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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1942
Page
2
The New York Times analysis argues that banning strikes during wartime would not force labor but outlaw simultaneous mass quits. It warns strikes threaten production and patriot duty, urging preservation of peace time rights but condemning strikes as sabotaging the war effort.
A wartime article celebrates how American youth contribute to the war effort on the home front through scrap drives bonds sales and civic duties. It emphasizes that children and teenagers aid production and defense while preparing to guide the nation’s future peace and prosperity.
The article explains wartime farming distress with scarce machinery and repair parts, record high input costs, and a labor shortage caused by the draft. Many farm workers have left rural areas for war industry jobs, challenging farmers to raise production despite rising costs and wage pressures.
The Bossman ranch home hosted a Friday afternoon gift tea for Mrs. Harry Miller, a recent bride. Hostesses were Mesdames Bossman Hooks Barfield, with Mrs. Howell Wright and Mrs. Debs Boone greeting guests and Miss Nila Mae Baker among attendees.
Mrs. Bernice Kindrick hosted a Tuesday afternoon birthday party for her son Sammie with games led by Miss Joyce Chenault. Gifts were opened and cake with eight taps served with punch as guests includes Sammie’s friends and relatives. Lieut. R. E. Homann visited here and then joined Mrs Homann for a trip to San Antonio.
Mrs Roy Skaggs honored her sister Mrs J S Bowen of Akron Ohio with a fish fry on the rear lawn. A camp fire mums and sea shells decorated the yard with many relatives attending including Mr and Mrs Tommie Grant J T Swanson J B Cook Lamesa Mrs Terry Jetton and son Bobbie Lewis Jetton M C Black burn Verlan Skaggs and Bobbie Bowen Roy Skaggs.
The Cactus Study Club will gather at Mrs. L. D. Borden's home on Wednesday November 18 at 3 00 p m All members should attend and bring cookies to mail to servicemen Sugar is available from Mrs. R D Rothmann The program on Effective and Critical Reading A Basis for Straight Thinking in the Present of Emergency will be led by Mrs R C Tatum with contributions from Mrs Roy Baker Mrs Bob Huffman and Mrs Reuben Loeffler
La Junta Study Club will hold its next regular meeting on November 18 with Mrs. J. L. Cunningham as hostess and Mrs. E. R. Borden as leader. The program includes Roll Call Current Events Wonders of the Potomac by Mrs. H. P. Lathrop and Four Centuries of the Hudson by Mrs. Lewis L. Wilkins. Carl Nelms of Ballinger visited Mrs. Nelms over the weekend.
Miss Mildred Vaughan county home demonstration agent led Cedar Creek Home Demonstration Club in an all day session on November 3 to craft a feather comfort for hostess Mrs. Sam Schneider. Four pounds of feathers were divided into nine inch pockets in featherproof ticking, each block nine inches square, stitched on a sewing machine for durability, with a noon lunch served.
Marvel Ann Skaggs celebrated her sixth birthday with a Friday afternoon party at grandmother Mrs. E. W. Boekhaus’s home. Friends played games and received patriotic balloon favors, including Nancy Ann Hyarte June Dunbar Jo Ellan Bolt Barbara Wiedeman Janice Watson Martha Claire Martin Gayle Wright Sue Gregory Linnda Hubbell Rudy Tamat Ted Bolt Charles Blake Chenault Billie and Jimmie Chenault Bobbie Don Skaggs Freddie and Roy Kindrick and the hostesses.
Wilbur Atchison son of Mr and Mrs C W Atchison has started bombardier cadet training at the Army Air Forces Bombardier School in Big Spring and will be commissioned as a second lieutenant after completion. Mr and Mrs Roy Skaggs Leroy Skaggs Mrs J S Bowen of Akron Ohio and Mr and Mrs M C Blackburn motored to Del Rio and Villa Acuna Sunday.
Stockmen facing brush and tree overgrowth may attend a demonstration at the Sawyer ranch six miles south of Sonora on the Del Rio highway on November 19 at 1 30 p m to see equipment that could replace thirty to fifty men under favorable conditions.
Card of thanks from the Brooks family closing the dairy business due to labor shortages. Gratitude is expressed for the years of patronage and the encouragement received from customers. Also notes visits by college boys and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hamer at Rocksprings.
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