War Department owns and leases 19 million acres cited
Philadelphia reports Bertram B. Fowler notes in The Saturday Evening Post that the War Department controls 19,000,000 acres through ownership or leases, a vast area larger than several states. The piece explains the long planning behind siting ordnance plants and airfields, the disruption to farming communities, and the transformation of open lands into training centers and munitions factories since Pearl Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
War Department
New Jersey
Connecticut
Delaware
Massachusetts
Bertram B. Fowler
Saturday Evening Post
Nevada Desert
South Dakota
Hershey
Post
Pearl Harbor
Gratitude for British War Relief clothing shipped
Mrs. Alexander MacDonald, Bath War Relief chair, received thanks from Robert W. Mortimore for another consignment of children’s clothing to Britain. The note praises workmanship and urges continued shipments, with sewing groups led by Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Double at Grace Church Parish House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander MacDonald
Bath
British War Relief Society, Inc
State Street
Boston
MacDonald
Portland
Carroll Watson
William Double
Britain
London
Robert W. Mortimore
Bath area gets new top food prices from OPA
Prescott H. Vose announces ceiling prices for over 600 food items in Bath West Bath Brunswick Topsham and Freeport starts next Monday July 12. Four store groups OPA 1 2 3 4 set separate ceilings with sign posting. The move clarifies pricing by brand size and class aiding housewives with maximums while detailing rationed items and point values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Prescott H. Vose
Maine District Office of Price Administration
Maine
West Bath
Brunswick
Topsham
Freeport
Augusta
Brunswick-Bath
Office of Price Administration
Vose
OPA
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Sagadahoc County
City of
Town of
Brunswick - Topsham
Cumberland County
Funeral service for Elliot Harford held at First Baptist
Funeral services for Elliot Harford aged 18 were conducted Sunday at the First Baptist church with Rev. J. A. Beyea officiating. Bearers named, he died Thursday while driving a truck for Walter Powers. Burial in Oak cemetery. Relatives and Bath area friends attended. he was a son of Roland D. and Pearl Mains Harford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliot Harford
First Baptist Church
Bath
J. A. Beyea
Harry Carlisle
Alfred
Andrew Rowe
Charles Mains
Walter Powers
Walter Delano
U.S.N
William Harrison
Harlan Harford
Forrest Mains
Roland D
Pearl Mains Harford
Bath Iron Works
Oak Cemetery
OPA Rationing Rules Keep Ceiling Limits in Effect
The order states larger stores with lower ceilings must keep current ceilings and cannot use top prices listed Monday. A staff of price investigators will check stores with ceilings below new tops to ensure compliance. Sellers must clearly mark prices on items or shelves. Top prices apply only in this area. outside, existing ceilings remain in force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Brunswick native Air Force officer moved to island post
Roger Haile Warrant Officer USAF son of Mr and Mrs Jerry Haile of East Brunswick writes his parents he has been transferred and his new address is Somewhere on an Island South of the Equator. He was at Hickam field during the Japanese invasion and was in the thick of the fray. A Brunswick High School graduate and Bath Iron Works employee at enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Haile
U.S.A
Red Cross Publishes Prisoners of War Bulletin
The American Red Cross begins mailing the Prisoners of War Bulletin to next of kin of American military personnel civilian internees and merchant seamen reported as prisoners. It explains international treaties military communications limits and aims to deliver aid and comfort through food clothing and letters while maintaining effort to open relief channels in Europe and the Far East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
DD. C
American Red Cross
Prisoners of War Bulletin
Norman H. Davis
International Organization of the Red Cross
