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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1946
Page
2
The local price panel reports widespread violations of OPA used car advertising rules. It warns sellers must state make year body type and price in ads and to include a ceiling notice. Penalties can reach three times the overcharged amount. The panel will prosecute offenders and requires transfer certificates for resale.
Frederick County schools superintendent Leslie D. Kline urged residents to donate unused clothing for Public Schools Bundle Day on May 1. Items such as coats dresses shirts pants and shoes are needed. Shoes should be tied together for Save the Children Fund which distributes aid to children at home and abroad.
At New Georgia in the Solomon Islands on July 31, 1943, Pvt. Rodger W. Young of Clyde Ohio, a member of Ohio's 37th Buckeye Division, earned the Medal of Honor posthumously for sacrificing himself to save comrades.
Washington April 10. The mother of a baby boy explains in a letter found in St Marys Church that she left her son Johnnie with the church and asked the people to place him in a home. She fears returning south and hopes for adoption if she does not reclaim him within a year. Police will locate her or welfare will place the child.
Mrs. Dunn describes wartime England from a six month old daughter Vicky’s perspective. She recalls limited food variety, jam ration fixing icing, scarce finished toys, plain clothing, and clothing coupons guiding wardrobe choices, while noting improvement as the period passes.
Frederick County 4 H Club Council met in the county court house to plan an officers training school for all club officers. Miss Mary Triplett, council president, presided. The event, directed by a memo from Virginia Polytechnic Institute faculty, will be held June 13 and future meetings were set to every two months.
The article follows Mrs. Dunn, a British wife who arrived in the United States and phoned her sister in Easton Maryland. She recalls meeting her husband at dances near Cheltenham and compares Hollywood stars with UK tastes, noting American movies shape impressions abroad.
Nicolai Gregorovich Redin 29 year old Russian naval lieutenant charged with espionage agrees to return to Seattle for his preliminary hearing. He tells U S Commissioner he is absolutely innocent.
Homer E. Alberti is named head of the Winchester Army Advisory Committee by Major General Manton E. Eddy. The committee includes leaders from local clubs and civic groups such as Chamber of Commerce Wendell R. Barney Kiwanis Joseph Butler Rotary L G Sjostrom Womens Civic League Mrs William A Rooker Century Club Mrs Boyar Browne VFW Aux Mrs James E Keffer VFW James E Keffer Quota Club Mrs Ethel B Rinker Lions Club M B Clowe and Colonel Boger Browne Ret The group will meet soon to outline activities and promote public understanding of the peacetime army effort.
The Clarke County Agricultural Conservation Association allocated 44150 to districts Battletown Chapel Greenway and Longmarsh with further 1400 added for county use. Farmers requested over 64000 while many received a small percentage. Funds funded phosphate top dressing seedings and other fertilizer purchases plus marl and lime applications.
Correct responses listed include Field Marshal Gen Albert Kesse for question one and Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend plus Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce for question ten.
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