Two Hour Daylight Raid on Tokyo by B-29s
Tokyo was bombed for two to three hours by B 29 super fortresses in daylight from Saipan. The raid aimed at industrial targets and involved waves of ten planes. Washington announced the attack as Japanese reports claimed fires and losses. General Patton was decorated for Metz capture as French forces advance at Strauburg.
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Tokyo
Air Command
Arnold
Washington
Saipan
George Patton
Metz
Eisenhower
Straousburg
Icing and Syrup Adjustments for Damp Weather
On damp or rainy days moisture makes icings and syrups soft and sticky. To compensate, boil or cook icing and syrup mixtures a bit longer to achieve the desired consistency.
Steel furnaces aid war production with diverse capacity mix
Nearly 1 000 open hearth furnaces ranging from 10 to 400 tons are producing steel for the war. Additional steel is made in 185 electric arc furnaces 38 electric induction furnaces 35 converters and 9 crucible furnaces. Spanish settlers introduced Christmas bonfires and firecrackers, a custom that astonishes northerners in Louisiana.
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Louisi
Cadet Clayton Mode Joins Big Spring Bombardier School
Cadet Clayton D Mode reports for duty at the Big Spring Bombardier School in the RAF Training Command announced by Col Ralph C Rockwood. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Sohn Mode of Cameron Texas and is married with a wife in Selman City. He attended Yee High School and Texas University and worked at Duncan Field before the service. The school trains lifelong bombardiers in a 24 week program earning wings and officer status.
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Clayton D. Mode
Big Spring
RAF Training Command
Ralph C. Rockwood
A C Mode
Sohn Mode
E. 15Th St. Cameron
Selman City
Yee High School
Texas University At
Army Air Forces
West
Texas
Heaven
Man
Ladino Clover Requires Careful Rotational Grazing
Ladino clover is a valua ble crop that differs from alfalfa and other clovers in growth habits. It cannot endure continuous grazing and needs rotation grazing with ample recovery between grazings. It requires five to six inches of top growth to survive winter, and dry conditions in summer and fall limit growth leading to increased over grazing.
Glass the Florist Praised For Fine Chrysanthemums
Mr and Mrs Lester Glass builders of a new Cameron florist home and shop receive a letter from Mrs Laurence Smoot of Austin praising their chrysanthemums. The note commends the beauty and joy the flowers bring to passers by and thanks the couple for their time care and money invested in growing them.
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Glass
Lester Glass
Cameron
Laurence K. Smoot
Austin
Eldon Powell
Texas
Widespread Adoption of Restaurant Sanitation Ordinances
The restaurant sanitation ordinance has been adopted by 81 cities with populations over 10 000 and 169 cities under 10 000, plus 137 counties and state health regulations in 18 states. It can be enforced without local adoption in 14 named states, with 144 cities in those states not yet adopting but subject to enforcement. Proper sanitation has aided wartime health measures.
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State Board of Health
Arkansas
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Indiana
Kentucky
Mississippi
Missouri
Nevada
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Bomber Springs Powered by Over a Thousand Steel Springs
A four motor bomber relies on more than 1,000 steel springs built into its fuse, engines, and armament to function.
Bethlehem Shrine Guard Keeps Peace Amid Christmas Quarrels
A policeman is stationed at the shrine of the Princes of Peace in Bethlehem as sects quarrel over Christmas, even on Christmas Day, to maintain order and prevent clashes.
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Bethlehem
Pulpwood Uses Wide Range of Supplies Cited
A historical note lists numerous uses for pulpwood including smokeless powder blood plasma containers cargo parachutes aviator vests shell casings first aid kits and commando bags among hundreds of applications.
Boxing Day customs shift to tipping invites in England
In England Boxing Day, once for giving gifts by estate sirs, has become a form of legalized blackmail drawing tips from delivery workers. Rudolph Kurtz of Houston conducted business in Cameron recently.
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England
Rudolph Kurtz
Houston
Cameron
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Jap Capital
Ana
Cadet Clayton Mode
Big Springs
Yadino Clover
Penney’s
Emory B. Camp
G.S Baskin
Baskin
Cameron, Texas
Glass the Florist
Bond
Ek. O. Schiller
Horstmann Bros
Community of Tomorrow
America
Berlin
Texas Power & Light Company
KRLO
KTBC
KTRH
KTSA
KWENM
NSUP
Kim
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