Meeting Places Chosen for AAA Vote Across Districts
Farmers coast to coast head to polls for AAA committeemen to run the program for the coming year. The Maryland State Committee urges voting tonight December 6 at district sites from Eden Hall Henderson to Red Men's Hall Federalsburg and Ridgely Fire House. Delegates meet December 7 at the AAA Office to select the three man County Committee.
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AAA
Maryland State Committee
Threeman County
Eden Hall
Henderson
Greensboro
Denton
Fire House
Preston
Red Men’s Hall
Federalsburg
Ridgely
Concord Church House
Concord
Christmas Seals On Sale For Tuberculosis Fund Drive
Maryland Tuberculosis Association treasurer Philip S. Morgan announced the 39th Annual Christmas Seal Sale began November 19 to fund tuberculosis control, with emphasis on Health Education and annual chest X rays to detect the disease early. He stressed TB is a family disease spread by close contact and that an X-ray can reveal early TB even when lungs appear clear.
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Philip S. Morgan
Maryland Tuberculosis Association
Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Radcliffe Files for Re nomination in Maryland Senate Race
Maryland junior senator from Dorchester county and Baltimore resident filed papers Monday in Annapolis for renomination. He notified the Democratic organization he will resist any moves to block his renomination as speculation grows about Gov. Herbert R. O’Conor seeking the seat.
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Maryland
Dorchester County
Baltimore
Annapolis
Herbert R. O’conor
Eastern Shore Public Service orders 15,000 kW unit at Vienna plant
The Eastern Shore Public Service Company will install a 15,000 kilowatt turbo generator with boilers and auxiliaries at its Vienna Maryland station to raise output from 27,000 to 42,000 kilowatts. The 2.6 million dollar project spans about twenty months and includes new pilings and water systems. The move follows a 7,500 kilowatt unit added in June 1945 and ties into plans to upgrade transmission with Delaware Power & Light to serve broader Delmarva communities.
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Delmarva Peninsula
Eastern Shore Public Service Company
Vienna
Maryland
Delmarva
Lewis Payne
Payne
Delaware Power & Light Company
Delaware
Wilmington
District Conference at Chestertown Called by Maryland Legion
Norman E. Peterson announces the North Eastern Shore District Conference covering Cecil Kent Queen Anne's Caroline and Talbot counties to be held in Chestertown on Sunday Dec 5 at 10 a m in the American Legion Memorial Home. The event invites Posts and Auxiliaries to attend, outlines rehabilitation goals for veterans, and features Frank Lynch as Rehabilitation Chairman with refreshments for delegates.
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Norman E. Peterson
North Eastern Shore
Cecil
Kent
Queen Anne’s
Caroline
Talbot
Chestertown
American Legion Memorial
Frank M. Jarman
American Legion
Department of Maryland
Legion
Maryland
Legionaires
Department
Frank Lynch
Firemen To Hold Their Annual Meeting
The Denton Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. will hold its annual meeting at the fire house tonight at 8 o'clock. A slate of officers was nominated in October and will be elected for the coming year. Members urged to attend and bring oyster knives. Two fires near Concord within 30 hours destroyed a barn with implements and hay, then a tenant house across the Hubbard farm. neighbors helped, and fire crews contained the flames.
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Denton Volunteer Fire Company, Inc
Concord
William Bullock
Robert Cooper
Hubbard Farm
Smithville
Deer Killed By Car On Harrington Street
A four point, 200 pound deer was killed on a Harrington street at 3 15 Monday morning by a car driven by George C Messick 18 of R F D 4 Harrington State troopers said the deer dashed from a field into the car front.
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Harrington Street
George C. Messick
Harrington
Messick
Clark Street
Alleged Slayer Held In Denton Lockup
Clifton Harcum, a Negro war veteran, is held at Caroline county jail for questioning in the fatal cutting of Frances Mason Potts of Greensboro in Denton. Sheriff Saulsbury Sparks said Harcum admitted the crime, claiming self defense. He was wounded, receiving 16 stitches. he alleges two sisters were involved in the altercation.
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Clifton Harcum
Caroline County
Frances Mason Potts
Greensboro
Denton
Saulsbury Sparks
Harcum
E. Paul Knotts
Everngam to Join Easton Law Firm
G Gregg Everngam son of Kirwin F Everngam of Denton will join G Elbert Marshall in Easton on Saturday. He served as a Navy lieutenant during the war and graduated from Riverside Military Academy Washington College of Law and studied at Johns Hopkins. He is brother of K Thomas Everngam Denton assistant attorney general of Maryland.
