The Mexia Weekly Herald from Mexia, Texas • Page 9

Mexia Weekly Herald Published by 1 The News Publishing Co. Austin Midgets on Honeymoon Entered at the pos'toffice at Mexia, Texas, as second class mail matter under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates One Year (in-State) One Year (out of State) $1.50 PERSONALS Mrs. Alvis Terry returned to Waco Thursday after visiting her sister, Mrs. Newman Page, Jr.

and Mrs. Dan-Edd Hamilton Robert, spent Friday in Waco. Lt. L. N.

Robinson, arrived today from Big Spring to spend the week end with his family. Mrs. Jack Womack, and daughter, Jan', of Corpus Christ! are visiting relatives here. i passenger pigeon became extinct in the United States in the 1880's. Miss Lortne Dobbs, Hempstead, arrived today to visit in the home of the Rev.

and Mrs. Robert L. Dobson. i Mrs. Clyde EzcII lert Friday to spend several days with relatives in Palestine.

i Edward, of Dallas, have returned JAMES" R. SHAMBLIN I after visiting Technician Fourth DUE TUESDAY Grade Reuben Pye, who has just Cpl. James R. Shamblin, who has arrived frcm the European theatra been serving with the 36th Divi- I of war with an ordnance company on erma ny, is due to arrive I with the 5th Army. (He went over- Tuesday night from Fort Sam jseas in July, 1942, entering- with a discharge, accord- March 4, now has ii)g! to wor received by-his wife, 114 points and is expecting to come the former Miss La Ver ne home shortly.

He returned to the fie the sm Mis Dannie I United States June' 18. and Jim Shamblin '6f jShiloh. Two brpthers are also in SCOUTS TO PLAN service, Cpl. Joe Shamblin in the. CAMPOREE ACTIVITIES Pacific, and Pvt.

Donald Shamblin, Boy Scouts who are members of a in France. Troop 70 will make plans Friday night at'their 8 o'clock meeting at DOYCE L1NDLEY I the' Scout cabin en Sotth Ross for LEAVES TUESDAY the coming overnight "Camporee scheduled for Limestone county troops. Transportation, troop Technical Sgt. Doyce Lindley left Tuesday" for 14 days at Army Ground Forces Redistribu- trin, Germany. Mrs.

Jimmie Space is in Kansas The tiniest couple in the big state of Texas are on their honeymoon. The bride, Mryha Myrle Clifton, 19, is 48, inches tall, and the City, as guest of Mr. and Mrs. 26-year-old groom August Clarence Swenson, measures just 52 inches W. rom head to toe.

The bride, only known living midget child of rnidg- Mrs. T. E. Buck of Hollywood, I et parentSi was dressed in white satin with a train flowing from her California, is visiting her daughter, corone style headdress. The groom wore a tuxedo.

The couple are stunts to be given, arid other plans tion Center at Hot Springs, Ar- bj made at the meeting. Leon nsaSj after spen ding- a 60-day iFlatt, that all furkugh i lo wing his liberation roop members who plan to at- from a Gevman prison camp He 2nd the overnight camp be pres- mQnths Kus nt Friday night. Every Boy Scout 'troop in the has been invited to the 'uly 3 camp slated to be held it the Reunion Grounds, with a -ufclfc program the evening of the Fiurth to end the camp sponsored by the activities committee of the Bounty council. AL BINE LEAVES FOR DALLAS gineering. 'A" 1944' graduate of ARTHUR C.

HAMiLTON Mexia high school, he attended the-' IN GERMANY University of Oklahoma on the Pvt. Arthur C. Hamilton, 315 ASTRP set-up for engineering. West Titus, has been given 'participation credits for the cam-, paigns of Normandy, 'Northern France, and Germany, Cpl. Al Bine, former Los An- jt 3 an announcement from the 95th geles Examiner sports columnist 'and more recently editor of tne Mexis Prisoner of War Camp weekly newspaper, Mexia Sat-; urday for an assignment with the Army Service Forces in Dallas.

