Council to Act on Sewer Question Sikeston
Sikeston city council promised to make sewer expansion the first order of business at the July meeting after appeals from the Chamber of Commerce Kiwanis Club and other groups. They planned to seek engineering advice on plans and costs and favored a bond issue to fund the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston
Ralph Potashnick
Sikeston Chamber of Commerce
L M Standley
Kiwanis Club
C. H. Denman
The
Herald
Chamber of Commerce and
Geo. W. Kirk
Board of Stewards of
Methodist Church
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Lions Club
War Dads
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Billy Tanner Writes Herald From France
Billy Tanner, known to Sikeston friends as W H Tanner, reports from St Quentin France on May 27 that he is safe and eager for the war to end. He describes a hospital unit in tents beside a former French military school stadium and notes 50 000 town, 80 miles from Paris, with no acquaintance from Sikeston yet. President Truman asks Congress for 1.975 billion dollars in Lend Lease to speed Japan end, part of a 4.375 million total program for the coming fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H Tanner
Quentin
France
Billy” Tanner
Sikeston
The
Herald
Paris
Harry. Truman
Congress
Japan
House
Rayburn
Believe-It-Or-Not: Private Hewitt’s Lucky 13 Tale
A young private in Army Air Corps training in California writes his mother from California on Mother’s Day about six 13s in his serial box and pass numbers. The note says he has served six months, finished training at Keaster Field Mississippi, and moved to California after Cana loa high school.
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Army Air Corps
California
N. G. Hewitt
Canaloa
James C. Hewitt
Pvt
Hewitt
Mkeaster Field
Miss
Canaloa High School
Carroll Discharged Under Point System in Sikeston
T Sgt Ralph Carroll returned to civilian life in Sikeston as an early point system discharge case after nearly 343 years in the Army Air Forces and 158 missions over Nazi Europe. He earned 117 points, 42 above the required total, and will resume work at Cement Motor Co after a short vacation. Carroll served 1814 months overseas, wears a Presidential citation and Air Medal with 15 oak leaf clusters, and his four brothers remain in military service in Navy and Army posts across Bremerton Italy Germany and the Southwest Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Carroll
Army Air Forces
Europe
Sikeston
Carroll
Cement Motor Company
Emma Carroll
Leonard
Navy
Bremerton
Wash
Jesse
Italy
Wilford
Germany
Stanley
Southwest Pacific
Harold Boardman to Return Home Soon
Sergeant Harold Boardman, freed from a German prison camp, expects to be home within 30 days. He wrote to his parents and wife noting eight months of captivity and lack of mail from home while his wife and relatives sent letters regularly. He had worked at KK Auto Parts before joining the Army Air Forces in 1943 and served as a radio gunner before being captured after his Flying Fortress went down on September 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Boardman
Raymond Boardman
Carlotta
Boardman
Q KK. Auto Parts
Air Medal for Canalou flyer Barnew Blankenship
First Lieut Barnew V Blankenship of Canalou received the Air Medal for outstanding gallantry on a D Day combat mission over Normandy. His unit the 438th Troop Carrier Group ferried paratroopers and resupplies, earning him a fifth bronze star for five campaigns.
