Sixty Families to Settle in New Farm Homes at LaForge
A Farm Security Administration project at LaForge will complete Saturday, with 100 families moving into 60 new model farm homes on 6700 acres. Construction began in January after land purchase last December, delays from weather resolved, with homes featuring three bedrooms, combined living dining room, kitchen, ventilation, screened porch, and ample closets. A mix of white and 41 Negro families will receive canning storage, gardens, livestock, and farming equipment, under project manager Hans Baasch with home economist Miss Mary Lou Gissal supervising canning and sanitation demonstrations.
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Hans Baasch
A T Mullen
Bill Baker
Mary Lou Gissal
Miss Gissal
LaForge
Baasch
Ty Baasch
Farm Security Administration
Golden Rule advice from W S Knudsen to Chevrolet dealers students
Detroit talks by W S Knudsen president of General Motors urged a Golden Rule approach between factory and dealers. He emphasized permanency in the automobile business, the value of strong field personnel, and a square deal from the corporation. He advised tolerance and listening to understand others, building a lasting establishment, and avoiding overexpansion.
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Detroit
Mich
W.S Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
Chevrolet School of
Knudsen
School For Sons of Dealers
W. E. Holler
Chevrolet Motor Division
Knuasen
McKee Bus Line Sold to Arkansas Co
The McKee Bus Line which ran between Sikeston and Jonesboro Arkansas has been sold to the Arkansas Motor Coaches Co. They will operate on the existing schedule from the Union Bus Station and maintain their local office. The fleet has been repainted and ownership officially transferred.
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McKee
Sikeston
Jonesboro
Ark
The
Arkansas Motor Coaches Co
Union Bus
More House Woman Taken to Poplar Bluff Hospital
Mrs Cora Kasting of Morehouse was taken to Lucy Lee Hospital Saturday by the Albritton ambulance. Mrs Kasting underwent an appendectomy.
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Poplar Bluff Hospital
Cora Kasting
Morehouse
Lucy Lee Hospital
Albritton
Kastings
Fire Destroys Home East of Sikeston
Firefighters answered a Friday 1030 call to a blaze a mile east of Sikeston on Highway 60 destroying a six room frame house owned by E C Robinson Lumber Co and occupied by Ramsen Walton and family. The occupants were away. Loss valued at about 3800 with 300 saved. Cause undetermined but suspected faulty wiring or spontaneous combustion.
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Sikeston
E C Robinson Lumber Co
Ramsen Walton
Fire department tackles blaze at Del Mar home
The Fred Harris residence on Del Mar faced a Tuesday morning fire threatening a coal shed in the rear. Firefighters arrived shortly after 9:00 AM, quickly containing the flames with extinguishers and limiting damage.
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Fred Harris
Delmar
Wappapello Dam Bids Due July 19
Major Daniel Noce of the Memphis District U S Engineers announced bids for the Wappapello Dam flood control project in the St Francis River Valley. Bids due July 19 for an earthen dam 2600 feet long and 70 feet high. Contractors will have 900 calendar days to complete the work.
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Memphis, Tenn
Daniel Noce
Memphis District
US Engineers
Wappapelo
St Francis River
Congress
May Noce
CCC Camp Builds New School at Piedmont Site
The CCC camp at Sam A. Baker State Park begins relocating an old building to the New Madrid camp to serve as an educational complex. Foreman Omar Kemp leads students in assembling five rooms including three classrooms a library and an office. The project includes a carpenter shop and a photo darkroom in the northern barracks area.
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Piedmont
Sam A Baker State Park
New Madnd
Madrd
Omar 1 Kemp
Miss Martha Jane Marshall Hosts College Summer Tea
Miss Martha Jane Marshall of Sheston, a Leming Hall resident at the Teachers College, served as hostess at the all school summer tea held yesterday afternoon from three to five. The Social Life Committee sponsored the event, organized by students of Leming and Albert Halls dormitories.
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Capr
Goodyear Introduces Airfoam Rubber Innovation
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company markets Airfoam a new product from rubber described by Leonard Cohen as 95 percent latex. The material forms a fluffy moldable mass for cushioning in mattresses furniture seat upholstery and vehicle interiors and resists vermin germs and insects. It offers lighter weight longer life and reduced need for springs while maintaining shape after weight removal. Rail car bus truck and furniture makers adopt Airfoam rapidly expanding U.S. rubber usage.
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Leonard Cohen
Goodyear
Aurican
Cohen
Sanitary Privies to Be Built by WPA Workers
Statewide WPA project extending from Dunklin and Pemiscot counties will build sanitary pit type privies on individual properties where owners supply materials costing about 2350 dollars. Health units push campaigns to cut deaths from colitis dysentery typhoid and related diseases. structures are fly proof.
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Dunklin
Pemiscot
WPA
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Tinsley
A B Hunter
Nrovsyva Per
Pabryf
McKee Bus Line
Sireston
Fire Department
Tuesda
Wappapello Dam
CCC
Cootee
Taft
North Kingshighway
Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet Company
Missouri
Chevrolet Building
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