Two Woods Fires Near Thurston Gun Tractor Sparks Blazes
A backfire from a tractor started two woods fires near Thurston on Friday causing about six acres of woodland burned and damage to a tractor. The truck burned and was junked. Hyattstown firemen aided in extinguishing both blazes and returned after a new outbreak. Forest Warden Lenhart recruited fighters from Park Mills to halt the fires.
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Thurston
Hyattstown
John ©. Lenhart
Park Mills
Joseph Strube
Louis Conard
Bernard Winkle
Young Oaks
A.J. Brown
Frederick County
Sheldon H. Burns
Gambrill State Park
Shookstown
Burns
Industrial Advantages Of City Are Outlined
A three colored brochure outlining Frederick's industrial advantages circulates under the Frederick Industrial Committee with secretary G. Horton Peace. It highlights diverse transportation, labor supply, utilities, high per capita sales, available building space, low taxes, and a record of no major labor strikes, plus recreational and educational amenities including Mt. St. Marys College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
G. Horton Peace
Mt. St. Mary's College
Baker and Gambrill
High Knob
Middle Atlantic Seaboard
Can Food To Assist War Effort Is Advice Of Your Uncle Samuel
Government experts urge doubling home canning in 1942 to aid the war effort. Households can store staples by drying, freezing, and canning with sugar substitutes, while community preserving efforts and new jar supplies offset shortages. Family gardens and all-glass containers help conserve resources.
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Samuel
Sam
Department of Agriculture
Home Economics Bureau
Washington, D. C
Ers
Sherman Tops Eastern States Women Pair In No Trump Defense
In the Eastern States women’s pair event Ruth Sherman of New York secured a top score as East defender. After a sequence of heart and club plays she rigged the play to force dummy to retain control, sacrificing a spade to prevent West from taking extra clubs, thereby defeating the contract by one trick.
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Ruth Sherman
New York
West
North
Miss Sherman
Dummy
Court News and Fishermen Fined in Thurmont Case
Property transfers recorded with deed values of 10 dollars show exchanges between Bowlus Redmond Burkholder and others within the county. Marriage licenses issued for Kitchen Fisher and Summers couples. Two Hagerstown men fined 10.75 dollars each for fishing after 7 30 p m closing on Big Hunting Creek in the Catoctin Recreational Area. fines levied by Magistrate W J Stoner after defendants failed to read stream signs. C B Williams, park superintendent, filed the charges.
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Hagerstown
William J. Stoner
Thurmont
Big Hunting Creek
Catoctin
R. R Wilson
L. A. McCune
C. B. Williams
Proper Methods Of Pasture Management
The University of Maryland Agronomy Department stresses not overgrazing to protect pasture grasses. It advises dividing pasture land into at least two sections, rotating grazing, and mowing twice yearly to control weeds and promote clover. Summer attention is urged to maximize milk and meat production for rising consumer demand.
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Agronomy Department
University of Maryland
Agronomy
Tomato Most Important State Vegetable Crop
Maryland grows the tomato as the state’s key vegetable. A new University of Maryland bulletin, Greater Production of Tomatoes for Canning, cites 1941 Maryland tomato acreage of 54 800 for field and 69 000 for market with canning earnings of 5 950 000 and 762 000 respectively. It urges growers to improve efficiency amid labor shortages, covering soils, rotations, lime, varieties, transplanting, starter solutions, pest control, cultivation, spraying, and harvesting. Copies are available free from Dr. Roger B. Corbett at College Park.
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College Park
Maryland
University of Maryland Experiment Station
C. H. Mahoney
Department of Horticulture
Herman A. Hunter
Extension Service
Bulletin
Roger B. Corbett
Jokester Club in Prague Runs Daily Joke Session
In Prague Czechoslovakia Jokester Club held weekly meetings with each member required to tell or perform one joke daily, creating a local tradition of shared humor and quick wit.
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Jokester Club
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Road Repair Crews Ready for Maryland Defense Use
A Maryland defense program reports 1,332 volunteer road repairmen, 1,151 trained, ready to mobilize across 23 counties. Executive Director Isaac S George credits the State Roads Commission and Assistant Chief Engineer Robert M. Reindollar for organizing the effort under the defense council. The Prince George's County group leads with the largest trained contingent.
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Isaac S George
Maryland Council of Defense
State Roads Commission
George
OCD
Robert M. Reindollar
Reindollar
Commission
Defense Council
Prince George’s County
Joseph Chaney
Dairy Production Contest Planned at College Park
The National 4-H Dairy Production Demonstration Contest will be held again this year under E G Jenkins state Boys Club leader. University of Maryland Extension Service and Kraft Cheese Company sponsor demonstrations to teach dairy methods in quality and profit. Last year's Maryland team Edwin and George Fry Montgomery County demonstrated milking machine care and Maryland teams have earned $250 scholarships and eastern honors. The state team is chosen at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium in September.
