Corporal Clarence Miculka Dies of Wounds in Germany
Telegrams reached Eagle Lake announcing Corporal Clarence Miculka died of wounds in Germany on April 24. Born June 30, 1916, he grew up near Eagle Lake and served over two years in the European Theatre. He leaves his father Charles Miculka Sr and siblings in Texas and Houston. his mother died earlier this year.
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Corporal Clarence Miculka
Germany
United States
Europe
Eagle Lake
Clarence Miculke
Miculka
J. 4
Secretary of War
Clarence Miculka
Ed McRee
Colorado
Wharton County
Clarence
Matthews
Nedra
Eldridge
Armed Service
Chas. Miculka, Sr
Charles, Jr
August
Near Eagle Lake
Henry
Freeport
Alphonse
United States Army
Fort Worth
Mary Dittrich
Agrana Mayer
Houston
Ella Wilkins
Annie Bennett
Hempstead
News From Uncle's Boys In Service Here And Abroad
Telegram brings word of Frederick Hoeninghaus’s safe arrival in San Francisco he will get a furlough before returning home from the Pacific excursion his Army service began January 18 1942 after sailing for duty and Philippine Campaign Braxton Green discharged from Navy veteran of World War I visits relatives then returns to Houston Louis Nathan cabling Mother's Day greeting from Germany with a German regimental album including Hitler images Jimmy Mathis back from sixteen months in the Pacific visits family prior to leaving for Galveston Lt Ernest Frnka home on leave from Fort Bummer New Mexico
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Wren
Hnally
F. A. Hoeninghaus
Saif
Frederick Hoeninghaus
Sea Francists
San Antonio
Frederic
Pacific
Philippine
Navy
Braxton Green
Louis Nathan
Meyer D. Nathan
Germany
Louis
Hitler
Pacirin
Jimmy Mathis
Prtr
Lissie
Eegle Lake
Sam Mathis
Jimmy
Eagle Lake
L Hintz
Galveston
Ernest F. Frnka
Fort Bummer
New Mexico
Victory Prayers in Park for Victory in Europe and Japan
Tuesday prayers closed business in Eagle Lake as the Ministerial Alliance held a park service to thank for victory in Europe and the Japan campaign. Rev J W Griffin read Psalms, congregants sang, and W E Lenhart urged over subscribing the war loan while praying for service members, leaders, and citizenry.
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Ministerial Alliance
J. W. Griffin
Cody Memorial Methodist Church
Chas. L. Culpepper
First Baptist Church
America
Griffin
Europe
Harry S. Truman
County Boy Scout Drive To Start Monday May 14th
WM Lindsay chairs the Colorado County Boy Scout Finance Drive urging donations to fund a Scout program. Campaign includes May 1 to 19 outreach by field executives under Sam Houston Area Council supervision with Eagle Lake chair S Boothe. A re organized, active program aims to develop Colorado County Scouts and offers donors a shared pride in the results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WM. Lindsay
Colorado County
Boy Scout
President Truman Is Sixty One On Victory Day
President Harry S. Truman marks his sixty first birthday on Victory Day while recalling his first major presidential moment the May 8 proclamation announcing the German war machine collapse. He reads the official note to reporters before a broadcast and smiles at the birthday wishes from the press.
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Truman
Harry S. Truman
United States
Senior Play To Be Presented This Evening
The annual Senior Play at the High School Audi will be staged at eight. A comedy You're Only Young Twice features Eileen Renz as Agatha Dunning with a sorority setting on campus. Cast includes Virginia Mill Leona Arndt Leether Wright and others. Directed by Mrs. R T Westmoreland and Miss Ann Wells. Admission 30 and 15 cents. advance tickets encouraged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eileen Renz
Agatha Dunning
Virginia Mill
Leona Arndt
Leether Wright
Ola Mae Weise
Mary Kathryn Alley
Lois Beane
Jean Barnett
Sue Colly
Raymond Jochett
Walter Bauer
Harold Grasshoff
Gene Durbin
Douglas Tate
Robert
Wilcox
R.T. Westmoreland
Ann Wells
Wedding of Alvin Drescher to English Bride Described
Mr and Mrs G P Drescher of Bernardo report their son Corporal Alvin Drescher wed Miss Joyce Pauline Plummer of Shenfield England. The ceremony took place at St Marys Church Shenfield on Friday last with Rev W S Elrerant Cullis officiating. The bride wore white crepe and carried carnations. bridesmaid Miss K Plummer wore turquoise crepe and pink roses. Best man was P Plummer RA SC. The couple left for London after a reception at the bride’s home.
