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DAILY SIKESTON STANDARD 14 utrr Publishtd Doily Monday Through Friday VULUMt 56 Fading Jobless Benefit Funds Alarms 500,000 Run Out of Benefits For Unemployed By Norman Walker. WASHINGTON, Dec. A rapid rise in the number of unemployed workers exhausting jobless benefits rights is causing growing concern among government officials. Latest figures compiled by the Labor bureau of employment security show about 500.000 ian out their rights to further unemployment compensation payments during the July-September quarterly period. Have Joins.

These are persons who still have jobs after running through all the unemployment insurance payments they were entitled to. The number of weeks of benefits varies from state to state. These exhaustions came at a time of high employment, and give an idea ol the problem that would arise in a time ol serious unemployment. Employment has been gaining lately, and unemployment has been decreasing, so some of the people out of work in the July- September period may now have found jobs. However, unemployment in November was estimated bv the census bureau to be 3.409.000 as compared with 1.831.000 in November, 1948.

The November, 1949, employment figure was 59,518.000. Risen Rapidly. The exhaustion figures have risen rapidly this year. In 1948 they ran between 200.000 and 250,000 each quarter for the nation Tiiis year they jumped to 369,000 for the January-March quarter, 423.000 for April-June, and now to 500,000 for the most recent quarter. That 500.000 figure is more than double the 216,000 exhaustions of the July-September quarter a year ago.

x. The big quests is A' happens to w'on once run through all their jobless insurance benefits? The Bureau of Employment Security has state employment offices to try to find out. One thing is fairly certain, however. To the extent these workers were receiving unemployment aid, purchasing power is cut when their payments come to an end. Officials believe a great many such workers go on direct relief.

A substantial number go to live with relatives or friends. The real solution for such idle workers, of course, would be to find a job and go to work. But since state employment agencies were trying to find them jobs all the time they were receiving jobless benefits, their chances of finding jobs once the benefits cease are not too blight. Duration of unemployment compensation payments vary among the states. In some states a worker exhausting his maximum benefits in one year may be eligible for more benefits once a new benefit year starts.

But on the average the 500,000 workers having exhausted benefits in July-September won't be eligible for any more state jobless benefits for at least three months. That means a bleak Christmas for many of them. SIKESTON, SCOTT COUNTY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1949 NUMBER 72 Daily Standard's Prize Winning News Photo Exhibit to Bertrand The Daily Standard showing of the prize-winning Inland Daily Press Contest pictures moved to Bertrand today.

The next exhibition of the photographs will be at Matthews tomorrow. An approximate total of 1750 people have viewed them in two days as show ings were held Tuesday at Lilbourn and at Essex yesterday. Both students parents are invited to view these exhibits which will be shown in the Sikeston schools next week. BEG TILING a baby girl about tw months old, turns on the charm for policeman Anthony Scheid after she was found in the doorway of St. Hospital on south side.

A note attached to the blanket gave her first name and said the mother had gone in search of work and would be back to claim the child. Teresa was taken to St. orphanage. Wirephoto) mittecs 01 Post No. 114 Luper Names Legion Post Committeemen 3000 Eager Children, Parents Greet Santa At Annual Party A crowd estimated at 3000 per- ed old gent made a short flight sons were on hand yesterday at the over the city by airplane since Legion Park where Santa Claus "he must be resting his reindeers came roaring up Front aboard for as one child sur- the city's big fire truck for 1he mised.

annual Christmas Keith Collins and his Sikeston Party. high school band got activities un- Eagcr children, most of them clerway wdth a Jew numbers. Then with parents in tow, started ar- a special puppet show took over riving for the event at 1 p. m. to entertain the youngsters and even though festivities their parents before Santa made scheduled to get underway until his dramatic appearance.

2:15. Shortly before his downtown Sikeston, the Members of the standing eoin- the Henry Meldrum of the American docket, James Smart was sontem Eight Fined In Magistrate Court Session 10 Charged With Illegal Hunting Practices Eight persons were fined MO and costs, or more, by Judge M. E. Montgomery in Magistrate Court yesterday on hunting charges. Lester D.

floebbles. David R. Lowry, Reginald Merrick, O. S. Traw, W.

