The La Coste Ledger (La Coste, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 5, 1945 Page: 1 of 4
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waging the war against infantile
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J.W. Evans, Houston; Mrs.
Brooks Field he was sent to the
Echtle-Kirby Wedding
Miss Ethel Foster, Sterling City;
Army Air Base at New Orleans,
Solemnized Dec. 27
ren until three weeks after the
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1919 the average was 24.64 inches;
from 1929 to 1939,25.81 inches,
viktory blue suit and dusty pink
and for the ladt five years the
hat with black accessories. Her
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Lytle Planning Group
To Meet January 7
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On Sunday, January 7, at 4:00
bridegroom, was best man.
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Blinded Pilot Guided In
ing, in enemy hands or interned—
P-51 was guided safely back to his
President Roosevelt gave gene-
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ral support Tuesday to a war
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79th Congress,
convening
with the Lytle School Board.
it also in.,
rence Jenschke and son; Lt. and
an hour and should ge down in the
orders, and tax revisions.
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victories of 1944, warned that the
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Mangold here for several days.
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•“We regret to inform you—"
Messages like that went to the
homes of 495,052 Americans in
bride of Anthony Echtle, son of
Mr. and Mrs, George Echtle also
the kind that
Satisfies?
eludes a grant of power to the war
labor board to enforce its own
495,052 Homes Hit By
War During Year 1944
celebrations will help continue
treatment for children in every
community crippled by the disease,
and willyfinance national research
“The infectious agent; or germ
of whooping cough is transmitted
by droplets expelled in coughing,
Lt. John T. Sandero, III, was the
best man and Miss Mildred Man-
gold, sister of the bride, was maid
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James Poach has been promoted
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If It* Welding There Is No Job Too Difficult
AHR’S GARAGE
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State Health Officer, released a
statement recently urging that
strenuous efforts be made to coh-
trol the spread of this debilitating
childhood disease.
“Whooping cough can only be
contracted by direct exposure to
the disease, and isolation of cases
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was 170 inches; in 1942 it ws 93.
The following is a record of the
total rainfall during the past ten
years:
1935, 41.43 inches; 1936, 34.07
inches; 1937, 23.01 inches;. 1938,
1741/ inches; 1939, 15.64 inches;.
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at the home of the bride's parents
for the immediate family.
After a brief honeymoon trip
road to Tokyo will be “rough and
long." • "M"eec
The average rainfall for the past
ten years was 29.55 inches:
Records show that during the
thirty-five years- Mr. Zinsmeyer
has been recording the rainfall, it
has increased almost steadily. His
figures show that from 1909 to
. to San Antonio to Brooks Field
where he went into the work he
According to Miss Jeanie Pinck-
ney, of the Medina Valley War
Service - Community-School, this
planning group has shown unusual
ability in making and carrying out
cooperative plans. The meeting
is open to the public and it is
hoped that all interested will at-
tend. ./' ■ ' .
Wesley Hutzler sister of the
bride, presided at the bride’s book.
Out-of-town guests included the
usually a dry cough, which per-
sists day and night and tends to
Mrs. George Elmore, and Lt. Juhi)
T. Sanders, III, all of San An-
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702
base by the voice and the, barely
visible. Wingtip of a comrade in
tonio, Texas., After one week at
Dodd Field he was sent to Roswell,
inches fell.
The -average rainfall as < ,
pared with the days it rained dur-
ing 1944 was ,52 inches; in 1943 it
mail to be handled,
2 The need for the maximu ■
utilization ofcargo-spuce of ah 4
kinds, especially in air ttransport.’ 1 ...
Once over the home field, where
a flight surgeon stood by to give
Collins left Mobile on October 1,
1944 in the first floating aircraft
repair unit to be sent out. pn
. December. 8 word was received
from him that he was in Slapan
and that he had seen the B-29's
take off to bomb . Tokyo. His last
furlough was in June. 1944. Cpl
Collins has a wife and -year-old
son living in Devine. His parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Collins of
San Antonio and he is a brother
and Washington, D. C., as chair-
man, and George Waverley Briggs,
Dallas, vice-chairman, has been
Miss LaVerne Kirby, only sister
of the bride, was her only atten-
dant. She was dressed in a gold
colored suit with brown acces-
sories and a corsage of yellow
rose buds. «
Bernard Echtle, brother of the
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another I’ r,l
.7 The pilot who led the way was
a husband, a brother had been kil-
led, or was wounded, missing, in-
tered or a prisoner.
Official army and navy casualty
figures, as of .December 14, dis-
close that 82,634 Americans lost
view; Nathan Adams, John W-.
