Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1944 Page: 2 of 12
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THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE
OUR BOYS IN
THE SERVICE
THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1944 i Mrs. R. L. Beaman. He will visit
w ---TT— -„ , ; Ills parents in DeLeon this week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas McCul-ljje Wjn be accompanied by his wife
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EDITOR'S NOTE
All of the limited production of
Wrigley’s Spearmint chewing gum
is being shipped overseas to our
Armed Forces. Wartime difficulties
loch of Throckmorton, formerly ofjan(j son
Coleman, is being trained in blgj Leon Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C?;*As:„.thf ,same !yp! Shder in1 c. A. Smith, has been promoted to!
I which Allied forces. landed behind; seaman, first class, according to a
the Atlantic Wall, at the South report received by his parents. He
Plains Army Air Reid at Lubbock. ;s stationed with the fleet in the
A graduate of Cofcfkan High school, [ Pacific.
he later became an electrician. His 2nd Lt. Aubrey Morris, stationed
wife is the former Miss Ella Rhea' t Camp Fannin, has been promot-
Talley of Coleman. J ed to first lieutenant. He is the son.
Mrs. Ralph M. Kurz. daughter of 0j ^jr anc| Mrs. Charley Morris. i
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Elder of Coleman,i Mfs v v Smith o[ Oklahoma!
has been promoted to lieutenant, citv riveter in Aircraft!
j Corp. in that city, is visiting this
junior grade, froih ensign. She
now stationed in Key West, Fla. week wjth her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. H. H. Holmes, who lives four ] H N Evans. Her husband, Pvt.
^ i miles south of -oil man, has one gjmth, was stationed in England the
3S VESTS
Wrigley people can bring it back. ' i twin ninth' thf' :;6th Division' although he is
^tisf h tmn thand "oUrne* madin*1 ™ “taw!™* ^ ^ .. . w
satisfaction and pleasure reading. . r n ln in ace from q tn: Men in tense situations often chew
1 wli sponsored j way t0 wln the war pc*ri. age 9. as they would normally. So for the,
by Wrigley s. , whQ liveg wlth grandmother pftst several wcpks aU the limited
herfwBwlTwith 'hif™tV^ Mr a regulir farm hand helping auPply of Wrigley’s Spearmint has
here last week with his parents. Mr dmother mUk 10 .. been going to the battlefrmits. We
S 8L ’5eI den, can foods and raise chickens know >’°u *« 1 ™
and other things about the farm. A Spearmint Gum and think you are
turned to his home station at San f .,5 m t at her home swell for so unselfishly giving it up.
Diego Sunday. ,E2£vld a th® r-Quest of X, - S/3gt. and Mrs. G. C. Slough of
S/Sgt. Odis Fowler of Rockwood j Vd aspe^ BTblf reading'1 Camo Seibert. Alabama, visited with
W^shTo w^Ssin ?r“le'lS and pra^Ce given ^oG relatives and friends here last week-
Wash., to West Palm Beach, Fla. ,*.u ^ wov~ in thp service of their
Cpl. Edward N. Young has been '^untr? th | Pvt. Mutt Comedy of Camp Swift,
WHEELER
DAY
Pvt. Ralph E. Wheeler, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Wheeler, Route
Two, Bangs, is with a field artil-
lery unit in Hawaii. Pvt. William
Joe Day, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. C.
Day of Burkett, who was wounded
with an infantry unit in Italy Feb.
5, has been released from an over-
seas hospital.
transferred from Ft. Sill, Okla.. tv ... ..
Camp Bowie, Texas. 1 Njw' w th the ffreat invasion un-
i Texas, visited with his wife and
Sgt. Emery O. Rider, Liberator Di-
vision, now stationed in England,
recently was cited for completion of
25 missions without the loss of a
plane or crew. He Is the son Of
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Rider of Cole-
man Route One.
100 Envelopes in attractive box—
$1.75. At The D-V Office. tf
Lt. Margaret Hutchins, With the
U. S. Army Nurses Corps at Ft.
Sam Houston, San Antonio, visited
mjv\, WUXI Lilt giritl 111VUMUH UI1- , , . .. . • i liuuovuu,
der way, Americans more keenly daugh*er and , othpr relaives and, j t weekend [n Coleman with her
Albert Thomas McCuUoch, son of . r“L friends in Coleman last weekend'. . . - _ ----------- ...
He is expecting to visit here on a
A. J.
Service Station
Washing, Greasing
Tire Repair
TEXACO
PRODUCTS
Dial 3311 W. Live Oak St.
than ever realize how necessary
! derree* 0"* wMwUh ' "lough within a short time.
VlSch ?ou » wUl£g Tve up Wrlg- Technician Fourth Grade Rod
ley's Spearmint Gum to our fight-|"ey C' Strickland, returning from
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EFFICIENT. COURTEOUS
SERVICE IS UNRATIONED AT THE
Beach Service Station
SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
Practically everything your car needs.
