The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1945 Page: 3 of 8
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[ 2, 1945
FRIDAY/ MARCH 1945
THE BOWIE NEWS
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FRIDAY - SATURDAY
March 2-3
Double Feature
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Home Remedy
For Relieving Miseries of
CHILD'S COLDS
The modem external treatment most
young mothers use to relieve discom-
— fQrts °f children’s colds
The Wesleyan Guild will meet
Monday night at 8:00 o’clock at
the parsonage of the First Meth-
odist Church. The Rebeccas will
have charge of the program and
entertainment. All members are
urged to be present, as the mem-
bership contest ends with this
meeting.
is completely equipped with med-
icinal and surgical paraphernalia,
including X-ray and laboratory
needs. A makeshift -heating sys-
tenj, fashibped with a boiler and
radiators salvaged from bombed
buildings, is assurance of con-
stant temperature in the operat-
ing rooms. Another field inno-
vation is a complete water sys-
tem, piping from a central water
storage tank into wards, kitchens
laboratories and operating rooms
•The original officer personnel
was drawn from Baylor Medical
School, then at Dallas, Texas.
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COMING — SUNDAY AND 2ND MONDAY ‘
March 11-12
DOUBLE PROGRAM
Featuring
ROY ACUFF
Full House Is
Expected For Big
Show of Magic Here
—Joseph W. Harris’ and O’Neal
Harris, sons of Mrs. J. MX Harris,
of Bowie, are serving in the U.
S. Navy. A third brother is at-
tending a technical school in
East Texas. All three boys were
-eared in Bowie.
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Rev. B. F. Dearmore attended
a fellowship meeting in Fort
Worth Thursday, February 22.
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WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
March 7-8
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KEESLER FIELD, BILOXI,
Miss., Feb. 17— Pvt. Glenn Tay-
lor Reasoner, son of Mrs. J. G.
Reasoner, 513 Live Oak St., Bowie
• has reported to Keesler Field
to take the Army < Air ' Forde
Training Cdmmand examinations
to determine his qualifications
as a pre-avittion cadet.
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The Greatest Dog Picture Since "Laddie."
“MY PAL WOLF”
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Complete Overhaul Work
All Kinds of Car Repairs. ’
New and Used Radiators
RADIATOR REPAIR
We Can Install New Copper Cores ’
AUTOMOBILES BOUGHT AND SOLD/
Good Mechanics — Parts At Low Cost
DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE
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TUESDAY ONLY - Bargain Day
March 6
"OUR HEARTS WERE
England.
A 1942 graduate of Bowie High
School, Corporal Dorough was
employed as a welder by the
Richmond Shipbuilding Corpora-
tion before joining the^-armed
forces.
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For Overseas Duty
AN EIGHTH AIR FO?CE
Service Command Station, Eng.
-^orporal Jamil Dorough of
Bmvie has completed one year
of service in the European Thea-
tre of Operations and is now priv^
ileged to wear two gold over-
seas stripes on his left sleeve.
Serving as an automobile me-
chanic, he aids in the repair and
maintenance of Army ti-ucks
-Which transport vital aircraft
supplies' to this station where
battle-damaged fighter planes
of the Air Force are repaired and
re-conditionejd.
The son of Mrs. Lillie A. Dor-
ough, he entered the service in
| April, 1943, and received basic
J training at Sheppard Field, Tex.,
M ir.
M ed overseas duty with the VIII
.M Air Force Service Command in
LOCAL MAN SERVES
WITH HOSPITAL
UNIT IN ITALY
Sgt. Troy C. Chambliss of Bowie
is serving with the 56th Evacua-
tion Hospital, Fifth Army unit,
set up to treat seriously wounded
men on the Italian front.
Stationed at time? within range
of German guns, the 56th has
served in support of the Italian
. campaign since September, 1943,
when the continent of Europe was
invaded for the first time, unti
the current fencing for approach-
es into the Po Valley.
The 56th went ashore at Anzio
January 26, • 1944 and- received
more, than 1000 patients in its
first 36 ’hours -of * activity therer
Evacuating seriously wounded
patients to hospital ships and
landing craft in the harbor in an
average of from three—to. five
days, hospital personnel worked
feverishly under constant threat
of German guns and planes. For
a time, the 56th did the work of
two evacuation hospitals.
Lieutenant General Mark W.
Clark, then Fifth Army com-
mander, commended the unit for
outstanding devotion to duty and
meritorious conduct during the
beachhead operation.
The' 56th, xybich^can function
in a new location in'from 36 to
48 hours from the time it sus-
pends operations in an old site,
Melvin R. Bridgewater, C. M.
3-c, pictured above, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Bridgewatei, of
Vashti, Texas, who graduated
from Bellevue High School, is
how serving in the South Pacific
in the Seabees.
