The Daily Standard from Sikeston, Missouri • Page 1

DAILY SIKESTON STANDARD FBFTDOM OF THE of (I I press is to be guarded as a vital right of the unquestionable right Published Doily Except Sunday freedom of American institutions ate separably joined its responsibilities far intelligent fidelity to toe Constitution el the United States. tbe Canons of Journalism VOLUME 41 SIKESTON. SCOTT COUNTY. MISSOURI WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 1952 NUMBER 12 Cotton Yield Estimated At 14 Million Bales Report Crop Below Government's Production Goal WASHINGTON Agriculture Department, in a time report, today estimated this cotton crop at 14,413,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. This figure is 524,000 bales more than last forecast of 13,889.000 bales.

It compares with 15.144.000 produced last year and 11.775.000 for the ten-year (194150) average. Below Goal The indicated crop is sharply below the production goal of 16,000,000 goal that was designed to cover domestic and export needs for the marketing year and to add some cotton to reserve stocks. Domestic and export requirements are now being forecast at around 13,750,000 bales. Dry weather in some sections of the cotton belt cut production below what it would have been had conditions been more favorable. The production of lint cotton was estimated at 280.2 pounds per harvested acre compared with 271.9 last year and 267.6 for the 10-year average.

Condition of the crop as of Oct. 1 was reported at 71 per cent of normal compared with 74 a year ago and 72 for the 10-year Oct. 1 average. Acreage Unchanged The acreage for harvest was reported unchanged at 24,693,000, indicating an abandonment of 5.2 per cent of the planted acreage. No figures on the percent of the planted acreage abandoned by states was given.

The acreage for harvest, the Oct. 1 condition of the crop, the yield per acre, and production, respectively, by states included: Missouri 490,000 acres for harvest, 82 per cent of normal, 377 pounds per acre and production 385.000 bales; Arkansas 1,865,000, 70, 322 and 1,250,000. The Census Bureau reported the number of bales of cotton ginned from the 1952 crop by states prior to Oct. this year compared with the 1951 crop on the corresponding date: Arkansas 518,681 and Missouri 133,041 and 64,078. Jaycees Make Ready For Safety Program The Jaycees, last night at its regular at the Country Club, appointed Weber Gilmore as chairman of a safety program, a Plans were discussed for the forthcoming Halloween parade, Oct.

31, at the high school football field. The Jaycees postponed Ladies Night. Also discussed were arrangements for the King Brothers and Christiani Circus, which is coming to Sikeston, Oct. 21, under the auspices of the Jaycees. Any member has tickets to sell.

Harold was admitted last night as a new member. Guests at the meeting were two state vice-presidents, Richard Viles, of Bolivar, and Bill Gerhart, of Cape. John Johnson Dies At Delta Community John L. Johnson died at the Delta Community Hospital at 9:40 yesterday. Mrf Johnson, 58, was a resident of Sikeston.

Mr. Johnson had only been in the hospital for five minutes when he died. The body was claimed by the Albritton Funeral Home. Arrangements for the funeral are incomplete, pending arrival of relatives. START OVER-WATER of the 82 F-84G Thunderjets of the 27th Fighter-Escort Wing enroute to join the Far East Air Forces are shown lined up at Travis Air Force Base, for the takeoff to Hickam Field, Hawaii.

Forty-lour planes were in the group. The jots are refueled in flight over the ocean. The 27th will relieve the 31st Wing, now in action over Korea, which made the first mass jet hop across the Pacific in July. (AP Wirephoto) IT HAPPEN HERE? Feci confident Two Scott County Farmers Make 100-Bushel Corn Club Two more Scott County farm-I per acre back in 1947. No starter ers have qualified for membership in the SEMO 100-Bushel Corn Club to raise the total number of 1952 qualified members to twenty, the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce announced today.

The two most recent farmers to qualify are Harold Hill with 112.7 bushels of corn produced per acre and John L. Wilson who produced 102.6 bushels per acre. Hill o.f Morlev, had 40 acres of corn on the Adrian Guiling farm of Sikeston Route 1 that had at least a five acre area that made 112.74 bushel to the acre according to the committee harvesting it. The committee was composed ol Henry Smith, Philip Milford and Extension Agents Starling Guinn and Tom Stroup. Hill had an average of 10,004 stalks to the acre with an ear weight of .66 lbs.

to the ear. The corn was a white hybrid, US 523 W. The soil was tested and a fertilizer application made accord- fertilizer was used on this corn crop. The field was in oats and lespedeza for pasture in 1951; pie- Farms Urged To Remove All Fire Hazards vious to that it was in soybeans. In 1949 it made 75 bushel of corn per acre by using a starter fertilizer of 250 lb.

of 4-12-12, and a red clover crop was turned under. Three Cultivations Three cultivations were given the corn this year. The corn tested only 13.8 moisture at harvest. Yield was calculated at to keep all on a uniform basis. The SEMO 100-Bushel Corn Club is sponsored by the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the County Extension Agents and other agricultural agencies.

