Five Delmarva Towns Seek Cooperative Purchase of Utility
Delmarva Cooperative Inc led by five Delmarva towns and four rural cooperatives aims to bid with the SEC to buy the Eastern Shore Public Service System. H Warren Buckler said the plan envisions public ownership, with Vienna power plant and high voltage lines owned by the cooperative and towns served via rural coops. Estimated asset cost is 13 to 14 million dollars with towns under 2,500 expected to be unprofitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delmarva Peninsula
Delmarva Cooperative, Inc
Eastern Shore Public Service System
H. Warren Buckler
Baltimore
Securities and Exchange Commission
Pocomoke
Crisfield
Cambridge
Maryland
Laurel
Georgetown
Delaware
Salisbury
SEC
Vienna
Peninsula
Virginia
Delmarva
Dentonians Beat Felton 5-4 in Ten Innings
The Denton Baseball Club edged Felton 5 to 4 Sunday afternoon in ten innings. Joe Scurto singled with two outs in the tenth to drive in Wright for the winning run as Thawley pitched nine innings before Wright closed. Wright was the winning pitcher with Davidson taking the loss. Local game notes mention Dentonians next play the Nuttle Lumber and Coal Co’s team this Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Felton
Hoop Thawley
Postles
Davidson
Thawley
Paul Wright
Joe Scurto
Wright
Denton Ab. R. H. Po
A. Tribbitt
W. Thawley
Andrews
Nuttle
Scurto
Trice
DePew
H. Thawley
Cole
Felton Ab. R. H. Po. A. Killen
Roe
Brown
Tso Dill
P Lf
van Sant
Widdoes
Gorman
Killen
Dill
Neal
Dentonians
Nuttle Lumber & Coal Co
Caroline Service News In England Set
Jesse J. Blazejak son of Mr and Mrs Michael Blezejak of near Williston has served eight months with the American Armed Forces in England He entered the service with the Baltimore National Guard while employed at Fence and Rail Metal Works of Baltimore He had been a member of the Caro line and the Wicomico National Guards before removing to Baltimore Sergeant Blazejak has a brother Pvt Edward Blazejak in the service Two other brothers Leo and Joseph are Caroline county farmers and a fourth Henry M Blazejak is manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company store in Denton
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse J. Blazejak
Michael Blezejak
Williston
England
Baltimore National Guard
Fence
Baltimore
Caroline
Wicomico National Guards
Sergeant Blazejak
Pvt
Edward Blazejak
Leo
Joseph
Caroline County
Henry M. Blazejak
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Denton
Service Shorts and Promotives From Local Service Members
Service notes report Pvt Robert E Heather completing eight weeks at Camp Lee Va and arriving at Camp Campbell Ky to join the 341st Quartermaster Depot. Cpl Dawson Cohee of the Medical Corps transfers to a portable Surgical Hospital after serving in Australia a year. Buck Willis of Denton Md earns Private First Class rank after five months at Camp Rucker Ala and Rangers course. Edwin Gelletty USNR instructs marine students near Williston Md. Pfe Carroll George visits Denton from Sioux Falls S D after duty with the Army Air Forces. Lieut D Orme George on leave from Waycross Ga visits his parents. Pvt Mervin Tribbitt hosts a weekend homecoming in Ridgely. Ensign W A Stewart Wright USNR and Mrs Wright visit Mrs J Frank Wright. James W Jopp USNR takes a six day leave in Denton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Heather
J. Tyson Heather
Marydel
Quartermaster Training
Camp Lee
Robert
Camp Campbell
341St Quartermaster Depot
Fred Cohee
Cpl
Dawson Cohee
Medical Corps
Cohee
States
Australia
Charles “Buck” Willis
Denton
Camp Rucker
Ala
Buck
Rangers
Nashville
Tenn
Edwin Gelletty
Williston
Henson Airport
Hagerstown
Pfe. J. Carrol
George
U. S. Army Air Forces
Sioux Falls
S. D
D. Orme George
U. S S. Army Air Corps
Waycross
Dawson O. George
Pvt
Mervin Tribbitt
Ridgely
Bernadine Roe
Ensign W. A. Stewart Wright
USNR
Wright
Baltimore
J. Frank Wright
James W. Jopp
F.M
Bainbridge Naval Accounting Course Letter Home
Wesley E Thawley Jr writes from Bainbridge in May 1943 while in a sixteen week Naval Accounting course hoping for Storekeeper 3c rating. He notes new service schools, sports stars like Wally Berger and Adolf Kiefer, recreation facilities, early wake times, physical training, supervised study, mud commuting, and optimism about returning home in seven or eight months for a ball club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doc
Denton Journal
Belve
Caroline Service News
Naval Accounting
Storekeeper
Wally Berger
Gene Wake
Adolf Kiefer
California
Florida
Sugar for canning stamps 15 and 16 become valid
Beginning last Monday, stamps 15 and 16 in ration book one allow five pounds of sugar each for home canning. The OPA said families needing more than ten pounds per person for home canning may apply to local ration boards for extra allowances. The provision does not affect the regular sugar rationing program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Stores Set to Close Wednesday Afternoons This Summer
Local stores and business houses will close on Wednesday afternoons during June July and August starting June 2. A complete list of cooperating stores and their closing times is provided elsewhere in this issue.