Carpenter, Mrs. George H. Pitt-
man, vice-Chairman in charge of
women's activities, W. Marion
Newman, secretary, and John E.
Owens, treasurer, Dallas. , < \
rose colored mums tipped with
gold.
The reception ws held at the
home of thebride’s parents. Mrs.
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Mr and Mrs. Alton M. Costley,
Deeatur, Georgia; Betty Scott,
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American aerial blows against
the Japanese in the Philippines,
off Formosa and in the Central
Pacific highlighted official reports
late Tuesday on progress of the
war against Nippon. General
Douglas MacArthur said his flyers
marked the passing of: the old
year by striking Japanese ship-
ping and other targets. Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz said Yank air-
men continued blasting Iwo Jima,
on the road to Tokyo, while the.
Japanese staged a feeble raid on
the Yank Superfortress base at
Saipan.
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James lltiaof the Delta com-
munity was a business visitor here
Saturday. .'; 8‘" . AN
nose and throat are dangerous to
susceptible persons; the heed for.
early recognition, and careful
isolation of whooping cough is
obvious.” M-0-
The first sign of this disease is
moment "flaps."
Egan made as; if to land beside 1
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From there he wa sent to
Brookely Field, Mobile, Alabama.
We specialize in general repair work-carty a complete
line of accessories and guarantee to please you
James F. Byrnes. (The program
includes a draft of 4-Es to meet
1944 Rainfall Report
Widespread aerial smashes
against the Japanese in the
Philippines and throughout ■ the
central Paeific were reported by
American commanders late Mon-
day as fleet headquarters at Pearl
Harbor, reviewing great Yank
For L.Co.te Community To Be Stepped Up
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Miss Hortense Kirby, oldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Kirby of LaCoste, became . the
His eyes bleeding from imbed
ded fragments of a Jap 20-milli-
meter shell, Capt. John E. Meyer,
26, of Birmingham, Ala., flying a
pletely unbroken schedules during
the good flying weather gave rise
" to the idea that air-cargo service •
could at all times convenjently '
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with Texas people joining in balls, the incidence is to be controlled.”
bazars, benefit concerts, spors " "
contests, the March of Pimes and
other events to raise funds for
•the young couple will make their
mome near LaCoste where the
bridegroom is engaged in farm-
ing..
We extend heartiest congvatula
lions!
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l. Theinerease in the mnumbers /.
2 of service,mon now ovetseas, with
com- a consequent rise in the volume of 1-
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than thia stated price is in Com-
plete violation of the Emergency
Price Control Act. A price list
showing the current ceiling price
week by week may be had by call-
ing it this office. ‛3agu
Medina County War Price &
Rationing Board No. 56163.
of LaCoste, in a beautifully simple
ceremony inSt. Mary’s church at
LaCoste On Wednesday,. December
27, 1944. ' ■ h i
The. bride was given in mar from 1919 to 1929! 2384 inches;
riage by her father. She wore a . 1030 _ 10501 001
emergency treatment, Egan talked
Meyer down to the runway. The
wingtip of Egan’S Mustang was
still a blur in Meyer's injured
eyes. -0
“Wheels down," Egan said over
his radio. Then at the proper
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LaCoste National Bank
the state committee are Ross
Costley-Mangpid Rites
Held At LaCoste
They marriage of Miss Isabel
Colletts Mangold, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. J."Mangold of La-
Coste to Lieutenant Lonny Spen-
cer Costley, son ef the late L S.
Costley of Atlanta. Georgia, was
solemnized on T’hursday, Dec-
ember 28, at the Rectory of St.
Mary’s Parish ofLaCoste by Rev.
John J. erberudann, pastor.
Arrangements of giant white
mums and gladioli in vases fitted
books tas olio qf the trickiest-per- c.
formances, of. aerial warfare—a
in forty days. <
The most rain in any one day
was on Agust 28 when . 1.78
Use of V-mail by: civilians in
writing to service men overseas
must be stopped up in 1945 to
conserve critically needed trans-,
port space, the Office of War In-
formation reported* recently on the
basis of facts from the Army and ■
Navy. An intensified campaign
urging the public to increase its.
use of V-mail was 'opened
January 1, 1945, by the War and
NaVy Departments with the co-
operation of OWL Md.
While the total volume of Army
and Navy V-mail, incoming and
outgoing, IA almost twice that of
fitting bodice. The sheer lace
yoke was appliqued with inserts
of-ivory satin. The bouffant skirt
extended Into a graceful train.
