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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1945
Page
1
The first district in the five state area lifts the home canning sugar freeze after OPA approval. Walter O Young says local boards may issue sugar certificates again for canning only. Maximums remain 15 pounds per person and 130 pounds per family, with tighter sugar quotas.
J P Morgan and company directed the Federal Reserve Bank to allocate to Adams county purchases of 5000 dollars in Series C notes. Edmund W Thomas, chairman of the Adams County War Bond committee, announced the credit Saturday. Basis is bond purchases by West Virginia Pulp and Paper company buying pulpwood in the county.
Pfc. Vincent C. Sanders of Gettysburg is reported recovering in a hospital after an operation. He serves with the Signal Corps on Iwo Jima. The article discusses sugar rationing and efforts to stop fraud in home canning sugar certificates as boards screen applications after a freeze on issue dates.
Rationing roundups outline stamp validity for meats fats and processed foods with Book four red stamps through late summer and early fall, sugar stamps 36 valid five pounds through August, shoes airplane stamps 1 2 3 valid indefinitely, gasoline coupons expanding in June, and fuel oil period coupons expiring August 31 as boards open for increased B rations. OPA has no plan to cancel upcoming stamps.
Cpl. Paul Edgar Sell Jr. reported to Fort Monmouth New Jersey to attend officer candidate school after sixteen months in the Signal Service in the Pacific Theater of War. He spent 23 days with his wife and daughter at his parents home in Hanover.
Pfc. Earl G. Sanders of the 36th Infantry Division, Seventh Army, visiting wife Bernadette in Littlestown during a furlough. He was captured near the Moselle in 1944, liberated near Munich on April 29, arrived May 20 in the U. S. aboard the Angel, and weighed 45 pounds less after seven months as a prisoner. He wears the Combat Infantry Badge and served from Anzio to Rome and in the invasion of Southern France. He returns to Miami Beach after the furlough.
Public notices promote investment in American Preferred war bonds, describing them as shares supporting national defense. Details urge readers to purchase, highlighting patriotic appeal and financial backing for the war effort.
Francis Worley of Adams County, a Pennsylvania General Assembly member, was appointed vice chairman of the state government subcommittee to revise the penal code. The House Speaker made the appointment as part of codifying Pennsylvania penal laws, with lawmakers serving without compensation to complete statutes for submission to the 1947 session.
Thirty acres of peach orchards on the farm of E. B. Romig near Arendtsville were dusted with sulfur by an airplane from Coatesville airport piloted by Mr Stolfus. The task, which would normally take days, was finished in one hour Monday morning due to favorable winds.
The Gettysburg camp of the Sons of Union Veterans adopts a resolution opposing peacetime conscription and forwards notice of the action to Senator Robert A. Taft, Congressman Chester Gross, and national officers of the Sons of Veterans.
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