Dairy Payment Continuation Rates Set for February
County AAA committees announce February dairy payments at 35 cents per hundredweight for whole milk and 5 cents per pound of butter fat. February payments will be separate, with January still payable in March and applications accepted through April 30, 1944. Small producers may combine January and February payments if total reaches $1.00, with March and April payments to follow at higher rates.
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Cgueer
Guy Calvin
New Madrid
Somervell Outlines What We Fight For in War Time
General Somervell describes the nation’s core aims as protecting daily freedoms and civic life. He lists rights to security, town meetings, free speech in media, labor organization, open religious and social activities, and the ability to support or critique elected officials, free radio, and even the freedom to boo an umpire.
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Somervell
Army Service Forces
Metropolitan Daily
Grange
the Legion
Ladies’ Library Club
Labor report cites 3750 strikes in 1943
The Department of Labor states that 3750 strikes in 1943 involved 1,900,000 workers and led to a loss of 13,500,000 man days of work across the country.
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Department of Labor
Calcium arsenate advised for cotton growers
New Madrid County AAA leader Guy Calvin warns cotton growers to stock calcium arsenate now as wartime limits on transport threaten timely supplies. He cites warehouse bottlenecks, danger of last minute shortages, and booster urges all farmers to secure enough for three initial applications to avoid crop loss and war material impact.
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Guy Calvin
New Madrid County
AAA Committee
Calvin
War Food Administration
Wounded shows higher survival rate in modern war
The Army reports American wounded in this war have a 37 percent death rate versus 6.1 percent in World War I, meaning survivors nearly double their WWI counterparts despite more destructive weapons. The report emphasizes improved medical care and rapid evacuation contributing to lower mortality among wounded soldiers.
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Army
Storing Shoes Careful Tips for Soldier Husbands
Store shoes by cleaning and repairing as needed removing grit with a damp cloth. Polish and elbow grease prevent wrinkling and cracking. shoe trees or stuffing in the toes keep shape. Over 30,000,000 in India are receiving melanin treatment. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Brillat Savarin quote.
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India
War Manpower Commission urged to aid Sikeston employers
Frank M. Bristow states War Manpower Commission offices offer recruitment, training and job studies to replace key workers drafted for military service. Local managers advise industry on improving labor efficiency and production without adding workers. Free training facilities are available to develop skills and build a reserve workforce for war goods plants as Selective Service draws skilled deferrals.
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Sikeston
War Manpower Commission
Frank M. Bristow
Bristow
WMC
Missouri
Don’t destroy War Ration Book Three warns St Louis executive
Edward G. Hotchkiss, St. Louis OPA rationing official, urges care with War Ration Book 3. With brown stamps Y and 6 expiring March 20, he notes spare stamps can stay valid for special rations and future shoe stamps may come from remaining Book 3. Stamp No. 1 for Airplane is indefinite for one pair. May 1 brings a new stamp. Book 1 and 2 may be discarded after Stamp No. 18 is used for shoes until April 30.
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Edward G. Hotchkiss
St. Louis
OPA
Hotchkiss
Ration calendar updates for March and May 1945
Effective March 19, several war ration stamps in Books IV and III become valid through specified dates for meat, cheese, fats, oils, sugar, gas, fuel oil, and shoes. Notes include new stamp availabilities, expiration dates, and requirements for tire inspections and returning obsolete books.
Shoe rationing hurts women war workers
Dr. W J Stickel of the National Chiropody Association says shoe rationing worsens conditions for women workers whose feet have widened from standing in patriotic work. A survey of 10,000 women in Cleveland St Louis Cincinnati Washington and New York found an average of six pre rationing shoes unusable now.
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W. J. Stickel
National Chiropody Association
Cleveland
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Washington
New York
Sikeston and Charleston Boys Take BST Army Tests
Thirteen Sikeston high school boys and three from Charleston were given Army Specialized Training and Navy College Program tests by Principal Tharon Stallings at Sikeston high school yesterday.
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Sikeston High School
Charleston
Army
Navy College
Tharon
Stallings
New Missouri Blue Book for 1943 44 Receives Notice
The Herald reports receipt of the new Blue Book Official Manual of Missouri for 1943 1944 edited by Secretary of State Dwight H Brown. It details state government and state owned institutions. It is dedicated to Capt Walter B Dickie and to all Missourians serving in military and their families.
