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■—■-a.NUMBER 42Major David Major Saves Life Soldier On Ship In InvasionMAJOR A. DAVID MAJORCHRISTMAS PARTY NEWS TO APPEAR NEXT WEEKOwing to rationing of nows* print and crowded status of this week’s Bowie News, accounts of Christmas parties, not published this week, will be carried in the issue of the News, next week.Bowie Over Top On Sixth War Bond DriveBowie area over top again in Var Bond sales.This is the happy report irade rhursday by T. P. Evans, chair-nan. He will make a more dead report next week. The quota or Bowie was $200,000.But owing to the serious war ■ tuation every citizen is urged o buy an extra bond.Major A. David Major, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Major, of Bowie, made headlines in State papers the other day in an account of how he, now with the Sixth Army Headquarters in the Philippines, began his work with invasion forces, by saving a soldier’s life before his outfit hitthe beach in the Philippines in-va ion.The soldier, on the way to the Philippines, was in critical condition with acute appendicitis. Dr. Major decided upon an immediate operation, but necessary facilities were not available on their ship, and impossible to get help from other ships in the convoy.An improvised anasthesia mask was secured by the Navy phar-iacist# then the doctor equipped with only a surgical knife, a few forceps and a handful of sterile towels, removed the soldiers’ appendix. The soldier rallied rapidly, after the operation and went ashore with hia group, and on last report waa cuperating at an Army hosptal* Since the invasion, Maj. Major has worked constantly treating casualties, accident cases and illness, working under total blackout, much of the time.Major was reared in Bowie,graduated from Baylor University Medical School, in 1939, interned at City County Hospital in Fort Worth. Before entering the Army ho was medical director at Consolidated Aircraft plant, FortWorth. His wife and daughter,Kay, are living with his parentsin Bowie.oNowi W. Major, M.D.Also Lieutenanto»AD INJURY WHEN HOG IICKS KNIFE INTO MANRaymond Gilbert, Newport armer, was painfully injured 'uesday afternoon when a hog e was killing, kicked the knife ut of Gilbert’s right hand, nocked it back into the same and, almost severing the thumb ad part of the hand. His wife ashed him to the Bowie Clinic [ospital for emergency treat-ient. He had lost so much blood » fell as he entered the Hospit-John Major, the son of Mr. an Mrs. Dave Major of Bowie, wtgraduated from the Southwe-foundation Medical College, Da'las Monday, receiving his mec ical doctor’s degree and Commis sion as First Lieutenant in the I S; Army. He will interne fc nine months in City County Hos Pital, Fort Worth.^ ith John, there are now thre sons of Mr. and Mrs. Major wh are doctors Captain John Allei Major, in France, and Major A David Major in the Phillipines
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Bowie News
Bowie, Texas, US
Fri, Dec 22, 1944
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