Christmas News From Lincoln and Nearby Military Homes
Local households report Christmas furloughs and updates from servicemen and women. Pvt Jarvis Maddux visits Lincoln parents. Ensign Merriwell Vineyard writes of Pacific action. S/Sgt Lester Martin receives a promotion. Other notes include brigades in Ireland and Navy postings, a POW update, and a newborn in the Johnson family overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pvt
Jarvis Maddux
Lincoln, Neb
Mrs
R. D. Maddux
Lester M. Martin
Hensley Field
W. J. Martin
Martin
Ensign Merriwell Vineyard
Sun
W. R. Vineyard
Ensign Vineyard
Southwest Pacific
Christmas Quietly Marked With Fewer Decorations
The holiday is observed without heavy glamour as lights and decorations are down from past years. Yet shoppers remain plentiful with plenty of gifts available and the seasonal spirit in the air despite simpler observances and no firecrackers on the market.
2 Billion Bonus Bill For Veterans Push Begun In Senate
Senate authors plan fast passage of a 12 billion dollar veterans bonus bill after the recess. It would pay up to 1250 dollars in addition to Barkley’s discharge pay, with 2 dollars per domestic service day and 2.50 per foreign day, up to 1000 and 1200 dollars respectively. Bonds would be ten-year nontransferable and redeemable for homes, farms, offices, or education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
United States
Ernest W. McFarland
Arizona
Burnett R. Maybank
South Carolina
McFarland-Maybank
Maybank
McFarland
Sailor Studies When to Worry from Pacific Destroyer
Grand Island Nebraska sailor Signalman First Class Benjamin Walker writes his mother about worry during wartime. He notes sunsets may be the last seen and times his worrying to exactly five minutes, urging her not to worry since it is often wasted and happens at the wrong moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Brown
Germany
Brown
Berlin
Grand Island, Neb
Benjamin Walker
Pacific
Will Leslie resigns from Grayson County draft board
Will Leslie, longtime chairman of the Grayson County selective service board, says he sent his resignation to Gov. Coke Stevenson and to Gen. J Watt Page. Ill health has plagued him, and since October 1940 the board has seen changes with Judge Cal Freeman leaving and Forrest Peveto replacing him. Wag gon remains the sole original member. The local boards, created before Pearl Harbor, are unpaid.
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Sherman
Will Leslie
Grayson County
Selective Service Board
Coke Stevenson
J. Watt Page
Selective Service
Texas
Leslie
Cal T. Freeman
J. H. Waggoner
Whitewright
Freeman
Forrest Peveto
Waggoner
United States
Japan
Landlady Demands Rent or Departure Jibe
A terse exchange between a landlady and a lodger ends with the lodger replying that his previous landlady had him do both paying and leaving. The banter captures a sharp but light moment in tenant disputes.
Santa Claus a Global Borrowed Christmas St of Old
The piece traces Christmas customs from Saint Nicholas origins in fourth century Myra to modern practices. It links Santa Claus to European traditions, chimney sweeping, stockings, trees, gifts, wassail, and regional names while noting American adaptations and the late December holiday rush.
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Sam
Santa Claus
Washington
John Smith
New England
St. Nicholas
Myra
Russia
Pere Noel
Kris Kringle
Knecht Ruprecht
Santa
Germany
Martin Luther
France
Spain
Christ Child
Austria
Earth
Cousin Sue
Emma
All Networks to Present Roosevelt Christmas Talk
President Roosevelt's Christmas message will be broadcast Friday across all networks and short waves. The Hyde Park direct broadcast at 2 p.m. will be transmitted to North Africa and Europe, with repeats at 9:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The Blue network will also feature Christmas With the Armed Forces on Christmas morning, including Army and Navy commanders remarks, two way serviceman broadcasts, and musical features with a possible Italy pickup.
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New York
F. D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
North Africa
Europe
Blue
MBS
London
Italy
Edsel Ford Estate Valued at 66 Million in Maine Probate
In Ellsworth Maine Hancock County Probate Court a $66 000 000 valuation of the Edsel Ford estate was filed with his will and an affidavit by widow Elean or Clay Ford executrix. The estate includes a Bar Harbor summer home and follows Maine inheritance tax filings after his death last May.
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Ellsworth
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Hancock County
Eleanor Clay Ford
Maine
Ford
Bar Harbor
U S War Expenditures Hit New High in November
The War Production Board reports U S war expenditures for November rose to 7.794 billion dollars, up 689 million or about 10 percent from October. The average daily rate neared 300 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
WPB
GM aims for postwar car production within months
General Motors president C. E. Wilson told 400 Pontiac businessmen that if allowed to plan ahead for a percentage of production, GM could make motorcars within three months after the war ends and reach volume production within six months. He linked postwar employment to government policy on re conversion and advance planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontiac
Mich
General Motors Corp
C. E. Wilson
Wilson
Furlough Kissing Sprees Spark Trench Mouth Spread
In Baltimore Dr. Kyrle W. Preis warns furlough farewells fuel Vincent's infection or trench mouth. He cites kissing as the prime spreader while high wartime stress and poor habits lower resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Kyrle W. Preis
Baltimore City Dental Society
Preis
Vincent
Sugar Queue Reveals Regimental Pet or Rebel
In a walking tour of the barracks a colonel spots a long line of men with lumps of sugar near the stables. A recruit jokes the horse is the regiment’s pet, but the reply reveals the animal is actually the one that kicked the sergeant.
