[St. Charles Daily Banner-News, April 11, 1941]
U. S. TAKES 2 MORE TRACTS IN TNT AREA
Fischbach Brewing Co.
And Georgia Mailloux Owners Of Land Involved.
The
Government yesterday took title to two more parcels of property which will be
included in the site of the TNT plant at Weldon Springs by filing declarations
of taking against the owners in Federal Court in St. Louis. This was the last
of a series of 75 suits filed this week.
The suits
were against the Fischbach Brewing Company of St. Charles, owner of 1.74 acres,
for which the government paid into court $1700, and Georgia M. Mailloux, owner
of 97 acres, for which the government offered $1940.
Title was
immediately acquired by the government, but owners may file exceptions to the
amounts offered.
Other
properties claimed this week were:
Vincent
Lonergan, 5.22 acres, $1040.
Q. W. S. S.
Realty Co., 365.51 acres, $15,280.
Sam P.
Hall, 9 acres, $720.
Cecil
Stewart, .42 acre, $2400.
John T.
Beatty, .98 acre, $100.
Marvin
Howell, 142.13 acres, $7,220.
Chiles F.
Stewart, 220.48 acres, $10,140.
Grace
Watson, 2 acres, $1560.
James K. Muschany,
33.13 acres, $950.
Daniel
McDonald, 40 acres, $860.
Mary
Atterbery, 40 acres, $600.
Clyde
Tiedeman, 36 acre, $40.
Theo.
Lammert and others, 50.19 acres, $1280.
Eltin
Pitman, 12 acres, $3620.
Richard and
Hillary Schewmaker, no acreage stated, $1700.
John
Dieckmann, 122.97 acres, $8092.
John
Bowlin, 19.40 acres, $800.
Anna
Gerdiman and others, 61.44 acres, $2240.
Sam Watson
and others, [?] acres, $2560.
Lydia
Bechtold and others, 4.56 acres, $120.
Wm. Kohler,
8 acres, $288.
Sarah
Bigelow, 10.36 acres, 800.
Elizabeth
Teeters and others, no acreage stated, $320.
Harold
White and others, 40 acres, $2680.
Hodgen
Bates and others, 28.23 acres, $1300.
Iva Fox and
others, 69 acres, $2880.
Henry
Keiser and others, 105.40 acres, $5640.
Earl R.
Sutton and others, 63.40 acres, $1480.
John F.
Johnson and others, 56 acres, $1680.
Elsie
Knippenberg, 2 lots in Howell, $560.
Earl R.
Sutton and others, 2 lots in Howell, $3140.
Sam
Cunningham, 33.33 acres, $920.
Geo.
Stevenson and others, 8 acres, $4980.
Gilbert
McKenney, 55.65 acres, $1400.
Geo. Dugan
and others, no acreage stated, $3380.
T. M.
Livergood, 40 acres, $615.
J. G.
Jones, Jr., 19.75 acres, $800.
C. R. and
Otto Karrenbrock, 8.8 acres, $3360.
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[St. Charles Cosmos-Monitor, April 18, 1941]
FSA TO PROVIDE FARMS
FOR REFUGEES FROM TNT AREA
Federal Agency
Options 59.000 Acres of Farm Land in Missouri.
To provide
land for farm families displaced by the construction of the Weldon Spring
ordnance plant in St. Charles County and by other defense construction
projects, the Farm Security Administration announced today that it has taken
options on 59,000 acres of farm land in Missouri.
Tentative
plans call for the subdivision of the land into family-sized units, P. G. Beck,
regional FSA director, said.
He
estimated that 103 families have forced to move because of the construction of
the Weldon Spring plant, 304 by the construction of Fort Leonard Wood camp in
Pulaski and Texas counties, and thirty by the construction of the Lake City
small arms plant in Jackson County near Kansas City, making a total of 437 farm
families displaced.
Although
not all the families are in immediate need of land, Beck said, all will be
affected by their moving and eventually will have difficulty in securing new
land because of the shortage of farm lands in Missouri. Beck estimated that
last year 619 Missouri families had to quit farming because they could not get
land.
Actual
purchase of the optioned land will depend upon actual needs, authority from the
federal government and prices at which the land can be purchased.
Beck said
the FSA is attempting to meet the immediate needs of the displaced families by
supplying information on farms and houses for rent or sale, by assisting
families which cannot relocate in holding joint sales of equipment and
livestock, and by offering special grants and loans to finance moving.