Cpl. Bine, who, from time to time this past year contributed sports articles for this paperjVwill id attached to Field Services Unit. His home is Beverly Hills, California. i GEORGE L. EUBANKS JNOW ON RHINE Engineer General Service Regi-f' ment.

The Mexia Negro service October 3, 1942, and he was in the first invasion on Junfi 1944. Pvt. Hamilton is the son of Mrs 7 Corene C. Smith, 315 West He writes home he has not yet received a scratch despite the three major campaigns in which he has participated. Fritz Kuhn, above, former leader of the extinct German- American Bund, will be BILLY POLLARD CALLS HOME First Lt.

Billy Pollard, who is just back from seven months in is Mrs. Barnett Cannon. CLASSIFIED ADS! WANTED to pay cash stock farm or small ranch with electricity from 150 to 500 acres. Want possession-in 15 to 60 days. Write A.

Sullivan, shown cutting cake after-the ceremony which was held in Austin, Texas. Young Swenson is employed as a senior racfe technician at the Kelly Air Field near San Antonio, Texas. (NBA kurop rent for Photo) EDWARD GEHRING IS PARTY HONOREE Edward Gehring of Hillsboro was complimented with a welcome home party Wednesday night gi fl-io "KYivh PoyL-nv T.nlro TTp BILLIE B. SUNDAY AT FORT SAM Staff Sgt. Billie B.

Sunday now at Fort Sam completing 27 months duty with the 36th Division, awaiting his discharge papers. He has more than 100 points. Houston after overseas ton Field. Iported to Germany as an unde-' called home Friday after! sirabliT'alien. Although a nat- no3n to inform them of his return I uralized American citizen, Kuhn'.

-convicted, as an alien cf crime involving moral He will be sent to a area under American to States. He will be home a few days to spend a 30- cay leave with his parents, Mr. Mrs. Frank Pollard. i JOHN SMITH ON FURLOUGH JAMES ADAMS COMPLETES BASIC Pvt.

James B. Adams has coni-- pleted his basic infantry training FAYE SMITH IS IBACK IN STATES I Cpi. Faye Smith telephoned his Friday that he; has arrived en the East Coast with the 97th John Smith of. Camp Hood. the Lake.

He is here a 12 ay furlough which at Camp Hood, and will report to Division aboard the Queen Eliza: the University of Minnesota for beth, and will be home next week, advanced study of the Japanese Texas. 26-4tc I PEACHES to the shortage of sugar, tires, gas and roads, my price is $2.00 at orch- i aril. B. B. Brodnax.

5-6t i OUR MEN IN SERVICE 36th Division. returned service in the he is spen ding with his parents, language and customs. Pvt. Adams J. O.

NOLAND HAS pean theatre. ijir. and Mrs. Fred C. Smith.

graduated from the POINTS Following picnic supper, danc- high sc oo 1944, attended the ing furnished the evening's enter-1 gTER MEGGINSON tainment. VISITS FATHER Present were the honsree, Miss and Mt Meg ginson Alta Mario Tackett, Miss Lynette of Geiger Washington, are Hawkins, Miss: Betty Ann Fletcher, hew on emergen i- ur iough with Miss Adele Lucas, Miss Birtie Faye. Ingram, Miss Ernestine G.bson, J'Miss Dorothy McFall, Jack Scar- Miles, Adrian i Little, and Willmore of Hillsboro. WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, IT- University of. Louisiana and Yale ALY, Cpl.

J. 0. Noland of University in the-army specialized'Mexia. Texas, is returning home training reserve program. from the Fifth Army's 5th "Cus-J merican correspondent who fell in i ter" Division in Italy with an- ad- the Pacific.

The 503th Military Police Battalion with the Fifteenth S. Army in Germany, in which Pfc. George L. 'Eubanks of 827 'South McKinney is enacting the rcls of the "Watch 'on the Rhine." Attached to the XXII Corps, his battalion is responsible for the security of the bridges a- TOSS the Rhine and for control of" 'raffic across those bridges. The 50Sth maintains 24-hour watches -n the'great river from Bad esbtrg to Wesel.

