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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1939
Page
10
New Madrid County farmers planning to seed wheat for 1940 harvest and who did not grow wheat in 1937 1938 and 1939 must submit a written allotment request. Last year some applicants on non growing farms sought allotments. none will be granted without a written request. Deadline May 25. No extension anticipated.
A 4-H boys club will be organized at Catron with 10 members five with registered Durocs and five with spotted Poland China hogs. The first meeting was held late March. officers to be elected next week. Delta Realty Company loans funds. Allstin and Miles lead the sponsoring group with help from boys’ fathers. Gilts sourced from J. M. Everett Obion Tennessee and Scates Union City Tennessee. The club aims to start soon with stock ready for breeding project.
Missourians are invited to the New York World's Fair and the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco on designated dates. Colonel Claude C. Earp will oversee transportation, with special trains from St. Louis and Kansas City to Denver Yellowstone National Park Spokane and Portland, plus routes to Norfolk, Williamsburg, Niagara Falls and Detroit. Missouri Week at the Golden Gate runs July 16–22 highlighted by Missouri Day July 19. Missouria Day at New York is August 10 with ceremonies at the Missouri building.
Gov Lloyd C Stark proclaims June 8 to 14 as Flag Week urging communities to hold special exercises to express love of America pride in its history devotion to its ideals and institutions.
Governor Lloyd B Stark lauded Missouri newspapers during Journalism Week and Missouri University centennial celebrations at Rothwell Gymnasium Columbia. Banquet featured cornbread from Ozark mills, gavel carved from 100 year old cedar, and remarks by notable editors and officials including Col Vladimir Hurban.
A WPA Exhibition of Skills of the Unemployed will feature workers spinning cotton and weaving it into household items at the Ozark Jubilee in Poplar Bluff May 26 and 27. The display, organized by the Jubilee Committee, shows state WPA projects from nursery schools to public health and clerical work.
James Kahn of Kennett has accepted the chairmanship of the Southeast Missouri fund raising campaign for the United Jewish Appeal for Refugee and Overseas Needs. The drive supports persecuted Jews and Protestants and Catholics in foreign countries, providing food clothing shelter medical aid and other necessities. Funds also aid immigration and settlement in Palestine and refugee readjustment in the United States.
State Motor Vehicle Registration Department reports 1.225 million licenses issued since the act took effect in September 1937. Licenses are valid for two years from issue and renewals start in August for the September renewals. About one million of the licenses in force were issued in the first four months after the act began.
Announcement this week that Fllsworth Green former secretary of the Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce and immediate past president of the Missouri Junior Chamber of Commerce has been appointed to membership on the Speakers Bureau of the National Junior Chamber Economic Education Committee. Green who is well known to Sikeston friends is also the representative of the Missouri Junior Chamber of Commerce on the board of directors of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. He is now employed as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at Sedalia. Mr Green's appointment is the first in Missouri though nearly 100 young men have been selected for the work throughout the United States. His talks will deal chiefly with fundamentals of economics in everyday life. Arrangements for engagements are being handled through his office at the Chamber of Commerce in Sedalia. His expenses are paid to speak before any Civic organization or convention in the State on economics.
Charles J. Harvey of St. Louis has been named assistant counsel for the State Insurance Department by Insurance Superintendent Ray B. Lucas. The 43 year old attorney succeeds Walker Pierce, recently appointed by Gov. Stark to the State Liquor Control post. Harvey has practiced law in St. Louis for 15 years while G. J. Layton recovers from an illness at home.
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