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G .P. Drescher
Bernardo
Inlaw
Alvin Drescher
England
Joyce Pauline Plummer
J. Plummer
Bra‘ekenhurst
Priests Lane
Shenfield
Alvin Edward Drescher
Eagle Lake
Texas
U. S.A
St. Mary's Church
W. S. Elrerant Cullis
Beak
S.J. Burrel
A. RC. O
K. Plummer
P. Plummer
London
Drescher
Eagie Lake
Destruction Fire Spurs Rebuilding Of Local Business Blocks
Contractor R H Reese Sr nears completion on the Herman Building opposite the Post Office after a February 25 blaze razed the Eagle Lake Furniture Company. Exterior walls are now studded and interior work proceeds. The Stephens Sinclair building, nearly ruined by the same fire, is also being rebuilt with Justin A Smith as contractor. The former Eagle Charters space will house Campbell Feed Store upon completion.
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R. H. Reese, Sr
Herman
Eagle Lake Furniture Company
Stephens‘Sinclair
Justin A. Smith
Eagle Charters
Campbell Feed
Day of Prayer for Mothers Day This Sunday
A Day of Prayer is set for May 13 to honor Mothers Day with a national proclamation by President Truman. City churches plan special services inviting all to attend and pray for joyful gratitude to God for victory and guidance toward peace in the ongoing struggle. Members of armed forces and their mothers are urged to join in prayer at their home churches.
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Truman
Pacific
Victory In Europe Proclaimed By The President
President Truman announced the unconditional surrender of Germany following the leaders of the United States England and Russia agreeing to terms. The news ends five years and eight months of European war as the Allied nations celebrate victory in Europe and the Allied drive toward peace.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
America
England
Russia
United States
Germany
Mr. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Mier Joseph Stalin
Harry S. Truman
Europe
United Nations
Adolph Hitler
Hitler
Rhineland
Austria
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Poland
France
Balkan Countries
Norway
Denmark
Low Countries
Seventh War Loan Starts Strong At Eagle Lake
Eagle Lake begins the Seventh War Loan drive with bonds for 140000 in E Bonds and 270000 in Over-All Bonds. Local chairmen were elected and volunteers from Lions and Rotary Cubs organize to take orders. The fund emphasizes ongoing needs for a long war, including more B 29s tanks jeeps and rockets, urging citizens to buy extra bonds and support workers on the drive.
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Eagle Lake
Rotary Hall
Lenhart
Chaban
John Hash
Lions
Rotary Cubs
D. R. Wintermann
Hayes Stephens
S. ©. Boothe
W. M. Lindsay
Duncan
Europe
Globe
Japan
England
Pacific
Male
Chesterville Girl To Graduate From Breckenridge School Of Nursing
Miss Lenora Selph daughter of Mr and Mrs M Selph of Chesterville will graduate with the Breckenridge School of Nursing class in Austin Commencement is set for Thursday May 17 at 8 PM in the University Junior High School Auditorium The Bac calaurette Sermon will be preached May 13 at 11 AM at St Martins Lutheran The Headlight joins friends in extending congratulations
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Lenora Selph
M. 5
Selph
Chesterville
Breckenridge School of Nursing At
Austin
University Junior High School
St. Martin's Luthern Church
Oil Activities of Interest in and Near Colorado County
Colorado County oil field updates show Plow No 7 testing both producing sands and dual completed. Plow No 14 drilled to 10 432 feet with casing set at 10 431 feet. Delatine No 1 spudded May 7 now drilling shallow. Stanolind wildcat planned near Chesterville, 1650 feet from SW and 2310 feet from NE line. 9750 feet to drill in about ten days. Felix Fehrenkamp No 1 Columbus reached 10 988 feet with gas show. 6 000 000 feet opened in open flow potential. Shelly's No 1 Hamel 446 feet from NW corner of 203-acre tract six miles southwest of Columbus expected next week. Sun No 1 Duncan drilling past 9600 feet. Gordon Well spudded Louis A Gordon near Chesterville six and a half miles NNE of Eagle Lake. planned to 9 650. Weise No 1 testing in Chesterville by Stanolind. Cities Service Drilling updates from new activity.
