Ft Miles Army Team Clashes Dentonians Sunday
Manager Neal gears up June schedule for Ft Miles Georgetown and Westover teams with ex Bridgeville star Matt Quillen slated to pitch Sunday at 2 30 against the Dentonians. Dentonians edged Nuttles 5 1 last Sunday in a competitive showdown led by a balanced Nuttle squad.
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Neal
Dratorians
Ft. Miles
Georgetown
Westover
Matt Quillen
Bridgeville
Dentonians
Old Dobbin
Denton
Charles Wimbrow
Nuttle
Martin C Voss Named To Head Delmarva Cooperative
Martin C Voss named to head the Delmarva Cooperative Inc as plans advance to expand a charter and elect officers. Baltimore meeting elected leaders from local electric cooperatives and area towns to push consumer ownership of the utility.
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Martin C. Voss
Delmarva Cooperative, Inc
Cooperatvve
Faskin Shoe Public Service Company
Baltimore
Qual Electric
Martin Cross
Denton
Chontank Electric Cooperative
Granville Hooper
Cambridge
James W. W Baker
Georgetown
Delaware Rural Electric Association
Brantley S. Bloxom
Mappsville
Accomac-Northampton Electric Cooperative
Virginia
Godfrey Child
Pocomoke City
Cola Dolby
Laurel
John P. Tawes
Crisfield
Feed Mixing Plant To Be Located On The Eastern Shore
A committee forms to establish a feed grinding and mixing facility for cooperative stores on the Eastern Shore. The plant will stock carload ingredients and produce four or five formulas to ease rationing, with operation aimed before July 1. Members include Martin Sutton Ridgely coordinator and coop managers from Chestertown Easton Denton Centreville and Salisbury not represented.
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Denton
Chestertown
Martin Sutton
Ridgely
Eastern Shore
Farm Bureau Cooperative Service
Harry Morris
Chestertown Cooperative
Julian Bramwell
Easton Cooperative
Norman Sutton
Denton Cooperative
William Thomas
Centreville Cooperative
Howard Leverton
Charles I. Boyles
Harry H. Nuttle
Farmer's Supply Company of
Francis Shillinger
Youngest Fort Custer OCS graduate serves as military police officer
Lt. Robert A. Satterfield of Ridgely is the youngest officer ever to graduate from Officer Candidate School at Fort Custer Michigan. He entered the army on his 18th birthday January 1941 and received his commission December 31 1942. Now stationed at Fort Custer as instructor and observer in the OCS Military Police he married Mary Hall of Chattanooga Tennessee on January 1 of this year. Youth will be served.
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Fort Custer
Mich
Robert A. Satterfield
Edwin Satterfield
Ridgely
Satterfield
Army
National Guard
OCS
Mary Hall
Chattanooga
Tenn
Service Shorts Pvt Irwin sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground
Denton native Norman H. Irwin has been posted to the Ordnance Replacement Training Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland to begin basic training as an Ordnance soldier. George G Betton son of Mr and Mrs William Betton has been promoted to private first class. He was recently in Boston and is a 1940 Caroline High School graduate who worked at the Nylon Plant in Seaford before enlisting in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman H. Irwin
Denton
Ordnance Replacement Training Center
Aberdeen Proving Ground
George G. Betton
William Betton
Boston
Mass
Betton
Pete
Caroline High School
Seaford
Army
Instructor Set Carlton West Jr in U S Army Air Corps
Carlton V West Jr son of the Caroline County Register of Wills enlisted in July 1942. A former leader in final assembly at the Glenn L Martin plant Baltimore he had worked there two years. He now serves as a drill instructor in the Air Corps based at Clearwater Florida and is 22 years old.
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Set
Carlton V. West Jr
Register of Wills
Caroline County
C. V. West
U. S. Army Air Corps
Glenn L. Martin
Baltimore
Air Corps
Clearwater
Fla
Field Hospital Letter From North Africa Soldier
Mrs. Pearl Cahall receives a letter from Frank serving in North Africa praising field hospital care in April 1943. He describes a three hour sleep, a lingering fever, and his optimism about recovery. He commends the Red Cross nurses and doctors for their help and the ward staff for providing comforts.
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Pearl Cahall
Goldsboro
Frank
North Africa
Red Cross
Brothers Killed Set in Service From Hooversville Pa
Vernon A. Zimmerman and 2nd Lt. Cloyd D. Zimmerman, sons of Mr and Mrs Fred Zimmerman of Hooversville, Pa, and grandsons of Mr and Mrs Hiram Geistel, were killed in the service. Less than 21 hours after Lt Zimmerman’s May 17 death in an airplane crash in Tennessee, the War Department notified that Sgt Zimmerman died overseas. The brothers enlisted with the Denton National Guard on October 16, 1940, the first selective registration day, leaving four surviving brothers in the service: George in the Navy at Portsmouth Rhode Island, Harry in the Army at Camp Polk Louisiana, John in the Navy at Jacksonville Florida, and Charles in the Navy in the South Pacific.
