Save Fats for Uncle Sam in the War Effort
Texas A and M Extension Service urges homemakers to save kitchen fats to produce glycerine for gunpowder. Each 10 pounds of fat yields one pound glycerine. nationwide two billion pounds could supply 200 million pounds glycerine. Cooperation with War Production Board and local salvage committees aims to boost wartime fat collection.
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College Station
Louise Bryant
A. and M. College Extension Service
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Home Economics
War Production Board
A, and *M
Texas
Miss Bryant
Increase of Winter Legumes Is Urged
COLLEGE STATION Growing winter legumes will help Texas farmers maintain peak productive strength. Planting winter legumes mainly vetches and winter peas restores soil vigor and replaces nitrogenous fertilizer in wartime. Seed production this year will be more than twice 1941, with seeds moving from the Pacific Northwest to southern counties. Farmers can get seeds and pay later from AAA payments. payments nearly cover seed costs.
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AAA
Pacific Northwest
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Slaughter
Non-War Construction Postponement Urged in Southwest
Col Stanley L Scott US division engineer urged public and private agencies in the Southwest to delay all non war construction for three months due to shortages of lumber nails copper wire concrete pipe metal items Portland cement steel sand and gravel threatening Army training. Military building work in the region runs at about 5 million dollars daily, five times the normal rate.
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Dallas
Stanley L. Scott
United States Division
Southwest
Scott
War Wipes Out Household Articles of 1.5 Million Workers
The War Production Board reports six months of war production has eliminated civilian house goods for 1.5 million workers in 28 000 plants with a $3 800 000 000 factory value. Consumers would pay over $7 000 000 000 for items now replaced by weapons and parts. Major plants shift to weapons output, with billions more in steel copper aluminum and plastics redirected to war.
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Washington
America
War Production Board
WPB
Sailor Orders Nimitz To Sit Down In Navy Rescue T
Oklahoma City sailor Frank C. Hall 40 told Admiral Chester W. Nimitz where to head amid a West Coast plane crash rescue. In the commotion Hall, part of a rescue crew, did not notice the admiral until after he stood. Nimitz replied consistent with military courtesy and thanked the sailor for his concern.
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Oklahoma City
Frank C Hall
Chester W. Nimitz
Midway
Hall
Nimitz
Simple Tips To Prolong Tire Life And Care
Drivers can extend tire life by proper inflation and careful handling. Keep tires inflated correctly and avoid under or over inflation to prevent mileage loss. Drive slower to reduce wear and heat, rotate front tires every 5 000 miles, and avoid curb bumps and jagged curves.
Democratic primary candidates named for 1942 election
The Sun lists authorized candidates for the July Democratic primary: State Senator William S. Moore, Representative Place 1 Leroy M. Anderson, County Judge Jake J. Loy, V. R. Henderson, County Clerk H. Grady Thompson (Re-election-2nd Term), Sheriff Hank Mooty and J. Benton Davis, G. P. Gafford, Tax Assessor-Collector George Schumacher and Robert Dean, District Clerk S. V. Earnest and Paul Finch, County School Superintendent Sewell R. McKinney (2nd Term), Public Weigher F. W. Alverson and others J H Waggoner, S B Vaughan, J. S. Taylor.
Second Front in Western Europe Drives Allied Strategy
The piece argues Britain and the United States must press for a Western invasion before Nazi forces split Russia. It stresses air power as the key to a crossing and questions whether Allied air umbrella can hold against German reinforcements, while noting risks of waiting too long and potential gains for the Russians and Allies.
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Christian Science Monitor
Europe
Britain
America
Stalingrad
United Nations
Churchill
Roosevelt
Russia
France
Norway
England
Dunkirk
RAF
Channel
Washington
London
Japan
Moscow
Berlin
Egypt
Two of a Kind Dialogue Reveals Idle Worker Exchange
A judge quizs an officer about a prisoner with hands described as soft and white. The officer notes the man has not worked in years, prompting a sharp exchange on labor and legitimacy.
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the Sun
J.P. Buck
The
People’s Choice
Grayson, Fannin and
Cook Counties
Buck
Pol
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
Whitewright
Whitewright Lumber Co
United States
U. S. Treasury’Dept
Sailor
van Zandt
Sun
William S. Moore
Leroy M. Anderson
Jake J. Loy V. R
Vernie) Henderson
H. Grady Thompson
Fred
Hank
Mooty
J. Benton Davis
G. P
Prentice
Gafford
George Schumacher
Robert Dean
S. V. Earnest
Paul Finch
Sewell R. McKinney
F. W. (Finis) Alverson
J. H
Jim) Waggoner S. B
Ben) Vaughan
J.S. Taylor
Fannin County
W. H. (Hamp) Harper
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