J. Crutcher and J. B. Haughton were each fined ten and J. A.

Kelsey and Paul Osborn were fined $20 each. In addition to these fines each has to pay $7.50 in costs. Game cases against Benjamin Enderle, Lawrence Scherer and Chester Mack were continued and one against Claud Aslin was dismissed by the State. In other cases on the criminal Legion were named today by Com mander Carl Luper. Tney arc as follows: Membership Carl Elam, Chairman; Sam Wilcox.

Co-Chairman. William P. Sikes, Cecil A. Couger, Nelson Neumeyer, C. H.

Butler, Marshall Meyers, W. K. Dillon and Herbert Walton. Executive Harry Blanton, Ghaiiman, Geo. W.

(Bill) Gardner, Herbert Walton, Jack Johnson, C. L. Jameson, Lee Austin Bowman and James Kevil. Finance Budget John Russell Felker. Chairman, ed to six months in the county jail but was paroled in the care of his mother, Mrs.

Pcttiford. The charges against Smart arc for nonsupport of his wife and five children. Negro Louis Baker was sentenced to 60 days in jail after pleading guilty to charges of assault with a butcher knife against Negro Willie Rogers. Elmer Moore was sentenced to six months in the county jail for non-support and medical care of his wife and six-month-old child. However, the sentence was stayed during good behavior and he Kirk, Shortly after he arrived, the Fin'ley" J.

Jameson. was t0 arrival in tree gift sacks were sailed out to Hjtchcock, Bob McCord and attorney. bewisker- the crowd. Herbert Walton Cases of the State vs. Edd Second Sikeston Area Man Bags Buck Deer J.

E. McMikle, assistant director of the Taylor Funeral Home, is the second Sikeston area man to report a kill in the current week long deer season. Mr. McMikle brought down a 250 pound eight point buck about m. in Carter county.

He was hunting with a 38-40 cali bre rifle. Lions Club Plans Annual Grid Banquet ie Harper and the State vs. William McCulloch were both continued. Committees for the banquet to be given by the Lions Club in honor da club the Rustic Rock President Joe Lesile also re- Legal Robert Dempster, Chairman, Roger Bailey, Harry Blanton, M. E.

Montgomery. W. P. Wilkerson and Vehicles DafWOOed In David Blanton. Highway 61 Crash Auditing James Bucher, Chairman, C.

Jameson and M. B. Estes. Entertainment A passenger ear and a pickup truck were extensively damaged but no persons were injured in a Paul Culbertson, Chairman, Loo- Highway 61 accident a mile and mis Mayfield, Olon Hitchcock, a half north of the Matthews junc- yesterday, onor of Sikeston high's champion Arbaugh. Billy Crass, How- tom about 1:30 m.

ycstcrc aotboU team were named yester- ord Hardy. Fred Tope. anJ according to the stato-paUol. av at the Aular meeting of the Andy Kapler. Troopers said a 1947 Plymo Plymouth Activities I sedan driven by Joe Crouthers, John Bartlett, Chairman, Loomis 70, Sikeston, pulled into the traf- It was his first successful deer IX)rtea tdat considerable interest Mayfield, Jack Johnson.

Bill fie lane from a roadside place hunt. He made his first try last was being shown by square danc-: Bcn Weltcr. Wm- Edom front of a northbound pickup truck year but did not get a shot at one neighboring towns and Joe Cooley. driven by Paul Turner, 19. Cara- of the elusive bucks.

16 Million Bale Cotton Crop Estimated WASHINGTON, Dec. Agriculture Department, in------------------------------its final report of the year, today Boy Scout Troop Holds estimated the 1949 cotton crop at 16,034,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. ing clubs from neighboring towns and urged members to contact hild Welfare way, Ark. their friends and sell tickets for William F. Sikes, Chairman, The patrol said the truck the square dance jamboree to be L- Jewelling, Co-Chairman, smashed into the rear of the Ply- held at the Armory on December Br- Martin, Dr.

A. Anih- mouth. 17 ony and Harry E. Dudley I Mr. wife and baby and The musical program presented Hospital another woman were riding in the at meeting was given C- D- Matthews, 3rd, Chairman, truck but were not injured, the by Mary Elizabeth Stevenson.

