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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1946
Page
5
Classified ad notices offer sand gravel and yard gravel delivery and road gravel. Estimates given for any job size. Contact L Starkey or write Box 518 Eagle Lake Texas. 15-101.
Two real good standard make pianos offered for quick sale. Upright plain case and spinner type with mirror, guaranteed to play like new. Terms available. Address 3909 S Main St Houston Texas. Also for sale baby chicks from pure bred blood test flocks at Camp Ell Feed and Supply Store.
Notice to residents of Eagle Lake and nearby communities that a Fuller Brush representative is introducing himself at doors with products including mops waxes and related cleaning goods.
An assortment of classified notices includes a telephone line, a call for at least 100 customers to start a garbage service with biweekly pickups, and canisters provided. It also promotes farm buildings by Baselunsford Company Houston Texas for sale or rental properties, Jersey cows for sale, a Harley Davidson 42 model for sale, and rental or sale housing notices in various Texas locales with contact notes.
Reports late this week note two tests in Colorado County by Superior Oil Company and Skelly Oil Company. Deep test in Altair pool reached 11,000 feet with a fishing job at 10,323 feet. a sidetrack down to 6,202 feet. Hamel pool well drilling below 6,500 feet. One well in Wharton County abandoned at 8,150 feet. Other fields show activity with multiple wells in progress and near 9,520 feet.
Garwood native Chas J Kallina received his Army commission as second lieutenant on May 29 at Fort Benning Georgia after completing the Infantry School Officer Candidate Course He had earlier enlisted August 29 1945 served with the 89th Battalion 18th Regiment at Camp Roberts California and is a Gawood High School graduate who attended A&M College College Station The Infantry School trains leaders in modern infantry weapons tactics and military administration with OC course fellows drawn from top ranks across units to become America’s finest officers
War Department issues a booklet listing about 450 MOS codes and re enlistment grades based on time in duty. Veterans discharged within 90 days may return with their old grade by July 1 1946. Those discharged since May 12 1945 should bring discharge papers and WD AGO Form 100 to Columbus recruiting station to learn the highest reentry grade. Family allowances are guaranteed only for enlistments before June 30 1946. enlisting afterward loses the extra pay. More men become victims: insanity than do women.
Pat M Neff Jr a leading Texas AG candidate outlines a vigorous statewide drive ahead of the June 27 First Primary His travels span Orange to El Paso with a week of town to town stops from June 10 through June 14 including Humbie Cleveland Coldspring Livingston Corrigan Diboll Lufkin Alto Rusk Mount Enterprise Henderson Kilgore Longview Carthage Center San Augustine Nacogdoches Zavalla Woodville Jasper Newton Kirbyville Silsbee Liberty Dayton Houston Hempstead Navasota Bryan Hearne Bremond Mart in Waco and a statewide radio broadcast scheduled for June 14 as he presses for organizational work statewide
Monday night drills at Flame emphasize god attendance and all public vehicles yield to fire engines. Two fires this week caused minor damage to a car and a truck. The article urges complete right of way for firemen and notes next Monday June 10 as regular practice night. Nearby visits by Jessie and Dicey Wright to Houston, and Emshorf family from Columbus, are mentioned alongside humorous lines about furniture and royal figures.
Houston May 30 The Veterans Administration vows to give first priority to veterans with service connected injuries or illnesses for hospitalization and medical care as VA expands facilities. VA officials say war injuries will be treated before other cases and no out patient treatment exists for non service connected illnesses. The hospital building program aims to care for 150000 patients at one time once completed in about three years.
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