Excerpts from the Oak Ridge Journal, 75 years ago this week
January 29, 1944
ABOUT WINTER ILLNESSES
This is the time of the year when measles, mumps, chicken-pox and other contagious diseases are common. Many parts of the country are having considerable numbers of these diseases.
The situation at Oak Ridge is not alarming, and every precaustion is being taken to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. Only a very small number of the more serious diseases have occurred. There is no “epidemic”.
AT THE CENTER THEATRE
Saturday 29, 1944, January
“AMERICAN EMPIRE”
R. Dix -Preston Foster
WEDNESDAY ONLY 7 & 9 PM
SPECIAL BOND PREMIERE
“GUADALCANAL DIARY”
Preston Foster - Lloyd Nolan
IMPORTANT-ADMISSION BY BOND ONLY!
Get Your’s Early at the Bank and Ask for Ticket to Premiere!
Thursday-Friday 2, 3 Feb.
“HIT THE ICE”
Abbott and Costello
THIS WEEK IN OAK RIDGE
SATURDAY, Jan 29th:
8:30 PM President’s Birthday Ball
High School Gym
TUESDAY, Feb. 1st:
7:00 PM Instrumentalists - Cafeteria
7:30 PM Civil Air Patrol-High School
8:00 PM Concert Band Rehearsal in
North Wing of Cafeteria
WEDNESDAYm Feb. 2nd:
5 & 6 PM Dance Classes (See Monday)
7:30 PM Badminton-High School Gym
8:00 PM Square Dance-Old Rec. Hall
8:00 PM Gun Club Room 163 High School
A MESSAGE FROM OUR TOWN MANAGER
We, of Oak Ridge, are greatly concerned about local problems affecting our personal comforts and welfare. We achieve results in attaining our objectives in direct proportion to the amount of effort we put forth. This is the application of the fundamental law of compensation.
Those whose responsibility it is to finance this war have asked everyone in the United States to lend their country enough money to continue the War to ultimate Victory. A loan with interest paid in two forms - money, and future security - by a debtor with prestige, character, stability, and a record of unbroken promises…
P. E. O’Meara
Captain, Corps of Engineers,
Town Manager
CHURCH SERVICES
PLACE: CHAPEL ON THE HILL
Friday 28 Jan.
8:00 PM Jewish Services
Sunday 30 Jan.
7:30 AM Catholic Holy Mass
11:00 AM The United Church
2:00 PM Lutheran Services
5:00 PM Vespers - Episcopal
6:30 PM United Youth Fellowship
8:00 PM United Church Services
BAPTIST SERVICES
PLACE: THE HIGH SCHOOL
Sunday, 30 January
9:45 AM-10:45 AM Sunday School
11:00 AM - 12:00 Church Services
6:30 PM Training Union
ART EXHIBIT
Citizens of Oak Ridge are invited to an exhibition of modern colored lithographs by three well-known artists and examples of Mexican, Peruvian and East Indian Handweaving at the New Recreation Hall on Sunday, 30 January from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. There is no admission charge…
GIRLS BASKETBALL LEAGUE
There will be a meeting for the purpose of forming a basketball league, Wednesday, 2 Feb. ’44 at 7:30
All girls interested in this league, send your team manager to this meeting, after meeting, at the High School Rm. 164.
LET’S HAVE A PARTY:
The Women of Oak Ridge are entertaining themselves
at
A VALENTINE TEA
Place: New Recreation Building
Time: Monday, Feb. 14th, 3 to 4 or 4 to 5 pm
Pool the children and come in shifts. Ten cents each pays our way.
THE ONE THING TO WIN THIS WAR
This one thing is simply to deliver an honest day’s work wherever we are called to serve.
Honest work will WIN this war
Loafing will LOSE it.
The showdown will be whether Hitler
can DRIVE his men harder to work
than we are WILLING to work.
There is no to drive US —- we
must drive ourselves.
Let’s grasp time the by the forelock
instead of by the fatlock.
BALLROOM DANCING
The announcement last week about the Folk dancing at the High School Auditorium being followed by ballroom dancing for everyone turned out to be impracticable because the Folk Dancing classes were so enjoyable that it lasted way into the evening.
However plans are under way to hold ballroom classes free of charge…
TOWN MEETING BIG SUCCESS
Town Meeting last Monday night was characterized by the largest attendance and the most spirited discussion to date. Information was provided on the Oak Ridge Recreation and Welfare Association, on certain legal and political aspects of citizenship in this community and on the correct methods of heating private homes….A committee of five persons was appointed…to establish a Town Library…
NOTICE
The Record Group will hold their next meeting on Friday, 4 Feb. 191 Outer Drive. All members and anyone interested in record music are urged to be present. 8 P.M.
NEW STORE TO OPEN
The new Men’s Store on Tennessee Avenue will open on or about February 1st.
DO YOU KNOW ———-
Careless talk costs lives! That’s not a slogan ———- that’s a fact! There may be enemy agents and Axis sympathizers here collecting pieces of information revealed by scraps of conversation ——— putting those pieces together, ———- and perhaps informing saboteurs how to cripple war production. Some bit of information which you yourself think unimportant may be the key which will enable an agent to get the complete picture he’s looking for———that spy is waiting for you to let it slip….