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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1944
Page
7
Section Areas conduct simulated gas attacks as part of a stepped up chemical warfare program. Monthly gas alerts use smoke bombs and land mine simulations with molasses residue to mimic lister gas. Decontamination and anti incendiary squads respond in each section.
In theatres 1 and 2 a revival of This Is the Army features Eddie Bracken Ella James and Franklin Pangborn in a musical tale of a Marine recruit with fake letters to his mother. The program includes short subjects and further film listings such as Storm Over Lisbon Coney Island and Home in Indiana with Technicolor sequences.
Box Office opens 30 minutes before starting time. Patrons must be active duty military personnel or household members, or civilians living within the camp limits.
A devotional sermon distinguishes three classes of shepherds from John 10 the thief the hireling and the Good Shepherd. It urges reliance on Christ as the true shepherd guiding through danger doubt and death with the Lord as provider protector and sustainer now and forever.
Second Lt. Hazel T. Prince of the Army Nurse Corps has been relieved from duty and granted terminal leave until August 1 when she will be inactivated. Her home is listed as Houston, Texas.
The Chaplains' March a song for U S Army chaplains will debut on KWFT next Thursday during Musical Maneuvers a weekly Sheppard Field organ recital. Brig Gen W R Arnold endorses it and Maj Jerome A Major requests airplay. Pvt Joe Di Lauro will play and Pvt Max Kruetz will sing the piece. The program airs at 3 45 p m.
Monday noon marks the submission deadline for the Sheppard Field insignia contest at the Special Service office. Prizes total 85 dollars with 50 for first, 25 for second, and 10 for third. A committee led by Lt Col Edward A. Peterson Maj Tony L. Carter and Maj William H. Cobb will review entries before field personnel vote.
A wartime notice highlights readily available injectors razors, shaving mugs, soaps, and Castile products at the Exchange. It lists officer dress shoes, leatherette sandals, khaki slacks, and blue duck luggage sets. It promotes the New Dated Events War Map sixth edition for up-to-date theater information.
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