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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
2
The United States and Great Britain outline aims to avoid territorial aggrandizement and respect peoples’ free will. They seek sovereign self rule restored, universal rights, and cooperation to raise labor, economic, and social standards. They pledge safety from Nazi tyranny and freedom from fear and want, with freedom of the seas and disarmament of aggression as steps toward broader security.
A Fort Knox based letter from Company A of the 750th Tank Battalion condemns workers who struck, arguing that low pay endangers overseas troops and warning of sacrifice for freedom versus money. The letter invokes a Bible tale of thirty pieces of silver to label the strike as betrayal.
Mitchell McLendon of the Liquor Control Board visited London and Junction on Tuesday. Miss Mary Logan Carpenter, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jim Carpenter, returned last week from an extended stay in San Antonio and Olney Texas.
A chuck wagon supper for Mrs. Chas Simon was held Sunday July 18 at Coppermass Creek near her home. Food prepared by Ben F. Simon and Ed Bode with help from Harold Longmann. Attendees included Ernest Dunbar Georgia Allison Millard Bennett Lee Ersch Asa Marr Will Allison Homer Mansfield Bob Ragsdale Aubrey Simon Cal Turner J F Ragsdale Herbert Simon Elmer Harrison and others plus many children.
The Cactus Study Club sponsors an Open Air Pavilion dance at Hill Country Fair Grounds starting 10:00 Friday evening to boost the Nurses Training Fund. The club has aided the war effort for over a year and raised several hundred dollars for worthy causes.
Two Black soldiers discuss the sound of their company buglers with colorful slang. One claims a pay call bugs note resembles a Boston Symphony rosary, the other mocks a bugler named Snowball Jones and jokes that mess call makes him imagine whipped cream and strawberries.
Notice: the regular quarterly meeting of the County School Board will be held in the County Courtroom Monday afternoon at 2 P M on August 2 1943. All common school district trustees in Kimble County urged to attend as bus drivers will be employed and other items for the coming school year will be transacted. Patrons invited. Secretary L R Hodges.
Ranch District Scouts prepare for August 11 and 12 at the South Llano Boy Scout grounds with about 125 boys and 15 leaders. Two days include craft contests and a Saturday swim meet, with patrols graded and rewards awarded. Troop 20 Junction hosts July 28–29 with four patrols and leaders listed.
The library committee presents several recommended titles for vacation reading including More Things Any Boy Can Make Gift of the Forest and Mr Tootwhistles Invention. It notes Maureen Daly’s Seventeenth Summer as prize winning and highlights Pito's House Grimm's Fairy Tales and a tiger cub story.
The August term of the 112th district court will convene Monday August 9 at 10 o clock with Judge W C Jackson presiding. Grand jurors listed include B D Williams Robert Loeffler T W Coney A B Cavaness Jack Turner Bob Ragsdale Allen Robbins Lee Craven and others. Petit jurors summoned to appear Wednesday August 11 at 10 o clock include Fordtran Johnston Chester Murr Harold Schwiening G W Ford W H Cottle Everet Stewart AmberS Davis Ray Holland and many more. A closing line notes a humorous remark about people who throw kisses.
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