Five farmers have qualified so far in Scott County this year. They are Kermit Shelby of Charleston, Route 2, who is high man in Scott County with 133. Bu. to the acre; Harold Hill. Morley, Mo.

ing to the test recommendations. 112.74 bu. acre; Alwin G. Gasser, A total plant food application ol' Sikeston Route 1, 112.32 Bu. acre.

110 lbs. nitrogen, 24 lbs. phosphorous, and 79 lbs. potash was made. This was done by plowing down 55 lbs.

of actual potash, applying 200 lb. of 1.2-12-12 as a starter at planting, and 105 lb. of anhydrous ammonia being applied when the corn plants were 18 inches high. The corn was planted on April 28. The field has been in corn in 1950 and 1951 and had made 50 bushels and 40 bushels to the acre respectively those years without fertilizer.

Gives Credit Hill states that he credits the high yield to two things in particular. One is the fertilizer applied which made the necessary plant food available to the plants; the other is that he only cultivated the corn one time. He sprayed it with to control weeds and used a rotary hoe two times in the field. The soil is a Scott Clay loam and held moisture well. Wilson, of Sikeston and chairman o.f the 100 Bushel Corn Club for SEMO, qualified for membership by the official check of 102.64 bushel to the acre.

Those making the check were D. M. Hughes and H. E. Waldo, Starling Guinn, and Tom B.

Stroup, County Extension Agents. The corn was a white hybrid, Dixie 33, with a stalk count of 15,200 to the acre. The average ear wt. was .422 lbs. The corn was side dressed with anhydrous ammonia when 16 Inches high.

A total of 106.6 lbs. of actual nitrogen being applied. The soil has been limed at 2 tons Sammy Tanner, Sikeston, 108.0 Bu. acre, and John L. Wilson, Sikeston Route 1, 102.64 Bu.

acre. Fifteen farmers have qualified from Mississippi County. No farmers from New Madrid or Stoddard counties have qualified as yet. 3000 People Expected At SEMO Teachers Association Meeting Community Chest Funds Help Prevent, Cure Tuberculosis By Clint H. Denman, Director Publicity, Sikeston Community Chest During 1951 39,100 people in the United States are reported as having died of tuberculosis.

For many centuries this terrible disease has been arqong the most effective in destroying human life. All nations and all races of mankind are subject to its devastating ravages. The toll taken by tuberculosis is all the more damaging because it includes thousands of young people in its enormous list of victims. Great progress has been made counteracting the baneful effects of tuberculosis, especially since the scientist Robert Koch discovered the bacillus tuberculosis in 1882. Louis Pasteur and other notable scientists have assisted in discovering means o.f preventing the disease and impeding its destruction.

Among them are our Americans, Dr. Florence Sabin of the Rockfeller Institute and Dr. R. J. Anderson of Yale University.

However, much remains to be done if tuberculosis is to be entirely eliminated as a killer. To this end the Sikeston Community Chest will, during the coming year, devote a portion of its funds. Other charitable causes to be served by the Sikeston Community Chest during the coming year are the following: American Red Cross. American Cancer Society. American Heart Association.

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Local Welfare Service. Home Society. Salvation Army. Boy Scouts.

Girl Scout. Missouri Delta Community pital. Crippled Society. Three thousand teachers are expected to be in attendance at the 77th annual Southeast Missouri Teachers Association meeting in Cape Girardeau on Thursday and Friday. Strength of is the theme of the sessions, which will be held on the Southeast Missouri State College campus.

General session speakers are Dr. L. D. Haskew, Dean of the College of Education of the University of Texas, Dr. Kenneth McFarland, Educational Consultant to General Motors, and Dean Clifford E.

Erickson, of Michigan State College. At the general session on Thursday afternoon, the work of the Missouri Commission will be discussed by Senator M. C. Matthes, Hillsboro, Chairman of the Commission; Senator John W. Noble, Kennett; Superintendent Milton Bierbaum, of West Walnut Manor Schools; Superintendent Roy Taylor, Herculaneum Public Schools; and Dr.

