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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1944
Page
4
Mrs. Jack King joins the office of Frank Wright a real estate and insurance salesman Formerly deputy district official she also served as deputy to the auditor while Mr Wright was auditor.
The First Baptist Church Woman's Missionary Union observed the Week of Prayer for Foreign Missions with Circle 2 in charge led by Mrs. J L Dulaney and featuring soloist Mrs Lynwood Lovelace. The program included an address by Mrs T J Watts, a playlet on Christ honoring womanhood, and a luncheon with Circle 3 conducting the business meeting led by Mrs Claude Houge.
Jimmie Turman and Mrs. Frank Brown were honored on their birthdays last Wednesday evening with a six o'clock dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Turman. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown and Vera Mae Mrs. Sab le Stevenson, Wesley Turman and children Mary Ann and Jimmie.
The Delphian Club will meet Wednesday at 1:00 with Mrs. T B Williams for a covered dish luncheon. Duncan PTA holds its regular meeting Thursday at 3 45 in the school.
State employees accustomed to December salary warrants before holidays will not receive them until after January 1. Chief Clerk Bob Calvert said a legislative audit committee ruling made drawing warrants before month’s end illegal. Holidays run Dec 22 to 27 with skeleton staffs on Jan 1.
Bonham Civil Air Patrol members will add a new course on CAA regulations at the next meeting. They currently study navigation and practice military drill each Monday at the high school. Classes start at 8 and run two hours.
Manager Clarence Newell of the Kraft Cheese Co Bonham plant announced the purchase of 5000 dollars in 6th War Loan bonds. The funds were allocated and credited to the Bonham plant.
An attorney general's opinion holds counties must be reimbursed for funds paid to sheriffs by the Democratic party for distributing election supplies on county time. It also says mileage from unofficial election duties should be reimbursed, but sheriffs need not contribute these fees to the salary fund.
The Texas Butane Dealers Association plans to urge lawmakers in January to tighten statutes governing butane gas and extend the Texas Railroad Commission's authority. Executive secretary William J. Lawson says enforcement funds are insufficient and current license fees and bonds are inadequate. The group cites wartime shortages and calls for closer supervision, inspections, and better safety practices, with a state meeting in Austin on December 8 to outline the program.
CHUNGKING Dec 5 UPI A Yokohama monument to Commodore Matthew C Perry will be ceremoniously destroyed Dec 8, per To Kung Pao quoting a Tokyo broadcast. Kokosaikas of the Japanese indignation conference will wreck it during a month long crush America period linked to B 29 bombings.
American forces at Julich captured a German half truck bearing a Red Cross symbol, used to transport wounded and medical supplies, but found it loaded with machine pistols, grenades and small arms. An American officer cited widespread German misuse of the Red Cross emblem along the front.
Sherman Eubanks of Ravenna community visited Bonham Monday morning. Paris residents Mrs. Ellen Simons Mrs. Jack Wooldridge and Cpl. Morris R. Simmons were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sharyers at 232 Evans Ave. Cpl. Evans is stationed at Lake Charles Louisiana. Mrs. W. C. McGee of Dodd City shopped in Bonham Monday.
Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell warned the Senate War Investigating Committee that critical manpower shortages in key war industries must be solved within a month or national service legislation may be sought. He endorsed a bonus plan proposed by J. A. Krug to reward workers who remain on war jobs, favoring a postwar bonus over a wage increase.
S-Sgt Thelbert Wingate, serving with the 132nd FPA Bn of the 36th Division, has been returned to the United States and is at McCloskey General Hospital Temple after being wounded in South France on September 15 during the division's advance. His wife Mrs Helen Wingate resides at 817 West 4th Street.
Five German executioners condemned by a special court at Maidanek concentration camp were hanged yesterday in the Lublin public square before about 20 000 witnesses, radio Moscow reported. The men were executed after being convicted on the previous Saturday.
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