Paragonah Fourth Celebrated With Visitors From Far Cities
Paragonah marked July Fourth with a morning meeting, afternoon sports and a well attended dance. Local and regional visitors included Art Fretwell and family from Cedar City, Mrs Diel and La Rue Barton from Salt Lake City, Ward Robb with son Jett to Colorado Springs, Hex Prothero and family from Los Angeles, Wendell Stones from Salt Lake City visiting relatives, Alma Stone and son Eddie from Phoenix, and many others including the Barton and Prothero families. Devon Hermansen from Spanish Fork visited, and Benjamin Knoll of New Castle was noted as released from Fort Douglas. Pfc. Clifford Mortensen from Kern Army Air Base spent the day with his parents.
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Paragonah
Clifford Mortensen
Kerns. Army Air Base
Mortensen
Utah Copper's Industrial Impact on Utah and Nation
The article extols Utah Copper for driving lower copper prices, fueling the electrical era, and boosting Utah's economy through wages, purchases, and tax revenue. It highlights $18,000,000 in wages, $185,000,000 in taxes, and $220,000,000 for freight and refining, arguing the plant’s decades of activity strengthen Utah’s future and national wealth.
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Tichel
Utah
America
Locals and Personal News From Cir Cleville to Salt Lake City
Locals share visits across Utah and Nevada with family ties. Zen Davis brought Ed Davis and family from Cir Cleville. Ora B. Davis visited from Los Angeles with the Bensons. Amy Lou Adams visits Salt Lake relatives. Meade Warren visits from McGill. Lawrence Miller arrives from San Francisco. Lavern Sherratt returns with Peggy Hermansen.
Keeps Old Glory Flying on Capitol Dome
A gray haired woman in Washington has labored for 27 years to repair and keep the Stars and Stripes flying over the Capitol. Georgiana Higgins, Rhode Island native, tends 10 by 15 foot flags used by the Senate and House wings, with eight still serviceable from wartime stocks. Capitol staff manage flags daily. 75 flags await replacement, and flags wear out in weeks to months. The dome flags stay aloft year round, the only American flags allowed after nightfall, alongside the flag over the grave of Francis Scott Key in Frederick, Maryland.
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Washington
Betsy Bogs
National Capitol
Capitol Dome
Senate
Georgiana Higgins
Rhode Island
House
Francia Scott Key
Fredericksburg
Circle of 1848 Sewe Through Three Wars at Sec ond Presbyterian
Richmond Virginia. Women of Second Presbyterian Church trace a sewing circle from 1848 through three wars. A mother’s letter recalls tents and bandages for soldiers, wartime entertainments for Red Cross, and ongoing support to Presbyterian servicemen. The group now the women’s auxiliary funds church debts with bazaar items.
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Richmond
Second Presbyterian Church
S. H. Hawes
Ai Army
Red Cross
Woman's Auxiliary
Varios Church
Jap Atrocities Outrival Nazis Says Veteran
Marine Pfc. Edward A. Johnston of the Bronx, a wounded Iwo Jima veteran, says Japanese savagery on Saipan was as bad as German crimes. He recalls a dead lieutenant found crucified, eyes cut out, fingers removed, belly slit and filled with sand, alive when learned by Marines. Johnston, age 21, among 97 Marine casualties, is in St Albans Naval Hospital.
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New York
Iwo Jima
Saipan
Pfc
Edward A. Johnston
Bronx
Johnston
St. Albans Naval Hospital
Russian Army Decrees Lure Peasants With Free Trade
The Hed army command in Russian occupied Germany reestablished free trade and a profit system to spur peasants to market surplus produce. Decrees coupled with stricter Berlin and Dresden rations aim to blunt the serious threat of famine in cities and made a strong impression.
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Moscow
Hed
Germany
Berlin
Dresden
Hamburg cosmetics factory reopens producing lipstick for former slave laborers
In Hamburg one of the first factories to reopen is making cosmetics. A British major reported German workers there are turning out lipstick and powder for former women slave laborers who had been employed in the same factory when it made cosmetics for German women.
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Hamburg
Local service members visit home amid leave and travel notices
Cpl Grayson Gurr takes an 18 day leave from Las Vegas Air Base to help on the family farm. Norman Day returns home from Navy training at Jersey shore for a few days with his parents, en route to a Navy school in New Jersey. Mr and Mrs Joseph Levy of Long Beach California visit family here. Harold Rowley and relatives from Los Angeles stay with Thomas H Rowley’s family and fish Panguitch Lake. Pvt McDell Matheson, home on furlough from Fort Riley, visits his Cedar City relatives and his wife’s family. The Times asks readers to submit news items by Wednesday evening or Thursday morning for next week’s issue due one day early.
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Devon Hermansen
Joseph Hermansen
Marlin Hermansen
Cpl
Grayson Gurr
Las Vegas
P. H. Gurr
Norman Day
Scott Day
New Jersey
Harold Rowley
Los Angeles
Harold
Thomas. H. Rowley
Edward Rowley
Panguitch Lake
Pvt
McDell Matheson
Fort Riley
Kansas
D. A. Matheson
Cedar City
the Times
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Dorothy Diel
LaRue Barton
Salt Lake City
Austin Barton
Hex Prothero
J. J. Jones
Dave Prothero
Mrs
Wendell Stones
Wendell
Amasa
Stanley Prothero
Alma Stone
Eddie
Phoenix, Arizona
Thomas A. Edwards
Neta Jones
Loreen. Schenck
Wm. P. Stapley
Lillus Johnson
Gar
San Bernardino
California
Gwen Malines
John C. Barton
Benjamin K. Knoll
New Castle
Ray Adams
Fort Douglas
Cyril Wilcock
Piyche
Nevada
Pioche
Fishing and Hunting License
Parowan
Conoco Service
Claude E. Burton
Scott's
W. Scott Mitchell
Becatee 1
Bingham Mountain
Utah Copper
Magna
Conver
Ed Davis
Jack Reynolds
Circleville
Zen Davis
Ora B. Davis
Edgar Benson
Amy Lou Adams
Adele
Grace
Alice
Ogden
Bestrice
Layton
Scott Matheson
Meade Warren
McGill
Louise Warren
Lawrence Miller
San Francisco
Taylor Miller
Ms. Lavern Sherratt
Peggy
Loraine Adams
J. ‘Mitchell Benson
Florence Marsden
Wm. Marsden
George Bruner
Jeanette
John. T. Rasmussen
Taylor Parkinson
Benjamin
Taylor
Thomas C. Taylor
Rulon Lyman
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Wm. J. Lowder
Lucile Boles
Laurel Specht
Maxine Robison
Fillmore
Claude S. Robinson
U. S. Navy
C. L. Robinson
Aaa Realy
Thal
Parowan, Utah
Joseph Levy
Long Beach
Mrs. Levy
Stubbs
Alladin Thea
Roddy McDowell
Roy Raceny Catton
FRL & Gay
Gloria Jean
Alen
HaSil
Liberty Horses
Paul
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