Couple's 51st Garden Wins Fifth Weekly Prize
The victory garden contest fifth weekly prize goes to Mr. and Mrs. Carter of Riverside Avenue. Judges cited high scores amid dry weather as gardens held up. Carter's garden totals 122 points. Mrs. Anna Lee Shanks shared a prize with Carter. Next week's prize to be announced with cash by Jay Jewells Company. Gardens judged on variety, quantity, space, neatness, and pest control.
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S&f
Carter
Riverside Avenue
Ea. Steadman
Makkang
Saturno
N. G. Halean Street
Anna Lee Shanks
River
Shanke
Mr. Carter
Jay Jewells Company
Guard Company To Be Inspected
The Tennessee State Guard Machine Gun Company will hold an inspection Monday at Opel Armory. Captain Charles Young, commanding officer, announced that regular Army officers will conduct the inspection and that every member must attend with no excuses.
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Tennessee State Guard Machine Gun Company
Charles Young
Young
WPB Analyst on Visit Tuesday in Kingsport
War Production Board analyst Martin L. Battling will visit Kingsport on Tuesday to discuss priority problems. Louise Allison of the Kingsport Merchants Association announced the event and invited talks at the Merchants Association office during regular hours. The contest of garden entries is sponsored by the Kingsport Federation of Garden Clubs, local merchants, and Times-News with twelve sponsor firms listed.
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Martin L. Battling
War Production Board
Kingsport
Louise Allison
Socreta
Kingsport Merchants Association
Battling
Allison
Merchands Association
Office of Association
Kingsport Federation of Garden Clubs
The
Merchants of Kingsport
Times-News
Montgamery Ward and Co
J. Fred Johnson Company
Dixie Maid Baking Co
J. C. Men- They Co
Kingsport Produce and ‘Peed Co
Jay Jewelry Co
Nettie, iLes Shop
W. B. Greene Co
Dobyns-Taylor
Baylor-Nelms
the Jewel Box
Jaerett Furniwure
Legion Opens Carnival Here Friday For 1944 Event
The eighteenth annual American Legion Carnival opens Friday with Judd Tate announcing daily novelty daylight reworks and a climactic July 4 show. Jimmy Keegan’s hillbilly act is a specialty feature amid interviews for ads and 12 to 14 concession stands planned in the Broad Street parking lot. Ladies of the Auxiliary run the cook tent, prices stay the same, and war bond sales continue with $1400 in bonds to be given away. Committeemen include Tate Fred Garcia B. B. Moore Pataman Br O G Frye C K Koffman and M M Goodman.
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American Legion
Judd Tate
Tate
Jimmy Keegan
Caenival
Broad Street
Ladies of the
American Legion Auxiliary
Tate J
Ant
Charles Frye
Fred Garcia
B. B. Moore
Pataman
Br. 0
Ig. Frye
C. K. Koffman
M. M. Goodman
New Air Mail Schedules and Army Recruiting Details
Air mail schedules at Kingsport Post Office are changed with multiple daily dispatches and cutoff times for north west south and east bound planes. Separately, a recruiters announcement outlines enlistment in the Army Air Forces for 17 year olds, with tests, potential commissions, and a new training reserve program.
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Kingsport
Grace VW. Neal
Posc
Neal
Birmingham
New York
Pittseagee
iPost
Maila
Pittsburgh
Fort Worth
Singing School at Methodist Church Draws Kingsport Singers
A singing school led by FL3 Bays at the Methodist Church in Kingsport hosts Friday attendance by a quintet including Ed Hodge and Ed Hammonds. The program features the Hilton girl trio with Shir ley Carmack and Virginia Hilton, the Harmony Quartet, and the Bays Family Quartet with Junior Bays among the act.
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Ammons
FL 3
Bays
Bethodist
Kingsport
Ed Hodge
Rebert Hodge
Ed Hammonds
Ernest Marshall
Emmett Waddell
Hiltons
Shirley Carmack
Alice Simms
Betty Kelron
Virginia Hilton
Harmony Quartet of
Bays Family Quartet
Kings
Actet Group
Hilton
Ed Hanmonds
Mabel Larney
Junior Bays
Ja Lee Bays
Vernon Be
Mr. Buys
Prisoner of War Report For Bordie Haynes
Sergeant Bordie Haynes long missing in action since April 28 is now reported as a German prisoner of war. His brother Charlie Haynes of Route 2 Kingsport sent the notice. Haynes has served since November 1942 and been overseas since November 1943. A Sullivan High School graduate.
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Bordie Hayne
Charlie Haynes
Route 2
Kingsport
Haynes
Sullivan High School
Sgt Kyle Wheatley awarded DFC for 30 Fort gunner missions
SSgt Kyle B Wheatley of Kingsport Tennessee has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in the European theater. He is credited with 10 bombing missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner. His plane Who Dat was damaged by anti aircraft fire near Rein France, four crew members bailed, others survived and returned to England. Wheatley, son of Mrs Robert Flanary, a Wise Virginia native and Wise High School 1941 graduate, enlisted October 5 1942 and trained at Amarillo Boeing Kingman and Seattle.
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England
Kyle B. Wheatley
Ravine Road
Kingsport
Tenn
Wheatley
Eighth Air Force
Champagne
Rein
France
Whemley
Wheatles
Hembfor
Robert Flanary
Kimgaport
Wise
Wise High School
Lie Kingsport Preas Co
Amarilla
Tex
Boeing
Seatte
Wash
Kingman
Ariz
Parachute Camp Seeks 80 Women for WAC Roles
Sgt Everett B White of the United States Army Recruiting Office in Johnson City invites applications for about 80 positions with the Women’s Army Corps at Parachute School Fort Benning. Openings cover personnel clerical motor transport supply cooks and more with no special experience required though civilian training is helpful. Apply promptly.
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Vwiomen's Army Corps
WAC
Parachute School
Fort Benning
Everett B. White
United States Army
Johnson City
White
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S. F. Carter
Clifford Mullinex
Mrs. Carter
WPB
Sterling Manis
Paul B
Bodie
Legion
NTN
Post
Air Corps
Army Air Force Combat
Harmilton Bank Building
Lae Raf
Army Specialized
Forbe
National Honk & City
Bern Manta
Waden Massoud
Sam Massoud
Leon
Waden
Winifred Bralley
City Transportation Co
Singing School
Bordie Haynes
Sgt
Iel
Gere Ec Gument
Headacy
Penk
of the American Legion
Ladies Auxiliary
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