This Week in Missouri History internal improvements rise
Missouri’s early push for internal improvements began with a 3 percent land sale fund used to pay unpaid warrants and build roads, bridges, and levees. By 1839 a State board of internal improvement was created, and in 1859 a five member commission surveyed rivers and mapped a St. Louis to Iron Mountain railroad, with a $6.6 million plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Miller
Missouri
Clarksville
St. Louis
Jefferson City
Big Swamp
Cape Girardeau
Scott Counties
County Boards of Internal Improvements
General Assembly
State Board of
Salt
North Grand
Osage
Meramac
Iron Mountain
William H. Morell
State of Missouri
Four Rivers
Board of Internal Improvement
Edwards
CCC Camp News at New Madrid and Ditch Work
May 12 report from New Madrid CCC camp notes dragline completion of Ditch No 10 in District 1 and start on Big Otter Slough ditch via Kewanee road. Vaccination rules idle two draglines. Thornburg and James M. Cole briefly incapacitated. Delta and New Madrid CCC camp baseball series tied 1-1 after Negroes beat New Madrid bars 12 to ?. St Johns Bayou widening near Matthews Lane road nearly done after about two years with one shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Madrid
Kewanee Road
Little River
CCC
U S. Bureau of Agricultural Engineering
Thornburg
James M. Cole
Delta
Sikeston
St John’s Bavon Ditch
Matthews Lane Road
Erosion Control Structures Built in Little River District
Two large concrete erosion control structures are nearing completion on Ditch 37 at Charter Oak in the Little River Drainage District. The district supplied materials and the New Madrid CCC camp bays built the structures under Superintendent Fred R. Jacoby and Engineer Guy B. Falken. These works satisfy the district’s request for this ditch project.
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Charter Oak
Little River
New Madrid
CCC
Fred R. Jacoby
Guy B. Falken
Talbert Replies To Criticism Of Legion Appointment
Rep R M Talbert Cape Girardeau, a former Sikeston pastor, defends his selection to join the State Monument Commission to inspect a Missouri war veterans memorial. He cites loyalty to ex service members, notes Jefferson City post membership, and says he would withdraw if good reasons arise to avoid division in Cape Girardeau and Jackson posts. He offers to request Gov Stark to replace him if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
American Legion
Missouri
R. M. Talbert
Cape Girardeau
France
State
Talbert
Sikeston Christian Church
Stark
Fred A Bottger
Jefferson City
Louis K Juden Post
Jefferson City Post
Monument Commission
Cape Girardeau and
Jackson
LIQUOR INSPECTORS DISMISSED THIS WEEK
SE Missouri brief reports 17 liquor inspectors dismissed by Col Edmund J. McMahon of St Louis from the State Department of Liquor Control. Southeast Missourians H B Henderson of New Madrid and John Scott of Caruthersville named among the relieved. Dismissals effective immediately with pay through May 15, shakeup planned before FitzGerald’s ouster, reflect Park era holdovers amid Stark reorganization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Liquor Control
Edmund J. McMahon
St. Louis
Taco Southeast
Thomas F. Fitzgerald
McMahon
Park
Cairo Bridge Sale Approved in Washington
A bill to authorize the Cairo Bridge Company to acquire and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River at Cairo was approved by the House Interstate Commerce committee in Washington on Monday.
