Sikeston Airport Dedication Set For May 24
Sikeston's Harvey Parks Airport will be formally dedicated at 10 AM on Saturday May 24 with high school seniors Betty Jane Taylor and Colleen Rayburn unveiling a bronze plaque in memory of Harvey A Parks. Dignitaries including Oliver Parks and local leaders will speak as Sikeston residents tour the air school facilities after the ceremony.
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Harvey Parks
Sikeston
aur
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
Betty Jane Taylor
Colleen Rayburn
Harvey A. Parks
Oliver Parks
A. B. Woodbury
Parks
Harvey
City Council Passes Health Measure Ordinance
Sikeston aldermen in special session approved an ordinance requiring used tin cans to be rolled or flattened and placed in sturdy containers to curb disease and improve streets. Other actions included real estate quit claim for street work, renaming Lindley avenue to Taylor street, and a three member committee to review training school site proposals with NYA involvement. An audit of Public Works was ordered with annual audits to follow.
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Sikeston
Woodlawn
Sikes avenue
Lindley avenue
Taylor street
E H Smith
Charles Butler
Loomis Mayfield
Ed Hanlon
Cape Girardeau
NYA
Board of Public Works
SiKESTON MARKETS Prices for Wheat and Corn
Market notes list Wheat No 2 at 90 cents per bushel Corn white No 2 and Corn yellow No 2 both 65 cents per bushel Hens priced per dozen and Roosters at 7 cents each Leshorn Hens Lie appears as a fragmentary line indicating poultry prices in Sikeston markets.
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Tee
Leshorn
District Press at Perryville Friday
Southeast Missouri newspaper people travel to Perryville for the annual Southeast Missouri Press Association convention. Alden Pinney of Benton presides. speakers include Senator Paul Jones and Dean Frank LaMartin. The day closes with a banquet at 6:30 featuring Louis Miller on "Whither Democracy?" Music by St Vincent's High School Orchestra.
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Missouri
Perryville
Press Association
Alden Pinney
Benton
Mack Denman
Farmington
Polly Fink Scott
Bloomfield
Harry E. Guth
St. May’s Seminary
Mississippi
Perry County Court House
Paul Jones
Kennett
Art Wallhausen
Charleston
Wilson Bell
Potosi
Sikeston
Raymond Lloyd = lilbourn
J Edward Gerald
the
Missouri Press Association
Perryville high school
Louis Miller
St Louis
St. Vincent’s High School
Labor Organizers See Mil Workers Vote for Union
Smouldering hints of labor trouble rise as Scott County Milling Company workers vote on unionization Tuesday May 27. Lyman Bowman says no statement can be made about organization under National Labor Relations Board rules. He notes Mill A workers earn about 1.31 dollars per hour and Mill B about 0.38 dollars.
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Sikeston
Scott County Miling Company
Lyman R Bowman
Scott County Mulling Company
National Labor Relations Board
mil
Bowman
Loomis Mayfield Named County Chairman in Training Camps
Loomis Mayfield captain of the Sikeston Home Guards and active American Legion member was named county chairman of the Military Training Camps Association of the United States. He succeeds Major C. L. Malone, now transferred to Little Rock to oversee reserve officers in Arkansas.
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Loomis Mayfield
Sikeston company of Home Guards
American Legion
Miliary Training Camps Association of the
United States
Mayfield
C. L. Malone
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Drummers Meet Program Promises Festive Opening Weekend
A detailed schedule items for a Drummers Meet includes a 7:15 p m band concert and 10 p m informal dance at the Armory with Ted Weems Orchestra. Sunday events begin with reveille at 7 a m and breakfast, golf at 10 a m, luncheon at noon, a Drummers and School Children’s Parade, prizes for children, float and band prize awards at 3:30 p m, a baseball game Drummer Sluggers versus Sikeston at 1:30 p m, kangaroo court at 5 p m, dinner at 6 p m, comedy by Kemedy Krew at 7 p m, and Queen of Southeast Missouri selection at 9 p m at What Club. Midnight coronation at What Club following. Saturday repeats with reveille at 7 a m, breakfast at 8 a m, business meeting at 10 a m to elect officers and pick 1912 meeting site.
