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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1944
Page
3
Glen Fish Jeweler in Jasonville offers heavy sterling silver identification bracelets with free engraving for men in service. Initial rings priced from $1.00 to $3.50.
The Navy announced a new loud speaker under construction by Western Electric and designed with Bell Labs input. Built to resist shock, vibration, salt spray, and gun blast, it features a 121 inch external diameter, 23 pound weight, and 50 dynes per square centimeter sound pressure at 10 feet.
In Rochester Monroe County a man pleaded for replacement of five ration books claiming excess canned goods. He tore out all blue and red stamps from each book, colorblindly, prompting the rationing board to issue five new books with correct stamp extractions after a test.
Major R Victor Stout claims indifference aids golf and records a birdie three after a series of errant shots including an out of bounds marker and a pebble ricochet. The piece also notes an early American nail-cutting machine producing about 200000 nails daily.
Richard Brown a 72 year old retired Buffalo fireman with 40 years service has re entered firefighting as an instructor and active crew member with a Curtiss Wright Corp plant in Buffalo He joins a 38 man company and says the job keeps him from going stale The veteran survived a building collapse and was once frozen to a ladder during past major blazes
Oklahoma's wheat crop is projected to be nearly double last year's production. Joe C. Scott, president of the state board of agriculture, said the 1944 yield was about 59.8 million bushels from 4.57 million acres. The late March freeze cut fruit by 71 percent.
Mrs. Patrick J. Burke of Boston, wife of a patrolman, recently returned home after delivering her 15th child, keeping a baby each year of her 15 years of marriage.
Link recounts his World War II service as a radioman on a bomber over Tokyo. He describes a crash landing, the pilot dying in his arms, and four days of escape and capture before ending up in Nijé Prison as Norma listens with sympathy.
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