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...sixth-grade teacher in the public school in little (pop. 750) Killeen, Texas had an announcement for her class: the prize for the best speller at the end of the term would be a handsome Bible. The dismissal bell was still resounding when a self-assured little girl came forward from her desk, and in a firm, quiet voice told the teacher she might as well go right ahead and inscribe the Bible. It ought to be inscribed to Oveta Culp. Pig-tailed Oveta Culp wasn't being brash or smart-alecky ; she knew she was the best speller...
...Girl Named Forget. The Culp family can hardly remember when Oveta was not the successful mistress of her own destiny. When she was a little girl in Killeen, her mother and father had to urge her to go to the movies or on a Sunday afternoon drive. Oveta was usually too busy reading. The Culps liked to fish in the Lampasas River, but Oveta couldn't waste valuable time on such nonsense. She rarely participated in children's games, except for an occasional round of "church," where she could parade her Biblical knowledge (she had read the Bible...
Miss Spark-Plug. When the chief WAC was a little girl in curls, she read aloud from the Congressional Record to her father, Lawyer Isaac William Culo. of Killeen, Tex. She thought at first she would like to be a foreign missionary. Later she thought she might go on the stage...
...Tank Destroyer Command-at Killeen, Tex., under Major General Andrew D. Bruce...
...practically all the specialized training camps of the West. He spent three days at the glider Air Academy at Twentynine Palms -going up with the students, getting the dope on equipment, organization, training. He jolted around with the Army's new tank destroyer corps at Camp Hood in Killeen, Texas, where they had to move a cemetery to get the site they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General Patton applying the lessons our side has learned...