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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1944
Page
8
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Corporal Hersie Kirkman of Mount Airy North Carolina serves in an American howitzer section on Bougainville. A Guadalcanal veteran his unit played a key role in both campaigns having endured long sleepless periods. He has visited New Zealand Australia New Caledonia and the Fiji Islands and enlisted in April 1941 now overseas for over twenty eight months. He is the son of Mrs R L Kirkman. Before service he worked as a stone cutter for the North Carolina Granite Corporation.
Mrs. K. C. Henkle of Kenton Ohio leads War Bond sales in her township while running two farms with her husband. She chairs War Bond Red Cross and scrap salvage efforts, writes poems for War Bond programs, and buys Bonds for five grandchildren aged 4 months to 11 years. She backs General Marshall’s appeal to grandmothers to fund education and farms ten years ahead.
The piece explains pellagra’s emergence in the South after the Civil War as corn meal and wheat products dominated diets. It notes shifts from village grinding to city mills, removal of bran and nutrients, and the rise of white flour while detailing plant and plantation food practices and nutrition gaps among enslaved communities.
The article argues that milling removes valuable constituents from rice and grains, likening refined starch to depleting nutrition. It claims polished rice causes pellagra-like diseases due to undernourishment and warns that vitamins come from removed whole grain parts.
Geo W Thomas Jr aged 20 of Route 5 Mount Airy graduated from the Naval Training School at the University of Illinois. The program covered use operation and upkeep of diesel engines and qualifies him for the petty officer rate of motor machinist mate third class. He awaits active duty orders.
Private Claude S. Marshall, son of Mrs Mary D Marshall of Mount Airy North Carolina, serves with the Military Police regiment regulating Naples traffic. The unit untangles snarled lanes for Allied armies and Neapolitans, breaking black market rings and counterfeiters while operating improvised radio patrol cars.
Former Mount Airy barber Paul L Branch has notified his wife of safe arrival in the Hawaiian Islands. He entered service in September 1943 and trained at Bainbridge Maryland before serving overseas. he remained aboard ships as a barber. He is married to Imogene Smith and they have a 21 month old son Charles.
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