Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 193, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1944 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume XXVI
Mount Pleasant, Texas,
Friday Evening, October 27, 1944
Number 193
NAVY FINALLY COMES TO BLOWS WITH JAP FLEET
British Take Two
Honor Roll Ward Kiwanians Hear
A
Towns in Holland
Schools Given For of Work of FFA at
In Big Offensive
First Six Weeks
The principals of the East and
Funeral services were held at
and (
Belgian port
an inter-
esting occasion for the members
Barbara
Joan
daughter. Miss Maggie Blythe
that
tock
MI A TRIPL ACTION in
The
The Germans announced that his departure
naval acti
Ml the Sulu and Sibuyan seas and
V—
Nazis Evazcuating
Gumbinnen as Red
V
4
Forces Make Gain
- V -
being
Mo vre recovering •
German forces were said Fri
4 at will. and Paris fumble to give Mt Pleas-
Tigers
merchants
P
scoring
a hel
60
Pleasant punted back »« the Par ■
benefit
«
The final
Mt
hille, surrounded by gray granite bvrial at the Omaha cemetery.
Withdrawal Jap
The Tigers
Paris fumbied
helps normal eyes
Ml
l
I
where Reddell returned to the Fourth Qwarter:
i
Pleasant with Keeney. Mil
l yard line and
* 4
the second string again went into ar
failed to gain after the good account of themselves
losses placed them at
f kirk and punted in the Ml Pleas
and sive show for Paris while Keen ! other* badly crippled
" 1
the American paratrooper, shown in
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■MSB
kJ
For Hamp Blythe
Conducted Friday
JERRY WAYNE FREEMAN
DIES THURSDAY EVENING
Auto Dealers and
.Merchants Given
OPA Regulations
MAJOR THOMAS wIrTs
ROMHER GROUP GIVEN
PRESIDENTIAL CITATION
List of Students
With Grades of
90 or More Given
is also Reported
Civilians Leaving
City Koenigsberg
and Mt Pleasant led 1 to 4
Paris couldn’t gain after
ten
24
and
giving
(Opening Way For
Clearing Antwerp
To Land Supplies
Area Supervisor
Addresses Group
On Activities
We have received a message
from headquarters of the Eigh-
th Air Force in England announ-
ring that the First Bomb Divis-
tan has been given the Presiden
tial Citation in recognition of its
Navy Reveals Six
of Our Warships
Sent to Bottom
Maximum
Minimum
Temp 6 30
Wind from
Sky
Held at Baptist
Church and Burial
Is at Old Union
read
about
Carson, Mary Ann Connor, Veo-
lia Howell, Joan Wilkinson
Fourth grade B—Sandia Me-
ally sent to th* bottom
♦*r 11 mfhrr
attacking chemical works
craf factories
that
were
auxiliary
i and a
Mel
Sue
the return was good for only 2
yards Keeney started out around point was no good Score 41 to
88
45
51
NE
Clear
In addtion, IM Jap p
ton. Ana top above
St of Mormoma
I CM he
dealers
Jerry Warne aged 4% years.
•An of Mr and Mrs W S Free-
man. passed away at the fam
tion.
Pari.
si
I umita are eng
carrier was mun
RI. Paris •
Thira Quarter
Paris kicked to Mt Pleasant to
inursday, tut 1200 big bombers
truck at Muhster and Hannover
Ann Thomas, Mary Helen Wine
ten
Mt
ler
to
Ehemann
an indi -
win he
pdob
Km
F"hlippine waters All
nta stated that one en
Prrin, it was stated, as
Wed air force is extending
operations in that direction
• imperial
mazca and
Tigers Maul Paris B‘ Team; Price Meetings
Run Wild With Score 47 to 6 Fo PealersAre
__Held Here Friday
___ . ng year
midfield and
e4
nadians to open the big the First Baptist Church Friday West Ward school, announce the cational agriculture at the high
-e1 of Antwerp for the afternoon at 3:00 o'clock for names of the pupils making on schco’, nad charge of the pro-
Hump Blythe. employee of the or better in their grades and ex- gra a at the Kiwanis Club meet-
be much nearer Friday with the City of Mt. Pleasant for many। cellent in deportment to attain ing Friday, and it was
and years. who died suddenly at 1:45/the Honor Roll for the first six —*
vedj3
- e fm
Paris punted to
the of
its n
their opp nents in every
an; guymne wrho have seen
plunged to the versed his field and swept right came back in and on the first ington, however, revealed
d Renfro went1 end for 48 yards and the fifth play after the kickoff Miller only six of our warships
Friday that Allied
s in the invasion
mounted to only
Pleasani kicked
and Ml
422
THIS GERMAN TASK leaves the enemy’s ranks, wks a
morning after driving the Ger-
mans out of their positions anti
then continued to press forward
to the west in an effort to trap
l. ge forces of Nazis
34 to and the Mt Pleasant Mt Pleasant on top 47 to 6 The I carriers, tern destroyers
According to the first official >
forecast more than 2,800,000
arm of land in India has been
planted in peanuts for the com-
Keeney kicked passed to Keeney fer a touch sunk, they being the light cer -
R E Johnson, teacher of vo
| capture of Hertogenbosch
k off and punted to midfield
the quarter ended Mt Pleas
boys are helping the war in more
ways than raising food, as they
are investing tn war bonds, help
ing in waste paper and scrap
iron drives and participating in
other activities
The club discussed sponsoring
a troop of Rov Scouts
G R Rule of Commerce was
a visitor
He gave the aims and purposes
of the FFA organisation He al-
so stated that the clubs all over
America are helping the war ef-
fort greatly by producing more
food that is vital to our men and
women in the services.
