Soldier Assigned for Duty Change After France Service
Ssgt Paul D Ruiz Route 1 Box 105B Shafter reports to the Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution station for new duties based on 11 months of France service. The station, part of six nationwide, offers recreation, athletics, and entertainment for returnees awaiting orders. Santa Barbara vacation resort hotels for veterans are managed under the Ninth Service Command.
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France
Santa Barbara
Paul D. Ruiz
Rt. 1
Shafter
Army Ground and Service Forces
Army
Ninth Service Command
Mt Whitney Crowned Highest Continental Peak
Mt Whitney at 14 495 feet rises as the highest point in the continental United States located in Sequoia National Park surpassing surrounding ranges and drawing climbers and geographers to its famed summit.
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Mt. Whitney
Sequoia National Park
Continental United States
Behind Your Bonds United States Forest Industry Motive
The Potlatch Forests, Inc of Idaho celebrates 105 years of logging and milling. Starting in 1849 near Spalding and Waitman, the firm operates Lewiston’s largest white pine sawmill with 800 workers. Lumber abundance supports national resources behind War Bonds. United States Treasury Department.
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Potlatch Forests, Inc
Idaho
H. H. Spalding
Marcus Waitman
Clearwater Country
Lewiston
U. S. Treasury Department
Global travel and tech notes from historical column
Mrs. J. A. Roscamp returned from Guyama where she cared for her grandson while Earl Roscamp vacationed. Mr. and Frank Muttart of Los Angeles joined her, then traveled to Pismo Beach. Leonardo da Vinci studied aeronautics imagining a helicopter and parachute hindered by engine limits. The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge required 150000 tons of steel and 30000 tons of reinforcing steel. California chili and pepper crop 1944 yielded 2600000 to growers. Francisco Lana described a 1670 flying boat in print.
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J. A. Roscamp
Guyama
Earl Roscamp
Frank Muttart
Los Angeles
Pismo Beach
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Bettina Says Cheese Helps War Bonds Prosperity
The U S Treasury notes American cheese like Bettina Bettina is a symbol of post war prosperity as Wisconsin leads cheese production. In 1942 Wisconsin produced 513 million pounds with Swiss Munster and Italian varieties also made in significant quantities. The dairy sector supports national income and promotes War Bonds as the best investment.
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Department of the
U.S. Treasury Department
Interesting Letter From France From 1945 letter from First Lt Gladys Grant Manderville overseas 20 months.
Judge and Mrs E K Grant share a fragment of Gladys Grant Manderville First Lt. overseas for twenty months reporting from Soissons France June 24 1945 She describes hospital conditions Germans leaving Paris scenes in the city and impressions of the war torn country along with daily duties and a longing for postwar life.
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E. K. Grant
Gladys Grant Manderville
France
Soissons
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Idaho Lumber
Oxford
Oxford “School
Shafter Mercantile CO
DIAL
Leonardo’ de Vinci
California
Francisco Lana
J. W. Frissoll Fruits and Vegetables
Redon Baber Meat Department
Bettina
Les the Might of
Porterville
Modesto
Ed Brown
Paris
Seire
Sticks
Engla
Cool-As-The Pox Foods
Cera
Sustesen
Kentucky
Superior P
del Monte
Libby's
Nestles
Po. Bae
Libby
S&w
Betty Crocker
dJustesen
San Joaquin Valley
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