Breckenridge Breck- area Airman Magness Killed in New Guinea
The article honors Lt. Tex Magness co pilot of a B 24 Liberator shot down over New Guinea during a mission. He earned the Flying Cross and Airman's Medal for combat action and more than 100 hours of operations in the South Pacific. He was a football star at Santa Barbara State College and Ventura Junior College. He is survived by four sisters and two brothers.
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Themes
Breck- Sah
Magness
Ber- Magness
M ‘Tex Magness
Breckenridge Buckaroos
Bertom
Wewak
New Guinea
South Pacific
Santa Barbara State College
Ventura Junior College
Kelly Field
Texas
Roxie Magness
Ventura
Dena
Zena
Wanda
Miss Veda
Sipe Springs Man Buys Registered Jersey
A resident of Sipe Springs purchased a registered Jersey cow at a local sale. The transaction adds a pedigree animal to the buyer’s dairy herd and reflects ongoing cattle trading in the region.
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Sipe Springs Man
Baptist Ass'n Set To Convene At Lake Eanes on Sept
A Baptist association plans a session at Lake Eanes on September 2 with a large crowd expected. The clerk has mailed notices to churches. those who did not receive one should send a card to D. E. Nabers Comanche Route 1. Maintenance funds are emphasized as about 300 dollars needed for minutes and work. Committees finalize details and reports are due to proceed with the program. Attendees are urged to come praying and hopeful for a successful session.
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Ce Ade
Wen. En
D. E. Nabers
Comanche
Route 1
Congressman Sam Russell Visits Comanche for Livestock Meet
Congressman Sam Russell of Stephenville spent Friday afternoon in Comanche attending the Annual Livestock Association Meeting and Barbecue at Lake Eanes Park.
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Sam Russell
Stephenville
Comanche
Livestock Association
Lake Eanes Park
Robertson son earns promotion in Bombardier training
Lt. Robertson son of Mr and Mrs Loomis Robertson from Comanche County route 4 graduated Comanche High School in 1939 and attended John Tarleton College at Stephenville. He was commissioned at Midland Army Air Flying School in October 1942. His wife Mrs Fannie Robertson resides at 017 W Bowery Street.
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AAF
Bombardier School
Big Spring
Robertson
Loomis Robertson
Comanche
John Tarleton Cculture College
Stephenville
Midland Army Air Flying School
Fannie Robertson
Appointment as county chairman of War Finance Committee
The Treasury Department announces a new War Finance Committee organization to include War Savings Staff and War Loan drives. The Third War Loan drive begins September 9 with a fifteen billion dollar goal aimed at nonbanking investors. Local volunteers are urged to form county teams, with guidance from regional and state offices in Dallas.
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Pointment
War Finance Committee
Comanche County
Department
War Savings Staff
Treasury Department
Dallas
Wisconsin Couple Wed After Military Ceremony in England
Mrs. Ted Derham Lt Gladycett of Arpin Wisconsin and LA Durham of Comanche wed Thursday August 8 in a former military ceremony at a station hospital in England. The bride is daughter of a Medical Corps branch. Lt Durham was promoted to first lieutenant in April. They met aboard ship en route to England last October while both assigned to the 38th Station Auburndale High pol in Arpin.
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Gladycett
Arpin
Wisconsin
LA. Durham
Comanche
England
The
Medical Corps
Wellnitz
Durham
Auburndale High Pol
Groom
Nehe High School
Ham
London
Local Board Moves to Reclassify Men For War Service
The Comanche County Local Selective Service Board will reclassify pre Pearl Harbor fathers and others amid rumors. New rules place loafers and certain workers in 1-A, with classifications 1-C, 2-A, 2-B, AC, 3-A, 4-A, 4-D, 4-E, 4-F and H as applicable, potentially calling some to induction in October.
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Comanche County
Callaway
Birth of Daughter to Pfc and Mrs Jack Dutton
Pfc and Mrs Jack Dutton announce the birth of a daughter on Sunday August 8. The announcement notes the new arrival but the location details are incomplete in the notice.
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PFC
Jack Dutton
Lt Gayle Hilley Transfered To Osaka Prison Camp
Lt Gayle Hilley son of Mr and Mrs A A Hilley of Sidney is a prisoner of war of the Japanese. He has been moved to Osaka Prison Camp in Japan after being taken in May 1942 following the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. The Red Cross relayed a notice via the War Department to his parents.
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Gayle Hilley
A. A. Hilley
Sidney
Osaka
Japan
War Department
Hilley
Army Air Corps
Bataan and
Corregidor
Pvt Bill Edwards Sends From Texas To Army Training
Pvt Bill Edwards son of Mrs Golda Edwards of Comanche left last week for Baton Rouge Louisiana to begin a two year college training course at LSU He is a 1943 Comanche High School graduate who qualified for the two years of college as a specialist after a Army conducted exam in April He was a second lieutenant attending summer school at University of Texas when called to report in June
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Pvt
Bill Edwards
Golda Edwards
Comanche
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
L.8
U. Pvt. Edwards
Comanche High School
Army
University of Texas
Army supply rush lists vast medical bandage stockpiles
The report notes the armed forces hold 90 000 2x2 cotton pads 36 000 4x4 pads 7 200 4x8 pads and 22 500 8x10 pads. Mrs. Cox praises the large bandage quota and explains that women will likely rest a few days as the next shipment is not expected in Comanche until about September 1.
