Antelope open season eyed for West Texas plains
J. H. M. reports in Texas Game and Fish that a limited open antelope season may occur next October under Texas game commission plans. About 9,000 animals exist in West Texas. licenses via a drawing, $5 fee, first 500 winners, rest refunded. Ranchers may charge up to $25. landowners listed for license holders. Conservation note links to broader warnings about centralization and democracy.
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Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Texas Game and Fish
West
Texas
Lcenses
Commission
Salmon caught mainly on gill nets long used in history
Red salmon and chinook salmon are largely caught using gill nets, a fishing gear dating back nearly to the dawn of history.
Maj Kilgore’s Unusual Air Service Record Listed
Maj Joe Madison Kilgore of Mission became provost marshal at Randolph Field. In 1942 he flew 300 combat hours as a Liberator pilot with 71 missions, dropping 360000 pounds of bombs and shooting down six enemy planes. He earned the Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster.
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Joe Madison Kilgore
Central Flying Training Command
Randolph Field
North Africa
Brazil
Tobruk
Romrocl
Nile
States
Plopsti
Nine Boys Released After Rock Fight
Nine youths aged 18 were lectured and released by sheriff's investigator Bill Brogan after a rock fight between South San Antonio and Terrell Wells. An auto was wrecked. the boys promised to stop fighting and to cover the damage.
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Sheriff's
Bill Brogan
South San Antonio
Terrell Wells
Child Hit By Car Leaves Mary Perez With Broken Shoulder
Six year old Mary Perez of 400 Pruitt Street was struck by a car in the 1600 block Nogalitos Street Tuesday afternoon and sustained a broken right shoulder. The driver was Milton R. Best of 514 East Myrtle Street. She received treatment at Stobert B. Green hospital.
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Mary &. Perez
Pruitt Street
Enor
Nogalitos Street
Milton R. Best
East Myrtle Street
Stobert B. Green Hospital
Navy Seeks Typists and Local Interview Dates
Representatives from Washington Miss Velora Ward and Mrs Zelpha Van Wie visited San Antonio on Wednesday to interview stenographers clerks and typists for the Navy as part of nationwide examinations and on the spot appointments. Ward will be in Victoria from May 29 through June 3 with a minimum applicant age of 17 and a half. The Navy will provide first day lodging to Washington applicants.
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Washington
Velora Ward
Zelpha van Wie
San Antonio
Navy
Miss Ward
Victoria
OPA Book Explains Meat Rationing
An OPA handbook issued from Washington in March 1944 explains why meat rationing is in place and how to use ration stamps. It details rationing procedures and includes diagrams showing how to curb meat use without losing points, with the focal point set to mail the booklet to Bexar county meat dealers.
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Focal Mation Board
Bexar County
OPA
Washington
New Negro School Urged by San Antonio Board
San Antonio school board president Leo Brewer urged building a new modern Negro school to relieve congestion at Dunbar and Grant schools after a Negro delegation asked for more space. Grant Elementary already enrolls over 500 pupils. Brewer proposed a modular first phase of five or six classrooms on the Grant grounds.
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Dunbar
Grant
San Antonio
Leo Brewer
Brewer
St Marys Sets Summer Courses for Night School
St Marys downtown college offers hermeneity and freshmen English in a summer night school with classes twice weekly from June 9 to August 29 across two evenings each week.
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St. Mary's Downtown College
Four Police Needed To Arrest Youth In 1944 Crime
Four officers pursued a youth through Five Points and Menchaca Street after he fled a car. The boy fell and cut his head, was recaptured, and brought to the station amid findings that the car was stolen in Houston. Officers also found a shirt stolen from Durango Street on May 14 and questioned him about four more shirts a suit and shoes stolen at the same time.
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C. B. McCulloch
Fredericksburg
Menchaca Street
Houston
Durango Street
Bacing Down On the News By Arthur Baer
International News Service columnist Arthur Baer notes Mussolini retreating and compares leaders to Emersons quote on crime. He imagines five boys peering over a hill and mocks dictators while reflecting on the invasion of Italy as awkward and stubborn progress.
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Arthur
Bugs
Baer
Mussolini
Haly
Benito
Adolf
Emerson
Army generals inspect Camp Hood training centers
Lieutenant General Leslie J. McWatt commander of the army ground forces last week inspected Camp Hood. He was accompanied by Major Generals John P. Lucas of the Fourth Army and Harry F. Hazlett commander of the replacement and acting command.
St Joseph Aspirin advertised as the world’s largest seller
An advertisement touts St Joseph Aspirin as the first choice of millions with both 10 cent and economy size options. It claims 106 tablets for 3 cents and questions why anyone would pay more or accept less for this familiar pain reliever.
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Frost Bros
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