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College Park
E. G. Jenkins
University of Maryland Extension Service
Kraft Cheese Company
Jenkins
Maryland
Edwin
George Fry
Montgomery County
Timonium
Maryland Leader to Lead National Dairy Show Demonstration
Sections of the country are rewarded by Kraft Cheese Company with medals for first and second winners in each county. Trips for state winners to the National Dairy Show at Memphis, Tennessee, next fall and $2,800 in college scholarships are presented to leaders in the four Extension sections. Mylo S. Downey, Assistant State Boys' Club Leader for Maryland, will be superintendent of the national demonstration contest in Memphis next October.
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Kraft Cheese Company
Memphis
Tennessee
Mylo S. Downey
Maryland
Loss Of Four Ships In Atlantic Announced
The Navy and foreign quarters report that four ships were sunk in the Atlantic two US merchantmen and two Panamanian tankers bringing the total Allied vessels officially sunk to 147. Forty-six crewmen are dead and 108 survivors. reports from Nacional in Mexico mention a tanker near the lifeboat ramming and sinking a submarine.
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Atlantic
Associated Press
United States
Navy
Nacional
South Atlantic
Cumana
Venezuela
Local Social Notes and Agricultural Tips
Germantown residents report moves and visits with Miss Betty Selby heading to Denver Miss Massetter guesting with family Mrs Carroll Brown visiting Rockville and Mrs Marshall Davis hosting Nellie Wood and Alan Wick Mrs Floyd Frazier visiting Mrs Merril Brandenburg Miss Margaret Wallach relocated from Washington to Oklahoma for office work Daisy Murphy rents in Rev Kandahl home The Neelsville church Christian Endeavor attendees met at Boyds Mr Marshall Davis on business in Norfolk C F Norton hosted missionary group Soil experts note a 10 ton tomato crop depletes soil of nitrogen phosphorus potassium and calcium urging manure green manures or fertilizer to sustain yields Premature shell explosion in Los Angeles.
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Germantown
Betty Selby
Denver Col
Mary Massetter
Carroll Brown
Rockville
Marshall Davis
Nellie Wood
Alan Wick
Floyd Frazier
Merril Brandenburg
Margaret Wallach
Washington, D.C
Oklahoma
Daisy Murphy
Mrs. Kandahl
Christian Endeavor Society
Neelsville Presbyterian Church
Boyds
Norfolk
C. F. Norton
Mortar attack near La Mesa wounds and kills soldiers
Five soldiers were killed and MW6 wounded near La Mesa in San Diego County today as a six millimeter mortar shell struck the area. Army officials confirmed the incident and reported the shell’s contents were under investigation.
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Fred
Mw6
la Mesa
San Diego
Titling Tax Revenue Dropped Since Jan
Annapolis April 24 Maryland's automobile titling tax revenue has dropped off 327838 since January 1 and it will continue to decline, State Comptroller J Miller Tawes said today. From October 1 to December 31, receipts paralleled last year. the Federal ban on new car sales did not affect revenue until January 1. For the period through April 23 this year, receipts totaled 26849183 versus 59632984 last year. January receipts were 77719 against 121080 in 1941, February 37125 against 116297, and March 106982 against 249515.
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Annapolis
Maryland
J. Millar Tawes
Tawes
Tex
Explosives Erupt Before Clearing Gun Muzzle
A report notes several rounds of high explosives detonated before exiting the muzzle of the gun, describing the unsafe and dramatic incident.
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Army Lin Lines
Bryan
Bitsy) Grant
Fort McPherson
Lucrece Hudgins
Wide Work
Tlow
Elsie Dawson
U. S. Department of Agriculture
North East
N.T
Klys
Wea Spa
South West Oe ” Pass Pass
William E. McKenney
America's Card Authority
Court News
Mary G. Bowlus
John E. Redmond
Emmett R. Bowlus
Robert N. Burkholder
Richard James O'Brien
Joshua H. Clark
Carl W. Snook
Robert I. Kitchen
Danville
Tenn
Janet M. Fisher
South Danville
Charles Albert Summers
Anna Mary Summers
Middletown
Baltimore
Shema
Edmund B. Gregory
U. S.army
Palippines
Asudiigue Dupes
Tose
University of Maryland Department of Horticulture
Los Angeles
Jon&#ax
William R. Slemmer
Liberty Finance Corporation
N. Market St. Frederick, MD
Virginia
Earl Dash
Quaker City
North Market Street
Stieffox
Stieff Rose
Doll’s Jewelry Store
Cooperative Farm Bulletin
Southern States
Southern States Cooperative Service Agency
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