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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1945
Page
2
Editorial quoted from Numbers 35 34 urging reverence for the land God dwells among Israel. The piece reflects on moral conduct and divine presence guiding society and settlement.
A letter blasting Office Holders Playing Along argues many OPA job holders fabricate reports to justify staying employed. The writer cites wasted trips and price placard oversights, urging direct, local handling of irregularities to avoid cost and delay for businesses and households.
The piece cites Walter Humphrey on letter writing as a valued art for greetings during marriages births deaths business setbacks and personal milestones. It notes longtime figures such as Walter S. Goodland at 80 and William Parmele at 71 cycling between cities and Israel Litwak starting painting at 76 in New York City.
Funeral services for John Wesley Heifner 82 longtime Bowie resident were held Thursday at the Bowie Church of Christ with Hamilton officiating. Interment followed at Elmwood Cemetery under Burges Funeral Home with Masonic lodge rites at the grave. Heifner born in Owensboro Kentucky in 1860s came to Bowie in 1900 and was a Mason for over fifty years. Survivors include his wife four daughters a sister and a brother and eleven grandchildren.
Austin Texas advised by Dr Geo W Cox State Health Officer to add a pinch of table salt to each drink to prevent heat cramps as the Texas thermometer nears 95 and above. Workers at risk include laborers mechanics farmers and white collar workers who sweat profusely and risk losing body salt.
Deficient salt during heat can cause cramps as the body loses 40 to 50 grams of salt in sweating. Preventive measures include salt tablets or salt with dextrose in water, extra salt for laborers, and adding table salt to drinks. Milk helps replenish salt. cramps involve abdominal pain and headaches with normal body temperature.
The Stars and Stripes shows Staff Sgt. Hubert McCullar, son-in-law of Bowie resident C. R. Hester, standing guard on the gallows during the execution of 28 Dachau killers carried out by American troops under Army trials.
The article describes repeated hangings of convicted German torturers and mass murderers carried out under an Army Provost Marshal section. Gallows under trees were used alternately, with fourteen executed on one day and fourteen the next, marking the army's first mass execution in Germany.
Gulf Oil begins a comprehensive training program for sales and service personnel, started in Houston after over two years of study. The plan will cover Gulf’s marketing area from Maine to New Mexico, affecting an estimated 45 000 to 50 000 individuals, with aims to improve prewar level service and provide essential information to Gulf staff.
The Bowie News provides refined wedding invitations and announcements that emphasize respectful language and inclusive phrasing, guiding readers on proper honorifics and celebratory wording for diverse couples and families.
The article notes Gulf adopts speed-up training principles from U S Armed Forces WWII, focusing especially on visual training methods to boost enjoyment of greater and profitable sales and advance commensurate with abilities.
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