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Mr and Mrs. Homer Andrews of
Laredo are visiting here this week.
Britton Ancell of the U. S. Coast
Guard is here this week on a fur-
lough.
6,000 Foot Test
Eleven Miles
N. W. Electra
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Laveron Litton
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Miss Nadine Morrow has left for
Oklahoma City where she is to be-
come a civil service employe.
Mrs. Leroy Baker, baby girl born
March 15.
Mrs. M. P. Begrassenrcid, opera-
tive.
Mrs. Glenn Mitchell, operative.
Mrs. Ed Brown. operative.
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A football game between the ex-
members of the football team and
the new team will be next Friday
night at the football field. Admis-
sion is 10 and 25 cents. The coach,
i is T. L. Jones, who has played pro-
fessional football. The boys on the
team describe him as the “finest
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Commerce. Only rural children may (more than just a skilled job.
apply for chickens. A unit of 25 * *
chicks will be given out April 3rd
to those who apply. Boys and girls
James E. Knight
Is Promoted To
First Lieutenant
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for Baby Chicks
March 2&ih is the last day to file „ ... . ..
applications for chickens to be used 'Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps” fellow that ever came to^ElectraJ
.in the Annual Poultry Show next Sgt. Sullivan emphasized, “is doing Several new play * ’
(fall, sponsored by the Chamber of |far more than helping herself, far during the game
is really helping to build the army
of the United -States. If you real-
. ize how much the WAACS are do-
with chickens must report the first ing in the war, why not come down
to my office and talk it over?”
The WAAC recruiting office in
Wichita Falls is in the U. S. Army
Recruiting Station, room 306 Post
Office building. In Electra, Mrs. E.
R. Brown, phone 300, is in charge
of recruiting.
HOSPITAL REPORT
Seven patients were reported at
The Electra Hospital this morning
and included are:
Mrs. B. W. Karstetter, medical.
Ernest Gibson, operative.
Ralph Morrell, operative.
Tony, First K-9
Member Leaves
for Active Duty
Tony, the three year old Ger-
man Shepherd dog belonging to
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Roberts, has
received .his call to report to Dal-
las for his physical examination.
He is the first dog from Electra to
join the dog corps of the United
States Army, known as K-9.
Tony will be sent to the dog
training center at San Carlos,
Calif. He is to try for sentry duty
and will <Jtart as a private in pref-
erence to being an officer.
Joseph J. Davis Is
Commissioned In
Army Air Force
Eli Crews Is
Second Class Petty
Officer in Navy
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Two Principals
Elected for Next
Year School Term
J Mr •Harveyjr principal of. Elec-,
tra High school, and J. E. Fergu-
son, principal of Junior High school
have been re-elected for' the next
school term of 1943-44. They were
elected by the school board at its
meeting Monday night. Mr. Har-
vey has been conncted with Electra
Public schools since 1924 and has
been principal of the high school
for three years, this being his
lourth.
Mr. Ferguson came to Electra
last fall to accept his position.
WAAC Stacy Says
She Is Busy and
Likes Training
Auxiliary Madge B. Stacy who
left about two weeks ago for Ft. J
Ds Mioines, writes back that she
loves the WAACS. Her letter says
in part:
“Dear studio gang:
“I love it here — I have a lot to
do, but I love it and there are more
girls than a^one dreamed of —
from everywhere. I came from DaL
las with 29 Texas girls, and by tYie ’C
time we reached Iowa<Xye. werft.Lju^*1^
‘swell pals?
“After I got here I was put in
with ..a whole gang of Louisian
/French) girls. They are serious,
strong, and hard workers —I found
lit very hard to keep up with them.
However, I was cliosen by the ser-
geant' to act as corporal for our
first week before we were sent on
over to ‘Boom Town? It was a lot
of fun— I had to lead the rest and
we had to march, right-face, left-
face, about-face, salute, and know
a>million other things.
“We were given a lot of clothes
everything one ever dreamed of
—for goodness sake tell anyone
who thinks they want to be a
?WAAC not to buy any civilian
clothes at all hut bring soap and
stuff like that.”
