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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1944
Page
6
Thirty one women from twelve Home Economics clubs attended a demonstration and plan a July club meeting on Conserving Time and Energy. Training meetings offered tips on laundering storage of food and equipment and house cleaning.
A fourfold rise in small arms ammunition for hunting will be authorized this year by the War Production Board Rep Mundt of South Dakota announced Distribution would go through standard trade channels with each jabber receiving a percentage of his 1045 purchases and passing on in the same manner to retailers All standard calibers and charges will be included.
United States Department of Agriculture reports Missouri farmers across 13 counties held referenda on Soil Districts. Eight thousand eight hundred forty four voters backed districts in 95.6 percent, with 4.4 percent opposed. Cape Girardeau became the first Southeast Missouri county to establish a district on June 14, joining Harrison Callaway Franklin Shelby Clark De Kalb Davis Johnson Clay St. Charles Boone Worth and Cape Girardeau.
The American Meat Institute reports a nationwide shortage of top quality beef veal lamb and pork cuts due to wartime demand and lend-lease needs. Consumer cuts remain plentiful, but prime loins hams ribs and tenderloins are scarce. Packing firms cite military orders higher family purchasing power and the black market as contributing factors.
The number of chicks hatched by commercial hatcheries in Missouri during May was estimated at 14,000,000 compared with 21,917,900 in May 1943, a decrease of 36 percent. The total hatched in the first five months was 60,884,000 versus 72,413,000 in the same period last year.
Kelso 4-H Baby Beef Club votes to attend the 4-H Camp at Arcadia from July 17 to 20. Reported by club president Gertrude Lederer at the regular meeting. A demonstration by Louis Heisserer and Gertrude Selierer highlighted beef traits such as body, broad back, and overall frame as key for good beef cattle.
The Office of War Information reports rail passenger travel rose 25.5 percent in the first quarter of 1944 compared with 1943, far above forecasts. Freight traffic increased 6.8 percent. troop movements of 1.5 million servicemen and women strain schedules, while furlough travel consumes many seats. Railroads note equipment shortages and far higher freight than during the last war.
Federal State Cooperative Crop Reporting Service data place Missouri's spring pig crop at 3,112,000 head, down 25 percent from 1945 and 31 percent above the 10 year average. Sows farrowing numbered 511,000, with average pigs per litter 6.09, and a forecast fall farrowing of 359,000. Prices held steady as farmers anticipated feed grain shortages.
The Missouri Commission on Resources and Development studies a 12 foot river channel from Minneapolis to Cairo as proposed by Col. Malcolm. Chairman D Howard Doane outlines seven criteria including soil conservation, agriculture, wildlife, tourism, transportation, floodplain communities, and the state’s capital assets amid postwar debt concerns.
Billy I. Chapman a 16 year old youth of near Delta died after being struck by an automobile on Highway 61 near Cape Girardeau early Sunday. The driver Marvin Nenninger Cape Girardeau said he did not see the boy until too late due to oncoming lights. another vehicle John P. Redwine Jr. Cape Girardeau was nearby. Chapman survived by his parents a brother and three sisters.
The Gideons have distributed seven million New Testaments to men and women in the armed forces since Pearl Harbor. The Herald notes the proposal's technical recreational esthetic and economic considerations and asks readers to believe what is read.
The Missouri State Highway Commission urged party members candidates and advertisers to keep 16 000 miles of highways clear of posters and signs. Road crews will remove posters as they appear under the state code to reduce hazards and preserve the roadside landscape.
After five and a half months of work Congress ended its session with 67.0 billion dollars in new war funds. A peacetime transition plan was shaped as the 78th Congress adjourned to August 1, with leaders able to reconvene within three days if needed before then.
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force reports that in the week ended June 18 censors processed about 2,281,900 words, equivalent to 22 books, and reviewed 37,436 photographs.
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