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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1944
Page
13
Radio writers saturate Thanksgiving coverage by portraying turkeys as personalities. Families chase a turkey, debate decapitation, and fear harming a gobbler with a human-like ego, risking audience fatigue as the holiday nears.
Staff Sgt William Watkins husband of Moselle Watkins and Theodore Lovik of Spokane invented a simple clamp with a grease gun fitting to reclaim 80 percent of used propeller governor bearings at an England air service command depot. They already reused 8000 bearings in one fifth the time required by hand.
The San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center expands its training network with two new schools the budget and fiscal officers course and the civilian personnel officers course Capt W W Clark will direct the budget and fiscal course based in Indianapolis and Capt E B Caulking Jr heads the civilian personnel course at Brooksfield The civilian personnel course lasts 22 days and the budget and fiscal course 23 days
Staff Sgt Elloft McDonald son of Mr and Mrs T W McDonald of Jackson street earned the Air Medal with seven oak leaf clusters. He is tail gunner on a Marauder based in France and entered service in 1940, earning his gunnery wings at Buckingham Army Air Field. McDonald went overseas April 3 1944 after training at Lake Charles Army Air Field. His brother First Lt E W McDonald is a pilot in the Mediterranean theater.
Maj. Jacob A Harris gets promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Texas State Guard 36th Battalion at San Antonio. Announcement came Tuesday from Brig. Gen. Arthur B Knickerbocker adjutant general of Texas. Harris is reassigned as commanding officer of the 36th Battalion.
Column by Arthur Bugs Baer notes satirical views on economy and taxes. It jokes about preserving perfume in a butcher shop and the costly future world with no value for the old one while mentioning Afghan currency and a 1999 record.
Maj Thomas C Kelly of 408 Drexel Avenue has been appointed commanding officer. A veteran of the 16th Air Force Lightning squadron now overseas in Italy, he has flown combat missions including escorting American bombers and transports carrying paratroopers for the Invasion of Greece. The article notes that Afghanistan lacks railroads and goods move by camel or pony.
Volunteer services of a Negro Seabee battalion in the first hours of the First Marine division landing on Peleliu earned the unit the commendation Well done. The Seventeenth Special U.S. Naval Construction Battalion led by Lieut. Comdr. Moses G. E. Bary of Gulfport Mississippi supervised the action.
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