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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1944
Page
8
Community schedules list meetings for various groups including Victory Exchange open all day. Activities span 7:00 p.m. through 8:00 p.m. with events at homes and churches. Local residents John Jones Betsy Anderson Tom Flegal and Seaman Flagal are noted. Hospital updates include Mrs. E W Cather and Angus Stickley improving. Several residents travel to nearby towns for visits.
Ensign Muriel Wardwell and Yeoman Florence Jones of the Baltimore Spars recruiting station will depart Winchester Saturday for Baltimore after a week at the Elks Club. They recruited young women for the Womens Reserve Coast and will return later if needed. Those interested may write to Room 627 Post Office Building Baltimore. Enlistment requires ages 20 to 36 with no children under 18, two years of high school, and successful medical exams. Officers need two years of college plus two years of professional or business experience.
Miss Gladys Brown of Front Royal married Henry Kern Jr at Braddock Street Methodist Church Wednesday at 11 a.m. Rev Hawkins officiated. The bride wore a brown street dress with orchid corsage. best man was Robert Berry of Berryville. A luncheon followed and the couple planned a southern bridal trip, returning Feb 7.
The Young Women's Bible Class of the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour sponsors a food sale on Saturday Feb 5 at 9:30 AM. Soups pies cakes and home made ice cream will be offered. Meanwhile Mr Alvin Pennypacker shows satisfactory progress after a recent operation at Memorial Hospital. The Jewish Woman's Club cancels February meeting. Mrs Melvin Green arrives from Washington to stay with Mr and Mrs W A Baker at Thornhill Manor.
The Winchester Quota Club holds its regular meeting at the Golden Glow tomorrow evening at six o'clock. Members are urged to attend.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Funkhouser return to Clayton Court near Charles Town after a month exploring the Western states. Mrs Dorothy Anne Haines and daughter Jayanne arrive in Stephens City from Camp Chaffee Arkansas to stay with Eldridge Lemley family as Sgt Douglas Haines departs. Mrs Neill attends Clarke County Discussion Club in Berryville with remarks on Russia. Mrs Hensell returns from New York City business trip. Middletown Auxiliary to meet Friday at 7 30 p m. Earl Edwin Compton on furlough from the U S Navy. Local residents host dinner for Derflinger group. C C Funkhouser’s condition at Winchester Memorial Hospital improves.
At the East and West Winchester community meeting held in the Court House last night, officers were elected. East Winchester names Dennis Cole as Chairman and Mrs. Lewis Lamp Jr. as Co-Chairman. C Irvine Cather and Mrs. Lynn Norman as Vice-Chairmen. Mrs. Roy Kern as Secretary. West Winchester selects Grover Schlack as Chairman, Mrs. Allen Bond as Co-Chairman, R. A. Cooper as Vice-Chairman, Mrs. A. S. Penny packer as Vice Co-Chairman, and Mrs. Wyatt Richard as Secretary. Speakers included I. Fred Stine on essential supplies for 1944 crops, A. L. Frye on home gardens, and Croswell Henderson on soil conservation. Further meetings planned at Gravel Springs and Stephens City.
On a Pacific island a hastily prepared grave holds 24 Japanese bodies including one officer. Marines recount the scene as the officer ordered kneeling troops to their slit trench, then shot each man and killed himself. Natives helped bury the dead with coral sand.
Dr E Dow Bancroft will speak Sunday at 3 p m at Market Street Methodist Church on lay activity and church roles. Presiding will be district superintendent R O Bryant with local leaders introducing the speaker. Delegates from Braddock Street Berryville Brucetown Gainesmore Middletown North Frederick Stephens City White Post expected. public invited.
The Reliance U B Church marks the 63rd anniversary of the Christian Endeavor with services. A Friday night covered dish supper in the Reliance school basement begins at 7 o'clock followed by social games and a devotional. On Sunday February 6 at 11 a.m. Rev Floyd L Pulk of Elkton A B Church will lead a special service with music by the youths choir. Public invited.
Mrs. Ethel M. Trenary of 114 Greenmont Avenue reports three sons in the U S Army. Two serving overseas and one in basic training. Corporal Elmer S. Trenary has served three years and is now stationed somewhere in England with over a year overseas.
Washington reports a War Department plan to furlough World War II veterans after two years in the South Pacific under a troop rotation program. General Harmon said the program starts with two-year-plus service members, limited by combat needs and transport. About 60 percent of downed pilots and crews have been rescued, some by natives and navy patrol bombers in enemy waters.
The note filled region reports Rev. R B Moore attending a Crusade for a New World order in Richmond with Stickley visiting Tulip and family ties in Bernville. It also notes Mrs Clara Wise's improving condition and various visits to medical facilities in Charles Town and Woodstock.
A Bergen county woman summoned for jury duty wrote to Jury Commissioner Covert L. Good love that she is not interested, stating she already has a good paying job and declines the offer.
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