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Shell OU
Delatine No
Provident City
Hayes Stephens
Stanolind
Chesterville
Colorado County
G. H
Felix Fehrenkamp No
Columbus
Sinclair Prairie No. 1
Felix Fehrenkamp
Shelly
Hamel
Northwst
Jerrald P Everitt Dies In Action Over Germany
The community mourns Flight Officer Jerrald P. Everitt killed in a reconnaissance mission over Heibrown Germany on March 13. He left Eagle Lake for service after high school, earned Army Air Corps Wings, known as Squirrel to friends. He leaves his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Everitt Sr and siblings Majorie and C. E. Jr with many relatives awaiting further word.
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Jerrald P. Everitt
C. E. Everitt
War Department
Jerrald
Heibroon
Germany
Jerry
University of Texas
Army Air Corps
Evaritt
C. E. Evaritt, Jr
Eagle Lake
Majorie Everitt
Houston
J. M. Eyvoritt
Lissie
Death Confirmed of Garwood Soldier Robert Shimek
Confirmation arrives that Robert Shimek of Garwood died in action in France on April 31 during World War I. He had recently turned nineteen after enlisting and serving with American troops. he was a Garwood High School graduate and only child of Mr. and Mrs. John Shimek.
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Garwood
John Shimek
War Department
Robert Shimeik
Carlier
France
Shimmek
John
Wedneday
Rosenberg
Young Shimek
Garwood High
Shimek
Robert
Lt. R. R. Wells Jr. Is Awarded Army Air Medal
Lt. R. R. Wells Jr. son of Mr and Mrs R R Wells and husband of the former Miss Virginia Fair Frazar of Eagle Lake has been awarded the Army Air Medal for meritorious aerial achievement after completing combat sorties. He also wears the Bronze Star and Purple Heart and serves with the Armored Field Artillery. Mrs Wells faculty at Eagle Lake School has received souvenirs including a Nazi flag a German banner a sabre and bayonet.
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Sixth Armored Division
Germany
Fagle Lake Bay
R. R. Wells, Jr
R. R. Wells
Virginie Fair Frazar
United States
Wells
A. & M. College
Armored Field Artillery
Eagle Lake Sschool
Rice irrigation begins Wednesday in Lakeside district
Irrigation of the rice crop started this week on Wednesday as River Prairie and Lake plants of the Lakeside Irrigation Company began their pumps. About twenty five thousand acres of rice are planted in the service radius of these three plants.
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Lakeside Irrigation Company
Five Started to Drill at Cities Service Site Colum
John Schobel reports that the five workers began drilling at the Cities Service location in Colum, with activity underway and crew details pending official updates.
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Columbus Field
John Schobel
Canning Sugar Rations Sharp Reduction by OPA
OPA announces a sharp sugar ration cut to curb civilian use amid military needs and European hunger. Stamp 36 stretched to four months. cafes and hotels face lower allocations. home canning max drops from 20 to 15 pounds per person and 120 pounds per family. Local boards to issue 70 percent of last year’s monthly ration. Also notes health update on Miss Mamie Johnson and a quick social update from Laughlin Hospital and local residents.
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Europe
OPA
Mamie Johnson
Laughlin Hospital
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Belle Nail
A. H. Seaholm
School of Nursing
Rom
Acre
S. A
M. G
Ee Sun No
Cities Service Drilling
P. Evoritt
Robert Shimek
R. R. Wells Jr
Army Air Medal
V. Duncan
Vasit
G. B. Gardner
Drew Kolstad
Will Keller
Palestine
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