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the Armory
Ted Weems
Sikeston
Sid A Wudberger
Kemedy Krew
Queen of Southeast Missouri
Midniight What Club
Mayo G W. EL Presnell
Malone Park
B. M Seidler
Sikeston Armory
Sikeston Junior Chamber of Commerce
The Herald
Cape Girardeau
Poplar Bluff
New Madrid
Kennett
Dexter
Hayti
Chaffee
Charleston
Sikeston high school
Tanner street
Kingshighway
Front street
Coca Cola
Malone avenue
International Shoe Factory
Highway 61
Taner street
Drummer Sluggers
Sikeston Mullers
Sikeston High School Ends Spring Activities Schedule
School calendar lists events for seniors and graduates including May 27 senior play May 28 senior day ceremony May 30 junior senior prom June 1 baccalaureate June 2 commencement and June 3 to 8 senior trip amid year end activities.
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Sikeston high school
Scott County Draft Call Lists Twelve Recruits
Scott County announces its first June draft call of twelve with names and origins listed by Clerk Wayne Buchanan. Inductees Richard W Welter, Ancell Richard L. Hughes, Alfred Moser, George W. Fields, Ernest M. Stacy, Edgar Le Martin, Paul D Schlitt, Charles R. Cunningham, James E Reed, Allen L Swaim, Robert L Scherer, Elmer Harry Pryor report to Jefferson Barracks on June 2 for induction. The draft board has sent 1500 questionnaires and continues at about 50 daily. about 1100 registrants remain in Scott County. Another call is expected between June 10 and 20.
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Richard W Welter
Ancell
Richard L. Hughes
Illino
Alfred Moser
Mount Pulaski
TIL
George W. Fields
Meridian
Idaho
Ernest M. Stacy
Sikeston
Edgar Le Martin
Humboldt
Tenn
Paul D Schlitt
Oran
Charles R. Cunningham
Chaffee James E Reed
Benton Allen L Swaim
Robert L Scherer
Fornfelt
Louisville
Elmer Harry Pryor
Urbana
Jefferson Barracks
Buchanan
Scott county
Large class scheduled for air school here
A 110 cadet class will enter the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics air school on June 1. This will be the largest class to date, with graduation for the advanced class planned for the end of the month.
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A B Woodbury
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
air school
Registration For CCC On May 28 Enrolment Date Change
Miss Virginia Hall supervisor of the State Social Security Commission of Missouri announces CCC enrollment moves to Wednesday May 28. Eligible are single unemployed 17 to 21 year olds not in school. Apply at Benton office before May 28. selected enrollees go to the CCC camp at New Madrid. Enrollees may choose to be sent outside Missouri or remain in Missouri camps.
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Virginia Hall
Scott county
State Social Security Commission of
Miassouri
CCC
Social Security Commission
Benton
Miss Hall
New Madrid
State of
Missour
Missouri
Thanksgiving date restored to traditional time
President Roosevelt announced that moving Thanksgiving up a week to boost retail business failed. He said next year the holiday will be observed on the customary last Thursday in November. This year the date will align with the traditional schedule by proclamation.
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Roosevelt
Women Jaycees Plan Dinner at Rustic Rock Inn
The Women's Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold a dinner meeting at the Rustic Rock Inn on Tuesday night May 27 followed by the regular business session.
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Women's Junior Chamber of Commerce
Rustic Rock Inn
Seme Drummers Open 45th Southeast Missouri Convention
Sikeston hosts the 45th annual Southeast Missouri Drummers Association convention at the Dunn Hotel with activities including an auction sale in Malone Park, a Friday night dance at the Sikeston Armory, and a weekend parade featuring floats from multiple towns. Judge standings, queen selection, and prizes highlight the event along with golf, a baseball game, and a kangaroo court.
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Sikeston
Southeast Missouri Drummers Association
Dunn Hotel
Weather and oddities tease a strange weekly log
A fragmentary weather note records a heat spike with a high around 61 degrees on Tuesday and a cold low near 16 degrees the same week. The text also hints at weekly scores or tabulations, light arrests, and a forecast of mostly clear skies, with scattered garbled details and names lost in OCR.
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Mombiy
wren
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Sikeston Airport
SIKESTON MARKETS
oWAS PAPER
WOODBURY
CHARLES B ROOT
RALPH CROCKWOOD
t Air Corps
JOHN W. BRYAN
District Press
Wayne Buchanan
RUSTIC ROCK
LEWIS HESLEP
M SETDULISA
L M HOLLENBECK
ERNEST DUNN
OBB. HILL
Seme
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