Marathon News details Camp Swift letters and local notices
Lt Jack Todd and wife depart for Camp Swift. Navy man Werner Hollis visits home briefly. Entries detail billets transfers, heat complaints, evacuee notes from Camp Ellis to California, and a Guadalcanal wound recovery. Local sick lists include Mrs Herring and Ellison with others improving after hospital care. Community updates cover visitors, garden yield, upcoming building, and church services in Marathon.
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Armed Forces
Jack Todd
Camp Swift
Werner Hollis
U. S. Navy
W. A.bild Hrargus
Dothan
Ala
Bill
O.K
Alex Freitag
Camp Ellis
Ill
California
Wm. B. Starr
States
Dad
Love
Guadal ‘Canal
War Chest Campaign Planned Across Texas
United War Chest of Texas completes plans for first state wide unified war appeals drive led by Houston attorney George A. Butler. target is 5 000 000 to support national and regional relief funds with participation across cities and counties.
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Texas
Houston
United War Chest of Texas
George A. Butler
Toasen
Eaurer
Wayland D
Peter Emsecoel
Cocinte
Roosevelt
Wien
Prisnar Ais
Notice To Subscribers Avalanche Requires One Renewal Notice
Avalanche subscribers are advised that in the future only one notice of subscription expiration will be mailed and, ten days later, if unpaid, the name will be removed from the list. This step is needed due to staff shortages and time constraints. cooperation is appreciated to keep the paper coming.
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Avalanche
Barber at Camp Bowie Cuts Hair Before K P
A soldier describes his basic training at Camp Bowie where he previously logged 10 hours daily for 45 haircuts on Guada canal. Now he completes 30 haircuts in seven hours if not called to drill or assigned to kitchen patrol.
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Camp Bowie
Guadacanal
K.P
Barehanded Goose Catch At Wheeler Fishing Rowboat
Franklin Knight of Wheeler Oregon was fishing in a rowboat when a wild goose veered toward him. He grabbed the bird with his bare hands, securing it after the surprise encounter.
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Frankin Knight Ot Wheeler
Ore
WAACs From Across the States in Alpine Branch No 7
The second class of WAACs in Alpine Branch No 7 shows broader distribution across 36 states and DC, plus a Haiti native. New York led earlier ranks. Illinois tops among new group, with Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, and New York following. Texas has only two entrants while California rises to eight and Missouri to eight in the class totals.
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Waacs
States
District of
Coumbia
Port Au Prince
Haiti
United States
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Illinois
Ohio
Georgia
Tennessee
New Hampshire
South Dakota
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Minos
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Kentucky
New Jersey
Town
North Carolina
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
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Maryland
Oregon
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Florida
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North Dakota
Barber on Guadalcanal Not Worried About Competition
Virgil Adams, formerly of Big Spring, opens an open air barber shop on Guadalcanal with improvised chair and limited mirror. Since leaving Big Spring in November 1941 for Army induction, he has barbered nearly every day despite equipment shortcomings.
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Big Spring
Virgil Adams
Guadalcanal
Adams
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