World War II on the Texas Homefront: Shoulder to Shoulder, On to Victory! Part Two: Sacrifice and Celebration Page: 10 of 17
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.TEXAS HIGHWAYS-WWII, 2of2-MALLORY
scooter. The trip home, riding on the metal rims, was loud and bumpy, the noise
reaching my house before I did. I was filled with patriotic pride."
--Edna Tucker Jones, as told to her son, Phillip W. Jones, both of East Bernard
"Even though we were poor, volunteers came to our Mount Vernon home asking
for anything made of rubber. My father responded immediately and convinced me
it would be patriotic to give up the tires on the new tricycle Santa brought last
Christmas. When I grumbled, he would tap the porch firmly with the bare tip of his
cane, reminding me that he also had contributed the rubber off of his own cane."
--Charlene Donaghue, Mount Pleasant
"It was during the war that oleo-margarine was introduced to the American
housewife as a butter substitute. It was my job to mix a yellow coloring tablet into
the white oleo to make it look like butter."
--Aileene A. Saegert, Denton
"Cars would have a decal on the windshield saying, "Is this trip really necessary?"
When I got married, I was working at North American Aviation (B-25 bomber
plant) in Grand Prairie and the employees there gave us their own gasoline ration
stamps so we could make our honeymoon trip."
--Meraye Doigg, Dallas
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Mallory, Randy. World War II on the Texas Homefront: Shoulder to Shoulder, On to Victory! Part Two: Sacrifice and Celebration, text, 2005-11~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1924386/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.