Special Session Called by Governor for Missouri Legislature
Governor Donnell issued a call for a special Missouri Legislature session at noon Wednesday March 15 to consider 42 subjects including absentee voting reform for armed services and extra appropriations for social security aid dependent children and the needy in calamity. The session also seeks pay raises for penitentiary and reformatories staff and other state employees plus measures on extradition waterworks condemnation of lands and license transfers for stalled vehicles.
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Donnell
Missouri
Missouri State Penitentiary
Algoa and Boonville
Gov. Donnell
Wedding announced for Matthews senior Helen Josephine
Mrs W D Gaines announces the marriage of her daughter Helen Josephine to William T Morgan machinist mate second class U S Navy. They wed Feb 29 at the Helena Arkansas Methodist parsonage with Rev W Vance Womack officiating. Morgan has served in Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters and is stationed in New York.
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Pauline Morgan
Morgan
The
Matthews Christian Church
W. G Morgan
West Helena
Ark
Mediterranean
New York
Charles Shelby
Wm. N. Roberts
William
Theodore Wesley
Memphis
Woodrow Beck
Warragut
Idaho
Spurlin Beck
O. E. Critchlow
C 0
Warren Harber
Baltimore
Harber
Muskogee
Oklo
Mary Ethel Moore
Cape Girardeau
State College
L. F. Moore
Leslie Gaines
Dawson
Steve
W D Gaines
Nyla Jo Pruitt
Springfield
Juanita Pruitt
Ruth Thornburg
Thornburg
Lisbourn
Tope
Raymond Lloyd
Matthews
Lilbourn
Irene Ward
Clyde Couch
Sikeston
Blytheville
Republicans Cheer Colorado Election Shift in House
Republicans hailed a Colorado special election victory by Dean M. Gillespie in Denver that narrowed Democrats’ House majority to two seats. Gillespie’s win gives Republicans 210 seats to Democrats’ 217 in the 431 member chamber, with four minority members and four vacancies. The Denver result fuels GOP critique of the Administration and highlights Colorado’s First District’s Democratic history.
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House of Representatives
Dean M. Gillespie
Lawrence Lewis
Gillespie
Denver
Colorado
Roosevelt
Wilkie
New ration stamp adds shoes May first
A new ration stamp will be good for a pair of shoes beginning May 1. One of the two coupons now in use, No 18 in War Ration Book 1, will expire April 30.
Local Families Note March Births and Army Outing
Parents Mr and Mrs C M Reynold s Pvt and Mrs Vincent Roth left Saturday for Tucson Ariz where he is stationed with the Army Air Force Mr and Mrs Monroe Davis are the parents of a son born March 6 at the home of the latter s parents Mr and Mrs Bull Mr and Mrs Orville Hanselman and son Gene were guests Sunday of Dr and Mrs L C Mattingly and children at Oran
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Matthews News
Ellie Reid
Oak Ridge
B. B. Conrad
Norman Hudson
Parma
Pearl Green
W. Zimmer
Bernard Dalton
Charleston
Frankie Deane
Lois
Ruby Curtis
J. B. Lomax
Cape Girardeau
Alfred Byrd
Jane Ellen
Etta Vaughn
Morley
Charles Lumsden
Larry
Harold Lumsden
Essex
Women’s Council of the Christian Church
U.S. O
Sikeston
Marvin Shelby
Army Air Corps
Shelby
Oran News
Ervin Maddox
St. Louis
Dorothy Sturgeon
Virginia
Elmer Heney
St Louis
Ed Graviett
East Prairie
Madge Mason
Harry Mason
Springfield
van Steele
Jefferson Barracks
Walter Yakley
Crowder
Willie Wallace
Rockview Mo
Afe Robinson
Albert Cook
Qde Felty
Chaffee
Walter Cook
Florida
Bob Slickman
G. Slickman
Hartsell Snider
Howard
Eva Dudley
Melba Schnatt
Stockton
Calif
Less Inman
Allen Wagoner
Herschell Wagoner
George Brent
Arthur Kilhafer
Longview
Texas
Louis Kilhafner
Joe Russell
Pvt
Kilhafner
Maryland
Golliger
Claude Baty
Jim Baty
Oran Rural News
Charles Mancell
Archie Holder
J . Powell
St.Louis
L. B Swanner
Walden Reynolds
Fornfelt
C. M. Reynolds
Vincent Roth
Tucson
Ariz
Army Air Force
Monroe Davis
Bull
Orville Hanselman
Gene
L C. Mattingly
Oran
Hospital Admission and Surgeries in Sikeston Area
Local hospital treated several patients this week including E. H. Percy Canalou, Flora McConnell Sikeston, Joe Buchannon Sikeston, James Grey Morehouse, Harold Witt Blodgett, Earlene Taylor Morehouse, and Gene Miller Sikeston. Appendectomies were performed on Earlene Taylor and Gene Miller. Lula Bell Morehouse and M Bader Dexter were admitted for surgery on March 6.
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E. H. Percy
Canalou
Flora McConnell
Joe Buchannon
Sikeston
James Grey
Morehouse
Harold Witt
Blodgett
Earlene Taylor
Gene Miller
Lula Bell
M. Bader
Dexter
New Arrivals Born to Families in Local Area
A son was born to Mr and Mrs M L Wagley of La Forge on March 7 at home. Another son was born March 7 to Mr and Mrs Doyle Jackson of Parma. Glenda Sue is the name of the daughter born to Mr and Mrs Glenn Hyslop at Sikeston Hospital on March 1.
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M.L Wagley
la Forge
Doyle Jackson
Parma
Glenda Sue
Glenn Hyslop
Sikeston Hospital
Postpone Cape Arr School closing and flight training
Army flying training at the Cape Institute of Aeronautics will not be suspended until March 24. The delay extends 10 days past the earlier curtailment date. Major Clarke Simonds, commanding officer, announced from Maxwell Field Alabama that weather interruptions caused the schedule pause.
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The
Cape Institute of Aeronautics
Clarke Simonds
Maxwell Field
Ala
Mrs Paul Alten to Spend Weekend Here with Cadet Husband
Mrs Paul David Alten of Cape Girardeau will spend the week end here with her husband who is an aviation cadet at MLA.
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Paul David Alten
Cape Girardeau
MLA
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