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GOES TO IDAHO
Pfo, John M. Barber, Jr., Army
PbrM, that he is being: sent, from Sampson Air Base, New York, to an air base in Idaho. Jack Barber, formerly a printer with Rappahannock News, joined the Army Air Force June 28, and will not get a chance to return for a visit to *the county before leaving for his assignment in the west.
-^JOHN DAVIS LOSES THUMB IN SAWING ACCIDENT
While sawing: wood at the A. H. Buckner farm in the F. T. 'Valley yesterday, John Davis cut the thumb from his left hand. He was treated at the Hospital at Front Royal and returned to his home, “Hawthorne,” later in the day.
Mr. Davis, was using an electric saw to prepare some special pieces of lumber to be used in repair work at his home.
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