Forrest H. Rose, Dean of Southeast Missouri State College. State Commissioner of Education Hubert Wheeler will speak at the annual dinner of superintendents and principals. The district Farm fires last year took thousands of lives and destroyed 100 million dollars worth of property, the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce Fire Prevention Campaign officials pointed out today. Much of this loss was badly needed supplies and is rapidly becoming a matter of growing concern.

The Chamber of Commerce is urging all farmers in the entire Sikeston area to remove all fire hazards lrom their farms and homes. The swift advance of science and technology have brought many hazards to the farm. The larm today has all the hazards of a machine shop, a factory, gasoline station and a paint shop, combined with buildings frequently holding tons of some of the most substance known to man hay and straw. In warning the farmers that the loss of food supplies, vital to the welfare and that of free nations abroad, are mostly the result of individual carelessness and faulty building construction, the Chamber of Commerce calls for year-round support of community efforts for greater fire safety everywhere. The weather and the lack of heat at the Bailey and Sikeston High Schools in Sikeston this morning made it necessary for the Fire Prevention campaign officials to postpone their school visits until tomorrow.

The schedule for tomorrow is: School. School. School. Fire Prevention programs will be presented to those schools at that time. campaign is receiving Smug? Feel confident that the flame of a free press can't flicker and gradually die out in newspapers can be ruthlessly censored and suppressed HERE? Perhaps but the Constitutions of Indo-China, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and even Russia guarantee freedom of the press, too.

It could and DID happen there; it can and DOES happen here. This excerpt lrom Charles University of Missouri address gives a few instances in the snowballing campaign to muzzle the press HERE in America. say to you that it does happen heic, and it happens in communities where there are strong and alert newspapers. I am thinking, lor example, ol San Francisco, where only a few months ago a Federal judge ordered grand jury to investigate the Call- Bulletin on a charge that that newspaper had obstructed justice by its series of articles on income tax frauds and a land development scheme involving anothei Federal Judge It happened in Lake Charles, when an editor and publisher were indicted because they dared to print the truth about gambling and vice. It has happened in Atlanta because a newspaper dared to tell the truth about traffic cases.

It has happened in Phoenix, Arizona, where the Governor of that state has suppressed a report concerning the land commissioner. It happened a few short years ago in Peoria, 111., where a reporter for the St. Louis Post- Dispatch was indicted because he found out too much about crime in that community. It has happened in Maryland and New Jeisey where bills have been introduced in recent years to gag the press. does happen in every city where committees of the Board of Aldermen or the school board insist on secret meetings, it is happening right now in Washington, despite all the denials to the contrary.

Men have always had good reason to fear for their rights, but the hazard is greatest when the heritage is thoughtlessly accepted; when it is taken for is prized only after it is Charles C. Clayton, 1952. Train Wreck In England Kills 82 People IThree Collide of Height of Morning Commuting Rush By Michael Newmareh Wild, Reckless Charges Stevenson Turns Artillery On McCarthy's Home State By The Associated Press Gov. Adlai Stevenson turned his campaign artillery on Sen. Joseph McCarthy in home state today as Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower fought back against biting criticism from President Truman on foreipn policy. Democratic Presidential Candidate Stevenson moved into Wisconsin after telling an overflow audience in Detroit that McCarthy failed to turn up a single Communist with and charges. after the war, he said: you know, ladies and gen- SHE BOLLED oi the crop and calf-deep in cotton is Gloria Stice. Paducah, pretty named as queen of the annual National Cotton Picking Contest at Blytheville, Ark.

Gloria, 19, was selected as queen of the festivities frcm among 23 contestants from five cotton states. (AF Wirephoto) Special Day For Voters To Register Eisenhower, the GOP standard- tleinen, through this region anoth- bearer, struck back at I er of campaign train accusation he once imperiled preceded mine some time back. 100 cooperation from the churches, schools, businesses, homes, newspapers, radio, and all organizations. All are playing an important part in making our Fire Prevention a campaign Chairman Joe Leslie stated today. He concluded, know the farmers are doing their part, too, to help with this very worthwhile LEGION TO MEET The American Legion will hold its regular meeting at 7:30 tomorrow night at the Legion Home, according to Fielding Poe, adjutant.

I by not sizing up the Russian threat American security when the general said Russia wanted peace by recalling that the President in 1948 referred to Joseph Stalin as Old Changes Mind Truman, whistle-stopping thru Colorado yesterday, said he used to think Eisenhower was qualified for the presidency but am now convinced that I was absolutely Stevenson has chided Eisenhower for supporting bid for re-election despite the attack on the patriotism of Gen. George C. Marshall, the GOP old friend. Truman also took up this lihe of attack when he said Eisenhower had betrayed his life-long principles and his best friend by embracing like McCarthy and Sen. William E.

