New Key Firestone Dealer in Sikeston Announced
The Herald reports C. & M. Oil Company with manager J. F. Cox Jr. named key Firestone dealer in Sikeston. A tire warehouse is under construction beside the service station for storage and distribution. The building will be orange with blue trim and a large neon Firestone sign atop.
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Firestone Tires
Sikeston
C. & M. Oil Company
J. F. Cox Jr
Sikesteen
Firestone
Progressive
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
City Court Reports Light Week of It
Judge Brown Jewell handled few docket items this week in city court. Five colored men chopping cotton were fined thirty days with sentence turned over to Chief Walter Kendall. Abe Jimmerson received ten days for fighting. Disturbance calls at Pole Cat Alley led to Jimmerson’s arrest after a reported struggle. Additional fines were levied for disturbing the peace, drunkenness, and motor vehicle offenses involving Kentucky residents. Mrs Arch Hobbs confined at home due to illness. The Herald notes readers can believe what they read.
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Brown Jewell
Fred Frazier
Preston Smith
Charles Avers
James Johnson
Will Franklin
Walter Kendall
Cairo Men Face New Prison Terms in Bank Robbery Case
Cairo men Potts and Lockett pleaded in St Louis court after partial five to ten year sentences for Purglary and Bank robbery. They were sentenced to two years in a Federal Penitentiary for robbing a post office at Caruthersville and referred to probation officers. Potts briefly saw his infant son, Ronald, born two weeks after his prior sentence.
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George H. Moore
St. Lows
Caruthersville
Moore
Potts
Cairo
Ronald
Monilagve
Scott County Farmers Prepare for Missouri Early Premium Wheat
Scott County farmers gear up for harvest of Missouri Early Premium wheat with standard varieties ready to cut in ten days to five weeks. Inspection by Missouri Crop Growers Association aims to certify seed registration and protect buyers. about 15 reporters will assist under the Agricultural Conservation program starting June 15.
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Leon M. Lane
Missouri
Scott County
Lous
Coe
Chaffee
Sikeston
Willie Manley
Tanner
Con Growers Association
Uc Missour Cor Growers Assooct
Fyn Burke
Scott County Committee
Revised estimates of the 1938 cotton crop in Missouri
Missouri farmers saw revised 1938 cotton figures with total production at around 306000 bales and a record yield of 446 pounds per acre. The downshift from December’s preliminary figure stems from final Census data and Agriculture Adjustment Administration acreage measurements. County yield and production details accompany the table.
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Columbia
Massourim
Bureau of Census
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Missouri State Farm
District aerial survey underway in Southeast Missouri
A government normal survey is being conducted across Southeast Missouri counties by The Parks & Air Survey Co. of Paducah Kentucky. Photographs of farmland will be taken from 12 000 feet in a Cessna aircraft. Mrs J T Rudd and daughter Stella Bess of Beaumont Texas visit Mrs Kendig and family.
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Missouri
Parks & Air Survey Co
Paducah
Missour
J. T. Rudd
Stella Bess
Beaumont
Texas
M. Kendig
Safety tips urged for swimmers by national official
St Louis June 7 Dr John M Baggot national safety chairman of the Travelers Protective Association urged a statewide campaign to educate parents about summer dangers to children. He warned of highway and rural accident risks and listed ten safety commandments for swimmers including proper entry into water avoid diving in shallow depths and not swimming after meals. He urged unit chairmen to intensify campaigns targeting the overlooked safety conscience.
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ST. Louis
John M Bagceot
National Safety
Travelers’ Protective Association of America
Baggot
Othe Rur
Ens
No income tax on corn loan advances policy clarified
Treasury officials stated on Wednesday that money lent to farmers by the Commodity Credit Corporation on corn should be treated as non taxable advances rather than income. The ruling means the corn funds are not taxable until the grain is actually sold or realized.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
Ex-Sheriff Named as State Liquor Inspector
Joe Anderson, elected sheriff of Scott county in 1952 and completing his term in 1936, was appointed as a State liquor inspector this week and assigned to the north Missouri district. Formerly of Blodgett and residing at Benton, he is the brother of O. F. Anderson, county superintendent of Scott county public schools.
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Joe Anderson
Asshen
Scott County
North Missour
Anderson
Blodgett
Berton
O. F. Anderson
Cairo Minister Resigns After 28 Years Service
The Rev Robert Dunlap pastor of the Cairo Lutheran church for 28 years resigns to retire permanently ending years of pulpit activity He also serves as parish commissioner of Cairo for 25 years The Russell Bradley Missionary Society will be entertained next Tuesday night June 13 at the home of Mrs Robley Lennox with Mrs Z E McAmis as assistant hostess
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Robert Dunl
Cairo
Russell-Bradley Moussionary Sociey
Robley Lennox Wit
Z. E. McAmis
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New Macdad
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Qarey Scott
Joe Stoddard
Treasury
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Yver
Louis Unser
Speedway
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Highway
MARE
Firestone Champ
LEAR
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