windwar
Carrol Street
City Council Approves Sewer Line and Plant Contracts
City panel awards bids for laying sewer mains to Frank Clark Eldon Mo for 280 6555 and for two pump stations plus treatment plant to William Crumpecker and Son Morehouse for 52 075 and 337 809 10. Total project cost 670 569 65 with 15 month completion. Mayor Butler authorized to proceed.
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Chas. H. Butler
Frank Clark
Eldon
William Crumpecker
Sikeston
E. P. Coleman Jr
Board of Public Works
Russell
Axon
Coleman
J. Ernest Harper
Lyman Bowman
St. Louis
Haskins, Riddle and Sharp
Kansas City
Stolen Wheels Found. Police Nab Suspect at Station
Five trailer wheels disappeared from a Leon ard Shell Service Station Monday night. Police later found them Tuesday in a weed patch off Branum Street after Officer Ira Shouffit trailed a prowler. Bert Webster Ratledge, 31, of Delta, was arrested at 1:30 a.m. He denied stealing the tires but disclosed past juvenile delinquency and prior Arkansas sentences. He and his wife had been traveling west toward Arkansas, sleeping in their car.
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Branum Street
Harold Wallace
Ira Shouffit
Shiffit
Shuffit
Bert Webster Ratledge
Delta
Wallace
Ratledge
Arkansas
Ratledee
Thomas Haloff Tertford
Yoon George Davi
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Eugene Hacimec
Robert T Tavtugstes
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Sikes Named Manager of Sikeston Gin Co
William F. Sikes was named manager of the Sikeston gin at a Tuesday meeting of the directors effective June 15. He succeeds Charles F. Simpson, who has run the operation for 20 years and will become field representative for Mathieson Chemical Co. in Sikeston.
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Sikeston &pany
William F. Sikes
Charles F. Simpson
Simpson
Sikeston
Mathieson Chemical Co
St. Louis
Sikeston Board Orders School Segregation Policy Change
The Sikeston Board of Education, in a February meeting, required adherence to the Supreme Court ruling on desegregation. Negro students from Charleston and Hayti will enter Sikeston High School next fall, with no transportation or tuition to those out-of-district schools. Savings of about $3,000 annually expected.
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Sikeston Board of Education
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the
United States
Charleston
Hayti
Sikeston
Charleton and
Lincoln
Kiwaniens View Greenland Air Base Film
Kiwanis Club members saw Operation Blue Jar depicting the Greenland Thule airfield construction. The base faced 3 below zero temps, 150 mph winds, dense fog and snow as ships rarely reached the site. Fabick Bros. Equipment Co sponsored the screening and guests included local leaders and Scout troop chairmen.
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Greenland AFB
Kiwanis Club
Thule
Greenland
Arctic
Fabick Bros. Equipment Co
Jne Fabick
Hank Switala
LM. iinroo Carbondale
TIL
tis Hackett
Kiwanians
Tommy” Crouch
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