03 Feb 1944
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Newspaper
Hayward Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1944
Page
1
Casualties and servicemen from Hayward featured with home town notes. Second Lt Walter Mundo and Sgt Henry Viera are cited with Hayward addresses. Private Edward Prioste and others in Fort Knox, Camp Callan, and overseas assignments are noted along with letters home, unit affiliations, and local supporters.
The fragmentary text mentions prices and multiple names with garbled words. It references a person or entity named Hayward and mentions months or durations, but the content is heavily distorted and unreadable for a precise report. No coherent event or outcome can be determined from the legible portions.
Navy Mothers in Pleasanton celebrate an officers installation at the LD.B8 ball on Monday night January 11. Chaplain Robert Lambert of the Naval Replacement Center leads the ceremony. Bertha Carlson becomes commander of the Hayward club with gifts presented. Officers installed include Marie Hubbard, Helen Groskepper, Signa Rasmussen, Olivia Canine, Rinal Walton, Tile Laurvey, Jennie Beckman, and Maria Johnson. Entertainment followed with music and song. attendees included Mrs. Elizabeth Thau and other naval mothers from Oakland and Orland clubs.
The February Farm Bureau gathering in Livermore will address issues from farm labor to sugar heat allowances. Attendees will discuss imported harvest warrants, county drive progress, and a plan to distribute fifty additional tire pumps to farmers, with earlier pumps recalled for farm safety use.
The Hayward Chapter of the American Red Cross announces a new staff assistants course to begin Monday February 7 at 9 30 a m in the Veterans Memorial Building. Four women have enrolled with more expected as the 12 hour program covers lectures including some by out of town speakers. Graduates will staff information booths and donor desks and assist in public service tasks under Mrs. Clarence Harper who leads volunteer services.
A schedule of USO Hall activities from February 7 to 13 includes Monday Variety Night celebrating servicemen birthdays, midweek Camp Parks music and 132nd Battalion band performances, Ping Pong tournament on Thursday, Friday night show with a cowboy band, and Saturday formal drive participation. Sunday Candlelight Hour at 6:30 followed by a Camp Parks show.
Governor orders promotion for outstanding service. Neil C Best rises to captain while guiding the Hayward Union High School cadet unit into a disciplined battalion. The move follows concurrent promotions of three other officers and honors Best for his late exemplary work with youth training programs.
The Ration World reports penalties issued for motorists including William Welster at A Street and Donnelly at 875 Washlun Street for speeding with 2 coupons lost. Alive Wrank at 645 Third Street and Tosaph Viera at 2 Western Boulevard face 80 day bans. Richard Olson at 8695 Castro Valley Boulevard also cited for speeding with 4 coupons.
A preliminary plan for a new airfield near Albany proposes a 20 million dollar project occupying about 1 400 acres of family lands under the Boylealey Albany lands, with a study by an engineer and a site selection by authorities. The plan would be forwarded to the Civil Aeronautics Administration after a site is chosen and layout details drafted for a runway over two miles long.
Fairview Fire Department collected five tons of waste paper in January with proceeds funding a new fire wick and department needs. The drive will continue with bundles gathered by request, and scrap iron drive ends February 4. IH. P. Grenson to speak at February meeting at 8 p m in the Fairview fire house. Community appreciation noted.
Alameda County Farm Home department held a meeting in the Adobe building Castro Valley on February 2 to discuss furnishing a solarium at Camp Shoemaker Hospital. The session, a dessert luncheon, named committees to arrange and purchase turning components and related furnishings.
Agricultural officials urge farmers to ready for next summer's harvest during winter downtime. George Goodale, executive secretary of the board, advises renovating living quarters and repairing equipment. He notes harvest labor may be available but only for farmers offering attractive leasing and supplies.
Open season for 1944 city elections has started. Herbert F. Willns leads candidates from ward and district areas with about 80 new valor voters registered for the May 14 primary. Voters must be registered and meet requirements before they can vote in the city council and other city offices.
Fragments indicate plans for a St Patrick event with Mrs Frank overseeing arrangements and John Geary coordinating activities. Final details and schedule are to be announced as preparations continue.
Hayward Union reports strong interest in adult education with the Spring term enrollment opening Monday. Night courses will run Monday and Wednesday evenings in carpentry shorthand English history public speaking photography hygiene radio practical Trinity and Spanish, with Tuesday Thursday sessions in citizenship bookkeeping typing sewing and mathematics, plus rifle practice on Wednesday and Friday evenings.
