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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1943
Page
3
The speaker describes a summer tour visiting counties in the district and meeting many people about federal government problems. Attendees express support for the war program, satisfaction with its progress, and a demand that Congress share responsibility for domestic issues with less red tape and bureaucracy.
The House approved the Fulbright resolution 360 to 29 showing the representatives reflect constituent sentiment. It supports creating international machinery to establish a just lasting world peace and US participation through constitutional processes. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee now reviews the measure.
Eight soldiers from Camp Berkeley, each from a different state, joined a full day of events in Tennyson Texas. The community hosted addresses, vocal numbers, and a barbeque lunch, which the soldiers reportedly enjoyed with notable enthusiasm.
Mrs Joe Miller hosted a birthday party at her Tennyson home for Dorothy Mae Green Thursday night. An extensive guest list included James Jr Wesley Wheat Alton Duffy Vernon Palmer Raymond Meadows Billy Foy Stephens Billy Ray Miller Melvin James Dolan Wheat Helen Clark Katie Bell James Dorothy Mae Green Calla Mae Latham Laureen Naomi Cornelius Jewel Dean Westbrook Carole Dean Westbrook Gladys Palmer Joe Winifred Miller Willie Van Stephens Bill Wilkerson and others. A wartime chant line was read: Bomb the Japs with junk.
In Washington the Wheeler bill to prohibit drafting pre Pearl Harbor fathers drew strong opposition from General Marshall Admiral King and Bernard Baruch who warned it could hinder or prolong the war and raise casualties. The House has passed the Kilday bill to exhaust nondeferrable single men before invoking pre Pearl Harbor fathers. Selective Service reviews classifications, potentially revealing thousands on the government payroll.
Sorrow swept Coke county when telegrams announced Roy Clift former Coke county resident died in Corpus Christi Monday at 10 AM. Survived by wife Zoe and daughter Miss Zoe Walden. brothers Oscar and Will Clift in Corpus Christi and Bruce Clift of Robert Lee. sisters Mrs. Jake Morrow of Bronte and Mrs. Inez Cobb of Eldorado. The Clift family arrived in Texas from Chattanooga in 1900 and settled near Fort Chadbourne on the Nicholas farm later sold.
Mr and Mrs Jess Percifull return from Eagle Pass where they attended son Wayman Percifull's graduation from the Army Air Force Pilot School as an advanced single engine pilot. Wayman studied flight in Chickasha Oklahoma and Winfield Kansas before the Eagle Pass assignment.
Census report shows 302 bales of cotton ginned in Coke County from the 1943 crop before September 16, compared with 274 bales for the 1942 crop.
Rev and Mrs W D Palmer of Brownwood plan to reside in Bronte soon after B A Bell vacates the home near the schoolhouse. The Palmers are the parents of Mrs E O Allen. The Enterprise notes the editor’s longtime acquaintance with Rev Palmer and praises their character for the community.
The deceased, widely known in Nueces county, served twelve consecutive years as county clerk and left many friends. The Clift family of Coke county is also well regarded for its longtime association with the best in life, as neighbors reflect with sorrow.
Coke County Texas receives charter for a new cooperative association led by Frank McCabe as president with Travis B Hicks as temporary secretary. The group will buy ranch and farm feeds and supplies with 1 dollar common stock, 3 percent of purchases to a stock fund, and no livestock sales.
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