Jenner, Indiana Republican. Jenner once called Marshall a for Reporters said the President appeared as grim as ever seen him as he lashed out at Eisenhower yesterday. Still loosing verbal darts at the GOP nominee, Truman campaigned through Iowa and Missouri today, en route home. Slam Bang; Attack Eisenhower drove his slam bang attack against the administration and the President today as he campaigned in California seeking its 32 electoral votes. It was in Eugene, last night that he brought up the Old incident, but refused to comment on accusations that he was betraying his principles by publicly endorsing all GOP candidates regardless of their policies.

Regarding comment that the general periled the nation From its back platform, many red hot salvoes were loosed at me. Now one of the charges made was that in 1945 I expressed the hope and belief that Russia wanted to establish a workable friendship with us. I was testifying for increased army strength. I proposed that we hope for the best and be prepared for the Kiwanians Hear Speech On Religious Heritage Truman Crosses Paths Today With Bitter Critic McCarthy today and cross paths with one of the hitterest Republican critics of his teachers will be guests of the McCarthy of Wisconsin. By The Associated Press) i President whistlestop Kem said.

The rec- tour takes him through Missouri I ord is clear that Mr. activities while head of the air force have cost the people dearly and have hindered the Mrs. Roger Bailey, last night at the Kiwanis Club meeting at the Rustic Rock Inn, spoke to the wanians on "Our Religious Mrs. Bailey took the group into the past and had them follow the thread of religion down to the present time. She said our religious concepts change with history.

At present, our concept of religion is that we have God of she said. Mrs. Bailey urged that we not tolerate what we believe is wrong, and do as we think is right even though it might not be convenient. Committee-heads for the annual Pancake Day, Nov. 6, were chosen last night.

Guests last night were William Schrier and Jake Kaemper, of St. Louis, both with the Ford Motor Company. Admitted as a new member was Kelsey Short. Next week, a group of FBI men will speak to the Kiwanis Club. WEATHER Things to Come NEW DEVICE MAY POWERED ARMY EQUIPMENT OET STARTED IN COLO ARCTIC WEATHER AND EVENTUALLY INSURE ALU CARS Girardeau Chamber of Commerce McCarthy, himself the target of at the Rolla-Cape football game, some heavy fire from Truman and Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, the Democratic presidential nominee, is due to speak at the Memorial Building in Kansas City to- Golden Troopers of the Louis K.

Juden Post, American Legion, will perform during the half-time period. Schools Are Closed For Second Straight Day For the second straight day the Sikeston High School and the Bailey Grade School were forced to close because of the lack of heat. The schools were closed because the furnaces were not completed because of a lack of some materials. Workmen have been working on the furnaces and it is reported that the Bailey School will resume classes at 1 this afternoon. The High School will resume its regular classes Thursday morning.

night. Ruthless Attack As to President campaigning, A. D. Welsh, Republican national committeeman from Missouri, said at St. Louis that Missourians were amazed at the Chief on Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. At Neosho, meanwhile, Sen. James P. Kem R-Mo.

repeated his charges that Stuart Symington of St. Louis, his Democratic rival for the Senate seat, awarded an air force contract to a St. Louis firm despite recommendations of experts. is another of Mr. nest-feathering opera- defense In St.

Louis, L. J. Sverdrup, president of Aro, which operates the wind tunnel project at Tullahoma, called campaign attack a and serious Donnelly Pounds Away In gubernatorial race, Democratic Candidate Phil M. Donnelly kept pounding away at his record in the state legislature. Donnelly said at West Plains that Rep.

Howard Elliott, the GOP standard bearer voted against a bill to provide funds for agricultural activities. If the Legilature had defeated the measure, Donnelly said, college o.f agriculture and our state department of agriculture would be closed today All of our agricultural projects so helpful to farmers would have been and slightly warmer tonight and Thursday; low tonight in the 30s; high Thurs day generally near 70. Thursday, October 9 a. m. p.

m. p. m. Last Quarter p. m.

Prominent Constellations Aquila, high in p. m. Orion, p. m. south of the Moon.

Visible Planets Venus, p. m. Mars, p. m. Jupiter, due p.

m. Computed for Sikeston by Bailey R. Frank. An official registration day will be held in each precinct next Wednesday for all persons who have not already registered to vote in the coming general election, according to George Kirk, chairman of the board of registrars. Kirk said there will be a registrar in each precinct on that day from 8 a.m.

to 6 p.m. Anyone who fails to register at this time may still do so by going to the City Clerk's office. This deadline at 5 p.m., Oct. 22. According the statutes, the second Wednesday preceding the election is the last time a person nay register to vote.

