Ocean City Plans Opening Saturday For Summer
Mayor Clifford P. Cropper announces Ocean City will open as usual for the summer season this Saturday Memorial Day weekend. The town will host a Memorial Day parade Sunday afternoon. Ocean City’s hotels and boardwalk concessions are ready, sport fishing prizes of 150 and 100 dollars were approved, and patrols are on duty with many swimmers last weekend.
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Clifford P. Cropper
Ocean City
Cropper
Army
C. H. Abel
Port of
Baltimore
Urged to Save Young Forest Trees in Maryland
Maryland farmers are sacrificing woodland with little cash return by selling trees too small or too young. C F Winslow of the University of Maryland Extension Service says sales lacking a diameter limit or with a small minimum diameter leave only brush after harvest.
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Maryland
C. F. Winslow
University of Maryland Extension Service
Timber growth and Doyle rule cited by Winslow expert
Mr Winslow explains the Doyle rule as the timber sale unit in Maryland and the South noting a nine inch stump yields three board feet worth 2.1 cents while a fourteen inch stump yields 36 board feet worth 25.2 cents. He cites a $7 per thousand board feet value and a 1200 percent rise in volume and stumpage from small to large trees. He adds oaks need sixteen inch stumps loblolly pine fourteen inches and scrub pine twelve inches before cutting.
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Winslow
Government to buy frozen domestic refrigerators for war stock
The War Production Board announced that 660,000 domestic mechanical refrigerators in manufacturers and wholesale stock will be disposed of to the Government starting June 15. No rationing is planned. Civilian access remains for electrical refrigerators in retail stocks and those already in retailers inventories.
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War Production Board
WPB
Gas and kerosene refrigerators limited by payment status
The notice states which units were in stock or in transit as of February 1 and that only fully paid refrigerators may be delivered. Beginning June 15 manufacturers and distributors may fill government orders and sell to RFC agencies or honor WPB special purchase certificates.
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Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
Panama Canal
RFC
WPB
President approves housing funds increase
President Roosevelt approved legislation to raise FHA loan Insurance from 300 million to 800 million for defense worker housing. The repayment period for insured loans also increased from twenty to twenty five years.
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Roosevelt
Federal Housing Authority
War Production Board eases sale of certain firearms and supplies
The War Production Board released small gauge shotguns, odd caliber rifles, and some .22 caliber rifles for general sale to the public. Stocks of these weapons had been frozen since February 27. The board also allowed farmers and householders to buy wire fencing poultry netting fence posts gates staples and corrugated roofing.
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War Production Board
Navy Bureau notes housing, supplies costs and nautical facts
The board reports priority items due to constant use for homes and farms. Navy purchases for the year ending June 30, 1941 total about 2.2 trillion dollars. Navy housing units since 1940 total 17 500 at 3500 dollars each including site work. A father and seven sons serve in the Boiler Division aboard the same battleship. The Navy will use 74 million pounds of flour this year and sun interference affects land wire transmissions per the Naval Observatory.
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Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
U. S. Navy
Navy
Government fixes canners price level for vegetables
The Office of Price Administration set maximum prices at the canners level for thirty five canned vegetables while leaving wholesale and retail prices under the universal price ceiling. Retail and wholesale prices cannot exceed March levels though wholesale prices may be adjusted to prevent undue pressure on the retail structure. A floor will be set under the prices of the ten top vegetables guaranteeing canners ninety two percent of the ceiling if needed.
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Oyster Ground Application Advertised in Dorchester County
An advertisement for an oyster ground in Fishing Bay Dorchester County describes a 3 acre site on the easterly side near Island Creek entrance. Published chart No 41. fourth and final insertion appears June 5 1942. protests due 30 days after. Department of Tidewater Fisheries.
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Austin Dayton
Eliott
Fishing Bay
Island Creek
Dorchester County
Wanted: White woman seeks nurse position
Classified notice from 51441 seeking a practical nurse or child’s nurse. Indicates experience in both areas and provides contact as EASTON 1993 42842.
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Easton
Attractive Brass Finish Chain Fastener Now at Low Price
Real protection at the lowest cost with a sturdy chain fastener in an appealing brass like finish. Outstanding value expressed as a low price for practical security and style.
Government price program covers vegetables under ceiling and floor
The Agriculture department outlines price controls for ten vegetables with both ceiling and floor limits and twenty five more under price controls only. A cost support plan would have the government buy at ninety two percent of the ceiling if canners face higher costs and resell to wholesalers at a margin. Pumpkin and squash are included in the plan though not listed among specific covered commodities.
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Department of Agriculture
Canners Set Individual Maximum Prices Under New Ceiling
The new ceiling applies to hermetic sealed and glass packed vegetables with each cannery receiving a personal maximum. The price support applies only to canned foods and uses a formula based on the average price per dozen in the first sixty days of the 1941 season plus eight percent over 1941 raw commodity costs as of May 4 1942.
WPB Controls Salmon and Allied Canned Fish for Armed Forces
The War Production Board ordered the army and navy to have first access to all salmon sardines mackerel and Atlantic herring for canning this year. Canners must stockpile their entire pack for military use with civilian sales only possible on leftovers. The WPB also bans future sales of fourteen types of general industrial equipment such as elevators and electric devices.
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War Production Board
Army
Navy
United States
WPB
Motors and Industrial Equipment Tax Exemption Note
An exception was made for repair parts valued under $1 000 affecting motors over one horsepower industrial fans compressors and pumps indicating a limited exemption in the policy.
President Roosevelt seeks 27.5 million for censorship office
The president asks Congress to appropriate 27.5 million dollars for the Office of Censorship to operate in the new fiscal year starting July 1. The request aims to fund wartime information control and media review activities.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Office of Censorship
Win gate Girls 4 H Club Holds May Meeting
The Win gate Girls 4 H Club held its regular meeting on Monday May 18 with the group singing A Cherry Hello. Dues were paid and Mrs Powley was in charge teaching embroidery while the girls work on a patchwork quilt. Adell Lewis Reporter.
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Wingate
Oregon Battleship Becomes Portland Naval Museum
The historic battleship Oregon is preserved as a naval museum in Portland Oregon, offering visitors a glimpse into maritime heritage and naval history.
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The
Historic Battleship
Oregon
Naval
Portland
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