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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1944
Page
1
A local column reflects on simple living and honest words, notes Bowie towns in four states, and highlights a naval sailor's Christmas furlough shattered by an unfaithful marriage. It questions morale, duty, and patriotism when a wife denies entry and withholds support for children and wife. Continuation promised on Page Eight.
Memorial services will be held at the First Baptist Church at 2 p m next Sunday for Hiram Watts 23 son of P W Watts killed in action in France December 4 He served four years as an anti aircraft gunner in General Patton's Army He attended Bowie High School and was a Baptist member Surviving are his father four brothers and six sisters across Abernathy Brownfield Wichita and Tulia St Jo and other Texas towns
C C Privitt owner of the Valley View Dairy is slowly recovering from critical injuries after a registered Jersey bull gored him in the right thigh. The horn penetrated six inches into muscle causing complications that may keep him off his leg for a long time. He was at home after hospital treatment following the incident when he threw a rope on the animal and the bull charged. If it had charged again it could have killed him.
Stores in Bowie will close for New Year's Day January 1 as a holiday after a petition from merchants. Inventory taking is ongoing with completion planned for Monday while the First National Bank remains closed all day. The post office will close Monday except General Delivery hours and one city delivery. no rural deliveries.
Vernon Briggs expands a fruit and vegetable business with 105 acres of watermelons and 20 acres of cucumbers in the Rio Grande Valley for early market. Ration rules tighten further for canned vegetables sugars and meats as of December 26 1944, with specific stamp limits and point values for vegetables butter and fruits set by the Bowie District Food Rationing Officer M P Hanna.
Sgt. John L. Morris stationed at Fort Sam Houston is visiting his sister Mrs. Barry Eastin this week, according to local notes.
Lt. Sgt. Altus D. Griffin son of Mrs. G A Griffin returned to duty in France after a month’s furlough. He had been overseas two years when he received leave this week.
Pfc. Frederick C. Smith, son of J. C Smith of Bowie, was wounded in action in Germany on November 16, message to his father reports. He has brothers in the Air Corps and Merchant Marine and a sister serving in the WAC in the Air Corps.
Plans near completion for an elaborate banquet to honor the Bowie football players. The Lions Club and Rotary Club will jointly entertain on Thursday evening January 31 in Lions Hall.
Rex Calaway received a Christmas greeting card showing his brother Lt. Col. Wm. Calaway, a hospital commander in Fairbanks Alaska, wearing an Eskimo fur parka. Col. Calaway’s wife and baby reside in Bowie.
A memorial service for Elihu Marshall, killed while with a U S Engineering Unit in Europe in September, will be held at Sunset Baptist Church on Sunday at 2 30 P M. The service replaces the Buffalo Springs location. Marshall was the son of Rev and Mrs E H Marshall, well known in the Sunset area.
MISSING Tech Sergeant Elmer W. Menasco son of Mrs Lilly Menasco of Bowie was reported missing in action after a mission as aerial gunner on a B 24 Bomber over Germany. He graduated Bowie High School June 21 1943 and joined the service June 26. He has a sister Mrs Esther Franklin at Bowie Clinic Hospital a brother G W Menasco in Houston and a sister Mrs W L Worley in Las Vegas New Mexico.
A Watch Night Service will be held at the First Baptist Church on Sunday night December 81. George Rucker and his orchestra will perform. Mrs. Will Young and the High School Choral Club will sing. The pastor Rev A J Quinn invites the public to attend the 7 30 P M services followed by the Watch Night service.
H. L. Turns returned Sunday from Victoria Texas where his son H L Jr graduated from Aloe Field and received his wings and a Second Lieutenant's commission. Lt Turns has been reassigned after a brief leave to Victoria for a month.
Mrs. Bessie Foster leases Bowie building once occupied by S. Daube & Co to a large Dallas company. Two representatives say a modern dry goods store will open soon with changes underway. Company details and manager name not disclosed. Daube vacated July 1.
Lane Beatty farm editor for WBAP Fort Worth visited Bowie on December 20 to view an Future Farm club boys egg grading demonstration staged by Swift & Co. at their Bowie produce house. E Barnum and G O Reynolds of Swift & Co. joined the session. Beatty received agriculture updates for broadcast at 6 30 A M. daily and the visit boosted Bowie publicity.
Garrett & Company of Bowie becomes exclusive dealer in Montague County for the Masterbilt milk cooling unit. The electrical unit, sold on installment, can reach below freezing with thermostatic control and is touted for keeping milk, meat, vegetables, and fruit fresh, saving food and scarce processing materials.
Friday and Saturday offer a double feature with Pat O'Brien and Carole Landis in Secret Command and William Bova and Andy Clyde in Forty Thieves. Sunday and Monday present Cary Grant and Janet Blair in Once Upon A Time. Tuesday screens The Canterville Ghost. Wednesday and Thursday show The Master Race with George Cou louris and Paul Guilfoyle.
Continental Oil Company buys Whitaker Oil properties in the Hildreth pool seven miles north of Bowie for 400000 cash. The move follows a gas repressuring plant completion and signals more drilling in 1945 with several offset wells and two planned wildcat tests near Bowie areas including Sunset and Stoneburg.
The Ven-Mex Company drilled in its Winsett No. 1 well, the first producer on M. B. Winsett’s 59 acre Bowie tract, in the Hildreth area. The test extends the field eastward two miles and is expected to produce about 500 barrels daily.
New families move to Bowie seeking apartments and houses as six men tied to City Service Oil Company's Geophysics Division begin work in Montague county. Several single men join the crew for possibly two years. An office opens at Travel Inn Courts with S O Latham as manager. The team works across much of the county and now targets the area between Montague and Fruitland.
Mr and Mrs Gordon Cady and Mr and Mrs R C Cady spent Christmas Day in Fort Worth as guests of Mr and Mrs Robert Cady, sharing holiday time with relatives in the Texas city.
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