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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1943
Page
6
Local residents announce visits and returns including Mr and Mrs Paul Barnett and daughter from Florida and extended family from Reading Pa and Towson Md. Several hospitality visits are noted with neighbors and relatives in Stephens City Harrisonburg Alexandria and near Richmond. A hospital patient is mentioned and a soldier stationed near Richmond is home for a visit.
His parents and wife, Marshall Lovett, who has been here with his mother for thirty too left recently for his camp at Utah. Mrs. Taylor Simpson and daughter, of North Carolina, are spending sometime with Mrs. Simpson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Brumback Sgt. Richard Venable, who has been a guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Venable for the past ten days, left Sunday to resume his duties at Camp Pickett. Sgt. Venable attended the races at Charles Town last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Davidson and son of Washington, were Sunday guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Steele.
Walter O Keefe hosts Sammy Kaye's guest lineup with Nancy Morman Billy Williams and Tommy Ryan on WTOP. Jackie Cooper and Don O Connor entertain Diana Lynn in Lionel Barrymore's Mayor of the Town on TV. Senators Gillette and Thomas discuss America's Food Problem. WMAL features a late night schedule with Godwin Lum and Abner Manhattan and Mr and Mrs North with Tommy Dorsey.
New York-May 19- Winchester residents face a wartime bill of 10 250 000 dollars for military costs attributed to Hitler. The figure, drawn from Foreign Commerce Weekly, equates to 850 dollars per person in the city. World totals show Axis and United Nations expenses, with further years projected to push costs toward a half trillion. A note on a gasket material novelty follows.
Handley Library highlights the Pulitzers awarded to Thornton Wilder for The Skin of Our Teeth, Robert Frost for A Witness Tree, Esther Forbes for Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, and Samuel Eliot Morison for Admiral of the Ocean. The note explains each work and its author, and mentions the works are available to borrow.
In early Canada, women who wed at sixteen or younger received money rewards. The program appears tied to colonial authorities aiming to promote family formation and settlement.
A report lists 24 hour rainfall to 8 am as none, May to date 1.65 inches, and year to date 13.27 inches. It provides 30 year average annual rainfall at 36.11 inches and monthly means for 1913-41, from January 2.49 to December 2.47 inches, noting courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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