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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1941
Page
8
Sidney Hillman, associate director general, urged American workers to boost production for victory. He emphasized courage and faith, calling labor a front line of battle and urging higher output of guns ships and planes while accepting hardships and sacrifices for the war effort.
Texas men and women aged 18 to 25 can join Duncan Field’s civilian training program to learn aeronautics and earn from $50 to $110 monthly during a six to nine month course. The program, led by Major A T Economy and Lieut Col Clerments McMullen, screens by general intelligence aptitude and emotional tests and places trainees on Duncan Field payrolls. Courses cover depot organization tools drawing physics shop math blueprint reading and specific aircraft trades culminating in certificates and wage progression up to $175 for advanced mechanics.
The column urges farmers to boost production of foodstuffs and feeds to stockpile for wartime needs while warning against unnecessary expansion into new fields. It stresses war-time planning for 1942 and careful consideration of changes that could affect resources and markets.
Debs Garms, once the National League batting king in 1940, was optioned from the Pittsburgh Pirates to Sacramento in the Pacific Coast League. He reflects on a slump and projects a few good years remaining, despite time catching up with him. Also noted is Mrs. Julia Slaughter leaving for a two week visit to Webb City, Missouri, with plans to visit relatives in Wichita Falls.
The notice advises farmers to limit cow purchases to their resources, improve feeding and disease prevention, and plan for larger milk output. It urges heavier fattening of beef cattle, calves, hogs and sheep, and to grow home food, plant a frame garden, repair machinery, and sell scrap iron quickly as shortages loom.
Chickens and turkeys can be kept germ and worm free by adding the compound to drinking water as directed. It costs little and also protects against lice mites and fleas, promoting healthy egg production and strong chicks or money back.
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