UPA Declares Pork Chop Ration Bonus
The Office of Price Administration issued a pork chop dividend designating spare ration stamp No. 1 in book No. 4 for five extra points. Effective midnight Tuesday, this bonus helps relieve hog market pressure and storage pileups and runs until January 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
First National Bank Declares 16 Percent Dividend
At a Tuesday meeting the directors of the First National Bank declared a 16 percent dividend on capital stock and with checks mailed to shareholders on December 30. The bank reported a strong year with deposits rising and a capital, surplus and undivided profits total of over 120000, plus a 41000 reserve for contingencies. Loans and discounts stood at 316797.20 and U S Government securities at 192150 as of October 18 per the Comptroller of Currency statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
U. S
Sun Honor Roll adds names to Christmas subscriptions
The Sun reports renewed subscriptions and new names added to its honor roll this week as readers support a year of service. Notables include J. T. Vestal Mrs. D. W. Smith Mrs. Obie Rutledge L. A. Watkins T. B. Blanton and many others across the community.
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Sun
the Sun
J. T. Vestal
D. W. Smith
Obie Rutledge
L. A. Watkins
T. B. Blanton
Claud W. Phillips
Earl K. Phillips
E. E. Benson
R. A. Gillett
S. G. Wilson
Grover Gillett
Sue Stephens
Laud Larson
F. Gillett
J. G. Sloan
Homer Caston
Guy Burchfield
B. S. Montgomery
J. W. Goree
B. D. McBroom
Bascom Pritchett
Billie Pritchett
E. M. Pritchett
Clarabel Harris
Clyde Vestal
Joe Miller
P. W. Mullinix
W. E. LaRoe
Albert Patridge
J. E. Mangrum
W.N. Stone
F. C. Williams
F. M. Williams
Lewis Magers
R. H. DeBerry
Ensign M. W. Vineyard
Cpl
Geo. W. Hansard
N. R. Stillwell
Ray Spangler
W. H. Forrest
Charlie Burchfield
C. H. Craig
Joe Weldon Carr
Jack Farley
B. L. Janway
G. W. Ford
Homer Ryan
R. W. Ball
Grady Haliburton
C. W. Spinks
New Immunization Program Is Planned for Whitewright Schools
Miss Willie Mae Grundy the public health nurse announced a new immunization program for Whitewright area children beginning Monday January 2. The plan includes smallpox vaccinations and the first diphtheria immunization at Whitewright schools with second diphtheria doses at Cherry Mound South Gale Ambrose and Bellis schools starting the same date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Willie Mae Grundy
Christmas Programs Highlight Church and School Activities
Christmas programs filled churches and schools this week with Sunday school and student participants. The Central Christian Church hosted a White Gifts program directed by Miss Gladys Ray, raising 96.40 for Fowler Orphans Home and featuring The Silver Star of Christmas, solos, and readings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Central Christian Church
Gladys Ray
Fowler
Dallas
Bettye Nell Yeager
Ann LaRoe
Pattie Everheart
Azilee Smith
Katie Kincaid
Janis Jayne Horton
Henrietta Jackson
Betty Lee Jones
Jacylyn Nossaman
Betty Bryant
Billie Hatfield
Mary Phillips
Billy Kincaid
Clarence Wootten
Bobby Jim Morgan
Mary Dale King
J. C. McMillin
Baptist Missionary Union
Olive Myrick
Mary Elizabeth Pennell
Betty Margaret Sears
Guy Hamilton
H. L. Crittenden
O. L. Jones
First Baptist Church
Fidelis
Marie Jenkins
C. J. Meador
Methodist Church
R. P. Childress
Roosevelt backs service voting in next election
President Roosevelt said at a press conference that every man and woman in the armed services should have the opportunity to vote in next year's elections unless combat prevents it. He noted federal action may be required to implement the policy and declined to judge the Senate approved soldiers' voting bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Armed Services
Roosevelt
State revenues show net $64 million surplus for year
Texas state revenues for the year ending August 31 totaled 245,551,440 with expenditures of 181,795,948. The 64 million difference covers funds that cannot be spent except for accrual interest. Major revenue sources included motor fuel tax 40,668,512 and gross receipts and production taxes 36,205,689. Peak expenditures went to education 61,637,171 public welfare 53,476,230 and highways 41,042,192.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Sheppard
Berlin Ghost City Reported as Occupation Begins
Swedish correspondent says Berlin is a ghost city a month after the British assault began with bodies still being removed from smoking ruins. Nazis discuss total evacuation as residents remain in basements with corpses and grey-faced inhabitants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Berlin
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The
Seabees
Williamsburg, Va
Marl Ryan
Northern Ireland
Lela Ryon
Murl
Homer Ryon
Fannin County
Navy
Mr. Ryan
West Whitewright
Billy Coy Harris
U.S. Navy
Coy Harris
Jack Thrasher
Fort Lawson
Frank Hollingsworth
Marine
Mojave Air Base
J. W. Hollingsworth
Sergeant Hollingsworth
Mojave
Dan Hollingsworth
Navy Recruiting Service
Eudell Bush
R. J. Bush
San Diego
Calif
Robert L. Doss
Tennessee
Fitzsimons General Hospital
Denver
Colorado
Fitzsimons
Army
Doss
368Th Field Artillery
James Bryant
Mercer Field
Trenton
N. J
A. M. Bryant
Sgt
H. R. Johnson
Houston Ray Jr
Sailor
Draft Board
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UPA
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