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Saturday of each month to their
sponsor of the progress of the
chicks. Three of the best in the unit
will have to be entered in the show
next fall.
Corrected unofficial returns
from three polling places cut the
dry lead in Wichita County to 59
votes and leaders of the move- ’
ment to legalize sale of beer pre-
dicted they would win when the
commissioners court makes an of-
ficial canvass of the ballots Friday
beginning at 1:30 p. m.
The total vote as corrected stood
as follows: For legalizing sale of
beer 4946; against 5005; total vote
9,951.
An unofficial check of the vote'
Jsy precincts reveals that Wichita
Falls gave beer a majority of 548,
the precinct returns being 4,019 Navy.* He~ played "football
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The other three precincts all
voted dry to put the drys ahead
in the county as a whole. Precinct
returns follow: Burkburnett, for
beer 208, against 459; Iowa Park,
for beer 124, against 437; Electra,
for 595; against 638.
This shows that Iowa Park went
dry 31/2 to 1, while Burkburnett
cast a dry vote pf more than 2 to
1. In Electra the dry margin was
only 43 votes
Randolph Field, March 18. —
The Army Air Forces added hun-
dreds of new pilots today for the
spring offensive sweeps over Eu-
rope and the Pacific, with grad-
uation of aviation cadets from the
ten advanced flying schools of the
AAF Gulf Coast Training Center.
Forty-six states, the District of
Columbia, Mexico, Alaska and the
Canal Zone contributed members to
this class, the largest ever turned
out by the Gulf Coast Center.
. Graduating cadets received silver
piolts wings and commissioned as
second lieutenants, or in some
cases as flight officers.
Some officers already commiss-
ioned also received their wings, re-
taining the respective ranks held
before they began flight training.
The new pilots include Lieut. Jos-
eph J. Davis, 311 Ea-t Washington
avenue, Electra. He received his
commission from the Pampa Ad-
vanced Flying School.
American Legion
Plans Program
Memorial Day
The post, in addition to acting
on the appeal to solicit guns and
typewriters for the war depart-
ment, began plans for a Memorial
Day program at the cemetery. May
30th is on Sunday this year. A
brief but impressive program will
I be presented in the afternoon in
honor of those who have given
their lives in service for our coun-
try.
Adjutant Chauncey Weiler, be-
cause of increased occupational ob-
ligations, found it necessary to re-
sign. The post regretfully accepted.
Mr. Weiler has been an excellent
adjutant.
Francis W. Roberts, Jr., was
elected to serve the remainder of
the ferm. Mr. Roberts is'bne of the
most faithful legionnaires of the
post. He is devoted to principles
of the American Legion and is well
acquainted with its procedure.
The next meeting will be April
6th.
jjptgya
S. S.' Convention
at Church of God
Begins Friday
The Church of God announces a
I" Joung. JPje.oplgst and^uqday School
District (invention to begin Friday,’
March 19 at 8 p .m. continuing un-
til Sunday noon. The church is lo-
cated on the corner of Electra and
Michigan streets.
I town delegates are
Pampa, Vernon,
!other places, '
guns; the average price has been
835.”
Furthr information may be se-
cured from Rev. C. B. Orahood,
Post Commander. He says that
since there will be no more shells
for the duration, gasoline and tires
are rationed, the army needs the
guns, some governments would
simply confiscate them, this appeal
to patriotism should receive a
worthy response.
Electra has few typewriters that
are not doing essential work, but
“your government wants to buy
every standard typewriter made
since Jan. 1. 1935, exclusively for
the armed forces. Cash prices,
•higher than the 1941 trade-in al-
lowance, are paid on delivery. The
same to everyone They will be used
on six continents, in about 63 coun-
tries and islands. Business is re-
quested to release 25 per cent,
schools and institutions 20 per cent
of the total machines owned. Type-
writers are absolutely essential in
the armed service.
