Local notes and obituaries from Southeast Missouri towns
MAIN STREET Southeast Missouri news items note Murphy a retired railroad man visiting with family. Worley Callie Greer 77 former resident dies in Cape Girardeau hospital. survivors listed. Kirksville bride Betha Kilgore, formerly Sikeston, wed. Se Missouri towns report new fire truck for Seddericktown, plans for junior high in Bruthersville, 16 room grade school in Steele with Dr W W Parker as speaker. Cape Girardeau State College reports 31300 spring term enrollment. 508 World War III veterans. Saarleston funeral for Mrs Ramage age 71. Poplar Bluff student Merlin Pailes wins extemporaneous speaking at University of Missouri. Dexter airport improvements funded with state and federal support. Poplar Bluff plant to manufacture 1500 concrete blocks. Cape Girardeau Mrs Wemnie Moore, 68, dies after fall at Barnes Hospital St Louis. Marble Hill Governor appoints Bryan and Williams as prosecutors for Bollinger County to replace resigning official.
State sales tax collections in 1948 set record high total
Tax receipts in 1948 reached a record 70,356 dollars, surpassing the 63,725,621 dollar total for 1947. The figures reflect growing state revenue from the sales tax, noting a sharp year over year increase.
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Missouri Pacific to Put 15 New Diesel Engines in Service Soon
Missouri Pacific will deliver six new diesel switching locomotives within the next month, bringing total new engines this year to 15 since January 1 and pushing the system to 210 in operation after all units are received. By February 1, U.S. railroads held 1,563 locomotives on order, diesel and steam combined, with 96,464 freight cars on order the largest in 25 years except 1948. The De Soto car plant is turning out one car per hour, with 70 ton all steel gondolas under construction. The Ozarks grade reduction project between Vulcan and Gads Hill costs over $1 million, following earlier Granite Bend work in 1947 and the Tip Top section near St. Louis nearing completion. Frisco notes twelve 4500 horsepower diesels to enter service next May for freight, after ten diesels were added earlier this year.
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Missouri Pacific
Missouri Pacific System
American Railroads
Association of American Railroads
de Soto
St. Louis
Poplar Bluff
Vulcan
Gads Hill
Missouri Ozarks
Des Arc
Granite Bend
Tip Top
Frisco
Short ribs of beef and their preparation
Short ribs come from the plate and rib sections, cut across the ribs into square portions with fat and lean and rib bones. They are braised or stewed, browning first then simmering with liquid until tender, with vegetables added near the end for a homey meal.
Extension Service Reaches Millions in 1947 Rural Aid
The Cooperative Extension Service reported to Agriculture Secretary M L Wilson that about five million farm families and over two million non farm families received helpful education in farming marketing homemaking and rural living during 1947. The program involved 1 729 911 4 H Club members in 80 286 clubs plus extensive outreach across all states Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico with 11 500 workers and nearly a million unpaid volunteers.
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Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service
Secretary of Agriculture
M. L. Wilson
T. S. Department of Agriculture
Extension Service
Cooperative Extension Service
US Department of
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
State Conservation Receives National Award
The Conservation Federation of Missouri was awarded a National Wildlife Federation plaque as the top state sportsmen’s organization for 1948. Dean W. Davis and Charles H. Callison accepted the honor at the National Federation banquet in Washington D C. Missouri projects included hunting and fishing improvements, farmer sportsman cooperation, forestry research, fire control, and laws to cut stream pollution.
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Conservation Federation of
Missouri
National Wildlife Federation
Dean W. Davis
West Plains
Missouri Federation
Charles H. Callison
Boonville
National Federation
Carlton Hotel
Washington, D. C
Government Buys Large Quantities of Wheat
Washington reports the Agriculture Department bought 12 972 175 bushels of grain for shortage areas abroad the week of February 21 and 89 880 000 pounds of flour equivalent to 2 094 204 bushels of wheat since July 1. Total grain and grain product purchases reach 350 985 097 bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Higginsville farmer wins Missouri wheat championship again
Albert Voss of Higginsville Missouri has been named Missouri wheat champion and winner of the 8th Philip W Pillsbury State wheat trophy by the Missouri Seed Improvement Association and the University of Missouri College of Agriculture. Voss grew the prize wheat on his 140 acre Lafayette county farm and will enter the sample for the national Pillsbury prize in Minneapolis on March 23.
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Albert Voss
Higginsville
Missouri
Philip W. Pillswry
Missouri Seed Improvement Association
University of Missouri College of Agriculture
Voss
Lafayette County
Agricultural Extension Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Minneapolis
Minn
United States Posts Second-Highest Birth Total in 1948
Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing announced that about 3,715,000 babies were born in 1948, the second largest annual total after 1947. He also cited state birth rates from 37.2 per 100 in New Mexico to 22.8 in New York.
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United States
Federal
Oscar R. Ewing
Ewing
New Mexico
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Main Street
Fast Prairie JR. Murphy
Worley
Callie E. Greer
Citigan
Cape Sirardeau
Betha Kilgore
Kirksville
Sikeston
Aieker
Seedericktown
Bruthersville
Jungar High School
Steele
W.W. Parker
C! Cape Girardeau
Te Pee
Girardeau
Mer
State Colony
Deve
Saarleston
Wmra Elizabeth Ramage
Saaiz
Odd Fellows Mg Faciery
Woplar
Merlin Pailes
Columbia
University of Miussane
Bexter
Forrest Smith
Lape Girardeau
Wemnie Moore
Barnes
St Louis
Marble Hill
Forza@ Smith
Bryan
Willams
Bollinger County
Deeczid B
Rowan
Cape Girardeau
Wiians
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Lair’s
Hudson
New Hudson
Rwipa Perraghive
Cokers
W. R
Coker
B. C. Land Company
Leacville
Arkansas
C. Oo
Ville
Ferguson
Gan
Sikeston Tractor Sales
Highway 60
Branum Avenue
Sikeston, Mo
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