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Coz
Cox
Comanche
Annual Livestock Is Big Success
The Comanche County Livestock Association met at Lake Eanes Park to review thirty years of county livestock life and plan future steps. President C. M. Caraway was reelected, Walter Barret as vice president, and directors increased to fifteen with a committee appointed to nominate members for 1943 44. Dr. Boughton of the Sonora Experiment Station spoke on parasitic worms affecting cattle sheep and goats.
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Comanche County Livestock Association
Lake Eanes Park
C. M. Caraway
Walter Barret
R. L. Lane
Lyman E. Forrest
W. B. Barret
C. M. Albin
John Burton
A. H. Caraway
R. H. Dalton
W. J. Fritts
Wayne Evridge
J. Doss Miller
Walter Jack Barret
Harry Huddleston
E. C. Seay
W. A. Morgan
T. J. Wiliams
John B. Pogue
Boughton
Sonora Experiment Station
Missing in Action pilot Worthy Long reported
Lt Worthy Long of Lubbock husband of Myrtle McCollum of Comanche was reported missing in action on August 1. He piloted a Liberator Bomber over Germany with full crew after two months in service. Mrs Long received the War Department notice.
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Worthy Long
Lubbock
Myrtle McCollum
Comanche
Long
War Department
Auction of 150 Dairy Cattle by Eédleman-Tucker Herds
Large sale set for Tuesday at Energy in South Pacific. Eédleman-Tucker offers 150 dairy cattle including two top brood cows bred at Neale Farm in Waco and 70 Jersey heifers and milking stock. Auction starts 10:30 a.m. with many Holsteins and heavy springers, plus equipment and two work mules.
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Eédleman
Energy
Eddieman
Neale
Waco
Ty Poun
Nowerete
Enamer
Proctor Schools Open August 23 Announcement
The Proctor Public Schools will open Monday August 23 according to superintendent Perry Moring. Moring was elected as county superintendent but will head the Proctor Schools again. teachers include Perry Moring and Grace Nichols.
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Proctor Public
Perry Moring
Moring
Tendent Hill
County
Proctor
Perry
Grace Nichols
Custine Citizens Help War Effort
The Gustine Home Demonstration Club sent 24 tablecloths 24 dirty bags 32 bedside bags 6 sets of dominoes a year’s subscription to Saturday Evening Post and Harper’s Magazine to the American Red Cross Station Hospital Camp Bowie Texas. List of donors includes Jerry Collins Otis Petsick Lonny Livingston Calvin Walker Dr Donald and others.
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Gustine Home
American Red Cross
Station Hospital
Camp Bowie
Texas
Saturday Evening Post
Harper’s Magazine
Jerry Collins
Otis Petsick
Lonny Livingston
Calvin Walker
Dr. Donald
Mr. Earnest
Lee Ia
Tom Clemons
Charley Fizzell
D. Allen
Bernice Howell
Oren Greggs
Peete Johnson
A. Michel
W. J. Wyche
Jimek W. D. Starkie
T. T. Durham
B. J. McCarty
Wayne Boyd
Eargle Hillhouse
Paul Patton
Fred Adcock
J. J. Kee
Andy Durham
Bob Glover Promoted to Captain in Australia
Bob Glover of Comanche has been promoted from first lieutenant to captain in the Signal Corps while serving in Australia for about six months. He worked as a bookkeeper at Higgs Seen & Co and Dudley Bros before joining the army and attended officers training school last year.
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Bob Glover
Comanche
Glover
Signal Corps
Australia
Capt. Glover
Mip Som
Higgs
Iaboem
Seen . & Co
Dudley Bros
New Eee
Son of Comanche Couple Bags 3 German Fighters
Mr and Mrs R C Wiggins of Comanche say their son Sgt Bil Wiggins sent a letter describing action in the Sicilian campaign He a tail gunner on a Liberator bomber says he has shot down three German fighters since joining the U S Army Air Force in North Africa He has been in Africa six months in service three years and was a master sergeant before transferring from infantry to the air corps.
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R. C. Wiggins
Comanche
Bil Wiggins
Infantry
Air Corps
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M. D. Turrentine
Turrentine
County Attorne
Yy. Hampton
de Leon
Jersey
Baptist Ass'n
Lake Eanes
Congressman Russell
Ted Derham
J.R. Eanes
Fac Davis
New Majestic Theatre
Rommel
Alamein
Tripoli
Charles Starrett
Henry Fonda
Stuart Erwin
Evelyn Venable
James Cagney
Joan Leslie
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