Scams and Vigilance: Community Guide to Identifying Frauds
A local notes column outlines why scams persist and how policing resources are strained by non harming offenses. It highlights a Lynbrook Jericho East Meadows NY mail scam offering 1 4 million for a 19 99 fee and offers tips to verify targets using web resources and contacting chambers of commerce for cautionary checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lola Gann
Lola
Awards Payments Company
New York
U.S
Lynbrook
N.Y
P.O
Jericho
P.O. Box
East Meadows
Milam County Triad
MCT
Langenberg.com
Breakthechain.org
Snopes.com
ZabaSearch.com
Chamber of Commerce
Flying Tigers Rise From Texted Turmoil to Pacific Sky Fame
Claire Chennault leads the American Volunteer Group known as the Flying Tigers from 1941 to 1942 in China. The unit earns 299 confirmed kills plus 150 unverified, destroys 200 enemy planes, and suffers 12 planes lost with 23 crew deaths. The Tigers boost morale pre US entry and later merge into the Army Air Corps before Chennault's long career in Asia ends with his death in Taiwan in 1951. Bartee Haile invites reader comments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Roosevelt
Claire Chennault
China
United States
Flying Tigers
FDR
Pearl Harbor
Commerce
Texas
Claire Lee Chennault
U.S
San Antonio
Chennault
Kelly Field
Europe
Air Service
Chiang Kai-shek
Asia
Manchuria
Chiang
Mao Tse-tung
Roosevelt
Chiang Kaishek
Madame Chiang
States
Tigers
Pacific
Army Air Corps
Anna Chan
China Air Transport
Mission site near Milam County outlined in diaries
French and English interest in the area, Father Marino notes potential mission sites along the San Xavier River and Brushy Creek. He fears a clash with armed intruders and Apache hostility, urging a Presidio. San Xavier would be the first mission, built by 1748 amid controversy over its location and accessibility for coastal tribes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
Father Marino
San Gabriel
Little River
Brazos
San Xavier
Las Aminas
Brushy Creek
San Antonio
Marino
Carlos
Castaneda
Juan Ceballos
Texas
Ceballos
San Xavier River
Trinity
Sabine
Kathleen Gilmore
Carlos Castaneda
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Ted Hubert
Bartee Haile
Haile
Pdg.net
Friendswood
Houston
Cameron
Beverly
Kelly van Angell
Mercantilebistro.com
Church of Christ
Hoyte
N.T
Alton Baker
Cameron TX
Joy Graham
Generis
Gung-ho
Paviova
May Jooch Oliver
Curly Coif
Gadget
Essential Square
Spitz Sound
Elsie’s
Hamilton Bill Merrill Chew
Perry Potassium
Pirate's
Danoe Fairy
Liama Kin
Christiania
Augsburg
Jai
Trencheron
Yves
Butler
Brad
Starr
Wayland
Murphy
Poe
Blue Moon
Colosseum
Adams
Fisherman
McClurg
Buck
Lance Peeples
Rae
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