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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1942
Page
2
The Comanche Chief reports gasoline rationing begins on Sunday November 22 with four gallons per week for most motorists. A rationing system has seven books A through R, with A for standard cars and B for higher needs, plus C for doctors and police. Registration will occur in public schools, similar to sugar cards.
Expressing gratitude for reader appreciation and credit to Editor J C Wilkerson for support. Includes light jokes about screwball Cavalry rookies and a gunnery-related quip about Mrs Worritt. Mentions Sgt H R Lacy of Camp Bowie visiting parents.
Rev D A Bryant, recently of Richland Springs, takes the post. Other items to be rationed include men’s rubber boots and rubber shoes. The order excludes men’s or women’s rubber overshoes and women’s rubber boots.
A devotional meditation contrasts King David’s luxury with prophetic rebuke and urges repentance. It cites Psalm 51 and 119 about mercy, sin, and forgiveness through Jesus Christ, stressing that true joy comes from God’s mercies and a life of charity, while warning that the sin against the Holy Ghost remains unforgiven.
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