Miss Dr. W. J. Ferguson, Dr. William C.

troopers said. No arrests were Stevenson plaved four piano num- Lritctilow, Di Peteison, lan rnade in the case. ner Dye and James S. Kevil. Americanism Tanner Dye, Chairman, Chas G.

Lindley, A. R. Scott, and Jewel E. McMickle. Athtetic Geo.

W. (Bill) Gardner, bers. Lion A. P. Sargent was program chairman.

Bare Your Bosoms Ladies But Be Coy About It Fashion Leader Advises BEVERLY HILLS. Dec. 8. Sixteen Troop 43 Boys Scouts Harry Dudley, Co-Chairman. MV-Bare your bosom lady, but This estimate is 510,000 bales and their parents were present (jirnmie) Law Kendall do it coyly, more than the 15.524,000 bales last night at the parents night Herbert Doyle P.

fashion advice from Ma- forecast a month ago. It compares dinner given by the troop at the r-inild Fddie nnri Honrv rusia, whose spring and summer also with 14,877,000 produced last Methodist church. 1 Switaia. collection for 1950 is bosom-ac- year and with a ten-year (1938- It was the second meeting of Publicity cented, but more subtle than the 47) average of 11,306,000. its kind held by the group this Bartley Sehw'egler Chairman, daring plunging neckline of last This crop has produced a year- Funeral i season, surplus supply above market needs J- W.

Jeter, assistant scout mas- joe Cooley, Chairman, Jim The dresses which have a deep and a reserve deemed by law to the troop briefly outlined sturgeon, J. S. Wallace, and Carl center slash, also have exaggerat- be ample. As a consequence, Sec- the history of scouting in the main Elam ed collars of huge re vers which retary Brannan has set planting address ol the evening. In an- Flowers Books may he pushed up around the allotments calling for a 20 per other part of the program seven a (Tom) Roberts, Chairman, throat or draped around the cent reduction in 1950.

hoys were invested into the Ten- john (Bud) Lathom and D. shoulders. other words, you derfoot rank of scouting. Waggener. decide yourself whether to cover Edward Matthews is the socut Parks Cemetery UP or reveal, and how much.

Lee Austin Bowman, Chairman, Another demure bosom-baring John Franklin Ferrell, Elmer device was illustrated with the Brannan also has proposed rigid marketing quotas on the 1950 Meet Sikeston's Teachers crop. Quotas will be submitted mastei ot hoop to growers at referendum Dec. 15. They must be approved by at least two-thirds of the growers voting before they can be put into effect. Under the quota program, ex- Canoda Bans Crime Comic Books OTTAWA, Dec.

cess sales would be subject to a ada has banned crime comic books stiff penalty tax. Sneed, C. H. Butler, and Loomis deep square decolletage. As much Mayfield, Sr.

or more of the chest is visible, but it have the seductive look Can- LEGION TO MEET of the vertical plunge. The regular meeting of the The senate last night passed a Sikeston American Legion Post Poplar Bluff Church The acreage harvested, the yield kill banning the publication, dis- wall be held at 7:30 p. m. today at Printer Must Pay Taxes aero and the production, re- Mome- JEFFERSON CITY. Dec.

General J. E. Taylor held today a Poplar Bluff corpora- viously had passed the bill unani- suffered cuts on his right engaged in printing religious publications is subject to taxes. per speetively, by states included; Missouri 583,000 acres harvested; 377 pounds per acre and production 460,000 bales; Arkansas 325 and 1,660,000. The ginnings to Dec.

1 this year that depict commission of crimes, real or HAND INJURED The House of Commons pre- Richard Lucy, 29, 116 South 6th mously. hand when it was caught in some Supporters of the bill said lurid machinery at the light plant yes- crime pictorials stimulated juven- terday about 8:30 a. m. He was and last, respectively, by states delinquency. Violators can get taken to the Missouri Delta Cornincluded: lip to lwo years in munity hospital for treatment.