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Cairo Bridge Company
Mississippi River
Cairo
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Washington
Fornfelt sells old box factory site to florist for hot house
Fornfelt sold the four acre old box factory site to William Hud a New York florist who will immediately start a hot house flower beds and garden plants. The city had acquired the property after Mesler box factory closed and the sale price was $1000 with plans to build a home on the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fornfelt
Wm Hud
New York State
Mesler Box
Hild
Cape Girardeau wreck injures Chaffee man near diversion channel
Jesse Cunningham, 27, of Chaffee, critically hurt when his northbound car collided with a southbound vehicle on Highway 61 near the diversion channel bridge south of Cape Girardeau. Fellow Chaffee occupants L Arvel Gettings, N Christina Laster, and Mrs Teague suffered injuries. the Cape Girardeau pair Lawrence Lalamendier and Charles Templeton had minor injuries. Trooper Glenn Lampley investigated. both cars were heavily damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Cunningham
Chaffee
Highway 61
Diversion Channel Bridge
Cape Girardeau
Cunningham
Toledo Ford
L. Arvel Gettings
Gettings
Xiessie Teague
Christina Laster
Lawrence Lalamendier
Charles Teumpleton
Cape Girardeai
Teague
Glenn Lampley
Salamendier
Troop Meeting at New Patrol Office in Poplar Bluff
Sret. R. R. Reed and Troopers Melvin Dace John Tandy Wade Shankle and Vincent Boisaubin attended a district meeting in the newly opened Troop E head quarters at Poplar Bluff. Capt. A. D. Sheppard is now stationed there and the radio station aids in locating wanted persons. Sikeston troopers Dace Tandy Shankle and Boisab in continue service in that territory. Reed resides in Sikeston and oversees the Patrol office there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sret
R. R. Reed
Melvin Dace
John Tandy
Wade Shankle
Vincent Boisaubin
State Highway Patrol
Poplar Bluff
Troop “E
Sikeston
A. D. Sheppard
Poplar
Bluff
Dace, Tandy
Shankle
Boisaubin
Sigt. Reed
Ohio murder victim may be Kennett girl
Mrs. Pete Akers of Kennett travels to Cleveland to identify a mutilated torso found in the Cuyahoga River as possibly her missing daughter Faye, 22, last seen in Terre Haute Indiana. Police match a Paris Til hospital scar to the victim, part of a series of dismembered murders in Cleveland over the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennett
Cleveland
Pete Akers
Akers
Faye
Terre Haute
Ind
Cuyahoga River
Pans Til
Ohio
Public safety drive on tire safety week and worn tires
Public urged by tire dealers and P J Schlosser of Major Auto Supply to join National Tire Safety Week May 1 to 7. Officials warn thousands ride on dangerous worn tires risking lives and emphasize free tire inspections and tire trade‑in value for safe replacements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tire
P J. Schlosser
Maror Auto Supply
Schlosser
Sikeston
Plans to raise army by lottery in wartime
Officials and officers in San Francisco discussed a national lottery plan to conscript citizens for wartime service. Thirteen million men aged 21 to 31 would be summoned initially, with a drum-drawn lottery in Washington determining draft order. Army officials estimated up to a million men could be summoned in the first month.
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United States
San Francisco
United States War Department
Army
Associated Press
Washington
War Department prepares blanket bill for conscription agency
Officials plan a ready bill to Congress to authorize a conscription agency as military needs determine the rates of call. They outline proposed monthly quotas of three to four hundred thousand men in successive months beginning with 330000 in the second month, 260000 in the third, and 300000 in the fourth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Congress
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Little River District
McCormick-Deering Farmall
Legion
Seme News
Kelso
Wilma L Messmer
Edward J. Logel
George M. Brucker
Leo Brucker
Logel
Perryville
Victor Lohman
E. G Guese
Dimo
Roy V. Ellise
Skeston
R M McCombs
Cape County Milling Company
Charleston
McCombs
Cape
International Harvester
McCormick - Deering
Boyce Farm Equipment Coational Harvester Company
Dea
Malone Avenue
Oran
Kelvinator
ECO
Sikeston Sales Company
Hubert Keasler
E. Front Street
Collect Telephone
Dead Animal Disposal Co
Sikeston, MO
Wade
Joodrich Safety
Silvertown
Oggles
Ford
Motorola
DET
Or Mechanica
Electric Airtone
Warasee Gael
Maier Auto Supply
Malone Ave
Herald
Laredo
W. A. Gemeinhardt Matthews, Mo
John G. Powell
Keith
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