Labor shortages hit sheep shearing on county ranches
County correspondence covers ongoing war time labor issues slowing lambing and wool work. CLB and Floyd Stewart finish shearing at Walnut Canyon Ranch using CLB’s engine and drop to avoid staffing woes. Local families and ranches list workers, health notes, and social events amid recent rains and golden wedding anniversaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clb
Floyd Stewart
Walnut Canyon Ranch
Coveys
Cardwells
Landers
Guss Bannowskys
W. A. Bannowskys
Gee
Tor
Hugh Spiller
Grover Landers
Kathleen Watson
Kerrville
Watson Ranch
Wiedeman Clinic
Felix Watson
Kathleen
Charlie Bishop
J. H. Northccutt
Peggy Dechert
J. W. Carroll
Carroll
Thomas Coney
Jim Hammond
Ration Calendar Details for Sugar Coffee Meat and Gas Stamps
The notice lists usage windows for Sugar Coupon No 12 five pounds from March 16 to May 31. Coffee-Stamp No 23 in Book No 1 for those 14+ is valid April 26 to May 30. Meat-Red stamps in Book 2 show varied dates through May 31. Gasoline A Book coupons No 5 permit four gallons each from March 22 to May 21. Shoes Stamp No 17 valid through June 15. Vehicle tire inspections required as specified for A B and CC books. Blue stamps G H J 48 points valid April 24 to May 31.
Mother's Day Services Highlight Saline Community
IVY ECHOES notes attendees at Saline Mother's Day services with a long standing annual program and tributes. London School closes May 21 with senior exercises and Gov Coke Stevenson delivering the address May 20. Local figures join army and navy. rainfall brings crop benefits. community updates end with local visits and brief notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saline
Mother
London
Coke R. Stevenson
Kimble County
Community Hall
Lewis L. Wilkins
Presbyterian Church of
Junction
T. C. Hight
Army
Cpl
Carlos Goodman
Goodfellow Field
LeRoy Pearl
U. S. Navy
San Diego
Calif
Wayne Nixon
Wayne
New Mexico
Bryan Matthews
G. W. Ford
Hamp Goodman
C. E. Lambert
Betty
Patty Gilbert
T. O. Daniel
T. J. Lange
Mason
Ervin Pool
Earl Hight
H. B. Collins
Thanks to Junction firemen and friends for help Monday
A grateful note from Bro. W. M. Speck thanks the Junction fire department volunteers and friends for their quick work in saving his house Monday night. He offers service in return and praises the Church of Christ and supporters. The message ends with a Victory Bond appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Department of
Junction
Church of Christ
Reading procession invitation and graduation events
A school ceremony list shows an invocation salutations duet and addresses by Alline Rogers. It includes class prophecy valedictory introduction and awarding of diplomas with benediction. Governor E. V. Stewart attends the primary room event with intermediates Frankie Mueller and teachers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. V. Stewart
Frankie Mueller
E. R. Brownudge
L. R. Hodges
Nona McMillen
Nona McMillon
Alline Rogers
Jeraldine Jones
Ir. C. B. Sanderford Coke R. Stevenson
Udge
Bro
Louis Pearl
Bear Creek Study Club Nursing Scholarship Reaches 179 Dollars
Saturday’s food sale at the live stock auction boosted the nursing scholarship fund to 179 dollars. Contributions from locals like Clarence Self and Billie Phillips led to a total with a generous cross section of donors. If local funds fall short, the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs will assist. An American plane production figure is reported by WPB Chief Donald Nelson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bear Creek Study Club
Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs
Walter Parker
Clarence Self
Bill Bishop
Seaton Prentice
Joe D. Simmons
O. W. Cardwell
Sherman McWright
Roy Spiller
Goodall Rothmann
T. H. Jetton
Willie Collins
Charlie Bishop
Cecil McClatchy
Omer Wright
Vic Urban
Bill Gregory
Ernest Dunbar
Bill Cardwell
J. A. Parker
Billie Phillips
KE. A. Tennis
Lester Phillips
Asa Murr
Roy Murr
Sugar Ration Rules For Canning And Preserving Fruit
With the canning and preserving season, housewives may apply for sugar through the War Ration Board. Each consumer may receive one pound per four quarts of finished fruit up to 25 pounds total, plus up to five pounds for jams and related products, all within a 25 pound yearly limit from March 1, 1943 to February 29, 1944. Application forms R-315 require War Ration Book I for all listed consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Ration Board
Rural phone batteries distributed to rural areas
A supply of dry cell batteries for maintaining telephone service in rural regions has been provided for distribution. Distributors may obtain the batteries by submitting form PD-1X to the wholesale and retail trade division of the War Production Board.
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War Production Board
Mail to Soldiers Abroad Surpasses World War Peak
United States troops overseas receive over 20,000,000 pieces of mail weekly averaging fourteen per man, four times the AEF peak. V mail accounts for twenty percent of overseas correspondence, highlighting wartime communication traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
A.E.F
Mrs. F. L. Herndon Named Girl Scout Leader in Junction
Mrs. F L Herndon has been approved by Girl Scouts Inc as leader for the Junction group. Nine girls are ready to register as the first troop with others eager to join. The program includes ten fields such as arts and crafts and health and safety. Meetings are Fridays at cottage No 15 Riverside Place as interest grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Lee Herndon
Girl Scouts, Inc
Girl Scouts of
Junction
Herndon
Riverside Place
Friends of Scouting
Subscribership Notices and Honor Roll Highlight Local Readership
Regulations urge renewals by the 5-43 date, request address changes, and promote discontination at expiration to save newsprint. An honor roll lists subscribers including Mrs L F Spring Junction Thomas B Taylor Jefferson Bar racks MO Chas L Bishop Cleo and others across Texas Oregon and U S Armed Forces entries in London and Beeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. FE. Spring
Junction
Thomas B. Taylor
Jefferson Barracks
Chas. L. Bishop
Cleo
S. B. Martin
Comanche
Texas
B. B. Reese
San Saba
Tom Owens
Barnhart
FE. E. Bolt
Joe Dell Fisher
Armed Forces
B. Grobe
Portland Ore
Claude Lawler
Segovia
Ray Holland
U. D. Kindrick
Big Spring
Oscar Pearl
London
L. KE. Pearl
Beeville
Rains Bring Relief to Kimble County Crops
Rain showers spread across Kimble County easing drought with Junction receiving 1.42 inches, eastern areas under half an inch, and earlier in the month Junction tallying .16 inches. Winter and spring failed to bring adequate rainfall across the Hill Country, according to gauge readings in Junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimble
Junction
Waste fats collection falls well short of national quota
March collection of waste kitchen fats nationwide totaled 7,312,617 pounds or 43.9 percent of the quota. Texas delivered 294,833 pounds, Louisiana 33,478 pounds, and Oklahoma 59,022 pounds, for a regional total of 387,333 against a 990,000 quota.
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Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs
Chester Bannowsky
Ivy
Bro. W. M. Speck
Ieee
Ramsey Randolph Junction
Schreiner-Hodges Funeral Home
London Community Hall
E. M. Brown
E. H. Kothmann
Leon Brown
C. B. Sanderford
Ed Bode
WPB
Donald Nelson
C. A. Schraub CO
F. L. Herndon
London, Texas
W. C. McCord
Dallas
Junction National Bank
C .T. Holekamp
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