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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1946
Page
3
City records show the Bronte Treasurer Julia M Chapman with books balanced as of April 3 1946. Audit committee L P Youngblood and T H Rogue certify the accounts as in balance, noting expenditures warrants and unpaid taxes.
Norton students earned 41 ribbons at the Water Valley district meet with 6 volleyball boys medals and 10 second-place ribbons for the boys baseball squad. Individual highlights include Wendell Cope with multiple top placements in junior events, Lanham Mac Carter and Charlene Carlton earning doubles, and Betty Shelburne securing second in junior singles. Local news notes mention Easter revival plans, visits, social clubs, and community happenings around Norton.
A postwar speaker mocks a claim about saving by joining a naval payroll plan. The piece references Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and Benjamin Franklin, arguing future savings from U S Savings Bonds will benefit pockets years hence. Franklin would approve saving despite the war ending.
Captain Roy E. Mundell of the San Angelo recruiting station announced that Virgil C. Springfield enlisted, joining a record surge as 107,665 temporary commissioned officers sought peacetime Army commissions. Army Air Forces led with 55,419, Army Services Forces 26,723, and Army Ground Forces 22,516.
Waco will send more than fifty business and civic leaders on a West Texas goodwill tour April 23 26 arriving Bronte April 25 by train. The event organized by the Waco Chamber of Commerce features a central business district entertainment with Red Chook of Sansabe and his guitar noted as a one man minstrel winner. Baylor University student Jied recently discharged from the Marine Corps will perform guitar and sings during the program.
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