Stockton Township Levy Reduced By 21 Cents For Next Year
Trustee Elmer Pope announces a 21 cent tax cut bringing the total rate to 1.82. The Linton school city levy stands at 1.65, with local road and public works updates noted. Citations include Salvation Army arrivals from Louisville and paving petitions near the C M and St P tracks toward Stafford township line.
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Stockton Township
Elmer Pope
Linton
C. M
St. P
Stafford Township
Army Ordnance introduces new wasp ion anti air unit
The Army Ordnance unveils the wasp ion, a new anti aircraft system mounted on a half track with a quartet of .50 caliber machine guns.
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Army Ordnance
Fifth Anniversary of European War Reflections
The piece notes two years of Allied retreats thinning German resources including rail, fuel, and industry. It cites global leaders predicting the war could end soon, with Rome Paris and Bucharest liberated while Germany loses vast territory and faces economic and political decline. The narrative highlights German mistakes and Allied production gains, especially American air power after Pearl Harbor.
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Kve Ilis
Jan
Rome
Paris
Bucharest
Italy
Fignee
Hitler
Low Countries
Europe
Wehrmacht
Russia
United States
Germany
Japan
Pearl Harbor
America
Slc
Luftwaffe
Invasion fate shapes Britain and Germany in June clash
The passage portrays June as the turning point when the invasion seemed inevitable and German forces suffered heavy losses. It notes the Seventh army weakened and a German fighting group needing replacements while American tanks approach Belgium and Germany.
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Seventh Army
Seventh
Belgium
Germany
Meat Ration Values Updated For September
Rationing news notes meat point values will fall by 10.5 percent under the new schedule. Beef steaks and roasts of choice good and commercial grades, lamb chops and roasts in the top three grades, and pork loins and ham keep red stamps. Cheeses rise by two points to ten, including Swiss Camembert Liederkranz Munster Italian and others.
Has a Wagon Load of Lucky Clovers
St Paul Minnesota reports A P T L Eichberg believes clovers speak to his wife Tillie Eichberg and explains her knack for finding four to eight leaf clovers. He notes she often discovers fives and sixes while walking and keeps the finds pressed in books.
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ST. ‘Paul
Minn
L. Eichberg
Tillie Eichberg
Eichberg
Linton High School Class of 1924 to Hold Reunion
Members of the Linton High School graduating class of 1924 and their families will hold a reunion and basket dinner in the shelterhouse at Humphreys Park on Sunday September 3. All members and teachers of the class are invited. The committee also invites graduates of 1923 and 1925 to visit in the afternoon.
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Linton High School
Humphreys Park
Fat rendering saves Camp Ellis agency funds at mess halls
Camp Ellis mess halls saved 72 096 pounds of fats valued at 11 475 dollars in the first six months of the year according to Maj Leonard Hinckley food service supervisor.
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Camp Ellis
U.P
Maj
Leonard Hinckley
Food Service
Children Enjoy Horror Stories Says Library Expert
Miss Harriet G Long of Western Reserve University notes children enjoy gruesome tales to balance weakness around adults. She cites Grimm tales as not frightening to kids and praises modern children's books for kinder, growth oriented content. The librarian has a display of about 300 old and new children’s books at the university library. Mother Goose rhymes endure for their rhythm and political origins, while imagination grows from age six as children shift from real to fanciful tales.
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Harriet G. Long
Western Reserve University
Long
Brothers Grimm
Adul
Western Reserve
Nelson Arrives in Moscow for Talks on China Mission
Donald M. Nelson War Production Board chairman and Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley arrived in Moscow as personal emissaries of President Roosevelt. They will hold several days of conferences before heading to China. U S exports in Q1 1944 totaled 3.437 billion dollars, up 41 percent from early 1943.
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Moscow
Donald’ M. ‘Nelson
War Production Board
Patrick J. Hurley
China
Roosevelt
Pigg Ensign Transferred To Florida From Indiana Visit
Mr and Mrs J Raymond Pigg spent a few days in Indianapolis visiting their son Ensign Raymond E Pigg and wife Ensign and Mrs Pigg left Monday for Hollywood Florida where he will be stationed
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Florida
J. Raymond Pigg
Indianapolis
Ensign
Raymond E. Pigg
Winford Baize Enjoys Fifteen Day Furlough at Home
Pvt. Winford Baize of North Camp Hood Texas is on a fifteen day furlough spending time with his wife, daughter and his parents Mr and Mrs Leslie Baize.
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Winford Baize
North Camp Hood, Tex
Leslie Baize
Bakersfield Private Promoted to Corporal
Pvt. Robert Baize of Bakersfield California has been promoted from private to corporal according to word received by relatives in the area.
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Robert Baize
Bakersfield
Calif
Wade completes machine gun school at Camp Pendleton
Marine Private Johnny B. Wade, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wade of Linton Indiana, graduates from the machine gun school at Camp Pendleton California. He received jungle warfare amphibious chemical warfare and combat concealment training and will join his unit as a machine gunner. Wade is a Linton Stockton High School graduate who played football basketball and ran track and attended Indiana University before enlisting on March 29, 1944. He is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Harry Wade
Route 3
Linton
Camp Pendleton
Oceanside
Cal
Wade
Linton Stockton High School
Hi-Y
Indiana University
Marine Corps
Sigma Nu Fraternity
Son Cletus Burch 2c Now In South Pacific
Mrs General Burch reports from her son Cletus Burch 2c that he is in the South Pacific and in excellent health.
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Cletus Burch
South Pacific
General Burch
So. Pacific
American Armies 26 Miles Of Belgium
Front dispatches report Patton's 3rd Army operating under security silence as American forces push toward the Maginot and Siegfried lines. Claims of towns 26 miles from the Belgian frontier and a 70,000 German capture tally are noted amid forecasts of momentum after breaching the Somme line.
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Afrika Korps
Libya
George S. Patton
Patton
St. Dizier
Vitry-Le Francois
Laon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
United Press
Robert C. Miller
U.S
3Rd Army
Eisenhower
Somme
Amiens
Abbeville
Unmentionable mixup noted in army laundry notice
In a Campbell Ky edition of the 14th Armored Division paper Retreat to Taps a notice reads a Women's Army Corps member who found a slight laundry mix up should leave her name. Pfc Edward J Kileen of Company A will gladly exchange unmentionables.
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Camp Campbell, Ky
U.P
14Th Armored Division
Women’s Army Corps
Edward J. Kileen
Company A
Rest cure eyed for fatigued air crew in Australian camp
American air group X in the Northwest Pacific uses a three phase rest plan to reduce combat fatigue. Major Garron reports flight crews fly 10 to 15 hour overwater missions and gain relief from a week in a big city, a second week in fresh air with good meals, then gradual reentry to combat duties. Camp sanitation is good and malaria has appeared only after New Guinea operations.
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United Press
Northwestern Area
Southwest Pacific
U.P
Air Group “X
Levon K. Garron
Jones St
San Francisco
Garron
Big City
Australia
Cme
New Guinea
Brazil Plans Massive Coffee Shipments to United States
Brazil will ship more than 1.5 billion pounds of coffee to the United States this year marking a record export volume. The announcement outlines a robust trade link and signals strong demand from American roasters and retailers.
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Brazil
United States
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