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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1944
Page
3
Weekly column from KWFT notes Monday and Wednesday 3:45 pm broadcasts featuring hospital life convalescents and staff. It lists colorful anecdotes about service members, entertainers, training, Spanish classes, and social club activities at the field, with lively vignettes and local color.
Public relations piece explains the spread of Armed Forces Radio Service programs to more than 400 outlets worldwide. It details expeditionary stations, portable kits, disc transcriptions, and mobile and shipboard setups delivering homeward radio shows to troops from Italy to the Pacific, with home programs sans commercials and extra features.
Sheppard Field is slated to receive its first soft water from Burkburnett around June 1. Municipal officials from Wichita Falls and Burkburnett arranged delivery of about 30 000 gallons daily for drinking and cooking, to be hauled by army trucks.
Regulations governing cigarette purchases at Sheppard Field were posted this week in all exchanges. Eligible buyers include military personnel and their dependents with commissary cards, exchange employees, and civilian staff living on post. outside civilians must pay the tax to obtain tobacco.
The Exchange offers sunburn cream and new stock of after shave lotion. Hair tonic is scarce but a fresh shipment arrives, along with first aid waterproof bandages. Small envelopes notebooks peanuts and seeds raise interest, while belts GI type and spring collar stays update clothing accessories. Garrison caps officer oxfords bags and leather goods join new book and card assortments.
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