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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1945
Page
4
The column lists residents and visitors in Fort Worth and surrounding areas. It notes hospital stays including an appendectomy and discharge, veterans and family visits, plus local elections and upcoming weather and farm news. The tone mirrors a small town bulletin with multiple names and places.
For sale items include 1 electric welder 1 acetylene welder 2 band grinders 1 Yahoree electric drill 1 chain hoist 1 lot of tape and dies 2 vises hand tools and other equipment. Located at Conoco station east oil and parts Crantils Gap Texas. Leaving due to illness. A N Younger Crantils Gap Texas 83-2tp
The U S Bureau reports adequate moisture overall for the week ended Sept 18 but western Texas stayed dry. Drouth and high winds hinder sowing while harvest proceeds nationwide with labor shortages from rotton picker demand. Livestock condition largely good though ranges are deep in West and South Deans.
A garbled OCR entry lists a birthplace in Maine on February 19 with a line about a mother. It then references multiple names of service members linked to Meridian and Valley Mille areas, including Grover W. Noel, B. Herrin, and several others, scattered across towns like Cranfilla Gap and Walnut Springs, Rt 1.
Polio cases reach 787 in Texas with 44 new reports, while the week ending Sept 16 shows 622 dynamometer-like cases above the seven year average. A conference on junior colleges and veterans programs is planned for Oct 10 at the University of Texas with Dr G C Calvert and a team outlining technical institute courses for veterans seeking tech training.
Whitney Camp, Whitney, was notified by the war department that her son S Sgt Yornce Camp, captured at Corregidor, had been liberated from a Japanese prison camp at Osaka, Japan. He was an air force mechanic who went overseas in November 1941 and served in the Philippines. Family messages show letters received from January 1942 and later, documenting his captivity and release.
The page lists upcoming football broadcasts with several stations like WALK Dallas P92 Fort Worth KABO Lompkin KNOW and KABC plus KTSA San Antonio and KRIS Corpus Christi with play by play teams. It also covers a Jorgeneson reunion at Marina State Park on Sep 22 1845 with many relatives from Meridian Waco Longview and other Texas towns sharing baskets hiking and renewing friendships.
Lt and Mrs Curtis Pederson arrived early this week from Louisiana where he has been stationed for months. They will relocate to Beattie Washington where he will be stationed indefinitely.
In Austin on September 22 the state War Manpower Commission reports that more than half of laid off workers from 16 Texas war plants between August 14 and September 18 have been placed in new jobs. During the period 24 layouts occurred with 24,024 workers finding new work, and the office is preparing a more complete report.
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