Marathon Club and Community Notes Highlight Local Doings
The Bluebonnet Girl Scout troop met for a session at the school house, with roll call answered by good deeds and plans to award pins for learning the laws. A high Five party honored Mrs. Murr Stewart with gifts and light refreshments followed. Marathon PTA hosted a musical program and a talk on saying no, while several church and civic groups held meetings, welcoming new members, sharing tea, and noting student and local notices. Juan Salmon Jr. returned home with an honorable discharge from the army. The study club completed its well project and heard a Mann book review, as members enjoyed light refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ke Marathon Pta
H. E
Wallace
Earline McKinney
Sylvia Bennett
Patti Jean Sansom
Wedin
Mesdames
J. N. Meeks
Earl Bland
P T.A
Sam Mathers
Murr Stewart
Baptist W. M
Baptist
W. M.S
Chambers
Katherine Arnold
W. MS
Annie Snodgrass
Foreign Missions
Lottie Moon
Joseph
Egypt
Thomas Mann
Nannie Crawford
A. R. Davis
Mesdames P. Chambers
N. Crawford
Diggs, Hancock, Worthington
Reid and Ritchey
Essay Contest On Texas History Closes Apr 1
The Texas State Historical Association announces the Louis Wiltz Kemp Essay contest in Texas History open to all undergraduates 25 and under enrolled in Texas colleges. Prizes totaling 178 dollars will be awarded for original research on political economic cultural geographic biographical or industrial aspects of Texas history. The contest closes April 1 1946 and further information is available from the Texas State Historical Association University Station Austin 12 Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Texas State Historical Assn
University Nation
Austin 12
Loudspeakers Broadcast to Japs May Front Future War Use
Voices from loudspeakers 1000 times normal size spoken from 10 000 feet may be used in future war operations as suggested by wartime planners. The report notes experiments with elevated loudspeakers to project messages over large distances for military signaling and morale purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Say
From where I sit. A call for general tolerance across America
The speaker reflects on social divisions symbolized by railroad tracks and notes how wartime honors like the Purple Heart and Silver Star are found across diverse backgrounds. He argues that tolerance for people’s freedoms, opinions, and choices should rise above wealth or status, emphasizing a broad democratic ideal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie Jenkins
Wikie Wells
America
Wartime Bell Labs System Aids Remote Communications
The article notes a wartime project by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric Co in collaboration with the U S Navy. It describes airborne radio loudspeaker equipment used to coordinate operations across a large area, likened to communication within a city. The text credits this system with assisting in disarming isolated Japanese units following Japan's surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Western Electric Co
U. S. Navy
Japan
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Marathon News
Pat McKinney
Sem Mathers
Murr
M. H. Jones
M. L. Causey
Stewart
Louie Ritchey
Ida Causey
John Yarbro
Earl Pierson
Carl Hegelund
Guy Crawford
Virginia Young
Austin
Mrs. Earl Young
Mrs
Jack Jolly
John Yarbroga
Marathon
The
T& N. O. Railroad
Lucille Chillette
Reuben Barnett
Houston
Guy S. Combs, Jr
Guy III
San Antonio
Bill Pierce
Lee Dragoo
G. F. Nye
George Hampton
Pete Featherstone
Wright Hospital
Alpine
Featherstone
Billie Kimball
B. N. Kimball
Presbyterian Missionary Society
G. W. Worthington
Mes Farl Young
Emma Burnham
Iran
F. Barfield
Sobiety
Baltimore
Mesdames Barefield
Arnold
McGonagill
Crawford
Worthington
Young
Ode Roberts
Odie Roberts
States
China
Ars. Geo
Hampton
Tucson
Ariz
Mr. RL
A. M. Orand
Mineral Dirt
Mrs. Burnside
California
Roy ‘Stillwell
Margaret Buttrill
Will
Mrs. A. Hanford
A. H. Nail
Mr. Roy Queen of
Bert Beckett
W. A.umphres
Umphres
Thomas Place
Juan Salmon Jr
Army
Esther Shely
Fred Shely
France
Fred
Merchant Marine
Alberto Garcia
Marcos Garcia
Alberto
Philippines
Eldon McGonagill
Study Club
Marathon Study Club
Plessy Chambers
Geo. Hargus
Quaker Oats Company
Sanderson Wool Commission Co
Alpine, Texas
Pearl
Winton
Lony
Irborne
Joe Marsh
Agy
Loay
Africg
Dr. Pepper Bottling Co
Tokyo — Victory
PAF
America UY
Liz Romas
E. F
U.S
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