WAAC trainees graduate from Daytona Beach school
Edith Jane Yates Bettie Young and Thelma Pacl of Charleston behind the wheel for uniform service as auxiliary auxiliary corps specialists after completing driving method training at the Waac specialist school in Daytona Beach Florida. Seaman William B. Coates returns to Great Lakes naval training after a 10 day visit with his family. Various service members receive transfers assignments promotions and leaves across forts camps and bases in the region with details of home towns and relatives.
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Auxs
Edith Jane Yates
Summers Pl
Bettie Jane Young
McCorkle
Charleston
Thelma Jean Pac
Glen Rogers
Waac
Daytona Beach
Flo
William B. Coates
Great Lakes
A. B. Costes
Beckley
L. H. Whittington
Sissonville
Pic
Quentin F.O Whittington
Clearwater
Fla
Hitnels
Howard Cummings
Chandlera Branch
Alfred L. Cummings
California
Camp Peary
Thomas O. McClung
Alligator Trapping Practices Reported in Cajun Fishing Skiffs
The article describes Cajun trappers hunting alligators from small skiffs using long poles to pull gators from dens. Methods include striking between the eyes with an ax or shooting the animal. Prime hides fetch about 5.50 dollars. It also notes a minister’s wife in Ipswich serving as deputy assistant chaplain general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Charleston Gazette
Dasplt
O. D. Wiles
Ipswich
England
Navy Advances and Leave for Local Service Members
Petty Officer Cecil A. Martin III recently advanced to third class and received leave to visit his parents in Coal Fork. Elmer A. Stone Jr of South Charleston graduated near the top of his class at the Jacksonville naval aviation training center and advanced to third class. Cpl George Confere Jr has returned to Camp Crowder after 15 days with his wife and parents. Pvt Gerald Cavendish has been assigned to the armament school at Lowry Field. George Abraham transferred from Clearwater to Flint for army corps specialist training after WVU attendance and Cincinnati graduation. Richard Lee Salmons, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, is on furlough with his parents in Jefferson Park.
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Camp Claiborne
J. A. McClung
W. B. Engan
1St Av
Allen O. McClung
California
James FR. Vinyard
Ina Vinyard
Chesapeake
Camp Hood
Tex
Edward B. Parrish
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Albert B. Hostettler
Besse Hostettler
Roane St
Army
Transportation Corps
State College
Miss
Hostettler
Corps
Sam Saloum, Jr
Sam M. Saloum
F. St
South Charleston
Ft. Sal Okla
Ira W. Kinzer, Jr
Mra
Ira W. Kinzer
Beckley
Helen Kinzer
Oak Hill
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Wright Aeronautical
Pater
Lewisburg
Army Air Soorces
Republic Aviation Corp
Farmingdale
L 1
John P. Toney
Ira L. Toney
Burnwell
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Camp Robinson
Ark
C. W. McGuffin
Hilltop
Thomas W. McGuffin
Navy
San Diego
South Pacific
Mc jGuffin
Helen
Thomas
Miami
Henry D. Reed
Charleston
Camp Blanding
Fla
255Th Infantry Regiment
Maj. Reed
Louis Reed
CPA
E. E. Higgins
Dunbar
Greenbrier Military School
University of Southern California
West Virginia University
A. M. Larck
Gallagher
Pvt
Warren Larck
Camp Pickett
Jack Adams
Camp Atlantic Beach
Fls
Poct
Fredrick
E. Kiser
Cain S. Kiser
Army Air Forces
Steve Franicon
Sam Franson
U. S. Naval Station
Sampson
N. Y
Fred Sherwood
Cannelton
Tennessee
Monroe Bailey
Dayton Bailey
Route 4
Shelby
Cecil A. Martin
Joe Martin
Coal Fork
Martin
Fort Bragg
Cal
Elmer A. Stone, Jr
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Jacksonville
Stone
South Charleston High School
Carbide & Carbon Chemcal Corp
George Confere, Jr
Camp Crowder
George Confere
Montgomery
Gerald Cavendish
E. If. Cavendish
Ansted
Lowryfield
Colo
George Abraham
Joseph Abraham
737 Central Av
Clearwater
Flint
Mich
Army Bircorps
Pfe. Abraham
West Virginia Universit
University of Cincinnati
Richard Lee Salmons
Jerome Salmons
Jefferson Park
Alligator diet shocks New Orleans observers
In New Orleans a Louisiana wildlife official describes alligator eating habits. He lists muskrats, raccoons, mink, rabbits, snakes, fish and birds found in stomachs. The alligator is said to be smart and frequently disrupts bird nests by striking from saplings.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Armand T. Daspit
Mars
Annual Game Protectors School Cancelled in July
The eighth annual game protectors school planned for July 18 to 24 at Camp Caesar in Webster County was ordered cancelled by Conservation Director Jack Shipman. Six district meetings will be held instead at locations to be announced.
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Game Protectors
Camp Caesar
Webster County
Jack Shipman
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