WPA Workers Available For Employment in Texas
WPA district head Hazelrigg says all WPA workers are listed with the Texas State Employment Service and ready for private jobs. 7994 current workers plus 7671 eligible awaiting assignment. Gillespie County lists 57 workers with 19 eligible. 0n0 A. J. Kinsey and son visit. Mrs Kinsey and Joan return home.
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San Antonio
WPA
J. A. Hazelrigg
Texas State Employment Service
Hazelrigg
Texas Employment Service
Hazelwrigg
Gillespie County
Articles Bought With Cotton Stamp Rules Outlined
L. J. Cappleman of the Surplus Marketing Administration outlines which cotton articles qualify for cotton stamps. Only 100 percent cotton US made items may be sold for stamps, with ineligible items including mixtures with rayon wool silk plastics and non textile components. Retailers should mark eligible articles clearly. Also noted a Sunday fishing trip by Mr. and Mrs. Willie Meier and Theo Moellendorf and families on the Pedernales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. J. Cappleman
Surplus Marketing Administration
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
United States Treasury
Osnaburg
Cappleman
Willie Meier
Theo Moellendorf
Pedernales
Local social visits and home project updates
Henry Markworth completed a flagatone garage at the Fletcher residence this week. J. S. Whitewood and daughter Mrs. A C Wendel visited the Whitewood ranch Tuesday morning. Rev. Frank Nixon and family of Center Point visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. L D Nixon Monday.
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Henry Markworth
W. E. Fletcher
J. S. Whitewood
A. C. Wendel
Whitewood Ranch
Frank Nixon
Center Point
Mrs. L. D. Nixon
Charlie Kettner
Francis
Henry Kettner
Mason
Elmer Lee Lange
Milton Wendel
Three of a Kind at Cleveland Amateur Day
Three of baseball’s greatest outfielders gather at the Cleveland and Baseball Federation Amateur Day. Left to right Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker pose as part of the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland and
Baseball Federation
Ty Cobb
Babe Ruth
Tris Speaker
Home Nursing Classes Conclude With Closing Exercises
Closing exercises were held Thursday night for three home nursing classes taught by Miss Ruth Kline, county health nurse, and sponsored by the Gillespie County Red Cross. Seventeen women from Doss and members from seven counties received Red Cross certificates, with girl scout badges awarded to twenty four Sun Flower Troop members.
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Ruth Kline
Gillespie County
American Red Cross
District Court Room
Red Cross
Duss
Aug. Baethge
Henry Baethge
Edwin Braeutigam
Jienne Keckert
Stonewall
Lilly Feuge
Meusebach
Ernst Hodges
Stone
Walter Knopp
Klein Vrankreich
Walter Kordzik
Nebgen
Alfred Kusenberger
Willie Pape
Petersburg
Max Lochte
Mildred Mosel
Anna Marie Raute
Cave Creek
Emil Sehlandt
Richard Stehling
Paul Stehling
Klein Frankreich
Evan Striegler
Rocky Hill
Herman Weinheimer
Sun Flower Troop
Girl Scouts
Kline
Irene Alberthal
Paula Beckmann
Dorothy Bernhard
Dorothy Ann Hahn
Anita Hannemann
Frances Evers
Willadeen Kaderli
Dorothy Kneese
Lilian Land
Harriet Langerhans
Ruth Lochte
Annie Mae Mangelberger
Lorine Mittendorf
Vera Nefendorf
Frieda Mae Norman
Margaret Peter
Maxine Peter
Bernice Pyka
Dorothy Nell Reichenau
Irene Reissig
Beatrice Stehling
Dorothy Stein
Theresa Walter
Claribel Wilke
J. Hardin Perry
Alfred Petsch
Gillespie County Fair draws record crowds for three days
The Gillespie County Fair, Texas oldest county fair, closed Sunday after a record turnout of more than 7 000 on Sunday and over 4 000 on Friday. Attendance on Saturday and overall three day totals approached historic highs, with livestock and horse racing events drawing large crowds. Local residents and exhibitors praised the event's quality amid favorable weather and ongoing national defense efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Gillespie County
Yue NX
Thouglass
Red Cross
Fredericksburg
Oto Henke
Reinhard Wehmeyer
A. W. Moursand
Epochal meeting aboard Prince of Wales yields eight point peace aims
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are seen on the British battleship Prince of Wales in the Atlantic. The historic gathering produced an eight point declaration of peace aims guiding Allied strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Prince of Wales
Broad Atlantic
Colleges Report Rise in Female Registrations for Fall Term
U S colleges report a 16 percent rise in women registered for the fall term. Dr James Madison Wood president of Stephens College Columbia Missouri says the increase is tied to defense boosted payrolls and stresses women's citizenship training as essential to strengthening democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
James Madison Wood
Stephens College
Columbia
Science In The News Orson Co. testing plastics to build an infant industry
The piece outlines how laboratory testing has become a science, highlighting Vinylite plastic tested by Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. It describes rigorous stress tests, accelerated aging, dielectric strength, water absorption, and various devices like guillotine and pendulum to simulate use.
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Carbide and
Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Ingem
Designea Uy
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Uncle Sams Defense Service
Globe
PWA
A. J. Kinsey
Dale Scott
Leahy
Mrs. Kinsey
Joan
Bode’s Station
Magnolia Products
Schreiner Wool & Mohair
Kerrville, Texas
Auu
E. E. Saenger Lumber CO
America
J. B. Granville of
Brady
C. W. Granville
Gilespie County Fair
Wheat Bradley
Rock Springs
Texas Scouring & Wool Manufacturing Corp
Marble Falls, Texas
P. T. Donop
Herman H. Ochs
San
Antonio
Science In the News
Orson OL Mann
Scientific American
Orson CO
Una
Spring Creek Hall
Harper Road
Mousic
Texas Playboys
Arthur Reed
Fredericksburg, Texas
Santa FE Trail
Bob Crosby
Fred Macmurray
Madeleine Carrole
Virginia
Brenda Marshall
Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
Senator Connally
Congress
Travis
Adams & Nunn, Investments
W. K. Shipman
P. T. Domop
L. D. Murray
Caleb F. Adams
Scouring and Wool Manufacturing Corp
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