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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
12
A teen column lists playful yet practical tips for keeping wardrobe items neat. It covers waxed shoe touch ups, sweater shaping with paper outlines, and quick care ideas like plastic initial pins, service pins, and faux glamour tricks. It notes teens enjoy clever trends and patriotic pins while stressing simple upkeep.
A fragment from LES PLETTNER’s verse begins with a telephone scene. The speaker imitates a reserved, melodramatic caller as a female voice mishears a number and prompts humorous miscommunication. The piece plays on tone idiosyncrasies and frustrated telephone exchanges.
The Selective Service issues guidance to induct a larger share of men aged 26 through 38. Registrants in war production or allied jobs moved to 1-A will be prioritized for immediate service, with local boards given discretion on some moves and deferment considerations favoring war effort participants.
Collector of Internal Revenue Denis W Delaney outlines the 1944 act revised income tax rates applying to wages paid on or after January 1 1945 regardless of when earned. Some December wages paid after January 1 may be taxed. W-2 Rev receipts must show wages paid in 1944 and tax withheld, not wages earned but paid in 1945.
At the annual meeting in Wilmington Delaware stockholders elected directors Walter E Guyette F William Andres James F Donahoe Frank P McCartin and Leonard Moore. In New York Walter E Guyette of Lowell was reelected president and general manager for the seventh time with officers Richard H and Patrick W Williams named to vice president and other posts.
Boston authorities announce Assistant District Attorney George E. Thompson of Melrose as the new Middlesex County District Attorney for the two year remainder of the Bradford term. Thompson has served since 1940 and holds degrees from Boston University Law School.
A Boston law firm Bradford is connected to a five year old’s case involving a Melrose family. The family home is located at 69 Stratford Road.
The War Production Board calls for workers to repair battle damaged U S ships at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Critical base needs include boilermakers electricians instrument mechanics pipecoverers radio mechanics refrigeration mechanics sandblasters and sheetmetal workers with pay at about 1 52 per hour plus overtime.
A wartime recruitment snippet invites men aged 19 in good health to apply for mechanic learner positions at Pearl Harbor with Civil Service benefits and sick leave. It notes daily off duty activities and directs interested applicants to the Navy Recruiter at the local employment service on Main Street Tuesday.
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