The veil of illusion which fell to
fingertip length, was caught on
either side with sprays of orange
blossoms. She carried an Orchid
and white carnations oft her pray-
er book.
The maid of honor wore an
ashes of roses.taffeta gown with
a fitted bodice. Bands of shirring
in the selfsame material trimmed
the bouffant, skirt A matching
veil was caught on either side of
her head with rhinestone clips.
New Oiling Price On Eggs
Beginning January 4th
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To all producers, wholesalers and
retailers:
Beginning January 4th, 1945 the
OP A ceiling price on current re-
ceipt eg^s to retailers is 38.84 per .
dozen. All producers and whole- ,
salers are required to abide by
this price. There will be a short
dropin the price each consecutive j
week and to sell at a price higher ,
paralysis. 1-NU ... 0/ sneezing, or speaking," Dr. Cox
Texas state committee, head-
ed b W.B. Clayton, of Houston
disease. - - ", .
“Prevention and control' of
whooping cough, especially among
infants and small children, may be
accomplished through use of ap-
proved vaccine and convalescent
serum,” Dr, Cox asserted, "and it
is important that such measures
be takeh to protect them. Neg-
lecting to do so, and allowing the
young child to buffer an attack of
this disease, may seriously impair
his future health.” ' - /
group of citizens interested in an
improved program for the Latin-
American school children will
meet. In order for busy leaders
to attend, the conference has been
planned a't a time when the
majority .may participate.
> Mr. E. L. Been, President of the
School Board, will make a report
on the problems of a rural school.
Supt. M. H. Carnes will speak on
improvements desirable inn the
school program.
Visiting participants in the pro-
gram will be Miss Willa Tinsley
from Southwest Texas State
Teachers College, Mr. R. C.
Friends gathered at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Ziegenbalg
at Natalia. Sunday nite to enjoy a
delicious Mexican supper and to
see the old year out and the new
year in. ", f "
Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. S. C. Schaefer of Natalia,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wanjura
and family of Lytle, Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Cowen and' daughters of
.LaCoste, Betty Foulton, Arthur
Bippert and the Ziegenbalg
family.
Ortega from the Texas Tuber- t .
culosis Asbociation, and .Mrs. Nan $hc carried a colonial bouquet of
Mrs. Angelina Reyman of San eyes already have healed enough
Antonio is visiting with Mrs. John so the bandages could be removed.
I Hill . —S.A. Light. .
. army and 11,958 in the navy,
With Eyes Bleeding marine corps and coast guard.
-- - . - ‛ . - -- An additional 318,517 . were
wounded—288,312 in the army and
29,845 in the other services.
StilJ another 94.261 were miss-
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Meyer, then when the wheels of ] ,
Meyer’s plane touched ground : ”
Egan pulled up and went around : ’
again to land. < «
This happened Christmas mom- J ,
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Use Of V Mail
Mitchell of the Navarro School at
Lockhart. These visitors will dis-
cuss “How . the Latin-American
School Can Meet Children’s
Needs."
Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner, of the
Inter-American Committee ’ , on
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Inasmuch as ths incidence of
whooping cough in Texas has
shewn an. increase during the past 1 •
two months, Dr. Geo. W. Cok,
average is 32.78 inches.
aln 2 2: of honor. '
On Sunday, January 7, at 4:00 The bride was given in marriage
at the Lytle School Building, a by. her father. Her gown was of
ivory bridal satin with a form
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-ur .......------- Boothe, Gonzales; Dr. N. D. Buie, become increasingly severe:
ing. In October he was sent back Marlin; R. JB. Creager, Browns- - - - "
' ville; Frank; G. Huntress and Mrs.
J. K. Beretta, San Antonio; form-
.. Lieut. John E. Egan, 21,/of Fort______. ________.. _____
Lauderdale, Fla. legislation program proposed tri
■ Wing to wing Egan and Meyer the " _ i
..... —------- -------------- -pecatuw, sucorgia; nervy pcoz, raced back to their base from a Wednesday, by War, Mobilized
cooperation of this Committee Mrs. M A MVchler and son, Mr. Yangtze river strafing mission - " " “
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Mrs. Bill Engelbrecht, Mrs. Eau- hit by groundfire: manpower shortages.
rence Jenschke end son; Lt. and The strange flight lasted about
A wedding breakfast was served uniform .during 1944.
- . - They bore th? news that, a son.
13531940, 34.65 1941, 3172
inches; 1942, 37,16 inches; 1943,
28.07 inches; 1944, 32.32 inches.
