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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1944
Page
7
The record shows 24 hour precipitation ending 8 a m and year to date 1 66 inches. It lists 30 year average annual rainfall of 36 11 inches and monthly averages from 1913 to 1941 with values for each month. Courtesy data from the Winchester Research Laboratory.
wartime diary style column by Hal Boyle recounts V Mail letters from an American bomber base in the Mediterranean Jan 2 1944. A sergeant from St Louis and others share mail mixups delays and misunderstandings as wives send serial style letters and a nurse aide revelation surfaces.
Jack Lake Robert Clevenger and Ray Grim enlisted this week at the U S Navy Recruiting Station in Winchester and were sworn in at the Main Navy Station Washington January 5. They headed to Great Lakes Naval Training Center for boot camp. Lake born March 14 1926 in Winchester attends Handley School lives Frederick County with siblings and worked for Royal Crown Bottling. Clevenger born September 27 1926 in Grimes Virginia lived in Clearbrook and worked at Clarbrook Woolen Mills. Grim born January 3 1927 in Strasburg attended Shenandoah school and worked at U S Industrial Chemical Plant in Baltimore.
LaMar Keen reports 2 500 War Bond Premieres nationwide from January 18 to February 15 as part of the Fourth War Loan campaign. Theatres will stage Bond Premieres to boost sales with admission by bond purchase. Winchester dates and film titles to be announced later.
At a special meeting the County Agricultural Workers Council, chaired by A. L. Frye, pledged full cooperation with the 1944 Food Production program. The council agreed to hold community meetings after the county gathering at the County Court House next Tuesday, January 11. A radio committee was reappointed with Croswell Henderson as chair and members Anderson and Ruth McNeil. Julian A. Everly outlined plans for the 4th War Loan Drive including a livestock sale with consignors paid in War Bonds and Stamps.
Complete car health check offered at the George Washington Garage with 24 hour service. Phone contact listed as 3848 for scheduling and inquiries.
Radio schedule notes James Gleason stars in Here Is Your War on Cavalcade of America. Programs listed include Information Please with Morley Safer and John Main Coffe, and a night full of news music and serials across WRC WMAL K.C. WRC-980 K.C. WTOP stations with various hosts, dramas, and Variety shows.
Four colored men ordered to Roanoke Induction Station on January 5 were accepted for service. Ernest Pipher Charles Henry Ligons Maxwell Burns and James Richard Grimes will leave for Camp Lee for basic training later.
By dialing 3424 you may let your friends know when you entertain have guests are going away or have returned home The Star will publish all such matters on this page.
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