Columbia City of Education and Industry Centerpiece of Missouri
Columbia hosts the University of Missouri founded in 1840 as the first state university west of the Mississippi. The city centers on education with St Stephens College and Christian College nearby, plus industry ties from dairy, garment, and Stephens Company firms. The area features a planned summer stock theater starting June 6 and hosts statewide events like the state basketball tournament and the State Historical Society meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie G. Kennon
Missouri Division of Resources and Development
Columbia
Ueberth
Missouri Division of Mesurees and Develeniment
Ozarks
Culla
Missisi
Stenhens College
Christian College
Tatawalea
State Historical
Beery Lick Sterkens
Gordon Manor
Industr Enown Firms
Garment Company
Columbia , Inc
State Dairy Products Co
E.W. Stephens Company
Dogwood 4-H Meeting Recap and Bake Sale
The Dogwood 4-H Club discussed upcoming events with Marilyn Bishop on grooming and HK Brennan on health. A recreation slide presentation by the group and a bake sale held May 28 in East Prairie raised 2285 dollars for the club treasury led by Mrs Bill Heil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davidson
Marilyn Bishop
HK Brennan
Groun
Kelley
East Prairie
Chub
Bill Heil
Degwood
AAA Vacation Driving Tips From an Older Guide
AAA offers practical advice for a restful trip including slow pacing,pre-trip car checks and tire rotation, planned routes with coffee stops to reduce fatigue. Emphasizes staying 1 car length per 10 mph, avoiding night driving, and sharing driving with a spouse for safety, noting women are generally safer drivers.
Blumenberg Hatton wed in Anniston ceremony
Mrs Ozie Mae Holmes Blumenberg and John William Hatton, both of Anniston, were united in marriage Friday afternoon June 10 by Rev Marion Hotlowasy of Charleston. They will reside in East Prairie. In 1954, 78 percent of fatal crashes involved vehicles going straight ahead in clear dry conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anniston
Ozie Mae Holmes Blumenberg
John William Hatton
Marion Hotlowasy
Charleston
East Prairie
Trees Suffer From Improper Nutrition
Trees suffer from chlorosis due to trace element deficiencies such as iron magnesium zinc boron or sulphur. Iron deficiency is most common and remedies include foliage spray trunk injection or soil injection with growth active periods yielding quick results. Do it yourself tips warn against forcing yellow trees green and highlight risk to decline or death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. McKinstry
Davey Tree Expert Co
Six Divorces Granted in New Madrid Court
A Benton County court granted six divorces including cases Potten v Potten and Potey v Petey. One defendant, Waltie Bier, received a two term felonious assault sentence later revoked. others involved child custody and name restorations. Deputy Sheriff Diked conveyed sentences and defendants to Jefferson City penitentiary as appropriate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton — Chetgut Court
Walt
Feloni
Jefferson City
Tricia
Theo Folhandins
Clemo Potten
Bernice Marae Potey
Teonard Petey
Clufdar
Mattie Mae Acard
Sherman J. Acerd
Mattie Mae St. John
Virginia Lee Irvin
Emory CC. Tevin
Mane
Virginia Lee Sloan
Em- Ma Brooks Boatman
James Boatman
Paul W. Underwood
Lola Underwood
Thirteen Truckers Fined In New Madrid Magistrate Court
Thirteen truckers were fined and one person bound to Circuit Court in a prior action before Judge Eric Wright. James Nolin waived a preliminary hearing, held on bond. Fines ranged from 192.50 for overweight trucks to 8.50 for various infractions, with charges including no operator’s license and improper registration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Madrid
Eric Wright
James Nolin
Wright
Matthews
Lyman V. Cochran
Louie Anderson
Bobby Joe Teeten
Freddie Lee Peguar
Jerry Guest
Elmer Kochel
Disturbing the Peace
Ernest D. Hampton
Ike Jones
Baltimore Used Cobalt as Radium Substitute in Treatments
Baltimore doctors report cobalt as an occasional substitute for radium in medical therapies. The shift reflects early efforts to find alternative radioactive sources for cancer and other conditions, with cautious adoption amid limited supplies and safety concerns.