Philip Silver, chair of the Hayward War Price and Rationing board price panel, explains under the emergency price control act that women can sue for three times the overcharge up to $60. He notes most dealers follow OPA rules, warns against lax dealers, and describes plans from February 3, 1944 allowing manufacturers to offer slightly higher priced lines to broaden market.
The Home Service department of the Oaklaid Chapter, American Red Cross, announces the opening of new quarters in the safe building at 594 Castro Street Room 218. Hours are 2 to 6 Saturday. Dependents of active and ex service men are invited to use the services. contact Home Service for information regarding men overseas prisoners of war and civilian internees. Miss Eleanor Mikutoe is Home Service walker in charge assisted by Mrs H G Whitler.
The Kiwanis meeting featured J N Dussel man a veteran cleaner and dyer who spoke to members about youth and energy. President Frank Yemewis praised fundraisers for a lounge with a Teyward Army Air Field for servicemen. Elvin Christiansen to chair the next meeting.
Mrs. L. M. Kitten of Oakland reports two Hayward youths, Charles and Gerald, serving Uncle Sam. The brothers are far apart on distant stations, one in the Pacific and the other bound for Honolulu. Both say they are in good health and hope for a reunion.
San Francisco announces wartime census inspections by the United States Census Bureau and the Presidential Committee for Unregistered Persons. Mondquir ters for the pecin wartime can sus of the San Francisco Day Area will be at 46 Kony street.
More than 1000 civilise trends from across California will attend the USO birthday celebration in San Francisco at the Clyde Auditorium on Friday evening February 4. Northern California UCO chairman Walter D. Heller notes Hayward residents among the invitees. Master of ceremonies will be Log Carrillo. event features an all-star veteran show as servicemen say thanks for the USO’s help during their time away from home.
Trustees of Castro Valley Elementary school rejected two bids for two new classrooms on a technicality and ordered new bids. Arthur Holyoake of Hayward and Standard Engineering Company of San Francisco submitted the original bids that were discarded.
The Alvarado Vegetable Growers Association ships two endoady loads of teod cauliflower daily to eastern markets. Hayward Tea Company supplies the tea, with Robert Hon IN as the down manager.
Judge Ezra Decoto was guest speaker at the Hayward Masonic Lodge meeting on a Wednesday night. Honor guests included three centenarians Otto Siefert turning 83 on February 1, Jacob L. Thobso aged 85, and I. B. Porbons who celebrated his 84th birthday in January.
For months pedestrians risk lives as vehicles mount the curb and crash into a semaphore at the Castro and street corner. Electricians arrived with repair parts Tuesday morning. the lights blinked on and off again and traffic was disrupted.
The airship bound for Tokyo relief has reached a bond total of 378403 dollars, showing heavy early buying led by Chairman Walt Hollingsworth’s committee. Standish Company of California leads with 42000 dollar purchases as local banks process sales while Boy Scouts and high school students pledge to buy or sell bonds and fund local drives.
The Hayward Union weather observatory records 1.06 inches of rain over two days, bringing the season total to 3.03 inches. Farmer observers welcome the rain but note it remains well below normal and far behind last year’s rainfall total of 13.65 inches. Forecasters warn the rain may continue into Thursday, with some Bay Area forecasters predicting ongoing wet conditions. James A. Parigh, an OPA price specialist based in Oakland, is listed in relation to a separate note.
A joint Hayward Parent Teacher Association meeting for Founders Day will be held in the Hayward Union high school auditorium on Friday February 11 at 2 PM. Mrs Miles D Harrington will open the meeting. cadets will lead the pledge, and the audience will sing The State Hymned Banner. Program includes pupil entertainment, dances, skits, and musical numbers with district officials and teachers present.
Cherryland Fire Department announces 1944 fire permits are available at the firehouse for the district. Chief Vic Aulevard and assistant chief Matt Silva are handling permits at Groveway and Merkland Avenue, 21490 East 140b Street. A new firehouse and quarters are under construction and expected in a few weeks.
Report from California Four-H Clubs outlining strong wartime performance in Alameda and nearby counties. Barker and Moyers note 21 clubs with 20 leaders. 1943 projects yielded 5793 dollars in Alameda with 1594 profit, 10194 worth of animals in Hyestack, and 3899 in sales. Clubs anticipate steady 1944 results amid war.
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