The bridge it guai'ds include those at Cologne, Dusseldorf, Duisberg, as well as Wesel and Bod'Godesberg. Two of these bridges are memorial bridges, one the Lesley J. McNair bridge at Cologne, in memory, in memory of the American general who was killed in Normandy, and one the Ernie Pyle bridge, at' Dusseldorf, for the beloved JOHN EARLE WILSON Inconspicuous Flesh- Color Earpiece and Cord Now Available with 7H1S IS ALL YOU TO'WEAR greater comfort! i-built. one-unit hearing Hrllrr A No battery-pack, ci garniem. iry it! Bcllone, 1610 N.

6th St. Waco, Phone 2690 Please send booklet on BELTONE ttono-Pac. Please arrange demonstration of BELTONE Mono-Pec. Address- ------Cily BILLY E'. DAY i TRANSFERRED Pvt.

Billy E. Day has been trans- Mellie Jean Richardson, ferred from Fort Sam Houston to Camp Fannin, Tyler. JIM IVAY WHITTAKER ON OKINAWA Jim Ivay Whittaker, Seaman, first class, has written home in COMPLETES TRAINING iously ill at Scott and White Hos- Pvt. John Earle Wilson has com- pital at Temple. fpleted his basic infantry training Son of Mr.

and Mrs. N. A. Meg- Camp Hood, and has been or- ginson, Cpl. Megginson entered the dered to report to the University 337th Infantry Regiment, Army in Oct.1942 and served in the of New Jersey for continuance of His wife, Gladys, lives on Route Air Corps for years at Elling- army specialized training in en- 4, Mexia.

justed service rating score of 99. The 508th, activated at Fort Sam Cpl. Ncland entered the army in Houston on March 20, 1944, has and after coming to Italy, in England, France, Bel- was assigned on March 23, 1944, as a messenger in Company gium, and Germany. Then attached to the First Army, it moved into Germany on March 19. Assignment to the Fifteenth came April 1.

Mrs. Eppes is the former Miss a nc letter that he is now KERLEY DE LO VISITS HERE Staff Sgt. Kcrley De Lo, who was married to Miss Lullean Gleghorn of Kilgore in Dallas June 19, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.

W. DeLo at 106 North Bailey Sunday. Sgt. De Lo. who was wounded in Buiopean action January 7, and WILEY J.

FLINT, Jr. AT MUNSTER First Lt. Wiley J. Flint, I has been home for two months, w.rjtes that after a 7-day rest 1 report to a post in Utah on July 1." leave on the Riviera, he is i ULESS FISHER stationed in Munster, Germany, FURLOUGH the 391st Fighter Squadron. Staff Sg't.

Uless fisher of 601 Group, after having Belknap is reported as hav- ing been awarded a merit furlough home ami is now on his way home for reclassification or discharge, ac permitted to tell that he left Hon- clulv. for Ulithi and Okinawa on RAY ROBBINS the aircraft carrier on which he BACK IN STATES is serving'. Watching the fueling at Bobbie Ray Robbing, Coxswain, sea bearing the band concerts, has arrived on the West coast llr getting mail are the parts of after serving for two years in the he likes best, he writes. Pacific in the Navy. He has noli- H-J has been overseas since Fcb- fied his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. R. ruary, 194S. He is the father of H. Robbins, that he will arrive two children, Don and Evelyn, home sometime in July.

MILTON REDDING If TRANSFERRED Fvt. P.iilton Redding, son rf Mrs. 3. W. Bolton.

