Vocational Guidance Day Draws Southeast Missouri Seniors
Southeast Missouri high school seniors attend Vocational Guidance Day in Sikeston on March 16. More than a thousand students are expected as they enroll for three interest meetings and hear 11 field lectures by leaders in agriculture aviation beauty culture business administration civil service engineering forestry home economics journalism law medicine merchandising nursing teaching and trades. Rev. R C Holliday opens with a talk on making the most of oneself.
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Missouri
Sikeston
R. C. Holliday
Centenary Methodist Church of
Cape Girardeau
Sam B. Shirky
Faculty of Agriculture
University of Missouri
Harold D. Weatherly
State Resources and Development
Jefferson City
Margaret Estes
Murrell J. Loy
State College
Civil Service
Harold T. Smutz
United States Civil Service Commission
St. Louis
Noel Hubbard
School of Mines and Metallurgy
Rolla
F. Olin Capps
Missouri Conservation Commission
H. W. Becker
Missouri Council of Churches
Kirkwood
L. Evadine Parker
State Department of Education
Winston Allard
Missouri University
Roger A. Bailey
Trawick
Cotton House Burns at Wayside Gin in Morehouse
A fire Tuesday afternoon destroyed 20 bales of cotton stored in a cotton house at Wayside Gin Company in Morehouse. Owner T. F. Jackson said the origin of the blaze is unknown. Insurance partially covers the loss and rebuilding plans are underway.
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Wayside Gin Company
Morehouse
T. F. Jackson
Fire Department Responds to Two Week Fires
The fire department was called to 426 East Kathleen Avenue on Tuesday morning for a blaze from a defective flue, quickly extinguished with no major damage. Earlier Monday night a three room house in the 200 block of Alabama Street Sunset addition burned completely, with no one home when it started.
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Kathleen Avenue
Alabama Street
Sunset Addition
Mrs Allen Seriously Ill in St Louis Hospital
Mrs Thomas B Allen was moved from Missouri Delta Community Hospital to Barnes Hospital in St Louis on Tuesday and underwent surgery that evening. She is listed in critical condition and her family has been summoned to St Louis. The latest report this morning says her condition is unchanged.
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Thomas B. Allen
Missouri Delta Community Hospital
Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Allen
Chaney School District May Join with Sikeston
Rumors say Chaney district east and northeast of Sikeston may consolidate with Sikeston due to insufficient funds and facilities. Chaney has 144 school age children, assessed value $138000, one room schoolhouse. 93 pupils attend Sikeston schools and 12 to 15 attend Chaney daily. Citizens may seek a vote on consolidation.
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Chaney
Sikeston
Mrs Sam Wilcox Dies After Short Illness
Mrs. Sam Wilcox, born Hannah Cook in Sikeston January 23 1900, died at Missouri Delta Community Hospital Sikeston at 7 10 AM after a two day illness. She married Sam Wilcox March 28 1928 and is survived by her husband two sisters a nephew and a niece. Funeral at the Methodist church Friday at 2 15 PM with Rev M G Joyce officiating and interment Memorial Park cemetery. Pallbearers named Loomis Mayfield T A Roberts Charles Butler W L Haters Carl Elam Earl Cook.
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Lair Company
Wilcox
Hannah Cook
Ed D. Cook
Sikeston
Sam Wilcox
Opal Heisler
Lutie Stephens
St. Louis
DeLisle Heisler
Jefferson City
Lucian Paule
Methodist Church
M. G. Joyce
Memorial Park Cemetery
Loomis Mayfield
T. A. Roberts
Charles Butler
W. L. Haters
Carl Elam
Earl Cook
Citizens Will Hear Sewer Plan Explained Sikeston mass meeting set at high school gym
Mayor Carroll and the city council will host a mass meeting at Sikeston High School gym next Thursday night to hear engineers explain the storm sewer plan. Officials will allow discussion, objections, and suggestions, noting a general lack of knowledge about plan details and cost timing.
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Sikeston
Carroll
Skillman to Relocate to Richmond Virginia
A B Skillman, longtime Sikeston resident of forty years, will move to Richmond to live with son Henry Hunter Skillman and wife. The trip is to be guided by the son meeting in St. Louis and continuing to Richmond. Illness followed a stay at the Cope boarding house and Delta Community Hospital. He has recently been a guest of Mr and Mrs Chris Francis and has long served on the Methodist church official board.
