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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1941
Page
7
Private Leonard Atkins of Cleveland, a selective service man at Kelly Field, reports Texas sun burns worse than Ontario. A single day left a sunburned nose, the second day worsened it, but he reported reporting for drill with a cardboard sun shield and no olive oil to aid healing.
MISSION August 28. Surveys for the Lower Rio Grande valley flood control and gravity irrigation project worth 59 million dollars will start about September 15. Representative Milton West of Brownaville said ground crew activity would follow dressing work already under way in Whishington’s bureau of reclamation. Congress has approved a 2.5 billion dollar appropriation for preliminary work.
Wichita Falls will honor Shep pard field soldiers on Labor Day with an all day auto tour of oil fields range country and lake areas. Cities officials said the event will showcase local defense personnel and nearby scenery.
Dr Irving Krick of California Institute of Technology issues a color chart predicting a warmer September for much of the United States and western Canada, with cooler, sometimes cold spells in heavily populated areas and notable cold snaps in late September across the Rockies and Midwest regions.
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