Fort Davis News Roundup and Social Notes
Fort Davis area items note Dan Muenster returning from two weeks leave and Mrs Muenster visiting, plus Radie Webster home from Camp Monterey with husband Pvt Pade Weiser. Local services mark V E Day with joint prayer and church events. Wedding of Joe R Domingues and Tillie Meraz in El Paso. couple plans brief trip and return to Fort Davis. Domingues served seven months overseas with five major battles.
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Radie Webster
Camp Ond
Monterey
Calif
Pvt
Pade Weiser
Meras-Doming
Joe R. Domingues
SSC
Fort Davis
Ti Paso
Tillie Meraz
el Paso
Guardian Angel Church
Mim Meraz
Laipe Rubio
Los Angel Fo
Elisa Mariner
Gracie Walters
Nbride
Albert Mera
Pocho Metrax
New Mexico
Odessa
Fort Davia
John N. Merar Sr
Im Paso
Alex Domingues
Bougainville
Gil
May Day Luncheon by United Council of Church Women
The May Day Luncheon was served Friday noon in the Presbyterian church dining room with about 30 attendees from seven denominations. Flowers adorned tables as Rev Theo Mayors gave grace, followed by a musical program directed by Mrs J M Clark featuring Genevieve Alvarado, Jimenez and Audrey Faye Newton. Rev Alvin Rue led the service, prayers were offered for service members and world peace, and officers and committee reports were presented for the coming year. Also noted is the death of 1st Lt Burley Williams in action in Germany on March 31, reported to his wife Elizabeth Fowlkes.
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Bernice
Raps
Hart Me
B. J. Grant
Cn. Sparks
Beuy Grant
ANG| Monahans
Fort da
Andy
Alvin 0. Roe
C.i Mattheews
Ht Clark
Uve Plano
RA. Muenster
le H. Newton
Charlie ‘Ann Fryar
Fathers of
Ro A. Muenster
Dr Sparks
St Joseph's Cathet
Theo Mayora
Fort Davis
United Council of Church Women
Presterian Church
Theo. Mayors
JM. Clark
Gree Idencoe Jimenez
Genevieve Alvarado
Audrey Faye Newton
Omial
Holy City
Mrs Clark
Alvin
Thuren Sparks
Aln AL |Dice
Ral Murcho
al Paso
Swarts
Lions
Iby Amistad
Ai Te Shureben
Lions Club
Alpine
Burley Williams J
Germany
Eizabeth Fowlkes
Williams
Patton
Presbyterian Church
Rue
Isaiah
Air Crew Training For OLT Men At Air Field Is Being Discontinued
MR FIELD May 8 Col Henry R Baxter commanding officer informs On-the-Line trainees at the pilot school they will be withdrawn from aircrew training. He reads a message from Lt Gen Barton K Yount stating the remainder of aircrew replacements will come from current pre flight and training groups and be completed in months. Trainees may be assigned to permanent party or to the continental United States for redeployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MR Field
Henry R Baxter
Air Field
AAPTC
Port Worth
Baxter
Barton K. Yount
Army
Air Force Training Command
Japan
United States
Dominguez Family Ties Shuttle Between Fort Davis and El Paso
The text recounts a wedding in El Paso attended by Fort Davis residents including Mr and Mrs Alex Dominguez and Mr and Mrs Ezequiel Dominguez plus others. It notes a son Pfe Jesse Vernon Jones killed on Iwo Jima, the Jones family ties to Fort Davis and San Angelo, and mentions postwar travel and church events with local figures such as Lt Col M B Dodson and Rev Alvin Rue.
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Dee Jones
Knickereeker
Tex
Pfe
Jesse Vernon Jones
Tion
Iwo Jima
Marine Corps
Pacific
San Angelo
May there be peace storm destruction at their
A fragmentary report notes storm-driven damage and a plea for peace amid wreckage. Names, places, and specifics are unclear, but the item centers on weather-related destruction and community response.
University enrollment rises to six thousand five hundred twenty five
Col Baxter directed copies of the letter to be distributed to each 1 OL Tepresent. A half holiday was declared for the city schools. Read the classified ads. Spring semester enrollment at the University of Texas is now 6525 students as compared with 6157 in 1944 according to an announcement from the registrar's office. Navy students .Ommaliek to Iteled 828.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col Baxter
University of Texas
Navy Studients
Ommaliek
Youths urged to serve in Army Air Forces overseas
Air Forces with possible overseas duty await recruits as many embark toward technical training. The message praises youth, intelligence, courage, and enthusiasm to do a job for the Army Air Forces and the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
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Sue Koen
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Exchange
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