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...Decks. In Portland, Ore., a woman asked her ration board for ten pounds of canning sugar for her nameless baby, explained: "The baby isn't born yet, but I want to get my canning done before I go to the hospital." Where There's Smoke. In Neosho Rapids, Kan., Farmer Ralph Blank, burn ing trash, watched a plane circle and land in a field nearby. The pilot, a cigaret dangling from his lips, approached and begged a light...
...Neosho Mo. Miner and Mechanic announced on its front page last week...
Last week the crest of the Missouri River at St. Charles, Mo., was 36.5 ft., only one inch below the 1943 record. Road conditions in Missouri were reported "the worst in a hundred years." The Cottonwood, the Neosho, the Little Arkansas, the Chickaskia and the Osage Rivers were at alltime highs. The Mississippi burst through levees from St. Louis to Cape Girardeau, flooded a million acres. A 20-ft. wall of water cascaded over Illinois farmland when a levee crumpled. The placid Schuylkill spilled over its banks near Philadelphia. Twelve were dead, thousands homeless. Tornadoes, ripping through 14 states from...
...Neosho, Mo., 50-year-old Virginia Rees told Dr. C. F. Duncan, D.D.S., that she had never had a toothache in her life, that his most excruciating drill left her indifferent. Dr. Duncan took X-rays of her jaw, dropped his when he discovered that not one of her 32 teeth had a root-canal or nerve of any kind...
...longtime favorite of Manhattan art critics, Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo. 47 years ago. Legislatures are no novelty to him: his father was a Congressman, the great uncle for whom he was named was a Senator from Missouri, stalwart defender of President Andrew Jackson. After years of study in Paris when he imitated every known school of French painting, Artist Benton suddenly found himself in the U. S. Navy during the War, began to develop his well-known style: crowded panels of attenuated muscular figures painted in vibrant and sometimes consciously crude color. His first murals to attract...