Registrants urged to cooperate with local boards
General J Watt Page state director of Selective Service urges registrants to maintain contact with their local boards and promptly report address changes. He says cooperation speeds service and benefits registrants, advises consulting advisory boards for classification questions, and notes the government appeal agent aids appeals while boards show empathy in handling cases. A separate note describes burglars breaking into a store near Akron taking 100 pounds of sugar and other groceries leaving a demand for cash.
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J. Watt Page
Selective Service 1m
General Page
Akron
Dove Nest Repeats In Same Tree At De Leon Texas
A dove returns each spring to nest in the same tree by Rev F L Willshire s residence in De Leon Texas for four years with nesting site consistent near the same point. Texas Game Department biologists note doves often return to prior nesting areas and hatchlings may return to nest there the following year. The United States Civil Service Commission announces open competitive examinations for repair shop superintendent positions in the War Department s Quartermaster corps with classifications A B and C and salaries ranging from 2300 to 2900 annually for duties overseeing repair operations at Camp Claiborne Livingston Alexandria and Camp Bowie Brownwood Texas.
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Austin
F. L. Willshire
First Metholist
de Leon
Texas
Texas Game Department
Fone
United States Civil Service Commission
Quartermaster Corps
War Department
Claiborne
Livingston
Alexandria
Lousiana
Camp Bowie
Brownwood
Lucky Quail Found Alive After Fort Worth Hunt
A pair of quail survive a Fort Worth hunt after one bird hid in a car trunk following a fencing mishap near Stephenville. The incident, linked to a hog wire fence and a brief car break in, leaves one bird with a minor head wound and saved by Maddox. Further details are available at Alpine post office.
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Fort Worth
Game Department
L. Snider
Fa Maddox
Stephenville
Maddox
Snider
Buick Plans Gigantic Aviation Plant For Engine Production
Flint Michigan March 25 Harlow H Curtice vice president of General Motors and Buick announces a 2 5 million general contract for a new aviation plant in Melrose Park Chicago The facility will cover over 1 000 000 square feet for Pratt and Whitney 1200 horsepower twin row engines under government defense contracts The plant aims to produce about 500 engines monthly and employ around 10 000 people with two shifts and possible Sunday work structural steel awards exceed 1 000 000 and construction will proceed to meet equipment schedules The Buick passenger car division has already moved key experts to the aircraft division and the project is a major GM defense undertaking
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Flint
Mich
Harlow H. Curtice
General Motors
Buick
Melrose Park
Chicago
National Defense
Pratt and Whitney
Curtice
Fossilized unicorn cousin bones found in Texas quarry
UT scientists report fossilized bones from a horned creature resembling a unicorn, a synthetoceros found by a University WPA crew in Polk County. The skull and bones are being prepared for exhibit at the Memorial Museum on campus. Texas Game Department biologists assist quail habitat work at South Congress school grounds. A Notre Dame student installs a shortwave radio to talk with Fort Dodge family during preplanned hours.
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Austin
University of Texas
Polk County
Texas
Memorial Museum
Royal Coat of Arms
Great Britain
Texas Game Department
State School For
South
Congress Street
Notre Dame
Fort Dodge
Texas Weather Mirrors Cards And Women Of A Century Ago
Texas weather described as like cards and women with praise yielding quick change. The excerpt notes mild warmth then sudden snow, and muses on seasonal growth of pigs and plants amid humor. It also mentions mounted volunteer expeditions against the Comanches from Austin around March 20, with Captains Lewis Greene and Bugg, aiming to curb incursions into Mexico.
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M. B. Lewis
Thomas Greene
Bugg
Austin
Colorado
Red River
Mexico
Rio
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