Red Cross
Europe
Far East
Gilbert Redfern
Bulletin
Commander Welling of Strong Reported Sunk
Commander Joseph Harold Welling of East Boston led the U S S Strong destroyer sunk by the Japanese Sunday night in the Kula Gulf area amid the Solomon Islands. He is a nephew of Lincoln Campbell of Five Islands and one of four Annapolis graduate brothers serving as air officers. no details on his fate have been released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Harold Welling
East Boston
U. S.S
Strong
Kula Gulf
Solomon Islands
Lincoln Campbell
Five Islands
Comdr. Welling
Bath
Sebasco Lodge
U.S. S
Annapolis
United States Navy
Augustus
Timothy
Albert
Boston
Navy Department
Cmdr
Welling
Personal notes from local readers on summer plans and visits
Miss Gloria Wilson, 24 Elsinore Avenue, will spend the summer at Camp Laughing Soon on Little Ossipee Lake and return home August 25. Miss Jean Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stone of Portland, arrived Wednesday for a several day visit with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. David Y. Alkazin, on Washington Street. Mrs. Evelyn Farrington of Oxford returned Tuesday after a weekend and holiday visit with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Y. Alkazin, on Washington Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robinhood Church
Charles L. Kinney
George Powers
Robert Powers
Winifred Robishaw
Eugene
Doris Reynolds
Robbie Jordan
J. A. Beyea
First Baptist Church
Five Island Church
Ralph Davis
Bath Iron Works
Martha Bowen
Charles
Meta Bearce
Malden
A. E. Rowe
Bath
Bearce Cottage
William Zorach
Brooklyn
Robinhood
Maureen Davis
Raphael Higgins
Sagadahoc Bay
Charles Mains
George Loveitt
Georgetown
Armed Service
Lillian Morse
Portland
Addie Moulton
Kenneth L. Wyman
George Laskey
Mere Point
Russell Harlow
Benjamin Riggs
Dorothy Oliver
Kingston
Mass
Joseph Higgins
W. A. Todd
Lloyd Edwards
Skowhegan
Stanley Flewelling
Phil Calhoun
Bridgeport
Nye
Guy Easter
Bangor
Gloria Wilson
Elsinore Avenue
Little
Ossipee Lake
Jean Stone
Fred Stone
Porthend
David Y. Alkazin
Washington Street
Evelyn Farrington
Oxford
Five Islands welcomes new pastor and social notes
The Five Islands column reports Rev. J. A. Beyea delivering his first sermon to a warm audience. Singers Rev. E. A. Spencer and J. F. Graves offered selections. The week includes christening of Mariam Elizabeth Roy with Rev. Daniel W. Staffeld officiating. A social hour followed as Mrs. Luke Roy hosted.
David Greenleaf Visits Sedgwick in Tekamah Nebraska
David Greenleaf of Tekamah Nebraska is passing a week at the Sedgwick hotel or location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Greenleaf
Tekamah, Neb
Sedgwick
Ensign Wysor and Mrs Wysor Guests of Parents
Ensign Philip D. Wysor of the U S N R and U S N Air Corps with Mrs Wysor are guests of Mrs Wysor's parents on ington street before returning to Easton Pennsylvania for the remainder of his leave with his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Wysor. Mrs Wysor, formerly Miss Marie Merrill, has been visiting for two weeks and was joined by her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip D. Wysor
U. S. N. Air Corps
Wysor
Marie Merrill
Bath
Rugged Training Toughens Up Soldier Boys
A wartime letter from Bowdoinham's Roland W Cornish to 1st Sgt Stanley A Cornish describes tough AA training at Camp Stewart Georgia in 1943. He notes 18 and 19 year olds undergoing grueling 15 mile drills and infiltration courses with barbed wire fox holes and gas exposure. He shares daily duties, mentions assignments, and hopes for a July or August transfer while hinting at home life in Bath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland W. Cornish
Bowdoinham
Stanley A. Cornish
A.A.A
Camp Stewart
Georgia
Stewart
Dad
Bath
QIL AND BEER CANS ARE NOT WANTED
Bath announces its tin can collection in early August and bans oil cans and beer cans. Salvage chairman John Parker warns housewives and firms that oil, varnish, and conical beer cans cannot be used as detinning requires oil-free, label-free, flattened cans. Laura Eldridge returns to Orono after a visit with her mother on Dummer Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