C B Barkley of Commerce,
area supervisor for the FFA. al-
so spoke on what the boys are
doing. He stated there ar* nor-
thev could have easily defeted plavs Nater and Moore again ■ I
th*’, aggregation overed for Mt Pleasant an th* ople were interested..
Pay by piny of the game • at Pris a yard line Bright lost 7,TheOPArepreentative. ex
rilows and Renfro lost 4 but Miler plained‘ number of regulations
pin uarter passea to Keeney who ran 19 comcerning price ceilings andi
the yards to score Miller added the how to comply "ith them in the
Paris It to Reddell who return- point to bring the score to 27 to
ant 7, Paris •
R—d Quarter
On dve rirst play of the guar Legg made one first down to ey and Miler
ter. Miller behind good Mocking the 23 Legg then passed to for the Mt Pleasant first string,
by Owens, Trice and Keeney Charles Reed about midfield and with Trice leading the play with
swept left end for 49 yards to the Reed outran the Pari* secondary good blocking All the Mt Picas
1 yard line Miller hit left guard for a touchdown, the play cover - ant linemen gave a good account
for the touchdown, but Keeney ing 77 yard* Leg hit the line for of themselves, with R C Owens "i0
led game, with the quarter
Witt. son
a few day Allied ship
the —I* of cars and parts
Al 2*• in the afternoon, a
meeting was held for dealers in
knocks it out with a direct hit from his bazooka Note the track on the far side 0 the
om. This is an omicial United States Army Signal Corps photograph.
over for a touchdown Miller ad- ' Tiger touchdown 1
ded the point from placement the point and Mt
are as Samuel Rushing, president, of
the local Future Farmers of
America, was the first speaker
ding of supplies appeared to
dik vev} weil, ““
touchdown and mak
unction of Gumbinnen
Meeting Friday
o’clock Thursday afternoon from j weeks of the term. They
the effects of a heart attack ; follows'
ned to the
of Fort Worth, a sister, Mits
Louise Blythe of this county
and numerous other relatives
Hr had many friend* to mourn
Moscow admitted that the walls and castelated towers ill —........ ............V
' Nast* were throwing in addition perfect preservation, and in one Good lighting usually aids de-
I al tank forces and offering stub nt the most remarkable fertrers fective eyes even more than it
contribution to the
day-light bombi ag
against the Nazis
Motor Thoma* F
open the
massed by the Third Army end a
tag oftensive is expected mo
men tartly
Reddell was the whole offen- ships definitely sunk, with
Eneg... I
Funeral services were ret for
Saturday afternoon at 2:00
clock at the Calvary Baptist
ank being biown
1)
dd ip-
-reeref
../It*11 fB* Nnp Gec
"ble ehipping
I of Frame
' seventcen
mendous damage was infitcted
string on the American fleets Wash
Surviving ar* his wife
1, Billy of Mt Pleasant
17 Three plays lost 5 yards and
Pori* punted to their own 41
with dealers
all government buildings in The
Hague capital of Holland, have
been muted and they will be
blown up before th* city is evac-
uated This will probably have
no effort on the offensive of the
Allies
On the American fronts. pet
rel actions have been renewed
with some gains being made
northwest of Aachen and the
clearing of a forest on the south-
ern front Berlin announced that
consumer durable goods, includ-
ing furniture, hardware, etc
against Insterberg ne Or* re-
port said the Russians had al-
ready driven to the outskirts of
Gumbinnen Civilians are leev
ing Koeninsberg. capital of Rest
•* Church, under direction of Rev
Av le, a city in Spain, capital Lonnie Lasseter at Jeston, Texas
the province of Avila, stands assisted bv Rev H M Secord
I a slope of bieak Castilian and Rev Pruitt of Talco, with
it was i r wo led by gem ml
htmhin—.