If you have a typewriter of this
type that you can release inform
C. B. Orahood, 506 N. Wichita.
ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF SON
Mr. and Mrs Jesse Garrett Mar-
shall announce the birth of a son
on March-14, 1943. They selected
the name, David Garrett. Mr. Mar-
shall was inducted into the army
last October and received his has-
ic training at Camp Robinson, Ark.
From there he was sent to Fort
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Miller have‘Pix> New Jersey where he^was in
as their guests, their daughter and
her son Mrs. Eldon Scott of Grand
Prairie.
Special WAAC
Official to be in
Wichita Falls
Third Officer Crolie Mi Hingle,
vlY?ci°us’ blonde recruiting
officer for the Womens Army Aux-
ujarY Corps, will be in Wichita
Falls, Friday morning and all day
Saturday,, March 19 and 20 to in-
terview prospective enrollees in
the WAAC, Sgt. Gambill Sullivan,
commander of the Army Recruiting
Station there, said today.
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will tie inspiring and uplifting. A an<i third officers are addressed as
cordial invitation is extended to l”Lieutenantw will be available at
both young and old to be present— Recruiting Office, 306 Post
is there to explain all phases of
at service in the corps to eligible wo-
men.
She joined the corps last fall be-
cause: ~
There will also be service Sunday tie done. It’s up to everyone to do
at 8 o’clock p. m. with Pastor Geo. ‘ ’’
M. Bloomingdale.
Annie Lee -Reeves
Begins Training As ;
Member WAAC
Fort Des Moines, Iowa, March
17.—Auxiliary Annie Lee Reeves ofx\
617 North Main street',' Elctra, has
begun training at the First Wo-
men's! Army- Auxiliary Corps
Training Center here.
She was immediately assigned to
a receiving center company for a
week of elementary training. Here
she was issued clothing and equip-
ment, instructed in rudiments of
drill, and given aptny classification,
tests. ''
For the following four weeks,
she will be assigned to a basic
company for more detailed train-
ing preparing her to replace a man
in a non-combat army job.
the postal department. He was
shipped from the West Coast the
middle of February for an un-
known destination. No word has
been received from him yet. Mrs.
Marshall will be remembered as
Mjss Liona McMiurtrie and is mak-
ing her home with her parents on
the Vernon highway for the dura-
tion.
The fire department answered a
grass fire alarm Thursday after-
noon and a false alarm Sunday
morning.
LIONS CLUB HAD LADIES
NIGHT THURSDAY
nasrer J ess nai-1
boys skating. The | j The program for ladies night at
cause of their participation in the presented by H. A. Decker and G.
recent tin can drive. For this gen- j. Gillis. The ladies part was to
erous act the boys of Troop 40 wish pay the consequences in a truth or
Shotguns Are
Needed For
Guard Work
Lieut. Col. G. E. Mason of» the
Ordance Department 'has appealed'
to American Legion Post as fol-
lows: “It is,extremely important
that the United States Army im-
mediately obtain as1 many good
used 12-gauge shotguns as possible.
The types required are, hammer-
less double-barrels, hammerless or
hammer pumps and automatics.
The guns will be used for guarding
and other purposes. Each gun so
used will relea'e a rifle for com-
bat use. Because of the emergency
— .— entire influence to se-
Icure these guns.
I “The guns may be packed and
forwarded to Browning Arms com-
pany, 1718 Washington Ave., St.
Louis, Mo., who will grade and ap-
praise the guns for the government
on j? non-profit basis.
“The gun should have a tag
which shows the owner’s name and
address carefully attached. The
owner may designate what he
thinks is a reasonable price for the . - „ - a ,
gun, on the same card. If it grades j Rs well, N. M., March 17.— James
up to that price a check will be E. Knight of Electra, Texas, now
forwarded immediately. If that Iwears the silver bar of a first
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quest the return of the gun. If he here, last week.
submits the gun without a price it | Lieut. Knight who is asigned to
will appraised and he will be noti- (the twin-engine pilot school here is
fied of the price offered. (the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
“No broken or obsolete guns, no Knight, 305 W. Summit, Electra,
damascus or twist barrels, no at- Before joining the Army Air
tachments or acces orics should be Forces in November 1941, he at-
sent. — o-
“Fair prices will be paid for the John Ttarleton college.
