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Four Additional Locations Will Be SelectedWASHINGTON, March 13. (JP) j The House Appropriation! Com- j n ittee disclosed today that Sabine j Pass, Texas, had been selected as J the site of a naval section base, j from which small delense vessels, lt;such as motor torpedo boats, pa-tnd t ab and submarine chasers,would operate. IHealings on the naval appropriations bill, introduced today in the House, disclosed also that four additional sites for such bases vet were to be picked in theL u. iana-Texas Gulf Coast area.he d.v to start construction of the Sabine Pass project were pro-uded in a deficiency national defense appropriation bill already par ed by both houses and ex- j ; e. ted to be approved shortly b\ the President. It was one of 20 ection bases for which a lump sum appropriation of $5,000,000 w««s provided in the deficiency bill. Sites were unnamed in the
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Thu, Mar 13, 1941
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