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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1945
Page
3
Daly, writing in The AI- A Ganexin Journal on Monday 22nd suggests the plan for a welcome home party for GIs. A point system would decide meals and who returns home next, with friends pooling red points for a dinner and a routine of line forms. Decorations and small gifts like a sweater are advised to help the men transition to civilian life.
Austin November 7. The pamphlet What's Ahead for Me is prepared for high school and college students to aid in choosing occupations and education. Sutherland, director of education, says it should spread in high schools and in freshmen orientation courses. Nancy Jingon visited from out of town, while the Biccas travel through Oklahoma Tennessee and Florida. Seventy four Texans were aboard the USS Minneapolis. the Lone Star flag is unfurled.
Barrow of St. Petersburg Ida spent a few days here last week with his mother Mrs Nannie.
Reverend John Larson, pastor of St Thomas Episcopal Church Wharton and Newgulf, will depart the diocese in mid November for a new parish in Back Axe Michigan after eight years in the diocese. He will lead his final service at St Thomas next Sunday as friends bid him farewell and wish the family happiness in their new home.
Paddock Engineering Company received the contract for the $30,000 swimming pool to be built in Wharton. Ground for the pool was broken this week. This municipal facility will be among the finest, featuring three large filter plants and continuous chlorination. Plans include modern submarine lighting and health safeguards for all bathers at all times.
The Texas Outlook lists Eagle Lake as an Honor School with Superintendent W C Reed. The notice appears in the state teachers association publication. A stray line adds a humorous aside about visiting sons in law and morning paper usage.
A portrait of Texas as a land of cowboys and cattle drives, with Longhorn herds bound for Abilene and a culture defined by boots, spurs, hats, bandanas, and six guns. The piece surveys Texas history through notable figures like Joe Bailey Clyde and Bonnie, Albert Sidney Johnston, O Henry, King Ranch, Amon Carter and Jesse Jones, painting a vibrant panorama of explorers, rangers, outlaws, boom towns and enduring state identity.
Humble Oil and Refining Co. will broadcast four football games this Saturday as the Southwest Conference chase intensifies. Texas A M faces Baylor in Austin at 2 15 p m with Charlie Jordan and Jerry Doggett providing commentary. stations listed include KGSF KFDM and WACO among others. Rice meets Arkansas in Houston with Kern Tips and Bill Michiels handling play by play and color. Texas A M College travels to College Station to play Texas A M and S M A travels to College Station.
A fragment recalls Houston as a world part and the University of Texas tied to oil wealth. It mentions Robert E. Lee on the frontier and an old settler asked for land title, then Brit Bailey who asked to be buried standing facing west with his gun, a jug, and a box.
Broadcasts will air at 2 15 pm on KRLD Dallas KTRH Houston KABC San Antonio WTAW College Station and KW2BN Corpus Christi. An intercollegiate game brings TCU to Lubbock with Texas Tech at 2 95 pm Dave Russell calls plays Alec Chesser provides color. Coverage also on WRR Dallas KFIZ Fort Worth KRBC Abilene KBWD Brownwood KBST Big Spring KR Midland KGKL San Angelo KEYO Lubbock KTHT Houston.
Miss Lois Goode Yeoman United States Navy and her fiancé Allen Glueck were toasted by friends at a Monday evening party at Club Montezuma. Goode had just arrived from New Orleans where she served, and the couple wed the prior Thursday in a small ceremony.
Ambiguous sputum filled ad style notice urges rapid bronchitis treatment. Mentions Creomulsion as soothing remedy and a money back claim. Vague references to chest pain coughing and a special pine resin component.
A fragmented excerpt notes social customs where women display rings as a marriage symbol and men dress in attire from the previous year. The text provides minimal context and reads as a brief cultural observation.
L B Medsken and his family have relocated from Chesterville to Eagle Lake.
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