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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1945
Page
6
Seventh War Loan Drive urges converting unwanted belongings into War Bonds at the Victory Exchange on Thursday and Saturday. Visitors will see gifts and hand knit items as they buy bonds to hasten victory.
A Red Cross Office meeting on Thursday evening invites all who have shown interest in joining the Motor Corps or wish to learn membership details. Attendees are free to decide about joining with no obligation.
Mr and Mrs A I DeHaven of Siler hosted a May 26 surprise party for daughter Audrey DeHaven turning 18. Guests included the Kerns and DeHaven families from Gainesboro and Shockeyville with several siblings and friends attending games and celebration.
Lt Robert Goodloe Harper heads to San Diego for training and assignment while Lt Chas Edwin Harper returns to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Frederick County Council of Churches to meet Saturday June 2 at 2 p.m. in Handley Library. Mrs Marshall Golliday and son Larry of Stephens City visit Aviation Cadet Golliday at Goodfellow Field San Angelo Texas.
In Berryville Virginia on May 29 Miss Eva Massey returns after visiting relatives in Remington. Miss Ruth McDaniel spent the weekend with family at Culpeper with guest Miss Ann Gordon. Mrs Edgerton Chichester arrives to visit and stay with her sister Mrs J M H Clegett. Miss Virginia Armstrong returns from Midlands and Miss Virginia Leigh Harris travels to Washington and New York City to visit Miss Dorothy Moore. Mrs William Beverley and her daughters Elizabeth Pale...
A recent war order allows a veteran to apply for from the ODT a non transferable certificate of war necessity for one truck used in a business activity owned operated or controlled by the veteran. The article notes several local social movements and visits in Berryville and surrounding towns.
Pvt Emmons Sager Jr of Stephens City writes from Italy that he is well and progressing with the Fifth Army. He enlisted June 29 1944 and arrived overseas December 25. His wife and two children live in Stephens City. address available from his wife Kayene Ann. Seaman 1-C Eugene Hahn son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Hahn Gore is home on twenty day leave after 29 months in the South Pacific. He enlisted July 1943 and trained at Great Lakes. He will return to California after leave.
Mr and Mrs Bush Linaweaver of Stephens City receive a note from their son Pfc Earl Linaweaver saying he has been liberated after 25 months as a prisoner. His brother Pfc Kenzil Linaweaver, wounded in the Philippines, has a 30 day furlough at home. Also, on the Edmonds a sailor named Joseph Paul Herring helped rescue 1375 survivors from a stricken carrier amid heavy seas and air attacks.
Chief Specialist Lloyd Mead of the U S Navy recruiting station in Winchester says qualified men are still needed for radar training. All 17 year olds with strong physics math radio and electronics should apply at the Winchester recruiting office. Eligible pre induction applicants may take the Eddy radar test for Navy service and be sworn in as Seamen First Class with base pay of 66 dollars monthly. Inductees must take the test at least seven days before final induction. The Winchester office is open daily except Sunday from 9 to 6.
Harve Layton was found guilty of cruelty to an animal a rat by a six man jury in Denver county court. The fine was reduced from 25 dollars to a lower amount. The case stemmed from Layton allegedly trapping a rat and tying it to a tree for his two cats to practice rat catching.
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