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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1944
Page
1
A local column blends wartime chatter with daily life as it cites a Justice Department draft act rise, praises Boy and Girl Scout leadership, recounts Doc Jackson and marigold misadventure, extols Irish hands and beauty ideals, and celebrates Bee Winton discovering forty year old grape juice. It also notes grape culture near Bowie, and argues Bowie should add a simple airfield per Airport Fantasy.
The Bowie store S. Daube & Co. ends 60 years of service with doors closed this week. Stock valued around 40000 to Perkins Timberlake for sale was halted, a future dry goods tenant rumored. Founders began in 1883, the business helped Bowie’s growth through cotton trade and civic support.
Mrs. E. W. Wright county Red Cross chairwoman appeals for more workers to prepare bandages and other urgently needed Red Cross supplies for immediate shipment.
The Bellevue News enters its 37th year under new owner Ed Cox who has run the paper on lease for eight years. He purchased the newspaper and printing plant from Mrs. E W Cox, Bellevue postmaster, and is welcomed by friends and subscribers noting the paper’s growth.
A Bowie Chamber of Commerce delegation met in Jacksonboro to push a paved highway between Bowie and Jacksboro. They will seek a hearing with the State Highway Commission, then possible surveys and route suggestions by state engineers. The Bowie group includes Paul Boedeker Olin Watson and Mayor John C McNatt.
The sacred music school at First Baptist Church reports more than a hundred pupils this week. Sponsored by the church Brotherhood, classes run 2 to 5 p m and 8 30 to 10 30 p m with Ernest Rippetoe of Stephenville Texas as teacher. A Stamps Bax ter quartet will perform Friday evening and the full school program follows.
Mrs Harry Karlsberg and Leslie Levy attended a confirmation program at Temple Israel Wichita Falls on Sunday May 21 Miss Doris Quicksilver was in the class They heard Dr David Lefkowitz of Temple Emanuel Dallas one of the nation s best known rabbis and a prominent southern speaker A reception followed the program.
Work has begun on two employee residences for Continental’s gas repressuring plant to be built at Steadland in the Hildreth pool, seven miles north of Bowie. Foundations are expected next week as 2.2 million cubic feet of gas daily will be repressured back into the producing formations, with about 25 men on site during construction and six for operation, targeted for completion by mid September.
Memorial Day listing 26 Bowie area casualties and prisoners of war with names and fates from Pearl Harbor to Tarawa. War memorial efforts led by Bowie Lions Club urged to honor service members with memorial funding and recognition.
Audry Wheat from Bowie Vocational Agriculture leads a government canning center opening at Stoneburg High School. The facility will operate from Monday June 5 with Mrs. Roberts as supervisor and provides equipment and instruction for canning vegetables fruits and meats. users supply their own cans or jars. Additional centers will soon serve Nocona and St Jo.
Vinita Lou and several others from Bowie Montague Shannon and Buffalo Springs are admitted to the hospital. Discharges include Langford Betty Whitlock Lou Moore and B E Wade and Melvin Gaines among others.
Friday and Saturday present a two film program headlined by Nine Girls with Ann Harding Evelyn Keyes Jinx Falkenburg and Gene Autry in The Big Show Sunday and Monday pair Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne in A Guy Named Joe Tuesday Bargain Day offers The Heat's On with Mae West Victory Moore William Gaxton Wednesday and Thursday show Standing Room Only with Paulette Goddard Fred MacMurray Coming Sunday and Second Monday a tle program The Okla Kind stars James Cagney with Jimmy Rogers Noah Beery Jr in Calaboose
Continental Oil continues deep testing at Mallard east of Bowie with cementing from 8 018 to 7 730 and plans tests above that level. Early results show two productive strata. area leases include Sinclair and Magnolia with over 2 000 acres each. Hildreth No 3 yields 60 barrels per hour after completion this week as J B Lewis No 1 and Clisbee No 3 near readiness. Murdick company advances at Hildreth with Ida Walthall 1 A drilling below 5 100 and Matney No 2 below 1 000 while Parker test setup proceeds.
Pvt Hollis D. Nored has returned to duty at A A F Dyersburg Tennessee after a fifteen day furlough spent with his parents Mr and Mrs F C Nored.
The Fifth War Loan Drive organizing meeting was held in Bowie at Bowie City Auditorium. W R Covey chaired the session with Prentiss Evans named Bowie organizer and Sam Lovette Taliaferro and Doc Jackson as co chairmen. The county quota is 575000 with 289000 in Series E bonds. The drive emphasizes bonds as safe savings and a path to funds for the war effort and postwar needs.
The Travel-Inn Courts on East Wise Street Bowie sold by B L Blackwell to Mr and Mrs W T McWilliams of Seymour took possession Thursday June 1 The price is reported at 20000 The McWilliams longtime Seymour residents are active in church and civic life and plan to run the modern brick hotel at a high service level Mr McWilliams is a retired railroad man who operated the first and last trains on the Olney to Seymour line.
A Bowie chamber notice invites inquiries on renting lockers at a proposed frozen locker plant. Minimum 300 pre-pledged lockers needed to establish the facility. Details at Chamber of Commerce office.
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