Red Cross Heroine Then and Now Time Healed Suffering
Red Cross worker Catherine Nau of Alexandria Virginia received the presidential citation for the Bronze Star Medal for devotion to duty while in enemy hands at Santo Tomas and Los Banos internment camps from 1942 to 1945. She is shown in Washington at the award time and pictured left at her release.
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Red Cross
Catherine Nau
Alexandria
Washington
Santo Tomas
Los Banos
U S Plans Sale of Wartime Pipelines to Gas Producers
The government aims to sell the Big and Little Inch pipelines from Longview and Beaumont Texas to the New York New Jersey Pennsylvania region. Built during wartime at 145 million dollars, they carried about 300 million barrels of crude oil destined for fuel. The buyers would mix the gas with commercial manufactured gas.
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Longview
Beaumont
Texas
New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania
International
Vacation antics and a 1946 school levy document mix
A jumble of whimsical remarks about vacation plans and goats contrasts with a formal 1946 Taylor County West Virginia Board of Education levy and budget figures. The document details current receipts and expenditures, including general control, instruction, operation of plant, transportation, and bonded indebtedness, with delinquent taxes and proposed levy rates.
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Board OF Education
West Virginia
Taylor
Taylor County
Paul P. Warden
William A. Collins
H. K. Debendarfer
J. Lee Evans
REC
Esfii
Flemington
Iierdt
Grafton Independent District
Grafton
Pola
Pelor
Towit
Virgil Rohrbough Gegen
Aid ‘Board
Wes
Virginia
Grapton
To-Wit
John A. Newsome
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U.S
TEX
Leia
Fei
Bikini
Zadok Dumkopf
Bobby Jones, Jr
Towl
Total Transportation
Rae
Aie
Taylor ¢ County
Water Department
Shinecent
Soathaig
Csim
Sagas
Seim
Assesaid ‘Valuation
Aes TS Srebaaia
Hla
Sar
Nijinsky
Georgia
King George II of
England
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