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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1945
Page
6
A collage of humorous vignettes and dialogues from a past era, featuring a boastful son recalling a Colorado mine purchase, a beleaguered father reacting to odd claims, and a string of light social mischief. The jokes span misused words, wartime wit, rail agents, and everyday family mishaps, all presented in a rapid fire newspaper humor column voice.
Wartime Office of War Information summary urges citizens to secure overseas mail, replant victory gardens, and salvage tin. It details ration stamp dates for meats fats and processed foods, shoe stamps, sugar, fuel oil, and gasoline increases for 3 million B ration users. Also covers farmer AA-2 priority upgrades, surplus property for veterans via SWPC, and steps to obtain farm supplies and business-start surplus items through the Smaller War Plants Corporation.
Price Administrator Chester Bowles said four percent cuts will apply to used passenger car ceiling prices and to charges for added equipment starting July 1 under the rollback provisions. The regulation requires sole proprietorship or limited non-veteran partnership in veteran businesses. Meanwhile meat price ceilings will be published in 3,000,000 bulletins detailing top prices by cut and grade, to be distributed nationwide to curb the black market.
Mr and Mrs Albert Dutcher and son Albert Jr Mrs Jess Gibbs of Lissig Mrs Jake Wood and daughter Betty Ruth visited Markham on Sunday They brought a fried chicken dinner and laid it out at the home of Miss Vina Lee Barnett surprising her and her mother on their return from church services
Mr. and Mrs. Lester P. W. Bunge announce the birth of a son on Monday June 4. The baby weighs 9 pounds and will be named Lester P. W. Bunge Jr. Austin visitor Ce Johnson traveled home with Mrs. Johnson and two children who had stayed with the Cain family.
A railroad workers' paper prints an editorial praising General Dwight D. Eisenhower as he travels to Washington on June 18 for a joint session in his honor. The piece lauds his modesty, leadership, and concern for soldiers and families, contrasting him with harsher officers. The edition also notes social events and local visits including Mr and Mrs John Clipson hosting a barbecue and relatives visiting in San Antonio and Houston.
Austin reports the University of Texas Clayton Cotton Investigation and Research Institute studies include using parasitic insects to locate boll weevils and dithane a DDT derivative to combat pests. Research Associate Joan Carpenter tests insect search power while Miss Elizabeth Moore cites dithane field trials near Manor Texas with results expected in fall. The Clayton Institute has run 10 years of experiments addressing root rot drought boll weevils and quality improvements in cotton.
S R Trammel and C L Mill visited El Campo Hospital to accompany Mrs Trammel home. She recuperating satisfactorily and hopes rise she will be up soon. Henry Kretzschmar returned to Military Hospital San Antonio after sixty day furlough at home following service in the European Theatre.
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