A Sane Analysis Of Farm Problem
Sikeston Kiwanis dinner featured Dr. J W Burch director of Missouri extension service. He urged balancing production and demand and expanding meat output to strengthen national prosperity and resist communism. He warned of farm youth leaving farms and urged ethics training and 4 H clubs to keep capable youth on farms.
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Sikeston Kiwanis Club
Missouri
J. W. Burch
Missouri College of Agriculture
Burch
Rocheport
Boone County
Daniel Webster
The
Herald
Dr. Burch
Richards Stearns Complete Wedding Plans
Plans have been made for the wedding of Miss Willacean Richards and Richard Stearns in Sikeston. The ceremony will be at First Baptist Church Sunday at 3 oclock with Rev. E D Owen officiating. The bride’s attendants include her sister Auss Richards as matron of honor and bridesmaids Wadine Malcolm and Virginia Hambrick. Candle-lighters are Janet Lewis and Juanita Matthews. Miss Neva Teyier will play organ and accompany Aan Gentry soloist. Guests will sign the book with Percy Knupp presiding. best man is Bob Stearns.
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Willacean Richards
Fill Stearns
Ray Richards
Charles Stearns
Sikeston
E. D. Owen
First Baptist Church
Eclock
Auss Richards
Hones
Virlin Spiver
Wadine Malcolm
Virginia Hambrick
Janet Lewis
Juanita Matthews
Neva Teyier
Aan Gentry
Pat Nickens
Juan Hi
Mires Percy Knupp
Mr. Stearns
Attertfon
Bob Stearns
Jaman
Renny Faker
Cracksmien
Tuite
Jeit South
Jim Aduarg
Ane
Ronnie Ake Aye
Bloomfield Bride Mary Clodfelter Weds Billy Helsley
Miss Mary E. Clodfelter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Clodfelter, married Billy Claude Helsley, son of Mrs. Iva Helsley, in a Trinity Methodist Church ceremony on February 19. Rev J J Willis officiated the Geuble ring ceremony with white gladioli and ivy decorations. The bride wore a French gray lace gown over petal pink taffeta with seed pearls and carried lilies of the valley with a white orchid. matron of honor Mrs. Den Ross wore ice blue with a jeweled headband.
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den Ross
Rameve Atkoof
Mees WiTene Sruth
San RM
Jaycees Seek Traffic Controls At Post Office Corner
Sikeston Junior Chamber of Commerce forms a committee to urge city and post office officials to curb traffic at the post office corner. They debate removing or reducing parking meter time to ease congestion and consider drive-in mail boxes if meters are removed.
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Sikeston Junior Chamber of Commerce
Post Office
Jaycees
Country Club
Jim Bonner
Louis Jones
General Rodeo Committee
Shad Old
Bill Bess
Shad
Dale Carnegie Institute
The
Rustic Rock Inn
Institute
Sikeston CAP Sent To Help Hunt Missing Marine Jet
Sikeston Civil Air Patrol alerted at 10 p.m. Tuesday and eight members left Wednesday for Craft Airfield near Lambert Field, St. Louis, to aid in the search for a missing Marine Corps jet en route from Glenview Naval Air Station to Tulsa. Capt. Harold Pitman led the group with four planes, joined by Maj. W. O. Dysart, Lt. Charles Penman, Joe Webb, James True, Gerald DeField, and cadets Burt Rowe and Bill Ferrell. The missing plane was last reported Monday with no definitive destination confirmed and reports vary about a possible crash near the Kansas Missouri border.
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Sikeston Civil Air Patrol
Craft Airfield
Lambert Field
St. Louis
Marine Corps
Glenview Naval Air Station
Chicago
Tulsa
Harold Pitman
CAP
Pitman
W. O. Dysart
Charles Penman
Parageville
Joe Webb
James True
East Prairie
Gerald DeField
Charleston
Burt Rowe
Bill Ferrell
Kansas-Missouri
Poultryman's Meet In Benton March 3
A special meeting for all poultry producers in the county will be held at the Catholic School basement in Benton on March 3. The program includes discussions on latest recommendations and industry updates. Local extension agents and area producers are urged to attend.
