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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1946
Page
2
Texacts Special Writer recalls reader praise for the column and announces continuation. The piece blends humor from wartime Sendai, Casino-era jokes, and reflections on postwar civilian life, health, demobilization, and cars. It weaves in Will Rogers, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Hollywood gossip amid civic worries about hospitals and psychiatry.
Mr Frogge of Lawton Oklahoma handles development of films for the Sheppard Field post exchange. Frogge Fotophoto Studio will offer group portraits interior exterior large or small. For film development contact Mr W O Alexander PX Branch No II Building T 642.
Public relations officers at Sheppard Field spoke about their duties during a Dallas radio program. Wes First, editor of Texacts, and Jimmy Young, head of the field’s radio division, described their roles on Bert Haling’s Hometown Editor show carried by KRLD from Fort Worth. The interview highlighted the division’s large station coverage and the RAF paper’s news editing team.
The debate centers on bills and substitutes to grant terminal leave pay to enlisted personnel. Rogers Bill H R 4051 would credit 214 days of leave per month of service from December 7 1941 to six months after the war with up to 126 paid days.
War Department plans multi million dollar Alaska fortifications including Ladd Field Nome and Fort Richardson to provide permanent barracks mess halls and recreational facilities. Maj. Gen. Dwight F. Johnson testified to Congress that wartime airstrips do not meet peacetime standards and asked 20 000 for land settlement studies in Alaska.
The Army plans inactivation of an eight-hotel hospital complex in Atlantic City by June 30 1946 after a March 30 opening date was extended. Surgeon general and veterans administration agreed no operation beyond June 30. War department seeks consolidation to improve overall patient service. Hotels Chalfonte Haddon Hall Colton Manor Cedarcroft Rydal Keystone New England Warwick house army patients and nurses.
The organization of another new squadron under Captain Benjamin W. Tarwater creates Squadron R. All squadrons stay in one area, ending cross-block extensions. The change aims to boost efficiency by allowing each commander to supervise all activities in his domain.
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