Arkansas 1,516,724 and i Missouri 429,408 and 349,291 Mrs. Veda Sidwell teaches the grade at the Airport School. This is her fourth year in the Sikeston system. For the past three years she taught at South Grade. Before coming to Sikeston Mrs.

Sidwell taught for six years in Bell City and six years at Perkins. She has attended Cape College and Murray State Teachers College (Murray, Here in Sikeston Mrs. Sidwell resides at 118a North Kingshigh- j' Truck Demolished In North U. S. 61 Crash Christmas Cards Require Two Cents Postage Official Warns One man was slightly injured I Sikeston residents are still try- Taylor said.

(44 Ford truck demonlished ing to mail Christmas cards with Since the postal men have no in an accident on Highway 61 one and a half cent stamps desnite i nf a hr lit ivp noi'tH 1 L)i knowing tllO C3T(is about ftwmiles north of Sikes early warnings by the postoffice, can be returncd for additional pos- The board of publications of the General Association of General Baptists contended that its work is done for purely and therefore not subject to state and local taxes. The State Tax Commission heard the case in Poplar Bluff last October after the corporation appealed from the loeal tax valuation of the plant at $8,000. The commission asked the attorney general lor the opinion. ROBBERY AT JACKSON JACKSON, Dec. Two holdup men obtained $105 A lot ol iolks are going to be jn an armed robbery of the Track.

assistant postmaster, Taylor, th are destroyed The state patrol said that Wayne said today. I Leonard, 28, MoArk, was Mr. Taylor pointed out that pos- liehtly hurt when the right front tal regulations were changed last disappointed and many others are Service Station here early to- tire of the truck in which he was January requiring two cents pos- to be mad and blame the day, the highway patrol reported, riding blew out causing the vehic- tage on unsealed Christmas cards. Postal department for not deliv- They fled in an old model cur. le to plunge into the right ditch The regular three cent stamp is ering their greetings when it is along the highway where it struck required when the card is sent really their own Mr.

Taylor MANILA, Dec. 8. Seven a culvert. sealed as first class mail. I persons, including four children, It was being driven by Delmer Many of the persons trying to best way in the he were killed last Jiight in a burst Leonard 31, brother of the injured send the Yule greetings with in- added, avoid this mistake is of gunfire that struck a bus near man.

Delmer was not hurt. sufficient postage are piaking it be sure the correct postage is on Lipa City in Batangas province. 3he truck was completely de- worce by not putting their return the greeting and above all put a Responsibility for the shooting has moJishect. the patrol said. address on the envelopes, Mr.

return address on the not been fixed. FIRST Cantrell, Salcedo store owner and member ol the Sikeston school district hoard, gives out with big smile as he Vases with the first buck deer to he downed by a Sikeston area sportsman during the current season. Mr. Cantrell made his kill less than an hour after the season opened near Brandon Mo. Running Ethiopian Hospital Not Easy Former Resident Says Sikeston in 1937 and was located here until 1942.

During that lime he was a general practitioner and foundqd the Seventh Day Ad-j ventist church located on Kathleen St. He was in the armed services; for a year then went to his hos- pital assignment in Ethiopia in 1944 where he remained until re-' centlv. To Show Films. Dr. Anderson has brought back a number ol films and slides which he will show at the Adventist church at 7:30 p.

rn. Saturday. He has extended an im itation to the public to attend. He will leave Sikeston Sunday for Los Angeles where he will take' some post graduate medical work before returning to the hospital in Ethiopia. Dr.

Anderson is accompanied by his wife and their three children, Merlin, 12, Ronald Eugene, 8, who was born at the old General Hospital here, and Rosalie, three and a halt who was born in Ethiopia. Before he ended the interview, Dr. Anderson smiled and said: just came by the park they are having the Christmas party and I saw a number of the children I brought into the world. However, lit' added, they are quite a bit bigger now' than they were the last time 1 saw Hospital administrators who think they are overworked in this country should sit and have a long chat with Dr. Merlin G.

Anderson, former Sikestonian who is here visit. Dr. Anderson has iust returned from Ethiopi. where he spent five years ng in the N. N.

Zauditu Memorial Hospital in Addis Abeha. For three of those live years Dr. Anderson ran the 85 bed hospital by himself. During the past tw'o years, he said, the stall had been increased by the addition of two doctors and six graduate nurses. This stall is aided by native help, said.

