Letters From Our Boys Highlight War Letters From Navy Sailors
In South Dakota 1945 dispatches two naval letters thank the Halifax Herald for printing the paper while sailors in Tokyo Bay and aboard the U S S Presque Sale express pride in home county Roanoke Rapids and Halifax County, recall D Day Iwo Jima Okinawa, and hope to return home. The writers praise the paper as a service man’s friend and recount training and deployments across Cuba Panama Mexico and the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
Halifax
Tokyo Bay
North Carolina
Japan
Roanoke Rapids
Halifax County
The
Herald
Ray Barrington
U.S. S, South Dakota
C. S
Navy
Bainbridge
University of Illinois
Solomons
Ft. Pierce
Fila
Cuba
Panama
Mexico
Pacific
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Tokyo
W. Marvin Harris
Fi/e
Millions of Fish Put In N C Waters
North Carolina Game and Inland Fish Division released 2,300,553 fish in the biennium ending June 30 1944. Federal hatcheries in cooperation released 27,522,233 fish, mainly perch and striped bass. Combined state and federal total reached 29,822,786. In 1943 about 42,170 fishermen bought licenses or permits to angle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Sharpe
Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina
Game and Inland Fish Division
Game and Fish
North Carolina hatchery program plans steady fish stocking rise
Findlay said hatchery operations will intensify as personnel become available to boost public access streams and lakes with legal-size fish. Over the past two years nine hatcheries released millions of trout and bass, while federal hatcheries added substantial numbers of various species. The 1943 biennial report shows sport fishing revenue up from 1942 with licenses, permits, and special sales totaling 74 957 dollars.
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John “Findlay
Findlay
N. C
Lake Mattamuskeet
Rationing At A Glance Meats And Fats and Sugar Stamp No 36
A concise wartime rationing notice lists valid red stamps for meats and fats and the Sugar Stamp No 36. It specifies stamp groups V2 through Z2 with expiration dates from September to December and notes general validity for related ration books.
Retonga credits praised by Mrs Norton in Georgia ad
Mrs Norton of Route 1 College Park Ga extols Retonga the Vitamized gastric tonic saying it relieved her acid indigestion gas pressure and exhaustion and helped regain strength she credits her father with the recommendation and urges readers to obtain Retonga at Rosemary Drug Co Adv
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Rosemary Drug Co
Dance Spot Tax Proposal Faces Rejection by Voters
A local measure arguing a tax on expenses at dance venues fails to persuade voters. Officials push continuing talks to support revenue for city programs while critics call the plan unfair.
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South Dakota
Mr. Wilson
N.C. Waters
Lisebeth Fran
Ardena Featherlight Foundation
Roanoke Ave
Retonga
H. R. Norton
E.W. Smith
Roanoke
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