Farm pest bait and county farming drive report
Scott County farmers discuss night feeding control of cutworms with poison bran mash bait using Paris green or alternatives. A larger formula covers up to 20 acres, with a second baiting if needed. The countywide effort includes 155 cotton farmers pledging reduced acreage and participation in programs, AAA records show 89.9 percent crop land in compliance, and a May 27 farm and home living tour spotlighting conservation and youth development.
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Scott County
Farm Bureau Board
County Extension Service
Agriculture Conservation Association
Farm Bureau
Extension Service
AAA
Home Economics Extension Council
4-F Council
Extension Service highlights food production and youth programs
Health and home ownership goals tie to national food supply. Extension Service argues for more food production, storage, and utilization. County 4-H shows and achievement events across Miner Benton Campbell inspire youth, soil conservation tours, and livestock and poultry feeder activities in Scott and New Madrid counties.
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National Defense
Miner
Chaffee
Benton
Campbell School
Rockview
New Hamburg
Scott
New Madrid
Pleasant Val
Tractor School in St. Louis Aims Ford Familiarity
Ralph Williams of Walton Williams Motor Co and three mechanics Andrew Bol linger Carl Parks and E H Laster attended a tractor school in St Louis Tuesday. The meeting aimed to acquaint the team more thoroughly with Ford tractors sold by Walton Williams.
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Ralph Williams
Walton & Williams Motor Company
Andrew Bollinger
Carl Parks
E. H. Laster
St. Louis
Ford
Walton & Williams
National Employment Week Emphasizes Older Workers
The Sikeston Missouri State Employment Service partners with Ted Marks to promote National Employment Week May 5 to 10. G B Pearson says campaign urges 100 percent veteran and local post participation, cites defense industry age limits, and notes the shift to middle age workers as military service reduces younger labor supply.
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Sikeston
Missouri State Employment Service
Ted Marks
Missouri
G. B. Pearson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Mr. Pearson
Reduced fares for soldiers and sailors on Frisco line
Fares of one and a quarter cents per mile for Army Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard personnel traveling on furlough go into effect May 5 announced by J W Nourse Frisco passenger traffic manager. With furlough papers soldiers in uniform may travel on Frisco points or elsewhere in the United States in chair cars and coaches, returnable within 30 days. Tickets on sale daily until October 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Frisco Railroad
J. W. Nourse
Frisco
United States
Wesco Plans Watermelon Market at Sikeston Next Summer
Florida editor meets D H Schauffner of Plant City who visited Sikeston last summer to buy watermelons for Wesco Foods Company. He says the company will conduct a watermelon market at Sikeston and other district locations next summer while he also helped sell Florida's tomato crop.
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Florida
The
Herald
D. H. Schauffner
Plant City
Sikeston
Wesco Foods Company
Schauffner
Four Million Cars Allowed Next Year At OPM Limit
The Office of Production Management set a 4,224,152 car cap for model year starting August 1 to protect defense production. The reduction from this year’s output of 0,289,972 signals cutbacks across manufacturers. General Motors, Chrysler and Ford were reported to face substantial decreases in production assignments.
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Office of Production Management
Defense
Associated Press
OPM
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
Defense Council Bill Draws Fire In Missouri House
War Department proposes a Defense Council with dictatorial powers in Missouri. Floor leaders denounce the bill amid stormy debate. Critics call it the gravy train and say it would cancel civil liberties, accusing the President of seeking dictatorship by back door methods.
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Jefferson City
War Department
Missouri
Defense Council
U S Canners Produce Fifty Million Fruit Cases Annually
U S canners ship about fifty million cases of canned fruit each year with peaches leading at over twelve million cases. The data highlights the scale of the industry and the dominance of peaches in production.
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U. S
De Soto Discovers the Mississippi in 1541 In Missouri Tale
A historical sketch recounts Hernando De Soto’s 1541 journey through Florida and into the lower Mississippi region. It notes his arrival May 8 1541, his leadership of 600 to 700 men with horses and hogs, and the voyage spanning about 4000 miles by land river and sea. The piece links De Soto and Coronado’s expeditions to broader continental exploration from Georgia to the Gulf of California.
