Post Yarns Free to Servicemen Worldwide
Residents of High Point may obtain new Post Yarns issues at Wright’s 122 North Main from June 9 to 16. The program sends pocket sized magazines to GI’s in Burma and Belgium with short stories and cartoons to relieve preflight and post chow boredom. Soldiers praise the compact format as easy to pocket and read in spare moments.
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Chow
Saturday Evening Post
High Point
Wright’s
North Main Street
Burma
Belgium
Names Listed In Local School Registry
A long OCR readout lists numerous individuals by name as part of a local registry or roster. The fragment includes many given names and surnames such as Annie Davis Catherine Davis Elizabeth Duncan Wesley Edwards Ellen Farlowe Faye Dodamead and Ruth Miller among others.
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Annie Lee Davis
Eugene P. da Jewel
Catherine Davis
Lynn Jane Davis
Gene Stratton Deal
Faye Dodamead
Ruby Virja Drye
Maggie Lavenia
Dun
Rachel Elizabeth Duncan
Wesley Edwards, Jr
Donald Embiler
Ellen Marie Farlowe
Keith Fogleman
Virginia Forward
Charles Albert
Nancy Marguerite Free
Martha Raye Fulghum
Isy Rae Gadd
Sybil Carleone
Carlene Amelia Gillis
Joseph Glaesner, Jr
Kathryn Ley Grant
Anne Greene
Peggy Ann Howard Gunn
Ronald Lee Ay
Peggy Mae Grissett
Re Hiatt Heyes
Junior
Sara F Haworth
Mary Frances Hay‘alter
Filmore Hester, Jr
Betty Hiatt
Willard George Hinkleth
Catherine Holmes
Robert Barrier, Jr
Mildred Faye
Mary Elizabeth Hunker
Kenneth Lee Hutchins
Ann Ingram
Corelli Dewitt Jr
Peggy Isom Jackson
Roger Ray
Mildred Sarahes
William Roy Johnson
Betty Johnson
Betty Lee John- Grace
Lillian Jowers
Peggy Justice
Billy Ray Kennedy
Arthur Kennerly
Leona Pear
Betty Mae Lawson
Elizabeth Lawson
Mary Ina
Lawrence Sechier
Leon- Olin Belvin Levina, Jr
Mary Mne Loflin
Naoma Ree Lof
Minnie Lucille Lowe
Roberta Bethagen
Donald Sherman Mackintosh
Malenkos, Jr
Bronson Tney
Robert Lee Melton
Shelton Meredith
Fayelee Michael
Jacksie Peariller
Ruth Anne Miller
Billinor
George William Mitchell
Elizabeth Morgan
Ayne Harold Morgan
Peggy Morris
Martha Marie Mo
Georgia Ellen Murrow
Flor- Millie McDowell
Harold Ver- McGee
Charles Edman Mctosh
Billie Doris McKinney
H. McSw
I Y
Lou Wade
Alice Marie
Agner
Mary Elizabeth Wall
Ard
Joyce Rozella Har Watts, Jr
Wells
William Chase
Hite Marie White
Elizab West Williams
Jacqueline
David Thomas Wilson
Beth Wood
Juanita Macrough
William Odell Young- Lou Yow
Service Members Earn Bronze Star and European Duty
Center-Sgt. Ralph H. Emory, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Kay of Trinity, receives a bronze star for meritorious achievement as a battalion message center with the infantry. Pfc. Fred C. Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Foster of 310 Davidson Street Thomasville, serves in Europe with the Third Army in a field artillery division.
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Ralph H. Emory
H. Kay
Trinity
Infantry
Fred C. Foster
Europe
Third Army
8. A. Foster
Davidson Street
Thomasville
Pvt
Jeff B. Welborn
Ernest Welborn
Pacific War Zone
Pfc
Clifford
Morton
J. A. Morton
High Point
Italy
WAC Sergeant Praises Training and Overseas Hope
Pfe Herring, a WAC sergeant, describes daily life on base with lectures, patient care training, and 24 hour call duties. She notes post facilities, camaraderie with Boston residents, and the desire for overseas motor corps duties as war ends. A collapsible bicycle with folding pedals is also mentioned.
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Pfe. Herring
Boston
Former Sergeant Remembers His Baby Plane Pleasure Bent
Edwin A. McAdams a 26 year old former master sergeant with the Fifth air force ground crew recalls Pleasure Bent the bomber that led his unit in early Pacific air operations. He notes the plane became part of the crew after months of maintenance and the group pioneered many firsts including the first B 26s in combat and the first medium bombers to attack Rabaul and Midway. He served from 1940 in Charlotte to reassignment at Fort Bragg and is credited with 128 points and numerous campaign medals. He smiles at home in Thomasville with his wife Sue Clifton and four brothers serving abroad or in training.
