Flight officer Seel awarded Distinguished Flying Cross
Capt. Peter B. Seel Jr, 36th Bomb Group, 321st Bomb Wing, home on a 20 day leave after 10 months of North Africa Sicily and Italy duty. He led a 36 plane mission over Gerbini despite heavy flak earning the DFC for extraordinary achievement. His crew included a wounded turret gunner and another wounded once. Seel described the hot dog stand sighting during a six hour raid over Italy.
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Canaan Road
Army Air
P. B. Seel
Ces
Seel
Eee Ucss US
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Sicily
Italy
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North African
Gerbini Satellite Field
Gerbini
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Denmark
Rome
Ohio University
Dowler and Ferguson
Cincinnati College of Embalming
Middletown
Ellington Field
Houston
Texas
Pantelleria
Sardina
Seventh Army
Mrs. Mary Hayes Dies at 80 in Coolville
Mrs. Mary Hayes aged 80 died at her home near Coolville after years of ill health. She leaves her sons Vernon Delbert D Hayes of Los Angeles William Hayes and Clair Hayes of Middletown and daughter Mrs. Howard Brookins of Athens. Funeral services are set for Friday at 2 PM at White Funeral Home with burial in Coolville Cemetery. Friends may call after Thursday noon.
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Mary Hayes
Here
Vernon
Delbert D. Hayes
Los Angeles
Cal
William and Clair Hayes
Middletown
Howard Brookins
Athens
White Funeral Home
Walker Neff Funeral Held Friday in Albany
Funeral services for Walker L. Neff, 84, who died Tuesday at his Albany home, will be conducted Friday afternoon at two o'clock by Rev. Howard Warner. Burial will follow in Hebbardsville Cemetery.
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Walker L. Neff
Albany
Howard Warner
Hebbardsville
Grange Plans Supper Before December Meeting
Athens Grange schedules a pot luck supper at Grange Hall before its Thursday evening meeting. Supper will be served at 7 o clock Athens time on December 16.
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Grange
Athens
Grange Hall
Civil Air Patrol enters third year with expanded duties
The Civil Air Patrol marks its third year of service with larger membership and higher activity, aided by 288 Army Air Forces liaison planes and broad expansion of the Cadet program. CAP bases and civilian missions grow nationwide, including aviation cadets and blood plasma flights, while Athens Ohio directs CAP activity for five cities.
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Civil Air Patrol
War Department
CAP
Army Air Forces
Earle L. Johnson
Air Corps
Ohio Bureau of Aeronautics
West Coast
ARMY
Aviation Cadet Branch
Aviation Cadet Examining Boards
AAF Training Command
America
Athens
Ohio Wing
Marietta
Zanesville
Cambridge
Portsmouth
Cartier Funeral Rites Held For Local Pedestrian
Funeral services for Reginald G. Cartier of Millfield aged about 50 were held at Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home after a pedestrian death last Saturday on State Route 13. The driver Donald Ray Lanning age 18 from Pittsburg Hollow faced no charges. coroner A L Pritchard ruled accidental death. Cartier had no known relatives and was attended by Jack Lanning, the driver's father, who paid funeral expenses.
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Reginald G. Cartier
Millfield
Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home
Donald Ray Lanning
New Pittsburg Hollow
Cartier
A. L. Pritchard
Jack Lanning
Lancaster Contractor Low Bid On Court Street Job
D H Brewer of Lancaster submitted the low bid of 3850 dollars for resurfacing North Court Street between State and Carpenter. The bid matched the published estimate and the street, part of Routes 33 and 50, will be paved with asphaltic concrete according to the State Highway Department report.
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D. H. Brewer
Lancaster
North Court St
State
Carpenter
State Highway Department
Masons at Coolville to Install Officers
Newly elected officers of the Coolville Lodge No. 337 will be installed at a special meeting tonight. W A Richardson, master, announced. Visiting Masons are invited to attend and refreshments will be served.
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Coolville Lodge No
W. A. Richardson
Temperature Drops to Zero as Record Low Touched
Temperature plunged to zero last night per observer Mrs. C. N. France breaking the season’s low. The prior record was 18 set on December 13. Yesterday’s high reached 24 with noon today at 10.
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C. N. France
Army-Navy Ek Receives Second Army-Navy Award at Strontium Plant
The Strontium Products Co. plant in Chauncey earned the Army-Navy Production Award for meritorious service on the production front for the second time. In a letter from Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson to William C. Thomas, the plant was praised for maintaining high standards and increasing production before its shutdown on November 10.
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Strontium Products Co
Chauncey
William C. Thomas
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
Army-Navy
Thomas
RCAF Captain Hull Home on Leave in St. Johns
Captain Norman D. Hull of the Royal Canadian Air Force and pilot instructor at Canadian Pacific Airlines School in St. Johns Quebec visits family. Hull, a former Athens High School student who enlisted in 1940, wears the blue RCAF uniform and carries the shoulder designation UU 8 A signifying American citizenship.
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Norman D. Hull
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canadian Pacific Airlines
St. John’s
Quebec
Flora Hull
Helen Hull
Montrose Ave
Hull
Athens High School
RCAF
Full
Carter's Little Liver Pills Aid Digestion Promise
The ad claims Nature produces about two pints of bile daily to digest food and that Carter's Little Liver Pills increase bile flow quickly, often within thirty minutes, improving digestion and helping you feel better. It urges buying at drugstores for 25 cents.
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Carter
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