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Joe Pigg Receives More
Outstanding Awards
. .u muscular sorenew or AN AIR SERVICE COMMAND
tightness, coughing, irri- Station Somewhere in England
—S|Sgt. Joe A. Pigg of Bowie,
recently passed through this Air
Service Command station \en
route to a well-earned rest afteb
35 missions as a waist gunner on
a B-17.
Here, Air Service Command of-
ficers “briefed” him on the neces-
sity of safeguarding certain vital
information he gained as a re-
sult of his combat experience.
Before his return to the States,
Sgt. Pigg was awarded the Air
Medal, Five O?ik Leaf Clusters
to the Air Medal, and ona Bat-
tle Star'.
He is the husband of Mrs. Bob-
bie Jo Pigg of Bowie.
A'full house is expected at the
City Auditorium tonight (Fri-
day) xVhen Birch the well known
magician and company will per-
fonn in an unusual program,
brought to Bowie under auspices
of the Bowie Lions Club.
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Demand Grows
For Cadet Nurses
As the demand for nurses
grows each day because of the
increasing needs of the armed
■forces, there are still opportuni-
ties for girls in Texas to join the
Cadet Nurse Corps of the U. S.
Public Health Service, according
to Mrs. Ella M. Tipton, State Re-
cruitment Officer.
Created by the Bolton Act at
the request of leaders iq nursing
and hospital • fields, the Cadet
Nurse Corps offers all-expense
scholarships, monthly personal al-
lowances for its members, and
official outdoor uniforms. In
turn, Cadet Nurses pledge, health
permitting, that they will remain
in essential nursing for the dura-
tion of the war. High school grad-
uates and College girls with good
scholastic records and in sound
health who can meet the require-
ments of the nursing school se-
lected are eligible. Age limit is
from 17 and 18 to 35 years.
“Student' nurses are needed
now,” says Mrs. Tipton to provide
nursing care on. the home front
and help to release graduate nurs-
es for active duty with the mili-
tary services. Recruitment head-
quarters are located at: 1001 E.
Nevada St., El Paso,'Texas.
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Pfc. Carl F. Kiser , is home or
a 28-day convalescence fUrloug’
visiting his wife and five-year
old son, Michael. He has bee
in the Armed Service <
months and for the past
months has been serving
General Patton’s Army
France.
He was awarded the Expert
Combat Infantryman Badge. Fol-
lowing his furlough Pfc. Kiser
will return to the hospital at
Camp Carson, Colorado, accom-
panied by his wife and son, who
will make their home in Colo-
rado Springs. " , .
Public Relations Office, Hq.
Eighth Service Command, ASF,
Dallas, 2, Texas: S-Sgt, Jack J.
Snow, returning from nine
months oversea?, arrived on ap-
proximately • * February 27, at
Houston,* prior to reaching his
home, where he will visit his
father, S. A. Snow, in Bowie.
Sgt. Snow is a gunner with the
8th Air Force Commarid on a
B-24 Liberator. He has com-
pleted 34 missions and has 268
hours of operational combat fly-
ing.
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WESLEYAN GUILD TO
MEET MARCH 5TH
S. L. Houston -
Writes About Sons
The News recently received
the following letter fromJS. L.
Houston, well known in this*
area, and now residing in Stock-
ton, California, giving an ac-
count of his sons in service:
“Enclosed find money order
for which please renew my sub-
scription to the Bowie News fbf
artother year. I am working in
a ship yard here for the dura-
tion, and have four boys in ser-
vice: S-Sgt. Johnny has been in
four year%, and was in Fort
Riley. Kansas, in a hospital
e ght months with a broken
back. He is OK now, and back
in Texas, but still on casualty
l;st. Pvt. Don yvill be in three
veais in July qnd has been over-
seer two years, been in four in-
vasions and is now in Southern
France with General Patch’s 7th
Army as an ammunition truck
driver; Kenneth S-2|c, w^s Jn a
year in November. He is a g.uti-'
ner on a merchant ship; Pvt.
Jack was inducted in the Army
Dec. 21,^1944, and is in training
at For-t Bliss, Texas. God has*
wonderfully cared for my sons.
Respectfully,
- -__S. L. HOUSTON.
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The spirit of camaraderie of the open road is summed up in the three
words Have a Coke. At stops, everyone steps up to the familiar red cooler
for the friendly refreshment of ice-cold Coca-Cola. America’s streets and
highways are dotted with such places that invite you to pause and refresh’
with a Coke. Wherever you go, Coca-Cola stands for /Ac pause that refreshes,
—a symbol of friendly refreshment.
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BOWIE COCA - COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
upper bronchial
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just rub it on—and right away blessed
relief starts to come as VapoKub ...
to upper bronchial ■.
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Often by morning most of the misery
of the cold is gone. Remember this...
ONLY VAPORUB Gives You this
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Trout, H. I. The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1945, newspaper, March 2, 1945; Bowie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1363845/m1/3/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bowie Public Library.