USC USO helps GI Joe stretch pay with extra cash
At Amarillo Army Air Field the Downtown USO employment division arranges local work for soldiers to augment their $50 monthly allotment. Deductions for wife, insurance, laundry, and bonds cut the stipend, so a weekend or three day pass job on farms, stations, transfers, creameries, or yard work helps furloughs. In August 110 soldiers found jobs through the program.
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USC
GI Joe Stretch
Amarillo Army Air Field
United Service Organization Center
Joe
Sam
Uso
Tribute to Son Who Died Overseas From Roosevelt to Roberson Family
A presidential tribute from Roosevelt reaches Dr. J. F. Roberson for his son James W. Roberson a staff sergeant who died July 27 in the Central Pacific theater. Roberson enlisted nine years ago. his mother had died five years earlier. The certificate honors his sacrifice and patriotism, while Dr. Roberson, now octogenarian, recently moved from Fort Worth to Belleview Street.
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Roosevelt
J. F. Roberson
Belleview Street
James W. Roberson
Central Pacific Area
Doctor Roberson
Fort Worth
Army USO helps GI Joe with jobs and supplies in 1944 Amarillo
The article describes how the USO employment division assists soldiers and their families in Amarillo during 1944. It explains Joe’s need for extra cash to buy engagement and wedding rings, and how the division arranges jobs, including for wives of enlisted men, to keep soldiers and sweethearts together. Private Morris and his wife Mrs. Morris of Ada are mentioned, highlighting local support networks.
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Joe
Amarillo
USO
G. I
Army
GI Joe
Uncle Sam
USC
W. L. Morris
Morris
Amarillo Army Air Field
Ada
Storm Winds and Tide Report From Galveston
A Galveston report notes 40 mile an hour winds and a six foot tide at the point. United States Army doctors and nurses have saved eighty seven percent of battle casualties treated in this war.
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Galveston
Tropical storm moves inland through Port O'Connor
Citizens along the Texas and Louisiana coast breathed easier as reports showed the erratic tropical storm moving inland at Port O Connor after a brief hurricane alert lasting three and a half hours with no damage reported.
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Houston
U.P
Texas
Louisiana
Weather Bureau
Port O'Connor
Barcel Your Figure Restore Youthful Curves
An inexpensive home remedy promises rapid slimming by using 4 ozs of Barcelel concentrate mixed with grapefruit juice to make a pint and taken as two tablespoons twice daily. The ad asserts easy weight loss without exercise or starvation and offers a money back guarantee if the first bottle fails.
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Duke Electric Co
Polk Street
Amarillo Community and War Chest
First National Bank of
Old Crow
Daniel Webster
Col
James Crow
Glenn’s Creek
Kentucky
Gulf
Corpus Christi
Matagorda Bay
Plumbing & Heating CO
Barcel
Post Office Drug Store
Schilling
Coffee
Globe-News
EWNE
Apewney
Penney
Cynthia
Odds and Ends
Lovey
Beloveg
Lek
SiUiaianes
OLD Crow Brand
Rewruciey Samuels Hoopon Wuissi
Wanda
Americas
National Distillers Products Corp
N. Y
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