Nurse Bernice Wilbur says equal care given to all wounded in Africa
Lieutenant Colonel Bernice M. Wilbur, newly named Nursing Service director for the North Africa theater, notes that private and general soldiers receive the same medical care. She recalls nursing General Lesley J. McNair after his Tunisian front wound and describes hospital conditions, improvised equipment, and the harsh realities nurses face in North Africa.
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Washington
Bernice M. Wilbur
Boston
Miss Wilbur
Lesley J. McNair
U. S. Army
Col
Wilbur
Africa
Col. Wilbur
North Africa
England
Co. Wilbur
Soldier treated for shell fragments head and shoulder
The patient received a tetanus antitoxin injection, was X-rayed and underwent surgery to remove artillery shell fragments in the head and a shattered shoulder with a compound fracture. He walked on the second day at the medical unit, was moved by ambulance and plane to a general hospital, and was later flown back to his country.
Ray Willard Finalist for Jackson Scholarship Contest
Twenty two high school seniors from across North Carolina were selected as finalists for the Herbert Worth Jackson scholarship final at the University of North Carolina. Forrest Ray Willard of High Point High School is among the finalists invited to Chapel Hill for interviews and the final selection. The $2 000 scholarship honors Herbert Worth Jackson and funds cover four years.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Herbert Worth Jackson
Forrest Ray Willard
High Point High School
Rest and direction in a long day’s writing from Des Moines
W A Bivins reflects on weariness from study and the hunger for knowledge. He recalls the Victorian era and the Mauve Decade before wartime shifts, notes hobbies as rest, and muses on a dream vacation. Des Moines Ta mayor John MacVicar touts pigeon trapping to curb meat shortage.
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Solomon
Des Moines
John MaecVicaar
Hit and run house incident shocks Duncan resident
C F Sikes was knocked down and run over by his own house swept off its foundation by a flood wall of water carried the house into the creek near his home in District No 1 His only injury was a scrape The incident occurred as floodwaters surged through the area in Duncan Oklahoma Ashville conference on home management draws about 30 supervisors for a two day session and a tobacco ware house meeting set for June 11 in Wilson North Carolina with A W Fleming leading the association names and details from the report remain tentative
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Duncan
Okla
C. F. Sikes
Mountain
Wilson
Astern Carolina Tobacco Wares House Association
A. W. Fleming
New Bright
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Navy
Great Lakes
Ray Willard
Val
Moskins Clothing Company
North Main Street
W. A. Bivins
Roosevelt
T. B. DeLappe
Horace Haworth
Victory Gardeniers
Little Nell
Jean
God
BY William Ferguson
Cok
NEA
Victm Regus
Omaha
Nebraska
Victory
Missouri River
Kioer
AHEN
ARS
Lou Benson
Indianapolis
Indiana
Wiavin
U. S
Asheville
Fitch
Pepsodent
Gerber
Colgate
Cardid
Serutan
South Main ST
Cls Point
Petrolagar
Phillips
Quve
Pet
Amercs
Squibb's Milk
Marlin
Noxzema
Pinkham
Mize
Energine
Gulf
Sive
Loupay
Hind
Gupay
Vins
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