Army Plans Global Team to Learn Foreign Languages
General Eisenhower announced a peacetime program to build within the Army a global language unit. Selected officers would study languages such as Russian Japanese Chinese Portuguese Spanish Arabic Greek and Hungarian and be posted to countries where the tongue is spoken. The plan aims to make officers thoroughly aware of political geographic economic and social factors of those nations. A separate county measure approved a $795 purchase of a grave spreader by the county commission.
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Washington
INS
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Army
San Antonio Leads State With Sales Surge in Week
Dallas Fed reports San Antonio department stores show the largest weekly rise in the state for the week ending August 17, up 78 percent. Houston up 71 percent, Dallas 63 percent, Fort Worth 51 percent, reflecting varied regional gains. Through seven months of 1946 Houston led with plus 34 percent, followed by Dallas 33 percent, San Antonio 29 percent, and Fort Worth 22 percent.
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San Antonio
Dallas
Padre Island Park Drive Set for Park Designation
Corpus Christi August 23 The Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce votes to renew its drive to secure designation of Padre Island as a state or national park. The plan is designated No. 1 project of the year.
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Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce
Padre Island
La Bauve Named San Antonio Junior College Business Manager
Vernon Y. La Bauve of 1502 Santa Monica Street will assume duties next week as business manager of San Antonio Junior College. He resigns as bookkeeping instructor at Trinity University to take the post, replacing Clarence Odell who left to enter private business.
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Vernon Y. la Bauve
Santa Monica Street
San Antonio
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