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Vernon A. Zimmerman
Cloyd D. Zimmerman
Fred Zimmerman
Hooversville
Hiram Geistel
Cloyd Geisel
Denton
Zimmerman
Tennesee
War Department
Letter Can Win Trip To Ship Launching
Wartime story contest invites farm women on REA powered lines to submit letters detailing how electricity aided food production. Best entry earns an all expenses paid trip to christen the Liberty Ship SS J. D. Ross in mid July, with ceremony led by REA and U S Maritime officials. Letters should show personal wartime farm work on Choptank Electric Cooperative lines, addressing efficiency, gardens, poultry, dairies, and production gains. Submit to Choptank Electric Cooperative in Denton Maryland for judging.
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Rural Electrification Administration
U. S. Maritime Commission
REA
Harry Slattery
J. D. Ross
Pacific Northwest
Bonneville Power Administration
Choptank Electricc Cooperative, Inc
Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc
Denton
Maryland
J. D. Boss
Observation Tower Planned On Denton Lot
An observation post will rise on the First Methodist Church lot in Denton with help from the town commission, the Rotary club, and others. Staff Sgt. Richard P. Tickle spoke locally to drum up support for a 25 foot tower and 10 foot square shelter on a concrete base costing about $1,000. City officials will cover half the cost, with Rotary and citizens contributions to follow. Chief Observer Edwin Thachey, assisted by George W. Becker and Miss Bessie M. Spafford, will lead the project, Byron Poore of Greensboro serves as area supervisor. Men will work nights and women during the day in four hour shifts.
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Denton
First Methodist Church
Denton Rotary Club
Richard P. Tickell
First Fighter Command
Baltimore
Dentom
Rotary Club
Edwin Thachey
George W. Becker
Bessie M. Spafford
Byron Poore
Greensboro
New Law Affects Rural Schools by Enrollment Rules
A new Maryland law set by State Senator Wilmer Fell Davis and signed by Governor Herbert R. OConor governs pupil numbers for two, three, and four teacher schools. It allows two-room schools with attendance between 35 and 39 pupils to remain as two-teacher schools, impacting many rural communities.
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State Senate
Wilmer Fell Davis
Federalsburg
Herbert R. O’conor
Miriam Clopper Ig Wins Goldey College Scholarship
Miss Miriam Clopper of Denton, a 1943 Tri-County High School graduate, won a victory scholarship at Goldey College Wilmington sponsored by Wilmington Trust Company. The award, part of 31 scholarships by 16 Wilmington firms, guarantees office employment after training. Clopper held student offices, edited the Yearbook, and starred in ping-pong and softball. she is daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas H Clopper.
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Miriam Clopper
Denton
Tri-County High School
Goldey College
Wilmington
Delaware
Jay W. Miller
Wilmington School
Wilmington Trust Company
Golden College
Miss Clopper
Thomas H. Clopper
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Tribbitt
Cole
Scurto
Hughes
Trice
Weir
Andrews
Wright
DePew
Wyatt
North If
Yeager
Bennington
Redden
D Lane
Fleetwood
Ottwell
Rf Kaufman
Dodd
Darling
Benning
Short
Jopp
Patterson Kaufman
Louise Chaffinch
Henry Ostermann
June Hollister
Eugene Collison
Rebecca Betton
Paul Stafford
Earle DeFord
Mildred Butler
John Shaffer
Mary Catherine Crouse
John Lester Everngam Jr
Laura Clendaniel
Edwin Wuerstlin
Ella Marie Brown
Kenneth Gelletly
Mary Louise Hignutt
Roland Lee Johnson
Betty Mae Jester
James Emerson
Emory Jones
Audrey Tribbitt
Harold Krabill
Audrey Adams
Robert Good
Joyce Brittingham
Earl Lord
Sara Roe
Roland Vickery
Beatrice MacDonald
Mary Alice Smith
Elizabeth Murphy
Robert Palmer
George Beck Jr
Esther Smith
Daniel Horsey
Warren Martin
William Reed
Barbara Butler
George Shaffer
Catherine Mae West
Anthony Ostermann
Robert Lane
Richard North
Walter Palmer Jr
Robert Taylor
Harold Bullock
Helen June Booth
Thomas Turkington
Harry Hughes
Mary Anna Perry
Walter Patrick
John Howard Jr
Doris Cahall
Audrey Bullock
Charlotte Ann Smith
Eva Kaufman
Betty Ashe
Det. Dilmilliva
Vienna
Kres
Eastern Shore Public Service Company
Delmarva Cooperative
Salisbury
Securities Exchange Commission
Caroline Service News
Burnley Wyset
Thomas Wyatt
England
Dad
Mary
O. K
Raughley
Robert Calloway
Thomas
Burnley
Wm. B. Wyatt
Co . M
New York
N. Y
New LawHits Schools
Miriam Clopper Ig
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