Bear Creek Study Club Meets Monday June 28
The Bear Creek Study Club met in the court house on June 28. Billye Kirkpatrick began nurses training in San Angelo and $180 was credited to Mrs. Alfred Bannowsky for a nursing scholarship. The group plans summer food sales on July 30 and August 14 to support a $250 scholarship and will collect costume jewelry for military use. New members Mrs. Albert Martin and Miss Lois Goodman were elected.
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Bear Creek Study Club
Billye Kirkpatrick
San Angelo
Alfred Bannowsky
Albert Martin
Lois Goodman
Bear Creek
Mesdames Alfred, Chester
Guss Bannowsky
J. L. Cunningham
G. R. Kothmann
Hitler
Harold Dutton
Ed Bode
Mesdames C. W. McCarroll
Jack Turner
J. B. Means
Clay Holland
Chester Bannowsky
Presbyterian Woman's Auxiliary Meeting Notice
The Auxiliary will meet at the church at 4 P.M. on July 13 with Mrs. Reuben Loeffler as leader. A new chemical spray kills poison ivy and many noxious weeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuben Loeffler
J P Duke Family Holds Fifth Annual Reunion at Riverside Place
The J P Duke family gathered for their fifth annual reunion at Riverside Place in Junction over the weekend. Members traveled from San Antonio and Odessa, with J P Duke and several siblings and cousins attending. The group noted fond memories since the gathering began in 1934, alternating locations occasionally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Duke
Junction
Riverside Place
Price
Sherman
San Antonio
Sam Hay
Jack
Dick Duke
Rosemary
Patsy
R. N. Duke
Odessa
Bill Duke
Dub
Fred Caudle
Rayann
Annabelle Caudle
OSYA Canning Program Ends This Friday
The OSYA program directed by W. W. Gregory and taught by Mrs. T. W. Couey will conclude this week with the last session Friday. Classes met Tuesdays and Fridays in the high school homemaking department for two 96 hour courses on production, conservation, and processing of food for farm families. Over two thousand cans of beans corn squash chicken and cashaw have been prepared. Forty women enrolled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Gregory
T. W. Couey
Family Reunion Honors Corporal James A Lackey
H D Lackey and Stanley Lackey hosted a July 4 barbecue at the Lackey ranch on North Llano to honor Corporal James A Lackey. The event drew the full Lackey family and friends including several guests from San Antonio. Activities included boating swimming and music by the Lackey Brothers.
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H. D. Lackey
Stanley Lackey
James A. Lackey
Lackey Ranch
North
Llano
Lackey
San Antonio
Chas. Fox, Jr
Albert Cochran
Walton Wilson
Billie Russell
Mary Ellen Fox
Lackey Brothers
Texan chosen to lead wartime food administration
Marvin Jones of Amarillo, former congressman and judge, is named successor to Chester C. Davis as wartime food administrator. As chief aide to James Byrnes, Jones gains expanded authority on the War Mobilization Committee and War Production Board to bring order to agricultural chaos supporting the total war effort. The piece also notes flood damages and losses in the Middle West totaling 9,029,000 acres affected, 62 deaths, and $96,234,000 in damages.
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America
Marvin Jones
Amarillo
Assisant
James F. Byrnes
Chester C. Davis
Claude Wickard
Davis
Washington
Agriculture Committee
Congress
Judge Jones
Byrnes
War Mobilization Committee
War Production Board
St. Louis
Middle West
War Reflections on Washington Angry Scene and Soldier Vote
A New York delegation visited Washington after an anti strike bill was passed. An attempt by about 20 people to force entry into the crowded House restaurant sparked police intervention and a clash with a congressman. He later regretted the incident and urged curbing sectional pressure groups. Congress considers V Mail voting for soldiers next year and parties should enable service members to vote.
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Washington
New York
Alabama
South
Congress
Card of Thanks for Kindness During Illness
Mrs Ada Dockery thanks neighbors for visits flowers and kindness during her illness with family members joining in. A spring testing machine with humanlike qualities has been invented to test fuse springs for various projectiles by industrial engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Dockery
Mrs W W Gregory Honored Before Departing to Austin
Mrs W W Gregory welcomed guests at a bridge party hosted by Mrs Grover Landers and Mrs Walter Lindsay at the Landers home. Summer flowers and red roses adorned the table as Cactus Study Club members and friends joined in gift giving and a handkerchief shower. High score went to Mrs Reuben Loeffler and bingo to Mrs Vann Martin.
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W. W. Gregory
Austin
Grover Landers
Walter Lindsay
Landers
Cactus Study Club
Gregory
Reuben Loeffler
Vann Martin
Two cows and political satire from a WWII era joke
A sequence humorously contrasts economic systems with a two cow metaphor and ends with a school cheating joke about counting ribs in a physiology exam. The piece pivots on a quip about someone kicked out for cheating and the reply about counting ribs.
Wings for Nikias and Other Books for Kimble County
Reader advisory from the Kimble County Library highlights new children's and youth titles. Notable picks include Wings for Nikias, Mystery of the Rubber Boat, To Meet Miss Long, Stairs of Sand, Mountain Mystery, Doctor Dolittle, MacArthur on Bataan, and a biography of Douglas MacArthur. The note urges membership to support future acquisitions and ends with a sign off from Faithfully.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann
Nikias
Greece
Ralph and
Henry Barbour
Rob Winton
Clive Barrett
Emergency Service Corp
Joan Kahn
Miss Long
Ellen Long
Doctor Dolittle
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Ander
Edgar McLendon
Texas Press Association
South Texas Press Association
National Editorial Association
Kimble
Elswhere
Presbyterian Woman's Auxiliary
Ramsey
Randolph Junction, Texas
OSYA
Ral
Ae C. Fisher
Mmes
Vic Urban
Roy Spiller
Ford
Ivan Johnston
Charles Marr
Rudolph Tatum
R. D. Kothmann
A. L. Peay
Clellen Moss
L. D. Borden
Chetty Porter
Joe Felps
J. E. Weideman
Lester Hodges
ISMS
Kimble County
Dad
Theatre Junction
Dick Powell
Fred Waring
Orch
Foney
Lost Canyon
William Boyd
Don Winslow
The
Coast Guard
James Cagney
Joan Leslie
Comedy
Fresh Hare News
Virginia Gilmore
James Ellison
Comedy—Going Places News
Schreiner-Hodges Funeral Home
Better Homes
Pathfinder
Screenland
Silver Screen
Sports
Eries
Modern Screen
RFD
American Magazin
American Mercury
American Poultry Jrnl
Better Cook
G & Hom
K’g
Better Homes & Gardens
Capper’s Farmer
Nature
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