Beetle Battle Opens in Frederick County Fields
Frederick County launches beetle and borer control across New Design and Ballenger Creek roads with roadside spraying 50 percent underway. County agents report heavy infestations on early potatoes and sugar corn with farms urged to spray and traps leased. Thomas Company crews and local residents participate, emphasizing bees and livestock safety with spray over dust and urging public assistance and advice from the county agent.
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Fréderick County
Ballenger Creek
Henry R. Shoemaker
Fes
Daniel J Thomas
Dow Design
Thomas and Co
Focsi Cannery
Shoemaker
Frederick
Thomas
Essay Contest For County Field Day in Frederick County
An essay contest linked to the Maryland Conservation Fund Day will be held August 18 in Frederick County. Open to Maryland students in grades seven through twelve, the top ten essays will win approximately one hundred deHacs in U S security bonds and stamps. Essays must be 500 words or less, written on one side of panel, with name age address and school in the upper right corner. Mail entries to Conservation Essay Contest Box 153 Frederick. postmark by midnight Sunday. Winners notified by mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland Conservation Fund
Frederick County
U.S
William R. Sell
Agriculture Committee
Frederick
Maryland
Inaugural Invitation Sent For Ecuador President's Ceremony
Washington July 6 1948 invitations were dispatched to Rev Dr Joseph J Thoring Po associate editor of the Th as and World Affairs for the inauguration of former Ambassador Galo Placa as President of Ecuador Placa Plaza described Dr Thorning as an apostle of the Good Neighbor policy and in 1946 awarded him The Order of Merit the highest Ecuadorian honor The invitation marks a second invitation to Dr Thorning following a 1948 invitation to Caracas for Romulo Gallegos inauguration in Venezuela
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Washington
Galo Placa
Republic of Ecuade
Carrollton
Joseph 1
Thas’ Oand
Augusto Dillon
Ecuador
Order of Merlt
Dr. Thorning
Gonzalo Carnevali
Venezuela
Romulo Gallegos
Caracas
Frederick stamp sale eyed for August ninth by collectors
Robert F. Nicodemus spoke to the Riaanis Club about Frederick post offices issuing the Key Memorial stamp on August 9. He estimated ten million collectors nationwide and several million stamps would be sold that day with at least a million cancelled locally in Frederick.
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Frederick Post Offices
Robert F. Nicodemus
Riaanis Club
Furcheon
Fredericks
Nicodemus
Frederick
Nicademus
Post Office Department
Washington
J Glenn Beall
Frederick O
Baltimore
Frederick County
U S Warships Sail Ahead Of Schedule
In Naples four U S ships including carrier Kearsarge and destroyers Meredith James C Owens move southwest under secret orders. The group also includes cruisers Fargo Huntington and Juneau and escort carrier Palau. Vice Admiral Herman said messages about their movements arrived yesterday.
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Rome
U. SS
Mediterranean
Kearsarge
Naples
Naval Attache
Aliso Sading
Meredith
QC Hare
James C Owens
Eacher
Istante Patel
U. S
County Wheat Quality Report Hits New Fair Quality Output
New wheat arrivals at Frederick elevator of Farmers Cooperative Association show 2000 bushels sold at yesterday's closing price of 2.209 a bushel. Hessian fly and rust damage spread across the county while moisture and heavy 60 pound per bushel weight decline due to infestations. County Agent Henry R Shoe notes scab as a major issue and reports many threshers getting less than half expected work with returns as low as 12 to 14 dollars per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Farmers Cooperative Association, Inc
Henry R. Shoe
Two More Tire Makers Raise Prices In July
Akron reports Goodyear and Goodrich joined U S Rubber Co in lifting tire and tube prices. U S Rubber increased by five to seven and a half percent. Goodyear raised truck tires about 8 percent and passenger tires six percent. Large farm tires rose around seven percent. Goodrich priced passenger tires around 4 to 6 percent and truck, bus tires five percent with farm tractor tires six to seven percent and air tubes six percent.
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Akron
Goodyear and
Goodrich
U. S. Rubber Co
Goodyear
Tavern group organizes against prohibition faction in Brooklyn
New York July 6 The Sons of the Whiskey Rebellion organized at the Statue of Liberty yesterday to oppose liquor bans and high taxes. Walter A. Kennedy, president of the Associated Tavern Owners of Brooklyn and a director of the national group, led a delegation of 100 to form a public body hoping to enroll 10,000,000 members and oppose the Women's Christian Temperance Union. A birthday party for Roberta May Nichols was held June 30 near Damascus with pink and blue decor, cake and seven candles.
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New York
Walter A. Kennedy
Associated Tavern Owners of
Brooklyn
Associated Tavern Owners of America
Kennedy
Women's Christian Temperance Union
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Board of Education
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Amsis
Better Homes, Inc
Johas
Hagerstown, Md
Johns-Manville
Cline’ Furniture Store
Frederick, MD
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St.joseph
Pearce
Drug & Prescription Service
Blue Ridge Terminal
Market Street
Lincoln Bus Lines
Marylang
Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia
Penatyivents
Slomorav
Zatos
Lustran
Zotas
Lustron
Jamal
Marinallo
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Peer
Bess
Herve
Bt.y
Beautiful
Fon Beauty and Barber Supply, Inc
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Fabric Sale
Bemberg Rayons
Shantung
Chambray
Helt
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Sheraton
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Broadmoor
Vanity Fair
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Wyler Watch
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