Camouflage Course Teaches Air Forces Ground Crew Skills
Rural Missouri post hosts an Army Air Forces basic training tour showing a camouflage course that creates fake planes airports and decoys to mislead enemies. Recruits endure lectures and drills, while the ground crew learns discipline, marksmanship, and weapons handling in a thousand acre training ground.
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Air
AAF
Army Air Forces
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Bundles For the Boys Eye Major Undertaking
Bundles For the Boys faces a major undertaking amid recent state and federal election developments. Senators and representatives discuss possible bills on tick eradication and farm extension service funding, aiming to advance livestock programs amid budget constraints.
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Herbert Strickland
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Blair
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Many Legislators to Have Pet Bill Ready by January
Editor's note reports a follow up on the 1943 Arkansas legislature poll. Senators and representatives outline proposed bills across topics such as taxes, reapportionment, birth certificates, school bus color standards, and aviation law. Senator Julian James leads with multiple measures including a cancer control program and red white and blue school buses.
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Jefferson Barracks Morale Boosts Army Air Forces Trainees
The article describes the camouflage and basic training path for new recruits, noting final review leading to a casual stage with fatigue duties. It highlights training sites at Keesler, Sheppard, Atlantic City, Kearns, and Florida, and praises post commandant Colonel Allen Kimberly for morale services including theaters, post Exchange, and low prisoner and hospital counts attributed to recreational facilities benefiting 22,600 personnel.
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Jail Break by Jailers Sparks City Lockup Incident
In Clarksburg West Virginia jailers forcibly opened a cell to free a prisoner whose key failed. Sergeant EB Armster Jr used a hammer to break the lock, adding to the city’s tally of mishaps and swelling the “scram pile” with a battered brass piece.
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State Bond Debt Slightly Reduced Despite Small Drop
Little Rock shows state bonded debt at 148,925,524 a drop of 1,000,750 from last year. Treasurer Hart Page cites highway refunding as cause while noting lack of new tendered issues since 1940s law. First principal payment on 138,380,557 highway bonds due next April 1 reduces total by 1,788,587 with yearly payments rising to maturity. Other debts range from 26,000 college library bonds to 6,118,000 Confederate pension bonds.
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