Civilian Employee Here With Eight Sons
In Army Is 10 Percent Plus Bond Buyer

Have you met your sixth war
loan bond quota yet? Machine
Shop foreman Edward O. Brown
has more than met his! What's

more Brown and his wife, residents

of Sherman, have two four-star

-service flags hanging in their win- |

dow, are looking for an eight-star
flag and may need still another
star before this war is over.

A 10-percent-plus bond man all
through the war, Brown buys a $50
bond every month and a $100 bon
each war loan drivé:

Two of Brown’s
ert, 29, and. Cpl.
in France; and Pfc.
and Pvt. Edward @,Ar., are infan-
trymen in N. J. and Va., soon to
ship overseas. Brown’s stepsons are
M/Set. J. W. Sterling, 28, stationed
in N. Y., S/Sgt. Abury Sterling, 26,
France, Pvt. James Sterling, 18,
Camp Wolters, Texas,. and Sgt.
Cheston Sterling, Ashburn general
hospital, McKinney, Texas. The lat-
ter, holder of the Purple Heart

  

 

award, was wounded on the Nor-

 

Edward O. Brown
mandy beachhead D-Day plus 13

 

when he lost the use of his left
army from mortar shrapnel and
received bullet wounds in his left
side and his right hand. Charles
Sterling, 16, who is in war work
making shells for Hardwicke-Et-
ter expects to don Khakis in a year
and a half.

The patriotic Shermanite, whose
eight sons, sportsmen all, have yet
to see Lake Texoma, says a grand

j} outing and fishing trip is planned

when. his boys come marching
home.

The 53-year-old Texan, resident
of 611 N. Walnut, Sherman, and a

| Marylander by birth, began work-

ing in his present position as fore-
man of the machine shop and the
hydraulic and cable dept March 6,
1942. He was formerly employed
as grinding dept. foreman for
North American Aviation, Dallas,
and prior to the war he worked in
the cotton gin manufacturing busi-
ness for Dallas Cotton Mill, Sher-

|man Manufacturing Co., and Hard-

wicke-Etter, Sherman.