/ did ing civilian life--airplane
mechanics. After nine months at
listed in the U. S. Army Airforce appointed by Basil O’Connor, New
on September 15, 1942, in San An- York City, president of the Na-
tional Foundation'. Members of
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including 88,053 in the army and
, 6,208 in the sea services.
That’s the price of the triumphs
of 1944.—S. A. Light.
Latin-American Relations, will ob- fonowing: 3 3
serve the group at work and plans
to make recommendations for the
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! Army suysflyihgmityhe impos-.
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LaCoste, Medina County, Texas, Friday, January 5, 1945
Mr. Adolph Zinsmeyer of La-
Coste again this year has submit-
ted a report of the rainfall during
1944. Mr. Zinsmeyer has been
keeping a record of the rainfall in
LaCoste for the past 35 years hav-
ing started in 1909.
His report reads as follows:
January, 2.46 inches with six
days of rain; February, 1.92
inches, nine days; March, 3.66
inches, six days; , April, 1.67
inches, three days;. May, 5.80
inches, nine days; June, .50 inches,
one day; July, .45 inches, one day;
August, 6,22 inches, five days;
September, 1.08 inches, three
days; October, 1.54 inches, one
day; November,) 1.54 inches, six
days; December, 3.40 inches, ten
days.
The total rainfall in 1944 was
32.32 inches in sixty days. 1943.
had a. total of 28.07, inches ofrnin
The appeal will attain its inten-
sive period from January 14 to 31, must be universally practiced if
ing. Today Meyer is at the sta- ;
tion hospital recovering. The only :
question is whether his vision will 3
be good enough for him to return -
to combat flying. Aft eye special- :
1st picked six metal silvers out of
the corneal area of his right eye
and nine out of the left' eye, ■ His ]
Louisiana, for overseas training. ‘I E. Gross, Greenville; I. H. ren uztu mw weens aw...
' KenpnendvMonar,coFpth appearance of typical signs of the
Christi; Ross D. Rogers, Amarillo;
Mrs. Julius-Waring Walker, Plain-
.’The Ledger extends hearty con-
gratulations! .
New Year’s Eve Party
Held At Natalia
. looking toward eventual eradica-
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams of tion of the dread affliction.
In 1944 America sustained the
second worst epidemic of infantile
paralysis ever to hit the nation:
More than 18,000 peopl were
stricken and many of the victims
wilitequime " d
care and treatment, Mr. Briggs
reported. Funds from this year’s
their lives in combat during the
year. , ,
Of these, 70,676 were in the
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1943, recenti drops in the use of I
the microfilm sorvice by both ser- J
vike men overseas and civilians at
home has been; rtf concern, to the
Army and Navy. .n ,
Renkons pointed qtby high- J
ranking officers for the Ampor- ", j".
tance of extended V-mail ese by 5, 2
the public included: 0"
Richard Biediger, Jr., Appren-
tice Seaman, informed his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Biediger of
LaCoste, this week that he la now
serving aboard ship. He had been
stationed at St. Petersburg,
Florida, with the Merchant
Marine. "‛r
The 1945 fund-raising appeal of
the National Foundation For In-
funtile /Paralysis, in celebration of
the President’s birthday, is being
opened officially throughout Tex-
as this week with establishment of
state headquarters in Dallas. Ap-
pointment of lenders in every
county to direct the local
campaigns will get underway
immediately, / .. . "
2 of Mrs. Clemens Kempt'of Castro-
prwieHeiswelFkiow mcatro-
ville and the surrounding com-
/’ munity. Keep those bombers in
good shape, Cpl. Collins, we're all
- betting on you and we feel confi-
. dent that you won't Jehus down.
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tonio; Mr. anq Mrs. A. N. Man- _
gold and son of Cliff; and Mr. scredit sto rescuer and rescued
and Mrs. Harold Nesters ofeikedrr-etl
D’Hanis.
Vomiting of food and whooping
accompany a the paroxysm of
EoyernorMiPiHobbyandCol cough. Dr. CoX stressed the fact
. “ Sn. Hu, that children who have whooping
Edwin T. Phillips, Fort Worth, cpugh should not attend sehool or
Wi“ Ethel Eadter Sterline Cite come in contact with other child-
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The army Tuesday discharged
11 officials of Montgomery Ward
and Co. in seven cities, a federal
grand jury began an investigation
of the dispute which led to seizure
of the mail order firm’s proper-
ties, and Ward’s chairman, Sewell
L. Avery, held a long conference
with his associates. The army’s
crackdown came during a day of
renewed activity in the contro-
versy, with orders and charges
coming thick and fast from
Chicago headquarters of Maj.
