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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1945
Page
1
Local residents share Yuletide spirit as High School boys sing carols at businesses. A playful gift exchange includes a Sugar sack from a prominent couple and a new car heater and electronic blanket highlight holiday comforts amid cold nights and rising home needs.
Rev H T Shields announces a revival at Assembly of God Church starting Sunday evening December 29 with services at 630 PM planned for two weeks or more Evangelist Rev Fred Numrich of Springfield will conduct the services Special invitation extended to all The church is located at 113 North Masda Street
Lt. Florence Reasoner has returned home on terminal leave after military service. Her family welcomes the homecoming and notes her recovery and readiness for future assignment.
Bowie launches a March of Dimes campaign with Bob Murdoch as chair and Mrs. W. J. Donnelly as co chair. The drive seeks affiliation with the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis to aid local polio victims and secure county and national funds. Lions and Rotary Clubs pledge support.
The First Baptist Church announces an all-student night for Sunday December 29. A special program features college and high school students and invites public attendance. Paul Donald Jr. is home from Austin College for the holidays.
The Lions express deep appreciation for the community response to the Bean Court project this week. A total of $555.34 was collected at the old Roy Bean House on Mason Street Saturday for charity.
Lions and Rotary Clubs of Bowie prepare an annual party for the Bowie High Jackrabbit football team on January 9. An outdoor event is planned at a park to accommodate many fans if weather allows, following the team’s regional victory.
Earl Weatherford, who sold the Drive-In Drug Store, plans to open a Bowie blinds factory selling and installing air conditioning units. He will partner with Melvin Cantwell, formerly with a Wichita Falls blinds plant for five years. The factory will produce metal and wood blinds and already has orders.
The Griffin Brothers garage at 112 South Cummins Street marks its first anniversary after the brothers returned from war. Alex L. Griffin Marion Bl. Griffin T. Griffin B. Griffin and brother in law Carroll Bowden run the busy Bowieness, noting remarkable growth since opening a year ago.
The Bowie News issues three days ahead of dating carrying Christmas greetings from local businesses and offices. The paper goes to press early so police and staff may take three days off from Tuesday to Thursday.
C R Chappell announces a free farm show at Bowie City Auditorium at 7 30 P M featuring Bazooka Bob Burns in The Windjammer plus a John Deere tractor preview. Prizes will be awarded to many farmers and their wives attending the event.
Bowie postal workers and route carriers enjoyed a dinner at the Coffee Shop Grill on Tuesday night December 17. Postmaster H. L. Turns and assistant postmaster Earnest Chandler hosted the event, with 16 attendees.
Loyd Butler, who recently purchased the Auto Electric Shop on East Wise Street next to Elvin Butler's Garage from R. B. Gwin, has added new equipment. He now offers motor reboring and reaming, valve resetting and refacing, plus auto electric service.
Bowie merchants report record holiday sales with thousands traveling from nearby areas. Oil operators announce new locations and ongoing drilling around Bowie with No Enamel Clisbee and Reeves Ely units plus Continental shifts at Fowler and other wells.
A hospital records admissions and discharges detailing patients admitted in Bowie Fruitland Montague and Bellevue including Mrs John G Thompson Mrs Clovis Wilson Joiney Cook J P Clayton Alma Dill Mrs J M Staats T F Scott Cecil Spears Mrs J R Tompkins and Mrs J E Davis Sr. Discharges include Cecil Spears Mrs J G Thompson and infant daughter Mary Jane Huey Cook Mrs CD L Martin and infant son Donald Ray.
Mr and Mrs James D Elliott announce the birth of a daughter born Saturday. The baby’s grandfather is Mr R J Elliott.
Rev. James R. Westbrook pastor of a Methodist church in Dallas and former pastor in Bowie spent this week visiting his sister Mrs. J. D. Stout in Mayesville Oklahoma who is recovering in Bowie hospital.
A Montague area couple exemplifies thrift by saving during wartime. Mrs. Jim Browning pursued a shipyard job in Portland, worked long hours from 1 AM to 9 AM, then again after daily chores, saving $3,000 to buy 97 acres plus 18 more. The couple invested in tools and livestock, rebuilt the farm, and soon owned a prosperous Texas property.
The Office of Controls in Washington lifts a four year ban on manufacturing two pants suits and double breasted vests. Ford Motor Company discharges 90,000 workers nationwide from December 24 to January 2 due to critical metal shortages caused by a nationwide coal strike.
Dr Frank G Dickson of the American Medical Association reports US life expectancy jumped from 49 years in 1900 to 65 in 1946 due to modern medicine better nutrition and housing. In Young county Pick Lamour Graham Theatre owner hit a deer crossing the road. the buck died and his Buick was badly damaged.
President Truman orders four Liberty Ships to rush to Europe then return with thousands of immigrant refugees. Officials say more than 7,000 visas have been issued to refugees in Austria and Germany for travel to America in January.
In Omak a man fled home after a quarrel and crawled into a dog kennel behind a downtown building. He whistled and the dog drew police to the scene where the man slept inside the doghouse. Officers returned the dog to its kennel and jailed the man.
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