Kirk stated that about 4650 persons had already registered to voh'. He expects about 100 more to sign up. To be eligible to vote, a person must live in a precinct at least en days, in the county 60 days, ind in the state one year. ROOF CATCHES FIRE The roof of the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Jim Palmer, 514 Sikes caught on fire about 8:15 this morning. The fire was extinguished before any big damage could be done to the house. The roof caught fire when some sparks from the chimney ignited the wooden shingles. Fire Chief Tongate said that the damage to the house was slight. TWO SEMO MEN NAMED ON CASUALTY REPORT Two Southeast Missourians are on the list of casualties from the Korean area released today by the Department of Defense.

The wounded men are Pfc. Walter W. Floyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert E.

Floyd, of Cape Girardeau, US MC; and Cpl. Opal Kidd, nephew of Kenneth Martin, Vanduser, USMC. HARROW, England Two collisions involving three trains killed at least 82 persons here today and piled wooden coaches 50 feet high in a mass of wreckage. Some of the dead were in the coaches; others were mowed down as they waited on a station platform. Officials o.f the government- operated railways said the death toll may top 120.

More than 130 persons were treated at hospitals, and hundreds received first aid. The wreck came just after 8 a. at the height of the morning community rush. The scene was the station in this Middlesex village 10 miles northwest of London. Still Digging Eight hours later, rescue workers still were digging through the debris in search of additional victims.

The collisions involved two fast expresses and a packed suburban train. First an express running 95 minutes late from Perth, Scotland, to London rocketed into the rear of a stationary suburban train. The express locomotive sheared thru the wooden coaches, jammed with 600 passengers seated and standing, and blocked both main lines. Seconds later another express, bound from London to Manchester, plowed into the wreckage. Its two locomotives leaped from the tracks and skittred along a platform full of commuters waiting for other trains, mowing them down like a giant scythe.

Derailed coaches rode up on each other until the topmost smashed into a crosswalk 45 feet above the tracks, knocking a huge segment out of it atK) pksntynetlng pedes- trains into the wreckage. Terrific (aspect The terrific double impact threw chunks of debris clear through one wall of the the Harrow station and into a shopping 'titer 150 feet away. When the known dead passed 50, about eight hours after the wreck, a railway official said: our worst fears prove right there will be about another 40 dead in the wreckage we been able to reach One American serviceman on the first death list issued by the state-owned British railways. His name was given as Donald G. Woodvale, U.

S. Air Force serial number 19372075, stationed at a U. S. A. F.

maintenance depot in the United Kingdom. Fire Prevention Wook Hint Box TEMPERATURE DROPS TO 33 The weather dropped to near freezing temperatures last night as the mercury went down to 33. The high for yesterday in the area around Sikeston was 58. There were 300 Uvea last In the Chicago of 1871. Was that the fire lhat has caused the moat loaa of lives? It was not.

There have been seven other fires more devastating. Heading the list was a fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1871 that killed 1158 persons and one In New York City in 1904 that killed 1021 persons. This is Fire Prevention Week in Sikeston. Save property and lives by cooperating with the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce in making titia drive a success. Wire News In Brief B-29 Superfort disappeared yesterday shortly after radar picked up an unidentified plane approaching it from the direction of the Russian-held Kuriles, the Far East Air Faroes mid today.

The Air Force said radar tracks of the two planes msrfsd. It did not say the unidentified plans was Russian or that the Superfort was attacked. Secretary of State Acheson said today that he believes the suspension of truce talks in Korea an affirmative step toward obtaining an He said the move not represent a loss of hope in an Amvets, long at odds with Veterans Xdministrator Carl R. Gray, asked him todby to make pubUcim- mediately a controversial report on activities of the veterans BIMi ST. jewelry trunk containing rings, bracelets and pins valued at more than fSSt.SS# disappeared from a baggage platform at union station here last night.

Potieo and railroad special agents, working on the theory the trunk placed on the wrong train, did not list the disappearance as a theft Immediately. BERLIN Two Soviet jet fighters fired warning gun bursts today across the bow of a U. S. Air Foree haapMil Omen route to Berlin. The plane was not hit and it landed calefy hi HI lin, picked up a load of ailing military personnel and flew bask tP Frankfurt along the same route.

LONDON Premier Mohammed Mcsmdcgh million pounds (56 million dollars) from Britain within a dear the way for a swift settlement of dispute, it was officially disclosed today..