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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1948
Page
11
Home cooks share bright spring salads and dressings using A and P brand ingredients. Recipes include radish roses with bleu cheese gelatin, spinach beet salad with celery and French dressing, and a sharp vinegar chili oil mix for a tangy dressing. Bean salad with SULTANA red beans features cabbage and tomato garnish for four servings.
The Veterans Administration announced that only veterans in full-time school or college programs qualify for higher subsistence allowances signed February 14 by the President. Part-time and certain training types such as on-the-job, internships, apprenticeships, and fellowship programs with reduced course loads are excluded from the increases. Existing students eligible for $75 or $105 will get automatic raises, while those at $120 with multiple dependents must submit proof before payments rise.
The school calendar lists events through the year urged by Superintendent Walter Alexander. May 7 Band and Choral Club Concert at the High School Auditorium May 13 Senior play The Adorable Imp at the School Auditorium May 14 T W C A Capella Choir at the Methodist Church May 23 8 15 p m Baccalaureate Sermon at the School Auditorium May 26 Eighth Grade Commencement at the School Auditorium May 27 Senior Commencement at the School Auditorium May 29 Report Cards issued May 31 Teachers dismissed.
VA announced retroactive increases for veterans in training with new rates effective April 1 1948 and higher subsistence payments backdated to April 1. Dependents must prove actual support. Training veterans submitting evidence by July 1 1948 will get retro payments. first higher-rate checks expected by May 1 or shortly after.
Mrs. Doc Pritchett visited her brother Walter Sanders in Fredrick Oklahoma and while at Wichita Falls radio studio on People’s Program she heard an old friend 17 years away. Nellie Langford from near Frederick traveled to Sanders home for a joyful reunion. Guests of Floyde Allen included L King and Hazel Grue with daughters from Hardy O L Perkins and sons from Decatur Cofer Williams and children from Saint Jo for a birthday dinner honoring Mrs Perkins Miss Marlene Parks and Mr Allen.
In Austin Texas Dr George W Cox State Health Officer calls the common housefly an enemy to health and a frequent carrier of typhoid fever dysentery and other intestinal diseases He urges tight window and door screening keeping flies away from food and utensils covering rural privy vaults and eliminating breeding sites He offers a pamphlet on safe fly control methods upon request by the State Health Department.
An office manager reproves a boy for whistling at his duties while the boy asserts he is not working at that moment, highlighting a minor dispute over conduct and labor expectations.
Mr and Mrs C H Huth of Byrd Hollow hosted Mr and Mrs Maurice Jester on April 25. While walking near the Huth residence they discovered a large hole in a pasture with seven wolf pups and a grown wolf nearby.
Witty exchanges feature Dill remarking that a head like a doornob can be turned by any girl. Gill asks for clarity as Dill doubles down on the jokey analogy.
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