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State of
Missouri
The
Herald
Dwight H. Brown
Walter B. Dickie
Securities
Secretary of State
South Pacific
Jim Dickies
511 Nazis Downed by 65 U. S. Aces
Sixty five United States fighter aces have shot down 511 German planes since operations began in Europe. The Eighth Air Force has accounted for 459 German planes since April 1943 and the Ninth Air Force has bagged 5214 planes since December. When two pilots cooperate in downing one plane each, a half credit is given. The Eighth Air Force includes 45 aces with five or more victories, while the Ninth claims 20. Most of the select group flew Thunderbolt fighters.
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United States
Eighth Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Ninth
Potatoes Not Fattening Says Nutrition Experts
The article notes experiments suggesting potatoes need not cause weight gain. Dr Henry C Sherman of the USDA explains potatoes can supply up to 25 percent of an average person's vitamin C plus B vitamins iron and other minerals and high quality protein alongside starch. Greatness lies in the right use of strength. Beecher quote.
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Henry C. Sherman
Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Income tax filing deadline and New Madrid courthouse news
Twenty-five years ago in Sikeston Herald from March 14, 1919 notes the final day to file income tax returns for unmarried individuals earning 19.25 dollars weekly and married couples earning 38.50 weekly, with tax on the first 4000 dollars of net income at 6 percent. It also reports New Madrid county’s new courthouse completed and occupied by officials, and a 60 dollar bonus for soldiers discharged since April 6, 1917 under a law passed by the last Congress.
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Sikeston Herald
New Madrid
New Court House
Hoosier Land buy and local notes from 1924
Twenty years ago March 18 1924 Be J Keith bought Powell Gresham stake in Hoosier Land and Investment. Powell became book keeper for Farmers Supply. Denman family visited Farming ton, snow delay forced rail travel via St Marys. Recital at Mrs Ralph Andersons featured many names. Movie bill at Malone Theater included The Next Corner The Silent Command and Singer Jim McKee. Scott County Farm Bureau elected John Reiss president and W W Hinchey vice president. Southeast Missouri spring farming praised. Dr and Mrs A A Mayfield visited parents near Marble Hill. father near 90, mother 87. Ten years ago March 15 1934 the week’s high temp was...
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BE. J. Keith
M. G. Gresham
John Powell
Hoosier Land and Investment Company
Powell
Farmers Supply Company
C. H. Denman
Farmington
St. Mary’s
Ralph Anderson
North Kingshighway
Jim Derris
Ella Louise Shuppert
Lillian Gail Applegate
Lynette Stallcup
Nana Bell Wilson
Wootson Inez Hollingsworth
Hazel Lumsden
Rebecca Baker
Josephine Hudson
Nadine Sellards
Mary Ellen Tanner
Ann Beck
Marie Marshall
Virginia Hudson
Barbara Beck
Elizabeth Stallcup
Kathrine Clark
Malone Theater
Conway Tearle
Lon Chaney
Dorothy Mackaill
Alma Tell
Edmund Lowe
Silent Command
Wm. S. Hart
Jim McKee
John Reiss
Sikeston
Scott County Farm Bureau
Benton
W. W. Hinchey
Missouri
A. A. Mayfield
Southeast Missouri Weather Recap and Theater Notes
The week ranged from a high of 68 degrees on Tuesday to a low of 35 on Sunday. Mrs. Jack Johnson and nephew Wallis Clippard visited relatives at Oak Ridge Tuesday. Five years ago in March 1939 heavy rain and wind followed by cooler weather marked the week. Last year in March 1948 Southeast Missouri saw near average mid March weather with film showings at the Malone Theater including The Beachcomber Paris Honeymoon and Mrs Miniver.
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Jack Johnson
Wallis Clippard
Oak Ridge
Missouri
Malone Theater
Charles Laughton
Frederic March
Joan Bennett
Sylvia Sidney
Bing Crosby
Dfranciska Gaal
Paris
Malone
Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Lucky Jordan
Allan Ladd
Helen Walker
Orson Welles
Delores del Rio
Mrs. Miniver
Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
Dixon Defense Dismissed as Draft Notice Lapse
United States Commissioner in Pittsburgh held Eugene Dixon for federal court on charges of failing to notify a draft board of a change of address. His excuse, that the jail he was in for a 30 day term did not provide writing materials, was deemed not sufficient.
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United States
Pittsburgh
Eugene Dixon
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