Congress Adjourned Last Night to Meet Again in January
Congress adjourned after nine and a half months of trying to pass legislation. The House and Senate quit by 7:00 p.m. with a summary noting tax, housing, labor, anti inflation, social security, health, education, rent controls, farm programs and civil rights actions. Foreign affairs saw favorable response while domestic goals stalled as President Truman could not unite his party to enact key measures.
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Congress
Harry Truman
House
Senate
House Labor Committee
Agricultural Department
Chamber
Campaign for Camp Funds for Girl Scouts Planned
L M Standley named chairman of the Sikeston drive to raise fifty thousand dollars for a Southeast Missouri Girl Scout camp during Girl Scout Week October 30 to November 5. Funds stay local, no National HQ or area operating costs, and no drive next year. Camporee planned in Matthews woods with about a hundred Sikeston scouts, cost twenty five cents per girl, and registration due tonight.
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L. M. Standley
Sikeston
Charles Hicks
Cotton Bell
Missouri
Charleston
Dexter
Poplar Bluff
Kennett
East Prairie
Caruthersvill
Hicks
Carolyn Baker
Cotton Bell Aves
Charles Boyce
H. B. Ficklin
Margaret Hill
Matthews Woods
Weaks Farm
Walter Pitts
Margaret Mill
Edward Allard
Marianne Wingerter
P. J. Schipseer
Miss Mill
Sikeston Student Crowned National Soybean Queen
Sikeston junior Carolyn Corlew daughter of Mr and Mrs E E Corlew won regional and national Soybean Queen honors at the Portageville festival among 29 entrants. She earned a 500 U S bond and a rose gift while Sikeston Junior Chamber got a 200 bond for promoting the contestant. The three day Soybean Festival drew thousands with multiple marching bands and floats in the parade.
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Sikeston
Carolyn Corlew
E. E Corlew
Corlew
Sikeston High School
Red Pepper Organization
Portageville
United States
Malden
Dexter
Missouri
Poplar Bluff
U. S
Sikeston Junior Chamber of Commerce
Chaffee
Fisk
Lilbourn
Sllmo-Fornfelt
Blytheville
Welfare Workers in District Conference
A district meeting of State Department of Welfare workers was held at the Dunn Hotel starting at 10:00 a.m. County directors and casework staffs from eight counties Butler Dunklin Mississippi New Madrid Pemiscot Ripley Scott and Stoddard attended. Harold Jobe from the State office in Jefferson City led discussions on eligibility for public assistance old age assistance aid to dependent children and general assistance.
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State Department of Welfare
Dunn Hotel
Butler
Dunkiin
Mississippi
New Madrid
Pemiscot
Ripley
Scott
Stoddard
Harold Jobe
Jefferson City
Oil Progress Week Parade Highlights First Oil Well
Oil Progress Week is observed in Sikeston with a parade as residents recall the 1859 discovery that started the petroleum era. The tale centers on Uncle Billy Smith and his sons, whose drilling at 69.5 feet yielded oil, altering industry history and inspiring why Drake’s earlier salt-wet drills failed to foresee petroleum.
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Billy” Smith
Sikeston
Country
Uncle Billy
America
Col
Edwin L. Drake
Sen
Eca Oil Company
Titusville
Colonel Drake
Pennsylvania
Billy
Smith
Edwin Drake
James
Samuel
Oil Firms to Parade Through Sikeston Saturday
Practically all oil dealers both wholesale and retail in the Sikeston district will join a parade Saturday afternoon as part of Oil Progress Week. The lineup forms at 1 30 on South Kingshighway near the Baptist church and travels north to Center street then west to New Madrid and Malone avenues before ending. Ships many oil transports and rolling stock will participate.
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Sikeston
Kingshighway
Baptist Church
Center Street
Center
New Madrid Street
Malone Avenue
Malone
Tansport
Girl Scouts First Package Processed by New Postage Meter
In Sikeston yesterday, the new Pitney-Bowes postage meter processed a parcel for Girl Scout L. M. Standley to deliver the first package. The device prints the postage, city postmark, and date on a moistened label, then seals the package. It reduces stamp handling, speeds service, and aids cash accounting.
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Sikeston Post Office
L. M. Standley
Malcolm
Standley
Stamford, Conn
Pitney-Bowes, Inc
Post Office Department
Boy Scout Council to Meet in Sikeston
The Southeast Missouri Council will hold its annual meeting Tuesday evening October 25 at the Rustic Rock Inn in Sikeston. The Silver Beaver Awards will be presented to three men for distinguished service to boyhood. their names remain secret until the ceremony. Al Lantz will speak. tickets are available from district chairmen or Scout Headquarters in Cape Girardeau.