312 Jackson, has written home that he has receiver! a tattle star for participation in FRIDAY 'Eadie Was a Lady" with ANN MlJ.LElt JOE BESSER and McLNTYRE and His Orchestra Car! oon News SATURDAY OLSEN JOHNSON "See My Lawyer" with ALAN CURTIS NOAH BEERY. Jr. Serial SUNDAY MONDAY JtlDY GARLAND ROBERT WALKER "The Clock" Cartoon News FRH7AY SATURDAY TEX HARDING Dl'B TAYLOR in "Both Barrels Blazing" Comedy Serial SUNDAY MONDAY ABBOTT COSTELLO in "Lost in a Harem" Cartoon News many. At the end of the European war, he had flown 10 missions, including escort duty for Patton's Army. He has been cited by his squadron ccmmamler for his superior flying and leadership.

overseas since January, lil-15, flying a P-47 Thunderbolt. Lt. Flint was in Belgium for several months and his squadron was cording to the public relations ofr amon the first to move into Gor- fice of the 3rd Armored Division in Europe. He has fought in five European campaigns Normandy, northern, France, Rhinclund, the Ardennes, and in central Germany. His division was the first armor in Belgium, the first Allied force to take a German town, and the first completely to pierce the Siegfried line.

It was also the 3rd which made the longest one-day drive in the history of armored 101- mile sweep in 19 hours to encircle the vital Ruhr region and trap more than 374,000 enemy troops. It was during this amazing drive Central Germany with in infantry in the 9th Army. In seV- vire ulnvsl three years, he has been transferred to anti-aircraft outfit. ROBERT W. WILLIAMS DISCHARGED Staff Rclwrt W.

Williams, husband of the former Miss Dorothy has been given an honorable discharge from the Army at the A.AF Regional and I Icscent Hospital, Fort George He is tho son of Mr. and Mrs. Wright, Washington, after -18 J. Flint of San months in service. Ten months of the brrther of Mrs.

Felix Jackson. of Mexia. Mrs. Flint, the for- mir Miss Bel-nice Dark, is makin her home for the present in Huntsville. that its commander, Major General Maurice Rose, was killed by a youthful German tank commander.

j' HOLUS EWES iDUE HOME I Staff Sgt. Hollis Eppes, who has yet to see his 22-months old son for the first time, telephoned Friday from San Antonio that he would be allowed to come home in four or five days. He has just returned from the European theatre, where he was an engineer in the is a you no; gat- ting the proper support and comfort 70 a one oi those unfortunates who COB patiently tried all types oj trusses only to tind little oi no relief, rolling lor the gub order ads, or the so-called out town spending freely youi time and noney onlv to suffer greater disillusionment? Often we search in remote sections of tfce world for relie; only to fina a better ierr- ice exists our own community. HARRY VENTERS PROMOTED Master Sgt. Harry Venters, has been stationed 'with the that time was in the Mediterranean theatre wtih the 15th Air Fcrce.

He wears the Distinguished Flying- Cross, the Air the European -f operations ribbon with two campaign stars, the jr: od conduct ribbon. Before entering service, Sgt. Williams was a bookkeeper for Air i the- Goorivoar Tire and Rubber Command at Dallas, helping ferry overseas flights oi Superfortresses, has been traris- to San Antonio. There received an appointment as flight officer, and is now at Randolph Field taking combat crew training. He is the son of Mrs.

John Ven- f.er.? of Seco, and husband i-f Ihe former Miss Hazel Archibald of Mexia. He entered service in 1941. Company, Houston. He plans make his home in Mexia. to a Slacker filling ana combined throi CHARLES HARRIS TO GET DISCHARGE I Pfc.

Charles Harris of the Siith I Division- arrived Tuesday nijrhl. from Fort Sam Houston bn; service with the Division i overseas. He wears Purple Heart and Bronze Star fur hoi 1- imr a r-pe a river so tho in his outfit could cros a concentrated Fhsliins bai'- Tomatoes Potatoes Santa Rosa Plums Bing Cherries Julia Lee Wright's DATED Sunkist Lemons Patapsco Point Free 38-Oz. Jar No. 2 Apple Butter Country Home Cream WUI II Style C.G.

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A. Pye and Teddy Powell, above, of New York, popular dance band leader and author of "Boots and Saddles" and other popular songs, has been indicted as a draft dodger by a New York federal grand jury. FBI charges that he bribed John Wilson, New York draft board clerk. Wilson committed suicide last year after being'indicted for bribery', in connection with another draft evasion case. CHERU! White Onions Lb.

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