Bonham Plant Wins Army Raincoat Contract
Bonham Manufacturing Company secured a Defense Department contract to cut and sew 120,000 lightweight raincoats for the Army at a bid of 994,625 dollars. The project, expected to last seven to eight months, will reemploy about 250 workers and begin within three to four weeks after shipments of piece goods arrive.
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Bonham Manufacturing Company
Milton Foster
Foster
Bonham
Defense Clothing and Textile Supply Center
Philadelphia
Army
Bonham Lions plan Sunday paper and magazine drive
The Bonham Lions Club, with help from National League players, will pickup old newspapers and magazines Sunday afternoon. Items should be tied in bundles and placed where visible. Proceeds support the boys' baseball program as the summer season begins. Domino tournaments continue with the Leonard fire department hosting a Friday night event at the high school gym to fund a new fire truck. play starts 7:30 p.m. and trophies go to top finishers.
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Bonham Lions Club
Leonard Volunteer Fire Department
Bonham Cheerleaders Prepare Signs for 1964 Football Season
Bonham cheerleaders begin making signs for pep rallies as they get ready for the 1964 football season. The effort is noted in the ODDS AND ENDS column on Page 2.
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Bonham's
Bonham Area Weather Forecast Through Saturday
Bonham area sees a fair to warm weekend with increasing clouds Saturday. Tonight remains cloudy with a few showers noted earlier this month. Saturday should be clear to partly cloudy with near normal temperatures and up to half an inch of rainfall possible near week’s start.
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Bonham
Texas
Southerast
CAB to Review Valley Orders
The Civil Aeronautics Board will review an examiner's initial decision that recommended no changes to Lower Rio Grande Valley airport service in Texas. The review will reassess whether Trans-Texas Airways Braniff International Airways or Eastern Air Lines should provide the service.
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Washington
UPI
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Examiner
Thomas L. Wrenn
Trans-Texas Airways
Braniff International Airways
Eastern Air Lines
Second Primary Ballot On Saturday In Bonham
Four polling places will open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for Bonham voters two parties. Democrats vote for congressman at large state representative sheriff and commissioner Precinct 1 while Republicans choose a U.S. Senator to oppose Yarborough. Ballot also notes locations and candidate names.
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East Bonham
Auditor’s
South Bonham
West Bonham
Bonham
Byron
Center Street
Texas
Sherif
Ing
U. S
Sen
Rulph Yarborough
Joe Pool
Dallas
Robert Baker
Houston
James D. Col
Greenville
Lowell Leberman
Commerce
Hoyt Ivey
Dudley Jackson
Robert Bellows
Donald McLain
Jack Cox
George Bust
U.S
Public Dairy Month Cow Milking Challenge Planned
Hunt's Department store manager Dick Grunert issued a cow milking duel for Saturday June 13 at 2 PM on the courthouse lawn. His team includes Bob Barrow J F McKnight Don Smotherman and Tom Francis. If accepted, spectators may cheer. booing triggers an overtime squirt.
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Dick Grunert
Hunt's
Grunert
Fannin County
Bob Barrow
Barrow's Jewelers
J. F. McKnight
McKnight's
Don Smotherman
White's
Tom Francis
Woolworth’s
Texas
Tropical Storm May Be Brewing In Caribbean System
A mass of squally weather in the Caribbean moved north and showed early signs of building into the first tropical storm of the season. The disturbance, spotted by weathermen, produced winds up to 35 mph with higher gusts estimated near 20 to 20 miles per hour along the coast.
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Miami
UPS
Caribbean Sea
Weather Bureau
Invasion jitters temper Cyprus tensions
Reports of troop and ship buildup near Iskenderun Turkey raise invasion fears in Cyprus. Turkey threatens action to shield Turkish Cypriot minority as General Cema Turla shifts commanders toward Iskenderun amid mounting regional pressure.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
UPI
Iskenderun
Turkey
Mediterranean
Cema Turla
Konya
Red Star repeats old spy claims against Western officers
The Red Star reissues two archival espionage charges against Americans and a British officer, alleging a 17 March attempt to obtain rocket data at Tula and a separate Odessa incident. The embassy and Britain deny the charges, noting differing accounts and signaling ongoing diplomatic friction.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Red Star
Edgar Smith
Edmund Zvetina
Dayton
Ohio
A.N. Davis
Tula
U. S
Smith
Zvetina
Davis
Odessa
James Landrigan
Navy
Sumner Shapiro
Air Force
William van Meter
Cmdr
Harvey Samuel
U.S
United States
Washington
Berlin
Britain
Unin
Russia
Wadell Turman Remembers D-Day In Normandy
Wadell Turman of the Gober community recalls landing on D-Day with the 3891st truck company. He describes delays, bombardment, and a two week effort to recover the dead and wounded, unloading equipment and driving two ton trucks under enemy fire.
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D Day
Turman
Invasion headline remembered by WWII veteran Wadell Turman
Wadell Turman recalls June 6 1944 the D Day invasion as a boxcar headline moment. He drove a truck for two weeks carrying wounded and dead then hauled supplies for the First Infantry division. Turman born in Gober Fannin County lives near Bonham with his wife.
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Favorite
Europe
Wadell Turman
Gober
Carol Spencer
Turman
Fannin County
Normandy D Day Remembrance Draws Generals and Veterans
American WWII generals and thousands of veterans return to Omaha Beach and other Normandy sites for the 2010 D Day anniversary ceremonies. French President de Gaulle is absent and is represented by ministers. US delegation led by General Bradley attends. Veterans note peaceful shores but remember the cemetery crosses, graves, and sacrifice.
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Omaha Beach
France
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Normandy
Qomansa
Utah
Ste. Merkylise
Europe
Nazi Germany
U.S
Paris
de Gaull
de Gaulle
Raynond Tribou Jet
Jean Sainteny
United States
Johnson
Qmar N. Bradley
Omaha Beach Cemetery
Ike
Dwight D
Lisnhower
Irifsh
Viscount Montgomery
Omaha
Cavatrysia
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Bonham Plant
The
Challengers
James Sudderth
Fannin Man
By Carol Spencer
England
Wadell ‘Turman
Normandy Beach
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