Let us help you make your car
last for the duration.
is one example: Members of Amer- j *lomP ‘-00 Miami, Coleman,
lea’s hard-hitting bomber crews, Pvt- Mathew N. Baglcy. returning
chew gum when they are descending from 14 months overseas with the
from high altitudes, to help relieve infantry in the European theater of
the great strain and pressure on I operations ,1ms arrived at Camp
their ears. , 1 Beauregard. La., prior to visiting his
Sgt. Eugene Caffy’ of Leesville, wife Mrs. Thelma Joyce Bagley, in
La., spent the weekend In Coleman Coleman.
with his wife and son, Eugene, Jr.,; Lt. and Mrs. Lambuth Tomlinson
who ar^ with her parents, Mr. and usited the first of the week with
j their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
I Alien. Lt. Tomlinson recently re-
| reived his wings and commission at
j Ellington Field, Houston, and was
lenroute to Del Rio to receive fur-
ther training as a Maurader pilot.
Lt. (jg! Clyde Dixon Allen, son of
JMr. and Mrs. T. J. Allen, has been
imade intelligence officer on his
ship, according to
ment received today
' completely recovered from a broken
| ankle received some time ago when
| he slipped on the deck of the ship.
Pvt. R. A. Casey of Camp Crow-
der, Mo., is spending a 10-day fur-
I lough in Coleman. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Casey. Follow-
ing Iris visit here he will report to
j a California camp.
"Junetecnth” will be observed
; quietly in Coleman this year, one of
j the city’s leading colored men told
‘The Democrat-Voice this week.
[June 19 is emancipation day for the
CHARLES L HERD
OWNER
Telephone 5001
husband, J. T. Hutchins, of the
Coleman Flying school.
M/Sgt. Bill Brookshire of Camp
Campbell, Ky., Lt. and Mrs. John
Brookshire • of Camp Barkeley vis-
ited last weekend with Mrs. Ray-
mond Brookshire.
S/Sgt. Leslie D. Dobbins, son of
Mrs. D. J. Dobbins of Coleman, has
been awarded the Air Medal and an
Oak Leaf Cluster, according to word |
received from England. He Is a|
radio operator and gunner on a
bomber and has been stationed in
England about nine months.
Mr. and" Mrs. F. E. McCreary of
Rockwood have received word that
their son, Frank McCreary, has
bee npromoted to first lieutenant.
He is stationed In New Guinea.
Sgt. John H. Carriger of Cole-
man is a member of a Quarter-
master Car company, an organiza-
tion that has driven for some of j
the world's outstanding personages. [
Frist Lt. Robert L Steward, Jr., ;
of Columbia, S. C., visited with his|
an announce-1 Parents ,Mr. and Mrs. Robert L.
Lt Allen has'steward of Rockwood on Monday
night of this week. The young in-
structor had made a trip to San
Antonio. He is a communications
instructor.
Sgts. Roy and Ray Ward, sons
of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Ward of Ft. |
Worth and brothers of Henry Ward
of Coleman, have been reported
killed over Germany. They were
gunners on the same crew of a
Flvlng Fortress.
Pvt. Anna J .Daniels, who enlisted
in the WAC at Brownwood on 'May
30. has been sent to Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ga., for basic training. Her
Burkett recently killed a 300-pound
buck deer while on a hunt In the
New Guinea hills. They were ac-
companied by Sgt. Roy Davis of San
Antonio, whose first shot broke both
of the animal's hind legs.
Mrs. Sidney Hughes, Coleman, re-
ceived word this week that,her hus-
band, Major Hughes, U. S. Medical
Corps, has arrived safely in India.
Capt. and Mi's. Robert I. Bowen
left Sunday after spending a few
days here. He is stationed at
Huntsville.
Pfc. Horace Bairrington, son of
J .A. Bairrington, was here on fur-
lough last week visiting friends and
relatives. He left Tuesday (or Camp
Gordon, Georgia, where he is now
stationed.
Cpl. G. W. Smith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. O. W. Smith, has been trans-
ferred from Goodfellow Field, San
Angelo, to Laredo, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Elliott of
Shields now have two sons station-
ed in New Guinea. S/Sgt. S. M.
(Bill) Elliott has been over in the
Southwest Pacific area for about
15 months while rPvt. Curtis P. Eli-
ltott just recently arrived over
there. The latter Is trying to find
the former. Both write they are
getting along fine.
Cpl. Milford Baker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Baker, Coleman Rt.
3, has been transferred from Topeka,
Kansas, to an irmy air field In
North Carolina. Hls brother, Cpl.
Buck Baker, is back.at work after
having been ,in the hospital for
treatment of burns. He is stationed
in the Aleutians.
