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The Macon County
USPS-299800 Vol.137, No.1 La Plata, MO, 63549 • 8 Pages • 1 Sections • 50 Cents
Serving Macon County Since 1876 Subscribers to the Home Press are the nicest people! This week we salute
Betty Bohling Sacramento, California KYLE E. EASLEY PROMOTED TO CORPORAL
Effective July 1, 2012, Trooper Kyle E. Easley was promoted to corporal, and designated the assistant zone commander of Zone 10, serving Monroe and Randolph counties. Corporal Easley is a native of La Plata, Missouri, and a graduate of La Plata High School. He holds a bachelor’s of science degree in agriculture science from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri, and an associate’s degree from Mineral Area Community College in Farmington, Missouri. He was appointed to the Patrol on January 8, 2006, and after graduating from the Patrol Academy was assigned to Troop C, Warren County. On October 1, 2009, he transferred to Troop B, and was assigned to Zone 10, Monroe and Randolph counties. He is married to Miranda (Travis) Easley.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Relief From The Heatwave Temperatures are supposed to be coming down this week after recordbreaking heat during the past week. The temperature in the 80’s seems like winter around here and is very much welcomed. The forcast for this week shows highs in the low 90’s, which is a far more seasonable temperature. Now if we could get fuel prices to fall!!
MEMORIES OF MORGAN LOCKER PLANT
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By Leola Schneider My husband Laverne Wood and I worked at Morgan Locker Plant in La Plata, Missouri for several years in the 1950’s. The Locker was owned by Er-
vel Morgan and was located on the south side of the square in La Plata around where the Legion Hall is now. People would bring their animals to the locker and we would butcher,
dress, cut up and wrap the meat for them. They would rent lockers to keep the meat in and then they would come and get it, as they needed it. This was in the days before people had freezers in their homes. The Locker would charge for the processing of the meat and rent out the lockers by the year. A typical workday at the Locker was from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. My husband’s job was to kill and butcher the animals. We would process about anything, but usually it was cattle, hogs, turkeys, deer, and chickens. My co-worker, Hattie Hutchison and I hated to do geese, turkey and ducks because they were so much harder to handle. When we did chickens, Laverne would kill the chickens, then he would bring them to Hattie and I, and we would set to work removing the pinfeathers from the birds. The next step was to wash them in cold water and put them in quart containers with cold water. We would put them on a rack and then put
them in the locker boxes. A usual day would be 350 chickens! Gail Wood, Roma’s husband, also worked at the Locker with us. He ran the big saw to cut up the turkeys and beef. I often ran a small saw to cut up bacon, but Hattie would never run the saws. Lowell Robinson was another worker on the saws. Everyone was responsible to clean his or her own saw and that was a really big job. We would wrap the meat in two-pound packages usually, unless the customer had a big family and then it would be four pounds. We would wrap in waxed paper and then in aluminum foil at the end. The locker number would be written on the outside of the package. The Locker also carried some groceries like meat, cheese, butter, milk, and bread. We worked hard, but we always had fun!
A PROVEN LEADER “I would appreciate your vote on the Republican ballot August 7th” Contact me at 660-384-2307 or alan@wyatt4staterep.com
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