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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1943
Page
4
A fragmented Clifton Meridian Record page blends family notices with wartime finance. It reports births, marriages, and visits while detailing new income tax exemptions, rates, and withholding debates as citizens discuss changes under wartime policy.
New guidance changes how mail to U S Navy personnel is addressed. Overseas personnel should use care of Fleet Post Office in New York or San Francisco, while shore station addresses within the mainland should omit care of postmaster. Air mail uses care of Fleet Post Office. Postmaster A I Brone notes age of the practice in this front-page notice.
The Henderson Times notes visitors from Waco and Dallas including Mr and Mrs H J Seidel and Dorothy Seidel as well as Corporal and Mrs Jemne L Gandy and Miss Wanda Jordan visiting local families. It lists multiple land transactions totaling large sums, and reflects on HV Dunbar's thirty-one years in railroad service, plus a poetry excerpt about the Bosque.
Hugh G. Hurst, longtime Bogalusa YMCA general secretary, will report to the University of Arizona in Tucson in February to serve as a recreational officer with the Navy Reserve. He came to Bogalusa in 1930 as boys’ secretary and became general secretary in 1980. He is married with two children and will take leave of absence for the duration, planning to return after the war.
Ensign Richard A Obenhaus son of Mr and Mrs T A Obenhaus of Clifton graduates from naval indoctrination at Tucson Ariz among 473 officers. Capt W Ex Chandle presents the class address. The program covers seamanship ordnance naval regulations and navigation.
In Lisbon on February 9 a German official with an export permit attempted to take four pigs, one extra beyond two allowed. An argument with a Portuguese customs guard ensued after the German spat at the guard, who then shot the official dead at the airport. The incident ends with the guard fatally shooting the German.
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