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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1944
Page
6
Data shows 24 hour precipitation ending 8 am none. January to date 2.22 inches year to date 2.22 indicating below average. Thirty year average annual rainfall is 36.11 inches with monthly figures by month from 1913 to 1941, courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
In Stockholm California on February 3 Army Ordnance battle equipment was packed and checked by Hazel Frazer an Ordnance depot employee. Her son PFC Clifford Fraser opened it at an Army Ordnance depot in Australia a one in a million chance.
Reynolds Store Virginia area reports Sunday visits from multiple Winchester residents. Families including Dick, Omps, Stine, Rinker, Place, Havermale, Whitacre, Shenk, Batt, Shenk and Strother gathered at various homes. Mrs. Rube Steward improves slowly. Mrs. William Catlett visiting daughter near Winchester.
Arthur Loy Swisher son of Mr and Mrs Clarence A Swisher of 240 Miller Street Winchester enlisted in the Navy last week per Lloyd Mead chief specialist at the Winchester Navy Recruiting Station He was sent to Washington DC to be sworn in Saturday January 29 and is expected to active duty later Swisher 30 a native of Frederick County He has two sisters and was co captain of the 1943 football team at Handley High and a member of the Handley Cadet Corps under Captain Baker.
Middleway and Falls Church visitors attended a funeral for Miss Sudie Wa at a local church. Cpl William Trigg of Selman Field visited relatives in Middleway while Pfc Davidson returned to Charleston after furlough. Local families hosted guests over the weekend and news includes a death at Weston and W.S.C.S. events in Baltimore and Summit Point.
Radio listings feature Ida Lapino and Agnes Moorehead in The Sisters on Suspense at WTOP 8 pm. Margaret Benning and others discuss women drafted for service on WMAL 8:30 pm. Bing Crosby hosts rising stars Dornald Connor and Marilyn Maxwell on WRC 9 pm. Abbott and Costello guests on Cavava Miranda at 10 pm. Various programs extend across WMAL, WRC, and WTOP with music, dramas, and news segments.
London reports Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton told the House of Commons the government is working on eight or nine new ideas for houses as patterns for the postwar housing program.
Clarke county Virginia sales directory lists multiple February and March auctions. Entries include stock implements household goods and real estate for dealers and residents such as Sallie K Messick John Russell Ralph Robinson F C Inskip C O Vorous and others near Berryville Stephens City Millwood Lehew Hayfield Old Chapel and Stephenson with dates from February 14 to March 6 and locations on Rt 259 Route 11 and local roads.
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