[St. Charles Cosmos/St. Charles Monitor, April 8, 1941]
MORE SUITS IN TNT
LAND DEAL BEING FILED
Five Cases Filed Mon.
In Federal Court With Average of Dozen A Day Expected
LOW FIGURES
Government Offers
Only $300 For 20 Acres Land and House As Compromise
Prices the
Government is paying into the courts in the “taking of land” from farmers of
the TNT area, have been described as ridiculously low by interested
individuals.
Yesterday
$186,999 was paid into the registry of the Federal Court in St. Louis where
declarations of taking against approximately 3500 acres of land in the ordnance
plant area. The average price per acre was about $55.
Separate
suits are being filed against each of the 75 tracts included in the
declarations of taking and title to the land will not pass the government until
the separate actions are brought by the United States District Attorney Harry
C. Blanton.
Five of the
separate declarations were filed Monday and others will be filed on an average
of about a dozen a day, Blanton said.
Following
are the owners, acreage, amounts paid in court and the amounts of the options:
Emily Estelle Blize, two acres, $780, optioned for $3200; Fred and Hilda Mound,
68 acres, $2580, optioned for $8650; Carrie Hamm, as trustee for Eleanor Marie
Hamm, a minor, 20 acres, $300, optioned for $960; Charles B. and Susie
Portwood, 49.45 acres, $1900, optioned for $4100; Anne C. and Grittrell
Friedley, ot in Hambrg, $300, optioned for $850. All of the above pieces of
property have homes on them before the government stepped in.
It was
understood the defense in the cases will concern the validity of the contract.
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[St. Charles Cosmos/St. Charles Monitor, April 9, 1941]
U. S. TAKES 23 MORE
TRACTS IN TNT AREA
Thirty-Four Tracts
Have Been Acquired Through Declarations of Taking So Far
SEEK 112 MORE
Prices Government
Offering People for Land Said to Be Far Below Actual Value.
Title to
twenty-three more tracts of land in the TNT area were acquired Tuesday by the
Government when declarations of taking were filed in the St. Louis Federal
Court. The total now acquired by the Government has been increased to 34 with
112 tracts still to be accounted for.
The first
case is scheduled to be brought into court early next month since the property
owners are allowed time to file exceptions to the Government’s offer. If the
amount deposited in court is not satisfactory, the cases will go to trial.
Parties
from whom the Government is attempting to acquire the land at reportedly
ridiculously low figures, indicated they would make their case on the validity
of the original contract with the Government, in which they optioned their land
for specified sums.
The Government is offering figures far below
the actual value of the land, those who know land values, stated.
The owners,
acreage and amounts paid into court yesterday are:
Mr. and
Mrs. William Zeyen, .43 acres, $780.
Thomas
Livergood, 6.2 acres, $4200.
Mr. and
Mrs. Osmund Haenssler, 33 acres, $1320.
John Dixon,
lot in Howell, $500.
Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Kessler, 30 acres, $2420.
Elsie
Knippenberg, lot in Howell, $1300.
Julia
Castlio, 48.54 acres, $1700.
John W.
Miller, 260.70 acres, $11,350.
Mr. and
Mrs. Adolph Daniels, three acres, $360.
Joseph
Chandler and others, one-half acre, $200.
Masonic
Home of Missouri, 61 acres, $2280.
Morris
Muschany and others, two lots in Howell, $480.
Addie M.
Sutton and others, 129.76 acres, $5360.
Ella
Treisch, 45.51 acres, $2728.
Mr. and
Mrs. J. Karl Muschany, 40 acres, $2611.
Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Mozgva, 12.60 acres, $2400.
Mr. and
Mrs. George Hackmann, 141.20 acres, $8680.
Henry
Keiser and others, 165.60 acres, $5640.
Helen
Hollander and others, 6431 acres, $2960.
Mr. and
Mrs. Claude E. Muschany, six lots in Howell and 55.75 acres, $8320.
Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Cunningham, 33.33 acres, $735.
Louis
Nicolai, 24.35 acres. $3000.
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[St. Charles Cosmos/St. Charles Monitor, April 11, 1941]
TOTAL OF 81 TRACTS IN
TNT AREA NOW TAKEN
Action Against Two
Filed in St. Louis Federal Court Thursday.
Title to
two more tracts of land in the TNT area, bringing the total to 81, were taken
Thursday by the Government when declarations of taking were filed in the St.
Louis Federal court.
The suits
were against the Fischbach Brewing Company of St. Charles, owners of 1.74
acres, for which the government paid into court, $1700 and Georgia M. Mallioux,
owner of 97 acres, for which the government offered $1940.
