Guard and Army Weapons Training At Camp Polk And Beaumont Plant News
In Camp Polk area, second lieutenants oversee provisional training as Company E conducts range drills using M1 Garand rifles and rockets. Nearby, Magnolia Petroleum in Beaumont plans a 23000 barrel daily feed preparation unit to speed up refinery output and tie into catalytic cracking units. In parallel, a guard duty schedule is described with two hours on and four off, while Texas adds 63 new firms in July employing 2785 workers.
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Beaumont
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Murder in Houston Leaves Man’s Death a Mystery
A 47 year old Houston man was found murdered in his room with a bite mark on his right cheek and a tiny hole near his heart as if stabbed with an ice pick. An autopsy was ordered to determine the cause of Thomas Jenkins death. The hotel manager found the body. his pockets were turned inside out and his billfold was empty.
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Jenkins
169 Texas Oil Wells Completed in Week
Texas oil men completed 169 wells in the last week, raising 1951 total to 7052, from the Railroad Commission report. The period earlier saw 6908 completions. Gas wells added three to 523 for the year, compared with 497 a year earlier. Wildcat activity reached 68, including 10 producing oil, one gas well and 37 dusters.
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Austin
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Absent minded professor and a forgetful radio stander
A congressional witness offered a vague reply about advice from his counsel. A prize forgetful professor left his car at Radio City Garage and took a commuter train home after calling his wife about the missed meeting. In Brazil Indiana a worker swapped a hardboiled egg for an uncooked one to break a habit.
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