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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1945
Page
2
The investigating committee reports progress on war production and postwar demobilization. It has funded operations through June and will monitor reconversion and surplus property while pursuing leases and commercial deals abroad to recoup war outlays.
Washington reports transport planes and large air bases at Aiea and during termination of ay, part of the Army Air Transport system to bring soldiers home from Europe and the Mediterranean by air. The 1945-46 tobacco crop is estimated at 6,846,000 pounds, about 6 percent below the 1935-39 average.
News briefs note several locals returning from overseas assignments and new arrivals to the San Antonio service center. Lt. R et 2520 Twentieth F/O P/O Re McArthur and others are listed with addresses. Judges, attorneys, and court staff plan Levelland travel. campaign and civic meetings are announced. Catherine Allen wed Roy Brown in Lubbock. Navy lieutenants Hugh and Joe Horne report Tokyo bay aboard Shangri La. A Texas Tech extension course meeting is set, with requests guiding offerings. Mrs. John Dean of Plainview, former Marie Thompson, underwent major surgery.
Captain Robert E. Lee Michie son of J N Michie head of the mathematics department at Texas Tech was liberated from a Japanese prison camp in Mukden Manchuria August 26. War Department notified his parents in Austin who have since returned to Lubbock. He trained in the Air Corps, served at Clark Field Manila and Camp Darwin before being sent to Java. He piloted B 17 or Courier aircraft cooperating with the 131st Field Artillery in defending Java before capture as part of the Lost Battalion. He is a Lub bock High School and Texas Tech alumnus with two sisters Mrs J B Johnson of Pampa and Mrs Victor Harris of Chicago. Buy A War Bond Today.
Training officers from Plainview Floydada Tohoka Levelland Crosbyton Lubbock staged riot control problems at a 16 week statewide guard course. Col Donald Henley led instruction with Col B C McCasland noting the guard will join the National Guard to form a state militia for civilian peace.
Radio commentator Raymond Swing said Albert Einstein wrote President Roosevelt a letter on August 2 1939 urging consideration of uranium as a potential energy source. The document was delivered to Roosevelt by Alexander Sachs in October after World War II began.
Health officials outline a two and a half year program to eradicate rats and fleas in the city. James H. Harris of the U S Public Health Service assists Mr Cook in the sanitation drive. A veteran Odd Fellows member Henry Michae died in a convalescent home.
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