Local Military Leave and Training Notices Across Fort Bliss Area
Local servicemen and relatives are mentioned across Fort Bliss and Alpine areas. Jimmy Kidd of the 8th Cavalry visits family for holidays while several others, including Lieut. W. C. Allen and Aviation Cadet Eugene Manning, receive new duties or training at Ellington Field Vernon Texas and Santa Ana. Families travel to Galveston Chihuahua and Brownwood for graduations and visits as cadets complete pre flight and training.
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Eugene R. Manning
San Antonio
Wake Island film shown to stress why we must win
Granada theater screens Wake Island a Paramount wartime drama praising Marine valor and the drive to defeat the enemy. The plot follows events before and after Pearl Harbor with actors Brian Donlevy Macdonald Carey and Barbara Britton delivering the core message of total war to prevent further deaths of women and children. The director John Farrow states the film intends to entertain while conveying a clear wartime purpose.
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Wake Island
Paramount
John Farrow
Granada Theatre
Brian Daniels
Robert Preston
Macdoonald Carey
Albert Dekker
Walt ‘Abel
Barbara Britton
Willam Bendix
Macdonald Carey
Pearl Harbor
Brian Donlevy
Major Caton
Baptist Church Activities and Christian Science Lesson
Baptist Church 8 the Sunday school 10 80 morning services 1 the Training Union evening service Special Christmas muse by the choir at both morning and evening services. Wednesdays 7 38 mid week service. Friday 7 30 choir rehearsal. RL WITTNER Pastor. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Is the Universe Including Man Evolved by Atomic Force The Golden Text is Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Acts 15 18 Among the citations which comprise the Lesson Sermon is Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God Thou art the God that doest wonders Thou hast declared thy strength among the people The Lesson Sermon also includes from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures God creates and governs the universe including man The universe is filled with spiritual ideas which He evolves and they fare obedient to the Mind that makes them.
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Baptist Church
The
Training Union
RL. Wittner
Churches of Christ, Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Christmas Sermon at Ustian Church and Union Services
Church notices invite worship at Ustian Church with Sunday school at 9 45 am and morning worship featuring a sermon The Christmas Star. Special collection for Juliette Fowler Orphans Home urged. Union services listed at Methodist church 7 30 pm pastor E Buford Isaacks. Also ads for chores and local services.
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Juliette Fowler
Methodist Church
E. Buford Isaacks
Christmas Programs Across Churches This Sunday
ENE At Legion Mall hosts Sunday Bible school at 9 48 a m followed by preaching at 10 80 a m Evangelistic Service at 8 p m and Prayer and Praise Wednesday 8 30 All are urged to attend Presbyterians invite men and women in uniform Winifred Kelton is pastor Sunday school opens at 10 a m Christmas program and morning worship at 11 Christmas evening program at Methodist church 8 p m Fred B Rogers pastor
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Legion Mall
Winifred Kelton
Presbyterian Church
Methodist Church
Fred
Rogers
Saint James Church Evening Services Schedule
SAINT JAMES CHURCH lists evening services on the 1st 2nd 4th and 5th Sundays with Holy Communion at 11 am. The third Sunday each month is also observed. W. M. MARTIN is identified as Archdeacon.
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Saint James Church
W. M. Martin
Archde
Rat in Store Sparks Fire Damaging $1000, Taylor Says
A rodent chase in Taylor's store ends with the drum tipping and oil ignition. The resulting blaze partly destroys the shop, with damages pegged at $1,000. The scene is described as profoundly moving and destined to be memorable on screen.
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Sagen Vemeuee
Taylor
Land
Santa Claus of Santa Fe Railroad Sets Retirement
Cleburne reports Joe Gerard, longtime Santa Fe passenger engineer and famed "Santa Claus" of the Santa Fe, retires after 57 years with the company. He began as an engine watchman, then rode Cleburne to Purcell since 1901, giving gifts to needy families from his cab since 1938. Now 71, he will retire to stay at home in Cleburne.
