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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1944
Page
3
Ferris Pirtle, county auditor, seeks to record 90 entries showing a five dollar expenditure while Curlee Cummings, county superintendent, may spend $5900 on school supplies. Pirtle must log 96 entries of five dollars six cents each to account for the $5. Another $320 expenditure requires 12 entries of 26 and 27 cents.
Claude Cummings Jr of Windom Texas Rt 1 has been promoted to staff sergeant by his commanding officer. He enlisted March 18 1942 and serves as an airplane mechanic with the India China Wing of the Air Transport Command in the China Burma India theater, operating the air supply route to China over the Himalayas.
New York Giants pounded 19 hits and nine walks to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 15 9. Mel Ott hit two homers and a double, while Weintraub cracked two homers and a single driving in five runs. The day’s only NL game.
Denison Texas officials announce a postwar plan by the National Farm Service to create major recreation areas around Denison Dam. The six million project covers a two hundred mile radius and envisions two main resorts at Preston Bend Texas and in Oklahoma, plus camps, boating and fishing facilities, hotels, cabins, and summer home zones for a broad regional public.
Funeral services for Ernest Harvey Miller who died at his home in Gilmer Texas on June 10 are set for Wednesday at 3 pm in the Mikel Brown Funeral Home chapel Rev J J Gregory will officiate and interment will be in Moore's Chapel cemetery Survivors include his wife one daughter Inez Stolle of Gilmer one son Raymond in the Navy three brothers Sam Bonham Luther Kentucky and G W Tennessee born April 14 1885 in Tennessee
City Council considered hanging a large ceiling fan in the council meeting room as a top agenda item. A proposal from a contracting firm to seal coat several city streets was deferred for later action.
Sixty former Savoy College students attended the third war time reunion in Savoy with many guests. Officers were re elected at the afternoon session led by president E A McMahon and secretary Mrs J B May. An In Memoriam address was given, Tom Smith provided inspiration, and Gus Thomasson led an information quiz on school history.
Fannin county commissioners buy a diesel powered motor grader for precinct No. 2 paying cash. C Allen of Toulson submitted the sole bid of 6545 dollars accepted by the court with four vouches and full amount Siven Mr. Allen. The court also approved deputization and salary for a shed elective clerk and approved county auditor bills for payment.
A. T. Chaney withdraws from the Fannin County clerk campaign citing inability to campaign further. He thanks friends for support and states withdrawal is planned at this time.
Pvt Ernest Barker of Eastland Texas sails for France with a rifle over one shoulder and a guitar slung over the other, signaling a readiness for invasion duties and possible morale moments as forces begin beachhead operations.
After praising soil technicians, W. H. Skidmore explains Oklahoma's soil conservation districts as a country doctor system. He describes the field doctors of the Soil Conservation Service using aerial maps and field visits to diagnose erosion, prescribe treatments, and guide farmers, free of charge since 1938.
The government warns there is not enough gasoline to meet civilian needs and essential operations on the home front. Officials report a black market siphoning off more than 2,500,000 gallons a day from the remaining supply, underscoring the severity of the shortage.
Electrically operated trackless trolley coaches show a 1,6279 percent rise in transit traffic since 1934. In 1943 about 3,000 coaches in the United States carried some 1.175 billion passengers.
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