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de Soto
Coronado
Peru
Mexico
Hernando DeSoto
Mississippi River
Mississippi
DeSoto
North America
Florida
Southwest
Georgia
Gulf of California
Spain
Pedrarias
Inca Atahualpa
Charles V
Cuba
Havana
Rites Held Sunday for Mrs Adam Kirsch
Funeral services were held at 2 PM Sunday for Mrs Frances Emiline Kirsch died Friday at her Lilbourn home after a heart ailment. Born November 20 1865 in Hancock County Ohio she lived in Van Wert Ohio Wabash County Wisconsin, married John Adam Kirsch in 1890. Survived by three children Arthur Henry and Karl Kirsch of Lilbourn and St Louis, three grandchildren and other relatives. Interment followed at Dexter cemetery with Rev G C Schramm presiding.
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Frances Emiline Kirsch
Frederick Schoenstedt
Lilbourn
Mrs. Kirsch
Hancock County
Ohio
van Wert
Wabash County
John Adam Kirsch
Dexter
Huntington
Ind
Sikeston Lutheran Church
Dexter Cemetery
Navy Recruiting Officer to Visit Sikeston Saturday
A U S Navy Recruiting Service representative will visit Sikeston post office at 9:00 a.m. on May 10 to interview applicants. He will contact men aged 17 to 31.
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U. S. Navy Recruiting Service
Sikeston
De Soto First Reached Mississippi River in 1541
The report recounts Hernando de Soto marching through ten southern states including Florida Georgia and the Carolinas before crossing the Mississippi between St Francis and Arkansas rivers. Scouting lasted eight days with limited reach. De Soto died in 1542 and his body was hidden in the Mississippi to prevent alarm among natives. Survivors finally reached Mexico's Panuco in 1513.
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Florida
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
de Soto
Mississippi River
St. Francis
Arkansas River
United States de Soto Expedition Commission
White
Arkansas
DeSoto
Missouri
Louisiana
Luis de Moscoso
Panuco
Mexico
Rites Held Sunday for C E Golloday Father
Funeral services were held at East Prairie Methodist church for William E. Golloday 65 prominent farmer and merchant who died last Friday of a heart ailment in Wool Ridge He was manager of Bryant Implement Company and served as Sunday school superintendent He is survived by his widow Claudia two sons C E and Clack Golloday of St Louis and East Prairie daughter Mrs Roy Morris five grandchildren and other relatives.
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Methodist
East Prairie
William E. Golloday
Wool Ridge
J. C. Montgomery
Charleston
Marvin Niblack
Odd Fellows
Masonic Lodge
Golloday
C. E. Golloday
Sikeston
Bryant Implement Company
Methodist Church
Claudia Golloday
C. EB. Golloday
Clack Golloday
St. Louis
Roy Morris
Bill Golloday
Harold
Glenn
Betty
Mildred Morris
Ira A Jones Heads Eleemosynary Board
Ira A Jones of St Charles Missouri is named president of the State Eleemosynary Institutions Board succeeding W Ed Jameson who led the board for eight years. A Republican and Harvard graduate he runs an electrical merchandise business in St Charles and has served on the board since 1939. He starts May 12 with a 5000 yearly salary overseeing state hospitals schools and sanatoriums and about 1800 employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira A. Jones
St. Charles
Eleemosynary
W. Ed Jameson
Jones
Harvard University
Minneapolis
Eleemrosynary Board
Eleemosyuary Board
St. Joseph
Fulton
Farmington
Nevada
Marshall
Mount Vernon
Missouri Commission For the Blind
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Scott County Farm Activities
Ry Leon M. Lane
Tractor
WESCO
HOUSE
Cape Girardeau Or
Ste. Genevieve
ED Brugger
Jackson, Missouri
Farm Saving Stockyards, Inc
North Broadway
ST. Louis, MO
Pat
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Hernando de Soto
Adam Kirsch
Semesan JR. Nitragin
Dan McCoy Seed Company
Dorothy Street
Cc. E. Golloday
Scott County Abstract Company
Benton, Mo
Harris D. Rogers
Cape Girardeau County
Cape Girardeau
State Teachers College
Jackson
Caleb Smith
Rich Lewis
South Grade School
Sikeston, Mo
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