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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1944
Page
9
Boston reporting that Massachusetts tallied five million dollars in crop damage after an unseasonal frost swept New England. The cold snap followed a brief warm spell with temperatures dipping to 33 degrees in parts of the region.
Plans for a congregational Fellowship Dinner and meeting at the Second U P church on County Line Street outline Rev Eugene C Beach of Youngstown as principal speaker. Funds will back a proposed Fellowship Recreational Center to aid veterans and local youth. The event includes a 6:30 PM dinner and 7:45 PM program with pledges requested.
Ocean City New Jersey June 5 The Northeastern Jurisdictional conference of the Methodist church opens with the election of four bishops including Leonard successor after his death in an Iceland crash. Vacancies arise in New York Philadelphia and Leonard’s death. Africa will gain a new bishop. Most assignments place existing bishops in Washington and New York with new bishops to Boston Syracuse and Philadelphia.
An ad-style note promotes FASTBEETH a denture powder to improve comfort of upper or lower plates. It claims the powder makes dentures feel tighter without gummy taste or souring of the mouth and suggests buying at drug stores.
The Census Bureau reports heart disease as the leading cause of death in 1942. About one in four deaths were due to heart ailments, with men at higher risk than women and whites more affected than nonwhites.
A Camp Reynolds soldier reportedly lost both upper and lower dentures during a War Department theater screening this week. The dentures were later found intact and reunited with the soldier, as announced in the Camp's Daily Bulletin.
Meadville Pa June 5 Cochran ton in western Crawford County will host a new Chema Company branch for manufacturing and design of jugs fixtures tools and special machinery to serve regional needs.
The Wolves club holds a meeting at The Castleton on Tuesday June 6 at 6 30 with Program Chairman James Lombardo announcing a special program. Paul Failla the president will preside over the business portion.
Pendleton, Orc. A Pendleton woman earns praise as her work returns benefit to civilians after a Pendleton hospital receives six million Oxford units of penicillin. Dr Dorothy Heilman, a Pendleton native, helped pioneer research at Mayo Brothers in collaboration with a fellow staff member.
Miss Muggins the pin-up Boston Bull Terrier entertains Portland service men with piano renditions. She taps out tunes like Swanee River while singing along on her own spinet piano, a favorite among troops stationed worldwide.
Two dairymen meetings planned in Lawrence county feature Penn State dairy extension specialist I Parkin demonstrating milking machine use cow preparation and water methods. First session Wednesday at 4 30 p m at George Kendall farm Glen road Neshannock township near route 18. Second session Thursday June 8 at 5 15 p m at John Benson farm Mt Jackson Moravia road.
In Baghdad on June 5 Gen Nuri Pasha Es Said resigned due to ill health. Handi Padawi, president of the Iraq chamber of deputies, assumed the office and formed a new government.
A second meeting on artificial cattle breeding is arranged by a Lawrence County committee. Dairymen from the area will meet Tuesday evening at 8 30 in Westfield Grange Hall North Beaver Township to discuss advantages and disadvantages.
The Office of War Information urges housewives to boost fat salvage to meet a 1944 target of 230 million pounds, more than twice 1943. OWI notes the fat campaign last year recovered 5 percent of industrial needs and predicts over 10 percent will be required this year.
Maj Margaret D Craighill of the Office of the Surgeon General, the first woman to be commissioned in the Army Medical Corps, will deliver a speech in Pittsburgh on June 5. The announcement highlights her historic role and expected address to attendees.
Winston Churchill, Pvt. from Martinsville Indiana, has been moved to the station hospital at Camp Reynolds where he is assigned to the medical detachment. The move went largely unnoticed.
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