National 4-H Club Congress Highlighted In Chicago
The National 4-H Club Congress brings top 1,200 youths from 48 states Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico and foreign guests to Chicago November 27 to December 1 1955. Delegates tour the city attend banquets view entertainment and attend press conferences radio and TV events. A 4-H parade caps the International Live Stock Exposition with 180 national winners to be named across 29 awards earning $49 050 in college scholarships. Funding comes from civic groups foundations and industry with 110 000 members honored in National 4-H Award Programs including trips medals watches and U S Savings Bonds. The program is backed by corporate donors and oil railroads with notable supporters including Mrs Charles R Walgreen Thomas E Wilson and Edward Foss Wilson.
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Chicago
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Congress
National Committee On Boys and Girls Club
U. S
National Committee
Help
Use Glove Compartment For Useful Items Only
Keystone Automobile Club urges keeping car glove compartments for useful items only. Detlof notes varied objects found in surveys but recommends disposables tissue, first aid kit, flashlight, sunglasses, soap, towel, sewing kit, cleaning fluid, maps, service credentials, and car manuals, while warning against storing cameras or film due to heat damage.
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Keystone Automobile Club
August G. Detlof
Maryland
Keystone
Palmer Hopkins Named Ag Education Assistant Professor
H Palmer Hopkins named assistant professor of agricultural education at the University of Maryland Agriculture Dean G M Cairns announced. A Harford County native, Hopkins graduated from Oklahoma A&M, earned a 1948 U Md master of education, and taught vocational agriculture in Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Maryland. He led Dublin High School as principal and voag teacher 1945 to 1950, then headed North Harford after consolidation. The National FFA nominated him for the Honorary American Farmer Degree for his outstanding ag work, to be awarded at the national FFA convention in Kansas City October 10 to 13. Hopkins succeeds Dr Ray A Murray, moved to Agricultural Economics and Marketing.
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Harford County
Mda
Hopkins
Oklahoma A & M College
U of Md
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Dublin High School
North Harford
National Future Farmers of America Executive Committee
U. S
FFA
Kansas City
4 H Club Leader Inspires Teens With Tomato Juice Canning
Mrs Wanda Hughes 4 H Club Leader and Royerton Indiana High School home economics teacher explains estimating canning costs. She combines bacteriology arithmetic and economics to teach teens value of projects and saving money.
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Wanda Hughes
Royerton
Indiana
Health for All The Baby Sitter
The piece urges parents to verify babysitter health with regular physicals and a chest X ray at least yearly. It warns tuberculosis can lack early symptoms and targets older caregivers, stressing parental duty to protect children even if the babysitter objects.
Hurricanes follow a traditional Atlantic path not new trends
A Charles S Monitor report frames that hurricanes may not be changing course toward the Atlantic Seaboard. Meteorologists, including Ernest J. Christie, cite historic storms from 1635 to 1944 and note only a possible future shift. The piece questions sensational theories while urging cautious interpretation of limited data.
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Carol
Edna
Hazel
Connie
Diane
Ione
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
Ernest J. Christie
New England
Florida
West Indies
Atlantic
Christian Science Monitor
Marrage License Pairs From Federalsburg to Philadelphia
A list of marriage licenses shows multiple couples from Federalsburg Dover Felton Del Denton Bridgeville Hebron Marydel Statings and other cities. Names include James Franklin Moore Gladys Summers Leonard Hunter Esther Williams Randall Harris Edith Johnson Frank Edgar Catherine Moore Anton Spiering Jacquelyn Cartwright William Walker Esther Dixon Jesse Werner Mary Blockston James Hassett Mary Lou Billings Stephney Tillman Inez Henderson Abraham Drummond and Trene Seth.
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James Franklin Moore
Gladys Mae Summers
Federalsburg
Leonard Carl Hunter
Esther Williams
Randall Harris
Edith Johnson
Felton
Del
Frank Lee Edgar
Catherine Ann Moore
Dover
Anton William Spiering Jr
Greensboro
Jacquelyn Cartwright
Goldsboro
William Leon Walker
Marydel
Esther Virginia Dixon
Henderson
Jesse Fifer Werner
Mary Alice Blockston
Denton
James Graham Hassett
Bridgeville
Mary Lou Billings
Hebron
Stephney Thomas Tillman
Los Angeles
Calif
Inez Henderson
Philadelphia
Abraham Robert Drummond
Trene Elizabeth Seth
Annual Donation Day Tea At Children's Home Easton
The annual Donation Day tea will be held at the Children's Home of the Eastern Shore in Easton on Sunday afternoon October 23 from 2 30 to 5 o clock. A music program will be offered with performances by Mrs J T B Ambler vocalist Mrs Robert Carreau pianist Mr William Littlewood cellist and Mr Howard P Maeder violinist. The Board of Managers invites the public to visit the Home during this event.
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Eastern Shore
Easton
J. T. B. Ambler
Robert Carreau
William Littlewood
Howard P. Maeder
Board of Managers
Ships sail from Atlantic to Pacific via Panama Canal
A historic note describes ships traveling from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Oceans via the Panama Canal, indicating a north to south passage through the waterway.
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Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Panama Canal
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Cudahy Packing Co
Elgin Watch Co
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
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Larro Sure Feed
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Charles R. Walgreen
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Edward Foss Wilson
Palmer Hopkins
U of M
H. Palmer Hopkins
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G. M. Cairns
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Minnie A. Dukes
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T. Sidney Collins
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Irvin Horn
Harrington, del
Choptank River
Gustav Good
Irwin Feed Co
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State Board of Health
R. Lee Butler
Double Hills
Calvert C. Merriken
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Dover St
Denton Journal
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Stayman
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Noble Motor Co
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McCulloch
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Franklin St
Aoe
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Jones
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R. Harrison
State of
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Caroline
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William H. Lane, JR
Charles F. Lane
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Herman Dorman
Louis C. Andrew
O’regan
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South Africa
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