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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
2
Thirty years of Sikeston public education show enrollment rising from 815 pupils in two buildings to 843 total with 26 teachers then to 78 teachers across multiple facilities. The historic note also recalls no Negro school then and the city council threatening circus licensing over courtesy to officials.
Superintendent R V Ellise and Coach Leland Lingle attended a Southeast Missouri coaches meeting to map a football schedule with school officials. Charleston was signed for the Thanksgiving game amid other local updates and social notes.
Watermelon feast, music and dances marked the North New Madrid and North Kingshighway paving opening on the Felker lawn. Miss Lottie Dover announced field hockey and soccer as new gym programs while the 1920 senior banquet at Hotel Marshall elected officers.
The Sikeston public schools enrolled 1718 pupils this year while a Herald item notes 81 college students leaving for their respective schools in September. Police Chief Harold Wallace spent three days in Kansas City on vacation, bringing his decade long vacation total to seven days.
Ninety two percent of Sikeston merchants and service firms have filed the Census of Business reports. The nationwide survey covers about 3 million establishments and tracks sales, employment, payroll, and inventories for 1948. Census results will show war and postwar effects with wider five year cycles.
World War II veterans in Southeast Missouri are urged by the Veterans Administration to keep authorized medical and dental appointments. Cape Girardeau VA office head George E. Seybold stresses timely exams and treatments for service connected conditions and notes broken appointments cause delays. Eligible veterans may apply at any VA office for care at Government expense.
Flying their own plane the twin sisters from Georgia landed at the Parks airport to visit Miss Eve lyn Klein. Announcement was made of the approaching marriage of Miss Margaret Netson daughter of Mr and Mrs A F Netson of Brittany Woods University City and Dr Alex Russell son of Mr and Mrs Arch Russell. Dr Russell Was resident physician at Firmin Desloge Hospital in St Louis. Winifred SKKimy Easterby an American Red Cross worker from Hartford Conn wore a simple white tight bodice wedding gown waned from white mosquito netting in a wedding ceremony on somewhere in New Guinea to First lieutenant W M Sidwell of Skeston a member of the Medical Administrative Corps.
A new 36 page booklet on the Daniel Boone Region of Missouri has been printed by the Division of Resources and Development. It covers Howard, Boone, Callaway, Audrain, Montgomery, Warren, Lincoln and St. Charles counties along Boone s Lick Road. The 63 photo booklet features a Bingham painting on the cover and Massie photos. Copies are available free by writing Jefferson City Missouri.
Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery awards a $1,000,000 hospital and clinic expansion contract to J. E. Dunn Construction Company of Kansas City. Construction starts soon, funded by a federal Hill Burton grant plus gifts as part of a long campaign by students alumni and friends. The college founded in 1892 by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still marks the Diamond Jubilee of Osteopathy this year. The federal grant comes via the Hill Burton National Hospital Construction Act, funded in Missouri with state approval and U S Public Health Service backing.
Dexter Missouri hosts Stoddard County Fall Festival and Agricultural Show September 19 to 24. A huge parade is planned with Dexter’s winning float from the Poplar Bluff Centennial. Poplar Bluff and Sikeston bands join Dexter High School band. Prizes of 100 and 75 are offered for out of town or county floats, 75 and 35 for rural groups. Queens from Southeast Missouri towns invited. Livestock shows and 4-H and FFA entries expected. Carnival opens Monday with parade to follow.
Eddie Mathis secretary of the Cotton Carnival committee says the Hillbilly Pals of WKTM Mayfield Kentucky will provide free entertainment this year at the American Legion Cotton Carnival They will perform on September 30 and October 1 in Malone Park The committee aims to make this the biggest Cotton Carnival yet in Sikeston and invites floats entries for the October 1 grand Street Parade with entries due soon.
The schedule lists events to be held Thursday at 2 30 p m with queen judging, livestock judging at the same time, Friday events, and Home Comers day on Saturday. Herald Want Ads promise results.
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