Town and Farm in Wartime Wartime Guidance
Wartime Office of War Information urges civilians to plan home vacations to keep railroads free for furloughs and redeployment. It calls for price panel volunteering, maximizing Victory Garden harvest, and storing food. It details ration stamps, fuel, and shoe stamp validity, and discusses WPB production plans, meat rationing, canning supplies, and nursing careers.
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Office OF War Information
Japan
Pacific
Victory Garden
Chester Bowles
Bowles
War Production Board
War Food Administration
Department of Agriculture
OPA
Governor Signs Four Bills on Farm Cooperatives
Governor Martin signed four companion bills affecting organization operation dissolution and taxation of agricultural cooperative associations in Pennsylvania. The acts clarify tax liability for capital stock coops and set a 4 percent net income tax, while amending old laws to provide a method to dissolve inactive cooperatives and strengthen farming cooperation frameworks.
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Martin
Agriculture Cooperative Associations
Miles Horst
State Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Revenue
Attorney General
State Council of Farm Organizations
Commonwealth
Horst
Pennsylvania
Six Colonies of Korean Wasps Freed in War on Jap Beetle
The Bureau of Plant Industry PA Department of Agriculture freed about 2,000 Tiphia wasps at six golf courses and clubs across Pennsylvania to attack Japanese beetle grubs. Colonies established earlier show strong development. each female lays 400 to 500 eggs on beetle grubs underground each season.
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Japan
Leo T. Crowley
Pearl Harbor
Korea
Manchuria
China
East Indies
Burma
Malaya
Philippines
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Valley Forge Park
Carlisle Country Club
Carlisle
Cumberland County
Saints Cyril and Mathodus School
Danville
Montour County
Wyoming Valley
Wilkes- Barre
Luzerne County
Williamsport
Lycoming County
Lock Haven
Clinton County
Oakmont Country Club
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Guyton
Tiphia
Department
Animal Industry Laboratory
Summerdale
Camp Hill
Selinscrove
Snyder County
Sunbury
Northumberland County
Motives Alone Do Not Sanctify Evil, says Dr. Wadsworth
Dr. Ernest M. Wadsworth argues that good motives cannot justify unethical methods or questionable practices, stressing ethical boundaries over intent. He contends that actions define morality regardless of intention.
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Ernest M. Wadsworth
Athletes Foot Germ Treatment Advertised at Drug Store
An advertisement promotes Yeod as a penetrating treatment for athlete’s foot requiring a strong liquid. It claims undiluted 90 percent alcohol kills germs faster and urges readers to buy 35 cents worth at Stauffer’s Drug Store.
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Stauffer’s Drug Store
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Necasitu Sateo Soca
Army
Navy
WPB
U. S
School of Nursing
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Cadet Nurse Corps
U. S. Public Health Service
Box
New York
N. Y
Sryana Crops CO
Farm
Bureau Mutual
Fire Insurance Company
Columbus, Ohio
Clarence
Mellinger
New Holland
Thomas L. Guyton
The
Bureau
J. R. Haswell
Pennsylvania Tate College
Europe
Boss B. Witmer
Lampeter
Lancaster
Amer
Icans
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company
Columbia Network
Nelson Eddy
Robert Armbruster
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