Girl Hurt In Eastern Shore Farm Accident
Miss Della Sculley of Henderson was seriously injured in the season’s first farming accident on the Eastern Shore. While driving a team hitched to a land roller on Norman Seward’s Henderson-area farm, frightened horses ran away, throwing her. She suffered bilateral leg fractures, a skull concussion, and other injuries. Dr. C. H. Stonesifer treated her and she was taken by ambulance to Easton Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Della Sculley
Henderson
Miss Sculley
Norman Seward
C. H. Stonesifer
Greensboro
Easton Hospital
Two Sergeants Get Commissions In Maryland Guard
Members of Company A of the Carroll County unit of the Maryland State Guard prepare to join other units at Camp Meade for an eight day encampment beginning July 24. Sergeant T Carville Fleetwood of Denton and Sergeant Andy Richardson of Federalsburg were commissioned second lieutenants on May 17 at the Denton armory meeting. Sergeant Stevens Brown was made acting staff sergeant and Corporal Fred G Asilton was made acting sergeant. Maj. George W. Clendaniel and Capt. Wilbert L. Merriken serve as officers of the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline County
Fifth Battalion
Maryland State Guard
Camp Meade
T. Carville Fleetwood
Denton
Andy Richardson
Federalsburg
Sergt
Stevens Brown
Fred G. Asilton
George W. Clendaniel
Wilbert L. Merriken
PFC Woodrow Pass Returns to Camp Hood Texas
Private First Class Woodrow Pass waters son of Mr John Passwaters returns to Camp Hood Texas after an 11 day furlough with relatives and friends He underwent six weeks infantry training at Fort McClellan Alabama and was later transferred to Camp Hood to attend Officers Candidate School He previously lived with his uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Isaac Noble before induction
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Passwaters
John Passwaters
Camp Hood
Texas
Woody
Fort McClellan
Alabama
Isaac Noble
More Gasoline For Farmers Soon
Immediate relief for Maryland farmers from the gasoline famine is being rushed through several mediums. Rationing boards will review all B, C and T rations to cut allowances to the minimum, freeing more gasoline for farm tractors, farm trucks and milk carriers. Gasoline quotas for transportation agencies have been reduced by forty percent to divert supply to nonhighway farm uses. County War Boards are urged to emphasize farm cooperation and to request additional T rations only when necessary, reviewed by County Farm Transportation Committees. Leo H. McCormick ordered filling stations to honor one coupon on A, B and C holders if tanks are less than one quarter full.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Joseph H. Blandford
United States Department of Agriculture War Board
State War Board
Leo H. McCormick
Denton Bankers Attend Maryland Convention in Baltimore
Orme elected alongside Nuttle Smith Croll and Orme to represent The Peoples Bank of Denton at the Maryland Bankers Association forty eighth annual convention at the Emerson Hotel. At a supplemental Maryland American Bankers Association meeting, E Theodore Orme cashier of The Peoples Bank of Denton was chosen vice president of the state bank division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry H. Nuttle
H. Earle Smith
William Croll
E. Theodore Orme
Peoples Bank of Denton
Maryland Banker’s Association
Emerson Hotel
Baltimore
Maryland
American Bankers Association
Maryland Bankers Association
State Bank
Bicyclist Hurt In Denton Oil City Crash
Earl Shaffer 16 son of Mr and Mrs Charles Shaffer was seriously hurt Wednesday night when struck by a car driven by Robert Anthony on the highway between Denton and Oil City. He was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hospital Easton Md for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Shaffer
Charles Shaffer
Denton
Oil City
Robert Anthony
Memorial Hospital
Easton
Graduation Exercises At Caroline High School Denton
Denton held graduation exercises last Friday evening with 59 graduates, the largest class in the school's history. J Virgil Moore of the Caroline County Board of Education presented diplomas as T Conover Crouse awarded prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Virgil Moore
Denton
Board of Education
Caroline County
Caroline High School
T. Conover Crouse
Helen June Booth
John Everngain
James David Emerson
Barbara Jean Butler
Harold Bullock
Harry Roe Hughes
Earl Lord
Ella Marie Brown
Robert Palmer
Federalsburg High School Class of 1942 Pageant Graduates
