Highlands Girls Scout and Community Meetings Highlights
Local groups held multiple gatherings at the school and church, with Girl Scouts Troop 44 planning a fundraiser for the Jnnette Lowe Fund and badge work, Circle and WSCS members meeting on membership, Cub Scouts finishing letter racks, and Lynchburg P TA organizing a bingo and cake walk for Scout benefits. Birthdays, parties, and church study also featured in community notes with attendees named.
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Girl Scouts
Troop 44
Hichins
Jnnette Lowe Fund
Bayrone
Norine Rosser
Aliss V. Light
Catherine Prince
Jerry Scott
Margaret Craig
Jerry Cullison
Carolyn Adams
Carolyn Dunaway
Sally Hutchins
Yirginie
Worth Marthe Sue Gieughter
Geneva
Ferguson
Sara Beat
Cecilia Adams
J. R. Prince
Birs
J. E. Wohil
Cub Scouts of den 3
Den
Jack Sheppard
Billy Cross
Kenneth Voytek
Roddy DuBose
Neal Voytek
Marvin Sheppard
J. E. Treadway
Pat Tobin
Roy Donald Johnston
C. E. DuBose
Roy Johnston
Lynchburg
Delivery Boy Gives Right Quiz Answer
MIAMI BEACH Fla February 27 A timely delivery boy on a WMIE quiz program delivered canned foods to Mrs David E Sloan after she correctly answered Who is the author of the famous It is later than you think Robert W Service The announcer praised the winner and sent 78 cases of assorted canned foods to Mrs Sloan
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Mian Beach
Fla
David E. Sloan
WMIE
Lee Taylor
Taylor
Robert W. Service
Absurd Tales From The Roadside And A Cambridge Recorder
A whimsical set of anecdotes features an absent minded professor who forgets a number after water, a farmer dismissing girls, a red headed youth on lollipops, and a Provincetown collision with ironic signaling. Also noted is MIT owning a recording machine used by Winston Churchill and later donated to the SLT library.
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Parier
Uttle Lake
Mie
Cambridge
Mass
Winston Churenil
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SLLT
Thief Plies Trade Under Police Noses
Tokyo February 27 Hiroshi Takakeshi a 20 year old picked pockets while in custody. he stole 800 yen from a police desk drawer and 350 yen from a second prisoner pocket. The theft went unnoticed until another prisoner betrayed him.
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Tokyo
Hiroshi Takeheshi
Takakeshi
Texas Still Boasts Low Unemployment
Austin reports Texas maintains one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates as the Texas Employment Commission notes a 73 percent rise in first claims from December and 63 percent from January a year ago. About one third of 33,654 claims either found work or left the labor force within a week.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Employment Commission
TEC
Indiana Miss Hanneman Brings Prize Cherry Pies to Truman
Jacqueline Hanneman of Indianapolis, winner in a national cherry pie contest, visited Blair House to present pies to President Truman. The 17 year old taught family pie secrets, shared her recipe using Michigan cherries, and noted the Fort Peck dam in Montana as the world’s largest.
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Barman W. Nichols
Washington
Jacqueline Hanneman
Indianapolis
Truman
National Rea Cherry Institute
Jacqueline
Jackie
Indiana
Michigan
Coal Shortage Kills Business Prosperity Crisis
Washington February 27. The worst coal shortage in the nation’s history threatens a weak first quarter for 194? business. Economists warn production may fall to postwar lows as the industrial output index slips to 178.5 percent of the 1935-39 average, down from 179.3 a week earlier and 187.6 last year.
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Washington
BS Aes Standard and Poor
Smoking Fine Appears in Beal Street Signage
A fragment notes a fine of $100 for smoking in a certain area labeled Beal Street. The terse line lacks full context but indicates a monetary penalty and a smoking prohibition referenced locally.
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Highlands News
Wes
Day
Ni Ie
WSCS
The
Methodist Church
CO. A Bedinger
J. W. Gentry
S. F. P. Nolan
B. Hance
J. B. Wolcik
Jhckey
Troop 16
W. Busshart
Catherine Yandell
Lina Sue Busshart
Linda Hae Prince
Linda Jean Chaplin
Billie Dell Tribe
Rose Briges
Margaret Ann Morgan
Clandelie White
Oleda Martin
Ksy Dunks
Neralane Cross
Earline David
Janelle Bishop
J. C. Schmedi
Joyce Baros
Mary Ann Troha
Jerry Treat
Billy Mot
Richard Bailey
Edwin Kersh
Don Chandler
Donald Walker
Jommy Abernathy
Charles Walker
Charlies Esterak
Allen Lostak
Glen Gasset
Thessalonica
C. EB. Reed
A Nd
Wilson Manahan
Kathleen
Wilson
Dallas
J. L. Dunn
Jeffer Lone
Mr. Fitzgerald
J.C. Schmadl
Ann R.th
Johnny
Beaumont
Chis Mary
Land's End Farm
Breville, Texer
Arnett and Company
Bennett
Farmer Jon
Provincetown
Eve Baker
Baytown
Swthwestern Associated Telephone CO
Indiana Miss
Mr. Truman
Fort Peck
Montana
Robson
Texas and Gaillard
Packard
Bragg Callaway, Inc
Sia
North Texas
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Houston
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