Filled Constantly. Quite naturally, he added, a general hospital in Ethiopia is going to be lull all the' time. In addition to his hospital duties. Dr. Anderson was the physician to the Emperor Haile Sellassie and his family.

He said he was treating the daughter-in-laws of the Emperor a short time before he left to return to the United Status. Speaking of the leader ol the Ethiopians, Dr. Anderson said the Emperor was progressive md was taking steps to modernize his country along western lines despite the opposition of some of the natives. Dr. Anderson received his medical training in Collge ol Medical Evangelists in Los Angeles.

The college is maintained by the Seventh Day Adventist church. Member of Board. He is now a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Board which takes care of 168 hospitals, sanitariums, and treatment rooms in all parts of the world. He said there were two other hospitals in Ethiopia maintained by his church. Dr.

Anderson first came to Buy hristmas geAjSt Cotton Quotas Sent To County Farmers 937 Separate Units Figured In Scott County Allotment quotas for cotton in 1950 are being received this week by Scott County farmers. The allotments come under the provisions of the Farm Acreage Law of Agricultural Act. Raymond Galemore, clerk in charge of the PM A office at Benton said there are 937 separate units in the county on which allotments were figured. The county has been alloted approximately 18,000 acres for cotton next vear. The quota is figured on a number of factors, including total cropland and cotton planted in previous years.

May Visit Office. Mr. Galemore said those receiving allotments are invited to visit the PM A office if there is any question about it. There is no appeal provided by law alter the allotment is made. Around 2000 cotton farmers in Scott county are eligible to vote in the national marketing quota referendum Thursday, Dec.

15, Evin Burke, chairman of the Scott County PMA Committee announced today. Eligible to Vote. who produced cotton in 1948 are eligible to vote. Every farmer who had an interest in the 1948 crop as owner, tenant, or sharecropper, may cast his Burke said. no can vote more than once in the referendum even though he has several farms in cotton production.

The Secretary of Agriculture has declared quotas on the 1950 crop and it is up to farmers themselves to approve or reject The referendum will be held in accordance with the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended. Marketing quotas cannot re- mam in effect, however, unless they are approved by two-thirds of the farmers voting. Polling Places. Polling places will located in the following townships: Morlev Township Vanduser C'itv Hall and Morley City Hall; Richland Gin Co. and MeMullin Gin Co; Tywap- pity Store at Diehlstadt; Moreland, Kelso and Commerce Townships Court House in Benton; Sandy H.

F. Marshall Office in Blodgett, and Sylvania City Hall. farmer in the county growing cotton has direct interest (Continued On Page Four) WEATHER VISITS JTRAVKI.EKS” Harold Bryant of Crowder was a recent visitor to the radio party in Chicag ac ording to a card received by the Standard. Mr. Bryant indicated that he enjoyed the show very much.

WE CAN SELL IT TO BOARDING AND MAKE A MILLION i FIREMAN while trying to find an elderly woman trapped in her smoke-filled Washington home, fireman Robert Foley is lowered down a ladder by his buddies. Foley was trying to reach the unconscious form of 68-year-old Mrs. Annie Strong when he was overcome h.v dense smoke. Both the fireman and Mrs. Strong, rescued later, were revived.

Only minor damage was, done by the fire. Wirephoto) cloudiness, light snow beginning northwest and light snow or sleet southwest portion late tonight, spreading eastward over state Friday; possibly turning to freezing rain in the south and sleet or freezing rain south Friday; slowly rising temperatures; low tonight 20-25 north, 25-28 south; high Friday 26-32 north, 32-35 south; advise all interests freezing rain. SIKESTON SKIES Friday, December Sunrise 7:00 a. m. Sunset 4:42 p.

m. Moonrise 8:32 p. m. Last Quarter Dec. 12.

Evening Stars. Venus and Jupiter, low in southwest 6:09 p. m. (Venus is the brighter planet.) Morning Stars. Mars and Saturn, high in south 6:16 a.

m. (Mars, to the left, will soon become the brighter of the two.) Computed for Sikeston by Bailev Frank..