Overseas posting reveals India's mystique and rain
S/Sgt. Robert F. Walsh recounts eighteen months in India during World War II. He describes Chakulia air field life, monsoon flooding, Ghurka guards, tiger-hunting trips, Calcutta visits, caste distinctions, and his decision to reenlist in the Regular Army.
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Walsh
India
Air Force Replacement Center
Karachi
Chakulia
Walso
Sgt. Walsh
Calcutta
Regular
Durham
North Carolina
Cafe Prices Stay Level Under OPA Revamp
OPA District Price Executive W A Linehan announced no change in restaurant pricing. Prices thought to be raised during the OPA period have returned to legal ceiling prices in effect June 30 1946. Operators may recalculate ceilings for meals or items with exempt major ingredients and must file duplicate price calculations with the local Price Control Board.
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OPA
W. A. Linehan
Local Price Control Board
Linehan
North Carolina Sees Big Wheat Harvest and Low Old-Wheat Stocks
North Carolina expects 7 038 000 bushels of new wheat, 13 percent above last year, with only 9000 bushels of old wheat in storage on July 1 compared with 95000 a year ago. Nationally about 101 500 009 bushels of old wheat remain in storage, a 36 percent level of last year’s 281 000 000 bushels.
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North Carolina
Rev Pridgen to Speak at Bobbitts Church
Missionary Rev. Lee Pridgen of Tar River Association and former chaplain will speak at Bobbitt's Baptist Church at 11 o'clock next Sunday morning. Public invited to attend and hear a noted speaker.
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Lee Pridgen
Tar River Association
Bobbitt's Baptist Church
Pridgen
Reville Family Return From Week in New York
Mr and Mrs Raymond Reville join daughters Edith Gerald ine and Miss Irma Lee Grant in returning from a week long visit in New York City.
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Raymond Reville
Edith and
Geraldine
Irma Lee Grant
New York
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Robert F. Walsh
Durham North Carolina
Cme
Rar
Miles — Snervine
C. J. Maupin
N. C. State College
H. L. Shrader
U. S. Department of Agriculture
A&p Tea Company
St. Louis
Coca-Cola Company
Weldon Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc
Bobbitt's Church
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