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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1941
Page
9
Winchester marks its 350th with the Deathless Day as the Safety Flag flies over Handley Library. Chief Hollis warns shorter days increase traffic hazards with dusk coming earlier and pedestrian deaths rising in fall, urging safer walking and driving. Keep’er Flying.
In Kansas City on October 1, youngsters protest Ol' Freddie being moved to another bakery delivery route. They view the old horse as a friend deserving sugar and apples. Sally Lindauer writes a letter to the bakery company about the issue and Ol' Freddie is back now.
The STAR notes its press time shows different local clocks with 9 P M in London 10 P M in Berlin Rome and 11 P M in the Balkans. This late news timing reflects global publication schedules.
Four year old John Robert Atkins playing near his home found a pipe in the ground. He stepped in it and became stuck. Neighbors and police emergency squad dug around the pipe and freed his foot after removing his shoe.
A linoleum and oilcloth worker in North Hudson Hospital was in fair condition after a 90 minute operation that extracted 410 tacks from his stomach. The man reportedly swallowed tacks as part of his job, tossing them into his mouth while working. Details on patient and surgeon were not released.
The breakway is a prop such as a bottle or club made of wax or light material that shatters when struck. It is commonly fashioned from yucca wood for breakaway furniture.
Berlin dispatch reports the German army adopting Finnish sauna baths to harden troops for a Russian winter. Finnish sauna builders train engineer battalions at the Olympic village, alongside delousing chambers and laundries to curb lice. The plan includes simple wood shed saunas with birch twig whipping and cold-water finish, aiming to ease winter campaigns and improve clothing hygiene.
Virginia Tuberculosis Association mobilizes volunteers to run the annual Christmas seal sale across Southwest and Central Virginia. Regional meetings began in Big Stone Gap with speakers from South Boston and local leaders. other dates span Wytheville Richmond Suffolk Williamsburg Warsaw Orange Luray and Leesburg as drive opens November 24 and runs through Christmas marking the 35th national year of fundraising.
Four recent enlistees are listed by Set. Frank Likar from the Winchester post office wooden army recruiting office. Eldon H Brumback of Middletown joins the Air Corps at Wichita Falls Texas David J Rodgers of Vienna West Virginia joins Quartermaster Replacement Center Camp Lee Virginia Douglas M Zom bro of Hedgesville West Virginia joins Ordnance Department Center Aber deen Proving Ground Maryland Nevins B Hendrix Jr of Martinsburg West Virginia joins Medical Department Replacement Center Camp Lee Virginia All will go to Fort George G Meade for conditioning before deployment to their duty assignments.
In Chicago on October 1 Melker Harbak told Judge John V. McCormick he fainted while trying to walk off a bad headache and ended up in the police station. He was fined $3 with costs as the judge noted his distress and asked about his ailment.
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