Valley Forge to Host 1950 National Boy Scout Jamboree
Valley Forge Pennsylvania will host the second national Boy Scout jamboree from June 30 to July 6, 1950. More than 30,000 scouts from all states and territories will camp on about 600 acres within Valley Forge Park, with officials aiming for up to 40,320 participants led by adult leaders. The site near Philadelphia was chosen after a invitation from Governor James Duff.
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Valley Forge
Leo J. Larkin
Gateway Area Council
Boy Scout
New York
U. S. Territories
George Washington
Valley Forge Park
Pennsylvania
James H. Duff
Valley Forge Ark
Hiladelphia
Norristown
Potatoes for Two Meals Then Creamed Salad or Hash
A simple plan for using baked potatoes. Bake potatoes for two meals on a cool day. Save leftovers and cream for use in salad or as a hash topper, maximizing the day’s produce.
New Teen Reads Highlight Summer Library Picks
The South End reading room shelves fill with new teen novels. Bets in Provincetown set realism romance with Kate Vale. Janice the airline hostess travels world and trains others. Also features Elsie Barber polio tale Kathy Storm, Sunnycove actress Vicky Lind, and college prep You Can Always Tell a Freshman. New teen series volumes and gun safety guide for boys 12 to 19 are listed.
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Betty Cavanna
Peter Hunt
Provincetown
Cape Cod
Kate Vale
Ella Williams Porter
Marya
Janice
Alice Rogers Hager
Waikiki
Fuji
Rome
Foreign Service
Elsie Oakes Barber
Kathy Storm
Kathy
Amelia Walden
Vicky Lind
Elisabeth Ann Hudnut
Reginald Kauffman
West
George Agnew Chamberlain
South Jersey Barrens
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Long Arm of the Mounted
William Mowery
Frank Owen
Charles Edward Chapel
Man eats raw hard crabs daily in Baltimore crab town stunt
Gene Muscolino a 41 year old Chester Pennsylvania stevedore and fish stall owner in Baltimore eats raw hard crabs for dessert as a daily act for skeptics. He demonstrates by eating a croaker then the crab and claims the experience is sweet and easy to swallow, with live lobsters also acceptable though costly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Gene
Eskimo Boy In Nome Hospital After Blood Donor Rush
A 16 year old Eskimo boy named Mike Oten was wounded in the leg while hunting near St Michael Alaska. He was flown to Nome for treatment after a radiophone blood donor appeal. Doctors removed the bullet but his condition remained critical. Two navy radiomen Pvt Ennsensio G Coehle and Robert E Masch donated blood, triggering a second broadcast to halt the rush of donors.
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Nome
Alaska
Mike Oten
St. Michael
Fred Langsam
Army Radio
Mike
Pvt
Ennsensio G. Coehle
Pawtucket
R. I
Robert E. Masch
Milwaukee
Wis
Air Radiomen
Navy
Hemp scrap processing plant opens in Yugoslavia
A new factory in Yugoslavia starts processing hemp scrap into hemp excelsior for hospital use and quilts, and also produces cellulose from hemp scrap and reeds.
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Yugoslavia
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Robert E. Reed
Michael Garland
Garland
Jhon Gomer
Lew Price
Hiawatha
Wecor
Bill Kennedy
White Swan
Wash
Kennedy
Packwood
Eskimo Boy
Seay
BPS
Seemann Lumber & Coal CO
Gillette and
Caledonia Streets
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