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Normandy
D-Day
Barnew V. Blankenship
Canalou
Sneut Blankenship
Ninth Air Force
Paul L. Williams
Blankenship
438Th
France
Rome-Arno
Germany
Rhine
Ruhr
Sukeston War Wives Club Organized
The Sikeston War Wives' Club organized with officers: president Mrs Howard Kramer, vice president Mrs Milford Winders, secretary Mrs Albert Caney, treasurer Mrs Clay Browning, program chairman Mrs John R Cowell, solestor Mrs Milford B Estes, reporter Mrs Clay Taylor. The meeting was at Mrs ibert Canoy May 29. next social club meeting set for Mrs Canoy’s home Friday night June 3. A note recalls prewar German settlement of 225000 Americans on the frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston War Wives’ Club
Howard Kramer
Milford Winders
Albert Caney
Clay Browning
Programmegram
John R. Cowell
Solestor
Milford B Estes
Clay Taylor
Ibert Canoy
Canoy
Cape Capahas Here Sunday
Cape Capahas travel to Sikeston for a Sunday return game at the local park. Cape won 5-4 last Sunday at Cape. pitchers Stacy or Gentry for Cape and Smith on the mound for Sikeston with a full slate of Cape infield and outfield players. Tickets on sale as management hopes for a full park and a strong Sikeston challenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball Park
Cape Capahas
Sikeston Merchants
Cape
Sikeston
Gene Buckles
Capahas
Stacy
Gentry
Roberts
Harrison
Pyles
Sherry
Puckett
Bona
Mills
Jones
Smith
Sikeston Falls to Cape Capahas 5-4 in Ninth Inning
Sikeston lost a tight game as Cape Girardeau Capahas scored a run in the ninth to win 5-4. Junior Gross drove in Dick Schroeder with two outs in the ninth for the decisive run after Sikeston had rallied with three runs in the third and a late fourth inning. Harry Stacy allowed 11 Cape hits while Sikeston manufactured runs via singles by Stacy, Vinson, Jones, Bona, and a double by Harrison. The recap includes a box score and notes on postwar burial identifications and reinterment plans for Americans killed in World War II and World War I.
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Sikeston
Cape Guirerdeau Capahas
Cape
Junior Gross
Dick Schroeder
Harry Stacy
Stacy
Vinson
Jones
Lou Bona
Jack Hlarrison
Sikeston Legion Defeats Chaffee 11 to 6 in Sunday Game
Sikeston Legion team beat Chaffee Junior Legion 11 to 6 on local grounds. Boardman held Chaffee to eight hits while Sikeston collected 11, with runs in the third, fourth, fifth a five-run inning, and three more in the eighth. Chaffee scored in the second sixth and seventh. Box score follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston
Chaffee Junior Legion
Boardman
Chaffee
Seyers
Unit Citation Brought to Major Leo Cook in Gotha Mission
Major Leo W. Cook of Sikes ton led as squadron commander in Col. William W. Jones’s 445th Bombardment Group during a Gotha raid earning the Distinguished Unit Citation for outstanding duty against the enemy. He boasts 29 combat missions and decorations including the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf clusters and the Air Medal with oak leaf clusters.
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Leo W. Cook
Sikeston
Wm. W. Jones
445Th Bombardment Group
Gotha
Germany
Cook
Munster
Nurnberg
Magdeburg
Kiel
Bremen
Brunswick
Hannover
Unusual Experience for Local Naval Officer
Chief Storekeeper Leonard Colley of the United States Navy and Mrs Colley visit his mother Mrs Gertrude Colley before leaving for Williamsburg Virginia where Colley is stationed He is a 1936 Sikeston High School graduate who joined the Navy in 1940 and served mainly in the Atlantic He wears ribbons for American and African European theater service with bronze stars for submarines sunk by his destroyer during the Atlantic battle The U S S Pope helped capture a German submarine in wartime and the U 505 prize was said to be displayed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during the Seventh War Loan His brother Pfe Stanley Colley is in England with the Armed Forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Colley
United States Navy
Colley
Gertrude Colley
Williamsburg
Chief Colley
Sikeston High School
Atlantic
Jonas Ingram
Guadalcanal
Cape Blanco
French West Africa
Bermuda
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Cotley
Pfe
Stanley Colley
England
Sikeston Twins Enroll in RAF Aircraft Radio Mechanics School
Madison Wis two Sikeston men James E and Robert B Vann twin sons of R M Vann Route 3 Sikeston have enrolled in the RAF Training Command aircraft radio mechanics school at Traua Field The soldiers will take an advanced course in service padre equipment and will be trained in war crate recognition defense against chemical warfare and related AAI subjects designed to fit them for combat duty
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Madison
Wis
Sikeston
James E
Robert B. Vann
R. M. Vann
Route 3
RAF Training Command
Traua Field
Experimental air mail service line set between New York and Washington
A new experimental air mail service line was established between New York and Washington in 1918, marking an early step in aerial postal delivery experiments.