Gen. Joseph W. Byron, military
manager who took over last
Thursday under presidential
seizure older.
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Mrs. Julius Mueller and children
of Castroville and Mrs. Philomena
Krause of here visited relatives
j at Von Onny Tuesday. > u
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Do you experience
' trouble' in getting ' —
lid. “The discharges from the
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Macdona have received Word from
2. 1 their son, Henry Sisson, Fireman
First Class, U. S. Coast Guard,
-21 stating that one of his friends
from San Antonio, David Hardy,
U. S. Coast Guard are serving on
the same ship. Henry was placed
on the Ledger subscription list
this week and is receiving his
mail in care of the Fleet Post Of-
fice, New York, N. Y.
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; Private Stanley Keller has been
.Pa transferred from Fort Sill, Okla-
" homa, to Camp Hood, Texas. He
is a son of Mrs. ‘Margaret Keller
A. H. AHR, Prop. LACOSTE, TEXAS
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Adrertise in the-
LaCoste Ledger
It will take your message to
hundreds of consumers
transmit letters more espeditious-.j ,3
ly than V-mail. ;
2. During the summes, af sace: . , ■
avaiiabli*. by chanw pernutted the
transportalibi) of Aome regular • ■ .
mail by air.. This is-net the.rul, .. •. - I
the Aryand-Navgemphasize,, ;■ * , 1
but it did eri nte a fakse impres-
sion in thie.mindiotbotb civilian
.' and eservice r-0 .
cipients. As an erample, • the 0s pA
Navy points out that duripg July E
and August • excellent .flying 1
weather permitted 100 per cent of ma .
Navy mail to go,by. air. 1nNov
ember, only 51 per . it could be
carried . byplanebecaude of bad -"-a
weather dor .tight cargo' space- ‛ , "6 h 1
8: In the' wave of oyleroptimism
that followed (list Alliod‘advances )
in Europe and jnaval yictorios in
the Pacific, the public gtwilax in 2201
its censcietitidus atterhpt to coh-, .
serve transport spure 1y using, '
V-mail:
j More inen joversue indues? mre 121 y
muil, and ii- ■ drep iu ''
ratio ofs the ‘aniount of letersi ,rN8
marked r-mal t hat, sur i be cu - 0.9
riedibyd,Axposalufcers . • "dng
pointed, : ntAiuthina Sbeloc"- p,,a
egual, a lettot su ymarked win go’! 1 W
faster than V-maile which reqyiresw 2'2
about one -and. one-half dass fr /M • 3
processing on each end. But. dur- '
ing Wartime, an nirmull stamp on 1 ' . a
a letter going coyerseas.doch pot M
necessarily asstre its transmuittul E
by plane Army postal officera 5F
said. During the eoming months,,
when weather, is normally un-, . '/‛2
favorable , to . flying sehedules; ■ 58
there will be fewer flight* ft nd 'vt
mole disrunlon in flight scu2s
schedulesi which will affect swift ,2
air-mall transmission. . On North 3-345
Atlantic routes in mart icular. the ,
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tle, "h’eeia ■ e - dducjidgyi MeB dn nalvle ■ auMlegnz1e, '
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. 3. Exbension of suppls lines as a
action progresses in. bath theaters i
of war.
4 importance-of a
steady, freguent fow of letters - to /n 2.
service met’s morale, . Ns . 7 .'
Army and-Navy postal iservices. '
' agree that three faetory beve been 0 —
responsible for reeent dercasesin.
Vemail volume.' 'They -poipt. out, 2.
however,eethatyie factors- were ,0,
out-ofrthe-orditakp,e, temporary
conditions. Durhg the coming .
months,. the ‘eoncdons Will not
hold true, service,- postal ‘officers • 107 ‘
affirm.
L Weather conditions during " s
the late spring and summer
months were favorable'to regular
air-mail aezyico. Almbat eim- L _ . ,
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of LaCoste.
» • •
Private Charlie Jackel spent
last week with relatives and
. friends at Mgedona., Charlie has
been stationed in Louisiana but
. will report at Camp Mead, Mary-
land, for further duty. rcv
- 233, 1, ' • 4 • . 1 , 3 ‛kuGs,
Private Alex J. Hitzfelder, Ir.
was made, a reader of the Ledger
thia week. Alex is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Hitzfelder of La-
Coste and is receiving his mail
through the Army Post Office,
San Francisco, California. ,
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Biediger, John C. The La Coste Ledger (La Coste, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, January 5, 1945, newspaper, January 5, 1945; La Coste, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1593219/m1/1/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Castroville Public Library.