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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1944
Page
11
Report shows 24 hour rainfall 0.02 inches ending 8 a.m. and year to date 1.66 inches. Includes 30 year average annual rainfall 36.11 inches and monthly averages from 1913-41 with January 2.49 inches and December 2.47 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
Across The Head Pin and SNODE NEW teamed up for a 39 win in 48 starts while high scorers like L. Sutton 138 and J. Meyer 135 top the first half. Dick Bauserman rolled 152 for United Food, Bob Yerby hit 163 for Bell Clothes, and Corrine Carskaden posted 133 with four marks in a standout bowling card.
Corporal Clement W. Fairweather of Fort Jackson South Carolina has amassed a joke collection totaling 30,000. A Metuchen New Jersey native, he earned a PhD from Princeton University and began gathering quips after finishing his doctoral thesis English Sermon Wit 155071660.
John M. Thoma of Millstone New Jersey fired 199 of 200 on the new U S carbine at Keesler Field Mississippi. His officers call the score practically unheard of and Thoma says he should shoot par if anyone can. The sergeant runs the firing range.
A Tokyo broadcast reported by Reuters says Japanese forces on New Britain are inferior to Allied troops that have landed on the island. American troops advance inland after victories on the western end while a key Japanese base remains on the opposite side.
London dispatch reports that Premier Dobri Bojilov was received by Bulgaria’s regency council to report on the political situation. Bojilov faces pressure from opposition seeking Bulgaria’s exit from the Axis war alliance, while German sources deny overthrows and Turkish reports.
Radio highlights list a dense evening lineup with Alan Ladd in Suspense One Way Ride to Nowhere at 8 p m and Dinah Shore shows interleaved with other programs. The schedule names centers such as WMAL WRC WTOP and program blocks from 6 p m to 11:45 p m including News Music and The Aldrich Family and Spotlight with Dinah Shore.
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