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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1942
Page
7
LODGE Mont June 4. Tavenner solved the burlap shortage by using a hay baler to bale wool for shipment. He pressed the wool into bales and fastened with wire, a successful operation. The report notes a foreign-born white male majority over foreign-born white females in the United States.
Negroes are being accepted for enlistment in Navy construction regiments under the Yards and Docks program. Martinsburg and Winchester recruiting offices urge interested men to apply, with ratings open for auto repairmen, carpenters mates, electricians, welders, riggers, crane and engine helpers, and many other trades. The note adds a historical aside on the 1795 American flag with stars in three rows.
Cairo reports the General Grant, the U S Army M-3 medium tank, armed with a 77 mm gun and 37 mm anti tank weapon plus a machine gun, offers heavy armor and powerful fire in desert combat. It outguns lighter models like the Honey and is noted for its capacity to knock out enemy tanks.
Two dogs charged by game wardens and inspectors with chasing buses to snap at passengers were ordered executed at the city dog pound after owners appeared before Police Justice Jewet. The dogs will be killed by gas.
Troneae Virginia hosts a Creek corner convention on June 10 with the cemetery cleanup set at 8 a.m. Special prayers will honor those buried there. Local families, including Lafollette, Muse, Wingfield, Kerns, Oates, Meade and Kump, visited relatives across Bloomery and Alexandria this past weekend.
Mrs Helen Franklin returned to Lynchburg after visiting Mr and Mrs W D Boon. Mrs Charles Hammock of Washington spent the weekend with friends and relatives. Mrs H M Adams returned from Memorial Hospital Winchester after an eye operation and her friends are glad.
Miss Steele of Washington visits her mother Mrs C B Wright. Weekend guests at Mr and Mrs M Earl Kline’s home include Joseph oh Bee aeen and others from Washington plus Paul on furlough in Maryland. Loretta Miller returns to Silver Spring Md after months with her mother. Donald Lincoln and Marie Heitman plus Ada Mowery host weekend guests. Richie Larrick Round Hill Va and Victor Larrick Mason and Dixon Pa visit. Jack Alcorn and Harvey Austin return to VPI Blacksburg after a Wayside Inn visit.
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