tremendous farces
Pleasant led down to end the scoring with t rier Princeton two
officer in charge of plans and
training for a'l combat activities
at his station
Tilburg, two important road cen
tore in Holland British forces
entered the two cities Friday
Mt Pleasant
ns for the p
en * gm
ant 10 yard line Gentry
Pari metre their only
visitors, however, faile
East Ward
Fourth grade—Charles
ton. James Ray Sinclair
Lynn Sandlin
For the second
Gentry, Lege.
midi leId — the
r Mt Mleasant
The offensive of the British
t to own 30 for clipping After pick
way, ing up I* yards Keeney got off
the a fine Meh to the Pens • yard
dmzyreerm2
MWamPT „uaur 11
2u •eng " g -vot
Naval Forces is
while out with a tapping crew
making a new water connection
The services were under di-
ection of Dr O J Chas-
tain. and Rev Geo C Moore
j horn 11 si dem i to the advance cities of Spain
ad to the 25 Paris failed to gain 0
and punted to midfield Keeney Mt Pleasant kicked to 'be Par
made 4 yards. Miller lost 2 and m 20 and the quarter ended as
Keeney pumied to the Paris 10 Paris passes failed to click
PARATROOPER KNOCKS OUT TANK WITH BAZOOKA
I* ,
missed the point and Mt Pleas the extra point to bring the playing a fine defensive game to
Ek
7-%
West Ward
Fourth grade A -
Fifth grade Ann Chipman,
True Sandlin
Sixth grade—Gaynelle Brooks,
Funeral Services
mally 50,000 FFA members
throughout the country, but be-
cause of so many young men be-
ing .ailed into service the num-
ber has dropped to around 20,-
000 He also said that the num-
ber of organizations in the nine
counties which he has in charge
has dropped from 89 to 63 in the
past three years He said the
success of
operations
ant led 12 to 0 score to 41 to *. | lead the way
Paris punted eoon after the After the kickoff to Paris was siringers, Reed,
kickoff, and Ehemann returned returned to the Paris 35, Reddell Lain, McBeth
to the Paris 42 Ehemann swept dropped buck to pass but found played fine ball
re word on tw or six enemy batileshipa shown below
One light Amenroa aireran carrier the U • ■ Prine
I Renfro carrying drove left end found himself hemmed 6
Paris 4 on three first in on all sides but quickly re- . Th* Mt Pleasant fit
k 28 Three plays lost 13 yards
was 4? to 6, and Paris punted to th* 44 where
can steam into Antwerp unmo
lested to land their cargoes. thu
ineuring greater operations a
gainst the Reich
Tokyo admnitted Frida i th.
Japanese naval units have with
drawn from the Philippinet
area, but still insisted that tre
second string then battled Paris destroyer escort
the rest of the way, and gave a ‘ Latest reports on the Japan
right end for JR yards, and no open receiver and swept his cation that the Tigers
Keeney then swept iet end far own rigni end 63 yard ws a weil supplied witn mat
f yards and a touchdown. Paris touchdown, but the try for year.
Again there was no night ac . __
m by the Allied air forces day to be evacuating the
Admitted in Tokyo
Pria first team in action claim line
pastor of th* Presbyterian Clinton
Canadians were mopping Church Burial followed at the Fifth grade A Peggy
tow remaining enemy Old Union cemetery Culver, Dorothy Boyd
on the south bank of the Mr Blyth. was 51 .years grade B Mary Margare
estuary while other azeanda native of Mt Pleas Moore, Ruth Ann Vance, Bar
subatantial ant living here all, of his life bara Ray, Anita Riddle
island of Hr was a veteran of World War Sixth grade Margenia Black
“ burn, Wanda Ray Durst. Mar:
.. Ann Hargrow, Carolyn McClin
The
up the
forces i
bcheldt
H. itish forces made
landings on the big
South Be vr land, on the north I
side of the river It is expected s
Expecting th* Tigers would Keeney kicked the point and th*
gain an rosy victory over theiz score was Mt Pleasant 20: Paris
—pm । Mi. there was a smaller •
crowd than usual Thursday The Mt Pleasant second
night when the Parts B team string took over and battled Par
furnished the opposition it was is on evea terms the rest of the
30 miles inside East Prussia, in of Mr and Mi Fred Witt of home in Talco Thursday
the face of th* Soviet advance Cookvie, is assistant operations evening
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