Girl Scouts Plan Camp Opening at White Rock
The Girl Scout Council approved a camp at White Rock to start July 21 with health exams for Scouts on July 15 16 at 11 AM. Baggage pickup is July 19 at Mrs Massey’s corner Washington and Amherst. Beatrice Bell of Roanoke will direct the camp arriving midweek. Forty five scouts including several from Jes Town will attend.
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Girl Scout Council
W. Massey
White Rock
Gibson
Beatrice Bell
Roanoke
Massey
Jes Town
Nazis Claiming More Sinkings
Berlin reports four British merchant ships totaling 27 600 tons sunk in the north Atlantic and a 4 000 ton vessel sent to the bottom off the Sevast east coast. The communique says German warplanes attacked the port of Hull on the River Humber with crushing effect and claims 238 British planes shot down in the channel battles.
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Berlin
North Atlantic
Luftwaffe
Humber
Chan Coast
High Command
Westean
Germany
Those Paying Tax Rates Across States Compared
The article compares state income tax incidences, noting California taxes the first 5 000 at 1 percent, North Carolina taxes the first 2 000 at 8 percent, and Virginia is among 31 states with a personal income tax while not allowing federal tax deduction from the state bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
North Carolina
Virginia
Welcome For Captain and Mrs. Wilmer In Winchester
Captain and Mrs. Edgar H. Wilmer assume Salvation Army duties in Winchester after transfers from the Northeast Corps in Washington. They are new officers with deep ties to civic groups. a welcome meeting will be held Sunday night at the Salvation Army on South Loudoun Street.
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Mrs
Edgar Wilmer
Edgar H. Wilmer
Salvation Army
Winchester
Northeast Corps
Wash
Wilmer I
Rochester
N. Y
South
Emme Hillis
Hamilton
Onl
Army
Kinston
N.C
Wises
Salvatier
Oing College For
New York
Salisbury
N. C
Wilmer
Rotary Club
City
Ministerial Association
Capt
Miriam
Faith
Catherine
Nora Strron
Washington
SN. C
Captann
Red Cross To Motor Corps Expansion Planned
A Winchester Frederick County Red Cross Motor Corps meeting discussed enlarging and reorganizing under Miss Mary Warden Boyd to support the National Defense Program. Harriet Guernsey outlined new duties as the corps prepares to expand and handle transport of workers and supplies. A follow up gathering for new members is set for July 16 at 10 oclock in City Hall chapter office.
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Red Cone
Motor Corps
Winchester- Prederick County
Harriett Guernsey
National Cross
Mary Warden Boyd
Red Cross
Frederick County Registrants
Index of registrants listed by towns in Frederick County including Winchester Middletown Gore Stephens City Opequon and Middlebourne with names such as Joseph Bayliss Cecil Shumaker James McFarland Roy Griffith Clarence Cather Clyde Haymaker Leonard Snapp and Leonard Wright among others noted across page sections S-1 to S-91 with multiple inclusive ranges and parish markers in the county registration record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Joseph Bayliss
Chambersville
Howard Ritenour
Stephens City
Cecil Shumaker
Gore
Herbert Burton
Gainesboro
Evelyn Junior Omps
Whitacre
Lewis Fauver
Middletown
James Yeakley
Brucetown
Ray Griffith
Cecil Painter
Edwin Clevenger
Clearbrook
Harry Nethers
Holmes Bucher
Opequon
James McFarland
Samuel Walker
Robert Anderson
William Smith
Ralph Ratchford
Marshall Kump
Dale Clemons
Marshall Patton
Norman Keeler
Edward Guard
Roy Griffith
Edgar Smoke
Bradford Shrack
Walton Cline
Alfred Smith
Paul Flowers
Daniel Bageant
On Rudolph
Russell Dellinger
Middleene Garnet Putman
Middlewn
Clarence Cather
Clyde Haymaker
Kenneth Lineburg
Cather Orndorff
Leonard Snapp
Frank Kerns
Leonard Wright
Ray McDonald
Wilbur Malone
Albert Mayhew
Mr. Williams
Albert Pingley
Zebra Relation to Horses
Zebra is a member of the horse tribe with African striped appearance. Zebras can be trained for riding and driving, though it is somewhat difficult.
New York Port Declared Safe From Enemy Night Raids
The Coast Guard conducted night tests over Ambrose Channel to assess blackout effectiveness. Lieutenant Watson Burton coordinated a semi blackout with lights dimmed to 10 candle power, while three Coast Guard vessels and merchant ships patrolled the area. Treasury and naval experts emphasized the port's wartime significance and tested defenses against potential pre dawn raids.