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A. B. Skillman
Sikeston
Richmond
Virginia
Henry Hunter Skillman
St. Louis
Mr. Skillman
Cope
North Ranney Street
Vernon
Charlotte
S. C
Delta Community Hospital
Chris Francis
The
Methodist Church
Governor seeks four cent state gasoline tax hike
Governor Forrest Smith asked the Missouri Legislature to enact at once a four cent per gallon increase in the state gasoline tax for road building. The move followed a highway commission meeting endorsing the plan and a House measure to raise fuel taxes to four cents. If approved, the plan funds about 32,500 miles of state roads in ten years with continued state aid, and outlines annual allocations for primary, city highway streets, and rural road expansion.
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Forrest Smith
Missouri
State Highway Commission
House
General Assembly
Milton Duvall
Pike County
House Roads and Highways Committee
Highway Commission
Twenty Years for Hammer Murder
True Whorton a 58 year old ant farmer near Oran was given 20 years in the State Penitentiary after pleading guilty to the hammer slaying of his 72 year old mother in law Mrs Mary Jones on July 4 in Benton circuit court Judge RB Oliver III imposed the sentence Whorton overheard by sheriff Early Malcolm and deputies in an upstairs room the same night Jones died after being rushed to St Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau Edna Whorton's daughter testified the father said he was tired of his mother in law being in their home Other court actions included a 30 day jail term for careless driving and a divorce granted Mrs Virginia Sanders vs Thomas J Sanders with several cases dismissed Circu court will reconvene next Monday and Tuesday
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True Whorton
Oran
Benton
RB. Oliver III
Whorton
Mary Jones
James Whorton
Jones
St. Francis Hospital
Cape Girardeau
Early Malcolm
Edna
L. C. McConnell
Smith Addition
Virginia Sanders
Thomas J. Sanders
Perry Mott
Grace Mott
Motors Insurance Corporation
O. D. Clayton
Sara Shelton
Robert Shelton
State of Missouri
James Powell
Florine Thomore
Guy H. Waters
Mississippi Ferries Reopen After Flooded Approaches
The Mississippi ferries at Dorona and Tiptonville resumed operation Monday after a month of closure due to flooded approaches from heavy rainfall.
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Mississippi
Mississippi River
Dorona
Tiptonville
Easter Seals Campaign Leaders Announced in Scott County
Mrs. R. O. Minner of Blodgett will chair the Scott County Easter Seal drive, announced by Archer O'Reilly Jr. of the Missouri Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Mrs. Clinton Scott is general chairman. The 1949 sale runs March 17 to April 17 with a goal of 185000, an 10000 increase from last year, to fund state and local services for cerebral palsied children.
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Scott County
R. O. Minner
Blodgett
Archer O'Reilly Jr
The
Missouri Society For Crippled Children and Adults Inc
Clinton Scott
Scott County Committee For Crippled Children
Missouri Society
Nation Society For Crippled Children and Adults Inc
Missouri
O'Reilly
Sikeston Leases Airport Buildings to School District
Sikeston city and Sikeston school district reach agreement to use six former War Assets Administration airport buildings for elementary use. City will paint exteriors and repair. district covers interior remodeling. No rent. pupils from eastern district start next fall with potential withdrawal after year one.
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City of
Sikeston
War Assets Administration
Board of Education
Driving drunk fined and jailed in Sikeston court
In Magistrate Montgomerys court at Sikeston Ed Skelton was fined 25 and jailed 60 days for driving a motor vehicle while under liquor. He was paroled to C T Howard after costs. The session also included a maintenance suit by a divorced wife against Russell Alexander, a peace disturbance plea by Robert Marshall Gunter resulting in 90 days jail and parole to Atty Geo W Kirk, a dismissed case for Dyther CC Walternate after paying costs, a continued assault charge against James Cox, and Mrs Henry Pobst being discharged from St Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau after medical attention.
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Montgomery
Sikeston
Ed Skelton
Benton
C. T. Howard
Russell Alexander
Robert Marshall Gunter
Atty. Geo. W. Kirk. Dyther CC
Walternate
Smith Addition
James Cox
Airport Auction to Hold First Sale Tomorrow
The Herald announces a new Airport Auction at Sikeston airport inside the hangar or apron for surplus farm machinery merchandise home appliances and furniture. The first sale is Friday March 11 starting at 10:00 a.m. with consignments sold until exhausted. Project organizers include Dale Alcorn Joe McCord Lenzie Beck and C D Cotton Springs auctioneers Beck and McCord, clerk L S Stucker, collector James Marshall Jr.
