Washington Co., AR - Newspapers - Rogers Democrat July 18-24, 1948 *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Bert Edens Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** Rogers Daily News 50 years ago July 18-24, 1948 The Mountaineer football squad and other athletic activities of the Rogers high school will be under the guidance of Harold Stanley and Jim Bearden during the 1948-49 term of school. Mrs. Dorothy B. Gambill, a former member of the Rogers school faculty and Benton county attendance officer during the last year, has been elected principal of the Garfield school for the 1948-49 term. Air delivery of baby chicks to Northwest Arkansas poultry growers, increasing rapidly during the last few weeks, has now reached the point where 150,000 young chicks will be flown to the Rogers airport each week. Guy J. Cable was elected commander of the William M. Batjer post of the American legion for the 1948-49 fiscal year. The permanent training cadre at Camp Chaffee, designated as one of the centers for training selectees, under the new peacetime draft, will be made up as largely as possible of veterans of World War II, Sgt. Paul O. Marney, Benton county army recruiter, said here Tuesday. The story of the late W.H. "Coin" Harvey's projected monument to a "doomed" civilization at Monte Ne is featured in the current issue of the Esso Road News, a travel publication issued by the Standard Oil company and distributed through its dealers. With local interest in Tuesday's first democratic primary centering principally in the races for county judge and governor, the Daily News is making preparations to hold one of its regular election parties Tuesday night to give returns of the election both from the county and the state at large as quickly as possible. Arrangements have been made with the United Press for a full leased election wire from Little Rock.