Farm Prices Ease Off A Few Points
Maryland farmers saw prices ease in March with hogs and beef down to late 1940s levels while chickens fell to a March low. Dairy products rose slightly while veal calves sheep lambs and milk cows hit record Maryland prices. The price received to price paid ratio fell to 102 from 105.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Park
Maryland
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Economics
University of Maryland Farm Extension Service
Council Takes Request Under Consideration in Rockville
The Montgomery County Council on April 3 took under advisement Arlington County Virginia’s request to join in seeking a regional transit regulator. Arlington may proceed with plans while Montgomery studies options. The council will keep discussions open in future sessions and addressed a letter from The Washington Post editor urging open meetings.
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Rockville
Montgomery County Council
Arlington County
Virginia
Montgomery
Arlington Counties
District of Columbia
Gerald J. Glassman
Kensington
Arlington County Public Utilities "Commission
Arlington
J. R. Wiggins
Washington Post
Wiggins
J. Louis Monarch
Women Homemakers Clubs Meet in Yellow Springs and Frederick
Yellow Springs Homemakers Club met March 27 at Mrs Verdia Dunn home with fourteen members. They discussed dress materials and voted to send a CARE package to Yugoslavia. Pleasant Grove and Ballenger clubs met with programs, awards, and plans for Home Demonstration Week. A government price directive on profits was reported as in preparation. Men and Boys Banquet announced at Pleasant View Church with Dr Warren Bow man as guest, and Rev Newton Poling as toastmaster.
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Yellow Springs Homemakers Cluk
Yellow Springs
Verdia Dunn
Albert Dean
Dunn
Baird Harmon
Edwin Fox
Yugoslavia
Louis Mariz
Venus Kellar Building Fund
Dean
Harris Stauffer
Norman Dutrow
Beard
Pleasant Grove Club
Pleasant Grove Homemakers Club
Aubrey Davis
Frederick
Huber Biser
County Council
Carl Davis
Edgar Davis
Marguerite Burgee
Earl Hargett
Thomas Culler
LeRoy Hearine
Evangelical United Brethren Church
West Second Street
Jeanne Moehn
University of Maryland
Homemakers’ Club
Howard F. Smith
Ballenger
St. Luke's Faeagaville
Oliver King
Potomac Edison Company
Washington
Eric Johnston
Pleasant View
Church of the Brethren
Burkittsville
ALF
Bridgewater College
Warren D. Bowman
Newton L. Poling
Brownsville
Anniversaries and Birthdays From America Today
Know America Today's anniversaries list notable figures born on various dates, from William White to Dorothea Dix and James Freeman Clarke, with deaths and origins. It also covers Today in History events from 1820 to 1950, plus contemporary birthdays, a birthday roster, and a brief horoscope noting a brooding, secretive temperament and potential travel.
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William White
Pennsylvania
Church In America
Philadelphia
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Hampden
Maine
James Freeman Clarke
Boston
Hanover
N.H
Linus Yale
Salisbury
N.Y
Lewis Ginter
Richmond
New York
Lawrence Barrett
Paterson
N. J
Thaddeus
Hawaii
Western Union Telegraph Company
William H. Harrison
Senate
Germany
The
Marne
Navy
Akron
New Jersey
U. S. Senate
United States
de Gaulle
North Africa
Washington
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Robert E. Sherwood
New Rochelle
Charles €. Lauritsen
Kellogg Radiation Laboratory
Calif
Keokuk County
Iowa
Marx Leva
Defense
Selma
Ala
Arthur Murray
Morris A. Linton
the Provident Mutual Life
Adolph J. Sabath
Chicago
Czechoslovakia
Easter Sunday Guests From Damascus Dine With Kerrs
Among those who attended church on Easter Sunday were Dr and Mrs James P Kerr and two children of Damascus who stayed for dinner afterward at his parents home. Mrs Kerr Jr just returned on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyds Boyds
James P. Kerr
Damascus
Kerr
Easter visits and home plans noted in local notes
A fragment from a Florida visit mentions Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Magru der of Rockville with friends at the Weaver home on Easter. Also Mrs. and Mrs. Lawrence Bur dette and a Baltimore group visited Easter. Earl Nicholson plans a new home on the old B N Headley lot. Rev J P Kerr received gold cufflinks at a Dundalk lodge banquet. Mrs. Charles Day’s condition remains critical.
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Florida
Forrest Magruder
Rockville
Weaver
Lawrence Burdette
Baltimore
Earl Nicholson
B. N. Headley
Easter visitors for 88th birthday observed at Smith Holge home
Mr and Mrs Smith Holge welcomed Easter visitors, their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Vernon Russell of Takoma Park, after her 88th birthday last week. Legumes like alfalfa clover and soybeans inoculated with special bacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen, but no effective inoculant exists yet for non leguminous crops.
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Smith Holge
Vernon Russell
Takoma Park
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Council
ECOTT
KEY Stamp CO
Patrick St. Figerie
P.L. Hargett, Co
South Market St
P. L. Hargett & Co
Carral Ted
Maryland Chick Hatchery, Inc
West
South St
Ballenger Club
Delbert Poole
West Fourteenth Street
Ballenger Women's Club
Monroe Stup
NULL
New Market
Monrovia
Finger Board
Frederick County
Guernsey
Ayrshire
Electris
Oliver
Thomas W. McDonough
John W. Null
Delbert
Farmall
H. B. Duvall
H.C. Summers
Jefferson, Md
Monrovia Supply CO
Thurmont
Meecer Jones & Bon
Dickerson
Buckeystown
Know
America
Robert W. Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
New Brunswick
Raymond §. McLain
Washington County
Frank L. Mott
University of Missouri School of Journalism
R. C. Boyer
Middletown
P. B. Roop
Woodsboro
Creagerstown
Wisconsin
T. B
Bangs
GRACE
Holstein
John Deere
Dodge
Jefferson
Juneau
Columbia
Sauk
M. W. Stitely
Woodsboro, MD
Emmett Bowlus
Null and Null
Trout Brothers
Earl Huffman
Howard C. Barker
H. C. Dorcus
Gail Catshall
Emory Catshall
Reformed Church OF
Bradley J. Halley, Jr
Petersville Road
Brunswick, Md
Reo
Sales & Service
Foley Machine
NED S. Zeiler Real Estate and Insurance
N. Court St. Frederick, Md
Cooking School
Thurmont High School
Farm Equipment Center
Thurmont, MD
My Farm
Tom Darby
Albert Cade
Etchison
Laytonsville
Montgomery County
Ernest Barnhart
Delbert S. Null
Avellaneers
Jerry Williams
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