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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1942
Page
4
The piece asserts that prohibiting strikes could force workers to stay on the job by law, undermining peacetime rights. It warns that during a national emergency every minute matters and strikes sabotage the war effort, urging enforcement of work toward uninterrupted production.
The piece highlights how the entire American family supports the war effort from scrap drives and war bonds to schoolchildren saving gas leaks and selling bonds. It emphasizes youth participation as future guardians of peace and defenders of the nation’s founding structures.
The piece details farm distress due to wartime shortages. It notes scarce machinery and repair parts, record prices, and a labor shortage caused by the draft. Farmers lose workers to high paying war industry jobs, challenging production and the ability to meet government demands.
The Bossman ranch home hosted a Friday afternoon gift tea in honor of Bride Mrs Harry Miller. Hostesses were Mesdames Henry Bossman W E Hooks and Ed Barfield with a mum decor and bridal white silver table setting. Guests included Mrs Howell Wright sister of the bride and Mrs Debs Boone with a large list of attendees from Big Lake and area.
Mrs Roy Skaggs hosted a fish fry for sister Mrs J S Bowen of Akron Ohio on the rear lawn. A camp fire kettle mums and sea shells decorated tables as guests included Mr and Mrs Tommie Grant and family Mr and Mrs J T Swanson Mrs J B Cook Lamesa Mrs Terry Jetton and son Bobbie Mr and Mrs Lewis Jetton Mr and Mrs M C Blackburn Verlan Skaggs and son Bobbie of San Antonio Mrs Bowen and Mr and Mrs Roy Skaggs.
Mrs. Bernice Kindrick hosted a Tuesday birthday party for her son Sammie with games led by Miss Joyce Chenault. Guests included Nancy Harte Martha Martin Sandra Spiller Norma Peters and several others as gifts were opened and cake with eight tapers served with punch. Lieut. R. E. Homann spent the weekend with Mrs. Homann and traveled to San Antonio for a visit.
The Cactus Study Club will meet at Mrs. L. D. Borden's home on Wednesday November 18 at 3:00 p m All members should attend and bring cookies to send to the boys in Service Sugar is to be obtained 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 Other members Mrs Roy Baker Mrs Bob Huffman and Mrs Reuben Loeffier will add to the program.
The group will continue its study of historic rivers with Mrs. J. L. Cunningham as hostess and Mrs. E. R. Borden as leader. The program features Roll Call Current Events Wonders of the Potomac and Four Centuries of the Hudson presented by Mrs. H. P. Lathrop and 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 Thursday November 3 to craft a feather comfort for hostess Mrs. Sam Schneider Nine inch pockets were filled with four pounds of feathers stitched in featherproof sateen ticking All stitching done by machine to ensure durability A noon lunch was served
Marvel Ann Skaggs marked her sixth birthday with a Friday afternoon celebration at her grandmother Mrs. E. W. Boekhaus’s home. Children played games and received patriotic color balloons as favors, including Nancy Ann Hyrte and several other guests.
Wilbur Atchison son of Mr and Mrs C W Atchison has begun training as a bombardier cadet at the Army Air Forces Bombardier School in Big Spring Upon completing the course he will be commissioned as a second lieutenant Also noted are a Del Rio Villa Acuna Sunday trip by Mr Roy Skaggs Leroy Skaggs Mrs J S Bowen of Akron Ohio and Mr and Mrs M C Blackburn Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for patronage and explains dairy business closure due to staff shortage.
Stockmen facing brush overgrowth can see equipment that replaces thirty to fifty men at a brush and tree cutting demonstration. It will be held November 19 at 1 30 p m at the Sawyer ranch six miles south of Sonora on the Del Rio highway.
A. and M. College students Cecil Holekamp Ennis Terry Jetton Wilbur Neth ery Arthur Lee McCarroll Caddo Wright Jimmy C. Cherry Johnnie Lee Cox Billy Allen and Joe Billy Camp spent a weekend with parents and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hamer and Margaret Ann visited relatives at Rocksprings.
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