Laura Cook Buried in Marlow Following Heart Attack
Mrs. Laura Cook, 67, died at home near Ad Hall Friday night June 25 1943. Funeral services were held June 26 at 3 36 p m at the Marlow Baptist Church conducted by Rev C W Sanders. Interment in Marlow Cemetery. Survived by two sons Sam Cook and Henry Cook in the Army at Fort Bliss Texas. Husband died about 30 years ago. Born June 19 1876.
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Laura Cook
Ad Hall
Marlow Baptist Church
C. W. Sanders
First Baptist
Cameron
Marek-Burns
Marlow
Fort Bliss
E. Paso
Cook
Courageous Home Front Defense Poem From World War II Era
A wartime poem dedicated to friends who stayed home, contrasting their safe posting with a soldier in New Guinea. It laments pay delays, hunger, and fear while praising those who enlisted, ending with a vow to persist and a nod to its transmission via The Herald.
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U. S
New Guiana
States
America
New Guinea
United States
Two Cameron Men in Cadet Training at Randolph Field
Two Cameron natives joined 176 aviation cadets at Randolph Field San Antonio in the latest pre flight class. Aviation Cadets Allen C. DuBois and Alick A. Lazek from Cameron will head to primary schools and first flight training as they prepare for assignment as Army Air Forces pilots.
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San Antonio
James Vick Father of Baby Girl Sharon Llywell
Sgt. James Vick is overseas in North Africa as his wife Verna Mae McLane Vick gives birth to daughter Sharon Llywell at Cameron Hospital on June 16. The baby’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Vick. the mother is the former Verna Mae McLane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McLane. Mother and baby are reported as doing nicely.
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James Vick
Cameron Hospital
Miners Idle As New Law Fails To End Dispute
Nation accounts show coal miners largely idle despite return-to-work limits. The bill banning strikes after Roosevelt’s veto fails to quell unrest as Congress battles price controls and political tensions. Homer Chambers of Grand Prairie visited his mother Maude Chambers this weekend.
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Congress
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
OPA
America
Britain
Homer Chambers
Grand Prairie
Mrs. Maude Chambers
Graduates From Army Aircraft Maintenance School at Kessler
Pfc Jeary Krenek son of Mr and Mrs Adolf Krenek Route 4 Box 42 Cameron was graduated as an expert mechanic from the Army Air Forces Technical Command unit at Kessler Field He completed a 17 week bomber mechanics course with training in B 24 maintenance hydraulic and fuel systems props instruments electrical systems engines structures and inspection A field test simulated battle conditions followed the course Mrs Joe Meier Cleo Malone Jerry Malish and Helen Ruth Hightower visited Waco for shopping
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Keesler
Jeary Krenek
Adoph Krenek
Rt. 4
Box 42
Cameron
Army Air Forces Technical Command
Pfe
Krenek
Independence Day Observance Not Uniform in Cameron
The July 4 holiday passes with varied observance in Cameron as many businesses close, banks mute, and merchants choose independently whether to give Monday off. Rockdale American Legion Post hosts a big rodeo Monday while residents travel. Mrs. John Newton of Bobstown visits en route home from Houston to her daughter.
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Herrad
Cameron
Rockdale
American Legion Post
John Newton
Bobstown
E. F. English
Houston
Cameron native Capt Stanfield Stach on leave from Fort Banning
Capt Stanfield Stach of the Army Air Corps returned to Cameron from Fort Benning Georgia where he finished advanced parachute training. He hopes for active duty and is noted as a Cameron native and former Yee High School and A M College football lineman. He has two brothers in the air corps, Lt Paul Stach in England and Sgt David Stach at Waco.
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Stanfield Stach
Army Air Corps
Cameron
Fort Banning Ga
Army
Stach
Fort Banning
Capl
Stack
Yee
A & M College
Matty Bell
Homer Norton
West Texas
Air Corps
Paul Stach
England
David Stach
Blackland Field
Waco
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L. S. Svetlik
Buckholts
Vestnik
West Official
The
Slavonic Benevolent Association of Texas
Corsicana
W. M. Bailey
Aon Ul Pol Sel
Walter Senkel
Willie Senkel
Burlington
Ling
Aculi
Randolph Field
North Africa
Jim Francis of
Killeen
Cameron Herald
Army Aircraft Maintenance School
Kessler
Joe Meier
Cleo Malone
Jerry Malish
Helen Ruth Hightower
Capt
Ft. Banning
Secretary OF the
U.S. Treasury
J. C. Penney Company
L Thane
Ginny
J. C. Penney
Penney’s
TY Lumber
Texas
A. E. Matula
J. O. Mitchell
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