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Cleburne
Santa Claus
Santa Fe
Joe Gerard
Tex
Purcell
Oklo
Gerard
Goldthwait
Cleburne-Purcell
Chris
Old-Timer Debunks Movie Cowboy Rigging and Six Guns
An old timer recalls real cowboy gear and routines on the range. Boots chaps hats and bandanas were common while guns were rare, kept in bed rolls. He notes camp life, tarp bed coverings, and the harsh duties of night herd work, stamps, and crabbing over meals.
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Yarp
Rotary debate on general sales tax at club meeting
The Rotary club debated a motion for a general sales tax on all goods except luxury items. Hal Smith argued affirmative while Harvey Mathews spoke against it. Thirty seven Rotarians attended plus two visiting Rotarians from Marfa and four guests. A new membership name was proposed for action next week. Melvin Slover taught Spanish word derivations and discussed terms describing nations at war. A Christmas Eve meeting promises a turkey dinner.
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United States
Hal Smith
Harvey Mathews
Aly
Ro'arian
Harvey
Marfa
Ray Norman
Herschel Hord
Melvin Slover
Melvin
Burglars Loot Denver Dry Goods Store
Burglars entered a Denver dry goods store and carried away 28 cartons labeled with one of the era’s premier silk hose brands. The boxes were found empty, suggesting theft without recovered merchandise.
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Denver
Colo
Round World and Hats and Jokes from the Farm
Humorous snippets from a household and farm setting include a father debating whether the world is round, a plan for new hats and tires, a quip from a lecturer at an insane asylum, and a playful Niagara Falls exchange. A farm talk ends with a joke about planting corn by conversation.
Grocer Pleads Guilty After Government Inspector Beating
A fragment from a court report shows a grocer admitting guilt after being accused of beating a government inspector. The judge asks for his statement and the grocer apologizes, saying he lost his head and pleads guilty.
Brewster Man Is With U S Forces In Africa
A. J. Coe of Marathon serves in the United States forces in North Africa. Stationed at Casablanca, French Morocco, with the medical detachment of the coast artillery, he writes of warm weather and liking the country. He is Ralph Coe’s brother. A separate item notes a Barberton glass firm planning a limestone mine to 2,200 feet.
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Pic
A. J. Coe
Marathon
United States
Forcces
North Africa
Mr. Coe
Connie Dunccan
Casa Blanca
French Morocco
Coast Artillery
Ralph Coe
Barberton
Ohio
Federal inspectors test cheese and a photographer is stopped
A speaker recalls tempering under government inspection of scales butter meat ker bosene and books, and answering federal questionnaires before a photographer sought to shoot moving pictures of the cheese, which was refused.
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J.C. Coleman
Galveston
Miss Rose Winnette
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Jack Hord
Locke McClure
Air Corps
Harold J. Bonnier
Joe Bonnier
Aline
Odessa
Sheppard Field
Wiel Ita Fs
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Glenn L. Martin
Jona
Eugenia H. Chandley
Mesilla Park
BUICK
Elec
Carroll Vaughn
Kinnaid Ave
St Eugenia
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Ft. Stockton
Stockton Wool & Mo
W. E. Kinman
Alpine
Stark Bro
E. E. Howard
Duplex Apt
Storey- Whiteside Lbr
Alfred Gallego
J. R. Watkins
Town Ave
Memphis
Church OF Christ
Nue Rue
C. B. Casey
Jas. A. Fry
Methodist Church ‘Church
A. J. Bierschwabe
Christ
Bill Winter
Ray B. McGrew
J. G. Miller
Mable Watch Shop
Safeway Grocery
J. C. Walker
Alpine Disposal Service
Santa Claus of
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Ta Aiti
Capistrano
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
Soden
McDowall
Baxter
U. S. War
Uncle Bill Kellis
Starting City
Sam
Pete
Silent Joe
Pronto
Rotary News
M. A Webb
Bobby
Mrs. Brown
Mr. Brown
Johnny
Robt
Niagara Falls
Brewster Man
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Seagate
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Sunshine Cleaners
CW. W. Copeland
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