Lower Adams Joint School District Begins First Year
The Lower Adams Joint School District serving New Oxford Borough Berwick Hamilton Oxford and Mt Pleasant townships started its first year on July 1 1948 under 25 directors and an executive committee. It employs 99 full time teachers and one nurse with 10 rural teachers. offers elementary courses plus agriculture home economics commercial and academic subjects and now Spanish. The district fields basketball and baseball and faces space limits with classrooms auditorium library industrial shop and cafeteria needed. 725 pupils enrolled with 293 in Jr Sr high and 432 in grades 1-6.
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Lower Adams
New
Oxford Borough
Berwick
Hamilton
Oxford
Mt. Pleasant
Jointure
York Springs
Basker
Bali
New Oxford Borough
Ready
Tada
Straban
Abbottstown
County Gets White Blanket From Snow Fall Across Adams County
Adams County awoke to a snow blanket Sunday morning as 7 to 9 inches fell in mountains and towns, with highway crews clearing roads using seventeen trucks and three graders. Chains kept traffic moving though some vehicles slid off roads. lines formed for cinders at Mt Neaman and other hills. Utilities reported no line damage and the Lancaster stockyard stood as the region’s largest market east of Chicago.
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Adams County
Highway Dept
Highway Department
William Kendlehart, Jr
Mt. Neaman
Flora Dale
Gettysburg
Littlestown
McSherristown
Adams Electric
Metropolitan Edison
United Telephone Companes
Christmas date origins and early celebrations across Europe
The piece traces Christmas origins from January 6 observances to December 25 adoption in the 4th century. It notes the Pinilocalian Calendar of 354, Britain’s first Christmas in 598 with St Augustine’s baptism of 10,000, and Tours council 307 declaring a twelve day festival plus later laws and regional adoptions through 950 in Norway and 813 in Germany.
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Britain
Couneil of
Tours
Germany
Norway
Bos
Braves of 1914 and AL home run records
A note on the 1914 Braves and the season highlights the American League leaders in home runs. It recalls the record low total of homers that still led the circuit, tying the 1908 mark and echoing the era’s power gaps.
Dairy output leads among states in 1947 totals
Pennsylvania's dairy products were valued at 252 million dollars in 1947, exceeding the total for all states south of the South Atlantic combined. The figure highlights Pennsylvania's prominent dairy industry within the regional output.
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Pennsylvania
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