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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1945
Page
2
The city of Zanesville in Ohio was designated by the Literary Digest as the typical American city, highlighting its representative urban profile and civic characteristics.
In Dallas on December 5 the Marine Corps announced a new two year enlistment option for recruits and discharged Marines re enlisting. The change reduces former three to four year terms effective December 1 and is expected to boost enlistments amid the Dempsey Firpo boxing bout noting a brief two round fight with multiple knockouts.
Alfred Lane of Brenham, son of Mr and Mrs Arleigh Ruggles, achieved the Eagle Scout rating after joining a Brenham troop three years ago following a move from Eagle Lake. A junior in high school, Lane maintains strong grades, serves as business editor of the high school annual, and works for the Brenham Banner Press, earning praise from the publisher Tom Whitehead and admiration from peers and teachers.
Mr and Mrs J L Waddell left last week for a visit with their children in Houston. Mrs Waddell has been ill for two weeks and friends hope for her speedy recovery.
Upland Arkansas, a town with a population of four, is believed to be the smallest incorporated city in the United States, drawing attention as a rare municipal footnote in national records.
Governor Coke R. Stevenson proclaims Saturday December 8 as Sister Kenny Day in Texas. The 1945 appeal for the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Infantile Paralysis Foundation Fund is under way nationwide, with a Texas goal of 250000 dollars and a plan to end the drive on Kenny Day. The campaign aims to train Kenny technicians and nurses in Texas to provide Kenny treatment to polio victims, with efforts already active in Dallas Fort Worth Houston and Corpus Christi. Bing Crosby as national campaign chairman will broadcast December 5 to urge support. State headquarters are at the Driskill Hotel in Austin.
Pvt Matthews News Pvt and Mrs Thumann and children visited parents in Weimar. Pvt Thumann returned to Missouri camp. Mrs George Cason and son George joined Mr and Mrs J L Walker of Weimar to Uvalde for the weekend. Rudy Thumann family hosted relatives including Mr and Mrs Frank Christen of Weimar and Pfc and Mrs Oscar Hinkel of Obisco. George Cason and Bill Pickett hunted deer at Fredericksburg. G E Thomas Sr renewed six subscriptions in Weimar. The word eternity appears once in the bible.
The campaign will accept contributions directly from donors who have not been solicited. Each contributor will receive a personal letter from the National Chairman Bing Crosby.
De and Mrs Ralph Fuller visited the Headlight Office on Tuesday afternoon and plan to stay with relatives until after Christmas. Dr Fuller recently discharged from the United States Navy. Corporal Wilbur Wade from San Antonio spent the weekend with his wife and her parents. Leonard Seaholm of the University of Texas visited with his father and mother, flying in from Austin in a new plane but leaving it due to bad weather. Mrs Cole, with her daughter’s family from Corpus Christi, visited sisters in Dallas last week.
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