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Baltimore
New Fast Color Film Expands Picture Taking Possibilities
New 35mm and 828 Ektachrome color film is about three times faster than prior outdoor color film. It enables shoots in poorer light, freezes motion for sports and action, and offers outdoor and indoor types with flash or flood lighting. Consumers can develop at their local photofinisher without sending away the film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John van Guilder
Community Notes from Kewanee Social Roundup
Mr and Mrs J H Spradling and family joined by Sabra Lee and Blankenships plus Gill and Filage hosted a chicken supper at H C Gill. Eddie Schueren berg and daughters dined with Ken Bird family. Congratulations to Troman Werd on birth of baby boy born at Delta Hospital June 12. Mrs Ward formerly Margaret Ann Martin is daughter of C L Martin and granddaughter of C H Martin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Spradling
Bobby D
Jerre
Jimmie Spradling
Sabra Lee
Jay Blankenship
Lara Lee
J. R
Ed Blankenship
Gill Edward
Fred Filage
H.C. Gill
Eddie Schuerenberg
Doris Jean
Mary Rhirabesh
Kenth Bird
Troman Werd
Lilbourn
Siseston’s
Delta
Ex-Army Sergeant Bob Schuerenberg Returns to Albuquerque
Bob Schuerenberg recently discharged from the army returns to Albuquerque New Mexico to seek summer employment. He is visiting with Mr and Mrs Walter Schuerenberg and with Jerry and Mrs Alice Wers. Also noted as guests were Mrs Mildred Brotherton and Mr and Mrs Paul Trout and their sons Mike Richard and Ronnie at Sunday dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Schuerenberg
Albuquerque
N. M
Walter Schuerenberg
Jerry
Alice “Wers
Mildred Brotherton
Paul Trout
Mike
Richard
Ronnie
Lilbourn Civic Improvement Club Elects Officers
The Civic Improvement Club of Lilbourn met at the library with eleven membersPresent. Officers elected for the coming year are Mrs. Ern estine Parrett president Mrs. C. D. Wright first vice president Mrs. Max Timmons second vice president Mrs. P. B. Hawkins secretary and Mrs. Ruth Liley treasurer The next meeting is June 27 at Mrs. Homer Ponder home for installation. The First Baptist Church completed two weeks of Vacation Bible School with 136 enrolled and 104 average daily attendance Thirty-one adults helped with crafts and the pastor Rev. W E Clyde was principal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Improvement Club of
Lilbourn
Ernestine Parrett
C. D. Wright
Max Timmons
P. B. Hawkins
Ruth Liley
Homer Ponder
First Baptist Church of
W. E. Clyde
Funeral for Mrs L. B. Hoy Held in Gideon
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Sunday in Gideon for Mrs L B Hoy who died at her daughter Mrs Ramona Vaughn’s home in Cape Girardeau after about a year of illness. Surviving are her husband, a Gideon school superintendent the past 50 years, and two other daughters Mrs Virginia Heise of Malden and Flora Marie Hoy now married and living in Kansas City. She was daughter of the late Mrs Martha Burke and sister of Mrs Emmitt Burke of Charleston and Mrs Jimmy Henderson of Crystal City, who will be remembered here as Kathryn Burke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gideon
Rs. L. B. Hoy
Ramona Vaughn
Cape Girardeau
Hoy
Virginia Heise
Malden
Flora Marie Hoy
Kansas City
Martha Burke
Trotter St
Emmitt Burke
Charleston
Jimmy Henderson
Crystal City
Kathryn Burke
Deer season kill totals in Missouri final tally
The final tally shows 8,646 deer killed during Missouri's deer season last fall with about 46,000 hunters participating statewide in Jefferson City reports.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Missouri deer season trends and a new cadet scholarship
Dean Murphy notes hunter selectivity rising with seven percent passing fawns and a preference for trophy bucks over meat. Ste Genevieve remains top deer county with over one deer per square mile for the fourth year. A William B. Ziff Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to the top Civil Air Patrol cadet starting fall term 1956.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Murphy
State Conservation Comission
Missouri
Ste. Genevieve
Deer County
Civil Air Patrol
William B. Ziff
Ziff
America
Four-Year Scholarship To Top CAP Cadet
A four year aeronautical engineering scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was established by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company of New York for Dunn Ferguson, 6, of Sikeston. He cut his head on a rock at home but was treated and dismissed. Johnny Tracy, 5, of St. Louis cut his leg after falling from a fertilizer spreader and was treated. The U.S. Navy Department was created by Congress in 1798.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company of
New York
Dunn Ferguson
Sikeston
Johnny Tracy
St. Louis
U.S. Navy Department
Congress
Af ¢Tica
Mel
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MU City of Columbia
Mississippi River
University of Missouri
Journalism
Dogwood
AAA
Furniture Exchange
Malone Ave
Frisco
New Madrid Court
Leslie Insurance Agency
Kewanee News
Mrs
Troy Tippett
Wes
Division of Resources and Development
Jefferson City, Me
Lilbourn News
Pat Sullivan
Manifold Books
Stxeston Hera
Mel Marcus
Sikeston Armory
Scott
Mississippi
Flectvic Cooperative
Sikeston, Missouri
Elon
James Stephenson
Alwin Gasser
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