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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1946
Page
4
The U S Department of Agriculture estimates Maryland cash receipts from farming at 178 780 000 in 1945 up 11 8 percent from 1944 and 130 8 percent from 1940 The report notes 7 457 million in government payments and 171 323 009 from farm marketing with milk and chickens as top earners and crop and livestock sales setting new records.
The AAF Weather Station arrived in Frederick and will operate afternoons and evenings through next Tuesday. Master Sergeant William C. Fry leads demonstrations of forecasting methods using hydrogen balloons Theodolite wind measurements and the Psychromeleae rain prediction device.
The Masser Klipp reunion at Gambrill State Park on Sunday August 11 drew many family members and friends after a basket lunch. Events included songs, readings, a gospel quartet, and presentations of gifts for distances traveled and largest families. New officers were elected with Maurice Klipp as president and Leroy Masser as vice president.
Peggy Haymaker, 12, of Norfolk, is nearing full vision restoration after a cornea transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Jack Guyton performed the procedure, enabling the girl to regain sight eight years after a eye injury. She hopes to pursue singing and later return for further checks.
In Brattleboro Vermont Ira D Ifert Middletown and Cecil K Holter Jefferson report Holstein Friesian cows posting high herd test records. Bettie Jane De Kol Ormsby Lass 1764996 led with 950 plus pounds butterfat and 16 960 pounds milk in 345 days, two daily milkings. Pauline Rag Apple Susie 1919457 and Aggie Fobes Blossom 1919458 followed with strong outputs, all sired by King Bessie Rag Apple Pabst 873982 or 673982. A local cow owned by J Homer Remsberg Middletown Johanna Jewel Sensation 1649342 recorded 550 butterfat and 14 949 milk over 960 days. Locvale Fobes Alice 1782046 yielded 600 butterfat and 17 616 milk in 365 days.
Precipitation for 24 hours ending 8 am measured .74 inch. August total 5.27 inches, normal August 3.84 inches, actual 1945 2.43 inches. Deficiency to August 17 is .25 inch. Yesterday high 72, low 11, today sunset 7.03 pm, sunrise tomorrow 5.24 am. Moon rise 10:29 pm, moonset 11.24 am. Rivers Monotacy muddy at Ceresville, Potomac at Point of Rocks muddy.
A private airplane owned by Mr and Mrs Donald Morehouse of Seabrook Maryland was forced to land in a clover field on Maurice Adalt’s farm about two miles west of Middletown. The Taylor Craft 65 suffered a landing gear break prompting a delay for repairs after taking off from Schrom Airport in Washington DC.
Mr. Morehouse a machinist at the Oval Ordnance Department in Washington and his wife on a monthlong vacation were en route to Detroit when their landing at Stevens Airport near Lewistown went off course and tow in gas. No injuries were reported and several planned stops remained on the itinerary to Michigan and back.
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