SIKESTON - Carl Lupen, manager of the experimental station, has been chosen president at the Scott County Farm Bureau. He succeeds Otto Diebold of Benton.
SIKESTON - The mothers did it again. Thursday night, some 75 mothers, working in teams under the general direction of Mrs. C.E. Felker, fanned out across the city in the annual Mothers March of Dimes for the 1962 New March of Dimes and collected $478.94, including $20 from Sunset Addition. "I am deeply grateful to all the team captains, the team members and all those who cooperated," Mrs. Felker said today in reporting the success of the project.
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CHARLESTON - Postal authorities have taken up the investigation of the burglary of the post office, believed to have occurred late Saturday night.
BENTON - Scott County ha approved a $2.3 million budget for 1982. Salaries of non-elected county employees will be raised 9 percent.
MINER - Despite a considerable amount of confusion over legal procedure at Tuesday's monthly meet. the Miner Board of Aldermen voted to purchase the Clinton property for relocation of Miner City Hall. Alderman Jim Wills stood alone in opposing the purchase of the property, which will cost the city $275,000. Included in the property, owned by Tom Brock, are four acres of land, an office building and a building that is currently being leased.
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SIKESTON - City officials and representatives of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No. 702 discussed the union's attempt to become the bargaining representative for 23 public works employees.