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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1948
Page
9
U S Secretary Brannan announced a 1949 peanut program calling for a 19 percent reduction in planted acreage from 3,340,000 this year to 2,211,367 acres. The goal targets about 850,000 tons with government price support at 90 percent of parity and penalties on over quotas.
The old list of ten alibis people use to skip church is reconfirmed as plans for this year's crop were suspended due to better demand. Examples include being forced to go as a child, lack of conversation at the movies, or choosing lodge activities over church. Miss Wanda Ratliff of Denton visited Bowie and Wichita Falls over the weekend.
June White assistant drum major of the T C U band and daughter of Mr and Mrs Bob White of Bowie is selected for a place on the Who's Who published by Drum Major Magazine in Ohio. She led Bowie High band and graduated last June and has won numerous honors. Mrs W T Betts was in Fort Worth Monday.
Carl George, a Lindale native and grandson of Mr and Mrs Carl Hachtel, has arrived home after two and a half years in Germany with the American Army of Occupation. He received an honorable discharge after three years of service and was formerly employed at the Bowie News.
Rev. G. B. Bradshaw Rev. G. W. Burton and Loyd Fulmer were invited to a ranch in Southern Jack county for a one day deer hunt last week. They returned with a large buck shot by Fulmer and Burton. It pays to advertise in the News.
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