Military Monday: Instructions for Ration Book

Evening Star (DC)
17 October 1943

INSTRUCTIONS FOR RATION BOOK

Registration for War Ration Book No. 4 will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, according to Richard C. Haydon, Prince William County registration chairman. County schools will be closed all day Friday in order that the work may be completed. Teachers in the following schools designated as registration places will have charge of issuing the new books:

Osbourn High School, Manassas, R. Worth Peters, chairman; Haymarket New School, Mrs. Nelson Lynn, chairman; Nokesville High School, C. O. Bittle, chairman; Occoquan High School, Mrs. Mae T. Sanford, chairman; Woodbine School, Miss Sue Ayres, chairman; Dumfries Graded School, Mrs. Wallace Lynn, chairman; Quantico Masonic Hall (for civilians), Miss Margaret Powell, chairman. A registration place within the Quantico Military Post for military personnel will be announced later.

Mr. Haydon requests that residents make applications as early as possible to avoid last-minute congestion. One member of a family, 18 years of age or older, may register for the entire family. The registrant must present War Ration Book No. 3 for each member of the household for whom application is made.

Travel Tuesday: Eloise Compton

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
25 April 1932

Girl, 19, is Killed

The other fatal accident occurred when two machines collided head-on yesterday morning on the Centerville-Manassas road in Fairfax County, Va. Miss Carolyn Cole, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cole of Bigleville, Pa., died in Providence Hospital this morning from a fractured skull. Miss Eloise Compton, 19, of Manassas, Va., who with Miss Cole were passengers in one of the cars, is in Providence Hospital, suffering from serious cuts and bruises.

The two girls, roommates at the Marjorie Webster School of Dancing here, were riding in a car driven by Jim Peters, an employee of the Columbia Gas Co., now living at the Manassas Hotel, Manassas, Va., according to Fairfax police. Peters escaped with slight injuries. Miss Compton is a daughter of Will Compton of Manassas. 

The accident occurred when Peters' car and one driven by Carl Davis of Ox road, Lee district, Fairfax County, collided, police said. Both were demolished and Davis was cut and bruised on the head and legs, but was able to return to his home.

William Joseph Rodgers, 40, of Baltimore, the driver of the automobile containing Mr. and Mrs. Clatterbuck, is in a critical condition in Georgetown University Hospital suffering from skull fractures, head cuts, shock and possible internal injuries. An operation was performed early today on his skull.