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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1944
Page
3
Middletown High School is shut until further notice due to a bus breakdown. Nearby buses are unable to haul all students. the Cornell bus serving Stephens City took the first loads home to High View after noon. Reopening date to be announced in coming days.
A city fundraising effort titled Mile O Dimes launches to support the fight against infantile paralysis. Local volunteers organize collections at schools and businesses to boost contributions and awareness.
Handley high school basketball heads to Charles Town for a road game against Zip Lorenz Panth ers as the team seeks improved shooting. Berryville and Clarke County teams play in Loudoun County and Harpers Ferry meets Martinsburg, with Romney beating Berkeley Springs and Shepherdstown defeating Harpers Ferry in recent games.
The Virginia Department of Highways says all main roads out of Winchester are ice free this afternoon. Secondary roads remain icy in shaded areas while city ice and snow melt as temperatures reach 45 degrees.
Sirbaugh infant William Howard Sirbaugh son of Conrad and Mrs Madeline Brown Sirbaugh Kernstown died at Memorial Hospital from influenza. Survived by parents and sister Sandra Le Sirbaugh. Funeral from Omps funeral home Saturday at 3:30 PM to Ebenezer Cemetery with rites by Rev Joseph Duckwall.
The estate of James N. Molina deceased is appraised by Roy P. Duvall. Thomas Kremer and William C. Hodge filed the record in Corporation Court totaling $20,229.82. Principal items are real estate.
The message urges universal support for war bonds with a call to action to purchase and bolster wartime financing through bond drives.
Plans move forward to open a nursery school for colored children due to the shortage of domestic help and neglect of working mothers’ kids. The city appropriated 250 dollars, with 29 raised by a community committee. Woman's Civil League backs the project. Mrs Emma Parks Robinson chairs the colored committee. opening date pending. site secured. staff and supplies organized. Funds go through City Treasurer and City Welfare Office. more money needed.
Berlin air raids target the capital despite strengthened anti aircraft defenses. RAF bombers hit the city heavily last night, with sirens at 7 p m and fires observable especially on the outskirts near war industry sites.
Mrs Mary Pearson Farmer district nurse will conduct a six week Home Nursing course for women employees of Virginia Woolen Co and Winchester Knitting Mill. Sessions run Mondays and Wednesdays 7 30 to 9 30 at the George Washington Hotel classroom starting January 24. Enrollment is not open to the public.
Judge Harrison in Frederick Circuit Court merged two partial divorces into absolute decrees. Wilbur Boyce and Viola J. Boyce receive an absolute divorce for continued desertion with six months of no remarriage. Matilda L. Cook and Lorenza M. Cook obtain an absolute divorce for continued desertion with a six month remarriage restriction.
The will of Melvin Green deceased is admitted to probate and recorded. Frances W Beverley Irene Clark and R Gray Williams witnessed it. James F Robinson receives 1000 and the residue goes to Louisa Meigs Green and Montgomery Meigs Green share and share alike. Mrs Green and Shenandoah Valley National Bank named executors.
Tojo predicts a high tension period as munitions and manpower strain Britain s population weakens while the Allied Pacific push is described as a desperate result of craving for a short war. He claims an opportunity to strike and crush the foe with calm, measured action.
Dispatches from Moscow report a major Soviet maneuver around Novgorod, 100 miles southeast of Leningrad, opening the road to Lake Peipus and southern Estonia. Stalin saluted the victory as German forces face heavy losses and panic. The city had been under German control since August 1941.
Delegates Walton and Cassell of Portsmouth with several patrons offer a bill giving city and town police the same authority as state police to arrest without warrants at the scene of a crime or on receipt of telegraph radio or teletype messages.
A newspaper interview describes the estranged wife of an unnamed man, Mrs. Williams, as having lived in a nursing home after a breakup. The source notes they were divorced years ago but remained on good terms, with Williams visiting and sometimes bringing his second wife.
The British Press Association reports the raid on Berlin was the largest sending force yet against the capital. The RAF flew 700 to 750 bombers delivering 2,500 tonnes to Hannover on Sept 22, part of a total about 15,009 tonnes of explosives dropped on Berlin since the campaign began.
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