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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1945
Page
5
Radio notes outline tonight’s broadcast featuring the Broadway Family adventures of the Thin Man. The program promises light mystery humor, Manhattan setting, and featured performers delivering witty dialogue and suspenseful clues.
A compact list of crossword clues across and down with entries including kinds of apple, rock, hut and lamprey. Names and terms such as Roman pound and European Jurassic division appear among the 44 clues, inviting standard word fits and puzzle solving.
The 117th Regiment of the 30th Division under Col. Walter M. Johnson of Missoula Montana is praised as the finest infantry battalion in the American line. Johnson known as the “little corporal” has set up forward HQs and led ten battles across France and Holland. The unit has captured about 3,500 prisoners and earned nearly 700 decorations while delaying and destroying German forces including the Elite First SS Adolf Hitler division at Mortain and Stavelot. Johnson holds a Silver Star, oak leaf cluster, and Bronze Star for valor.
Bell Clothes tops South End 2 1 as Glaize Bros claim high team game with 579 pins. Coca Cola 553 and Va Woolen No. 1 550 follow. High individual game S Billmyer 142, Hodson 136. high set Billmyer 377, Kelter 370.
Kenneth N. Gilpin was elected president at the Clarke County Horse and Colt Show Association annual meeting Tuesday. Edward B. Lindsey became first vice president with Mrs. George P. Greenhalgh as second vice president. Leonard H. Bell was named manager and A. B. Hummer honorary vice president. Directors include Gilpin Lindsey Bell Greenhalgh Hummer Levi Johnston Bowles Mackay Smith and Dr. Lewis M. Allen.
Clarke county gears up for a polio drive with the Gay Nineties Revue at Berryville Community Building on January 31 followed by a public dance. C. B. Carr leads the March of Dimes campaign. Wishing Wells distributed by J. W. Olcott Julian Everly and Ernest Locke. Additional events include a Boyce high school card party on January 30 and upcoming Tag Day in Clarke schools.
Rainfall data shows 24 hour precipitation of 0.04 inches ending 7 a.m. and year to date 1.76 inches. Average annual rainfall over 31 years is 35.95 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1943 listed: January 2.51, February 1.95, March 2.02, April 3.15, May 3.60, June 3.83, July 3.60, August 3.74, September 2.31, October 3.45, November 2.46, December 2.43 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
W. P. Green, manager of the Berryville office of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia, earned a one star emblem for five years of service in January. C. F. Cross Jr., district commercial manager, announced the honor. In January, 33 company employees in Virginia received emblems totaling 540 years of service.
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