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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1944
Page
7
Present and past rainfall data show 24 hour ending at 8 a.m. with January to date at 1.64 inches and year to date 1.64 inches. Averages over 30 years list monthly precipitation, with values from January to December ranging 1.98 to 3.83 inches. Courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
United States Army nurses stationed in England train to evacuate casualties from bombed aircraft. They endure cold, danger, and gruesome scenes while providing in‑flight care on C47 transports, with Miss Bunny Burgess noting the morale boost for wounded airmen.
CAMP BLANDING Fla Jan 5 First Sgt Willie B Ray earns a rare army furlough to visit a sister in South Carolina his second trip home in 18 years of service.
Richmond Virginia January 5. The Highway Commission opposes any reduction or diversion of taxes for road use and supports maintaining current funding. It notes Virginia faces a shrinking 600 million dollar road system with revenues down eight million annually, equipment shortages, and a 14 percent manpower drop since 1940.
Palmer Hoyt, retiring domestic director of the Office of War Information, urges built in battle news plans. He praises Tarawa coverage as the best in wartime history and introduces successor George W. Healy Jr of the New Orleans Times Picayune.
New York officials and hotel leaders discussed inviting the Republican and Democratic 1944 national conventions to New York. Martin Sweeny of the Hotel Association said the bureau had considered extending formal invitations.
Representative Robert Fay Rockwell speaks on Feeding the Starving Children at 7 P.M. Monty Wooley stars in comedy-variety series with Lupe Velez as first guest. Eddie Cantor Dinah Shore and Bobby Breen return to WRC and WMAL lineups. Dunninger minds reads debuts, Sinatra show premieres with Ginger Rogers and Bert Wheeler, WTOP News at ten.
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