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Sikeston
Dale Alcorn
Joe McCord
Lenzie Beck
C. D. (Cotton) Springs
Beck
McCord
L. S. Stucker
James Marshall Jr
Bodies Returned for Reburial of Southeast Missouri War Dead
The Army Transport Barney Kirschbaum brought home the remains of Southeast Missouri men who died in World War II. Families and communities in Kennett, Biehle, Perryville, Hayti, Perkins, Bernie, Risco, Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Piedmont, Fredericktown, Poplar Bluff, and other towns await final burial. The list includes Pfc Willard Bodkin, Pfc Charles Bohnert, Seaman Maritz Brown, Lt Wilbur Schism, Pvt Benjamin Cook Jr, Pfc Roy Craft, Pfc Val Hill, Pfc Robert Hughey, Sgt Wilgon Lancaster, Pvt Roy Montgomery, Sgt Joseph Todd, Sgt George Winyard, Pfe Linus Winschel.
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Southeast Missouri
Europe
Barney Kirschbaum
Willard T. Bodkin
Kennett
Charles J. Bohnert
Biehle
Seaman
Maritz W. Brown
Perryville
Wilbur L. Schism
Hayti
Benjamin D. Cook Jr
Perkins
Roy V. Craft
Bernie
Val Hill
Risco
Robert W. Hughey
Seventy-Six
Wilgon H. Lancaster
New Madrid
Roy O. Montgomery
Piedmont
Joseph M. Todd
Fredericktown
George D. Winyard
Poplar Bluff
Linus R. Winschel
Robbers Take Cash but Miss Jewelry at Farm- Goodin Tractor Co
A thousand-pound safe was moved from the Farmer Goodin Tractor Company store Tuesday night and found by the roadside east of the city. About 300 dollars in cash was taken from the safe while a small box containing valuable jewelry was left untouched, suggesting the thieves overlooked it.
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Farmer- Goodin Tractor Company
Highway 60
Penny Store Managers Attend Cape Girardeau Conference
J C Penney manager E E Leighninger of Sikeston attended a two day Penney managers conference at Cape Girardeau on Monday and Tuesday. Elmer Simmons assistant manager and William Marsh ready to wear floor supervisor also attended one day each from Sikeston.
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E. E. Leighninger
J. C. Penney
Sikeston
Penney
Cape Girardeau
Elmer Simmons
William Marsh
Sikeston special census not finished says mayor
Mayor Marvin Carroll told The Herald that the Sikeston special census is unfinished with calls still needed from census taker H. B. Tomlinson. At 850 residents reported, city seeks 10 000 to justify voter registration and possible city limits extension. The 1940 census showed 1844.
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Sikeston
Marvin Carroll
Herald
H. B. Tomlinson
Sikeston Teachers Re-elected and Pay Increases Planned
Sikeston public schools renewed contracts for all current teachers. Superintendent Bremen Van Bibber and principals Dorothea Miller R J Genins and R V Ford received salary boosts. The district may increase salaries further if funds allow with a proposed tax levy of 2.40 total per $100. Board members C D Matthews 3d and R A McCord seek re-election.
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Sikeston
Board of Education
Bremen van Bibber
R. J. Genins
Dorothea Miller
Lincoln School
R. V. Ford
Livestock Prices Rise at National Stock Yards This Week
The Producers Live Stock Marketing Association reports broad price gains across cattle hogs and lambs at National Stock Yards in the first half of the week. Hogs show modest advances with top quotes near 21.75 per cwt. Cattle trend higher with steers and heifers up to 25 per cwt in some lots. Lambs rise 75 cents to a dollar, reaching a March high as buyers show solid demand amid moderate to light receipts.
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Producers Live Stock Marketing Association
Macoupim County
Ill
Weather notes and local updates in brief
The morning thermometer stood at 30 degrees, down from 42 yesterday, with 185 inches of rain failing yesterday and last night, shifting to sheet and then to snow. The week’s high was 76 last Saturday. Forecast calls for partly cloudy and colder conditions. Mrs Ma Elsen of Route 2 had surgery at Southern Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau and was discharged last Friday to her home.
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Ma Elsen
Route 2
Southenst Missouri Hospital
Cape Girardeau
Rome
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Hammer
T. Whorton
Henry Pobst
Near Sikeston
W. J. O'Leary
Sikeston City
Branum Ave
Ruth
William
Coleman Ave
Sikeston Concrete Products Company
Trotter Street
South Kingshighway
New Madrid Street
Sikes Avenue
Wakefield
Wakefield Addition
Nordberr Manufacturing Company
Clay A. Mitchell
Center Street
Scott Street
Malone Park
Joseph L. Matthews
Sikeston Special Road
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