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Southeast Missouri Council
Rustic Rock Inn
Sikeston
Silver Beaver
H. R. Tribble
Kennett
Burt Rowe
Walter Hosea
Cape Girardeau
al Lantz
St. Louis
Scout
Construction Begins on Rea Power Plant West of Poplar Bluff
Construction started this week on a new power plant for the M and A Electric Power Cooperative located four miles west of Poplar Bluff on Highway 61. The plant, financed by a Rural Electrification Administration loan, is set to cost 2.9 million dollars and will supply electricity to the Scott New Madrid Mississippi Electric Cooperative and other southeastern Missouri coops.
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M. & A. Electric Power Cooperative
Poplar Bluff
Highway 61
Rural Electrification Administration
Scott - New Madrid - Mississippi Electric Cooperative
Missouri
Weather Forecast and Week Temperature Readings
The forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow with winds up to 30 mph in the west. Past week temperatures ranged from a high of 79 and a low of 50, with daily highs trending in the upper 70s and mornings in the upper 40s to upper 50s.
Secretary Proclaims Marketing Quotas On 1950 Cotton Crop
The Secretary of Agriculture proclaims a national marketing quota of 11,733,750 bales for 1950 and an acreage allotment of 21 million acres with a December 15, 1949 referendum. Only 1948 cotton producers vote. state and county PMA committees compile allotments. The notice connects the era’s progress to the nine decades since Drake’s oil well discovery.
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Secretary of Agriculture
PMA
Evin Burke
Scott County
Axe Slayer of Negro Child Is Still at Large
Willie Davis, 39, described as a very dark Negro, remains at large after allegedly killing Billy Jean Smith, a nine year old girl, by striking her with an axe in her bed in Sikeston. Davis fled in a stolen car after the attack following a tavern altercation in Sunset addition. The coroner ruled the death a homicide. Witness Willie Booth reported hearing the killer enter the house and threaten the child. The inquest jurors identified the victim and stated the death resulted from an axe blow. Davis is tallied at 5 feet 9 inches, 145 pounds, with a scar near the left eye.
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Willie Davis
Billy Jean Smith
Davis
Community Hospital
Sunset Addition
Georgia Mae Douglas
Georgia Mae
Willie Booth
Scott County
Poe
L. H. Sexton
Foreman
H. E. Hastings
H. Newman
Bill Robertson
Mack Lambert
J. D. Simpson
Sikeston
End of Railroad Strike Near on Missouri Pacific
After a six week strike, Missouri Pacific trains may run by week’s end but full traffic resumption remains distant with 89 of 282 claims unsettled among 5,000 workers. Officials of both sides reentered negotiations as steel coal and aluminum strikes persist. Ford Motor Co. will halt most operations on November 11. Weekly losses from strikes total about 67 million dollars, with coal and steel stoppages costing the nation hundreds of millions and threatening fuel and material shortages.
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Missouri Pacific
Ford Motor Company
Cotton ginnings total 4775 bales this season
Sikeston cotton companies have ginned 4775 bales since the season began. Ginners report that heavy rains two weeks ago lowered the cotters grade from prior levels.
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Sikeston Cotton Companies
Mexican National Killed as Truck Spill Injures 50 in Missouri
A truck carrying 60 to 70 Mexican Nationals rolled into a roadside ditch on a farm-to-market road west of Sikeston. Cecilio Moreno Ruiz, 41, a Torreon citizen, died on arrival at the hospital. Over fifty injured were rushed to Sikeston hospital. six remain hospitalized with various injuries. The body was sent to Torreon for burial per Mexican Vice-Consul orders.
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Missouri Delta Hospital
Sikeston
Cecilio Moreno Ruiz
Torreon
Coahuila
Mexico
Ruiz
Pinnell Hunter
Hunter
Taft Milan
Taylor Funeral Home
St. Lois
Luis Alva Cergado
Cecilio Ruiz
Terreon
Fransco
Marcena Ruiz
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Globe Defense
North Atlantic
Atlantic Pact
Campaign For Funds
Girl Scouts
Nation
Welfare Workers
Chas. H. Boyce
Cotton Boll Council
Boy Scout Council
Rea
The
Christian Church
Roger Bailey
W. Gladys
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