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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1944
Page
10
Madison report says a single spray of betanaphthoxyacetic acid on tomato blossoms speeds fruit set and increases yield in university greenhouses. R H Roberts and Esther Struckmeyer found BNA accelerates flowering and allows earlier harvest before field tomatoes flood markets.
In Hobart Tastfiania on March 22 Alfred Hawkins welcomed a son and a grandson within two hours. His wife Gladys age 45 and daughter Betty Nichols age 20 gave birth to brothers named Steven in adjoining beds at a maternity hospital.
In the City of Winchester on February 28 1944 the Clerk’s Office orders Sallie Messick’s heirs and unknown heirs to appear within ten days to protect interests in a partition or sale of the decedent’s real and personal assets. The notice requires publication in the Winchester Evening Star for four weeks and posting at the courthouse door by March 6 1944 with copies mailed to defendants.
Analysis notes Hitler seeks a Danubian barrier across the gateway and a secure line to defend against Red Army advances. He needs Romania for Ploesti oil, sustains his war machine, and uses Hungary as a critical rail and Danube route. Balkan resistance and Russian progress influence future Nazi moves amid confusion over Hungarian dissent.
Newton North Carolina March 22 Mrs Marlin Brumley observed a fat possum in her yard and rigged a bird cage to capture the marsupial in an amusing wartime note on meat shortages.
CAMP CROWDER Mo March 22 A signal corps school detachment on a night hike was followed by a stray dog that sprayed a skunk prompting the detachment commander to order gas mask drill during the advance scout phase.
Classified notice listing a sales position at Worth's with date 3 20 31 and contact instruction for applicants.
Waynesboro Nurseries in Waynesboro Virginia invites readers to visit the nursery to select trees and plants or request a free copy of the low price catalogue. The notice advertises a broad assortment of varieties and sizes available at local nursery.
Brown billfold lost at Capitol Theatre on Thursday night. Finder may keep money. return billfold to Theodore Smelser in Browntown, Va. 13 22 217.
Allied dispatch from Naples reports Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch named to lead another army amid Eisenhower rebuke over a field hospital incident near Palermo. Patch, 54, veteran of 30 years, previously headed the 4th Army Corps at Fort Lewis and earned the Navy DSM for Guadalcanal.
Mrs. Nora Larrick was surprised by family with a birthday feast. Mr. George Good is ill at home. Mrs. Katie Larrick remains bedbound. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Godlove visited Augusta kin for 83rd birthday. Snow 5 inches Sunday. Roy Pugh Jr builds a new house on former Line property. Viola Lockhart visited Winchester. Hester Triplett and her boyfriend visited.
A. D. Fowler, Plant Wire Chief at Winchester, received a two star service emblem for ten years with the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia. In March, 38 company employees in Virginia were awarded emblems totaling 635 years of service.
A burglar arrested by Pittsburgh police admitted stealing clothes from a cleaning plant. The next day he discovered one suit he had lifted was his own suit left to be pressed at the plant.
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