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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1949
Page
8
Richard I. Davis reports the city issued warnings to owners of vacant lots to cut all noxious weeds immediately or the city will perform the work and sue for costs. An ordinance from 1945 requires twice yearly weed cutting by June 18 and August 15 with a $300 penalty per offense.
Plans complete for the Annual Charity Ball to be held Tuesday June 21 at Ellwood City Country Club. Event sponsored by Tree Of Life Synagogue of Ellwood City.
Dr. Ernest G. Osborne notes that letters from away children reveal homesickness and family tension. He suggests parents preaddress postcards or envelopes to themselves and prepare alternating messages the child can mail home to stay connected.
Scheduling Farm Safety Week from July 24 to 30 aims to reinforce ongoing accident prevention beyond one week. Slogans urged are Always Be on the Alert and Make Every Week Safety Week as a national program proclaimed by the president, with the National Safety Council and the U S Department of Agriculture coordinating efforts. The goal is to reduce farm deaths and injuries and promote safer, happier, and more prosperous farm life.
Penn State College researchers urge careful use of weed killers after Weed Control Field Day findings. Experiments show 2 4 D effective on broadleaf weeds, ester form risks fumes, amine preferred for grains, 24 D not after heads. Amine salt may control oats weeds with clover intact. Some 2 4 D with 2 4 5 T can affect woody plants. Circular 1949 available from Agricultural Extension, 206 Post Office Building, New Castle.
The library offers a reading list tailored to interests and hobbies for summer. It highlights sports books such as The Cleveland Indians and Lucky To Be a Yankee, plus memoirs and letters and works by authors like Thomas Merton and Emily Hahn. Readers are encouraged to request lists or ask for books in specific fields.
Janitors are busy cleaning the New Castle Public Schools Administration building on East street and school buildings city wide. Superintendent Frank L. Burton reports health and medical departments offices and rooms are being cleaned, while schools are repaired, painted and cleaned.
New Castle teachers seek advanced degrees this summer as Pennsylvania raises salaries for degree holders. At Slippery Rock State Teachers College are Mrs Daisy Hurst Arthur McGill Miss Margaret Preston Arthur McGill Mrs Ruth Hanna Miss Anna M Reed of Oak Street. Westminster College hosts William Wallace Benjamin Franklin Junior High Lewis Hannelly Croton Miss Marie McElroy Rose Avenue and Mrs Alice Brunswick New Castle school nurse. Mrs Brunswick receives emergency leave to study at Pittsburgh University. Further attendees from other state colleges to be announced.
The piece covers wedding etiquette including gifts for anniversaries, appropriate party ideas for a cousin's wedding such as a cocktail party tea luncheon or evening event, and guidance on timing for receptions when not stated on an invitation. It notes the U S leads global consumption of pulp and paper.
Samuel Hasson fireman USN son of Mrs Hazel S Hasson New Castle Pennsylvania is set to visit Ports mouth England and Cherbourg France this summer as part of the crew of the battleship USS Missouri in a ten ship Midshipmen Practice Cruise Squadron Tours to London and Paris are arranged as part of practical shipboard training during the cruise.
Embryo Naval officers will join the regular ship's companies as they undergo watches and training exercises alongside the Reserve Midshipmen.
Entomologists from the Department of Agriculture warn of a major grasshopper invasion west of the Mississippi. Expected in eastern Montana and across Wyoming Colorado Nebraska Kansas and parts of Texas Oklahoma Iowa Illinois Minnesota Wisconsin and more.
The text warns of serious trouble in the Dakotas with counter-attacks by farmers. Airplane spray insecticides and poisoned bait will be used to curb insect breeding places. It stresses caution to prevent livestock exposure by delaying feeding sprayed crops to animals for a proper period.
Miss Lucille Reno will present her students in a piano recital on June 28 at 8 p m in the First Baptist church. Coal deposits were discovered in Ohio in 1755. cen
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