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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1944
Page
1
The War Food Administration calls on farmers, households, industry and all citizens to conserve fats and oils. Urged to save every drop of used fat and to continue production as part of national wartime effort.
A long column lists numerous properties including 7 room dwellings with conveniences, barns, wells, and pools, priced from 1500 to 5300 dollars. It describes farms near Honey Grove Bonham Dodd City Goher with 40 to 112 acre sizes, cultivation, pastures, water by wells, electricity, and school bus access, noting values around 25 to 85 dollars per acre and various terms.
Uncle Ashley presents a sermon on human aggression and virtue noting that warlike acts arise from instinct to protect land offspring and life. He argues God fights evil through humanity and that life is a continual battle against disease beasts and moral failings until true peace is achieved.
The disagreeable weather persisted with temperatures in the high thirties and low clouds. Light rain totals about three inches have fallen, soaking quickly into the ground as intermittent showers continue.
San Bernardino based Army Air Forces photographer sergeant Jack Parrish spent Christmas leave with Hillsboro and Bonham relatives before returning to his base in San Bernardino. He served nearly two years in the Pacific as part of the 5th AAF. In other news Lt. Howard Barron USMC, wounded at Palau, has reached a Naval Base Hospital in San Diego after arriving in the United States.
U S 14th Airforce planes struck six Japanese airfields in China destroying or damaging 24 enemy aircraft across ten targets. Hit locations included three at Canton and ones at Anking Palachi and Heng Yeng, with operations also targeting roads bridges and supply dumps in Indo China Burma and Thailand.
Washington December 29 In a joint appeal Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal War Undersecretary Robert Patterson and War Production Chief J A Krug ask all war workers to remain at work on New Year s Day They stress that replacing equipment destroyed in hours of night work would require days and weeks and that fighting men have no right to expect all factory and office personnel to be off on New Year s Day or any working day until victory is won Lieutenant Con Francis T Evans of the U S Marines repeated his 1917 feat in a deadpan flight
In Fannin County reports by V. D. Young, County Agent, and farmers show rapid gains in livestock management. Demonstrations across 32 communities highlight better beef, pork, poultry and dairy output, lower death rates, and higher calf and pig yields. Improved pasture through smaller grain and end-of-season cropland, winter grass, clovers, and soil care contribute to efficiency and labor savings.
Rome dispatch reports a German surprise offensive in the Ligurian coastal sector against Fifth Army troops has driven over three miles through American lines. Fighting on the forgotten front intensified as Germans moved toward Lucca via Serchio valley, forcing out American Negro troops from Barga and Gallicano. Allied air forces and bombers targeted German strongpoints, rail yards, and troop concentrations, with preliminary notes suggesting more than 4,000 sorties in three days of air action.
Lt O K Flowers, former flight instructor at Janes Field, was killed in India on December 24. His wife, now residing at Carlstad, New Mexico, has written Bonhiain friend It. Flowers served in the Allied Transport Command at the time of death.
War Food Administration urges housewives to save every drop of used cooling fat and hand it to meat dealers. The annual target of 239 million pounds would equal oil from 1,082,353 acres of peanuts or 1,503,267 acres of soybeans, boosting national economy.
A compact public notice ties parenting guidance to an investment pitch urging readers to consider bonds for the future. It frames discipline as self defense and links personal conduct with financial planning, referencing investment options in a period tone.
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