John Parker
Parker
Laura Eldridge
Maine
Orono
Minnie Eldridge
Dummer Street
Mrs Hill and Son Return Home from Visit in Conn
Mrs William Hill and her son Donald have returned to their home in Naugatuck Connecticut after visiting Mrs Hill's parents Mr and Mrs William W Robinson on White Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hill
Donald
Naugatuck
Conn
Hill
William W. Robinson
White Street
Obituary of Ralph E. Sanborn Bath Resident Dies at 71
Ralph E. Sanborn 71 died suddenly Wednesday morning at 356 Middle Street Bath after 11 years here. Born in Waldo to George and Elvira Sanborn he formerly headed Edison Electric Co Brookline Division. He lived in Allston before moving to Bath and is survived by his widow and sister Mrs H K Gurney Belfast plus several nieces and nephews. He belonged to Hamden Lodge No 27 LOOF Springfield and Bethesda Lodge Masons Brighton. Funeral Friday at two from his late home conducted by Rev Frederick P Moffatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph E. Sanborn
Middle Street
Waldo
George and
Elvira Peabody Sanborn
Sanborn
Bath
Edison Electric Co
Brookline
Allston
Mass
H. K. Gurney
Belfast
Hamden Lodge
Springfield
Bethesda Lodge of Masons
Brighton
Frederick P. Moffatt
Asing
Edward E Baker funeral held in Bowdoin
Funeral services for Edward E. Baker were conducted Thursday at 2 pm from his Bowdoin home with Rev Arthur E Darby of Lisbon Falls Baptist Church officiating. Masonic bearers from Litchfield Lodge attended and burial followed in Litchfield Corner cemetery. Out of town mourners included Ralph Baker and son of Lexington Albra Small Clarence Smith Walter Grover and Mabel Grover of Lisbon Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward E. Baker
Bowdoin
Arthur E. Darby
Baptist Church
Lisbon Falls
Litchfield
Sheldon Rites Held For Kenneth Pushard Sheldon
Funeral services for Kenneth Pushard Sheldon aged 37 who died Monday of last week were held Thursday in the Congregational church in Falmouth. Mass burial followed in Oak Grove cemetery in Falmouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Pushard Sheldon
Congregational Church
Falmouth
Oak Grove
Rain Postpones Sterling Bible Class Picnic Night
The Sterling Bible Class of Corliss Street church postponed its planned Monday lawn picnic followed by the vestry meeting due to a rainstorm and rescheduled for next Monday night. Each member will bring a lunch and beverage. the business meeting will proceed as planned in the evening.
Misses Barbara Allard and others disrupt holiday week at Pop ham Beach collage
Four women named Barbara Allard Carolyn Oliver Hellen Joy and Betty Downing caused a disturbance during a holiday week at a collage on Pop ham Beach drawing local notices and police attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Allard
Carolyn Oliver
Hellen Joy
Betty Downing
Popham Beach
Also Mentioned on This Page
British War Relief Headquarters
C.P.A
U. S. Army
Lake Childress
Tex
Next of Kin
E. A. Spencer
J. F. Graves
Luke Roy
Mariam Elizabeth
D. W. Staffeld
Marion Stevens
Orville Rowe
Lermond Davis
Marie Rittall
Horace Rittall
Albert Moore
Henry Moore
Charles L. Berry
Rittall
Peggy Gray
Harold Pinkham
Pvt. Moore
Chattanooga
Tenn
Moore
Dudley S. Leavitt
Barbara Tasker
Nathalie Hall
Patten
Hutchins
Edgecomb
Warner Eustis
Newton
Ledgewood
Hallowell
Robert McLaren
Beulah Miller
Frank MacMahan
Lucille
Somerville
Harmon's Harbor
Francis Bacon
Peter
South Sudbury
L. H. Rowe
J. G. Stevens
Paul Thompson
Howard Bacon
Sudbury
Sedgemere
William McGrath
Nat Hassenius
Seguinland
Rosemary and
Ellen Cuningham
Elizabeth Murphy
Cunningham Cottage
E. C. Clarey
Five Island
Philip Campbell, Jr
Richard
Southbridge
East Boothbay
Carl Welling
Weymouth
P. B. Savage
Harriet Worrel
G. P. Worrell
Anna Worrell
Ralph Worrell
George Hennan
Nellie E. Coombs
Cambridge
Everett Hennan
Frank Currie
Mrs Hennan
Edward EF. Buker
K. P. Sheldon Funeral
Lambert Park
Memorial Hospital
Pine
Washington Streets
Edward N. Hartnett
Fred S. Curtis & CO
Thomas R. Huston
Washington St
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