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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1955
Page
9
Summer cooking advice urges planning sandwich suppers to beat heat. Use a dedicated prep area, group ingredients, and prepare spreads ahead. Include varied fillings from beans to meats, and serve with salads or fruit for a appealing, low effort meal.
HAGERSTOWN Aug 12 A new cheaper timbering method is being shown to Washington County woodland owners. Amos Reeder of Boonsboro adopts a girdling technique with hatchet bark removal followed by arsenite application to induce rapid bark loosening and tree death. Reeder aims to log this fall and haul pulpwood to a Pennsylvania paper concern. Forester Jack Karnig of the Maryland Department assists, noting the method efficiently harvests hardwoods too small for lumber.
Washington August 12 President Eisenhower signed a bill establishing a new dollar an hour minimum wage for 24 million workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The measure, effective March 1, 1950, raises hopes of wage hikes for about 2.1 million workers, mainly in the South, with exclusions for retail, service, agriculture, and construction.
Charles W. Lightner, 55, president of the Home Food Planing Co., released on 500 bond pending a Tuesday hearing on an arson charge for a July 31 fire that destroyed a two story frame building housing the firm. Fire officials cited a flash nature and lacquer odor at the start of the blaze after two weeks of investigation by the sheriff and state’s attorney. Also, Civitan district meeting at Key Hotel in Frederick was postponed due to Hurricane Connie, with many seaboard delegates canceled. A laying hen has a productive life of 10 to 12 months.
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