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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1945
Page
4
News available for general release through the Public Relations Office at Building 843 Sheppard Field Texas. Submissions for TEXACTS due by noon Wednesday or 5 p.m. Monday for Squadron Squibs. CNS material accepted. republishing requires CNS permission.
The 78th AACS is leaving Langley and Sheppard Field will shift back to its original role of basic training. Col. R. Beam and staff plan a gigantic program for new inductees as reconversion accelerates. The paper also launches Get It Off Your Chest and Soldier of the Week to boost reader involvement and morale.
A jumble of war time quips about soldiers, officers, and homefront life. Jokes cover training mishaps, barred love, corporal punishment misunderstandings, and a soldier’s strange sign commission, with laughing barbs at MPs, waves, and a village idiot who saves for a cannon business.
A collage of readers in a wartime column vent about postwar demobilization, theater status, and service hardships. Letters from GIs in Spokane and Texas discuss office assignments, Yank quitting, campaign recognition, dependancy discharge delays, and PX uniform issues.
A 1944 conference of war theatre commanders spurred calls for unified armed forces. Legislation proposed by Senators Hill Johnson and Kilgore seeks a single department of the armed forces, a U S Chiefs of Staff, an Air Forces equal to Army and Navy, and a Director of Common Supply to form a stronger national defense structure.
Tatsuhichi Minobe, a Japanese professor and constitutional authority, states that Hirohito does not believe in divinity and that the Japanese constitution provides no such piety.
In Tokyo a supervised social venue known as the Ginza Oasis will host fraternization with GI supervision. The sub-basement hall will offer a floor show drinks and 500 taxi dancers. The Japanese Amusement and Recreation Association plans further facilities for occupation troops.
Chaplain Richard T. Perry urges a generation to embrace leadership in this crisis era. He uses the spider web fable to warn against severing ethical strands and calls for volunteers of faith, patience, charity, and courage to carry on humane living and just action for the world.
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson proclaims December 17 as Wainwright Day to honor the Civil War era defender of Corregidor. Fort Worth hosts a large parade with many high ranking officers, soldiers, and the latest military equipment as part of the commemorations.
Mayor elect William O Dwyer announced that returning war veterans will get preference in seeking positions as city policemen in New York.
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