Joan Moore of T. C. U. visited
hei’ parents, Mayor and Mrs. T. Leo
Moore over the week end.
TROOP FORTY B. S. A.
The scouts of Troop Forty B. S.
A. met Monday night at the Meth-
odist church in their regular meet-
ing. Aftr the regular procedure,
Assistant Scoutmaster* Jess Bal-
lard took the 17 1
toys were allowed to skate free be- the Lions CIub Thursday niglit was
recent tin can drive. For this gen- -j. Gillis. The ladiei part was to
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to thank Mr. F. C. McClung, the Iconsequences quiz.
o'wner of the local skating rink. I
Leave for WAAC Training
LaVeron “Worm” Litton, son of' '
g:Mr. and Mrs. Jack Litton, is now
^an apprentice seaman stationed at
San Diego, Calif., where he is tak-
|Hng his boot training in the Naval
jS-an aviation mechanic. Laveron left
18th of January of this vear
g for his camp.
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$tain of the track team for
Eyear and won first place in
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“More to come.” This was the warning to Hitler and Hirohito that
employees of the Dallas Division of North American Aviation, Inc.,
painted on the first B-24 Liberator bomber which rolled this week from
tne assembly lines of the company’s sccc J plant at Dallas. The term
was borrowed from the jargon of newspaper men who use it at the bottom
?iLan??^C-°f wlJeP a story is unfinished. Lucille Kelly is holding
In? JaiVn -he pi?tuxr^ ?nd c- H- Williams is putting the finishing
touches on the sign. -North American has been manufacturing TEXAN
Afa,nerr lls plant at Dallas for nearly two years. It is
J Le c.omna«V is included in the B-24 program along witti Con"
iolidated, desjgner of the ship, Ford and Douglas.
_STAR STAFF PHOTO
Misses Ruth Andrews and Peg- . _.
gy McGann are the first Electra
ladies to join the Womens Army secretary at the Chamber of Com-
Auxiliary Corps together, the ftral merce> Both gave up excellent jobs
to be sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., ^.0 accept a $50 a month salary as
and will be the first, of course, to an auxj]jary jn the WAAC giving
receive their training together. proof that American women realize
They left luesday at noon 101 reecj for properly trained sol-
their training station. They weie ^jerSj at home, so that service men
sworn in at Dallas two weeks a£°can released for overseas duty.
afiir sig dug u? at ’.he recruit rg Both are shown just-before they
station in Electra boarded a bus for their destination
.Miss Andrews has been employed last Tuesday.
Second Class Petty Officer Eli
Crews has an APO address in New
York City now. He is the son of
Mrs. May Crews of Electra and left
the first of June to join the U. S.
’1 for two
yeara while in high school and
worked as a machinest for two
years while he attended high
school. Eli came to Electra in 193.8
from the Panama zone where he
had lived three years. Two sisters
are still living there. Mrs. Eddie
Albin is there, whose husband is a
lieutenant in the fire department.
Mrs. John Finlson is a secretary in
in the army and navy department
there while her husband is an en-
gineer in the airplane department.
| Training school. He hpes to become
p"the l^tti of January of this year
Laveron graduated from Electra
He was cap-
that
the
xnile run in the county track meet,
Annual Invitation Track Meet and
the District Track Meet.
E H was also a member of the “E”
^Association and was active in oth-
tfer uchool activities.
f A brother. Pvt. Dale Litton, is
^stationed near Los Angeles, Calif.,
tr'on the desert for maneuver'. Pvt.
^Litton is in the Quartermaster
£-Corps. They hope to visit each oth-
£’qr while they are so near together.
£ Pvt. Litton came home Tuesday
^Ifor a fifteen day furlough to visit
^>his parents and friends.
