Budget Hearing Highlights Reveal Army Plans and Costs
The budget summary shows the Army expects a net 1,020,473 uniformed personnel rise in the year starting July with over a quarter women. It lauds weapon quality and radar aided Attu operations, outlines a plan for 200,000 POWs by December, and catalogs projected expenses including pay 11.5 billion subsistence 2.46 billion clothing 1.8 billion ordnance 15.04 billion and medical 620 million. Dogs are to be funded 3.5 million dollars for chow with 20,000 dogs expected by year end 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Edward M. Daniels
The
Quartermaster
Rifle prices fall from 1938 levels to today
The article notes the present average Garand rifle price at seventy dollars has fallen sixty dollars since 1938. It also states a comparable price reduction applies to other arms up to the 75 millimeter high velocity tank gun.
Des Moines Officials Address Garden-Dogs Nuisance
Des Moines safety commissioner Clarence E Koenigsberger ordered dogs tied up after repeated complaints of canines intruding into victory gardens, as residents request a lasting solution to the roaming animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Ila
Victory Gardens
Clarence E Koenigsberger
Harvesting Data Sought For 1944 Plans In Surry
Farmers using combines peanut pickers or grain threshers are urged by the Surry County USDA War Board to file complete reports on harvested acreages and grain yields for 1944. Reports should be sent promptly on forms from the county register of deeds as required by North Carolina law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surry County
Usda War Board
J. A. Tilley
County Register of Deeds
North Carolina
New Covenant Camp Meeting At Asbury Camp Ground
Evangelistic event by Pentecostal Holiness Church at their camp near Mount Airy Asbury with services led by Rev J R Hopkins and speakers from Oklahoma and North Carolina Miss Irene Gaskins and Miss Jessie Faircloth in charge of music C D Burchell Don Whitfield and Jasper Honeycutt lead committee organized since 1940 in renovated old Asbury school with dining facilities and autos trailers tents overnight lodging available July 1 to 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ference
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Asbury
Mount Airy
J. R. Hopkins
W. L. Flippin
Conference of the Holiness Church
Mildred Wicks
Oklahoma
Irene Gaskins
Jessie Faircloth
C. D. Burchell
Don 8. Whitfield
Jasper Honeycutt
Record Plane Production Reaches New May High
Washington reports United States aircraft output in May rose to nearly 7,200 planes across combat transport and trainer categories. The War Production Board expects further gains in June as output climbs toward the supply limits of aluminium, copper, and alloy steel. The combined airframe weight totals about 60 million pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
War Production Board
Henderson Carl Whitaker dies at State Hospital Morgant on June 17
Henderson Carl Whitaker 29 died at the State Hospital in Morganton on Thursday afternoon June 17 after a year of ill health and several weeks of critical condition. He was the son of Robert and Mollie Whitaker, husband of Ossie Gwyn Whitaker, with siblings Bill, Woodrow, Luther, Curtis, Claude, Robert, Ossie M. Whitaker and Eliza, Gladys, and Mrs Grover Whitaker listed among others.
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Henderson Carl Whitaker
State Hospital
Morganton
Mr. Whitaker
Robert
Mollie Wood Whitaker
Henderson C. Wood, Jr
Ossie M. Whitaker
Ossie Gwyn
Bill
Woodrow
Luther
Curtis
Claude
Mount Airy
Eliza
Gladys Whitaker
Grover
Births and Promotions Noted in Local Service News
Pvt William Aussie Inman son of Mr and Mrs S C Inman of Route 1ed service in 1942 and with the quartermaster corps at Fort Wayne Wyoming Pfe Cul bert C Smith 21 son of Mr and Mrs C E Smith Route 1 recently promoted Entered service October 1942 and is stationed at Camp Livingston La Pfe Fletcher Frye with the post military at Fort Jackson son of Mr and Mrs J A Frye
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Aussie Inman
S. C. Inman
Quartermaster Corps
Fort Wayne
Wyoming
Pfe
Culbert C. Smith
C. E. Smith
Camp Livingston
Fletcher Frye
Fort Jackson
J. A. Frye
Recruit Officer Here in Mount Airy June 28 29
Miss Lillian Hogan of the United States Civil Service Commission will be in Mount Airy at the Employment Office on June 28 and 29 to recruit workers for the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth Virginia. For further information call on
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Hogan
United States Civil Service Commission
Mount Airy
Norfolk Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Should a Loveless Home Push Louisa to Marry?
A reader Louisa questions marriage to a private to escape a troubled home. The advisor warns against marrying for relief, urges finding independent work away from home, and stresses not to sacrifice youth and love for a bad match.
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Louisa
Bess
Florida
Matilda Lowe Lundy Dies In Lowgap Community
Mrs. Matilda Lowe Lundy of Lowgap, 66, died at home Thursday morning June 18 from kidney and heart trouble. A native of Surry County, she lived her life in the community. She leaves two daughters and a half sister. Funeral services were held June 19 at 11 A M at the home with Elder Walter Beasley officiating and burial in the family cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matilda Lowe Lundy
Lowgap
Surry County
Daught Hardin Lowe
Nancy Bell Kirby
Walter Beasley
Bridegroom worries as best man searches for enthusiasm
The bridegroom wears a worried look while the best man tiptoes to the aisle. He asks Erasmus if he lost the ring, but Erasmus reveals the real loss is his own enthusiasm, not a ring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erasmus
Joe
Quiz Questions About War Era Facts
A reader asks about coal production leaders three states Pantelleria size Napoleon Moscow attack date South American revolutionary government John L Lewis Roosevelt third term 1940 U boats sinking tonnage five northern to southern Russian front cities and five members of the Office of War Mobilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pantelleria
Napoleon
Moscow
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Office of War Mobiliza
Wife of Maryland Governor Is Fined For Gasoline Misuse
The Maryland War Price and Rationing Board found Mrs. Herbert R. O Conor guilty of misusing gasoline rations in a State owned car. It revoked her C ration for the State vehicle and suspended her A ration for a privately owned car, with a possible new C ration limited to minimum official use. A separate panel had recently found State Comptroller Tawes guilty of pleasure driving in a State car, with his official ration suspended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central War Price and Rationing Board
Baltimore
Herbert R. O’conor
Maryland
O Conor
O’conor
Charleston
S. C
Emory N. Miles
J. Millard Tawes
O'Conor
Norfolk
Charlestoi
State of Maryland
State of
Seeds Delay Until Next Summer in Catalogue Mixup
Dialogue notes a mixup over seed orders with one narrator saying plants won’t flower until the second summer and the other confirming last year’s catalogue was used. The exchange highlights timing and catalog reuse in a domestic setting.
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W. M. Johnson
Jac — J. & Johnson
Mount Airy News
1 ‘Press Associatio
Milton
Phaedrus
Publilius Syrus
U. S
Army Ordnance
Attu
New Covenant
Bureau of Public Relations
U.S War Dept
New Guinea
WM. Inman
Culbert Smith
Mr. Right
Herbert O’conor
Town Tire Service
N. Main St
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