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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1945
Page
7
A study note listing the June 17 lesson materials selected and used with permission by the International Council of Religious Education. The text outlines lesson subjects and scripture references included in the publication.
The lesson portrays the church as God’s fellowship of believers, bold in proclaiming the gospel despite persecution. It highlights obedience to God, a convicting message leading to mixed responses, the danger of compromise, and fearless witness as central to its mission.
At the June town board meeting 100 residents presented a petition asking the commissioners to establish a substitute bathing section between Laurel and Hickman streets. They urged equipping the fishermens boats area with proper bath facilities due to the wreckage of the freighter Thomas Tracy and another vessel offshore making the Brooklyn and Delaware avenues area unsafe.
Less than 24 hours after reporting her infant daughter's kidnapping Martha Handy 18 near Seaford was arrested Saturday on murder charges. The baby's body was recovered from the Nanticoke River at noon Saturday. The troopers say further details remain under investigation.
Police say Shirley Louise Handy was abducted Friday and later placed by the river’s bank where tides changed. An autopsy found water in the lungs and drowning listed as the cause. Mrs Handy, held without bail for the Sussex Court of Oyer and Terminer, married 10 months.
Maryland dispute between Eastern Shore oyster packers and AFL Local 453 hinges on whether a gallon of shucked oysters is eight or nine pints. Third Regional War Labor Board in Baltimore will decide. Panel suggests paying by the pint, setting rates at 7 1/2 to 7 2/3 cents per pint, totaling 60 or 67 2/3 cents per gallon.
In fall 1943 the Regional War Labor Board approved shucker and oyster man wages in Crisfield to be applied to any gallon size that is legal under Maryland law. The decision ends a long dispute over rate sizing for local oyster labor.
A train with 110 German war prisoners arrived in Chestertown last week, causing a commotion as the Germans left the cars.
A military escort of 21 men accompanied prisoners from a Virginia camp to a Starkey's Corner camp in Queen Annes county. The 176 prisoners for Kent and Queen Annes counties will be assigned 118 to farms, 44 to canneries, and four to camp duties. Some farm workers may be shifted during peak canning season.
Milton K. Fried, ex Delaware Coast News employee, told town commissioners at their June meeting Saturday of plans to start a weekly in Rehoboth Beach around July 1. He seeks space on the fire hall’s lower floor if the building is sold to finance a larger facility.
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