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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1944
Page
10
Massachusetts counted five million dollars in crop damage after an unseasonal frost that swept New England. The weekend chill followed a warm spell with temperatures dropping to 33 in parts of the area.
Final plans for a Congregational Fellowship Dinner and fund raising meeting at the Second U P church basement on County Line street outline Rev Eugene C Beach of Youngstown as principal speaker. The event supports a Fellowship Recreational Center to aid veterans and local youth with supervised wholesome activities.
London reports show Allied HQ and MOI censorship tightening after the false invasion flash. Admiral Thomson confirms a full probe and safeguards on cable routes and teletype operations. London papers lampoon the episode while teletype operator Joan Ellis rests at home after collapsing at work.
Ocean City New Jersey June 5 the Northeastern Jurisdictional conference of the Methodist church opens June 7 to elect four bishops including a successor to Adna Wright Leonard who died in an Iceland crash two years ago three vacancies are filled by retirements and a death and a fourth bishop will be appointed for Africa No Pittsburgh change is expected though local candidates may be considered for other posts Bishops now serving may be reassigned to Washington and New York areas while new appointees go to Boston Syracuse and Philadelphia
Advertises FASTEETH improved powder for upper and lower plates to hold dentures firmer, with no gummy taste or sour odor. Claims alkaline formula neutralizes acids and reduces denture odor, available at drug stores.
The census bureau reports heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States based on 1942 figures. About one in four deaths stem from heart ailments, with higher death rates for males and whites than females and non whites, and a 14 in 1000 annual risk for ages 5 to 69.
In Greenville Pennsylvania this week a Camp Reynolds soldier reportedly lost both upper and lower dentures during a screening in the War Department theater. The dentures were later found intact and reunited with the serviceman by someone in the Camp’s Daily Bulletin.
Meadville Pa June 5 Cochran ton in western Crawford county will host a new Chemsy Co plant for manufacturing and design of jugs fixtures tools and special machinery.
The Wolves club holds a meeting Tuesday evening June 6 at The Castleton. Program Chairman James Lombardo announced a special program, with Paul Failla presiding at the business session.
Dairymen of Lawrence county will hear Penn State dairy extension specialist I. E. Parkin discuss milking machine use and cow handling. The first meet is Wednesday at 4 30 p m at George Kendall’s farm in Neshannock township. The second is Thursday June 8 at 3 15 p m at John Benson’s farm on Mt Jackson Moravia road.
Pendleton Oregon reports a local woman’s work helps the community as a hospital receives six million Oxford units of penicillin for civilian treatment. The drug’s development involved Dr. Dorothy Heilman, a Pendleton native, and Mayo Brothers researchers in extensive experiments.
Miss Muggins, a Boston Bull Terrier, charms Portland service members with piano renditions. She accompanies herself on her own pedal piano while performing "Swan River" and shares photos that boost morale overseas. In Scotland, four-leaf clovers are seen as bad luck.
In Baghdad on June 5, Gen. Nuri Pasha Es-Said resigned due to ill health. Handi Padawi, head of the Iraq chamber of deputies, assumed the premiership and formed a new government.
A meeting on artificial cattle breeding arranged by the Lawrence County committee will be held Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in Westfield Grange Hall North Beaver Township. Dairymen from the area will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the subject.
The Office of War Information urges housewives to save fats to meet a 1944 goal of 230 million pounds two and one third times last year. Industrial fats demand rises as the war program intensifies. The fat salvage drive last year yielded five percent of needed fats. In 1944 over ten percent is required to meet industrial needs.
Maj. Margaret D. Craighill of the Office of the Surgeon General, the first woman commissioned, will deliver a speech in Pittsburgh on June 5. The announcement highlights her historic milestone and role in the Army Medical Corps.
Winston Churchill, Pvt. Winston Churchill of Martinsville, Indiana, is stationed at the medical detachment hospital at Camp Reynolds where his arrival went largely unnoticed. He was recently assigned to the hospital unit.
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