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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1944
Page
4
American airmen in the English Midlands face harsh conditions as eight missions over the Reich prove difficult. Crew sickness, dysentery, and fatigue persist despite changes, with many crews flying long deep raids and facing continuous enemy action.
The article describes soldiers awaiting return, many spending days in bed after long interrogations. A rest house with about seventy rooms in a rural setting houses exhausted troops for a week or two. Breakfast and meals are regular, but combat fatigue leaves men staring vacantly, nursing troubling thoughts, and some receive medical treatment. Despite pressure, some rejoin duty. doctors warn of lasting mental strain with permanent after effects.
Averill Park Airs and Kennett Vandervart of Ves ta visit Als and Mrs Henry Waite. families from Troy host John Basel and others. Florida visitor Harold Lee spends days with his son Thomas ONeill in Albany. Mrs Celia Morris of Troy visits. Victory C p supper held at Burden Lake. Cherles Wilking of the Navy visits. Central School PTA hosts card and game party with prizes and refreshments. Farewell for Mrs Cropsey planned as she moves to Daytona Beach Florida. Philathea class hosts chicken dinner and presents handbags and gifts.
Hoosick Falls Grange meets at Saints parish hall as a committee is appointed to manage the Christmas presents drive and organize exhibits for the nearby Schaghticoke Fair. Members honor 25 years of service with Silver Star certificates and review finances from the recent annual picnic.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a chaotic listing with times and names such as 8:30, 9:30, and 4:15, plus references to Troy and Playhouse. No coherent event or person details are readable enough to form a full summary.
London dispatches report Vichy transformed into a crowd camp under siege by patriot forces. Civilians flee Paris as barbed wire and pillboxes guard key points. German troops reinforce, curfews imposed. frontiers restrict movement and loyalists evacuate with guards. Petain reportedly resists eastward moves while Pastry de Gaulle links likey continuity.
Round Lake Paige Scoville stays with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. How ard Knapp. Leo A. MacPadden bought the Crabbe Stewart cottage on Wesley Avenue Mer. Mrs. Robert Morey and Jason return from a week at North River. Jacob Knapp moved to Maliaville convalescent home. Mrs Burr O. Vail called to her home in Neshu a New Hampshire where her father J. Dublow is seriously ill. daughter Karen accompanies her. Thay Church Woman's Society benefit farm party set for next Thursday. Misses Margaret and Julia Hickey of Hartford are guests of sister in law Mrs Laura E. Hickey.
An anti Roosevelt American Democratic Party meeting in Alabama named a permanent chairman James G Hears of Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad and secretary Fred Short of Englewood to oppose U S congressional candidate Uther Patrick in the Ninth Birmingham District and state a slate including H Grooms for U S senator and others.
Mr. and Mrs. Stahley Gruber move with daughter Agnes to the former home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Burghardt at Spring Avenue and Woodlawn Road in Latham Heights. Latham couple Michael J. Purtell and spouse spend a week with relatives in Franklin XII and join the rotation.
Guests include Miers and Frank Yoerce of Baliston Spa. The Overcome Conference meets at Hotel Orient in Pound Lake with Rev ELF Tygert of Baliston Center Presbyterian Church as group leader. Speakers are Rev Charles Seidenspinner and L. E. Maxwell from the Bible Institute Alberta. Don Hulin leads music.
Miss Blanche Goodrich daughter of Mrs Margaret Goodrich and a Mechanicville High School faculty member has enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps. She will leave September 1 for Fort Oglethorpe Ga for basic training after graduating from the New York State College for Teachers and teaching Latin at Mechanicville High School. She also serves on the Stillwater Board of Education.
Newhall California experienced a sequence of explosions at the Newhall Refining Co plant that set two crude oil tanks ablaze. About 2.5 million gallons were involved and a brush fire forced evacuation of over twenty families. two workers were burned and treated at Newhall Hospital. A Red Cross station was opened. officials suspect fumes from a broken nap line ignited by a Bunsen burner in a nearby lab.
Soviet dispatches report a mass at Lublin Castle where Polish and Soviet officials mourned victims of the Maidanek camp and the Lublin extermination, as crowds cried murderers and poles observed the memorial tablet honoring those killed by German forces in 1944.
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