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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1944
Page
5
A lively fashion guide sketches feminine styles and DIY projects for young readers. It suggests lace trims on pinafores and sweaters, converting worn garments, and creative accessories like luminous name pins for dark movie courts.
Thomas H. Buckley announces that 1,612,400 Massachusetts taxpayers will receive 1943 income tax forms, urging early filing to determine exact liability. Rules specify who must file, with forms 1040 long and 1040A short, and noting withholdings and refunds based on 1942 and 1943 figures.
Massachusetts dairy farmers will continue dairy production payments in January to balance milk costs. War Food Administration official Sumner R. Parker says payments remain 50 cents per hundredweight and 5 cents per pound of butter fat, with Berkshire County excluded under New York milk shed rules. County AAA offices are accepting November and December applications, due by end of January. 5,523 producers collected over $259,000 in October shipments.
Governor Saltonstall backs the Fourth War Loan opening January 18 as Massachusetts targets a $258,000,000 state quota. The effort mobilizes more than 100,000 volunteers and 800,000 school children to canvass, with sales phased from individuals to corporations and banks as the drive expands.
The Massachusetts drive aims for 258000000 in individual sales toward a 14 billion national total from Jan 18 to Feb 15. It urges every resident to invest about 65 dollars, asserting bonds offer solid returns while funding the war effort and inflation control. Massachusetts must raise 7000 dollars per minute, 430000 per hour, and 10300000 per day.
The National Safety Council warns drivers to check tire chains windshields defrosters and lights as winter approaches. The ABCs of Winter Driving advise testing brakes using chains traveling slower than 86 mph and leaving space to avoid skids with caution for pedestrians and icy stairs amid war traffic concerns.
A speaker states that a just peace will be achieved and the United Nations will win. The timing of victory is uncertain, but the postwar challenges are known and require cooperative effort from all people and nations.
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