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New York
Washington
New Inductees For Scott County
Scott County announces last month’s army induction of men including Norval W. Crowe Isaac B. Stoner Stanford W. Jones Coy R. Ansell John M. McGowen John S. Deloach Jr William C. Pool Johnnie W. Tubbs Eugene C. Oliver Bull Penington Monroe G. Randol Ernest W. McCain William Johnson Frank C. Harris Bernice E Widner Lyman F. Petty Carl F. Burgess L C. McConnell Sikeston Peter B. Seger Kirby W. Perry Paul Pfefferkorn Lutheran Arnold Jr Chaffee Chester J. Enderle Gilbert W Logel Kelst William C. O'Donnell William H. Foulk Imp. John S. Mutcher Wulfred K. Vinson William R. Anderson Charles J. Graff Commerce Charles R. Parker Frank E. Bishop Eugene D Gadberry Morley William L. Mabrey Harold J. Westrich Leslie R. Perkins Fornfeit Carl E. Lufey Crowder Harold 8. Woolidge Roy Alberson Theon Compas Benton Opal H. Harris Drehrstadt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County
Norval W. Crowe
Isaac B. Stoner
Stanford W. Jones
Coy R. Ansell
John M. McGowen
John S. Deloach Jr
William C. Pool
Johnnie W. Tubbs
Eugene C. Oliver
Bull Penington
Monroe G. Randol
Ernest W. McCain
William Johnson
Frank C. Harris
Bernice E Widner
Lyman F. Petty
Carl F. Burgess
L C. Mc Connell
Sikeston
Peter B. Seger
Kirby W. Perry
Paul Pfefferkorn
Lutheran Arnold Jr
Chaffee
Chester J. Enderle
Gilbert Wlogel
Kelst
William C. O'Donnell
William H. Foulk
Imp
John S. Mutcher
Wulfred K. Vinson
William R. Anderson
Charles J. Graff
Commerce
Charles R. Parker
Frank E. Bishop
Eugene D Gadberry
Morley
William L. Mabrey
Harold J. Westrich
Leslie R. Perkins
Fornfeit
Carl E. Lufey
Crowder
Harold 8. Woolidge
Roy Alberson
Theon Compas
Benton
Opal H. Harris
Drehrstadt
Air Medal Award for Lt Ben Bowman in Army Air Corps
Second Lieutenant Ben Bowman, son of Mr and Mrs L R Bowman, promoted to First Lieutenant with the Army Air Corps. He previously earned the Air Medal for meritorious achievement in the European Theatre. Bowman has flown over twelve missions in B-17s with the Eighth Air Force and is awaiting orders to return to the states. Mrs Bowman is staying with her parents at Oran.
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Ben Bowman
L. R. Bowman
Army Air Corps
Bowman
Air Medal
Germany
Eighth Air Force
States
Mrs. Bowman
Zeno Heisserer
Oran
Wisconsin man aged 101 seeks marriage to widow
James Augustus Cooper of Racine Wisconsin age 101 applied for a license to wed his future bride Mrs John Westphal a 62 year old widow of Wisconsin Cooper a retired tree trimmer said he had been married twice before and each of his wives had died
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James Augustus Cooper
Racine
Wis
John Westphal
Wisconsin
Cooper
Also Mentioned on This Page
Billy Tanner
Witie
Sukeston War Wives’ Club
America
Scott Insurance Agency
Stallcup
Front and
New Madrid
Sikeston, Mo
Cape Capalhas
United States Army
Il Roberts
Rt Bona
Milly
Pucket
Cape AB Bray
Sikeston Legion
Sikeston AB
Inman
Greer
Trayden
Bryant
Beal
If Lambert
Rf Limbaugh
Myers
If Halter
Ef Boardman
Seg Shee
Chaffee Abr
HI Narsh
Rice
Govreau
Huey
Bisher
P Maddock
Goetz
Rf Hensey
Jackson
Major Leo Cook
Sikeston Twins
AIR Training Command
Lieut
Divola’s
Ernest Cox
N. Kingshighway, Sikeston
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