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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
7
In American industry workers wear uniforms and gear for safety. A GE spray painter uses a special nose mask to guard breathing while on vital production duties. A GE cold room researcher tests airplane instruments for high altitude performance in a laboratory.
The article urges regular battery care and charging every 30 days for unused cars, checks on specific gravity and water in plates, and keeping terminals clean. It warns about brake wear, urging adjustment, relining, and proper fluid, plus addressing squeaks and rattles by tightening bolts and screws. The piece is part ten in a General Motors Customer Research Look guide series.
An essay traces Peru as the oldest South American nation with a legacy from the Inca empire. It recounts the Inca Civil War between Atahualpa and Huascar, the Spanish conquest by Pizarro, and the ensuing decline, noting a future era of different splendor.
Lima once the seat of a vast viceroyalty and the richest colonial capital, Peru's 1824 Ayacucho victory under Sucre ended Spanish rule. Today the republic, larger than Texas and California, thrives in a tropical highland setting with 7 million people, rich mineral resources, major crops, and growing self reliance while importing machines and chemicals to push modernization.
Wilburn Herwig and Willie Ray Davis wed Friday with Judge James H. Clark officiating. The groom is son of Albert Herwig of Johnson City and the bride daughter of Mr and Mrs. Davis of Henry. Many friends wish them a long happy married life. Sign War Stamp Pledge Rent vacant property via Standard want ad for a few cents weekly. Phone 40.
D V Williams known as Red has been named state game warden in Mason County after a transfer policy by the Game Fish and Oyster Commission in Austin. He previously served at Woodsboro Texas and succeeds Henry W Keller who may be moved to another county. Williams pledged to enforce game and fish laws and improve the local wildlife protection effort.
Chief Yeoman J B Grasse announces relaxed eyesight and dental standards at San Antonio Naval Recruiting Station enabling more men to qualify for the Naval Reserve. Recruits previously rejected or未applied due to vision or teeth issues urged to report for a physical check at nearby stations amid expected enlistment boom.
Dr. Geo W Cox the State Health Officer urged every American to possess a birth certificate and outlined how to obtain it. Requests to the Bureau of Vital Statistics incur fifty cents for a records search and a photostatic copy if filed. Birth records prove citizenship for military service and defense jobs and help establish birth details and parentage.
More than 1,000 Humble service stations and dealer outlets in Texas opened to receive scrap rubber in a nationwide salvage drive announced by President Roosevelt. One cent a pound paid, sold to the government for $25 a ton with profits and proceeds split between U S C Red Cross and Army and Navy Relief Funds. Humble organized its field forces into a coordinated drive across five Texas districts to collect rubber in two weeks and promote local cooperation.
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