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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1943
Page
4
Texas State Police Director Homer Garrison says the value of human life lost in traffic crashes cannot be measured though productivity lost can be calculated. He notes 39 deaths in six months could have built 471 torpedo bombers and produced vast quantities of lifesaving drugs, rations, and eggs.
United Gas Pipe Line Company and associates publish ads in The Moulton Eagle and 300 papers Gulf South urging the fifteen billion Third War Loan drive. The campaign stresses sacrifice to keep America’s youth from becoming pawns of a dictator while supporting war industry fuel needs.
The War Food Administration announced new AAA payment rates for Texas farmers. Cotton pays one cent per pound and wheat 8.5 cents per bushel while rice stays at 3.2 cents per barrel. Production practice payments remain unchanged.
Mrs. Mattie L. Williams of Yoakum received a postcard from her son Pvt. Albert S. Williams stating he is in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines and in good health. Williams was captured at Bataan after joining the army in May 1941.
Cpl. Edwin Schacherl writes home that he has received his sergeant stripes in August. He is stationed at Camp Barkeley where he serves with the Army.
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