Sikeston Air School marks fifth anniversary with memories
Sikeston celebrates five years since construction began on the airport that housed the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics. Cadets arrived in September, local officers progressed in rank, and civil personnel, cadets, and families created a vibrant wartime community twinship with Sikeston.
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Sikeston
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
C. B. Root
Army Air Forces
Root
Henrietta Moore
Ralph Rockwood
Rootend
Phil Hughes
Army
Thos. B
Pearse
A. B. Woodbury
B. B
Bennie” Schade
Jack” Bryant
USC Club
Governor ends seven twelfths parole rule changes state system
Gov. Phil Donnelly announced a unified parole process consolidating duties under the State Probation and Parole Board. The Penal Board will still recommend good-time credits while the Parole Board handles actual releases, eliminating dual control confusion and the prior seven twelfths rule.
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Phil Donnelly
State Probation and Parole Board
Penal Board
Parole Board
Truman Address Sets Record Radio Audience Peak
President Hany 5. Truman's VE Day proclamation drew a daytime radio audience rating of 61.1 in Hooper survey estimates. About 36,500,000 adults likely listened as the announcement of Germany's unconditional surrender was broadcast from multiple war victory venues and rebroadcast nationwide. the figure exceeds prior records set by Roosevelt in 1941.
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Hany
Truman
CB H. Hooper, Inc
United States
Germany
Roosevelt
Congress
Tragic collision claims life of Ste Genevieve teen
Rose Otte 19 local resident died Sunday from injuries in a head on crash near Ste Genevieve. Six others were injured including her cousin Mary Jane Otte 19 of Perryville who is in serious condition. Spider webs are listed as extremely fine and used in some scientific instruments.
U. S. Income Drops as War Output Stalls in April
The Commerce Department reports Americans received four percent less income in April than March, the largest monthly fall in six years. Total personal income was $14.18 billion in April versus $13.686 billion in March, with April still five percent above April 1944. The decline reflects weak retail payments and ongoing payroll cuts in durable goods war production. The seasonally adjusted annual income rate stood at $162.6 billion, well above 1940 and near the all-time high in 1944.
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United States
Commerce Department
Army in Europe to Cut Point Requirements
Brig. Gen. Ralph B. Lovett announced plans to lower the discharge eligibility score for U S troops in Europe from 85 to a range between 40 and 75 points. Analysis shows 218,178 ground and service troops and 36,361 air force personnel qualify under interim 85. Of those below 75, 669,000 have 40 or less. He noted 2,250 WACs meet or exceed 44 points for WACs.
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Paris
Ralph B.lovett
U. S
Lovett
Blackleg Disease Seen As Sudden Farm Cattle Deaths
Kansas City authorities warn farmers that sudden pasture deaths may be blackleg rather than lightning. The soil borne disease causes high fever, rapid progression, and swollen legs. vaccination is advised, with annual shots when cattle enter pasture to protect the herd.
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Kansas City
Olvials
American Foundation For Animal Health
Sikeston Herald year-1920s news and weather notes
The Sikeston Herald itemizes events from June 11 across 1920 1925 1980 1985 including Loomis Mayfield buying Tommie Stevens interest in Sikeston Cleaning and Tailoring Company two bootlegger raids at Commerce and Blodgett wheat crop notes and heat concerns Powell health trip to the West Lions Club officers 1980 49 attendees dinner American Legion discharged soldiers songs Marines tribute and Muss Sikes questions on titles and weather records for 1985
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Sikeston Herald
Loomis Mayfield
Tommie Stevens
Sikeston ,Cleaning and Tailoring Company
Young Mayfield
Stevens
J. Edgar White
United States Supreme Court
Everett Dye
Commerce
Blodgett
Sikeston
John Powell
Utah
California
Powell
Farmers Supply Co
J. Ed Green
Lee Bowman
Sikeston Lions
Hotel Marshall
American Legion
W. W. Carrol
Wol Hiiters
Tarry Dudley
Beauty Contest Planned by Junior Chamber Monday Night
The Junior Chamber of Commerce will stage a beauty contest Monday night in the high school auditorium.
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Fon
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Temperatures ease after 97 degree peaks in SEMO region
Southeast Missouri saw temperatures ease from 97 degrees to a top near 93 last week with more hot weather and scattered daily showers expected. Construction began on Sikeston’s new air school exactly one week after a preliminary site probe started. Germany pressed toward Paris this week claiming to be 12 percent miles from the capital, while the season’s high of 94 was recorded on Sunday, June 11.
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Pt’s
Sikeston
Air School
Missouri
Germany
Paris
Dueling Normandy Fronts Amid D-Day Plus Nine
Officers report fierce combat at both Allied and German lines in Normandy as D-Day nine days in. Governor Forrest C Donnell, Republican Senate candidate, to speak in Sikeston Tuesday afternoon. A Manhattan bookshop, B Westermann, described as Germany’s key US war info source since 1926, pivoted to illicit mailings with $180,000 cash and $75,000 in books shipments found in an investigation into 1934 to 1940 activity.
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Normandy
Forrest C. Donnell
United States
Sikeston
B. Westermann
Manhattan
New York
Germany
Wilhelmstrasse
Treasury
Westermann
Revival of charcoal making in southern Illinois
Charcoal making, once replaced by coke, is revived in southern Illinois to meet wartime needs. Demand grows for charcoal in special steels filters and carbon sources as its near pure carbon qualities support gunpowder manufacture. The process involves partial wood burning with a sealed kiln and two weeks of draft control demonstrations.
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Illinois
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Sikeston, Mo
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Brussels
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