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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1944
Page
1
J L Berechwale and family and Casper with son Perry visit Kerrville while Jack Lybarger from Phoenix, visiting relatives Mr and Mrs W E Fletcher, and Mr and Mrs G S Parker from New Orleans arrive for several days with local residents.
District Chairman Ishwin S. Mayer urged West Texans to support United Service Organizations drives. He noted military sacrifices, called for all-out giving to fund service camps near defense centers, and reported Iron County leading the district with a $20,000 quota. Contributions were to be sent to Mayer in San Angelo.
A cool electric range enhances taste while preserving natural vitamins. Food is steamed or cooked in juices with minimal waste and no need for costly utensils. Automatic heat and timing control frees the homemaker to leave the kitchen as meals cook unattended. The oven heats quickly to 600 degrees, retaining heat and reducing kitchen waste.
Mauri Rose won the 600 mile race at Indianapolis driving his teammate’s car after engine trouble. He finished with an average speed of 115.117 mph, sharing the championship with Floyd Davis in a rare co win amid notable incidents including a broken wheel eliminating Wilbur Shaw and Firestone Tires securing the lineup.
National defense training in water and sewage plant operation is now part of curricula at the University of Texas Texas A and M College and Texas Tech. The three month full time courses are tuition free and limited to fifteen students per school. They cover sanitation principles water treatment plant operation sewage analysis and related laboratory work to train municipal and military utility workers.
Sgt. E B Long head of the Austin Army Recruiting Station announced Air Corps vacancies at Jefferson Barracks St Louis Barksdale Field Shreveport and other bases in California New Mexico and Albuquerque area. Interested applicants should contact Mr Long. Oug Erato Hopf visited San Antonio and joined locals for weekend. Belmore Roberts Carl Ochler Paul Jones Ed Coggeshall and Charlie Barrett traveled to San Personia.
General J Watt Page, State Selective Service Director, announced a revision of Army recruitment rules that removes broad felon disqualifications. Only certain heinous crimes and habitual offenses remain barred, allowing many previously disqualified registrants to enlist. He urged Texas local boards to apply the change during the national emergency.
Bailey B. Ragsdale announces a broad Texas insect control campaign against the Flea Hopper and boll weevil. The effort, backed by the Dirt Farmers Congress and the South Texas Cotton Oil Co., aims to mobilize farmers, banks, teachers, oil mills, gins, and merchants with county agents and A and M College to dust fields, fund demonstrations, and spread practical control methods across the Cotton Belt.
Draft board records list 37 Gillespie County youths inducted since October. The alphabetical roster includes Rubin A Althaus Edwin Barow Louis Evans Jr K CG Griffin W E Granville Erato Hopf R J Hartmann W W Hartmann Paul M Henke M A Herbert H L F Icke Harry O Itz Bruce E Jordan Geo. W Kensing Edwin Kott Herman Koenig R A Koenig C O Klein Charles R Lee Hans Lindenberg W L Lestarrett Charles H Moss Alex Meurer Erno Moldenhauer Dubois Parker Ewald Petsch M E Steitle E A Schumann Chris A Staats S Scarborough R A Wuest J O Weinheimer Erwin Welch and Raymond Wahl.
COLEGE STATION June 12 In an all-out effort to increase soil-building material use on Texas farms the Agricultural Adjustment Administration urges farmers to use conservation materials and services programs. Orders from 17 counties total 2 500 000 pounds triple superphosphate 230 000 pounds Austrian winter peas and 30 000 pounds hairy vetch.
Commander A L Laverents announced orders for a new class of 31 aviation students to report to the Naval Reserve Air Base at Hensley Field Dallas on June 16. This is the third class at the new Navy Aviation School. Delays between qualification and duty have shortened to days due to monthly ordering.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Casper and Ed L and Marietta Wedekind spent the weekend visiting relatives at Hunt.
Mr and Mrs C E Bein visited Mr Bein s sister Mrs Oliver Roberta and family Sunday near Gateaville.
Mrs J M Weldon visited her son Jesse Parker and family several days this week.
Professor and Mrs. E. O. Larkin were in Abilene for the weekend, visiting local friends and attending social events.
Sergeant Arthur Icke son of Mrs Ellen Icke was moved from Kelley Field to Phoenix Arizona. He spent the weekend with his mother and relatives and will depart for Arizona on Thursday. Icke has served about six years in the army and the past year with the air corps at Kelley Field. Also noted were transfers of two Texas boys from Kelley Field to the Arizona air port, the Kneese twins. Mrs Royce Buster of Junction visited her parents the Rogerses on Sunday.
Friends learn L D Nixon has greatly improved and will be moved home soon. Billy Grosenbacher of Corona New Mexico visits friends and relatives.
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