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New York
Coast Guard
Ambrose Channel
Treasury Department
Naval
Channel
Watson Burton
Army
Ralph Dempyelf
Treasury
Head of State Legion to Address District Meet
T Emmett Warriner of Lawrenceville will speak at the Seventh District Legionaires summer meeting at the Hotel Royal on July 15. Delegates to the Milwaukee National Convention will be elected, with several officers and guests from Richmond Alexandria Harrisonburg and Front Royal also on the program. A banquet follows at 6 30 p m with reservations through A B Scott.
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Front Royal
T. Emmett Warriner
Lawrenceville
American Legion
Seventh District Legionaires
Hotel Royal
Milwaukee
Glenn Elliott
Richmond
Sidney Weil
Alexandria
James A. Cross
A. B. Scott
George A. Williams
Harrisonburg
Warriner
Winchester
Luray
Berryville
Charlottesville
Stanardsville
Strasburg
Shenandoah
Columbia
Madison
Firemen See Color Film From Europe Tonight
Members of the Reuss Fire Company and friends will view an unusual color sound picture at 8 o clock tonight. The three reeler From The New Lands to the Old follows Paris to Turkey before the German bluekrieg devastates parts of the region. Director Lawrence Copley Thaw guides scenes of customs, weddings, feasts, and life in Hungary via Turkey with a Nazi troops scene near guarded secrets.
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Reuss Fire Company
Paris
Turkey
Bluekrieg
Hungary
Via
Lawrence Copley Thaw
Record Farm Crops Are Indicated By Federal Survey
Washington July 11 The agriculture department crop reporting board projected 1941 agricultural production at record levels if weather holds. Wheat could reach 923,613,000 bushels the fifth largest on record and 100 million above 1940. Corn may yield 2,548,709,000 bushels largest since 1937. Peach production seen at 67,049,000 bushels the highest since 1931. State figures list Virginia 1,993,000 wheat and corn, New York 58 percent of normal, Maryland 61, Virginia 61, North Carolina 69, Georgia 712 and 50.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Virginia
New York
Maryland
North Carolina
Georgia
Shenandoah County Discusses Tourist Home Trade
Four teen persons met in the Home Demonstration Agent office to plan standardizing and promoting the tourist home and summer boarder trade in Shenandoah County Virginia. The group aims to improve accommodations and create a uniform standard, with Ruth Jamison and Miss Jure leading scoring visits starting July 16 to certify homes and place 90 plus rated homes on an approved list for publicity and agency referrals.
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Woodstock
Shenandoah County
Virginia
Ruth Jamison
Cather and James to Attend Elks National Convention
Irvin Cather and H L James of Winchester lodge No 867 plan to leave Sunday for Philadelphia for the Elks National Convention opening Monday. The gathering will discuss national defense measures and hear leaders from government and industry. An attendance of 50 000 Elks is expected with events at Independence Hall and a closing water carnival on the Schuylkill River.
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Cather
James
Elks
Parley
Philadelphia
Irvin Cather
H. L. James
Winchester
Elks National Defense Commission
Order of Elks
America
Joseph G. Buch
Trenton
N. J
Independence Hall
Madrigal Singers
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
Schuylkill River
All Parties Honor Virginia Senator Carter Glass Pro Tempore
The Senate named 83 year old Carter Glass of Virginia as president pro tempore with all parties voting. Senator McNary of Oregon seconded and Republicans joined in the historic unanimous election. Glass, oldest member, served as Treasury secretary and senator and has backed Roosevelt foreign policy. Senator Byrd praised the unanimous honor as a tribute to an outstanding statesman.
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Washington
Senate
Carter Glass
McNary
Oregon
Virginia
Wilson
Treasury
Roosevelt
Byrd
D-Va
Senator Glass
Glass
America
Nutrition Meetings on Defense Program Begin in Virginia
Six state district meetings on nutrition in the national defense program will be held this week starting with Fredericksburg on July 10. County sponsors chairmen and home agents, white and colored, attend. Discussions cover nutritional needs and plans to improve home food production and diets for Virginians as defenders of democracy. Harrisonburg Madison College hosts with Miss Martha Creighton overseeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg
Defenders of Democracy
Harrisonburg
Madison College
Martha Creighton
State Department of Education
Answers to the Daily Quiz
Answers to test questions printed on page four list Pentecost false Canberra according to the value raises three Van Buren and the two Roosevelts Ethiopia Abyssinia No North and south economist.
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Canberra
van Buren
Roosevelts
Ethiopia
Abyssinia
North
Economist
Patriotic Sons of America Picnic Set for July 18–19
P. O. S. Of A. schedules the 18th annual picnic at Unger's Store 22 miles south of Winchester near Route 522. Amusement, music, parachute acts and stunt flying lead to a Friday evening concert by the POSA band and continuous entertainment. Saturday features a 1 PM start with a band escort to the ball park for George deGrange.
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P. R. Unger
Patriotic Sons of America
Unger
Winchester
POSA
Ball Park
George deGrange
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