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Newspaper
Cambridge Tribune
Location
Cambridge, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1944
Page
1
A column argues congressmen cannot live on 10000 yearly pay and proposes raising payroll to 15000000 total to allow 25000 annual salaries. It contends higher pay would attract a better class of candidates and reduce dependence on side incomes. Continued on Page Three.
Government coal officials warned of a 6 million ton deficit in domestic anthracite this winter vs 5 million last year. Secretary Ickes issued a price restriction to conserve stock as production runs below 90 percent of needs. A six week strike in Shenandoah area worsened supply while domestic sizes should rise to 87 percent of requirements.
The Federal Fish and Wildlife Service clarifies 1944 45 duck hunting rules with a Q A format. Daily bag remains ten with an extra five mallards widgeons or pintails allowed. full limits for canvasbacks redheads buffleheads. one wood duck daily and possession. total possession twenty with ten mallards widgeons or pintails. geese limits unchanged two daily four possession for Canadian geese and brant.
Maryland set a 1945 wheat acreage goal of 419 000 acres approved by War Food Administrator Marvin Jones. The target exceeds this year’s planting by 30 000 acres and relies on farmer reports to the Agricultural Adjustment Agency. The national 1945 goal is 68 640 000 acres to balance production with other crops and meet wartime needs.
Three Maryland Eastern Shore counties Worcester Wicomico and Somerset declared a three day emergency to release imported and migratory workers plus war prisoners for cannery labor to reduce tomato backlog. War manpower officials push women to peel and skin tasks as migrant arrivals from North Carolina and the South expected. 1,300 prisoners already employed in canneries.
L. Roy Willis Sr. was unanimously elected president of the Maryland Delaware and District of Columbia Elks Association for the coming year at Salisbury’s Twenty fourth Annual Convention. Easton was chosen as the 1945 convention city. The award honored work by H. N. Firstroan as Easton Exalted Ruler. The gathering included Grand Lodge officers and District Deputy Grand Exalted Rulers Mosner and Matthews.
Funds allocated to the Maryland Farm Security Administration for the 1944 45 fiscal year will allow about eleven farm tenant families to become farm owners. The state's allocation totals $77 876.
Congress advances toward peacetime economy with three paths: a surplus property plan in the House with a single administrator, a Senate surplus measure with an eight member board, and re training and unemployment provisions in a separate bill. Key disagreement centers on administration structure and how to dispose of government assets and assist small business after the war.
A Maryland conference at College Park reviewed AAA soil conservation and war food production recommendations from farmers. A technical committee approved the farmers decisions and proposed new methods for consideration. Farmers voted on their recommendations at recent meetings.
OPA Administrator Chester Bowles said postwar ceilings will likely rise about 10 percent above prewar for items such as autos and appliances. He noted wage and material costs will push prices up, while efficiency gains may lower some ceilings, and warned against inflationary excess mirroring 1919.
Maryland based servicemen and women will receive absen tee ballot forms and information to vote in the November elections. Fort Meade officials said all soldiers and WACs will have a form by Saturday with distribution handled by post voting officers, center voting supervisors, and company or command officers. forms are postage free and surplus kept for new arrivals.
War Food Administration ordered Federally inspected slaughterers to set aside about one third of pork output for military and navy use starting August 27. Officials said this wartime measure aims to meet armed forces needs during a pork shortage expected until hog prices rebound in October. Slaughterers also reserve about half their beef for the armed forces, potentially reducing civilian meat supply and raising ration point values.
The Petroleum Administration for War bans shipments of residual and industrial fuel oil from West Coast states. Effective September 15, the order covers Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona and 20 Idaho counties and targets delivery to the continental United States. It seeks to boost refinery efficiency in Wyoming and Montana for war needs.
A bill from Senators Radcliffe and Bailey proposes disposing of the wartime merchant fleet at 100 dollars per deadweight ton for Liberty ships. It sets sale and charter rules for vessels built since 1941, allows charter rents up to 12 percent of value, and offers purchase terms of one eighth down for Americans while non-citizens must pay cash or may charter.
Farmers should obtain a county office recommendation to the War Production Board for authorization to purchase hay drying equipment. The Maryland Agricultural Extension Service engineering staff should assist in drafting specifications to fit farm use amid wartime production delays.
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