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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1942
Page
3
A Tarrant County War Bond Committee contest offers a 25 war savings bond to the best five phrase talk on War Savings Bonds. The top entrant will attend the Fort Worth Bonds for Bombers dinner in mid June as an honored guest. Final dates to be announced through DIS and TEXACTS.
Members of the 625th school squadron were entertained Sunday by the senior graduation class of Wichita Falls High School. After games and a sing song the party watched a local movie hosted by Jack McCullum and Robert Montgomery and finished with a dance at Boren studio. Pearl Harbor, December.
The 70th Air Base group won the May calisthenics award and became the Baxter trophy holder, taking the honor from the 313th school squadron. Ken Scott presented the trophy at the post Service club Thursday night during the Sheppard Field Hour radio show.
More than 75 civilian instructors at Sheppard Field technical school may receive commissions in the Army Air Forces. Lt. Col. Bruce von G. Scott reports interviews by Cap. Robert H. McDonnell at the field weekend. Candidates require three letters of recommendation and must meet age, health, and class eligibility rules.
A wealth of entertainment talent arrives at Sheppard Field as Pvt. Johnny Morrill and Pvt. Paul Mena join performers from Red Nichols' orchestra. Soldiers audition daily under Miss Lillian Sellers while Corp. Carleton Young plans weekly broadcasts. Informal shows energize nights and support the touring Three Dots With A Dash cast.
The Sheppard Field Public Relations Office aired a humorous yet serious short wave feature on KWET from 6:30 to 7:00 p m last Tuesday in Sheppard Field in Review. It included a Shangri La president greeting, a language reminiscent of Donald Duck, a man in the street interview and a damsel from Shangri La. The highlight was a salute to a Sheppard Field Mechanic's School graduate arriving in Shangri La and a closing warning that Shangri La is as near to Berlin and Rome as Tokyo is.
Wichita Falls high school students will stage two programs at the Eighth Street USC for Sheppard Field soldiers this weekend. The lineup includes swing music and dances by a group of girls at 8 p.m. Saturday and a boys orchestra, a girls trio and dancers at 4 p.m. Sunday. The note mentions advertisers in TEXACTS providing a break for the soldiers along with a free newspaper.
A variety show at 8 p m tonight in Wichita Falls features a yodeling cowboy, negro tap dancers and blues singers, a ventriloquist, a maidian, a girl accordionist and other novelty acts. Jim Wakefield of the Civ itans club will act as master of ceremonies.
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