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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1943
Page
5
Wartime digest notes ration reminders for gasoline sugar and stamps with dates and values, plus Second War Loan Drive aims of thirteen billion dollars. Mentions Army victory gardens, tin collections, farm meat points, and food demonstrations. Reports on labor and production, lettuce prices, canned fish, and women on railroads.
A boss in a small jacket factory discusses the ten percent pledge for War Bonds with Bessie the worker. She asks if a dollar a week could be acceptable after living costs, and the boss explains payroll savings and sacrifice. A Treasury Department representative observes. Other local notices mention a guest from Scranton and recovery news from Laughlin Hospital.
A collection of humor and banter scenes featuring soldiers sailors and civilians with wordplay about trains, planes, dentistry and bananas. The sketches contrast wartime morale and everyday surprises including a Navy slogan gag a concussion quip and a misheard concert remark through a chorus of named speakers and punchlines.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Berecr announce the arrival of a baby girl Elizabeth Ann Pi on April 7 at the baptism site. Popp deferred from army to help with essential farm work at home. Leopoldes visit and doctors remove tonsils. Schoellmanns travel from Needles California with work in Houston Santa Fe yards. Local spring weather and farm notes mention shifts to war crop planting peanuts and sorghum with impacts on soil building plans.
Plan to supply rubber tires and tubes for converting about 20 000 tractors and implements from storm wheels since May 1 142. War boards authorize conversions on firmer county applications. Program aims to move implementment between farms and restore dairy farming through selective service measures.
An unclear narration describes a traveler biting a banana aboard a train then entering a dark tunnel. The country folk react in fear as a man loses sight after a single bite.
The following boys have been named as lettermen in Basketball for the past season. Co achieving Sonny Spanitel and Gordo Edward Causes, George y, Charlie Spulinger, Gene Selph, and Stanley Kucherka. Those boys that will receive referee letters, Roland Ingram, Gene Durbin and Kenneth Davis. The Bagles finished third in the district last on behind EL Campo and Rosenberg. Edward Cawsey, Charlie Spil inger, Gene Selph, Gene Durbin and Kenneth Davis will return next year for another season of competition.
Laughlin Hospital records show a mix of surgical and medical cases from the past week. Entries include Earl Carter, Banns, HL Reading, E.W. Smith of Houston, W. H. Shaw, Garwand Victor Engelhard, Doris Wilson of Sheridan, Alvin Wohleffel and Mrs. I. S. Peters, plus Baby Charteen Moore and Ben Austin among others.
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