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Edwin A. McAdams
Fifth Air Force
Philippines
McAdams
Charlotte
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis
Chanute Field
New Guinea
Dutch East Indies
Angaur
Paluan Po
Veral
States
Miami
Fort Bragg
East Indies
Papuan
Mandated Islands
Solomons
Philippine Liberation
Bismark
Lrst
California
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Midway
Southwest Pacific
Milk fund donations total $1 524 60 for undernourished children
An infant and pre school clinic report shows the milk fund provided dairy milk to 26 undernourished children and canned milk plus cod liver oil to infants and undernourished. Donations listed bring total to $1,524.60 with several unacknowledged gifts.
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John Sheloff
J. E. Millis
Jim Millis
F. H. Gray
Lidie P
J. W. Lindsay
J. P. Bolt
Harold C. Ae
Sunday leaders travel schedule for Evanston water event
The document notes leaders gathering on Sunday afternoon between 2 30 and 3 30 p m and departing Saturday afternoon at 3 30 p m. Each Saturday will be set aside entirely for swimming boating canoe Evanston Illinois prohibits changing clothes in a car with curtains drawn except in case of fire.
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Evanston, Ill
Mrs Alice M Bowers Dies At Home At 69
Mrs Alice McNealy Bowers aged 69 died suddenly this afternoon at 4 o clock at her home 125 West Russell Street after eight years of ill health. Survivors include three daughters Viola Moody of this city W C Britton of Thom asville and Ella Bowers of Haen gen Her body was sent to Morganton last night for funeral services and burial on Monday.
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Alice McNealy Bowers
West Russell Street
Viola Moody
W. C. Britton
Thomasville
Ella Bowers
Haeangen
Local enlistment night seeks sober young men
A regional appeal invites men aged 18 to 45 and others interested in joining to attend a Tuesday night session to obtain new information on enlistment. The event targets citizens considering service and provides guidance on eligibility and procedures.
Bracelet May Be Clue In Langford Case
Police theorize a jewel motive after Tex tile Executive Albert E Langford was shot in his Park Avenue vestibule. A $23,000 diamond and emerald bracelet among jewels valued around $100,000 is linked to the case as officers surveil jewel thieves and consider blackmail as a possible motive.
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New York
Albert E. Langford
Marion Langford
Marguery
Park Avenue
Langford
Ft. Myer
Reed Lawton
Wilma Kempton
Jacob Grumet
Funeral Rites for John Arthur Marsh
Funeral services for John Arthur Marsh aged 68 who died in a Conway South Carolina hospital will be held Sunday afternoon at 4:00 at Wesley Memorial Church. The services will be conducted by Dr. C. E. Rozelle Dr. W. A. Lambeth and Dr. Norwood Bowne Pallbearers are Herman Smith Thag West S. D. Gibson Jr H. W. Hayes W. E. Price Charles Diffendal Paul Casey and E. C. Rankin.
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John A. Marsh
John Arthur Marsh
Conway
S. C
Wesley Memorial Church
C. E. Rozelle
W. A. Lambeth
Norwood Bowne
Herman Smith
Thag West
S. D. Gibson, Jr
H. W. Hayes
W. E. Price
Charles Diffendal
Paul Casey
E. C. Rankin
Tragic confusion hinders Polish return in Allied Germany
In Scherwin near the Red Army zone 4,000 homeless Poles wait in a British camp as rival Polish governments dispute recognition. The split between London’s fascist clique label and Warsaw’s lack of diplomatic ties with the Western Allies mirrors broader uncertainty about repatriation plans. Mark Twain manuscripts were edited by his wife.
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Scherwin
Germany
London
Russia
Warsaw
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Ean
Trinity High School
Linda Eller
Buren Andrews, Jr
Lucille Everhart
Ruth Sumner
Roy A. Underwood
Janie Tuttle
Colleen Parks
Dorothy Parrish
Effie Lea Suraner
Evadean Brigz
Dorothy Jean Coltrane
Maxire Hill
Larson Davis
Jewell Pless
Adrienne Over
Bill Aldridge
Garland Jones, Jr
Louise Comer
Levenne Douglas
Aline Emory
Dorothy Rimmer
Margaret Bundy
Cecil Hill
John Perry
Audrey Riley
Braxton Elliott
Kenneth Hyne
Harold Fowler
Thomas Cumby
Joe Sam White
Richard Snyder
Albert Grose
Bobby Scoggin
Supt
R. H. Abernathy
Pte
J. D. Wood
Mam
Joe F. Bartch
Pfc. Wood
Army Air Forces
Sailor Barth
East Green Street
Lynn
Barbara Rae
George T. Foster
A. R. Foster
High Point Rfd 5
Foster
Camp Blanding
Fla
John W. Myers
Marines
Parris Island
P. Meyers
Pauline Meyers
Emily
Wacs
Jimmy
Lindley
Aleutians
Benn
O.C.S
Fort Benning
G. L. McAdams
Alice M. Bowers
Mark Twain
Vail-Ingram
Minnie P. Vail
Mina P. Ingram
W. F. Ross
Greensboro
Henry V. Koonts
W. Green ST
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