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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
2
Newspapers helped educate the public on investing in War Bonds during the Second War Loan. Editors and ads explained the need for non-bank investment, supporting volunteers and sales efforts to reach the $13 billion goal and boost inflation containment.
Elder Alva Johnson of Turkey Texas begins a revival at Murr Church of Christ Friday May 21 continuing through May 30. Song leader Bill Gipson of Stanton directs singing. A barbecue dinner will be served each Sunday with strong local interest and invitations for nearby communities.
The Bear Creek Study Club will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday May 26 at 2 oclock in the Joe Cunningham home. Co-hostesses are Mrs Cunningham and Mrs Chester Bannowsky. Officers reports and installation of new officers will close with a social hour. Full attendance is desired.
Mr and Mrs R H Spiller marked 50 years of marriage with a Sunday afternoon celebration at their son Hugh Spiller's ranch home. Nearly 300 guests attended as family, friends, and descendants gathered for cake, music, and a brief program. The couple, married May 16 1893 in Voca Texas, have five children, eleven grandchildren, and one great grandchild.
A call invites dependents of service members to write for intervention with the Office of Benefit Allotments to correct allotment issues. Kerrville pursued a municipal hangar project at San Angelo with Army and Navy refusals, but plans to use the hangar at a lower cost. Texas boasting high war participation includes many military camps, the San Antonio air school, Corpus Christi naval base, and major war contracts, with agriculture leading livestock output and significant wool and mohair production.
The Agriculture Department aims to accelerate movement of feed held by farmers in the Middle West to support the livestock finishing feed program. Texas relief comes from shipments of hundreds of carloads of soybeans to crushers aided by spring rains, with Southwest Texas receiving more soybean feed in winter than other regions.
Texas supplies half the nation’s oil and a quarter of world reserves and could add more with incentives. The piece highlights Texan pilots in the Tokyo raid, Captain David Jones of Winters, and Texans among captured or interned airmen, calling for renewed wartime test flights and a march on Tokyo.
New rules let local war price and rationing boards hold hearings to revoke gasoline rations for speeding over 35 mph, tire abuses, prior violations, or a ration holder demanding his book before notice. Also, special glow maps light up for pilots in blacked-out planes.
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