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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1944
Page
6
The City of Eagle Lake Texas presents its 1943 1944 financial statement detailing general funds revenues expenditures and balances. It lists revenue sources including taxes licenses and miscellaneous receipts and outlines expenditures for public safety public works and administration. The document provides an overview of fiscal health and year end balances.
Prepared by the Office of War Information, this weekly rural press digest reports wartime rationing stamps and coupons, fuel and tire rules, and updates on Combined Food Board findings. It notes UK food shortages and U.S. and Canada measures, plus ration guidance for meats fats sugar gas fuel oil shoes and air stamps.
The notice cites the Interest and Bond Retirement Fund totaling 11,643.85 and the Street Fund. It lists a financial allocation or transfer between the two funds, with amounts presented as part of a municipal accounting record. No dates or entities beyond fund names are specified.
The Office of Price Administration expands tire eligibility for small trucks delivering essential foods and medical supplies to eight ply or smaller tires and all passenger tire sizes. Delivery trucks for cosmetics ice cream tobacco and retail stores are ineligible for liens. used tires may be obtained for passenger and truck tires. The notice also covers fuel coal and household item rationing, sugar allocations for service members, surplus phonographs pricing, and wartime production shifts toward synthetic rubber and ethyl alcohol.
Southern Pacific and its partners Pacific Fruit Express and Union Pacific unveiled a 1994 rolling stock program costing about 15 million dollars. It includes 1,000 new cars at an estimated 5.5 million, plus over 9.9 million for repairs and maintenance at Express Company shops. The effort aims to boost perishable shipment capacity and match a record 421,900 cars loaded in 1943.
In May 1919 about 500 men gathered at the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce to form the Continental Gas Association, marking 25 years of Texas oil industry growth. The piece notes era context, references Babe Ruth, Dempsey, Alcock and Brown, and contrasts 1919 with modern Texas oil drilling depth, production, and county activity while recalling prohibition era attitudes and notable figures.
The Red Cross warns an inquisitive child in a kitchen is a risk for burns and explosions from pots pans and splashing grease. Parents should keep matches out of reach turn pot handles away from children and if grease catches fire let it burn out not water. Salt can help smother flames. The item also notes a family trip to San Antonio and visits with relatives in Nacogdoches.
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