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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1943
Page
6
Community brief lists Monday through Wednesday events and meetings across Winchester area. Notes Miss Frances Sirbaugh's return with visiting relatives and a birthday at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Reports Mr Brown's improving condition after surgery at the same hospital.
Miss Jane Dailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Dailey, wed Rev. Teters in Rest Methodist Church with Rev. R. O. Bryant officiating. The ceremony featured hydrangea decor and music by Bertha Carter and a duo, followed by a reception at Ridgeway. The couple plans a Southern wedding trip returning May 8. Jane teaches shorthand at Winchester Business College. Teters is a North Frederick Charge pastor and Westminster Theological Seminary student.
Miss Julia Reina Richards of M College Harrisonburg stayed in Winchester with her parents Mr and Mrs W N Richards on West Piccadilly street over the weekend.
Mrs. P W Boyd will host the Century Club Tuesday at four at her Fairmont avenue home. Mr. R Gray Williams will address on The 200th Anniversary of Jefferson. Circles of Market Street Church meet May 4 with five groups at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Yarn distribution for service men Tuesday, May 4. District Nurse Association meets Wednesday at three. Braddock Street WSC meets May 4 at 7:30 p.m. Circle leaders supervise programs and Bible study. Women's Society of Christian Service meets Tuesday at 8 p.m. with Mrs E W Grant, topic In Concern For Children.
The jury meeting at Handley Gallery today at four will review the A A U W Exhibition paintings. Members may preview the collection this afternoon and the gallery opens to visitors Saturday at four and Sunday at three. Over May 8 and 9 more than 100 paintings plus handicraft tables will be shown with open hours for Monday May 10 for class groups.
Rhodes Betty Jo Hil debrant Jane Barnhart Bobby Conner Ann C Norris Rhoda Fletcher Freda Semples Dorothy Brown Ann Wagner Aspasia Sempeles John Robbert Sam Brooks will present landscape figure drawings still life portraits illustration spatter paint pencil studies and air force themed work. A panel will be selected for masks and decorative plaques.
The Gertrude Barton Nursery School committee and the Department of Welfare express gratitude to the Quota Club for promoting a card party to aid the nursery school. Absences due to whooping cough and mumps have lessened as attendance nears full capacity. Gifts from supporters include toys from Mrs. T. R. Kremer apples from Mrs. B. M. Roszel clothing from Mrs. Clark Cooper and fresh vegetables from a friend.
A letter to Mrs. W L Dudley from her niece Miss Miriam Watson WAAC staffer in northern Africa describes life with General Eisenhower s group. She notes agriculture vineyards and gardens friendly locals strict discipline good food and longing for home but support the mission and anticipate returning when the task is finished.
Grace C Smith of W Va reports that Rev Joseph Smith his wife and their son are unofficially listed as interned by Japan in the Philippines. Smith once led Covington Virginia church and married Winifred Watson before missionary service in China. Their son was born in 1941 in the Philippines.
Industry sources say the War Manpower Commission directive for a 48 hour week will lift steel payrolls by about 100 million dollars yearly. They claim it increases pay for over 500,000 workers without raising output or labor needs, noting current capacity use and 41.8 hour average weeks.
The funeral for Albert Smallwood 72 a retired Winchester plumber will be held tomorrow at 3 30 PM from Braddock Street Methodist Church Rev T M Swann officiating burial will follow at Mount Hebron Cemetery He was a member of the Golden Rule Bible Class and the Friendship Fire Company Three pallbearers will be sent by each group.
Chicago May 3 Wheat May futures around 1.44 to 1.46 early gains from weak Kansas crop reports faded as buyers did not enter in volume. Prices ended about unchanged after the first hour. Coal strike truce had little impact. Corn Oats and Rye listed with May July and Sept quotes.
The AP outlines how coupons for meat cheese fats and canned fish blue green and red stamps, sugar and coffee stamps, shoes tires fuel oil and gasoline apply through May and into summer. It notes new Book 3 issuances, mail distribution starting May 20, and adjustments in tire and gasoline eligibility with wartime ration changes.
In Macon Georgia three Bibb County Deputy Sheriffs Hubert Dickerson B R Meeks beat to a pistol draw captured Sunday after escaping prisoners from Reidsville 16 days earlier. They faced shots from Deputies Waldron Stokes and Shannon who prevented the convicts from firing. The two suspects hid in a stolen car in Monroe County twelve miles north of Macon where the vehicle held rifles a shotgun and another pistol. The men said the car was stolen somewhere north of Atlanta.
Richmond Virginia May 3 establishment of special selective service machinery to induct eligible prisoners from Virginia Penal Institutions has been announced by Colonel Mills F. Neal State Director of Selective Service A board known officially as the special local board for penal and correctional institutions in the state of Virginia will register classify and handle draft age brackets for male convicts.
By dialing 3424 you may tell readers when you entertain, have guests, are going away, or have returned home. The Star will publish all such matters on this page.
A flotilla of British MTBs swept 60 miles along the Tunisian coast sinking four Axis vessels including a 3,000 ton merchant ship. They dodged shore batteries and enemy fighters, torpedoed targets from up to 2,000 yards, and escaped under a smoke screen after diverting attention with a separate attack.
Along the coast two Italian minesweepers and a German R boat were engaged by swift British MTB craft. One torpedo boat was lost and Flotilla Leader Stewart Gould, a DSC winner with 37 RN actions, died on his ship’s bridge after directing torpedoes that split the merchant ship in half.
A concise clue list solving a three item prompt with choler toward the lee and paper quantities. The entries hint at bodily anger the direction away from windward and measures of paper amounts.
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