Tri-State wheat harvest seen at 45 million bushels
The Tri-State area expecting about 45.9 million bushels of wheat from 3.3 million acres across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. Moisture favored yields though greenbugs and grasshoppers cut some prospects. Labor and storage shortages loom as large harvest begins amid wartime needs and rail car constraints.
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Tri-State
South Plains
North Plains
Panhandle Plains
Texas
Panhandle
Oklahoma
New Mexico
AAA
Amarillo Daily News
Deaf Smith County
Texas Panhandle
Texas County
Dust Bowl
Oklahoma Panhandle
Hubert Lasater
Alex Bateman
Hereford
Beaver County
Walter M. Schuelle
Ochiltree County
E. W Thomas
Hansford County
Curry County
C. J. Todd
Clovis
Castro County
Harvest Labor Offices Opened
The U S Employment Service opens sub-offices in Perryton Panhandle and Hereford with others in Dalhart and Dumas to recruit and coordinate labor for the Panhandle wheat harvest. Workers include farmerettes and high school students with migratory labor from below the caprock. The Amarillo headquarters will direct efforts and coordinate with county war boards to place labor where needed.
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Panhandle
U. S. Employment Service
Perryton
Hereford
Dalhart
Dumas
Amarillo
Pennsylvania
Dependent Aid Bill Approved to Reach FDR
The House passed a bill to fund soldiers dependents and maintain the home and sent it to President Roosevelt. It also sets a minimum $50 monthly armed forces pay and allows deferment for family heads with wives or children, affecting draft status and classifications. Payments start June 1 with first disbursements by November 1.
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Washington
House
White House
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Senate
May
Kentucky
Military Committee
Battle-scarred Desert Fight and Borger Refinery Fire
June 16 reports describe a devastating Borger Texas refinery fire after a truck hit a pipe, injuring numerous workers with five explosions and a $4 million loss. Simultaneously in Africa and the Mediterranean, Tobruk holds, Rommel’s push stalls, and Allied air and naval power, including U S bombers, sink Italian ships and damage battleships as Axis claims clash with British defenses.
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Neil M. Ritchie
RAF
Mediterranean
Tobruk
Ritchie
Acroma
Fingerprinting of War Plant Civilians Completed in Six States
Col William J Calvert announces fingerprinting of all private plant workers on war and Navy contracts in Texas Arkansas New Mexico Oklahoma Colorado and Arizona is finished. The Army began mandatory fingerprinting after voluntary requests proved too slow.
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San Antonio
Texas
Arkansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Colorado
Arizona
William J. Calvert
Eighth Corps
Army
Shamrock Man Is New DA
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson appointed Thurman Adkins of Shamrock as district attorney for the 31st Judicial District to fill the unexpired term of Bud Martin of Wheeler who resigned.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Thurman Adkins
Shamrock
31St Judicial District
Bud Martin
Wheeler
Jap Attempted To Refuel on Blazing Boat
Honolulu reports from the Midway battle describe Japanese airmen desperate to refuel from burning carriers after raids on Midway Island. Pilot Lieut Edward Steedman and co pilot Lieut D K Carpenter recount direct hits on a large carrier and Zero fighter engagements as American Flying Fortresses defend the carrier group. The crew includes Staff Sergeant Collison and several other its members. In Houston the War Production Board urges mass scrap drives to reach 10 million tons of rubber and metal for war needs.
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Honolulu
Midway Island
Edward Steedman
Sherman
Tex
D. K. Carpenter
Monroe
Ore
Steedman
R. M. Collison
Harrisburg
Collison
Flying Fortresses
Midway
W. J. Pananes
Chambersburg
Albert St. Jean
West Warwick
R. I. Corp
James L. Gamble
Mevia
Corp
Earl Schaeffer
Reading
Frank Frucci
Niles, Mich
Battlefront Update June 16 1942 Frontlines Report
The article notes U.S. Army Air Force bombers attack the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean and drive it to shelter. Britain's Eighth Army withdraws from a trap near Tobruk but remains on the outer perimeter. German thrusts at Sevastopol and Kharkov are repelled by the Red Army while Japanese forces in China and Chungking press for a major UN offensive.
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London
U. S. Army
Italy
Mediterranean
RAF
U. S. Army Air Force
United Nations
Britain
Eighth
Tobruk
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