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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1945
Page
3
A long island GI writes home from an Italian hospital cot at Christmas listening to Silent Night and Adeste Fidelis. He muses that if Christmas spirit prevailed year round wars might end. The piece covers faith milestones, Union Seminary leadership changes, a Moslem bishop elected in India, and wartime relief efforts for Holland with blankets from the Queen Wilhelmina Fund.
Reports list Pfc F P Nelson Jr training in Texas and Pennsylvania, overseas in France by December, and his civilian ties. Cecil J Teets promoted in the South Pacific. Ensign Charles T Hancher graduates from Harvard Navy Supply Corps School. Details include addresses and family notes.
Captain James C. Davis of the Dental Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Davis of 114 Handley Blvd., has been transferred to Italy after a year on Corsica. He serves on the dispensary staff at Fifth Army Headquarters.
Private Adams en tered the armed forces last Thursday and is stationed at Camp Wheeler Ga. Friends may write him via his wife at 18 West Boscawen street. Longerbeam overseas Cpl Kenneth Longerbeam from Millwood has arrived safely somewhere in Belgium after basic at Camp Wheeler. He formerly worked for the State Highway Department at Berryville.
This week graduates of the Flexible Gunnery School at Buckingham Field near Fort Myers Florida become aerial gunners and will join Army Air Force bomber crews. They receive U S training domestically before overseas assignment as hundreds are trained weekly at the Fort Myers ranges with skeet and power turret drills aboard bombers over the Gulf of Mexico.
Green Spring Virginia on January 20 reports Mrs. Bradford Shreck much improved and home from Winchester Memorial Hospital. Local residents including Deimar Saville Carter Milburn and families visited Mrs. Bessie Catlett and others. Schools closed several days due to rough roads and travel conditions.
Galilee Church services were held as residents report a blizzard dumping about 10 inches. Winds blocked roads and school buses and mail deliveries were halted. Local residents include T L Kerns improving at home Robert Russell heading to Ft Meade and Grover Teets speaking on Farm and Home Hour.
Rev Clarence Gruesbeck, pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Winchester since last October after Pastor Percy Manuel’s departure to Norfolk, has 20 years in ministry and evangelism. A Emmanuel Missionary College graduate, he taught at Cedar Lake College and other schools, with three sons named Kenneth Clarence Jr and Ronald. He directs the Radio Bible School heard daily on WINC.
Winchester Memorial Hospital will enroll a class of twenty cadet nurses on March 1 to support President Roosevelt's push for more military nurses. The hospital seeks 21,500 applicants to meet the corps quota. interested persons should contact Miss Virginia Reid Hollar, Director of Nurses, for personal interviews.
The Berryville Star reports daily happenings in Berryville and Clarke County including local events, meetings, crime updates, weather notes, and community notices with emphasis on residents and organizations active in the area.
Notices warn beer and shoe retailers about classification and pricing talks with officials from the War Price and Rationing Board. Grocers are reminded of new Ceiling Price Charts for processed foods dated January 9 1945. Meat grade labeling requirements specify location and intervals for grade marks on carcasses and cuts. Also an entertainment note for Ed Wynn's radio show on WINC at 9:00 p m EWT.
The text explains labeling of veal carcasses with federal grading marks on the brisket foreshank and sometimes the inside loin. It notes that after hide removal the carcass must be restamped in the manner specified above.
Eastern Front 195 miles from Sampatho area. Western Front 310 miles from Linnich Julich Duren region. Hungarian Front 364 miles.
The fragment mentions the Hron river and a Feng talian Front with a distance of 544 miles from Reno River. No clear event or persons identified.
Local residents again purchase War Bonds during the Sixth War Loan Drive. Federal Reserve figures show Winchester and Frederick County with $33,337.50 in sales for January 1 to 15, and Clarke County credited with $15,653.75 for the same period, including E F and G Bonds.
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