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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
4
Southeast Missouri notes report a dinner at Centenary Methodist Church attended by more than 300 Rotary members plus many from St. Louis Rotary Club, celebrating the local club's 25th anniversary with charter members present.
Mrs Mollie C Baty dies at St Francis Hospital Cape Girardeau after hip fracture aged 99 born Henry county Tennessee 1863 lived in Scott county. Funeral at Oran Baptist Church with Rev Warren burial in Friend Cemetery, survived by sons J Thomas and Charles Baty of Oran and Claude Lee Baty of St Louis, daughter Mary Goellner of St Louis, granddaughters C L Elkins and Norma Jean Baty, great grandsons Louis and Billy Elkins.
Harold H Whitt 22 died March 9 after months of illness. Funeral Friday at Blodgett Baptist Church with Rev J J Willis. Burial in Blodgett Cemetery. Survived by mother Hanna Smith Whitt, brother Russell in England, six sisters Aliie Edna Oda Reed Schlercher and Mrs Anna Miller, and father Pete H Whitt has predeceased him.
War Department weighing abandonment of Jefferson Barracks as a basic Army Air Forces training center and converting it into a large induction facility for all services. Decision expected in days. Pvt Bayron C Craig reported killed in action. Tech. Sgt. Thayer T Turman also listed as killed in action in the Mediterranean. Our Baby Chix are approved and Pullorum tested. Miner Hatchery.
March 13 Kelly Dunsmore general chairman for Canalou Red Cross drive reports campaign progress with house to house canvass by volunteers. He notes War Chest and 4th War Bond campaigns were successful thanks to Canalou residents and the same expected for Red Cross drive.
A dense notice lists local families and servicemembers with updates on their statuses. Includes Bob Taul in California hospital care, induction travelers Herbert Oliver Charles Scott and Lester Shell to Jefferson Barracks, and others with sons in the U S Army overseas or stationed at Greenville Fort Custer Camp Leavenworth and Ft Leavenworth.
The St Louis San Francisco Railway with the Association of American Railroads joins the Victory Garden Campaign to boost wartime food production. Trustee J M Kurn says railroad property will be made available for gardens, with permits issued to applicants. employees asked to cooperate as the movement aims for thirty six million gardens in 1944.
A House agricultural subcommittee concluded a 10 month probe by recommending abolition of the Farm Security Administration. Its functions would transfer to a revived Farmers Home Corporation within the Agriculture Department along with the Rural Agricultural Credit Corp and the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Administration. The Farm Credit Administration would remain unaffected.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower told hundreds of English armored corps cadets that every citizen must fulfill duty behind a gun or a plow or bear the agony of both nations. He said the ground war must be won before the German crush and urged reunion with cadets in Germany.
As late as the end of the eighteenth century, Scots and Irish buried their butter deep in peat bogs for aging and flavoring for seven years.
A simple tip advises gardeners to rub nails on a cake of soap before digging in the cabbage patch. The soap prevents nails from snagging while working and washes away easily afterward. Read the Adstheyre news.
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