L Mr. and Mrs Walter Stilly have
K: returned to Electra.. Mr. Stilly
k plans to re-enter business here.
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|to 1st Class Private
| in Army Air Force
Oil COni- OX.CHVM pax ueio nut
neYLdee? coecling eight ounces in weight
rt x mi • vlJe first class
of Electra. This six thousand foot rate is prepaid may be accepted for
test is being drilled on the same [dispatch to army pen — -
giesmeograph high that a. five overseas without the
thousand foot test was drilled on a
. Rfc. Edmund C.
' Bingham Is Awarded
Purple Heart Medal
Pfc. Edmund C. Bingham has
been awarded the Purple Heart for
wounds received in action, and
meritorious performance of duty,
according to' word his wife receiv-
ed. Pfc. Bingham is in a base hos-
pital recovering from his wounds.
’He is a member of the U. S. forces
in Australia.
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’• George Reich received his pro-
motion to private first class last
jweek at Oakland airport at Oak-
land, Calif., where he is stationed.
^Sunday night, he called his mother,
Mrs. George M. Rich long distance
£from California to wish her a
Ijiappy birthday. His parents live
two miles north of the city.
Pfc. Reich has al o passed his
^examination^ to be an aerial guti-
■ner in the U. S. Army Air Force,
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JFwneralFor
I Paul Clarion
I field Saturday
Funeral of Paul Clarion, 77, was
held Saturday, March 13 in the
£• James. B. Totten Chapel at 3
I* o’clock. He died Friday in a Wi-
chita JFalls hospital. Burial was in
the Old ^Electra Cemetery.
Clarion was born in France and
had lived in America 40 years. He
spent .30 years in Electra where he
x time.
.There are 'no known surviving
relatives.
Pallbearers were Pete Gilbert, S.
Igou, R. J. Rennolds, W.* C. Kem-
ple, E. L. Hughes and George Mc-
Gann.
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Small Parcels
May Be Sent to ‘
Army Overseas
Hereafter sealed parcels not
wildcat well eleven miles nothwest which po tage at the
of Electra. This six thousand foot rate is prepaid may bv xui
Pun? le sa™e j dispatch to army personnel at APO
. j presentation
of'an approved request from the
addressee.
This order .has been revised in
order to‘facilitate the sending of
small essential articles such as
eyeglas es, watches, fountain pens,
insignia, etc.
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uc uune. Its up to everyone to do j ik-n m
her part hewever small, during this and -NCW Team
war, and the more of us who do it,
the quicker the war will be over.”
Sgt. Sullivan, army recruiter,
lists several exciting specialties for
which WAACS are being trained,
such as. bombsight repairs, para-
chute riggers, and link trainer in- 1
jstructor.
j “Every woman who enrolls in the
• ... .. , 0 initial plain uuuas ror nearly two years It is iui viuiivtziib lu ul ubuti nuinmb /irniy Auxiliary c>orps
Uht“. tL'TJ™?",:»l‘e famous P-51-Mustang lin, the Annual Poultry Sho,^- next ,f£t Sullivan emphasiaed, “is.doine
iolidated, designer of the ship. Ford and Doug!
Many out of
expected from
Childress and
The Rev. Glenn
Weatherby, Y. P..R. and S. S. state
superintendent will be in charge.
C There will be talented musicians
‘ ’ and singers present to render vocal
land instrumental numbers, which
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I cordial invitation i
'and especially all special singers Office Bldg., during the time she
of Electra.
Saturday service will begin
10 a. m..
Saturday evening at 8 o’clock.
Sunday at 9:45 a. m.
extended to I “Lieutenant” will be available
Roswell Army Flying School,
up to that price a check will be E. Knight of Electra, Texas,
f__ ■ If that Iwears the silver bar <“
price cannot ue paid the owner will lieutenant. Announcement of his
be notified immediately of the ap- I promotion was made by Col. John
praisal price. He may accept or re- C. Horton, commanding officer
quest the return of the gun. If he here, last week,
submits the gun without a price it I Lieut. Knight who is asigned to
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