Federalsburg and Ridgeley high schools held graduation ceremonies with pageants. Federalsburg awarded 32 diplomas in a four act pageant The Four Freedoms with named narrators and speakers J Jerome Frampton presented diplomas and several special awards were given. Ridgeley noted a post war pageant America What next with diplomas presented by Roger R Ringgold and prizes awarded by Clement H Noble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgely High School
Francis J. Hensel
Grece Club
Barbara Lane
Miriam H. Butler
America
Roger R. Ringgold
Clement H. Noble
Teressa Wood
Charles Magrogan
J. W. Zehring
Preston High School Class of 1943 Graduation Program
Preston class of 1943 held graduation exercises Friday May 21 in the high school auditorium with eight narrators. Diplomas were awarded by J Jerome Frampton Jr of the Board of Education. Prizes and scholastic honors went to Joseph Mueller Anna Brauchle Harry Rieck Fred Schmick. diplomas presented by Roger Ringgold. The program featured invocations addresses glee club performances and the Star Spangled Banner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Mueller
Anna Burklew
Fred Schmick
Grace Fearins
Mary Murphy
Harry Rieck
Anna Brauchle
Betty Jane Philp
J. Jerome Frampton Jr
Board of Education
Miss Thelma
R. W. Kirwan
Irene Dobson
America
Patrick Henry
William Flowers
Abraham Lincoln
Francis Porte
Borland
Connie Taylors Glee Club
Edward Bok
Ruth McCrea
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kathleen Draper
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert Kirwan
Glee Club
Dorothy Thompson
Doris Ann Wyatt
Lieberman
Lillian Breeding
Warren G. Harding
Willard Smith
Roger R. Ringgold
Caroline County School Board
G. Linden Duffey
Greensboro High School
Rensselaer Institute of New York
Constance Taylor
Anna Lee Wood
Betsy Ann Taylor
Mary Grey
A. L. Grey
Fire destroys farm dwelling on Harrington property
Fire swept the Harlan Harrington farm between Downes Station and Ridgely at 1:30 a m Thursday last week destroying the farmhouse and barns. The Ridgely Fire Company fought the blaze and saved two small buildings. The unoccupied house is now owned by Mr Harry Rieck of Preston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlan Harrington
Downes’ Station
Ridgely
Ridgely Fire Company
Harry Rieck
Preston
Memorial Day Service Cancelled in Denton Cemetery
Memorial Day observance in Denton on Memorial Sunday May 30th is discontinued for the duration by Caroline Council No 175 Jr. Order United American Mechanics due to wartime gas rationing and shortages of Brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Caroline Council
No. 175
United American Mechanics
Meeting on Eastern Shore feed shortage today in Denton
A dinner meeting of officials from five Eastern Shore Maryland cooperative stores is held in Denton to discuss a local feed grinding and mixing plant. The plan aims to supplement curtailed supplies by buying ingredients in carload lots and grinding locally for distribution to cooperatives and farmers amid the poultry and livestock feed shortage. Attending will be leaders from Denton Salisbury Easton Centreville and Chestertown along with Maryland Farm Bureau representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Denton
Frederick
Richard Blackburn
Ridgely
Farmers’ Supply Company of
Blackburn
C. E. Wise
Baltimore
Maryland Farm Bureau
Martin Sutton
Farm Bureau
Salisbury
Easton
Centreville
Chestertown
Passwater dies suddenly at 62 in Maryland
Everett Passwater aged 62 of near Anderson town Maryland died Saturday afternoon of a heart attack. He was in ill health for years and survived by his wife Ida and children Theodore Ralph Catherine Mary Jane Gilbert Betty Hazel Edna Davis and Marie Passwater. Funeral services Tuesday at Bloomery Methodist Church with Rev. Schauer officiating. interment in the adjoining cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Passwater
Ida D. Passwater
Andersontown
Jesse
Eliza Passwater
Theodore
Ralph
Catherine
Mary Jane
Gilbert
Betty
Hazel Passwater
Edna Davis
Denton
Marie Passwater
Easton
Bloomery Methodist Church
Schauer
Mrs Helen Perry Dies After Illness In West Denton
Mrs Helen Perry 39 wife of Fisher Perry died Wednesday morning at her parents home Mr and Mrs Frank Wright in West Denton after a long illness Funeral services will be at 2 PM Saturday at the Wright home with burial in Denton cemetery She is survived by her husband her parents and two small children
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Perry
Fisher Perry
Frank Wright
West Denton
Wright
Denton
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Wewsba
Inga
Bainbridge
Wesley E. Thawley Jr
Orme
Federalsburg High School
Elizabeth Collins
Voice of Freedom
May Reta Kent
Dorothy Meredith
Virginia Capps
Clair Hallowell
J. Jerome Frampton
Francis Wright
Mary Ruth Wheatley
Dorothy Dietrich
Corrine Webb
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