Near Flood Devastates Wheeler County Farmlands
A heavy rain swept a 10 mile strip through western Wheeler County causing extensive damage to crops roads and bridges. The Red River bridge bypass collapsed two spans and several lateral roads were impassable. Replanting is needed for many farms as crews estimate weeks to repair infrastructure.
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Shamrock
Wheeler County
Es Fork
Red River
Aagie City
Wheeler
Precinct 3
Tom Montgomery
Montgomery
Davidson
Sulfa Prevents Navy Strep Epidemic Says A. F. Coburn
Comdr Alvin F. Coburn reports at the American Medical Association session that sulfadiazine given as a preventive to 250000 sailors in 50 camps dramatically lowered respiratory infections. Previously virulent invasive streptococci caused scarlet fever rheumatic fever pneumonia meningitis and more with costly medical care and lost work days. One death occurred and severe reactions were rare.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Chicago
U. S. Navy
American Medical Association
Comdr
Alvin F. Coburn
Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Memphis Milk Watered By Backyard Cow Incident
Memphis June 22 Special dairyman B Webster sought guidance on water adding before milking. His cow Bessie strayed to a Bermuda lawn yard and fell into a cement water-trap eight feet deep. The cow stood in three feet of water, delaying milking as a wrecker freed her.
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Memphis
B. Webster
Mr. Webster
Old Bessie
Bermuda
Webster
Texas Retail Sales Boom in May Across Major Cities
May sales in 80 Texas department and apparel stores rose 8.8 percent from April and 23.6 percent above May 1943, per University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. Dallas up 34 percent, Corpus Christi 51.9, El Paso 26.5, Fort Worth 25.2, and Houston 20.3 percent.
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Texas
Austin
U.P
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Dallas
Corpus Christi
el Paso
Fort Worth
Houston
Wallace Promises U.S. Aid for China's Postwar New Deal
Vice President Wallace told Chinese agricultural experts in Chungking that the postwar New Deal in China would lift farming efficiency by 50 percent in 15 years, with a constitutional convention to start within a year after peace. He toured Szechwan fields and said Americans will stand with China at every step. In other notes, Dewey to confer with GOP platform committee by phone.
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Chungking
Wallace
China
United
Szechwan
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo
Texas
EL Paso
mcDonald
Juadron
Olen M. Donald
Dewey
Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Republican Platform Committee
J. Russell Sprague
Senators Urge Speedy Action On World Peace Agency
Four senators pressed Secretary Hull for immediate steps toward a world peace agency. They urged establishing a permanent United Nations before the war ends and creating detailed postwar machinery. Hull said the State Department is examining both immediate action and long term peacetime functions.
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Washington
Hull
World Organization
United Nations
State Department
State Guard Chiefs Confer over international issues
Senators Ball Burton Hatch and Hill spoke on international difficulties after a talk. Burton said police force ideas were not raised. Hull declined to disclose suggestions from the four senators as consultations with Britain Russia and China loom. Knickerbocker and Compere discussed State Guard activities in Texas and Arkansas while en route to a conference.
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Senators Ball
Minnesota
Burton
Ohio
Hatch
New Mexico
Hill
Alabama
Hull
Britain
Russia
China
Austin
U.P
Texas
Arthur B. Knickerbocker
Little Rock
Arkansas
Ebenezer L. Compere
Knickerbocker
Texarkana
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