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G. Gregg Everngam
Kirwin F. Everngam
Denton
G. Elbert Marshall
Easton
Riverside Military Academy
Miami
Fla
Washington College of Law
Washington, D. C
Everngam
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
K. Thomas Everngam
Maryland
County Bond Drive Lags in Caroline County
V Edwin Unger of Federalsburg reports the eighth war bond drive in Caroline County is behind pace with less than half of the $450,000 quota raised as of November 23. Districts like Federalsburg Denton Greensboro Preston Ridgely Hillsboro Goldsboro Marydel show various shortfalls. total county sales reach $190,945 on November 28 with December 8 final deadline.
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V. Edwin Unger
Federalsburg
Caroline County
Denton
Greensboro
Preston
Ridgely
Hillsboro
Goldsboro
Marydel
Fred C. Brown Returns to Painting After Naval Service
Fred C. Brown, a Denton contractor and painter, returned home November 24 from more than two years in the Navy Seabees after service on Pacific islands and at Pearl Harbor. He resumes exterior and interior painting, with full shop ready, at his rural Denton residence two miles south. His wife Mrs. Brown had taken a secretarial role at Annapolis during his absence.
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Fred C. Brown
Denton
Veterans Hospital
Fort Wastington
Freddie
Brown
Boon Beauchamp
Seabees
South Pacific
Pacific Islands
Solomon Islands
Fiji
Marshall
Wallis
American
British Samoa
New Caledonia
Guam
Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
Gifts For Yanks Who Gave campaign gains in county
County reports show the Gifts For Yanks Who Gave drive growing as boxes in local businesses collect gifts for hospitalized GI Joe and GI Jane. The American Legion urges donations by December 15 and lists suggested items from books to toiletries while stressing not to include perishable foods.
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Caroline
American Legion
Caroline County
Joe
Jane
Legion
GI Joe
GI Jane
Cooperative Plant Destroyed By Fire In Baltimore
A fire destroyed the Southern States Cooperative seed corn plant on East Front Avenue Baltimore and 50000 bushels of corn soybeans red clover and alfalfa seed. Loss estimated between 800000 and 1000000. The seven story plant opened in September and included dryers for curing seed before distribution to farmers for next year. It affected Delmarva peninsula area with strong cooperative membership. The spokesman said immediate deliveries would be reduced but commitments would be fulfilled from other plants as total ownership remains larger than the damaged stock.
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Southern States Cooperative
East Front Avenue
Baltimore
Delmarva Peninsula
Century Tulip Poplar Timber Cut in Cecil County
A 202 year old tulip poplar felled in Cecil County yielded 4,700 board feet of high grade veneer logs 1,500 board feet of No 1 common lumber 300 board feet of other lumber and 45 percent of firewood. The two largest limbs produced two foot diameter saw logs with no decay found. Historical records note the tree was planted before George Washington’s birth and well before Maryland’s first governor took office.
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Cecil County
George Washington
Maryland
Our Congressman's Week In Washington
Congressman Roe attended a Post Office Committee meeting to back a bill cutting first class mail postage from three to two cents for local delivery. He then visited the Federal Works Agency on eastern shore post office plans, sought agricultural data on DDT use for weevil control, urged meat red point reductions, noted hog killing season, and received Coast Guard Academy examination dates for May 8 and 9 1946 with offer of further information.
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Congressman Roe
Post Office
Roe
Federal Works Agency
Department of Agriculture
Anderson
U. S. Coast Guard
U. S. Coast Guard Academy
New London
Conn
Shore Utility Fights Restraining Order
Choptank Electric filed suit in Caroline County Circuit Court seeking to set aside a PSC order that barred parts of its expansion into Wicomico Kent Dorchester and Worcester counties. The Eastern Shore Public Service Company said it would serve those sections. The two month appeal deadline is cited and Choptank calls the order unlawful and unreasonable.
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Choptank Electric Co-operative, Inc
Caroline County
Public Service Commission
PSC
Co-Operative
Choptank
Wicomico
Kent
Dorchester
Worcester
Eastern Shore Public Service Company
Chaptank
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Radcliffe
Eastern Shore Public Service Co
Del
Denton Lockup
G. G. Everngam
Easton Lawyers
George Fountain
Frank Fountain
George N. Fountain
Ejo P. M
Calif
Bainbridge, Md
John Rosser Andrew
Fee
Denton, Md
Naval Service
Separation Center
Bainbridge
Washington
Shore Utility
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