A picture of Pfc. Houston Grant
of near Whon appeared in a recent
edition of The Yank. The picture
was of Pfc. Grant operating a pow-
er plant that had been captured
from the Germans In the African
campaign. A brother of Mrs. Joe
Haynes of Coleman, he Is now sta-
tioned in India. He has been In the
Army for two years.
Pvt. Billy B. Goree of Stephen-
ville, formerly of Coleman, is with
a tank battalion and Is in Italy.
He’s been overseas about a year and
lias seen much action during that
time.
Cpl. and Mrs. O. B. Switzer and
son of Big Spring spent Sunday
here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
S. O. Switzer..
Pvt. George Brown has returned
to Camp Bowie after spending a
10-day furlough with friends here.
Send your letters and news to the ‘
Wrigley Editor, care of The Demo-
crat-Voice—Advertisement.
Talpa Airman on
One of Longest
Flights in War
AN 8TH AAF FTFHTER STA-
TION, ENGLAND. — Lt. Ira E.
Grounds of Talpa participated In
one of the longest escort missions
on record recently when Mustangs
from the group commanded by Col.
Donald Blakeslee of Fairport Har-
bor, Ohio, swept across southern
Germany to Brux, Czechoslovakia.
While American bombers attacked
a synthetic oil plant, the Mustangs
engaged a force of enemy fighters
of which they destroyed 10 for the
loss of none.
Lt. Grounds, a former student at
Texas A&M, is the con of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles H. Grounds of Talpa.
Negroes, many of whom are at work brother, Sgt. Charles S. Daniels, has
as soldiers and sailors trying to I been' given an honorable discharge
liberate manv of the countries of from the Army and is now cmploy-
Europe from Hitlerism. | ed on hls own farm now He was
Major James T. Padgitt. who is stationed at Ft. Bliss with the Coast
receiving medical treatment at Me- Artillery. They are children of Mrs.
Closkey hospital, Temple, following Willie Williams of Doole.
injuries received in Italy, is in Cole- T/Sgt. and Mrs. Roy Barnett
man for a visit until June 22, when have arrived In Coleman for a visit
he is to report back at the Temple with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J.
hospital for further treatment. B. Hough. Mrs. Barnett has been
M/Sgt. Carl Wheeler has been employed In Columbia, S C., while
transferred to a Pacific station, ac- Sgt. Barnett was stationed there,
cording to a notice received by his She plans to remain here for a visit
mother, Mrs. Lona Wheeler. Sgt. while Sgt. Barnett is receiving Bpe-
Wheeler, with the ground crew of cial training at Aberdeen, Md.
the Army Air Corps, receives his Cpl. and Mrs. Jack McClure and
mail in San Francisco. baby of Stamford visited this week
'with relatives and friends here.
Mrs. Ida Brown visited last Sun-
day at Camp Fannin with her son,
Pvt. W. E. Brown, with her eousln,
Pvt. Durward Lawrence and with
j Pvt. Walter Gipson of Silver Valley.
Enroute she met Mrs. W. E. Brown
of Muldoon and Mrs. J. W. Haynes
in Waco and they accompanied her
to Camp Fannin. ,
First Lt. Ed O’Neill, tactical officer
at the Bruce Flying school, Ballin-
ger. was a weekend visitor in Cole-
man. Lt. O’Neill formerly was tac-
tical officer at Coleman Flying
school. He recently was promoted' I
from second lieutenant to first lieu-' |
tenant.
Pfc. James R. McClure* son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. McClure of Tal-
pa, and Sgt. Wilton McKinney of
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SEE
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Recapping
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1 1
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livion.
I Get behind the invasion drive!
. Invest MORE than ever before!
Double ... triple ... what you’ve
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PICKLED TOMATOES
AMERICAN
In Pure Oil
Per can____
Libby’s Sweet Spiced
No. 2 1/2
jar______
28c
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Market
Day
4
Pound
Bag
UPTON’S
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CARLTON—No. 2 S
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EVAPORATED APPLES
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2.28 TREET 12 r 35c
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FRESH FRUITS A
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TOMATOES 4 Ec
South Texas Fancy — Pound.......................JLHP
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Rich in Food Value .................... for £
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POTATOES 4 A Off c
New White — Texas Grown........ JL V
LEMONS | Qc
California Sunklst — Pound .....................,. [ ^
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Orange Juice
Condensed MILK
No. 2
Can ______
46 Ounce
Can _______
Wonder Brand
Sweetened
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BACON
Ounce
Bottle
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Swift’* Sugar Cured
In the Piece — Pound
27
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5 Points — Pound .....
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COLD MEATS
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LAMB ROAST
29
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Pouns, Joe B. Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1944, newspaper, June 15, 1944; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth747950/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Coleman Public Library.