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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1944
Page
3
Local brief items report residents visiting in Fort Worth Dallas Wichita Falls and New York City. Messages note service calls from Ensign Jack Oliver and Cpl John Robinson, family visits by Austin Wells and Mrs. O D Smith, and upcoming church meetings amid measles recovery and overseas assignments.
Staff Sgt. Robert Hachtel sped war production by linking a gas decontamination nozzle to a flame thrower and air compressor to paint a large airfield in two hours with four men. He also devised a faster method to pull concrete forms now standard in three aviation engineer battalions. Hachtel, son of Bowie residents, married with a baby, has been stationed away from home in Alvord. Meanwhile Kansas City visitors see Mrs Marguerette Crockett and Miss Lillie Belle Garlington.
A large group of Bowie students from multiple schools entered the Victory Garden contest sponsored by the Garden Club. Cash prizes await winners in each Ward and Grammar School, with detailed lists of entrants by grammar school and ward.
A list of residents and their addresses appears in a local notice urging readers to buy war bonds. The names include Ray and Jack Hargrove, Annette and Harrison, Freddie Drylen, Merle Kreyenbuhl, Sidney Sue Smith, Vance Manning, Norman Webb, Dottie Lou Head, and others with addresses on Mills Street, Nelson Street, Wichita Street, and Bowie routes. The campaign caption BUY WAR BONDS NOW appears at the end.
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