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Poultryman’s
Benton
Tom
Stroup
Scott Creine Arent
Hatter Bosedl
Poulineen Ci
Seuse
Osrec
Unavoidable verdict in second highway death case
A coroner's inquest ruled two highway deaths unavoidable after a late Saturday crash near Grant City on Highway 61. Jeanette Alexander and her 19 month old son Harvid Don died from injuries when their car collided with a truck driven by Harold Alexander and a hitchhiker was present. The verdict cleared both drivers of responsibility. Jeanette Alexander, born 1927, and infant Harvid Don Alexander, born 1953, were both survived by family. Funeral services were held in Caruthersville with burial at Maple Cemetery.
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Clyde Poe
Jeanette Alexander
Harvid Don
Grant City
Highway 61
Harold Alexander
St. Louis
Harry Stewart
Batesville
Ark
Alexander
Ethel Fields
New Madrid
Alexanders
Oran
Caruthersville
Stewart
Fairmount
Annabell Leech
T A. Martin
Murray Klein
Paul Forrest
Lee A. Bowman Sr
Tanner C. Doe
James Kevil
Lee A. Bowman
Harold Don Alexander
Irene Davis
Mt. Morris
Mich
Josephine
Natalie
Mary
Bonnie Mee
Johnnie Lea
Harnld Don
Thee Church of Christ, Caruthersville
O. E. Moss
Maple Cemetery
Bluff Man Agrees To Tax Settlement
Washington IRS announces compromise settlements on seven tax assessments against two Mis-Sonias. They are Sidner Z Gart in Poniar Bluff for 620 Nem interest and penalties SID7.415 for 1942-46 settled.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Sidner Z. Gartin
Poniar Bluff
Advance Says No To School Bond
Voters in Reorganized School District R-3 backed a 200000 bond 415 to 317 in a special election Tuesday with 10 absentee ballots awaiting count. Passage required 494 votes. If approved funds would have built a 12 room elementary school with an activity cafeteria office and teaching spaces.
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R-3
Lyman Evans
Puxico Approves 190000 Bond For New School Building
Voters in Re organized School District R-5 approve a 190000 bond by a 49 to 161 vote. Funds will finance a 12 room elementary school with cafeteria and a vocational agriculture and shop building. Haywood Snipes and Associates of Poplar Bluff are architects. plans available in 30 days. construction to start soon.
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Puxico
R-5
John Mullens
Haywood Snipes
Schools Learn Traffic Safety Watching Novel Dog Circus
An article describes students at a school observing a nationwide tour by the Bus and Track Association to promote traffic safety. A dog circus and a staged demonstration illustrate highway rules, seatbelt use, and pedestrian care.
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Eloicm
Ernest Pressley
Lee Winter
Officer Pressley
Tax Commission Targets County Valuations
State Tax Commission plans to raise Scott County property values by 35 percent for city parcels and 95 percent for farm land to equalize across Missouri. Officials stressed the move is not a tax increase but a readjustment to reach true values, with local bodies to determine tax rates.
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State Tax Commission
County Court of
Scott
John A. Williams
Comne
Circuit Court
Benton
Commission
James M. Robertson
Tax Commission
J. Ralph Hutchinson
Caruthersville
John M. Robertson
Pacific
Missouri
Scott County
Recorder’s
Goma
Wehams
Buch- Tanseganan
Expanding Cotton Marts Theme at Sixth Annual MCPA Meet
The sixth annual Missouri Cotton Producers Association meeting will be held at the Kennett Armory on Thursday March 17 with morning afternoon and evening sessions. Dr C R Sayre of Delta Pine Land Co and congressman Jamie Whitten will speak. The theme is Expanding Cotton Markets and a Cotton Style Show and Two-Rate Cotton Club Awards will be part of the program.
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Missouri Cotton Producers Association
Southeast Missouri
Kennett Armory
Jim Ross
MCPA
Ross
Missouri Delta
United States
Armory
R.sayre
Delta
Washington
D. C
E. D. White
Foreign Operations Administration
Jack Hunter
Resolutions Committee
Sikeston
Keith Collins
Stxestan
Suaufxing
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Helsley
Narva
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J. W. Hoffert
Church of the Nazarene
Gikeston Cap
Maur
Chua. H. Butler
Red Cross
William 3. Corrigan
Advance
Derferr
Esa
USA
Yitemas
Wut, Bus & Track Association
Wis Emis
Kennett
Sireston
First Baptist Ch
Bus Methodist Church
Aggambiy of God
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